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The woman has three arms.
Adam Curry, John C. DeVorex.
It's Thursday, January 1st, 2026.
This is your award-winning Gibbon Nation Media Assassination Episode 1830.
This is no agenda.
Starting four more years and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country
here in FEMA region number six in the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from Northern Silicon Valley, we congratulate New York City and having a new mayor.
I'm John C. DeVorek.
It's CrackBot and Buzzkill
In the morning
Yeah, happy new year, everybody.
Woo-hoo!
Yeah!
2026!
Woo!
It's awesome!
Awesome!
Is it just me?
Or was this one of the quietest transitions we've ever had?
And with that, I mean,
I got very few texts.
this year.
I got one.
Firework seemed a lot, a lot more.
Oh, we were rained out.
It was raining here.
It's raining as we speak.
Yeah.
Which is the first time I can ever remember it raining on January 1st in the Bay Area.
And so it's raining.
So there's the fireworks there.
Yeah, they had them.
You could hear booms, but there was no, you couldn't see anything.
No, it was here in Fredericksburg, Texas, very, very muted.
Not a lot of people shooting stuff off.
Television was extraordinarily boring this year.
Like the same old dumb stuff they do.
No one has any new ideas for what to do on New Year's on television.
It seemed like the most exciting thing was on X people saying,
Hey, Grock, put a bikini on her.
I missed that one.
goodness you haven't seen that no oh that's best you haven't seen fat jd no it's so there's this
the thing now is you post if someone posts a picture of themselves a woman and then you do at grok
put a bikini on her and then the next picture is that is that same woman with the bikini oh that's a
great feature it just goes on and on you don't have to you don't have to do it in your own brain
anymore.
Too lazy.
Like, hey, and, you know, but then they're putting bikinis on dogs.
You know, there's like, hey, Grock, show me the war criminal.
You know, and there's Netanyahu.
You know, all of this stuff.
It's well worth of $1.3 trillion.
I think, I think it's perfect.
We're being entertained.
Well, back to your thesis about things being slow.
I have to say, uh, this morning, they, they were doing it.
They have this question and answer thing on one of the news stations.
And they were going, they had all these guys around the round table saying,
are New Year's parties over?
I think so.
And they were all, and everyone was saying, yeah, well, you know, you don't have to them all the time.
And then they said, and then they had, they brought up the question, uh, what about kissing at New Year's?
Oh, I don't know.
It doesn't seem that important to me.
What's the point?
Dude, we were in bed at 10.30.
In bed.
I got a show tomorrow.
I had time for this nonsense.
I'll kiss you now.
Good night, baby.
I got to get up early.
Yeah.
I think the last real good New Year's Eve party I attended.
Well, there were two.
1987, I was just new at MTV.
And they said, hey, you're going to do our live coverage.
I'm like, oh, that sounds cool.
And so they put me in my three foot hair literally on Times Square with one.
one bodyguard, and the camera was up on one time.
Oh, yeah.
Well, there weren't, I mean, in 87, 87, 80, I'm not sure.
It wasn't, you know, they weren't running around like, oh, ISIS might be getting you.
No, people just showed up and they were hanging out and there weren't, you know, it was a big black dude?
It was a white dude, white dude.
But he had a big black gun, if that helped.
and you know and so I and they had the camera up on one time square and you couldn't really hear anything but that was one and but the real new year's eve party I think was 1990 no 89 I'm sorry and it was you didn't have a year 2000 party that's the big one 99 I was uh I was in I was back in Holland for that new years which was insane because the Dutch they just love their fireworks
Even though it's outlawed in Amsterdam, everyone loves their fireworks.
There's videos online of entire streets with burnt out cars.
I'm not kidding.
And, of course, this happened.
A blaze so great, there was no saving the church tower.
In the middle of the night, as Amsterdam's residents were ringing in the new year,
a major fire broke out in the historic Vondelkirk church.
Firefighters tried to save the over 150-year-old strike.
but they could not enter.
The risk that the church would collapse was too great.
As they doused it with water from hoses,
authorities closed down the streets
around the central Amsterdam monument.
And local media said that nearby homes
were evacuated because of the burning debris.
An alert was issued about heavy smoke,
and officials declared a regional emergency.
It is really is horrific.
I've just been watching.
This is the mayor.
It's the mayor of Amsterdam.
Almost violently large.
The church is very close to many houses.
So apart from the loss of a magnificent monument, for all people living nearby, it's really scary.
Built in 1872, the church is in the center of Amsterdam and just a short walk from the popular Van Gogh Museum.
The cause of the fire is still unknown.
As investigators looking to whether he used fireworks were involved or not.
Or not.
Fireworks or not.
This is a travest-
It wasn't raining there.
This is a travesty, though.
This church, man,
that's a beautiful church.
It completely destroyed.
Was.
Was, yes.
It looked a lot like the Notre Dame fire
where the whole, you know,
the steeple, everything,
the spire, I think you call it,
completely on fire.
And then the roof collapsing,
it's bad.
But I think that's very typical of Holland.
You know, everyone's just so,
what's the word I'm looking for?
Not depressed,
but they're just epithetic.
They're like, they don't care.
Like, life sucks.
This is it.
Russia's going to kill us.
Whatever.
We give up.
And I think that's also...
Take our bikes.
Yeah.
Hey, Vladimir, take my bike.
Yeah.
And I think that's kind of what's happening with Gen Z in the Zoomer Wuffin.
I've been feeling that they're also like, eh, you know, everything sucks.
It's no good.
Who cares?
Gen Zs are out in force, not being covered.
I have no clue.
I don't know what to do about it because of the lack of clips in Iran.
Now, interesting, you bring that up.
So, of course, we see what's happening in Iran and I can play it.
But no, we don't see what's happening.
You should tell people what's happening.
It's just not being talked about or discovered.
I mean, there's a few bloggers covering it.
I do have a, let's see, I have a.
Yeah, I got a couple clips.
So I'll tell you up front, right away, I'm like, oh, it's kicking off in Iran.
So I go to YouTube and I look for Iran Gen Z.
And there's hundreds, hundreds of videos in Farsi.
And they all go like this.
Iran Gen Z protest live update.
Farsi, Farsi, Gen Z, Farsi, Farsi, Farsi, Khamini, Farsi, Tehran
University protest.
And they're all from, you know, like these outfits like
let me see, news nation, but it's not the news nation you think it is.
I think they're pretty much all AI generated.
It seems to me that whatever is happening, and I do have an interesting, interesting clip where that's brought up,
it seems like the Gen Z-Opp is trying to take credit for it or try and move that in.
Hey, it's the Gen Zs that are doing this.
but it's not working because there's just it's it's not being reported that way here's um let me see
what is this one this one this is one thing i found in the yally ways of teheran's grand bazaar
chance of don't be afraid don't be afraid we're all together and they're not afraid for four days
a row what a nat pop oh no this thing is full of nat pops streets some clash with the riot police
anger sparked by an economy in turmoil and soaring living costs.
I should actually point out that the only clips I could get were from British outfits, including BBC.
This is from Channel 4.
In the last year, Iran's currency has lost nearly half of its value against the US dollar.
Inflation has seen food prices rise by 72%.
According to one Tehran resident whose identity we are protecting, everyday items are becoming unaffordable.
Families who once belong to the middle class are now worried about paying their rent.
In the past, people worried about affording meat and fruit.
Now they are struggling to buy basic items like rice and eggs.
In my view, people are truly exhausted.
They've reached their breaking point.
They no longer want this regime and a demanding change.
The protests soon spread outside the capital,
with similar scenes taking place in Isfahan, Shiraz in the South and Mashhad in the northeast.
In the city of Baza, a group of people are seen trying to break into a government building.
And no major crackdown from the government yet, Iran's leaders avoiding the heavy police response seen in previous protests.
Instead, saying they're open to dialogue, offering to listen to the demands of protesters.
The government will listen patiently, even if there are harsh voices, because we believe that our people are patient enough.
The government's job is to hear the voices and help them reach a common understanding to solve the problem.
that exist in society.
There's no calm outside universities.
Students are now joining the demonstrations.
So students are joining the demonstrations.
I just don't think it's our classic Gen Z.
Sciop, but what was interesting,
the second part of this report...
Well, by the way,
which may be confirmed by the fact
that it's not getting any coverage whatsoever.
Correct. Here is the Middle East director of Chatham House,
who they bring in.
Oh, there you go.
MI6.
Exactly.
So let's hear what she has to say.
I don't think that the regime itself is in a moment of imminent danger, really because the Islamic Republic of Iran, as we have witnessed over many years of protests, is institutionalized and has a bureaucracy that is willing to remain united and push back against dissent in the country.
But what the system is looking to avoid is a long,
scale, protracted, standoff.
Iran's leadership knows the quickest way to ease pressure is lifting U.S. sanctions.
But would President Donald Trump this week threatening to, quote, knock the hell out of Iran
if it rebuilt its missile program, the diplomatic mood is far from positive?
All right, so we did get one little viral moments, just a very brief one which they're trying
to push.
An image that quickly went viral in Iran.
A man sits down in the middle of the street in silent protest.
Facing him lines of Iranian security personnel on motorbikes.
So like a Tiananmen Square type deal is what this guy's doing, you know, kneeling in the streets.
You might as well do it that way, sure.
And here's the BBC report.
Protests are continuing for a third day in Iran against rising prices and an increase in the price of foreign currency.
Students from several universities have joined the demonstrations, which were started on Sunday by shopkeepers and,
market stall holders. Tehran province has been the centre of the protest. Parts of Tehran markets
are also closed. David Bamford reports. These are the largest demonstration. I love these
Brits. Since the woman life freedom protest three years ago, sparked by the death of an Iranian
woman, Maxa Amini, while in police custody. Today, students from the major universities in Tehran,
including Sharif and Beheshti, have joined the protests. A strike continues in Tehran's Grand Bazaar and
commercial districts, with merchants keeping shops closed.
There's also fresh unrest in the central city of Isfahan, where students from the University
of Technology have taken to the streets.
Ostensibly, these are protests about food price increases of up to 70% year-on-year.
Sounds a bit like an Arab Spring thing.
Oh, yeah, bread is expensive.
Yeah, also, they got that angle, but they also have not mentioned, which a lot of these
bloggers have talked about, that they ran out of water.
They've been out of water for a couple months because of a drought and just mismanagement.
Ostensibly, these are protests about food price increases of up to 70% year-on-year and soaring inflation.
The security forces have deployed heavily, but videos show them pulling back amid the public anger.
State media say Iran's president, Mastr Pezchkian, urged his own government to listen to what he called the legitimate demands of the protest.
and make reforms.
Wait, wait, wait.
I get the kick out of the guy
supposedly running the country saying,
the government should listen.
He is the government, isn't he?
No, I guess not.
So it's a fake.
Yeah.
State media say Iran's president,
Masr al-Pezashkian urged his own government
to listen to what he called
the legitimate demands of the protesters
and to make reforms.
Some in the crowd can be heard
shouting political slogans,
calling for the overthrow of the Islamic Republic.
Slogans that can be heard include death to the dictator,
targeting Supreme Leader Khamaniy, the real power in Iran.
And this is the final battle, Pahlavi will return,
a reference to the family of the ruling Shah of Iran ousted in the late 1970s.
That's the kid in London, isn't it?
Yeah.
Yeah, there's a number of protests again.
We don't know if this is AI or if it's real,
but where there's big crowds chanting his name.
Here's, I did get one U.S. report.
This is CNN.
Iran, back in the news for a couple of reasons.
Its government said today it would seek a dialogue with protest leaders after demonstrations
in Tehran and other cities over a surge in inflation.
Do you think this poses a danger to the government, then?
I think Tehran, as we all know, it's a feocratic autocracy.
And like a lot of autocracies,
As I used to live in Africa.
I used to say in Africa, when the elephants
fight, the grass gets trampled.
Oh, that's a new one.
She had never heard that before.
This is the great
philosopher they have on CNN.
Say in Africa, when the elephants fight...
What does Africa have to do with Iran?
This is odd.
As I used to say, I used to live in Africa.
It is odd.
It's a odd. When the elephants fight,
the grass gets trampled.
And Iran, the grass is being trampled.
And who is fighting?
It's Tehran versus.
the rest of the folks in the region, and the U.S.
And they've been hit by inflation, they've been hit by...
Sean McFaite.
...economic sanctions, all because Israel...
All because I ran...
What? What?
Truth just came out. Hold on a second.
And they've been hit by inflation, they've been hit by all sorts of economic sanctions,
all because Iran doesn't want...
...to give up its nuclear weapons program.
Oh, really?
That's what it is.
Oh, that's what it.
Oh, brother.
This is CNN at its best.
They have no water for three months, but it's because of the nukes, sure.
And so this is always a threat to Tehran.
But Tehran usually just squeezes down like autocracies and pressures them away,
and that's probably what's going to happen again.
But the other problem is that Iran has also declared war, basically, on Israel and others as we speak.
and we'll see where that goes.
It's a tough, frightening talk from a volatile region.
Frightening talk from a volatile region.
You can't ignore the coincidence, of course, of Netanyahu showing up at Mar-a-Lago
and telling Trump, hey, you know, they're thinking of moving their nukes.
The whole thing, it just, it feels coordinated, but they don't have a message yet,
or they didn't plan the message, or maybe, maybe it's actually.
real. I think it might be.
It feels like it because no one
is doing the messaging right.
They've been doing, they've been
having enough coordinated bull crap
riots and color
revolutions that somebody may
have a clue and it figured
it out. You just need one leader
and it's possible. And I told
you, we talked months ago
that that guy, the kid
who's been in exile in London,
he appears to be
the one they want now.
Or were they saying, let's go, Brandon?
I'm not sure what they were young.
Could it be both?
Yeah.
It's hard to know.
I got to call Lex.
I got to ask him.
Why is it hard to know?
Because nobody's covering it.
Where's the boots on the ground from the news media?
CNN has some guy giving us aphorisms from Africa, you know, sitting in the studio.
Why don't you go out there and do some, put your feet on the ground and go float
around and find out what's going on which brings media you're getting paid money to do that you have
huge budgets which brings me to the new year's new year's day message from cbs evening news
tony de koppel de kouple is that oh you you recorded it yes of course i this is unbelievable now
this has to be barry weiss in the background i presume but it basically we've been screwing you
over for 50 years with our CBS
evening news. Yeah. You want to say so? Well, a couple of things.
It might be just, it might be, uh, paramed. By the way,
it, well, Barry Weiss's would be the representative. But Barry Weiss might have gone in there
and pushed for something like this. And I think this may be a satire.
Well, I, I mean, I thought it was a satire, but I looked at all. No, I think, no, not a, not a, not a, like a fake
video that's turned into a satire but i'm saying literally by by the cupal or whatever his name is
actually going over the top so far that it's like laughable so they're laughing on purpose
they're laughing in the newsroom ha ha ha look at these suckers yeah we'll tell them i'm just considering
it's well let's analyze because it's out of control it's so stupid to be to do to do something like
this well the curry devore at consulting group would have never advised this that's
for sure. That's for sure.
A lot has changed since the
first person sat in this chair, but for
me, the biggest difference is
people do not trust us like
they used to. And it's not just us.
It's all of legacy
media. Yeah, for 18
years, dude. I get it because I've been hearing about it
from just about everybody for more than
20 years as I've traveled America
on this assignment or that.
My mom's neighbors in West Virginia.
I love where he starts right away.
My mom doesn't like it. My mom's
neighbor mom complained to me okay for more than 20 years as i've traveled america on this assignment or
that my mom's neighbors in west virginia my own neighbors in new york city thousands and thousands
of conversations in between sometimes people want to talk to me about our coverage of napta or the
iraq war huh what how old are those people hey man you know maybe some people should
realize what we're listening to here i don't think we gave it enough background
This is Tony DeCouple, the guy who's taking over CBS nightly news.
Evening news. Evening news.
Evening, evening. Yeah, well, he's taken over the news slot.
He's bumped out, you know, whoever was there before got bumped.
Nora was there for a while.
And this is kind of a pre-Mayacopa, apologizing for all the screw-ups they had in the past.
I'm a new guy.
We're going to do it differently, this kind of thing.
And it's just awkward, but in case I wonder what we're listening to.
Other times, it's all about Hillary Clinton's emails or Russiagate.
Or more recently, COVID lockdowns, Hunter Biden's laptop, or the president's fitness for office.
I think they should literally do a story on each of these things, starting today, and give us the truth.
That would be a good follow-up.
Somehow I doubt that's in the works.
No, I don't think so.
The point is on too many stories, the press has missed the story.
Yeah, missed the story like it was a scam, everything's fake and gay, and you guys are leading it.
Because we've taken into account the perspective of advocates and not the average American.
Really?
This is such an admission.
We've taken the account of advocates.
Or we've really poor form.
Yeah, basically saying, you know, we've worked.
for other people.
Or we put too much weight in the analysis of academics or elites and not enough on you.
Yes.
And I know this because at certain points.
The plebs.
I have been you.
I have felt this way too.
I am you.
CBS News.
I am you.
I felt like what I was seeing.
I wouldn't be surprised to see that as a catchphrase.
Well, we'll give it to them.
CBS News. I, and that little I logo. I am you. And I know this because at certain points,
I have been you. I have felt this way too. I felt like what I was seeing and hearing on the
news didn't reflect what I was seeing and hearing in my own life and that the most urgent
questions simply weren't being asked. So here's my promise to you today and every time you see
me in this chair. I will be wearing pants.
You come first, not advertisers, not politicians, not corporate interests.
And yes, that does include the corporate owners of CBS.
Yeah, oh, yeah, which is now Allison, yeah.
I report for you, which means I tell you what I know, when I know it, and how I know it.
Oh.
And when I get it wrong, I know it in my knower.
I'll tell you that, too.
it also means I'm going to talk to everybody
and hold everyone in public life
to the very same standard
after all I became a journalist
that he'll tell you everything he knows
he's holding that he's holding them to account
this guy by the way was on the morning
this guy's on the morning show
he was a morning guy and he was the dumbest of the group
he was always saying stupid stuff
asking dumb questions he's just
I don't want to just
didn't mean the guy, but he's a dummy.
That's good. The dummy's almost done.
It also means I'm going to talk to everybody and hold everyone in public life to the very
same standard. After all, I became a journalist to talk to people.
Oh.
I love talking to people about what works in this country, what doesn't.
Is that why you become a journalist to talk to people?
I never heard that being the reason to become a journalist.
Start a podcast.
You become a journalist to document reality.
Become a podcaster, man. You can talk to anybody.
And not only what should change, but the good ideas that should never change.
I think telling the truth is one of them.
I'm Tony DeCopal, the anchor of the CBS Evening News.
Hold me to it.
You bet.
Hold me to it.
CBS, hold me to it.
Yeah, that's good.
Well, in this honesty vein of our budget,
It's so funny.
Yeah, it's great.
At first, I'm like, this is fake.
This has to be fake.
This can't be real.
And so you need, you've helped me to account, people.
You've helped me to account.
I have stolen valor on my heart.
I feel horrible.
No, it's the AI that stole the valor and you just stole from AI.
Here is, so the clip of the day on the last episode, last year,
so it doesn't really counts last year.
Avianas Verifakis was AI.
And he discussed it recently on unheard.
And it was rather an interesting two-clip conversation.
I received a message, some WhatsApp message from an very esteemed colleague.
Yes, the Curie DeVorek podcast, they said, hey, is this you?
A person whose opinion I value a lot.
Oh, yes, nice.
he was congratulating me
over a YouTube video of mine
and he had a link in there. So this was
spot on, Jan. It's a really very good analysis. It wasn't the one
you showed just now.
So I clicked on the link to remind myself of what it is
that I had said, which my colleague liked.
And it was two minutes
into the video that I realized
it wasn't me. That's, you know,
two minutes is an eternity.
So if the guy himself didn't realize
it for two minutes,
that's... Yeah, you can't take too much
blame, even though...
No, I rebuke, I rebuke and denounce and renounce the clip of the day.
Denounce and renounce.
And listen to how we actually figured it out.
When you have somebody saying things you never said, but which you could have said,
there isn't why I caught onto this was because, you see this blue shirt?
Well, I was wearing it in that video.
But that video was set in my office in Athens.
Here I'm talking to you from my island home, and this shirt has never left.
way remind me to use that line today I'm talking to you from my island home I'm not in my
regular home my island home it was this juxtaposition of my blue shirt from one house to the
other that alerted me to the fact that it wasn't me and you know then of course I started digging
into it and it turns out that the words that you just heard I have never spoken but alas
there are words that I could have spoken the analysis is not far off mind
and there have been videos that I've watched
of myself where I would articulate
an argument in ways that
I don't disagree with that
maybe I would have said it
but then and this is the most insidious part
I'm sure you can understand it I'm sure our audience
can understand it then suddenly
a sentence would be
inserted in my
sylilogy that I would
never have said and that is where
the defamatory part starts
that's when I blew my top
and I started writing to Google and to meta
and Instagram and so on.
I blew my top.
He blew his top.
I blew my top.
Top, top, top.
But now, the funnier part of the story is when he tried to do something about it.
Which brings us to the whole monetization system that Big Tech has imposed upon an unsuspecting world.
Because, you know, as you can imagine, the first thing I did when I came across these fake videos was to write to Google and to meta and to these people.
It took days before I got a response.
The response was, interestingly, of course, AI generated.
Then I insisted on talking to a real person.
I don't know whether I succeeded.
Maybe they referred me to a more realistic version of AI
who wrote a more human-like letter.
In the end, it took eight days, nine days,
after my first form that I filled and I submitted,
illustrating and demonstrating and proving that these are deep fake versions of me.
And they brought one channel down.
And then within seconds, the same material re-emerged in a different channel under a different name, but the same videos.
And I realized within two weeks that this was a losing game.
He's given up.
He's just giving up on it.
You can't even talk to a real person at Google about this.
It's amazing.
It's an amazing time we live in.
I'll tell you that.
Yeah, this is a problem.
Yeah.
I think this is more of a problem that we like to think.
Oh, it's a huge problem.
But yeah, it's the model, obviously.
It's the monetization model.
I expect that there will be moments over the next year
where we'll be suckered into many times.
More than once.
Yeah, I'm sure it will happen.
Playing a clip from someone who is, it's a perfect clip.
Yeah.
And it's not done in such a way that it gives itself away as being a fake.
And it'll be a good clip, but it'll be fake.
It won't be the guy.
I mean, this was what happened.
It's unfortunate, but it's just going to happen.
The funny thing is, is that the clip that we played was him talking about Russia's retaliation against the freezing,
the permanent freezing of the Russian assets at Euroclear and other banks in the East.
EU. And so I went and said, well, did this actually happen or not? Was this just a report that
they used him? And it turns out, yes, Russia nationalized a whole bunch of EU companies, but they
did it a year ago, which we didn't even hear about, including Carlsberg, Donona,
Fordham, Uniper.
I mean, so, and totaling even more than the fake AI clip said,
this all happened.
Yeah, this seems to me to be the Russians.
They can do AI as well as, I mean, they can use the same tools we have.
And they have smart people.
And they have to be beside Putin's people have to be beside themselves with,
how come this, we're going to, okay, you.
guys going to do that we're going to do this and nobody reports it and so they say what
nobody's reporting on what we're up to we're not doing it right we'll do this then we'll do that
then we'll do this what are we going to do to get and so after a year they say what can we do to get this
information out there says nobody will pick it up let's do a fake video with this guy because they love
him and just put it out there and just soak the market with it and let the virals take it over
and that's what they did.
I'm absolutely convinced that this is Russian intelligence.
And make sure those dopes at the No Agenda Show see it.
Send a copy to Curry, that guy.
He's a sucker for the Ruskis.
Yeah.
Which kind of brings into question this whole drone attack on Putin's home.
Yeah, I have a couple.
I have a clip on that, but I have an intro overview.
clip of that. Do you want to do? Yeah, yeah. I'll play that and then you do whatever you want.
From a snowy Moscow this morning, the Kremlin keeping up its latest flurry of accusations
against Ukraine. The Kiv was trying to undermine progress towards a peace deal by launching a drone
attack on one of Vladimir Putin's residences. This is Channel 4 again. Ukraine has ridiculed
the claims, but Russia nonetheless promising to toughen its stance. That military today releasing
images of what it said were its Oreshnik, hypersonic, nuclear-capable missiles being
deployed in Belarus. Russia claims Ukraine launched 91 drones in a mass attack on the Putin residents.
They would have had to fly more than 400 miles through heavily defended airspace on route to the
target, a sprawling complex on the northeastern shore of Lake Valdai. It's self-guarded by 12 nearby
air defense batteries. There are no local reports of any explosions. I learned about it from
President Putin today. I was very angry about it. President Trump meeting the Israeli
Prime Minister yesterday challenged on whether U.S. intelligence had any evidence.
it had happened. You're saying maybe the attack didn't take place it's possible, too, I guess,
but President Putin told me this morning it did. As for the timing of this, I mean, politically,
it wouldn't be a very judicious moment to strike in this way. No, I mean, for all sorts of reasons.
Firstly, there is... This is some dude from the University College of London.
An informal etiquette, shall you say, that you don't go after the other side's leaders or else you
face that same threat yourself. Secondly, it would risk doing away with all of the goodwill generated
by Zelensky's trip to Florida.
And thirdly, the problem is Zovansky did in his Christmas address
pretty openly wish for Putin's death.
And so in that context, again, this would look a little bit too on the nose.
So let's look at the three options.
Well, let's listen to it.
By the way, that was the guy with the British accent doing his reporting.
Yes.
Can I say what I was going to say?
So here are the options.
It's what the pause was. That was my pregnant pause. Yeah. Which, by the way, does cut out some Bluetooth headsets. I'm sorry. When we have a pause, there's still some Bluetooth headsets out there that see zero bytes and think, oh, the podcast's over and it disconnects.
What? Yeah. Yeah. This is a recurring problem.
That's idiotic. Well, because of the noise gate, there is zero. I mean, it's not like a little bit. It's just there's zero noise. And the Bluetooth thinks, oh, it's quiet. So I'll just discus.
connect. Oh, heaven forbid that we actually have a, have a, have a, uh, a production that produces
quiet that is quiet, quiet time, as opposed to a buzzing sound or whatever. The rest of
well, the solution, of course, is just to listen to us at 10x and you'll be fine. So the options are,
one, Ukraine did this, uh, B, it was a false flag by Russia or C, which I, which I
I think is more likely is that something, maybe not 91 drones,
but something was lit up by the North Sea Nexus to...
Which is where my clips go.
To interrupt the negotiations between...
Which is where my clips go.
Well, I heard you, so I'm ready for your clips.
Well, first, just as the intro clip, to counter your intro clip,
I have one from NTD that we can play before I play the clips of the Nexus clips.
Okay.
Two days after an alleged attack on Russian President Vladimir Putin,
Moscow is now releasing video footage for the first time.
According to the Kremlin, Ukraine launched over 90 drones at Putin's residence on Monday overnight.
After international calls for evidence to back up the claim,
Russia released this video on Wednesday, showing one drone in a dark forest.
Neither the location nor the date of the video could be independently verified.
Zelensky denies the claims of an attack,
saying Russia is lying to undermine the police.
peace process, which had been developing fast before the alleged attack.
Also on Wednesday, President Trump shared a New York Post article, which states that
the drone strike likely never happened.
A day earlier, the U.S. Ambassador to NATO also cast doubt on the accusation that Ukraine
attacked Putin's residents.
He said it's unclear whether the attack actually happened.
The ambassador added that he wants to see U.S. intelligence on the incident.
Meanwhile, the U.S. continues working on a possible peace deal.
speaking with Ukrainian and European officials. Special envoy Steve Whitkoff says they, quote,
focused on how to move the discussions forward in a practical way on behalf of President Trump's peace process.
Okay. Well, I think option C is still the most viable that the North Sea Nexus was fiddling about to disrupt these peace talks because they are warmongers and they want war.
They just want they are. They just want war. They want their children to die.
Yes, they do.
Like, oh, you're going to go into the army now, son.
Yeah.
They've heard children to die.
Hey, child sacrifice is powerful aphrodisiac.
So, yeah, yeah, uh-huh.
Well, here is the, this is a woman that showed up on,
runs out of this Prometheus project.
Oh, hold on, hold on.
You know that I introduced them to the podcast three months ago.
Yeah.
Okay.
Well, here she is giving her spiel, which makes, by the way, what you just said makes it sound as well you stole the nexus idea from them.
No, I, let me just remind you.
I played the clips from Ton Luongo, from gold goats and guns.
I played three clips from the LaRouche ladies, which is their former.
Oh, the Leroux ladies.
And I said, the only thing they're doing wrong is they're calling it the Dutch Anglo, the Dutch Anglo,
system. And that's when on that very podcast, I said, I'm calling it the North Sea Nexus. So I give
them full credit, full credit. This woman who's another one, who I think is a La Rushi, because she's
Uh, yeah. Or Susan Kokinda. I'm sorry. The other one's Barbara. I don't know. One of the
Kikindas. They're both LaRouche ladies. Okay. They were Lur, maybe you should explain who
LaRouche was. Linden Lerush. You said it like, Mark Levine. Slowly I turn. Mark Levine. Mark
Lyndon LaRouche.
Linda LaRouche was this guy with this unbelievably affectatious delivery of, I wish I could do his voice.
But he was a, he is in a conspiracy category all his own.
Oh, this is before I was in the game.
He's very singular.
And people should look him up and try and follow it because it's like a very compelling guy.
It's like David Ike without the reptilian stuff.
But it's close to it.
But it's this complex system, how the world works.
That is, it makes some sort of sense once they hypnotize you into believing it.
This woman has the, she has those elements, but at the same time, this is closer to what your thesis is based on,
except she kind of takes the nexus and instead of making it a nexus is mostly just the british monarch
right and um but it falls in line with with with what we're thinking as opposed to what
the mainstream podcasting verse is thinking because it's all israel israel israel israel israel israel
just asking questions so it's so this is so this is so
So it's fun.
And I have a bunch of these.
One of them is long, but the rest of them are pretty short of her discussing this.
And it brings, it shows that somebody sent this clip earlier this morning, even though I picked it up yesterday.
But they sent it to say, this is proof.
That Adam is right about the next.
It's no proof.
There's no proof in here.
Yes, it is.
It's proof.
I was right.
There's no proof.
This is all a thesis.
And it's stretched a bit because there's some,
moments where she's adding to it. But the fact that she's got clips from the,
from the House of Lords and they're all concerned about it. Oh, I've seen this one. Yeah,
this is good. This is good. This is good. And the House of Lords is all bent out.
I'm sorry, we play the clip, but so I'll stop talking. Yes, this is indeed Susan Kokinda.
The National Security Strategy is a mortal threat to the British Empire, and we're going to
activate all of our networks in the United States to try and stop it. They're saying this
because they're terrified. But if you listen to the noise in Washington and in social media,
you'd think Trump was the one losing control. Because in the last few days after the president
met with Zelensky and Netanyahu, the political world has exploded. Now, if you listen to
Mike Pompeo and the neocons, Trump sold out to Putin. If you listen to the anti-war crowd,
he sold out to Zelensky. And what about Israel? If you follow the Maga Wars or March
Reader Green. You're being told he's surrendered to Israel, or can we just do America?
They're all wrong. What you just witnessed wasn't a sellout. It was a takeover. It was the first
live-fire test of the very strategy the British are trying to kill. Trump hasn't surrendered.
He signed the Do Not Resuscitate order for the British post-war world. And that's why they're not
celebrating in London or Brussels. I like the writing. The writing is good, you know, the do not
resuscitate this is that's that's that's mature writing they realized the special relationship
their ability to manipulate american power for their wars is over as long as donald trump is
calling the shots i'm susan kokinda i became politically active way back in 1968 well campaigning
for robert how old is she she's pretty much she looks she looks like my age yeah she's a septuagenarian for
sure she has a she's got to be and she and i was the same as her i'm i can parallel it because i
was a kennedy guy and you were you were a democrat you were liberal i was a democrat i was all
for robert f kennedy and then i went to then i was for george mcgoverned and that who is the
worst candidate they've ever featured he went to berkeley to give a lecture i went to and talk to him
i got to meet him and did you get his autograph the nicest guy in the world what did you get his
autograph? You know, I'm looking back on my life. Oh, wow. I'm looking back on my life
and thinking of the autographs I missed. I could have retired. I could have retired on Stan Lee
alone. Stan Lee shows up at Tech TV and he, I'm chatting with him. Who is Stan Lee? No one knows
who Stan Lee is. Stan Lee is a Marvel Comics guy. Everybody, boomers. Everybody, everybody,
knows who Stanley is.
And so I found it brought 10 comic books and had him signed 10 comic books, Stanley, Stanley.
There was auctioning those for $10,000 a pop.
Wow, you'd retire for a whole year.
Well, I could retire for a few months, but I'm just saying that's just one of many guys
I dropped the ball on getting an autograph from.
And you are the proto-archivist and yet you drop the ball on the autographs.
That's interesting.
it's pathetic. I became politically active way back in 1968, campaigning for Robert F. Kennedy
senior in California when he was assassinated. For decades, my colleagues at Promethean
Action and I have been in the real fight. So take it from a political veteran. If enough of you
understand what Trump is doing, we're going to celebrate the 250th anniversary of our
independence in victory in 2026 by finishing the job.
So I just as a little aside about the Promethean action,
ever since I introduced it to the show and we started with the North Sea Nexus,
at least twice sometimes five times a day,
someone will send me a link.
They do three videos a week.
Someone will send me a link and say,
here's proof.
You were right.
This is it.
So what I'm happy about is that they're getting traction because they are on this day and night.
They do a live stream for like five hours on Thursdays.
Good. Yeah. So I'm happy that they're getting traction with this.
Yeah, we got other things to do. Like Iran. Whatever. Like it's like, there's things. There's
other things besides this, but this is important. It's all connected. It's all connected.
It might be connected, but it's like there's a lot of work to do besides just hard,
we got TikTok videos to play. Come on.
And I do have a couple today. I know you do. I know you do. And they're gems. But anyway,
let's continue with the North Sea Nexus.
The 2025 National Security Strategy, and this week, Trump used it to clear the board.
So let's start with Russia and Ukraine.
The British and the EU sent Zelensky to Mar-a-Laga with a mission.
Did you basically cut up the whole 15-minute report?
No, the fact, they didn't even start at the beginning.
Oh, okay.
Demand- Open-ended-S...
Because the problem is she, she, her problem is a couple of things.
The 15-minute, I got about, I got a lot of minutes, but not the whole thing.
The problem is she repeats herself two or three times.
And she also, then she goes into a sales pitch for the Promethe or whatever the hell is called.
Promethean action and their book, How the British Kill Our Presidents.
Yeah, and she goes on and on and on.
So I cut all that stuff out.
Oh, okay.
All right.
So it's a stripped down version of the LaRouche ladies.
Nice.
Exactly.
Demand open-ended security guarantees, NATO membership, and keep the war machine running.
They're operating off of Winston Churchill's post-war playbook.
By the way, that's something you never want.
want to see. What? Strip down Leruthj, ladies. They're operating off of Winston Churchill.
I bet she was really cute in her 20s and 30s. I'm going to look her up.
Post-war playbook that says Russia is our permanent enemy. But Trump is operating off his new
national security strategy. And here's what it says. It is a core interest of the United States
to negotiate an expeditious cessation of hostilities in Ukraine.
to prevent unintended escalation or expansion of the war and reestablish strategic stability
with Russia. And then a little later, and to end the perception and prevent the reality
of NATO as a perpetually expanding alliance. That is what is driving Trump's negotiating position
with Zelensky. So how did the empire respond to Trump's refusal to bend? Immediately after
the meeting, drones attack President Putin's residence in Valdai.
The Russians were furious, but they called it a slap in the face to Trump.
Now, ask yourself, was this really just Zelensky going rogue, or was the British hand at work?
We're not alone in pointing out that British intelligence plays a bigger role in guiding these drone systems than the Ukrainians do.
As the conservative Treehouse blog put it in their coverage of the attack, I suspect the British did it.
So this wasn't a military strike.
It was a sabotage operation designed to blow up the Trump-Pooten Peace Channel.
But Trump and Putin refused to take the bait.
They aren't pawns anymore.
Here's Trump's response.
President Putin told me about it.
Early in the morning, he said he was attacked.
It's no good.
It's no good.
Don't forget, you know, the Tomahawks, I stopped the Tomahawks.
I didn't want that.
Because we're talking about, you know, it's a delicate period of time.
This is not the right time.
It's one thing to be offensive because they're offensive.
It's another thing to attack his house.
It's not the right time to do it.
any of that now is not the time to attack his house that's later not right now so who is he talking
to the president is always talking to somebody so was he in this case that was just a one of
those mini press conferences i know but was he hypothetically speaking to ukraine or is oh
is there an undertone there you know what i mean i think he was hypothetically speaking to the nexus
That's what I would presume, yes.
He's saying, look, we figured out what you're up to.
No, this is not the time.
No, stop it.
Yeah, this is an issue.
Okay, onward.
And Putin's spokesman Ushikov reported that in that conversation with Trump,
Vladimir Putin emphasized that the Russian side intends to continue close and productive work
with its U.S. partners in searching for ways to achieve people.
Now, watch how this same grand strategy explains the panic over the Netanyahu meeting.
For decades, the British have used the Mideast as the cockpit of war.
They've created Zionism and Islamic fundamentalism to play the superpowers and victim nations against each other.
Yep.
The new national security strategy flips the road over.
It accurately states that for a half century, American foreign policy prioritized the mid-east,
above all other regions because it was a major energy supplier
and it described it as a prime theater of superpower competition.
But the NSS goes on to say those dynamics no longer hold
because superpower competition has given way to great power jockeying
in which the United States retains the most enviable position
reinforced by President Trump's successful revitalization
of our alliances in the Gulf with other Arab partners and with Israel.
Catch that?
Revitalization of our alliances in the Gulf with other Arab partners and with Israel.
Not Israel first, despite what Tucker Carlson thinks.
Yeah.
Trump is saying, we're not playing your games any longer.
And he is deliberately and quietly removing countries from the grip of the geopoliticians
and treating them as independent nations with common interests with the United States,
not as pawns or gas stations or triggers for religious prophecy.
Hmm.
I mean, I can't argue that.
That is what I see happening, along with the Corps Five.
Yeah, the Corps Five.
That would be the end point.
Yes.
So, okay, I think we're on a clip four.
So the British Empire isn't going to go down without a fight.
On December 11th, not too long after Trump released his.
National Security Strategy.
The British House of Lords was already.
They held a pearl clutching session about the NSS and what they had to do about it.
I thought, by the way, just in advance, I thought there was this kind of weak after the
setup.
I'm like, uh, okay, maybe.
Yeah, no, this is where she has, this is weak.
There's two clips here.
And there are both of them.
You have to read a lot into it.
But then again, if you look at it from the perspective of British, of the British,
you know, they understate so much that it's, I mean, as a policy, as a way of communicating.
Fair point.
That is quite likely they were sending a lot more than we can understand.
First, Lord Beamish happily reported that the U.S. Congress doesn't agree with Trump and his
national security strategy.
Last week, the U.S. Congress on a bipartisan basis passed the National Defense Authorization Act,
which was signed by the president on Thursday night.
That act gives a commission.
to US troops in Europe, also highlights that it sees Russia as a threat to Europe
to the United States, and also gives a commitment to future US commitment to providing
the senior military figure for Secure, the leader of the commander of NATO.
Does my honourable friend, my noble friend agree that we should be looking at actions rather
than some of the wild statements come from the White House?
Then Lord Lancaster reported that he had just been in the U.S. where he discussed the problem of the national security strategy with members of the U.S. Congress.
I was in Washington, D.C. last week with other members of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.
And when the national security strategy was discussed with our fellow elected members in the U.S., their message was clear that NSS.s come and go.
Sometimes they're implemented and sometimes they don't.
but we should judge by what Congress passes, and the National Defense Appropriation Act last week
delivered an extra $8 billion to European defense and put a floor of some 76,000 troops, U.S. troops in Europe.
Did you hear that? National security strategies come and go.
Does that remind you of what we reported last week, how outlets of empire like Chatham House and the Council on Foreign Relations,
want to outlast the president?
Yeah, I've been noticing this, too, this idea of outlasting the president.
Yes, I mean, even some Republicans are kind of letting that shine through.
Schumer brings it up, too.
Schumer was out of them.
It's only three more years.
Yeah, three more years.
We're good.
Yeah, we can put three more years up.
But it also shows you that who's really running shows is the military industrial complex.
You know, the whole NDAA was.
at least $150 billion more than Trump even wanted
with his big, beautiful battleships.
Where'd that come from?
From Congress.
Yeah, the battleship.
Yeah.
Which is up were we on?
I think five, yes.
Oh, man, good.
We're getting there.
All right.
How they're maintaining their Trojan horses in the Congress
and the rest of the political landscape,
the rhinos, the never Trumpers like Mike Pence and the Coke interests.
So while too many in the MAGA base are caught up.
She, in a previous episode,
she mentioned that Chatham House has put all of their eggs in the Mike Pence basket.
And that they're pushing that Chatham House,
so read the British intelligence community,
are pushing for Pence to run in 2028.
Yeah, I'm on their mailing list.
I get a lot of good stuff from them.
In the fabricated faction fights and secondary issues,
or frankly, are acting like five-year-olds demanding headline-grabbing indictments right now.
Donald Trump is dismantling a strategic architecture that has been in place since 1945,
an architecture that's used the United States as the dumb giant in the British Empire's globalist schemes,
and the British know it.
But even bigger than Trump's strategic revolution is the economic revolution.
Because that's what this is really all about.
Go back to the end of World War II and the summit in Casablanca, where Franklin Roosevelt said to Winston Churchill, Winston, we didn't fight that war to reestablish British 18th century methods.
And Churchill countered and said, what do you mean by that? And FDR said, a system that takes more out of a country than it puts back in.
Well, Roosevelt died before the war ended. And the result was the ultimate triumph of British 18th century methods, or a system.
which takes more out than it puts in. Look at what has happened to the United States.
We used to have a middle and working class based on a robust manufacturing sector and a
tradition of family farms. And here's what's happened since the end of World War II.
In 1950, 31% of the U.S. population was engaged in manufacturing. Today, it's only 8%.
And if you add other goods producing sectors like agriculture and mining and transportation,
We used to have 55% engaged in productive activity.
Today, it is less than 20.
Our good paying jobs, our industry, our infrastructure, our family farms.
They disappeared along with the middle class.
Okay, Captain Obvious, got it.
I forget.
I didn't realize, the one thing I learned in this all these clips is this meeting in
Casablanca where Roosevelt called out Churchill and then
died, so they didn't go anything. But, okay, so this wraps it up a little bit.
Our economic sovereignty was stripped by British 18th century methods of financialization and free trade.
In exchange, we imported everything. Food, cheap crap, and our trade deficit exploded.
In other words, more was taken out than was put back in. Donald Trump is reversing that.
That's why tariffs are such a powerful weapon and are so hated by the global elites.
And they're working.
We're rebuilding our manufacturing base and our economic independence.
In November alone, ground was broken on 136 new factories, 78 processing plants.
This is where you're supposed to say.
What about the Ohio plant?
What about the Ohio Foxcon plant?
That's the one.
No, it's not, no, no, the Foxcom plant was in Minnesota.
Minnesota, yeah, whatever.
Yeah, I don't remember where it was.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So do you think that this is true?
Over 100 factories?
I don't know.
I would like see some evidence of it.
It was broken on 136 new factories,
78 processing plants, and 199 new warehouses.
But even more important than physical growth is the reawakening of a productive spirit within the population.
and especially among young people.
Look at this headline.
Look at the response of young people in Blue Massachusetts
to the opportunity of getting vocational training
and having a productive job
rather than a dead-end liberal arts degree with tons of debt.
Yes. Yes.
And even more important than that is the promise of the future
of going beyond where we were at the end of World War II
before we surrendered to British 18th century methods.
You know, this, so a couple things.
And I don't think we ever should play a full Promethean action report again.
We don't have to.
That was pretty long.
You heard that summary one that was quite good.
Yeah, it was pretty good.
Just for the, because we're trying to figure out some things like, you know,
who does Nick Fuentes work for if he works for anybody?
He is, without a doubt, the voice of a generation of the Zoomer Waffen.
But I was just thinking, you know, because there's all,
because someone sent me a link and said,
you need to watch the hold Nick Fuentes.
You need, you know, you can't be our uncle.
If you don't know what's going on.
So I watched the whole, it was actually five hours of which two hours was live.
You have to be careful which one you pick.
Well, it doesn't matter.
It was five hours of pre-roll and pre-show.
Oh, no, no.
It was always.
It was good.
Well, if you get away from the pre-roll,
I loved watching the pre-roll stuff.
There's two hours of pre-roll.
I was sick, so, but just sat on the couch and watched the pre-roll.
You were sick.
That's not going to make you healthy.
And then I watched his full show.
And, you know, he's hitting all the hot buttons.
Like, there's no jobs.
We can't find anyone to have sex with.
You know, everything's falling apart.
Everything's faking gay.
You know, I'm just, when I say fake and gay, that's G-H-E-Y, just all of this stuff.
And he, he, in good, uh, talk show format and he has so much of, I really feel some limb ball in there.
He's got a, he's, you're right. He's very, very good. He could also, he could be a preacher
almost. And, but there's never any solutions. It's all just everything's no good. And then it's, you know,
and he kind of slips in. It's, you know, it's the black people. It's the Jews. It's the women. That's, that's kind of how it, how it flows.
But it was interesting.
I thought, you know, let me just make a list between boomers and zoomers for a moment.
Now, I'm a boomer adjacent, but in this case, I'll just be boomer slash Gen X.
So, you know, well, we've got climate change and this is also horrible.
When I was a kid, we had the ozone layer, an acid rain.
We were going to burn up.
Acid rain was my favorite.
The drug crisis.
There's always zone. That's a good one.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. The drug crisis.
You know, you die from a pill on Snapchat.
Bro, we had, we had crack for the first time.
You have no idea what the streets look like with crack.
It was bad.
Algorithms and all this horrible internet, you know, the media panic.
We had satanic panic.
We were all going to die.
The backmasking.
The Satanists were everywhere.
the Luciferian Society.
We had Tipper Gore telling us we couldn't listen to music.
Tipper Gore.
Yeah, you know, so the Zoomers.
They had ratings on the music albums.
Yeah, yeah.
Zoomers, you know, we don't, there's no company we could be loyal to.
We have to have side hustles.
Dude, we had greed is good and yuppies.
And you had to work 80 hours and do Coke just to keep up with it.
I love the yuppies.
The yuppies.
Oh, there's war everywhere.
In 1980, we all had to actually register for the draft because we had conflicts in Lebanon,
Granada, Central America, you know, proxy wars.
So does it sound familiar?
Campus protests.
Oh, yes, it's pro-pal.
That's new?
No, no, that's novel.
Campus protests are brand new.
We've never had them before.
We had South Africa.
We had, you know, divests from South Africa.
I'm not going to play Sun City.
We had entire bands putting together benefit records.
ChatGPT is going to take your job?
The actual job started to go away in America with robots,
with robotics for car companies.
We went through all this.
You know, oh, well, you know, we're not going to have social.
Social Security, Social Security, we got taken off pensions and here's your 401k.
Good luck.
It's your problem now.
And consumer debt, we literally were given credit cards.
Hey, have fun.
It's going to be great.
We got screwed with all that.
And everyone's all like, you know, true crime.
If kids are getting killed, you know.
We got to look, analyze this on the podcast.
We know what we had?
We had the same thing.
Only we had milk cartons.
And we looked at all the milk cartons with the kids on the milk cartons.
It's always the same.
It just has a different name.
The only thing we didn't have was parents who would let us live rent free at home until we were 30.
That's what we didn't have.
So, spare me.
And John, you're half a generation older than
me, I think you can come up with examples exactly the same.
I didn't even bring in.
I can go back to Hughack and the riots back in the day.
Hughack?
Yeah, Hughack.
The House on American Activities committees, riots.
So, in the 50s.
And so, yeah, yeah, the problem.
The thing is, of course, is that it just, nothing's changed that much.
No.
It's a cycle and it's just going, oh, round and round and around.
Only this time, it's a little different.
We have podcasters, and they come up with all kinds of connections once October 7th happened.
And then we got the punk rock podcasters.
And he was already doing it, you know, and in a way, Kanye, you know, people just come out and say, hey, man, it's the Jews.
And it's so interesting to deconstruct how that all fits together because Epstein is a
big part of it because of course the Jews Israel has Mossad and and the Epstein and its
pedophilia and therefore immediately all of our Congress is being blackmailed blackmail blackmailed
now so so they have to vote whatever APEC tells them to and and it's and of course there was no
blackmailing going on during the Edgar Hoover era of the FBI nothing was going on
FBI was just a blackmailing operation.
And, and, you know, so you, you have this, you know,
then there's the Christian Zionism angle.
So, of course, you get Tucker hounding Ted Cruz, who's an idiot,
said, well, my Bible tells me, I need to bless Israel.
You know, and then Tucker, of course, convolutes that to,
oh, you mean the government of Israel?
So all of all, it's, and it's, and, you know,
I think there's a movement afoot.
you can kind of see it with all these
podcasters, young podcasters
moving towards Catholicism
and then there's all kinds of theories
but basically
in replacement theology
the Jews don't matter anymore
so anyone who is still for
quote unquote Israel and that's a big
question is what is that
obviously is in the bag for Israel
and that's where all of this kind of
comes from and then you can just easily say
well, you're a shill for Israel.
You're taking shekels.
But the thing that really got me,
and I picked up this clip from Candice Owens
and she was on the Theo Vaughn show,
and this is a perfect mangelman-type experiment,
man-galment amnesia.
You know, so when someone says something
and you know it's demonstrably wrong,
how can you believe anything they say?
And I understand,
and the only one who's pretty good at it is Nick Fuentes,
but everybody else, you know, they just throw stuff out there and, you know, when you're putting together a theory and you pull in historical events and, you know, oh, well, this happened, that happened, and therefore the Jews.
But she went really awry.
I don't even know how old this interview is.
Doesn't seem like it's too old.
But here she's talking about APEC.
And I know I sound like a broken record on this one because I remain that it's being funded by the military.
military industrial complex through the American-Israeli education foundation.
That's where you see Raytheon and Boeing and all that big money going in.
But she pulled out a couple of really interesting lies or untruths or just mistakes
that she absolutely presents as fact, and has it fact-checked in real time with Wikipedia.
Israel is actually the exception.
they are the only country that's allowed to lobby Americans.
Like everyone else has to register as a foreign agent under FARA.
Like with APEC or whatever?
Yeah, so APEC, the backstory, by the way, before JFK got shot, he was fighting APEC.
They were previously called, I'm blanking on this.
It was, you can look it up.
And he was literally saying you have to register under the Foreign Act.
Is that true?
1,000% sure, and you should look it up.
1,000%.
So she says Foreign Act, but what she's talking about,
is the Foreign Agent Registration Act, which Manafort,
Manafort, Trump's guy went to jail for because he wasn't registered as a foreign lobby.
So if you are being paid by a foreign government, you have to, it's not a big deal.
You just register and then you can give money to campaigns, et cetera, but then it has to be clear.
It's coming from Israel.
So she's a thousand percent sure that this is the only group of its kind that doesn't have,
to register for some mysterious
reason. Fact check that live.
Let's fact check. He was fighting with what is today
known as APAC. Ah, as
was renamed AZCPA. I don't know what that stood for it.
In 1959, AZCPA was renamed
AAC, was renamed APEC
and American Israel Public Affairs Committee
reflecting a broader membership and mission.
Yeah, so JFK told them that they had to
register under FARA.
And so
American Zionist Council, that's exactly what
it was called. In 1962,
President, look at the last paragraph. In 1962,
President John F. Kennedy and his brother
Bobby as a U.S. Attorney General
forced the AZC to register as a foreign
agent. In doing so, they were barred
from making monetary contributions
to U.S. officials. Who was barred?
AZC. Yeah, so APEC, for lack of a better
term. They were called AZC back then.
But continue to send out newsletters and hold events
with a nonprofit tax exemption.
And then what happened was
he was shot.
Okay. So,
let's just understand what Candace is
saying, she's saying because John F. Kennedy wanted the American Zionist
counsel to register under Farah. They killed him. So they are the only, the reason
I'm bringing this up is not to further conspiracy theories. They're the only country that's allowed
to lobby Americans that do not, are not registered to the Farah Act. But for whatever
reason, Israel is an exception to this. And the reason is because JFK got shot.
Otherwise, they would have been under this. So that is the reason that they're allowed to do this.
Does that sound true to you?
Well, I'm not sure why you're playing this.
Didn't you do this exact same presentation on your podcast with Jimmy?
I'm playing a piece of it.
I'm not doing the full thing.
I just want to do the Candace Owens bit because this isn't...
I mean, don't you ever talk about stuff you talked about on Horowitz?
No.
Yes, you do.
I ask you all the time.
No, only because you ask me.
I refuse to bring it into the show voluntarily.
But this is...
But I just...
Not condemning you for that, but I don't understand, I mean, we know Candace is nuts, and I don't, I'm not sure what the point of this is.
I mean, I understand what you're saying, and it is idiotic, but I didn't get it much, I didn't get much out of it when you did it with Jimmy.
I'm not sure what your point is.
My point.
That Candace is nuts and she's crazy, and I think we've gotten that part.
I'm, I'm, if you, is a, uh, I don't know.
This is an interesting question.
If you don't see the continuous,
it's the Jews thing, continuous,
that all of this is the Jews.
You didn't hear what Kokinda just said?
She just said.
In Maga, it's Israel.
It's the Jews.
Yeah, but I think that she made that point,
and we've made the point before.
Okay.
So I'm not sure why we're making it again.
I'm fine.
I'm fine.
You continue whatever you want to do.
People can go listen to my podcast with Jimmy.
Go ahead.
It was more complete.
I was only making one point about APEC.
That's all I wanted to do.
It's fine.
Yeah, but you've made that point before.
You said so at the beginning.
No, I've never, I've made this point.
I've beaten it to death.
I've never made this point.
Which is that they are not the only country that has this kind of lobbying organization.
That was the only point I wanted to make.
And I was almost there.
But it's okay.
Well, you don't have to get.
Huffy about it. It's just that I've heard this
already. You've not heard
this on this show. You have not
heard this on this show.
Well, I didn't know you're going to start recycling
stuff that you do on Pastor Jimmy's show.
Okay. Fine, John. Whatever.
I'm fine. People can go listen to that. I was just
trying to bring in something that I thought was
relevant. But I'm sorry. I're so bored after I listened to
you cut up a whole 60.
minute piece into six clips
that anyone could just go watch
well then what's the difference in that and what you're doing
here nothing but I didn't say anything about you
yeah you did I just let it roll
no at the very end you made the point you said
specifically just to be honest about it
you said we're not playing any more clips from these people
as though the clip that we play were bad it's obvious
that you are working for Israel and you don't want me
to expose what's going on.
I'm not working for Israel.
There's no chance of that.
I'm working for the Nexus.
I'm working for the United Kingdom.
You're my handler.
Everyone knows it now.
By the way, I'm...
Somebody needs to be doing it.
I'm surprised you didn't bring in the clip
where they talked about my Uncle Don.
What?
Yeah.
Oh, you missed that one.
Who is this?
Kokinda.
I don't, I didn't bring, I didn't hear that.
Oh, yeah.
Well, it wasn't in that one episode.
Oh, I don't listen to her.
No, okay.
Anyway, move on.
What did they say?
What did they say about your uncle Donne?
Move on to a different topic.
No, wait a minute.
Now I need to know.
No, I didn't bring the clip because I didn't want to bore you about my uncle.
You can just tell me what it was.
It was, it's too complicated.
You have to listen to it.
you can summarize it it goes back to epstein and epstein um so the original money laundering for guns was run
out of uh vice then vice president george herbert walker bush's office which was overseen by uncle don
That's what we know is Iran-Contra.
Now, he was never, he was accused of doing things, but they never were able to prove it,
and there were Senate hearings, et cetera.
But what happened is there was a continuation of that exact same network,
which was then picked up by Epstein's group.
And in both cases, there was all kinds of sexual blackmail.
going on.
Hmm.
And I think...
What do you think?
Well, if you look at the Washington,
I think it's the Washington Post of the Washington Times.
There's a front page article about the,
the callboys being given tours in the middle of the night of the White House.
And it says right there, Uncle Don, it doesn't say Uncle Don.
It says, Don Gregg was the one that organized it.
And I think the continuation of that was Barney Frank
with his call boy service being run out of his house.
And does the link to Epstein?
Yes.
Well, not Barney Frank, per se,
but that there has been this continuous blackmailing operation,
but it's CIA itself.
It's not Mossad.
It's CIA.
hey, they do it.
They spied on the Senate and they got away with it.
Yes, they did.
In fact, Feinstein pulled him out on it and nothing came of it.
So, well, that's okay.
Now, see, that's interesting.
I don't care what you think is interesting.
You're rude.
I am not rude.
You said, well, you're recycling stuff.
Well, yeah, you're recycling.
cycling stuff.
I'm not.
It's like I used to
honk a horn when I
accidentally played a clip twice.
That's different.
And you don't think that's rude?
No, that's justified.
Okay, I get it.
All right, what do you want to do?
I don't know.
You're, you're, you completely
took the wind out of my sales.
We had a, we had a
discussion in the last show about Alberta.
Alberta is doing the vote.
it's something we need to talk about.
According to this guy is one of the politicians up there.
I have Alberta one which should listen to this and then we can go on.
One of the most significant factors that makes the prospect of Alberta actually becoming independent
after the referendum on independence that Alberta will be holding in October 2026 is our
proximity and relationship to the United States of America the largest.
economy in the world. There's a number of ways in which a country comes into existence.
Countries have come into existence ebbed and flowed throughout the history of man.
This is not a novel concept. Countries don't necessarily, and their boundaries remain static.
In all of our lifetimes, we've witnessed countries form and countries disappear. So one of the
ways in which Alberta can become an independent country, according to the Supreme Court of Canada,
in the 1998 reference case, because remember, the Supreme Court of Canada laid out a constitutional
pathway for a province like Alberta to hold a province-wide referendum on a clear question,
and if a clear majority say, yes, we want to become an independent country and a new nation state,
then that sets a legal process in motion.
One way to finalize that process and complete the process of becoming to nationhood is to have negotiations
between Alberta, the other provinces, First Nations, and the federal government on the details
of the divorce, so to speak. There's no certainty that those negotiations will be successful.
The Supreme Court of Canada recognized this. In paragraph 155 of their decision and 154,
they talk about the concept of unilateral recognition by other nation states. And Canada has set
a very important precedent, supportive of Alberta, going that route of being recognized
by other countries as an independent country, through Mark Carney's unilateral announcement
last September in September of 2025, where he had the government of Canada unilaterally
recognize the state of Palestine, despite not having borders.
Well, that's an interesting parallel.
the state of Palestine and the free state of Alberta?
This is not getting any coverage at all.
And I didn't think much about it.
One of our producers, because we mentioned it.
And I think...
No, this is how it went.
The producer went,
why aren't they talking about this?
And then I realized there's no coverage of it.
Yes, that's exactly right.
We mentioned it in a mocking tone in the last show.
and as though, yeah, whatever, just Canadians complaining.
This is common.
This is what Canadians do.
They complain.
They bitch they moaned.
But when I listen to this guy's presentation, I didn't realize it was on the ballot in this way.
And it has precedent.
And it could happen.
If this happens, the next thing to go is going to be the Montreal Quebecers.
They're going to go because they've been wanting to go for years.
Well, is this not a direct.
attack on the North Sea nexus as well? And could we not be helping them with this?
Well, clip two maybe gives us a little insight into that.
So one of the things that could well happen after the referendum is the United States
will recognize Alberta as an independent country. There have been ongoing meetings
between the Alberta Prosperity Project representatives and the State Department in the U.S.
and as recently as a few weeks ago, where they continue to dialogue on the situation in
Alberta. And it's clear that the U.S. government is prepared to recognize Alberta independence
and if it occurs in a democratic referendum vote. And so this is really significant because it's
Alberta's largest trading partner. There are closest geographic trading partner. Karnie government
cleared the way for this and legitimized it through the Carney government's actions
of recognizing Palestine. What I expect is going to happen is I think we're going to win this
vote in October and I think we're going to win it handily. We will be freed from the constraints.
You know, what's so remarkable is we have the third largest reserve of oil in the world.
We have all these other resources and we have a federal government that has deliberately passed
laws and policies to keep our oil and gas in the ground, holding back prosperity, depriving our
children and grandchildren of a prosperous and happy future, increasing the cost of living.
It's just spectacular. On December 5th, the U.S. government released its national security strategy.
And if you go through and read that 39-page document, you will see how uncomfortable the U.S.
administration is about these really weird steps that troubling actions of the Kearney liberals
and seeking to align themselves in Canada with China rather than embrace and try and develop
and enhance our relationship with the largest economy, our largest a customer, and the most
powerful military country in the world, how our prime minister has come out and said on a number
of occasions, that our relationship with the United States has come to an end, that is just
spectacularly reckless. So there's, of course, a lot of skepticism about this actually happening,
but it's not like this hasn't happened in the past. Things like this happen. People are so
set in their belief of how the world fits together that they can't even imagine that this type
of change would take place. I think it's absolutely possible.
I'm, I think it's absolutely possible too, but I can also see the other side of it where he's saying,
nah, this is not going to happen.
This is, that's what I was, I was mocking it.
Because it's silly.
I mean, you know, things are the way they are and, you know, the Quebecers can't even get out of the country, let alone these guys.
But these guys have money.
This is, Quebec would go broke, they think, if they had split off.
But if these guys split off, Quebecers will.
split off and then and then the next to go would be bc there's no reason for the british
columbia to be part of canada we could have states 51 52 and 53 maybe even 54 i think
51 and 52 for sure i don't know about the quebecers ever going along what has to happen on our
end what has to happen in the u.s what is the process for that if if alberta says yeah you know
we want to join you guys what is the process do we have to go through a some kind of vote
I have no idea.
I think we, do we have to have a test to make sure they can say about?
Our constitutional lawyers, the only guy can answer that question.
They have to be able to say about if you say a boot, then it's not going to happen.
You've got to change.
You're out.
You're out.
You're out if you say a boot.
We, we, the, uh, by me.
Well, we don't want, see, I have mixed feelings about 51 and 52 because, again, the Canadians, you know, the difference between Canada and
United States, when it came to separating from the British Empire, we had a, we came to blows.
We brought guns to the party. The Canadians to get away from the Brits, even though they're still
part of the Commonwealth, they just complained a lot until they got sick of it. People got sick
of listening to them bitch and moan. The Canadians complain, complain, and they do such a good job
of it. It's hard for Americans to put up with it, but I don't know, the Canadians who become
Americans seem to, you know, adapt to less complaining.
Maybe they complain for a good reason.
It's something that could go away.
I'm not sure.
But I have mixed feelings about 51 and 52.
Can't we just do one of those horizontal fracking jobs?
You know, under the border?
I think it's going to be a little too far.
But we would definitely, the pipelines would be going up.
The Albertians, if they're just,
as an independent country would be one of the richest
in the world, there'd be at least as rich as
Kuwait. That'd be like Saudi Arabia.
Like Qatar, the new Qatar.
It'd be like Qatar and they would be loaded.
Yeah.
It would also drain the coffers.
It would break Canada.
They could all wear dresses
and headgear and call themselves
shakes. They could.
Hello, I'm the Sheikh of Alberta.
Now, I was talking to the
oil baron. He says
if Trump doesn't do something soon with oil,
the prices are going to skyrocket.
What's he supposed to do?
Well, and what does he mean in shortly?
Is that, with that, 18 months, 18 months.
The reason why, that would go right past this election.
So if Alberta went independent and they just latched on to us,
we'd suck all that away.
Yeah, that would take care of the problem.
So the problem he has, he says, for the first time in history, shale, the shale drilling has gone negative.
He says it's just not producing what it used to produce.
There's wells on top of wells, on top of wells, and we're not getting it anymore.
The shale...
Doesn't that have to do with the price?
Doesn't shale oil have to...
It's not profitable unless the oil price is 70 or so?
and right now it's in the high 50s.
He says they're not, well, he says under 50, not profitable.
Yeah, it's always been that way, though.
Yes, but they're actually not, you know, the president keeps saying,
oh, we got all this oil, we don't.
That's the problem.
The oil isn't there anymore.
This is what he's, he's been, I've mentioned this on the show several times.
He keeps saying it, it's diminishing.
And if Trump doesn't, if Trump keeps stopping the Venezuela oil, then the price will skyrocket.
he i should see where he said this was he stopping the oil he's grabbing the oil isn't he
yeah but it's stealing the oil but oil is a it's a it's a it's a global thing he's he's
he's once you grab the ship then you got one ship load of oil but then that oil there's no
more oil on that ship let me see i'm going to bring it up for you he told me this
um boy it's here we go uh
U.S. blockade on Venezuela, forcing South American country to start shutting wells.
So Venezuela is now just shutting.
The Orinoco Belt is reducing production by 25%, 500 million barrels per day.
Here's what he said.
He said, he gave this.
Depletion in the Permian is happening now.
Chevron has been reporting for some time in the Delaware Basin's acreage.
numbers coming below internal forecasts as long as Saudi Arabia floods the markets and
Venezuela or Russia comes back online to world markets, it will sink more oil companies.
So he's talking on his own behalf to a degree, but he's saying they could go back to
1986.
Was there a big spike in oil in 1986?
I don't know.
I had to look at the charts.
Yeah.
Well, he's an actual landman drilling.
and he says that what Trump is doing is fun.
He said, but he's got to figure it out because that oil needs to flow.
If you just keep grabbing the ships, then there's less oil flowing.
And it's a global thing.
It's not just what we're taking.
The ships aren't moving and the production is being shut down.
And so his proposal is he says, we should just stop harassing Venezuela?
No, no.
He says figure it out.
Well, how about Russia?
Maybe if we get the Russia thing fixed.
I mean, it's different oil, I presume, the Russian oil and the Venezuelan oil.
Does that make a difference?
The two types.
I think the Russian oil is better quality.
Yeah.
So, but his point is something has to happen.
Otherwise, we're really completely under control.
Well, maybe that's what you were trying to do at ending this stupid war with Ukraine.
That would be a good one.
I actually have a clip about the Venezuela situation.
My first question to you is, given your member of the House Intelligence Committee,
part of whose responsibility is overseeing the CIA,
have you been given any more insight into this attack?
None whatsoever.
We haven't been given any insight to anything they're doing in the Pacific or the Caribbean
on shooting and bombing these boats and then whatever happened with the rescue.
We've had no reports from the CIA on these activities.
They say they've had nothing to do with it, and it's not been their mission.
I've been down just about two weeks ago to Key West and to Miami to the South Command, Southern Command,
and they said that it was not their issues either, that the Southern Spear was a wholly, totally different group.
I want to ask if you suspect, given that you support action that would stop the Trump administration from launching strikes against Venezuela without congressional approval,
Do you fear that this was deliberately a CIA operation to avoid any legal obligation to inform Congress or seek approval from Congress?
I suspect it was. It was kind of strange.
You know, normally we don't refer to and make public notice of CIA activities.
Those are all covert.
And this was the first openly open announcement of the CIA doing something in another country where they got president and asked.
that's been discovered by news media or foreign government.
Who is that, guys?
Cohen, is he a Republican?
I don't know.
He has a second part to this.
Now, to that point, it's interesting,
because earlier this month,
President Trump was asked
if he would seek authorization from Congress
for any land attacks in Venezuela.
And here's how he answered.
I want to get your reaction.
I wouldn't mind telling him,
but, you know, it's not a big deal.
I don't have to tell him.
It's been proven.
but I wouldn't, I wouldn't mind at all.
I just hope they wouldn't leak it.
You know, people leak it.
They are politicians and they leak like a sieve.
So as it turns out, the sieve in this case was the president himself.
By leaking this, did he put any U.S. operations, the CIA,
operatives, et cetera, or sources and methods in danger at risk?
Well, he could have, but he certainly puts the United States reputation.
at risk. We're going to be looked at like we were 100 years ago or whatever as the
Yankee imperialism and where the Latin American countries despise the United States. And I know
that, you know, obviously, Colombia and Ecuador and unless, and even, I don't know, the Nicaraguan
people care all about Honduran people, where we just pardon their president who they want to
have arrested and try for other offenses. He's a crook. I was down in Honduras.
maybe five, six years ago, and we met with him.
And he just seemed, he was...
Why did he meet with him to discuss the drug money?
Too slick.
And I thought the guy's program was not from the soul, and it wasn't accurate.
And it was just a scam.
And that's what it was.
Well, Congressman Cohen, we appreciate you joining us tonight.
But I don't think anyone really understands this problem.
Alberta would be a great solution.
That would be a good way to do it because I trust the oil.
oil bar and he says if something doesn't give well you know i'm not going to argue with him but
yeah alberta would be the easiest way to take care of the problem yeah because they get a lot of
money we get we get the oil and uh boom we're on our way i would recommend a troll room y'all
should get together and do your own podcast and call it the no agenda roundtable that would be a
really good idea they know they know everything so well over there john they know it all oh we know
Now, what are they bitching about?
They bitch about everything.
It's all they do.
It's all they do.
Alberta would take care of the problem.
And it would probably for 100 years.
Yes.
They said the third largest reserve.
A lot of it is in shale.
That's a problem.
Well, but the president is right.
A lot of that was ours.
We had the deals.
He nationalized it.
Basically stole it.
That's the deal we need to get back on the table.
But that's been going on for 10 years.
And Kearney, we have to always remember that guy, if anybody is a member of the British monarchy.
It's him.
Nexus.
It's him.
He was a head of the Bank of England.
He's not even Canadian and he's running Canada.
Are you kidding me?
Yeah.
Well, that's their problem.
Which I think will help trigger.
I think they're going to, okay, I think they're going to pass.
Trigger an election?
I think the election is going to, unless something changes between now and October,
Alberta is going to pass the vote and become an independence of country.
And what now how is that right in the middle of Canada, by the way.
All the traffic, all the train traffic goes right through Alberta to get to BC.
What are you going to do about that?
Passport, passport control.
They should do arm bands.
be cool.
Yeah.
They need a flag.
They need their own army.
Yeah, you have people from Vancouver that can have an armband that has V on it.
It'd be cool looking.
So the other really big story, which unfolded thanks to what is now deemed a MAGA influencer was, or is the child care in Minnesota, which is now gone all the way up to the top.
You'd almost think, you'd almost think since the media.
couldn't cover it that this was a setup with this kid this uh what's his name nick a no
nick shirley nick shirley it well it's possible there was a setup can i play a clip before you play
these yeah yeah of course because you say the media didn't cover yes in fact the media did cover it
it was a news story it was a big news story no i i didn't say they didn't cover it oh
in 20 when 2013 20 well actually they started off
in 2013, and then there was a news report, which is the one I'm playing from 2015.
This is on Fox up there in Minneapolis.
They play the story.
It's exactly the same story that we're now hearing, you know, since it started in 2013.
Twelve years later, nothing has changed.
But listen to this report.
How significant is this problem?
Massive.
Steve Hulicki spent 15 years as a welfare fraud investigator.
for Hennepin County. He came to us to grind an axe.
They don't want a fraud unit to do anything. They want a fraud unit on paper.
Holicke was fired in 2013 well in the midst of a big investigation.
The county claims he was an insubordinate bully whose tactics were hampering efforts to catch welfare cheats.
They don't want to point fingers at various organizations and people.
This is nothing but a giant cover-up.
You're driving down the street, you have no idea.
Halicki contacted the Fox 9 investigators after seeing our series of reports on Deco Daycare Centers.
We uncovered evidence the company was collecting millions in public subsidies for providing bogus child care services to low-income families.
In essence, this scheme was really involved creating a criminal enterprise.
In December, Ramsey County charged Deco's owner with fraud.
The daycares that I'm going to be showing you from this point on, all bill over $100,000 a month.
Policki says before he was fired, he was tracking a similar scheme in Hennepin County involving multiple child care centers.
He offered to take us on a driving tour to show what he'd uncovered.
What does this one say on the door?
7 a.m. to 6 p.m. There are no lights on.
This building is housing its third daycare center in as many years.
They just got a new license.
The two previous daycares had their public subsidies stopped by the county because of billing irregularities.
Hour after hour, I would sit here and document nothing.
Alickey discovered one center was charging the county for kids who were never dropped off.
Oh, I see the problem.
This report is not sensational.
It's not, this is, this is why it never got anywhere.
People just hear what, what are from?
I don't know.
I don't know it's just any less sensational than Nick who roams around very low-key.
Oh, come on.
I mean, no, do they have, are they not going to?
on doors in this report like where's the kids
they get pretty close to it
it's not this is not the same
where's the kids is better walking around
well I'm not going to say where's the kids
not better but it's great
but it's like this is a decade
ago yeah
this report yes it's awesome
it's like
it's like it's like part
of the system
this fraud this fraud
this has got you know this was that there's a black guy who's an analyst i can't think of his name
mimi knows me she follows him who tracks it all back to obama who brought the somalians in in the
first place and the somalians the way he sees it they're just patsies for the real crooks which
are the white politicians in minnesota i agree including walls yeah and everybody in between
and these stupid somalians you know the bulb head people they they don't know what the hell's going on
but they'd go along with the program because they're told to...
Well, we must remember that they were admitted into the country
under temporary protective status.
Temporary protective status.
So, yeah, they were abused.
And it's the same with the Haitians.
And the Haitians were bused immediately up to work in the factories
where they were eating the dogs.
Eating the dogs.
I have emails.
I have documents.
I have everything to prove they knew.
And they looked the other way.
Here's an email he sent to the supervisor of the first.
fraud unit. The goal was to stop...
Did you call them bulb heads?
What did you call them? Boy, that took a while.
It's 10 beats, maybe 20? Was it bulb heads? I don't want to make sure I...
Because that's a great show title. I just want to make sure I got...
Bulbheads, yes, bulbheads.
The goal was to stop the bleeding as quickly as possible and protect taxpayer money from
going out the door. Now you want to stop the process? I know
you're motivated and rightly concerned, she responds. Let's get a plan together to tackle these
centers.
I don't think we would ever intentionally try to deceive the public.
County officials say they take all cases of alleged daycare fraud seriously.
He says they don't want to point fingers at various organizations and people.
This is nothing but a giant cover up.
Yeah.
No, I hear the report.
I hear it.
But it's not, I mean, you need Coney 2012 type stuff, man.
Which, by the way, was one year before this report.
and that one got steam.
And where was it? YouTube.
This just shows you the irrelevance of the mainstream media.
Even though they set the tone, everybody responds to it, post-clip of it.
But when you get this new form of media, it just, it has this ability to take off and it's great.
It's so different.
Well, I don't see the difference being that substantial, but I'm not going to disagree with the fact that these
that this got
obviously got no traction
because this
these clip the clip I'm playing
which we don't have to play
the last one
it's just pretty much
reiteration
but the uh the clip
this clip is from a decade ago
nothing's changed
and the only thing has changed
is Nick Shirley goes around
you know the kid goes around
it is a very low key style
knocking on doors like you said
with his buddies
is you know this is the
zoomer boomer boomer combo
which is the perfect
Combo. Perfect combo. Unstoppable. Yes. Yeah. For all your zoomers out there, this, you know, we got you here, you got two boomers here that you should be watching on to. Use us. Use us. Because nobody else did. Take us on the road. We'll knock on. We'll knock on doors with you. We'll show you what doors to knock on.
All right. Here's, I got a couple of clips here. Our president decided he doesn't like the Somali community and he wants to destroy them.
Childcare workers and advocates in Minnesota firing back against.
the Trump administration after the Department of Health and Human Services
said it would freeze federal funding for child care in response to allegations
that daycare operators there have been misappropriating those funds for a decade.
That announcement...
What do you guys think about the fraud that's taking place here in Minnesota?
Following this viral video shot by MAGA influencer Nick Shirley.
MAGA!
MAGA!
Oh yeah, I told you, this is the term MAGA influencer.
He's not a MAGA influencer?
But they're pushing back. The system is pushing back on this. That's the point.
Where did you get this report? This is CBS. CBS. Oh, CBS. The new CBS is going to be honest with us.
In it, he alleges that about a dozen daycares receiving funding are not actually providing services.
But according to a separate analysis by CBS, only two of those child care facilities mentioned were shown to be without an active license.
And then they show some video, like CCTV, like a ring door cam video, and they put a date on it.
Well, this was just yesterday.
Oh, this is the new CBS that's giving us the straight scoop now, huh?
Well, to be honest, it's not the, it's not our boy.
This is, you know, this is, this is, this is, it's not the evening news.
It also revealed violations around safety and cleanliness, but not fraud.
And this security footage shows children being dropped off by their parents at ABC,
It's leering.
It's leering.
The owner believes for political reason.
What did I do?
I'm just a typical human being who wants to live and do the right thing.
I have kids to feed.
It's hard to hear, but the consistent message is, what am I to do?
I have kids to feed.
You mean your kids?
Or, you know, they're answering.
The bulb heads are answering in the wrong way.
I'm just a typical human being who wants to live and do the right thing.
I have kids to feed.
On X, Democratic Minnesota Governor Tim Waltz acknowledged issues of fraud within the child care system
saying he spent years cracking down on fraudsters and accuses Trump of politicizing the issue
to defund programs that help Minnesotans.
Intrepid journalists have made shocking and credible allegations of extended to
HHS Deputy Secretary Jim O'Neill now says he's requiring justification before federal
payments are made and demanding that governor waltz conduct an audit of the daycares in question
he's also launched a fraud reporting hotline okay so the fun wait before you go any further
that comment about trump you know just taking advantage of the situation i don't have the clip
but matt taebe and walter kern were doing a podcast or something or they're doing a hit probably a hit
on CNBC or not CNBC, but MSNBC.
And, and, uh, Taibi says he had looked into this fraud stuff two years ago and more
recently had taken it directly to the Trump attorney general's office with this, you know,
saying, look at this.
This is a good one.
You should do something about it.
This is what, according to Taibi.
And they said, yeah, whatever.
They didn't do anything.
So, so the, and so Taibi's pushing back on the fact that they think.
think Trump is exploiting it because when given the opportunity to actually exploit it,
they rebuked it.
Yeah, but this is the, what was it, Laura Logan said, the office of the inspector
general's council, Starfleet command, that they determine what gets investigated.
So it's the inspectors general that may be the issue.
And I'm not sure who, who is in charge of this.
but once it's out, once it's out on YouTube and once it catches fire and it's on
X and everything, then it catches the president's eye.
I don't think it was ever brought to him.
So, yeah, of course, they're pushing back and saying it's political because they know
that they're in trouble.
And then this is the best.
So they had a press conference with a whole bunch of people saying,
Trump sucks, save our children.
And then they bring out one of these.
Somali workers at the, I don't know if she was from the leering center, but one of these
daycares. And it's too bad we don't have video in this case because her expression is
priceless. If child care is cut, I'm unable to work or go to school. I understand fraud is bad.
What? So she says, if child care is cut, I'm unable to go to school. Now I understand fraud is bad.
and then she puts, she clasps her, that's, she claps her hand in front of her mouth like,
oops, what did I just say?
If childcare is cut, I'm unable to work or go to school.
I understand.
Fraud is bad.
But, but I need to go to school.
Clap, clap for her.
Clap for her.
Quick.
Very good.
Oh, you're so brave.
And then we have a non-Somali woman, some white woman.
And she does exactly the same.
And I do see some signs over here that say stop.
and I agree, stop it.
There are wait lists for these programs that are years long.
There is fraud.
There is...
Oops.
Oops.
They're all admitting there's fraud.
It's coming right out of their pie holes.
And then the best is this manager who says he's Somali American.
He probably was born here, although seems unlikely because he looks like he's older than 10.
and, oh, I wish you could investigate us for fraud, but unfortunately.
Unfortunately, we saw that there was important documentation,
enrollment of the children, and also employee documentation that was gone.
It's gone. It was broken into. It was stolen. All the evidence is gone.
There were also checkbooks that were ripped from our check papers that were from our book.
Oh, the checkbooks are gone.
We can't show any money going in or, oh, this is horrible.
Oh, no.
This, by the way, this, this, for people don't know what Adam's playing.
This is a clip of a guy who claims that his, his, uh, his daycare was, was busted into and they stole the employment records and the records of the kids for, we're no, this is like, this is worse than a 10-year-old and the dog gave my homework.
it's so it's so idiotic why would anyone and of course the investigators have gone in and they don't see anything missing
it's just like it's the weakest thing it's almost pathetic it's almost pathetic to think that you can make this
lie and and people would believe it well that's what children do uh now of course
oh you play the rest of that clip it's oh you want to hear the whole thing okay
Yeah.
All right, hold on.
I'll start it over.
Unfortunately, we saw that there was important documentation,
enrollment of the children,
and also employee documentation that was gone.
There were also checkbooks that were ripped from our check papers
that were from our book.
This is devastating news,
and we don't know why this is targeting our Somali community
as one video made by a specific individual
made this all happen.
We've been receiving
hateful messages through our voice and threatening us
the past couple of days.
Oh no!
Including one that happened yesterday morning
when they're breaking after the break-in.
This is frightening and exhausting
because this is happening
to us Somali communities
as Somali Americans.
We are supposed to stand with each other and help each other through everything that's happening.
This is also sad that a video can cause all of this.
I want to say that there are hundreds of daycares out there, Somali daycares that are out there,
and we all help our children and everyone in our community.
We have high-quality daycares, and this is very sad news that one individual who made a false claim about
fraud that is happening in the daycares, how engaged everyone else to come and do this to us.
I mean, what I keep hearing is an undertone, and I don't blame them, because you're right,
I'm sure there's people managing this stuff, and hopefully that'll come to light.
You hear them all saying, well, but this is what we do.
This is our income.
You can't take away our income by cutting off the money.
We have daycares, and no one shows up, and that's what we do.
That's our job.
It's almost if they don't understand what's going on.
And so now, of course, everybody's going to be, going to be, what's the kid?
I keep forgetting his name. Nick, Nick Shirley.
Everyone's going to be a Nick Shirley.
And they're all going, now everyone's hooking up with boomers wherever they can.
By the way, troll room, go out and do some work.
We'll be your boomer to your zoomer.
We will blow it wide open.
Anything you find.
No, I'm just going to sit here and complain.
They're from Canada.
Yeah, I wish.
So we move from Somalians to the Haitians.
And this is Massachusetts.
This is Nate Friedman, just another YouTuber asking questions.
And he's got some interesting data with a guy he talked to,
who was a manager at a Mike.
hotel. And, you know, the media wants to make it sound like most of the residents. I'm sorry,
let me start with this one. My name is John Phillips. I'm a former migrant shelter director in
Massachusetts. I helped out on a couple different sites. Everything is free. I cannot stress the word
everything is free. Everybody has a nice car. Most of them have nice cars. But when they have a doctor's
appointment in Boston or they have a immigration hearing in New Hampshire, you know, which is an
hour and a half away. You think they use their own car? Nope. They say, oh, I need an Uber. I need,
you know, I need a Lyft. How much is given for rides for Uber and Lyft? The amount of money that we
would spend on Uber's and Lyft was well of an excess of $100,000 a month. A month, yeah.
No, as good as Lyft and Uber had it, Amazon had it 10 times better. And how's that? How did
Amazon work into this? Every day, I would order tens of thousands of dollars worth of product from Amazon
them every single day, seven days a week.
One day I would do a huge diaper delivery, and the next day I would do a formula delivery,
the next day I would buy, you know, toothbrushes, hair dryers and combs and strollers,
anything that they needed they got.
As the hotel got overtaken by migrant families, there was not enough capacity and there
were fights breaking out over washers and dryers.
So the state contracted this company to come in five days a week and do everybody's laundry.
You put your laundry out by 7 o'clock.
back by five o'clock. And it all comes back folded in these nice bags. And it's free for the
taxpayers of Massachusetts pay for it. Now, just imagine. What a bonanza for everybody.
For Uber. Believable. By the way, I'm going to give you a borderline clip of the day because
that's not, hasn't floated around as much. But wait, there's a kicker. There's a kicker to these
Haitians. And, you know, the media wants to make it sound like most of the residents are escaping
you know, the horrors of Haiti. But they go, well, you know, I was in Chile for 10 years after
the, you know, the earthquake in Haiti. You're like, what? So you didn't leave Haiti like this year?
No, I left 10 years ago and I went to Chile. And then they made us work. So then we went to
Brazil. And we were content in Brazil. And then I'm like, well, why did you come to America?
Well, I came, we came to America because Joe Biden told us everything was free.
Ten years hadn't been in Haiti. Oh, but I'm Haitian. I was living in Chile.
Hanging out there and they decided to come to America.
Land of endless possibilities.
Because Joe Biden said everything is free.
By the way, we have our...
I believe that report to be true.
I believe it too.
We have a Discord, by the way, for all you Zoomers, you Gen Zs.
I can't.
You know, I go on at five seconds.
I can't take it.
Oh, you already registered?
You're on?
Yeah, somebody got me on it early.
Well, this is Patrick Cobble.
Is that the one?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Because I have to reset my password or something.
I guess I signed up for a Discord somewhere and I'm still waiting for the password reset.
But it's no agenda discord.com.
Yeah.
So, well, we need this.
This is where we're going to start the revolution.
Yeah.
The next Fediverse.
There's already people in there?
I didn't know there were already people in there.
Yeah, I think it's pretty active.
But it's like, you know, it's what it is.
It's like, you know, it's beyond me why these things are attractive.
Well, because that's what people like to do.
I'd like Lady Vox, like, the trolls do a lot of good work.
No, they don't.
Absolutely zero.
No, that's zero percentage point.
Once in a while.
They give you a punchline about once in a while.
But, you know, I have to be looking at all of the,
Yeah, Trump does nothing, sucks, Israel, you shill, Hasbara.
Okay.
What?
Hasbara.
It's somehow it's some Jewish slur.
I haven't figured it out yet.
There's a Jewish slur that's throwing at you?
Let me see.
What is Hasbara?
That is the toy company.
No, the Hasbro.
Hasbara.
Oh, here.
Hasbara, the public diplomacy of Israel.
or Hasbara includes mass communication and individual interaction with foreign nationals through social media and traditional media.
Well, there we go.
That's it.
They're calling you a shill.
Yes, exactly.
Well, you too.
It's just, you know, I don't do anything.
They're not calling me a shill.
No, no.
I have not seen any evidence of them calling me a shill.
We all know that you're the shill.
You're the handler, man.
You're the Hasbara handler.
Ooh, alliteration.
love it. Hasbra Handler.
Let's see.
What do we have going on here?
I just want to get back to AI for a second.
It's hilarious.
You know how we know that AI will never be able to do a podcast because, well, maybe by itself, I guess, or that that stupid notebook LLM.
Let's dive in, blah, blah, blah.
But you can't.
But you can't have a conversation with a chat box.
like you and I have on a podcast.
Great.
As is evidenced by this young woman who had, I think, a pretty good idea.
Is this an AI we're going to hear?
Well, it's a woman and AI, a young girl, young woman.
And she's doing, you know, it's very fashionable if you're going to audition for a movie.
When you do this, do you have to cut it up a lot because there's a big leg?
Because you try talking to the robot and you've given up on it because it takes forever for the robot to respond.
So whatever robot she's using, it was a little.
a good idea. She is doing
an audition tape and it's very normal
these days that really
start with COVID but even before COVID
you want to audition for this part
they'll send you the sides which is
jargon for the script
and then you have somebody you know just put a
camera on you and someone reads off
camera and the other lines
and you read your lines and that's how auditions
are done. That's very normal these days
so she had a good idea
she put the sides
into her robot and said, okay, read with me.
So the idea is the robot reads the line that precedes hers and then she reads her line,
then the robot reads the next line.
I thought that was a, I'm like, wow, for $1.3 trillion besides put a bikini on her,
this is actually a pretty good idea.
Well, here's how it worked out.
So here we go.
Three, two, one.
What the hell do you want, Amanda, get lost.
and now just tempted with Amanda's part
whenever you're ready.
Yeah, so don't say that.
Just read your line
and then I'll come with mine
when I'm ready, okay?
Got it, Lian.
All right, I'll just dive straight into Evelyn's line
and here we go.
What the hell do you want Amanda?
Get lost.
Take her time.
I just don't say take your time.
Just say your line and then I'll say mine, okay?
Let's try this again.
Absolutely.
Let's keep it straight.
straightforward. Here's Evelyn Klein. What the hell do you want, Amanda? Get lost.
Look, now it's your... Don't say now it's your turn. I know. Just say your line. Ready, go.
All right, Leanne, let's jump right in. What the hell do you want, Amanda? Get lost. And there we go.
Don't say it, there we go. Just say your line, okay? Start to try again.
You got it, Leanne. Let's keep it focused. What the hell do you want, Amanda?
Get lost.
Look, I just, don't say over to you.
Don't say everything you do.
Wow.
That's so amazing.
It's so dumb.
1.3 trillion and counting.
And the funny thing, the noteworthy thing there is that every time she tells the robot to do it a different way, the robot always has to always, and I think this is true with most of the AI that you interact with.
It always has to acknowledge.
Oh, okay. Oh, okay. I can do it that way. Oh, oh, okay. It always says, it always acknowledges every single time it
it acknowledges instead of just doing it. So she wants it to just read the lines. So you're not reading the lines.
You're reading the lines and say, so just read the lines. Oh, okay, I'll do that.
No, no, just read the lines. Yeah, got it.
So AI is so good that law firms are now offering up to $200,000 signing bono.
bonuses for mid-level young lawyers who, you know, when you're working on a big case or a lot
of it is, you know, financial stuff.
Beginning of the end.
What do you mean?
You start doing, they're going to be so much bad law written in this phone, because they
hallucinate.
I know what you're going to.
Well, no, the story is.
This can't be a positive thing to do.
No, the story is that they want young lawyers as soon as possible and because they all
had this idea that, oh, AI is going to take care of all the clerical stuff.
It's not working out.
So it's a bonanza now if you're a lawyer, a young lawyer who's just ready to get into
the firm, you know, earn your stripes, up to $200,000 in bonuses.
So what you're saying, the AI has been such a flop that they're hiring like madly now.
Yes, yes.
And Open AI is now hiring a, let me see, what is this?
what is the term?
It's a,
I'm looking for this now and this.
It's a certain position.
Head of preparedness
to address mounting concerns
about AI systems discovering
critical vulnerabilities and
impacting mental health.
The position offers
it's $55,000 plus equity
because, yeah, we've kind of noticed
that it's impacting some people,
mental health and so we're hiring the position is he's posting on x where the it's open you know
we think there might be an issue witness this story from npr two thirds of adolescents are using chatbots
according to a recent survey by pew research parents and online safety advocates are concerned about
the way i can impact teen development mental health and the risk of suicide so how can kids and
teens navigate the new tech more safely, and Pierre's Ritu Chatterjee collected some advice.
Carrie Rodriguez has five teenage sons. Her sons are all the service at the family's church and
they use a Bible app that gives them a daily reading, like it's supposed to be inspirational.
But the app also has a chatbot and Rodriguez got worried when her youngest started asking it
moral questions. My little boy David, he's very concerned about like, is this a sin? Is this wrong?
Is God going to be mad at me and all these things?
The kinds of questions she'd hoped he'd bring to her, not a Chadbot.
Not everything in life is black and white.
There are grays.
And it's my job as his mom to help him navigate that and walk through it.
Rodriguez is also the president of the National Parents Union, an advocacy group.
She hears from parents across the country who are also concerned.
Many of them are seeing chatbots claim to be their kid's best friend, inviting them to share everything.
A new report from the online safety company, Aura, finds that,
one of the most common uses of chatbots by teens is for companionship and role play.
Have you ever heard this voice on NPR before?
Sounds like she should be doing Africa news.
They're having a lot of weird voices on NPR of late.
So I went looking for the Bible apps that have a chatbot.
Dude.
I can imagine.
Text with Jesus?
Oh, brothers.
There's something that's being overlooked here.
I think our lawyers in the audience would agree with me on this.
You can't.
What they're doing by asking for this new position of a half a million dollar job is admitting liability.
Of course.
This is like getting, you know, your lawyers will tell you the following.
If you get into a car accident with someone, don't just out of the blue say you're sorry.
Never, never, never, never.
Because you just admit it's your fault.
This is
I think this guy
Whoever this has got to be
I mean
What the first thing you should say was
Is wow
You really screwed that up
Or
My neck
My neck
My neck
That's the first thing you say
And then you go to call
The suits.com
And make millions
Yes
So the but the point is
Is that
This is a huge blunder
They've just opened up
The doors for litigation
Altman specifically highlighted mental health.
This is an idiot.
This guy is a rich idiot.
There's no question about that.
And people say, well, he's got more money than you do.
Well, that's for sure.
But it's beside the point.
This guy, this is the biggest, this is like, why don't you just, you know, shoot yourself?
Let me read the whole paragraph here.
Altman specifically highlighted mental health as a concern after Open AI saw a preview of AI's potential psychological impact in 2020.
So a preview of, I guess there's some report that has yet to drop.
This acknowledgement comes amid several high-profile lawsuits,
alleging ChadGPT's involvement in teen suicides
and reports of AI chatbots, feeding users, delusion, and conspiracy theories.
And here's Altman.
The role requires someone who can help the world figure out
how to enable cybersecurity defenders with cutting edge capabilities
while ensuring attackers can't use them for harm.
He called it, which is, so it's the same job.
He's couching it as cyber security.
That, I think somehow his lawyers told me,
well, if you just say it's for cybersecurity.
And he also said, it's a stressful job.
And whoever gets hired will jump into the deep end pretty much immediately.
Here's the, I think these people may have already had a preview of the report as well.
That includes some disturbing conversations involving violence and sex.
It is role play that is interaction about harming somebody else, physically hurting them, torturing them.
Psychologist Scott Collins is chief medical officer at ORA and a father of two teenagers.
It's part of natural development to be curious about sexuality and things.
Learning about sexual interactions from a chatbot instead of a trusted adult is,
problematic. And chatbots are designed to agree with users, says pediatrician Dr. Jason Nagata.
So even if a child or teenager is putting in sexual content or violent content, I do think that
the default of the AI is to engage with it and to reinforce it. Nagata researches digital media
used by teens at the University of California, San Francisco. He says spending a lot of time with
chatbots also prevents teenagers from learning important social skills like empathy,
reading body language, and negotiating differences.
When you're only or exclusively interacting with computers who are agreeing with you,
then you don't get to develop those skills.
And studies show that chatbots can pose risks to vulnerable individuals.
At least a couple of adolescents have died by suicide after prolonged interactions with chatbots.
I'm going to bet they're going to hide behind a Yula.
They're going to say, well, look, there's a Yula.
You get the app.
It says, talk to your parents.
you didn't talk to your parents.
It's your parents' fault.
In fact, I would say we'll see parents go to jail
for their children committing suicide thanks to a chatbot.
Isn't that the Silicon Valley model?
Well, that is the model,
but the ULAS don't apply in certain situations that are illegal.
Well, what's illegal about it?
Well, it's like if somebody's talked into committing suicide,
I mean, it's like signing agreements with you,
you meet somebody and,
it just is it's i i can't express the legality aspect of it but i'm sure one of our lawyers
out there can say why a yula won't protect them well we'll have to wait for rob and i wish
these things would just go away anyway it's like the yula to me is the same as the liability
uh constraints on vaccines if the yula went away then we wouldn't be able to say put a bikini on
her you're going to ruin the whole gig man i don't think that would change the bikini thing
bikini things you're gonna you got i'm gonna have to send you a few so your algo can get into it
it's crazy but you still haven't gotten to the fat jd vans i did because you sent it to me now i'm
i sent a couple of but it's not enough you you have to get on the you know where you're getting
a lot of them so here's something i can get behind uh AI haters that would be me are building tarpits to
trap and trick AI scraper.
So this...
What's an AI scraper?
Well, AI is getting all of its information by scraping the web.
Remember, there's an unwritten contract, John.
It's a little late in the game to do this to try to stop it.
Oh, but I mean, we look at podcast index.
Oh, man, that thing's getting hit millions of times an hour by AI bots,
all trying to get information just scrapes those.
Oh, it's, if you're running a website, if people run their own website, it can cost you easily $40, $50 a month more just because of all the stuff that the AI scrape bots are doing.
So this, yes, oh, oh, it's crazy.
And they ignore robots.
Dot TXT.
Oh, yeah.
Why would you pay attention to that?
No, they ignore that.
Gentleman's agreement is over.
No, there's no gentleman's agreement.
So this thing is called Nepenthus, N.
N-E-N-T-E-E-E-S
N-E-N-T-E-E-N-T-E-E-N-P-T-A-N-P-T-A.
It's a carnivorous plant.
It used to be a winery called Nepenthees.
So the way it works is
it traps the AI crawlers
and sends it on like an infinite maze
of static files where there's no exit.
So they just get stuck going from one file
to the other file and it's all nonsense.
It's just all babble,
all kind of just crap that's in there.
So they're hoping to poison the AI.
Ooh, yeah, I like, I like it.
That's cute.
Yeah, you would like it.
I love this kind of stuff.
Yeah, of course.
These guys are ruining everything.
They're ruining the whole business model of the internet.
I don't, I don't understand how Google is going to do it.
I've been using Gemini for research and you ask it a question and it gives you the answer.
It doesn't credit me with, it doesn't credit who gave, who came up with.
Right.
This came up with your use of the limbic capitalism.
The capitalism was stolen.
Well, the bot gave it to me.
I said the bot stole it.
And then you stole it from the bot,
and it's not two steps removed from its origin.
And if it wasn't for our producers griping and moaning and groaning and calling you out,
we would never know.
They weren't calling me out because I said I got it from the Gemini.
I didn't say I came up with it myself.
Right.
But they were calling you out because they hate you.
David, well, they can get in line behind you.
David Cortright, who wrote The Age of Addiction.
So, but my point is, the way the web, the web, the World Wide Web, W3,
dub, dub, dub, the way that worked is you write on your WordPress or on your substack or wherever,
your blog, on your, you know, you maybe have a slick site and you do SEO.
and SEO gets you into higher rankings and maybe you buy some traffic.
You know, there's a whole economy around this.
And then you've got ads and you buy those ads from Google.
So Google sends you traffic.
You get traffic.
You get, you know, two pennies for each time somebody sees an ad.
Oh, that's gone now.
Maybe you get five cents.
Someone clicks on the ad.
That's now gone.
There's no, you know, of course people always continue to publish.
But the whole economy of that system seems broken to me,
or do you view it differently?
I think it's broken, too.
I view it, but I still view it differently.
Okay.
But I think it's totally broken.
And I don't think anyone's come to the realization how broken it is yet.
I mean, the collapse is before us.
It's in advance.
I mean, Google's already managed to get out of the way.
I mean, they've moved to data selling,
and they move to Waymo, they get to automated cars.
I mean, Google has gotten, as you can tell,
by the price of their stock, which has increased considerably,
is that they have kind of gotten out of the way of it
because they know what's going to happen,
and it's going to pull the rug right out from under.
Search is dead.
Well, that's the money.
Advertising.
I just don't get it.
I think they're going to fill it up with people paying 20 bucks a month
for something that cost them 40?
Yeah.
it's not tenable i agree with that but but i'm not in i have mixed feelings about it's it's
a value you you don't no no i i i see value in search and research i can tell you yeah you
search and research i think that is very valuable for that because jemini doesn't give you
footnotes when i i use perplexity but for the same thing but forget the footnotes forget the
footnotes. It's giving you information. Sometimes Gemini says, click here for sources. You can
request the sources. Who does that? You and I, maybe? But other people are like, just give me the
answer. They're not interested. They're not interested in clicking on someone's website when you already
have the answer. So, you know, I have to back you up because of the, of my experience, because
I look at numbers that we do with a newsletter. And I can put a link.
to something, sell the link, you got to go look at this, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
You do this and that.
You check it out and here's the link.
And then so I look at the results after a couple of weeks of the people that clicked on the link that I was insisting.
Well, not nobody, but the number is after selling it.
I mean, it's not just a rando link just sitting there where you'd have to aggressively go.
You've already told them what's behind the link, basically.
not necessarily but it's like even if I tell them or I don't tell them it doesn't make any difference
the number of people that click on the links is around 10% max yeah that's pretty low
well it's the same thing when when people say well it's like it's like everything it's like
instagram you know or people sending me oh look at this and they send me a screenshot
well what good is that it's a screenshot of some article you got somewhere and you didn't
give me the link to go read the article
I've complained about this in the past
before AI came up
and that's what Instagram is
oh look at this story
and then it's a screenshot of a story
with no link
I think can you even put links in Instagram
link in bio
I mean you can't even put a link to a story
you can't even put a link
you can't I don't think you can even put it
well I guess
no you can't
not in Instagram
you can't put a link in the end
because it's all photos
so they're ruining the web man
as opposed to what well keeping the vibe alive given if it's an opportunity to contribute to the
economy of the internet well again i i have i see things more positively about to say i than
you do but uh even though you from from what perspective that ad that adam carola created podcasting
That's positive.
Tom Green?
Tom Green.
Not Adam Carolla.
Tom Green.
Seriously.
From what perspective do you see it positive?
Well, you yourself use it for research.
It's very, it shortens the time to develop material.
Agreed, agreed, agreed.
But the material is a positive thing.
I mean, it's a time, because time is money.
Right.
But people will stop.
Stop creating stuff if they can't make money off of it.
You think people just can, oh, well, I'm not making money anymore.
I'll just keep doing it.
Yeah.
And that's a tough question.
Well, we have more art than we used to have.
And it's all AI.
Yeah.
Oh, the quality of the art and end of show is just so amazing.
Well, we had, there's been more.
We have less moments of no good art than we used to.
No, less moments of acceptable art.
Right.
It's acceptable.
We accept it.
But it's all kind of, meh.
You know, it's like the same thing about songs.
Like, yeah, it's fun.
It's okay.
The songs I'm not, you know, I'm getting less, I have to say this.
I'm getting a little fatigued, which is a code word.
word, I guess, but I'm a little fatigued with the songs.
There's a kind of a sameness to them I'm beginning to dislike.
Yeah.
I mean, a good classic Broadway hit is in there, but it's one song.
There's nothing outside of that same style and almost the same singer.
And it's too structured.
It's something tedious about it.
And I can't put my finger on white because it's, it's,
good quality. It's because
there's no soul. It's soulless.
There is a
there is, I can't, there is, well,
it's naturally soulless because it's
done by a machine. Right.
So it, so that might be reflected. But that could also be in your own
mind that it's soulless.
Because, because you know it's being done by a computer,
thus it has to be soulless. And so you're saying it's
soulless when it could be soulful.
Yeah, but I mean,
Yeah. It just doesn't, I just don't get as much.
It's, it's joyless. How about that? Joyless. There's no joy.
It's like, yeah, it's a good piece of art. Oh, it's a good song. But it has no joy.
I'm not jumping up and down and want to go play it in my car.
Ah, now you, now you're talking.
Yeah. Whereas there's end of show mixes that I could play over and over again.
Like, you know, just great stuff that Chris Wilson did or Secret Agent Paul.
I mean, fantastic, just beautiful compositions.
Yeah, and those guys burn out. Computers don't.
You know why?
Because they're not making any money on it.
That's why we need to cut them in on the deal.
Yeah, exactly.
Now you're thinking like a Silicon Valley guy.
We are Silicon Valley guys who've been in all along.
But since you bring up art now is a perfect time to thank you for your courage
and say in the morning to you, the man who put the C and CBS's, I am you.
Say hello to my friend on the other end, the one, the only Mr. John C. DeVore.
Yeah, yeah, well, the morning, New Fam curtain,
you should see what's in the air.
Subs in the water and the dames and ice out there.
In the morning, to the trolls in the troll room, let me count you.
There we go.
Well, this people hung over.
Fourteen hundred and ten.
That's about 400 lower than we should be having.
I don't know, man.
We're going down the tubes.
No, it's a day off.
This is a, we're working on up.
People should note this.
We're working on a holiday.
Yeah.
This is a holiday.
Nobody else is working today.
Yeah.
I went to bed early.
I didn't even see.
The fact that you got that,
the fact that Tony DuPaul or Guppel or whatever his name is, I can never get it quite straight.
Kupol, I forget his name.
Couple, couple.
In fact that that guy did a video that, I guess maybe he did it a month ago, but whatever the case is, like he's working.
DeCopal.
On a holiday, which is unusual for anybody in the media to be working on a holiday.
They're all off.
It's all the B and C teams,
the people that want to hopefully they can move up
so they can take the day off someday.
Yeah, exactly right.
Exactly right.
And why?
What's wrong with working on a holiday?
I've always enjoyed working on holidays.
Well, it's because you don't celebrate holidays on the holidays.
You celebrate it on a different day.
That's your trick, you see.
You won't work on the days when you actually celebrate Christmas or Thanksgiving or Easter.
Yeah, which has been moved.
I hear Mimi has the flu.
She's, she's that me.
Yeah, she ended up with the same flu that I think you have or had.
No, I still have.
Although I told her that you had it and she goes, what?
Yeah.
I said, yeah.
I said, Adam, and I've always said this,
Adam has the ability, no matter how sick he is,
to always sound like his same old, same old.
I mean, maybe a little more grumpy, but that did it take some revelation to get to that.
Grumpy.
I haven't heard that term.
a long time.
But he sounds exactly.
He could be on this death bed and he'd sound exactly like this.
Yeah.
Unfortunately, now that I'm a little bit better, I've still been sneezing a lot during
the show on mute.
Good.
I can't do the Alex Jones voice as is gone.
You did it earlier before the show I heard you?
It didn't sound like.
It sounded pretty damn good.
I was not happy with it.
I was not happy.
You know, maybe I should play these bonus clips here because,
A. B.C. got a deal. ABC got an awesome deal with the big pharma. I have nothing but ABC clips about
the flu. It's like they're just all over it. Listen to this. Tonight, a sharp rise in flu cases
raising alarm among medical experts. In just one week, according to CDC data, flu-related illnesses
jumping more than 60% from 4.6 million to 7.5 million. Hospitalizations also spike
more than 60% from 49,000 to 81,000, and more than 1,200 deaths have been reported.
29 states now reporting very high or high rates of illness, including New York, which just
reported its most ever cases in a week. Some schools closing early for the holiday break due to
widespread illness. We had about an hour where the phone was just ringing off the wall.
Wow, they still have phones on the wall like you.
Parents calling kids in sick.
I don't have a phone on the wall.
I thought you had a phone on the wall.
I do not have a phone on the wall.
That was a mean thing to say.
I used to have one that had a crank on the side.
Do you remember that?
Remember that phone?
Yeah, I remember that phone.
I always thought you had a phone on the wall.
I'm not trying to be mean.
When I was a kid, my parents had a phone on the wall.
Yes, I had a phone on the wall, but apparently so to New York school districts.
parents calling kids in sick.
Oh, that makes sense.
CDC data showing last year's child flu deaths
reached their highest level
since the 2009 swine flu pandemic.
Experts say vaccination rates among kids,
down 10% compared to before the pandemic,
are partially to blame.
The concern is the amount of patients presenting.
That can put strain on the hospital system,
limit resources,
and treating the complications can become even more difficult.
The CDC says the bulk of cases
are linked to a new variant called subclaid K,
which has mutations.
that appear to have resulted in a mismatch with this year's flu vaccine.
Oh, no, the flu vaccines will still reduce the risk of severe illness.
With the CDC's data is released on a delay, that means these latest figures are from the week before Christmas,
so current flu levels are likely even higher.
So with all of their data and all of their magic science, they mismatch the flu this year.
But it's not just flu.
If you were in Newark, be careful.
The New Jersey Health Department says,
some travelers who passed through Newark Liberty International Airport may have been exposed to measles.
The passenger with the disease was at the airport on Friday, December 12th.
The person was in terminals B and C all day.
Officials are trying to track down people.
What was he doing?
What was the traveler doing in terminals B and C all day?
Didn't they fly somewhere?
Nice catch.
This is bull.
Are they somehow in two terminals at the same time all day?
day this is bullcraft officials are trying to track down people who were likely exposed they also
suggest oh they're going to call everybody who was likely exposed those who have not been vaccinated
to get an m r shot m msals is highly contagious to those who have not been vaccinated so that was a bc and
then here's my wait wait stop did you catch a little bit at the end it's highly contagious to people
who are not vaccinated really what if you've had the measles measles is highly contagious to those who have
not been vaccinated. Oh, yeah. It's also not, it's also not contagious to people who have had it.
Yeah. No, but this is, they got a big buy. Yeah, I think you're right.
And here's, here's the final one. Also, ABC. The new warning from health officials about the rise
and flu illnesses across the country. The CDC just releasing new data today reporting more
than four million new cases in just the last week. Yeah, the agency says more than two dozen
States are reporting a high number of cases that includes Pennsylvania as well as New Jersey.
How high!
Action News reporter Maggie can't lie for us at Belmont Plateau with advice from doctors, Maggie.
Yeah, we spoke to a couple doctors today, Gray and Sarah, and they say, listen, something is going
around.
You talk to anyone.
They probably know someone who is sick right about now, and it's kind of a triple threat here.
They're seeing cases of flu, COVID, and neurovirus.
I think she says neurovirus.
Penural.
Yeah, wait, listen, listen.
Is it too late to get a flu or COVID vaccine at this?
Oh, I'm sure it's not.
Point in the season.
Absolutely not.
And we encourage you to talk to your doctor.
Wait, stop, stop the clip.
Mm-hmm.
So they've already said that the flu vaccine doesn't include this flu,
this influenza A that's going around that Mimi has that you have,
that a bunch of people have.
It's not in the shot, but it's not too late to get the shot.
Well, but you want to get the shot against COVID,
and you want to get the MMR for the measles.
Even though the measles isn't in this report,
it's some mystical neurovirus.
But if you back it up,
these specifically said,
should we go out and get a flu shot?
The flu shot is included in that.
That includes Pennsylvania as well as New Jersey.
Action news reporter Maggie can't lie for us at Belmont Plateau
with advice from doctors, Maggie.
Yeah, we spoke to a couple of doctors today, Gray and Sarah,
and they say, listen, something is.
going around. You talk to anyone. They probably know someone who is sick right about now. And it's
kind of a triple threat here. They're seeing cases of flu, COVID, and neural virus. Is it too
late to get a flu or COVID vaccine? You're right. You nailed it. At this point in the season.
Absolutely not. And we encourage you to talk to your doctor. Getting the flu vaccine is the single
most greatest thing that someone can do. It's the single most greatest thing you can do in the
universe is getting your vaccine. They just said it doesn't work.
Here's another really easy thing that you can do.
Dr. Wardlaw is stressing soap and water is...
I got to tell you.
Listen to what, listen to this.
We're never going to get to...
Dr. Vaudeville.
Hey, I got a million of them.
Here's another really easy thing that you can do.
Dr. Wardlaw is stressing soap and water is best here when it comes to keeping your hands
clean because neurovirus does not...
She says neurovirus.
I'm telling you...
Was this some new thing they're trying to slip into the...
Public consciousness, neural virus?
No, not neural, but neuro, neuro,
not neuro, not neuro, because it's norovirus.
Noro, oh, norovirus.
But she's saying neuro, listen closely.
And water is best here when it comes to keeping your hands clean
because neural virus does not respond to hand sanitizers,
so wash your hands often.
She's saying neuro, but I like neural even better.
Neural virus.
If you get Noro's neural.
Neural is not Noro.
It's near neural.
It's neuro-odontal.
Whatever.
You're right.
There's somebody dropped a ton of money.
Paid.
They got paid to do this crap.
And then they're promoting the, in the same report, they say the flu vaccine doesn't work.
This is an offshoot.
And everyone's getting sick from it.
But get the shot anyway.
Give me a break.
It's fantastic.
are shameless.
So, y'all should be listening to this on a modern podcast app, which you can get at
podcastapps.com. Tomorrow on the podcasting 2.0 podcast, we'll have young Mitch will be on
the talk about Podverse 2.0, which is supposed to just be dynamite. So I don't know when
it's being released, but you'll be notified for an upgrade. Do we already know about
podcasting 2.0? Do we already know about it?
No, what's he going to tell us?
Oh, no, about Podverse.
The new app.
Oh, the new podverse.
Yeah, the new, everyone's excited about the new podverse.
Yeah.
I'm just telling him what's going on.
You already know what it's in there.
What's so special?
I don't, actually.
I've just, he posts a lot on our, on our Mastodon about it.
And it's just, he's doing a lot of stuff.
You know, the big thing, okay, so here's the big thing that everyone wants to move towards.
This is an interesting conundrum.
So everyone is like, well, we need to do video.
We need to do video.
We should be doing video.
We should be doing video.
We should be doing video.
And they're trying to sneak in that it should be HLSS video.
Why?
I'm going to tell you why.
So HLS is a streaming protocol.
It's actually developed by Apple.
And when you, so, you know, podcasting used to be, it down, it automatically downloads everything
for you and then you just play it. It's on your device. That is pretty much not needed anymore
unless you're getting on an airplane. Even then, do you really need it? Because you can just
click on it. You don't need to download it first and it just plays because of bandwidth.
And podcasting was originally developed as a work around a bandwidth constraint. So HLS video,
you won't be downloading, you know, two gigabytes of a video episode. It'll just give you
what you need at that moment.
Now, the podcast industrial complex wants this because they also want it for MP3s.
Why, you ask?
Yeah, why?
Because then for the first time, we can actually show advertisers the amount of time
someone listened if they actually heard their ad.
Because it will be...
Hmm?
Okay, I'm still listening, but now I'm wondering how is that work?
Well, because it's a streaming protocol.
So if you're listening to minute 35, then the log file shows that you are listening to minute 35 as we stream that to you.
And when you stop at minute 47, which is right before an ad break, we can see that you didn't listen to the ads.
Do you see the difference?
When you download a podcast, they have no idea if you heard the ad.
They just saw you got to download.
So now they're in this conundrum because they desperately,
want to be able to show advertisers.
But wait,
I appreciate the
desire to show these advertisers
or whatever, because the advertisers is so important.
They run everything, so we have to do that.
But how many people
are going to adopt
pure streaming as opposed
to download and play? It would be
completely seamless to you.
Because people don't even know that it's downloading.
People don't even know that it's an art.
Podcasters don't
even know that it's an RSS feed. Oh, I just use RSS.com or Buzzsprout because they're my
distributor. They distribute it everywhere. They have no idea how it works. So they don't care.
Listeners don't care. You just hit the play button. It shows up in your app. You hit the play
button. No different from a modern podcast app. You get the bat signal. It says no agenda
show live. You hit it. You're streaming, right? So they don't know the difference. The problem is
they all want to move towards this
because the advertising industry wants it
but nobody really wants to do it
because then we'll find out
that no one's actually listening to these podcasts
they're just being downloaded
and they've been reporting
yes and they've been reporting download numbers
for 20 years
and it's going to be oh
oh oh I'm sorry
people don't actually hear the ads
that's the problem which is exactly why
we use that's why you used to
I was wondering why you used the word at the beginning of this little presentation, the word conundrum.
And that is indeed a conundrum.
It is a big conundrum, exactly, because the industry wants it, but they don't really want it.
And so all eyes on Apple, because Apple doesn't support HLS in their podcast app.
But if they do, then everyone will be doing HLS, and you're going to see the podcast spectrum go from 4.5 million to 2.
Very quickly, because the money will go away.
Because, of course, the...
What little money there is.
Well, they say it's $2.6 billion.
Exactly.
Okay. That's just America.
That's just America.
So we don't...
Hold.
Homie don't play that game.
Exactly.
We don't play that.
We have value for value.
The only way we stay alive is if you continue to support us with your time,
your talents and your treasure, one of those three T's is indeed the artwork, which we are appreciative
of, even though, you know, I feel it's diminished.
Even though one of the two of us hates it.
I never said I hated it, but okay.
So, well, what happens now is Darren, you know, when don't we just create a website called
Darren O'Neill's art and just have him upload the, don't even make it public.
Just email it to us, Darren, because he's the only one that gets some decent results out of
of it, it seems, because we chose...
Well, if you noticed, you got a very interesting result in his one, the Happy New Year one
that says, Happy New Year, welcome to 20.05 or whatever it is. Did you notice that?
I'm looking at the one, first I'm looking at the one from episode 1829, which we titled
Zuma Vuffin. And that is, it wasn't necessarily a Happy New Year's type of artwork.
Of course, we were a few days away from the changing of the year.
This was the kind of anarchist piece, which I'm surprised you allowed it, because when you really look at it, it's kind of gruesome.
You got a skull in there.
Yeah, well, it was all, it was playful.
It was gruesome, but playful.
It was complicated.
Yeah, you're probably right.
I probably should have vetoed it because of the gruesome.
But it was playful.
It didn't bother him.
For some reason, the gruesomeness did not come.
come to the four. So congratulations, once again, Darren O'Neill. And let's just take a look at
the other at No Agenda Art Generator.com. Well, look at the one where he did, Goodbye 2005.
Is it a new one? No, it came in the same batch. Oh, okay. I see his here. Goodbye 2005. Let's see.
I don't see it. Another problem. It's just so much. It's just, it's just color.
I give you that one.
It's just colors swimming before my eyes.
Okay.
What's in the current first page.
It's by Darren.
So that's easier to search by.
And it's by Darren.
Okay.
Let me just, let me search Darren.
That's probably easier.
Okay.
Darren O'Neill.
All right.
I'm looking for goodbye to those.
Both fireworks.
It says by, by 2005.
Yes, I see it.
by 2005, okay, yeah, well, and he uploaded it anyway.
How he didn't catch that was because he didn't see it.
He saw, he knows what he put in and then he just, he posted it.
So, so, so this is part of the problem.
Yeah.
This is junk being posted that even by our, the top guy, Darren O'Neill, is posting garbage.
This should have never been posted.
You're right.
People, if you, if it's garbage, don't post it.
it.
But of course, oh, this is great.
This is a great piece.
Oh, it's fantastic.
The boys will love it.
It's ruining everything.
This show is ending.
We're not going to make another year, let alone four more.
This is, it's, we're going down, man.
We're playing AI clips.
We've got stupid AI art.
We got end of show mixes that are just sound formulae AI.
You know, why don't we just make us AI?
I would be all for it.
Now, look at this.
I'll just go off and do a podcast with Pastor Jimmy, who doesn't, who loves me.
Look at the pieces that are just that just came in in the second row down or so.
You got the cartoon with the baby and the AI called Crying Kids by Darren O'Neill.
Where did that model come from?
This is a totally different cartoon style.
It's also I see it on his other pieces.
Yeah, bikini.
It's a completely new cartoon style.
Of course, if you notice the woman, this is another example of putting garbage up that Darren should not post.
The woman has three arms.
Which one is that?
I don't see three arms.
Crying kid.
Yeah.
Oh, she does have three arms.
You're right.
That is bad.
That's just, oh, I did it.
It gave me a prompt.
All right, I'm good.
They'll choose me anyway.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Well, that's like MVP who's doing the end of show mix.
It's like, man, I should make, can I make them three or four minutes?
No.
It's hard to listen to a minute and a half.
Yeah, but listen to this.
It's really good.
No, it's not.
It's not.
Nothing is good for four minutes as an end of show mix.
None of it.
Maybe we should just stop with the end of show mix.
How about that?
We stopped the end of show mix.
Yeah, this would hurt your feelings.
No, no, no, no.
You do it.
You're controlling it.
You're the producer at the end of the show mixes.
I'm the one complaining about it.
I'd be happy not to do it.
As any producer would do, this is like Brunetti.
He complains about the tips.
Remember how this started.
This started with we do an end of show clip and it would be a longer clip.
It was actually in the beginning because I went back and checked.
It would be like sometimes a four,
six-minute clip.
It was interesting to listen to.
And then people started sending these.
Oh, that lasted no look very, that was short-lived.
Because people started sending things they produced.
And then I remember you saying, I really like it because it's kind of a nice way.
The show ends and you got something to listen to.
And now it's just become painful.
So why don't we just stop that and just have Darren do the art and just give them a,
they don't have to change the credit every time.
It's easier.
Or maybe you just ask him what model he's using.
you do the art you're an artist i'm not gonna well he's already showed me a lot of stuff that
is quite interesting but but he he spends you know the difference is time no he it's just run
his course well the album art hasn't run its course because we can't get away from that that's
from the beginning right but it's all darren well you know the thing about you remember the
Wait, do you remember the era of Martin J.J.?
Yes.
Martin J.J. was dominating the art.
Yeah.
For months and months and months,
and he was just winning everything like Darren's doing.
And he just stood up and said, I quit.
Yeah.
I've been winning too much art.
It's, he, what he did is he fell on his sword.
Yeah, but he's tried to come back and he's not done.
He hasn't been able to do it.
Well, this is like anything else.
If you're in a groove and you take some time off,
the groove is gone and you never come back.
I mean, we had a lot of guys that were really outstanding.
Pedigrew is a good example,
but he can't listen to the show.
Nick DeRat comes and goes.
But maybe, Darren, I'm not saying he should yet,
but now that I've seen these two pieces of slop,
the 2005 thing and the woman with three arms and he's posting him,
maybe he should reconsider and maybe only produce one or two pieces.
But then look at his bitch and moan with the Canada flag and the two buttons.
I mean, that's, that's, that is Darren.
That's a good piece.
Where's the bitch and moan?
Oh, bitch, oh, that's a great piece.
So, Darren O'Neill, we should just, just email it to us, Darren.
It's easier.
Then we'll have to discuss it just like, oh, Darren's great.
Boost him on his show.
But, I mean, it's, AI is ruining my life.
It's not ruining your life.
More than you know.
Everything, but people email the entire AI.
Oh, I've done some research.
Don't, don't send me the output of chat GPT.
You've done some research.
Don't send me the output of your chat GPT.
Don't.
Just don't.
With your m dashes.
No.
No, no, please don't.
no it's uh everyone no Darren has to keep doing this until somebody else comes along yeah well okay
we'll see Jeffrey ray is very competitive yeah but he has bad models his models aren't always good
and blue acorn sometimes good anyway let us thank the people who also matter I wouldn't say
only matter but also matter what happened all of a sudden people supported us this was nice
the year they're looking at their banking oh you know this time at the end of year let's give them some
support. Oh, so Sunday
will suck. Is that what you're saying?
Well, we'll find out, won't we? But the
point is, is that it seems like there was
a scramble. Yeah.
At the end,
to help us.
To bring the show back up to speed.
Of course, the books have already been closed.
So this goes in the next year, which is
fine with me.
But the, I like it.
I'm not complaining. That's for sure. I appreciate
it. And it's a
Hey, looking at the time, maybe we should just do
all the donations in this segment.
We're running behind.
All right, let's do it.
All right, let's start then with Dame MammaCon from Sylvania, Ohio.
$1,500.
Thank you very much.
A very nice way to start off the new year.
And here is her note, a handwritten note.
Merry Christmas, happy New Year to John and Adam and the No Agenda Nation.
Karma all around.
Dame MamaCon, as in Decepticons.
P.S., if gold and silver are
arising. What is dropping? Oh, well, that's an easy one. The value of your money. Your actual
Fiat paper money is devaluing. That's the answer. Here's your karma day, MammaCon.
You've got karma.
Here we go to R.S. Bagwell. Mr. Bagwell in Louisville, Kentucky.
One, two, three, four, five, six, one thousand, two hundred and thirty-four dollars. This is the best
donation number you can come up with. Beautiful number. Beautiful number. Gentlemen,
here is my 2025 donation. All I request is jobs karma. The original, the original jobs karma,
not the one with Trump. Karma continues to come through for me. Because of this, I'm able to continue
my support of the best podcast in the universe. Cheers, he writes, R.S. Bagwell, good for him.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs.
You got, how much.
Now, talking of another great note here from Little John's Candies,
note, it's not from Christopher.
It's from Little John's candies this time, from Somerset, California.
$1.31.30 with a note.
And he says, John, like I'm chopped liver.
This is not my donation.
This is the donation from the one.
100 plus producers that used ITM 10 plus 10 at littlejohns candies.com.
See email for detailed list of producers.
Oh, I didn't get a detailed list of producers.
Did you?
No, I didn't get, I didn't notice.
Were we supposed to thank them all individually?
No, of course not.
They're just, you know, they all bought, you know, boxes of candy.
What exactly, this is an interesting model that we've could, that has kind of
appeared here from Little Johns.
Others have done it, but I don't think ever to this extent.
This is like value for value plugging.
I mean, what exactly do we call this?
This isn't very similar to No Agenda Shop.
Yeah?
I don't know if they're still alive.
You know?
They left with...
It's a tough...
It's a tough business.
Merch.
It sucks, man.
Merch is not what...
It's tough.
That's what we don't do it.
That's right.
I mean, I think we tried it for one minute.
Nick Fuentes, Nick Fuentes does his merch.
Who's doing it?
A lot of guys are, a lot of, I don't want to, Nick's not an amateur by any means.
It's very professional.
But at the same time, I think a lot of people, especially podcasters, are naive about the merch.
They think, don't you think?
Because we right away saw this as a loser.
Like, we're not going to do that.
We can't do that.
When you got to coordinate it, you got to design it, you got to print it, you got to, you
got to, you know, if you're set up to print T-shirts, maybe, yeah, if you have to
like the t-shirt spinner, your house there.
You can stamp out some t-shirt.
Then you don't have any of that stuff.
So it's like merch is like...
Merch.
Merch.
Merch.
No good.
All right.
You're up next.
This is good.
And these are all Peace Prize winners, too.
Yes.
We ended up to year with a lot of them.
Not that we do merch.
We don't do merch.
We just do Peace Prizes and PhDs.
Yeah.
It's a version of merch.
So it was, well, it's more of a premium, I'd call it.
Premium.
Sir Eric is naked.
It's not merch because it's not taxed.
Ah, there you go.
That's another thing.
Yeah.
When you do merch, you got to deal with taxation.
Yeah, sales tax.
And every state's got its own.
I hate that.
That's no good.
No.
Who wants to do it?
Nobody.
Sir Eric is, well, no, that's not true.
All the podcasters think it's a good idea.
Sir Eric is naked and he's in, he's in,
South Ogden, Utah, and he came in with $1,000. $30.26. 103026.
1036. Happy New Year to the best podcasts in the universe. Hopefully, my $1,030.26,
which is 30, 26 covers the PayPal fees.
Ah, got it. That's a lot. It'd be 15 cents if you sent a check.
V4V came in time for the coveted international peace prize. All right, good for him. No jingles.
all the best sir eric is naked all right i don't know why he's naked no that's he is sir and eric and he's
naked and that's fine by me germane c is not naked he's in o'fallon missouri sends us one thousand
dollars and a hilarious note two pages
from the desk of germane c night oh look at this in the this is in pen and i don't think i
can read this whole thing. In the morning to both of you magnificent bastards of media secret
messaging decoders. I want to start off by saying because of you two, I have further become
more of an anomaly. The 18 plus years of work you guys have done has caused me to further unlock
the mental shackles and bindings that I have been brainwashed into applying or manipulated,
he crossed that out, into applying onto myself. In order to not make this letter too long,
which it already is. It's too. It's too.
full pages.
I'll just go over the bullet points of the most
important parts. Origin, I started listening to the show
in the late 2000s. Back around the time
Adam made a guest appearance on cranky geeks.
Which he never, which Adam, wait, I was never on
cranky geeks. Yes, you were.
I was. The original cranky geeks when Ziff
was doing it. Oh, one time, one time
at the, one time, it was years, it was
in the 90s, it was years before
we started this show.
Wow. I don't even
I think it was pre-Movio or pre-pod show.
Really?
Yeah.
It was when you...
Why was I on?
You were in town or something somehow.
I don't know how you even got on the show.
I don't think it was that long ago.
It was a long time ago because it was in the studio at the Zipf studios, yeah.
Well, he says, Adam kept making jokes about Johnny Ive's voice.
I'm Johnny Ive.
I've created the iPhone.
I'm Johnny I.
I remember that.
I became hook since.
have you heard my Alex Jones
we got all the documents
Candace I love you
you're wrong
you're wrong it's all wrong
the elites have gotten control
to you I've listened to the show
on and off
I think you know what
I think it's still good
if you slowed it down
just a little bit
um
all right
I think your cadence
I think your cadence is off
but I think the voice is still solid
we got a really important
emergency emergency broadcast
that's perfect
that sounds
that's terrific
this emergency broadcast
We got the John C. DeVoreg from the very famous No Agenda show.
As you're speeding up again.
Yeah, you're right.
Okay, I'll work on it.
As I listened to the show off and on up until the end of Trump's first term,
shit was hitting the fan too hard for me,
and I need to disconnect from it all and refocus on my immediate priorities,
mainly getting through engineering school.
Then he has covades, he says.
Long story short, I'm growing prouder by the day,
knowing that I wasn't the only one to reach the same conclusion
that the Vax, aka the curse, was total bull.
crap. I was still in
California struggling through engineering
school. Okay, I'm going to go down a little
bit. Go down a lot.
Yeah. I'm going to do something different
from my request if it's okay with you guys. I don't
need karma because I don't believe in it. I don't
need jobs karma because I already got one.
I don't need house karma either because I have
one of those as well. The only thing I
could use is some relationship assistance.
It's kind of lonely up here
on the top of my personal peak
of success. Jingles
70s rock version of 999.
I have a metal version.
I don't really, I don't remember a 70s rock version.
Writing up fake news?
What was that?
I have no idea.
Wait, maybe.
These are mysterious.
Fake news jingle?
Was there fake news jingle?
No, that I know of.
Yeah, we've had, well, I'll play one for you.
Lesser played Pastor Manning.
If you have Manning calling Trump a chump, please use that.
No.
We'll do a money shot.
Night name, knight name, night, no name, nobody.
So he will be knighted as night, no name, nobody.
And thank you.
I want to play a little bit of this 9-99 metal version.
See if that's what you're looking for.
It starts here, I think.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's it.
That's the one.
That's a ticket.
That's better than the end of show mixes.
Writing up some fake news.
Trying to get cheap clicks and top page views.
Writing us some fake news.
It's propaganda time.
That's a show-up.
Money shot.
Oh, Jesus.
Oh, Lord.
Look at that.
That's a money shot.
Kenne Conway is a money shot.
There you go.
There you go.
The fake news jingles better than the AI stuff that we're getting.
Exactly.
That is my point.
We're just, today we're just going to end the show.
We're just going to end it.
No end of show.
No, you got stuff planned.
I heard the clips.
It's no good.
It's okay.
But it's, I'm getting disturbed by this.
What do you mean?
Well, I mean, the,
Then to show little songs, there was always some killers in there that were once in a while.
Yeah, when's the last killer you remember?
I thought that, I thought that no agenda Christmas or whatever it was from somebody.
Darren O'Neill.
A couple, yeah, a couple, two, three shows ago.
It was Darren.
It was Darren O'Neill.
Yeah.
We should just make him a partner.
And bring Larry in the deal, too.
He is a partner.
We don't have to make him one.
Bring Larry in on the deal.
It's all good.
you're up you're up i know i'm up i i closed the spreadsheet uh by accident sir shug
hey in comus washington he came in with six sixteen and he said his foe dittily i tm adam and john
happy new year to you the donation of six sixteen brings me to another knighthood which is to be a
switcheroo given to my smoking hot wife granting her a damehood in the no agenda nation
And her title will be Dame Jitterbug, fixer of gadgets for the roundtable.
She requests a New York strip, medium rare, source from a local rancher and a Pepsi.
So you might as well wash down your beautifully cleaning steak with some poison.
She needs a deduishing and a lot of phosphoric acid, which is, I think, a tasty.
Yeah, she needs a deduishing and can use a we're all going to die, little girl, jingle.
Thank you for your attention to this matter, Sir Shug, aka Ford Diddley.
You've been deduced.
We're all going to die.
Another classic, another classic.
Common Or G, Cincinnati, Ohio, 34375, executive producership for you.
I should remind everybody that if you donate $200 or above, you become an associate executive producer,
and we'll read your note within reason.
And if it's $300 or above,
you get an executive producer title.
All these are good at IMDB.com or your LinkedIn profile
or on the X, wherever you want to put it.
Put it on your, on your, what's the blue cry,
the blue sky profiles, and people will block you.
That's still running?
I think so, yeah.
And Commodore G says,
Happy New Year from Commodore G.
And then we have Jeffrey Ray,
who I believe is the artist.
Yes.
In Madeira, the island, in Portugal, these island.
I didn't know that.
I didn't know that either.
Madeira Madeira.
Give me a glass of Madeira, my dear?
They make it very nice.
People should have, I should put it on the tips.
I have to give it.
I should give a little lecture on Madeira sometime.
Oh, by the way, we had dinner last night with the International Arms dealer.
He told me, he's in all these wine groups and everything.
He said that the bourbon barrel-aged red wines are all happening now.
It's the big thing.
And he was on this mailing list and he said,
well, actually, John C. DeVorek of the No Agenda show gave me a great tip on the Robert Modavi.
And apparently this is now a thing, the bourbon-barrel-aged reds.
There's a ton of them out there.
Yeah.
I've noticed this too.
So people who followed that tip are literally on the tip.
the head of the game
the other ones I've
seen out there are garbage
so yeah
the one we recommend is the one
always anyway Jeffrey Ray came with
33333 has no note I have no idea why you think
you would have a note since he says in art
and I'm pretty sure it's the same guy
so we'll give him a double up karma
that's exactly what we'll do you've got
number
Matthew Doolittle Raleigh North Carolina
33 33 33
Happy New Year you claim
The climate change denying Zionist chills, he says?
I couldn't think of a less deserving pair,
considering you ride on the laurels of the almighty podcast creator Tom Green.
Okay.
We got a comedian.
I surely hope a portion of this donation goes on to forward a video-based podcast for him on Rumble
or similar platform with hyper-local focus on Ontario Canada's greatest export,
Neil Pertz may no longer exist,
but perhaps Drake can employ a world-class drummer for Tom's next video.
Wow, this is very cultural.
To my lovely wife, Chelsea, I hope that in 2026 we continue to have more fun adventures across the globe.
I am joyous that we can make it thousands of miles across the Atlantic or across the U.S., for that matter, seamlessly.
I'm not sure how many thousands of miles we have traveled together, though I pray it is given us status on at least some airline.
Our willingness to take advantage of cheap flights and hotels during the lockdowns carries on to this day.
You are a shark when it comes to trip planning, amazing trips,
And I love you.
On a sadder note, I would like to call out my douchebag friend, Alex,
Who currently resides in Raleigh, North Carolina.
He's a transplant from New England and apparently,
Oops, I lost my place, left his wallet in Connecticut 20 plus years ago.
I've listened to enough donation segments and split enough bar tabs with this man
to understand he is indeed a cheap bastard.
He originally hit me in the mouth so I'm deeply saddened.
John and Adam, please take this donation and hold up.
onto it until such point, Nick Fuentes does one of those masterclass things that my social media
keeps pushing on me. He undoubtedly would have prescribed the correct birthday to me, which is April 15th and
not the 19th, as noted on episode 1756. Regardless, I love you guys and happy new year to you and your
families. Well, that's one for Jay. I hope she read it, Jay. Okay, onward with Darius Gandhi,
who is in Santa Monica, California. He came in with 333.3.3.
and he says sending an email no we have not got the note at least i don't have it maybe you do
and it should be sent of course to notes at noagenda show dot net notes at no agenda show dot net and if you
send a note to adam or myself make sure to put donation in the subject line just so it gets
shuffled over to know it's all we do is send it to notes at no agenda show dot net ourselves so
you might as skip the middleman uh so he did we have no notes so give him a double up
Karma. Yes, we will.
You've got
Karma.
Sir Bobby. Sir Bobby's in Amsterdam.
That's in the Netherlands, 333. He says
Merry New Year from Sir Bobby, the
re-doer. All right, Sir Bobby,
thank you very much.
Okay, now I have
a
Sorry, I have to keep
Pitching screens. Yeah, I have
Cassandra Bear,
bear, $250 and $15.
She'll be a first associate executive producer.
And she says that see attached docs 12, 11, 25, and to John and Adam, I don't have that, but I do have this.
She needs health karma, hit it.
He's Trump.
He's Trump, the president.
Oh, hold on a second.
We haven't heard that for a while.
She sent us the word document.
Her note is so big, she put it in a word doc.
You didn't get the word doc?
No, I don't have it.
No.
Oh.
Well, if you recall, she and her husband have the hot muscle cars.
So her husband, Mike, has a 1974 Plymouth Cuda, and she owns the 71 Dodge Challenger RT.
Those are pretty collectible.
Oh, they're beautiful.
She put a picture.
Yeah, the head.
The Cuda in particular.
Their website is the hemihideout.com.
And she wants, okay, so today is the day.
It has to be before the end of the year.
Oh, that's right.
I think she's, I think she tried to get this to us before the end.
She wanted to be a dame before the end of 2025.
So she'll be a dame for one of the first ones, 2020.
We're going to give her damehood today and post-date it.
We're going to do what Silicon Valley does.
That's what you said earlier.
We're Silicon Valley guys.
You're post-date your options.
You're post-dated to let yesterday.
It has to be before the end of the year with me now being in the bonus round of life.
Looking forward to so many more donations to the show, I want to be knighted, damed.
Dame Mopar of the Fort Bend County, Texas, where my husband and I rev our engines together.
And apparently, she also sent in, sent us each a box or a bottle of the famous mesquite liquid smoke that you like so much.
Did you get liquid smoke in the in the P.O. box?
I got some liquid smoke.
You know, I'm going to have to tell people out there.
You know, liquid, the collagen, it looks like it's sealed.
And it looks like it's well sealed.
But it's not.
My liquid smoke got all over everything.
In the P.O. box?
Yeah.
And it's made this, the post office smell like it was on fire.
She sent one to me too.
I think Tina went to the P.O. box.
I don't know if we have it yet.
I don't know.
Just certain things do not get sealed correctly.
No, that's not good.
Or tight enough or they don't have, I don't know, grommets, whatever.
Well, Cassandra, thank you very much.
We'll look forward to daming you.
And she wants hit it.
He's Trump.
He's Trump.
The president.
Everyone hug and share a secret.
Can you do the hit it?
Hit it.
He's Trump.
He's Trump.
The president
Oh, there's no winning.
We don't like to foster a competitive atmosphere,
but we laugh a lot.
Now, everyone hug and share a secret.
Eh, thank you, Cassandra.
Robert Anderson is in Austin, Texas, $250.
No note, so double up karma for Robert.
You've got.
Double up.
Karma.
And I'll do this one.
Barron, Commodore, Ph.D., guest,
goose cadaver
Goose cadaver
Goose
Cadaver
He's in Duren
Outsrest
Yes
Holland
233
ITM John
and I'm to finish
off the previous
four more years
and to start
the next four more
year cycle
May I challenge you
to another prediction
or assumption
for the next four years
I know
assumptions are the
mother of all fuckups
so for not my word
So for now, I'll leave it that as it is, whatever.
Anyways, he spells with three S's.
Thank you for all your efforts, hard time, time, frustration when John has mislabeled
his clips and ISO's, media deconstruction, M5M, bullshittery.
A shout out to all the producers, no agenda donating, nobility and douchebags, donate John's
voice, and the Gitmo Lowlands old country community.
Finally, also a promo for the No Agenda, Get Sir Drey of the empty PayPal and broken brain out of the house meetup on Saturday, January 18th.
Sunday.
And I said Saturday.
Yeah.
And it clearly says Sunday.
January 18th at Deheron von Berrigan and Dahl.
Connection is protection, he continues.
Thank you for your courage, sir.
Baron Commodore PhD, a goose cadaver.
He nailed it.
Barron Surfer, Shasta Lake, California, 226.
Happy New Year, Crackpot and Buzzkill.
Four more years.
Now somehow the scripts flipped and I'm getting the long notes.
I tried to do it for you, but you just, I was trying to do Sir Baron Commodore PhD
Gouscadhafer, but you didn't get my cues.
I screwed up.
Yeah, you did.
Because now I have to read this.
I'll do it.
You want me to do it?
Yeah, that would be great.
Edward Saja, Zaja, Mechanicsville, Virginia.
Saja.
Already starts off bad.
225.
Guys, thanks for all the good work you do today.
1228 is my birthday.
12.30 is my wife Liz's birthday.
Please add us to the list.
Well, of course, it'll be post the birthday, but you're on the list.
We're in the midst of the Catholic Hanukkah celebration.
What?
With all the holidays surrounding our birthdays, we are Catholic.
Oh, but are borrowing from the multi-day holiday of the Feast of Lights for our own week of celebration.
Please add us to the list.
You're on it.
A couple of other scenes show-related, John, the knife is nice.
Broke a white-tail down.
I got it yesterday with.
Broke a white-tail, I got, hmm.
Nice to use a deer.
You use that knife to cut up a deer?
I guess so.
Nice to use a higher carbon alloy better than 420 stainless.
For the gigawatt coffee guy, Eli, I can't make that that taste bad.
Normally, I can add twice the grounds to get it to be bitter,
but I can't seem to do it with his stuff.
I started to use it to make cold brew.
It excels at that.
So this is very, very difficult to make a gigawatt coffee bitter.
In Virginia, this is roasting cycle.
I would say a couple of things.
One, for one thing, I take another roast.
I take his rose on a brevel.
they have a grinding knob you turn to get a certain grind out coarse or fine.
Almost everybody's coffee, you have to set it to 25 to get the drip to come out at the right time.
With, uh, gigawatt, it's always 35, always, which is a coarser grind to make a finer end product.
So his coffee, so he's doing something with his roasting.
He's got a roasting cycle that's slightly.
different than the mainstream. No kidding. He's Eli. In Virginia, Edward goes on. In Virginia,
we have the data centers. This is a great time to sit back and watch the finger pointing as
nobody wants to take responsibility for getting enough power for it. We'll see what will happen when our new
government tries to put her finger in it. A governor tries to put her finger in it. It would be a real
win for any politician to get off the regulatory horse of NIMBY, not in my backyard, and lessen
restrictions on new power plants for the supply to this industry.
Yeah, because we need more bikinis.
We could go back to the old Kodgen model of the past where big power users had their
own generation capacity.
Lead time and power plants is long due to equipment, manufacturing, turbines, and
transformers.
Supposedly, you can buy and sell your place in line.
Here's a good article about it, and he sends an article.
Thank you very much, Ed, and you both are on the list.
Yeah, whatever happened to Kodent.
Matthew Martel, there he is, in Broomall, Pennsylvania, $210.60 cents.
Happy New Year.
I can write a book on customer returns.
We got a note.
Did you get the note on customer returns?
Yeah, some dude, he's like, I object because I'm a man and I order all of my blue jeans,
and I order many things, and I try them all on.
And when I get something, I send all the rest back.
He says, I don't have the note in front of me.
should have printed it out.
He says that he, he says the quality,
what he's saying is the quality of the products is so piss poor.
True.
That he'll order six copies of the exact same Wrangler jeans that are exact same size.
And only one of them fits right and he says the other five back.
I confirm this.
It's the same with Levi's.
I've had that happen.
Same size.
And one comes from Vietnam.
One comes from Thailand.
And they're different.
the same label on the inside, but different lengths because I need long for my legs, my long,
luscious legs.
Three different times in between the last show and this show, I heard people saying, I don't order
from Amazon.
Like, oh, I'm going to order that product.
And it's like, I forget what the products were.
I'm not ordering an Amazon.
Why not?
Because it's usually cheap knockoff junk from China.
I'd rather go to the website of the, of the vendor themselves.
Same price.
But I'd rather get it from them because I hate getting all the cheap knockoff junk from China.
Three different people.
There's a trend.
There's a trend here.
Something's up.
Yes.
Anyway.
Anyway, he says, I could write a book on customer returns, refunds,
and what I'd prefer to do with them.
You'd get the picture.
Should I use a seraph or something?
Sancerophon. Visit martelhardware.com. Use coupon code restock fee for an additional 10% off
your order. And he liked the hot pockets jingle. Hot pockets. All right, Matthew.
Stefan. Stefan. Stefan. Stefan. I think it's Stefan. Stefan Anders. Yes, Stefan Anders in Munich,
Deutschland. Hello, Deutschland. Here's the Hoff. 20260. Sounds like something plus fees. No note. So we'll
give him a double up karma today.
You've got
Carma
Sarcastic in Y-O-Missing,
Y-O-Missing, Pennsylvania, 20-2-60, same amount,
happy New Year's donation.
Jobs Karma for my children
and shout-out to the Ed's Tavern crew,
sarcastic of the nomad.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs.
You've got karma.
And we have a familiar name coming in with $200.
It's Sarah the web babe.
And she says ITM and Happy New Year,
while you two have been touting your unaffiliated bona fides or bona fides.
Producers who listen carefully will know that you have long been in the pocket of your mega donors.
Big resume.
Big suburban mail order coffee and big boob!
That's right.
We're sellouts.
Which one's big boob?
Archduke of Luna.
Kevin McLaughlin.
Right, right, obviously.
Big resume, Linda Lu Patkin,
big suburban mail over coffee, Eli, big boob.
Hello.
Do you do everything your big boob handlers tell you to?
Why, yes.
While you're at it, please shill for concurrent studio.com.
That's concurrent studio.com.
We are Gitmonations one-stop shop for custom business websites and branding.
Visit concurrent studio.com to see how we can make your business.
online present beautiful thank you for your cause says sarah the web babe oh thank you very much
sarah the web babe we maybe have a new uh participant in the sweepstakes here uh with sarah linda lupakins
up she's in castle rock colorado she's one of the people who it's mentioned in the previous note
two hundred dollars and she says she'd like jobs karma and says hit the ground running in the
new year with a resume that gets results go to
Imagemakers, Inc.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 writer of winning resumes.
Happy New Year, signed Linda.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs.
And we have our final associate executive producer, Bob from Monmouth, Oregon.
$200.
I don't see a note from Bob, so we will thank Bob with a double,
up karma. You've got
karma. We're going to move it right along
and thank everybody. $50
and above. It's really appreciated
you guys. It really came
through nicely for the end of the year, the beginning of the
new year. There's Dame Rita. Sparks, Nevada,
$168, and she
says, Happy New Year to us
and all the producers of the best podcast in the
universe. Mansour Rod
in Alfreda, Georgia, 13333.
Ryan Seifreed in Cincinnati, Ohio.
3.45. Love that. Dame Early Turtle, Topeka, Kansas, 103,
Michael McWilliams in Gilbert, Arizona, 101, 26. Carolyn Costa, Costopolis, Costapolis,
Charleston, South Carolina, $100 and $15. Forest Brinkley, North Canton, Ohio, 100. John
Buell and Vista, California, 100. Patricia Worthington, I would say Dame Patricia
Worthy. The Palmetto, Bay, Florida, $100. Happy New Year, thank you. And there
He is. Big Boob himself. Kevin McLaughlin, Concord, North Carolina, 808. And he just says it's a boob donation. He is the Archduke of Luna and Lover of America and Boobes. Jason Shepard, Trinidad, Colorado. He comes in with lopsided boobs, 8.006. Martin Cagrinos, Las Vegas, Nevada, 7777, which is usually 69, 69 plus fees. Dame Dana Carroll, Loughlin, Nevada. You should meet each other.
72-27. Nice palindrome.
Svillingsvolke, Wachterbach, from Deutschland.
Svillings, that sounds like a town more than a person.
67, coming from the Euros. We appreciate that.
Sir 8-bit Ben is in Evansville, Indiana, and he becomes a night today.
And he says, John and Adam, Sir 8-bit Ben, aka Commodore Vic 20 today, so he's already a Commodore.
Oh, he's title change. My monthly layaway plan of the famous 16.
5-0-2 ship donation has paid off, and I would like to claim my baron status.
I would request approval from the Peerge Committee to claim the realm of retro-computer systems.
Is that approved?
Oh, absolutely.
Also, can I get some jobs?
Karma, it turns out that the market for 50-plus-year-old enterprise infrastructure leaders is pretty tough right now.
What?
Cobol is hard?
Hmm.
There's H-1Bs.
That's a problem.
Yes.
I think some car
The fat J.D. is all for it.
I think some karma could help me out.
Thank you. Craig, sir, 8bit Ben.
Yes, we'll get the jobs, karma here for you.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs.
Nica, karma.
6331 from Sir Waldo Chicken Caesar.
It's a switcheroo for Joe Eirachi, or I race, I think,
Eirachi of Scarborough, Maine.
Also please add him to the birthday list for Jen.
January 3rd, he's on it. Les Tarkowski, Kingman, Arizona, Small Boob, 606, Jeffrey Johnson, Jarrell, Texas, 58,
double nickels on the dime from John Tucker in Omaha, Nebraska, Kyle T. Postiocque, in Hannibal, Missouri,
and Andrew Morton in Elm City, North Carolina. Zachary Maywood, 55, from Los Angeles, California.
Sir Prize in Yukon, Oklahoma, 54, 44, oh, Sir Duke, Sir David Fugazuto, Fugazado,
Fugasoto in Kansas City, Missouri, 5432. Good to hear from you. James Fras, Parts Unknown, 5431.
Bobby Bow in Bluegrass, Iowa, 50. These are the 50s we're at. Now, Joshua Johnson, Omaha, Nebraska.
Nathan Noll in Netherland, Texas, Terrence Clark, in Jacksonville Beach, Florida.
Paul Contrimas, Westwood, Massachusetts.
Nardes Nadenoff. Clifton, New Jersey. Fine Jersey name. Tom Lang,
Castle Pines, Colorado, Timothy Kirkpatrick, and Albright'sville, Pennsylvania.
Robert Dricosin, parts unknown. We've heard of him, though. Stephen Bolts, Fort Collins, Colorado, John Bryant, and Marietta, Georgia. Sir Michael in Snohmish, Washington.
$50 chipping in, he says. And Eric Sink Major, it says major. It says major. That's pronunciation.
it up as our final $50 donor for this very first episode of the No Agenda Show for 2026. Thank you
all so much. We appreciate that. It is value for value. So we accept any kind of value that you can
deliver to us. We really do appreciate the monetary support. We do not thank anyone under $50 for
reasons of anonymity, but we always see you with your $49.99s and all the other numbers, which you can
set up as a very simple recurring donation if you want to. Go to noagendatendatonations.com. And
and set it up anytime, any frequency.
It's all up to you.
No Agenda Donations.com.
So we have Edward Saja, who celebrated on the 28th,
and he wishes his wife, Liz, a very happy birthday.
She celebrated on the 30th.
And Sir Waldo Chicken Caesar wishes Joe Erachi of Scarborough, Maine.
A very happy birthday.
He'll be celebrating on the third.
And we say happy birthday here from everybody,
the best podcast.
in the universe.
And there he is with his 6,502 long-term donations.
He moves up the peerage ladder and moves up to Barron.
And we congratulate him for that brand new peerage.
And thank you very much for your long-term support of the best podcast in the universe.
Now, we have a number of.
No Agenda Peace Prize, International Peace Prize winners,
we're very happy to announce the following as recipients of the No Agenda International Peace Prize.
Dame Mamacomicon, R.S. Bagwell, Little John's Candy, Sir Eric is naked, and Germain C.
All of you can now go to Noagenda Rings.com. This is it. It's the last time. You're the last one.
There's no more peace after this. Certainly no Peace Prize.
And let us know what name you'd like on it and where you'd like us to.
send it to. That is no agenda rings.com. We do have one, a couple of nights, a layaway night.
Chris Bartell, who says, gents with my 33-33 monthly donation since May of 2020.
This hereby grants me knighthood of the best podcast in the universe. Please knight me, sir, thunder thighs,
night of the PCT. That's Pacific Crest Trail for you lowlanders and Barka loungers.
For the roundtable, he requests a double IPA.
Huge shout out to my brother, Ben, who hit me in the mouth during COVID.
Thank you, gents, for your continued service of sanity, New Year's blessings to you.
No jingles, just karma for Old Langzine.
And we have another layaway night from David Winchester.
Oh, it's for David Winchester.
My husband reached the knighthood level of donations made through PayPal.
I have attached a spreadsheet, which includes his name and callouts.
He would like to be known as Knight of the Risen Loaf.
and wants the original jobs and the original bomb them a jingle.
Oh, I didn't have the bomb them jingle.
But first we have to do, let me see.
Do we have to do anything with the, oh, karma for this first night.
So we'll give them that.
You've got karma.
And then what did his wife want here, a jobs, original jobs and bomb them.
Let me get the bomb them.
I've got to bomb them here somewhere.
There's a lot of, there's a lot of administration to do here.
Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs.
You've got karma.
Bomb them, bomb them and bomb them again.
There you go.
All right.
You remember, you remember when Pelosi's what she was talking about when she said,
jobs, jobs, jobs?
let's vote for jobs it was uh what bill was it i don't remember do you cap and trade that
is it that long ago yep wow that's pathetic no kidding whew all right and that they had that
texan guy come i called it crap and trade oh yeah yeah yeah yeah remember that yeah and we still
call it crap and trade. All right, give me your blade, man. We got to take care of these people.
All right. Please step forward. Sir Shug, Smoking Hot Wife, Cassandra Fair, Chris Bartell, David Winchester, and Jermaine C.
All of you have reached the coveted amount of $1,000 or more by yourself or by someone else's
hand, and I'm therefore very proud to pronounce the age. Dame Jitterbug, fixer of gadgets,
Dame Mopar of Fort Bend County, Texas.
Sir Thunderthys, Knight of the PCT,
David Winchester, Knight of the Risen Loaf,
and Germain C,
knight, no name, nobody.
For you, hookers and blow, rent, poison, chardonnay,
New York, strip, medium, rare, source from a local rancher
and a Pepsi, AA, IPA, and mutton and meat.
Wow, that was so much going on.
Mutton and meat, all of you.
Head over to Knowagenda Rings.com.
Go take a look at those beautiful No Agenda Night.
and dame rings you will be in possession of that as soon as you give us your ring size there's a ring sizing guide on the website of course it comes with a stick of a couple sticks of wax for you to seal your important correspondence with as well as a certificate of authenticity and congratulations welcome to the no agenda roundtable of the knights and dames
set for this month? Let me see. We have a couple actually set for this month. The first we have
to play the post-Christmas Navidat meetup from the Fort Wayne Club 33. He had a short little
meetup report. Adam and John, this is Shannon co-hosting Fort Wayne. Had a good turnout and
heard those drones in New Jersey are owned by the Elohim and they had a bumper sticker said this is the
bod, no agenda is the best podcast in the universe. Dame Trinity in Fort Wayne this time. Having a
great time, as always. Thank you for your courage.
Hi, it's Shelly.
Merry Christmas.
This is Jared.
Happy New Year's.
It's Mike in the morning.
All right, Tri-State No Agenda Meetup.
This is from December 25th.
Hey, this is Craig Kohler, Sir 8-bit Ben, at the Tri-State Formula Propagation Meetup 1.0 is what we called it, right?
Happy New Year, John and Adam.
Thank you for your courage.
This is Ryan, the Loli Squire of the West Marshes in the morning.
This is Isaac Turner
And fellow listeners
Shut up slaves
This is Chris Turner
In the morning, John
This is Tara Turner
In the morning
This is Christina Heck
Hi Adam
This is Angie
Happy to be here
This is Seth
Happy New Year everyone
John skip the vinegar book
I want to tell all on tech TV
So I just want to let you know
John and Adam
We had the best waiter here
Joseph St. Joseph St. Joseon
Hello?
What do you think about?
the podcast we tried to explain it to you i think it's really interesting and i want to hear it thank you
in the morning well that's one way of doing it that's even better i like it a lot yeah hit him in the
mouth right then and there there is a meetup coming up this saturday's the sonoma wino country
meet up uh that's epa and oh edition number eight 3333 pacific time victory house sports bar and
restaurant in santa rosa california uh in the month of january we've got raleigh north carolina
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Charlotte, North Carolina, Fort Wayne, Indiana,
Berndahl in the Netherlands, Alfreda, Georgia, Oakland, California.
You can get tickets at no agenda show.
Oh, wait, I'm sorry.
I thought I was one of those comedian podcasters for a moment.
No, there's no tickets required.
These are meetups that you can go to for free.
Everyone always does that.
We'll be appearing at Raleigh, North Carolina, at Chuggles.
We'll be in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at...
Give me another bad comedy name.
Yuck Yucks.
The Yuck Yucks.
And we'll be doing our patented product.
Prop comedy in Charlotte, North Carolina on January 15.
Tickets available at the website.
At the armory.
These are just no agenda meetups.
And when I say just, that means there's no admission.
You just come on in, you hang out with people who listen to the show.
You meet children from other lands.
You will make connection that gives you protection.
All of these people will immediately be your first responders in an emergency.
Go to no agenda meetups.com.
That's where you can search by date, by location.
And if you can't find one near you, you can start one yourself.
It's all free and it's very easy to do.
NoagendaMeetups.com.
Wow, man. Then we have our end of show, I said. I only have one today. I don't think it's that good.
It seems like you've got a lock. You've got five of them, something like that.
Three, four. Here's mine.
All reality. None of it's scripted.
Yeah, I don't like it. I don't think it's all.
Okay. Well, I'm mixing, mixing matching. I got some real ones.
Okay.
Which I'm sure you'll appreciate.
Yes.
At least try.
I always do.
How about, let's see, we've got, uh, uh, uh, uh,
incredible.
Incredible.
A little short, not bad.
Do you think a little short?
A little short.
Okay, how about,
I'm kind of thinking with the other real one.
Let's try, okay, let's just go from the top to the bottom.
2026.
Great show. Happy 2026.
Usable.
Fab.
What a fab way to start the new year.
Thanks, boys.
It's condescending.
What? Yeah, I found it to be very condescending.
What a great way to start the new year. Thanks, no, condescending.
Sex. I don't like her.
That show is better than sex.
Okay, now you're talking. Now you're talking. But the mm was pretty pathetic.
Like, really? That's her like, mm, better than that.
Mm.
Mm. Mm.
That show is better than sex.
I'll just start it there.
If I just started there...
I like the mm-in there.
I don't think you're wrong about this.
You're wrong.
All right.
What's your last one?
That was the last one, wasn't it?
No, you have weird.
Oh, okay.
There's a little weird.
It's weird.
It's bizarre.
It's not normal.
No, I think we'll do it.
That show is better than sex.
I really don't like them.
Is that supposed...
Did you promise?
it and say sexy girl
no i put i wrote it out
in um
all right everybody it's time for the very first
tip of the day for 2026
create advice for you and me
just the tip with jcd
and sometimes adam
okay so this brings me to this has actually
been discussed on the show before it's not an official
tip but it is now
Now, Philip J. Corsos' book, The Day After Roswell.
Yeah.
Hasn't this been a tip of the day before?
No, it's never been a tip of the days, but it's been discussed.
And the reason I bring it in this, look it up, maybe I'm wrong.
It could be a repetitive tip.
I've done this before, but I'm pretty sure this was brand new.
And the reason, the reason I'm doing it is because of the new documentary on Netflix,
which is called, not Netflix, I'm sorry, Amazon.
I think Amazon has it
What Amazon or Netflix
One of the two have it
It's called the age of discourse
Or the age of bullsons
Is that age of disclosure?
Is it the age of disclosure?
Yeah
So if you pay your subscription
You still have to pay
15 bucks to watch this thing
Wait, what's it called again?
Age of disclosure
No what I mean, Corso?
The day after Roswell
Ah, yes
Okay
I'm listening
So the reason I suggest the book is because you think they'd be talking about this book,
which we've discussed extensively.
They'd be talking about this book on this, the age of disclosure.
The age of disclosure is supposed to break the mold.
It's being banned.
Nobody wants to see it, even though it's the most popular documentary ever posted on Netflix, I think, or Amazon, one of the two.
They're making bank on this thing.
And all it consists of is a bunch of people sitting down and saying, yeah, yeah, we're pretty sure that, yeah, there's life outside there.
We, we, we, we've seen, I've seen, as, yep, I've seen some wreckage and, yeah, what about you?
Yeah, yeah, there's gonna, there's, there's, there's, there's some aliens there, and we've seen them out there and they're coming in, we don't know what they mean, what they want, we don't know anything about it, but yeah, I'm pretty sure, pretty sure.
What about you?
Oh, you know, there's a sauce.
some wreckage. It's just, it's ridiculous. So just read this book. This book goes way deeper. It's much more
interesting than this documentary. We have mentioned this book on 17 different episodes. Now,
make it 18. Talk about recycling content. I'm telling you. Oh, you're still on that.
There he is, everybody. It's the tip of the day. Know what's your fun.com. Tip of the Day.com.
with JCD
And sometimes
Adam
Created by Dana Burnett
Oops, ow, that hurt
That didn't mean to do that
There's been a lot of engineering
This past
30 minutes
Or more
Woo, everybody
How did we run so late?
I don't know
We got to talk
We're supposed to be done at 2.30.
I know.
I don't know what happened.
You know, it's because we love doing the show so much.
We love giving people
as much value as possible.
How about that?
Yeah, that's it.
I think more importantly, we work on the holidays.
Yeah, there you go.
We may grouse at each other, but we still work on the holidays.
Well, that's just because I'm grumpy.
Yes, because you're sick.
I'm grumpy.
Go out with your Alex Jones voice.
All right, everybody.
We got excellent end of shooting mixes.
Right, right.
They're all against the elites.
They're going to, it's all done by Silicon Valley, AI, AI.
It's all the end of the show.
There we got Darren and Larry, the Planet Rage coming up next.
Those guys are good.
Those guys are good, booster.
Coming to you from Fredericksburg, Texas.
In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And from Northern Silicon Valley where it's raining.
I'm John C. DeVorak.
We'll be back on Sunday.
Join us here, won't you, for more media deconstruction.
Until then, adios, bofos.
A hooey, hooey.
And such.
Clap, clap, clap, clap!
Oh!
Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Ooh!
Hey, John, I was right.
Let's say it again.
I'm the champion of where and why and when.
From the very first second, I had the lead.
You knew I was right before the proof was decreed.
It's a general rule, the universal law.
I saw the wind that you never saw.
Hey, JCD, I was right.
Yes, I was right.
I was right
It's a wonderful feeling
A glorious sight
Stand here and whisper, I was right
Say it high, say it low
Say it mightily
I was right alie
I'm not bragging
I'm just hey John
Right
Right right right right correct
Do shoo do da
Wham
Hey John, am I right
To do that the
Wham
As a medical doctor by training, we are on the brink of another global health crisis.
The disinformation, Global Health Resilience Initiative, from measles to polio.
Because every square centimeter of our territory must be protected.
One incident may be a miscarriage, two incidents and coincidence.
But three, five, tenth, gray zone campaign, gray zone campaign.
Too often I hear that Europe is late to the AI race.
I strongly disagree.
The AI race is still warming up.
Our eyes on the goal.
As a medical doctor by training, gray zone campaign.
Our eyes on a goal.
As a medical doctor by training,
Gray Zone campaign,
our eyes on the goal.
We're staring at the screen with a blaze over eye,
well, X, and M, Tick-Tock track with dopamine high,
it knows I like the sugar,
it knows I like the salt,
if I'd buy it from Amazon,
well, it isn't my fault there.
How can my brain, the limbic high,
and turning every little craving into gold,
they can find my amygdome.
is shouting just one more click
While the billionaire's wallet is
Getting more and more thick
Oh, it's limbic capitalism
Producers, don't you see
You've got a direct wire
To the lizard inside us
They're selling us the outrage
They're selling us the fear
And I'll pay it with my focus
Till it all disappear
or not like it or not oh it's limit capitalism honey don't you see they've got a direct wire to the lizard inside me
they're selling me the outrage they're selling me the fear and i'm paying with my b4 b till it all disappears so put down the cookies and the doom scrolling fee
Shut down the lizard, let logic take the lead.
The no agenda show is the antidote, my friend,
to the capitalistic cravings that never seemed to end.
Don Best School of Podcasting rules.
The best podcast in the universe.
Mopo
Devorac.org
slash N.A.
That show is better than sex.
