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Adam Curry, John C.
Dvorak.
Thursday, November 14, 2024, this is your award
-winning Kid Von Nation media assassination episode 1712.
This is no agenda.
Putting Post-its on the good gear, and
broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas
snow country here in FEMA Region Number 6.
In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
Man from Northern Silicon Valley, well, I'm still
working on it.
I'm John C.
Dvorak.
Working on your opening or just working on
it?
I had I had a convoluted I think
was just a bit too long and I
just couldn't pull it off.
I'm sorry.
Hey I'll tell you what it is.
Oh okay here we go we get a
post a post opening joke.
Yeah I so I've been working on some
on some new material.
I've been working on a spice mix it's
a commercial product a spice mix that brings
out the flavors brings forward the flavors of
meat and vegetables and I'm calling it the
seasoning of reveal.
Yeah you can ridicule me all you want
but until you can show me where the
15 million Democrat voters went I think we
have a season of reveal.
That is your season of reveal right there
15 million people are dead.
They disappeared.
They just disappeared.
Hey good news this is it the post
get your post-its note get your post
-it notes ready.
Starting December 2nd we can bid on production
equipment gym offices and vehicles from Infowars.
Yeah I heard this.
Kind of sad.
Yeah well maybe Elon will just buy it
all up and give it back to him.
Well this this auction by the way does
not include the intellectual property which has already
been purchased.
And we have breaking news that just came
in four minutes ago from the Associated Press.
Remember we told you how Alex Jones's Infowars
site was going up for auction yesterday in
order to pay the 1.5 billion dollars
he owes Sandy Hook families for claiming that
shooting was a hoax.
I'm leading up to this because we now
found out who bought Infowars.
It is the satirical news outlet The Onion.
They bought it at a bankruptcy auction.
Again that's according to the relatives of Sandy
Hook victims who spoke to the Associated Press.
That's all we know at this point.
We don't know how much The Onion bought
Infowars for or if there were any other
terms or anything else with the deal that
we know of.
Forgive me I'm thinking of the word any
other catastrophes of that contract.
The sale price again was not immediately disclosed.
But again the satirical news outlet The Onion
has bought Alex Jones Infowars site.
Okay a couple things.
I would have bought Infowars.com.
Do they even exist anymore?
Well they're trying to exist.
They're trying to combat the Babylon Bee with
a little bit of news.
Well I have real news if you're gonna
do breaking news and this is something we
must get out of the way.
And now back to real news.
No it's not real news in that regard.
This is the six week cycle.
I have it.
The FBI.
This just came out.
It's breaking.
Breaking this hour.
I'm sorry.
Breaking this hour.
Breaking this hour.
FBI Houston has arrested a man accused of
attempting to provide material support for the terror
group ISIS.
The agency is telling us.
We learned this about five minutes ago but
we are scooping up more information now.
The agency is now telling us that the
28 year old suspect admitted to planning a
terrorist attack on U.S. soil.
That's all that we know right now.
We know that details are coming out.
We'll continue to do our due diligence as
journalists and ask great questions.
Hey how do you do journalism?
We will continue at this hour breaking this
hour to ask great questions.
Continue to do our due diligence as journalists
and ask great questions.
Oh that's it.
I want to share with you now the
FBI statement.
Please.
A quote.
FBI Houston special agent in charge Douglas Williams
announces the arrest of 28 year old Anas
Saeed.
He is accused of attempting to provide material
support to ISIS and by his own admission
planning a terrorist attack on U.S. soil
all from his apartment in Far West Houston.
Oh no.
The suspect has admitted to researching how to
conduct an attack on local military recruiting centers.
Google search.
Offering his home a safe sanctuary to ISIS
operatives.
Bragging he would commit a 9-11 style
attack if he had the resources.
A plane.
Attempting to produce ISIS propaganda.
More as we get it on the story.
Be afraid.
Be afraid everybody.
Be very afraid because they're here.
Wow.
Dynamite.
Wow.
He researched and he told the FBI you
know if I can if I can get
a plane a 9-11 style attack.
What nonsense is this?
They're trying to get some extra bonus money
before time runs out.
Unbelievable.
Before that you know you know Trump is
doing a real like a typical business reorg
thing with the FBI.
He built a new building and then it's
like okay here's the new building you guys
in this old building you're not going over.
It's like that's that's what you do in
a it's a perfect business turnaround.
I never thought about it in that regard
but it's exactly right.
You know this is a classic business turnaround
a pivot.
Yeah 10 guys you can go over and
by the way we've wired it the way
we want it wired now.
So we can hear everything we need to
hear.
Here's your new building.
So obvious.
This is these guys are disgusting.
Some schmuck.
They probably wait until we see the the
indictment.
We'll get the the report like well you
know we had we were talking to him
for a couple of months told him to
do some Google searches.
He said if only I could get an
airplane a 737 57 you know I could
probably crash it into a building.
Oh God.
Let it end.
Let it end.
I just found it interesting because I didn't
do the math on it because it just
came out this morning but I figure six
weeks ago there was whatever.
Oh yeah yeah what was the last six
weeks like?
I probably have it on a second.
Six week cycle.
Was that hmm that was well yeah September
30th.
Is that six weeks?
Holy crap it's exactly six weeks.
It's always exactly six weeks that's the joke.
Six weeks ago.
He first caught the attention of the FBI
because of jihadist oriented messages he posted on
social media.
Same guy.
Same guy.
It's unbelievable.
We're on to you FBI.
We're on to you.
And nobody else cares.
You know I was I was just there's
there's a lot of different things to discuss.
Of course the appointments.
I think what is most interesting is the
total befuddlement and in a way looking at
the ratings that is a big story of
course.
The collapse of the mainstream media.
At least the cable news let's put it
that way.
And if I just wrote some stuff down.
Well you should write you should tell people
you know I don't think everyone knows this
you should give them some background on the
collapse of these shows.
Okay CNN will be axing top stars in
layoffs that will see hundreds fired as ratings
continue to tank.
Headline.
My favorite CNN host Chris Wallace leaving network
after three years to explore possible full-time
podcasting career.
Right get out before you get fired.
Comcast to put MSNBC and Oprah's oxygen networks
up for sale in cable sell-off as
they force them to reimagine reimagine their news
operations.
MSNBC ratings.
Morning Joe down 39.6. That's the first
hour.
Second hour 36.9 percent.
Andrea Mitchell.
The Mitchell report 39.7 percent down.
Ari Melber.
Did anyone ever watch him in the first
place?
Down almost 50 percent.
Joy Reid down 54.6. All in with
Chris Hayes down 47.
I mean it's it's a bloodbath.
And with the cord cutting going on it's
just it's just not happening.
There's you know the the carriage fees are
going away and these you know highly paid
stars.
Anderson Cooper makes 20 million reportedly.
Aaron Burnett makes six million reportedly.
And the Caitlin woman makes three million dollars
a year.
She's new.
How did how did she get into that
gig?
She got I want her agent.
That's really good.
So I just wrote down a couple of
things because why are they befuddled?
Why are they befuddled?
Well they're befuddled.
What?
How could this happen?
Let's just look at a second what what
the the establishment including the mainstream legacy MSM
5M media.
We had the lawfare, the SCOTUS insurrection, booking
Trump, the huge fines, Department of Justice attacks,
the home raid.
We had celebrity endorsements everywhere.
It's unbelievable.
It's unbelievable how I mean Joy Reid still
can't believe it.
I think it's important to say that you
know anyone who has experienced or been in
the United States for any period of time
and experienced this country's history and knows it
cannot have believed that it would be easy
to elect a woman president let alone a
woman of color.
Let's just be clear.
Nothing that was true yesterday about how flawlessly
this campaign was run is not true now.
I mean this really was an historic, flawlessly
run campaign.
Queen Latifah never endorses anyone.
She had every prominent celebrity voice.
She had the Taylor Swifties.
She had the Swifties.
She had the Beehive.
You could not have run a better campaign
in that short period of time and I
think that's still true.
I mean it's unbelievable.
She had the Swifties.
She had the Beehive.
She had I mean Queen Latifah never endorses
anybody.
Okay so we had the celebrity endorsements.
Let's remember the algo and search manipulation.
The autocomplete on Google search.
All of that was manipulated.
Multiple assassination attempts and then the media came
out with he incited an insurrection.
He's racist.
He's a rapist.
He's mentally ill.
He favors only the rich.
Misogynist.
Don't forget that.
Misogynist.
Thank you.
He'll take away your rights.
He's gonna be a dictator.
He's gonna rip up the Constitution.
We'll use the military against the American people.
Hates gays, trans, women and they's.
Project 2025.
Hitler.
We can't believe that the guy won.
What is wrong with the American people?
Actually to be honest about it with that
laundry list I'm surprised he won myself let
alone swept.
It's just unbelievable.
It does tell you something.
It tells you that the media has lost
its mojo.
Even if you listen to Charlemagne the God.
The voice of black America.
Charlemagne the God.
Who is also just he's just befuddled by
the demographics of it.
What do you make of the the demographics
here?
I mean Trump got one out of every
three voters of color.
No.
When you say color you mean like black,
brown.
Like Kamala people.
Oh well I think that you know people
have on different issues that they care about
and I think that there's nobody out there
that's a single issue voter.
I think some of this is a backlash
to race and gender and identity politics.
Most people they just care about keeping food
on a on a table and keeping a
roof over their head and I think sometimes
people forget about that.
I think that they forget about you know
the working class and I for whatever reason
Donald Trump speaks to the grievances for whatever
reason class in a real way and I
keep telling folks people will forget what you
did.
They'll forget what you said but they'll never
forget how you made them feel and when
you go back to 2020 even though it
was a pandemic and it was COVID.
Yeah.
People don't care.
All they know is they got the stimulus
checks with his name on it and that's
what they remember.
Oh that did it.
People think about that when you have conversations
with folks they'd be like I remember how
2020 felt and they think that they're gonna
feel that you know in this in this
next this next term.
People were burning the envelopes you remember that
when the checks came in with Trump's signature
on it.
They didn't burn the checks mind you.
Just the envelopes.
I don't know where you're going with this
but I do have some clips on demographics
that I have.
Sure sure.
The NPR was freaked out about the same
exact topic.
They're befuddled.
And they're befuddled and so they brought this
they brought these clips are not this is
I got five clips but they're not like
they don't flow from clip to clip they're
each pretty standalone and interesting the this is
one of the one of those specials they
do in the echo chamber.
They brought in three Democrat strategists including Paul
Beglia who seemed to be the odd man
out because he was the old guy and
the other two people were just younger one
was black and one was just some gay
guy and they were they were pushing their
agendas.
Just the gay guy.
Rando.
Rando gay guy couldn't figure it out.
Why other gay guys voted for Trump.
They are trying to discuss how this came
about and none of them except and Paul
Beglia kind of loses it at the end
which will be the last clip but they
you can hear within the discussion what the
problem really is and the fact that they're
going to die on a hill and it's
gonna be you'll hear what it is quickly
this is demographics befuddlement NPR be the first
clip let me ask for as long as
I've been covering politics 20 years or so
Democrats have preached demographics is destiny believing that
as the country gets less white it will
move left this election showed that to be
false so what replaces that as the new
paradigm the vision of where the party goes
from here so Adrian Paul what's the new
paradigm yeah I mean I this idea that
demographics is destiny I think was never real
I think that the the challenge for us
right now I think I agree with what
lead about the sort of vacuum that has
been left in communities in terms of that
vacuum being filled with misinformation disinformation outright lies
in propaganda you know we think about what
is the new paradigm when you have real
conversations with people and not just sort of
gloss over and have knee-jerk reactions I
think that we're sort of seeing right now
in the post-mortem that's happening about you
know have we gone too far did we
go too far left I think the Democrats
need to decide what they are fighting for
and they need to fight for those things
I want you to jump in Paul she
really didn't say much there her comments the
whole time is we have to have a
conversation we have to have a conversation meeting
we need a meeting so she's the meeting
conversation by the way that when I was
even when I was a Democrat the idea
that demographics are is the future because once
we get rid of these damn whitey's we're
gonna be you know take it over the
place will be great and so that so
this guy who's hosting this is quite reasonable
but nobody else is it's quite funny so
we can this one is now the it's
got the ad sign instead of a tube
it's the Wow clip I think that Democrats
need a both-and approach around delivering real
economic results to working-class Americans and not
shying away from real societal changes that are
happening around us that we can't just pivot
away from we need to humanize trans Americans
we need to contextualize trans Americans we need
to do the same thing that we did
in the struggle for gay rights which is
fight these battles and persuade not just an
election season but in the years before election
season and I think we lost to the
oldest playbook in human history which is divide
and conquer and one place I would push
back on Paul is that Democrats also need
we're too conflict diverse we're trying to be
everyone everything to everyone we need to create
villains you know part of the thing is
the Democrats have gotten too close to the
boardrooms of uber and Facebook and Wall Street
Oh some of the groceries companies and we
need to take on those villains otherwise the
Republicans will create and manufacture villains every single
time so the corporations the corporations that clothed
and fetus or villains yes and we have
to support the trans now this is interesting
to me right so whatever that is gay
rights wait he went from you know went
from get you we the way we did
gay rights is now has to be moved
to trans trans rights yes we have to
the trans Maoist agenda is is I've determined
that's the hill they're gonna die on Wow
they they need to contextualize trans is what
he said yeah they're trans they're going to
the Democrat Party is going to die on
the trans Maoist Hill I've heard it and
I believe me I listen to a lot
of NPR and PBS a lesser extent on
PBS but they they're all in on the
here's what we did wrong well is this
that the other was a misogyny there wasn't
good communication there was a bunch of racism
that said and if we just focus on
trans it's absolutely incredible to me but let's
go to the third clip which is the
racism clip does the other complaint the last
time Democrats were in the wilderness for 12
years Ronald Reagan for eight years followed by
George HW Bush Bill Clinton got back into
power by saying it's the economy stupid we're
gonna attack to the center is the same
answer gonna work for Democrats four years from
now two years from now no no yes
and Adrian no no I don't think that
we're in a fundamentally different world than we
were then again I would say to stop
the clip this is that one that woman
again she says we're in a fundamental you
have to remember her own words this is
another problem that they have there's a the
fundamentally different world is the trans world but
that but she's but she's kind of carries
it to racism now if we're in a
fundamentally different world listen to her final conclusion
when she raps okay I don't think that
we're in a fundamentally different world than we
were then again I would say to Walid's
point like the country has changed right not
just in terms of its complexion and we
have to address the issues that are fundamentally
dividing Americans and that is not just the
economy you know we can't as a country
we are incapable unable unwilling to address the
sort of central issues that have created our
inability to get to a more perfect Union
and that is absolutely racism the Democratic Party
absolutely cannot run away from that and I
know that for myself and my community we've
been dealing with this for a very long
time oh wait a minute is she black
does she represent her community the black community
I guess mm-hmm but she did you
hear that little phrase it there what she
said what did she say play it again
play the end here the Democratic Party absolutely
cannot run away from that and I know
that for myself and my community we've been
dealing with this for a very long time
we've been dealing with dealing this wait a
minute she just said it's fundamentally changed don't
bring their whole comment with its fundamentally changed
but then it falls back to we were
dealing this was very very long time so
she's probably a consultant oh yeah well she'd
know they're all consultant yeah and so they
all come in with their own consulting bent
and it's like I'm black I'm a consultant
for racism for the Democrats I'm gay I'm
a consultant for trans for that which by
the way is it almost an oxymoron because
they are not in the same community certainly
not gay men and trans this is dumb
these people are stupid well let's go to
clip for things I think what I'm frustrated
with is there's been all this talk this
past week of about about how Democrats need
to abandon the woke part of their party
and very little talk about abandoning the billionaires
who are part of their party who are
harming our ability to speak in terms of
class warriors and not just cultural warriors and
the Elon Musk and they managed to do
it but they are running they are running
a campaign based on again the oldest playbook
which is Elon Musk is somehow a victim
of American democracy rather than a success story
of how the economy and democracy works for
people like him and so I feel so
ashamed that the Democrats were unprepared for the
onslaught of what was going to be attacks
on the lines of migration the border transgender
Americans when we when we knew this was
coming years ago and yet we didn't develop
a strategy to explain to the American people
what this was designed to do which was
to help elect Republicans and people like Elon
Musk and get them more power oh my
goodness now the interesting new term that was
introduced here besides electing Elon Musk for something
I don't know what he's talking about there
transgender Americans yeah I heard that too it's
like Mexican Americans or Jewish Americans as transgender
Americans as a category yes people are gonna
die on this hill well they're gonna die
that's for sure so so if so this
is the last clip so Baglia who's it
was the old Democrat used to work for
the Clinton administration he's fed up with listening
to this and he goes off on him
this is the last clip he goes off
on him but at the same time you
can hear him it's in there it's subtle
but he pulls back on certain things he
knows will alienate this new group and so
he kind of he couches he does couching
is a way except for except for he's
a wimp now bait Paul Baglia who's a
guy who's pretty much a clone of Lawrence
O'Donnell on MSNBC they're very similar personalities and
they just go after they hate Republicans to
an extreme but this situation this at the
near the end of this I don't know
a half hour of discussion and he just
gets irked and blasts these people but at
the same time he you can hear him
not really you know completely closing the door
on him I'm smiling because not only do
we not explain it we rub their noses
in it if they dare use the wrong
word I'm sorry there is a woke sensorious
preachy elitism in our movement and we got
a flush that you don't go to someone
who's busting his ass at seven bucks an
hour and tell him he's privileged just because
his skin is white I'm sorry you don't
do that if you if you not if
you want to get his vote okay and
I'm not naive I understand there's racism and
prejudice in this country I've got to build
bridges to those folks I want to reach
out to him and what the easier way
to do that is on these economic crises
that they're all facing irrespective of race gender
and religion Wow Wow but there's a lot
of the lot of these consultants are saying
this they're saying you've got to stop with
the woke stuff it doesn't work so he
had that right how many bet you can
hear him backing off on it though yeah
oh yeah tell me that please tell me
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of losers it sounds pretty much like an
NPR ad whoever did that did a good
job Jeffrey Crocker I'm so but I find
it somewhat encouraging that I'm hearing Neil we
had I think we had a consultant on
the last show where she said the same
thing you got to stop calling brown people
Latin X you got to stop with this
nonsense because it's condescending and now you're right
oh no now we have transgender Americans another
category instead of just Americans yeah now it's
you know American yeah in fact it's a
good point they've added categories instead of backing
off on this politics yeah adding more added
a new category 60 minutes took a little
different tact and we're very serious about what's
going on here with Arizona called last night
Donald Trump swept all seven swing states for
in six of them flipped from Joe Biden's
column in 2020 so far the president-elect
has won just over 50% of the
popular vote and he made gains in key
demographics including the young Latino the young and
women Republicans took the Senate and are on
track to control the house Tuesday more than
80% of all the nation's counties move
toward the right the shift is decisive and
leaves Democrats arguing over how they misread the
people to understand what just happened we went
to Pennsylvania one of the places that made
all the difference Oh all the different well
it's very serious John this is the show
okay the shift is apparent and it's always
ultimately in America whether you're black American brown
American red American gay American trans American it's
always about the eggs for 25 years Chris
Borick has been conducting one of the leading
polls of Pennsylvania voters he's a professor of
political science at Muhlenberg College next to Northampton
County it was an Obama County then it
was a Trump County then it was a
Biden County and in 2024 it once again
is a Trump County how did Trump win
it's a great question you know first of
all I think he had the wins on
his side here from talking to voters they're
not in a great mood they're not in
a good place there's lots of good things
happening in Northampton County the economy's good but
they're feeling things in their lives that really
trouble them housing prices here grocery prices I
can't tell you how many times when I've
talked to people about elections this year they
referenced eggs and the price of eggs too
many eggs calm perfect yeah I have one
more clip here but the issue with trans
is much less of and the Republican Party
played this very well it's much less about
if if you know all right you know
so you've let some some person who is
licensed by the Association of Pediatrics and you
know who are stand to lose their license
if I don't go with the flow of
oh you're depressed you're a boy little girl
that's one thing and America's like well you
know okay but when you put boys into
girls sports that's the line that's the limit
it was it was so stupid and we
said so we kept saying this is dumb
that Americans will not stand for that hey
my girls shouldn't be competing against this dude
no matter what you say you know and
you know this and that we just this
this analyzes for a second because we you're
right we have been talking about this for
it since I think Leah Thomas or before
yes and it's like it's such an obvious
thing and we had there's the pictures that
I think number of years ago there are
these pictures that big black dude the guy's
a monster running track and field all muscled
up big guy running track and field with
women in the NCAA saying oh you know
he identifies as a girl so he should
be a girl yeah and then and then
if I think the worst part was the
hordes of mostly Democrats defending the practice and
then one other thing which it was just
abhorrent is the tranny story our come on
come on you know it was dumb this
just stupid but anyway according to CBS it's
about the eggs too many eggs calm egg
prices doubled and featured on the menu of
discontent at the Nazareth diner near Bethlehem no
one sees a sunny side to inflation high
interest rates and housing prices the average tab
here in 2020 was $24 now it's 38
and that's the election in an eggshell obviously
because the food cost and for a family
of like four people five people I have
them come in and say oh my god
I spent a hundred dollars with with the
tip for breakfast that's easy which it is
yeah 730 we open 730 to 10 Ross
Workheiser was a waitress 25 years ago now
she runs the place my mother used to
always say gotta vote Democrat you know they're
for the poor people you grew up in
a Democratic household yes but you just voted
for Donald Trump yes inflation is down by
more than half interest rates are falling mortgage
rates are falling wages are going up are
you not feeling I don't feel it no
I don't feel it I don't feel it
at all everybody I talked to it and
nobody's wages went up but we had four
years of this I mean four years gas
was super high yes it just went down
now but what the past four three and
a half years it was up so their
analysis is it's the price of eggs and
yeah that is very important and Trump spoke
to that constantly specifically it's like oh come
on there was there's one other issue at
play and I'm in a way a little
a little disappointed but you know I'm Mike
my good friends in text groups they're just
like who is this friends of mine like
guys who should know better and I call
them out on it and they still do
it and it's funny and what yeah and
one of the things is I can't believe
they spent them to give Oprah million dollars
you know like and four million dollars for
private jets you know when you're running the
greatest show on earth which the presidential election
is that's what you do please don't go
look at what Trump spent it was half
the half the amount of money but you
know that's what the you know Oprah put
to get we saw the show and she
put out a studio studio audience you know
what I don't even think it was it
in her own town I don't think it
was no idea where it was I know
that you build this in like $100,000
to call her daddy you know no it
was 500 whatever it's either way but you
know it's like what that's what you do
in a presidential campaign who cares but this
is a big problem here's a this is
a boy well I just to defend the
people that are on the other side of
this argument nobody you're right and I think
it's absolutely especially you have a billion dollars
to spend but how do you have a
billion dollars to spend and then go over
budget by 220 million I mean that's what
was shocking that's pretty interesting Tina told me
that Trump offered to pay that did I
see that somewhere yeah that keeps going around
I haven't heard it I mean I've heard
about him supposedly I think it I still
think it's tongue-in-cheek yeah well I
think anyway so the Cuomo kid had this
Democrat bundler on so she's someone who collects
a lot of money and yes this woman
yeah I did this by the way before
you play that this woman is the Asian
woman yes yes yes she China doll she's
a China doll she looks porcelain yeah she's
got one of those looks but she had
I'm dubious about this about why would you
come on and and well it's news play
like this news nation what do you expect
what am I thinking never mind just ignore
what I said and although Oprah says she
wasn't paid a cent by Harris the campaign
did pay her company a million dollars to
produce Oprah star-studded town hall wasn't that
pain and the Harris team reportedly spent six
figures to build that set I told you
about on that call her daddy podcast I
could have a built
a set for half a mill I told
you about on that call her daddy podcast
that call her daddy podcast that's a little
bit of envy in your voice Chris you
know which I got her hundreds of thousands
of views but I mean I don't know
that it was cost-effective and then you
got Eminem then you got Beyonce so let's
talk to somebody who lives oh what about
Eminem and you know there's a war they
pay Beyonce a million dollars there's no evidence
of that there and the FEC filings there's
a bunch of evidence of it you know
a million dollars for Beyonce no they don't
have the exact numbers for they have bundles
of money that went to different talent agencies
so you can't tell okay all right how
come no one wanted an endorsement from the
pod father in the podcast election what is
wrong with you people I'm always bringing this
topic up you don't have to do it
you can stop okay got Eminem then you
got Beyonce so let's talk to somebody who
lived it okay and is speaking out now
with her own concerns Lindy Lee joining us
now Lindy thank you very much for taking
the opportunity what do you think of these
allegations of what Oprah I mean either they
paid the production company or they didn't I've
never heard of people getting paid for endorsements
paying to perform maybe maybe but usually they
give it but do you believe it I
it's not a matter of believing it's literally
in the report and she can deny it
however much she wants to but it says
Harper Productions on the FEC report I really
don't know how you get around that it's
her company and she may not have gotten
paid personally as a person but it paid
her company so I think this is a
matter of semantics and she got paid and
it's just if my donors had known beforehand
that the money would be dispersed this way
I do not think they would have given
you know it's it's a sacred trust these
people a lot of my donors have worked
hard all their lives and again these are
everyday Americans around the country I didn't just
deal with big donors I also fundraise on
grassroots donors who gave $25 as I mentioned
I did something called geeks and nerds for
Harris people are giving like ten to fifteen
dollars these are people you know you know
hold on a second she did that geeks
and nerds with Wonder Woman I wonder how
much money she got paid that way I
didn't hear what you said oh she said
I did something called geeks and nerds for
Harris and that was the Wonder Woman hosts
and nerds that was the Wonder Woman hosted
webinar does zoom call right and so did
she do that for free that's a good
question I probably not $25 as I mentioned
I did something called geeks and nerds for
Harris people are giving like ten to fifteen
dollars these are people you know some people
are living paycheck to paycheck so it's a
sacred trust for them to give money to
a campaign it is our utmost responsibility to
use that money in a responsible manner and
to not treat it as OPM which is
other people's money if we can't handle campaign
money the right way how can taxpayers how
can Americans possibly trust us that we would
handle taxpayer money the right way all right
well gee now I just go back to
your point that you get a pot full
of money you you spend it the way
you think is wisely spent if you know
he had to buy endorsements which is kind
of low when you could probably get him
for free if you tried hard enough you
you know get better people yeah you know
spring spring scene is going what people got
paid sure he is I'm going to Canada
so there's something about there's something about her
whining about this which is if I give
25 bucks to the Harris campaign and she
gives that 25 bucks to Beyonce or she
gives that 25 bucks to Oprah Ogilvy to
be right do an ad yeah yeah what's
the difference what's the difference I mean the
Beyonce if somebody thinks the Beyonce's going on
and on about something is going to be
more valuable than the advertisement that yeah so
I just wonder this woman is just it
seems like in like a well the counter
agent or she's like a yeah I mean
she first of all she just doesn't look
trustworthy period second she's on Cuomo show so
okay but your point is exactly right it's
like that's how the thing is they all
believe still still for some reason even though
it didn't work with Hillary Clinton that celebrities
matter news flash at this hour breaking celebrities
don't matter in people's lives they haven't mattered
for quite a long time I think the
MTV Music Awards were on did we miss
that I mean this is this is the
level of you know non we not caring
nobody nobody cares anymore it's just it's it's
not that important the whole industry the gossip
industries is is not a maybe TMZ is
pro that's okay yeah you just made a
good excellent point look at the magazine whatever
happened to the gossip industry that used to
be so important we used to have had
a hopper we used to have the archer
army army archer whatever his name was and
all these different people that would do gossip
gossip gossip and all that's left now is
page six on the New York Times and
I'm or the New York Post and I'll
tell you the truth when I go I
look at page six every once in a
while which is the gossip of the country
and I don't recognize any names on there
it's like it's an embarrassment I think that's
my embarrassed maybe I'm not know the gossiping
and look at the magazines at checkout they're
very thin and it's always someone with cancer
it is it's always there oh he's got
cancer no it's not funny but that is
pretty much funny but it's like that's true
but the gossip industry sold out to entertainment
by just hyping people up for movie ticket
sales oh they're in a fight oh they're
doing it's like when when that movie came
out and it was what's her name she's
married to Ryan Gosling and she had a
movie come out recently and she was like
oh this is a great girls night out
movie and Gosling is like and by the
way it's a pretty good movie movies this
and it's it's really about it's about abuse
and rape it's it's a it's a that
sounds terrific yeah and so then the gossip
industry is like oh well you know there's
a spat going on between them and the
whole thing was so obviously set up just
to just to you know make generate ticket
sales generate ticket sales the other thing the
gossip industry sold out to is the fashion
industry what are you wearing who are you
wearing oh this is beautiful oh what go
to our 360 cam that's they sold out
they sold themselves out like a whores anyway
it's no it was any different before no
no it was always to move ticket sales
no but they'd move to the fashion industry
well the fashion thing yeah does seem yes
yeah well five I mean they've always oh
I'm wearing a Dior you know you're wearing
a Valentino Ford who are you wearing who
are you wearing well can't you see Tom
Ford on my back here hey Tom Ford
is hanging on to me so there's all
kinds of shifts going on and people are
rage quitting Twitter hi everyone I have loved
connecting with all of you on Twitter and
then on X for all of these years
but it's time for me to leave the
platform that it was a place for in
case you didn't know this is Don Lemon
for honest debate I saw this but he's
leaving the platform to do what and by
the way somebody pointed out his last tweet
he tweets three more times after this transparency
and free speech but I now feel it
does not serve that purpose in addition starting
this Friday November 15th X is implementing new
terms of service which among other things states
that quote all disputes be brought exclusively in
the US District Court for the Northern District
of Texas or state courts located in Tarrant
County Texas and what's so new about this
quote the full terms of service can be
found on my written statement or on the
X website now as the Washington Post recently
reported on X's decision to change the terms
this quote ensures that such lawsuits will be
heard in courthouses that are a hub for
conservatives which experts say could make it easier
for X to shield itself from litigation and
punish critics I think that speaks for itself
you can find me on YouTube at the
Don Lemon show or on tik-tok and
Facebook at Don Lemon and and on Instagram
and blue sky at Don Lemon official I
hope you will join me there so this
is the big shift everybody's moving to blue
sky some X users jumping ship to a
new platform called blue sky you might have
heard of it in the past week or
so the open source social media platform says
they've seen an influx of over 1 million
users in the past week bringing their total
to 15 million users so still low but
a good start many of those fleeing are
fleeing X after the election they're unhappy that
owner Elon Musk used that platform to support
president-elect Trump now blue sky was originally
created by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in
2019 it's been around for a while but
it was recently open to everyone so it
had to be invite only for many years
now it's open to everyone the decentralized platform
lets you post texts photos and more you
can also better customize what you see and
it's easy to take your data and move
to another platform later my initial thought on
this is that yes people are going to
it is it as big as something like
threads or Facebook or Instagram or Twitter no
but it's growing there's a lot of sort
of momentum behind it and it looks just
like Twitter I was gonna say as someone
who's just kind of tiptoeing with it and
trying to figure out if I want to
make the switch I think one of the
things that people are concerned about on X
is all the bots and like if you
say anything you're like inundated comments and stuff
like that and so my question is does
that exist on blue sky as well so
there's a lot of controls to help you
see exactly what you want to see and
to cut out some of that stuff okay
so they just have a lot of controls
and they have these algorithm lists you can
like you know I'm still checking it out
but it seems like you can tweak it
a lot more I gotta say where did
you get that commercial that's KTLA 5 in
Los Angeles let me um let me just
say something about blue sky I knew about
blue sky before it was launched one of
our producers worked on it it was the
secret Jack Dorsey project one of our I
met him one of our producers in South
Carolina meet up and he told me all
about it and yeah it is open source
you can set you set up your own
server it's not like doing a mastodon but
I got an invite very early on I
don't have you ever been on blue sky
nah no it is tranny central I mean
oh really oh from day one oh that's
interesting because of Dorsey's kind of his background
you didn't have much to do with it
at that point but it was all just
all these woke people and just you know
trans rights flags everywhere and like okay interesting
yeah so and but this is not a
bad development I feel that's perfect you know
go where you want to go and be
I agree with people you want to be
with what you will find over there as
far as I know maybe that's changed but
there's no algorithmic presentation of content so it's
it does not have them then yes this
is the same thing was doomed it's the
same thing with Nostra Nostra great idea not
technically I'm just gonna say I don't think
it's all that great you know because you
have an identity that is cryptographically provable and
no one can steal your identity okay of
the 40 or the 40,000 people that
are on there it's not that great you
know they keep saying oh this is Nostra
is fantastic because you know it's censorship resistant
yeah no one wants to be on there
because again there's no algorithm and if there's
no algorithm it's there's no excitement you don't
get juiced up about stuff that is the
secret to these addictive and I say that
in air quotes addictive social media networks is
you have to have the algorithm otherwise people
will get bored of it and even on
those short little YouTube has a series of
these clips now that they do it's cool
I don't even like tick-tock like clips
shorts yeah and you get on one of
the one of the threads mm-hmm and
they're all very similar and like there'll be
like most different kinds of most of their
tick-tock videos just put on YouTube it's
true they stole but this is good I
see this is good people so people are
now getting sick of it you know we
already saw that you know people are leaving
subscriptions on YouTube and they're doing other things
that they're they're gonna find other things to
do in their life and as the news
cable news outlets diminish severely and they move
to I guess only pure opinion there'll be
little there's just no money gonna be left
for news it won't be that interesting to
keep these stuff like X I think it's
kept alive by news clips you know there's
still you'll still get a joy read that
is funny and you but that's gonna get
old too but at a certain point how
much more laughing can you do about the
libs melting down uh-huh if people will
get bored so it's just it's in not
the way we do it no no and
that's mainly because we don't have video that's
the best part you know ironically you might
be right I back to the topic I
can bring it up the ask Adam oh
hold on a second Oh the question go
all right now the thing is now the
thing about ask at this ask Adam is
this is a cheap trick to get into
a some more analysis okay because it's pretty
off the wall now this is the one
of course you plays ask Adam Q and
then I'll ask you the question okay here
we go when vice president Kamala Harris was
campaigning for the presidency she landed on a
signature line she landed on a signature line
okay okay what was it well there's a
couple do you did you just fall out
of a coconut tree yeah but it's probably
we're not going back we're moving forward it
is Wow this is funny cuz I when
I when I heard this I might what
came to my mind there was joy well
that's not a signature line that that's that's
just a word well we're both wrong or
unburdened by what has been we're both wrong
and you're wrong still continue to be wrong
so now you want to play answer plus
plus okay when vice president Kamala Harris was
campaigning for the presidency she landed on a
signature line this summer at the Democratic National
Convention it was everywhere in the pump-up
video set to Beyonce really across posters in
the audience and in speech when we fight
we win after speech because as we've all
these known in Texas when the new channels
and animals when we fight we win after
speech and as the next president of the
United States always says when we fight and
this election the Democrats fight was pretty good
they successfully ditched their unpopular presumptive nominee they
raised a billion dollars with record-breaking speed
they reached tens of millions of people with
their massive door knocking and phone banking operations
but the win of course never came and
since then we've seen another law of politics
take shape when you don't win you fight
amongst yourselves the finger-pointing began the morning
after the election Democratic representative Ritchie Torres from
New York said that quote Donald Trump has
no greater friends than the far left look
if the goal is to win elections on
Twitter then you should embrace movements like defund
the police but if the goal is to
win elections in the real world where it
matters then you have to appeal to working
-class people of color who historically have been
the base of the Democratic Party that's him
on MSNBC well this is very interesting since
we both were wrong about about what the
signature line was and it goes to show
that in popular dish there the Democrat Party
is divorced from understanding popular culture because if
I if I asked my 28 year old
and I said what do you think she'll
say coconut tree she might say we're not
going back she might even say freedom but
I don't freedom I do not think that
in popular culture anyone would say when we
fight we win sorry see y'all see
y'all yeah I was kind of surprised
I agree with all that and the irony
of course to what you just said which
is that they don't understand popular cultures they're
the ones wrapped up in Hollywood but then
again Hollywood doesn't seem to understand popular culture
either with the results the box-office results
they get with some of their good ideas
yeah great ideas so here's a part two
of this this this kind of cheat that
I did meanwhile former Speaker of the House
Nancy Pelosi who was instrumental in convincing President
Biden to step aside suggested in a New
York Times interview that he should have thrown
the nomination open earlier had the president gotten
out sooner there may have been other candidates
in the race Kamala I think still would
have won but she may have been stronger
having taken her case to the public sooner
Pramila Jayapal the Washington congresswoman who leads the
Progressive Caucus says Democrats didn't do enough to
distinguish themselves from Trump we don't offer a
different option he is a billionaire yes but
we also surrounded ourselves with billionaires and we
allowed corporate interests to dictate policy she's speaking
there to NPR member station KUOW in Seattle
we have to stand up for who we
are and I'm not sure we totally know
as a party who we are consider this
after a resounding defeat the Democratic Party has
to figure out where it goes next and
the struggle over its future is already underway
oh well that is interesting I have a
follow-up clip to that specifically about Pelosi
because she has also lost her standing and
when I say lost your standing I mean
the ladies from the view don't even like
you about Nancy Pelosi Oh child Oh child
she must have been absent the day in
kindergarten where they did the lesson if you've
got nothing good to say don't say anything
at all I I mean why Nancy why
I find this so unproductive so nasty so
unnecessary it's like she wants to make sure
that people know it wasn't her she has
no blame in this I said Biden should
have gotten out earlier I said there shouldn't
have been a primary don't blame me I
think it's really unseemly and you know frankly
it's done with yeah right these criticisms against
Biden look we're not we will never know
if the result would have been different had
Biden stepped off earlier what we do know
is that Biden is in there for the
next two and a half months and this
is what I'm gonna tell Joe Joe since
they're talking smack about you anyways you know
what baby pardon hunter yeah pardon hunter because
basically America just pardoned a criminal yes it
was convicted yes of felonies yes America yes
a man who pardoned Jared Kushner's father he's
probably gonna pardon some of the folks from
January 6 those insurrection those you know what
it's your son he probably wouldn't have been
prosecuted if his last name wasn't Biden baby
you got two and a half months I'm
good with you pardoning hunter which brings us
to much-needed analysis of the Trump Biden
meeting this is where you say I have
the clip and in fact I have a
clip or two President Biden met at the
White House today with President-elect Donald Trump
as NPR's Tamara Keith reports they both emphasized
a desire to have a smooth transition with
cameras on them the two presidents shook hands
Biden said his administration would do everything it
could to make sure Trump had what it
needed for a smooth transition well thank you
very much and politics is tough and it's
many cases not a very nice world but
it is a nice world today and I
appreciate it very much a transition that's so
smooth it'll be as smooth as it can
get Melania Trump didn't come to Washington for
the visit but first lady Jill Biden gave
the former president a handwritten letter to deliver
to his wife so first things first when
we see the picture of Trump and Biden
walking down the little corridor there to the
Oval Office Trump being six feet three Biden
being six feet zero Biden is taller than
Trump by at least an inch if not
an inch and a half now the the
answer from the answer is well he's wearing
orthopedic shoes okay so there's four four inches
no for each Trump not meet with the
real Joe Biden in my opinion that was
daddy long legs the guy who was all
jacked and can run and and was speaking
in the Rose Garden all all excited all
jacked up and I don't what I would
have hoped is that he got to speak
with the actual Joe Biden who then would
say hey here's the skeletons here she's out
to get you here's what you need to
look out for pardon hunter that would have
been fine but they they psyops this that
was not Joe Biden I'm going but we
don't know who he met with for the
two hours that were closed no we don't
we don't but I mean he he was
with that guy I mean they must have
done like a switcheroo in one door out
the other door oh hey here I am
I'm Joe it was it was so hot
you cannot you don't think that's possible yeah
but I mean these were these I cannot
stand the boy is orthopedic shoes it's not
four and a half inches four and a
half inches got longer legs that's the problem
yes yes and his gate is different so
I'm hoping that I mean the biting that
they saw that he didn't show enough of
this by the way I find that to
be of course not we can't have I
have to know I'm talking about biting at
the beach go the recent shots where he
almost fell on his ass a couple times
trying to walk in sand just trying to
walk yeah no mm-hmm they'd really minimize
that I'm surprised and and I'm sure it's
already did lectures over so why would you
care now anyway two hours I mean huh
to a CBC had a report I'll play
this it'll lead us into something else I
think with broad smiles and a handshake u
.s. president Joe Biden and president-elect Donald
Trump sat side-by-side in the Oval
Office and put on a rare display of
civility in their face-to-face Trump barely
acknowledged the bitterness of their past politics is
tough and it's many cases not a very
nice world but it is a nice world
today that's especially true for those in Trump's
immediate orbit like the Republicans in Congress who
greeted him with a hero's welcome it's nice
to win other wins for the Republicans the
House of Representatives and a new Senate majority
leader John Toon of South Dakota also included
in a stream of new appointments today Florida
Senator Marco Rubio as Secretary of State and
Florida Congressman Matt Gates who was the subject
of a US Justice Department investigation as Attorney
General but to what extent Trump's bold new
agenda was discussed White House Press Secretary Corinne
Jean-Pierre gave few details look they met
for more than two hours the length of
the meeting tells you that they had an
in-depth conversation on an array of issues
with that much-anticipated meeting wrapping without a
hitch Trump is now one step closer into
his steady march back to the White House
I love the little subtle Nazi smear he's
one step closer to his march into the
White House he's goose stepping his way in
by the way I want to congratulate everybody
on Mastodon thank you thanks to you and
your memes America was saved I am so
appreciative of that what would we have done
without your frog memes we would not have
won we would not have won Donald Trump
is forever grateful so I think we should
discuss some of these appointments you did a
pretty good rundown on on the newsletter which
ended in typical Dvorak trolling fashion by saying
and nothing's gonna change it's true it's like
well I think that was awkward talking about
Vivek and Max suck which one max max
Macintosh computers suck it was reminiscent of an
old-school column yeah it was good well
nothing's gonna well with date with the government
officials doge okay this is bull I need
to say something first of all I'm sick
of doge I'm sick of it it's and
I think it's borderline illegal if he holds
any dogecoin I think there's issues because he's
pumping he's pumping an asset by doing this
and everybody knows it also I disagree I
don't think everybody knows it enough people know
it I mean he did this on Saturday
Night Live and he's always pumping doge and
that and that should put that dog the
stupid dog okay doge all right ha ha
ha ha ha we get the joke and
now he's posting AI memes you know computer
-generated pictures of him and he looks all
badass like pride comes before a great fall
Elon be very careful with I do it
well you know you're gonna have to make
up your mind if his pride comes before
a fall or if he's if he's an
intelligence asset and if psyop a walking psyop
it's got to be one or the other
can't when when did I say he was
a walking side oh I thought you were
in the camp of him being a psyop
no I said he's no good I never
saw okay well that's different I never said
he was a walking psyop he said he's
no good but what I think he wants
is he wants X to be the everything
app all payments run through X it's it's
going to turn into a news app that
you can already see it it will be
where every and it's already he categorizes it
as a news app it'll be for your
news if that social media is over people
are not interested anymore maybe in four years
something will spark up again but they really
that people just want to what's going on
and they won't even care if it's real
or not that's funny that's great you know
what's happened I'll just check in on X
actually that's you I think you made a
point there again which is shocking oh thanks
is that people don't care if the information
is accurate if you know all these little
details about everything like in the bus let's
go back to the Bay of Pigs the
Castro situation if you can just alter all
the details and you know once I say
you know half the details are completely wrong
and half of them are right or just
ever you flip it it doesn't make any
difference it's like the Gulf of Tompkins it
was like okay we found I was a
bunch of bullcrap but what difference does it
make so and I'll reiterate my stance on
Elon he's a phony he is a front
man for all these organizations he's they've got
real NASA real Space Force people running SpaceX
there's real car people running Tesla you know
all of these other little things that fall
apart no one ever talks about you know
a boring company and the flamethrower and all
I have to mention something I know if
you caught this but Trump and I think
he you know he did it as though
he was joking but I'm not completely convinced
of it he made the comment because Elon
is in hanging out in Mar-a-Lago
he's always uncle now to the kids oh
he says he can't get rid of him
yes now there you go and you know
I follow the his his jet you know
there's a guy he got kicked off of
X of course but he still has a
Mastodon account and Elon's always on the plane
and he's always on X so and then
he's at Mar-a-Lago he's not running
anything so in that regard he's just a
phony he didn't invent Tesla didn't invent SpaceX
oh and oh boy the rocket came back
go to Mars go to the moon impress
me and then with this Department of Governmental
Efficiency it's gonna be Vivec I made that
claim in the news, I was gonna be
Vivec the two trillion I stand corrected no
no I'd want to be very clear about
the scale I want to be very clear
about the scale that we're thinking here we're
not thinking small we're playing big here because
we have a once-in-a-generation mandate
right now the American people have voted for
drastic reform of the government and our federal
government is broken really no secret that is
a fourth branch of government the administrative state
that makes most of the rules that creates
a federal bureaucracy that's hampering our economy so
what do we want to do we want
to go in and slash and burn that
bureaucracy to help Americans stimulate the economy and
to restore self-governance against Sean the people
we elect to run the government they're not
even the ones who run the government anymore
it's these unelected bureaucrats Republican politicians have talked
about fixing this for a long time not
with a lot of progress so I do
think it's gonna take a couple of outsiders
you know and I have built a great
friendship over the last year we're working together
intensely and we're not gonna stop till we
get the job done yeah so yeah no
I'm sure they can they can trim to
two trillion dollars the first time I heard
about the Republicans in particular and I only
I wasn't around but the first time I
heard about this was that Herbert Hoover when
he became president before the economic collapse of
the 30s yeah I think was called the
Hoover Commission I could be wrong about that
but he set up shop to do the
exact same thing because back then in the
late 20s the government was too big and
need to be trimmed and then and then
Bill Clinton came along and there's a speech
that's going around from 1996 where he comes
out and he says we've got it you
know government's too damn big we got to
start trimming it down and it went from
I think the figure was at the time
the budget was just around a trillion out
seven this has been going on forever it
never does anything except it's just it's just
bullcrap the this was the indeed the Hoover
Commission which was the Commission on organization of
the executive branch of the government and also
known as koa big I think Doge is
much better than koa big and Truman actually
used the reorganization act of 1949 to implement
the recommendations so they could only make recommendations
of the Hoover Commission real or I'm reading
from Wikipedia in case you wondered reorganization plans
issued under the act could be nullified by
a concurrent resolution enacted by both chambers of
commerce so it didn't have a lot of
a lot of girth to it probably but
yes I think you're right the idea of
doing this is a very tall order it'll
be great they'll make some changes I'm sure
let's go through some of these other by
the way it will just be recommendations they
have no power to do anything I'm in
agreement with you but let's I have I
have Doge clips if you want to just
get them out of the way sure when
I call them Doge knowing that it would
attract your attention I'm so attracted to your
clips this is NPR is trying to explain
it one Donald Trump announced the creation of
the Department of governmental efficiency or Doge he
named two of his most prominent allies from
the business world to lead Doge Elon Musk
the CEO of space but just a point
of order the pronunciation of Doge is about
the shit coin known as Doge otherwise it'd
be Doge or something so the fact that
it's Doge is completely connects it to that
so I just don't like it X and
Tesla and Vivek Ramaswamy an entrepreneur who ran
against Trump for the Republican nomination earlier this
year Doge is getting a lot of attention
but a lot about it is unclear here
to tell us what we do know is
NPR political correspondent Daniel Kurtzleben hey Daniel hey
Elsa let's do this what do we know
so far about Doge we know very little
but we can glean some information from the
statement Trump put out about it for example
it is not clear if Trump envisioned Doge
as an official governmental department and creating that
would require an act of Congress right but
what we do know is that Trump said
Musk and Ramaswamy would be providing guidance from
as he put it outside of government so
presumably question mark they are not intended to
be government officials huh but that raises more
questions because if this is an outside Commission
somehow how is it funded if it's taxpayer
how does that work and how big is
it if it's somehow maybe funded from outside
of government wouldn't there be conflicts of interest
but then there's one more important important point
here which is that whatever cuts Doge ends
up recommending Musk and Ramaswamy can't cut anything
Congress has the budget power exactly exactly yes
no one thinks about this I'm glad you
have these clips is it NPR even though
they are spot on the role right now
NPR be after the election has just calmed
down they're not doing propaganda they're trying to
explain things to the public which is what
they're supposed to do and I think they're
doing a decent job if you notice Elon
Musk I'm going to cut all funding to
NPR 4% that they get from government
we don't all right yes because they're woke
they're no good all right all right all
right those two calm down okay so do
we know anything about what Musk and Ramaswamy
priorities might be in short cutting but that's
about it Ramaswamy said during his primary campaign
for president he that he wanted to cut
the federal workforce by 75% yeah meanwhile
Musk said during Trump's October campaign rally at
Madison Square Garden he wants to cut government
spending by two trillion dollars now both of
those would be massive if they somehow happen
two trillion dollars is around one-third of
total government spending per year that would be
very hard to cut without slashing the biggest
government spending programs like Medicare and Social Security
which Trump has said he would not cut
so it's unclear how that would work likewise
cutting three quarters of the federal workforce is
a lot and keep in mind there are
federal workers all over the country including in
red states so it's not as if GOP
members of Congress would be gung-ho about
cutting a bunch of jobs but here's something
important we don't know what the top priority
of this Commission is the statement about it
talks a lot about cutting the federal workforce
but also talks about spending those two are
not equivalent the federal workforce is such a
small part of government spending as of 2022
that workforce received around 270 billion in compensation
government spending total is 6.5 trillion so
it's hard to put a dent in that
by cutting workers it's a gimmick this whole
Doge thing is a gimmick how does this
new department or non department I don't know
what to call this yet play into what
we know about Trump's other ambitions for his
second term I mean in brief it'll it
aligns with something he did the at the
end of his last term which is called
schedule F the basic idea is to recategorize
federal workers replace people in career positions with
political appointees Biden rescinded that but he could
do that again cutting a lot of workers
but the big question to me is Trump's
fiscal plans this could save some money but
he wants a bunch of tax cuts exactly
and so deficits could go up as they
did the last time he was president that
is in Pierce Daniel Kurtzleben thank you Daniel
so one of the people not really talked
about in this storm of appointees is RFK
jr.
we don't know exactly what what his position
will be but I think the effect of
him saying we're going to make America healthy
again is already having an effect as this
came out on good morning America this morning
Kraft Heinz says it's pulling lunchables from the
national school lunch program it comes after consumer
reports urged the government to drop the product
from school lunches entirely we found relatively high
doses of lead cadmium or both in all
of them and most also had phthalates which
is a chemical used to make plastic that
had been linked to a host of health
problems Kraft Heinz bet big on its push
to get lunchables into schools modifying the product
to comply with federal guidelines touting lunchables as
a way schools could cut costs but nutrition
advocates criticized offering processed branded foods in schools
and Kraft says the demand never materialized it's
the latest school lunch idea to face challenges
we also need to significantly change the quality
of food that kids are getting at school
as first lady Michelle Obama made improving nutrition
a priority resulting in new standards in 2010
studies showed the standards help lower childhood obesity
but many schools said the costs were too
high and one study found students were throwing
away 60% of vegetables and 40%
of fruits the Trump administration rolled back the
regulations in 2018 but now with Robert F
Kennedy expected to play a major role in
the nation's health care more changes could be
on the way I'll get processed food out
of school lunch immediately about a half the
school lunch program goes to process food we're
creating diabetes problem in our our kids by
giving them food that's poison Kraft Heinz says
lunchables meets all safety standards so craft is
smart like I would better cut this right
away we don't want any bad but let's
let's be good guys here oh there's lead
in there the lead in cadmium process crap
and they know it and I think this
is this is a good development let's talk
about some of the other like let's talk
about some of the other appointees do you
want to you have clips I'm sure I
have clips kind of naming them naming and
shaming yeah well you name and shame and
you do a clip and then I'll do
a clip okay well let's go where are
my clips where are Trump chooses let's start
with this one well let's do the long
form when they we have a bunch of
people all jump jumbled together as Trump chooses
long form in PR okay Trump is moving
at a rapid clip announcing personnel picks for
his new administration and some of them I
think what we could safely call shock nominee
Wow did you hear how she sounded there
no did you cue me in it again
hold on a second let me get the
get the clip here listen listen and tell
me it's not the same same lady I
think what we could safely call shock oh
there's no winning it doesn't be the same
person doing voiceover and it's her yes oh
there's no winning new administration and some of
them I think what we could safely call
shock nomination Wow there was Fox and Friends
host Pete Hegseth for defense secretary then there's
former congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard for director of national
intelligence and Florida congressman Matt Gaetz for Attorney
General we're gonna be talking about these pics
for weeks to come they all lack relevant
management experience but they have the most important
qualification of all which is loyalty to Trump
and a willingness to execute on his vision
and all this is in line with Trump's
lessons learned from the first time in office
when he surrounded himself with people who were
generally very well qualified for their jobs but
who ultimately stood in the way of the
norms busting things that Trump was trying to
do excellent okay that's good long form it
has no secrets let's just all hold hands
and by the way that's a great catch
it's her it's her possibly a certain woman
doing voices for the that was American dad
yes maybe she is little side gig okay
let's start with Gaetz let's just go with
Gaetz because he is by far the most
controversial we have Democrats and Republicans who were
befuddled by this choice do you have any
Gaetz clips I have them just the announcement
of it but I do and I could
have gotten some clips from it was one
of the I think it was Nicole Wallace
don't worry I have some clips don't worry
I guess okay where's your Gaetz clip well
the Gaetz clip is in here it's a
Trump chooses Rubio and Gabbard here Trump chooses
Gaetz got it NPR president-elect Trump floored
some Senate Republicans today for Attorney General some
pairs Deirdre Walsh reports Trump opted for a
loyalist with a national reputation as a disruptor
to help him overhaul the Justice Department Trump's
pick for Attorney General Florida Republican Matt Gaetz
set off shockwaves among Senate Republicans he's a
top Trump loyalist and a conservative firebrand he
was the member who led to the removal
of former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy over a
year ago and part of their public feud
was over a House ethics investigation about allegations
about Gaetz possibly involved in sex trafficking the
Justice Department investigated that and did not bring
any charges but there's still a House ethics
investigation so I'll play my first clip and
then we'll discuss this is Caitlin the three
million dollar woman over there at CNN with
George Conway and his view on Gaetz as
pick my legal sources are here a pair
of former federal prosecutors and Ellie Honig and
Elliot Williams and also the conservative attorney who
was once actually if you can remember that
far back considered by Trump to be his
solicitor general the number three at the Justice
Department now outspoken Trump critic George Conway that
was a very long introduction George yes your
thoughts I you know everybody's like shocked surprised
there's nothing surprising about this this is Matt
Gaetz in a lot of ways is the
perfect attorney general for Donald Trump okay I
mean we have a criminal convicted criminal who's
a president who has been adjudicated to engage
in sexual abuse so why not select a
guy who is loyal to him and who
wants to seek revenge in the same way
Donald Trump does and who is you know
it was it was accused of sex sex
trafficking it's he's the perfect choice so I
don't know why everybody's surprised all right your
thoughts I have another clip but your thoughts
on Matt Gaetz as attorney general well when
I was watching Nicole Wallace have she had
Swalwell on right and Swalwell well it's interesting
because I've seen Swalwell clip not clips now
a couple of for a couple days he's
showing up he's got a new agent or
something he's showing up in a lot of
clips and he's who sounds of extremely reasonable
and he said that everyone's all bent out
of shape about Gaetz and of course we
remember that he got Kevin McCarthy kicked out
of the house and Kevin McCarthy goes around
now on a different Fox shows calling it
calling Gaetz a pedophile yeah now calls him
a pedophile bit of an issue and yes
I would say and so Swalwell says this
is bullcrap the whole thing is just a
setup so he can't he won't get confirmed
by the Senate and he goes on it
says you guys are all freaked out about
nothing because it's not gonna happen which you
know may might be true but I didn't
think much of it one way or the
other until they had the Senate whip the
new Senate whip whip whip whip guy on
this morning's John Roberts show and he says
that when they brought up Gaetz he was
like in his Republican he's hemming and hawing
in a very awkward way because he was
asked point-blank are you as a senator
just gonna just approve all these things just
so you know just across the board or
you're gonna give a careful thought or you
some and the guy was hemming and hawing
in a very awkward way which makes me
think of that Swalwell may be corrected Gaetz
just won't get approved I have that's possible
and it doesn't really matter I have a
thought based upon another clip with the three
million dollar woman listen to this pick for
Attorney General is confirmed by the Senate of
course a big if tonight they will have
a long to-do list including ending weaponized
government Trump's words protecting the border dismantling criminal
organizations rooting out corruption at the Justice Department
and fighting crime and I have new reporting
tonight on who Trump may install in the
second highest position there at the DOJ I'm
told Trump is seriously considering naming his lead
attorney that you may recognize from his criminal
cases who represents him there Todd Blanche to
serve as the next Deputy Attorney General though
I should note tonight nothing has been finalized
this is now I'm seeing a pattern I'm
seeing a pattern with what President Trump is
doing he has Elon as the as the
the guy out front and Vivek is gonna
be tasked with actually rolling up his sleeves
and going in Matt Gaetz is the lightning
rod he's perfect because all Trump has to
say is hey Matt what's that in your
mouth I mean he's that guy is so
compromised the real guy is Todd Blanche this
guy is he's the one your Deputy Attorney
General you've got power you've got a lot
of power this guy was in this he
was a United States Attorney for the Southern
District of New York he's a real New
Yorker guy he's been you know he's done
racketeering public corruption this is a serious lawyer
he's born in 74 so he's a you
know 50 this is the guy this is
the guy who's gonna change a lot of
things and Matt Gaetz is just a distraction
it doesn't matter who is put in there
as long as there's compromise I'm telling you
Matt Gaetz is easy Matt do this no
I don't feel like it what's that in
your mouth oh I'm sorry yeah I got
the yeah we had those pictures I think
Todd Blanche is the guy to watch he's
the guy that's gonna and who is the
Deputy Attorney General under Merrick Garland do you
know no no I don't either no one
ever talks about him you think that guy
doesn't have some real clout can't do something
I'm pretty sure he does well during the
peer previous era when you had some of
those creeps struck struck whatever his name is
that was FBI it was FBI oh that
was FBI but it was still the second
it was an underling it was a second
level yeah that was doing all the damage
they can they have a lot of power
they can do a lot of things so
I think I like that I like the
theory Matt you take this you set up
a straw man and you have some some
real nasty assholes underneath I don't think that's
true with the with the border guy guy
well let's do the border guy do you
have a clip of the border guy I
do not okay I have a clip of
the I've got two clips of the border
guy this is CBC so it's international news
and well I'll play that one second hold
on where is where's my guy here oh
here we go this guy Democrats are already
preparing to push back on former president Trump's
planned migrant deportation program Massachusetts governor Maura Healey
is already declaring that her state will not
comply if the Trump administration requested would the
Massachusetts State Police assist in mass deportations no
absolutely not every tool in the toolbox has
got to be used to protect our citizens
to protect our residents and protect our states
and certainly to hold the line on democracy
and the rule of law but the president
elects newly named borders are Tom Homan says
he won't be stopped by sanctuary cities or
states what I've seen I've seen these some
of these Democratic governors say they're gonna stand
in the way they're going they're going to
make it hard for us well I know
a suggestion if you're not gonna help us
get the hell out of the way we're
gonna do it so if we can't get
assistance from New York City and I may
have to double the number of raises we
send in New York City because we're going
to do the job we're going to the
job without you or with you and Homan
defended the president elects deportation plan saying that
it puts our national security first president Trump
has made it clear we will prioritize public
safety threats and national security threats first during
the country legally you shouldn't feel comfortable absolutely
not I won't feel comfortable if I'm in
the country illegally you shouldn't be comfortable either
because when you enter this country legally you
have committed a crime you are a criminal
and you're not off the table and I
think this is great I mean I don't
even care if the guy does it I
just want to hear him say he does
it every day all day long I'm gonna
do it get out of the way he's
perfect and oh it's it's essential casting yes
congratulations the baby is now a US citizen
it's frankly ridiculous that was president-elect Trump
five years ago expressing his desire to end
birthright citizenship a 14th Amendment right guaranteeing anyone
born on US soil US citizenship and as
we inch closer to the beginning of his
next administration it appears Trump may move forward
with ending that right and I talked to
immigration attorney Ernesto Walsh who says he could
be successful in doing so could you see
there being any legal challenges to this oh
absolutely without question it'll be challenged and now
at the end of the day whether it'll
be something that they'll be allowed to remove
or not it's more likely that they will
be able to pull this benefit Walsh says
it likely wouldn't be applied retroactively meaning no
one would lose citizenship if they were born
here and Walsh says all of Trump's immigration
proposals will take time to implement it's important
to understand that the courts are severely backlogged
and so with even the most aggressive spirit
that President Trump may have it still logistically
takes time in order to be able to
do things and I think this is one
of the reasons why we see the private
prison stock soaring on Wall Street yeah that
was a good pick we should have had
that one one last one on the on
our new bulldog before you go on I
do have to make one comment which is
the this 14th Amendment thing the way they
they presented as though it's oh my god
we had this 14th Amendment is this a
violation of rights do you have to remember
the 14th Amendment which was acted in 1868
was done to protect the birthrights of American
slaves that were freed that's the only way
it wasn't for so some people could come
in the ground and have a baby right
it's interpretation of the law as usual the
Board of Bulldog is also putting Candinavia on
notice with Joe Biden's time in the White
House rapidly running out and US President-elect
Donald Trump naming his new team of top
officials at a furious pace Deputy Prime Minister
Chrystia Freeland today chaired a meeting of the
federal government's newly reactivated Cabinet Committee on Canada
-US relations but that relationship looks almost certain
to become more complicated on a number of
fronts one of Trump's key promises has been
to carry out mass deportations of migrants who
have entered the US mainly via Mexico but
in an interview this week Tom Homan Trump's
newly appointed border czar put Canada on notice
over its border it's an extreme national security
national security vulnerability on northern border it's one
of the things I'll tackle some of them
in the world human smuggling has risen sharply
across the Canada-US border particularly between Eastern
Quebec New York and Vermont the US Border
Patrol says it encountered more than 19,000
people crossing in this area between October 2023
and October of this year Homan fears criminals
or terrorists could make their way into America
via this route and he wants more enforcement
on both sides yeah and look there has
to be President Trump had to work with
the Prime Minister Trudeau and said look you
need to enforce what immigration laws you have
because this is a gateway get out you
dirty Canadians get out get out of here
the border Bulldogs on the case this isn't
aside from something that was said in that
clip they're going they make a big point
of this too it's like Trump is appointing
people at a breakneck rate breakneck speed a
fast clip fast clip so it seems to
me Trump's been running for this job for
at least a year that it's it just
seems to me that if you're if you're
going to run for president and then become
president January 6 or whatever you get with
the 20th 20th 20 the 20th that's not
another riot the riot is on the 6th
after the right on the 6th you get
put in as president in the 20th the
wouldn't you have your cabinet and everything all
your ducks in a row like six months
before you even started your campaign wouldn't you
have everybody lined up ready to would you
like this job that job the other job
it just seems to me well he hasn't
lined up and I know yeah but it's
only part of why you just roll out
the entire cabinet in one day I mean
I don't see why this has to be
dragged out like this even though they say
well breakneck it's it's flip I think it's
slow it's my understanding the way President Trump
does these things he has a big list
and he puts a whole bunch of people
on it and he floats that around because
he wants to get feedback from people it's
almost like choosing the right UFC fighter you
know to who's gonna bring in the biggest
crowd what you know he has he has
all kinds of show business done that six
months ago well cuz he has recess appointments
that he's trying to get no but no
I'm just saying the list to pass the
list around could have been done well you
know I don't know maybe because he got
shot I don't know there's all kinds of
stuff going on he was find a whole
thing peculiar he was focusing on running and
I know that the press secretary I know
several people who were on the list including
my neighbor I don't know if I ever
brought that up but she was on the
list she was in Mar-a-Lago for
yeah you actually have discussed it for a
week and I'm I'm delighted to hear that
okay no I'm not better Alina ha ha
ha is going to be the spokeshole which
is great she's the thing she's a lawyer
she's cute that's what you want well if
you just want a cute spokesman that's all
you need it's all you need and I
and I also think she's not gonna do
something every single day I think maybe once
a week maybe every I don't think they're
gonna do he's learned from that mistake anyway
let's move on to another interesting pick I'll
set you up Hegseth's announcement coming as the
Wall Street Journal reports that the Trump transition
team is considering a draft of an executive
order that would create a panel of retired
military personnel empowered to review and recommend the
removal of three and four star generals that
order is still a draft but it's also
in line with previous comments from Hegseth echoing
Trump's claims that the military is being undermined
it's one thing to have DEI inside your
corporation or inside your university it's a whole
nother thing to have it inside the 101st
Airborne you can move to a different state
if you want to go to a different
school or if you want a different tax
rate we only have one military and if
the military goes woke then it is less
equipped to fight the wars that needs to
fight I'm straight up just saying we should
not have women in combat roles it hasn't
made us more effective hasn't made us more
lethal has made fighting more complicated we've all
served with women and they're great it's just
our institutions don't have to incentivize that in
places where traditionally not traditionally over human history
men in those positions are more capable okay
so he's anti-di DEI your thoughts on
Pete Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense well
this is the one I think maybe the
most controversial of the picks mainly because they
keep the left and the crappy media keeps
calling him a Fox host when he's actually
he is a Fox host but so is
it you know so are a lot of
different people I mean there's like coaches that
go on and do John Brennan's MSNBC host
yes but the thing is he's a two
-time decorated Afghanistan Iraq War vet both both
of them two bronze stars it's been running
or veterans organizations he's a buff guy the
guy's buffed and tatted up and he's a
kind of a interesting character he has no
I don't think it's a bad idea to
have somebody that is this adamant picked and
he probably is qualified to do something but
he's not he doesn't have a background of
a bureaucrat and he can't you know I
don't see how it's somebody like that can
run the Pentagon but taking your step and
saying who's gonna be under him I do
it him being the front man for somebody
else that we don't know who it is
yes this is the format I think would
make it all work fine and they do
to also at the same time learn the
ropes because the way I see it I
think he's probably a great guy smart I've
seen him talking because goes on all these
shows he handles himself well and he's a
Fox News host hello he can do that
he could do a great job of being
the front man for somebody who knew the
ropes of the bureaucracy and how it operates
which is something you just can't walk into
I mean I've worked in a bureaucracy myself
a government bureaucracy and it's it's daunting and
I don't see how you just don't take
charge of the Pentagon the one that can't
even get audited out of the blue with
no experience running a crazy organization like that
so it's I think now I'm gonna relent
and go with it he's he's not a
bad pick if you put the right guy
under him yes and so I agree we
don't yet have information on who the deputy
deputy Secretary of Defense would be but Pete
has all the right ideas and he is
I would say read in on the strategy
and he knows how to talk about it
he knows how to sell it as witnessed
by him on the Sean Ryan podcast the
Pentagon is in the book the exact amount
of years but in the past X number
of years 10 12 15 the Pentagon has
a perfect record in all of its war
games against China we lose every time inside
the Pentagon war games we know what our
real capability you see we didn't even get
to this part of the war on warriors
I mean the military-industrial complex the way
we procure weapon systems you know we're always
the way our system works the way our
bureaucratic system works where the speed of weapons
procurement works we're always a decade behind in
fighting the last war whereas China there we
have a we have you know what Rumsfeld
say you go to the war of the
army you have we have the army China's
building an army specifically dedicated to defeating the
United States of America that is that is
their strategic outset take hypersonic missiles so if
our whole if our whole power projection platform
is aircraft carriers and the ability to project
power that way strategically around the globe and
yeah we have a nuclear triad and all
of that but a big part of it
and if you know 15 hypersonic missiles can
take out our 10 aircraft carriers in the
first 20 minutes of a conflict what does
that look like yeah I mean and and
when they're if they've already got us by
the balls economically which you pointed out very
well with our grid culturally there's plenty of
elite capture going on around the globe I
mean and then microchips and everything why do
they want Taiwan they want to corner the
market completely on the technological future we can't
even drive our cars without the stuff we
need out of China these days I mean
they they have a full spectrum long-term
view of not just regional but global domination
and we are we have our heads up
our asses Pete knows exactly how to sell
China he's going to be perfect as Secretary
of Defense it's perfect whoever runs it underneath
him we don't know yeah he's perfect that
would be more money spent oh well yes
in fact which is gonna have to be
done because the way things are going is
going to I mean I still think 2026
is gonna be a economic finally yeah and
we need that we need the 2026 economic
crash and then we're gonna rebuild it the
best way to rebuild an economic crash between
between two countries because China also has economic
issues is to pretend we got war let's
build some and then we need hypersonic missiles
we still need big beautiful ships and subs
that go deeper than anyone else's boots on
the ground from one of a senior airman
in the United States Air Force I work
maintenance on b-52s and you guys are
talking about China on the last episode I
have some insight on what they tell us
about the upcoming conflict we made new aircraft
maintenance units also known as AMU's that are
now bomber generation squadrons with the intent to
have them ready to go as quickly as
possible for upcoming missions and conflicts on China
they tell us constantly to stay ready for
the upcoming conflict that it will be sooner
rather than later we are sending birds all
over the world as an act of deterrence
we are expecting sometime between 25 26 to
start a conflict as they believe that China
will take Taiwan soon since they have a
lowering birth rates and the population is diminishing
and the time to act is now next
boots on the ground Lockheed Martin sitting here
in real time at my Lockheed Martin all
hands meeting same guy I mentioned in my
last boots on the ground correspondence was on
stage same China warning a new face is
on the stage now decorated female marine heavy
lift pilot she is going deep on the
China rhetoric pushing heavy marine recruitment goals to
be ready for wait for it 2027 China
issues it's far from behind the scenes now
out in the open and the Trump appointments
line up with this perfectly I do believe
he says you guys nailed this one this
is this is a setup and to me
and I think you probably agree China's in
on it we're not gonna blow up China
they're not gonna blow up America we need
each other we're mutually beneficial and certainly in
how we gonna how we gonna dig ourselves
out of this economic problem we have well
we need something to build I'm not gonna
build computers and I will build computers but
computers are the problem with computers are they're
naturally cheaper as time goes by yeah you
need isn't it's a deflationary product it's no
good you need hypersonic missiles and it's gonna
be great it's gonna be great and by
the way I think that Colorado now did
Colorado vote completely Democrat as expected yes Colorado
you're out of the game with a second
Trump term comes a renewed fight over a
permanent headquarters for US Space Command Alabama congressman
Mike Rogers telling his home state on a
radio talk show Monday he expects the president
-elect to order Space Command to relocate from
Colorado Springs to Huntsville as soon as he
takes office those
comments reigniting the years-long fight over the
command's permanent home US Senator John Higginlooper saying
Colorado Springs is the best place for Space
Command because it's already at work here congressman
Doug Lamborn raising security concerns quote as the
world becomes more dangerous we cannot afford any
lapse in combat readiness the Colorado Springs chamber
estimates the area would lose out on 450
million annually serves you right Colorado okay and
by the way this is not a new
phenomenon this is what Bill Clinton did yep
when he pulled the super collider which was
being was probably almost 10 minutes from being
finished monstrous product that would have that sir
it was essentially CERN that we would have
here in the United States and he just
pulled the plug on it because Texas voted
Republican I'm going to take the lead on
the last two controversial or interesting appointments this
would be Senator Marco Rubio as Secretary of
State and this a waltz character who will
be Director of National Intelligence this clip says
it all I want to start this evening
with CNN's Jim Schuette who is joining me
on the phone on this breaking news Jim
I just want to first get your take
on hearing that it doesn't appear this is
formal yet but but if Trump is leaning
in this direction and that is what all
of our sourcing is indicating at this hour
significance of a Marco Rubio as a Trump
pick for Secretary of State would be in
your view for one very much Caitlyn puts
China at the center of Trump's foreign policy
the combination of Rubio and waltz both of
whom are big China hawks Rubio's portfolio in
China goes back years he's drawn attention to
China's trade practices he's pushed for restrictions on
selling advanced technology to China he's highlighted China's
mass incarceration and forced labor of Uyghurs in
Xinjiang as well as China's intelligence gathering inside
this country so he has a deep and
long resume on China and listen shouldn't be
surprising given that Trump himself of course it
has made China a target both of his
national security policy but also with economic policy
the discussions during the campaign of imposing significant
tariffs on Chinese goods and this would bring
to his team a Rubio and a waltz
to individuals with history there and focus on
China is it becoming clear to everybody what's
going on it's we can we can predict
everything we can predict it all we've been
doing this China it's China and that's why
Rubio was chosen he's perfect and if he
gets out of line a Marco what's that
in your mouth we know you were probably
got plenty of photos you were a dancer
we I mean dancer mm-hmm yeah he
was mm-hmm mm-hmm any more thoughts
on those no I think that there was
I think there was another angle to this
which is the which I have to which
I did bring up at the newsletter I
think I said it pretty succinctly there which
is Cenk Uygur's thesis what was that again
which a shank it's not that I listen
to a show all the time but I
have to say his ranting of recently has
been quite entertaining and he claims that Rubio
and waltz and one I think one other
person were all put in because there were
there were is Israel Hawks and there was
at the behest of the huge amount of
money that was invested into the Trump campaign
by Miriam Adelson ah yeah yeah I do
remember that now yeah and so he says
that no one's talking about that and these
these pics had you had to pick some
Israel pro-israel Hawks to assuage her assuage
her now I don't like this waltz guy
what's his Rubio I think you're right Rubio
is controllable because of the what the photos
what's waltz his first name Oh Mike yeah
it's Mike yeah okay he is a he's
just a he's like the Holman type guy
he's a grumpy looking prick who I have
mixed feelings about so I'm not a big
fan of his but again it's like if
he's gonna be the director and he's not
the DNI he's the security oh it's it
Tulsi's DNI and he's the national security adviser
is that the idea is national security national
security adviser is usually a spook my uncle
was national security adviser to Bush yeah that's
well they have spooky they're very spooky in
some way or other that's for sure it's
a spook job and so this guy and
he I think he was a spook and
they have to then we have to see
the guy they're gonna head up to CIA
who is another guy I don't care for
he was the old DNI guy and we
might as well discuss Tulsi as the DNI
person I think that's a good pick she's
gotta have BS she's suspicious I like Tulsi
I have everybody likes Tulsi that's that's it
even better I mean nobody doesn't like her
that's as good and it's not like Bolton
I mean everything Bolton was creepy at least
Tulsi's we like her you know Tulsi she's
great what was Bolton's job I thought he
was no I don't think so I think
it was just a just a dipshit did
it in the White House of something or
other now what I'm a DIW what's that
dipshit in the White House yeah to give
some credence to your 2026 prediction there's new
evidence that Americans are drowning in debt credit
card balances hit a new record high between
July and September more than 1 trillion dollars
and total household debt which includes credit cards
student and car loans and mortgages also broke
a record on the bright side wages are
now rising at a faster pace and debt
so things aren't all that great yet and
what you think may be the catalyst is
of course a major portion a major part
of Trump's appeal to some technology sectors including
myself Bitcoin is nearing $90,000 in fact
it's up about 30% since November 5th
traders are betting on Trump's promises to be
a crypto president by lowering regulation and ushering
in a crypto friendly Congress reporter Hannah Lang
has been looking into what kinds of changes
the industry expects from the new administration the
crypto industry is broadly expecting that the Trump
administration will be more lax on enforcement and
overall take a very different approach than the
current SEC where they've claimed that most crypto
tokens are securities and need to be registered
as such and provide disclosures to investors the
crypto industry disagrees with that sentiment so they
claim that they've had difficulty really lifting some
of the guardrails in place so there are
some people in the industry that are hopeful
that with the Republican majority in the Senate
and probably the house as well it really
enables legislation to be passed through a reconciliation
where you could see a crypto bill kind
of tacked on to a larger spending or
tax bill that could pass kind of in
a fast-tracked way with a simple majority
since the election Bitcoin actually blew through 93
,000 hit 94,000 back down again I
think somewhere eight high 87 I did reach
out to the former New York banker a
skeptic of Bitcoin and I said how about
that Bitcoin his reply the more real it
gets the sooner they will crush it okay
he's probably that's an interesting take yeah just
giving you the inside info no I'm biased
but he said crush they will crush it
so well you know I'm still waiting for
Goldman Sachs to collapse I think he had
that on his list too and that was
a couple years ago been waiting no I
think the I still have a feeling that
Trump's love of the stable coin that that
is his way of printing money because if
I understand how the stable coin works there
the tether is probably the biggest USD T
is the biggest stable coin now and or
the biggest buyer of treasuries and other debt
instruments to back their stable coin which is
one for one with the US dollar and
it's a great way to print money it's
like oh whatever works you got you guys
if you just buy our debt and then
turn that into dollars that we can use
digitally and that's what I expect Elon to
use I expect him to use stable coin
not doge doge doge I think he'll use
a stable coin I think there's a real
pot and that that is an interesting thing
that is not being discussed an interesting strategy
to print up more money on top of
money you already printed without it really being
printing money somehow if that makes a good
luck well no thank you print print thank
you well that's always been your theory we
need to print more I have I've never
said that oh you oh in the past
on this show you said oh we should
print hundreds of billions of dollars yes you
have well find me somebody out there find
a clip of me saying exactly what he
said what what do you think you said
what do I never said anything along these
lines I played the clip where Milton Friedman
goes on and on about how they stopped
the inflation during the Civil War in some
areas where they're just printing money they just
stopped the presses and everything calmed down hmm
my recollection is that in you want to
hear what you want to hear okay I
guess I have another quest I just have
recollections of you saying that you thought we
should be printing a lot more money maybe
I don't recall it saying that myself yeah
the pretty good recollection of crazy comments okay
well people being it dot IO everybody it's
out there somewhere I had to work yeah
I will accept if I'm wrong that is
yes I know I may have discussed a
modern monetary theory and through that that in
as an overall comment but it's nothing I'd
recommend okay but I had years ago we
discussed MMT which was was a big thing
at the time and luckily that's what gone
by the wayside no I just unless you
like high-priced $5 gallon wait well what
I say $6 a gallon gasoline which is
gonna go up in California for me I
know I'm just I'm baffled because I thought
that was still kind of your your idea
that we should have been printing a lot
more money I don't know why I think
that you hate me no I love you
that's not true you know that why would
I hate you without you I have cash
too which makes it even worse hold cash
I have Bitcoin so what can you eat
yeah you'd be I still think you'd have
been better off with gold now now my
gold bar to get taken away a long
time ago I still had it I have
coins I have coins I got Kruger and
Wow there you go there's a shot from
the bow of the past and with that
I'd like to thank you for your courage
say in the morning to you the man
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to the Trolls, and the Troll Room, here
we go!
so we should be at 1,800 for
a Thursday is that correct is that what
I'm yeah 2196 so we're just shy of
22 so we're almost 400 above the average
troll rate and you know why no why
because people want to hear our opinion you
know they always want to hear our opinions
but why today I mean I opinion we
did kind of well it's obvious because everyone's
talking out of their butthole all over the
place for sure that's all you hear that's
that is the the culture war economy is
in high gear everybody has opinions everything whoa
we shouldn't have this guy John Thune, Rhino,
everyone's all should have been Rick Scott no
we just try to keep calm carry on
see what's going on it's okay remember after
the show is over go outside it's beautiful
outside he's here in Texas smell some fresh
air it's America some fresh air there is
a feeling of freedom in the air John
a feeling of freedom yes well if you
go outside yeah yes that's where the freedom
is you can smell it in Texas it
smells like freedom everywhere how does it smell
in California do you smell freedom in the
air no I don't smell anything in the
air it's clean it's ocean spray yeah cranberry
mmm my favorite hey those trolls are in
the troll room troll room dot IO they
listen live on the stream what are you
drinking I heard you I heard you crack
it no I didn't know it was me
moving the mic oh I thought you I
thought I heard her thought of carbonation escaping
well I can tell you in advance so
it's gonna be a polar no polar premium
seltzer boring polar do something fresh do something
new the day trip stuff nobody cared a
lot of people are listening on modern podcast
apps you will need this you will need
this because well you know by the way
a bonus clip I have a bonus clip
here I have a bonus clip where's my
bonus clip so podcasting is still open and
free and available thanks to the work of
hundreds of developers who are pers developers developers
that's right they've all tapped into podcast index
org so that your favorite show will not
go away and of course this consolidation happening
once again in the podcast industry and I
think oh yes I think I can tell
you what the strategy is here but we'll
play this 45 second clip and it comes
from Spotify first let's start with Spotify take
an aim at YouTube they want to be
the place where you watch video podcasts the
company held their annual now playing event and
announced two big moves first it will start
paying podcast creators who get lots of views
what and it will let paying subscribers watch
video podcasts without ads but keep in mind
that does not include what's called host reads
those are the ads that hosts read themselves
that are built into the shows now according
to Edison research YouTube is the top place
for podcasts with 31% of weekly listeners
Spotify has 27% Apple podcasts surprised to
me 15% share video podcasts are particularly
popular and continue to grow cheap production yeah
that's exactly what it's all about so this
report is bullshit so they mix up metaphors
of oh most people listen to podcasts on
YouTube and then listen on Spotify I only
fit no no people listen to podcasts the
number one is still Apple where they actually
listen when you have Spotify courting podcasters to
do video well boy we need more of
that to do video and then pay them
that's an ad based strategy this is how
people get the platforms and when you upload
video they disconnect your video from your RSS
feed this is very important for people to
understand so never mind I guess so you
will have no control over your feed no
control over your broadcast mechanism this is a
bad idea the same with YouTube your favorite
YouTube podcasters will go away when advertisers start
complaining again so this is the cycle it's
of course it's a cycle and and we'll
go through it again and we'll still be
here our little podcast will still be here
still be here doing what we do yeah
I'm complaining about not enough donation we'll be
doing host reads for Linda Lou but we're
not doing host reads ever well we do
for little impact yeah but that's not really
a host read we're just reading the donation
no Eli the coffee guy exactly and they're
dead there what they're doing is they're gaming
the system yep and getting away with it
because the promise is that if you write
a note we will cut it down if
it's ridiculously long but if you write a
note and your donations over 200 bucks we
will read the note and if the note
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a person that provided the money but so
be it but it's not like and it's
not like that we put his time aside
in the middle of this show and go
on and on about some product we don't
have we don't have thing ever we don't
have meetings about the your read and we
don't exactly yeah nobody can do that it's
like you can't read you can't read depends
on the day I mean sometimes I don't
have my enunciations not correct because I didn't
get enough sleep who cares you're coughing all
the time like today I am coughing today
it's if that's the freedom in the air
I'm breathing in too much freedom it's making
me cough so yes get a modern podcast
that podcast apps calm and remember that we
are value for value this is 17 years
we're still here value for value is where
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Rogan money we don't even we don't even
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Chris Cuomo said but you know what we
have our integrity job I can just see
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we serve the people we do and unlike
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what's this thing what am I gonna do
with this thing I still have boxes in
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throw it to throw these they make nice
frisbees you know there was some football team
I'm trying to think which one it is
because I saw the guy I didn't realize
they did this but I it's one of
the southern team one of the teams in
Texas and when the team comes out the
football team comes out on the field everybody
throws tacos or not tacos tacos tortillas it
really is a tortilla will fly like a
frisbee if you toss it just right and
so the oldest and all these tortillas are
flying all over the place that's kind of
cool it's really funny is that the Texas
tacos that team no wasn't it's not the
Texas Longhorns it's some it's I don't think
it's Texas Tech I'm not sure which team
it is but it's one of these teams
I'll find somebody in the in the troll
room might if their football fans would know
troll room is not so helpful they're funny
they're not very you know they're not sport
I mean they're at home they're many of
them don't know what football is well so
we had a football segment on the previous
episode which was about foot football ie soccer
in America and I was questioning why this
Tel Aviv team was playing Amsterdam it turns
out there is a big tournament there is
a big UEFA Cup or whatever but no
I keep my eye on the troll like
anyone saying anything nothing that's because it's nobody
cares about but then but then they'll send
me emails and I'm and I'm on Twitter
on Twitter hey curry hey curry like dude
my name's Adam where were you do you
can just give me information I'm happy to
correct it people get like it's the same
guy it is really only one person who
does it over and over and over again
by the way JCD calling anyone a shut
-in is pot meat kettle I'm I don't
know I'm just reading they're trolling they're trolling
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I had a back-and-forth with Tante
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going to talk about the art in a
moment and she's she confirmed my worst fear
she said I am reluctant to submit anymore
because all the art looks so slick and
I and you know she is she's a
top winner in our in our list of
artists yeah she's one of the top top
winners and so she hasn't submitted for a
while and she says well because I look
at the art page and it's also slick
and I can't do stuff that fast and
so I figure I just I'll never win
and I wanted to assure our Dutch masters
particularly that it's not about slick slick is
not what wins with no agent look at
us slick slick is not what we know
slick is no good no if slick is
slick sucks you know why why cuz it's
slick yes we want known fact especially in
modern the modern era we want slickest slop
there you go we want humor you know
and Tante Neal is one of those artists
who gets us and she gets the humor
and she gets the yeah she can be
she can be quite amusing now I I
am there in this thread there were some
conversations going on and said well you know
I use it as a tool so I
can do part of this and you know
use some AI for this and so may
have that's fair but still slick does not
beat out a great conceit as we used
to say in the business which I thought
was just concept in a snooty way but
the conceit of the art so that's what
we're looking for and we didn't really have
great conceit on the last episode we we
chose kube the boobs no agenda wastebuster obviously
AI except maybe for the letters AI is
not very good if you say put no
agenda in a piece of art it comes
up with the oddest things at least the
AI is that I've used I don't really
care so we wound up with the no
agenda wastebuster was a pretty piece but it
a little cheesecake II it was okay but
but if you looked at everything if we
just go down the list of what was
there was a bad submissions yeah the submissions
were were they were not nobody had any
nothing was triggered artists need to be triggered
oh I have an idea they need that
kind of triggering and we I guess the
show so you're saying it's our problem now
and we're at fault is that what I
think so I honestly do well no there
were people got the triggers like the demilitarized
zone but that was just in concert bloggers
stop with the round pieces of art we're
not gonna do them Oh Trump on the
phone oh that's great no I would say
Trump on the phone is pretty lame yeah
it's it's the lamest of all a point
yeah and then why why bother submitting it
yeah you just you just vomiting the AI
slop everywhere you know we we hesitated for
a moment on scaramangos reserved for my Trump
voting husband but at this point we're like
and by the way wait wait Trump on
the phone that this is like an old
landline phone Trump's got cell phones he knows
how to use them but see then he
puts the title in on the phone with
Zelensky oh so I should I put that
underneath so people understand the art this is
a piece of art of Trump on the
phone with Zelensky ah can you tell you
know the piece I use for the newsletter
yeah was the giant elephant and the small
donkey yeah done by clip custodian yeah now
that's totally AI yes it's politically it's a
little too political for me but I can
see I can but I liked it it
was political but you know but we're a
political show in many ways and that was
a political piece of art it was different
it has has a nice look to our
comedy like the elephant we're a comedy show
where did you get political from political comedy
oh okay so anyway at kube the boob
has he's tried a couple of submissions the
first time for kube kube the boob thank
you it was a pretty piece it just
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sure what the pill is that she's holding
on to there yes what is this pill
is that the Wastebuster is that how is
it I don't know is it what Govi
I mean it didn't quite understand I'm just
looking at the art now plenty of time
to win plenty of stuff we have so
far as nothing good although the farmer's wife
is it is pretty good you see that
no farmers I don't see the farmer's wife
it's the second row on the right it's
literally a picture of a piece of paper
with a drawing on it oh yes see
that's what I'm talking about it says make
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Texas Texas exiting the Union I'm happy to
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upcoming session that would allow Texans the opportunity
to vote on the question of separation from
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formula is this we go out we hit
people in the mouth I
have a small if it's okay a small
presentation which is kind of a quest a
quest for our producers to help us out
with this with some boots on the ground
I'll be interested so you recall the story
I don't think we did anything about it
maybe we played a clip about the FEMA
worker who had sent text messages avoid all
the houses with the Trump flags yes did
we did we play a clip of that
did we play any clip I think so
but the thing is not as you mentioned
I had a clip I could have captured
and I didn't watch the show to do
it but I'm gonna go back and get
it she would turn to she came on
to one of the Fox shows and I
didn't get it right well I saw her
on the Roland Martin podcast I can't believe
I watched the Roland Martin podcast but I
saw a clip and it kind of caught
my eye and then I said you know
let me listen she seemed like a very
reasonable person let me see what is going
on so the story as it was told
is FEMA workers were ignoring any home in
the in Florida I think it was during
the hurricane that had a Trump flag and
this is an outrage and you know of
course that it was presented a director of
FEMA did I don't know as a director
of FEMA so she is on the Roland
Martin podcast and there's three entities that are
going to be discussed I'm gonna try and
set this up one is FEMA itself one
is the company that she works for in
her civilian life called Avernath we'll get to
that and the third is and as of
as of this moment for me unknown entity
which is a contractor to FEMA who actually
sends people like her out into the field
so what I quickly realized as I'm listening
to this interview and again she seemed very
reasonable and she seemed quite hurt by what
had happened is that these FEMA people of
which she is one they are not rushing
in with you know to save you or
you know that they are literally only there
to take your name and address and to
register you so this is not like a
FEMA rescue worker coming in with a with
a backhoe and digging you out or anything
like that this is a a group of
people who are called up sent out to
go and read at some point I think
she called it canvassing which was kind of
odd I don't know if I have in
the clip but to register you possibly so
you can get your 750 dollars they don't
have any police protection they just go from
door-to-door and say how many people
live here what are you okay what do
you need do you need money what's the
situation kind of looks at the scenario and
so what happens is and and she actually
said that this has happened in the past
with with like Biden sign so it's not
necessarily Trump but a lot of people like
what do you hear why do you want
my name and address get out of here
you government shill and that can get kind
of heated and so they are told by
their supervisors who work for this third company
who supposedly then take that information and give
it to FEMA I'm not quite sure why
it's very typical this is something for Rebecca
and Elon let's get rid of these consultants
or these contracting firms in the middle who
are just get FEMA out there please and
if you're walking up a street and you
know there's three houses in a row they're
like get out of here you know drain
the swamp all kinds of stuff like that
then they're like okay we mark that down
and we say this is not a good
street to go on the people are hostile
and in some cases it would be in
the past it would be there'll be some
political signs it could just be a whole
street or as she is required to write
down the people with Trump signs are not
very friendly to us so here's the first
clip of this woman with and she's been
fired from FEMA and she's also been fired
from her civilian job I was notified after
I demoted the next morning they told me
verbally I was fired but they never provided
me anything in writing stating that I was
fired they all alleged that these actions were
made on my own recognizes and that it
was for my own political advances however if
you look at the record there is what
we call a community trend and unfortunately it
just so happened that the political hostility that
was encountered by my team and I was
on two different teams during this deployment they
just so happened to have the Trump campaign
signage FEMA always preaches avoidance first and then
de-escalation so this is not isolated this
is a colossal event of avoidance not just
in the state of Florida but you will
find avoidance in the Carolinas senior leadership will
lie to you and tell you that they
do not know but if you ask the
DSA crew leads and specialists what they are
experiencing in the field they will tell you
demand for FEMA to give you those incident
reports they will substantiate what is happening to
us in the field it's interesting to see
the trolls already saying she's a Democrat idiot
no no something else is going on here
and here is again her explaining listen carefully
it's only a minute what she is actually
doing and who else is doing this registering
so okay so you said so explain what
this chart here is so you sent us
this map that has these dots on it
so what does this actually mean so what
that means is that shows you every home
in that area each dot is a home
okay and that home that dot gives you
intel of if I was able to register
that person if I was only giving them
resources if I wasn't able to access the
process the property there's all kind of things
on in that data for that one dot
so when someone says that oh there was
at least 20 homes missed or we didn't
do this or we didn't do that we
have to put that into context because this
was a breach from a partnering company that
FEMA hired the surge capacity team which are
usually just TSA workers they took it upon
themselves to say we want to go and
register these homes knowing that it is hostile
and it could possibly endanger the rest of
the team so because they they didn't get
what they wanted they went and sent this
information out and misled the people that we
just bypassed these homes we we omitted these
homes for safety precautions not because of political
plight like no one cares about that we
want to make sure people can register so
this is where I got interested I'm like
really so FEMA sends as contracts another company
which apparently also contracts TSA employees so you
already know what level you need these are
not people coming to save you these are
people to do a very specific task as
she says registering getting data these dots represent
data on these homes and that data does
not go directly to FEMA it goes to
this third party and they are the ones
who leaked out this information about her and
basically put it on her and as I
heard about her actual job sting things started
to come into view at home I have
a regular job like everyone else I have
an executive position I take care of things
there for that job I'm in contract with
them on their terms and then for FEMA
I work as a reservist so my time
for them is on call based on deployments
orders that I receive so not only were
you fired from FEMA your civilian so your
other job with Avanath you mean you've been
fired from that job too they actually did
that in writing yes first of all what
kind of company is this I've never heard
of it it is a property management company
they are nationwide I am a regional manager
well I was a regional manager for that
property I took care of their portfolios for
various different acquisitions within it this is all
because of FEMA's doing they allowed a partnering
company to leak internal communication and then relinquish
all of my personal contact information so they
don't then FEMA didn't just put jeopardize me
they also put my own company that I
work for at home in jeopardy because all
this information is on LinkedIn okay so now
I'm thinking what exactly is this company that
she works for it's not really a property
management company in the traditional sense of the
word it is Avanath Kappa excuse me freedom
I want to make sure you knew what
I was doing it's freedom in the air
Avanath Capital Management they special so they raise
hundreds of millions of dollars to go out
and buy properties they specialize in something that
I'd never heard before and this is where
I want producers who actually know about this
stuff to help us something called NOAH N
-O-A-H this is an acronym for
naturally occurring affordable housing so natural occurring affordable
housing is housing that these these guys buy
up particularly when these properties have been flooded
and then they turn them into section 8
housing or they can just make it very
low rent for a so-called affordable housing
once you have the affordable housing then you
can get all kinds of zoning done with
local governments and my assertion is that this
company in the middle is in the job
of in the business of taking this data
and I'm not sure exactly what she registered
probably the state of the home the state
of the dam how many people are living
there maybe she gets some information how much
they make how many people live there I
think the reason why they put it all
on her is because there's a scam going
on here where this company in the middle
gets the data sends it off to Avanath
because she knows how to do this she
knows how to assess properties and what properties
are how what damage there is etc and
I think there is some kind of scam
going on with this company in the middle
that gets this data and then helps these
guys go target their acquisitions I don't know
for sure but I never heard of naturally
occurring affordable housing and just my my spidey
sense went tingling like crazy so if anybody
has in any information I would love to
hear about interesting you know what I mean
and they and we're talking 675 million dollars
their last capital raise to go and buy
stuff well isn't that in coincidental coincidence that
you've got a cool ink eating yes that
you've got all these properties that have been
flooded they send out people who know how
to assess these properties not save you know
they go out to assess properties here's 750
bucks let me get some information from you
so if anyone knows and there's a there's
a lot of a lot of angry people
about this whole Noah stuff that it really
is some kind of real estate scam and
you know these guys are investment company they're
not a port they're not a management no
but Avanath takes a holistic approach to its
strategy of acquiring and redeveloping affordable workforce and
primary rental housing in addition to investing in
the physical assets Avanath invests in community-based
services and activities blah blah blah blah blah
but then if you go look at the
you see there you know they're the Noah
part Avanath concentrates on these rental sectors affordable
housing tax credit project based section 8 and
other rent restricted properties generally targeting residents at
40% to 80% of area median
income and naturally occurring affordable housing which is
not a it's just an acronym it's not
a government acronym as far as I can
tell which are properties that up that upgraded
to serve the needs of affordable residents but
how does something become naturally occurring well typically
by flood hmm that's all I've got and
I hope we have some we have we
well I don't think you have to hope
too much what do you mean I have
a lot of hope I have a lot
of faith in our producers no we have
I so I said we have someone that's
very knowledgeable about this that listens to this
show oh and you're gonna say oh yeah
there's been going on and I have the
dad this is 1953 when Eisenhower did this
it'll be something like that I mean like
what are you talking about how dumb are
you this way I'm okay with that I'm
okay with that it's just everything about me
went oh this stinks cuz you know you
the vision we were given is look at
this horrible person she hates Trump she's black
she hates Trump and she just yeah that's
exactly right you're you're that's exactly what the
impression that you got from the social media
and it seems purposeful because of this company
well it was leaker information rile people up
I don't think it was anything to cover
up anything how about a couple of Ukraine
clips who can catch up with that oh
gee I'm so happy about that let's it's
it since these will be a few of
our last because it's all coming to an
end one phone call and this thing is
done in 24 hours I'm ready I'm ready
let's close it out let's close out Ukraine
we're ready so I have the I have
two clips and the reason I want to
play these at all because I have climate
clips to which I'd rather play but we
need to do climate clips too but there's
a kicker here so we have to play
these this is a Ukraine update this is
in the rush on Wednesday launching its first
missile attack on keys since August that's according
to Ukrainian officials who say the attack involved
strategic bombers and ballistic missiles bombers elderly women
and small children taking shelter in an underground
metro station the key of region is always
suffering kids can't go to school when drones
are flying and when there are missile attacks
we are seeking shelter the scale of the
strikes and extent of any damage we're not
immediately clear no casualties have been reported so
far and in DC on Wednesday president-elect
Trump met with President Biden after the meeting
the White House suggested Trump should consider the
Russia-Ukraine conflict to be one of the
most serious global security threats as he returns
to office you have an ongoing war of
aggression by Russia against Ukraine representing a larger
threat to European security and therefore global security
and the White House also defended the aid
it has sent to Ukraine saying the US
also profits from it these aren't just dollars
that we're picking up and shipping over to
another country their dollars we're investing here in
the United States in American jobs producing American
weapons that we sent to Ukraine this comes
as Secretary of State Anthony Blinken was in
Brussels on Wednesday to make sure Ukraine continues
receiving aid from the US Blinken says aiding
Ukraine could have two possible outcomes ensuring that
Ukraine has the money the munitions and the
mobilized forces to fight effectively in 2025 or
to be able to negotiate a peace from
a position of strength he added that the
Biden administration will make sure to send all
Ukraine aid allocated by Congress before January 20th
all right I have thoughts but you have
a kicker so I don't want to spoil
it in case my thoughts is the kicker
okay play the click on Wednesday Ukraine's Prime
Minister announced that the country received a 1
.3 billion dollar grant from the US saying
that Ukraine will direct these funds toward essential
humanitarian and social programs now okay now they're
getting their dissolved loans all benefits us and
then all of a sudden we give it
we a grant is free money I heard
that the total amount that's still left is
eight billion dollars is you know they're gonna
have to dump it they gotta spend it
spend it spend it and then the clip
I wanted which I didn't get was Jake
Sullivan saying just to remind you this is
not going to Ukraine this is going to
our military contractors so they can make weapons
for Ukraine well that was kind of indicated
in the first clip yes all right okay
well that thing's ending it's all about China
let's go to climate change I'm very excited
about well this is about the new meetup
yes I thought we just ended a cop
another another one started right away yeah well
we had the biodiversity diversity oh that's whatever
okay I keep getting confused having too many
of these meetings now we have so that
was cop 16 biodiversity cop this is a
different cop this is cop 29 in Baku
yes here we go an annual global climate
conference is underway in Azerbaijan the priority is
money money money money to help the places
hit hardest by climate change NPR is Michael
copy to the climate change people all over
the world face catastrophic threats from climate change
the president of this year's United Nations meeting
Mokhtar Babaev put the spotlight on developing countries
whether you see them or not people are
suffering in the shadows they're dying in the
dark and they need more than compassion hold
on a second just for that alone I'm
giving you a clip of the day that
is yeah that's great the guy is a
poet he's a poet they're dying in the
dark in the dark dying in the dark
they're in the dog no they're suffering in
the shadows they're dying in the dark nations
meeting Mokhtar Babaev put the spotlight is great
helping countries whether you see them or not
people are suffering in the shadows they're dying
in the dark and they need more than
compassion suffer this guy is an alliteration nut
job suffering in the shadows dying in the
dark developing nations don't bear much responsibility for
the climate pollution that's raising global temperature climate
pollution they're getting hit with some of the
worst impacts like more extreme heat waves and
flooding from torrential rain some wealthy countries that
built their economies using fossil fuels promised more
than a decade ago to help their poor
neighbors pay to cut climate pollution and prepare
for weather risks leaders at this year's climate
talks are under pressure to come up with
a new funding target that's a lot more
ambitious than the last one which was set
at a hundred billion dollars a year these
numbers may sound big but there are nothing
compared to cost of inaction it's not clear
where the money will come from did he
say coastal erection what is going on here
coastal erections cost a lot they sound big
but they are nothing compared to cost of
inaction but it's not clear where the money
will come from the UN said recently that
developing countries need around 215 billion dollars every
year in this decade alone to adapt to
climate impacts that doesn't count the cost of
cutting climate pollution or compensating developing countries for
losses and damage they're already suffering no brother
okay that's so it just gets worse all
that this is all about this all they
talk about is money money money money money
money money money money and we have to
it's our money anyway let's go Gaston Brown
the Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda called
for wealthier nations to provide grant Barbuda where's
Barbuda where's Barbuda it's somewhere in the ocean
Barbuda you've heard of it in Barbuda called
for wealthier nations to provide grants not loans
so that climate initiatives don't add more debt
or countries wealthy polluting countries are seeking to
shift responsibility onto elusive private capital instead of
ensuring decisive government action to reduce and disincentivize
emissions wealthy governments say they can't pay for
global climate efforts on their own and that
world leaders need to find ways to encourage
more investment from the private sector UN Secretary
-General Antonio Guterres said countries could raise more
money by taxing polluting industries like shipping aviation
and fossil fuel production and he said changes
in organizations like the World Bank and International
Monetary Fund could help funnel more private investment
to developing countries the resources available may seem
insufficient but they can be multiplied with a
meaningful change in all the multilateral system works
big sums require big change okay so they're
talking about 200 billion a year for all
these different operations listen to this last little
short clip dozens of developing countries are calling
for the new funding target to be set
at more than a trillion dollars a year
that's ten times more than the previous commitment
which wealthy countries were slow to deliver in
the first place what a trillion dollars a
year well I can tell you why because
there's a destination for this money they didn't
really talk about it did they didn't really
say what the money was for except for
coastal erections however I found a little ditty
about this COP 29 and I know what
they're trying to do this COP 29 continues
in Azerbaijan's capital Baku the middle corridor is
gaining attention this key trade route offers a
faster more cost-effective alternative to traditional sea
shipping have you heard of the middle corridor
nope okay the middle corridor is an important
logistical project it's a strategic bridge between Europe
and Asia this trade corridor will significantly benefit
regional countries by enhancing trade and boosting economic
growth the middle corridor road yes the middle
corridor is the is the basically the train
track from China to Europe yeah it's a
Belt and Road yes change the name of
it the well this yeah this is the
middle corridor of the Belt and Road stand
by let's listen to the rest it will
also foster greater connectivity promote regional cooperation and
create new opportunities for investment and development but
it's not just about global trade with the
aim of reducing carbon footprints and assessing the
reduction of carbon emissions the middle corridor is
also central to the region's green transition the
main goal is to present the enterprise as
environmentally friendly with its potential on green infrastructure
and eco-friendly practices and caucuses the middle
corridor is not just a trade route it's
a pathway for the future of sustainable global
trade projects will be developed in cooperation between
countries along the middle corridor and they will
be able to implement actions to reduce carbon
emissions COP 29 is an important place for
these talks so this train track which they
say is more green than shipping goes right
through Kazakhstan two routes in fact through Kazakhstan
which is where this this whole thing is
being held this is a scam a total
scam this is all about completing the Belt
and Road trade route from China to Europe
yeah so they Chinese can inundate Europe with
Chinese product cheaper Chinese products and they can
make in Europe and guess where it enters
Europe Ukraine hmm one other interesting note about
this was the delegation from well listen the
UN climate summit the annual event where the
world comes together to wring their hands in
despair to give grand speeches and nothing of
real value we're talking about the COP climate
summit this year it's the 29th edition the
COP 29 it's being held in Azerbaijan while
the big nations are missing there is one
surprising inclusion the Taliban are attending COP 29
Azerbaijan gave them observer status they're not a
full-fledged delegation because the United Nations has
not officially recognized this regime but it seems
like an attempt by Azerbaijan to legitimize the
Taliban and they're using the UN climate summit
to do this which discredits the summit even
further not only is it a useless event
it is now also a vehicle to normalize
ties with the Taliban this year's climate summit
will be remembered for this for allowing the
Taliban it's a terrorist summit now the Taliban
is at the COP 29 explain that to
me I have no explanation I mean no
one's gonna give him money meanwhile oh maybe
unless they would they want to route do
the train to route through their Afghanistan could
be that would be a different route meanwhile
NPR just sits here at home and terrorizes
our children and grandchildren about climate change a
new study shows many young people report feeling
anxious about climate change as Rebecca Rettel Meyer
with member station WSKG reports some universities are
working to help students deal with the realities
of the data reality over 50% of
youth in the realities of the data John
listen to NPR shameful with the realities of
the data over 50% of youth in
the United States are very or extremely worried
about climate change that's according to a recent
study published in the scientific journal the Lancet
but there are ways to help young people
cope Cornell University professor Michael exactly it's so
important when we ever when we do talk
about climate change to provide solutions the answers
what can I do Hoffman is one of
several professors around talking about it reframing how
he teaches climate change to put solutions and
emotions at the center he says his goal
is to remind students there is hope for
NPR news I'm Rebecca Rettel Meyer in Ithaca
New York don't worry kids there's hope vote
for Trump due to climate change believable yeah
well you see we've seen this for the
for years and years these poor hapless preteens
crying about the end of the globe and
all the rest of it and yeah nothing
changed really I have meanwhile we're getting snowstorms
in England prematurely this year I've as far
as I can tell don't tell anybody I
have two final clips for today's program and
they are about AI surprise surprise oh well
you took up to get the gauntlet that
I dropped last show I am I am
ready to we're gonna have to start calling
it the articles are coming out Bloomberg is
talking about it everybody's talking about AI's data
plateau despite efforts to throw more computing chips
more data and more energy at training these
large language models improvements have leveled off some
experts now say they've even run out of
accessible data on the Internet to train these
AI and now as our tech correspondent Anna
Tong reports the possible solution could be an
opportunity to reshuffle the industry's biggest players hold
on a second is that guy doing the
announcing right there is he some character from
the Simpsons Reuters it's Reuters they're boring terrible
people I'm sorry they're just boring the possible
solution could be an opportunity to reshuffle the
industry's biggest players so Anna how are AI
companies trying to get past this plateau until
now all the focus has been on when
the AI companies are taking these vast amounts
of data and they're using the AI chips
to crunch the data to train these models
and now what's happening is that companies are
shifting focus to making the model better when
it's actually being used as opposed to when
it's learning on the vast amount of data
so if you use chat GPT now well
you'll notice is that when you're asking me
at a question it's just basically trying to
predict the next word and whichever word they
think is most statistically likely to be it'll
just spit it out at you in this
new world they are basically coming up with
a bunch of responses and then it's using
some sort of reasoning technique to then pick
which path to go down so the new
models are actually much much slower and that's
because they have to kind of consider all
the potential answers before they go down a
path doesn't sound very promising there's no more
human data to train the models with it's
slowing down this is not good so does
this new approach address some of those challenges
around energy use data needs chip manufacturing etc
yeah so I think it's unclear how this
actually changes energy usage because in this new
paradigm we're not spending as much energy on
the pre-training phase but we're spending a
lot more energy on the inference phase so
it may turn out we're just using the
same amount of compute power or even more
what I do think it definitely has an
impact on is the types of chips that
will be in demand so NVIDIA is now
the world's most valuable company and that is
thanks to just the insatiable demand that AI
companies have for their chips however with this
new paradigm in inference you can use a
lot of more different types of chips and
they can be widely distributed around the world
which opens up the door to a lot
more competitors to NVIDIA oh oh oh more
competitors to NVIDIA well unless she names names
I'm not sure what she's talking about hmm
one of my buddies had a company show
up at his door at his ranch and
said we want to buy your ranch name
your price he likes his ranch didn't really
want to get rid of his ranch but
his ranch is right near huge transformer with
gobs and gobs of power and this is
a company that builds data centers and then
flips them right away new a data center
flipping company yeah yeah I said sell quick
sell it sell it maybe if they name
your price kind of thing yeah then you
can buy it back for pennies on the
dollar later probably now I was just sent
this clip from episode 441 of the no
agenda show this is from 2012 you might
have to contextualize it for us just so
we understand what you actually meant what do
we need to do to fix to fix
yeah we need to pump in about ten
trillion dollars of phony baloney printed money into
the system and probably another ten in about
two or three more years and then we're
still gonna have an economic collapse in 2017
okay that's what we need to do we
need to print more money I'm telling you
I mean I'm the only guy in the
block saying this but I am and there's
other economists will say it Bernanke print more
money and it's like it's not causing inflation
but I think you said it yeah I
was being facetious as hell I took it
as truth okay I didn't know what I
was so I heard it wrong I didn't
know the comedic stylings of you yet it
was 2012 it was early yes well you
won't find any other examples find something newer
I was very clear this is the problem
with sarcasm I've always thought that Tucker Carlson
that was sarcastic by the way it was
a Tucker Carlson says so much sarcastic material
yeah take it out of context like somebody
just did then you don't know sound like
an idiot oh I'm not trying to make
you sound like an idiot no no I'm
not talking I'm not saying you did I'm
just saying that's how the sarcasm works hmm
if you use it too much yes you
end up getting burned by it well let
this be a listen we have to stop
with the Sark we actually last decade or
so I have been a big proponent of
being careful about sarcasm because people will use
it like that that's a good point it's
a good point all right then let's just
do one final one just to lighten the
mood and then we can thank some people
Mattel may be hoping for a little magic
this week to help make a packaging problem
go away the toy company apologizing for a
misprint on packages of its collection of dolls
for the upcoming wicked film the dolls packaging
was supposed to show the URL of wicked
movie.com which would take customers to a
website dedicated to the upcoming feature film based
on the hit Broadway musical but instead a
misprint led the packaging to show a similar
yet incorrect URL for an adult film website
leading to customers posting about the typo on
social media you know this is not a
misprint we know exactly how this went it
should have been wicked movie.com they just
put on the sticker put on the packaging
wicked.com and by the way all the
reports what you just said all the reports
none of them will mention the name of
the quote-unquote misprinted website it is wicked
.com and as far as I can tell
it's a it's not like a typical porn
site it's you can buy basically lesbian movies
of girls who are not really lesbians because
let's be honest they don't look like that
but this is this is I did not
check out this site but I'm glad you
did I know I've got to take a
look at this I'm like oh this is
a this is not porn this is just
like you know they got covers that could
be in your video store if any I
mean this is so typical corporate like everyone
went oh yeah this is good yeah wicked
is great and everyone assumed that they had
the URL and they just all went forward
with it and no one bothered to check.
No one did any copyright copy editing.
Well but then to say it's a fact
-checking nobody does that anymore fact-checkers fact
-checking is dead.
Fact-checking may be dead but our producers
are still alive oh what a bridge what
a segue oh you're just spiking the ball
there it was so bad I had I
had to spike it to distract from the
horrible segue I made yes our producers $50
and above we love to thank them for
their contribution to the show and remember we
have John's tip of the day coming up
and by the way for Sunday I have
a tip I have a tip for Sunday
I want to do the Sunday tip or
we can both do a tip but I
think I have a good time I don't
care well I know we don't care but
maybe you should be oh that's nice oh
that's nice you know double tip Sunday there
you go put it in the newsletter double
tip Sunday everybody not just the tip a
double tip we got some meetups we have
some doctors to congratulate and John will take
us through the 50s yeah starting with Craig
hoi hoi hoi hoi what a great name
he's in Pacifica California 133 dollars and 33
cents sir ever of the watt in Linwood
Michigan 123 45 Cisco Bram in Ida Ida
Ida Ida Ida Ida Ida Ida Ida Ida
Ida Ida Ida Ida Ida Holland 101 70
vert fuller or wort vert it's gotta be
vert in Batavia New York 100 yes in
a note you want to take a look
at that note and see there's anything in
there we should read yeah let me take
a look what wort said wort said that's
sir short for nothing by the way John
Adam thank you for what you this is
a nice little one nice little piece of
papers got here thank you for what you
do and for reading the note of the
Vietnam vet passing my brotherhood is quickly leaving
around leaving around me hmm please give all
my Vietnam vets karma yeah yeah my brother
is quickly oh he's brotherhood oh yes of
course there the where is our good old
sergeant by the way I don't know he's
probably still around I hope please change my
knight name from sir diet to short for
nothing the treasure is just because thank you
brother sir short for nothing Kevin McLaughlin's up
8008 there's a boob donation he's the archduke
of Luna lover of America and boobs Joe
beam I guess in Leiden how you pronounce
that this is Dutch this is a Dutch
guy's in Leiden he's in Holland his name
is well that's not a Dutch name this
could be so bim yeah he has a
pronunciation guy dick oh he wants him he
wants a de-douching you've been de-douched
he came in at 8008 to he says
he's been listening since that 70s podcast it's
you I think that's I've never done that
70s podcast Christopher Myers in Dallas Texas 75
Weston Wagoner Weston Wagoner he's in Fairbanks Alaska
69 69 he wants some car sales karma
we give him that at the end Tim
Carolla in Manassas Virginia 6813 that's a birthday
donation for his dad's Tim senior and himself
Tim jr.
they listen a lot Jim Cleary in Paradise
California 6006 anonymous 850 60 that he needs
a de-douching you've been de-douche Christopher
Dexter 5878 Richard Dominelli in Dover New Hampshire
5272 that's a happy birthday call to Lydia
Baron anonymous cop in Redwood City there he
is 5050 and now we have the $50
donors name and location very short list today
we didn't get a lot of attention Mike
Moon starts us off in Athens Georgia foot
50 Andrew Grasso and Mineola New York Tom
Del Vecchio in Blandon Pennsylvania Stephen Ng in
Bucks Elder South Dakota Gary Mao and Woodland
Hills California Andrew St. Clair in Salem Oregon
Dame Patricia Worthington in Miami Jared Yaw in
Nashville Tennessee Brandon Savoie in Port Orchard Washington
Kevin Dills in Huntersville North Carolina Christian Freeman
in San Marcos Texas and last on our
list is Diane Schwannabeck in Johnsburg Illinois I
want to thank these folks for making the
show whatever it is 1712 the reality that
it became oh by the way Andrew St.
Clair in Salem Oregon needed a de-douching
you've been de-douched taken care of thank
you all very much for supporting the no
agenda show episode 1712 no agenda donations calm
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we don't read anything under 50 so thank
you those $49.99 that's of course for
reasons of anonymity although sometimes the anonymous spooks
just come in say I'm anonymous spook there
you go just take it from nothing we
didn't get any anonymous spooks that way yeah
one government yeah yeah one government guy we
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donations calm here's the karma as requested thank
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donations calm shortlist for that as well but
Tim jr.
wishes his dad Tim senior a happy birthday
he turned 64 on November 10th sir Craig
Allen celebrated on the 14th that is today
happy birthday sir Craig sir Stuart turning 60
on November 26 and Richard Dominelli that's happy
birthday to Dame Lydia Terry congratulations for everybody
here at the best podcast in the universe
and we do have two title changes sir
Stuart now becomes sir Stuart the angry accountant
Baron of Milford I'll read parts of his
note in a moment and sir Craig Allen
becomes baronet sir Craig Allen thank you both
for your support and your uppage on the
peerage ladder of the no agenda show there
it is that's just what is it again
just the regular old seltzer with polar seltzer
polar seltzer time to welcome our doctors of
education in climate change studies thank you very
much for attending our no agenda courses you
have done quite well and we are very
proud to hand out doctors of education to
Rick Bunch and sir Craig Allen I'm
getting there I'm getting there I'm feeling better
about it I'm feeling better about it so
sir Stuart had a make-good and he
said greetings from England to celebrate my upcoming
60th birthday on the 26th of November and
the 25 years of marriage my wonderful wife
Michelle on the 27th of November I would
like to apply to become a doctor of
education and have donated the appropriate fee of
$1,000 plus fees to enable the application
to go smoothly subject to your kind approval
I would also like to thank you for
giving me a wonderful dose of jobs Trump
karma when I was awarded a Commodore certificate
for show 1700 this has resulted in me
being offered a wonderful new education role which
the doctor will be very helpful in boosting
my academic credentials and for my daughter Lucy
is now finally secured an excellent part-time
role to build her CV and work experience
after months of Noah disappointment no agenda jobs
karma clearly is the most powerful force in
the universe and he also gives us credit
for helping get President Trump elected I don't
know about that thank you very much it
wasn't for us then we have a layaway
a night note from Rick for Naval he
says I procrastinated writing to claim my knighthood
status for some time I've been on the
$4 week value for value program going back
to 2016 and I will reach baronet status
on Christmas Day 2025 I was going to
wait until then to collect my dual status
but during the last program a segment was
presented that merits attention during the show you
played a clip of Nigel Farage singing the
praises of the no agenda so yourself and
his eminence John C Dvorak while hearing the
clip my thoughts went to isn't this cool
Nigel is fan of the show you then
immediately gave proper notice that this was a
paid endorsement I was pretty much gobsmacked this
was an incredibly clear lesson that is more
likely than not how most endorsements go at
67 I'm no spring chicken to find myself
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jarring well thank you for bringing this up
Rick and some other people have decided to
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bricks but the but the bricks the money
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people gave Leo money and then they put
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because he had to move yeah they trashed
them trash them it's gone it's no good
hmm that's a very good point I you
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a lot of meetups this month all the
way up through the new year no reports
today I did receive a report but someone
like copy pasted a word document into the
email and I mean it just that becomes
unreadable have you ever seen that happen where
someone copy paste a word doc and it
just gets all these control characters you were
seeing that I thought I don't know that
people that know what they're doing ever do
that well it happened twice sent the same
record so I could not read and don't
do it it was even weirder and I
said even displaying you said it I heard
that yes when I when I did reply
my email program couldn't even find the reply
to address it just had an empty field
it was the it was the oddest thing
maybe it was a spam no no no
it said like meetup report anyway today there
is a report spam yeah the Central Colorado
election hangover meetup is it six o'clock
man you guys still drinking at O'Malley's pub
Palmer Lake Colorado on Saturday the Dallas Fort
Worth mid-cities meetup that's 1130 in the
morning sir nerdworks is organizing the bourbon street
bar and grill in Bedford Texas also on
Saturday the shrunken amygdala support group meets at
2 o'clock at Taft's brewporium in Cincinnati
Ohio the Treasure Valley meet up 3 o
'clock on Saturday at Heritage Social Club in
Garden City Idaho the Texas Hill Country post
-election freak-off happy hour 330 that's in
in Bernie huh Bernie that's right down the
road pure country oh man I think we
I don't think we I think we have
something on Saturday I'll check the feral housewife
organizing that one all aboard flight of the
no agenda number 57 that's right Leo Bravo
organizing in Fulton California at the Santa Fe
Cafe on Saturday the Minnesota wellness check wellness
check for 30 at O'Brien's public house
in Shakopee Minnesota Alexandria's Virginia new location meet
up five o'clock the spooks meet at
the lost dog cafe in Alexandria Virginia and
Sunday our next show day the Ocala glass
bottom boat tour meetup hey this is the
Florida people the Reiki princess these meetups are
amazing they're big there's always a theme you
have to RSVP to get details to go
to no agenda meetups at 1230 the glass
boat bottom meetup so I guess they've got
a glass boat and that's in Ocala Florida
that should be a fun just have a
glass boat bottom well that's possible the Reiki
princess though she does the shoot ups and
all kinds of fun stuff the Black Hills
no agenda meetup in South Dakota spearfish to
be exact that crow peak brewing three o
'clock on Sunday oh my goodness a lot
two more the too many eggs Keene New
Hampshire meet up 333 p.m. Mimi says
hey that's great margaritas Keene Keene New Hampshire
too many eggs meet up and the land
of the morning calm meet up at 7
o'clock in burger and pasta in Korea
in Busan Korea mr.
that would be great mr.
tygoo is organizing there imagine going to Korea
and like ah what are we gonna do
bug and pasta okay that sounds perfect hey
send us a meetup report we look forward
to it there Oh November 21st Elzonte El
Salvador we need meetup reports people these are
good let me see if we have any
other foreign places light in the Netherlands December
12th saving term the Netherlands that's March meetups
are usually pretty popular yes so I'd love
to hear from I want to hear from
all the meetups of course Elzonte El Salvador
be great and a Busan Korea fantastic no
agenda meetups calm as we can find out
all the information about these meetups get details
and if you can't find the meetup near
you fret not my friend just start one
yourself it's easy and always a party I
have I don't know how this happened but
I have so many end-of-show ISOs
it's just not okay it's not okay but
I have one or two you you think
are super winners you should just play those
yeah okay well here we go hello it's
me no it's not that's not you hello
that's not you that's just like me it's
Dell big tree hello and then we have
this one kind of bittersweet this one that's
all they got folks it's kind of sad
for Alex there we have enjoy sponsor free
listening or it's a totally new way to
support what you love no that's what I
got do you like to sponsor free listening
in that group I think sponsor free is
is a possible contender yes okay well I
have a boy I have four okay including
a rerun which I'm gonna keep playing until
you pick it okay because you told me
to okay start with dying they are dying
in the dark pretty good pretty good pretty
good they're dying in the dark that should
be kept as an evergreen yes dying in
the dark is eating the dogs it's up
there then we have the evergreen Oy vey
Oy vey such a podcast yeah that's by
request yes run on good we've just been
on a run of really good shows lately
who said that somebody on an NPR oh
okay well that makes sense and the last
one thank you thank you I think they
are dying in the dark dying in the
dark is it man there's just no two
ways about it it's good all right but
you have to keep that one around as
an evergreen people can request dying in the
dark and remembering the dogs and remember on
Sunday we have a double tip of the
day but right now it is time for
these singular tip John's tip of the day
Oh okay this is kind of an elitist
but I want to get it all about
the jingle still playing man I just step
on I like to bring it I like
to met him yeah but it we couldn't
we couldn't hear you I like this oh
that's that's producers fault oh this elitist tip
elitist tip I noticed by the way I
went to Costco and they had a 95
right the front a 95 inch LCD which
is big yeah for 1,400 bucks and
it was by that third-rate come TC
wire some crazy company and it would they
claim to be OLED but it was like
faded and I didn't think much of it
the point I'm trying to make here is
that if you're gonna buy a flat-screen
TV consider in OLED by LG electronics I
bought one of these a couple years ago
the thing doesn't weigh but three pounds and
60 inches it's got the screen is so
thin and it's bright and it has 100
% viewing angle there is not one angle
it's not like an LCD where if you
go off off axis it starts to could
kind of go away and to the point
where if you go way off axis you
can't see the screen these have a hundred
percent viewing angle right to the edge mmm
OLED from LG is a and they're expensive
that's why it's elitist but they're worth every
penny and they have HDR that's dynamite which
is the height the high and high and
you use this to watch YouTube TV yeah
is that an HD is a HDR YouTube
TV well HDR is a high dynamic range
right does YouTube so there's not everybody will
broadcast in high dynamic range even when they
do well when they do 4k how about
but not too many screens can handle the
high dynamic range to the extent that these
OLEDs do does Pluto have a high dynamic
range not that I know of how about
but I bet the over-the-air channels
have some high dynamic range there must be
one or two high HDR over-the-air
channels no I haven't seen one yet so
I get it I get my high dynamic
range from from either movies that are put
on Netflix or all there's a lot of
stuff on YouTube TV that has high dynamic
range a lot of sports sporting events it's
a killer oh so you don't get any
blurring it just it looks good just no
other the blurring is more a function of
the of the resolution the high dynamic range
just gives you the depth of color so
it has the gamuts is bigger and it's
just a killer I love hearing you talk
about this stuff you used to do this
a lot I think even on silk now
what was the what was the show we
did at MeVio I did a bunch of
shows on me now the one that you
did the the one that we that we
bought from from those other oh cranky geek
cranky geeks yeah yeah you would talk about
stuff like that I miss that instead
of OLED okay so this is a Costco
this this item well then no LG brand
is everywhere and the LG has they have
the regular LCD stuff but they have their
OLED screens and look at this thickness of
these things that made by I mean Sony
makes it all LED and so does this
other company but the ones that are that
have been doing nothing but these for a
long time is LG electronics there is stunning
sets they're definitely worth the investment and that
ladies gentlemen is John C Dvorak's tip of
the day go buy an LG and
sometimes yes on Sunday we will have a
double tip I got a great one I'm
very excited to share this tip with you
I think you'll like it you'll even want
this tip you're like I gotta get me
some of that tip I guarantee it which
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