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Adam Curry.
John C.
Dvorak.
And it's Thursday, December 5th, 2024.
This is your award-winning Cuban Nation Media
Assassination Episode 17-18.
This is no agenda.
Defend.
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And broadcasting live from the heart of the
Texas Hill Country, right here in FEMA Region
Number 6.
Good morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where they're shooting
the CEOs and they're shooting the I'm John
C.
Dvorak.
It's Crackpot and Buzzkill.
In the morning.
Man, I got to tell you, it's, New
York is, is, is bonkers.
It's bonkers.
So, you know what everyone in New York
is posting online?
Uh, no.
This guy's a hero.
Oh, gosh.
Yeah.
That's a, you know, when it, when this
happened, one of the first things I thought
of was a thing I used to say
back in the late 90s about some of
these big shots should be careful because they
could find their heads on a stick.
Yeah.
If the public ever revolted and shoot this
guy.
And here we are.
I'm thinking, well, this will be interesting to
see how this goes.
I mean, they're literally, they're like, hey, and
he even went to Starbucks.
That guy is awesome.
It's like the new Batman.
He took down the elite.
Well, they have pictures of his face now.
He looks and, oh, by the way, he's,
he's dreaming.
Well, I'm just telling you what they're saying,
man.
This is, this is what the kids are
saying.
Well, he's got a nice, I see this
one picture.
He's got a nice smile.
Yeah.
But that's what you want.
That's, this is the perfect supervillain, even though
he's a hero.
It is bizarre, but in some ways, maybe
not unexpected.
I mean, I defend the foes.
The first, well, did you hear about this?
Yeah.
Those are the inscriptions on some of the
bullets they found.
Yeah.
Here, I got a short clip.
Police are calling UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson's death
brazen and targeted, saying the killer shot Thompson
in the back and the leg before fleeing
on a bike and disappearing into Central Park.
Thompson's wife now says her husband had been
receiving threats before this happened.
News Nation's Alex Capriello is live in New
York City for us this morning, following the
latest.
Alex, police may have a clue based on
the shell casings left at the scene.
What more do we know about that?
Yeah.
When you take a look at that video,
you could see the suspect in this case
firing that weapon multiple times.
And when that happens, cartridges are automatically ejected
from that weapon itself.
And on those actual casings, according to New
York Police Department sources, they had words that
were actually etched into them, specifically defend, depose,
and deny.
Those are clues potentially onto a possible motive
that this shooter might have had.
But at this point, New York Police are
not saying exactly what that motive is.
They're still trying to work that out using
these as an indication, as well as the
other evidence that was left behind, specifically a
cell phone in which these police officers have
obtained a search warrant to go through and
to try to piece together exactly why this
50-year-old CEO was targeted.
This is a very, all of a sudden,
I mean, first I heard this yesterday, I'm
like, oh, that sucks.
I mean, this is no good.
Then it took this, this is an amazing
turns of events.
This the etchings on the bullet casings, which
I mean, I mean, that's obviously a message.
We have a cell phone that is left.
The guy jumps on a complete trackable city
bike.
He's hanging out at Starbucks, smiling.
He's wearing a very obvious gray backpack.
He has some kind of weapon that, at
least he seemed semi-capable, and there's a
lot of things going on here.
And I immediately, I'm like, I got to,
you know, okay, shooter, whatever.
Well, everyone's getting all gaga eyes over the
dreaminess of this guy.
What is the motive?
And I found one clip that gives us,
I think, four possible motives for this hit.
Well, David, ABC News heard from Brian Thompson's
wife a short while ago in a statement.
Paulette Thompson wrote, we are shattered to hear
about the senseless killing of our beloved Brian.
Brian was an incredibly loving, generous, talented man
who truly lived life to the fullest and
touched so many lives.
Most importantly, Brian was an incredibly loving father
to our two sons and will be greatly
missed.
So from our folks in Minnesota, producers on
the ground, the word up there is crimpassionel,
especially the statement where she doesn't say he
was a great husband.
Huh?
Sketchy.
You never know.
Well, that could be reporting too.
You don't know she didn't say that.
Well, they had.
Of course it could.
But they had the they had the words
on the screen, John.
So it must be true.
But then there's more.
The company's headquarters are based in Minnesota.
And right now, flags are flying at half
staff outside the building in honor of Thompson.
In fact, Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota
and former vice presidential candidate, addressed Thompson's killing
on X, writing, this is horrifying news and
a terrible loss for the business and health
care community in Minnesota.
Minnesota is sending our prayers to Brian's family
and the UnitedHealthcare team.
So then you have Waltz.
And this is where my head went to,
OK, so this guy is a CEO of
this.
And it's coming up in a minute.
There was all kinds of DOJ investigations and
also Medicaid related issues.
You know, Medicaid has been overbilled by like
nine billion dollars a year.
Oh, yeah, of course.
But these guys, their their revenue is four
hundred and fifty billion dollars a year.
So a little bit that sticks to the,
you know, that that sticks to someone else's
pocket could be a lot bigger than most
other companies.
And according to reports, as I have here
from the AP, a number of Medicaid related
programs have suffered from fraud and waste under
Waltz.
So just interesting that in this report we
get that coming out and then we continue.
As for Thompson's career with the company, he
became CEO of the nation's largest health insurer,
UnitedHealthcare, back in 2021.
And before that, he was CEO of UnitedHealthcare's
government programs, including Medicare and retirement.
But he has been with the company since
2004, when he was hired as a director
of corporate development.
UnitedHealthgroup released a statement saying, in part, Brian
was a highly respected colleague and friend to
all who worked with him.
We are working closely with the New York
Police Department and ask for your patience and
understanding during this difficult time.
Now, the Department of Justice has been investigating
UnitedHealthcare for antitrust issues, and SEC filings show
Thompson and another UnitedHealthcare executive sold millions of
dollars in UnitedHealthcare shares in the months before
that DOJ investigation became known to investors or
to the public.
Of course, there is still no word from
investigators on any possible motive for today's shooting.
So there's the maybe this was other board
members or other people.
The guy was, after all, in charge of
that division before he became CEO.
And they didn't want, you know, dead man
can't talk.
Maybe that's what's going on.
It's always possible.
Do you have any thoughts or are you
just.
Well, I don't think this was a professional
hit based on what other people have said.
No, not professional.
No, no.
So it's a.
But it was a hit.
I mean, I think it was.
I think it's I think it's somebody that
got screwed by the company, I think.
And they blamed him and they went to
him and they this guy who make who
his salary, I think, was around 10 million
plus a year plus stock.
It's better than podcasting.
Better than podcasting.
Just and that's Joe Rogan.
True.
And he, you know, seemed callous and of
a sort.
And I can see somebody.
And this, I think, is something that's going
to happen.
This is not this is nothing.
I think the entire medical establishment is up
for grabs when it comes to this sort
of thing, which is they have not been
serving the public.
They've been serving themselves.
I, I agree.
And I think that the words defend, depose,
deny relates directly to how they are accused
of often being very difficult to settle, being
very difficult to pay out.
And I found an interesting video.
I pulled two short clips from the insurance
watchdog coalition who explain United Health Care and
how it works.
This is this is the intro to all
the different pieces because it's not just insurance.
You might know United Health as an insurance
company, but it's actually more than that.
It's a multinational conglomerate, a vertical monopoly.
United Health is the largest for profit domestic
health insurance company.
It's gobbled up doctor's offices.
Ninety thousand physicians now work directly for United
Health, the largest employer of doctors in the
country.
United Health owns a dominant pharmacy benefit manager.
They decide which medicine you can get and
how much you pay for it.
United Health operates a software and data company
which helps United Insurance decide how to deny
your claims.
On top of all this, United Health also
owns pharmacies, primary care clinics, surgery centers, urgent
care centers, home health agencies, hospice care agencies
and mental health agencies.
When you need health care, there's a chance
United Health makes money every step of the
way.
They even own a bank which allows them
to control when, where and how their doctors
get paid.
As one report put it, United Health is
pushing to control every piece of patient care
outside of the hospital.
It's not by accident.
Being a sole source, single payer monopoly is
United Health's business model.
That's the business model.
And here's how it works, how you make
up to 450 billion dollars, half, almost half
a trillion dollars a year in revenue.
United Health set up a company to expand
its business from only providing insurance.
They even gave it a different name so
consumers won't know it's really just United Health.
It's called Optum.
Optum employs pharmacy benefit managers and doctors and
they own surgery care centers and urgent care
clinics.
Let's start with the pharmacy benefits manager, OptumRx,
which is the middleman controlled by big insurance
that sets drug prices.
Across the country, independent pharmacies are closing up
shop because Optum is underpaying medication reimbursement rates.
Optum doesn't just pressure pharmacies to increase their
bottom line.
They're gouging customers with high prices on lifesaving
drugs.
Here's how it works.
Optum will tell you their job is to
negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical companies and work
with insurance companies to decide which drugs are
covered.
But Optum is owned by an insurance company,
United Health.
It's negotiating with itself.
It sets the price.
It sets the profit.
Total control.
Yeah, that system's no good.
You think?
A real problem with that system.
And this also puts that Optum hack from,
what was it, maybe six months ago?
Puts that into a different light.
You remember when all these, the whole, like
a large portion of the medical system was
just frozen from some kind of cyber security
attack, which we really never got the full
lowdown on.
It never will.
No, and it might have been ransomware.
This is a mess.
This is a mess.
And I'm surprised when his wife, we don't
know if she said it, but she said
there were other threats against his life.
So this guy thinks it's a good idea
if there's threats against your life as the
CEO of a $450 billion revenue company to
go toodling out in New York City at
7 a.m. without any security?
Man, Joe Rogan's smarter than that.
So.
Yeah, well, at first, you know, somebody was,
I know some of the, I've looked at
these comments too, and somebody said, well, that
guy's an idiot.
He didn't have security.
Man, you know, not everybody has to walk
around, every CEO in the world doesn't need
security, that's for sure.
But if you look at it from the
perspective of a company that is probably the
basis and part and parcel of the entire
medical system's corruption.
You might want to protect that guy.
You might.
Yes, you might want to have more than
a couple of guys looking around, you know,
talking to their lapels.
But if this is, you know, Occam's razor,
if this is someone who's just pissed off
about the whole situation, well, this could be
the beginning of, I mean, seriously, if you
look on X and you look on Instagram,
people are just like, wow, this guy is
good.
These guys, it's like the hero.
Yeah, the little guy.
And, you know, he went out there and
he killed one of the elites.
This could be just the beginning.
If I was, you know, this is the
good side of being a lowly podcaster.
This is something you shouldn't have to worry
about.
No, no.
But I can see, but I would say
CEO, especially nowadays where the CEOs are, I
would say generally, not all of them, but
a lot of them are overpaid to an
extreme.
And they are leveraged and they are part
of a corrupt system of gougers.
Yeah.
And it ruins people's lives.
That have ruined people's lives.
This is good.
This is not a, I'm surprised this hasn't
happened or isn't happening as we speak for
the last five, six years.
And your other prediction that, you know, soon
we'll get some of these kids who are
transitioned and are going to wake up and
go, what?
Where'd that go?
And they're going to start getting mad too.
And they're going to go after doctors and
maybe CEOs.
The CEO is, that's a pretty big message.
And that message is clear.
It's clear.
I mean, how much more clear could you
make it with your, what is the sequence
again?
Deny, depose, defy.
Defend, depose, deny.
Defend.
Defend, depose.
So you defend.
Defend the cases.
Depose everybody.
Deny payment.
No.
And then.
No, depose, depose, no, depose.
It's defend, depose, deny.
So defend is like, oh, no, no, no.
There was no order.
There were just three random bullets they found
on the street.
Oh, I thought that the three, no, I
thought it was in order on each casing.
No, that's not my understanding.
I understand that each casing had a word
on it.
Really?
Oh, that's even, that's even more crazy.
And I was wondering, because a professional hitman
doesn't leave casings.
No.
No, well, a professional hitman doesn't do something
in public like that either, except in the
movies.
And what's with the suppressor?
I mean, it's New York.
The whole thing is bizarre.
But yeah, it could be the beginning of
some citizen revolt of some sort.
And there's also three unspent bullets because the
gun jammed, and so he's dicking around, I
guess, three shells fell on the deck too.
That's what I understand, at least with some
reports.
Yeah, there's all kinds of opinions.
Unspent cartridges and three, now it's possible then
that would explain if it was all three
words were on all the cartridges.
But that doesn't make sense.
It's too much work.
Well, and then what's up with getting on
a city bike?
I mean, this would be the city bike
assassin.
He's just going around killing people on city
bikes.
I mean, it's horrible for him.
It's horrible for his family.
But it's very interesting from a podcasting perspective.
Oh, from a sociological perspective, this could be
a big deal.
Yeah, it could be.
So that was just one of the small
things that happened.
Yeah, there was another one.
I just said, what the hell was it?
It was, well, I don't know, like Joe
Biden pardoned his kid.
What?
After saying he wouldn't?
Oh, no.
This was great.
This would put a whole, everyone just, I
mean, first of all.
It was on a show day.
Thank you.
Yeah, yeah.
Thanks, guys.
Thanks, Jill.
A lot of people immediately say this proves
that the real Joe Biden's alive.
I say no, proves nothing.
Well, it doesn't prove anything one way or
the other.
No.
And of course, it made for some super
cuts.
Did you get any?
I have some short ones.
You've got it.
I don't think I have any super cuts.
The super cuts are always, well, there's two
or three of them floating around.
They're all pretty similar.
And there's two forms.
One of them, all these left wing, mostly
MSNBC and CNN people defending Biden because he's
going to uphold justice and never pardon Hunter.
Yes, he's a good guy.
Fools of themselves.
Good guy.
He's a good guy.
Yeah.
And then there's the one of Kareem Jean
-Paul Pierre Abdul-Jabbar.
Let me ask you, will you accept the
jury's outcome, their verdict, no matter what it
is?
Yes.
And have you ruled out a pardon for
your son?
Is there any possibility that the president would
end up pardoning his son?
No.
I just said no.
I just answered.
Would the president pardon or commute his son
if he's convicted?
So I've answered this question before.
It was asked of me not too long
ago, a couple of weeks ago, and I
was very clear and I said no.
And I am satisfied that I'm not going
to do anything.
I said I abide by the jury decision.
I will do that and I will not
pardon him.
I've said several times that the president would
not pardon or commute the sentence for his
son, Hunter.
I just want to make sure that that
is not going to change over the next
six months.
The president's saying he would not.
It's still a no.
It's still a no.
It will always be a no.
It's still a no.
It will be a no.
It is a no.
And I don't have anything else to add.
Will he pardon his son?
No.
His son, Hunter, is also up for being
sentenced next month.
Does the president have any intention of pardoning
him?
We've been asked that question multiple times.
Our answer stands, which is no.
It's no.
It's no.
That's KJP.
And then we have another shorty from, I
think, some media people.
Let me ask you, will you accept the
jury's outcome, their verdict, no matter what it
is?
Yes.
And have you ruled out a pardon for
your son?
Yes.
Is there any possibility- Wait, is this
basically the same thing?
Hold on a second.
I said no.
And I am satisfied that I'm not going
to do anything.
I said I abide by the jury decision.
I will do that, and I will not
pardon him.
The president would not.
No, I thought this was different.
It's not the same clip.
It's different.
No, it's remixed.
Where's the nut job?
Our answer stands, which is no.
I'm not going to get into- Yeah,
okay.
It's all the same, basically.
Actually, most of them were either nine minutes,
which was no good.
The nine minute one is the one I
had, and I said- No, it's too
much.
It's too much.
It was nine minutes of mostly media people
saying, oh yeah, Joe's a great guy because
he's going to not pardon his son.
And it was all MSNBC and CNN people,
and they were all the same usual suspects,
the dipshits that work for those stations that
just spew Democrat propaganda points.
And they were doing anything to keep Trump
from getting elected, which didn't help because he
got no audience.
I think one of the shows, the audience
has fallen to 38,000 listeners, viewers.
Wow.
We have more trolls in the troll room.
It's pretty pathetic.
I'm sorry.
I was just saying, they just kept beating
it up.
And the real issue I think that they
had was they were gloating at how fine
the president was because nobody was above the
law.
There's the other thing.
They had two themes.
Nobody was above the law.
Nobody was above the law.
Now they're switching their tune, and now it's,
well, it's clear that the Department of Justice
is weaponized.
It's weaponized against everybody.
Here's CBS on the pardon.
Arriving in Angola today, President Biden ignored questions
about the pardon of his son.
The decision came after the president and his
press secretary had spent more than a year
claiming a pardon without the question.
I said I abide by the jury decision.
More supercut.
I will do that, and I will not
pardon him.
We've been asked that question multiple times.
Our answer stands, which is no.
Notice they don't put the media in their
supercuts.
The sweeping nature of the pardon.
No, heaven forbid.
Can't do that.
Biden clears the president's son of all crimes
he's committed or may have committed over 10
years.
Well, it's unprecedented.
No president has ever pardoned their child before.
Pardon expert Jeffrey Crouch says its scope is
similar to the clemency Gerald Ford gave Richard
Nixon, who resigned amid the Watergate scandal.
It's about as broad as any pardon that
I'm aware of.
It includes pretty much any potential federal offense
in the way that includes really anything that
happens within that particular time range.
The pardon came just a day after President
-elect Trump chose Kash Patel to run the
FBI, a right wing operative who's criticized Hunter
Biden and vowed to go after Trump's political
rivals.
The president, in fact, suggested his son would
remain a target of the incoming administration, saying
there's no reason to believe it will stop
here.
Enough is enough.
But several Democrats today said Biden had gone
too far, calling the pardon improper and unwise.
Crimes are very serious.
And this isn't singling out one individual.
Gary Shapley, an IRS investigator who worked on
the Hunter Biden tax evasion case, took issue
with the president's statement that his son faced
prosecution only because he is my son.
And that is wrong.
If the Department of Justice truly is a
fair and treats every individual the same, then
there's no way they could have not charged
Hunter Biden with committing these acts.
It was quite striking to see several Democratic
governors and lawmakers say today that while they
understand a father's concern for his son, the
president tarnished his legacy and put the interests
of his family ahead of the country.
They're also worried it could embolden Trump to
abuse the same clemency powers once he takes
office.
That's amazing.
Oh, yeah.
Somehow they turn it on Trump.
Of course.
Well, no, they all turned it on Trump.
It's Trump's fault.
NPR took it to the Nixon Watergate and
the Nixon pardon, which I thought was an
interesting angle.
I've read that the only comparable pardon with
language as sweeping as this was President Gerald
Ford's pardon of Nixon.
Do you agree with that assessment?
Yeah, that's correct.
And similarly, it's about an instance where we
might think about what might be a politically
motivated or a politically concerned kind of prosecution.
And if you want to make it blanket
to avoid, you know, any possibility that that
person can still be prosecuted, that's the kind
of language you need to use.
But what it means is we arrive at
today with a really weak record on clemency
on his part.
So, you know, very few people have received
any kind of relief from him.
And so it looks like he just singled
out his own child, whereas I'm sure there's
a lot of parents in America saying, hey,
what about my kid?
You know, he, you know, he, she, they
have a meritorious case and there's been nothing
and, you know, followed all the rules, filed
the petition, but still no ruling.
And that, I think, is the problem when
it looks like you don't have a functioning
pardon system for regular people and it's just
people who know somebody.
A functioning pardon system.
Hey, he pardoned those two turkeys.
I mean, he did that.
That was nice.
No, it's three.
Three, three.
Oh, including Hunter.
Bing.
Here's the second piece of that.
I think that's important to highlight because we
often hear about pardons when they are high
profile, controversial individuals, but thousands and thousands of
other people who may be worthy of a
pardon whose names most of us have never
heard apply every year.
And you're saying in most cases under the
Biden presidency have been rejected or ignored.
Exactly.
And he has a very low grant rate.
Historically speaking, it's really been mostly symbolic gestures
on his part, like the big announcement he
had for marijuana, people who had possessed marijuana.
That didn't release anybody currently incarcerated.
I mean, he inherited a backlog of 18
,000 petitions when he took office and really
just hasn't made a dent.
So it's a stark contrast to see the
Hunter Biden pardon when you're looking at how
the regular process has unfolded during his administration.
Wow.
That's NPR.
Yeah.
They won't have her on again.
Oh, I mean, they've they've.
Remember, just a few months ago, Joe had
put country over party by stepping down, and
now he's put family over country.
It's just getting worse with him.
He's going to be he's going to leave
in shame.
Will they even give him the helicopter?
I don't think so.
John John Stewart, of course, had a funny
bit about it.
Faith in the rule of law.
Finally, Democrats have a moral perch from which
they can judge without shame, hypocrisy or nuance.
Breaking news.
President Biden has issued a pardon for his
son, Hunter Biden.
We were so close.
Yeah.
Yeah, I would recommend John Stewart's last two
Monday shows, which was this last one this
Monday, just the beginning, because the bits are
quite good, well structured.
And then he skipped a week.
And then the week before that, he also
did another show opening.
That was, I thought, one of the best
he's ever done.
Yeah.
What was it?
It was about loopholes.
This this one that you saw, this last
one was actually part two of the of
the original, which was about about rules, loopholes
and norms.
And it's extremely well written.
So now there's reports from Politico.
That's WAPO, right?
Politico?
No, no.
Who owns who owns Politico?
Are they still independent operations?
Biden White House is weighing preemptive pardons for
potential Trump targets, such as Fauci, Schiff and
Cheney.
Yeah, I don't believe this to be true.
Well, only because Politico said it.
Would I mention it when it's in Daily
Mail?
Like, yeah, OK.
But everyone's afraid, you know, because of Kash
Patel.
Kash Patel is going to weaponize this department.
Kash Patel.
Kash Patel.
I can tell you why they're afraid of
Kash Patel.
There's a I have a short clip and
he was on.
I said, Jeremy Ryan's podcast, Ryan, what his
name is.
He's some former military guy as a podcast
and Kash is on there.
And this is why Washington is worried.
It's pretty much what we said he would
be doing.
Then we need to decrease what I call
government creep with personnel.
The FBI's footprint has gotten so freaking big.
And the biggest problem the FBI has had
has come out of its intel shelves.
I'd break that component out of it.
I'd shut down the FBI Hoover building on
day one and reopening the next day as
a museum of the deep state.
And I take the 7000 employees that work
in that building and send them across America
to chase down criminals.
Go be cops.
You're cops.
Go be cops.
Go chase down murderers and rapists and drug
dealers and violent offenders.
What do you need 7000 people there for?
Same thing with DOJ.
What are all these people doing here?
Looking for the next government promotion, looking for
the next fancy government title.
There you go.
The funny thing about that particular clip is
that if that the mainstream media and I
think CBS in particular.
Oh, no, NBC.
NBC is the worst right now.
NBC in particular took that clip and only
played, you know, promoting.
I don't have the clip, but promoting the
dangers of Kash Patel.
Uh, and they took that clip and took
the part where he says, uh, the first
thing I would do is shut down the
J Edgar Hoover building.
And then they stop it right there.
They stop after the before the punch line.
Yeah.
No punch lines.
No, nothing.
Just deep state, which implies that he's shutting
down the FBI.
Oh, man.
How lame is that?
NBC has become, you know, they've freaked out
about their problems with them as NBC.
And they're going to spin all that stuff
off.
And and but it is.
It's the it's the master.
NBC News, the operation at the top is
bad.
Yeah.
Who runs that?
Do we know?
I don't know.
Offhand, I don't know.
Of course, Trump took a handy advantage of
the situation and spun everything around.
Now asking a judge in New York to
dismiss the verdict in his hush money case.
And he is citing the pardon of Hunter
Biden this past weekend.
Trump's attorneys formally made the request to Judge
Juan Marchand, saying the prosecution disrupts the president's
elects transition and threatens to the function of
the federal government.
They also wrote, quote, as President Biden put
it yesterday.
Enough is enough.
This case, which should never have been brought,
must now be dismissed.
Trump was convicted in May on 34 felony
counts of falsifying business records.
But Judge Marchand decided last week to indefinitely
postpone the sentencing.
That's kind of interesting.
Hey, you know, because of that pardon, I
should my case should be dismissed.
I'm not quite sure exactly how he.
Well, that was based on the fact that
within the pardon structure and what Biden said
publicly, it was a commentary about, oh, the
Justice Department's corrupt, which really irked the guy
that Biden handpicked.
Oh, I see.
To do that case.
Ah, OK.
It's just basically falling apart.
Yeah.
Or regarding this Fifth Amendment, I got some
requests for the constitutional lawyer to weigh in,
you know, does indeed the Fifth Amendment no
longer apply?
Can they have Hunter come in to testify
and he wouldn't he wouldn't need Fifth Amendment
protection, to which you, of course, astutely said,
well, yeah, he can still lie, obviously.
And so, yes, the constitutional lawyer says, of
course, that's always been my understanding.
Same thing happens when prosecutors grant immunity to
a witness.
And then he actually, if you're interested in
the show notes, he has all of the
Supreme Court case numbers and files.
So you can look it up.
But then he says something very interesting for
a constitutional lawyer.
He says, there's one thing you have not
considered.
Hunter Biden did not kill himself.
So that's the that's the thing that we
need to be looking at next, according to
our constitutional lawyer.
Well, I think that's a long shot.
We talked about that before.
Overdose.
Yeah, we talked about that before.
That would have happened already, I think.
But the the point we had a nasty
note that came in was saying our constitutional
lawyer was an idiot because he didn't point
this out, which is that once you're given
this kind of immunity, you are now forced
to testify.
No, that's I don't think that's true.
Are you?
No, you if you if you're given immunity,
you are forced to testify.
You can testify.
They can make you testify and you cannot
say I have to plead the fifth.
That's the point.
But you can still lie.
That's being forced up.
Being forced to testifying and lying is not
the same thing.
No, exactly.
I'm with you.
I'm on the I'm on the.
Yeah, no, I'm just saying you can be
forced to testify.
And so what?
You can lie.
That's my point.
Yeah, I'm with you.
I'm with you.
And the point is, is you can't prove
perjury unless you have enough evidence that you
don't need his testimony in the first place,
which is this catch 22 of the whole
thing.
Well, if they really roll out the evidence,
a lot of people are going down.
So I don't expect that to happen.
No, of course not, because it's just way.
They're not going to shrink government either.
Wait, they're not going to close.
Cash Patel is not going to close the
Hoover building.
I think that may be part of it.
That could be part of a bigger plan
because there's a lot of there's two things
going on in Washington, D.C. right now.
There's too many people working there.
And then, of course, everybody's working from home.
And now they've codified that.
So everyone gets to work from home.
Before Trump comes in.
So everyone's going to be at home, which,
you know, I'd do the same thing if
I had the time to pull something like
that off, work at home all the time.
If you're a government worker.
But even Amazon has to come back to
the office.
Everybody's all upset.
So they have the two.
Let's go over these nominations.
I have a couple of clips.
I have Trump.
Trump.
I think there's the Trump nomination appointments, Trump
appointments that play that to get a rundown.
President-elect Donald Trump announced several more picks
for his administration today.
NTD's Washington correspondent Jack Bradley joins us live
from outside of Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence
in Palm Beach, Florida.
Good evening, Jack.
President-elect Trump made quite a few picks
this morning, but who are some of the
more notable nominees?
Good evening, Tiffany.
Well, there's just rolling in as far as
the most notable ones.
Peter Navarro is picked to serve as the
senior counselor for trade and manufacturing.
Navarro served as the senior trade advisor during
Trump's first term.
He's a staunch advocate for tariffs, especially when
it comes to tariffs on China.
Remember, that was what the Biden administration left
in place when Trump left office back in
2021.
Trump said on Truth Social that the new
role, quote, leverages Peter's broad range of White
House experience while harnessing his extensive policy, analytic
and media skills.
Navarro served a four-month prison sentence that
ended in July.
That's because he was convicted for refusing to
appear before the House Select Committee on January
6th for the Capitol breach.
We also have Paul Atkins, who was nominated
for the chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission here.
Atkins formerly served as the SEC commissioner, and
he's expected to take a more crypto-friendly
approach here and push fewer regulations under Trump
than the previous SEC chair.
Trump wrote, quote, Atkins believes in the promise
of robust, innovative capital markets and are responsive
to the needs of investors and that provide
capital to make our economy the best in
the world.
Trump also tapped Jared Isaacman for the head
of NASA, a $26 billion budget there.
Isaacman is a billionaire CEO and astronaut.
He's flown to space twice.
He's accepted the nomination this morning, posting on
X, quote, Americans will walk on the moon
and Mars, and in doing so, we will
make life better here on Earth.
And Justin, former Congressman Billy Long of Missouri
has just been tapped to head the IRS.
Oh, I love those.
Let's get it.
Let's get to Mars.
It'll make it better here.
Why don't we fix here?
I have to play a clip from Billy
Long in front of the testimony he gave.
He was doing some in Congress.
He's a congressman.
So this is the new IRS guy?
Yeah.
He's an auctioneer.
Hey, bidi, bidi, bidi, bidi, bidi, bidi, bidi,
bidi, dollar bill.
One of those guys?
Billy Long, play the clip.
So one other thing, being an auctioneer in
Congress, the way our debt is running out
of control, they find it very handy to
have Jeff Duncan and myself here in Washington.
We are one of the few people that
can actually keep up with the national debt.
I have been a trillion, two trillion, and
now three, you're going to buy them three
trillion, and now four, four trillion dollars, five,
five trillion, six thousand, six trillion, seven, you're
going to buy them seven trillion, eight, eight
trillion dollars, now nine, nine, ten, ten, ten,
ten, eleven, eleven trillion, down here, twelve, twelve,
twelve, thirteen, you're going to buy them, you're
out of here, thirteen trillion, fourteen, fourteen trillion,
now fifteen, I have sold it fourteen trillion.
Thankfully, Mr. Speaker, we also can say those
numbers backwards, so when we get the spending
under control here, I'll be back.
Well, that'll be entertaining.
That's good.
He's apparently gone into this shtick.
I love it.
When people were in some hearing, they were
protesting, and he'd just go into it.
That's funny.
You couldn't hear him.
That's funny.
So, he's a funny guy, so that's a
plus.
Now, the other guy they didn't talk about,
the new guys, because this is Hegseth, who
they're just going after.
Well, you know, this to me is purely
military-industrial complex, doesn't want any outsider in
there, and they're doing everything they can, pulling
out all the stops, all the, every single
shit, every card they have.
This guy has not, cannot get in, and
I have no, no doubt that there will
be a lot of Republican senators who won't
affirm him, because they're all on the take
from the military-industrial complex.
There's no way.
Do you really think so?
Holy mackerel.
There's gambling going on?
Are you cynical or what?
Yeah, I'm very cynical.
Let's play this clip.
This is attacking Hegseth on NPR.
Oh, boy.
President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the
Pantagon.
Wait a minute.
Is that NPR also sponsored by Archer Daniel
Midlands and those guys?
Is that NPR?
Yeah, but it's sponsored by the military-industrial
complex and Burlington Northern.
There you go.
President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the
Pentagon is battling accusations of social misconduct and
heavy drinking.
A former colleague at Fox News.
Isn't that a requirement for A, for show
business, and B, for politics?
I mean, heavy drinking.
Well, I would think especially at the Pentagon.
Yeah, come on, people.
And heavy drinking.
A former colleague at Fox News tells NPR
that Pete Hegseth made unwelcome physical advances while
inebriated on multiple occasions.
That's how it works in television.
You show up.
J.J. Oh, J.J. at MTV.
He would come rolling in around 730 in
the morning, still hungover, had the company car
out all night.
They called him the franchise.
He'd roll in with a couple of chicks,
like, hey, let's do some segments.
That's entertainment.
More from NPR's David Volkenflik.
The former colleague tells NPR that Hegseth once
even groped her bottom at a Manhattan bar.
No, no.
Oh, no.
A bar.
Kid?
This morning, she appeared on Fox and Friends
to try and help him save his nomination.
David Volkenflik.
That was a rotten thing to do, publishing
that mom's letter.
That was rotten.
That was, that's really low.
It was very low.
How did they get the letter?
Well, you don't know.
This was, my theory, which I produced in
the newsletter, if people would just subscribe.
People don't, I don't know why the newsletter
shouldn't have twice as many subscribers.
It's that good, people.
It's that good.
Don't you think?
Yeah, I love the newsletter.
You know, I, just as a short little,
just because, not only, they love you, the
newsletter, you, everything.
I did, I did the morning show Wednesday.
Matt Long, our guy who loves you, who
reads the newsletter.
And he shows up in front of the
studio.
What does he have?
He has a plastic bag with four persimmons.
Oh, good man.
Two that were completely ripe and ready to
go, which are so squishy.
And two that I have to keep in
the bag for like three weeks or whatever.
People love your newsletter, love your tips.
They love you, John.
Well, I feel, I feel loved.
Yeah, you should.
Well, the point I was making was the
newsletter had this point, which is that it
had to be, you know, the DOD has
access to NSA's computers.
Yes.
Somebody went in there with, you know, we
talked about, this was some years ago, and
there were, there was a big scandal because
these guys, these FBI guys, would just go
in there and make these searches of all
the databases, which have, all, it has, everybody's
email is in there.
Consult, they were consultants.
They weren't even FBI, they were consultants.
And we know, we know from Edward Snowden,
all you need is the email address and
pops it up, the last five days or
whatever, you know, five weeks of your emails
and everything else.
Yeah, of course.
So they go in there and they dig
up this email from mom and then slip
it to the New York Times and New
York Times, you know, with, with no qualms,
publishes this personal email of somebody that was
obviously stolen.
And then they make a big fuss, the
old lady's got to go on one of
the Fox shows to defend herself saying she
was just irked by, you know, it's just,
it was one of those nasty, I mean,
if they pull the emails out between you
and me, they make it look like we're
going to kill each other.
Especially yours.
Wait, wait, there are lots of people who
have emails like that from you.
It's not just me.
Everybody has those.
But, but unfortunately, for some reason in politics
and politics media, it's, it's two sides of
the same coin.
It used to only be America, now increasingly
it's other countries.
It always comes down to the penis.
It's all, it's a horrible man because he
has a penis and he does stuff and
he's an adulterer and it's always, it's never
about policy, never about capability, never about experience.
And now they've added drinking to it.
It's just, it's sick.
Heavy drinker.
I love it.
It's sick.
It's so incredible.
And, and it works.
You know, people go, oh, oh, he's a
drinker.
You don't want a drunk.
No way.
You squeeze their butt.
And of course now we have, this is,
who did, who is this report from?
This is about Hegseth.
This is France 24.
They, they add the latest twists to these
nominations.
There's widespread speculation here in the US that
Donald Trump may be rethinking his nominee for
his secretary of defense in his cabinet.
Pete Hegseth, best known as the anchor for
Fox News Weekends, is the man that Donald
Trump has tipped to leave the Department of
Defense.
But there's been skepticism over his qualifications for
the job and now allegations of sexual misconduct
as well as excessive drinking and financial troubles
are also playing his candidacy.
But who doesn't have financial troubles?
We are told by numerous sources, and it's
been widely reported in various media outlets in
the United States, that Donald Trump has been
having conversations with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis as
recently as Tuesday about being in the role
and also about the potential appointment of Lara
Trump, Donald Trump's daughter-in-law, to the
vacant Senate seat vacated by Marco Rubio's nomination.
Well, of course, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is
a man who ran against Donald Trump in
the primaries of this election.
That is something which has been held against
him by some Republicans.
And Donald Trump has had a bit of
a contesterous past with him.
He's called him Meatball Ron in the past.
But apparently the two men are getting on
well and there is now a belief that
he could be in the running for the
secretary of defense role.
As it stands, Pete Hegseth is still not
backing down, saying that he believes he still
has a path forward.
He said to some reporters on The Hill
on Wednesday, I spoke to the president-elect
this morning.
He said, keep going, keep fighting.
I'm behind you all the way.
Why would I back down?
But of course, he needs to be confirmed
by the Senate in order to get into
that cabinet position.
Whether Donald Trump is willing to expend the
political capital to get in there is the
question that everybody is asking.
Oh, I can hear it.
No, everyone's talking about Pete Hegseth clenching a
woman's butt and drinking before Showtime.
And they're all like, oh, please don't look
at me.
He didn't drink after Showtime.
He wasn't one of those guys who drank.
The show that he did was a morning
show.
Yeah, drinking at eight.
Financial troubles.
So I think that Trump, you know, Hegseth
has to get to the hearings because...
He's got a lot to say.
Well, besides having a lot to say, they
have to see who the weak sisters are
in the Senate and the Republican side.
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
They got to smoke them out.
You have to identify them.
Got to smoke them out.
You got to smoke them out.
And then you can go after them politically
later or have the public do it or
whatever you want to do.
But these senators have got to be smoked
out.
Well, it's not going to be too hard.
You just look at the AIPAC donations, which,
unlike the popular opinion online, comes from the
American-Israeli Education Fund, which is where the
military-industrial complex donates to.
It's not the Jews, everybody.
Simmer down.
But yeah, I mean, just look at the
donations.
Look at the campaign finances.
You can see exactly who's going to vote
against them.
I think we could probably do a pool.
Be easy to see.
But is DeSantis, is he compromised enough to
be Secretary of Defense?
Do you think that he's a guy they
could muster?
I think they've got the goods on him
because he was at Gitmo during the torture
period.
Right, right.
They've got the goods on him.
Yeah, Hegseth is too good of an American.
That's the problem.
A good soldier, you know, brave man.
He's too good.
He's too good for that corrupt outfit.
Yeah, DeSantis would be a better fit for
them.
Yeah, well, that's ultimately what it's about.
He talks a big game.
He's a good big game talker.
So he can make it look like something's
happening, but it's not going to happen.
More likely, Kash Patel is the guy who
can kick some ass if they get him.
And he's going to be the tougher one
on the system.
I was listening to NPR the other day
on the media.
I didn't clip it, but his whole rise,
Patel's rise is quite interesting.
It started really early, and he was just
a lawyer.
And he was defending some low-level case.
And he came into the court, and he
had to fly from Tajikistan or something.
And they didn't have a tie for him.
And then the judge just reamed him for
not having a tie.
And then he got this whole thing, the
system's corrupt.
And then he got in with Nunes, and
then Nunes promised him that when the time
came, he would be put on the National
Security Council.
So he had this interesting rise, really from
nothing.
Yeah, Nunes is his mentor.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So I like Kash Patel.
I think he's going to be fun.
But he's the wild card.
People are afraid of him.
And where's the dirt?
Does he not have a drinking problem?
Well, not yet.
And then, of course, back to consumerism.
Trump, he's going to do it, man.
It's going to be tariffs.
It's going to be horrible.
You know what that means.
When tariffs are coming, it's time to buy
now for Christmas.
Holiday shoppers might be wondering what tech products
they should buy in case President-elect Trump's
proposed tariffs go into effect.
Yeah, a recent analysis from the Consumer Technology
Association suggests smartphone prices could— How come you're
not a member of the Consumer Technology Association?
I've never heard of it.
I know there's the Consumer Electronics Association, which
is a major, major operation.
I've never heard of the Consumer Technology.
I think they made a mistake.
Oh, I think we should be on it.
If it exists, we should be on it.
—suggests smartphone prices could rise by 26 percent
due to proposed tariffs on imports from China.
A smartphone is going to go up in
price?
—manufacturers the majority of our smartphones.
You should also consider replacing your household appliance.
That may be on the fritz, according to
the National Retail Federation.
Hey, do you have any household appliances that
may be on the fritz?
On the fritz?
Well, there's a phrase that we need to
bring back.
That's a good one.
I agree.
It's on the fritz.
It's on the fritz, man.
Jiggle the handles.
That's better than glitch.
That may be on the fritz.
According to the National Retail Federation, the tariffs
could cause the price of the average appliance
to go up by nearly 20 percent.
Other products that will cost more include gaming
consoles and laptops.
And already this morning, breaking news.
China just announced minutes ago that it's banning
exports of high-tech materials to the U
.S. that includes materials like gallium, germanium, and
antimony, materials used in several products like your
cell phone battery.
So it has begun in a lot of
ways.
It has begun.
It has begun.
Most definitely by the upcoming administration.
Most definitely.
We're going to see the impact for sure.
For sure.
By now.
By now.
By now.
But this is Biden.
Biden put some more sanctions on, didn't he?
Wasn't this a Biden move that Trump is
now going to have to pick up?
I have no idea what Biden did.
Biden did something?
Well, somebody did something.
I don't want to say it's Biden.
Yeah, some new chip thing, like new tariffs
on chips, or you can't sell certain chips
to China.
There was something new, and that's why they
retaliated with the gallium, which I'd never even
heard of.
What is gallium?
Oh, yeah, gallium.
It's used in semiconductors, specialty ones.
I think, if I'm not mistaken, I could
be wrong on this, but I think it's
used in things that require high frequencies.
Gallium's got some characteristics that make it workable.
Well, it's all part of the China move.
Now we're really starting to move in on
China.
And the reason Biden was in Africa, Angola,
I don't think it got a lot of
play.
I only got one clip, but I didn't
even know that this was taking place, but
this is a pure anti-China move.
U.S. President Joe Biden, on his first
trip to sub-Saharan Africa, the visit this
week is meant to solidify economic ties with
the African nation, even as the Biden administration
prepares for a transition to Trump's presidency.
So this is the president's final trip.
And with it, he wants to kind of
leave a legacy marker for improving relations with
Africa at a time when China and Russia
have deep ties across the continent.
China especially has been incredibly strategic in terms
of developing these relationships, inviting the heads of
state to China.
And the image of the United States in
some of these smaller and lower-income countries
has also taken a hit because of the
close ties between the U.S. and Israel.
And so one of the Biden administration's big
investments in four years abroad has been pumping
millions of dollars into this new rail corridor
that they hope by the end of the
decade will stretch from one end of the
continent to the other.
And that will be a major way that
some of the critical minerals that are produced
in Africa are brought out to the United
States.
And so Biden was here to take a
look at part of that project and optimism
that even in a Trump administration that that
project will continue because it muscles away some
of the infrastructure investment that China wants to
do in Africa.
This is the Trans-Africa Corridor connecting Central
Africa's Copper Belt to the Angolan coast.
I hadn't heard about this.
I haven't either, actually.
And so it's $600 billion.
Oh, that's new financing.
That's new money.
So I don't know how much was already
there.
But yeah, this is our...
This is really, I mean, that's a big
middle finger to China.
They're the train guys.
Hey, what are you doing?
We do trains around here.
We're the train guys.
We do trains around here.
What are you doing, Biden?
So I thought that was rather interesting.
And they're just doing everything they can to...
I wonder why that information, because the way
it was presented, first you had Biden bumbling
around and calling Angola a city, and they
had all these ludicrous clips of him stumbling
and mumbling.
Even the mainstream couldn't play a good clip.
And then the background was that, well, he
either went to Angola to avoid talking about
Hunter's pardon, or he went there just to
give them a billion dollars for no good
reason, because of climate.
It was a climate change visit.
There's a climate angle to it, yeah.
And they never mention anything about this rail,
which is actually a good story.
So why do you think that was suppressed
over the climate change angle, so far as
the mainstream media?
Because there's no money for people in America?
Maybe?
And who knows?
I think if you're a resentful American, and
you go over and you hear that they're
throwing money at Africa because of climate worries,
as opposed to throwing money at Africa so
they can make a train that drives a
bunch of minerals out of the country over
to us, I don't think there's a comparison
there.
One is good, one is bad.
It just depends where your money's coming from.
But if it's all coming from us, it
doesn't matter if it's good, if the result
is good, as opposed to just throwing it
away because of climate change.
That was the point they made over and
over about this whole climate thing.
I probably have a clip, too.
I wonder, by the way, what do you
think an African foamer sounds like when he
sees that train go by?
Woo-hoo!
Oh, my God!
Woo!
I can't wait.
It's got to be there.
Well, they're just throwing gold bars overboard at
this point.
It's like, wherever we can throw some money,
let's throw some money.
So, of course, Ukraine, we need to get
as much out there, or I think, what
is Jake Sullivan here called, the National Security
Advisor, the surge of weapons?
What are you telling your Ukrainian counterparts about
American support in 51 days after Biden leaves
office?
Well, first, what I'm saying is we are
going to do everything in our power for
these 50 days to get Ukraine all the
tools we possibly can to strengthen their position
on the battlefield so that they'll be stronger
at the negotiating table.
And President Biden directed me to oversee.
This is a key talking point.
Get them all that we can so they'll
be stronger at the negotiating table.
This thing is over.
This thing is ending.
Everybody knows it.
And it's just, how do they do it?
Who gets left over with the spoils?
This is where they're at.
And it's just, throw that money at it.
It doesn't even make sense.
Like, oh, if we send $7 billion more,
then he'll be stronger at the negotiating table?
I don't see how it makes sense.
But this is the talking point.
The tools we possibly can to strengthen their
position on the battlefield so that they'll be
stronger at the negotiating table.
And President Biden directed me to oversee a
massive surge in the military equipment that we
are delivering to Ukraine so that we have
spent every dollar that Congress has appropriated to
us by the time that President Biden leaves
office.
So that's first and foremost what we're focused
on.
And then I've encouraged the Ukrainian team to
engage the incoming team as well as to
engage all of our allies and partners because,
again, on January 21st, the war in Ukraine
doesn't just go away.
Obviously, the new team will have its own
policy, its own approach, and I can't speak
to that.
But what I can do is make sure
that we put Ukraine in the best possible
position when we hand off the baton.
Okay.
I mean, is this paying everybody off or,
you know, like, okay, listen.
Ah, you got it.
You nailed it.
Don't make waves.
We're going to pay everybody off.
This is money laundering.
And that kind of fits in with our
boy Mark Rutte.
Mark Rutte going to tell you what we're
doing, what we can and cannot do with
NATO regarding Ukraine.
Ukraine's foreign minister went to Brussels with two
asks, more air defenses, and an invitation for
his country to join NATO.
The latter, he says, is the only real
guarantee of security in the face of Russian
aggression.
Now is a time, is a true time
of geopolitical certainty.
And we need this certainty.
We need strong decisions to strengthen us, to
strengthen our capacities.
But leading his first of these meetings as
Secretary General, Mark Rutte was quick to push
the question of membership aside.
I would argue, let's not have all these
discussions step by step on what the peace
process might look like.
Make sure that Ukraine has what it needs
to get to a position of strength when
those peace talks start.
Oh, the strength when the peace talks start.
So it's starting soon.
Meaning it is a request which seems unlikely
right now.
With the U.S. awaiting a change in
leadership come January and Germany facing elections a
month later, the pair fear such a request
could drag NATO into a war with Russia.
We share the concern that Mark expressed for
Ukraine in this ongoing aggression.
But that only reinforces our determination to make
sure that Ukraine has what it needs to
deal with what is facing on the battlefield.
The alliance says anything other than a strong
Ukraine risks emboldening others contemplating a similar path
of aggression.
Aside from Ukraine, meetings in the building behind
me will address other threats to NATO members.
Cyber attacks, infrastructure sabotage, energy blackmail, as well
as threats from pro-Russian political parties in
countries like Georgia, Romania, and Bulgaria.
Ah, Bulgaria next on the list.
We haven't heard them kick up yet.
We have Romania and Georgia.
By the way, how far is Ferndale from
where you live?
Ferndale?
Yeah.
Is it Ferndale in Southern California?
No, it's supposed to be Humboldt County.
Oh, Humboldt County's nowhere near here.
Oh, okay, because everyone's texting me and I've
got...
I'd say it's about 200 miles.
No, at least 100 miles.
I'm getting text messages.
Everyone's concerned.
They can't believe you're alive.
What's going on in Ferndale?
A 7.0 magnitude earthquake has struck off
the coast of Northern California.
Tsunami warning has been issued.
That's nowhere near here.
Grab your floaties.
And if it was a 7.0, which
is a pretty strong quake, and I didn't
feel it...
Yeah, that's why I find it rather questionable.
It's too far away.
Questionable, questionable.
Okay, well, tsunami warning, tsunami warning.
I'm not expecting that either.
It's breaking news.
Breaking news.
Breaking news.
I'm glad you're safe.
Stay safe.
Stay safe.
So, you know, part of this is, yeah,
it's money laundering.
It's money to pay off the military-industrial
complex.
Okay, boys, we got a little period here.
We're all going to chill out.
We're going to give some of our contacts
over in Ukraine some money.
We're winding it down.
Trump is obviously going to...
By the way, did you see that Tucker
Carlson is going to Russia again, and now
he's going to interview Sergey Lavrov?
Yep.
This is...
I think this is a fantastic development.
Why?
Because Lavrov speaks perfect English, so it'll be
a much more comfortable...
His English is good.
It'll be a much more comfortable interview, and,
you know, Tucker's going to go over there,
and Lavrov can put out whatever he wants,
and everybody's going to watch it.
Ferndale's 293 miles away.
Stop waxing your surfboard.
No tsunami for you.
That's a long way.
Anyway, I think it's going to be very
interesting to see what messages Lavrov is going
to send to us.
Oh, yeah.
Well, that will be good.
Yeah.
Because he definitely has things to...
He's a good...
One of those guys who likes to drop
little tidbits that you can interpret one way
or the other, and he's got the ear...
I mean, he is Putin.
Yeah.
Oh, definitely.
And, meanwhile, the Palantir CEO, that guy is
weird.
Have you ever looked at that guy?
No.
I like the use of your word, though.
Yeah.
Well, he is.
He's actually capital W.
Have you not seen this guy with the
curly hair, the floppy hair that's flying all
over the place?
No.
Let me look him up.
You got to look him up.
He's a very odd duck.
Hold on a second.
Palantir.
What's his name?
CEO Palantir.
I'm going to look it up for you.
The Alex Karp.
Alex Karp.
Where does he come from?
C-A-R-P-P or C-A
-R-P?
K-A-R-P.
So what is his...
Oh, Stanford.
Right?
Isn't this exactly the kind of...
He's got a mop head.
He's a goofy-looking guy.
He never combs his hair.
It's grayish.
It's CIA-ish, but it's unkempt.
Yeah, but this is a very big military
contractor.
And for all intents and purposes, I don't
like Palantir.
They don't seem like a good company.
Who knows where they are in?
They're in all kinds of systems.
And this, by the way, is part of
the...
What's the name?
The PayPal Mafia guy who got J.D.
Vance into the senator seat, supposedly.
Yeah, this is...
What's his name?
His buddy or his major investment is...
Peter Thiel.
Peter Thiel.
Yeah, Thiel.
He's like, oh, no.
Oh, no.
No, this war is not over.
It's very hard to know what's going to
happen, but you have an adversary who is
zero-sum.
If Putin goes home and says, hey, we
lost, he will lose his life.
His friends will lose their life.
They'll lose all their money.
And he'll go to his grave feeling that
he lost, which he does not want to
do.
We in the West, most of us in
the West, correctly believe if we allow these
kind of things to happen, if we allow
people to violate the sovereignty of a land
and rape, pillage, and destroy people who are
innocent in that land, that this will set
a horrible precedent.
So we can't allow that to happen.
Also, we've shown that we develop superior technology,
and combined with heroes on the ground, we
can actually win.
And so this is just still a class
of culture.
Really?
Really, mophead guy?
I mean, he's like, oh, no, it's still
going on.
I mean, the heroes on the ground with
our technology, they can win.
They can beat Russia.
Is he not read in?
So this guy co-founded Palantir.
But he's the CEO.
He's not as spook it looks like, but
he looks spook adjacent.
He looks like the data guy.
I invented it all.
I'm the database man.
Karp is a critic of short sellers and
said he loves burning the short sellers because
of his stock.
He has compared them to cocaine addicts and
says they just love pulling down great American
companies.
So far, his stock is doing just fine.
Karp has described himself as a socialist and
a progressive and says he voted for Hillary
Clinton.
Oh, no wonder he's not in the group.
Oh, no, man.
He must have the goods on everybody.
I don't know.
It's odd.
So did you by any chance see.
He's a warmonger.
If you look at this, his background, look
at a wiki.
People should look at him.
He's a progressive.
He's a progressive.
Of course, he's a progressive.
So I had a thought the other day.
I watched the entire two and a half
hours of Mike bends on Joe Rogan.
Did you happen to see any of that?
No, I did not.
Thank you.
But I knew you would.
And I'm now I'm waiting to hear your
analysis.
Well, so and I did ask Tina.
I said, could you just please listen to
this episode?
And she had because she was driving to
San Antonio and she text me within 10
minutes.
I can't listen to this.
And she can listen to almost anything.
So this guy, he's he's just like he
has diarrhea of the mouth.
I don't know what he's talking about.
He's jumping around.
I have no clue.
This was I think Joe said if he
said 50 words in this entire episode, it
was a lot.
And it was just like the mic.
It was so convoluted.
I'll give you I have a minute and
a half.
Just a needle drop.
Just a needle drop.
Just so you kind of get the idea
of how he jumps around.
This is something we know a little bit
about.
But just listen to a needle drop of
what this entire two and a half hours
was like.
This is basically the month before the Bob
Mueller investigation.
And they they wanted to pre-censor and
and throttle Trump's ability to be able to
fight off charges that he was a Russian
asset.
Because at the time, the Pentagon and the
intelligence community want him out.
If you remember, the Ukraine impeachment in 2019
came from the CIA agent came from the
Vindman brothers who are military.
Basically, Trump had a big beef with the
existing brass at the Pentagon and the intelligence
community over Russia policy over Eurasia policy, which
is a whole thing that we can maybe
talk about it if you're if you're interested.
But so the Atlanta Council was was one
of the very, very, very first movers in
the censorship industry space.
I mentioned how this really started in 2014
with 25 years of free speech diplomacy sort
of ended with the 2014 Ukraine fiasco because
of this Drosimov doctrine, hybrid warfare thing.
And I mentioned that that's when NATO began
setting down infrastructure just to censor the Internet.
And that's what snowballed into what we now
have.
And so the Atlanta Council effectively bills itself
as NATO's think tank.
That's what it's known as in Washington.
You know, there's, you know, the places like
the Council on Foreign Relations is sort of
more known for Chamber of Commerce and big
business sort of working on government policy.
The Atlanta Council is one of these that's
for NATO.
And it's basically NATO's clandestine civilian sort of
civil military arm.
So you can understand that most mere mortals
listen to this and go, what is he
talking about?
You know, they probably got left behind at
Trump's impeachment.
OK, I'm there.
And then it's the 2014 Atlantic Council and
the Council on Foreign Relations.
So he's all over the map.
And to most people, just boring.
I found it very interesting because he knows
a lot and he's very well, you know,
he calls, this is my North Star.
But all he talks about is censorship, censorship,
censorship.
It's only about censorship and then how, you
know, the all these different groups, USAID and
the State Department's Global Engagement Center and how
they were making the tech company censor, censor.
And that's all he talks about is censorship.
And what I realized at the end of
this and Joe Rogan literally said, I have
to go back and listen to this episode
two more times to understand what you just
said.
So I don't think many people got it.
But what he didn't talk about is propaganda.
And he never mentions and this was telling
to me, never mentioned Smith-Munt, the Smith
-Munt Modernization Act, which was 2012.
Well, I think, well, I would at least
suggest that perhaps he assumes that everyone knows
about this and he just overlooked it because
it sounds like he was jamming everything he
could into this.
There's no reason for him to, oops, I
assumed you knew about this.
No.
And by the way, most of these ex
-military and he's not military, but he was
State Department, whatever.
I don't care.
He has a foundation for defending freedom online.
There's no Form 990.
You can't donate to it.
I don't know how the guy makes money.
I don't care.
But his job is to tell Joe Rogan
about all the censorship.
And as I started to think about it,
because all of his stories kind of start
in 2012.
This is exactly when the Smith-Munt Modernization
Act of 2012 came into play as part
of the National Defense Authorization Act.
And maybe we just need to just remind
people what this was.
And it was specifically that, well, here it
is, amends the United States Information Educational Exchange
Act of 1984, which means you can't propagandize
Americans.
To authorize the Secretary of State and the
Broadcasting Board of Governors, that is Tucker Carlson's
dad, to provide for the preparation and dissemination
of information intended for foreign audiences abroad about
the United States.
Including about its people, its history, the federal
government policies, through press, publications, radio, motion pictures,
the Internet, and other information media, including social
media.
And then through information centers and instructors.
And it says, basically, you can now do
this in America.
And as I was thinking about it, and
so I'm already off Mike Benz, right?
So Mike Benz, he's trying to focus everybody
on censorship.
Do you remember one of the big social
media experiments that took place in 2012 that
we were shaking our head at?
Like, where is this coming from?
Well, not offhand.
Kony 2012.
Oh, yeah.
Kony 2012 was the first one.
Hundred billion views.
Overnight.
Overnight.
Overnight.
And everybody, oh, Kony 2012.
It was about some African warlord who was
using children.
And the guy who was running it later
went nuts and was running around naked on
top of parked cars at a motel.
Right.
From that, whatever that was, what was that
stuff, bath salts or whatever that was at
the time, any other trend?
Or whatever they did to him.
Because I'm just realizing this was an experiment.
This was one of the first, let's see
if we can get a video to go
via.
We didn't have TikTok.
It was YouTube.
Yeah, exactly.
And it was YouTube.
But this was another fine Google outfit.
This was well after social networks had already
kind of come alive.
And I'm just kind of associating, free association.
In my head, I got, oh, I remember
John used to say that the Internet just
made their job easier to propagandize everybody.
Which is true.
I mean, you know, they were doing it
through magazines and newspapers and television.
And, you know, so now they say, you
know, these military guys, you know, now that
Smith-Munt is out of the way.
It was in the National Defense Authorization Act
for a reason.
And now we can just do all kinds
of propaganda.
So the same day that I'm looking at
this, Jonathan Haidt comes out with an article.
And Jonathan Haidt is the guy who wrote
The Coddling of the American Mind about, you
know, how we've turned out all these wussies.
I'm paraphrasing his book.
And he has this article, and he says,
and they did all this, they got this
Pew research, they got all this data.
And the title of this article is Why
the Mental Health of Liberal Girls Sank First
and Fastest.
And I thought that was kind of interesting.
Oh, because that's your TikToks right there.
They're all liberal girls and women, and they're
going nuts.
And they're out of control.
They're out of control.
So I'm reading this, and their conclusion is,
well, so there's three great untruths that they
have, that these women have come to believe.
And here they are.
They are fragile and can be harmed by
books, speakers, words, which are forms of violence.
They came to believe that their emotions, especially
their anxieties, were reliable guides to reality.
And they came to see society as comprised
of victims and oppressors, good people and bad
people.
But their conclusion is that every single one
of these girls, and it was much less
prevalent on conservative boys and girls, probably because
they're doing Bible study, whatever else, but it
still went up for them as well, was
that every single one of them, when asked
the question in the survey, has a doctor
or other health care provider ever told you
that you may have a mental condition, a
mental health condition?
All of them said yes.
So I'm thinking there's two things that may
have been going on since 2012.
One, that we may be under some big
DARPA experiment, and they've been noodling in our
minds with a sewer pipe into our brains
for years, for over a decade, just seeing
what would happen, well, what if we tweak
this?
And you don't need the collaboration of the
social media for that.
You can just get the data from ad
buys information so you can target exactly who
you want.
All of these what I call number nicks,
the people on X who are telling you
you're no good and you're a Zionist, they
all have a name with a long number.
This to me is not a real person
or it's someone maybe in the global engagement
center.
And then the second thought I had is
if you are the pharmaceutical industry, and this
really started on Tumblr, this is what you
do.
You go in there and you make all
these girls all worried that they have mental
health issues, and you confirm that continuously on
Reddit and everywhere else they go, and you
just continuously confirm, affirm.
And I think that we've been under several
massive, forget the censorship, we have been under
attack by multiple organizations.
And that this is what has led to
people like Leslie Jones talking like this on
a podcast with Gavin Newsom, of all people.
To me, I just feel like all this
shit is being revealed now.
Trump brought out all those people who really
are racist, because most white people are, they
just don't understand that they have that microaggression.
Y'all mostly are, you don't even understand
some of the racist shit you do.
And by accident, just from being a white
entitled motherfucker.
Seriously, and that shit's starting to show now.
And it's getting so bad, like, oh, we
don't want you to see your history and
all of that.
I think people are just waking up to
the shit that's been going on.
And now we're waking up.
So this is Leslie Jones of Saturday Night
Live, of Ghostbusters failed movie.
And Gavin Newsom helps herself diagnose where this
came from.
What do you think?
I mean, do you think there's this current
sort of more of the extreme of what
you're just saying, and sort of distillation in
the last few years, I sense in particular,
was a reaction to George Floyd?
It was sort of a reaction in that
sort of COVID framework.
I mean, this is the boomerang that really
exposes it at a whole nother level.
Yeah, I think that COVID fucked us up.
I think that when we had that pandemic
and was inside for a little while, I
think that some of us lost our fucking
mind.
And I think, again, Gavin, I just think
it's sadness.
We're sad.
We don't understand what's going on with our
government.
Our government is supposed to be boring.
You know what I'm saying?
We're not supposed to turn on the TV
every day and see child molesters and felons
and shit in our government.
We're supposed to be like, those are the
most boring motherfuckers, and we don't give a
fuck.
Like no one, everyone's frustrated because now this
is happening, and we never understood the system.
So this is a very, very troubled, very
broken and sad person.
And I think this is what happened.
During COVID, everybody's online.
They struck.
They went out, and they just collected souls,
man.
And you know what?
Blue Cry, I would say people have to
be very, very careful on that Blue Cry
outfit because that's going to be the next
target.
They're going to make them nuts, all of
them.
And then what's going to happen on X?
That's just going to be, it's going to
be the same.
It's going to be Tumblr will be Blue
Cry, and 4chan will be X.
And there's propaganda going on on both sides.
And the end result is Oxford's Word of
the Year.
Brain rot.
You have it.
I have it.
It's the Oxford Word of the Year for
2024.
Allow me to define it.
Quote, supposed deterioration of a person's mental or
intellectual state, especially viewed as a result of
overconsumption of material.
Now, particularly online content considered to be trivial
or unchallenging.
You can use it in two ways.
You could say, as you may say about
this very video you're watching on your phone,
that's brain rot.
Or you can say that video gave me
brain rot.
Two ways.
It's all very relatable.
I get it.
So it's the Word of the Year.
It's the Word of the Year.
First used by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
No, Thoreau.
The brain rot is getting me.
It's killing me.
The guy who wrote Walden's Pond or Walden,
he first used it.
It would be Thoreau.
Of course, it would be Thoreau, as I
recall.
He first used it in the 1800s.
It's back.
It's the Word of the Year.
I clearly suffer from it.
And it makes sense.
It does make a lot of sense.
So everyone's got brain rot.
And the only people who are semi-normal
are the ones that just stay off of
it.
Or at least don't use it in an
app formation like you do.
Although, you know, you could easily be susceptible
to it.
I think we've been under attack for over
a decade.
And we didn't even realize it.
And we all focused on no censorship.
But meanwhile, they're just pushing messages all day
long.
From the military, from pharma, and maybe from
others.
But I think your analysis is good until
you get to the brain rot part.
I had to wrap it up.
I didn't have anything else.
I tried to make it funny.
I don't think you have a conclusion to
this.
I don't have proof.
I'm throwing it out.
I'm throwing it out.
It's a thesis.
It's a thesis, yes.
It's a thesis.
It's a classic thesis.
In other words, you suggest something is going
on.
It could be.
And the methodologies, which would include Ben's and
these people.
There's a group of people that are all
part of the experiment.
And the reason you emphasize censorship.
Because you don't want them to stop doing
it.
Exactly.
You don't want people to think about what's
really going on.
No, you don't want them to stop.
I mean, if you have censorship, then somebody
could put a stop to the experiment.
Oh, that's another good point.
That's very good.
I didn't even consider that one.
And I look at this blue sky outfit.
Where everyone's rushed over there.
And they have all these things like.
Well, you have to assume that the fact
that they rushed over the way they did.
Especially after the CNN report that showed that
what happened to Twitter was it got balanced.
It's not a bunch of right wingers.
Yes.
There was a very carefully done report showing
it.
It used to be like 56% Democrats,
40 something percent Republicans.
Now it's like 48 Democrats, 47 Republicans.
Still more Democrats than Republicans.
But balanced.
And this seems to have people upset.
Especially when it's brought up even on CNN.
But this is also where I just can't
help thinking about how the military has been
feeding certain women.
Who we know.
All this nonsense about the grids going down.
There won't be an election.
That propagates out through their social media accounts.
It just seems like one big experiment to
me.
It could be.
And the Kony 2012 is the giveaway.
The Kony 2012 is definitely part of it.
Because that did trigger, it did show that
something could, that you could make people.
But then again, it had no fundamental, it
made no fundamental change.
All it did was it got attention.
And people would propagate the nonsense that this
guy was some sort of a screwball African
guy that was using kids to shoot people.
And it was a big deal.
You had to stop him.
But there was no, it didn't make, it
didn't change anybody's vote.
It didn't make you want to do something,
didn't make you want to buy something.
The whole thing was just, it was almost
like a wheel spinning experiment to see if
you could get people to screech their tires.
It didn't really accomplish anything that I can
think of.
I think it was just to see how
a video going viral would get news.
I just pulled this just out of the
hat.
Kony 2012, CBS.
The head of the U.S. Africa command
says the five year hunt for warlord Joseph
Kony is ending.
Kony and his militia have terrorized Central Africa
for decades.
Now, I'm looking for the, for like the
big, oh Clooney was involved in that.
You remember that?
Clooney got involved.
I want, I'd like indicted war criminals to
enjoy the same level of celebrity as me.
Yeah, and then we had Rihanna.
And for, to get the youth involved with
something like that.
Angelina Jolie.
I don't think I know anybody that doesn't
hate Joseph Kony.
And anybody who works in the international field
has been aware.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was a whole group
of them.
But it was, the whole point was to
get attention for something that didn't matter.
So anyway, be on the lookout people.
But Clooney's an interesting case.
You know, Clooney is the executive producer of
this new show, The Agency.
Oh.
Oh, I haven't seen that yet.
Have you seen it?
Oh, you'll want to see it.
It's a, it's a, I don't think that
everyone's going to like this show.
It's a spook show.
And it reveals some, maybe it reveals some
tradecraft that's interesting.
But Clooney is the guy behind it.
It's actually a stolen show.
The show was taken from a show in
France that went for five seasons called Le
Bureau de l'Agent.
Oh.
And that show, I ended up watching The
Agency, and then I watched the French show,
one episode.
It's almost a scene-by-scene lift.
Yeah.
Every single scene, except a couple of changes
were made to the American show.
For example, the spy who's played by Michael
Fassbender, who's quite good.
The French version of it, the guy was
in Syria, and he had to break off
with this relationship, so he had to move
back to Langley.
The French one, of course, is for the
French intelligence.
The girl was a pretty Syrian girl, white.
The American version, the woman is a black
girl, so it has to be African.
Of course.
Of course.
So you had to make, you had to
do that.
Gotta do that.
Those kinds of changes are throughout.
I'm surprised Lizzie Jones wasn't up for the
role.
She would have been perfect.
So there's nomenclature changes and some other things,
but the script is almost word-for-word
and scene-by-scene.
I called Brunetti about this thing.
This is like plagiarism as far as I'm
concerned.
And he said, in Hollywood, he says, you
bring in the same team that did the
original show as part of the…
Oh, so they get paid.
So they get paid.
So they get their money, and they also,
they can't sue for plagiarism because they're suing
themselves.
And he says, and I said, then I
said to him, I said, well, you know,
it's like this, the dialogue is like, the
writers just took the French and made it
English.
It was the same, everything's the same shot
by shot.
And he says, yeah, he says, writers are
lazy.
If you can do that, yeah, that's what
you do.
He says, why fix something that's not broken?
He's just a Hollywood guy.
He also has some comments about our show.
He wants to make a change, which we'll
discuss after the show.
Oh, really?
We're going to take advice from Hollywood now?
Well, we took advice on one of the
things that he wants.
We'll talk about it.
I can't wait to hear this.
Oh, yeah.
I'm surprised he already hasn't called you because
he likes the back channel.
Oh, yeah.
That's the Hollywood way, man.
We know how those guys operate.
Yeah, he's good.
Hey, man, how you doing?
How you doing?
So if you want to watch The Bureau,
you can get that.
I think it was on Netflix, and I
think it's around here and there.
You can pick it up and see what
the show's about.
But the American version is only released two,
and it's really, I think it's a good
spook show.
It's creepy, and it's got all the elements
you want.
It's a little, I think, for the general
public, it's a little slow moving.
Anyway, when it comes to Clooney.
George Clooney, George Clooney, George Clooney is a
spy.
And I'm not implementing any of Brunetti's ideas
until he gives you a bit part in
something.
He says he's never going to do another
film.
Oh, okay.
All right, can we write that down?
Can we write that down?
December 5th, 2024.
Happy Sinterklaas, by the way, to our Dutch
audience.
Is today the day?
Yeah, today's the day.
He comes and puts something in the little
kid's wooden shoes with his black peat.
I didn't hear much controversy this year about
the black peat.
They probably have rainbow peats now, so there's
no more black peats.
Oh, you should look into that.
Every year, for the last decade, we've been
bitching and moaning about this black peat character.
They achieved the objective.
The objective was for the Dutch to admit
that they're a bunch of racist slaveholders and
slave transporters.
And they gave all this money to Suriname
and Indonesia and opened up a museum.
They buckled.
They buckled.
So they got paid.
And then all of a sudden, oh, it
stops.
That was the whole point.
Remember there was that United Nations lady who
was leading that every year?
I don't know if you remember that.
No, I don't.
Yeah, it was a pressure campaign.
And they buckled, of course.
Yeah, it was for money.
Yeah, here's my bike.
Whatever.
Take my bike.
It's my bike.
Take my bike.
There's still a huge collection of them, I
guess, somewhere.
I do have one other thing, if you
want to hear something about Trump.
Well, first of all, I'm sure you heard
about Trump's threat to BRICS, which I have
a short clip here.
Donald Trump is threatening to impose tariffs on
so-called BRICS nations.
What's he actually said there?
Yeah, over the weekend, he said that those
nations would face 100% tariffs if they
pushed ahead with plans that have been floated,
that perhaps those nations should become less reliant
in global trade on the US dollar.
Now, those nations include very strong trading partners
with the US.
It's Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.
And Donald Trump is saying he wants a
commitment from the BRICS nations that they have
no intention of launching their own currency or
of becoming less reliant on the US dollar.
So Trump is obviously on the warpath, and
he wants everybody to use dollars.
And I've been trying to figure out when
he said, you know, Bitcoin is like the
new oil.
And he said that at Bitcoin 2024.
And, you know, he's all in on crypto,
and he's going to make the Bitcoin strategic
reserve.
And of course, he was out there going,
hey, you like your Bitcoin now?
As it broke $100,000 of Bitcoin.
I found this interview from this guy, Luke
Groman.
He's been on CNBC, and he's around.
He's one of these financial guys.
He has FFTT or whatever his outfit is
called.
And he had a really quite an interesting
take on why Trump said that.
Because I've been trying to figure out the
stable coins, how that works with the T
-bills and everything.
Because Trump is not just going to say,
oh, Bitcoin's great, because arguably it would be
bad for the dollar.
And it didn't make a lot of sense.
But he's a macro guy, and I think
he might be on to something.
Listen to this.
I got this from Jupiter Broadcasting, my buddy
Chris over there who found this interview.
What I laid out for clients three weeks
ago was sort of a thought process, is
how I started to think about it.
It changed the way I was thinking about
this Bitcoin is the new oil comment from
Trump, which is if we go back in
time to late 73, early 74, oil rose
in price by 400 percent from October 73
to April 74.
And there is an interview that was given
on CNN International by the former Saudi oil
minister, Sheikh Yamani, in 2010, in which he
said there was a meeting, a Bilderberg group
at this Swedish island in late 73, October
73.
Henry Kissinger attended and said, look, the price
of oil is going up 400 percent.
Get on board.
And it happened.
And again, these are not my words.
These are the words of the former Saudi
oil minister on CNN 14 years ago.
He highlighted that.
And the point of the U.S. doing
that was essentially to make the oil market
big enough to back U.S. deficits, to
basically recycle the flows back into U.S.
debt, to basically fix the U.S. fiscal
problem post Vietnam War.
And after we left the gold standard, it
basically put us on an oil standard of
sorts.
Does that sound right to you?
Because I don't know the history of that.
Does that does that jive with what you
know?
I can't say I don't know for sure,
but it doesn't.
There's nothing you said that doesn't make sense.
So here's here's how he connects it to
Bitcoin being the new oil with the stable
coins.
Remember, Trump said, I love your Bitcoin and
your stable coins and all the Bitcoin people
like, what are you talking about?
You know, stable coins.
And when I thought back to that interview
by Sheikh Yamani in light of the Treasury
report, which was really the catalyst for the
rethink and then the Paul Ryan point and
then Trump's point, you know, in August where
he said, hey, maybe we'll just you know,
maybe we'll just, you know, pay off our
debt with a little Bitcoin, which was a
really odd comment.
I started to wonder if Bitcoin is the
new oil, that it's not that it is.
Bitcoin is going to be inflated like oil
was so that it will inflate stable coins
so that stable coins will buy a lot
more Treasury.
Basically, Bitcoin going much, much higher.
This Treasury report showed that stable coin demand
for T-bills would soar.
Because all those stable coins are backed by
some Bitcoin, but mainly by Treasuries.
We need a way to weaken the dollar
while strengthening the dollar system.
And you look at this and you go,
gosh, this checks all the boxes.
If we inflate the heck out of Bitcoin,
you're going to increase stable coins.
You can increase stable coin demand for T
-bills.
What that will do, because Bitcoin is a
global asset, is it will draw in dollars
from around the world into T-bills, into
stable coins.
But at the same time, the dollar will
be collapsing against Bitcoin.
That's what I think Trump may have meant
by Bitcoin is the new oil.
I just thought it was like, hey, someone
hears my stable coin argument.
I don't know if this sounds right.
Sounds like a huge bubble.
It does sound like a bubble, but it
doesn't mean it's not something that would happen.
Yeah, I just thought it was really interesting.
Well, you know, Trump, he's got a bunch
of screwy financial guys around.
Remember, what was his name, Munchkin?
Oh, yeah, Mnuchin.
Mnuchin, that guy.
My fellow Tourette sufferer, Mnuchin.
Yeah, that guy.
And it's possible they've dreamed some scheme up
to, because our debt is ridiculous.
Yeah.
That's why we have the auctioneer in office.
Yeah, our debt seems to be a bit
of a problem.
He's got to refi the country somehow with
your stable coins.
I don't know, but I don't know.
It'll be interesting to see what happens.
But everything's happening on January 21st, January 21st,
Jan 21st.
Everything's going down.
We both had the clip, but I didn't
even clip it because I saw it was
in your list.
Where is it?
HOTEP?
Yeah, HOTEP comes on the Nicole Wallace show.
And before we play that clip, well, actually,
I have a couple of clips to play
if you're going to bring him in.
All right.
But first of all, before we play it,
there's a clip from the last show.
I don't have it on this list, but
you can look it up real quick.
It's called, it's called Get Boosted, an NPR
message.
Here we go.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says
few people have been vaccinated against flu or
COVID-19 as the holiday season approaches.
If here's Rob Stein has more.
The CDC says only about one third of
adults have gotten this year's flu shot and
less than 18 percent have gotten one of
the new COVID boosters.
As for the new RSV vaccine, only 40
percent of adults ages 75 and older have
gotten that recommended shot.
There isn't a lot of flu or RSV
right now, and the COVID numbers are still
falling from this summer's big surge.
But all those viruses could pick up quickly
as people start to travel and gather for
Thanksgiving in the winter holidays.
So it can pick up, can pick up
an uptick.
So if you didn't like that, then you
could listen to Peter Hotez here on Nicole
Wallace.
Hold on a second.
What's it?
I'm looking for it now.
That's the one you just.
I know, I know, but I can't find
it in your list.
I'm looking for Hotez and I don't see
him for some reason.
Yeah.
Hold on a second.
It's all caps.
That's Hotez.
Yeah, I know.
It's in the pile one, bottom of pile
one.
Oh, this is very interesting.
I don't think I, how did I not
get this?
Hold on a second, John.
Something went very wrong here.
Did I miss some of your clips somehow?
Hold on a second.
We'll have to cut this part out because
this is very unprofessional.
I set you up and then I screwed
it over.
Where's Hotez?
I'm looking in pile one.
No.
Oh.
Huh.
It says Hotez in all caps, but it
didn't download for some reason.
I'm very sorry about this.
Okay.
All right.
Just when you thought it wouldn't happen, here
is Hotez.
Here's the reason why we need to care
about this stuff.
Nicole is that we have some big picture
stuff coming down the pike starting on January
21st.
Mr. Bloomberg mentioned H5N1.
Hold on.
Stop.
I want you to listen.
Everyone should listen to this carefully because there's
no problem with any diseases whatsoever until Trump
gets in office.
No, no.
January 21st specifically.
He's pinpointing it.
January 21st.
Yeah, that's when the shit hits the fan.
Here we go.
Nicole is that we have some big picture
stuff coming down the pike starting on January
21st.
Mr. Bloomberg mentioned H5N1.
What does he mean by big picture stuff?
What does that even mean?
Disease, famine, pestilence.
On the pike starting on January 21st.
Mr. Bloomberg mentioned H5N1.
That I'm really worried about.
It's all over wild birds on the western
part of the United States.
And going up in the north, it's getting
into the poultry.
We're seeing sporadic human cases.
No human to human transmission yet.
But that could happen.
It's in the cattle.
It's in the milk.
And that's just the beginning.
We have another major coronavirus likely brewing in
Asia.
We've had SARS in 2002.
SARS-CoV-19 in 2019.
And we know these viruses are jumping from
bats to people thousands of times a year.
But that's still...
Hold on a second.
I've not heard that this is jumping from
bats to people thousands of times a year.
Yeah.
Yeah.
This is new.
2019.
And we know these viruses are jumping from
bats to people thousands of times a year.
But there's still more.
We know that we have a big problem
with mosquito-transmitted viruses all along the Gulf
Coast, where I am here in Texas.
We're expecting dengue and possibly Zika virus coming
back.
Or a Puche virus.
Puche.
Maybe even yellow fever.
And there's more.
Then we have all this sharp rise in
vaccine-preventable diseases going up because of, in
part, the anti-vaccine activism that's so prominent
right now.
We have a five-fold rise in pertussis
cases, whooping cough over the last year, 15
measles outbreaks this year.
We've got polio that's been in the wastewater
in New York State.
All that's going to come crashing down on
January 21st on the Trump administration.
We need a really, really good team to
be able to handle this.
And a partridge in a pear tree.
It all starts on January 21st.
But not on the 20th.
No, no.
On the 21st is when it all goes
down.
What a lunatic this guy is.
Yeah.
Now, I have to play, that brings me
to the clips.
Okay.
Dr. Christina Park.
Ah, where's she from?
Now, these clips were dug up.
These clips were dug up by one of
our producers, and it was during a hearing
in the Michigan House or Senate.
Oh, yes.
This is very good.
This is very good.
Yes.
And she outlined, she's a PhD in virology.
She's got all these, I don't know if
she's a virologist.
This is classic C-SPAN material.
This is good stuff.
Yeah.
And the reason this was sent to me,
and it's from 2021, it's during the lockdown
thing and all this that was going on,
and she was fighting against a lot of
this stuff.
And one of it, it was sent to
me because of this constant commentary about pertussis.
And we brought it up.
What's pertussis, Brian?
Why are they making a fuss?
The whooping cough.
That's what pertussis is, right?
Yes, whooping cough.
And so she has an explanation on pertussis,
and she goes on with other stuff.
But the pertussis thing starts us off.
And this is like, oh, okay.
Well, now, after hearing Hotez going on about
pertussis, listen to this.
So let's look at DTaP, which the scientists
and the CDC have known since 2014 that
the acellular pertussis vaccine does not prevent people
from getting infected with the pertussis bacteria and
passing it to others.
In fact, it was never designed to do
that.
The vaccine was designed to neutralize the pertussis
toxin.
Pertussis, we know it as whooping cough.
It can be fatal for children under 6
months.
So neutralizing this toxin saves lives, all right?
I'm not going to debate that.
But what it doesn't do is neutralize the
bacteria.
So what happens is fully vaccinated children go
to daycare.
They pick up that bacteria, and they come
home, and they give it to their newborn
brother or sister.
They get deathly ill, and they go to
the hospital.
Hopefully, our medical professionals are able to save
them.
But who do they blame?
Now the CDC is blaming anti-vaxxers for
the limitations of this vaccine design.
I suggest that they be transparent and tell
parents that although it is preventing severe disease
in their children, it is not preventing transmission.
Because we have created a whole class of
asymptomatic pertussis carriers who are increasing the disease.
Now the old DTP vaccine that many of
you who are my age or older got
did prevent transmission.
When we switched to the safer, acellular Virgin,
they knew that it was never designed to
prevent transmission.
It was safer.
It had less adverse events.
But pertussis cases have gone through the roof.
There's a resurgence in pertussis because of the
design of the vaccine.
And the vaccinologists know this.
They're trying to address it.
And so we cannot mandate that something that
does not prevent transmission.
Give her the hook.
Take her out.
Burn that witch.
I found this to be the most interesting
thing.
So basically guys like Hotez, they know this.
They all know this.
That they changed the vaccine.
Because the one I had when I was
a kid was the old one, which I
guess was more dangerous.
But it prevented spread and catching it and
spreading it.
They know that this is going on.
And they lie to the public.
And then they blame the anti-vaxxer.
He is in fact a childhood vaccine expert.
This is a childhood vaccine.
Children under seven.
I think some kids, don't they get it
like right away?
D-Tap?
They stick it in your heel or something?
I don't know.
Yeah.
Hotez, he would know.
She goes on with some other little tidbits
that are interesting.
And I might as well play a couple
of them.
At least play this one.
This is fluvax.
All right.
What about the flu vaccine?
Well, they have shown that basically, there's no
difference.
There's no statistical difference if you're vaccinated or
unvaccinated.
Whether you get the flu or not.
But it's even worse.
Because although that first year, it is somewhat
effective.
It's about 65% effective at preventing symptoms
in you.
After that, it actually has negative efficacy.
And I want to address this because it's
very important.
Vaccines are made to a specific variant.
And when that variant mutates, the vaccine no
longer recognizes it.
And so, it's like you're seeing a completely
new virus.
And because that's so, you actually get more
severe symptoms when you're vaccinated against one variant.
And then it mutates.
And then your body sees the other variant.
So, there's a potential.
And the science shows that, in fact, with
the flu, if you get vaccinated in multiple
years, you are more likely to get severe
disease.
You are more likely to have more viral
replication.
And you are more likely to be hospitalized,
both in adults and in children.
Ah, there's money in the bank.
This is a great idea.
Bring me to the hospital.
Perfect.
Perfect.
Wow.
Where is Dr. Christina Park?
Is she still with us?
She's dead.
They shot her.
Wow.
Wow.
I hope not.
I don't know where she is.
I hope not.
We should track her down because she probably
has more things to say.
She also had some negative commentary.
Gee, I can't imagine why.
Negative commentary about the COVID vaccine back in
2021, when it first came out.
We are seeing the same thing in COVID
with the Delta variant.
And so, we are mandating that people get
a vaccine that could actually make them more
sick when they're exposed to the virus.
In fact, this week, a paper came out.
And what it showed is that with this
Delta variant, when you're vaccinated, your body makes
antibodies that are supposed to neutralize the virus.
But they were supposed to neutralize the old
variant.
When they see this new variant, what they're
doing is actually the antibodies are taking the
virus and helping it infect the cells.
All right?
That science was just published this week.
We need to be looking at the science,
and we need our policy to reflect the
science, and we also need it to reflect
our rights.
Yeah, but she has a Rumble channel.
Oh, good.
That should be worth watching.
She's still with us on Rumble.
This is good news.
This is good news.
Yeah, Rumble.
Nobody listens to Rumble.
So, her last commentary, I thought, was pretty
– it was a little – I thought
this was interesting, too.
This is the end notes.
And so, as a Ph.D. who knows
the science, I'm in the category of the
most vaccine-hesitant group.
Yes, Ph.D.s are the most vaccine
-hesitant, followed by people who have less than
a high school degree because they know what
they don't know, and they don't trust their
government.
And many people, the other group that is
very vaccine-hesitant are African-Americans.
Seventy percent of African-Americans have not taken
this vaccine.
Why?
Because they don't trust their government.
Do they have reason not to trust their
government?
Yeah.
Well, between the years of 1930 and 1970,
the CDC conducted the Tuskegee experiment, where they
took untreated males with syphilis, and they refused
to treat them.
Even after antibiotics became available, they still did
not treat them, and they did not tell
them that they had syphilis.
They told those people that they were there
to secure their health, and they did not
secure their health.
They abused them.
You say, well, that was in the past,
although I don't think 1970 was that long
ago.
Well, in 2012, whistleblower William Thompson came forward
and said, we published a study that said
MMR does not cause autism, but we lied.
In fact, we shredded data that showed that
when black boys are vaccinated on time, they
have increased rates of autism diagnosis.
And we shredded it, and we left it
out of the paper.
Wow.
I didn't know the Tuskegee experiment.
I knew, but I didn't know about that.
Oh, man.
Of course not.
Who's going to tell you?
Wow.
Well, you know, we've changed, though.
We've changed.
We've gotten smart in the vaccine industry.
We've wised up.
We're like, we're not going to do that
on black Americans anymore.
Let's find some brown people to work on.
This is the Reid Hoffman podcast.
I'm sorry, the Bill Gates podcast with Reid
Hoffman as his discussion partner.
Well, India is an example of a country
where, oh, there's plenty of things that are
difficult.
There's a laugh.
Laugh tale.
Plenty of things.
Oh, there's plenty of things that are difficult
there.
The health, nutrition, education is improving, and they're
stable enough and generating their own government revenue
enough that it's very likely that 20 years
from now, people will be dramatically better off.
And it's kind of a laboratory to try
things that then, once you prove them out
in India, you can take to other places.
It's a lab.
Our biggest non-U.S. office for the
foundation is in India, and the most number
of pilot rollout things we're doing anywhere in
the world are with partners in India.
And if you go there and you've never
been, you might think, whoa, this is a
chaotic place.
And, you know, you're not used to so
many levels of income all being on the
street at the same time.
But you will get a sense of the
vibrancy.
It's a lab.
He just says it.
This is our lab.
That's where we got all our people working
there.
It's great.
Of course, the Indians didn't like it so
much.
Billionaire Bill Gates' recent admission in a podcast
hasn't gone down well with Indians.
The tech mogul called India a kind of
laboratory to try things, as he talked about
health and nutrition on the podcast.
Now, his remark has left many fuming with
people calling him out for his comment.
People took to social media to slam Bill
Gates for referring to Indians as guinea pigs.
Some even went to the extent of asking
him to stay out of India.
Now, this backlash also revived the 2009 controversy,
which involved an NGO funded by the Gates
Foundation.
The clinical trials of the human papilloma virus
or the HPV virus vaccine by NGO PATH
on thousands of tribal girls in India had
led to seven deaths.
That time, the cause of the deaths was
attributed to unknown reasons.
Months later, investigations revealed that there was misrepresentation
of facts, lack of informed consent and exploitation.
If I were Bill Gates, I'd stay away
from any Starbucks, anybody with a hoodie and
a backpack.
Yeah, Bill has always been, you know, ever
since Bill.
Well, ever since he got pied, which was
some years ago, he was pretty lax about
his security.
He was floating around, he'd take buses.
Yeah, he'd never fly coach.
He'd fly coach.
Well, the coach thing is interesting.
That's what he always said.
I caught him once.
In first class?
In first class?
Yes, because he buys coach tickets.
And he says, don't you know who I
am?
He doesn't even have to do that.
They put him in first class.
I grilled him about this.
He knows me.
So I said, what are you doing here?
I thought you always fly first.
I thought you'd be back in coach with
me.
He says, well, you know, they make me
come up here.
They put me in first class because of,
you know, he had some.
But he always flies.
He's always in first class.
As soon as Bill Gates buys a coach.
So what he manages to do is get
a coach ticket and end up in first
class every time.
The question on everybody.
Now he flies in his G4, whatever he's
got, because when he got married to Melinda,
Melissa Melinda.
Melinda.
She insisted that he get a jet.
And so he relented.
And now he doesn't fly on commercial at
all.
The question on everyone's mind is what were
you doing in first class?
I was in coach.
I was walking down the aisle.
And there he was.
And you stopped.
He says, hey, hey, come back with me.
What are you doing?
And you were holding up the line.
Were you talking to Bill?
Billy, I wasn't.
I don't hold up lines.
I'm a very good flyer about that.
Did you have a backpack and turn it
right into his face?
Yeah, you're bringing people around with a backpack.
Yeah, I love that.
Those guys.
And with that, I'd like to thank you
for your courage.
Especially that courage of questing Bill Gates on
his first class seat.
And say in the morning to you, the
man who put the C in the censorship
industry.
Say hello to my friend on the other
end.
The one, the only, Mr. John C.
DeMora.
In the morning to you, Mr. Adam Curry.
In the morning to all ships that see
boots on the ground, feet in the air.
Subs in the water and all the names
and nights out there.
In the morning to the trolls in the
troll room.
Let's get it, Bill.
Here we go.
Okay.
Well, I know the answer to this one.
I know that we should be at 1800.
That's our regular trollage for a Thursday, correct?
Yeah.
2041, baby.
That's because of the pardon.
No, I think it's because of the CEO.
Everyone was emailing me about the CEO.
Oh, it could be that.
One of the two, but you get news,
you always pick up hundreds more people.
Yeah, more.
To see what we have to say about
it.
More assassinations, please.
It's good for business.
By the way, it's just the truth.
Just the truth.
It is true.
It's true.
It's absolutely true.
Those trolls are all checking us out at
trollroom.io. They could, of course, be using
a modern podcast app, unlike the nonsense that
people supposedly get all their podcasts from YouTube.
That's what they're trying.
They want to push every all.
You know, this is such a big push.
Oh, you got a podcast.
You have to do video.
You have to do.
If you don't do video, no one's going
to see your podcast.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
They want you on there so they can
heat you.
They can heat you up, heat you down.
They want to control you.
Get your own RSS feed and use a
modern podcast app, which is completely independent of
any Silicon Valley company because they use podcast
index, podcastapps.com.
Do yourself a favor.
You know, I saw that one of Joe
Rogan's episodes didn't even appear on Apple.
They just skipped an episode or they took
it down.
I don't know.
What was it?
Mike Rowe.
I don't know why.
Mike Rowe?
Mike Rowe, yeah, the Dirty Jobs guy.
I have no idea.
And let me just check.
Let me see if it's still that way.
Let me see.
Rogan Apple Podcasts.
People were complaining about it.
I'm getting a modern podcast app.
I don't want that nonsense.
Let's see.
Here we go.
34, 35, 33.
It's not there.
Oh, no.
Ah, they heard it.
It's there now.
Oh, man.
There goes that whole gambit.
I guess Apple didn't take it down.
But Spotify and Apple have been known to
take down episodes.
It happens on a daily basis.
So your favorite podcast, you want to keep
listening to it.
Make sure that you protect yourself.
It's really for yourself.
And most of these apps are free.
You can donate to the developer.
And they deserve it, quite honestly, podcastapps.com.
Man, we got a lot of different things
to talk about for our donation segment.
Because, you know, of course, we have value
for value.
And I got a lot of, did you
get P.O. Box stuff?
I'm sorry?
Did you get any cool stuff in the
P.O. Box?
Yeah, I got a couple of things.
I got an AeroPress, which is a single
cup coffee.
Yeah, I got one of those.
Have you tried it out yet?
No.
Well, you know, no.
No, you know.
Well, see, I have a Breville cappuccino maker,
which makes single cups.
And I have used that device before because
other people have them.
And I've used it.
It makes a terrific cup of coffee.
Far better than the Cafe Filtra and the
stuff that you like.
I don't use Filtra.
I use the French Press.
French Press is much better.
French Press, to me, I don't mind it
with the exact right beans.
But French Press can produce a very bitter
cup of coffee.
Ah, well.
This won't.
This doesn't do that.
My Gigawatt tastes just perfect.
That was from Sir Scovey, Sir Scovey of
the Piedmont.
He sent a very nice long.
What kind of paper is that?
That's an interesting paper that he typed that
on.
I've never seen this paper.
Yes, it is a silver paper.
It was like, I think it's some sort
of old computer.
And it's thick.
Yeah, very thick.
Very thick.
Yeah, it was very peculiar.
I think it was some sort of old
paper that goes way back for some sort
of special printer.
That was kind of interesting.
And I also wanted to say hello to
Daniel Walker-Parker, who is in McLennan County,
Gulag, in Waco.
He sent in a whole bunch of Forever
stamps.
He hopes that that will be value for
value.
So I will keep them for us.
It seems like he might be there for
a bit.
He sent an interesting note.
It's always interesting to get something from the
penitentiary.
And then we need to send out prayers
and karma to Dame Astrid.
I don't know if you saw that note
this morning.
Oh, yeah, I heard about it last night
when I was talking to Jay.
She's in Japan.
They were going to meet.
They can't meet now because Astrid broke her
leg.
Yes, she fell and managed to break the
ball off the top of her femur, which
just sounds horrible.
Don't even discuss it.
But she's in good hands.
I know she had to have an operation,
and I immediately thought it was a compound
fracture.
That's the kind of fracture, I think it's
compound, where the bone goes through the skin
and sticks out.
No, I hope not.
Anyway, she's already had a new joint fitted.
Gotta love Japanese efficiency.
She's in Hong Kong.
There's a Chinese efficiency in this case.
No, no, Dame Mark.
Sir Mark is in Hong Kong.
I thought she was in Hong Kong with
him.
That's where she broke her leg.
I don't think so.
I think he went to Hong Kong to
receive another award.
I got to pick up another award in
Hong Kong.
So sorry.
Can't be with you, Astrid.
I'm picking up an award.
Yeah, so we're all thinking of her.
And thank you to Jeremy and his daughter
Taylor who came through Fredericksburg.
He's the guy that's sending you a computer
and some community coffee.
Yes.
Yes, I'm looking forward to that.
Yeah, so he came, so it was very
nice.
So it's always nice.
If you're in Fredericksburg, let me know if
I can work it out.
I'd love to say hi, at least have
a cup of coffee or maybe a lunch.
Anyway, value for value.
That's how it works.
All of these things are valuable to us.
We love receiving things like that in the
post office.
We also very much enjoy the work that
many of our producers do to support us,
time, talent, or treasure.
One of the premier ways that people can
help us is by creating artwork for the
show.
We like to have a new piece of
art for every single episode.
We've been doing that for a very long
time.
And we want to thank the artist for
episode 1717.
We titled that one Mr. Peepers.
And it was Capitalist Agenda who brought us
the artwork, which was Skibbity Toilets.
And even though neither of us understand the
Skibbity lingo that well, it kind of had
it all there, didn't it?
I mean, was there anything else that we
saw that was worthy that we looked at
on the list?
That was such a professional looking piece and
it had a – and stylized.
It was hard to be.
I mean, I was even going to use
the face bank social credit one for the
newsletter.
But what did I use for the newsletter?
I have to look.
The face bank social credit, I'm looking for
that one.
Yeah, it's right underneath the Skibbity one.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Social credit.
Yes, yeah.
I like that piece.
Capagena did a great job on this one.
It was just fun.
It was fun to see.
I liked it.
And, you know, probably not AI, not that
it matters all that much.
It may or may not be, but it's
beside the point.
He's a pro and he knows what he's
doing.
Well, remember, art is God's soulful expression of
his love.
So that can't come from a computer.
Sorry.
So that's what Capagena did.
That's a good one.
Thank you.
Self-righteous.
Oh, I'm self-righteous?
No, no, I'm not.
I'm just telling you how I feel, what
I think.
Can't change that.
So I did a phone call.
A phone message just came in.
I didn't know this was even on.
We have a voicemail for the show?
No, I don't have.
No, I'm just telling you what the phone
rang during one of your clips, and I
picked it up to see what the hell
is going on.
Noah or somebody, they canceled the tsunami alert.
Oh, that's wussy.
So I guess that went out to the
whole state of California or something.
I don't know what the deal is.
But do you remember the phone ringing when
the tsunami alert was on, or did they
not call you for that?
No, well, I was probably in bed.
I don't want to keep a phone by
my bed like other people do.
A lot of people, which always surprises me,
they use their phone as their alarm clock.
That seems to be most of the population
these days.
Yeah.
I know.
You do.
What kind of alarm clock do you have?
The alarm clock has got a big bell
on it.
So it's a wind-up still?
No.
No, I have an electric, but it's from
China, and it has all kinds of features,
and it does cool stuff.
Like what?
It's an actual clock.
It's got sound effects, and it has two
or three different moments where it could wake
you.
This sounds like a potential tip of the
day.
Products.
No, because the problem is that the shoddy,
what would you call it?
Manufacturing?
Worksmanship.
Worksmanship, yes.
The shoddy worksmanship of some Chinese goods, including
this clock, even though it's got a lot
of cool features, is not going to get
a tip of the day from me.
Oh, okay.
Well, there you go.
Tip of the day is wide open.
We're all excited, by the way, for the
tip of the day.
People need to know that there's a lot
more shows still coming.
Tip of the day.
I know we have some more stories to
talk about.
And, again, thanks to Capitalist Agenda for bringing
that artwork.
We loved it.
It was good to see.
It was good to see an original.
We appreciate it so much.
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It'll be 1718.
And we kick it off with Derek Heidbrink,
parts unknown as far as I can see.
And he comes in with a cool instant
knight donation, $1,000, and says, happy holidays.
I look forward to joining the ranks.
Oh, no, this is a knighthood and a
climate change studies.
Whoa, two in one go.
Please change my title to Sir Double Dr.
Derek.
And please send travel karma and estate closure
karma.
I narrowly escaped Hurricane Milton while traveling for
work and could use a top-up.
Keep up the good work.
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Thank you very much.
And we will see you for the ceremony
in just a little bit.
You've got karma.
Sir DC Knight's up.
Or Sir Knight DC.
Let's get that straight.
The right order.
He's in Oregon, 444.
From Sir Knight DC of the high desert
in the morning, John and Adam.
As always, thank you for continued deconstruction of
the media propagated upon the American people.
Bitcoin just passed 100K, and I'm sharing with
you too.
I'd like to call out Ryle, like Kyle,
who shared your show with me in 2018
as a mega douche who's never donated.
Douchebag.
Mega.
Mega douche.
Could I get a John fisting nuts jingle,
whichever is short, long, and house-buying karma,
please?
Just go for it, John.
Tell us your peeve about the fisting method
of eating snacks on an airplane.
I see this on the airplane, and it's
very annoying, and I think it will result
in fights breaking out because it's just so
annoying to watch.
Guy takes his bag of peanuts, and he
throws a pile of them into his palm
of his hand, and then he makes a
fist around the nuts.
Around the nuts.
And then he shakes his fist to try
to bring a nut to the little hole.
To the little hole.
And then he throws a nut in his
mouth from his fist.
From his fist.
Then he does it again.
He shakes and throws and shakes and throws.
It is annoying as hell to watch.
You've got karma.
Since we don't have many jingles today, I
opted to play the whole thing.
Quint Y.
Newell.
Olympia Washington, 333.33, and he has a
note, which I believe I have.
Uh...
Oh, this was, uh, is this a make
-good?
This is Quint, right?
Yes.
Sir Sigma here, with a big in the
morning to you both, in the morning.
I donated on Sunday and somehow hit send
before adding a note, so here's a make
-good for myself.
We like this.
This is a very good, uh, good trend.
I want to wish a very happy birthday
to my beautiful bride and smoking hot wife,
Kimberly Ann, a.k.a. Hardcore Mama, whose
birthday is today, a show day.
How about that?
Happy birthday, babe.
Love you.
Mean it.
Also a happy belated birthday to my mom,
who turned 77 on Monday, my second favorite
woman on Earth.
I was recently knighted, but did enjoy the
way you guys said my name, Quint Y.
Newell.
Quint is a lifelong nickname.
Thanks, Mom.
She couldn't deal with another Bobby in her
life.
My real name, so much for being anonymous,
is Robert Yates Newell V, hence Quint.
Not bad, Mom.
Thanks for putting up with me all these
years.
I'd like to request a smoking hot wife,
boogity, boogity.
I got a boogity for you.
Smoking hot wife, boogity, boogity.
Uh, yeah, and for my wife, and an
F cancer for my mom, who's still battling,
but still going strong.
Thanks, dudes, he says.
Quint, Sir Sigma.
You got it, brother.
Boogity, boogity, boogity, boogity, boogity, boogity.
What's the crowd?
It's the music tonight.
Lord, I want to thank you for the
smoking hot wife.
You've got karma.
And we got $333.33 from the Frankenmuth
Fudge Kitchen proprietor, Zach McLennan.
Ooh, Fudge Kitchen.
Fudge Kitchen in Frankenmuth, Michigan.
Dear John Anatomy writes, it's on a sheet
of paper, as you can tell.
Mm-hmm.
Thank you for all you do to keep
us going.
You helped us navigate, by the way, it's
handwritten in a, not as bad as another
note, but it's not great.
Help us navigate through the crazy times of
COVID.
Random things are capitalized.
Like, for example, navigates capitalized through the craziest
capitalized times of COVID capitalized and beyond capitalized.
I wish I had a copy of this
note.
It seems hilarious.
Yes, well, this is, I didn't.
Jay's in Japan, so she doesn't get to,
didn't do the, I had to do all
this myself.
And I wasn't going to copy it.
We are a family owned fudge kitchen in
Frankenmuth, Michigan that specializes, capitalized, in hand capitalized,
made fudge, handmade fudge right in front of
your eyes.
Send some.
Let us make, he did send some to
me.
He's going to have to send some to
you.
And the fudge is genuine.
Let me put it that way.
It's very fudge.
Fudgy.
It's fudgy.
Let us make your holidays real sweet and
get our fudge shipped directly to you, your
front door.
Use the promo code, no agenda to receive
shipping for orders over $30.
Visit noagendafudge.com.
Woo!
Now you're talking.
We got a fudge brand.
Nice.
noagendafudge.com from now until the end of
the year.
That's an easy one to remember.
Let our family sweeten up your holidays sincerely.
It started off so demure and then all
of a sudden it went to the fudge.
Nice.
Exactly.
It was good.
It was very, very, slipped it in, yeah.
Well done.
Anonymous comes in with $300.
No note that I can see.
That means a double up karma for you.
You've got karma.
Yeah, that guy actually said to Chase, he
didn't even want to be mentioned in anything,
but I thought I'd put it on there
for bookkeeping purposes.
We don't like to.
Yeah, I'll do the next one from Eli
the coffee guy in Bensonville, Illinois.
$215.05. Always an interesting amount that he
sends us.
That may be $200 plus fees for all
I know.
It's been an interesting last couple of news
days.
South Korean martial law.
Yeah, for a day.
CEO assassination, Syria, Georgia, and a high profile
presidential pardon.
Such a fertile news environment.
It's like Christmas came early for you guys.
But before Christmas actually is here, producers should
consider giving the gift of caffeination to friends
and family this holiday season.
Visit gigawattcoffeeroasters.com.
Use code ITM20 for 20% off your
order and stay caffeinated, says Eli the coffee
guy.
Which brings us to Linda Lou Patkin who
wants jobs karma.
Wow.
And she also has a message for everybody
out there.
For a faster, more effective job search, she
writes, visit, visit, visit.
Fail again.
Fail every single time.
I don't know.
I've nailed this at least once every couple
months.
Every month or so, yeah.
Visit imagemakersinc.com.
That's imagemakersinc with a K.
Or go to your executive resume or your
go-to.
Okay.
You're a go-to for your executive resumes
and job search needs.
Work with Linda Lou, Duchess of Jobs and
writer of resumes.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs.
Yes!
Karma.
And then we have Judd Hall, Hallry?
I think it's Hall Lee, is it not?
No, it's H-A-W-L-R-Y.
You have the note.
I do.
In fact...
Ah, there it is.
Proof.
It's a note.
Proof it's a note.
He came in with 200 bucks.
Now, this is actually a note and it's
being directed...
I'm going to direct it to you.
Oh, okay.
Okay.
He says...
And this is more interesting writing, printing, I'd
say.
I'd like to be...
I...
Oh, I'm sorry.
I listen to a ton of podcasts.
A ton.
He weighs them, I guess.
That's a lot.
That's a lot.
But yours is the only one I never
miss.
I've made a few end-of-show mixes
but felt something...
I felt pangs of...
I felt pangs...
Oh, I felt pangs of guilt.
Okay, I got it.
Guilt?
During the donation segments.
That's why he gave us 200.
Oh, I see.
I have three EPs of funk-slash-folk
music on all listening platforms at Judd H
-A-W-L-R-Y.
All right.
Judge Paulry.
Check them out.
Also, how does one put up value-for
-value music?
And this is the question I'm asking Adam.
I'm glad you asked.
There's many different ways you can do it.
I would say look at rssblue.com, podhome
.fm, or wavelake.com.
W-A-V-L-A-K-E dot
com.
And they will be happy to get you
started.
It's the tip of the day.
Yeah.
Okay.
Tip of the day.
Was that it?
Was that his...
Any more questions?
Yes, and he signs off.
All right.
Or you can send me an email, adamatcurry
.com, and I'll get you started.
I can help you out.
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Our formula is this.
We hit people in the mouth.
We got a few things.
I think we should at least talk about
the French government failing.
Yes, a massive fail.
I'm sure you have clips.
I think I had like a BBC clip
that was pretty decent.
But what do you have?
These are from, I think, well, these are
either NPR or NTD.
French government fails one.
France's parliament today voted on a no confidence
motion against the government.
I'm guessing NTD.
It's just a guess.
According to the French constitution, President Emmanuel Macron
will need to appoint a new prime minister
and form a new government.
This is a situation not seen in 62
years in the country.
And it marks the first time in history
the National Rally has joined the leftist coalition
in a no confidence vote against the government.
For many members of parliament, this is a
historic day.
The prime minister has overdramatized hoping to extend
his mandate.
I think that, as the president of the
National Assembly said, we must also respect our
institutions.
Alternative ways exist.
It's not written in the constitution for nothing.
The program of the left-wing coalition I
support should be the basis for discussion.
As there is no majority in parliament, we'll
have to make concessions so that the different
political groups move towards each other.
Prime Minister Michel Barnier, a member of Macron's
group in parliament, warned that France could face
significant instability.
The government, which began its mandate in September
after snap elections in June, has become the
shortest-serving administration in French history.
There won't be a shutdown or any chaos.
French President Emmanuel Macron said it.
And even if I'm not from his groups,
I agree with him.
The no confidence vote follows tensions over the
2025 budget.
With no compromise reached in parliament, the prime
minister invoked a constitutional article to bypass the
legislative body.
According to National Rally member Philippe Ballard, a
sharp rise in planned taxes made the no
confidence vote unavoidable.
The budget was 40 billion in sub-commentary
taxes, so it's unacceptable.
And since the budget will be abandoned, retirement
pensions won't be decreased, electricity taxes won't go
up, and some medicines will continue to be
reimbursed.
That's why we voted to dismiss the government.
It was both sides.
Everybody hated this guy.
Yeah.
Everybody's like, you're no good.
You're no good.
There's a second part to this?
Yeah, see what that is.
The French parliament must vote on the 2025
budget law, a particularly challenging one, as France's
public deficit is skyrocketing.
French President Emmanuel Macron urgently needed to find
a solution to reassure the French, but also
the financial market and the EU institutions.
Here in parliament, some members of political group
in casual conversation expresses concerns about a political
crisis that could potentially escalate into a financial
one.
Yeah, I think the BBC report is better
because they get more into the weeds, and
it's a little clearer than NTD, who've taken
to putting a sock over their microphone for
some reason.
Don't know what happened there.
Here's BBC.
French politicians have ousted the government in a
no confidence vote, leaving the prospect of months
of turmoil in France.
Michel Barnier is the first French prime minister
to be dismissed in this way since 1962.
Opposition parties called the vote after Mr Barnier
used special powers to force through controversial social
security reforms.
In the no confidence debate, the far right
leader Marine Le Pen said the minority government
had refused to make sufficient budget concessions to
avoid a crisis.
She said Mr Barnier's budget would impose suffering
on the French people.
This budget takes French people hostage, and most
especially the most vulnerable.
The poorer pensioners, people with illness, impoverished workers.
French people considered too rich to receive aid,
but not poor enough to escape a hammering
from the tax man.
The French budget minister, Laurent Saint-Martin, challenged
those MPs who had opposed the budget.
Do you want to deprive New Caledonia of
a billion euros of credit?
Do you want to prevent the financing of
OPEX?
Do you want to prevent support for Ukraine?
Do you really want to prevent the payment
of the disabled adult allowance?
Say it frankly.
And thank you to all the people who
are here who take their responsibilities seriously.
The French president Emmanuel Macron is likely to
keep Mr Barnier as a caretaker prime minister
while he seeks a replacement acceptable to a
deeply divided parliament.
They're broke.
That's basically it.
They're broke.
They got no money.
They want austerity.
I'm sure it was IMF related.
You gotta, like, screw the old people.
That's what you typically do.
That's what you do.
South Korea.
We got our boots on the ground from
South Korea.
Did you see that come in?
Yeah, I did.
I have it here.
Timeline of events.
This is very succinct.
And it's very specific about what this was
really about.
You want to play the clips first and
then we can play the boots on the
ground?
You have clips?
Oh boy.
How many do you have?
Two.
Okay.
Are they of that same...
Is it NTD?
Well, it's South Korea.
It's gotta be.
South Korea is reeling after its president declared
martial law.
Although the order was later lifted amid widespread
condemnation, the move plunged the country's political landscape
into chaos.
South Korean defense minister, as well as Yun's
senior policy advisors, offered to resign following the
unrest.
Six South Korean opposition parties submitted bills of
impeachment for President Yun Suk-kyo on Wednesday.
That came after Yun's sudden move imposing martial
law the night before.
In an address, he had claimed there were
anti-state forces among his opponents.
But after parliament unanimously rejected his decree, hours
later, Yun backed down.
A vote on his impeachment is expected within
the coming days.
It would pass in South Korea's National Assembly
if two-thirds of lawmakers support the bill.
And that would then lead to a trial
held by South Korea's constitutional court.
On Wednesday morning, the country's National Assembly building
bore scars of violence the night before.
Boxes, chairs piled up as barricades.
Security camera footage released Wednesday gave a better
view of events the night before.
Soldiers tasked with imposing martial law landing on
the sports pitch near parliament before smashing the
building's windows and clashing with parliamentary aides.
It all marks South Korea's biggest political crisis
in decades, and the first time martial law
has been declared since 1980, before it became
a democracy.
Yun, a career prosecutor, had been very unpopular
with the South Korean public.
He's faced discontent over his economic policy, scandals,
and other controversies.
Should Yun resign or be removed from office,
Prime Minister Han Deok-su would fill in
as leader until a new election is held.
Now, I want to read this boots on
the ground before we do the second clip.
Well, actually, you can read it now because
I don't think the second clip adds anything.
No, it probably won't.
So the timeline of events on December 3rd
is President Yun.
Now, he's just the president, but the parliament
is opposition.
His opposition is the majority, so he's kind
of a lame duck president, I guess.
On December 3rd, Yun...
No?
Well, lame duck specifically refers to somebody who's
just been voted out, and he hasn't been
voted out.
Okay, he's ineffective.
He got no power.
He got no juice except for this.
So December 3rd, Yun gave a State of
the Union speech on TV.
He discussed the threats to democracy and accused
the left of destroying the nation.
10.28 p.m., he declares martial law
at the end of his speech.
10.30, the 707th Special Mission Group, about
300 in number, raided the National Election Commission
building.
They confiscated servers and phones and left after
three hours.
12 a.m., some soldiers go to the
National Assembly building and they loiter around, but
don't even block any politicians from going into
the Assembly building.
The opposition party voted to lift the martial
law.
President Yun lifted the martial law after only
six hours.
It seems like the whole thing was just
to raid the National Election Commission because there
is talk of election fraud.
So the whole thing was a smokescreen, according
to our boots on the ground, just to
break in and get all the details and
get the information.
Everything else is window dressing.
It's like Watergate.
Yes, only not secret.
So I would say the 707th Special Mission
Group in Korea is an elite special forces
unit specializing in black ops, counterterrorism, special ops,
reconnaissance, high-risk intelligence gathering, etc.
The left has been accused of using fake,
here it comes, mail-in ballots and hacking
voting machines to win elections similar to what
happened in the U.S. Earlier this year,
in 2024, the left-wing party surprised everybody
with a huge victory and won the majority
of seats.
Okay.
Well, I wonder if it's dominions.
We appreciate that.
Good report.
That's a lot better than anyone else gave
us.
Well, at least it's something interesting as opposed
to...
It's at least something interesting as opposed to...
Well, this doesn't make any sense.
Exactly, exactly.
Well, let's talk about the NDAA, which has
got...
I got these down as WTF clips, so
there's something fishy in these clips.
This is about the reauthorization of the...
National Defense Authorization Act.
The money.
It's the trillion-dollar boondoggle we do every
single year.
Sometimes we slip something in, like the Smith
Modernization Act.
Sometimes it's just money.
The National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year
2025 is the bill that sets the spending
priorities for the national defense programs of the
Department of Defense and the nuclear weapons programs
within the Department of Energy.
Now, the House of Representatives passed its version
of the NDAA back in June with only
Republican support, and the Senate Armed Services Committee
also passed its version with broad bipartisan support
back in June.
Our colleagues on the Armed Services Committee completed
their work on the NDAA back in June,
and they did it with bipartisan support.
Is this guy still alive, Mitch McConnell?
Isn't he on the fritz?
Isn't he fritzing again?
Well, he's on the fritz.
I saw him freeze up again the other
day.
I have...
I was...
He froze up, I think, three times in
the last couple of weeks.
And...
But yet, here he is.
He's doing important work of helping us pass
the trillion-dollar budget, so nice.
They added the legislation off to the Democratic
leader with months to spare.
The number one highlight of the product is
what the chairman mentioned, is the focus on
quality of life for our service members and
their families.
Oh, I'm sure that's the number one priority
in that thousand pages of bill.
Mm-hmm.
And certainly one of the biggest issues was
pay for junior enlisted.
We upped that pay by 19.5%. It
is expected that later this week, congressional leaders
will unveil their agreement for the NDAA for
fiscal year 2025.
And it's also expected that a slew of
nearly 70 bills that have already passed on
the House floor and that are meant to
counter the malign influence of the Chinese Communist
Party worldwide will be attached to the NDAA
for fiscal year 2025.
This cannot continue.
You can't continue to do business with the
Communist Chinese Party and not knowing, not realizing
that there's concentration camps in China where they
forcibly harvest.
They take, they cut out the organs of
the people that they're incarcerating.
Yes, we want to say something.
This is unacceptable.
You must stop it.
You must be held accountable for these, these
atrocities.
That was Republican Congressman Scott Perry from Pennsylvania
discussing the Falun Gong Protection Act, a bill
that is expected to be attached to this
year's National Defense Authorization Act alongside the Biosecure
Act and other bills designed to counter China
in the realms of AI, military capabilities, and
critical infrastructure.
Ramping it up, baby.
Getting it ready.
And what is, WTF comes from the Falun
Gong Protection Act?
Yeah, we have to protect them because they're
the good guys.
They're against our mortal enemies, our new enemy,
China.
Yeah.
Where does Falun Gong hang out besides New
York?
Are they in Taiwan by any chance?
I don't know them to be in Taiwan.
This mostly, I don't know.
It's just a strange operation.
I will say this.
I'm watching this show, The Agency.
There was a show a few years ago
called Berlin Station, which was about a CIA
operation in the middle of Berlin.
And The Agency is about a CIA station
in the middle of London.
And they go in, there's a million people
working in there.
It's like, oh, jeez, what are they all
doing?
And so I'm thinking, when I'm watching this,
wait a minute, don't we make a huge
fuss about the quote unquote Chinese police stations
that are in New York and elsewhere, which
are probably not police.
I mean, they're the same thing.
What's the difference between us having a CIA
station in the middle of Berlin and all
around the world and the Chinese doing the
same thing?
I would like to know.
I don't know.
That's a good question.
You should do some research.
I'm not going to do any research.
Chat GPT.
I want somebody out there listening to this
show who knows.
That's the thing about this show, you can
do that.
Listen to this.
The Falun Gong Protection Act.
This bill requires the president to impose visa
and property blocking sanctions on foreign persons that
are knowingly responsible for, are complicit in, or
have engaged in the involuntary harvesting of organs
in China.
The sanction shall not apply to certain activities
such as authorized U.S. intelligence or law
enforcement activities.
So we can harvest, no problem.
I didn't read it that way, but yeah,
I guess so.
That's what I'm reading.
All right.
Part two.
That sounds like some marketing.
In July of this year, the Bipartisan Commission
on the National Defense Strategy published its final
report.
The commission finds that in many ways, China
is outpacing the United States and has largely
negated the U.S. military advantage in the
Western Pacific through two decades of focused military
investment.
We're behind!
The National Defense Authorization Act of fiscal year
2025 will authorize the spending of nearly $1
trillion in government spending.
Woo!
Reporting from Washington, D.C., Luis Eduardo Martinez,
NTV News.
Okay, I'm going to spend a couple of
days looking through all the Chinese parts of
that because this is going to come into
play during Trump's first year.
This money's already set.
It's big, beautiful ships.
It's going to be space stuff.
We're behind.
You just heard it.
We're behind, people.
That's why we had to pass this quick
because we're behind.
We're behind the Chinese.
And if that wasn't bad enough, the Chinese
are everywhere now.
New details tonight on what's being called one
of the worst cyber hacks in history with
federal officials revealing they've been investigating China for
months after hackers compromised the networks of multiple
U.S. communications companies and may still be
lurking in the systems of at least some
of them.
FBI and federal cybersecurity officials say these Chinese
government-affiliated hackers managed to steal records, intercept
some voice calls, even penetrate the wiretap system
used by the Justice Department to investigate people
suspected of crimes or spying.
Officials say most of the private communication intercepted
by the hackers involved people affiliated with the
government or politics, but the access to companies
like Verizon and AT&T means the communications
of nearly every American are vulnerable.
And now a new warning.
Here we go.
Be careful what you communicate and use encrypted
communication when you can.
Think Signal, WhatsApp, or iMessage.
Use the stuff that we have access to.
Blue text bubbles sign what you're saying is
protected.
Oh, oh, oh, you need a blue bubble.
Green bubbles no good.
Is a warning like that overkill in your
view?
I think it's a good standard hygiene practice
for operating in today's modern technology environment.
You have to be really mindful again about
the technology you're using, how it's secured.
The culprits, officials say, a group called Salt
Typhoon.
Salt Typhoon!
Allegedly behind the hacks of the Trump and
Harris campaigns before the election.
Officials even now still trying to understand the
scale, scope, and timeline of this hack.
We have to understand that the digital connectivity
that we all rely on, that we benefit
from economically, can also be used against us.
The coincidence of this in this next clip
is not lost on me.
We talked about this on the last show
that I was having trouble with the new
iPhones with my Android-based phone with text
messaging.
Text messages wouldn't show up and it was
reproducible sometimes, which is kind of not the
definition of reproducible, but it would happen frequently
only with people who use iMessage and the
brand new iPhones with my S22 Cat, Android
Go-based bubble flip phone, green bubble flip
phone.
So then there's this warning, which is a
follow-on to that.
The FBI is warning about texting between iPhones
and Androids because those messages aren't fully secure.
Unlike iPhone-to-iPhone or Android-to-Android
chats, which are encrypted, cross-platform texts can
be intercepted by hackers.
Apple's version of RCS, Rich Communication Services, a
messaging upgrade, doesn't have end-to-end encryption
for these texts yet.
To keep your chats safe, use encrypted apps
like WhatsApp or Telegram.
These apps encrypt your messages, making them unreadable
to hackers, even if intercepted.
WhatsApp uses end-to-end encryption by default,
ensuring only you and the recipient can read
the messages.
Telegram offers secret chats with added privacy features
like self-destructing messages.
Both apps prioritize security, making them harder for
hackers to access compared to standard text messages
between iOS and Android devices.
And if your friend refuses to switch, just
say, do it for our safety, or I'll
stop texting you.
Sometimes security means tough love.
Sometimes security means tough love.
Okay, Fed.
What kind of tough love?
Well, let me stop for a minute.
Give it one piece of thought here.
So I'm texting you about, we're going to
start the show at 11.05 because I
have to go get, just something like that.
But I should, you should say to me,
no.
No.
Don't be texting me stuff like that, that's
kind of important information, like I'll meet you
at three because of the tough love thing
here.
What are they talking about?
Is everybody like a bunch of spooks out
there that they have to protect every stupid
message and say, oh, hi, honey.
How you doing?
Oh, I miss you.
I miss you, miss you, miss you.
Oh, you better secure that.
Okay, here's what I think is going on.
So if you text between an Android phone
and an iMessage, it goes through the short
messaging system cell phone based network.
That requires warrants.
It's a pain in the butt.
You got to get into the system.
You got to go call the guy.
You got to go file some forms.
If it's Telegram or WhatsApp, that's much easier.
Or Signal.
I'm pretty sure they're in those systems.
That's why they're recommending it.
Now, you heard RCS.
RCS is the new standard that Europe forced
Apple to comply to so that we both
have all the awesome features of iMessage, which
is like, oh, I can see when someone's
typing.
I can see if someone read the message.
That's not new.
No, but to do it between Android phones
and iPhones, the European Union forced Apple to
move to this RCS standard.
The RCS standard is something that is registered
and goes through, again, your cell phone network.
They don't want you using it.
Oh, that's insecure.
By the way, you can totally encrypt that
on both sides.
Oh, that's not good.
The Chinese might read about your 3 p
.m. appointment.
They want you to continue to use WhatsApp
and all these other systems that don't use
the SMS text messaging system.
It screams that to me.
These are the feds.
I don't use any of these things.
I mean, you know, I use very simple
stuff, and it's what it sounds like to
me, too.
And why are they promoting WhatsApp to such
an extreme unless it's compromised?
It's Facebook.
It has to be compromised.
Yes.
And Telegram, if you know about that, Pavel
said, all right, well, you know, we'll be
on the lookout for people who are up
to no good.
We'll help you out there.
They arrested the guy.
They did.
And Signal, well, the lady now at NPR
used to run Signal, so I'm sorry.
I don't trust any of these systems, not
for anything secure.
I use PGP encryption on my email.
Works with ProtonMail, by the way, out of
the box.
But yeah.
Yeah, I don't know, man.
I don't know.
I have one more thing here.
Yeah, actually, two things.
So this story about the stowaway who wanted
to go to France, you heard about this?
The lady who snuck onto a Delta flight.
I think it was Delta flight.
I have no knowledge of this.
Oh, and then she was, and then, you
know, they're going to ship her back and
she's screaming like, I don't want to go
back to America.
I'm like, what is this story just kept
coming back, kept coming back, kept coming back.
And of course, what's interesting is why does
this Russian lady who has a U.S.
visa not want to be in America?
She snuck onto a flight.
I guess she has no money because she
wanted to request asylum in France and France
went, no, we have enough problems here.
And they sent her back.
So finally, the story starts to unfold.
I'm like, oh, maybe this is what it's
about.
Listen to this report.
New video of a suspected stowaway on her
way to France from New York's JFK International
Airport.
The footage showing a Delta crew member questioning
the woman after she allegedly snuck onto the
plane last week without a ticket.
She took 10 minutes to just tumble her
bags to find a boarding pass, which she
did not have at all.
She allegedly went through security at JFK but
never showed ID and boarded without a ticket.
Passengers say she tried to avoid detection on
the full flight by going from one bathroom
to another without ever taking a seat.
Authorities say the woman is a Russian national
and a legal resident of the U.S.
According to French authorities, she was not admitted
into French territory due to a lack of
a valid travel document or visa and was
placed in a waiting area for her rerouting
to the United States since she had a
valid U.S. residence permit.
Days later, officials struggled as they tried to
send her back to the U.S. on
another Delta flight.
She got belligerent, so then more stewardess came
in to try to restrain her.
And that's when everything started to escalate.
The woman was removed from the flight and
remained in France.
The big question is how did she allegedly
go through security at JFK without showing ID
and boarded without a ticket?
TSA is preparing a civil case against the
woman and Delta Airlines is investigating.
It is unclear if she will face any
charges.
So it was that end bit where they
say the big question, the big question is
how does she get out of the airplane?
No.
My question is what is this woman about?
Why didn't she just buy a ticket?
Why does she want to request asylum?
But no, the big question is how did
she get on?
And then I remembered I had a report
from November 22nd.
A bipartisan group of 12 senators has urged
the TSA Inspector General to investigate the agency's
use of facial recognition, which has been rampant.
Every single airport in America that I've been
to, and I've been to a few, but
everyone I've spoken to, it's all facial recognition.
And it says, oh, you don't have to
do this.
This is just a test.
But meanwhile, everyone's like, you know, whatever.
I'm good.
I'm doing the facial recognition.
So there's this bipartisan group of 12 senators,
some heavy hitters in their crews, of course,
but, you know, some Elizabeth Warren, and they
don't want it.
They want this to stop.
And I think that this is a setup
for them to say, well, you know, this
lady snuck onto the plane.
It could have done anything.
We need facial recognition.
I think that's what you see come out
of this.
That's an interesting thesis.
That's what I think is coming out of
this.
And it really is such an invasion that
they just throw this stuff up and, you
know, they say, oh, you can opt out
if you want to stand over here.
That's how it goes now.
Oh, you don't want to do facial recognition?
Stand over here.
And they make you wait.
It's just like the naked body scanner, same
thing.
And then my final clip is from a
compatriot from a colleague of mine who is
against the artificial intelligence hype.
And he does the primetime podcast.
And he made such a good point on
his podcast about artificial intelligence that I wanted
to share it with the group.
Hear me out here.
If these AIs were really that great, they're
so great that they actually were AGI.
They're able to learn.
They're able to grow better.
As Sam Altman once said, we're only a
couple thousand days away from it.
Bitch, that's like 10 years.
Anyways.
Also, that's a crazy way to say that.
Who describes time windows in days?
Like, oh yeah, it's just like 3,600
days away.
10 years.
You can just say 10 years and no
one's upset at you, Samuel.
It's strange.
But anyways, but even if these companies do
produce something that actually can really produce good
code, you just got to understand something.
Why would a company sell a product that
can build anything?
Why wouldn't they just harbor those trade secrets
and build everything?
Right?
Like why would you sell the infinite intelligence
tool?
Think about it for a couple.
It makes no sense.
Like you would be able to compete with
every product and start company after company after
company after company over and over again.
Having super AI would be the most valuable
thing in the universe.
So why ever would they just simply sell
it?
They wouldn't because they'd be able to make
everything.
I love that.
I do too.
Yeah.
Why wouldn't you just keep it?
If it's so good at coding and you
can create every single product, just put in
some stuff there.
Give me a new spreadsheet program.
It would be great.
Yeah.
And you could tell not to copy any
of the other code that's already been used
so they can't get sued.
What do you mean?
It's all copied.
That's all they have.
Well, I mean, there are certain.
What are you eating?
I'm sorry.
I'm having a lozenge.
You want me to cough?
Well, you do.
Just asking.
I didn't know.
I said, what are you eating?
Now I have to snap.
I mean, you made me snap.
Okay, boom.
I was looking for that one.
Good one.
No, I think you're completely correct here.
This is, or that guy is.
Yeah, noob.
With this theory.
Yes.
That's, you know, I don't want to use,
I don't want to use Facebook.
Make me a Facebook.
I love that guy.
Make me a, you know, yeah.
It does art.
Yeah, really well too.
Not God's art like you say, but I'm
sorry.
Oh, there it is.
No, I didn't say God.
Waited for a half hour.
That's all right, John.
You will reap what you sow.
I'm going to reap half of what I
sow.
Yes.
In so far as these donations are concerned,
which are low today again.
Well, for Thursday, you know, we only have
total 34 donors for the segment.
And it's not, I don't know what to
say, man.
I don't know what to say.
Beth Elliot starts us off.
That's what you can say.
All right.
She's in Corrytown, Tennessee.
Comes in with 133.69. Brian Newman in
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Yankton, South Dakota.
His name, he says, Kyle Tack.
Tack, as he loves that.
Introduce me to new agenda.
He's my favorite, blah, blah, blah.
Does he get a car?
No.
Okay.
There's a biscuit for his birthday, maybe.
Happy birthday, Kyle.
Oh, I wasn't ready with the biscuit.
Hold on a second.
I don't blame you.
Yeah, but I got a biscuit.
I always have a biscuit somewhere.
They always give me a biscuit on my
birthday.
There's your biscuit.
$111.11 from him.
Baron Surfer, S-I-R-F-E-R,
in Shasta Lake.
$100.33. Baron Latican, there he is, in
Houston, Texas.
Remember him?
$100.
You member him.
Member?
John Robinet, $100.
Kevin McLaughlin is up there already at $8008.
He's the Archduke of Luna, lover of America
and boobs.
Eric Adler in Punta Gorda, Florida, $8008.
This set of boobs makes me a baron,
he writes.
All right.
William Arcand in Bedford, New Hampshire, $77.70.
Baron Sir Lineman of the Net in Anna,
Illinois, $56.78. It was a happy birthday
call to Josie.
Sir Dre in Noorn, Holland.
Is that right?
Doorn.
Doorn.
Yeah, this is another one on behalf of
Sir Dre, the knight of the empty PayPal,
who has the broken brain.
And that's why he donated $22.22 on
his request, asked for a health karma, adding
$33.33 to level it and cover the
PayPal costs.
Sir Dre, the knight of the empty PayPal
and the broken brain, perseveres and promotes the
No Agenda formula among the staff of the
Recovery Center and Rehabilitation Center in Groesbeek.
He is proud to mention he has already
hit some nice nurses and therapists in the
mouth.
And we have a slogan here, listening to
the No Agenda podcast keeps you sane and
ensures that you don't lose the half of
the brain that's left.
That's from a goose cadaver.
You snorted.
I did.
I did.
Wow.
All right.
That's a first.
Maybe.
Brian Furley in 50, uh, in 50.
Yes, he's in 5510.
Heather Harper in Lubbock, Lubbock, Lubbock, Texas, 5330.
How far is Lubbock from you?
Uh, that's not close.
Lubbock's quite a ways away.
Michael Gates, 5280.
Stefan Trockels in Sust, Deutschland, 5280.
Uh, you talk about Uber's peak pricing in
New Year's.
5X, 10X, too many X.
I have no idea what that's about.
I don't know.
He's rambling.
Another Mike Benz on our hands.
John Balsano in Madison, Alabama, 5272.
Um, hold on a second.
There we go.
Roger Keese in Holland, Michigan, 5272.
Sir DH Slammer, haven't heard from him for
a while.
He's in Buellton, California, 5271.
He says he's not overboard, just hanging out
in the galley.
All right.
Buster Birch is New York City, and he
comes in with a 50.
These are all 50s now, and I'm going
to just do the name and location.
Daniel LaBoie in Bath, Michigan.
Matt Frazee in St. John's, Florida.
James Scharametta in Nappanock, New York.
Michael Chauvin, PLC, in Saginaw, Michigan.
Chris Conaker in Anchorage.
Alex Zavala in Kyle, Texas, or Kylie?
Kyle.
Kyle.
Kyle, Texas.
Brenton Gray in Warrenula, New South Wales.
Listening to your show from down under.
Get some more people to listen.
Kenneth Fry in Irving, Texas.
$50.
And he says his freeloader days are over,
value for value.
If he's a freeloader, he needs a de
-douching.
You've been de-douched.
That's it.
That's our group, short group today, small group
today.
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Yeah, I'm off 200.
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It's your birthday, birthday.
I'm so glad you're here.
Ryan Newman sends happy birthday to Kyle.
As celebrated yesterday, Ranger Becky, which is her
best buddy and brother.
Sergeant John McKeon, a happy birthday.
He turns 43 tomorrow.
And Berenster Lineman of the Net, which is
Josie Hawkins, a happy birthday.
We say the same thing.
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It's your birthday.
Title changes.
Turn and face the slays.
Title changes.
Don't want to be a douche bag.
Two title changes today.
We have Sir Eric now becoming a baron.
Sir Eric, baron of the Fat Point, who
doesn't know it.
And Sir Derek, protector of Star Lake, now
becomes baronet Sir Double Dr. Derek.
And that is correct that he is a
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Remember to go to NoagenderRings.com to give
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Congratulations with your doctor.
Wow.
Wow, wow, wow.
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to take a look at those handsome knight
and dame rings if you're interested in one
of those.
We didn't have anyone interested today, but eventually
someone will get back at the round table
very excited to see it.
Noagender.com.
Yeah, we're into the holiday session of the
meet-ups.
It means a lot of meet-ups.
Christmas parties where you drink too much.
That's right.
Got a note here from Sir Brian with
a Y.
He said, money's super tight for me lately,
but I organized a meet-up on Saturday,
the 7th of December in Aurora, Illinois.
I normally promote my meet-ups with a
donation.
Adam is normally fantastic with promotions, but hasn't
mentioned this one yet.
Hopefully he mentions it on tomorrow's show.
Well, here I am.
It's your fault, Trump.
Could he get a note to make sure
he mentions it?
Well, the back office functions perfectly.
Our meet-up is this Saturday on the
7th of December in Aurora, Illinois at Two
Brothers right outside of Chicago.
I only have like one RSVP.
We normally get 10 to 15.
It's on the meet-up site.
Thank you for your courage, Sir Brian with
a Y.
Well, you've got your promotion there.
And before we move on, here's a report
from the South Dakota meet-up.
Hey, this is John of the Dale coming
to you from Crow Peak Brewing here in
Spearfish, South Dakota.
Beautiful sunset.
If you didn't find us, maybe we were
out on the balcony watching the sunset over
Crow Peak here in northwest South Dakota.
In the morning.
In the morning, John and Adam.
This is Kaitlin and Casey's the spook.
In the morning, John and Adam.
I am not the spook.
Thank you very much.
In the morning.
Happy Thanksgiving and hope to see you in
December.
Crow Peak.
In the morning.
A lot of girls there.
Let's see.
Today we have the 805 Rooftop meet-up.
It's underway at Goleta HGI Rooftop in Goleta,
California.
No, not yet.
Two more hours before it kicks off.
The Outer Swamp meet-up at 6 o
'clock at Java Nation, Rockville, Maryland.
So you want to go check that one
out.
You can get there in time.
No problem.
We have the Northern Wake Publical Slave Gathering
at 6 o'clock at Hoppy Endings in
Raleigh, North Carolina.
The Gitmo Brats and Festive Hats 6.30
at Jackson's Cozy Lounge in Gladewater, Texas.
The NOAA General Lowlands Wageningen Economic Food Hub.
That's W-E-F.
Meet-up.
Bitterballs and croquettes galore.
Ah, as Tina would say, that's brain matter
that's fried.
7 o'clock Amsterdam time.
That is tomorrow.
Stadsbrouwerij in Wageningen.
Goose Cadaver, who donated earlier for our Broken
Brain Night, will be hosting that.
On Saturday, the meet-up at Mimsy's.
11.30 in the morning, Mimsy's Coffee and
Curiosities in Rogersville, Alabama.
The Boners and Donors meet-up at 1
o'clock on Saturday at Mac Daniels Island
on Daniel Island.
That's not downtown.
That's Daniel Island, South Carolina.
Saturday as well, the West Coast of Florida,
5 p.m. Eastern.
Three Daughters Brewing in St. Pete, Florida.
The North Carolina Triad NOAA agenda meet-up,
2 o'clock Eastern.
Little Brother Brewing, formerly Kernersville Brewing Company in
Kernersville, North Carolina.
The ITM from New Mexico.
This is a brand-new one for Jeff
Tuhig.
Please go check him out in Albuquerque, New
Mexico at Saw Mill Market, 2 o'clock
on Saturday.
The local 406 Chicken Beer and Vinyl, 3
.30 on Saturday at Hop Lounge in Bozeman,
Montana.
These are some good parties.
Real Fox Valley meet-up, No.
5, 3.30 at Two Brothers Roundhouse in
downtown Aurora, Illinois.
That's across from the Haitians.
And Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Meet-up, 4.33 at Johnny's Canuck Bar
& Grill, Crown Point Center in Orléans, Ontario,
Canada.
And we have a promo from the folks
there at West Palm Beach, Florida.
They produce.
They produce a lot.
Come on in.
By order of His Grace the King and
the First Men, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms
and Protector of the Realm, you are courtly
invited to a game of axes and knives,
if you dare.
On Sunday, the 15th of December, a King's
Feast will be served all across the land
of West Palm Beach, Florida.
But knights and dames, please beware.
Winter is coming, so you must RSVP to
be there.
We'll drink and we'll throw things.
Those guys really get into it.
Shades of the Renaissance Faire.
There you go.
Have a good time there.
And check out all of the No Agenda
meet-ups.
They're at noagendameetups.com.
This is the perfect time to go and
join in some festivities and merriment right around
the holidays.
Noagendameetups.com.
If you can't find one near you, start
one yourself.
You can still do it in time.
Sometimes you want to go hang out with
all the knights and dames.
You want to be where you won't be,
triggered or held to blame.
You want to be where everybody feels the
same.
It's like a party.
Yeah, baby.
Like a big party.
All right, John, sip of the day is
coming up.
Hey, by the way, you mentioned something else
Brunetti had to say.
He said that you left out Hookers and
Blow and Rentboys and Chardonnay on the last
knighting, and he thinks that you're going to
change it for good.
No?
Did I really miss that?
Well, he claims.
Hmm.
He says, what good is being a knight?
Well, I certainly wouldn't have left that out
on purpose.
That's what I told him.
I think I've been adding Cigars and Prostitutes,
in fact, as an addition since that came
up.
I didn't hear that.
I've been doing that for the past couple
of shows.
I will double check on this.
Any other notes?
Any other notes from the producers?
Any other notes?
From the suits.
Right?
I mean, we do a podcast, so we
don't have to do that.
Now we get Brunetti.
Donates twice in his life, and now he
thinks he can say something just because he
let you drive the fire engine?
Yeah, well, you know, I signed off on
it.
Screw this Hollywood douche.
What's he trying to do to us?
He's trying to rip us apart.
He's turned into a suit.
He is a suit.
He's a suit.
He's got a Cybertruck and a suit.
Enough said.
All right, Brunetti, email me.
How about a bonus clip?
Oh, you got a bonus clip.
Okay.
Yeah, that's always fun.
It's under TPK, but it should say talk.
This was T-A-P-K.
Yes, I talk.
This is a lesbian Joe Pesci.
And the reason it's called this is because
this woman is wearing a Hawaiian shirt.
Wait a minute.
Did talking about Brunetti make you come up
with this?
No, I'm going over the list here.
And I saw it, and I said, well,
I should get this out of the way,
because people love these talk clips.
Yes, they encourage you.
Yes, they do.
Yes, they do.
Encourage you.
Encourage me.
Encourage you.
That's exactly what they do.
Yep, that's happening.
And you hate it.
I know that.
I can tell.
So this is a woman who looks like
Joe Pesci is the reason that it was
called that.
And she's on a rant.
She's ranting against you.
You maggot nuts.
This is a message for any MAGA cultist
that knows me, that is in my family,
that used to be, and I mean used
to be my friend.
If you are a MAGA cultist, if you
follow and or support the orange shit turd,
I want no part of you.
I don't care if you are my niece,
my nephew, my cousin, my siblings, my parents,
my kids.
I don't care who you are.
If you support this clown, we are not
friends.
We are not family any longer, because you
just supported someone against my rights and the
rights of people that I love.
If I work with you, I have to
be professional and I have to speak with
you professionally at work so that I don't
lose my job.
However, make no mistake, if you support him,
I will never be your friend.
We would never be friends out of work.
And I will never respect you.
That's all I have to say.
Now, you play this because you think this
is funny?
I think it's pathetic.
It makes me very sad.
But I'd like to know, you know, it's
always about me, me, me.
It's like you voted for him against me
and my rights.
Where are they getting this?
Earlier in the show, you had this rundown
of these complaints.
And I don't think it was emphasized enough
about these people taking this personally as somehow
their rights are being attacked.
And if you voted for Trump, you voted
against them personally.
Our university system, our entire education system, and
whoever has been met, our pharmaceutical system, whoever
has been meddling inside the brains of people
through social media, have created a massive group
of people with narcissistic personality disorder.
Because that's what this is.
And to add to that, when you accuse
someone of being a narcissist, which these people
have accused Trump of being, then there's a
pretty good chance that you're accusing someone of
that of what you are yourself.
These are narcissists.
It is now a mental disease.
And these people need a hug.
They need to be loved.
And not excoriated.
Well, I think that's very magnanimous of you.
Magnanimous?
Yeah.
What does that mean in this context?
It means you're a good guy.
Yeah.
I don't want...
Personally...
Well, maybe...
I'm not hugging these people, that's for sure.
Maybe if I'd seen the Joe Pesci look,
I would have thought differently about it.
But this is why I don't like these
clips, because you can't see these people.
Ah, you admit it, you don't like the
clips.
You heard that, people?
Send him a note.
AdamMcCurry.com.
I don't have Brunetti...
We want more clips.
I don't have Brunetti send a note to
you.
John, I really don't think that these TikTok
clips are any good, because we can't see
them, so we don't get all the context
after you've seen them.
Anyway.
I can explain the context.
I can explain.
I know how to do that.
So what time did Brunetti send out the
Zoom call invite so we all get on
the call at the same time for us
to berate us about how we're doing the
show?
For the meeting?
For the meeting.
I'm not doing any...
All right.
What are your ISOs?
Okay.
What do you got?
I'll play mine.
I have two.
These old guys who say something stupid.
Uh-huh.
That's us.
And here.
They're like, well, I was in a podcast.
I couldn't even understand that.
Okay.
All right.
So I have two that are pretty clear,
I think.
Okay.
All right.
Start with free.
And it's free.
Oh, that's kind of nice, because it is
free.
That's good.
I like that.
I like that.
Yeah, I like it too.
And then the end.
No, no.
That one wins hands down.
Or we could do a double.
I'm actually thinking, I think.
And it's free.
How about that?
I like the double.
I like...
We're going for the double.
Everybody, it's time once again for John's Tip
of the Day.
I have...
This is a sometimes moment.
I have a tip that, if you don't
mind, I'd like to give a little tip.
This comes from our producer, Fielding E.
Fowler.
And this is a tip for parents.
And I'm going to read it.
My wife and I have a tip for
you.
We have two very active human resources and
often can't wait to see the school bus
drop the other kids on the block home
from school.
We homeschool.
And when they leave the house to go
play, they take a small walkie-talkie with
them instead of a phone.
It works great.
We can call them home when dinner is
done and they can call if they need
help.
No screen and no internet.
One of the other families gave their eight
-year-old a cell phone and what do
you know?
It's never charged and the screen is busted.
All the other families are jealous because we
are smarter than them.
We are using our no agenda intelligence.
I think that's a great idea.
And you know what?
It's cool.
I think if you give your kid one
of those GPRS.
Is it GPRS?
GRPS.
One of those walkie-talkies that has a
decent range.
They have a pretty good.
Some of them have a big range.
Yeah.
They run a C band or CB band
or one of these.
No, it's not CB.
No, no.
It's like 145 megahertz or something.
But they go about a mile.
Yeah, at least.
And then, you know, the kid can hook
it on their belt.
They're rugged.
He's got it on his belt.
He looks like a mall cop.
Fantastic.
And could just say, hey, mom.
Hey, mom.
You're like, yes.
Can you have some chocolate milk ready for
me?
And, of course, the mom's going to say,
sure, no problem.
The kids will be like, that's so awesome.
I like this tip.
I think it's a great tip.
You can buy them on Amazon for about
$20 for a pair.
They're pretty cheap.
Made in China.
Get them now before the price goes up.
That's right.
All right, so we got a guy in
the medical industry, or he's in the billing
thing.
He knows his long story.
The backgrounder is good on this.
Another tip from a fan.
A fan.
What are we, the tin pool show now?
What is this?
What is this fan business?
I hate to burst your bubble.
So he was just basically a bitch letter
about Andreessen.
But at the end, he has a tip
of the day.
Oh, this is the one about how we
lost $7,000?
No.
Oh, my gosh.
Oh, you didn't get that note.
Well, I do recall something about $7,000,
but that's not this note.
Do you want me to just mention this
guy's note real quick?
What's his name?
His name is, let me see.
His name is, I think I omitted his
name, probably.
Sean.
Oh, yeah.
This is David.
It's not the same guy.
Anyway, Sean said that he lost $7,000
due to Synapse Technologies declared bankruptcy, which was
the very fintech that Marc Andreessen funded.
And those guys said, oh, we don't have
any money to make everybody whole.
He has a whole long story about it.
I'll put it in the.
Oh, geez.
I don't remember.
No.
Wow, it's terrible.
Yeah.
Okay, this is the tip of the day
for medicine, people without insurance or with insurance.
Tip of the day, if you don't have
insurance, call up the medical facility and ask
for the cash rate.
Ah, yes.
They may push back, but most will provide
you with a charge that is reasonable.
And in many cases, lower than you would
have to pay with your insurance plan.
We've talked about this in great detail on
the show.
Yeah.
About how they jack it up, jack it
up, and they get all these phony numbers.
And that what you pay is actually more
than anybody pays.
But if you go for the cash rate,
it might actually be cheaper.
The real tip is you must say that
you do not have insurance coverage or else
they would be obligated to charge you the
insurance rates.
There you go.
I found that to be a tip.
Well, that's a tip.
Plus, this is exactly what CrowdHealth does.
That's what Tina has.
I think she pays $200 a month.
And if something comes up, and I think
anything under $500 she pays for herself, anything
over that, she submits it to them.
It's not an insurance plan.
It's more like a layaway plan.
And then they go to the doctor, hospital,
et cetera.
They say, hey, no insurance.
And they negotiate the cash price.
And then they crowdfund it from the money
they already have.
That's why it's called CrowdHealth.
It's very good.
She's had a lot of success with it,
loves it.
And email Tina at curry.com and she'll
send you a coupon, a code.
Yeah.
Wow.
That's your tip of the day, everybody.
Yeah.
There you go.
Tipoftheday.net.
Great advice for you and me.
Just the tip with JCD.
And sometimes Adam.
Man, we're just over-tipped these days.
People get so much benefit.
And you can go to tipoftheday.net or
noagendafund.com to revisit these.
They're good tips, people.
It's worth hanging out to the end of
the show to get them.
And with that, we will be returning on
Sunday.
It's a lot going on.
The oil baron's coming to stay for a
day with us.
So I'm sure I'll have lots of oil
barony-type news.
I'm excited.
And we'll be back on Sunday with more
media deconstruction for your pleasure.
End of show next is Leo LePuck, who's
still hanging in there.
We're happy to hear that.
Sir Aaron Yoho and Judd Haley, all with
end-of-show mixes.
And up next on noagendastream.com, trollroom.io,
Random Thoughts, the Democrat discount.
That is from the show that just aired
yesterday.
So stay tuned for that.
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I said I abide by the jury decisions.
I will do that, and I will not
pardon him.
I could speak for the president, and he
said he would not pardon his son.
Is there any possibility that the president would
end up pardoning his son?
No.
I just said no.
When would the president pardon or commute his
son if he's convicted?
So I've answered this question before.
It was asked of me not too long
ago, a couple of weeks ago, and I
was very clear, and I said no.
I will not pardon him.
The president would not pardon or commute his
son's son, Hunter.
I want to make sure that that is
not going to change over the next eight
months.
It's still a no.
It's still a no.
It's always a no.
It's still a no.
It will be a no if it is
a no.
Will he pardon his son?
No.
I like the term security neighborhood.
What's going on in your neighborhood?
Security neighborhood.
Ukraine's not in the EU.
They're not in NATO.
No.
They're just around the corner.
They're over there.
In the neighborhood.
Yeah, in the security neighborhood.
Yes.
What's going on in your neighborhood?
In the neighborhood.
In the security neighborhood.
These guys, they see Trump coming in to
stop this war, and they're no.
What are we going to stop it for?
What if we can come up with $200
billion of our money, of our stupid taxpayer
money that we have?
They don't want peace.
That lady was right.
It's just like using it.
We're two old boomers.
It's just like, it's just like, it's just
like, it's just like using it.
What's that thing where you all text each
other in a little message group?
Yeah.
We're two old boomers.
You talked about earlier, the groups, these little
groups that you write notes to each other.
Oh, the text group.
The text group.
It's just like, it's just like, it's just
like, it's just like using it.
The text group.
The text message group.
That lady was right.
They don't even know what a text message
group, text message, text message group, text message
group is.
That lady was right.
It's just like, it's just like, it's just
like using it.
We're two old boomers.
Text group, yes, it's called the text group.
The New York Times now calls women non
-transgender women.
I think these women are weak-minded.
It's just like, it's just like, it's just
like, it's just like using it.
The best podcast in the universe.
Adios, mofo.
Dvorak.org slash N-A.
And that is the end of the podcast.
And it's free.
You made me snap.
It has to be compromised.
A lunatic this guy is.
Yeah, yeah.
Disease, famine, pestilence.