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That's a lot of cows, brother. Adam Curry. It's Thursday, August 27th, 2026. This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination, Episode 1898. This is no agenda. In the morning, Gitmo Nation, this is No Agenda, episode 1898, with a special guest here today. Yes, part of the ongoing Curry and Friends episodes. We'll be speaking to him in just a moment.

I'm going to give you his name. Then you're going to listen to a little bit of Just Baker to get into the mood. Go ahead and Google him. Matt Long. Can't look away value for value. Hate it still paid with the time still. Come. Best podcast in the universe.

You just prove in the point. In the morning. I can't help myself. I don't even like hip hop. Thank you, Jess Baker. In the morning, everybody. And we say a big in the morning, too. My friend, not even on the other end, right on the other side of the desk,

brand new for me never has no agenda been hosted by two people in the same room at the same time Matt Long in the morning to you my friend in the morning to you and I'm telling you what this is a real honor to be in here and I have to tell the producers that don't ask me about the what the studio looks like Adam made me sign an NDA when I came in and so you could torture me but I'm not I'm not giving any details out. So Matt, I'm trying to, I got to give a little description of Matt, who we only met a few years ago. Matt is, let's see how you take this, Matt, part Willie Nelson, part Hulk Hogan, activist, constitutionalist, brother in Christ. He and his wife, Gail, have organized every no agenda, Fredericksburg meet up as far as I know. And, man, it is so good

to have you here. Matt has a radio show. every single day, the Matt Long show. It's also a podcast. And did we meet at church? Is that where we met the first time, Matt? Yeah, we did. We met at Bridge Church. I'm nearly, I can't imagine anywhere else because I don't go anywhere else. But the church and the radio station. That's right. And I've been on your radio show a couple times. It's on the Hill Country Patriot FM, which is, it's one of those classic American small town radio stations. I mean,

It reaches Curville, Fredericksburg. Is that kind of it, Gillespie, Kendall County? Yeah. Figure, draw a circle around Curville about 60 miles. Yeah. And it covers that area. We have five stations, but it's all that's owned by a couple, a sweet little couple that owns all five stations.

And it really is a, what's the best way to describe it? Mom and Pop Station. Mom and Pop Station held together with bailing wire and duct tape. Matt, your studio is literally in a show. shipping container. It's the funniest thing. It's so old school. So what is so interesting about you, I mean, when I met you at the church, you know, you were very active. I think this was probably around the election, maybe four years ago. And you're like our go-to guy, all things, local politics, the Constitution. You're just an amazing patriot. But you're the kind of patriot that holds conservatives

there's feet to the fire nonstop. I mean, you're like a thorn in their side. And I just, I love what you do. Well, thank you. And yeah, it is, I have more enemies at the capital in Austin than I have friends. But, but, but yeah, I focus, my, my whole focus is Christian first, conservative, and then Texas politics. And so there's so many people doing national politics, you know, Adam. And, and, and I would just be, even if I wasn't repeating them, even if not listening to them, I would probably be saying the same things. Most of those say. And we have a few good Texas people that cover Texas politics, but I think I'm the best among all those. Oh, hands down.

Hands down. But we had a vote here, and it's two to nothing. Yeah. But you're like a guy who can stuff. You make jellies for everybody, you know, but you have a whole selection. I mean, you are as like, if you're. if you wanted a picture, a Norman Rockwell picture of an American, you're it, brother. You got your truck parked outside.

I mean, everything is just so perfect. And I'm so excited to talk about some of these issues with you today. But the one other thing I wanted to mention is that I think it's once a year, but maybe multiple times a year for school kids, but also at the Capitol, you dress up as Ben Franklin. I do. I have been playing a Ben Franklin character for about 10 years. and it started out as a small project. It was three times every summer for a group in Georgetown that puts on vacation liberty school.

Now, I know a lot of your producers got confused a while back when you were talking about vacation Bible school. The heathens that listen to this that have no idea what vacation Bible school is. Well, we do Vacation Liberty School. And as part of that program, Ben Franklin comes in and talks about charity. and what is does Ben Franklin's beliefs in charity? And then after doing that a few years, I started getting invitations from other people. And so the last two or three years, I've really gotten a lot of little gigs. And I just love it.

It's absolutely a blast. And I have to shave my beard. You know, my wife, we got married 26 years ago, and I hadn't shaved my beard since, like, 1989 or so. And so I decided to go all in as Ben. to get rid of the beard. Yeah. And so I shaved, and I don't think I even told Gail ahead of time. And she walked in, and I'm really glad she's usually armed.

But she was... As a good Texas wife is. That's right. And so she came in, and I'm glad she wasn't armed because she didn't recognize me. Who's this stranger in my room? But I've been playing Ben Franklin, and it is an absolute treat. And I love every minute of it. And I have to give credit to we have a local lady.

He also goes to our church. Her name is C.J. Lata. And she started making me costumes because I started out Ben Franklin with a Halloween costume from Amazon. Yeah. But C.J, I now have, I mean, I got like six outfits. When you dress up as Ben, I mean, you're Ben. I mean, you look like him. You walk like him.

You're maybe about the same size that he was. and we had coffee a few, what was it, last week or so. And this is really when it popped in my mind, like, man, I'd love to have Matt on the show with me. And we're having coffee at Clear River here on Main Street. Well, coffee is a big word. It was basically a shake that tasted like coffee. And you said, hey, man, can you help me with some of your AI agents? And can you download these 15,000 documents on Ben Franklin from the Yale Library?

Are you legally in trouble now? No, man. It was for personal use. It was for personal use. You literally know everything about Ben Franklin. I mean, it's amazing. I know a lot, but definitely not everything there is to know. But yeah, I love, and I don't read books about Ben Franklin written by other people.

I read his writings and his works. And it just gives you, it gets me into his head. And then the interesting thing is when I get, get into the costume, it's more than I just look like him. You become him. I become him. And I guess someone told me years ago, and I don't have any kind of theater background. Well, I have a little bit.

But they told me, well, you're a character actor. And I said, well, I don't know. I just get into, when I'm in costume, I'm that person. And that even bothers me when people address me as Matt. When I'm in the costume, it's like, who are you talking about? But, yeah, I've got a big event coming up here. On September 19th, I'm really excited about it. Oh, what's that?

What's that? New presentation. It's Liberty and Action. We the People, another grassroots organization, conservative grassroots organization here. And they're having a big fundraiser, and Tom Homan's going to be there. And Chip Roy, Tom Homan's the DHS guy? Yeah, DHS guy. I have spent a day with him before.

He's quite a character. Yeah. But we've got a lot of big Texas politicians, Don Hafe. And, wait a minute, Don Huffeinz, he is currently the interim comptroller. Yes. And I think he has to do some kind of election. I'm not quite sure why. But isn't he the guy that also bought Epstein's Ranch in Arizona?

Yes, he did. Yes, he did. How's he feeling about that? You know, I tried to get an interview. I've had him on my program a number of times. And after that broke, I called him. And I was never able to arrange anything after that. But, I mean, come on.

That's what Texans do. You buy ranches. Yeah. You know, and New Mexico is kind of a cool place. You dig up the dead bodies. Yeah. And then, you know, get some cattle on there. I was, I was really surprised at the reaction to that.

Oh, everyone is in me. This guy's creepy. And, you know, that's what I heard everywhere. Oh, Don Hoffines. Oh, boy, he's part of it. Epstein. Like, dude, he's like a mini man. Yeah, he is.

He's like a petite male. Yes. super energetic loves running the money for for Texas and he doesn't need money himself. I think he's quite wealthy and I was I voted for him like yeah that's the guy I mean that's

the guy you want running our money and but people have no idea these go off in conspiracy theory land like well you know some guy from Texas bought it and there's no good and he's covering everything up like yeah I don't think so and you know I don't I know Don and his wife real well he has a twin brother but they

really yes he does he has a twin brother and you can tell them apart but they boy they look awfully a lot of like and they come from the huffines family up in dallas people all get real concerned that is it the huffines out of houston and so you got to be real careful they're they're the dallas huffines okay and yeah their father made a bunch of money and let me guess oil just guess you know cars i think i think he was an auto dealer or is i'm not sure where they got it all but i'm sure there was some oil in there somewhere. Yeah. So whenever there's elections, you're the guy.

You talk about the elections. You do registration drives at the church. And something happened this week with the Supreme Court. I'm sure you're up to speed on. I got a clip here. And this is about the mail-in ballots. And this is really interesting. The U.S. Supreme Court issued an emergency order yesterday that allows the Trump administration to move forward for now with plans to strict mail-in voting ahead of the midterm elections. It's a ruling opponents say would bring chaos to the election process only days before ballots in some states are mailed out. Our White House correspondent, Liz Landers, has more. The ruling allows the administration to proceed with an executive order President Trump signed in March directing the U.S. Postal Service to determine which voters should

receive mail-in ballots. It also directs the Department of Homeland Security to build a database of U.S. citizens who are eligible to vote. There are a lot of moving parts and here to help explain it all is Steve Fladdick. He's a constitutional law professor at Georgetown University Law Center. Steve, thank you for joining the program this evening. Thanks for having me. So there are two lawsuits that are challenging the president's executive order about mail and ballots. The Supreme Court decision yesterday had to do with a group of states that sued, while the other case that was brought by the League of Women Voters, what did the Supreme Court's ruling tell the states?

Yeah, so the Supreme Court's ruling only applied Liz to the state's lawsuit and it only said that the states had sued too early because they brought their lawsuit before the U.S. Postal Service issued their final rule, which of course they did last Friday. So it was, I think, a win for President Trump, but a very time-limited one. It didn't say anything about whether the underlying executive order is lawful. It didn't say anything about whether the new Postal Service rule is lawful. That issue is now going to be litigant. probably pretty quickly in both of the cases that are back before Judge Talwani and Boston. Now, have you followed this case at all, Matt? I have been. Yeah, absolutely. And I don't think it's going to have much effect on Texas because we have pretty strict mail-in ballot rules. But I know, and like my friends out in the West Coast, everybody gets a ballot in their mail. Everybody, no matter who you are. There's just like stacks of them out there. And there's got to be something in between there. I have voted by mail before living overseas and so have done that.

In fact, one presidential election, it must have been 90, would have been 88 or 90. We got the ballots on the day that the results were released. In other words, we got our ballots from the embassy on Wednesday after the election. No way. And I'm sitting around with all my American friends and they're like, well, why bother? And I said, oh, hell no, we're going to. We're going to. We're going to fill these all out. We're going to send them in. We're going to make them do their work. And so we did that. But it is a mail-in ballots, I think, are probably the most easiest way to steal an election and to get dishonest results. And I think we're maybe even thinking about tightening up. Well, we did get a notice recently from the Secretary of States about mail-in ballots.

They really need to have a postmark on them. What happens in a lot of small towns is, is you'll drop off your ballot at the post office, and they'll just take it from the inbox and put it into or take it the outbox and put it into the inbox, and they don't even stamp it. And I have a problem with that. And so the Secretary of State this year issued a thing saying, all right, y'all got to pay more attention to the postmarks on that. But yeah, I think the West Coast and a couple of other states, we've got to do something about the mail-in ballot. So what's interesting about this Supreme Court case, because of course, Rob the constitutional lawyer, do you know Rob Cardi?

I've met him at a meetup, one of the great meetups in Fredericksburg. Fantastic meetups, yes. He's with suits and boots. If you got hit by a truck, call Rob. There you go. He'll get you the most money ever. He says the reason why the Supreme Court wrote this opinion is because they didn't lose on the merit of the case. This was purely for standing.

In other words, because the states hadn't been hurt. is nothing has happened to them. So they just jump the gun and Rob thinks that they won't be even be able to bring anything back to the Supreme Court until after the election, which is, which is interesting. So this seems like one of the most phenomenal pieces of lawfare done by Republicans for once, because it's always the Democrats who have all the lawfare on their side. And I think this clip explains exactly what the executive order does. Okay, so let's talk about that executive order. There's another part. of President Trump's EO that bars the Postal Service from delivering ballots to people who are not

on federal lists of eligible voters. And it also will direct the Homeland Security Department to create a list of U.S. citizens who are eligible to vote. How are these actions affected by the ruling yesterday? So for now, they're not. I mean, the most important thing that folks should know is that the status quo, which is the executive order is not in effect and the U.S.PS rule is not in effect is still the status quo. All the Supreme Court did yesterday was pause one of the two injunctions against the executive order. There's still a second injunction blocking the executive order from going into effect. And Liz, the rule itself says it can't go into effect until that injunction too is no longer in effect. So we really are not at the end of the story. We're really

more in the middle of the story where there's going to be more litigation and where it's possible that these questions are back in the Supreme Court, perhaps by this time next week. So the way it's going to work is the Postal Service will only send out, we'll only send on, I guess, mail-in ballots to people who are on their list. And I think what all of these people forget, wasn't Benjamin Franklin who started the post office? Why do I think that? He was the first Postmaster General under the British. It was, we were not, we were still the colonies. It was 20 years before freedom.

Before our liberty. And he was, yeah, the Postmaster General. And, you know, but it's like Postmaster General is because this is, this was like the military in a way, right? The U.S. Post Office is a constitutional thing. I think they may actually have the power to do this. I think they do. I think they do. And it's going to be phenomenal to it because if they don't send ballots to people who they don't deem as, hey, you're not on the list, then it just won't happen.

And that, that's always been the problem. And so all these states are crying like, well, you can't do that. Well, yeah, why don't you? Then don't use the post office. Yeah. Go and deliver it. So here's the attorney general of Arizona. Because of course, you know, the, and by the way, mail-in ballot scam has been used by Democrats

and Republicans alike. This is not like a new thing. This is, I think Florida probably has won more elections with sketchy mail-in ballots than any state in the union. But they've come up with, they've come up with some. wording to make sure everybody knows that this is not going to work. It's horrible. It's a bad thing. We have to fight this. We will fight this. The good news is basically the, because the postal service rulemaking is now in effect and is ripe, we can go to court and challenge it. So,

you know, look for that very, very soon because, you know, this is ridiculous. It's outrageous. It's unconstitutional. Elections are run by states. And, uh, This is what I love. Yeah. You're still running your election. Just you can't send it through the post office and have it delivered unless the people are on the list. Yeah. I'm just wondering if, you know, it's been years since we've had any episodes of going postal. Yeah, what happened to that, man? People just stopped going postal. I think now they're just going pregnant mom. I don't know if what that is. That's a good point. What happened to those dudes going postal? I don't know. Maybe they got a raise. And what they are trying to do is undermine the right of people in this country to vote. And they're trying to make it harder for our veterans. Oh, there is.

People in rural Arizona to vote. And we're going to fight that. You know, obviously, as you point out, elections in America are run by states. It's a federalist country. But one thing you said there really stands out, Attorney Johnson. First time I hear someone on a liberal station, you know, call it a federalist country. What happened to your democracy? Yeah, no kidding. Our run by states, it's a federalist country.

But one thing you said there really stands out, Attorney General, you said 80 to 90 percent of voters in Arizona cast their ballots by mail, okay? As in that's the norm. That's how everybody does it. So can you just play the hypothetical with me? If this went ahead, okay, and you're 44 days out from everything starting in early October and you had to comply, would you even be able to run an election? What would you do?

I mean, I think it's a great question. There's no such. There it's a great question. It would cause absolute and total chaos. Chaos. Because the people of my state are literally going to be waiting by their mailbox, waiting for that ballot to arrive. And their expectation is that it'll arrive and they'll fill it out and they'll put it in the mail

or they'll put it in a drop box and that'll be that. That's how we vote. It's how we have voted in Arizona since next. 1992, and interestingly enough, it was pioneered here by Republicans. Yeah, exactly. That's why it should stop altogether. When did this really start? I mean, I voted by abstentia is what it was called when I was in Europe, and you would get an absentee ballot because you're out of the country.

Was it really just COVID that accelerated that, or is she right that Arizona has been doing this forever? I really don't know. I think a lot of these mail-in places were way before COVID. I'm pretty sure Oregon was before COVID. Yeah. No, it is, I find it, you know what I caught out of that was the word rural. Yeah. Since when have liberals ever been concerned about people in the rural areas, you know? Well, ever since Dolly Parton passed away, now we care about rural white people. That's right. But yeah, I think this came along before then, and it's this movement of, well, it just makes it easy to vote.

And I'm not sure if voting should be that easy. think it should my my opinion is we need to have a national holiday all vote on one day all go in i'm with you on that and if you are disabled uh differently abled or if you're or if you're overseas um which both adam and i and many and my family have experienced that being overseas but we still want to participate there are some legitimate reasons um and that is where texas is right now but it's not if you're over 65 i think all all you have to do is ask for it. Right. Oh, really?

Yeah, it is now got an age on it in Texas. So, yeah, if you're over 65 or a certain age, you just tell them you're old and you can't go in. Oh, we should bring that up to parity with Social Security, man. That should be, who is it 67? Is that where we're at now? That's where we're at, 67. Oh, man, it's like I got six more years to go. I can't stand it.

Bless your heart. Here's ABC breaking down the ruling. This odd situation where we're defending the law against the federal government. I'm sorry, that's not the one. This is the one, them breaking it down. Andrew, this was a six to three decision by the Supreme Court with the conservative justices voting in President Trump's favor to allow him now to begin to implement some key portions of that March 26 executive order that imposed some new regulations around mail-in voting in the United States just now ahead of the November elections. This was an executive order that was challenged by a coalition of Democratic-led states. in their view, is an unconstitutional infringement of how elections are administered. But the Supreme Court, in its decision today, said that the executive order actually hasn't

had any bite yet. It hasn't harmed any of the states just yet. And therefore, the president should be able to continue with his policies as he sees fit. What are those policies? The president with his executive order is now going to be allowed to direct the Department of Homeland Security to compile a citizenship list, a federal citizenship list, and to distribute it to the states, to also then direct the attorney general to prosecute any state and any state official that would happen to give a mail-in ballot to someone who is not on those citizenship lists, and to work with the U.S. Postal Service to come up with new standardized regulations for mail-in ballots.

How do we feel about that, Matt, about the government making a list of anything? Yeah, I guess when it comes to voting, I don't have a problem with that. I think there should be a database. Every state has a database. I know the Constitution says that the method or the means of the election is up to the states. And so I see that where they're coming from the constitutional yet. But what struck me on this were the two things they brought up. One was who had standing. And the other one that he just mentioned was nothing's happened yet. And so can you see? somebody for something you think they might do. I mean, I've got a neighbor, you know, that might do something in my, you know, throw his trash over my fence. Yeah. Do, do, can I go ahead and sue him now for something he might do? In New York.

I get it. In New York, maybe. I don't know. Yeah. There you go. I get it. But, you know, we tried that recently, and it was actually successful. And that was here locally where they're trying to stop the solar farm north of town.

Right. And one of the arguments from that company was, we haven't done anything yet. How can you sue us for something we're thinking about it? We haven't even done yet. What happened to that? You know, the judge cited with the plaintiffs, man, I'm learning legal language. Careful, Matt. This is going to ruin your rep, man.

That's right. The judge cited with the plaintiffs, and I think there's a hold on it right now. I do not know all the details on it. But I think the good guys came out on top. Yeah. And I think the real concern there was not so much the solar farm, but the big battery, the best, the big was electrical storage system. Battery energy storage systems. Oh, there you go. Thank you. But they changed the name, so we don't have to worry about it anymore.

Oh, it's not called Bess anymore? No, it's not called Bess. And don't ask me what the new name is. The thing. Here's the details about DHS. The Supreme Court did is it temporarily allowed Trump's executive order severely restricting mail voting to go into effect. that said it was too early for states to challenge this. And this leads to a lot of uncertainty going into the midterms because the Trump executive order would radically restrict vote by mail. It would instruct the Department of Homeland Security to create lists of voters that deem citizens. These lists are likely to be highly inaccurate based on the fact that the Department of Homeland Security has already made. You're making faces at me.

I'm wondering why they're going to be highly inaccurate. based on what? Based on democracy now, of course. They know what they're talking about. What are you kidding me? To create lists of voters that deem citizens, these lists are likely to be highly inaccurate based on the fact that the Department of Homeland Security

has already made these egregious claims of voter fraud that have turned out not to be true. I don't remember the Department of Homeland Security making claims of voter fraud. Who know? Maybe Todd or Holman, Maybe Holman said something. I don't know. Oh, Holman's got loose lips, man. He does shoot off all the time and says stuff. Not that he cares, but he does say stuff.

And then it says that the Postal Service can only deliver mail ballots based on these DHAs lists. And moreover, it will only deliver mail ballots in states that hand over their voter rolls, which includes sensitive personal information to the federal government. This is essentially a form of extortion. The Department of Foreign Security is trying to create these new lists of voters in each state that it claims our citizens. The problem is that that's not the job of DHS. They don't have this information. It's not their constitutional role. They've also made these ludicrous claims of voter fraud. For example, they claim that 15,000 people, non-citizens were registered to vote in Nevada. When a

closer look was taken at that data, it turned out 185 non-citizens were ready. Oh, but that's okay. It's just 185. It's never wide scale and it's never large. It's all just little bits and bobs here and there. So they had dramatically overstated the number of non-citizen voting. And that's the fear here, is that if voting proceeds based on these DHS lists, it's going to be inaccurate. It's going to be unconstitutional. And a lot of legitimate. I don't see the unconstitutional angle at all. Yeah.

If they pull up that manner of elections being up to the states, and I don't have the exact language. That is in the Constitution. Right. But they can still hold their election. is just you can't use the U.S. Postal Service without them being on the list. And otherwise, go higher FedEx. Yeah, there you go. DHS lists.

It's going to be inaccurate. It's going to be unconstitutional. And a lot of legitimate American voters are going to be wrongly labeled as non-citizens and unable to vote, either based on shoddy data or an intentional attempt by the Trump administration to prevent people from vote. There it is. There it is. Oh, yes, of course. This is how Trump is going to steal the election. You watch there's going to be a J-6 or left insurrection. Election deniers. Election deniers. Here's my favorite, though. We'll wrap this one up with Letitia James. Of course, she is the AG in New York.

What does this mean? It comes right after you and a group of attorneys general fired a new lawsuit to block the Postal Service rule from taking effect. It's not clear. You'll get any relief until as early as next week. So what happens between now and then. So I and my Democratic attorneys general will continue to challenge this rule because this rule will create nothing but chaos and confusion. Mark it down. That's going to be the term of the day. Chaos and confusion. Who doesn't love some good alliteration? In the state of North Carolina in less than 11 days, they will mail out a ballot to individuals who are in armed forces as well as to citizens in these United States. And it's critically important that individuals understand that the only reason why this rule was created is because individuals, particularly those in the White House, believe that they cannot run on their record. And therefore, they have to steal this election. This is nothing more

than an attempt to suppress the right to vote. And I and my Democratic colleagues will fight this all the way to the United States Supreme Court. Let's be clear. The United States Postal Service and the President of these United States does not have jurisdiction over the election. it's states and it's in the constitution and that's why it's critically important that individuals understand that states have the power and the duty and the responsibility to administer elections not the president and definitely not the postal system there you go that's can i add one more thing to this the list they're talking about you know these highly inaccurate lists every single state keeps a list of registered voters in fact in texas i can ask you know i can ask you

for that list and get it. And it's not that big a deal. And so that list would just be a matter of 50 different states sending a zip file off to DC, put it in a drop box and say, these are all our registered voters. It's not, it's not like they're going to have to create something new or, you know, spend years, getting it all together. Just send them the list. And then I guess what DHS is going to do, I guess they have the list of who has, who has citizenship. I would presume somebody has a list of that somewhere or at least, I mean, I don't know. Yeah. Is there a list of that?

I presume so. I'm bound to be. Yeah, especially if they're naturalized, if they've been naturalized citizens, they've come in and, you know, taking the courses and answered past the test and gotten sworn in. Those people's names are on a list. Yeah. So they're going to do a little diff, a little A-B, and then that's it. You're on the list. You're good to go.

But this is how they're going to steal the election. Of course. Of course. So there was something else. This president, I'm going to miss him just for all his wackiness and for the crazy stuff he does. And people don't realize that. You know, there's so much hate. Yeah.

He's not acting presidential. And this is something that, you know, I think you and I both know a lot about when it comes to ranchers. because we have a lot of friends who are ranchers. You know, Texas is ranching. Texas has fed the country in the past, the entire country in the past. So this is the beef deal that the president announced. I'll play a little background here. Let's turn to Washington now.

A new push by the Trump administration to curb inflation at the grocery store by lowering beef prices. Amon Jabbers joins us. He has the story for us. Amen. Yeah, good morning, David. President Trump is turning his attention to rising costs for voters today, announcing what he calls a deal to substantially lower the price of ground beef for working American families.

The president said on social media that the U.S. will allow up to 300,000 metric tons of product for ground beef to be imported. By the way, 300,000 tons of ground beef. Do you know how many cattle that is? I don't know. It's over a million head. Over a million cows. That's a lot of cows, brother. I'm not quite sure where that's coming from.

And that's the point. with no out-of-quote a tariff. And he said that we have a commitment that this beef will be sold at 25% below current market prices. But all this presents something of a mystery here, guys. In his social media post, the president didn't say who he had concluded this deal with, and he did not specify who exactly had made a commitment

to sell that below-market beef. Now, CNBC has reached out to the White House with questions about this. We've gotten no response so far, and we are contacting the major beef importers to see if any of those companies will confirm that they are party to an agreement with the White House. We'll let you know if we get any more information, guys. But overall, this really symbolizes the president's concern going into those midterm elections, that prices are still too high for consumers. This, of course, is about the so-called affordability crisis.

Now, what happens when the president makes an announcement like this, the price of beef dropped immediately. the cattle futures drop, everything drops. And so people are waiting for the other shoe to drop. And I was kind of stunned by the thing that was CNBC, saying, well, we can actually find, you know, who this deal is with. Some people said Argentina. I saw memes everywhere. Like, we're going to get poisoned beef from Argentina. The president's going to kill us with this subpar beef.

And then I get a boots on the ground from a no agenda rancher, not just any rancher. regenerative zoomer rancher and he sent in an audio report hey adam this is the anonymous rancher from northwest north picture woodwood gate quick gattle report uh boots on the ground uh just keep in mind that i have actually a zoomer so fairly uh after trump's announcement i kind of took it in your no agenda vade that uh trump likes to put stuff on social media and let it ruminate and see what happens You know, he didn't actually do anything as far as I know to purchase the beef, but he did truth it from what I've heard. And that just dropped the market along with the flash flows. I take a different point of view than most people.

I am regenerative. We've been taking these last couple of years to switch our dirt around to get it ready to be operating low cost, even after the markets have turned down. and the cattle market's been high a year longer than it should have been. Usually the cattle market runs on 11-year cycles, you know, give or take. So we've been, I think we're year 12 of a high market. So we should have crashed already based on just market clencherations. See, I didn't know that. I didn't know there was an 11-year cycle to the cattle market.

You know, I think, and I think we're seeing this a lot these days, people not understanding the cycle of different things like that. the economic cycle and how drought might affect the cattle crops. And so the cattle. And so the price goes up this year. And I'm like, oh, my goodness. But then things, there is a natural cycle to these things. And interfering with it is a no-no.

It's against nature, man. It is. Yo, dude. So our anonymous Zuma Rancher goes on. Because, you know, I've talked about the commodity cowboys. These are the people who really, they're not like coal at K&C. They're not like this rancher regenerative feeding their local community. You don't have to bring your cattle to one of the big three processors.

In fact, coal is doing quite well. I mean, you know, he's successful. He's not going to be a billionaire, but he doesn't care. He wants to do this. He loves what he does. And you got these commodity cowboys who just, you know, they stuff their cowl with 1100, dollars worth of Cheerios. And I'm not kidding.

I've talked to Texas Slim. When they go to the stockyard, they feed them Cheerios to fatten them up and get them to the right weight and everything. So that's not your grass fed grain finish. No, that's Cheerio cows. And they're just concerned about what they put in and what they get out. And they take it off to, you know, JBS and one of these other guys, which is cartel. And, you know, I think that they're actually working on, you know, breaking up some stuff

with those guys because, you know, not even American companies. They're owned by Brazil and by China. And so our anonymous Zuma Rancher says something about that here. Cattle people are commodity cowboys. That's true. A lot of them, you know, they sit and they watch the market report on TV and, you know, they can go and complain to everybody else about the markets and the weather and the government,

the three things you can't change. Whereas, you know, us regenerative, sell by, find it people we're we're going to focus on what we can change and we're going to make a profit ball doing it the only limit to your success is the creativity of your mind yeah exactly be creative that's what an american does you get creative and uh he said there's some issues it's not easy but he is he's he's ready for the challenge i'm a young i'm not even 30 yet bam and i see nothing but opportunities in my future that's what i love i see a lot of guys that are fixing to retire and Boy, you give us some time.

And, you know, I don't know if we're going to be owning a whole lot of land, but, you know, if we could keep our landowners happy, I can see us beasing as much ground as we can get a hold up because there's not a whole lot of us young guys want. Pick up back yet. Now, the labor part, that's going to be tough. We use a lot of H-2A labor from South Africa. And different culture, it's hard to keep those guys from Breckin equipment

and everything around them. But it's all just the learning curve. Sky's the limit when it comes to ranching if you ask me. Anonymous rancher, out. All right. See, I love that guy. So can I ask you a technical question? Yeah.

Did you run that through like Enhance? Adobe. Enhance. All right. I could tell the little signs of it. Yeah. It was really noisy as audio. And I tried to clean up as best as possible.

You know, he's a rancher. You know, it's like, I can't feed a cow. By the way, I don't think it's honeynut chiro, someone asked me in the troll room. I was, you know, I think fruit loops would have been better. Can you imagine, you know, cutting your steak up and it being, you know, red, green and yellow? And I think that would be cool. I think I'd want some fruit, fruit loops steaks. Oh, man.

General, uh, general, uh, general Scott Bessent. You've changed his name. You know, when you're on the podcast with Jimmy, you don't ever call him the gay general. Well, I get crap for it. Okay. Like we have the anonymous gay accountant. And, you know, I'm sure he's not happy with me calling him that. And then it's just, I'm focusing too much in the gay part.

It's more like Elizabeth Warren's brother because, man, he has a weird looking face. He has that same kind of, you know, shaky demeanor when he's talking. But the man is doing some interesting stuff. He is. And we have a new, a new war operation. We have a new D-Day operation, operation, economic. outcast. Today we're launching... Today, today, today we...

Who gave him some cahones? Today we're announcing this. I am Scott Bessent. Today we're launching Operation Economic Outcast to foreclose every other option available to the Iranian regime. Treasury has mapped every node, every facilitator, and every network that Iran has used to smuggle oil and evasion.

sanctions. Beginning today, the actions of Treasury and other agencies will tighten the noose and block every potential source of revenue that funds the IRGC and the evil Iranian regime. We are enforcing a zero leakage approach. There will be no minimal breathing space for the regime to rebuild its capacity to inflict terror against America and the world. You got to wonder how corrupt this business with Iran has been. throughout the decades when really all you need to do is just turn off the money. No one was doing that. We've had all kinds of Treasury secretaries. I mean, the dollar is, is the money that people use to buy and sell oil. How come this never happened before? It seems like a no-brainer.

It does. And you know what I'm telling you, it's interesting that China came out within minutes. I mean, it was literally within the hour. China came on and said, yeah, no, we're not going to, we're not going to stick to that. We will continue our support of Iran. And then on the very same day, the CIA flies into Moscow. Into Moscow? Yeah, I know. There's, listen, this is scary for me to say, but this type of action, is this opening the door for a literal, true world war? No, no.

No, because we're already at D-Day. We're ending the war right away. Listen to the general. Operation Economic Outcast, that's the administration. new name for its plan to choke off Iran economically by targeting any country that does business with Tehran. In the Second World War, D-Day marked the historic beginning of a campaign with our allies to target and drive the enemy from its positions, including those in third countries.

Today, in that same spirit, we are launching an economic onslaught against Iran's financial connections around the globe. That's, I mean, so there's no war. There's no world war. It's over. We have D-Day. D-Day is here. We're liberating. We're liberating the world. And maybe we are. I mean, this is, it's just like, there's enough oil in the Gulf and it's going through pipelines, and we're bringing it through the southern route.

You know, these guys, they're just no good. You know, I have to say that the, we'll clean this up. I lost complete track. Don't worry. I'll play another clip and you'll get it back. Okay, there you go. Now, it's not really clear what... We don't edit anything on the show here, Matt. That's right.

It's wards and all on this show. Okay. Now, it's not really clear what impact the new sanctions will have on the Iranian economy. It's been subject to years of maximum pressure, and it hasn't caused the regime to crumble yet. There's still a lot of questions about who will be targeted and when. The Treasury Secretary, Scott Besson, was at a press conference today laying at all all out. And he said that the plan is to, quote, tighten the news and force a, quote, zero-leakage approach to cutting off revenue that funds Iran's economy. And he did lay out some specific areas that would

be targeted, including technology, gold, shipping, aviation. Now, he also said that Trump had called some world leaders to talk about the economic pressure, but he said he wouldn't name names about who he had called. And he refused to say how long the U.S. was giving these governments to fall in line. Now, Besson compared all of this to an economic D-Day, and I asked him about that. Here's what he said. Well, this is where I think Besson put in a bit of a tell. You described this as an economic D-Day, but D-Day wasn't a threat of an invasion, and the U.S. didn't give a timeline to Germany.

So why not impose the sanctions today? Why would I want to blow up the global financial system? What? What? What? What? What is he planning here? So when it's time, he blows up the financial system or if he had told them, this to me. Or it's going to blow it up or, but if we tell them first, it won't blow it.

I remember seeing that live and going, wait a minute, there's something weird about that. We believe that it is important to level set and give people a cure period, but they should know that that will move very quickly and that we are. serious. If people do not want to meet our expectations, then we expect, and they should expect, that they will leave the dollar system. Another big question hanging over all of this is how China might be affected. Beijing is the top purchaser of Iranian oil. It's Iran's biggest trading partner. But Trump doesn't appear at the moment to be in a mood to upend his relationship with the Chinese President Xi Jinping, who's coming here to the White House for a state visit next month. Yeah, see, there's no coincidence in timing in this.

They can't, just, you know, Xi Jinping is coming. Boy, what kind of ceremony is the president going to give to Xi Jinping? I don't know. You think they're going to clean up the streets of San Francisco? No, no. That was great, wasn't it? Yeah, that was. All the homeless were gone.

They were all in the bay. It was fantastic. No, they're going to have flyovers. We're going to have fireworks, all kinds. We'll probably have, we should do a march, you know, like they do in China. Yeah, and maybe even drop a couple of bombs. nearby, you know, just we got some tiny nukes we've never used. You're the worst, Matt.

You're the worst. I do want to make one comment on this D-Day thing. That was a, that was a bloody, deadly day. A lot of families were destroyed on that day. I just looked it up and we lost 2,5001 Americans on D-Day in one day. And the total loss that day of Allied troops was over 4,000. and including 391 Canadians. Man, those were the Canadians, I'm telling you.

But that, I have a hard time him using that term D-Day because it kind of connotates. I know all, what is that they say about all comparisons break down or at some point in time. When you call someone Hitler, basically. Well, analogies break down at some point. Right. And this one I think broke down right away at the beginning. and I think they could have used a better term than that. And I know there's probably very few people even alive today

that can remember what happened on that day. There's about 18 U.S. veterans, a friend of the show, Agent Orange. He takes them to Normandy every single year. They're over 100 years old now. And, you know, he takes it, gets them on them. I think it's used to be American Airlines. Now I think it's United. You know, whoever will treat them the best.

flies them over there and those guys sit there and they and they remember and it's a beautiful, beautiful ceremony that they do there. And, but even my, uh, maternal grandfather, Opa al-Shobel, he landed at, uh, at Normandy. And he got a, he got a bronze star, I think, for saving some, he was in tel, in the signal and wire, uh, core. But yeah, it was not, you know, it was not like, it was not a great, uh, was not a great time there at all. My great aunt was an administrator and a hospital administrator actually was in Hawaii and had left the day before the bombing Pearl Harbor. And right after D-Day, within a couple

of days, she was shipped into land there and she ran the hospital in, is it Sheborg? I can't remember one of the two towns there. There's two towns. And there was a hospital there. And she ran that hospital and was the administrator of that hospital right after D-Day. And, of course, she's not alive now to hear the stories. But I imagine there saw a lot of ugly things in that hospital. You mentioned the CIA director flying to Moscow. Here's ABC. Sources say John Ratcliffe made the unannounced trip.

Sources, sources say. Sources say John Ratcliffe made the unannounced trip to Moscow overnight. This is Ratcliffe's first known trip to Russia as the head of the agency. The CIA declined to comment. Officials from both countries have not disclosed what was discussed in these meetings. Ratcliffe's visit comes amid stalled negotiations to try to end Russia's war with Ukraine and just days after President Trump warned of economic repercussions for Iran's allies, such as Russia. Now, I, so I don't know if it was really about Iran per se. I know that President Trump wants to play ball with Russia. Then I don't see why we shouldn't actually. It seems.

to be no reason other than, you know, the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which we provoked. We set it all up, you know, thank you, Victoria Newland. I think it may have more to do with the deal with Canada. And I think this is Doug Ford, these Ford guys up north, they crack me up. I think he mentioned, even mentioned Russia as an alternative to some Canadian products we would not get anymore. Premier Ford, Alex Taibo with MS now. In the past, you've threatened yet stronger retaliation against the U.S., including curtailing the export of electricity from Ontario to the U.S. Would you still go that far?

I would. Everything's on the table, but I can't do it alone. You know, I'm not the only province that ships electricity down to the U.S. We need a team Canada approach. And I'd be happy within the provinces to lead that approach. if this escalates and we can't get back to the table and he keeps coming after us, all options are on the table, in my opinion, but I can't do it alone. We have other provinces that send electricity down to the U.S., we all have to be on the same page.

And a follow-up, we know literally why we're in this trade war right now, but I guess more philosophically, what are the undercurrents that have brought us to this moment? President Trump, simple as that. You have a president, unlike President Reagan that didn't believe in tariffs, President Reagan believed in growing the economy on both sides of the border and around the world. Make no mistake about it. America is a powerhouse, but we're an economic powerhouse as well. We're the U.S. number one customer across the board, across the world.

We buy more products, more services, more widgets off the U.S. than anyone in the world. And a tariff on Canada is nothing more than a tax on the American. American people. There it is. I feel terrible for our workers here, the steel workers and auto sector, but we're going to back them. Now, what I was looking for is a clip where he mentions potash, which is, potash is for fertilizing? Yeah. Yes, yes, it is. Potash. I was thinking of the other potash. Oh, no, no, that's from back in the day, Matt. Potash, yeah, it's absolutely necessary for fertilizer. And there's so many of these things we import that we have, we have been blessed with a bountiful country. There are so many things we have in our country. Can we make potash?

I bet we can. What is potash? That is not my area of expertise. Hold on a second. Ask the book of knowledge. Yes, this is exactly where I'm going. Hold on a second. Book of knowledge. What exactly is pot ash? Let's see what the book of knowledge has for us today. Okay. It's all pot ass, so I don't know if he's going to be. According to the book of knowledge, potash is a general term for potassium-containing compounds, most commonly potassium carbonate or potassium chloride, derived historically from leaching wood ash in iron pots, hence the name pot ash. It is widely used today as a fertilizer to enrich soil and boost crop yields, and is also essential in the manufacture of glass, soap and various industrial chemicals.

Thus, it has been rich, So we can't make that? We don't have that stuff here? I don't know. I was just reading. Apparently there is Michigan. There is a domestic potash project in Michigan. And it sounds like they take burnt wood and do something.

You know, the waste of space in the northwest now that is, I'm sorry, that is, you know, being occupied by crazy liberals, they got enough trees up there. We can make our own potash. I'm sorry. We're Americans. That's right. I've got my tongue in my cheek very, very carefully. But apparently this New Mexico and Utah also produce potash. You know, we found out during World War II how many resources we had in this country and what we were able to do.

And we just, if it's easier to get it from Mexico or China or whatever, that's just our nature. we're going to go, oh yeah, go over and get it in China. Why not? You know? And I just think that when we become so dependent on foreign resources. You don't have a country. You don't have a country. Yeah.

Where does that eventually lead you? And so, yeah, I guess if we didn't have any potash from Canada, well, bless your hearts. You know, maple syrup and hockey, that's – There's literally going to be tariffs on hockey sticks. No, I didn't. A hockey stick costs about 200 bucks. Get out of here. For a good hockey stick, yeah.

So it'll probably cost three to $400. I'm pretty sure we can make a curved stick of wood. Absolutely. You think we could. But that's the whole idea behind President Trump's American system, you know, which I think was a, I think Hamilton had the same, you know, the American system. I know you're giving me that look. Like, I'm just spouting here, Matt. No, no, no.

No, I was trying to think about it. Well, the idea is build it here, all our resources here, and how we're going to grow our way out of the deficit and the debt is with tariffs. That has always been the plan. That's why, you know, the Democrat and the Canadian, you know, Ford-esque type response is always, it's going to be a tax on the American people. We definitely have issues with being able to afford things, which is a salary issue and to some degree a debasement issue of the dollar.

But we can we can make steel. And that's happening now. And that will bring, well, here it comes. Good paying union jobs, Joe Biden. There you go. I mean, we can get back to that. The whole midsection of the country has just been destroyed. Tina lived right across from Geary, Indiana,

where they still don't have power after 13 days. And her dad, you know, the mill closed. He worked at the steel mill closed. That wall went to China. But it's coming back. It's, and yeah, it's not going to be easy for a couple of years. Never is. But I think they may be able to pull it off.

I don't know. I really don't know. Well, you know, the tariffs were never part of the Republican playbook ever. And he's right. The Canadian, I hate to say that. the Canadian was right when he said Reagan was very much against tariffs. And I tell what, I was very, very shocked when I first heard Trump's talk about tariffs. I'm thinking, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Oh, no. And so then I watched all the Republicans

all of a sudden flip 180 from, oh, tariffs are no good, tariffs are bad, but Trump's doing it. And so tariffs now are good. And I've heard, listened to a lot of the excuses and a lot of the justifications for his tariffs. And I think I buy into some of them. But this was definitely, tariffs are a progressive, liberal thing that Republicans and conservatives have steered away from for years.

So it's really been an interesting flip that all of a sudden now we're all gung-ho about tariffs. So I hope we get out of it what Trump, our president says, we'll get out of it. The idea is it becomes, comes too expensive to buy the stuff from overseas, so we make it ourselves. That's the entire idea, the way I see it. Yeah.

It's forceful. And a lot of people who have internet shops are very upset. I get it, you know, because, yeah, what a bonanza. I mean, you get stuff from China. You mark it up. I mean, I walked through the mall with Tina a couple weeks ago. And it was some women, like a mid-range women's clothing shop. and I look at sandals, literally two slabs of probably not even real leather with a strap on it.

It has some brand on it. I don't know the brand. And it's $280. Are you kidding me? This is made in China. It costs them maybe three bucks, maybe even less to make these. Ship them over, put a brand on it. Boom.

There it is all of a sudden, 280 bucks. I'm like, this is ridiculous. You know, it just makes no sense. And then you bought them for her. No, no way. I don't think so. No, no, I know. I guilt her about something.

You know, you got, that's why I'm doing it. Like, hmm, these Chinese slaves, the Uighers, weager sweat and blood is in these things. Now she, believe, again, Geary Indiana or Gary is someone saying. Yeah, that's what I thought it was. Gary. No, it's Gary. You got to, you got Gary, Indiana. I can't quite perfect it yet.

Okay. Dude, my wife, she, you know, when. we have like a, like a moisturizer with a little pump on the top. When it doesn't come out of the pump anymore, the top comes off and we are to scrape the insides. Oh, yeah. Okay. All right. And then put your hand over the, over the straw and use it that way for at least three more weeks.

Oh, three weeks. Wow. There's a lot in there. Yeah, no way. Why don't they make those little straws longer? I don't understand that. Can you just cut open it with a razor you can take? That's another way.

and you can just get it out. I got to do that. Listen, I used to wash out my Ziploc bags, you know, and hang them up to dry. So I know where your wife is coming from. I love her for that, man. He's like, this is just a rip off. It's a waste. I'm not throwing it away.

And so now I'm like, I'm going all over the top now. You should see my toothpaste tube. I mean, we have those like big keys that you can slip on it and you can twist it all the way. I can't believe this. I have one too. I can't believe this. You know one of those keys? I do.

From my grandmother out of her bathroom. Yeah, it's the best. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. So the one thing the president does say that could be a problem is aluminum. But for all the rhetoric, Trump last night did acknowledge the U.S. relies on Canada for some key products like aluminum. You know, selfishly, we need aluminum in this country. We don't have it.

We get it all from Canada for the most part, and we need it badly. President Trump has long lamented the trade deficit between the two countries, which stood at nearly $50 billion last year. But for a trading relationship as big as the U.S. and Canada's, these tariffs still hit just a fraction of the roughly $800 billion of commerce between the two neighbors, which U.S. trade representative Jameson Greer has echoed. At the end of the day, this is 5% of imports from Canada. It's 0.06% of our neighbors.

overall consumption in this economy. So there's no possible way it can really affect U.S. well-being. Still, for states like Michigan, which trades heavily with the nation to its north, this trade war is already having consequences. Michael Howard says his furniture business has started losing clients. With a 50% tariff, all those costs have skyrocketed. And just that one project just costs our family thousands of dollars. in profit

and which impacts the ability for us to put food on the table for our family. On the U.S.-Canadian border, where $2.5 billion in goods cross every day, the costs to citizens on both sides continue to grow. So you take that furniture maker, I presume he's getting wood from Canada.

Could be? We got lots of wood. You just mentioned that. We got tons of wood. I mean, we have, we even have producers who make cool boots, and really nice men's shoes and they do it all in America. I mean, it really is possible.

And I don't see the price being outrageously high. It's certainly not the $280, you know. Sandals. Sandals. Give me a break. So Canada's firing back. In Ottawa today, Canada's government had a clear message. It's firing back.

Canada will meet the moment. Canadians will meet the moment. We will meet the moment together. All right. has sent this to me in the troll room five times now. Canada sends five million tons of garbage to Michigan every year. We're literally taking their garbage. Okay. So why don't you keep your garbage? That's right. Is there a tariff on garbage? No, and they got all that land going up north. You know, you look at the map and Canada doesn't seem to have a northern boundary. No, it just goes

to Russia. It just goes all the way up there. Man, there's a lot of pits. They could, there's a lot of pits. could dig up there and put their trash in. Yeah. And besides, I thought they all recycled. I didn't think they even made trash in Canada because they're so cool. They are. We'll support our workers, our businesses and our industry, with whatever it takes for as long as it takes.

Starting September 8th, Canada will impose or raise tariffs ranging between 15 and 50%, affecting $27 billion worth of imports, and that will hit over 700 U.S. products, including some key U.S. imports. Our response will specifically target products in the sectors of steel, aluminum, household appliances, farming equipment, paper products, and electronics. Canada's retaliation follows the Trump administration placing 50% tariffs on roughly $20 billion worth of Canadian imports on Saturday, along with threats of more to come. President Trump said he'll impose 50% on steel and autos starting next year.

And this clash between allies has gone beyond goods. President Trump wrote on social media that the U.S. doesn't expect to do business with the Canadian border province of Ontario, adding, quote, the United States is giving serious consideration to changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America. That's right. One Canadian official simply said today, We'll always call it Lake Ontario. So that is the typical Trump look over here moment. I'm going to just mess troll with everybody. By the way, I looked it up. Lake Ontario, it literally is half, you know, if there's ownership, what there isn't.

There's a border that runs through it. It's roughly about right in the middle. And we can call it whatever we want. That's right. We can call it Lake America. I think we should. I think that it's hilarious. There you go.

It's Lake America. It's official. It's just like, oh, man. This, of course, is what the media loves to jump on these things. Trump wants to rename Lake Ontario, Lake America, and that's not even the real story. This is just the latest jab in an escalating trade war between the U.S. and Canada and the bigger threat just landed. President Trump says he will impose 50% tariffs on Canadian cars, trucks, auto parts, and steel,

starting from the 1st of January next year. year. Canada's already hitting back starting September 8th. They're matching blah, blah, blah. Here's another one. President Donald Trump is back to weaponizing bodies of water. He's weaponizing bodies of water.

Trump posted on Truth Social, his administration is giving serious consideration in changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America. He even posted an image of a map showing the Great Lake. He even posted an image of the map on all. His proposed new name. This comes as Trump has engaged in a bitter trade feud

with Canadian leaders. Unsurprisingly, Canadians aren't happy about it. I think it's a bit of a power struggle, you know, kind of a little man's ego complex.

Oh, little man's ego. Have you seen the president's butt? That thing is larger than the two of us put together. That thing is enormous. McDonald's. McDonald's. He's got a Mickey D. Caboose, baby.

I think, Building of animosity between two neighbors is something that is never a good result. It's not the first time Trump has tried to rename a body of water, having previously signed an executive order last year, attempting to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. U.S. government agencies and the Coast Guard have since adopted the name, while other countries have not recognized the change. So the general thinking here is that, you know, of course, this is Mark Carney, who's the prime minister. he is the bank, the central banker, central banker, basically. You know, he's all about the liberal rules-based world order.

The general thinking amongst people that I talk to is this is really just about the midterms. Oh, it all is. Make Trump look bad for the midterms, you know, get everyone all jacked up about, you know, about prices and tariffs and, you know, hockey sticks are going to be too expensive, etc. And when Doug Ford talks about electricity, I think he's only talked, do they really have electricity wires coming into America? Or is he talking about oil? No, I think I've heard that before. The power lines, part of the very northern area of some of our states.

Oh, wow. And, you know, the U.S., we have three power grids in the country. And one of them is Texas. One of them is west, one of them is east, and the other one's Texas. Imagine. But it wouldn't surprise me at all if there are power lines. going over the border into U.S. countries, or into our states, it wouldn't surprise me. These United States. I love the way that gal earlier said that.

These United States. And that's the way it should be said, actually. So yesterday I was talking to Pastor Jimmy, we do the podcast. We get to do this. And a question came up. I think he asked me, like, well, what news can we believe? And I like, none. You can't believe any news at all. whatsoever. The best thing you can do is talk to somebody who knows what's going on, who's actually an expert in that field, which is what our producers are on the No Agenda show, boots on the ground. I just got a text from the oil baron, Paul the Oil Baron. And he sent me a full article, but I have no time to read it while on the show.

He says, the Trump administration is in talks with Venezuela's interim government about taking an ownership stake in the South American country's enormous oil resources Two U.S. officials tell Axios. Now, we know Axios. For some reason, Axios is like a direct hotline to the White House. Yeah. I'm not sure why. Why it matters, this is the historic deal would more than double U.S. oil reserves by drawing from a country that has the world's largest proven reserves.

And then the oil baron says, Trump sigh up to keep oil price down LOL. And I believe it. I believe that's exactly what that is. Well, all that oil in Venezuela was developed by American companies and was actually owned by American companies. And I'm going to get the companies wrong. But there were two companies. Well, Chevron was one. And they actually bought that.

They paid for all the infrastructure. They put it all in. That was their oil. And then they had to pay a fee to Venezuela, got a share of it. And the Venezuelans took. it over. And when they had their little revolution, and they kicked out all the operators in these refineries, and they said, we can do it ourselves. Well, guess what? They couldn't. And so a lot of their equipment just went south. And I spent some time up, and Maracaibo is where

the big bay is, where they did a lot of oil. You were there? Yeah, yeah. What were you doing there? I was traveling. Careful. Careful now. Yes. Working on my import export business. Sounds kind of spooky to me, Matt. I don't know what the business you were in. But yeah.

And it was a horrible looking place. I mean, it was like out of some kind of sci-fi movie that Derricks were kind of all tipping over. And it was a very, very bizarre scene. Because all the experts left. They had to leave the country and the whole thing fell apart. Absolutely. So us taking it back, I don't. we're just getting it back to the original owners.

I mean, that's really what it is. We just found some stolen property, and we've got a guy big enough to go in and take our stolen property back. So I don't have a problem with it at all. Amen to that. You're a car guy. I mean,

all Texans are car and truck guys. And I don't think, I mean, when I was growing up, I remember we always used to have long conversation, or my dad would have long conversations. with other dads about tires. Buying tires was a conversation.

I don't think that, do you remember those days when people would just talk about what tires you got? I'm going to get new tires. I mean, these days, I mean, does anyone really talk about tires that much anymore? Or you just buy a car and, you know,

I was like, you know, maybe it's, you know, it's an eight-year-old car and the tires are worn. You could literally get onto the tire. What's it called? Like, tires are us?

Yeah, seven-day tires. something like that. Yeah, yeah. You have a cup of coffee and they put new tires on. You don't even ask. And just let me put some new tires on. But do you remember the conversations about different kinds of tires?

I guess I don't. I don't remember any tire conversations. Well, I was on the East Coast. Maybe it was more of an East Coast thing. But it was always, and there was a whole bunch of reasons in which tire was better. And you want to have, actually, when I was in college for three months in West Virginia, I remember that was a big conversation because what tires are you going to have for the winter. You want to have all round tires. Rounded tires. And I want round ones,

like, you know, ones that work. And so as a part of the midterm, uh, the, uh, SIEOP from California, they have, they've put in new rules and regulations for tires. And, and I was like, what is going on with this? And of course, Gavin Newsom is very happy about it. And so we'll break down exactly what is going on with this. I think it was a good choice. Governor Gavin Newsom, speaking for the first time on new tire regulations, the California Energy Commission, or CEC, unanimously approved

earlier this week. Thank you, everybody. At an unrelated press conference. Wow, what a nap pop that was. Great nap pop. Let's hear that again. Moved earlier this week. Thank you, everybody. At an unrelated press conference in Hayward just south of Oakland on Wednesday, Newsom said he supported the new rules,

rules that will require most replacement tires for passenger cars and light-duty trucks to meet stricter energy efficiency standards. Those new standards will be phased in with the first requirements taking effect in 2029 and then tougher standards beginning in 2033. The governor says his administration backs the rules, saying they will reduce the energy needed to move cars, in turn, saving drivers money on fuel, all while cutting emissions. Look, the ROI is pretty good.

The return on investment. I'm, you know, back to just facts. Facts. You have a billion dollars a year in fuel. You talk about affordability agenda. That makes some sense to me. There it is, the affordability agenda. So this is clearly a midterm sci-up.

Now, it doesn't really go in until January 1st, 2029. But here's what it's about. It's the replacement tire efficiency program, the California Energy Commission. So this is a climate change initiative, which is just amazing. And it has to do, So passenger car replacement tires must meet a maximum rolling resistance coefficient RRC of 9.0NKN. I don't know exactly what that is.

Then they have phase two where the ceiling drops from 9.0 to 7.1. So this is how efficient your car tires roll on the road, which of course has huge implications. for weather, speed, turning. So they have to, so the, the, the, what's called the wet grip? It's like, what in the world? So they have to change, go from rubber to high silica and functionalized polymer compounds. This sounds like a horrible idea. And EVs, most of them in California, they eat up tires 30%.

more. You know, like, will you be able to break the same? You know, can you, will you get acceleration? Do your tires spin out? I mean, this sounds like a bunch of idiots just wanted to put something in there to, you know, to placate the climate crazies. And it doesn't sound like a good idea. You know, the only concern I have about that is can you get them in white walls? California Energy Commissioner Nancy Skinner acknowledged. Matt will be here all week, everybody. Under the new regulations, about 70% of the tires currently sold in California will not be legal to sell come 2033. But she also stresses tire manufacturers have seven years between now and then to come up with new types of tires to sell.

Tires Skinner believes will ultimately benefit consumers. We'll ensure that the tires sold in 2029 will be the same quality and just as good as the tires that are on your brand new car when you drive it off the lot. Just as good. just as good. So it's only for replacement tires. So, you know, buy a new car and you get the good tires, I guess. And of course, with California, this is what we learned from John. It's like the reason we have crazy expensive diesel is because of the sulfur content that California demands.

And, you know, like, we're not going to make one diesel for California and a different one for everybody else. So we have to deal with their regulations. That may be the same. If all the tire, how many tire companies there are, if all the tire companies, you know, get on board with this, we're going to get these crap tires? You know, I think a lot of tire companies just won't do business in California, or at least a couple of them won't. I mean, if they've got the rest of the country to sell their tires to, I just don't do business in California. I mean, what is California's motto? We're from the government and we're here to help.

Is that their motto? We've got the government designing tires. This is a problem. Michelin and Bridgestone tires said they hope to work with the California Energy Commission. Oh, traders. Bridgestone traders. To ensure the new regulations take effect smoothly.

But other tire manufacturers and industry groups have argued the rules could limit consumer choice and lead to significantly higher costs for replacement tires after the tougher standards take effect. A coalition of tire companies earlier this year sent the commission this letter, urging it not to adopt the regulations amid concerns over high costs. Republican State Senator Tony Strickland of Huntington Beach, meantime, argues the new rules

are government overreach. There's a lot of families that are living paycheck to paycheck, and they can't afford these kind of regulations. In fact, these board directors are the modern-day Marie Antoinette. They don't care that they're really driving people out of the state of California. You'd be wise to take advantage of new efficient tires, lower your cost at the pump, tire manufacturers. The vast majority came on board. One notable one did not.

But from a consumer perspective, the savings is self-evident. And so I think it was a good choice in that respect. I wonder who didn't come on board. Oh, I know. I've already got that in my notes. They're going to be my new favorite tire company. Let's find out. Book of knowledge, which tire company is not?

not participating in California's new tire regulations. I love my book of knowledge. Oh, it's great. Yeah. Let's see. According to the book of knowledge, Goodyear and Dunlop oppose California's new replacement tire efficiency program, while Michelin and Bridgestone supported.

Good year. Yeah. It has been written. So, Goodyear. Nice. I wrote in the blimp once. Really? Yeah.

Man, that would, that's, a trip I'd like to take. It was pretty cool. It was very cool. I missed an opportunity when Budweiser had a blimp. I missed that opportunity. But I like blimps. I think that, you know, they're a pain in the butt to land.

You got to have 18 people on the ground grabbing roast with it. It's a pretty cool mode of transport. It was really, you know, but when was the Hindenburg? 1908? I don't know. I can't remember. But, you know, we had buildings that had airship docks on the top. of them. New York had them all over the place. Yeah. And it was, you know, it was slow, but it was luxurious and you had big sleeper cabins. You know, the only problem was, you know, they exploded. But, you know, helium was hard to get back in the day. So do Pento's. It was, you know.

It's a fine American tradition of exploding transportation, yes. You know, but the Goodyear Blimp, it's got a cockpit that I think is about the size of your studio here. And it is noise. as can be because everything's right there and it's just this tiny little compartment. But yeah, I think a blimp would be a cool way to go across the country without a doubt. A lot of these Silicon Valley guys have tried to resurrect that several times. I'm not sure what the status is. You know, I think everyone changed investing into airships, as they're known. They're not blimp's airships into flying cars, which, you know, the flying car is going to be like the paperless office or the paperless toilet maybe. I can't wait to get one.

You haven't seen my garage, but I have a spot for it. For some reason, we have a three-car garage. We don't have three cars, but that's where my flying car will go if it ever comes out. All right. You know, Jean, Sir Gene, is always sending me these videos. YouTube's like, look at this, man, it's here. It's coming. This is it, the flying car.

I say, have you looked at the specs? You can fly exactly 60 miles an hour for 20 minutes. If I can't get to Austin and land in your backyard, it's not. not worth it. And also, if I have to recharge for 24 hours before I can fly home, the power to rate ratio is a whole thing. A lot of complaints about H-1B visas. I think pretty much everybody who listens to the show has a complaint about it. A lot of my friends who work in technology companies, their biggest complaint is they've

been overrun by Indians. All H-1B, they bring in more H-1B. It's filled with fraud. Also, sorry Brahmins, but the Brahmins are really racist or classist, I should say. And it's just a mess. And no one wants to work there anymore. And it seems like there's going to be some crackdown on this, finally, which is another part of the, how about let's get Americans back to work. And the first is the new fee, which just came. I'm not sure about the number, but this is probably a good idea. The Trump administration is moving to codify a new fee. for H-1B worker visas that costs more than $103,000. Boom.

In filing today, the Department of Homeland Security said some of the revenue would be used to help fund the nation's immigration courts and ICE. Earlier this summer, a judge in Massachusetts struck down a similar temporary fee. The H-1B program allows U.S. companies to hire tens of thousands of foreign workers each year. President Trump has argued it takes jobs away from Americans, but many companies say it's needed to recruit top talent, especially in tech and research. Which is just bull crap.

They all get their education here. They come over from India, get their education here, and then get an H-1B, and then they're working. Do you know why the tech industry? Is it really a labor shortage? No, it's just cost. So there's no, it's not labor shortage based. Initially it was cost.

Of course, there are a lot of really highly educated, and just mainly Indian. I would say. But then, you know, Indians hire Indians. And they got, you know, there's whole H-1B farms and, you know, like, Pat, you know, I hate to sound racist, but, you know, one guy looks like the other on the, on the passport photo, you know, Rajiv. And so that just permeates.

The fraud is known, is well known. Everybody complains about it. It's, and I don't care. You know, you can come here and become an American and work here. that's fantastic. But the specific visas part of it is a scam. And there's another thing. The State Department is now going to revoke a lot of the 1B visas, which I presume is A1B. There's a couple of different 1Bs, hospitality, agriculture, and business. The U.S. government is preparing to revoke the business and tourism visas of up to 200,000 foreigners

who have applied for or are currently seeking asylum status. If this happens, it will be the largest mass revocation of visas in US history and would likely face legal challenges. State Department documents attained by the Associated Press say the revocation will take place in the coming weeks on B1 and B2 visas issued between 2016 and 2026, and we'd be done in coordination with the Department of Homeland Security. B1 visas are generally issued for business trips, and B2 visas are generally issued for tourism, family visits or medical care.

Current applicants for B1 and B2 visas are asked to affirm that they will not apply for asylum in the United States and prove that they intend to return to their home countries. Since President Donald Trump took office for his second term last year, his administration has steadily ramped up restrictions on visa applicants, demanding more information about their social media histories, requiring the posting of expensive bonds for the processing of visas and outright banning the issuance of visas to citizens of certain countries. Yeah.

All I got to do is marry an American. No, they're cracking down on that too. Oh, okay. They just rolled up a whole Chinese ring. They've been doing that for a decade. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I had a friend in Ecuador who needed Mary an Ecuadorian to get her to stay in the country

to keep her business going. and she worked out a deal with a young teenage boy in the village there. Boom. And so he, she said, well, is there, you know, do you want something? You wanted a basketball. So she got her a basketball and a husband. She gave him a basketball and she got a husband. And as far as I know, still lives there.

You know, I'm all for putting levels into getting into our country. You know, at one point, this is when I was living in Europe. Like, maybe I should go move to Australia. That might be interesting because I'd visited Australia. Did a documentary in 1990. Now, this is before they went completely woke. Not all provinces or states, I guess you call them. Like, Queensland is still pretty okay.

And I looked into it. And at the time, and I don't think it's changed much, you had to either be a literal rocket scientist. Okay. Or have $5 million. Okay. Now that's $5 million Australian dollars. So I don't know if that's maybe $9.50.

Here's a buck 50 dollar a dues now. But, you know, yeah, that I agree with that. Make it harder. I mean, or put a limit of reason for you to come here, not just come in. This is what destroyed Europe. Completely destroyed Europe. It's crazy. And you've been telling a lot of us recently that we're not on the same path of destruction with our immigrants coming in as quick as Europe was.

For this very reason. Yeah. You know, President Trump closed the borders. Your boy, Tom Holman enforced it. No, we're not. You know, of course, you know, as part of the midterm push, you know, let's all be extremely worried about Muslims. There's absolutely problems with Islam. There's absolutely imams doing podcasts and we're going to, you know, they've absolutely had a plan since 1991, absolutely.

But it's still one percent of the population. Right. And you haven't quite overrun us yet. You know, every time I talk about Islam on my program, which seems to be quite often recently, is I always have to start with that caveat that I know they're bad. I know they're, they don't even culturally fit in here. I mean, just everything right down the line. And yet I can still, then I can talk about it because anything I seem to say, if I don't put the caveat in there, it's like, oh, you're pro Islam. It's like, no, I'm not.

But we've, yeah, we do have to be careful. But at the same time, this is not London overnight. It's not Paris. No. Not overnight. In London, you know, the main source of Muslims is Indians. And why? Because I forget which prime minister was it.

It was, oh, man, I should know this. We've talked about him. The prime minister, I think before Thatcher, I can't remember the guy's name. It's something with an H. He said, hey, you know, if we colonize you, you have a right to come to England. Heath, I think it was Heath. Heath, okay, yeah.

And so the Indians went straight up, bro. and the Pakistanis and all kinds of colonies came in and that's where that came from. So you and I could go and live in London then and be allowed to stay because we were colonized as well. Good luck with that. That won't fly. Shall I get your one-way ticket?

I'd be happy to send you off there, man. No problem at all. So you get these countries like the Netherlands and they just let, I mean, the Moroccans, We had Muslims in the Netherlands for decades. We didn't call them Muslims. They were Indonesians. Number one country of Muslim, religion, faith, Islamic, political ideology, whatever you want to call it.

They call themselves Muslims. It's Indonesia. Number one. The Netherlands famous for its Indonesian restaurants. We love Indonesian food. Never had a problem with the, as they call them, the Indos. The Indos. In fact, it was okay to call them Indos.

You can't do that anymore. After that came the Turks. And it was part of a guest worker program in the 70s. And they had to really start building up the country because a lot of it was destroyed. And so we needed guest workers to come in. Just weren't enough people in the country. Now, as a sideline to that, you had the Mulluckers. And the Mulluckers didn't get a good deal.

And they also got colonized and treated poorly by the Dutch. Because the Dutch, they were no good, man. And they transported all the slaves. I mean, they were the shipfaring nation. So the Malacchers got all pissed off in the 70s, and they started hijacking trains. Do you remember this? They were hijacking trains in the Netherlands? Oh, yeah.

How do you hijack a train? They literally would hijack. And it would be on TV for days. Oh, no. And they would have hostages. And then, you know, the special forces would go in. And several hostages got killed. It was, and was always the Maluckers.

Wow. Never Muslims, Maluckers. Then came the Turks. Turks. Yeah, you know, there was a little bit of racism against the Turks, but they integrated pretty well. And I have a lot of Turkish, Dutch, you know, cross-breeding families. And they didn't really have the cuisine that added much to the culture, but they were there for so long. They helped build it.

Not a problem. By the way, Muslims. Then came the Moroccans. And these were not the Moroccans in, you know, in the big cities, you know, like Marrakesh. Have you ever been to Marrakesh? I have not. Dude, it's like the most modern city in the world. Really?

It is like Singapore on steroids. Wow. Just beautiful buildings, beautiful, like shopping malls better than UAE. Just fantastic. It wasn't those Moroccans. No, they sent over the ones from the mountains. And they came over. Now, Muslims, yeah.

You know, they have Ramadan and they have some, you know, slowly the halal stores crept in and people didn't really push back. And then of course they started to get into government because people are apathetic and don't go and vote. They run the drugs. All the drugs. It used to cost probably if you wanted to kill somebody. I grew up in this country, so a lot of weird things. If you wanted to kill someone, you know, you're probably 15, 10,000 euros.

Now, 500. Wow. And they do it on mopeds. Yep. They drive by, they shoot you, machine guns, everything, run all the drugs throughout all of Europe through the port of Rotterdam. Rotterdam where my daughter lives. She had to move out to a different area. I'm like, you should move out to Tennessee, is what I keep telling you.

That's far southwest of Holland, right? She doesn't listen to me. But again, it wasn't a Muslim problem until it's almost like someone told them, hey, don't forget your. Muslims. So all these years, it never was an issue, but some of it has to do with Israel. And the extreme hate of Israel in the Netherlands, where, you know, Anne Frank, Coritembe, these are famous Jewish stories from Second World War. The hate is unbelievable. And of course, a lot of it is because look at who's living in Amsterdam. Look at who's living in Amsterdam. Look at who's living in Rotterdam.

You know, they burn Israeli flags. Now, I'm not saying anything about Netanyahu or the current, I don't give a crap. You know, Gaza, okay, this is not a problem that was just been recently. You know, this is all sciops to, you know, to highlight genocide. There's been a lot of genocides no one seem to care about. This one people care about. And so now the latest, this is amazing, is the Eurovision Song Contest. I, yes, I've never paid attention to it until I started listening to no agenda.

And I've been watching the Eurovision Song Contest since 1972 when Abba won with Waterloo. And I think the Dutch have won four or five times. And it is a cultural phenomenon. And it's from the European Broadcasting Union, the EBU, which by itself is weird because why is Australia in there and why is Israel in there? And then there's all kinds of ways people say, well, but they're technically a part of Europe. Okay, geographically, I'm not seeing it, but whatever. So ever really since, even before Gaza, there was already people calling for Israel to be boycott, kick them out. We don't want them in the Eurovision Song Contest.

And now it's flipped. And now countries are pulling out of the Eurovision. song contest. And I'm now joined by Josh Asu, he's a Eurovision expert and journalist for Omrob Gerdel. I wish I could be paid as a Eurovision expert. There you go. What a job that will be.

In Anam in the Netherlands. Now, Netherlands are boycotting. Is this the biggest crisis that Eurovision has ever faced? Yeah, I would like to think so. It's a really big crisis. It's a crisis. Of course, the Eurovision has always been political since the beginning. It was made to make peace in Europe.

But it's never been so, polarizing and dividing as it is now. Everybody's thinking something of it. A lot of countries are boycalling it. It's a big crisis. And yeah, it could be like a negative downfall of the contest for sure. It's a big crisis, a downfall. So negative.

Everything's falling falling apart. How much would people lose if Eurovision went away? I mean, what would that, you know, I mean, I know, I know it's kind of a facetious. question, but I think the thing is that this is one of these cultural events that kind of keeps Europe together. Okay. Right. It's kind of like we're the European Union, even though it goes far beyond the European Union. And it's not just the Netherlands pulling out, but the other big ones are pulling out.

And I think this could start in a funny way. I'm just calling it as a possible Red Book prediction that this could be the breaking up of the European Union over. cultural things like this. Wow. Now, Spain has said it would not broadcast the contest or the semifinals in Vienna next year, describing the process of decision-making as insufficient and engendering distrust. What do they mean by that? They are not the only one.

Ireland is also not broadcasting it. I think what they mean is because they think the changes that are being made, that's what they voted on yesterday. So they voted on having more juries and changing the number of votes you can make. They're changing the whole. The whole thing was rigged anyway. You know, it's all favoritism. Countries voted for their neighbors, you know, Belgium and the Netherlands would vote.

No one voted for the UK. Like, England is always last with no votes. I mean, they won once, I think, with brotherhood of man, save all your kisses for me. why do I know this stuff? Because I'm an unpaid Eurovision expert, Matt. I think they find that too less of a change to keep the trust in the EBU that they are independent, not supporting Israel in any way or giving them special treatments. And I think they just don't trust the EPU that they are really independent.

And I think for the fans, it's very sad that the broadcaster will not broadcast it, but they can watch it on YouTube as well. So here's the funny thing. So it's the European Broadcast Union, it's all the public broadcasters, because all these countries have government broadcasting organizations. And it's, you know, just like the BBC, funded a little bit differently,

but it's from the people, it's supposed to be apolitical and for the people in every single country. It's extremely left-wing, very biased, and it's a very expensive. of thing. The European Broadcast Union, they're not going to broadcast it in these countries, but now they're putting it

on YouTube? Yeah. Get rid of the whole thing. We don't lose your own. So you're just cutting your own throat. I'm assuming there's advertising that goes in with these. Is there money that's made by broadcasting it? I'm glad you asked because was that a good question?

It's close to a great question, but no, it's a good question. They have one sponsor. You might be surprised. Now, Spain is, of course, one of the biggest contributors financially and without its participation and other nations like the Netherlands and Ireland pulling out. What will be the effect on this event? Yeah, it's very hard to say now because there are, yeah, the Netherlands is the six biggest contributor and money-wise.

Spain is, of course, one of the big five. So they will lose a lot of money, but they keep the biggest sponsor more work on oil now. So it's hard to say what will happen. They got three countries back, Moldova, Bulgaria and Romania. So I think they tried to compensate the loss that was expected to happen a little bit. But I think you could see a lot of the rising... Did you hear it? The oil?

Moroccan oil. I heard oil and I didn't hear what was before it. Moroccan oil could it be any more anti-Israel? Yeah. Moroccan oil sponsor. Do you think that had anything to do with it by any chance? Oh, is it possible? No, of course not.

That's just a crackpot fairy. I'm telling you that this is going to be the beginning. Mark this, the Eurovision song contest, breaking apart, people not broadcasting it, and moving to YouTube is going to be the end of the European Union. This will be the crack, the very first crack. I can just feel it. It's, you can't understand it. It's like Super Bowl.

It's like Super Bowl in America. Really? Okay. Very much so. Yeah. And it was just fun. It was just fun to have, see the votes coming in and yelling and saying, oh, those guys are just voting for them. You know, it used to be, you see Ukraine and Russia voting against each other, you know, zero, no points for Russia from Ukraine and vice versa.

Russia used to be in it. Hmm. It used to be in the Olympics. Used to be in all kinds They used to be in the G8 G7 plus one maybe. Yeah. So the

This happened to you twice now, Matt. I know what it's from. The 70s. Yes, it's exactly where it's from. Matt and I were sharing bong stories earlier. We both are avid vapors now, which I just love. We're just sitting here vaping away in the studio.

It's fantastic. What are you rocking there? What's your rig? What is my? I think I have the same as yours. I'm not sure what it is. You got a geek vape. Yeah, I just have an older model.

I went to a, what is this? I'm so blind now. This is the, I just. It's a little smaller than mine. The aspire. Okay, aspire. Okay. I'm familiar with them.

Do you build your own coil? No, I heard you when you said that a while back and I was thinking, what an idiot. You got to wind your own coil, use America. Yeah, man, you got to wind your own coil, use America. You're pulling out of an old t-shirt? Or where do you get this American cotton? You buy it in a bag called, it's called bacon. Cotton, cotton bacon.

Okay. It was funny. When we were stopped at the border coming back two times ago, we were stopped. We stopped in, I can't, it might have been Minneapolis, I think. We, you know, we came in and then from Minneapolis over to Texas. And for some reason, you know, we have the global entry, which is like, you know, it's...

Oh, yeah, I know what it is. Literally face scan, like, hey, Mr. Mrs. Curry, yeah, okay, you're good to go. And then we're standing there waiting for our luggage. And you could see one of those feds walking around. He's like, excuse me. You know, it's like, can I see your passports? I'm like, well, this is interesting.

Like, I use my passport. And then, okay. And then we're ready to go out and then two more customs agents come up. And we got our suitcases. And he's like, um, where you folks from? I said, you know, we just got spoken to by your colleague. I mean, do we look like international diamond smugglers? Oh, last thing to say.

T is like so mad at me. Like, why don't you come over here, sir? Do you have any cash on you? Yeah, I got like 40 bucks. Can you need some? Let me know. It's like, I think they kept mentioning cash. Like, okay, open up my computer back, you know, my studio bag, basically. And in there is the bacon. Okay. And it says bacon on the size.

Is this an agricultural problem? Oh, good Lord. No, it's cotton. What do you need cotton for for my vape? They were really nice about it. Tina was mad. Don't make these jokes, man. Don't do this.

But come on this. The whole thing is hilarious. We're not smuggling anything. If I was smuggling something, I'd be a little quieter, obviously. You know, I used to collect beach sand at different beaches I would go to because the sands are all very cool, right? Why does this not surprise me? that long. Beach sand.

So I am flying in from Columbia into Miami and they're going through my bags. Oh, and the worst thing that could ever happen was the girl working behind the count, but working where I got pulled up. This was Houston, not Miami, Houston. And she looks at me and she goes, we went to

high school together, didn't we? And I went, oh, crap. Yes. Listen, let me tell you, I could not have smuggled a cat's fart in on that. She knew me from high school. They turned over everything, and they find the one little container of white sand from a beach in Columbia. I had Columbia and white, he says.

Yes, Columbia and white. She's, what's this? I said, it's sand. And boy, immediately these people come over and they took it off. And I guess they chemically analyzed it somewhere. And about 20 minutes later, they come back and hand me my sand back short a few grains. I had weighed it. And they said it was okay.

It was sand. And I said, thank you very much. Anyway, I don't even know how we got on that tangent. Vaping. And by the way, I'm going to put it out there. I was a heavy smoker for many, many years. Me too. And I tried, I mean, I tried everything.

I think I never tried hypnosis, but I tried everything about quitting smoking that anybody had ever come up with. And nothing ever worked for a short period would never work. Yeah. And when I decided to try the vape and it was our good friend Jerry, rest in peace, Jerry. And I went in there and Jerry and his wife. I knew you were going to say that. Oh, goodness.

Not Mary. No, no. She had a common name. It'll come to me. So they were hippies. Yeah. Hippies from California. And they were in their 70s.

and their mission literally was to get people off of smoking cigarettes. Yeah. And that's why they opened the vape shop. And so I go in there and they fixed me all up. And Adam, I tell you, I did not pick up a cigarette even after that, even once. Now, we've got a guy at the, one of our main engineers up at the studio. He's a smoker. And I love it.

His little cubicle or his little box. Smells all smoky. Oh, man. And he can, well, no, he smokes outside. Oh, yeah, when it comes in with him. I'll come in. And I'll be heading in in the morning sometime and I can smell Bob over there. I love the smell of tobacco smoke.

I love it. And so this is one thing that we connected on very early that we were both roll your own guys. And of course, I'd roll up the tobacco with weed. I mean, I was, I was wake and bake for most of my life. But I stopped because of the, my, um, uh, uh, mass. Maverick, my periodontist. He called me. I've become really good friends with him. He's a pilot. That's how we kind of connected.

And he called me a week before my first procedure, which was the extraction phase. You know, I have just these beautiful new teeth. I mean, don't you think? Oh, they're gorgeous, folks. Gorgeous. And he said, Adam, it's Mitch. Hey, man, can you stop putting fire in your face for a week? Because it's really, it's going to make my job harder.

and it's going to be harder for you to heal. And I put down tobacco and weed and never, never touch it again. I don't crave it. I mean, the vaping, it's, of course, it is an electronic nicotine delivery system. There's no doubt about that. And I think it's more just, you know, I miss that rolling. That's why I like doing the coil. I miss the rolling, the whole process, you know, thinking about it, you know, and then sparking it up and letting it go.

out and sparking it up again. And something about the vapes satisfies those movements and just, I don't know what to do with my hands. Well, we can say it. It's an oral fixation. That's all it is. There it is. But I love these people to say, you know, you're going to die from vaping.

I'm like, you really haven't done the research on all the different aspects of vaping. You know, like, well, yeah, it's really bad. It's worse than smoking. Like, you get those people? Oh, I absolutely do. Absolutely. What do you tell them? Shut up?

Exactly. No, I have one line. I gave up all my hard drugs. I gave up alcohol. Nobody is taking my caffeine or my nicotine away from me. I will go to the grave with a vape. Maybe, I don't know. Maybe I'll have a cigarette.

If I know I'm on my way out, go over bum one from Bob. But I have to tell you that, no, there's a lot of things that I have enjoyed in my life that I gave up for good, healthy reasons. And I'm, I'm going to, by God, I'm going to hang on to some of them. I'm with you, brother. I'm with it. Since we're on a cultural trip here for a moment, Dolly Parton, first of all, Tim Curry passed away 80. The number of times someone has said to me, hi, Tim, I can't count. And so maybe that'll end now, finally, because people think, well, that can't be Tim Curry because he's dead. I wasn't really a Rocky Horror fan.

What other stuff had he done? He'd been in different things, though, not just Rock. He was known for, it must, what a bummer that must have been to only be remembered for Rocky Horror pictures. For the transgender dance that he did. But he was pretty ugly. You know, I, I appreciate his. He was pretty ugly. I appreciate the work he did as Pennywise.

I thought he was, we've had several Pennywises. And I think he was. one of the best pennywises. And of course, Home Alone, too. They've been showing that little clip. And that was a pretty funny scene. He's a pretty funny guy. Let me look at his

body of work. Let me see. Doesn't Wikipedia always have that? Yeah. Okay. So, man, they don't have a, the wiki page doesn't have a, oh, Tim Curry performances. Well, here we go. Let's see.

He was from the 70s, man. He had, okay, he played in buttons in Cinderella. This is stage stuff. That's theater. It was a theater. It's from the theater. Oh, wow.

He did a lot of theater stuff. How about his, how about his movies? Man, he did a film. Okay, Rocky Horror. Annie. Never said. Clue.

Clue. Hunt for Red October. Now, that was a good movie. The player. Home Alone, to loaded weapon one. I wish I was in that.

Mikhail's Navy? Huh, how about that? Oh, he was Major Vladikoff. Adams family. Oh, he played Gomez. That's right. In the Adams family reunion. Charlie's Angels,

who wasn't in Charlie's Angels? What else he did? I still watch Charlie's Angels on Sunday afternoons. Angels. Hello Angels. Hello Angels. He did a lot of TV.

TV stuff too. He would have been someone that would have been really fun to have around the campfire. He just seems like he would be able to tell a story that would just keep you enthralled. I don't know. That could be totally wrong on that, but that was my impression of it, that he'd be a blast to have over. Just tell us some stories to him, you know, and I think he'd be good. Now, you grew up in Texas? You're a full Texas boy?

I was born in Abilene, but my folks moved us to. Vienna, Austria when I was about a year and a half old. Was that when Hitler came to power? Yeah, no. I'm not that old. In fact, we took the Rotterdam over to Europe. To Europe, sure. And it's now a hotel in somewhere. I would like to go stay at that hotel.

No, you don't. No, I don't. It's not what you think it is. It's not what you think it is. But so we were in Vienna. In fact, we had ties to Holland. We'd go to Den Haag every now and then. We had a good friend who was a...

What did your dad do going to the Hague? You know, he was a preacher. Really? He was a preacher, a missionary. He and his buddies... Well, big fail on Holland. They took Bibles and literature in behind the Iron Curtain. Wow.

During the 60s. And so they did a lot of that. But we went to the Hague. In fact, my only, the thing I remember about Holland was they had seven up in Holland, and we couldn't get that in Vienna. And the other thing, the most beautiful woman I think I've ever known was a Dutch Indonesian woman named Leda Katan, who I just, even as a kid, I was like, oh my goodness, beautiful Indonesian women. By the way, Dutch, speaking of colonizations, the Dutch colonized Indonesia.

Yeah. And in fact, and then the Japanese took it away from them. And they threw everyone in the Dutch people in the Japanese concentration camps. Okay. I knew a lot of kids. Their parents had been in the Yuppacomp. Oh, wow. They were called the Jap camp. Wow. So, yeah, and then we came to the states when I guess I was about 11 or 12, and we moved to the tiniest little West Texas town in the whole wide world, a place called O'Donnell, where they put me in school. and I had never played football, you know, the, not football, but football, baseball, baseball, none of those things were familiar with me at all.

And I ate with my fork in my left hand and my knife and my right. You know that you're, you know, the way, the Emily Post way? Absolutely. I got in trouble at school because I didn't know how to hold my silverware. So. You're heathen. I know. It was, so yeah, but I do have memories of Holland, and I grew up reciting a Dutch nursery rhyme.

When we first met, I remember that was the first thing I asked you. What is it? I don't remember what it was. Olika, bolica, rabies, olica, oligabolica, canola, lina buzavakinshufi, ticotatot. And you've got to do this things with your hands, right? Yeah. Nailed it, brother. All right.

You and Mark Ruta. Yes, hello. So I was leading into an entertainment package of Dolly Parton just because I always liked her. I mean, did you grow up listening to Dolly Parton? I don't think I did. I don't think I did. I obviously knew who she was and I heard her music by accident. But it was not something I would tune in by a record.

As a radio guy, I've played all of because she had crossed over all the time. We would go top 40 like Jolene, which I despise that song. Now, here's the crazy thing. on the last episode of the No Agenda show, I was talking to Rob, you know Rob, so Ducifer, and he was talking about the sciop of the COVID vaccine. And I said, yeah, even Dolly Parton was in on it. And I played the clip of her singing, vaccine, vaccine.

Really? So this is, you know, you don't want to mess with a no agenda show. That's right. Bad things happen when we dig up old stuff of yours. But I always loved her. I always loved the songs. you know, nine to five. There's all these, I just wanted to play this as a short, well,

it's a longer than normal homage to Dolly Parton. Well, I wanted to be a star, but I always thought of a star more of, as a singing star. Legendary country music star, businesswoman, actor, and philanthropist, Dolly Parton has died. Parton was born one of 12 kids in a one-bedroom cabin in East Tennessee. I was never ashamed. to my background, even though we grew up very poor. Those humble beginnings would shape her life in music.

I think we've become who we are when we're young. By 21, Parton broke into the country billboard charts for the first time with her single Dumb Blonde. It was one of the first milestones in a career that spanned seven decades. She released over 50 albums, winning 10 Grammys and garnering 55 Grammy nominations. the most ever for a female country artist. Get your scummy hands off of me. Her first of two Oscar nominations for Best Original Song

was in 1981 for the song 9 to 5 from her movie of the same name. What a hit. She received an honorary Oscar in 2025 for her humanitarian work. It makes me want to dream up new ways to help lift people up. And isn't that what we're supposed to be here for? In 2024, Rolling Stone Magazine ranked her, 1973 hit Jolene, the number one greatest country song of all time. And Jolene, Jolene, I'm begging of you, please don't take my man.

Brainworm. Yeah, right. And the song she wrote around the same time as Jolene, I Will Always Love You, eventually got its own iconic cover. And then Whitney, of course, made it into a worldwide hit. Beyond her music, Parton created a business empire. Dollywood in the heart of the smokers. Opening Dollywood, a theme park near her hometown at East Tennessee that employs thousands and has invigorated the surrounding area. Hundreds and hundreds of businesses have sprung up in thousands and thousands of jobs.

I just really thank business. I get that from my dad. Parton supported many charitable causes, including childhood literacy through her imagination library. We've officially gifted over 200 million books to children. Dolly Parton leaves behind more than iconic music. She leaves a legacy of generosity, humility, and a reminder to be kind to one another. I think everybody should be treated with respect. I hope that everybody gets a chance to be who and what they are. And, you know, she was a real American, man, American success story.

Yes, she was. Absolutely. I really loved her for that. And, you know, Taylor Swift is no Dolly Parton. No, of course not. Yeah, but there's always that comparison. And it's like, no, no, no, no, Dolly Parton. And whenever she was on the Tonight Show, those appearances were legendary.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. She just played it off so well. And you know what Taylor Swift can see her shoes? And Dolly Parton was never able to see her shoes. There you go. So there's a big difference. Let me see, Matt.

Was anything else you want to? I mean, have a couple other things here that we haven't handled. Actually, we should probably do a quick bit here on, on the latest. We actually talked about this on your program on Monday, the Matt Long Show, Matt Long Show podcast, which is a good listen.

You know, how long are you been doing radio? I'm going into my eighth year. And this is all a Hill Country? It is, yeah, the Hill Country. I started out, I did a call in for a national show a few years before that

where I called in and gave them Texas news from the legislature. on Tuesdays. Yeah. And that's when the local radio station heard that and said, we need to, we want you to do that for us. For free. For free.

And then next thing you know, they were offering me a job. And, but there was nothing to, no pay. There was no pay. That's radio, baby. Yeah. But you're in show business. So I said, I said, I'll tell you what, I'll give you six months. And if I add value to you, I'm telling you, this was before I discuss.

covered you guys. But I told him, I said, if I'm adding value to your station, then you need to pay me. And if I'm not adding value to your station, then you need to find something that gives you value. I said, so I'll give you six months. And it's about a 33 mile drive one way for me to get over there. So it's, you know, wearing tear, gas, et cetera. And the owner called me in at five months. And his table was clear except for that big checkbook. And he said, what do you want? and so I came home and we talked to I talked to Gail about it and again no I've never run aboard I've never done any of that nothing so this is the thing when I first came the first time you had me on I come into the I'm like so first

all you got you're coming down this this one of a very dangerous road you're driving towards curvil yeah and you have to turn left on this two lane 70 mile an hour road with no view from either end no it's like it's like your life is in danger making this left-hand turn. You roll up, there's five shipping containers. One of them is the one you're in. He's exaggerating a little bit. No, I am not. I am not. No, there's an office building, but no, I'm not. There's five containers. No, the country station, which I'm sure is the big one, they have cushy studio inside the building. All the other guys get the container. And you're sitting in it, I'm looking at you working the board and everything. You know, I used to be a skateboarder back in the day. You ever skateboard? No.

And you know the concept of goofy foot? No. So typically on a skateboard or in a surfboard, I guess, your right foot is back and your left foot is forward. Okay. And some guys just learned how to do it with their left foot back in the front. That's goofy. Okay. And it freaks skateboarders out.

And that's when I saw you doing radio. I'm like, man, this is like goofy foot on radio. But he's doing it. It's amazing. Now, you're really good. Because, you know, you're running your own board and everything. And I'm just amazed. Like, how did everything?

because it just seems like you're the crazy professor. You're like and you hit the top of the hour, you hit the news, everything's perfect. It's like it's a joy watching you goofy foot on the radio. Oh, well thank you. It's a compliment. It really is. You know, like your typical

you know, watch me do this push and all the buttons because that's what all the radio guys are. You know, like that's why they put cameras in studios. Because the stupid top 40, I think it's the stupidest thing they ever did. The top 40 jocks You know, look how cool it is when I'm hitting the buttons.

It's all this complicated stuff that I'm doing. Man, I'm turning up the volume, turning it down. Oh, yeah. And the minute the song starts, you know, I stop talking and I throw off my headphones and I go to the Coke machine. I'm right back in time. You know, it's like that's what DJs are and you're the opposite of that. But the result is fantastic. Well, thank you.

Thank you. Do you guys have a camera in the studio? Oh, heaven's no. And we never will. It ruins everything. Yeah. It ruins everything. No, you know, it's the old line. We have a face for radio, and it's very true.

You're a good-looking man not long. All right, so here is the latest midterm outrage, hair on fire that is working quite well in Texas. President Trump hosted tech leaders at the White House to discuss U.S. efforts on cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence. Trump says the technology is crucial to create more jobs and beat China, but voters have a different perspective. And PR's Deepa Shivaram reports. The president argued that if he were the mayor of a town, he would want an AI data center there for the tax benefits. But if I were a governor or mayor, I would want that plant in my community. And many of them are designed in a very beautiful way.

That puts Trump at odds with the majority of Americans. A gallop poll from March this year said seven in ten Americans oppose an AI data center getting built in their area. Trump and his remarks acknowledged that AI data centers could use a quote, little public relations help. But his stance underscores how his perception of the technology differs from voters' concerns, which could be a top issue in the midterm elections this year. There it is. Top issue in the midterm and Abbott's fallen, hook, line, and sinker for it. Have you ever seen, I mean, what happened to all the other outrage?

It just all went away. Oh, it just comes and goes. And we've doubled down on this one. You know, when the outrage on that one came into the Hill country, I get these pockets of outrage that just pop up, this cycle. of outrage that we see here in the Hill country. I think maybe started by some of the women on that text group. It is them. It is those women all the time. They get that all fired up. And it just seems like they want to pull me in real quick. And let's talk to Matt. He'll make it an issue on the radio.

And I just, I kick back and I wait and I watch and I observe. And at the end of this on these data centers, the first thing I thought about was you're cutting off your nose to spite your face. We are so addicted to internet, to connectivity, to being able to, you know, check your bank account while you're on the road in, I don't know, Taiwan or somewhere, and all these things that people, they're thirsty for more internet, more things on their phone, more connectivity. You know, I went to the bank the other day and the ATM machine was down. You can't walk into your bank anymore and just get cash, right? And so I was going to-

You can at Guadalupe Bank. You can at Guadalupe Bank, which are a sponsor of the Matt Long Show, I should say. I love those guys. Yes, they are real good. And so I pulled up to the drive-up window and I just gave her my card and I said, I just need $40. Adam, they had to go print temporary checks for me. Really? Yeah.

Yeah, so now I have fun. The system was down so they couldn't, they couldn't do it electronically. Oh, goodness. I'm telling you, folks, this battle against the data centers, and had I brought any clips, it would have been boring clips from 13 years ago when Texas, the state of Texas was hustling for data centers. Yeah. And I listened to several hours of a committee hearing from 13 years ago where they were begging these companies to come to Texas. and the companies were lined up there talking to them, giving testimony, and they kept saying, yeah, but we need a sales tax cut. Yeah. And they got it. They got it. They got a 6% sales tax cut.

And so we, the state was all gung-ho to get the data centers in. And now the very same people who were all gung-ho. And by the way, it passed on the floor unanimously. How often does that happen? And that never happens. No, no. And so it passed unanimous. and now those same guys gals and guys are all said oh no no data centers no data centers

it's it's it's to get votes it's be afraid of data centers and vote republican be afraid of muslims vote republican be afraid of and they just and vote republican just name it name it whatever it is oh and weed's going to come back into it be afraid you know of delta nines vote Republican. I mean, it's... They already passed that, didn't they? Yeah, but even, they've even pulled that back. Oh, yeah. Just the last couple of weeks.

Because the Stone Texans are like, hey, yo, I'm not going to vote for you if you don't give me my Delta 8 and Delta 9 back. That's right. That's right. That's crazy. So, yeah, it is, it's just fear mongering before the elections. And it's, you don't want to insult people. You know, I don't want to insult people. But at the same time, it's like, it's step back a little bit.

See who is motivating you and why? Where is this message coming from? And why is it so, why are you getting so hair on fire about it? Well, one of the reasons is the frontier model companies themselves, frontier model. Okay. So these like open AI in Anthropic, basically the top two. Their entire marketing to keep the money flowing into them without any profits coming out. In fact, they're burning money at an unbelievable rate.

their marketing campaign is twofold. One is our stuff is so good. It's dangerous. So we couldn't even give it to you if we wanted to. Government, please regulate us so that the cheap, see that computer right there? Yeah. That is running my entire production system.

That is all open source models running on that one little computer. That little box right there with the blue lights. That little tiny thing? Oh my goodness. That's a GTX. It's just running, you know, everything, my clips, my, you know, the whole thing. It runs everything. And that's what they hate.

So they want regulation to ban open source models. But because of their marketing, people are like, well, this stuff doesn't sound good for my health. It's in these data centers. We don't want it near me because it might take over and do something. And this was the latest. Open AI CEO, Sam Altman, in an ad with a new app building. partner on the promises of artificial intelligence. Another company executive is sending a different message. In an interview with the Guardian newspaper, OpenAI's chief global affairs officer Chris

Lehain saying people are going to be able to access these open source models and be able to have ongoing persistent attacks on you. Oh no! You're going to need to have open models will have attacks on you. We've got to regulate them. Really superior models to fend them. Superior models. Moth and defend yourself. It's been a month since OpenAI revealed one of its models, with no instructions to do so, escape containment, and hacked another company called Hugging Face. We're looking at AI, we're looking at controls.

We're also making sure that we leave. I like this president, but he has no jack about this. He doesn't know what he's talking about. Shortly afterwards, President Donald Trump said the White House was examining safety regulations, but little has happened since. Good. At least, on the federal level.

Weeks ago, a New Mexico judge ordered Facebook and Instagram owner META to pay more than $900 million U.S. for causing mental harm to children. On Monday, Alabama's Attorney General subpoenaed OpenAI over the hugging face incident, investigating whether the company violated consumer protection laws and poses an ongoing risk to the citizens of the state. They might be able to impose real change on the way Open AI operates. The University of Toronto's, Evan Light, says, New Mexico ruling could offer precedent for controlling tech giants, pointing out the chorus, calling for AI control, includes top AI companies like OpenAI. And he notes LeHane's comment targeted open source artificial intelligence, open AI's not-for-profit rivals.

Hubbingface tried to use an open AI model to deal with the situation, and it was not capable of doing that. And it used an open source model from a Chinese developer to advocately figure. out what the situation was. Global News asked OpenAI for comments. The company did not respond by deadline. On Monday, it told CNN it is conducting a thorough review. Okay, so it's that kind of story when people don't know what it is. And it's, it's kind of hard for people to understand. The only thing they really, most people see is Chad GBT, and it talks back to them, and it sounds like a robot, and it looks up off, and it's like a magic eight ball. And they think it's the Oracle and it says everything. Of course, it's not always right. But that's not really a way.

what AI does. I mean, I don't have my box over there. I don't ask it questions. You know, what I do is I use it to run different workflows and processes. This made me extremely efficient and has saved me hours and hours of prep per day. I mean, it's really phenomenal. But they hear this and they're like, I don't want that near me. You know, there's enough YouTube pastors out there that have made people afraid of this.

You know, it's the devil. it's the it's the anti-crice all of this stuff you know Peter Thiel you get people out there oh Peter Thiel and it's and flock cameras and it's all going to come together and we're all going to die that's basically the marketing the funny thing is is that this is one of the largest

transfers of wealth to the working class to build these data centers I mean it's unbelievable the amount of work that is available in Texas that's all I know about but it's everywhere to build these data centers but they better hurry up because just today it was announced that Nvidia, the only company actually making a profit because they create the

GPUs that everyone runs their frontier models on, but not just the front every model. There's other stuff, but they're the big dog. You know, they just reported like some astronomical number like $46 billion with a $2.20 per share profit this past quarter. they just announced they're buying Hugging Face, the guys you just heard about. You told us

a couple of weeks ago what hugging face was. It's basically a version of that. Okay. Okay. Chinese models, they're distilled, probably stolen from those guys. Whatever it is, it works fine.

You know, is it cutting edge? Is it frontier? No. No, it's maybe nine months behind. It works fine. There's a lot of open source work being done. But Invidia, They are now about to kill all these guys because they now have the full stack. They've got the GPUs. They signed it.

And they've been pumping money into all these companies to keep them going, the circular financing you might have heard about. So they've been putting money in Anthropic, in open air, all the small startups that use these models. And now they just said, you know what, we're going to buy Hugging Face. That's going to kill these guys. And Nvidia is going to be the top big dog. And I don't know if all these data centers are going to happen. I really don't think so. Let me ask you, being the king of conspiracy theories, what do you hear about this theory about that China is the one that is behind the no data centers in our neighborhood because they want all the data centers.

And so the folks that are out promoting no data centers and keep them out of my neighborhood, do you think that China has anything to do with that? No, that is the Republican response to the Democrats playing this game on them. So literally, you know, Mr. Wonderful, Kevin O'Leary? So he's, I don't know if the guy even has any money. Okay. I don't know if he's just on Shark Tank or whatever. But, you know, he does YouTube videos in his pajama pants at home now. And, you know, he had this whole video like, oh, we found out that, you know, this whole campaign, which was some thing was in Utah, like some left-wing group was.

going against data centers and literally spreading this message of data centers bad, you know, don't vote Republican because they want data centers. And Mr. Wonderful is a perfect, you know, poster child for Republican capitalism. And he immediately went, this is China. They're funded by China. No, they're not. They're funded by, you know, the Arabella group. Okay. Which is this huge, you know, group of left-wing billionaires who just hate Republicans.

So it's, so, so they're, they're playing a sci-op on the Republican Party, getting everyone to be afraid of data centers. And the Republican response is, well, that's just China. They want to have all the data centers. It's all midterm bull crap. All of it. Okay. I take back everything. I've been spreading that theory.

No, no. I'll, I'll break that, I'll break that theory. China doesn't need, this is the beauty of the internet. You don't need data centers in Texas or Utah if you're China. put them in China. They've got the cheapest power everywhere. What about putting them in space? There's been a lot of talk about that. That's Elon. Yeah. Well, I like Elon. I mean, if he can make that happen, I mean, he solves the power problem supposedly because

the sun, you know, I don't know, it's like pigs in space. He's going to have data centers. I don't know. I guess if you can have this, you know, the space station, I guess you can have data centers. I don't know what the weight ratio. I don't know how any of that works, but man, it funded his IPO. Yeah, yeah. You got the rockets. You got the GPUs. You know how to do solar.

You've got Starlink. Maybe he can do it. I don't know. What he will do is he's going to do his new cell phone company. Yeah, I've heard. That is, you know, there's some interesting stuff. I don't like necessarily the idea of everything being tied to Elon because it can go away. But yeah, I don't know.

Data centers in space. I'm fine with it. I'm good with data centers. I think that they're going to have so much power being built around these data centers that when they go away, because they will, you know, I had a data center in 2002 in Amsterdam. Spectacular fail. I was way too early.

Right on the AmSix, the Amsterdam Internet Exchange. And I was right because, you know, data centers today are filled up with your YouTube videos, all your Netflix stuff is at a data center as close to you as possible because it's just cheaper that way to transport the data. So these things are a fact of life. But when they go away, we'll have all this cheap power and we'll be, I don't know, mining Bitcoin all day, Matt. There you go. There you go. You know, it was interesting, the testimony from 13 years ago from these folks who were trying to bring data centers to Texas, is they were very clear that they really needed to be and wanted to be near big cities.

They had to be close to a large population because of latency. Has that changed? No. No. No, latency is still the same. Well, that's for what they, so you have inference is what they call. It's a fancy word. So you have the compute.

Got to have compute, Matt. Okay. Got to have compute to build the models, which is a very, energy and process or intense intensive process, you know, that costs a lot of money, just in pure energy. But then the inference, so when it does something, you want to get that information to you as quickly as possible. For your chat GPT, maybe not that important,

but it's the same as like the stock market. You know, you have data centers in the buildings themselves where people, you know, do this trading because you want the lowest, latency possible to have to make the trade even two-tenths of a second faster than the other guy, it could mean a lot of money. This is why the president's media company was selling API early access, which is literally like milliseconds to his true social posts. Because when the president posts something, then, you know, that changes markets.

That change, you know, when he says, you know, I'm going to bomb a whole civilization. The oil markets react immediately. When he says, oh, no, I think it's okay now. The oil markets react immediately. If you can get that 500 milliseconds faster than the other guy, you can make a lot of money. Okay. That's why they're leasing that API access out for, you know, half a million dollars or $100,000 a month. It could literally be that valuable.

Wow. So anyway, I'm not against data centers. Okay. I'm against chatbots. I think that's the worst thing. it could have ever existed. I've never even tried one. You should try one, Matt.

Yeah. Which one? Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter. Try Chad GPT and give it a name and talk to her. Oh, no. I can't. I just can't do it.

Oh, man. Hey, Matt, I really appreciate you being here. Actually, I held you much longer than I said I would. You're welcome. I'm going to do the donations. You're welcome to hang around. I'm happy to let you out. What do you want to do?

Well, before you do donations, I want to talk about a donation right quick, if you don't mind. Yeah, of course. So one of the very first times I heard of no agenda, and it was somewhere between three and four years ago, and I was driving back, and it was right after I'd met Adam, and I said, well, I'm, I was driving back from Georgetown, and I had just, it was about one o'clock, and I said, ah, I'm going to listen live, you know, and hadn't done that yet. And so I'm listening live. And JCD, you guys were going back and forth and he started ribbing you about your wealthy friends here in Fredericksburg. And he said something to the effect.

You must be getting a lot of dollars out of your wealthy friends here in Fredericksburg. And then you said, no, you hadn't gotten a dime yet from them. No donors from Fredericksburg. Adam, I whipped over to the side of the road. And I made a donation. I bet you did, Matt. And I made a donation. and because I just wanted to be able to say from here to eternity that I was the first donor in Fredericksburg to the Adam Curry show.

Now, I'm not going to tell you how much I donated, but it was 40% of what was in my checking account that day. $16. Okay, perfect. Brother, I so appreciate you coming on. I love talking through the stuff with you. And, you know, if you want to come back on again, I'm sure we could do that. I'd love to do that with you. It's a lot of fun.

Well, it's a real honor and knowing how many people out there would love to have this seat. I just feel very privileged to sit here. And, no, you can't get the NDA is very clear. I'm not going to give you any details about Adam's studio. Or any trade secrets. That's right. No trade secrets. Thank you again, Adam.

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Thank you very much. Just Baker for another fantastic mix. Appreciate him so much. Anybody's welcome to send him in. I love playing him during the show now instead of end of show. It's a lot of fun. Value for value, that is our motto here at the No Agenda show. Let me just see.

I'm flying solo on this here. Let me see. Peak Trollage, 876. Oh, man, you guys were better on Sunday. Good to have you all here, trolls. That is trollroom.io, noagenda stream.com. I think noagenda.com. I think noagenda.com also works. So value for value. It's very simple. All you have to do is whenever you get value out of the podcast, send it back with your time, your talent or your treasure. Time and talent, critical,

your boots on the ground. Just anything you can do. Telling people about the podcast is extremely helpful. Organizing meetups. There's so much that can be done, including artwork for the show at noagendaartgenerator.com. And let me see. Now, I don't really have anyone to argue with anymore since John isn't here with me. But I will say that I love Parker Pauley's JCD pest control art. It was definitely something different the way it looked with the lettering. And I don't think he, I don't think he's an AI guy, actually. It looks like he did some work on this. It was just great. I love this. I think I even used one of Parker Pauleys for the pre-street for the for the for the bat signal. morning. Thank you. No agenda, art generator.com. Let's take a quick look. There was some other stuff, I think, that was in the running here. We had, oh, I did kind of like the beef one, the beef product. The beach ball was okay. Order of the ant was cute, although I could hear John saying it's too small. Certainly Korean friends was too small. And I think that way, yeah, that was really it.

No agenda art generator.com. It's highly appreciated all the work that you guys do. All the work prompting. Now to thank our producers who supported us. $50 and above, we thank everybody. $200 or more. We give you not just the opportunity to send in a note, which I'll read, but also you get an official Hollywood title of Associate Executive Producer, $300 above, and you get an executive producer.

And we have a lot of people coming in for the order of the Ant 33333. Get you that handsome pin, which Jay has been working on very hard. And we start off with Sir Wild Bill, who is in Data Center Central in Alexandria, Virginia, $600. He says, I am a baronet. Thanks for making no agenda. I'm not a spook, but I've been to Gitmo several times. I can't say more. God bless Sir Wild Bill, Sacred Red Knight of the Heart Liberator of California.

is that so. Sir Jamo, Lewis in Idaho, $350.93. Order of the Antonation from Sir Jama, Black Baron of North Idaho. Haccon Anderson from Portland, Oregon, $350.58. ITM. I started listening in 2022 after my brother hit me in the mouth. This podcast has given me so much. I am forever grateful for the information and the laughter that you two have given me.

I'm going to miss JCD's voice. You are not alone, my brother. I would like some jobs karma. And this last donation brings me to Knighthood. I would like to be known as Sir Tinfoil Viking for the roundtable. A Smalhova, which is a sheep's head and Aquavit, a breakfast of champions. Keep up the good work. Says Hakon Kunnhe, Kindle, Andreson.

And we got your jobs karma right here. Jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs. Let's vote for jobs. Yes. Parma. Sir Mike Keeler, Slayer of Taxus in Las Vegas, Nevada, 350. Longtime listener from Las Vegas, my first donation was for show 267. Wow.

I originally learned about the show when JCD was on Twitter, as many of you did. The passing of JCD was devastating. I read his columns back in the 80s, and they were often the first thing I read when I received those weekly or monthly magazines. You are not alone in that, brother. Well, I didn't always agree with them. And you're not alone in that either. His columns were always thought-provoking. Today is August 26th, it's my 60th birthday,

and joining the order of the ant is an awesome gift, and you shall receive such order, my friend. Keep up the fight, help bring the truth out. Best regards, Sir Mike Keeler, Slayer of Taxes. And let's see, now we have some... Nathan Rottier. Yes, Nathan Rottier. He says, in the morning, it was time for my annual donation.

This was $500. Canaanavian dollars at the time. It's now 348.50 and sinking, I must admit, John's passing hit harder than I expected, and my prayers go out on behalf of the family, friends, and no agenda nation as a whole. May healing come as you grieve, and God bless you all. Thank you, brother. Appreciate that.

I remember when Adam John were talking regarding what they would do if one of them passed. We've talked about that a few times. They both said that they would get Mofax as the report. No, I think John actually said, you're going to get Mo, aren't you? Which he did not think was a good idea. Made me smile and then a bit more ruefully now. On a different note, show day is my birthday.

He wants, okay, he's got some jingles that I didn't prep. He wants eating the dogs. Hold on a sec. Eating the dogs. I'm sorry. I dropped the ball on the prep for the jingles here. eating the dogs. That sounds pretty good. Okay. And you asked for too much for me today. Pretty good. Yes, we got pretty good. What in the world is this? That is, man, what is that?

I think that's the F-35. I'm going to wind it up with an F-35 karma for you. That should do it for you. Here we go. They're eating the dogs. I think that sounds pretty good. You've got karma. There you go. Jesse Chapotel, 34375. No note. That earns a double up karma for you. You've got.

Karma. And, of course, in order of the aunt, Sir David Fugasoto. He is the, man, he is the Duke of America's heartland and the Arabian Peninsula, I believe, 34375. That's probably 333 plus fees. Proud to join the fight. I'm doing my part. Sir Dave Fugasoto. Salvatore Tringali.

Thank you for your courage. No, Jingles, No Karma, 343.75. This is Rajindirpal Raj Dossange from Friant, Friant, California. I think that's right, Friant, Friant, ITM, all caps, this note, that doesn't happen often. Our condolences to the Dvorax, Curries,

and the Noad in the Nation. I've been a long-time listener to the show over 15 years and 11-11 monthly subscribers in September 27, 2015. I'm adding 333.33 for the order of the ant, and this should also put me well over the threshold for knighthood. Yes, it does. I would like to be knighted is Sir Jagni, Ojugni, pronounced Jugny, Sir Jagni,

of the Militran Lake area. Can I have chai and samosas at the round table, along with Diljit dosange Punjabi music? I did, I forgot to get the musicians in for that. Also, add me to the birthday list. I'll be turning 59 in August 28th, and he wants some F-carma, goat-cancer, goat-cancor, goat-cancor, goat-counter, goat-cum, thank you for your courage. God bless.

Raj Dosange, happy to oblige. Jobs, jobs. Wait, that's not the one. You want F-cancer. It was so much... It was so much easier with John. I could key stuff up while he was talking. Ryan Jacobs, 3.43.75.

Order of the ant for you. Like many others, I got hit in the mouth during COVID. And your show helped ground me. This is my first donation. Please deduce me. You've been deduced. Missing JCD, like so many others, it would be an honor to be a member of the Order of the Ant. Thanks, Ryan. Sir, becoming heroic, 3333, 33, ants, ants, yes, sir, you are in the order.

Circastic the Nomad from Glenmore, Pennsylvania, with 333333. And he's celebrating 30 years of his wedded bliss with his keeper. And I never had a fight. I never want a fight, he says. This donation will make me a Viscount. I claim Chester County if the Peeridge Committee approves. So done. Adam, please plug the Chester Springs meet up on August 30th.

Well, there you go. The Chester Springs Meetup in Pennsylvania on the 30th. No jingles, no karma. Sarcastic the Nomad. Paul Field wrote War and Peace from Moisee, Mozany, Wisconsin, 33333. Little boots on the ground. They operate fieldwork telecom.

small family owned operating splicing company. My wife helps with crew deployment as well as managing our books, all while managing the house and homeschooling our four human resources. I stay in the field with the guys helping hit deadlines and among other things. Work is going well, and we are truly blessed. We built new fiber to the home networks, maintaining existing fiber, and have recently started to cable or dabble in data centers, and I'd love to give back to my community with an insider's peak.

Okay. Here we go. So far, we have only. done some acceptance testing on the fiber network running through most of the Midwest. These networks are being built or upgrading on preparation for the data center traffic, so I cannot provide a boots on the ground reporting from inside the data center. Friends who do that work say the same problems exist in the data center projects as the fiber to the home project. Materials and labor are short.

All of the ISPs have been racing for many years to take the Obama rural development of fiber. That's right. We got it here in Fredericksburg. All the poor people in rural Fredericksburg got fiber. They've been racing to get the money. They're all getting ready to do the same thing with the next wave of government funding. Joey's Bede broadband equity, access, and development.

That's from the O'Biden administration. They're trying to cover as much ground as possible as quickly as possible, and the supply chain is stressed. In general, the industry as a whole is tapped. Another problem for the data center build out. I'm splicing cable that was made a month ago. Trust me, it's not awesome inventory control. The industry is out of backstock.

Projects are facing a decision of delaying, We're buying what's available is left into the splicing companies to figure out how to put the square peg in the round hole. By the way, it's an important one. Field work is hiring. We're looking for honest people who are willing to work and learn, preferably someone who has been hit in the mouth. Well, there you go. That's a prerequisite. We will provide on-the-job training and competitive wages located in central Wisconsin, servicing all of Wisconsin and beyond.

If interested, visit fieldwork USALLC.com. fieldwork, USALC.com. Maybe Linda can send some quality people my way, Linda Lu Patkin. JCD cannot be replaced, but I like your new Alex Jones guy to Sir Duceifer. Thank you very much, Paul. That was worth the boots on the ground. 250 first associate, oh, I'm sorry, Edward Noon comes in with 333333. No note. Order of the ant for you, sir.

You've got. Double up. Karma. Here's our first associate executive producer, West Stewart, Mesa, Arizona, 250. What is the best birthday gift someone can give themselves? Of course, it's a producer ship for the Noah Jenna show that takes them to knighthood. On the 28th, I will have completed my 63rd revolution around the sun. Like me, Adam, you are Generation Jones, not a boomer or Gen Xer.

I'm the face of Gen X, though. My first ever producer ship was sadly John's last episode. I forgot to mention that note that it was an inside track donation because he is the person who brought me to Noah Jen the nation. My deepest condolences to the Dvorak and Curry families, it does really feel like we all lost a loved one. No kidding. For my night name, I'd like to be known as surname, Sir, Name, Sir, Name, Stuart of the Basin of the Sun. For the roundtable, how about a fistful of nuts and a bottle of any Kirkland wine in John's honor? You got it.

No jingles, just some R2D2 karma, please. West Stewart, Mesa, Arizona. You've got karma. Joe and Watkinsville, Georgia, 250. deduishing. You've been deduced. Long overdue donation for the best podcast in the universe. Shout out to Sir Jay Lou, Island Dog, and Dame Janet of the Bulldog Nation, ITM.

Nicholas C. Fickland, Lancaster, South Carolina, 212. My first donation is long overdue, and it's time to atone. I'm going to give you deduished. You've been deduced. Thank you for the unexpected introduction on the last show to answer your question. Yes, the remainder from the eight from the eight, from the eight, 8-8 in memory of J-C-D Batchez-O-S-D-Bah. Oh, this is, this, this, this, uh, S-L-A-Z-I-N. Uh, the remainder from the 8-8 in memory of J-C-D batch with a special inscription are now available

on the site for a special price. They're exclusive for no-edge in the nation. So they're hidden at S-Clazun.com slash J-C-D, S-L-A-Z-I-N-com slash J-C-D. All sales of this batch will be donated to the show as John would want it. No, John would demand it. Additionally, there are limited to 33 bottles, coincidentally, after what I sent you, the Vorex and keeping one for myself. So that's what there is, 33 bottles. By now, well, stocks last. They will be gone soon, I'm sure. No jingles, but new business prayer, if you don't mind.

Yes, we have a special prayer jingle for those who, what happens? Prayer. Yes, this is the one. You've got prayers. And you're on my list, brother. Matthew Martel, Broomall, Pennsylvania. Martelhardware.com, $210.60. The challenge was to try to get JCD to chuckle using 250 characters or less.

I think I got them once or twice. Same challenge, new hosts. Visit martelhardware.com. Use coupon code no potato for an additional 10% off your order. JCD Hot Pockets. Yes. Okay. JCD Hot Pockets. Oh, wait a minute.

I somehow, I don't know what happened, but I forgot to key everything up. Hot Pockets. Where, oh, this is it, yes. Hot Pockets. From the grave, everybody. Hot Pockets from the grave. And there she is. Linda Lou Patkin from Castle Rock, Colorado, $200.

And all she wants is jobs. karma and she writes in her note that AI can write your resume. The problem is it can write everyone else's too. Linda helps professionals and executives figure out what makes them different, what makes them valuable and turns that value into a resume that gets results. Go to ImageMakersInck.com. That's ImageMakers Inc. with a K. And Linda Lou, Duchess of Jobs and writer of winning resumes because your resume should do more

than just look good. Jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs. Let's vote for jobs. You got karma. And as promised, the rest of the donors, $50 and above, reading of your note not guaranteed. But thank you, Johns Bert, Johns BRT, $100.88. Patrick Mangon from Tacoma, Washington, $100. Andrew Kelly, Los Angeles, 88, 88, vote with your pocket.

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$8.008. Sir Kevin McLaughlin. He is the Archduke of Luna, L, Lund. lover of America and boobs from Concord, North Carolina. And also a boob's donation from Gordon Schroeder in memory of Dolly. Yes, that makes sense. $80.8. Thank you. John Albarini, 7026. Lesterkowski in Arizona with a small boobes, $60.6. Put it in your calculator, folks. Dame Liberty Mom, Vista California. She's got small boobs as a donation. And Dame Rita comes in again. What happened there? Dame Rita, double nickels on the dime from Sparks, Nevada. And she has a note. I'll read it. ITM out. and we've been doing a fantastic job at rearranging to keep the show going as you work your way back to see your granddaughter. Yes, leaving on Saturday, can't wait, doing the show from Rotterdam, home of the macro mafia on Sunday.

Becoming a grandparent is a wonderful new chapter, Love and Light. Yes, we saw Baby Cleo this morning on the WhatsApp call. And of course, I went, oh, Cleo, and then she started to cry. So I have some work to do. Tina said, maybe don't do your voice like a retard so high. Just keep your low baritone. That might be better. Like, yeah, yeah, I scare children.

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I thought I had, didn't I have a, I thought I had a new, a new ant jingle. It was an aunt karma jingle. Someone, people are starting to send jingles again. This is good news. What is this? You've got ants. Okay. All right.

Thank you very much. Thank you all for supporting the Noagena show. It is highly appreciated. No agenda. Meetam. Am I going to promote the Fredericksburg meetup? Yeah. Are you kidding me?

Okay, all right. Once you do it right now, Matt, once you promote the Fredericksburg beatup. All right. October 17th, it will be the fifth semi-annual. We do it twice a year. And the fifth one will be in October 17th out at J6 Jennings. Yep. And the notice is already up.

And I would like to put a special request out there. Jenny makes a living on renting out her units out there. B&Bs and it is business practice here in the hill country that you on a weekend you you have to get two nights that's the way it is that it's everything that way and yeah the whole hill country that way I would really appreciate it if some of you guys would would come over for two nights come on over on a Friday night and the reason I say that first of all the breakfast that Jenny gives you on Saturday morning oh is that good and then on Sunday I mean I'm telling you and I will say that if we get any folks that stay the weekend there, I will bring up a jelly that my homemade jelly

and I will donate it. I don't know. The prickly pair. The prickly pair. I'll bring a whole variety, a whole selection. But it would be a blast to see all out there. And it is such a peaceful place. If you're coming over from Austin or Houston or the Metroplex or wherever, I mean, it is so quiet and peaceful out there. it'll be a perfect weekend for you. So check in at Friday on 3 o'clock on Friday. Check in, stay the weekend. And I do have to say the first meetup we had there was the highest bar revenue that they had ever had up until that day.

We're drinkers, man. We're drinkers. And it's just beer and wine. And so I guess the no agenda people drink and no things. And so there you go. That's my push for the Fredericksburg fifth. semi-annual meetup. And if you are, if you are Christ curious, decloaking or just want to check it out, I will personally usher you at Bridge Church for the early service at 9 a.m. if you stay Friday and

Saturday and come to the church on Sunday. It'll be a hoot. And Matt will be there too. That's right. We will walk you down the aisle. That's right. A meetup report that I missed. It was the Thursday meetup. Let me see. This. is from the Baron of Belmont and Catawba, Catawba, sorry, River Basin. We had a good turnout at the Thirsty Third Thursday meet up at Ed's Tavern. On Thursday, we had two dukes, two barons, several nights. One dame even had the blonde girlfriend, nickname given by John.

Some of our regulars were absent, but we did have a first-timer and some who can't make every month. I got you. JCD was well remembered for lots of bits and sayings of his were recalled. John is a national treasure, and will be well remembered for years to come. The Charlotte Noagena family sends its love and heartfelt condolences. The Dvorak family, the Curry family, the Horowitz family, and all who loved and Miss JCD.

Quote, Our lives change like the weather, but a legend never dies. Jimmy Buffett from Last Mango in Paris. Thank you for your courage, the Baron of Belmont and the Catawba River Basin. Thank you so much, brother. Very nice. Sorry, I missed that the first time. I prefer audio reports, but we make an exception for you, of course. An audio report, though, here from the Chattanooga No Agenda meetup with music, apparently.

In the morning, No Agenda Nation, this is Commodore Barron Bones, Night of Twin Peaks. We are here at Lookout Winery having a fantastic time when everybody had some flights of wine. We had some pizza, had some great conversation, and we're here to pass the phone around to say hello to everybody else that's here. So are you a Larry here in the morning? Hello there, No Agenda crowd. This is Dave Carlson. Hang in there, Adam. This is Linda Carlson. This is Chris Abrowski in the morning.

Hey, this is Scott Lovelace, newly crowned, night of the brown table, Sir Ginger Bear of East by God, Tennessee. In the morning, RIP, JCD. In the morning, slaves love mac and cheese. ITM, this is a dude named Ben, and I really appreciate Sir Paul putting this on. He's on an excellent job. It's been a lot of fun.

Hi, guys, I'm salty. I have no idea who you are, but it's good to be here. Sir Paul Couture, keeper of the art, in the morning. This is Noah, your resident Illuminati and Freemace. Sir, Adune Ben again. Missy John. And we will all say that, John, you may have turned down your speakers for the last time,

but we're going to turn them up here just so that way we can go out and hit them in the mouth. In the morning. In the morning. Ah, wonderful. Thank you. I don't think I heard your server in there, but that happens. As a meetup taking place tomorrow in Maastricht in the Netherlands, the three times is shipwright. That is a Dutch saying.

Three times a shipwright, seven o'clock, in Café in Dennecann in Maastricht. Oh, that's Sir Evert Bob. He is the crisis guy who comes in with emergency communications. He came in and helped out in Curville, set up entire mesh networks for everybody. Wonderful guy, go and see Evert in Maastricht. If you're in the south of the Netherlands, it's a beautiful place to go check out. If you're not, go drive down there, people. On Saturday, the backyard barbecue at the Jingle Pit Ranch, 1 o'clock, a jingle pot ranch, I'm sorry.

It's a private residence, so you need to see the website to RSVP. That is in Nanaimo, British Columbia, and Kandania. Go check that out. Sir Tree Daddy is hosting. They have a cool place. Our favorite Buzzkill meet up 2 o'clock at Marble Brewery in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Also on Saturday, the New England JCD Memorial meet up 2 o'clock. That is at the home of Lady Butters and Sir Knives in Rhode Island.

RSVP required for the secret location. Kermudgeon meetup 6 o'clock. That is the same as Amsterdam time. But this will be at the rooftop bar in Zurich, Switzerland. Black Knight Sir Swiss Senna is hosting. Please, we love meetup reports from different countries. So go to the rooftop bar on Saturday at 6 o'clock and hang out with Sir Swiss Senna and your other knights and dames and douchebags,

etc. and producers in Switzerland. On Sunday, our next show day, the Chester County Community Meetup, 33 at Liberty Union Barn Grill in Chester Springs, Pennsylvania. And we're done with August, but for September, we have on the third, my birthday, Raleigh, North Carolina, the 6th, Tapiola, Michigan, Fort Mills, South Carolina, Medford Lakes, New Jersey. On the 10th, Brooklyn, the 12th, Boise, Idaho, Scottsdale, Arizona on the 15th, Charlotte, North Carolina on the 17th. The 18th, Tbilisi, in Georgia. not the state in the country. Another meetup report is required. The 19th, King George in Virginia, Petaluma, California,

Wilmington, California, also on the 19th. And that rounds it out. There's many more in October, November, going through December. No agenda meetups. This is the place where you will meet people that you never expected to meet. You will make friendships. Some people get married. You make connections.

And as you know, connection always brings you protection. Is that you, Matt, or is that me? Is that you? Connection brings protection. In fact, these people will be your first responders in any emergency. Go to no agenda meetups.com. If you can't find a meetup near you, just start one yourself. It's easy.

It's so easy. Matt can do it with help from his wife, Gail. Knowagintametups.com. Guaranteed, always a party. Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days. He triggered or hell the lame feels the same. is like a party. And that concludes our broadcast day.

Unfortunately, no end of show, ISO. People start sending those in again, will you? I just don't have time to make them. Help me out, producers. It would go a long way. Now, if you're listening on one of those modern podcast apps, which notifies you when the bat signal goes out, and the stream goes live,

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for the foreseeable future. I got no other ideas, people. Just support the show. Noagenda donations.com. That is the most helpful thing you can do is support us by going to knowagenda donations.com. So looking forward to Sunday, it should be another hoot and nanny

because there's always something to deconstruct. There's always sense to be made of the crazy world you're in where everything, and I mean everything, is about the midterms. Thank you to Matt Long. Check them out, the Matt Long Show as a podcast, and I will be back on Sunday until then. Adios, mofos, hooey, hooey, and such. In the morning meatbags, lane four has been automated.

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