No Agenda - 1829 - "Zoomerwaffen"

Starting point is 00:00:00 Hello. Hello. Adam Curry, John C. DeVorek. It's Sunday, December 28th, 2025. This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 1829. This is no agenda. With Africa News you can use. And broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill country here in FEMA region number six.

Starting point is 00:00:21 In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley, where we hope everybody had a happy Christmas. I'm John C. DeVorek. It's Crackpot and Buzzkill. In the morning. Yeah, Merry Christmas. We already went through this. Happy Christmas.

Starting point is 00:00:36 That's what the British say, by the way. They say happy Christmas. Happy Christmas to you. So what's wrong with Happy Christmas? We already went through this on the Christmas show. There's nothing wrong with it. It's just un-American. What's so American about Mary?

Starting point is 00:00:51 That's just what we do. We do Merry Christmas. I think we do Merry Holidays. I just brought the old joke back. Yeah, yeah, I know, I know. But, you know, I hear people saying it in the shops. Merry New Year's. Okay, I'm going with that.

Starting point is 00:01:09 I'll go with that. Happy holidays. I don't want to offend everybody. Happy holidays. They just said, who was it? They just posted a video about Kwanza. It was a newsome. Whatever happened to Kwanza?

Starting point is 00:01:22 Kwanza used to be great. They're pushing it. They're pushing the Kwanza on us again, John. Yeah. I didn't notice a lot of people celebrating Hanukkah this year. Borowitz did? Oh, yeah. No, no, the Jews celebrated, but they didn't post about it because it's not worth it. It's not worth the aggravation. It's not worth the aggravation, exactly.

Starting point is 00:01:49 Actually, that's a good point. You're right. I didn't hear too many. It's usually happy Hanukkah Merry Christmas, and now they just dropped to Hanukkah. Yeah, I mean, we had a menorah art that we didn't post out of 50. Fear. Out of fear for backlash. I don't know if it was out of fear for backlash, but it could have been. I blame Nick Fuentes. Yeah. Yeah, he's definitely partially respite.

Starting point is 00:02:15 It's the punk rock podcasters, man. That's what they do. Rock against religion. Look at us. We're so bold. I expect him to put a safety pin through his ear pretty soon. Like the old old school punk rockers. I've been studying this guy.

Starting point is 00:02:29 He's, not to extol the virtues of Nick Fuentes, but I'll say this. I think he's a consummate pro. If you listen, you can listen to him for three hours, he never flubs. He never says, uh, he never says, um, I heard him say, um, once. Oh, wow. He never says, uh, he never says, um, he doesn't stammer. He doesn't stutter. He doesn't stammer like I do.

Starting point is 00:02:55 Well, uh, if he can run the board, then there you go. I can retire. You and Nick Fuentes can do the show. I'm happy. He uses an EV 20 and knows how to use it correctly. He's got an EV 20 and knows how to work it. He knows how to work. He's got a terrific voice that's very understandable.

Starting point is 00:03:12 He is unbelievably talented. He is, I think he's the best podcaster in working right now, even though I think he's controversial. Wait a minute. How can we, but we're the best podcast in the universe. No,

Starting point is 00:03:26 I'm talking about a individual, one of those guys who does the solo's solo guy. Solo guy, okay. No, he's the best podcast. We're the best podcast. Hello. Yes. He's the best, he's the best soliloquist.

Starting point is 00:03:40 He's really, it's unbelievable. He's a white, and he's not a white supremacist. He's a white pride. And I consider that different in it. But anyway, this is beside the point. He's also tricky. No, he's very tricky. He's the one that nobody can figure out.

Starting point is 00:03:58 everybody else kind of knows what these other folks are doing? I can figure this guy out. I know. Do you want to roll right into it? Do you want to do Africa News? We have Africa News. We have so much Africa News. It hurts.

Starting point is 00:04:10 I'm going to push the Flanthe's thing until we get. We'll go to Africa News next. I have only, I could have put a presentation together. I have three clips just to show you how he operates, how he does his thing. He's so good. Right now, to give you a briefing, right now he has gone, hard against J.D. Vance. Oh, well, wait a minute.

Starting point is 00:04:33 That is what most people are shilling for in the North Sea nexus potosphere. Yeah. They all want J.D. to be the next president. You know, this is, even if it hurts Trump, J.D., J.D., okay. So he's hard against Vance, but he's going to prove his worth he thinks or he hopes because he's going to go extremely hard in 2026 against Vivek. Ramoswamy. Who cares? Well, he just wants to, he's testing himself with Vec. Well, do you want to do these clips or not?

Starting point is 00:05:06 Yeah, I'm going to do the clips. I'm just trying to give you a briefing on the background. Because what happened was, briefing on background. He, beefing on background. So he, he's, he called Vance's wife a jeet. Oh, man. Which I didn't even know what that meant. I had to look it up and do it. great. It's awesome. So he calls her a jeet. And so Vance comes out and as vice president of the United States

Starting point is 00:05:36 tells him to eat shit. You could talk about your wife. No one really cares about your wife. No wait. I have to set this clip. Well, you gave me a clear audible clue. I said it in such a way that it, I could see you. But let me finish. How long have we been doing

Starting point is 00:05:52 this? Too long. Yeah. And you are correct on that last cue. But he does, I'm going to give a three-parter here. This is a classic Nick Fuentes, part one. He starts you off by creating a doubt in your mind. And then he does his long soliloquy. And then he does a follow-up, which is even better.

Starting point is 00:06:13 This guy is slick. Here we go. You could talk about your wife. No one really cares about your wife. No one cares about any of that. We want to know, are we getting an immigration moratorium? Will you restrain Israel? and what the fuck does Peter Thiel have on you?

Starting point is 00:06:29 And what is your relationship with him and Elon? That's what we want to know. You can save the bitching about your wife. No one cares about your wife. Okay, she's pretty. She's gorgeous. Your kids look great. Whatever.

Starting point is 00:06:41 No one cares. Okay. You did the tough guy's chick. You stood by your woman. Good for you. Now we want to know. And we want to know because this guy is being foisted upon us. I've never seen anything like this.

Starting point is 00:06:55 ever well you're only 12 so it doesn't surprise me but well he has seen this before and this is the this is the key to his who his presentation he starts off with what i would consider a false premise to put a little piece of doubt in the mind and open the mind of the listener so he can then rant at him well yeah because the but the way he describes that he's never seen anyone just voice it on us ever a baroque obama come to mind there's a guy who came out of of nowhere. Next thing you know, he's president of the United States. That doesn't, that doesn't come to mind. Clinton came out of Arkansas out of the blue. He was literally 12. Well, maybe he was, but it doesn't, the point is that he sets you up. Yes. Well, that, well, it has, Hillary Clinton's

Starting point is 00:07:43 another one out of the blue. Who hasn't come out of the blue except Reagan? But John, this, this is, this is the perfect Zuma Waffen rage bait where you talk about Israel, palant here. You like, you like, you like Zuma Woffin? I do. Thank you. The Zumer Woffin. That is our new term. Zuma Woffin, yes. He has part of the Zuma Wafin. Okay, so he's opened you up just a little bit, just enough to do the, the rant, which

Starting point is 00:08:12 is the long part. This is like in the, in a journalist, and this would be the nut graph, only he makes it really long. And he, and he usually repeats things three times in different ways, much like a broadcaster, like a Jim Rome or anybody. He's very professional at this. Limbaugh used to do the same thing. I put him in that category. And here he goes. I've never seen anything like this, ever.

Starting point is 00:08:36 First of all, this administration's not doing so hot. Let's get that straight. The war in Ukraine is still going on. The war in the Middle East is about to get started again. We don't have mass deportations. We don't have a wall. The economy's not going so great. Epstein files just came out because Congress made you release them.

Starting point is 00:08:57 And yet, everyone is telling us already you've got to vote for J.D. Vance. Well, time out. This administration's not going well. And he's the vice president. We're not even a year in. They already want us voting in the next one. Like, think about how crazy that is. It's not even a year in.

Starting point is 00:09:15 It is 2025 still. And they already got us thinking, oh, we got to vote in 28. 28. It's 2025. Oh, I'll be 14. And you suck. This administration sucks. So not only you already want us thinking about the next one, this one isn't even going well. You think we're ready for more? We're not even finished with this and this is a pile of shit. We've been eating shit for a year. And they're ready to blow through any kind of a primary. Trump has been on the ballot three times. It's unprecedented in modern history. that you have something like this. Trump was on the ballot in 16, 20, 24, 28 is the first Republican election since 2012 that Trump was not on the ballot. It should be wide open for us to decide where we're going to go after this. And not only are they telling us, well, you've got to get ready to vote again in the next

Starting point is 00:10:11 cycle, they're telling us a decision has been made already. It's Vance. Turning Point is telling us. Tucker is telling us. Elon is telling us. Everyone is already telling us Vance is the guy. No one shills J.D. Vance more than Tucker Carlson, and that's

Starting point is 00:10:28 really weird. Turning point. Erica has crowned Vance, the next president. They've all crowned him. Next president. Who even is this guy? You're right. Not a single um or ah.

Starting point is 00:10:45 Oh, no. He'll never, he doesn't. He's unbelievable. And he just picks one topic. I mean, this is, you know, in a way, he's, he has a Limbaugh type quality to him, too. No, Limbaugh is definitely in the mix. He's, you know, I would, throw him back to, I would say that if this guy was, if back in the day, he's like a, he's like a 50s Democrat in his mentality. Archie Bunker, yes, he's Archie Bunker. Yeah, but without, without, with more with a Republican slant.

Starting point is 00:11:15 Yeah. But it's like he has, he would have, he would have been Edward R. Murrow. I'm totally convinced of it. Yeah. And you'd have the Fuentes awards. You'd be getting, well, oh, we got, did you get, you're up for the Fuentes? No, I didn't get a Fuentes this year, I guess. What kind of spick name is that?

Starting point is 00:11:34 So he has a, so he has the chops. And so he finishes, that was the nut graft. So he goes after the guy. And then, and then to. top of the little icing on the cake is at the end in this third part when he does these things in triples, which is the way to go. He just throws in some discrepant facts and confuse you further. They're all explainable, but the way he pieces them in, and this is the third and the last clip, it's just a bunch of random things that are just, oh yeah, there's something,

Starting point is 00:12:08 there's something wrong. Here we go. Before he was VP, he was a senator for two years before that, he was a never Trumper. Before that, his name wasn't even Vance. It was Hamill. He didn't even start going by Vance until 2014. Who even is this guy? So not only do they want us, okay, this administration blows, get ready to vote for the next one, and we already have a nominee. Even though it's the first time in 16 years, we're going to have a wide open primary. And it's going to be this guy that no one even knows who he is. And if you don't like that, well, you're a problem to be eliminated. Which is effectively what they've told me. Yeah, he's good.

Starting point is 00:12:48 Yeah. It's entertaining. Oh, he's very entertaining. He's super entertaining. Yeah. And he's funny. He does bits. He does shtick.

Starting point is 00:12:56 And the thing is, he's not wrong about Vance. He's not wrong about T.P. USA and Tucker and others. And, yeah, he's exactly right about, well, this was Peter Thiel's guy. And, of course, we know that Peter Thiel is responsible for killing us. I mean, that's obvious, you know, Palantir, Palantir, Gaza, killing people. Even though we know how weak Palantir really is, stuff didn't really work. He doesn't have the next sea, the North Sea nexus down. No, he needs that.

Starting point is 00:13:33 He needs that. He's got it kind of a slickness to him and professionalism that is so high end that it's as though he had some trained him for somebody had to have trained him I don't think so I don't think so I don't know I did you you can be a natural and I've seen it but this guy's over the top when it comes to if it's if he's natural anyway he's definitely people should check him out luckily the the the algos picked up a new hero on the scene which I hope you saw it because you know your algorithm on X is probably still Crazy women. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:14:15 And now I'm getting a lot of cooking videos. Cheese. Just put some cheese. Oh, look at that nice melted cheese. Everything. I've got fudge with cheese. You know, I'm beginning to think these are done by the dairy council. Well, we have a new hero.

Starting point is 00:14:31 Nick Shirley. Nick Shirley was dominating the algos, for me at least. And for Tina and for other people like, ah, have you seen this guy? Nick Shirley has been going around Minneapolis. to all of the child care and health care facilities run by Somalians who are... Nick Shirley's not a new actor. He's been doing this sort of thing for quite a while.

Starting point is 00:14:53 That's not what I said. I said we have a new hero. He's a new hero. He's a new hero. You know, it's funny you say this because who just told me about Nick Shirley the same way you're like doing now to the audience? My wife, Mimi calls. Have you seen this guy Nick Sherley?

Starting point is 00:15:12 So it's like, yes. Yes, he's a hero. A list of all of the health care companies, loads of them right here. We want health care. Yes, we'd like to speak about getting health care here? No, no, no. Why can I get health care here? No, no, wait, wait, wait.

Starting point is 00:15:31 This is the strangest place I've ever been to get health care. Just a bunch of different places. Health care here. health care right here, another health care company right here. There are three health care companies inside of this building right here in this room of 7C. Now we have another helping hands, home care LLC, another health care company. Present help right here. We're looking for the best rates of health care here inside this building because we have so many options.

Starting point is 00:16:03 Who can we talk about getting the best health care? No. Sorry. All right. We will not get any health care here. David, this is one of the stranger places I've ever been. Literally, healthcare every door you go to, yet nobody will give you a rate. How much money you think's been funneled through this building?

Starting point is 00:16:20 Every year, I would say 50 to 60 million, at least. This is what you wanted. No one's talking about this. And of course, the mainstream media is still not talking about it. It's astonishing to me that the mainstream media has avoided this topic like the plague. Well, because it will make so many Democrats look bad. That's the only thing I can come up with. I don't see any other reason for the, besides the fact that Trump, you know, whatever.

Starting point is 00:16:50 Trump, the quad screens are all Trump and Zelensky this morning. I have clips on that. I'm getting close to my, I'm going to be able to do Zelensky. Really? Do you want to give it a shot? You want to give it? No, I know, because there's a, it's one of, of those things that's funny about trying to do voices,

Starting point is 00:17:09 you do the same thing with your, uh, it just, roota, is that you need a trigger. Okay. And it's, and the,

Starting point is 00:17:17 my trigger is a phrase that I lost, I got a copy of it. What's the phrase that pays, John? I can't remember, if I hear it, I can do it, I can go,

Starting point is 00:17:26 and go right into it, but I can't. So it's coming. It's coming for the 2026 season. So I have, uh, I have a couple of different. outlets regarding the strike on Nigeria, all of them get one thing right, none of them have

Starting point is 00:17:45 the full story, which is, I mean, not really surprising, of course. Let's start with the BBC. President Trump has been making some bold claims following the Christmas Day strikes he ordered against the Islamic State Group in northwest Nigeria. Like the attacks on Iran's nuclear sites earlier this year, Mr. Trump has declared that the U.S. military has decimated its targets, in this case, IS camps. It's not yet clear how many people were killed, but US and Nigerian officials said that fighters were among the dead. The Nigerians said that there were no civilian casualties. Mr. Trump told the Politico News website that the operation, which was agreed with the Nigerian military, was planned for Wednesday, but he chose to delay by a day

Starting point is 00:18:29 so he could give the IS fighters a Christmas present, as he put it. I love the Christmas present line. Here's NBC. Oh, Nat pops. Yeah. See, BBC, you're boring. You got to spice it up. You got to get missile launches. You got to get war sounds. Your reports are no good. Tonight, the first images of American missiles launching from a U.S. Navy ship, killing multiple Islamist militants in Nigeria, according to the president, who posted about the surprise Christmas Day attack after repeatedly warning terror groups that if the slaughter of Christians did not stop, there would be held to pay. And I'm going to jump into that one particular little sigh up in a moment. Nigeria's government now confirming it worked directly with the United States to carry out the

Starting point is 00:19:18 mission. But the foreign minister also pushing back against President Trump's claim that Christians alone are being targeted by the Islamic State. This is not about religion. It is about Nigerians, innocent civilians, and the wider region as a whole. The strikes come just one day after the president thanked U.S. troops on Christmas Eve for last week's attack against ISIS in Syria. It was a big attack and you really did a big job. I know you will continue to show no mercy.

Starting point is 00:19:53 You can't show mercy because they show no mercy at us. In recent weeks, the U.S. military has launched strikes against ISIS targets in Nigeria, Syria and Somalia, seized oil tankers off Venezuela. and earlier this year hit Iranian Revolutionary Guard positions inside Iran. Back in Florida, President Trump is expected to host President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday. The Ukrainian leader announcing today the two will discuss security guarantees and saying a U.S. negotiated peace deal with Russia is now 90% ready, even as the Kremlin continues to hammer Ukraine, launching new strikes through Christmas.

Starting point is 00:20:29 So every report was like this. Every single report was like, well, Trump said it was Christians. the Nigerian said it's not. But they all missed what's really going on here. So first, the Psiop. This has been going on for well over a year, maybe longer. Oh, they're killing Christians in Nigeria. They're killing Christians in Nigeria.

Starting point is 00:20:51 I obviously was interested. And when you go and look, they're actually killing more Muslims than Christians in Nigeria, these so-called ISIS fighters. But when I saw the news of the strikes, and let me see, the Northwest, just off the top of your head, do you know where Boko Haram operates?

Starting point is 00:21:14 The Northeast. The Northeast, exactly. So why is he shooting missiles at the Northwest? Well, the answer came to us with the gold price on Friday, which skyrocketed along with silver. But also, you might want to take a look at lithium. What was bombed, or what was targeted, whatever you want to call it, were the rebel groups who are protecting the illegal mining operations. Nigeria themselves hate this

Starting point is 00:21:48 because they're losing out on probably $10 billion a year easy on mining of gold and lithium. And who do you think buys all that gold and lithium? China. This is a move against China. This is a move against the rare earths. There's a whole bunch of benefits. One, Christians go, yeah, Trump, I'm sorry to tell you fellow brothers and sisters. That's not the primary reason for this attack, if the reason at all. This is only about minerals and natural resources that Nigeria has that China is getting on the cheap. It's to cut them off. That's all that it is. Complete gold mining and lithium, big on lithium. And I'm not quite sure exactly how silver fits into it, but, you know, silver has been

Starting point is 00:22:40 kind of manipulated for 40, 50 years, I guess. But that's what happened. And you saw the spike in price right away. So none of this has, and no one's talking about it. I don't understand. Are they all working for China? They don't want to say it? I think there is an element of that, now that you mention it.

Starting point is 00:22:59 there are some Chinese influencers and in the media. There's no doubt about that. And I will say this. I watch Al Jazeera's report on this. Do you have a clip? And they said they did not, and they had three guys, one guy from the council on foreign relations, all black guys from Africa and all experts,

Starting point is 00:23:22 and they were pretty good. And they said, no, it's bull credit. This is religious. He says, and the reason they're killing all the Muslims and the Christians and anybody else is because it's a Islamist group to two parts of the country

Starting point is 00:23:36 these Islamists mostly and that's that and it's not to say it's not religious is bull crap they also said that the Nigerian people are happy that the United States got involved and started bombing the place and the government thought it was great

Starting point is 00:23:50 and the government invited them to do it so that that's kind of flies in the face of what everyone might want to think but I think you're totally correct totally hello hello he said it what happened you can't argue that's what we do and and any chance we have to cut china off at the knees even though he uh trump doesn't get a lot of credit for it from any from any corner no it's always a good thing and there was a second uh shoe that dropped on this

Starting point is 00:24:23 hold a second i have it here um where it was it. No, I'll find that. Hold on. Let me just listen to CBS. Let's see what they had to say. Do they have a not pop? The U.S. military fired more than a dozen Tomahawk cruise missiles at ISIS targets in Nigeria. And the timing.

Starting point is 00:24:44 And why are they even calling him ISIS? I mean, isn't that supposed to be in the savant? I have no idea. This is just branding for some reason. It's just, oh, just call them. Just call them ISIS. Yeah, branding. The U.S. military fired more than a dozen Tomahawk cruise missiles at ISIS targets in Nigeria,

Starting point is 00:25:07 and the timing was deliberate, President Trump told a radio interviewer. They said, hit him on Christmas Day. It'll be a Christmas present. We hit ISIS who are terrible. They're butchers. People could be seen carrying debris away from one target site. The Pentagon's initial assessment indicated multiple ISIS militants were killed. Trump warned last month the U.S. would go into Nigeria with guns ablazing if the government failed to protect Christians from ISIS attacks.

Starting point is 00:25:36 They're killing the Christians and killing them in very large numbers. It's not going to allow that to happen. But Nigeria denied those accusations. So far this year, nearly 12,000 people have been killed. CBS News National Security contributor Sam Vinaigrad. Violence by insurgent groups, criminals, and others in Nigeria doesn't just target Christians. it also targets Muslims and where and when these strikes occur will certainly be scrutinized by analysts to see who exactly is hit and whether the violence stops.

Starting point is 00:26:08 Nigeria's foreign minister said his government provided the U.S. military with intelligence before the strikes. We have been working closely with the Americans with other countries to combat terrorism to stop the death of innocent Nigerians. Both the U.S. and Nigeria have signaled more strikes could follow. All right. So it's like a three-fer, you know? You get one.

Starting point is 00:26:35 You get the Christians are happy. Yeah. I'm telling you, Christian broadcast news, you know, all of the Christian news outlets all have been to. Yeah, they're all jacked. It's all jacked about this. And I'm just saying, no, I'm sorry. I think it's a four-fer. Give me your three-for and I add one to it.

Starting point is 00:26:52 Okay. So the next one is screw China out of the. out of their resources, which they are not obtaining in a good way. I mean, they are in effect sponsoring these groups. And for these groups, kidnapping girls, which really happens more in the Northeast, but they've kidnapped people from churches and from schools in the Northwest. It's a business model. It's been that way for decades.

Starting point is 00:27:18 Yeah, let's see. Anyone have any value there? Okay, we're going to kidnap and get some money. So that's your two-fur. The three-fur is the gold. price, which I think benefits the whole stable coin strategy, which is supposedly going to start around the second week of January. And I think maybe a fourth.

Starting point is 00:27:41 Am I at three or four yet? You're at three. So somehow the silver thing is funny because it completely screws everything, particularly solar panels, EV. the cheap EVs from China. I saw like the prices in the U.S. were $79 that close on Friday, but in Shanghai, $85. They're so desperate.

Starting point is 00:28:10 And everyone's trying to get silver all of a sudden. Do you have any view on that? No, not at all. But I'll tell you the other little extra bonus is by sending those missiles into that area, they get to soften up the soil a little bit. better mining it'd be easier to mine yeah

Starting point is 00:28:32 that's in two extra missiles right here yeah yeah exactly it's you know it could cost more than dynamite but it's at the U.S. taxpayers expense but the lithium watch the lithium prices so it's

Starting point is 00:28:48 it's an interesting time there's a lot of interesting things happening but no one is reporting on it properly it's it's almost like the they're not even reporting in the on the Somali scammers in Minnesota report on anything. The media is shot. So I tried really hard looking for, let me see, where do I have it here, looking for anything about the redacted documents from the Epstein files.

Starting point is 00:29:19 And as far as I could tell, I could not find a single M5M resource or news report that gave, us this. This is just a 30 second YouTuber telling us. I'm at justice.gov where all the Epstein files are being held and there's a lot of different files that have been redacted. So you can go ahead and scroll down

Starting point is 00:29:38 until you get to a redacted area. Here's a redacted area right here. Guess what? If you want to look at these files, all you got to do is copy it and paste it into Microsoft Word and guess what? All the files are unredacted. There it is.

Starting point is 00:29:54 So go back to Just us.org, find all those files, and start unredacting before they figure out how to stop you. So no one is reporting on that. And it works? It's been reported on Fox. I heard it. Oh, you did? Well, I have a feeling we're still have a number of these reporters who are part of the agency and they're not allowed to look at these documents. I think you're dead on. Wow. What is going on here? It's totally. It's Christmas after Christmas. So here, we got into a conversation at the dinner table about this. You know, it was an expert.

Starting point is 00:30:32 So Jaycey says, well, it's because they were, because when the Doge guys came in, they fired a bunch of people and they canceled a bunch of software licenses. This would be the gossip meal. They canceled a bunch of software licenses and started using the free Adobe Acrobat instead of the one you pay for. I like that theory. which doesn't redact properly. Yeah, I like that theory, but no. My comeback to that was,

Starting point is 00:31:01 and nobody could argue against it, which is so you don't think they did this on purpose. Boom, exactly. I think you're right. Of course they did this on purpose. Of course. That was the whole point. Absolutely.

Starting point is 00:31:17 Everyone's like, they're so stupid. No, they're not. I know they're so stupid. They're not. They're so stupid as the way to play it. That's perfect. Yes. And you get all kinds of extra info and extra ditties that show up.

Starting point is 00:31:30 And most of them are useless, by the way. And stuff that I've seen on redacted is junk. And then my favorite story. More than one million files, more files potentially related to dead pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein, have just surfaced according to the Justice Department. I loved the term dead pedophile. Somehow that just... It's just the dead pedophile.

Starting point is 00:31:54 Oh, I didn't pick up on that. It used to be financier. Now it's the dead pedophile. The dead pedophile. Jeffrey Epstein have just surfaced, according to the Justice Department. They say the new trove originating from the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and the FBI may take, quote, a few more weeks to comb through and release to the public. As the department scrambles to find more volunteer prosecutors over the holidays to help redact the newly discovered fire.

Starting point is 00:32:21 Now, remember, by law, the Justice Department was supposed to release everything it had a week ago today. So far, we've seen tens of thousands of documents over a few sporadic releases, including pictures of former President Bill Clinton, emails that mentioned President Donald Trump's name on the Epstein Jet Flight Log and an FBI email exchange that indicates there are 10 other co-conspirators. President Trump weighed in with a other stim-winding Christmas tirade saying he, quote, was actually the only one who did drop Epstein and long before it became fashionable to do so. Trump added the Democrats and some Republicans who push for the release will see their, quote, friends, mostly innocent, will be badly hurt and reputationaly tarnished. He then signed off with, enjoy what may be your last Merry Christmas. Starting off.

Starting point is 00:33:15 I'm sorry, that's just a very interesting way to end that. No, he means it. Hello. Idiots. Yes, absolutely. And these new documents, I have a feeling they'll also be copyable. Just, you know, I like J.C.'s theory. That's, it's cute. Well, they didn't want to pay for the, they just use the free Adobe version.

Starting point is 00:33:37 Yeah, that's not how government works at all. They pay the extra super premium plus. They do. They just throw money away. This was uncovered, though. I didn't hear about this. This is from the Canadian broadcast news. Two years after Canadian Peter Nygaard was convicted on four counts of sexual assault,

Starting point is 00:33:57 the former fashion mogul is making headlines again, named in documents released by American officials as it discloses more files related to Jeffrey Epstein. Peter Nygaard's name appeared in an April 2020 letter sent by the Department of Justice to authorities in the UK seeking to interview the man previously known as Prince Andrew. The letter reads in part, the investigation has revealed that on at least one occasion, Prince Andrew traveled to Nygaard Key in the Bahamas. Nygaard Key. See, this guy had his own island.

Starting point is 00:34:27 Eh, this gets interesting. A location where Nygaard is believed to have trafficked minor and adult female victims. I have counseled over around 50 survivors of Peter Nygaard in the last five years. And some of them had certainly mentioned seeing him. at seeing the former Prince Andrew at Nygaard Key in the Bahamas, so I wasn't surprised. Two other Canadian women appear in FBI intake documents accused of grooming potential victims, though not by name, identified only as a Serbian-Canadian lingerie model and a French-Canadian aspiring model.

Starting point is 00:35:06 Any piece of evidence has to be confirmed. You can't assume it to be true. You can't, we don't have a conclusion, for instance, that the president was involved. directly in Epstein's crimes, but there's suspicion, and that's how investigations were. The latest release of 30,000 documents, the most voluminous to date,

Starting point is 00:35:24 contained many mentions of the U.S. president, but did not link Trump to any of Epstein's crimes. No. So let's start with that guy who actually has been convicted, had his own island, Prince Andrew was at his island, but it's Trump. Let's go back to Trump.

Starting point is 00:35:42 Trump, Trump. Meanwhile, there's actual work being done on actual pedophiles. Good evening, everybody. I'm Ruth Brage. We begin with a disturbing case involving prominent metro Detroit professionals arrested on child pornography charges. They include a Detroit area doctor and attorney who are both in federal court today. Let's get live. The Fox News, Charlie Langdon, in Detroit with the new details. And Charlie, I think you said in the tease. Some of these details are so sickening, so gross, they're hard to even repeat. Yeah. In fact, I can't even say some of the stuff on television. I'm holding

Starting point is 00:36:13 up three of the criminal complaints against three very prominent, a doctor, a lawyer, and a psychotherapist, all from the Metro. Why am I yelling? Well, why not? But they got caught up in an FBI sting that actually got them arrested in Toledo. And what they found when they raided their houses, 155 images of child porn, including movies and pictures of the most disgusting things that you really can think of. And there may very well be more. Now, two of the three were in court today.

Starting point is 00:36:44 Hold on a second. Do you know the little neurolinguistic programming, the thing you just heard? Which one? They're made very well. Oh, yeah. Well, there's some, he has. But it's not, that's how what he was saying is this is there, there may be very, there may be well, there may be more. Yes.

Starting point is 00:37:05 I mean, but it's, what you heard was they made, they, they, they, they were made well. Oh, let me listen again. Things that you really can think of, and they're made very well being... Oh, I see. You're thinking high quality. High quality is what he's saying. That's the neurolinguistic programming message. Wow.

Starting point is 00:37:24 Now, two of the three were in court today, in federal court behind me, for what's called a detention hearing, meaning that the feds thought these people were so bad, they should be denied bond. One of them said, okay, I'll stay in jail. The other one said, we'll have a hearing. The judge said, no, you're staying in jail. Why? In part, because some of the bad stuff that came out. And this is, and I'm really playing this just to make the point that everyone yelling about Epstein, they don't really care about the kids. They just care about Trump or, you know, whoever's being blackmailed.

Starting point is 00:37:59 They don't actually care about what's actually happening to toddlers, toddlers. According to the criminal complaint, encrypted phone messages showed 45-year-old Joshua Ronan, bomb was an English teacher in Japan who invited 10 and 12 year olds to get naked with him and play with their, well, you get the message. The FBI seized his phone, which showed 155 images, including a toddler being sexually molested by an adult man and numerous conversations discussing his sexual interest in children. And then Jeremy Brian Takam, 51 years old, who lived at the same Palmer Woods address with

Starting point is 00:38:37 Ronaugham. The FBI seized his phone. contained in exchange with an undercover agent, something like this, wish we could find a kiddo and have our way, take him to a motel and molest him. F yes, brother, are you free tomorrow? Any more clips? Six additional clips were sent showing an adult man sexually assaulting a toddler. And finally, Lincoln Erickson, Dr. Erickson, is a medical doctor who lives in Farmington Hills. The complaint indicates that he's currently on probation for domestic violence for an incident in His phone indicates he discussed plans to travel to Thailand to sexually abused children and the details about his friend, who is a father to a three-year-old, who Erickson allegedly sexually abused, forcing the three-year-old to perform a sex act.

Starting point is 00:39:25 Where is the outrage? There's no outrage over this. Where is the story? I never heard any of this. Just came out. Yeah, no, because it's all bull crap. People, you don't care. You just are sucked up into a swirling pool of poop of innuendo and, and QAnon, because it was really Q that started this, if I recall. And it was the Democrats, it was all Democrats, and they were sending kids in Wayfair boxes and kids, kids, kids, kids, everything kids. Kids in Wave. That's right. Yeah, I forgot about that one. But when actual horrible crime, and these guys should be killed.

Starting point is 00:40:08 Right, oh, just, uh, did you do it yet? Dead. Dead. No, I have no problem saying that. But no, that's, that's not the game. Israel. Never happened to Nambla. Oh, they're probably still around.

Starting point is 00:40:22 Nope. I haven't checked. I looked them up. No, they folded. Oh, they did? Oh. Yep. Oh.

Starting point is 00:40:29 Well. Then you know, then you know what happened. Yeah, they became Democrat party members. I'm sorry. It's the best I can do. All right. I'm going to do one little quick series here just because I predicted it. However, he hasn't quite said the phrase yet, but we knew they were coming. The president's saying the collection of ships is called the Golden Fleet and will become the quote flagship of the American Naval Fleet.

Starting point is 00:40:57 Now the Navy has created a website named after the fleet. It gives people the opportunity to look at specs of the ships. As you know, we're desperately in need of ships. Our ships are, some of them have gotten all. old and tired and obsolete, and we're going to go the exact opposite direction. The website states the ships will be up to 880 feet long, reach over 30 knots, and require a crew of anywhere from 650 to 850 people. The ships will also have hypersonic weapons, state-of-the-art electric rail guns, and high-powered lasers. U.S. Senator Mark Warner says he

Starting point is 00:41:30 disagrees with the project. The one thing the Navy had decided it didn't need more big ships because of the threats from drones, it needed more small, mobile, faster deployable ships. Some Navy officials have estimated the first ship will cost $10 billion to design and build. It's a price tag, retired Navy admiral and founder of the National Security Leaders for America. Michael Smith tells 13 News Now the Navy can't afford. I just don't know how he's going to be able to pay for it. I think if the first part of that sentence was I'm committed to doubling the Navy's budget, and delivering the golden fleet,

Starting point is 00:42:08 I think that would have been a realistic first statement to make. The president has also told reporters he expects the first ships to be built in the next two and a half years. Smith also calls that timeline unrealistic. My concern is with this president, you have to deliver in the time he's saying. And so there are going to be so many mistakes made. No, no, it's not about mistakes. It's about one big, huge, corrupt business known as the military. military industrial complex who somehow the lawmakers and money spenders who hold the purse,

Starting point is 00:42:44 strings, decided to give even more to the military industrial complex than President Trump even wanted. So it's now up to just shy of a trillion dollars. But here is what the president also said, which of course didn't make the news. We'll be discussing the pay to executives where they're making $45 and $50 million a year and not being able to build quickly. They're going to make that kind of money. They have to build quickly. Again, we make the best equipment in the world, but they don't make them fast enough. And we're going to be also discussing dividends. We want the dividends to go into the creation of production facilities. So we'll be talking about all CAPEX, dividends, and the pay. We're also going to be talking about buybacks. They

Starting point is 00:43:35 spend so much money on buyback. They want to buy back their stock. I don't want them to buy back their stock. I want them to put the money in plant and equipment so they can build these planes fast, rapidly, like immediately. Yeah, exactly. Stop with your buyback. Stop enriching people like yourselves and get down to business. There was a substacker that's an ex-spook. he went on about this Is that an oxymoron Substacker and Spook? Maybe close to it

Starting point is 00:44:13 And he made the assertion That they're just They've decided just They're not going to do any of this They're going to keep pocketing the money As best they can And they're going to just wait out Trump's three years And they're not going to build one ship

Starting point is 00:44:27 You're never going to see a ship out of this deal Wow We'll see you know he's doing the same with the insurance companies he had another stand up with all the drug manufacturers going to make them cheap going to make them cheaper it'll be cheaper for us but it won't be 88 dollars but i guess it's going to have to even out between other countries but then another thing that wasn't really discussed was this i'm going to call a meeting it could be in florida this coming week or it could be back in the white house the first week not the second or third week

Starting point is 00:45:02 I'm going to call a meeting of the big insurance companies that have gotten so rich by receiving money and really much far, far more money than they're entitled to. And I have a feeling maybe if they would act like these incredible, brilliant, responsible citizens behind me, people that love our country, and they love the world. I mean, frankly, these are international companies for the most part. I'm going to call a meeting of the insurance companies. I'm going to see if they get their price stand to put it very bluntly. And I think that is a very big statement. And what happened here is the biggest statement of all because nobody thought a thing like this was possible. So where are all the Luigi fans?

Starting point is 00:45:46 Yeah, this is great. This is what Luigi's going to jail for. No, no. Nick Fuentes is great. Candice. She's just asking questions. That's the best part. Yeah, just asking questions.

Starting point is 00:46:01 No, Zoom or Vuffin, you are welcome here at the No Agenda Show. We'll help you understand what's really going on in your world. The information is out there. You're just being lured away by shiny objects, trinkets, to go and watch something else. And that's something else in the two instances you mention, Humentes and Owens, there are long, Talkers. Yes.

Starting point is 00:46:31 Those are hours and hours a day. It's unbelievable. You can really chew up a lot of your time. But again, it's the clips. It's all about the clips. I don't think I've ever watched the full Fuentes episode. I mean, is he on YouTube only? I don't know.

Starting point is 00:46:49 No, no, Rumble. Rumble. But I see the clips. You know, that's funny because I've never seen, I've only watched full episodes. I've never seen the clips. I watched the full episodes to look for the um or the uh. Yeah, it's not there. It's not there.

Starting point is 00:47:04 Not there. It's just horrible. It's horrifying how good he is. Yeah. So that's why I call on the Zoom of Offen. And you are good here. We'll take care of you. Don't worry.

Starting point is 00:47:18 This is where you want to be. Listen to your uncles. You can learn something. Well, let's play. I have a couple of series here that are kind of interesting. They're going out of their way, it seems, the powers that be, in this case, NPR, to start trying to reconstruct in advance of Trump getting kicked out or in Trump three years from now or whenever is to rebuild USAID.

Starting point is 00:47:49 This is a disaster. Weren't they getting money from USAID as well? I'm sure there's some backdoor from USAID. to NPR. Oh, absolutely. It has to be. Yeah. But the USAID is a money laundering operation, a worldwide money laundering operation for everybody,

Starting point is 00:48:08 for the intelligence agencies, for all kinds of, mainly, mainly. And then it goes to the NGOs, to the NGOs, and that's where the laundering takes place. Yeah. So they're going to go out of their way now, NPR, to try to, to, to try to, turn the ship around and show what a bad idea this was and everything in between. And here we go with the USAID. Wait, wait, before we start, have we seen any, is Africa now dead of AIDS?

Starting point is 00:48:41 Oh, dude, just, well, according to this report. Yeah. Okay. I'm sorry, I stand corrected. It's been a cataclysmic year in global. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Oh, I. Hey.

Starting point is 00:48:54 You keep doing this. I have a code. See, NPR-S-S? Okay, well, all right. You have a good point there. I didn't, I didn't recognize the code. Suffer and succotash. I'm Scott. Simon. It's been a cataclysmic year in global hell.

Starting point is 00:49:17 In January, the Trump administration for... Did he say in global hell? Yeah, this is the leverage they're going to use to promote... USAID. Wait, global health or global hell? It sounded like you said global hell. He says it fine. Yeah, he screws it out.

Starting point is 00:49:33 You're right. Global hell. It's been a cataclysmic year in global hell. In January, the Trump administration for his bill. He said hell. He says hell. He says hell. I heard it.

Starting point is 00:49:42 ...mic year in global hell. In January, the Trump administration froze billions of dollars in foreign assistance funds. Then it dismantled the United States Agency for international development. These actions had ripple effects. around the world and changed how the U.S. approaches foreign aid. NPR Global Health correspondent Fatma Tanas has been covering the story for the past year. Joins us in our studios, Fatma, thanks so much for being with us. Thanks for having me, Scott.

Starting point is 00:50:12 Shake us back to the beginning of 2025. How did this shake-up to U.S. aid programs begin? Well, it was really chaotic. He switches here to U.S. aid. I love that. Oh, I missed it. Well done. Oh, yes.

Starting point is 00:50:26 Oh, yeah, USAID to USAID. Take us back to the beginning of 2025. How did this shakeup to USAID programs begin? Well, it was really chaotic, Scott. Hundreds of agency staff were put on leave. The USAID website was taken down in the middle of the night on a Saturday. In the middle of night. And thousands of programs that provided critical health services and poverty solutions and more were terminated.

Starting point is 00:50:53 And this all happened within a matter of a few weeks. And why did the administration do? Hey, what are poverty solutions? I like that. Poverty solutions. Poverty solution? Alcohol? Poverty solutions.

Starting point is 00:51:11 I'd like to be in charge of that department. That was the end of that clip? Yeah, it ended funny, but that was the end of the clip. It did end funny. It was something I did wrong. Okay, well, let's go on to clip two. And what did the administration do that? You know, foreign aid has historically had bipartisan.

Starting point is 00:51:30 Yeah, he brings it. What did the administration do? It was a funny ending. It didn't make any sense. And he drops it in. He says, what did the administration do? She never really says when he asks it again. That's a very screwy report.

Starting point is 00:51:45 I'm sorry, I could have done a better job of segueing it play it on. And why did the administration do that? You know, foreign aid has historically had bipartisan support. It saves lots. and has been generally seen as a waste for America to wield influence and build goodwill. But the Trump administration saw it differently, that the way America was doing foreign aid was ineffective and wasteful. USAID in particular was viewed as far left and irredeemable. It's programs that provided support for LGBTQ people or reproductive health and climate solutions were seen as part of a woke.

Starting point is 00:52:22 Whoa. She just did a woke. lineup of epic proportion. I just need to hear that again. Redeemable. It's programs that provided support for LGBTQ people. Support for LGBTQ people. Or reproductive health. Reproductive health. Read abortions. And climate solutions, which I think is part of poverty solutions. This is wonderful. Yes, it's a liquid. It's great. Seen as part of a woke agenda that taxpayers shouldn't be funding. Here's Max Primarach with the Conservative Heritage Foundation.

Starting point is 00:52:55 He previously held several senior roles at USAID. A lot of the aid programs that we were doing were not always tied to our foreign policy objectives. And by subsuming the aid agencies, you can better align with our national interests and also with our values. So the administration shut down USAID and moved a handful of the parts they wanted to keep, like humanitarian relief and a few hundred staff under the State Department. Let's talk about the effect. Secretary of State Rubio said in May that, No one died as a result of the cuts.

Starting point is 00:53:29 Is that true? Unfortunately, no. NPR interviewed a mother in Nigeria. Her son had sickle cell anemia, and he began running a fever, but the clinic that they usually went to, funded by USAID, had been closed, and the boy died the next day. Okay. So tell me she has a few more examples than one boy with sickle cell aminia. She got another example, but this.

Starting point is 00:53:55 Listen, when that example is in Nigeria, in Nigeria, because of, because of the cruelty. Yes. This is, by the way, a big theme for Trump. They like to use the word cruel. It's cruel. The cruelty of Trump has resulted in a boy in Nigeria. By the way, there are homeless all over San Francisco. They're dropping dead in the streets in Los Angeles.

Starting point is 00:54:18 We have shootings in Oakland, but there's a boy in Nigeria. who died because of Trump's cruelty. Yes. Wow. That's the troll room. I want to see the death certificate. We want proof. You know, the funny thing that the troll room brought up, it actually may be bull crap.

Starting point is 00:54:42 Yeah. And she has another example coming up. Okay. And the boy died the next day. A doctor who treated the child before said he would have likely survived if he had received care. We also know that many people lost access to drugs that treated diseases like HIV-AIDS. And in countries torn by conflict, many malnourished children lost access to therapeutic protein-filled foods. But we don't know the full scale of lives lost, and that's because

Starting point is 00:55:13 aid groups are no longer on the ground able to track what's going on. You went to Uganda to report on how people there were trying to live with the cuts. What did you see? Well, the LGBTQ people are in trouble, of course. Yeah, I was there in August, and, you know, locals and officials were still grappling with the ripple effects, not just on health care, but local economies, too, because so many people lost their jobs with aid groups. In one rural area in southwest Uganda, we learned that there were only four ambulances for the 200,000 people who lived there, compared to eight ambulances before. And that's because the U.S. was funding the drivers and the fuel for those ambulances.

Starting point is 00:55:56 Well, what? America First people. Where's my America First people cheering on the nonsense that we were funding? So they were, it was our fault, the cruelty of Trump, that four ambulances in Uganda are no longer, no longer have drugs. The ambulances must still be there. They didn't dissolve. but there's four ambulances there, but they don't have a driver because nobody can afford to pay the driver and they can't afford the fuel without our money, without U.S. taxpayers' money.

Starting point is 00:56:29 Does this our country? I need to reiterate that the international arms dealer, my friend here in Fredericksburg, that he has an ongoing pipeline of C-130 aircraft that the U.S. government sells to Uganda. They're not cheap. certainly a couple of ambulances worth. And he has to keep supplying them because they all learn how to fly on YouTube. So how is it our fly?

Starting point is 00:56:58 It's true. It's true. They keep crashing into hangers and stuff. Oh, geez. I learned how to fly on YouTube. Yeah. But no, no, no, no. It's Trump's cruelty that stop,

Starting point is 00:57:14 that they only have four ambulances. It's their own decisions that they're making. to buy aircraft and trade their pilots on YouTube. So it's Trump's fault. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So the USA, I think is there another clip left. Yeah, it's the fourth clip, fourth clip. Yeah, it wraps it.

Starting point is 00:57:34 It's just one example of how thorough and extensive USAID used to be. So, fuck. No, she did it. Let's hear that again. It's just one example of how thorough and extensive USAID used to be. It's so thorough and extensive. How many hundreds of billions of dollars did we stop flowing from USAID? I can't remember the number.

Starting point is 00:57:59 It's a big number. A big number. So, Faughtman, what's the future of U.S. foreign aid look like? It's looking different. Instead of funding aid organizations to do health work around the world, the administration is now working directly with governments and faith-based groups. Their focus so far has been on Africa. The State Department announced several agreements with nine African countries. In total, the U.S. is going to be investing $8 billion in the health sectors of those countries to help fight diseases.

Starting point is 00:58:30 And those governments are expected to chip in as well. As part of the deal, the U.S. wants more opportunities for American businesses and access to minerals. Now, global health experts are cautioning that in the year ahead, the challenge is going to be doing more with less, as millions of lives could be on a line. And Pierre Sputtonis, thanks so much. Thank you. Thanks so much. Millions of lives. Millions of lives.

Starting point is 00:58:53 Well, Rubio came out and said, he said, we're not going to fund NGOs anymore. That's ridiculous because he knows. And certainly the State Department knows. It doesn't take a big genius to figure this, that these guys are just taking us through. No, we're going to help you out. We're going to give you global hell. Hell. He said global hell.

Starting point is 00:59:11 I'm sticking with it. I'm going to give you global hell. But we want some minerals, which is. a much better deal than the Chinese are giving you. Much better. So we can build more AI chips for the data centers. Speaking of, so we had that MIT scientist who was killed. And somehow the guy who did the brown shootings was blamed for it.

Starting point is 00:59:38 Although, have you seen any photographic or video evidence that he was there, that he did that? But it feels just like, I don't know, something is off with that. Yeah, I'd say. So the MIT scientist was working with, oh, I have the name of the company somewhere. It's a fusion guy. Fusion guy, yes. But it was one of the three, there are three main companies that are poised to supposedly provide a fusion reactor. I think you'll use the right word.

Starting point is 01:00:14 Supposedly. Yeah. This is quantum computing. This is in the same league as quantum computing the way I see it. Well, I watched a couple of videos on these companies. Yeah, the videos are great. It works terrific in a video. This technology, it's killer. Well, we got this announcement on pretty much the same day. Tonight, President Trump predicting pricing. Oh, I'm sorry. That's not the one. Oops. How did I, wait, wait, wait, wait. It's here. This is the one. This is Devin Nunes, who was the CEO of Trump Media, which is not, which just did a big merger. Yes. Now, I spent a lot of time in Congress working on nuclear power. Unfortunately, legislation that I proposed 20 years ago didn't pass because the Congress decided that they should invest in windmills and solar panels. However, there was a company called TAE, the one that we're merging with, that actually continued to invest. So families like Chuck Schwab's family, investors like Stanley Druckum Miller, Google, Chevron, many others. continue to invest in T-A-E.

Starting point is 01:01:26 So this is private money, not government money, but for a quarter century, they've amassed the best scientists that the world has to offer, and they've produced, they're on their, they've built five generations of the reactor. And now we're stepping in, folding them into our company, so that we can help them build their first reactor.

Starting point is 01:01:47 So this is a fusion reactor. It's clean. it's one that can the first one will be up to 50 megawatts the future ones will be somewhere between 350 to 500 now what does that mean wow that means these are big enough to replace pretty much or add to the existing power generation that we have in this country it's a good size now look look this is now look technology when this is done and i don't say this lightly this will be the most important discovery and invention since the first Manhattan project. So the professor was working... Wait, wait. What was the second Manhattan project? Well, this will be the second Manhattan project.

Starting point is 01:02:32 Oh, I see what you're saying. I don't know. He's Nunes. So Lerreiro was working with Commonwealth fusion systems to build Spark. And Spark is supposed to start operations in 2026. And I just can't get beyond the coincidence of this guy getting iced. Yeah, I can't either. And there's also a plant being built right now in Washington State from Microsoft using yet another fusion trick,

Starting point is 01:03:07 technology supposedly that supposedly works, supposedly supposedly, that uses helium-3 and deuterium somehow. And it causes people who say, look at the technology. I did a lot of reading on this. Well, so the idea, as I understand it, the idea is that you can almost pretty much use salt water, sea water. And then helium comes out of it. You can use the helium to create steam. And in the video that I watched the TAA video, they're saying, oh, no, we can convert that straight to electricity somehow.

Starting point is 01:03:49 Uh-huh. No. Whatever you said was just nonsense. Well, I'm just telling you what was in the video. Yeah, the video is nonsense then. If it talks about turning seawater, using seawater, because you can get some helium out of it. It's almost getting helium-3 is a pain in the ass apparently. And then any of the Deuterium fusion reactors, supposedly is again, you know, you just listen, I'm just reading what the critics say. the problem with Deuterium is that, yeah, it will fuse with helium-3 and form a 90-million-degree temperature for a small amount of time. But Deuterium also fuses with Deuterium, and when it does that, a bunch of neutrons are released, and now you have a radiation problem, and the neutron release in the reactor will just melt the reactor. The whole thing's a disaster.

Starting point is 01:04:39 It seems this technology has not been proven to work. And it's really cool the way they contain plasma in a tube and the plasma has to spin around and the problem is keeping the plasma in there. Oh, yeah, and the guy that got killed at MIT, what was his specialty? Plasma. Plasma.

Starting point is 01:05:00 Mm-hmm. So there's one other company out there. I think it's the Zapp. I think it's Zapp. Uh, who would do the Z-Pinch. I think there's one more scientist who has to die for the, for the, for the theory to be, I have a feeling that they may be closer than, than we think, or than we think is possible. And I have, you know, yes, the fusion has been talked about for a long, long time.

Starting point is 01:05:33 Forever. I think it's certainly, somehow I feel it's more likely that this is happening than quantum, which you might have noticed is everywhere now. The pivot to quantum is happening. And I predicted it would happen, which means this is just, AI is just not panning out the way they expected it to.

Starting point is 01:05:56 Well, by panning out, you mean profitable. Well, how about productive-wise? It's not productive. It's productive for social media. It's great for newsletters and for art and funny videos, but it's not panned out to be productive in the workplace. No, not at all. And it's not profitable.

Starting point is 01:06:18 In fact, it's counterproductive you think about what you just said. How about this? How about this? Let's just break it down. Maybe, maybe this is just the next hype that they're kickstarting. Because why else? It was like, oh, Trump, you know, these, he's a conflict of interest with the data centers. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:06:40 You know, it's his kids running it, I guess. Nunes. It doesn't matter who's running it. this will just be the next thing because what is the power what is the problem with AI right now is power so as long as everyone's out oh we're almost there 26 oh could be little little glitch 27 this could be an enormous addition to the GDP now that we're kind of you know the data center deals are starting to slow down the big the big guys with the money are like we don't want to put any more money in the data centers, hyperscalers, which is another word for builders of data centers,

Starting point is 01:07:19 this could just be the next hype, you know, just to keep the train rolling. We have to keep it rolling. AI is now 90% of our GDP. That's not true. That sure seems like it. 90% of the mine share, maybe. That and GLP1. I mean, that's all we have.

Starting point is 01:07:41 We have AI and Ozempic. Welcome to America. Yeah, Apple phones. That's about it. But, I mean, I'm hopeful because it would be fantastic. Think about it. Think about the changes that would happen if Fusion actually came about. That would be amazing.

Starting point is 01:07:59 How about showing me one example of where it works at all? Well, on the video. You can see it on the video. Actually, it was like a 45-minute video from the company itself. not once did they show it's working look at the meter look at the power coming out

Starting point is 01:08:18 they didn't show that at all in 45 minutes of talking about their product so that's because it doesn't work could it work I mean it might work someday somebody might come up with a good idea or something one of those slap in the head what is the main problem with it

Starting point is 01:08:36 it costs more energy to get it to get going than it delivers. No, okay, because you got to, you got to fire up the plasma atron. The plasma, you got to control this and that costs money to extract the H3, in the case of the helium ones, it costs money to get the deteriorium. That's not, doesn't come in a, you know, it's not bottled by Coca-Cola. I mean, it's something you have to develop.

Starting point is 01:09:03 How do you make that? I have no idea, but it's not cheap. That's cost money, and it costs money for the other stuff. It costs money to get the plasma going. It costs money to build a plant. And then when you turn on the power to make it so it creates power, it costs more money to create than it's worth. That's the problem.

Starting point is 01:09:18 It's negative. It's got negative numbers all over the place. So it's not, it's a loser until somebody figure something out and they haven't done it. Oh, well, back to zero point energy, I guess. I just can't get beyond it. I can't get beyond that guy, that guy getting killed. the minute this T-A-E merger takes place, folded them in, which I don't like that term.

Starting point is 01:09:46 I'm not sure what you're talking about. But that Trump media is for one thing and one thing only. It's a money-gobling machine. It's just beyond me why they... Well, yeah. If you know what you're doing, you've got some good... Well, here's the good news. Creative bookkeepers and you've got a few other guys

Starting point is 01:10:05 and you know how to sit... It's a creative. Five salesmen and two creative... bookkeepers and you've got to come to you don't make billions. It's an accretive acquisition. That's what you have to say at Wall Street. It's accretive. Oh, really?

Starting point is 01:10:17 Yes, it's accretive to the balance sheet. The good news is we have the best producers in the universe. No doubt, we have someone out there working in fusion who can give us the straight answer and the details on what's really happening. No, we probably do have somebody working on infusion. Of course we do. And they're going to say the same thing. I, well, we wish.

Starting point is 01:10:43 Yeah, yeah, so it's not a good idea if more goes into it. It would be a great thing if we could get it to work. Yeah, yeah, okay. Well, that's disappointing. Well, it's just, I mean, it can be completely wrong. I may be out of touch. But they didn't have to kill the guy then. If it doesn't work, someone believes it works.

Starting point is 01:11:01 How about that? There's Devin Nunes, I'm sure, is like, oh, yeah, that's going to work. Well, someone believes quantum computing works. Yeah, no, you're right about that. Some people believe, and maybe, you know what? Maybe that guy was the guy I'm talking about who needs to, he has the little, that one piece of knowledge that would make it work. And so that's the guy you want to kill to keep it from ever coming to fruition

Starting point is 01:11:27 because you're the, because you're the oil companies. Yeah. The one I love the most is the, is the quantum computing people. Quantum's going to, going to break Bitcoin. Like, um, okay, which Bitcoin is not encrypted. It's your wallet that's encrypted. But if, if Quantum can decrypt Bitcoin wallets, you got a much bigger problem on your hands because they can decrypt your bank logging, you know, everything.

Starting point is 01:11:59 It's the same encryption. No, no, this is, this is, this is going to, quantum's going to do all that. Okay. All right. All right. all right well we'll just have to wait for it i don't know why that became an important element to quantum oh it's the people who are short bitcoin hello yeah it's got it maybe that i don't know what it is it's easy it's but it's it's a it's a something

Starting point is 01:12:26 you know okay it'll solve some sort of problem that no one can solve i guess i what quantum i'm not sure what the what the real appeal of quantum is oh i can tell you exactly what it is. It's going to give you the right ad at the right time for the right product. That's always been the cell. Or it's going to tell you that the milk in your fridge is out and it will order it for you automatically. Yeah, the baller repair, man.

Starting point is 01:12:56 So I just want to talk about Europe for a second with Ukraine since we do have Zelensky now at Mar-a-Lago. We have see we have a couple of things here let's just a little catch up from NBC in the Ukrainian capital the sound of drones once again buzzing across the

Starting point is 01:13:20 night sky as Russian strikes pounded keys killing at least one person and injuring more than 20 according to Ukrainian officials Russia launching a massive barrage of more than 500 drones and missiles just hours before the Ukrainian leader is set to meet with President Trump in Florida.

Starting point is 01:13:42 On his way to the U.S. Zelensky stopping in Canada for a meeting with Prime Minister Carney. And tomorrow I will have a whole very important and very constructive meeting with President Trump. Peace talks are slowly inching forward. The Nat pops are great. Constructive media with President Trump. Peace talks are slowly inching forward. You're shooting it up in the Oval Office? No, no, it's in Canada, right there in Carney's office.

Starting point is 01:14:10 He's shooting it up there. Oh, they're shooting in up Carney's office? Yeah. I hope very important and very constructive media with President Trump. These talks are slowly inching forward. The main sticking point remains territory. Moscow is looking for full control of the Donbass region in the east. Vladimir Putin saying tonight that if Ukraine doesn't want to resolve the conflict peacefully,

Starting point is 01:14:37 then Russia would resolve all its goals by force. Zelensky has said any compromises on territory should be decided by the Ukrainian people in a vote and that his country needs U.S. security guarantees in any peace deal. Trump telling Politico on Friday, the Ukrainian leader doesn't have anything until I approve it. Back in Ukraine, another day spent sifting through debris.

Starting point is 01:15:05 We are begging the whole. world says this woman let there be an end to all this for the sake of our children so i thought it was is interesting that first you know zolensky's coming to mara lago and then all of a sudden you know over the weekend well he's going to stop off in Canada and i should mention something because i followed at least five or six of these reports and they all go out of their way to mention the stop off in canada oh and it wasn't just to talk with carney carney a no it's to talk to talk to to a bunch of some other stooges

Starting point is 01:15:39 from representative of Europe and there was a meeting. This was a pre-meeting meeting. This was a, yes. Let's, okay, what do I need to know here? I got to deal with Trump again. Tiny dancer, here's what you do. We're going to tell you exactly what to do.

Starting point is 01:15:53 Let's get the, the true analysis from our guy. Andrew Rousouillis. He's our guy. He's our guy. Andrew Rasoulis. And we'll talk first about the Stopping Canada.

Starting point is 01:16:08 Thoughts on that, at least the initial press conference with Carney and Zelensky. It was quick. Yeah, difficult times. I mean, and sort of fast-moving times. So the main event will be tomorrow, of course, in Florida at Mar-a-Lago, when Zelensky meets Trump, to kind of finalize the sort of Ukrainian-Slas-European proposal that they're going to give to Trump. And if Trump likes it, he'll give it to the Russians.

Starting point is 01:16:37 go there. The Halifax meeting is a stopover. It's important. It's a coordinating meeting between Canada and also the European Union that's also being held with the Coalition of Willing, which is being held right now on video. So it's important, but it's a stepstone to the main event tomorrow afternoon. And of course the question is, whatever the Coalition of the Willing come up with, will they, will the Russians accept it? So is this essentially these two meetings just to get everybody on the same page before they hear from Trump? Yeah, it's fine-tuning. It's actually to give Zelensky a more backing as he goes to see Trump at Marlago.

Starting point is 01:17:15 And, you know, Trump's not going to be an easy sell. Trump has already said that, you know, he's going to look at what Zelensky gives them. But if he doesn't like it, he's not signing off on it. So that's the kind of the atmosphere that Zelensky is walking into. And then even beyond that, are there any odds that Russia will say yes to this? No. I mean, the odds are they will say no. They will negotiate maybe, but they will say no. There's a lot of things in this thing, like about the Russians pulling back from the Donask area, equal amount of the Ukrainians. I doubt the Russians will accept that one. And there's a lot of

Starting point is 01:17:55 the uncertainties about the coalition of the willing in terms of guarantees. Will that mean legally Article 5 type, but would it mean troops on the ground in Ukraine? That part, if it's in the package, and we haven't seen the full package, I would think the Russians would be very opposed to that part. So all I'm trying to say is that there's a lot of things the Russians have said they will be constructive. That means they will probably counter-propose something, as opposed to just shut it down. I love the whole Article 5-like guarantees. It's like, well, this is almost like a Bentley. It's not quite, it's like a Bentley. It's like a Bentley. It's Article 5 like guarantees, which already, I think it's Article 6 says, you know, we, it's Article 5 says an attack on one is

Starting point is 01:18:45 attack on all. I think it's Article 6 it says, and then if you want, you can do something about it. It's not a given. So it'll be less than a given by calling it Article 5 like. And meanwhile, Canada, more of your tax money. And just quickly, before we go, one question about the spending that the prime minister announced a day, two and a half billion. How will that be allocated? How does it help Ukraine? Yeah, it's going to international funds like the IMF and the World Bank and others. Canada's not a direct transfer to Ukrainians. And I think that's actually wise, given that Ukraine is going through a lot of corruption issues right now.

Starting point is 01:19:25 So there's questions where's the money going inside Ukraine? But also, I think that there's a, the other question is, you know, what's Canada going to get back for this? Canada's poured in quite a lot of many billions in terms of Ukraine's economic situation. So is Canadian industry going to benefit by this in the longer term? Because Ukraine is on the precipice of bankruptcy. The European Union bailed them out with a two-year loan. But they were going to go bankrupt in April. So these things have to be watched very carefully, I think.

Starting point is 01:19:56 So the bank loan from the frozen Russian assets seen internationally as theft resulted in the Belgian prime minister, Bart Tavafer, who of course, you know, you say, hey, you can't really do this. This is a problem. You have to give us Article 5 like guarantees so Russia doesn't come over here and kill us all for taking the money. Well, he just stepped it up. He said, this is such a good deal. we won. The immobilized assets will be kept immobilized and will ultimately be used to repair the damage Russia has caused to its unprovoked and unjustified war

Starting point is 01:20:38 against Ukraine. I think nobody in the European family wants to see that money return to Moscow, but we're going to return to the original philosophy. It is going to be used to repair the damage that Russia has caused in Ukraine. So I think Ukraine has won. They have their finance. They have their finance. and they still have the perspective of getting reparation money. I think Europe has won.

Starting point is 01:21:02 Perspective. And financial stability has certainly won. We've all won. Ukraine won. Europe won. It's a win-win-win. Now, I'm going to play

Starting point is 01:21:14 two clips from Janus Varufakis. I know he don't like the guy. I haven't heard about him for a while. Well, he's been doing his own podcast. soliloquy style was really reading his own script off camera which looks kind of odd

Starting point is 01:21:31 but I always find that creepy oh yeah it's a prompt for one second so off camera reads I don't even know when they became popular but they started showing up in maybe the late 80s and then became more and more used more

Starting point is 01:21:50 and more Alex Jones uses them a little bit Candace Owens does it you mean it's the second shot it's the shot where you see someone reading, but you see him from the side. And I call it an off-camera read. Who are they reading to? They're reading to the other camera, which is the one that represents the audience.

Starting point is 01:22:08 But so we're now seeing him as a third party, so an interloper from the side. I find it disturbing. I don't like it. That's art, John. Either talk to me. It's art. That's the problem.

Starting point is 01:22:20 That's what they think it is. It's art. If you're talking to me on camera, I want you talking to me, not over to the left. Over some guy, it's over. Where's that? Who's she talking to? Well, that ship is sailed.

Starting point is 01:22:34 That sailed with the Dutch windmill tilt and with the jump cut, which are all pioneered in the 80s and 90s, primarily by MTV. So, and then Z Frank. Z Frank. Remember Z Frank? Z Frank? Z Frank. And they used to, when you were in a studio, they always called it exactly what you say,

Starting point is 01:22:52 dutching the camera. Yes. Or they say, you're shooting over. over the axis. All of the things we learn in film school have been just cast aside. Anyway, he's not reading off-camera the way you describe. He's just, his camera is next to his monitor instead of where it should be right in front of his monitor. All right. I'm sorry. I got carried away with my complaint. I've been wanting to get it off my chest.

Starting point is 01:23:15 Your complaint has been registered. Then we will send it to the Austin Film School. Yes, please do that. So Janus, what he, he does know a lot about European fun. finance because he was the finance minister and later prime minister of Greece when the international monetary fund screwed them over into severe austerity. Zuma Rof and listen up. We've been around. This happened when you were three. But it was bad news in Greece. It was really, really bad. This is how the international finance system works. So he gives us a little rundown in two clips of the retaliation that Russia, the retaliatory measures.

Starting point is 01:23:56 measures, as USA, that Russia has taken against the EU. And trust me when I say you haven't heard this anywhere. And it's quite severe. Russia announced that all remaining energy exports to your... Oops, I'm sorry.

Starting point is 01:24:11 Start with this one first. Within 48 hours, Russia announced the nationalization of all European corporate assets on Russian territory. BP's stake in Rosneft. $14 billion gone nationalized. Shells Russian operations, $3 billion, seized, total energy's projects, $4 billion, confiscated,

Starting point is 01:24:34 Societ General's banking operations, taken over, German automotive plants, Volkswagen, BMW, Mercedes facilities worth billions, nationalized pharmaceutical operations, food processing facilities, retail chains, infrastructure projects, intellectual property, everything European companies owned in Russia was suddenly Russian state property. The total value exceeded $120 billion, more than the EU had seized. European boardrooms erupted in chaos. Shareholders demanded answers. Stock prices plummeted.

Starting point is 01:25:09 Insurance companies faced massive claims, but this was just the opening move. Didn't hear about that, did you? We've won, everybody. We're winners. Okay, clip of the day right there. Clip of the Day. Why do I not know this? I don't know.

Starting point is 01:25:33 I know because the mainstream media, they've stopped doing their job. A long time ago. A long time. Well, at least 18 years we started this show. It's already was 10 years past due. Now, listen to the second thing, and I checked the exchange rate, and it checks out. Russia announced that all remaining energy. exports to Europe would now be priced exclusively in rubles or UN, no euros accepted. This was

Starting point is 01:26:01 different from previous energy threats. Russia wasn't cutting supply that would hurt their own revenues. Instead, they were forcing a currency choice. European countries that wanted Russian gas or oil had to acquire rubles or yuan first. This meant going through Russian or Chinese financial intermediaries, paying fees, accepting exchange rate risk, losing transparency on pricing. But the real impact was psychological and systemic. By refusing euros, Russia was making a statement. Your currency is no longer acceptable to us. The euro, which Europeans assumed, was a global reserve currency that anyone would accept, was being rejected by a major commodity exporter. This had cascading effects. Countries that needed Russian energy had to hold ruble reserves. This meant selling

Starting point is 01:26:55 euros to buy rubles. Euro selling pressure increased. The rubble, which Western sanctions, were supposed to destroy, strengthened. The currency that was supposed to be worthless became necessary for European energy security. China benefited enormously. Countries buying Russian energy in yuan had to acquire yuan first. This accelerated yuan internationalization at the expense of the euro. The European Central Bank watched helplessly as energy importers dumped euros for roubles and yuan, weakening the euro and importing inflation through currency depreciation. And go look at the ruble USD or the ruble euro chart. It happened exactly as he just said it. Boom. 40% up. Everyone's now got to buy rubles. This is this is

Starting point is 01:27:49 is a weakening the euro. Well, it's strengthening the ruble, really, in first case. But the craziest thing, and I got this from Sir Jean, our Duke here in Texas, that the whole Ukraine strategy, or really the Russia strategy, was written up in a single document by the Rand Corporation, titled Extending Russia competing from Advantageous Ground.

Starting point is 01:28:19 and I'm not going to read I'll put it in the show notes people can look at it. I confirmed it. It's still a year. 2019. Okay. And it's still on their website. Just a couple of items from the

Starting point is 01:28:35 from the index, a table of contents. Let's see. Hinder petroleum exports, reduce natural gas exports, hinder pipeline expansions, impose sanctions, enhance Russian brain drain, provide lethal aid to Ukraine, increase support to the Syrian rebels, promote regime change in Belarus, exploit tensions in the South Caucasus, reduce Russian influence

Starting point is 01:29:02 in Central Asia, challenge Russian presence in Moldova. The whole thing. It's almost like they followed it, build step by step. Increase U.S. and NATO land forces in Europe, increase NATO exercises in Europe, withdraw from the INF Treaty, invest in new capabilities to manipulate Russian risk perceptions. You know, and they're still trying it. Oh, I got an idea. Guys, Reuters, this is a Reuters report. I'm 99% certain it's an AI voice. Here, read this. And a Reuters exclusive has shown that Moscow is likely stationing new nuclear-capable hypersonic ballistic missiles at a former air base in eastern Belarus. That's according to two U.S. researchers who have been studying satellite imagery.

Starting point is 01:29:55 It's a development that could bolster Russia's ability to deliver missiles across Europe. We're going to kill you. The Russians are coming. They're coming. They're coming. It's unbelievable. That is a good. one.

Starting point is 01:30:11 Yeah. And the Europeans are like, yeah, man. Hey, Russia. Yeah, there's no good. We got to be careful about this. According to two randos who study satellite images, give me a break. It's good. It's great.

Starting point is 01:30:27 It's fantastic. I got to love it. Gotta love it. I think that's it for Europe. So the European companies. That is it for Europe. Yeah. I mean, I don't know.

Starting point is 01:30:42 I don't know how do you come back from this, except first, one, you've got to give the money back. They're going to have to give the money back. They're really counting on. I mean, we'll see what comes out of the Mar-Lago talks. Nothing? Probably not. Sadly, probably not.

Starting point is 01:31:00 Hmm. Oh, I just, I want you to get into whatever you want to do next. But something happened. A report came out from CB. yes, I have been predicting this for a long time. And finally, here it is. Ladies, the free ride is over. And now you're telling me that you're going to charge me 1199 or whatever it is to return items.

Starting point is 01:31:25 Are you out of your mind? Hassel-free online returns may be a thing of the past. Most major retailers are now charging customers to return items even if they're unopened and in perfect condition. Who wants to lose money? especially not in this time in this economy. $850 billion. That's how much Americans will return to the stores this year.

Starting point is 01:31:49 Nearly 20% of the stuff we buy all. That doesn't sound right. That doesn't sound right. Maybe million. I don't know about billion. $850 billion, no. $50 billion. That's how much Americans will return to the stores this year.

Starting point is 01:32:04 Nearly 20% of the stuff we buy online just ends up in the return pile. return fee. Macy's now charges $9.99 for mail-in returns. T.J. Max and Marshalls charge $1199. Other stores, including J.Cruh, Abercrombie and Fitch, H&M, and Zara all now charge fees between $4 and $8. It can now cost as much as $45 to return certain electronics at Best Buy. Amazon, too, has tightened its policy charging some customers unless they use. its box-free in-person drop-off option. Merchants now are under a tremendous amount of cost pressure. They're really trying to offset some of the costs that they face in returns

Starting point is 01:32:49 by asking shoppers to share some of the burden. David Sobey co-founded his company Happy Returns that uses these AI robots to help make returns easier. Or is there any way to avoid these fees? Well, the best way to avoid them is just to read the retailer's return policy before you check out in the first place. I've been seeing this coming down Broadway for a long time. Women in particular will order 15 items of clothing and return 10, 11.

Starting point is 01:33:20 The try a mom, no, I don't like it. Try it on. No, I don't like it. Then I've always said, how can these stores accept that? It's just become shopping at home and now they're going to start charging return fees. Well, this is basically what you would do at a retail store. especially a woman, she would go in and go to a dress rack and grab like seven dresses and go into this changing room and try all of them on.

Starting point is 01:33:49 Yeah. And then, you know, turn around and look at herself and then go back and not buy any of them and then go take another seven in. And so they figured this is the same, this is the analog of doing that exact same thing. But instead of being at the store where you're putting it back on the rack, you are having to go through this rigmarole. Yep. And I don't know how they can put,

Starting point is 01:34:13 I don't know how the system can work with that. It can't, clearly. But it's going to change behavior because I just see it everywhere. Oh, no. I mean, Tina does it too. I told this morning they start charging. What?

Starting point is 01:34:29 Yeah. I start charging for returns. Oh, $9. So yeah. Yeah. And I don't know if that's per item or per, box that you ship back. It's probably per item.

Starting point is 01:34:40 Yeah. So that's going to end that. It's going to bring people back to the mall. Back to bring and mortar. It's going to change behavior. You're right. Because it's too expensive. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:34:51 Or maybe order them like that, but then return them in person. I think that that's probably where it will wind up. Return them in person. Then you had to have a store to return them to you. You can't do that with Amazon. No, they have their drop place. They're drop boxes, according to that report. So we'll see.

Starting point is 01:35:12 Yeah, they're not going to, that's still going to cost money. They have to recharge you to drop it off in one of those little cubicles at the grocery store. I've seen those. Oh. Is that where you pick up your scratch-offs? Scratch and sniff. What are you talking about? Your scratch-off.

Starting point is 01:35:32 Your scratch-off lottery tickets, man. You know, I have the same chance of winning. whether or not I buy a ticket. What is this untitled clip you have? I love seeing those. It's actually that's not a mistake. It's just it just got into, I should have taken it off

Starting point is 01:35:49 for this. It doesn't mean anything. Okay. I do have a, I do have an Amfest, kind of an interesting clip from this, you know, the America First, big meetup. It was during our show day off. Not America First. It's the America Fest.

Starting point is 01:36:05 America Fest. America First. America first. Yeah, the big turning point USA, like 35, 40,000 people were there? Well, I heard 30, but it was a lot of people. Everybody showed up, and it was like a big, well, everybody was mad. We had, we had, what's his face? What's the little, little weasel man, fast talker?

Starting point is 01:36:27 Ben Shapiro. Ben Shapiro. He supposedly bought his way in big controversy. Oh, yes, a million dollars from the Jew money, the shekels, And all he did is rag on Candace and everybody else and Tucker. Hey, bitch, and me. And I think there was a lot more going on at Amfest, but those were the highlights. I think you summarized it.

Starting point is 01:36:50 But I thought that this little report, which added a tidbit I did not know. And I thought, and I have to agree, this is a woman, a British woman just called the Warwick Report. She's one of these. She's online. She's more of a blogger than a podcast or a video blogger. and she's very good at what she does and she gets in and out of these things and she went to this one

Starting point is 01:37:11 and she found something at Amfest that is kind of disturbing Are you ready for my Amfest recap? This is going to piss a few people off. I was not invited and I was not paid to go. At the last minute I applied as independent media pulled a few strings, made a few calls and got approved. Amfest day two, I arrive and immediately feel the vibes are off.

Starting point is 01:37:30 Not only did it feel as if I'd walked into a tense, blurry proxy war but attendees were looking each other up and down with suspicion. We all saw speakers like Ben Shapiro, Tucker Carlson, and Megan Kelly go after each other. Quite frankly, that was rather embarrassing, and the left are laughing at conservatives. The house is divided against itself and cannot stand. And what's the division? One simple but loaded question. Are you pro-America or pro-Israel?

Starting point is 01:37:53 You'd think the answer was obvious. We were at America Fest, but the nuances were palpable. Several activities and events seemed in bad taste. For example, the tent replica. Yes, there was a replica of the tent Charlie was publicly executed in for people to take selfies in. Now that doesn't sit right with me.

Starting point is 01:38:11 The public's online takeaway of the event is rather telling, and they have every right to question what's going on. As someone who was physically there, I can attest that there was something seriously off. There needs to be a ceasefire of the friendly fire in the conservative movement. Traitors must be removed from power, and we should focus on the enemy

Starting point is 01:38:28 that is trying to destroy the UK, America, and the West in general. However, I must say that I did. meet an interesting group of people there, and the networking was fantastic. Hmm. So there was a tent that was a replica of where Charlie was shot, so you can go have a picture taken? What? Well, that may just be their standard TPPUSA tent. That's maybe just how she's categorizing it.

Starting point is 01:38:54 I don't know. Look, let's just face one. Look. Look. Look. Look. Let's face one thing. T.P. USA, the organization, its main mission, was to register voters and to activate them when necessary.

Starting point is 01:39:15 Because you can scream and yell and say Trump or Biden, whatever you want to say, but if someone isn't registered in time, they can't vote. TPSA is a voter registration organization. and then, of course, an activation, as Mo would say, an activation organization to get you going at the right moment, so you go vote because you're already registered. You don't have to go through a two-step process. So everyone who is there is there to get people involved

Starting point is 01:39:46 and all these tents and everything. It's always to register. You need to register to vote. Yeah, that's important. I'll register to vote. Once you're registered, then we're going to activate you. They're kind of doing things out of C-E. now because they're pre-activating, and I think it's true, J.D. Vance. That's what they're doing now.

Starting point is 01:40:04 And that may or may not be with approval of the president, but it seems like that's all that it's about. And all the other stuff is just, it's noise. It's just noise. Who now Alex Jones is involved? Alex Jones is he's, well, Candace, you were wrong, got to call it out. I read all the documents, been doing this for 20 years. Candace, you wrong? I love you, but no, I got to call out when you're wrong. I love you. I love Candice. I love Candice, but when she's wrong, she's wrong.

Starting point is 01:40:35 Got to call it out in my car while I'm driving. It's insane. And at this point, it's just idolatry, just being in the mix. Dave Rubin jumps in. I know, the whole, the whole podcasting industrial. complex, which I blame on you, by the way. It's totally my fault. It's out of control.

Starting point is 01:41:06 It's Candyland, everybody. We're in Candyland. That's where we're at. So, you were talking about the clip before was about liars. I have to play this series, and it'll be my last real series for today.

Starting point is 01:41:22 Oh, you got a series, huh? This is series. Well, these have all been series. I've done a lot of series. I don't know why. Because that's what we do. We do series so that we can tell, tell the kids. So we can bitch and mo. We bitch a mon in our own way.

Starting point is 01:41:35 No, we want the kids. We want the kids to learn something from us. Ultimately, that's what we are. We are teachers. Don't laugh. We're teachers. We are teachers. We're educators.

Starting point is 01:41:49 So, so this is, this is Brooks. Okay, I take it back. We're just bitching. and moaning. We're not teachers at all. This is Brooks on the PBS News Hour, which nobody who listens to this podcast watches, ever. So Brooks, Brooks goes off. Brooks, I've now determined it's actually, you know, he's supposed to be a, you know, this is my main complaint for the over the years, I'll do it again. PBS does not have balanced coverage of anything. So they put two people on to argue with each other, but they are both in 100% agreement, only to what,

Starting point is 01:42:27 I'm a lefty, I'm more of a lefty. That's the argument is how left can you be? Hey, these clips are loud. They're really modulated. Did you clip these? Yeah, I did. I did give them a, I hear, yeah. I'm looking at the waveforms.

Starting point is 01:42:42 These are maxed out. Yeah. I'm looking at the waveform. I try to do this with my clips. Why? Why? All I'm doing is potting them down. Okay.

Starting point is 01:42:52 You'll be potting. You'll be having some fun with these. So he, so they don't have. Capehart on, so the two of them can't agree with the show. They brought some woman on whose, it's not even worth it. I clipped none of her. I just wanted to clip Brooks to make a point about Brooks being not only a left winger, but he's a New York Times columnist who is going to blatantly lie.

Starting point is 01:43:17 President Trump's return to the White House has seen several significant changes from his first term, turning this into a consequential year for the presidency and for the presidency and for the country. So to reflect on it all, we turn now to the analysis of Brooks and Atkins Storr. That's David Brooks of the New York Times and Kimberly Atkins Store of the Boston Globe. Jonathan Capehart is away. Welcome to you both. Thank you for being here. David, one of the biggest questions at the starting of this year is what Trump 2.0 was going to look like compared to the first version. And we have now seen a year of it, an incredibly aggressive flexing of executive authority. When you look back on this year, what really stands out to you? Yeah, I tell two stories. The first is that since 1945, the American

Starting point is 01:44:05 establishment, if you want to put it that way, has built a series of institutions, things like the Western Alliance, NATO, the Department of Justice, USAID, and all of those things have been hollowed out over the last year. The Department of Justice? The Department of Justice? The Department Department of Justice. That's new? He put that in there. He said specifically, that's new.

Starting point is 01:44:27 The Department of Justice. Let me just read a little segment here. Oh, you've done, you've done, you've got the documents. Yeah. On February 19th, 1868, Lawrence introduced a bill in Congress to create the Department of Justice in 1868. President Ulysses S. Grant signed the bill. to law on June 22nd, 1870. What does that have to do in 1945, 1946? Well, it's hollowed out, man.

Starting point is 01:45:02 It's hollowed out. It's like an empty egg show. You got the little, you got the little thing in there about USAID. Yes. Of course, because the PBS is, I think, I think you nailed it when you said that they were getting money from USAID. Sure. Under the table. Whatever. Probably not even under the table. Probably through an NGO. So, so we started. off with a blatant lie about the Department of Justice. But that gets worse. But it doesn't get worse. It gets worse.

Starting point is 01:45:30 John C. DeVorek. He's got all the documents. And so we've seen a great decline in state capacity. He knows their globalist agenda. You have to worry about if we're a nation in decline. Because China is investing in science. They're investing in technologies. They're kicking our butts. And so

Starting point is 01:45:46 the decline, this has been a tragedy an error of historic proportions. They're kicking our butts. is there a lie in there somewhere no not yet but the child well it's the fact that the chinese are kicking our butts in AI okay so then we have this next clip which is actually a wTF clip this proves to me that this guy is about his you know represents conservatives about as much as uh Hillary Clinton earlier this spring David you remember you called for are arguing that all of these little protests,

Starting point is 01:46:23 pushbacks that are happening against the Trump administration, were insufficient for what you're diagnosing. And you called for a civic, a collective civic action. I don't think I'm breaking any news to you that I don't think that that has happened in the country. Yeah, I mean, I was reading all these lefty revolutionaries, and I'm like, yeah, yeah, let's go, get them. I think it has not happened. What in the world?

Starting point is 01:46:49 So he's reading alternate and God knows what other left-wing publications routinely. And he's getting all worked up saying, yeah, yeah, let's go. David Brooks is reading all those alternate. Okay, we get it. You're getting, I would say you're 5%. You're really close. The reason why is because I've had the flu for the past two days. And that's why I'm overdoing it.

Starting point is 01:47:14 And what I say really close, I'm talking about his being able to do Alex Jones. And a couple of moments back, a couple of those moments ago. I had it. I had it. He nailed at least five or six words that sounded exactly right. So now you're, I don't know if you're trying to get my attention.

Starting point is 01:47:32 Yes. But you, yes, you've got it. Okay, thank you. But can you sustain it without your cold? No, I can't. It's not a cold. It's the flu, man. It's the flu. I'm jacked up on all kinds of meds right now. You didn't even know that. No, you don't, because you don't

Starting point is 01:47:48 have to you you're good at you cover up sickness uh somehow over a microphone especially mental i'm talking like this well the way i see it i'm sweating like a pig through my dose and i'm just going to have to blow it a couple times if you don't bite no i refiltered i refiltered when i sat down like i got to refilter so i'm going to keep this filter though but did joe it did joe let's go to less clip you want to get it out of your system Let me try again. John Zivorak is. Now I can't do it.

Starting point is 01:48:22 Okay, well, you have to work on it more. Okay. I'm glad I didn't. Now I'm glad I didn't try my Zelensky. So this is the part, this is the end of it, and he just drops a bunch of bombs in here at the end. Lies. The second thing that's happened is there has been such a decay of moral norms

Starting point is 01:48:40 that it's hard for any institution to say, no, we are going to stand up for this. You are not going to talk about Rob Ryan or the way you did. You're not going to use the racial language that is omnipresent now. And it's hard to articulate when the corrosion is not only in our laws, but in our minds, in our language. That's a hard thing to challenge. But I'm hopeful in the long term it'll happen. In the 1890s, we had a civic renaissance.

Starting point is 01:49:08 We had the creation of the Boys and Girls Clubs. We had the creation of the NACP, the unions, the Sierra Club. All these civic organizations were created by a group of people who said, We can't go on this way. And once you have the civic institutions, then in around 1900, you had the progressive movement. Wait a minute. Wasn't the Sierra Club? Weren't those the population bomb people?

Starting point is 01:49:28 Like, kill everybody? No, they were just conservationists, which is not a new operation. Now, he said in the 1890s, we had the NAACP, the Sierra Club, and the Boys and Girls Club. Let's go over the facts. Here we go. He's got the documents. Boys Club. It was no boys and girls club.

Starting point is 01:49:53 Let's make this clear. There was no boys and girls clubs in the United States. Was there a girls club? There may have been, but the girls usually joined the girl scouts. Right. The boys and girls club came about in 1990, not 1890. In fact, the boys club was first founded. by women, actually, curiously, in 1860, which is not 1890.

Starting point is 01:50:22 It was then nationally organized in 1906, not 1890. And then it was reformed in 1930, in the 30s and the 40s, not 1890. Oh, well, let's go to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which was formed, according to him, in the 1890s. The NACP was formed in 1909 by people like W.E.B. Du Bois. This was not 1890. The Sierra Club was indeed founded in 1890, but that's a conservation conservation conservation, conservationist group. It's not a political group. And then we take it to the end, which he says labor unions, which were actually founded, the first, the founding of the national labor union was in 1866.

Starting point is 01:51:11 Not 1890. And there's plenty of examples of unions that were from the Knights of Labor. Was it 1869? And then the Great Railroad Strike, which was a union-inspired strike, 1877. This guy is a liar. He works for the New York Times, and he spews bullshit on PBS, which people's lap up like lap dogs. It's pathetic.

Starting point is 01:51:33 So does this end the clips on the No Agenda Show of the PBS News Hour since it's all lies? Can it, can it possibly mean the end? Could this be a New Year's resolution? Let's hope so. All right, let's do a little bit of Trump derangement syndrome before the break. This was a fine example, which is going to cost somebody a lot of money. To the index and what was meant to be a celebration is now a controversy. The Kennedy Center canceled its annual Christmas Eve jazz concert.

Starting point is 01:52:07 The show's host musician Chuck Redd says he called off the performance. performance in the wake of President Trump, adding his own name to the arts institution. Many legal scholars say Trump's move violates the law. Scholars. You know, Chuck Red has been doing this Christmas concert since 1890. And now all of a sudden he decides to cancel. Yeah, 1890. You know, Grinnell is the president, which is perfect for the job.

Starting point is 01:52:34 Remember Grinnell, he was ambassador? He's the gay guy. he was oh yeah I do remember him he's the gay the gay ambassador yeah he is perfect for the job that's yes and I think he then was for a moment there he was national security advisor I think and I had to look him up I like him he wasn't good guy good looking man good guy handsome man very handsome man and so so this this Chuck Red decides to cancel a day before the concert That's going to cost you money. That's going to cost.

Starting point is 01:53:12 Someone has to pay for that because ticket sales, everything's already done. That's just a, that's a career killing move as far as I'm concerned. Yeah, for political purposes. Yeah, I was like, what do you care, man? What do you care? Trump put his name above JFK. This is a Bloomberg podcast called the balance of power. You can already imagine what this is.

Starting point is 01:53:38 like. I think it's audio only, thank the Lord. No, it's on TV. It's on TV, too? I'm pretty sure it is. Yeah. Well, here they are complaining about Trump. Incredible reporting today in the New York Times. If you've not seen this story, they spent time in the Oval like no one has, cataloging each inch and all of the changes that have taken place over the last year. There've been a lot of them, by the way. The flags are abundant. We've got the gold-framed copy of the Declaration of Independence. Gold statue out of an eagle flying over the Constitution arrived last month near the flags behind the desk, a wooden box with a red button. You know, that's the Diet Coke button. That's different. It's not gold. But the question of whether the gold is real.

Starting point is 01:54:17 Also acknowledged, when you look at all the frames, the mirrors and the photos, some thought that this was just cheap plastic. No, the White House says that while the underlying materials are made of plaster or metal, they are covered in real gold leaf. A craftsman from Florida travels to the White House on the weekends to gild, gild, gild, parts of the Oval Office by hand. What is the problem? I mean, I'm not that much of a good. I do that myself at the house. Yeah, with gold spray paint.

Starting point is 01:54:48 No, you can get gold leaf. It's really, it's actually relative. It's not as cheap as it used to be. Are you gilding stuff? I've gilded stuff. I'm not doing it as we speak. Could you gild my microphone? You want to spray it.

Starting point is 01:55:04 You don't want to gild. How do you gild? Is gild done by painting? Or how do you gild? No, no, it's so like you have an under, there's a sticky under surface and you lay a piece of gold leaf over it and press it down and over the bumps and little things and get it so it's all pushed in there. So it's, you know, one leap, gold leaf at a time. It's only one atom thick, which is crazy. One atom, oh, man.

Starting point is 01:55:29 Yeah, gold can be one atom thick and still be gold. Is that the stuff the high-end chefs put on the food? Yeah, exactly. That's the stuff you can eat. the same stuff. You can eat it. Yes, you can't because there's only a couple of... It's really not that much to it. I've eaten it. I've eaten it. It's the line of

Starting point is 01:55:47 Adams. It's just, you're probably not getting enough gold to do anything. I mean, it's not much gold. I've eaten gold in my day. Most people have. If you go to a high-end restaurant over the years, at some point, someone will bring out a gatto that has a piece of gold leaf on the top. And foam. Foam. Foam is so basse is ridiculous.

Starting point is 01:56:12 No, foam. It's still a thing. Yeah, well, maybe where you are. Let me clue you in about foam. The foam. I've always loved the foam. And so these guys didn't stop. Do you know about the peephole? Oh, brother.

Starting point is 01:56:29 This is fascinating. You know about the peephole in the outer oval? Most people don't know about this. There was a peep. pole that until quite recently would allow staff just check on the meeting to see what's going on in there make sure you're president's all right you're going to walk in you know what you're walking in on trump has blocked the peephole with new mirrors no no if the door is now closed they cannot see what is happening in the room oh oh god i'll have what she's having he's blocked the peephole that i can't believe that's all also on television. That's crazy. Well, on television, they have it. It's a very small box, and it's surrounded by nothing but stock market information flying all over the place.

Starting point is 01:57:18 Right, right, right. It's not really a television show. Yeah, I know. Exactly. Well, John, with that fine news of the peephole being blocked, I think it is time to thank you for your courage, the man who put the sea in Candy Land, say hello to my friend on the other end, the one, the only Mr. John. See, DeMorre! Yeah. Ships and sea boots on the ground, feeding the air, subs in the water, all the dames and nights out there.

Starting point is 01:57:47 And the morning to the trolls in the... In the troll roof. Hold on, let me count you out. There we go. There we go. We're at 1838. It's not bad for a holiday weekend. It's good to everybody.

Starting point is 01:58:01 Have everybody here. Now, 1,8308 trolls are listening live to this podcast. And we are a podcast. We're just a podcast. You can do other things while listening to this podcast. We are a genuine. We are an OG podcast. And genuine.

Starting point is 01:58:16 A pod, as some would say. The pod. Well, you shouldn't be saying it. You've rejected that moniker. Yes, yes, I have. So you can be driving while you're listening to this. You could be walking the dog. You can be doing chores.

Starting point is 01:58:29 You're washing the dishes, walking around. You can be gardening. Gardening. All kinds of wonderful activities. In fact, we encourage that you're outside when you listen to this podcast. Just walking around, laughing to yourself. So people think you're nuts. It's perfect.

Starting point is 01:58:46 And you'll recognize each other on the street. Oh, you're listening to the best podcast? Yeah, I'm listening. ITM. ITM, everybody. What does that happen the other day? You got an ITM? I got an ITM out of the blue.

Starting point is 01:59:00 Yeah, we get one there once in a pastor. We were talking to a pastor. One of the Bryans? No, not one of the five brines. No, this is for Godcaster. And the past says, ITM. I'm like, holy moly. ITM.

Starting point is 01:59:13 There we go. A man of the cloth of many different cloths. And of course, if you have a modern podcast app, and by the way, Podverse is working on a new version, which is going to be amazing. Podversion. Podverse 2.0. I mean, Mitch is really, well, the new version of Podverse. I mean, what's you going to do? I mean, it's hard to explain.

Starting point is 01:59:35 It's really going to help you find new podcasts, find music. We have value for value music. Do you hear about the music hack? It's interesting you bring that up. Yes. And it's not a hack. It's just a great idea. It's a download.

Starting point is 01:59:50 I think it's, it was it Anna? Anna's blog. No, not, yeah, it is. Anna's blog. They backed up Spotify and they're making. All of it. Well, I think 90% pretty much. I thought it was all of it.

Starting point is 02:00:05 We archived around 86 million files representing 99.6% of listens, of listens, 300 terabyte in total size. And of course, they're putting this all on torrents. And so you can already get the metadata. I've never even heard of Anna's blog, but if you want to get a book. They're hackers. They do a lot. Anna's blog has been in business. Nobody knows anything about them.

Starting point is 02:00:28 But they're the ones who have the giant libraries that they've stolen. I'm going to use the word stolen. They have downloaded all kinds of stuff. They're very important to the underground community for information archiving. Well, you like downloading movies. No, I don't. I pay for everything I view. I'm sorry.

Starting point is 02:00:51 I'm sorry. Yes, you're right. You pay for everything you do. But there's lots of people who like downloading movies. You know, but they have books. They have, I'll bet you your books are on here. I wouldn't be surprised. Yeah.

Starting point is 02:01:08 So it's kind of a super hack because I can see people putting together, they even have some kind of their own player, if I understood correctly. So in essence, you can load up the metadata in their player, and then you can access the files from the torrents in your player, and it'll just kind of work like Spotify. Yeah. Yeah.

Starting point is 02:01:36 I mean... I can't see how that helps the stock. Well, I mean, it depends. If it gets kind of the scale of Napster, it'll be very interesting to see what happens. But basically, the musicians aren't really losing any money. I mean, no one's making money. You're not making any money anyway.

Starting point is 02:01:54 Yeah. So, you know, so in a way, it's kind of fun. I mean, I don't condone stealing. but I don't know it I just like the idea that they just sat there and had all of these machines just screaming grinding away and taking saving everything I like that just something something radical about it that I like um of course with podcast we had this was at the dinner table conversation two a couple of things to note one it well I also posted us on on X at this little hack and I the note the notes I got about typically in my followers go so what this is not wave files everybody knows if you're going to save

Starting point is 02:02:37 stuff you got to save it in wave you got to save full lossless lossless audio lossless lossless and so I got that and so then you also had the which is what you've heard it no one cares no one cares about quality anymore that went out the window right that's what I said that came up the dinner table J.C. says, well, he only downloaded it. It's 160K. And I said, which is more than adequate. For today, it's not 128 or 64. This podcast is 96. Yeah, we're 96. We're 96, man. We don't care. It's great. And I started doing that for file size, but now it became part of our sound. It is literally fine. People would say, we have great sound and we're doing it at 96. Yeah, well, that's because you get a little bit of artifacts when you do it at 96.

Starting point is 02:03:29 It adds a little more crunch to it, which I enjoy. It's almost like overmodulating onto magnetic tape. That's also part of sound. I'm a sound designer, Chuck. Not just a sound. I'm a sound designer. It's designed for earbuds. But, yeah, so that was the only pushback you got is not wave, not wave.

Starting point is 02:03:53 Go talk to Neil Young. with his failed wave product. Remember that? Yeah. It was a good idea, but no one cared. Nobody cared. Once MP3s came in and Napster and you could be sharing with your friends,

Starting point is 02:04:09 it was fantastic. Man, I love those days. The sales of CDs were at their absolute peak. Yes. During Napster, because you could hear music you never thought of. Because Napster had a recommendation engine. No, no, it wasn't the recommendation engine.

Starting point is 02:04:24 It was, you got a file and then you go look at the guy's drive. What else you got in here? Yeah, right. Well, it was a, it was a exploration system. Okay. But it basically was a kind of a handmade version of a recommend. Because what you do, you hear some music from some guy, and you say, what else is this guy like?

Starting point is 02:04:45 Yes. You'd go look at his files and you say, oh, I never heard of this band. You download it. Wow, these guys are good. I'm going to buy their album. But think about how good. that was as a discovery mechanism versus what you got on Apple Music or Spotify, which sucks. There is the left.

Starting point is 02:05:01 It sucks. Oh, you might also like this. No, I like rooting around in the guy's hard drive. Oh, look at that. He's got 78s. This is John. This is John's drive. That'd be me.

Starting point is 02:05:13 He's got all this cool. Oh, he's got entire radio dramas. It was all kinds of fun stuff. We got to bring that back. That was super fun. Now, Anna's blog, bring that back. That's what people want. Yeah, the internet got ruined by apps.

Starting point is 02:05:31 Apps, got to have an app. So anyway, get one of those modern podcast apps. And apparently Podverse 2.0 will help you find perfect podcasts. Podcast apps.com is where you can find all them. And these are the ones that also automatically will give you a bat signal when your favorite podcast goes live, which is what we do with the No Agenda show, which is really the only way to do it because you have a built-in studio audience,

Starting point is 02:05:56 and it's just more fun. There's more energy. It's great, which is great. Face it. I guess we'll talk about the Christmas special, which Donald Winkler put together for us. I got a lot of positive feedback on this. Did you get any feedback at all from you?

Starting point is 02:06:19 None whatsoever. None. Hmm. Well, I like the art that I chose, even though we had... Yes, you ended up bypassing the art that we chose. Yeah, but did you not like my choice? It was much better. No, it was an executive decision you made. Yes, I...

Starting point is 02:06:35 Wisely, because that's a terrific piece of art. I called an audible. You called an audible, and you nailed it. Baron Darren O'Neill created a piece of art, which... And they had two of them, and one kind of hid the pretty blonde's face. But I opted for just a, she looks a bit like my mom, honestly. That's how my mom looked back in the 50s, 50s and 60s. That was a very typical American look.

Starting point is 02:07:01 Wouldn't you agree? Yeah, no, it's a pretty, for AI, it created a very pretty, that's a pretty face. Pretty classic face. And I even got, I got comments on that, people saying, I like how Adam and John just don't care. They'll just put a pretty, what are they talking about? They'll just put it pretty blonde in the picture.

Starting point is 02:07:20 He says, a pretty blonde. This is, we do care. Hello. It's just the opposite. Because we know a pretty blonde sells. Come on, let's be real. Money in the bank, people. A pretty blonde always sells.

Starting point is 02:07:34 And she was holding up a no agenda Christmas book by Curry and Dvorak as curated by Sir Donald Winkler. It was a little small, but I decided to go with it anyway. That was fine. Darren is a master. He's a master, I tell you. I don't know how he does it. But, and of course, he doesn't do anything else. I think his wife works.

Starting point is 02:07:54 I'm pretty sure. Hold on to that one, Darren. Whatever she says, do the chores. Don't change anything. Don't change anything. It's a gem. There were, of course, a lot of pieces of art that were uploaded to no agendaartgenerator.com. We should probably just take a quick look.

Starting point is 02:08:13 And let me see. There was a lot of Christmas art. There was a lot of redacted, naughty, and nice lists. you use the Jeffrey Ria Christmas special artwork which was a nice piece which Jeffrey did it was a tree stylized tree with the letters

Starting point is 02:08:33 you think that was it was AI absolutely yeah well it was good prompting done and then there was just a ton well okay there's Darren's some stockings I don't know it's just oh yeah very funny blue acorn with the sweater puppies

Starting point is 02:08:49 Okay, I'm not going to choose that. Yeah, that was kind of cute. The one you wanted the actual cheesecake, because that's what we discussed by Darren, in honor of Scaramanga, which I was... Well, I didn't know. I don't think that's true.

Starting point is 02:09:03 I think that's the one we decided on. No. Oh, the Christmas cheesecake by Scaramanga? I think so. No, by Darren. Oh, there's a better one by Scaramanga, but it's ridiculous. Not usable.

Starting point is 02:09:18 As long as he mentioned him. that's that's all that matters you just want to mention it so he's got he's got his mention he's got a girl with big breasts so we're always looking for something fun something that but i don't really see anything yet except another but from a comic strip blogger he's always showing the butts i don't know i think there's i think there's still room people to swoop in and get the art for this episode uh it's part of the value for value model is how it works is um you give us your time your talent and treasure in return for the outstanding podcast that we deliver twice a week for 18 years.

Starting point is 02:09:55 We just keep on delivering. We're just delivering. Are you tired of our delivery yet? Because it's never going to stop. We're going to keep on delivering four more years or a thousand more years. It depends. John's Newsletter. Yeah, you saw that.

Starting point is 02:10:10 I did see that, yes. Inside joke, everybody. So we always thank our financial donor. value for value supporters, $50 and above. It's nice to hear your name called out. It's even nicer when you get a credit for it, like an official Hollywood credit, which we do with our executive and associate executive producers.

Starting point is 02:10:32 That's $200 and above. And we'll read your note for an associate or an executive, $300 above. But once again, thanks to Sir Donald Winkler. He is a full-on producer and was credited as such in episode 1828. We really appreciate what he did. And we will be needing, of course, more best-of special shows for this coming year. There's always stuff going on. So we appreciate whenever someone put something like that together for us.

Starting point is 02:10:59 Now to start with our first executive producer for this week, just as we wind up the year, the last one for this year. Paul Lincoln's comes in from Lansville, Pennsylvania, with a cool $1,000. And he says, see, attached note. It's a dame for his mom and his dad So I'm going to read that now He says

Starting point is 02:11:21 ITM John and Adam My name is Paul Lincoln's My mom Rose made an instantite donation in May When I graduated from Thaddeus Stevens College earning my associate degree in welding technology I remember this kid I know because whenever we get someone Who's doing something actually productive

Starting point is 02:11:39 Like welding We're the first Like welding Everyone can use a welder by the way In their Rolodex Yes, we're always the first one to say, yes, we approve that career move. And he says, I scored my first job, and now I get to sew with metal for a living. It's a welding term.

Starting point is 02:11:57 I sew metal. She hit me in the mouth in 2020, and this show has been the best amygdala shrinking bonding experience for us. This is also my chance to make an insidame donation for her. My gift to you, Ma, although might be late, Merry Christmas. I would like my night name to be Sir Mama's Boy of the Arkwelders and my mom's to be Dame Rosie Posey of the Flower Child. At the round table, we would like Best Texas Brick's Brisket and Ice Cold Beer. This is also a reply to the quote John read in episode 1768. Please read the following. Mom, though through our struggles in this insanity-inducing world, you, dad,

Starting point is 02:12:42 and I have always stood strong together. You tell me I light up your day, well, you guys brighten my universe. Oh, this is so sweet. I could never have asked for better parents who have taught me so much in life. I am proud to be your son. I love you so much.

Starting point is 02:12:58 And now I'd like a noodle gun and a goat scream followed by Health and Jobs Karma for Jingles. That is a beautiful note and a beautiful gift. I'm gonna shoot in the face with my noodle gun. You racist piece of she. I got to my pasta glock locked and loaded. Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs. Let's vote for jobs.

Starting point is 02:13:24 Marma. And we go on, and you're going to have to read this note because it blew out my spreadsheet. And I can mouse around it, but my mouse dropped dead in the last segment. Okay, hold on. And so I'm recharging it as we speak. Oh, you don't just put in No, my mouse's battery Is this rechargeable

Starting point is 02:13:49 Yeah, there's no batteries in it Oh, I like to just put battery kind in That's my friend Yeah, I do too If in situation This is from Baba Yaga Baba Yaga Hold on a second

Starting point is 02:14:01 Baba Yaga because you have some requests here I didn't have set Okay Let me get the Pelosi Okay So difficult I don't have Pelosi Hello from Baba Yaga in Littleton, New Hampshire

Starting point is 02:14:20 This is $500. Ooh, the witch has been active out there in the world She is dancing upon the earth on bony legs With their rusty metal teeth eternally chomping and clanging With bottomless hunger She feasts on the world's children As they laugh and frolic into her waiting oven

Starting point is 02:14:36 With nary a complaint or outcry Oh, how she shrieks and delight how easily they come. How easily they are seduced into her whimsical hut sitting on high on scaly old chicken feet. Oh, how lucky she is to have an endless stream of food that comes right into her home. And as the world turns, she cackles and creaks on. I'm not sure why that came out there, but it's an interesting little bit of a bit. I very much appreciated your media deconstruction since COVID times. I will forever turn a big bloodshot eye of skepticism toward any and all major news developments

Starting point is 02:15:12 spewed from the grassy mouths of the foul new ghouls. Thanks in part to your program. Please dedush me. You've been deduished. And call out my dad Rick as a major douchebag. Wow. Rick. Rick.

Starting point is 02:15:34 Can you give a shout out to my ultra mega awesome. some main street business community here in northern New Hampshire. The Woodcocks. And please check out my art and store at Baba Yagaville.com. That's Baba YagaVille, B-A-B-A-Y-A-G-A-Ville.com. My God, check that out. Thank you and a happy 2026 to you both.

Starting point is 02:15:57 You deserve the world and more. And as jingles, he wants chemtrails. I don't have any of it. Somehow I missed this in time. note chemtrails yes and what else does he want that Pelosi shut up from Zach in the great north beast baba yaga lilton new hampshire ken trails we will not shut up no that wasn't Pelosi hold on a second where's polo here's Pelosi shut up i knew i had it shut up shut up shit up the baron of old bays in wilmington delaware and he came up three hundred forty three

Starting point is 02:16:34 and says, wishing everyone Merry Christmas. I'm donating to help John and Adam enjoy a well-deserved Christmas break from the show. What is on the menu this Christmas asks the Baron of Old Bay

Starting point is 02:16:49 who finishes off with cheers. What did you have this Christmas? Well, our Christmas dinner's coming up. Mimi sent me a text. Hey, Merry Christmas. I said Merry Christmas for whenever you're going to celebrate. Tuesday. Yes, we had tamales.

Starting point is 02:17:09 What? Tamales, yeah. Do you have a tamale? You made the tamales or you bought some commercial tamales from a local? No, one of our Mexican friends made tamales for us. They're pain in the butt to make. I wouldn't make them. Yeah.

Starting point is 02:17:27 So, yeah, they were dynamite. Also, I had some of Sir Patrick Scobel Scobel, Sir Patrick Cobles Shine gnaug which he gave me when I saw him here in Texas, which is moonshine eggnog. He would be able to, he would have access to such a thing. I would not recommend drinking it at 10 a.m. like I did, because man, I got hammered.

Starting point is 02:17:56 Sir Scovey, Charlotte, North Carolina, 333.33. by the way, of course, are combined donations for the Christmas episode and today's episode. And he wants to hear George Bush send your cast and says, Merry Christmas, gentlemen. JCD's tip of the day for eggnog recipe warrants mention of another eggnog

Starting point is 02:18:13 recipe in the Too Many Eggs cookbook George Washington's recipe. G.W. loved his distilled spirits and included copious amounts in his eggnog, supposedly, to get sloshed with his holiday guests. This is the third year in a row I've used the recipe. It's

Starting point is 02:18:29 always a hit with family and friends as both a drink and a topic of conversation. So this is the eggnog that Mimi has in the book. Is that why, is this what he's saying? Yeah. Yeah, it's in there. Thank you, John and Adam, for another year of superb media deconstruction and an overall outstanding product. Fellow producers, join in to support the best podcast in the universe. John and Adam deserve that holiday bonus, says Sir Scovey, Duke of the Piedmont. I know a lot of people want to send blankets or water. Just send your cash. boom yeah it's which brings us to joe henning who is in uh flower mound he's our flower mound

Starting point is 02:19:09 guy 333 and 33 cents hold on one second when i bring this note up to the proper size the notes are a little fuzzy today yeah it's interesting and you noticed that yeah i thought it was my eyes but no it's the notes are it's just it's the camera she probably had smudge on her lens yeah uh gents thank you for your awesome show i just love it please consider my first time donation a three three three three and give me a deduishing you've been deduced wondering if you could put the word out i'm looking for a CNC machine shop a CNC machine shop to buy in the following areas he wants to buy a machine shop in either north tex in austin north Texas, anywhere north Texas, Austin, San Antonio, Wisconsin, Denver, or Colorado Springs.

Starting point is 02:20:04 Anybody's selling their machine shop? CDC machine, CNC machine shop. What does that mean? That's a computer assisted CNC. My target SDE or EBITA range of 650,000 to one million. It's EBITDA, EBITDA. EIBDA, hello. Oh, blah, blah, whoa.

Starting point is 02:20:25 interested parties or anyone who might know of something please call or text me at and he's got a number I'll just assume I'm going to read it out and you can play it back if you want to call him 262 623 22994 they can also email me at joe at tech work t-e-w-e-r-k-w-rk-com john or adam please spell out the email in addition to rea I just did that uh and regards joehening wow So he's using this show to buy, to do mergers and acquisitions. No agenda. We're here for your M&A. Love it.

Starting point is 02:21:05 Let me see. That brings us to Dame Sherrill from Pinedale, Wyoming, 333, and she also sent in a note. Then she says, good day, gentlemen. I hope this finds you well. Thank you for breaking down all the latest news around the world, some of which is quite terrifying and downright mad. But coming from your voices, I can take it. You make me laugh.

Starting point is 02:21:29 And for that, I am grateful. Happy Christmas, happy New Year. Cheers to 2026, says Dame Cheryl, Cowgirl of the Wind River Range in Boulder, Wyoming. She says, P.S., can you guess this font? No, that's one for you, John. Oh, I'm not on the footnote. Oh, that's too bad. Hold on. I'll go, I'll go, I'll go, it's on this page.

Starting point is 02:21:51 I'm going to say this is Geneva. Virginia. It's Vienna. Whatever use it. Whatever you say a look. Okay. Can you guess this fun? It looks like Times New Roman to me.

Starting point is 02:22:04 Okay. I'll take it. All right. Okay, now you've got to go back with this since I haven't got a mouse. It makes it that much more difficult. But we got Waterworks Plumbing. Okay, now this is a donation from Waterworks Plumbing in Minnesota, $250 of no note. But give him a double up karma.

Starting point is 02:22:22 But before you do that, Uh, there's something, I think there was a run, like a, there was an overload or something at PayPal. Oh. So, and so yet, so people who sent in last minute donations after the newsletter, they all ended at 3.30, even though a number of them came in, including gigawatt coffee, a dame Astrid, a whole bunch of 60 buck donations. Some of them will be missed. Oh. So if you get your donation missed on today's show, send us a note. If you had something to say, and we will read. read it in the future show. I mean, there was, there was, there was, there was, so many people were donating to the show

Starting point is 02:22:59 that it clogged up the pipes. No, so many people were using PayPal. Oh. It wasn't any, nothing to do with our show, but all I know is that I kept, look, downloading the spreadsheet and it ended at three o'clock yesterday when I were donations still coming in and I waited and waited, I waited, I waited until midday had to go to bed. Still, still, still set 3.30 or whatever the time was. And so everything that came in after that, it either had to be.

Starting point is 02:23:24 put in by hand or there's going to be missed. Okay, so send us a note, and here's the double up karma. You've got for Waterworks Plumbing LLC. Patrick Brown from Fairfax, Virginia, also $250 and no note, so we'll give him a double up karma as well.

Starting point is 02:23:42 You've got Karma. And in the same in the same vein, Michael Remondi, in Hollis, New Hampshire, $250 double-up karma. You've got karma. And coming in with 242, we've seen that number before.

Starting point is 02:24:07 It's Christopher Graves in Mount Occam, California. Happy holidays, John. Mount Occam is in El Dorado Wine Country, not far from the Shingle Springs. Pick up some shingles. Well, we may have run out of eggnog fudge, by the way, dynamite. We can say we had 100 plus producers participate in our ITM 10 plus 10, bringing an additional donation of $1,131.30 from these brave knights and dames. No eggnog fudge?

Starting point is 02:24:39 Well, we were inspired by Gigawak coffee and made an amazing chocolate mocha fudge for the new year. Shop littlejohns candies.com and use ITM 10 plus 10. You spell the PLUS through January 10th. No jingles, just jingle bells. all right thank you very much it's an outstanding product i love showing it to people and saying they've been doing this from 19 they've been supporting no agenda since 1924 and making and making this fudge and it's a hit everybody who eats this fudge just falls in love with it north idaho sanity brigade in post falls idaho two three four five six a favorite on behalf of the

Starting point is 02:25:20 North Idaho Sanity Brigade. Here's another crowd-funded donation courtesy of our Christmas meetup. We have continued our once-a-week broadcast of North Idaho or hyper-local podcast deconstructing the mainstream of the Idaho panhandle.

Starting point is 02:25:41 No-I-D-show.com. It's a good podcast. They took my advice to heart. They're doing a hyper-local podcast. To reiterate, reiterate what we asserted when we last donated, every region needs its own no agenda. Adam, can you give us an update on the no agenda hyperlocal podcast network you proposed? Yes, so far you're the only ones.

Starting point is 02:26:07 But when we have more, we'll have a network. If you don't want to do it anymore, perhaps we'll reach out to Tom Green. Low blow. Low blow. Please play, what's that in your mouth? The crowd chant version, if we have it. I don't know if you have it. Well, we do. It comes from them, so of course I have it.

Starting point is 02:26:27 Oh, he's self-promotion. That's good. All signed off as Sir Scott the Jew and the North Idaho Sanity Brigade. What's that in your mouth? There you go. Sir Rosis, Associate Executive Producer for this episode, 2-2, a roved ducks, and he sent in a note. Greetings, Podosphere Heroes.

Starting point is 02:26:50 please accept my humble donation and shout out to my lovely girlfriend's hand-cut vintage tin jewelry shop no remnants. Each piece is unique being hand-cut from vintage and up-cycled biscuit and tea tins. She also has the history

Starting point is 02:27:06 of every tin listed on her website where they were manufactured, what they were used for. She also accepts custom projects if you have an item you'd like created into custom jewelry. No agenda producers, please check out n-a-jewery.shop. or no remnants.com. Well, that's a good marketing right there.

Starting point is 02:27:25 N-Ajewelry.shop or no remnants.com. I've also included a pair for each of your wives. Oh, I didn't see you come in. Yeah, no, we have. Have you seen it? Are they nice? They're nice. I gave them to Jay. Did you wrap it up and say Merry Christmas? No, she's going to open the box.

Starting point is 02:27:46 I hope you have a happy Christmas, Uncle Adam and Uncle John. Cirrhosis, Night of Show 1000, and he adds there at the end. I might be a baronet, but I'll get it sorted for the next donation. Perfect. Thank you very much. Dame Astrid. Oh, amen. From Tokyo.

Starting point is 02:28:02 From Tokyo, 220, 26. They're John and Adam. You are all, you always will be the best, all caps. The Christmas special was much fun. And hearing Sir Chris's and Sir Felix's songs, uh, I didn't know they were. Yeah, they were in there. Huh.

Starting point is 02:28:23 Brought us a real tear to my eyes. Thank you to Sir Donald Winkler for putting it together. You're all such geniuses, wishing you, the keepers, all the lovely people in the back office, and all the fantastic producers around the world, a happy New Year, to celebrate somewhere around the 10th January, perhaps. That's your date. It's referring to me, I think. Yes, I believe so. Yeah.

Starting point is 02:28:47 Dame Astrid and Sir Mark. Duchess in the Archduke of Japan and all the disputed islands in the Japan Sea. Thank you, Dame Astrid. Yeah, thanks. James Story from Lower Huts, Stokes. Stokes Valley? Let me see. What is this?

Starting point is 02:29:03 Yeah, Stokes Valley in New Zealand. Yeah. This is our only New Zealand. That's funny because I had a New Zealand clip about, I don't know if I. Fifty shows ago. No, there's a show. I have a clip, I think, on today's show. But there's a big Exodus and there.

Starting point is 02:29:20 bitching and moaning in New Zealand about all the people leaving. Well, hold on. Is that a bonus clip? Well, if it's on the list, let's see. I don't see any, uh, I don't see it. Yeah, where's the, Regan and Boog, Rusky bloggers. I don't, I don't think you put it in. Uh, no, it's too bad. Would have been fun.

Starting point is 02:29:41 Would have been. Um, he says, Mary, $220. Merry Christmas, gents. Thank you for your hard work this year. Best regards, Sir James. story from New Zealand. Thank you very much. And, okay, lost, lost

Starting point is 02:29:56 worry. Oh, Eli, the coffee guy's up. He's in Bensonville, Illinois, $212.28. It says 28. Yeah, today's the 28th. 212, 28. Oh, I always thought I was the, okay, yeah, you're right. I'm my thinking. Happy New Year. We made it through

Starting point is 02:30:11 2025, and what a wild ride it's been. We've kicked things off. Joe Biden. We kicked we kicked things off Joe Biden as president. I don't know how that wording works, but all cares what he said. I think he means we kicked things off with. With, maybe. Yeah, ISIS on Bourbon Street and a special forces operator self-immolating in front of Trump building in Vegas.

Starting point is 02:30:35 Wow. I forgot about that one. I forgot about all of that. Yeah, I forgot about the guy who lit himself. And somehow with everything, that's interesting. And somehow with everything else that followed, it already feels. feels like ancient history or forgettable history. Elon and Big Balls, Charlie Kirk, Katie Perry, coming out as Trudeau's beard.

Starting point is 02:30:57 And that's barely a highlight reel. You know, I think time is compressing. Time is accelerating. Something's happening. It must be three-eye vision, whatever that comment is that's coming towards us. Now we're sitting on the precipice of 2026 as the old Chinese saying goes, may you live in interesting times, mission accomplished. Here's wishing everyone. Everyone, a peaceful and enjoyable New Year to that end.

Starting point is 02:31:24 Here it comes. To that end, New Year, new coffee. This Tuesday, 1230, we're releasing our new bourbon barrel-aged Mexican vera-cruz. Start the year off right. Visit Gigawatt Coffee Roasters and grab a bag. Stay caffeinated. Happy 2026, Eli, the Coffee, Guy. That's gigawatt Coffee Roasters.com. Wow, I can't wait to taste that. Bourbon barrel-aged Mexican Veracruz. Juliana Lee, don't know where she's from, but she sent us $200 and 60 cents and says, Merry Christmas,

Starting point is 02:31:56 thank you for everything, and we thank you very much. The Ray Rials in LaGrange, Texas. $200, no note, gives them a double up. You've got. Double up. And the same goes for William Spratt from Marietta, Georgia.

Starting point is 02:32:14 $200, no notes. Also a double up karma for. you. You've got Karma. Onward to Linda Lopatkin in Castle Rock, Colorado wants a jobs karma and says

Starting point is 02:32:27 hit the ground running in the new year with a resume that gets results. Go to ImageMakersink.com for all your executive resume and job search needs. That's ImageMakers Inc. with a K and work with Linda Lou, Duchess of Jobs, and

Starting point is 02:32:42 writer of winning resumes. P.S. Loved Get Mone. Christmas. Jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs. Let's vote for jobs. Yucca, karma. Now, typically, Linda Lupatkin is the last one on the list, but no, we have a few more associate executive producers with $200, all four of them. We have Sir Donald of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He says, hi, guys, hope this note finds you well. After some time away in

Starting point is 02:33:12 Edmonton, I moved back into Calgary, Alberta. Bought a house, and I'm looking forward to the referendum in 2026 for Alberta to become its own sovereign country. Are they doing a referendum in 2020? I don't know. I didn't know that. Fifty first state, baby. It's a tall hill to climb, but it's worth it. My birthday is December 27, so I will celebrate by donating to no agenda. Thanks, well, happy, happy birthday, one day late. Thanks for the news and analysis from around the world. Hats off to the best podcast in the universe. Please put my birthday donation of $200 U.S.D to good use. That's $273 and 52 Canadian dollarets and cents.

Starting point is 02:33:54 After my knighthood in 2012, this donation brings my lifetime total donations to about 2050. So I'm now a double knight, which I think is, isn't that a baronet? I think it's a baronet. Yes, accounting below. Can you please play, you will obey, trains good, planes bad, and R2D2 karma. I think we can do that. Thank you for your attention to this matter, says Sir Donald of Calgary. You will obey.

Starting point is 02:34:20 You will obey. You will obey. All the board trains good, planes bad. Woo-hoo! You've got karma. Derek Allison in Rock Springs, Wyoming, 200 bucks. And he just simply says Merry Christmas does have a jingle request. He loved that Obama phone clip.

Starting point is 02:34:46 Everybody in Cleveland, low minority, got Obama phone. Keep Obama in president, you know? He gave us a phone. I found the longer version of it, but it's like a minute when he says, Romney sucks. That's my favorite part. Sir Schizel. We don't know where Sir Schizel is from. Wait a, but Sir Schizel has a note.

Starting point is 02:35:07 Let's see. Sir Schisle. Where is Sir Schisle? Well, I guess this is Sir Schizel. Merry Christmas. John and Adam from Belfer, Washington, next to the Hood Canal. John, if you want your windows cleaned, no charge! Thanks for everything, Sir Skizzle, 420.

Starting point is 02:35:28 There you go. He's thinking of you at Christmas and wishing you all the best, according to his card. Now we go on to the last donation. And I had blown up the other one, so I've got to blow this one down. It's another note. It's another note. Derris Morris. Yeah, these are all your handwritten notes.

Starting point is 02:35:46 Darcy. Darrice. DeRice, Morris. So you said Darcy. Yeah, I messed up. It's Darice. So I messed up too. So we both messed up and then DeRis.

Starting point is 02:35:56 It's DeRis Morris. Da Reese. It says right there. It says right there. Clear his bell. She writes it out. Dharice. I love her handwriting.

Starting point is 02:36:04 I do too. It's very, it's oddly sexy. To John and Adam. 200 bucks. I'm giving $50. for every time I've heard the word jimoke uttered by Adam. One of my dad's favorite terms. It's up to four as of today.

Starting point is 02:36:30 So here's $200. Derees Morris. Oh, Jermoke, Jemoke, Jemoke, Jemoke. I can't stop saying it now. You're going to break the poor woman. Dorese. Thank you, Dorese. Chmoke.

Starting point is 02:36:44 Jim Moke. It's a good term. And thank you to all of these executive and associate executive producers for episode 1829 as we storm on towards the new year. And, of course, we'll be thanking the rest of our supporters, $50 and above. It is value for value. The whole idea is simple. No subscriptions. Don't have to buy anything. No code bond genos.

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Starting point is 02:37:23 We're happy to read your name on the show. We're just happy. We're some happy, happy, go lucky guys. That's right. Go to no agenda donations.com. Become a producer today. And congratulations to our executive and associate executive producers. Your names are now real valid credits.

Starting point is 02:37:39 You can use them anywhere. I suggest opening up an IMDB account. Congratulations from the No Agenda Show. Our formula is this. We go out, we hit people in the mouth. What? What's that in your mouth? Shut up, sleep.

Starting point is 02:38:05 Yeah, that was good. Thank you. Thank you all very much. It was a nice Christmas giving. Don't you all feel? good about it? You should. You should feel very good. Because when you give, it always comes back to you. It always does. It's amazing how it works. I have to find the clip list. I have two little things I'd like to discuss here.

Starting point is 02:38:29 Okay. I've been, I've been looking up some. So I came up with this term, limbic capitalism. Limbic capitalism. Limbic capitalism. You came up with the term, are you ran into the term? Well, I came up with it, but I'm sure that it's been used before. I have a feeling. And limbic capitalism is basically everything is basically everything you see online. It's your, you know, it's your news feed. It's porn is limbic, you know, limbic being the brainstem, but also ultra-processed foods qualify under limbic. capitalism. In essence, everything people are making money on these days is limbic capitalism. The number one being gambling. And I've been talking to a lot of the Zuma Vuffin and they all say,

Starting point is 02:39:24 oh, yeah, it's out of control. And these, and the young people are so happy, oh, I won 25 bucks with a problem. And that just, and because it's, it's not even about the money. It's just about the, it's that, that, that, that innate natural, you know, dopamine, it's either dopamine or in some cases, cortisol if you lose. It's all these things that your body needs to have these reactions, but they're just being created artificially, mainly by Silicon Valley companies. And NPR had a report about sports betting, and it was done by... Suffer and Sukhattash. I'm Scott.

Starting point is 02:40:06 Simon. Now it's time for sports. A World Series to cherish, an NFL dynasty deflates. Plus, what sport didn't have a gambling scandal in 2025? Sports writer Howard Bryant joins us. Howard, thanks for being with us. Hello, Scott. One gambling scandal after another in sports this year from the NBA,

Starting point is 02:40:25 Major League Baseball, College Basketball, players suspended for gambling and having bets on certain occurrences in the game, which is how I'll describe prop bets. In the year ahead, if fans need to ask, Can I trust what I'm seeing? This day was coming, and I think that the sports leagues had taken the position that I never agreed with. I never quite understood it. These players make so much money that they would not risk the adrenaline rush that comes with gambling.

Starting point is 02:40:54 And we've seen that not to be the case. We've seen that Major League Baseball with Luis Ortiz and Emmanuel Class A are involved in a scandal. They may never play again. We've seen the Jonte Porter and the NBA, now the Chansey Billups, and Terry Rozier case. And the attitude has been that, well, essentially the leagues are going to take the money. The commercials are everywhere. I mean, media is funded by draft kings and fan duel and the rest of it, and then the players take the fall.

Starting point is 02:41:23 And so the more you watch these games with your high-definition televisions and the controversial calls, especially in the NFL and the NBA, the more you begin to wonder, are you watching a legitimate contest? the death knell for sports. So the question's really going to be, are you going to trust what you're watching or are we simply going to watch these athletes be the ones who individually get bounced out of the game and the game maintains its legitimacy? I think it's a very, very difficult balance and I think 2025 really showed that. You're a sports ball guy, John. How do you feel about it? Is it ruining sports? It can. I think it's not good. I think gambling should be discouraged. And the fact that these guys are all in bed, ESPN now has ESPN bet. They talk about Draft Kings, but ESPN bet is like an operation run out of ESPN.

Starting point is 02:42:16 The NFL and both the NFL and the NBA, I'm not sure about Major League Baseball. But I know those two operations have done deals. So they're in bed with the gamblers. It's just like everything, it's all the gamblers. It's gambler, gambler, gambler, gambler. And they push it and push it. They got whole shows on ESPN about. the betting lines and what you should be betting on.

Starting point is 02:42:38 They have a couple of women in particular that I have watched on ESPN Betts, one of their shows, who are quite good at this. And it's all a lot of prop bets. I think you should go with this. You should go. It's disgusting. Here's Scott Simon choking up over it. But there was a historically great world series.

Starting point is 02:43:00 Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Toronto Bligeys in a series that twisted turn. and set records I love that I love that he left that in he choked on his own spit at the Toronto Blige those guys all have cough buttons at that facility

Starting point is 02:43:18 it was it was perfect this is Scott Simon Scott Shimon at his best Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Toronto Blugets in a series that Twisted Turn Headset records over seven games

Starting point is 02:43:32 I'm choked up You are. You're reclaimed. It's incredible, Scott. I mean, that is the thing that we love about the games. Every time there's a scandal, whether it's steroids, whether it's gambling. When the game is played at its best, people come to it and they love it. And it reminds them of all the reasons why they get hooked on the, you know, in the first place, when their team wins. It is that reminder of the power of what sports brings for us. You know, so I was looking to this limbic capitalism. And to be fair about it, it was Gemini. that came up with a term. I'm like, oh, I made, I made up a term because it was my prompt. And I'm like, how can the no agenda show benefit from limbic capitalism? That was my prompt. And I think that, I think I'm glad the way you, I like the way you think. And it said, well, the no agenda show is in fact the antithesis of limbic capitalism.

Starting point is 02:44:30 And like, yeah, I guess you're kind of right about that. But it had, it had a, it had a, suggestion for us. It had a limbic capitalism suggestion. And who doesn't? It was to randomly choose a below-50-dollar donor to receive a special knighthood, thereby spurring people on to gamble on the show. I can hear your wheels crunching. Yeah, no.

Starting point is 02:45:04 Yeah, no. But I did like how it said that we are the antithesis of limbic capitalism, which is true. Limbic capitalism hacks the system by offering super stimuli that trigger rewards more intensely and frequently than nature ever intended. Over time, this bypasses the brain's executive function of self-control, leading to habit, formation, compulsion, and eventually addiction. Well, there you go. There you go. That's it. That's it.

Starting point is 02:45:32 Not good. We are addictive, but not for your life. Limbic. Not for that reason. We don't want to do that. In fact, now I should mention it. No, we don't. Definitely out.

Starting point is 02:45:40 We are amygdala capitalism. That's where we are. Ha ha. Well, talking about getting sick, I have the... Getting sick. I got the RINVogue... What?

Starting point is 02:45:57 RINVoke? What is RINVoke? RINVoke is one of these drugs. And this is the contraindications and all the bad things that can happen to you from using RINVOK. And lasting steroid free remission. Check, check, and check. RINVOK can lower ability to fight infections.

Starting point is 02:46:14 Before treatment, test for TB and do blood work. Series infections, blood clots, some fatal, cancers including lymphoma and skin. Serious allergic reactions, GI tears, death, heart attack, and stroke occurred. CV event risk increases in age 50 plus with a heart disease risk factor. Tell your doctor if you've had these events, infection, hep, or C, smoked, or pregnant, or planning. Don't take if allergic or have an infection. Put UC in Crohn's in check.

Starting point is 02:46:36 Oh, is for Crohn's disease? Yeah. Oh, wow. And I think what they're doing, because I can't prove this, because I didn't get the other clip. But I think they have, they rattle off all these dangerous things that can happen. Different, for the same companies, the same drug, but they have a different ad and they have a different list.

Starting point is 02:46:56 Oh, interesting. Just the way to get around. I think a way to get around the rules. So I've been searching for you. Actually, not really searching. I've had my eye out because you were looking for a fourth or fifth vector in this particular story. And it's from Reuters. Again, I'm pretty sure Reuters is using AI voices.

Starting point is 02:47:20 Yeah, you said that. I said it. I'm saying it again because when you listen to it, it sounds like it. Were you not on the lookout for EEOC stories? Yeah, I believe so. Here we go. Under the Trump administration, the EEOC is ramping up scrutiny of corporate diversity programs. It's already opening inquiries into how companies handle sex and race in hiring and promotions.

Starting point is 02:47:47 Our race and justice correspondent, David Houd Nunoz, spoke with Lucas. Tell me this. Tell me this isn't AI. You know, I'm not convinced of it. The pauses are too lengthy. If someone did this read, I'll be like, go and read it again. It's too like driving this crackdown. So those priorities boil down to four buckets. One of them is attacking all forms of race discrimination, which includes diversity, equity, and inclusion related race and sex discrimination.

Starting point is 02:48:20 The second is dealing with religious liberty issues that spans the gamut of anti-Semitism to COVID-19 vaccine mandates, and then the third is gender identity and focusing on women's sex-based rights. And then the fourth is national origin discrimination, which in her view is protecting American workers, regardless of their race, which is a shift in the EEOC's mission, which used to protect workers against discrimination in the sort of traditional sense. And so this conservative view of civil rights is a massive pivot for the agency that has huge ramifications for companies, for employees, et cetera. Please tell me this is part of what you wanted to hear because it was so boring. No, no, not at all.

Starting point is 02:49:22 boring to me. Hey, we have. No, no, you, you, you picked, you, you purposely picked a very boring useless. No, I did. This is your way of getting back at me. No, no, I was trying to help you. I was trying to help you. Um, we have, uh, the president and Zelensky on the quad screens. How are they doing? Are they fighting? Are they punching each other? Or are they shaking hands? Is Is he putting his hand on his guy's shoulder and towering over him? They're at lecterns. They're at lecterns with America. Well, let's listen in, shall we?

Starting point is 02:50:02 Let's have a quick listen. Get something done. And if there's something that comes up, I'd speak. But otherwise, I don't think there's any reason to. And your mind, sir, what are the thorniest issues still unresolved after the? Well, I think the land you're talking about. Some of that land is content. All right.

Starting point is 02:50:18 They resolve nothing. All right. Of course, now, this is just bull crap. Okay, I got a last series that I'm going to do today. All right. Let me guess. This is about this from the BBC World Service is about rush rusky bloggers and podcasters and the training centers around the world.

Starting point is 02:50:38 They're training these Russians. They're going to be attacking us with the bots and the bloggers and the podcasters. Oh, no. Oh, no. So we can be Putin's puppet once again? Can we go to these training centers? Is there money involved? If there was money involved, we'd be there already.

Starting point is 02:50:54 Well, after Russian forces invaded and captured large parts of eastern Ukraine over three years ago now, the Kremlin tightly controlled any information about life in Ukraine's occupied regions. But in recent months, one source of information has come from pro-Russian bloggers and content creators. Their videos about life under occupation have gathered thousands of online followers. The BBC's James Beardsworth has the story. Across Russian-occupied Ukraine, hundreds of content creators are making slick, professional-looking videos celebrating life under Russian occupation. Maripol is becoming better and better every day. Its changes are literally shocking, says 23-year-old content creator Maria Chushkin.

Starting point is 02:51:43 One of hundreds of channels run by often young, attractive men and women, which broadcast pro-Russian content from all. occupied Ukraine to tens of thousands of followers. Oh, this is great. So instead of what's probably true that these people are happy, because Ukraine was killing them previously, now they're just shills for Russia? I have no. You know, the validity of this story is somewhat baffling to me.

Starting point is 02:52:15 I don't know if it's true or these people are just a bunch of propagandists. But it's interesting, and I would expect. something like this is like a good use of the medium if you're a propaganda outlet uh i'm just fascinated by the story i don't know whether any of it's true but here's the thing they're speaking in russian it's not like they're talking to american audiences or european audiences yeah no it's for local consumption yeah i like how this particular british north sea nexus reporter says yonga yonga it's like h that's another thing the there's a certain type of Brit that says H.

Starting point is 02:52:55 H. H? Yeah, instead of H, they say H. H. H. It's code. No, one of my helicopter instructions was a Brit. He says, just land over there under H.

Starting point is 02:53:08 I'm like, what's the H? The H? The H. Over there, the H. Oh, you mean the H? H. Yes, the H. Young.

Starting point is 02:53:17 Young H. H. Oh, H. H. H, man. One of those creators is Elizabeth Chariyakova, a 21-year-old from Mariupal. Despite her city being almost completely flattened by Russia's invasion of... Haich speech.

Starting point is 02:53:33 Three years ago, Elizabeth now posts pro-Russian content, posing in front of the Russian flag, and celebrating the Kremlin's rebuild of her city. I asked her why she began making her videos. She's voiced by one of my colleagues, as she didn't want her voice to be broadcast. I always want to create a content even before all the famous events and when everything changed I saw that my city was often presented

Starting point is 02:53:59 on the internet as a ghost town and I wanted to show the reality that we are living not what it's sometimes written in the news. The bloggers carefully choreographed their videos often showing newly built apartment blocks shops and restaurants built by Russia but rarely mentioning

Starting point is 02:54:15 the death and destruction caused by the war or who started it in the first place Elizaetta told me more about how she believes her city has changed since Russia's arrival. There is a feeling that the city is coming to life, that the constant internal tensions it used to be in the background has gone. Like many other content creators in the region, Elizavetta learned how to make her eye-catching content at the Dombas Media Center. Oh, there it is. The Donbass.

Starting point is 02:54:43 So is this where Tim Poole got his training? That's where he got his money. The Dombas Media Center. The Donbass Media Center. Yes, it's deep. Come on, podcasters. There's the Donbass School of Podcasting. They might as it called it that.

Starting point is 02:54:59 Donbass School of Podcasts. The centers offer free vocational video-making courses to people under 25. Pavel Kodboski is a blogger and teacher at the school. The Donbass Media Center is a school of bloggers. A few hundred people have studied here. In Donetsk, in Lugansk, in Maripo, and Wallyta, Pol. It's very cool, because somebody needs to say what is happening in our region in order to tell, let's say, residents of Britain or France, so that when they watch the content, they understand that their government or the Ukrainian government is trying to sell them something that is far from the truth. Elia Jablakov is an expert on Russian disinformation at the University of Sheffield in the UK.

Starting point is 02:55:40 He has been monitoring these schools. They've created this network of media centers. Propaganda outlets, let's put them that way. that aggregate information, but also produce it on an industrial scale. If you look at the pictures, you see absolutely regular boys and girls. These guys are being trained to spread the message about the worrying Donbass, or rather the peace in the Donbass. I put those claims to Elisaveta.

Starting point is 02:56:07 I just live in my city and show my reality. I'm a patriot of my country, but this is not about work or promoting interest. Videos posted by the Donbass Media Center show whole. hundreds of teenagers doing presentations about what they call Russia's new regions, with prizes, including trips to Moscow for the most successful students. Wow. Maybe we could hand out Dombos Media Center diplomas. That's actually not a bad idea.

Starting point is 02:56:38 The Russians have, in the earlier report that you played, they've absconded with all, nationalized everything, and IP. That's right. So IP, that means they've given up IP. So the IP, which is the Don Bass Media Center, which is moniker, is now a public domain. There you go. So we could give a degree out from there. Well, I think there's one last clip.

Starting point is 02:57:02 For some of the millions forced to flee, like former Mario Poole resident Alyona Kildeshova, the content which she says often appears on her social media feed is just another cruel reminder of a home she knows she may never be able to return to. How dare they? They were dead bodies all around the streets. And now they are saying that Maripol is in bloom. I can't understand how the city can be blooming on blood and rebels. That report from James Beardsworth there. Well, I'm not going to hire James Beardsworth, who says,

Starting point is 02:57:38 what kind of English are they speaking over there? You know, I've had a conversation with Andrew Oloski recently over there. Yeah, of course. Over the phone, basically. Yeah. And the English is, a lot of these English guys, it's getting harder and harder to understand them. I noticed this when I was writing at PCMag UK over the years.

Starting point is 02:58:02 I was there probably there for a decade, so I'd go to England at least twice a year. And I was there, and it was just, I just started noticing that the English is harder and harder and harder and harder to understand. Yeah. Yeah. It must have been BBC regional.

Starting point is 02:58:21 I have no idea. It was BBC World Service, you said? It was World Service. But it doesn't mean it wasn't a regional report. It's the Christmas B team. That's what it is. Christmas B team. I got three clips left in a series.

Starting point is 02:58:34 This is, I just thought I was interesting. It is from NPR. This is about South America and how South America is loving Trump and is shifting. Right. Several countries in the South. Wait, wait, where'd this come from? NPR. And they say South America loves Trump? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They say a lot of things. Well, of course, it's all bad, obviously.

Starting point is 02:59:00 It's not good. That I started it didn't make sense. No, it's not good. He's in South America elected conservative and even far right leaders in 2025. The goal here is to bring security and stability to the hemisphere, to the region, the region we live in, which has not received enough attention. For more, we go now to NPR correspondent. Which you, by the way, called it that Rubio was going to be doing this. Rubio was focusing on South America, and there he is in the clip.

Starting point is 02:59:25 It's all his fault, of course, and he's Trump's a little minion in South America. For more, we go now to NPR correspondent, Carrie Khan, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Thanks for being here, Carrie. Hello, Daniel. Hello, hello. So let's start just talking about this big turn to the right in the region. Overwhelmingly, voters are concerned about crime, violence, and security, and in the case of Chile, also illegal immigration, that to me is the significant shift in the landscape here. When the left took power, the major emphasis back then was economic inequality, social issues, the environment.

Starting point is 03:00:04 Now it's safety. And the left just has not come through with either effective policies to combat, the organized crime violence, or credible promises that they're going to do something better. And the right has really straightforward, tough on crime plans and slogans. And I'm not commenting on the quality of the rights proposals. All I'm saying is that they are resonating better with voters. It's great. Our hemisphere, this is exactly what we want. We want it to turn against the communist, socialist morals and values that have destroyed everything.

Starting point is 03:00:39 And they can't stand it. Okay. So what are some of those measures? Get tough on crime, like those made infamous in El Salvador, the Mano Dura Iron Fist policies that are just being emulated everywhere, bringing the military to patrol the streets. Sound familiar? Build maximum security prisons, tough in sentences. And in many places, the population is more than willing to curb civil rights to combat that crime. Also, many just want to crack down on illegal immigration. Remember, nearly 8 million people have fled the authoritarian rule of Nicola. Las Maduro in Venezuela, and most have stayed here in this region. And the right has deftly conflated and merged the high crime fears and illegal immigration. Sound familiar?

Starting point is 03:01:24 Like with the recent win in Chile by the ultra-conservative there, he pledged to build fences, even dig huge ditches along the border, as well as start mass deportations of migrants. Does sound familiar? Wow, which sounds a lot like Trump's pledges here in the U.S. There it is. Yes, no surprise that Trump's policies. a very warm reception, and they're being mirrored here, too. Among conservative voters and anti-left voters,

Starting point is 03:01:49 his military intervention against Venezuela and drug traffickers is very popular. Trump's also stepped in for many of his favorite candidates and his allies. There was that $20 billion bailout for Argentina's far-right libertarian president. What are these? Hold on. bailout for him. Well, it was a swap line is not quite the same as a bailout, but okay. And for many of his favorite candidates and his allies, there was that $20 billion bailout

Starting point is 03:02:18 for Argentina's far-right libertarian president, Javier Millet, that came right before he was facing a tough midterm election. And Trump pledges support for the new right leaders in Bolivia and in Chile. And the populist anti-crime rhetoric is really working. Some have even coined it with a new term security populism. Will Freeman of the Council on Foreign Relations was talking to me about that. He said, it's not surprising that this is. gaining so much popularity, given how powerful and rich organized crime groups have become here.

Starting point is 03:02:48 Yes, killing fishermen is very popular in South America. It's amazing. Here, it's a big problem. They're like, yeah, kill those fishermen. Why are these crime groups becoming so powerful right now? I mean, hasn't organized crime been a problem for a long time in Latin America? Sure, but they're richer than ever. They're making... Sure. How do you answer it when you... Ask me something, sure. You know, it just makes sure. sure sure well it was it was a leading question let's hear it again why are these crime groups becoming so powerful right now he answers his own question by saying i mean hasn't organized crime been a problem for a long time in latin america sure but they're richer than ever they're making billions and not just from drugs but migrant trafficking and increasingly illegal gold trafficking gold prices are soaring right now now listen to the example this coming up and so is demand for drugs in the U.S. and Europe, and especially cocaine. We're coked up, man.

Starting point is 03:03:46 It's on the rise, the use in the U.S., but cocaine use is at an all-time high in Europe, and so is coca production, and that happens mainly in Colombia. So most cocaine smuggling and transportation goes through Ecuador, and I just spent a lot of time there this year, and I spent time with this

Starting point is 03:04:02 one banana farmer, and I just want to tell you a little bit about him. He battles extortion and kidnapping attempts by the cartels. He told me this one story that has stuck with me so much. He was visiting friends in Europe and they were all partying and someone pulled out cocaine and he said he was just floored he told them don't you know what that has done your consumption has done to my country and he said just the people of the party just could not connect the dots with him

Starting point is 03:04:27 oh wow oh wow oh wow roovie oh wow oh wow you're partying your partying is killing my country oh wow yeah oh wow yeah by the way we're closer to a deal than ever a according to the quad screen. Closer than ever to a deal. Closer than ever. So that means what? It means nothing. It means absolutely zip.

Starting point is 03:04:52 I'm going to show myself by donating to no agenda. Imagine all the people who could do that. Oh yeah, that'd be fab. Yeah, oh, no agenda in the morning. And talking about meaning zip, Adam's going to zip through the list of donors above $50 or further.

Starting point is 03:05:11 But last two shows, It'll take a little while, and here he comes. Is it really going to take a while? Is it that long? It's 30 more than usual. Okay. Well, here we go. Where's my spreadsheet?

Starting point is 03:05:23 Here's the spreadsheet. Here we go. Christopher Gaya, Gia, Gaya, Dallas, Texas, 133.33. Jim Buell in Fitchburg, Wisconsin, 125, 25. Lorraine Converse, Edmund, Edmond, Oklahoma, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. We see what you did there. Same goes for Dame Brazen Bird from, Edmond, Oklahoma. Wait a minute. That's the same. Edmond, Oklahoma. One, two, three, four, five. Interesting.

Starting point is 03:05:49 Wants a health karma for our friend Dave, who survived a cardiac event and a jobs karma from my daughter, Grace Ann, who has been job searching for over seven months. I suggest giving Linda Liu, the Duchess of Jobs and writer of resumes, they call. I will do that at the end. Zadok Brown the 3rd, 10535. Mahalo. Ward Detweiler. spots, location unknown, 105.35. And he said, a lot of people are saying this, Merry Christmas, you filthy animals. That was part of our special. $100 from Ian Fields, parts unknown. Alice Bradley in Knoxville, Tennessee. Jacqueline Lentz in Muskego, Wisconsin. Deanna M. Evie in Pacific City, Oregon. Joshua Chartier in Riddleton, Tennessee. And Anonymous in Lake Oswego, Oregon. There's Kevin McLaughlin, the Archduke of Luna and Lover of boobs.

Starting point is 03:06:46 Merry Christmas, he says, with his 808. He's in Concord, North Carolina. Robert Ludwig, Nevada, Nevada, Iowa with a boob donation. Herb Lamb, Sugar Hill, Georgia, 8,008, boob from him as well. And a second on form, Kevin McLaughlin, the Archduke of Luna and Lover of Boobes. He did it for both shows. Thank you. Brian Kaufman.

Starting point is 03:07:06 Oh, that's nice. Yes, it is nice. Brian Kaufman, Scottsdale, Arizona, 7575, which is 69, 69, plus. fees. Greg Hartlob in Cincinnati, Ohio, 75, 75 from Fat Dad BMX, North Little Rock, Arkansas. I haven't heard from him in a while. Thank you very much. Nicholas Leary in Columbus, Ohio, 7272. John Albarini, parts unknown, 7026. Victoria and James in West Orange, New Jersey, right near where I used to live, Verona Montclair, $70.23. Dame Becky Arlington, Washington, 69, 69. Semper Pici, LLC. Sherrville, Indiana, 6886. Nice palindrome. Strike. Thank you, bit coiner, 6674. Robert Saurin,

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Starting point is 03:11:15 Don't want to be a douchebag. Well, he's been around for a long time, so no chance of him being a douchebag, and he said he figured out the numbers, but it is the honor system. We trust you. Sir, Donald of Calgary, double knight is what he called it, but we just call you a baronet here on the No Agenda Peeridge ladder, which I think is still available somewhere. Maybe noagendapeerage.net or something like that. It's out there somewhere. congratulations and thank you very much for your support sir and we do have one of the final awardees of a no agenda peace prize thanks to his very peacemaking peace loving donation of

Starting point is 03:11:54 one thousand dollars because that's all you need to do to receive this prize paul um paul lincoln's you are now an official recipient of the no agenda peace prize please go to noagenda rings.com Make sure that you send us an address. We're to send this very handsome and very authentic looking. It's a Nobel Peace Prize-like is what it is. But it's an official peace prize. It looks exactly the same. I should mention it make a correction here on you.

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Starting point is 03:12:44 I thought you made a list of the various levels. No, so let me correct you on your correction on me. Okay. You're corrected. Thank you. Hey, I forgot to give the jobs karma that was requested early on. Let me do that right now. Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs.

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Starting point is 03:14:38 springtime there's always meetups taking place you can find them all at no agenda meetups.com here is scott the jew with the north idaho sanity brigade meetup the christmas extravaganza here at the christmas extravaganza with the north idaho sanity brigade why wouldn't it be sir scott the jew your host for the evening this is jason here at trails and brewery want to miss everybody of merry christmas and a happy new year jack from post falls here where we're not thinking of a white nationalist christmas In the morning. Brian, spook in the federal government from Post Falls.

Starting point is 03:15:13 Sick of all the renouncing and the denouncing, I wanted to do a good old-fashioned nouncing. So I would like to announce the No ID, Hyperlocal podcast for Northern Idaho. It has been announced. Red the gold-dicking cowgirl here, just wishing Adam and John and whole, no agenda family, a Merry Christmas, and many blessings in 2026. Sir Donald of the Firebottle. here, Secretary General of Greater Idaho, even though that is not what it says on my Secretary General Certificate. Hey, guys, my name is Megan McImore.

Starting point is 03:15:49 I'm working at Trails End Brewery, and it was such a pleasure serving these guys again. It was so fun. Hey, guys, who is the original podfather? Tom Green. Dog clean is the pot of fodder. You people are horrible. Do you what they said? Tom Green.

Starting point is 03:16:08 Tom Green. That's not right? You guys suck. When did that happen? I have no idea. I don't know. It doesn't matter to me. I mean, Adam Carolla, I thought, was bad enough.

Starting point is 03:16:24 Now it's Tom Green. He keeps shifting around. Hey, Leo Bravo. We all know. We all know. We're not idiots. Leo Bravo had his, gosh, this must be number 70 by now up there in Los Angeles. pretty wet, but they still had their meetup.

Starting point is 03:16:39 Hey, everybody. It's Leo Bravo at meetup number 70 at Brewery X and Anaheim. Here's the phone for some greetings from our friends. Adam and John, Shabbat Shalom. We're here at the meetup with Leo at Brewery X. Thanks for your courage. I love we got

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Starting point is 03:19:39 Triggered all hell's a blame. You want to be where everybody feels the same. It's like a party. All right, everybody, just like a party. We do have end-of-show mixes, a heavy metal ditty from Baron Darren coming up. He did that because John wanted to hear a different kind of voice on the AI Slop song. so you got that. And this is where we also, oh, of course.

Starting point is 03:20:06 And I should mention anything would be better than the Pogues. People say it's the best Christmas song ever. I'm like, no. It stinks. It stinks. Well, that's not what it is. It's a no agenda happy New Year song is what it is. And it's good.

Starting point is 03:20:23 And we got some MVP with some big, beautiful ships and scary weather. It's all slop and it's all good. You'll love it. End of show ISOs, which you always choose here in this very moment. This is always the man versus the machine where John prompts his way to victory and I just get real people. So I'm going to play mine first. Here's the first. They nailed it.

Starting point is 03:20:49 Hmm? I like it. I know you do. How about this one? We know what we're doing. We got the documents. I like this one too. Blabity, blah, blah.

Starting point is 03:21:01 Okay, so I'll delete those two and this one's still in the running. They nailed it. That's in the running. Yeah, that's not bad. All right. What do you got? Because I have a real one. I always put a real one in when I can.

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Starting point is 03:21:24 Okay. Well, let's go with great. Great show. Again, and as usual. No. No. You need to come up with better. Okay, okay, let's try this one.

Starting point is 03:21:33 This is, at least has a message. Donate. Quills, that was a show to remember. So, donate. It's just not grabbing me. All right, you can win this one. I will win this one, and we'll play it later after John's tip of the day. Great advice for you and me, just the tip with JCD.

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Starting point is 03:22:15 Blackberries. Do you ever have any blackberries in your yard? A lot of people do. Yeah, no, okay. They're invasive. Well, in Texas, I don't think you can grow berries. No. But much of the country.

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Starting point is 03:22:51 You can pull stuff out of the ground that's got thorns. And it's good for roses and specifically blackberries. Oh, so these go all the way up to your elbow? Yeah, pretty much. Oh, that's good. If you get all cut up. Yeah. Well, I used to work in the Rose nursery as a kid in Holland.

Starting point is 03:23:10 Well, you would, you, these gloves is what you wanted. We did, we had bare hands. Yes. And that sucks. And our arms were completely scratched from. Yeah, no, this will keep that from happening. Yeah. Well, I'm not going back.

Starting point is 03:23:23 And they're cheap. I'm a podcaster. I'm not a rose picker. I'm a podcaster. That's an interesting one. You know, I gave Tina the, the, uh, the knife. Tip of the Day for Christmas. Yeah.

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