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Don't cook bacon naked.
Adam Curry, John C.
DeVora.
It's Sunday, December 15, 2024.
This is your award-winning Gimel Nation Media
Assassination Episode 1721.
This is no agenda.
Silver bell, blue beams, and broadcasting live from
the heart of the Texas Hill Country here
in FEMA Region Number 6.
Good morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
We're from northern Silicon Valley where we've discovered
that the drones are looking for dirty bombs.
Dirty bombs!
From John C.
DeVora.
Oh, man.
Did you see the video of that guy?
The nine-minute video?
Yes, I have standing.
I am a domain expert.
I make drones for the U.S. military.
And some guy told me...
I have standing, but some guy told me.
Yes, and he's very high up.
Very high up, but he's been trying to
get everyone to know that there's a loose
nuke.
A loose nuke that came from Ukraine.
It's in the U.S. and they're looking
for it at night.
And I'm like, you know, the network...
Looking for it at night because it glows
in the dark.
It's exactly what we were talking about on
the last episode.
This is the law of large numbers at
work.
It works perfectly.
You launch something in there.
You just let it go.
Maybe you fly some military drone or two,
you know.
Let's make sure they all have flashing lights
so we know that they're covert and searching
for something very secretively.
And then all of America suddenly, when they
look, they don't never look up to the
sky.
Now we're like, hey, there's a lot going
on in the sky.
I didn't know that.
Oh my God, we must be under attack.
It must be drones.
What's happening?
It's like people don't look up.
They're always looking down on their phones for
the first time.
America, New Jersey, my old state, they're looking
in the sky.
Oh man, there's a lot going on there.
Yeah, including a whole bunch of whack jobs
who are flying their drones to get on
the local news.
This is great.
I love it.
And I want to finalize this today.
Can we finalize it?
Can I get a witness?
Can I finalize this?
It won't happen.
Oh yeah, no, it's happening.
It's happening.
But first...
No, they're going to keep this bull crap
up for another week.
No, no, no.
He's using up too many news cycles.
I'm loving it.
Another week, I'll give you another week.
But let me just roll through a couple
clips here and then we'll lock it all
down.
I want to make a point, except for
the one to two second half of show
clips I have.
But I want you to note, if you
look at my rundown.
I'm looking at your rundown.
There's no drone clips whatsoever.
I know, and I appreciate that.
And I did have the one I was
thinking of using, which was Mayorkas, a real
doofus, coming out and saying, no, everyone's imagining
it.
You should have gotten that one.
I'll tell you what he says.
I don't have the Mayorkas one.
Mayorkas comes out and he talks for 10
minutes and everything he says is, no, there's
nothing going on.
People are seeing like an airplane and five
people reported.
And so it's five reports of different drones.
And it's all imagined.
There's nothing to see here, period.
It's great.
This was an op, and I'm going to
explain it.
And I'm just going to bring closure to
what we talked about on the last episode.
And everybody can calm down.
And then, yeah, we'll give them another week
of this nonsense.
And we'll be on to something else.
You've already forgotten about hot Luigi.
I mean, how disappointing is that?
Poor Luigi.
Poor Luigi.
All right.
First, there's nothing like getting a borough president
from Staten Island all angry.
I mean, it's just funny.
Now, we've reported on these drone concerns in
New Jersey.
Some experts have said the sightings could very
well be lawfully manned aircrafts.
Today, we're hearing from officials on Staten Island
about the same topic.
Take a listen.
You know, there's a saying that we had
after 9-11.
If you see something, say something.
I think that's become, if you see something,
don't worry about it.
Don't worry about it.
Because we saw it too.
And forget about it.
And the people of Staten Island deserve answers.
The people of this city and state and
region deserve answers.
What the heck is going on?
So we've heard from the FBI and the
FBI says there's no reason to believe that
these recent possible drone sightings pose a national
security threat.
Now, in terms of what we're getting from
local officials, we're being told we're going to
get an update this afternoon at some point,
Bianca, in terms of what they've been looking
at here.
So the best part of this operation is
John Kirby, who is, you know, he's the
rear admiral.
He's the spokesman for the White House Pentagon.
He's the spokesman for everything.
And this is the best because he just
does this with a stone cold face.
It's impressive.
I think he should win an Academy Award
for this.
Upon review of available imagery, it appears that
many of the reported sightings are actually manned
aircraft that are being operated lawfully.
The United States Coast Guard is providing support
to the state of New Jersey and has
confirmed that there is no evidence of any
foreign based involvement in coastal vessels.
Exactly.
No evidence.
And importantly, there are no reported or confirmed
drone sightings in any restricted airspace.
That's it.
Well, wait a minute.
Yes, that is a tricky one.
He's good.
I'm telling you, he's good.
He said there was no reported drone sightings
in any restricted areas, which is only a
very limited number of places.
In other words, there could be drones all
over the place.
Yes, but not in restricted places like over
the way he does it.
He passes it over as though there's no
drones.
Oh, this is carefully scripted.
He knows.
Oh, he's good.
Yeah.
No, he knows what he's doing.
He's got an Academy Award.
You're right for an Emmy, at least based
involvement from coastal vessels.
And importantly, there are no reported or confirmed
drone sightings in any restricted airspace.
That said, we certainly take seriously the threat
that can be posed by unmanned aircraft systems,
which is why law enforcement and other agencies
continue to support New Jersey and investigate the
reports, even though they have uncovered no malicious
activity or intent at this particular stage.
While there is no known malicious activity occurring,
the reported sightings there do, however, highlight a
gap in authorities.
And so we urge Congress to pass important
legislation that will expand existing counter drone authorities.
By the way, stop.
Yes, yes, yes.
It's almost word for word the same message
from Mayorka.
Of course, because this is a script.
Let's just we'll get to it.
I have a sequence.
We're going to set it up, hammer it
home, and then we can let the M5M
drone on, pun intended, for the next week
or so.
But it's it's ending.
And so we urge Congress to pass important
legislation that will extend and expand existing counter
drone authorities so that we are better prepared
to identify and mitigate any potential threats to
airports or other critical infrastructure.
And so that state and local authorities are
provided all the tools that they need to
respond to such threats as well.
There you go.
OK, so so he said everything perfectly.
He hasn't lied about anything.
He's done a little bit of a setup,
but we need we really needed legislation for
this.
I'm going to give you inside edition with
their report because it brings in a little
bit of the of the hysteria, which we
actually saw back on the radio with War
of the Worlds.
You know, there's some of that going on
here.
Hello and thanks for joining us.
There are increasing demands for the government to
share what it knows and what it doesn't
know about the mysterious drones that have been
hovering over New Jersey.
This startling photo shows eight in the sky
at one time spreading to other states, including
New York and Pennsylvania.
Politicians are calling for them to be shot
out of the sky.
Politicians.
No, there's a lot of politicians who are
coming out and talking more politicians than FBI
or law enforcement.
It's mainly politicians.
Here they are.
There they are.
Drone hysteria is ratcheting up.
Extraordinary new images are emerging today, like this
time lapse video from New Jersey purportedly showing
drone activity.
And now they're on the move towards New
York City.
This video posted on TikTok was apparently taken
on Staten Island.
More drone sightings were reported just outside LaGuardia
Airport.
And still no one knows who launched them.
People of this city and state and region
deserve answers of what the heck is going
on.
Local lawmakers today are demanding answers.
One congresswoman says she feels like she's in
an alien movie.
There you go.
20 years ago, they filmed War of the
Worlds on Staten Island.
And now we feel like we're characters in
that movie.
Yeah.
What is happening is outrageous.
New Jersey Senator Andy Kim says he went
out with the state police and personally observed
five to seven lights in the sky.
Maryland's former Governor Larry Hogan says, I personally
witnessed and videoed what appeared to be dozens
of large drones in the sky above my
residence in Davidsonville, Maryland, 25 miles from our
nation's capital.
I observed the activity for approximately 45 minutes.
OK, so that's just a little bit of
the entertainment angle.
No one ever.
What they missed was, you know, someone should
have done a Rudolph angle.
They should have done, you know, a red
blinking light.
It's got to be Santa and his sleigh.
No one pulled that one.
And I'm a little disappointed.
So here is the true setup.
And this is where the false prophets start
to unveil themselves.
New Jersey lawmakers and law enforcement agencies are
demanding answers from the federal government as alleged
drone sightings continue across the area.
The federal government to just shun this away
is unreasonable.
Quite frankly, unacceptable.
New Jersey Congressman Chris Smith says he's now
drafting legislation that would give local and state
agencies the power to investigate drone activity and
also ask the federal government for technology to
do so.
Knowing that drone warfare has radically changed war
fighting in Ukraine and Russia, the Middle East
and elsewhere.
This is not the time to trivialize or
dismiss the threat.
As the concerned calls of sightings continue, the
Ocean County Sheriff's Department has been using its
drone to investigate.
The sheriff says the drone has captured several
concerning encounters, including one allegedly flying at what
seems like 60 miles an hour.
Super fast.
Some traveling in groups of dozens.
She reports that she saw 50 drones coming
from the ocean to the mainland, transversing the
airways over Island Beach State Park, going down
towards the Partigan Lake and coming to the
seaside area.
Meantime, in New York, Stewart Airport in Orange
County was closed for about an hour Friday
night due to a drone sighting.
Governor Kathy Hochul is urging Congress to give
power to state and local agencies.
She said, quote, until those powers are granted
to state and local officials, the Biden administration
must step in in directing additional federal law
enforcement to New York and the surrounding region
to ensure the safety of our critical infrastructure
and our people.
Senior administration officials said Saturday there have been
5000 tips reported to the FBI regarding drones,
of them less than 100 required further investigation.
And while federal officials maintain there is no
obvious threat, they admit that there are unidentified
drones overhead in New Jersey.
OK, so we've almost heard every single bit
of what had to happen and what the
setup was.
And, you know, the false the false prophets
buy their fruits.
Here it is.
Congress has just eight days until government funding
is set to run out.
Next Friday, December 20th, is the deadline to
get a spending measure passed.
Meanwhile, progress is being made on the annual
defense bill.
Mike Goody has the latest.
The House passed the 895 billion dollar National
Defense Authorization Act on Wednesday on a bipartisan
281 to 140 vote.
The NDA includes a 14.5 percent pay
raise for junior enlisted service members and a
4.5 percent hike for all other members.
The most contentious provision was a restriction on
the use of TRICARE funds for gender affirming
care for 18 years and younger of service
members.
Local Democrats Bobby Scott and Jennifer McClellan opposed
that part of the bill, but still voted
yes for the overall measure.
Joining local Republicans Jen Kagan's and Rob Whitman.
So this whole the whole transgender thing, that's
what they had really thrown out there to
to make this not happen.
But in this was the very controversial H
.R. 8610 Counter UAS Authority Security Safety and
Reauthorization Act.
That's what this was about.
This gives local law enforcement the power to
police drones.
And most importantly, as I read the bill,
it just passed, literally passed.
The bill where they will be able to
outlaw drones from China.
This was a very controversial bill because the
drone lobby is not not small and very
vocal.
It includes police departments.
It includes film.
It's every single aspect of society is using
drones, commercial drones.
And now they will have to buy drones
from U.S. manufacturers.
Can I read the note from Joel?
Yeah, please do.
In the morning, gentlemen, I want to say
something regarding the drone topic from Thursday.
I work at a video production company in
Tulsa as the only FAA commercially licensed drone
pilot at my job.
I've been flying drones for my job for
some years now.
It's important to note that you don't need
a license.
He goes on about the licensing issues.
But then he brings up this regarding the
legislation.
I've been aware of this bill for a
while.
I'm no bill diver, but it sounds like
they're going to outlaw any and all drones
that are manufactured in China, specifically DJI, the
DJI products.
This is disappointing as all the best camera
drones are manufactured by DJI.
I think a lot of people in this
industry would be back to square one with
camera drones because it seems like everyone uses
DJI and most don't build their own drones.
I, for one, hope this bill doesn't pass.
We're invested a lot of money in our
drone fleet and I would prefer to keep
using them.
I hope this helps.
And it gets even worse because it looks
like the FCC will ban these DJI drones
from using frequencies because of, well, you know,
they're clearly transmitting back all kinds of data.
They're sucking up and, you know, back to
China or whatever the nonsense is.
We got a note from the Baron Anonymous
Cop.
Quick boots on the ground.
Just some background as a cop drone pilot.
Did you know he was a drone pilot?
Our anonymous Baron Cop?
I know now.
He's a ham.
We know that.
He says, I don't spend my time checking
out girls like John says I do.
The drone is tossed up when looking for
dudes jumping fences from stolen cars or helping
the fire department find hot spots at house
fires.
That being said, the easiest, no hassle and
cheapest for public entities to purchase are the
Chinese made drones.
The typical American made consumer drone, and he
has a link there, costs one third to
double the price.
They are attempting to be more competitive, but
the price and capability of the Chinese product
is not matched yet.
Some lawmakers during the discussions about this bill
were even going so far as calling it
TikTok with wings.
This was a very controversial piece of legislation.
And what what happened here, this complete psyop
with very carefully worded statements from Kirby and
Mayorkas was cover cover for the lawmakers so
they wouldn't get heat.
Well, it's the government's not telling us it's
the government, it's the military, it's these guys.
I mean, we've got to pass this stuff
now because, you know, who knows?
It could be it could be it could
be aliens.
It could be Chinese launching from motherships.
Bullcrap.
And the guy mothership and the guy behind
this happens to have a big hand in
YouTube, maybe not directly anymore, but we we
were on this over a year ago.
Today on Forbes, ex Google CEO Eric Schmidt
is working on a secret military drone project.
Ex Google CEO Eric Schmidt has been quietly
plotting a new defense tech effort, a stealth
military drone project.
This, according to four sources with knowledge of
the effort, the project's existence has not been
previously reported and it has yet to publicly
launch.
The clandestine project intends to provide an American
alternative to Chinese drones and will develop unmanned
aircraft systems specifically to be used on the
battlefield.
Two of the sources said three of the
sources familiar with Schmidt's engagements said the work
is influenced by his recent visits to Ukraine,
where the billionaire has made inroads with government
officials and military leaders over the past year.
Two of these individuals added that Sebastian Thrun,
a co-founder of Google's Moonshot Lab, is
involved with the effort.
Forbes was unable to determine who other than
Thrun is helping with the secretive project.
So it all comes back to you heard
it in the previous.
Well, you know, drones are really important in
warfare.
We saw it in Ukraine with Russia.
And here's an interview that Eric Schmidt, former
chairman of Google, did.
I think it was Stanford talking about his
new project.
The secret project is called White Stork, and
it's kind of out in the out in
the open.
Now, let's talk about a real war that's
going on.
I know that something you've been very involved
in is the Ukraine war in particular.
I don't know if you can talk about
White Stork and your goal of having a
five hundred thousand five hundred dollar drones destroy
five million dollar tanks.
So is that changing warfare?
I worked for the secretary of defense for
seven years and and tried to change the
way we run our military.
I'm not a particularly big fan of the
military, but it's very expensive.
And I wanted to see if I could
be helpful.
And I think in my view, I largely
failed.
They gave me a medal.
So they must give medalists to failure or
my self-criticism was nothing has really changed.
And the system in America is not going
to lead to real innovation.
So watching the Russians use tanks to destroy
apartment buildings with little old ladies and kids
just drove me crazy.
So I decided to work on a company
with your friend, Sebastian Thrun, and as a
former faculty member here and a whole bunch
of Stanford people.
And the idea basically is to do two
things, use AI and complicated, powerful ways for
these essentially robotic war.
And the second one is to lower the
cost of the robot.
Now, you sit there and you go, why
would a good liberal like me do that?
And the answer is that the money theory
of armies is tanks, artilleries and mortar, and
we can eliminate all of them.
This is a complete shift.
He was on it very early.
He helped out with Ukraine.
All we've heard about continuously Iranian drones, Russian
drones, Ukraine drones, anti drone technology.
It's all drones.
And we needed to pass this because we've
got to get China out of the market.
And Eric Schmidt is no small player.
This guy is a mover and shaker in
Washington.
He and in fact, he's more than that
now.
He's well, he'll tell you himself because I've
been doing this for the last year.
I've learned a lot about war that I
really did not want to know.
And one of the things to know about
war is that the offense always has the
advantage because you can always overwhelm the defensive
systems.
And so you're better off as a strategy
of national defense to have a very strong
offense that you can use if you need
to.
And the systems that I and others are
building will do that because of the way
the system works.
I am now a licensed arms dealer, a
computer scientist, businessman, arms dealer.
I don't know.
I do not recommend this in your group.
I stick with AI.
This was complete setup and it worked beautifully.
Everybody jumped right into it because we don't
we're looking down at our phones, not up
in the sky.
This is all about Eric Schmidt getting his
drones into the military.
He is now a licensed arms dealer.
And OK, I'll give you one more week
because it's kind of funny, but it's going
to end.
It's all going to fade away.
We may get another huge distraction, but it's
done.
It's over.
It's past.
That's what they needed.
That's what they wanted.
And if you have a DJI drone, you're
going to find yourself out of luck.
I think.
I don't think so.
You don't modify the drone.
So there's no way of knowing you're going
to have a licensed drone.
It's going to.
I don't think.
No, you can't.
You have to.
You need these drones for public safety.
I think the anonymous cop said it, you
know, for what it's worth.
But this is so disappointing because Eric Schmidt
was, you know, he was at Novell and
then he was at Google.
He was a pretty nice guy.
He used to be on Silicon Spin quite
a few times.
He was a very nice liberal.
What happened?
Yeah, but he's a liberal gone rogue.
Now he's basically a munitions maker.
Yeah, exactly.
And you think, I mean, how do you
go from A to B if you're you
go from being this, you know, borderline pacifist
liberal to being an arms dealer?
I mean, why?
What makes you do that money?
He's already a multibillionaire.
He's got so many, you know, he's like
up there in the top 10.
Well, not because of all the Google stuff
about everybody, every billionaire.
Well, why would the billionaire want more money?
That's how it works.
What do you mean?
I don't know if it's that there's something.
I think it's more power than than money.
OK, all right.
Power then.
I'll give you power.
But now you'll have local cops can say,
hey, show me your papers.
Is this running on DJI stuff you watch?
They're serious.
The one thing that was interesting is the
back to Joel's note, he says you're legally
required to get a license from the FAA
if you want to make money flying drones.
That's the reason you need a license.
But then he says anybody can buy a
drone and fly it almost anywhere.
And there's no he says everyone is legally
supposed to register every drone with the FAA.
But the enforcement, in my experience, is nearly
nonexistent.
Right.
Which is why they can give it to
local cops.
I'm going to do anything now.
But you're missing it.
All the local cops have been they don't
have it's always been FAA.
This bill now gives local law enforcement the
power to go out and harass you with
your drone.
They're not going to do it.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, please.
Too much work.
Oh, please.
Oh, please.
They love harassing the citizens.
Are you kidding me?
I don't think so.
Let's ask the Baron anonymous cop again about
how much how much cops would like the
idea of harassing some kids that are flying
a drone around the schoolyard.
Well, you have a very idealistic view of
the world, my friend.
No, I don't.
I have a very realistic view of the
world.
People don't like to do extra work.
They like to do fun work.
They don't want to do actual work.
It's not fun to harass a bunch of
kids over a drone.
Yeah.
When everyone's calling the kids flying a drone
over my house.
Yeah, we'll come by.
We'll take care of it.
Nobody likes that.
These cops don't even like domestic violence reports.
All right.
Well, you know, they'll pull somebody over for
speeding.
I think that's about as far as they
really want to go.
A bank robbery.
Oh, God.
What?
It's too much.
They got to write reports.
Give me a break.
This is no different from shutting down TikTok.
It's all for competition of other technology firms.
It's the same thing.
Well, with that, I'm not arguing that point.
I'm arguing the point that you think cops
want to do more extra work.
No, I didn't say that.
I said local law enforcement for a long
time has been asking for powers to police
drones that are flying around in their jurisdiction.
Where's the evidence of that?
It's in the bill.
Where's the evidence of that statement?
It's in the bill.
No, where's the evidence of what you said?
That local law, like my local cops in
Albany, for example.
I just played the clips where they said
we the local law enforcement.
The guys were saying it.
Local law enforcement wants jurisdiction over this.
It was in the clips I just played.
It was in but not from local law
enforcement.
That was from government.
OK, all right.
No, OK.
It wasn't a local.
You give me a local cop.
Give me a clip of a police chief.
All right, fine.
All right, fine.
It's then just it's all going to be
fine.
No change necessary.
This was only for military.
OK, that's fine.
I didn't say that either.
I'm just saying that you have this assumption
that local police departments want more work.
Local police departments want jurisdiction over drones.
That is in the bill.
It is a request.
Because it's in the bill doesn't mean it's
true.
OK, all right, fine.
OK, maybe they were just sniffing for nukes,
man.
It's in the bill.
People want it.
They've been calling for this.
I think it just goes back to trying
to cut off Chinese competition.
It's got nothing to do with local law
enforcement or anything else.
It's about DJI and the fact that there
that we have people in this country that
don't like Chinese competition.
That's true.
But I have researched this enough to know
that local law may not be the cop
on the beat.
But the local law enforcement, the sheriffs, the
police chiefs, they want whether they do something
with it or not, they want to have
the power, the territorial law enforcement of drones
in their jurisdictions.
That's very clearly set out.
And all the arguments have always included this.
And every single politician was saying it because
that's the only way that they could get
everybody on board with it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So they could screw DJI.
Yeah, true.
But I think that there's a lot of
drone stuff that cops deal with that they
would like to just be able to say,
knock it off, shut it down.
There's a lot going on with drones in
the country.
And so, yeah, maybe not the cop on
the beat.
I'm sure he doesn't want to deal with
any of this nonsense, but it's going to
happen.
And these sightings and everything is going to
die down within a week.
Well, that I'm not going to argue with,
but I still think this is really just
about the Chinese.
It's about Chinese competition, for sure.
For sure.
And do you...
Well, here's the question for the Baron Anonymous
cop.
If he is now forced to, for his
department to purchase an inferior product, a U
.S. inferior product, as he said in his
note over a Chinese drone, how do you
think he's going to feel about the kids
having better stuff?
It's going to irk him.
But he'll let us know because he listens.
I don't think it's going to irk him.
Man, you know a lot about cops.
Well, I've worked with a lot of cops
over the years.
Yeah, yeah.
You have standing.
You are a domain expert.
No, I have worked with a lot of
cops.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
So I'm just saying, I believe, based upon
what I have seen and my research and
the reading, that they are going to crack
down on any and all people flying Chinese
drones.
It'll be, in essence, like you can set
up a pirate radio station, but eventually they'll
come and get you.
And it's not just FAA, it's FCC.
They don't want you transmitting with these very
scary DJI drones.
So it's going to come down.
Hey, you want your funding?
Get rid of those drones.
Talking about non-drones, let's talk about Syria.
Wow, talk about a buzzkill.
All right.
Syria.
Syria.
We got to get to Syria.
Syria is the topic of more importance, it
seems to me, than trying to screw the
Chinese.
I know, but I just want people to
calm down.
We're not being invaded.
Scott Adams is like, oh, yeah, there's going
to be drone warfare over America.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
He just slashed that on the X.
We have to get that flip.
It was a post.
Drone warfare.
Well, yeah.
Over America.
Could happen.
Yeah.
It'll be the cop drones against the teenager
drones.
They're going to be dogfighting.
Let's go Syria.
It has been a historic week in Syria.
The first week in a half century that
the Assad family did not rule the country.
As rebels took hold of Damascus and Bashar
al-Assad fled to Russia, thousands of political
prisoners were released into freedom, and Syrian people
were dancing in the streets.
Morning Edition host Laila Fadl is in Damascus,
and she joins us on the line now.
Hey, Laila.
Hi.
What's Damascus like?
It's actually really hard to describe.
It's this place of extreme happiness.
People for the first time having a taste
of freedom, being able to tell their own
children what they really think, because this was
a country where people said the walls had
ears.
They were afraid even to speak freely at
home in case something was said at school,
for example, and that would put them in
prison.
Any type of criticism of the Assad regime.
And now people can speak freely.
They can chant.
They can dance in the streets to songs
that curse the Assad family.
And I want to talk to you about
Friday prayers at this historic Umayyad mosque in
the old city where there's the Salahuddin tomb.
And people just thronged inside.
Some who could never pray there because of
security reasons, scared that they would be taken.
And it was just thousands of people trying
to get into the prayer room.
We got ourselves in.
We're sitting among these thousands of people praying.
And at the end of their first Friday
prayer on what they're calling the day of
victory, the crowd burst into cheers.
It still gives me chills.
I've never heard anything like that.
But within this happiness, there is grief because
so many thousands and thousands and thousands of
people disappeared during this 14 year civil war
that started as peaceful demonstrations, was met with
violence and turned into civil war.
And so they're searching for their loved ones.
They're missing that went to prison and they
don't know where they are.
Some are finding bodies.
Some are finding nothing.
And the really lucky ones are finding their
people broken but alive.
Oh, wait a minute.
Let's just review this for a second, because
we've been on the Syria beat since the
beginning of this show.
Yep.
What I recall is Syria didn't want to
play nice with the West with some pipelines,
mainly to France.
They were, OK, we're just going to be
on Russia's side.
And then Western influences created a civil war
with all kinds of groups, all kinds of
military groups.
We had our guys in there, were Russian
in there.
And then the Syrians who were in these
regions, in these areas, they fled.
They fled to Turkey.
And then Turkey went, oh, this is great.
I can do all kinds of fun stuff
with these people.
Hi, I'm going to give a maps on
how to get to Sweden, how to get
to the Netherlands and how to get to
France.
This was all all political and all for
resources.
It was not a civil war that I
can recall.
If you remember during the and they said
the show's been on for our shows for
almost 18 years and this started 14 years
ago.
So we followed the thing from the beginning,
including the era of all the Hollywood celebrities
going over there.
Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie driving around among others
among.
Yes.
And and then we had remember Clooney had
the eye in the sky.
Keep my eye on these guys.
It was all it was all remember that
in the early days when there was some
when the civil war, as it were, there
was there was some skirmishes outside of the
area and they would send reporters into Damascus.
Yeah.
Do you remember Damascus?
They actually invited me to come and do
a podcast.
Do you remember this?
It was it's way back in the beginning.
Oh, I don't remember that.
They said, hey, we'd love for you to
come and interview some people and do a
podcast from Damascus.
They were going to send up tickets and
everything.
I decided against it.
This was the Arab Spring.
Come on.
This is this was a complete Western set
up over the pass through of oil.
It was the the towns Aleppo and Homs.
We talked about them endlessly.
It was.
Yes, we did.
But yes, Homs in particular.
But again, you had the pipeline map and
you were doing all this stuff.
But I didn't know that you had maybe
you should have done that.
But whatever the case, I chickened out.
I had the podcast to myself.
You had the control over the feed, man.
So if you remember back in the day,
they had they would they would send camera
crews into Damascus and it was business as
usual.
It looked like any Western city people were
roaming around and they were just have, you
know, it was normal.
It was like normal.
And people were stunned by the fact that
all this other action, barrel bombs and all
the rest was going on outside the city.
But now, according to this report, it wasn't
what it was imagined.
That never happened because people could now celebrate
and dance in the streets, which they never
could do before.
They could never do that before, ever.
This is bullcrap, this report.
It's twisting history.
It's a complete rewrite, complete rewrite.
And I think that as a service to
humanity, we're doing a pretty good job of
reminding everybody what really went down.
And this woman and then the thing that's
a kicker here is this.
Oh, they were afraid to go to the
mosque to pray because it would have been
picked up.
What?
No, no.
I mean, this is not true.
So the barrel bombs, which we never saw
any evidence.
Then it was the chemical weapons, which it
was an admitted fake.
Yeah, that was a fake.
And then, of course, that was an admitted
fake that was still rebuked and still brought
to the fore as a real event.
And then there was the actors and the
white hats.
I don't know if the white hats were
that involved there, but there were the actors
and the kids spewing up because they were
poisoned.
If you remember shaking.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
And there was there was real skirmish and
turmoil there because there were all kinds of
funded terrorist groups running around, some of which
the U.S. funded.
And most of it was to try and
thwart Russia.
And Trump did that, too.
Didn't we drop some?
Oh, Trump just sent some bombs because he
was all upset about the poor kids.
Yeah, blew up the airfield.
Yeah, yeah.
Trump was irked.
So he got he got into it, too.
So this so this is like a very
talking about the drone up.
This one is better.
In terms of, oh, it's as much more
significance.
Yes, it's more significant.
And it's and it's just a better job.
And these guys at NPR just cannot.
Can I can I give you 21 seconds
of Richard Engel just to give you an
idea of how of how how Hollywood they've
made this.
Listen to this.
There is one word I'm hearing over and
over again.
It is Haria Arabic.
You did that.
No, no, no.
And a lot of celebratory gunfire.
That is hit.
That's a honest to God report.
No.
Yes.
Yes.
No, we left it on that long.
What?
Yes.
Seconds of machine gunfire.
Yes.
Yes.
That is that is played again.
True report.
That is not not sweet, not edited.
There is one word I'm hearing over and
over again.
It is Haria Arabic.
Wow.
And a lot of celebratory gunfire.
And a lot of celebratory gunfire.
Yeah.
Emmy award winning stuff, I tell you.
He should get he should get a Pulitzer
or something for that incredibly in-depth, important
reporting at this hour.
Well, let's continue with this.
This is a Syria rundown to.
And it's also a city that's holding its
breath about what may come next because the
new authorities are unknown to them.
Right.
And let's let's turn to that because so
much emotion is being let out.
But there are a lot of questions about
the future with Assad now gone.
Who's in charge?
Yeah, I mean, the opposition, which is now
the de facto government, is being led by
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, an Islamist group that
was once linked to Al-Qaeda but broke
ties years ago and have sort of rebranded.
And now they've gone from ragtag fighters born
in a brutal war against Assad's regime to
the de facto government.
And now they're working on governing, securing the
city.
They've got checkpoints looking for weapons among civilians
because so many of the military bases just
opened up and people took weapons there.
They've got a transitional government for three months
and they say they want to focus on
Syria and rebuilding and they want to be
welcomed into the global community.
Oh, yeah.
The global energy community.
Sure.
All in.
You know, there was a story I was
reading about Assad and who was the the
French president at the time?
Not Mitterrand?
I can't remember if it was him.
I have to dig the story up.
But he was saying to Assad, he was
saying, look, we're going to do this pipeline,
we'll take 70 percent, we'll give you 30
percent.
And he said that to the translator.
Assad speaks fluent French.
And Assad said to the translator, tell the
guy to go F himself.
And then the French president said, oh, really?
Really?
You're going to play that way?
And one year later, the Arab Spring started.
I have to figure I have to look
and see which president it was.
But that's how that's how it went down.
That's what that's what it was.
Yeah.
Nonsense.
Makes sense.
Nonsense.
Clip three.
Have you met and talked to anyone from
HDS during your time in Syria?
Yeah, I mean, I've talked to a lot
of the rebel fighters.
I don't even know if we call them
rebels anymore because they're really the de facto
authorities.
And they're at these checkpoints all through the
city.
I was at the Air Force Intelligence Building
in Damascus, and I met this young rebel
who goes by Abu Mustafa.
He's from Idlib, which is in northwest Syria.
And he was a child.
He was 11 years old when the uprising
began against former President Bashar al-Assad's repressive
government.
And I just want you to hear what
he says.
So right there, he's telling me he was
11 when it started.
And three years later, he took up weapons
without the permission of his parents.
He ran away from home because he says
he had to defend his family, his land,
that airstrikes were destroying his city, killing his
people.
And so he decided he needed to fight.
And so this young man who's only 24
years old was fashioned under this kind of
brutality.
And today, these young people, many of whom
had really never been to Damascus, are now
in charge of securing the capital city.
I mean, Leila, that just gets to the
fact that this has been going on for
so long now.
The initial beginning of the end for the
Assad regime began in Arab Spring more than
a decade ago.
That is something you covered so closely.
Yeah.
You look at so many other countries that
changed leadership in very different ways during that
period of time.
You know, Assad dug in and stayed in
power.
But you saw the different directions that those
new governments went.
It was a lot of struggle.
What do you think that says about what
could come next for Syria?
Mm, struggle.
Well, this story about the kid, you know,
defending his whatever, is bullcrap.
So we can assume that.
And so they ask her about what, you
know, Arab Spring was basically a flop.
Yeah.
Or maybe not.
Maybe it wasn't a flop.
It did what it was supposed to do,
which was be a flop.
And her reaction to that question is kind
of interesting.
This is, I think, one of the last
or the last clip, maybe.
There hasn't been one true success story out
of this wave of uprisings at that time
in 2011.
Libya, they got freedom, lived with repression, but
turned into chaos and now are a divided
state with all these militias.
You look at Iraq, invaded and occupied by
the U.S. and then had its own
uprising and again is still struggling.
There's been internal fighting among the Syrian opposition.
It isn't united.
And if you look across the country, that
continues.
There are issues with the security vacuum.
Do foreign fighters, do ISIS take advantage of
this moment?
Are there counterrevolutionary forces?
So a lot could go wrong.
But Syrians hope that they are the exception,
that a lot could go right.
Good luck.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So that's basically telling us that.
Could be fine, could be fine.
That it's going to become a Sharia country.
Yeah.
And the women are going to be wearing
the, you know, the full outfits and the
whole thing.
That's what I was going to end up.
Does they all do that?
That's where they all end up.
So why is this going to be any
different?
No, none, none.
And they're shooting a gun in the air.
OK, great.
I have a report about Blinken because everyone's
just everyone's hanging out now.
Let's have a talk.
Let's have a meeting.
I love that rebels take over.
We're just here for a transitional period.
OK.
Joyous crowds gather outside a historic mosque in
Damascus, just under a week since rebel factions
ousted President Bashar al-Assad.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says
Washington is in direct contact with the rebel
group that has assumed power.
Blinken was at a gathering of Arab leaders
to help support Syria's rebuilding process.
Syria's changed more in less than a week
than in any week this last half century.
No one has any illusions about how challenging
this time will be.
But there's also something incredibly powerful at work.
A Syrian people determined to break with the
past and shape a better future.
The meeting of top-level diplomats in Jordan
is setting out its hopes and goals for
the new Syria.
It includes foreign ministers from Arab countries, Turkey
and representatives from the European Union and the
U.N. Notably absent are Russia and Iran,
the two main backers of the Assad regime.
Notably absent from all reporting is Qatar.
They're part of the bad actors here.
It's their gas that they want to send
through.
But you don't hear much about Qatar.
That's a good point.
That's never mentioned.
No, nothing about Qatar.
Well, are you done with Syria?
I think I'm done with Syria.
I just wanted to...
The point of the clips is that this
is just a hogwash.
Yes.
The minute Clarissa Ward is walking around, you
know it's hogwash.
Richard Engel, when that pops, come on.
Did you...
Clarissa Ward, somebody put this up on Twitter,
an old clip.
She was the one, if you can almost
remember this, where there was like some phony
baloneyed up report where she was in a
ditch.
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, she was lying down.
Lying down, giving a report.
Yeah, that wasn't that long ago.
No, it wasn't that long ago.
And then she gets up and then when
she gets up and they survey the scene,
there's people wandering around, walking around.
There's no reason to be...
Riding the bike, you know, grocery shopping.
I mean, this is like the guys that
report, you know, they're...
The hurricane.
The hurricanes or they're knee deep.
It looks like they're like up to their
waist in water.
Yeah, and then someone...
But they're actually on their knees.
And somebody walks by, you know, and behind
them.
I mean, we make light of it.
Obviously, it's not fun when you're there and
you talk to Israelis like, you don't know
what you're talking about.
You're making light of it.
He killed millions of people.
I'm sure millions of people were killed.
Millions of people get killed all over the
place.
But I don't know if it was just
the evil dictator Assad with his swanky bathroom
that we heard about from Richard Engels.
But we have something new.
You know, the Israelis that are...
There's people that are...
Mainstream media has propagandized the world as a
mechanism.
Yes.
And you'll get Israelis bitching at us for,
you know, kind of deconstructing this stuff.
The same as we will a lot of
left-wingers who occasionally listen to the show
and then they complain that we're biased.
Oh no, what are you talking about?
It's not just...
It's right-wingers who are like, you guys
are working for the Jews, you Zionists.
How many times I got to hear that?
Very coincidental you don't bring up Israel in
these things.
I'm noticing.
That's what you have to say.
Everyone is noticing.
The noticing is expanding.
Yes, the noticing.
The noticing.
Well, here's what I'm noticing is it's coming
to an end in Ukraine.
And everyone knows this has to end.
Everyone knows that there's going to be peace
talks.
And the Europeans are positioning themselves immediately.
It's a prospect that seems to have gained
traction in some circles.
European countries sending a peacekeeping force to Ukraine
if a ceasefire is agreed with Russia.
But after meeting with Emmanuel Macron in Warsaw,
the Polish Prime Minister insisted that his country
was not planning such a move for the
moment.
Their meeting came as several European foreign ministers
gathered in Berlin, also discussing backing for Kiev.
In a joint declaration, the officials underlined their
support for Ukraine on what they described as
its irreversible path to joining NATO.
So the best part of the announcements coming
out of Europe, now that Europe is in
complete shambles, they've depleted themselves of energy.
They've depleted themselves of manufacturing base.
France is literally broke.
They can't, you know, individual member states, what
used to be countries, can't print their way
out of any kind of situation because also
go through the European Central Bank, which is
run by the convicted felon, I think.
It was a felony.
What's her face?
Fifi Lagarde.
Now she's in charge of the European Central
Bank.
And it's a mess over there.
So when you need to kickstart the economy,
what do you do?
It's what we always do.
Every nation throughout history, we need to kickstart
the economy, let's turn to war.
And the way you can manufacture stuff that
gets blowed up.
So who better to catch the population down?
Who better to sell it than our friend,
our friend from the lowlands is here to
tell you what we must do Europe, because
it is not safe.
It is not safe.
We must be very careful.
Our deterrence is good.
It's good.
For now.
For now.
But it's tomorrow I'm worried about.
I'm very worried about tomorrow.
Tomorrow.
Tomorrow.
The sun will not come out tomorrow.
We are not ready for what is coming
our way in four to five years.
What could be coming in four to five
years?
I don't know.
Danger is moving towards us at full speed.
Danger.
Danger is moving towards us.
If full speed, life takes a long then.
Full speed five years is coming from a
very far place away.
We must not look the other way.
No.
We must face it.
What is happening in Ukraine could happen here
too.
It could happen here too.
Don't you understand?
And regardless of the outcome of this war,
we will not be safe in the future
unless we are prepared to deal with danger.
You must be prepared for danger.
We will not be safe.
What can we do about it?
How must we be thinking?
We can do that.
We can prevent the next big war on
NATO territory.
Okay.
And preserve our way of life.
How do we do it?
This requires us all to be faster and
fiercer.
Yes.
It's time to shift to a wartime mindset.
And turbocharge our defense production.
Wait, wait, wait.
The payoff is...
What a fanatic.
You, by the way, give yourself clip of
the day for pulling this one out.
Oh, man.
Oops.
Hold on.
What happened there?
Oh, a million things went wrong at the
same time.
I'm sorry.
Clip of the day.
Yeah, no, I'm taking it.
I'm taking it.
All right.
Listen to the kicker.
Listen to the kicker.
It's time to shift to a wartime mindset.
And turbocharge our defense production and defense spending.
Remember when they said we won't even have
a European army?
Now we have a defense production, a defense
military industrial complex, and collectively we have a
war mindset.
I want everybody to have a war mindset.
I have people in the Netherlands sending me
article after article after article about how to
prepare preppers, literal prepper articles in mainstream magazines
and newspapers in the Netherlands.
How you need to have water, what kind
of canned goods you need.
Because, you know, with the war mindset, it
could happen.
It is coming our way.
They are PSYOPing Europe.
Wow.
Big time.
It's, it's, it's, it's pathetic.
So I was watching this morning the France
24 reporting on what's going on in Germany
because their government's falling apart too.
Of course, it's, yeah.
Just like France.
And there was one mention, it hasn't gotten
too far yet, that Germany of all countries
is thinking, at least they're discussing, dropping out
of NATO.
Oh, I hadn't heard this.
Oh yeah, I heard that.
I said, holy mackerel.
Wow.
Because Germany, if you think about it, They
are Europe.
They are Europe.
Let's be honest.
Besides, they were Europe.
Yeah, yeah, good point.
They were the industrial powerhouse.
And they were really in the catbird seat
when they were getting free energy.
Free, cheap energy from Russia with the drink.
When, when Merkel and Putin were buddies and
they both spoke German and they both spoke
Russian.
And they were getting, the Germans were getting
pumped up with the energy, with the cheap
gas, with the pipelines.
And then they cut all that off and
they shut down their nukes.
And they did all this stuff out of
the blue.
And Germany just went into the tank the
way I see it.
And now they're thinking of getting out of
NATO, which may be the smartest thing they
could do.
It was a total destruction.
And it was completely avoidable.
It was on purpose.
I'm not quite sure why, other than let's
just, you know, let Cargill and Monsanto, I
guess that's, you know, Cargill and what's the
other big ag company I'm thinking of?
Yeah, Archer Midlands.
Yeah, these guys.
Let them, let them buy up all the
farmland, which is clearly happening all over.
You know, still continue to be, the Netherlands
is just the accountant's office and mailboxes.
That's, they don't do anything.
And of course, they have chemicals.
They have the taste and texture products of
all the fake, of all the fake food.
This is what nobody wants.
The fake food you're all going to be
eating.
It's, it's despicable.
It makes the bugs.
And what happened to Geert Wilders?
You know, he, it was the big, the
big revolt.
Oh yes, Geert Wilders, his party wins.
He brings in the ex-spook guy, the
ex-CIA, Dutch AIVD, the spy agency.
And, and what?
Now we hear nothing.
Quiet, everybody.
Get, just collect your water bottles for when
the Russians come.
It's true.
You know, you have to wonder who's really,
you know, is it us that is behind
really destroying?
I mean, we're never bad.
I don't think we we've ever been fans
of the EU, at least as a, as
a culture and as an economy.
We don't like the EU.
But we did blow up the Nord Stream
too.
I mean, I mean, you can say what
people can talk about.
Yeah, you can say what you want.
We had to be the ones.
Yeah.
So it's possible that the Europeans are so
stupid that they have been suckered into all
this stuff.
And the German example is the best.
And yeah, what are you going to do?
That was a worldwide phenomenon with the, with
climate change and the green economy.
And that's still going on.
It hasn't stopped.
No, but they've, they tried to make that
the new economy in Europe.
And that was the previous plan.
Now we're just screw it.
Let's just make it a war economy.
And good idea.
It's easier.
We know how to do it.
We know, you know, the Europeans have historically,
it's just a fluke that since World War
Two, there hasn't been like a conflagration in
within the boundaries of the, of what's now
the EU between countries.
Because they, for a thousand years, they've been
having these wars and fights and battles, a
hundred years war, the Prussian war, the Napoleonic
wars.
There's just one after the other just never
ends is what they, is their specialty.
So let it happen.
There's all kinds of scandals now coming out
about carbon credits.
People are starting to figure that out.
I think there was a German company who
was doing climate projects in China and they
basically just made nice PowerPoints and took all
the money for the credits.
You know, the boondoggles fall.
Oh, by the way, I got a note
from the oil baron.
North Dakota is declining.
Capital efficiency falling, meaning the wells are underperforming
due to lower production when drilling and fracking.
Depletion of the geologic zones is substantial enough
to cause us to pause drilling.
We drilled a couple months ago.
We just fracked them last week.
So far, zero results.
Well, that's not what we were in.
We were told that North Dakota's got more
reserves than the entire world.
Well, the oil baron says different.
We may have been misled.
No, drill, baby, drill.
It's going to be great.
Well, we'll see.
We have to go to Alaska, I guess.
Where else can we go?
Yeah, I was surprised.
I was surprised by that.
Thanks for that.
I was surprised by that report as well.
And I said, can I credit this to
you?
He says, yes.
I said, absolutely.
It's the truth.
Now, maybe not.
I mean, I can't think of any other
reason that is just true.
Is that the back-end field of North
Dakota?
I think maybe, yeah.
It's like half the state is supposedly rich
with frackable reserves.
Well, the thing that's really improved throughout the
years is the actual, the fracking technology has
improved the sensors and the camera, or not
cameras, but the way they can drill straight
through in horizontal fashion.
And we've had more technology to get the
compacted stuff out of the sand, basically.
There may be something else going on, too.
There was a report I was watching.
I was here at the house with Brennan,
Jay's husband.
And Brennan works for Chevron.
Oh, I didn't know this.
That's interesting.
Okay.
Yeah.
And so we have this camaraderie because he's
a chemist and I was a chemist at
Union Oil.
And there was a report on the Chevron,
all the, especially in Texas.
Chevron has wells all over Texas that were
never properly capped, dead wells.
And when a well goes dead, they have
to do certain things to the well to
make sure it just doesn't leak leftover oil
all over the place and make a huge
mess.
It's really a problem.
And they did a calculation of hundreds and
hundreds and hundreds of wells that are not
properly capped for permanent reasons or for permanent
purposes.
And to go back and do it right
will, according to the calculations, eventually bankrupt Chevron.
Well, that's why they said that bad.
Yeah.
They're cutting back by 10%.
Remember that what we heard is that the
investors, they don't want expansion.
They want cash flow.
They just want to throw money at us.
We don't buy back stock.
We want dividends.
We don't want any more expansion.
And so there's all kinds of problems going
on.
And maybe what's going on in North Dakota
has something to do with the problem with
doing when the well is over, you have
to close it properly and is not being
done right.
And is this a scandal?
I don't know.
I have to look into it more.
Well, in the meantime, let's say that we
have some issues with our oil, with the
drill, baby drill, not just with the quantities
available or frackable or whatever, but also with
the lack of interest of drilling new wells.
Then there's this from Doug Ford up there
in Candanavia.
Let's make no mistake about it.
As I as I mentioned to the prime
minister, the rest of the premiers, we need
to be ready.
We need to be ready to fight.
This fight is coming 100% on January
the 20th or January 21st.
We don't know what extent this fight is
going to go to, but we need to
line up everything that we're going to tariff.
We will go to the full extent, depending
how far this goes.
We will go to the extent of cutting
off their energy, going down to Michigan, going
down to New York state and over to
Wisconsin.
I don't want this to happen.
But my number one job is to protect
Ontario, Ontarians and Canadians as a whole, since
we're the largest province.
If he comes out and he mentions that
he's going to tariff everything, that's a big
problem.
It's a big problem for Canadians.
It's going to be a big problem for
Americans as well.
But we will use every tool in our
toolbox to fight back.
We can't sit back and roll over.
We just we just won't as a country.
It sounds like you're pretty confident these tariffs
are coming.
You don't think this is a cluster?
No, he's 100%.
These tariffs are coming.
We're going to have to go to war
with Canada.
Have to nuke Ottawa.
We've done it before.
Hey, we want that's our oil.
We're going to bring you some democracy, Canada.
You got a problem up there.
They haven't even cranked up.
I mean, they've been they've cut back on
what they can do up there in that
in Alberta, which is the oil producing province.
It's just spitting out of the ground.
There's some issues that are going to have
to be resolved in the next couple of
years, and Trump's going to be in the
middle of it.
Probably the best guy to be in the
middle of it compared to Biden.
Yeah, but so maybe all this windmills and
solar panels is because they knew that the
oil is.
Wait, we've hit peak oil.
It's finally here.
Peak oil.
We finally hit it.
Peak oil.
Yes.
All right, well, after that bad news.
Yeah, sorry.
Sorry to be the bearer of.
But, you know, we have to keep an
eye on this stuff.
Investors or we do have people that invest.
We might as well go to something.
Well, now I'm not going to do that.
Well, let me do some.
Let's go to buy.
I got Biden pardons.
Oh, yes.
This is good.
OK, Biden.
This is I get the best Biden pardon
clips.
I went to Jesse Waters because he's brought
a water.
I brought a waters clip today as well.
Oh, no, you're kidding.
Yes, I did.
I'm sorry.
He's he's, you know, I have to say
that over watching Jesse Waters primetime show that
they gave him that spot.
That was the prime creme de la creme
spot on Fox.
Yes.
And I have to say that he definitely
has the best writers.
He puts together a dynamite show.
It really works.
And he's pretty good at it.
And then he's got this Johnny characters, one
of his producers, who goes out on the
street and does what he used to do.
This is stuttering John.
And it's entertaining.
Yeah, it is.
It's really a pretty good show, I have
to say.
But Waters is he is not as a
presenter.
He he kind of overdramatizes and does one
too many asides is a little too snide.
But at the same time, the writers are
doing their job.
And so it does good work.
So he's going to go on about I
have two clips.
And this is the list of the best
of the best of the best pardons that
Biden gave out.
Biden got so much flack for pardoning his
felon son and lying about it that he
said, screw it.
I'm pardoning everyone.
The president dished out 1500 pardons and commutations.
He just broke the single day record at
a boy.
And Biden didn't just pardon dandelions who should
have never been locked up in the first
place.
He's letting out crack slingers, drug traffickers, some
of the most notorious fraudsters in U.S.
history.
One guy smuggled cocaine, heroin and ecstasy into
our country.
Another guy recruited drug dealers so he could
pump cocaine through American cities.
Not a great look, but a lot of
presence of pardoned nonviolent drug offenders, if you
can call that nonviolent.
Where Biden really went off the rails was
with white collar criminals who took bribes and
robbed taxpayers.
Now, that sounds familiar.
Biden commuted the sentence of Jimmy Damora, a
Democrat politician in Ohio, who was just locked
up for taking half a million dollars in
bribes.
And Jimmy didn't just take cash.
You could bribe him with trips to Vegas,
bribe him with prostitutes.
You could even bribe him with stone fired
pizza ovens.
Jimmy was running pay to play schemes.
If you lined his pockets, he'd give you
a nice government contract or jobs it raises.
He'd even interfere with court cases.
Biden let the guy walk.
I know what it is.
I know what it is.
He's a podcaster in a suit.
That's what he is.
He has a podcaster cadence.
He has the bit of the snideness of
Megyn Kelly.
He just wears a suit.
It's a funny analogy.
Yeah, there's a podcasting element to it.
Yeah, a podcaster in a suit, a suited
podcaster.
Well, here goes to the second part with
some other guys.
And there's a couple that you might remember,
especially the one that judge who sent poor
juvenile delinquents to this private prison.
Yeah, that guy.
That guy was great.
Biden also let off Paul Doggardas, a sleazy
little lawyer who cooked up a tax scam
that cost our government $1.6 billion.
Prosecutors called Paul the most prolific, pernicious, and
utterly unrepentant tax cheat in US history.
And a judge said this was the biggest
tax fraud prosecution ever.
And Biden heard that and said, let him
free.
Biden also let out Elaine Lovett, who used
an army of doctors to scam Medicare at
a millions of dollars.
And then there's Rita Crundwell.
She embezzled more than $50 million from a
small town in Illinois.
Biden's okay with that.
And he let out Michael Conahan.
It's a Pennsylvania judge that was involved in
the kids for cash scandal.
You ever heard of this?
This dirty judge gave thousands of kids harsher
sentences.
Yeah, it was great.
So they would be sent to for-profit
detention centers, which would then send kickbacks to
the judge.
Why would Biden help this guy out?
Here's the governor of PA.
I do feel strongly that President Biden got
it absolutely wrong and created a lot of
pain here in Northeastern Pennsylvania.
It also infected families in really deep and
profound and sad ways.
Some children took their lives because of this.
Families were torn apart.
Look, everybody makes mistakes and some people deserve
second chance, but these people took advantage of
the public's trust.
Why would we bail them out?
He missed the most important pardons of all.
That's bizarre.
Which one?
President Biden has granted clemency to three Chinese
nationals, including two convicted spies and a man
found guilty of possessing tens of thousands of
child pornography images as part of a prisoner
swap with China.
The clemencies, dated November 22nd, secured the release
of Americans Mark Swyden, Kai Li, and John
Leung, who were imprisoned in China on charges
ranging from espionage to drug-related offenses.
Among those pardoned were Yanjun Chu, a career
Chinese intelligence officer, and Ji Chaokun, a Chicago
-based spy linked to China's Ministry of State
Security.
Chu, extradited to the U.S. in 2018,
was convicted of targeting American aviation firms, including
GE Aviation, to steal trade secrets.
Ji was sentenced last year for espionage and
recruiting spies to obtain U.S. aerospace technology.
The third individual, Shanlin Jin, a former doctoral
student in Dallas, was convicted in 2021 for
possessing over 47,000 child pornography images.
This exchange follows heightened tensions over Chinese espionage.
In October, a congressional report criticized the Department
of Justice for insufficiently enforcing laws against Chinese
spying.
I mean, not the Chinese.
They just killed our spies.
This is never heard from him again.
He just let them go.
Lost a lot of spies.
He just lets them go?
That's underplayed.
Well, we did it.
I have Joy Reid.
Let's see what the, what the, let's see
what 12 people who are watching hers have
to heard this week.
With just five weeks left in office, President
Biden took a historic step today, commuting the
federal sentences of roughly 1,500 people and
pardoning 39 others convicted of nonviolent crimes.
It's the largest single day act of clemency
by a president.
It comes a little over a week after
the president pardoned his son Hunter and drew
criticism for not doing enough for other Americans.
The nearly 1,500 people are nonviolent offenders
who were placed in home confinement under COVID.
Today's act of clemency also puts President Biden
a little closer to the standard set by
his former boss, President Barack Obama.
On his last day in office in 2017,
President Obama set the previous single day record.
He commuted the sentences of 330 nonviolent drug
offenders.
President Biden said he will be taking more
steps in the weeks ahead and will continue
to review petitions.
Wow.
There's more to come.
More to come.
More to come.
It was pretty funny to hear my hate
listen, the uber liberals Schwisher and Galloway talking
about this.
Like, you know, it's all kind of good.
You know, he was right to pardon his
son and it's better.
You know, it's just the prison industrial complex.
It's just a way for rich prison owners
to make.
Well, I was going to get a clip,
but then I got distracted because of this
article that came from Bloomberg.
You ready for this?
Yeah.
Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway seek eight-figure
deal for Pivot.
Eight-figure?
Yeah, their contract.
So, yeah.
So that's at least 10 million.
Their contract with Vox is up this year.
And Scott Galloway is out there saying that
they do $10 million a year in revenue.
But they want to sell the podcast.
And I'm thinking if you really make 10
million a year in revenue, who needs Vox?
Sell it yourself.
Just take the money.
Something smells bad.
Wait, so they're making, they claim, to be
making $10 million off that podcast?
Yep.
Twice a week.
Oh, please.
Yeah.
Well, I think that's probably trying to promote
the, you know, someone will, some, I think
they want Amazon to buy it, you know,
like $50 million.
They take 25 each.
And then when Amazon finds out, they can't.
So if anybody, okay.
I wish them, there's no, like the old
saying goes, there's no sweat off our balls.
But it's like, if they can soak some
suckers, yeah, okay, good for them.
But do you think they really do 10
million on that show?
No.
Seems like a lot.
No.
And he says that...
I don't know anybody except you that listens
to that show.
The Prof G Show, he says, makes 6
million and is growing at 40% annually.
No, it's not.
And then he has a show with...
Do you know anybody personally?
We know a lot of people.
I know one person who makes a lot
of money with this podcast.
One, Joe Rogan.
That's the only one I know.
Joe Rogan, yes.
But Joe Rogan has big, he's known to
have big numbers.
He does, works his ass off.
He works every day of the week doing
the show, basically.
I guess he takes a day off once
in a while.
But it's different.
And he's been doing it for a long
time.
And he's got a personality that can handle
a show like that.
He's got, he has entertainment chops.
You know, he's got, you know, he's been
on TV hosting and acting.
These two people, one of them's got, you
know, there's just two stooges.
It makes no sense.
I know, but, you know, it's Bloomberg.
You know, I'm sure they check their sources.
Obviously, they check very well.
And here's a complicating factor.
Vox Media owns the Pivot feed and brand.
So they think that together, they can walk.
Wait, wait.
Are you telling me that to begin with,
they gave away, gave away, sold, or did
some deal where they lost the rights to
their own brand?
Well, that's what it says.
That shows you how dumb you are.
Nobody does that.
This is like the dummy contract in publishing.
The podcast, I'll sign it.
The podcasters are still waiting on specific offers
to come through.
Okay.
You think, you think that, you think this
is maybe a negotiating tactic with Vox?
Probably.
We're going to walk our $10 million revenue.
We're going to walk it.
It's us.
It's not, it's not you, Vox.
It's us.
Well, if Vox is bringing in $10 million
from that podcast.
Which, which let's say Vox thinks they are,
what are they paying those to?
I don't know.
They, they, they seem to have nice lifestyles.
They do?
Oh yeah.
No, he has homes in England.
Do they have private jets?
Is that what you're saying?
Galloway claims to fly private all the time.
I don't think he owns a jet, but
he flies private.
He has a home in Florida, two homes
in England, home.
He has two homes in England?
Yes.
One in, one in London and one outside
of London where I think near where, what's
her face moved?
The Cotswold.
The Cotswolds, Ellen?
Yeah, near Ellen.
Ellen and her wife.
Yeah.
And he's always flying off.
The guy, he made a lot of money
with, with some of his deals.
I'm sure he's, he's wealthy outside of podcasting.
I don't know about Swisher, but, but she
got a lot of that Google money from
her first divorce, didn't she?
She must've gotten something.
Yeah.
Anyway, now we could probably get a five
figure deal for this podcast.
We get a five figure deal.
Hey man, we're looking for offers.
Five figures, not a penny less.
And you get the feed with it.
We'll throw in the feed.
Although I have an exit strategy.
Our feed is worth more than 10 million.
Oh wow.
What's the exit strategy?
Oh, well, it's something that you're kind of
already good at.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What could that be?
AI influencers.
Yeah.
There's something called, it's, it's just 39 seconds
is really bad, but at least you get
idea.
It's the lush exchange.
And they help you put, I mean, you
got to see the video.
They help you put together with their AI
tools, your own influencer, which you can then
use on, uh, Oh, I see what you're
referring to Becky.
Welcome to the lush exchange, the Coinbase for
AI influencers, Instagram models, only fans, creators, and
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Well, now you can, the lush exchange will
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So you can build your influencers.
You can then list them like a, like
a, like a token.
So people can buy pieces of your, Oh,
it's a great idea.
I think.
And I love it because this is going
to fill everything with this slop.
What happened to the art tokens that were,
what was that about?
Remember that?
What would that short lived?
The art tokens?
Yeah.
Well, you draw art, NFTs, NFTs, NFC.
Yeah.
That is kind of, yeah, this is the
same kind of thing that keeps reinventing it
in different forms.
Yes.
But I, I, I think that scare a
manga that he will be a billionaire within
the next five years.
Well, scare a manga could be the one
because he definitely has the chops for it.
I mean, and just, just have you, did
you ever see that movie?
He did the video.
Yeah.
No, you didn't send me the link.
Okay.
You've got to see it because it's so
good.
Just imagine that with the influencer, you know,
and on only fans, are you kidding me?
I can be his agent.
No, you've got to listen.
I already set you up before that you
write the scripts that Dame Jennifer reads them
because that'll be the differentiator.
You've got a real, she's got the voice
for it.
You've got a real person to do the
voice and scare a manga does the, uh,
Hey, wait a minute.
Why am I giving you the exit strategy?
I need to be in on this deal.
We'll cut you in.
Okay.
Just for the idea.
You can be the manager.
I can be created by.
You and Brunetti.
Created by Brunetti.
Brunetti would, this would, he should be on
in on this too.
He knows smut.
It'd be great.
I'm telling you, this is going to be
a huge business.
We can put a team together.
It's probably already half of the influences probably
are already fake that are out there.
I mean, it's, it's, and it's going to,
it's going to ruin social networks.
It's going to be awesome.
Well, that would be a plus.
Yes.
That's why I'm trying to promote these influencers
that are out there.
And there's so many of them.
Yes.
They're all bogus.
Yeah.
You don't want, you want ones you can
control and they can dance.
They can, you know, walk around, show their
clothes.
They can do the makeup videos.
It's great.
This is guaranteed moneymaker.
And someone's going to be, we're all in.
We're in use the podcast to promote it.
Yes, we will.
We'll promote Becky.
I don't think Becky is a good name
though, for our influencer.
We have to have a different name.
We'll come up with better names.
Raven.
Wait a minute.
Where is my Raven?
We got since, since you brought her up,
let's let's play a Raven.
Here we go.
Raven.
Wait, that's not the best one.
Here we go.
We should resurrect club 33.
It's a member only subscription.
And then you can take the girls into
the private room for a dance.
It's like an influencer slash only fans.
Yeah.
It's I got a mile a minute, baby.
I got ideas.
I got.
Yeah.
You're you're on a roll.
You too.
How much can I make cups of coffee?
How many, how much coffee do you have
this morning?
Well, you know what?
It beats the gig that Chris Hayes has
because man, it must be rough to have
to shill so hard, so hard for your
big pharma overlords.
There is growing unease, even among conservatives over
Donald Trump's nominee to head the department of
health and human services.
Robert F.
Kennedy Jr. Just yesterday, an op ed published
in Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal urged Republican
senators to step up.
Hold on.
It's not Rupert Murdoch.
I mean, he's he's retired.
How could the guy is retired?
He's not running News Corp anymore.
Well, that's the same as as everyone saying
Soros is buying radio stations.
Soros is dead.
He's in the grave.
It's, you know, though.
George Soros, George Soros.
George Soros owns a winery out here.
He probably does.
So what?
It's not George.
He's not there.
Exactly.
It's not George.
He's not picking grapes or supervising anything.
Exactly.
Just yesterday, an op ed published in Rupert
Murdoch's Wall Street Journal urged Republican senators to
step up and save Trump from his own
Kennedy pick.
Basically, it was a bad political deal.
Just get him out of it by dinging
him.
Now, there are a lot of reasons to
oppose Kennedy's nomination.
Maybe the most obvious is that for years
he has been one of the most prominent
anti-vaccine activists in the country, and his
activism has left people sicker and worse off.
COVID-19 vaccines became available in 2021.
Kennedy was a leading voice spreading misinformation and
urging people not to vaccinate.
This is such such a rehash and rewrite
of history.
It's amazing.
Making ridiculous statements like that the coronavirus vaccine
was the, quote, deadliest vaccine ever made.
Multiple studies have found that he blew that
line.
Yeah.
Hundreds of thousands of Americans.
Do you hear what he said?
Let me listen.
Urging people not to vaccinate.
Making ridiculous statements like that the coronavirus vaccine
was the, quote, deadliest vaccine ever made.
The coronavirus was not a deadly vaccine.
Making ridiculous statements like that the coronavirus vaccine
was the, quote, deadliest vaccine ever made.
I didn't hear it.
He talks as he leaves.
He downplays certain words and it's just then
you just miss.
I missed it.
Well, I have to say up front the
the targeting they're doing now because and I
know you have.
I follow you now on Blue Cry.
I'm just going to say Blue Cry.
Everyone understands is blue sky.
I follow you there.
Did you see that?
I follow you now.
I don't I have.
I don't think I've posted one thing on
blue cry blue sky.
I searched for you and I followed you
just in case you don't post anything.
But I wonder if you've been looking lately
because I go on occasionally and you know
what they're doing now to target RFK Jr.
They have a new nickname for him.
No, polio, Bob.
Oh, this is thanks.
This is thanks to Warren.
Do you have Warren's clip?
I don't have it.
No, but let me finish this one.
Elizabeth Warren comes out and says, as we
were, he's wealthy.
He wants polio back.
Well, no, this is the this is the
thing.
Polly, but they're calling him some law of
large numbers.
They launched the polio Bob nickname.
It's all over Blue Cry.
And the polio thing is what they're targeting
him for.
Multiple studies have found that hundreds of thousands
of Americans could have lived had they been
vaccinated against the virus, could have lived, but
didn't.
Prove a negative.
Prove a negative.
It is negative that Kennedy's confirmation to HHS
would be dangerous to public health.
Why do so dangerous?
But I will admit I learned something new
every day.
I hadn't realized just how bad it could
get.
Today, a new reporting from The New York
Times, we learned that Kennedy is interested in
giving the top legal job at HHS to
this guy, Aaron Siri.
Siri is an attorney who has done millions
of dollars in legal work for anti vaccine
organizations.
He is also, according to both Times and
Politico, been helping Kennedy pick top federal health
officials in the administration.
Like that's the guy getting the resumes.
Oh, oh.
And in 2022, he petitioned the government to
revoke its approval of the polio vaccine.
Oh, no.
Yes.
The polio vaccine, the vaccine that for decades
has protected millions and has virtually limited in
this country a virus that can cause paralysis
and death.
The outrage over the news has been both
widespread and bipartisan.
Republican Senator Mitch McConnell, a polio survivor, issued
a statement tonight reading in part the polio
vaccine has saved millions of lives and held
out the promise of eradicating a terrible disease.
Efforts to undermine public confidence and proven cures
are not just uninformed.
They're dangerous.
Anyone seeking the Senate's consent to serve in
the incoming administration would do well to steer
clear of even the appearance of association with
such efforts.
It's unbelievable how these guys have to show
for the pharma companies when the when if
you look at the real evil, the real
evil is in this report.
With this deal, McKinsey and company will pay
$650 million to settle a federal investigation into
their work tied to the opioid epidemic.
McKinsey is an international consulting firm.
They were being investigated for their role in
helping Purdue Pharma sell Oxycontin and other painkillers
fueling the drug crisis.
The CDC has linked opioids to the deaths
of more than 80,000 people last year.
Federal investigators say McKinsey worked with Purdue Pharma
to turbocharge their sales.
At the time, there was concern among doctors.
Oxycontin was being abused.
So Purdue's sales went down.
Prosecutors say McKinsey advised Purdue to target sales
to high volume prescribers, including those who are
prescribing the drugs for reasons that were unsafe
and medically unnecessary.
That often led to drug abuse and addiction.
The FBI says McKinsey would even do ride
alongs with Purdue so they could get even
more scripts written with this financial agreement.
The $650 million McKinsey avoids prosecution in the
criminal and civil investigation.
And McKinsey is accepting responsibility for their conduct
in a statement.
The company says they are deeply sorry as
a part of the agreement.
They will not do any work related to
marketing or selling controlled substances.
They should close that business down.
And then this just popped up.
That's a good clip to get, by the
way.
Yeah, it's not you're not going to be
many of them.
Yeah, you're not going to hear that on
Chris Hayes' show.
So we were we've, you know, we were
talking about RSV for quite a bit about
what was that?
Was the beginning of this year when they
really started rolling that out?
Or was it last year around?
It was last year.
Last year, RSV.
And you said you never heard of RSV.
That's what I'm the first thing when I
start cropping up.
That's the first thing I said.
I never heard of this.
I'm old.
So Moderna has halted its RSV clinical trial.
In September 2024, Moderna announced that the clinical
trial.
I thought this was all maybe they weren't
the one selling it.
But its clinical trial of its mRNA vaccine
for respiratory syncytial virus RSV in children age
5 to 24 months was halted abruptly.
The clinical trial conducted in the UK and
other countries ended after alarming data suggested that
vaccine might not just fail to prevent severe
RSV disease, but could potentially worsen it.
This week, the Food and Drug Administration disclosed
that vaccinated children in the trial experienced higher
rates of severe RSV compared to those in
the placebo group up to three times as
many.
Yeah, oops, is right.
Oops, oops.
Well, that that brings us to the McCullough
clip I have.
OK, you got a McCullough clip and we
like McCullough.
I'm looking at the clip is called Vax
and autism is a longer clip than usual,
but it's damn good.
It's McCullough and he's on some some.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
This has been debunked.
Vaccination doesn't cause autism that's been debunked.
Dvorak.
Play the clip.
What we've learned is this childhood vaccine schedule
is not what we thought.
And now critically looking at it, we have
a situation that we just learned that the
World Council for Health now international body is
calling for a complete moratorium on childhood vaccines.
First international organization to call for that.
Why?
Because the vaccines are piling up one after
another.
They're being given in multiple salvos.
There are safety events now that we learned
in 1986, the U.S. passed legislation that
indemnified the manufacturers of vaccines in that legislation.
It says the vaccines have unavoidable harm.
It says that.
So what are the harms that we're seeing?
It's clear when the vaccines are given in
multiple rounds.
It's probably not no single vaccine and no
single additive, but it's the sum total of
vaccines given at once.
We're seeing a strong signal towards neuropsychiatric disorders.
So attention deficit disorder, Asperger's, autism, seizures, allergic
diseases, asthma, atopic dermatitis, need for termination, sudden
infant death syndrome.
And then the converse.
Now, this is the converse, which is papers
by Mawson, Hooker, Miller, Thomas and an older
Amish study.
All five studies show if children go natural,
no vaccines whatsoever.
They have the best outcomes, freedom from these
things.
And, you know, when I was a kid,
the rate of autism was one in ten
thousand.
Where was this before we continue?
Where was this on on Bitchute?
It was no, this was on some TV
show.
That was a local TV show that was
a bunch of women.
Wow.
It was played someplace or other and it
got picked up and got passed around.
It wasn't a podcast, I don't think.
It was slick.
It was like one of those morning shows
in Cleveland or something.
Who do we get?
We got some anti-vax, dude.
Bring them on.
It's fun.
Whoa.
What?
Salvos of vaccinations?
Now it's one in 36.
And there's about 200 published manuscripts showing it's
an immune system dysregulation.
One in 36?
One in 36.
One in 36.
The immune system dysregulation that, you know, in
a reactogenic phase of the vaccine, sometimes with
a febrile seizure, the inflammatory factors go into
the brain, probably permanently change it.
And the vignettes, the mothers tell us that
the child was fine up until the time
they took multiple rounds of vaccines and then
they developed autism.
Those vignettes are almost certainly correct.
We can't pin it down to any single
vaccine, but I'm telling you, in total, it
doesn't look good.
This epidemic of autism is a tsunami.
And you know how many, many mothers now,
recent Kaiser Family Foundation survey shows, you know,
about a third of mothers and young fathers
going natural.
I was telling a friend of mine who
was, he says, we were texting and a
taxi driver quote or something came up and
he said, you know, I'm so sad about
Bobby De Niro, that they got him, that
he turned into such an idiot.
And I said, you know, I have hoped
for Robert De Niro because he did that
vaccine autism documentary that he got pressured into
pulling from his own Tribeca Film Festival.
It was about his own kid.
You remember that?
Yeah, vaguely.
I have, I have a feeling he will
redeem himself and come back and say, you
know, I got screwed on this deal.
My kid got screwed on this deal.
And, and that documentary will come back.
In fact, with Hot Luigi and everything people
are starting to understand now about how the
system works, I think we can make a
couple of predictions.
First of all, as you rightly pointed out,
they want, they want, Big Pharma wants to
just run everything.
They want their own telemedicine, which will all
be driven by AI.
And it will be all ozempic.
GLP-1, it solves everything.
You got a broken leg?
Here, have some ozempic.
I mean, this, I have a, I think
I have a couple of clips on this
later.
This thing is like GLP-1.
Oh no.
It's like, it's, it's better for your blood
pressure.
It's better for your heart rate.
It's better for your, for your kidneys.
It solves diabetes.
Your every, everything's going to be solved with
ozempic.
And a producer reminded me that this, it's
not going to be Medicare for all.
The term that you used to use a
lot, single-payer healthcare, that's the target.
Because that, that can be a UnitedHealthcare pivot.
They could become single-payer healthcare.
But I think we will see, we will
say at one point, where were you during
the healthcare riots of 2025?
This has BLM stuff written all over it.
If they can, now the drone stuff kind
of interrupted it, but we may have some
more interesting developments where people start to talk
about how bankruptcies are mainly caused in medical
debt.
I mean, there's all this stuff that people
are, it's now okay to talk about it,
even in the hallowed halls of Congress.
And in fact, here's another drug.
Not on the Chris Hayes show.
Well, no one's watching.
They lost all their viewers.
No one, this is, this is a topic
for podcasts.
Podcast is where it's at now.
We'll wrap up this clip.
Well, this clip is from another sketchy vaccine
that we just identified as sketchy because it
made no sense what they were selling to
us.
And that is the HPV.
The HPV vaccine, which launched during the show,
we saw the marketing, they were going through
freshmen dormitories.
I'm sorry, is my clip done?
Your clip was done, yeah.
Oh, I thought there was a little kicker
at the end.
No, we played the whole thing.
Okay, sorry.
I'm sorry.
No, no, we played the whole, it was
two, two minutes and 38 seconds.
What did you think the kicker was?
So the kicker was, he said that there
was some studies that showed that about the
kids that didn't get any vaccine.
Yeah, no, he said that.
No, he, that was, that was in there.
The, the Amish.
Yeah, well, I know, but I thought he
said it twice with a, with a second,
with some studies.
It's my fault.
That's okay.
So we remember.
The HPV thing was a joke.
They were hanging bags, goodie bags on doorknobs
of freshmen girls in colleges.
I mean, it, it was so, um, I
don't want, people were very skeptical of it,
but now we have finally, after 10 years.
Well, wasn't some politician or wasn't it Rumsfeld
or somebody, one of these?
Oh, Rick Perry, Rick Perry, Rick Perry.
He was all for it.
He was the one that was pushing it.
It wasn't one of them.
Big investor.
I don't remember that.
But here we go.
Finally, after 10 years, we have the results.
The results are in of the HPV vaccine.
So researchers at MUSC have been studying cervical
cancer for nearly 10 years, looking at cervical
cancer cases and what can be done to
improve the HPV vaccination rates in the community.
Now, the study, like you mentioned, is groundbreaking
for the public health community, because it's the
first time researchers are seeing a decline in
cervical cancer deaths.
Now, what do you think the decline is
in these cervical cancer deaths?
I have no idea.
They'll give you absolute numbers, not just percentages.
Oh, good.
Real numbers coming.
Now, it's focused on women younger than 25
years old and is the first group to
likely have benefited from the HPV vaccination.
I was able to speak with one of
the co-leaders on the study.
He says each year in the US, they
identify nearly 12,500 cases of cervical cancer
and 4,000 cervical cancer deaths.
He also shared the benefits, the direct benefits
of the vaccination.
The most important benefit is whether the vaccine
has led to prevention of cancer and whether
the vaccine has ultimately led to prevention of
deaths caused by cancer, cervical cancer deaths.
So we estimated cervical cancer death rate in
the US among the first birth cohort who
is likely to have benefited from HPV vaccination.
And what was amazing is that in last
six years, there was 62% drop in
cervical cancer mortality.
That's 15% per year decline.
15 people?
What a success.
I'm so glad.
Remember the girls who were walking backwards and
had tics and all kinds of odd stuff
happening to them?
But hey, we saved 15 girls from cervical
cancer.
Scam.
Well, not only that, but that's probably statistically
not even important.
No.
But how could this even be put in
the marketplace without knowing its success rate?
Isn't that what's...
Well, the answer is there's no downside.
The answer is getting Kennedy in.
Yeah.
Polio Bob, bring him in.
Polio Bob's got to go in.
I can't believe that they're...
Well, good luck.
Because I still think that Trump can always
hold over...
Because he wants to get these guys in
because he got screwed the first time around
by having his Washington elites tell him who
to put in and get people like John
Bolton working for you, who's just there to
stab you in the back.
So he's going to go out of his
way to get these guys in, it seems,
including Hegseth.
And he's going to hang over...
I know he can hang it over the
heads of these drug companies and just say,
look, Kennedy goes in or I'm going to
do an executive order and I'm going to
pull the plug on advertising of prescription drugs,
which is the only country that does it.
And he can do that with an executive
order.
And that is a huge threat.
There is an interesting little twist to all
of this.
And it came up in a strange way
on The View because Whoopi Goldberg was trying
to say, you know, Elon Musk is a
horrible person.
But yet Elon Musk is all for Ozempic.
There could be a White House drug war
brewing over anti-obesity meds like Ozempic.
Health Secretary nominee R.F.K., Jr. has
railed against that.
Is she like laughing?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, she's so funny.
Health Secretary.
She's a comedian.
Nominee R.F.K., Jr. has railed against
them, claiming America's addicted to drugs and weight
loss should come from diet and exercise.
Oh, no exercise.
But Elon Musk, nominee for the just made
up Department of Government Efficiency and the actual
real VP wants to expand.
Yeah, you heard me.
Wants to expand access, saying nothing would do
more to improve the health, lifespan and quality
of life for Americans than making the drugs
affordable for everyone.
Oh, this could be a White House showdown.
But wait, Whoopi, give us a native ad.
Now, most yeah, most Americans agree with Elon
Musk.
But, you know, the question is, who's the
boss going to side with?
But I just want to throw this out.
I'm going to say you don't know.
You don't realize what you do to people
when you say stuff like that, because it
doesn't work for everybody.
And I'm going to show you, sir, because
I weighed close to 300 less than two
years ago.
Yeah.
And without the Majoro, this would not have
happened.
Take it on.
What happened?
She weighs 290?
Whatever.
There you go.
And I try to tell everybody, listen, this
worked for me.
This may work for y'all.
You cannot take it out of people's hands
if it can help.
Because if we can keep people healthy.
Yes.
If we can get rid of diabetes, if
we can get rid of all of the
things, cardiovascular, what's wrong with trying to do
that?
Cardiovascular, cardiovascular.
Wow.
Wow.
So they don't have to fire Whoopi.
She'll drop dead from some horrible kidney disease
if she keeps this up.
Well, she's definitely toeing the line now with
that promotion.
I have a clip of those epic.
It's kind of it's got it's from NPR
called the Doc Doc clip.
Oh, OK.
The popularity of obesity drugs is on the
rise.
And the report from ZocDoc.
They're really pushing to get this into Medicare,
aren't they?
They're really pushing.
Yeah, they're going all out.
Oh, yeah, there's a lot riding on this
NPR.
The popularity of obesity drugs is on the
rise.
A new report from ZocDoc, the online platform
for booking appointments, shows patients are asking their
doctors about them more and more.
NPR's Sydney Lubkin has more.
ZocDoc, an online scheduling platform, says a lot
more patients are booking consultation appointments with their
doctors to ask about semaglutide.
That's the active ingredient in blockbuster obesity drug
Wigovi and type 2 diabetes drug Ozempic.
ZocDoc says there were 53% more of
these appointments in 2024 than in 2023.
The company's data showed some insights.
For instance, ZocDoc says the day Oprah did
a special about Ozempic, it saw a bump
in appointments.
More weight loss consultations were also virtual compared
with most other ZocDoc appointments, which are in
person.
The report has its limitations, however.
ZocDoc doesn't show whether patients were able to
get and fill their prescriptions for these drugs.
I tried to register DocDocGo.com, but it
was already taken.
What a great name.
That would have been great.
DocDocGo.
What a great name.
Yeah, but this will be, this is the
final solution.
It's everybody gets their, go to DocDocGo and
you get your GLP-1, you get your
Ozempic or Monjaro, whatever.
And there'll be a whole, you know, you
can choose from which one you want.
Death is bound.
And it'll, it'll solve everything.
It cures all.
It cures a single payer healthcare, no doctors.
By the way, so we, because Tina helps
at the organization, we went to the annual
Tannenbaum Ball here in Fredericksburg.
This is the elites of the Hill Country.
The Hill Country has its elites.
Oh, it has its, oh, there are more.
And why is it called Tannenbaum?
Is that from the song?
Yes, because it's a German town.
Oh, Tannenbaum, oh, Tannenbaum.
Is that one?
Yes.
It's a German town.
Tannenbaum is the den, you know, the, the,
the, the pine needles, the pine tree.
Yes.
The Tannenbaum Ball, which is for the Fredericksburg
Historical Society.
And so we were invited to go.
I, you know, Tina helped out with some
of the committees, some of the women's.
She's really, she's very good at, very good
at organizing, helping these organizations.
And so the big talk, the big, now
I would say most of these people are
a little bit older than we are.
Some a lot older, but you know, okay.
It was, I mean, the kind of people
like oil people, patent attorneys, you know, the
people who've.
Hot shots.
Hot shots.
Yes.
Who have run away from Houston, Dallas, and
have all come to live.
And, oh, Austin for sure.
They all live here now in the Hill
Country.
The big talk, and I was baffled.
The big talk, everyone said, yes.
Oh, President Trump is going to put one
of these in every single hospital.
This is, it's, it's the cure-all.
Have you heard of the med bed?
What?
Have you heard of the med bed?
Med.
Ved.
Med bed.
My med bed.
Mike echo Delta Bravo echo Delta.
No.
The, oh, it's everyone's talking about the med
bed.
You lie down on the med bed.
It heals your DNA.
Your limbs grow back.
Your cancer goes away.
It's all done with frequencies.
It is, yes, John, I couldn't believe what
I was hearing.
I'm like, are you serious?
Do you really believe in this?
Now, of course, if you look at the
med bed online, apparently, John F.
Kennedy is still alive.
He's being kept alive on a med bed.
But this is, it's.
Why does he need to be kept alive
on one of these things?
If he's alive.
The whole thing is bull crap.
Well, obviously it's bull crap.
But I was just so surprised.
Everyone's like, oh, yeah, the med bed.
Yeah.
President Trump is going to put one in
every single hospital.
It's going to cure everything.
I'm like, these are again.
Patent attorneys.
Hot.
Yeah.
They're all the elites.
The elites.
I didn't know what to say.
I'm like, well, this is the same.
You know, you're in a crowd of people
that they're gullible, obviously a credulous.
And it's the same group that said that
there was what was the powers going to
go off on the day of the election?
That was a different group that, you know,
that was a different group.
There's a group.
She got there.
We got lots of groups here.
So this group, I'm telling you, I'm having
the best years of my life.
Yes, correct.
You need to come visit.
We have a guest bedroom.
It is the best place to be in
the world.
It's amazing.
And I can sit there and say, you're
crazy.
And they'll go, maybe, you know, they don't
care.
They don't care.
They love me.
And we love them for the same reason.
Now, you know, yes, some of the, you
know, the grids going down, you know, that
that group is here, too.
But this was an expanded group.
And I was just blown away by that.
I'm like, polio, Bob better bring in the
med bed.
You know, that's that's what's going to who?
Whoopi.
Whoopi.
We can sell one to Whoopi.
Lay on this every single night.
You'll lose weight.
Well, this is based on the thesis that
certain sound waves can have harmonics that will
destroy certain cells, which is true, which is,
you know, this is known.
Yeah.
But there's no generalized anything like that.
They go online.
Oh, there's all kinds of clinics now that
have med beds and you get frequency.
I'm sure there are.
You lay down another.
Here you go.
And I give me give me here.
Lay down.
Don't do anything and give me money.
And once again, we miss a fine exit
strategy.
We are the biggest losers.
Yeah, well, that's because we're not scammers.
With that, I'd like to thank you for
your courage in the morning to the man
who put the sea in the kids for
cash.
Say hello to my friend on the other
end.
The one, the only Mr. John.
In the morning, all ships and sea boots
on the ground feeding the air subs in
the water and all the dames and all
the nights out there in the morning.
All right.
We have 2366 at the peak.
I say we're above average.
No.
We're below Sunday.
Oh, that's right.
It's a Sunday.
This is down 100.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
We're down 100.
Yeah.
Minimum.
Yeah.
Well, I think so.
Everyone wanted to tune in to make sure
that they knew all about the drones.
Drones.
No one cares about hot Luigi.
Poor guy.
He's over.
He's done.
By the way, I do have the bonus
clip right now.
We can play it now.
These who you demanded.
Oh, well, you're the gay clip.
Where's the gay clips about Luigi?
It's the top clip.
This is the guy.
This clip.
Wait a minute.
I demanded the gay clips.
Is that how you're positioning this now?
Yeah.
I've demanded TikTok clips.
Well, I think you're right.
I did.
But the right kind.
Let's see.
So this is about this.
This is I have to set this up,
though.
OK, this is a guy who's it's better
to view this clip.
You can do it's around as always, but
it's a guy dressed up in a McDonald's
outfit with a microphone thing.
And he's like he's taking orders from the
from the he's got the he's got the
headset on and he's like and he's and
he he's very flamboyant gay and he is
taking these orders and he looks up and
he sees it's Luigi at the counter, which
is, by the way, is not the way
this works.
But he's Luigi's in front of him.
So he starts to make a pass at
Luigi and and it goes from there.
Welcome to McDonald's.
What can I get for you?
Excuse me one second, ma'am.
Yeah, one second.
Oh, my God, you've created quite the stir
online.
Yeah, you have.
Everybody's looking for you.
Yeah, wow.
You are gorgeous.
Is it true?
You're six to.
OK, well, if you need a place to
stay, here's my address, phone number and Social
Security.
And of course, my keys.
Yes.
Wow.
OK, well, be safe out there and I
will be showing you my happy meal later.
I will.
I will.
So get ready.
Wow.
Ma'am, calm down.
No, you calm down.
I just found my future husband.
Yeah, I know.
Oh, man, it's it's kind of interesting how.
Mainstream and with that, I don't just mean
Frau Ingraham, but also Megyn Kelly and others,
they're incense that people are, you know, are
are making hot Luigi into a hero.
They they they they're beside themselves because they
I think somehow they want to put.
I wonder what the sincerity level is, because
they have to understand it.
Now, this is the point they don't.
I don't think they understand.
I think they are.
These people have health plans.
I'm you know, we're on like some crowdsourcing
thing.
You are.
Yeah, I'm on Medicare.
So screw y'all.
Yeah, I'm you know, Tina is sad, actually,
because in a couple of years she gets
kicked out of the crowd crowd health and
then she has to go on Medicare and
so that, you know, you can't be on
the crowd health anymore.
She's sad because she loves it.
They're even giving her three hundred dollars for
preventative for everybody.
They don't.
And this only pays two hundred a month
or something.
Back to Megan and the and the and.
Yeah.
Frow, yes.
I watched this, too, and they all they're
there.
They're there.
It's almost like I don't believe that they
are as sincere as it.
Or in the maybe in denial, I'm not
sure what it is, but it does make
a lot of sense to anyone who has
a clue.
Well, this guy would be perceived as a
hero.
I find it very interesting, somewhat bizarre that
a lot of these big, big podcasters are
like, oh, how can you say?
I think I think their default is like,
you know, they they only think in left
and right and liberal and conservative.
That's their whole shtick.
And they can't place this into a universal
issue amongst people.
And and that's just their default is just
to go for liberal.
They don't care.
I want to kill people.
Is something off about it?
But but you've noticed it too good.
It's not just me.
Yeah, I've noticed it.
And I find it kind of distressing because
their inability to understand the mechanisms.
I mean, I I'm not on the side
of the people that extol this guy is
as great some sort of great hero.
But I can objectively understand where they're coming
from.
It doesn't it doesn't I'm sure not shocked
by it.
I'm not shocked by Taylor Lorenz or anybody
else saying, oh, yeah, this guy is great.
You know, exactly.
Here's another one.
Yeah, another one.
Exactly.
Yeah.
He's another one.
It's if I can't believe it, I can't
believe it.
Really?
You can't believe it.
You don't I mean, you don't understand that
you pay fifteen hundred dollars a month and
you have an eight thousand dollar deductible.
You don't understand that.
That's a problem.
And you have to call and follow up
and fax.
So he was a married man with kids
and a wife.
Well, yeah, I mean, I don't know that.
OK, well, yeah, that's true.
But how many murders take place with it?
Just new random murders every year like Oakland,
for example.
And these are family men.
Nobody.
That's the main point.
That's no one's complaining about that.
Nobody complains about the poor black guy was
shot dead in the street by some random
drive by.
No, no, no.
But this is like a big deal.
OK, by the way, I want to remind
everybody that this Thursday we will have a
special best of no agenda put together by
Strokey Bill, I believe is his nickname.
And we debated about this because he put
this together a while back.
And I want to say six or eight
months ago.
And I wasn't sure that I liked it
as a concept because he put together and
he's pretty good at editing.
He put together a it's two parts.
I think it's total probably about three hours
and it's sequential.
It is all of the lies and the
gaslighting of Covid.
And I didn't think I would like it.
I'm like, I'm kind of bored of it.
Yeah.
You didn't want to run it.
You wanted us to do something else.
I didn't want to run it.
And then I listened to it.
And with no agenda hindsight, it's amazing.
You just sit there and go, oh, my
God, listen, listen to what they do to
all the things.
Right.
I mean, when you hear the free fries
and a hamburger again and all that stuff.
Oh, yeah.
Especially with the Blasio eating a burger.
Yes.
Munching on fries in front of the camera.
And it actually it evoked one of these
and get a shot.
Have one of these.
It evoked emotion in me.
Like, I cannot believe I mean, I know
it because we live through it.
And we we I mean, I want to
say we fought, but we mocked it.
And we said this, we mocked it.
We mocked it.
This is nuts.
But now just hearing that all over again,
it's like it is truly pathetic.
What they put us through truly pathetic.
So anyway, so we'll have a best of.
That's because I'm traveling, going to the wedding
or something.
No, it's what's my brother in law's 60th
birthday.
And we're staying in Italy.
And so we're staying through Christmas.
I will be doing the show the day
after Christmas, I think.
What?
When is Christmas is on the 26th.
Wednesday.
Wednesday.
Yeah.
The day after Christmas.
Yes.
And I'll be doing the show on Sunday.
So so Thursday will be a best of
that's the best I could do.
Yeah, you're traveling.
I'm traveling.
It just there's no other way to do
it because you lose a day.
And we never miss a show.
We have never in almost 18 years skipped
or run a rerun or anything.
We always produce something new.
Yes, somebody or we or somebody else produces
something that is valuable.
Yeah.
And this is what we this has been
our policy.
And I believe this to be a value.
We haven't run into any situation where we
lost power that day or, you know, any
screwy thing.
Well, we did have one time where you
actually lost power.
And I played songs for about three hours.
And then you came on.
I think we still did the show, didn't
we?
That wasn't that long.
A couple hours.
It was for it was a bit.
Well, whatever the case, we did the show.
We still did.
We're still done on that day.
Yeah, still did.
Yeah, still did a show.
So it'll be good.
It'll be good to listen to.
You might you might get a little worked
up over it.
And it's like it's a horrible, horrible people.
And there's people that you've forgotten about who
you need to remember.
You know, passport, vaccine, passport, people, a lot
of lot of bad actors.
And also weak.
This is weak, weak people who buckled right
away for whatever.
That's everybody.
Well, I mean, but leaders and elected representatives
who buckled.
Trump buckled, buckled.
Anyway, those trolls who are here with us,
they're in trollroom.io and they are on
the modern podcast apps, which you definitely want
to get because you're going to see podcasts
going away.
They are on the podcast index, which does
not deplatform anybody.
And it has a whole bunch of extra
features, including immediate, almost immediate notification within 90
seconds when we publish.
And of course, the live stuff, which is
it's new.
It's you know, we're working on a new
thing where you can have with a live
podcast, you can have a playback of the
troll room.
I thought that was kind of a cute
idea.
So when you're so if you if you're
listening to the podcast after it's already been
done, you can read along what the trolls
are saying in the troll room in synchronized
fashion.
OK, OK.
You're underwhelmed.
I can tell.
Yeah, it's kind of it's like a studio
audience that talks back.
I mean, you can see what I see
and be fine.
We run everything here, though, on value for
value, which means we put this out as
we have been doing for over 17 years
as a public service to you.
We don't put any restrictions on how you
access it, why you access it.
There's no no Apple Store tax, no Google
Play tax, none of that.
No, we just we just let you have
it.
And all we ask for in return is
that you support us with your time, your
talent or your treasure.
And one of the many ways that people
support us is well, boots on the ground.
I mean, wow.
We have some of the best producers in
the business hands down who tell us exactly
what's going on in their field of expertise.
They are true domain experts.
Unlike a lot of what you'll get on
on mainstream media or even on social social
media.
You never know where those people are coming
from.
These people are pre-approved by us.
And then we have the artists and the
artists come in many fashions.
We have people who hand draw art.
We have people who still use old school,
some tablets, Wacom tablets.
Maybe even you think there are a few
who use a Wacom tablet.
Others use modern pad tablet like things with
with electric pencils.
And then there's the prompt jockeys.
And it was an interesting conversation we had
about the previous episode as we were looking
through the art at noagendaartgenerator.com because there
was a lot wrong with this art.
But it proved to us that it's still
about the concept.
It doesn't have to be perfect.
It's the concept that matters.
Yeah, that that piece had a lot of
AI flaws.
And a lot wrong with it.
It was a mess.
But it was attractive.
It was well, it had good composition.
The idea was funny.
And it was a winner.
This was Darren O'Neill's flying school bus
drone.
I mean, he literally had some some of
the propellers weren't even attached to the school
bus.
They were just there.
They were just floating in midair.
I think he should have felt guilty about
even submitting it.
Well, let's look at what we had to
choose from.
Well, you like the one I use for
the newsletter.
Psy-op season.
Psy-op season, I thought was a good
piece of good newsletter piece.
Now, why didn't we choose Psy-op?
Well, first of all, I wanted to call
the show Psy-op season.
That was that was that was the reason.
That was the main reason.
And the problem with Psy-op season was
the details, which were amazing, were way too
small.
Because if you blow it up, you see
drones flying around.
You see McDonald's bags, of course, referring to
hot Luigi.
The escape tunnel for Assad had the Syrian
flag.
Yeah, a little sign, escape tunnel this way.
It had the Syrian flag.
Oh, I see it.
Yeah.
I mean, it had all kinds of groovy
stuff, but it was way too small.
You just couldn't see it.
And remember, you only get I mean, you
get max 256 by 256.
It is correct to records pieces.
Very good piece, though.
Very good piece.
So I use it for the newsletter because
it tends to be all blowed up when
you do that.
Yeah, I actually use it for the for
the bat signal this morning.
I like it's a double use.
A double use, indeed.
And of course, it showed up in the
chapters, as a lot of the art does
in the modern podcast apps.
Get one at podcastapps.com.
Hot Luigi.
No, there were some blue books.
People put some blue books in there.
Darren with a blue book.
And that was kind of it.
I'm not quite sure what what comic book
blogger was doing.
Scaramanga had it.
You know, that was this is a perfect
example of the right idea.
But the concept was not was wrong.
It wasn't funny.
Yes.
And it was too cartoonish.
A.I.E. If that's a word there
was.
So he had a school bus would look
more like the Beatles yellow submarine.
Flying in the sky, but with no no
drone stuff on it.
So, you know, it was the the stupidity
of the flying school bus.
That that really made it.
So thank you very much, Darren O'Neill.
Thank you for your contribution.
Thank you to all the artists.
We appreciate all the work that you do.
And I'm pretty sure Correct A Record did
a lot of handwork here.
So he did get a double double dibs
on other stuff, though.
So at least your your your work got
out there, man.
And I can tell you already, there's nothing
we want to choose for today's episode.
I'm just saying I'm just looking.
Yeah.
Somebody needs to come up with something good.
Yeah.
This there's pretty much nothing good here.
No agenda.
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So what in the world is this?
Yeah.
Okay.
Um, little updates, little updates, little updates.
Um, where is this update?
Uh, we have a Diddy Stein update.
Day.
Yeah.
New Diddy update.
Tonight, Jay-Z fighting back against a rape
accusation.
His attorney filing a letter to the judge
to dismiss the rape lawsuit against his client,
citing an NBC news exclusive that found inconsistencies
with the accuser's story.
You should always advocate for yourself.
It comes after our interview with a 38
year old mother from Alabama who accuses Sean
Diddy Combs and Sean Jay-Z Carter of
raping her when she was 13 years old.
She asks us not to reveal her identity.
What made you want to come forward?
Because I think that I've been quiet long
enough.
She says that she went to the MTV
Video Music Awards in 2000.
The woman says she spoke to Combs' limo
driver who offered her a ride to an
after party.
She says at the party, she spoke to
musician Benji Madden and his brother.
I'm talking to Benji Madden about his tattoo.
It's the last supper.
In a statement to NBC News, a representative
for the Maddens confirmed that they did not
attend the 2000 VMAs and that they were
on tour in the Midwest at that time.
At the after party, she says she had
a drink that made her feel woozy.
Then she says Combs and Carter both raped
her.
She says she ran to a gas station
where she called her father who picked her
up.
We wrote home in silence.
She didn't ask me what happened.
In an interview with NBC News, her father
said he could not verify the claims.
I feel like I would remember that and
I don't, he said.
When we asked the woman about the contradictions
in a phone interview on Friday, she said
she stands by her statements.
I have made some mistakes, she said, in
remembering what happened 24 years ago.
Honestly, what is the clearest is what happened
to me.
In a statement to NBC News, Sean Carter
said this incident didn't happen.
True justice is coming.
We fight from victory, not for victory.
A representative for Combs called the suit a
shameless money grab.
Is any part of you scared coming out
against such powerful people?
I'm scared of what could happen, but I'm
more afraid of letting it eat me alive
from the inside out.
You know, this story, I don't hear any
Busby in this story.
This sounds like something that's been thrown in
there to make it look like all accusations
are false.
Something is up with this story.
This is possible that that is a smokescreen
or misleading or a misdirection, misdirection.
Yeah, feels a bit like it.
To me?
Yeah, feels a bit like it.
It all turns up, of course, right after
the accusation against Jay-Z, well, which seems
to have set off alarms.
This is an accusation against Jay-Z and
Diddy, both of them.
Oh, I thought she was.
Okay.
No, it's both.
No, it's a mess.
They should be a big mess.
Go in there and just release the tapes.
Release the Kraken.
Here is the Waters clip that I brought,
which I found to be.
The Waters clip.
Jesse Waters clip.
I have a Jesse Waters clip.
Oh, the water.
Jesse Waters clip.
Jesse Waters clip is good for second half.
Two new revelations from the Trump assassination task
force.
According to their report, the Secret Service agent
who spotted Ryan Ruth in the bushes outside
Trump's golf course was only five feet away
when he opened fire and missed him.
Not once, not twice, six times.
He missed him six times from five feet.
How does a trained agent who passed the
firearms test miss a target away, five feet
away?
That's not all.
The report says the Secret Service found out
at 2.30 in the morning that Trump
would be golfing later that day, but they
didn't secure the course, allowing Ruth to camp
out for 12 hours before anyone saw him.
Meanwhile, Ruth appeared in federal court this morning
and his legal team signaling they're going to
go with the insanity defense.
How convenient.
Ruth's public defender said he has had multiple
meetings with a mental health expert while in
jail, and the witnesses who saw him before
the arrest say he was hallucinating and delusional.
Of course, prosecutors also revealed that Ruth has
been doing a lot more writing behind bars
than initially reported.
Ruth has written nearly 40 letters to news
outlets in an attempt to persuade them that
he's an honorable guy, but they were intercepted
before they reached their targets.
We also know that only 17 of the
18 cell phones found in Ruth's possession belong
to him.
Why does he have 18 cell phones?
And wait, he has 17.
So who owns the last phone?
And why did Ruth have it?
I love the vapid, you know, vapidness of
what he does.
Yeah.
And the thing is, I saw that one,
that we probably didn't clip it, but the
interesting part was the cell phones, though.
What's this guy doing with so many cell
phones?
I have a bunch of cell phones that
are just laying around because they're just, I
mean, old cell phones.
I mean, is that what they're talking about?
Because very few people throw their cell phone
out after they go to the next phone.
If they ever get me, it's like, and
Curry had 100 laptops and 27 cell phones,
even a flip phone.
And one of them is a mystery.
Well, who is that owned by and why
has he got it?
Yes, yes, yes.
Well, I have a second half of show
clip here.
Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh.
So this is a guy named Cliff High,
and I recommend people go out and listen
to his various reports.
I've been on his show.
You want Cliff?
He doesn't have a show.
Cliff High?
Yeah.
The funny guy, funny looking guy has all
these theories.
Yeah, I've been, he's, yes, I'm pretty sure
I've been on his podcast.
Well, he has what people should look for
the melee, the 39 days to melee show,
which is special.
But this is, he's discussing it with some
other guy who's, he's on his show.
And they're talking about, you know, the aliens
and a lot of the stuff going on
has all been predicted because Cliff High does
mathematics on word usage and he can predict
the future in some oddball way.
And he's part of the, probably one of
the, he talks about the Elohim a lot,
which is some alien race that's in contact
with the humans.
No, that, yes, that's the biblical giants.
They come from the, yes.
It's, it's all very, very fun stuff.
And so, yeah, it's all, it's a fact.
Here we go.
And it starts really with your 39 days
to melee video.
Can you just quickly, maybe take the first
four or five minutes there, explain what you
had way back when in the data in
2009, how that led to Trump and where
we are today?
Take that first five minutes, Cliff.
Okay.
So in 2009, we had a forecast of
a podcast.
Podcasts weren't really well known at that point
of a unknown president with a podcaster that
was going to be a temporal marker for
our entering into sci-fi world.
It's a temporal marker.
It just marks things.
It's not a precursor.
It doesn't mean that it had to happen
in order that this other stuff would happen.
It was just shown in the data as
highlighting it as sort of like, you know,
a signpost on the way.
Right.
But anyway, so the temporal marker is a
signpost on the, was a Trump interview.
And in there, in that data in 2009
was this thing about 39 days later, we
would have conditions for melee.
Melee is when an organized contention breaks down
into everybody fighting everybody else with whatever is
at hand.
Last man standing wins.
That kind of thing.
It's not a good outcome, not a good
situation.
Um, we now, uh, in that 39 days
was, was after the temporal marker.
And so that would have been December 3rd.
And sure enough, pretty much on schedule, all
of the organized contention around these drones and
the UFOs and all of that kind of
stuff started rising up as well as the
other organized contention within the, the humanity with,
you know, the, uh, Elohim worship cult doing
all of the color revolution in Georgia and
getting the, everything, uh, head up in Korea
and all of this kind of stuff, right.
They're doing everything they can to create chaos
in order to hopefully get enough chaos that,
um, Trump can't come in.
That's my supposition.
Okay.
That's why, that's why I think they're doing
it.
There may be deeper issues there though.
Wait, wait, I missed the grid going down.
And does he bring up project blue beam?
No, he doesn't.
Well, maybe later in this, but I don't
have the clip of it, but he, yeah,
this is all about Trump somehow.
That's his theory.
And they, so he can't get in because
that we've heard, you know, this goes right
in there with the, uh, grid going down
and all the rest of it.
And, uh, Jamie Raskin, who's got rules that
they know they can.
Yeah, we can get it.
We can impeach.
We'll stop it.
We'll stop from, uh, we're not going to
ratify him.
Yes.
Part two.
So that's what, yeah.
Clip two.
It also be, uh, as above, so below,
as we're having contention in space, maybe that
it's somehow, uh, translated.
What is the contention in space?
I guess they talk about this on some
other podcast.
This guy, uh, there's a war is going
on in space.
And so, you know, as above, as below
that, it's somehow, uh, translated that way.
I could see it as, as above.
So below, uh, only in the sense that
the Elohim worship cult, uh, believe themselves to
be chosen by the Elohim, their space gods
to rule humanity.
Uh, this cult believes that they have the
right to farm humanity.
This cult also knows that they have to
report to these space aliens.
And if the space aliens come back, the
cult, in my opinion, is afraid that if
the space aliens come back and see their
herd, which is humanity in such disarray, uh,
that they would take it out on the
herd management guys, the Elohim worship cult.
Okay.
So, so it may be that at that
level, but it's sort of a cover your
ass kind of a thing.
Yeah.
You know, bring back the gay TikTok clips.
That's better.
Okay.
Do you have any analysis of this, uh,
of this?
You were on this guy's show.
I'm pretty sure.
Yeah.
Cliff High.
Yeah.
Talking about what?
The Elohim?
No, about no agenda.
You know, same thing.
No, I didn't talk about the Elohim.
I'm pretty sure.
Let me see.
It's a, isn't it the higher, higher chats?
I think this is, is this podcast.
Let me see.
I don't keep track of these things.
Yeah, I do.
Higher side chats.
There you go.
The higher side chats.
I think that, I think that's higher side
chat.
I think so.
Maybe it, maybe, maybe.
Sounds like some chat where he was, where
they spoke a lot of marijuana during the.
Yeah.
I think that was the context of my
appearance on the show.
It's been a while.
It's been at least a couple of years.
Okay.
Anyway, um, you sent me an interesting article,
which I've put into the show notes.
I think it's important to, particularly for people
who are interested in doing a local podcast,
which, uh, I've mentioned that and people have
been, uh, hundreds, hundreds of people have requested
my primer on how to do that.
Hyperlocal.noagendanotes.com.
Send me an email.
I'll send it to you if you probably
forget.
And it is the Forbes advisor on libel
versus slander.
Um, and I thought that was really good
that, that you sent that to me.
And also I think it's good that people
understand, uh, the difference and how they actually
need to be careful themselves.
I think even on social media, you probably
have to be careful.
Yes, absolutely.
It hasn't happened much yet, but at some
point, uh, as people get, you know, more
people enter social media, the likelihood of slandering
somebody, uh, is high, higher, higher.
And you can get sued.
You get sued.
Explain the difference between libel and slander.
Well, one is just, it's the same thing.
The real problem here is not libel or
slander.
One is, one is in print and one
is in verbal.
Right.
Uh, libel, I believe is print and slander
is verbal.
Uh, yes.
But the, the overall problem is called defamation
and that's where the lawsuits come in.
So whether you libel somebody or slander them,
it doesn't make any difference what, what you
do.
You can be sued for defamation and there's
the rationale for all that.
It was in the show notes.
People should read this.
People who are doing a lot of social
media or who have big mouths and like
to talk, talk, you know, they like to
slander people, literally, uh, they should read this
and know that you're, uh, you're putting yourself
up for, uh, targeting.
I think the big, uh, the big important
piece here is public versus private figures.
That's really a key thing here.
Um, an element.
Yes.
Yeah.
I mean, it's a lot, there's a lot
more leeway.
I mean, Trump.
Okay.
So we can play this clip because you
brought it up.
I already had it lined up, but okay.
You have your own version of it.
I have Trump versus ABC.
Yes.
That's probably the same.
Probably the same.
Oh, you have a very short clip.
Okay.
Well, we'll play your clip.
Let's see.
Here we go.
ABC news and anchor George Stephanopoulos settled a
defamation lawsuit with Donald Trump for $15 million
that will be paid to Trump's future presidential
foundation and museum, plus a million dollars to
his lawyer, along with an apology.
Trump sued claiming Stephanopoulos and the network defamed
him when the anchor said a jury found
Trump civilly liable for raping E.
Jean Carroll, the writer whose cases against Trump
led to him being found liable for sexual
assault and defamation, but neither verdict involved a
finding of rape as defined under New York
law.
Trump is appealing both Carroll verdicts.
Yeah.
My clip is, I want to play it
because it's a little bit longer, but it's
reported by Brian Seltzer-Water, which I think
is funny.
Oh, yes.
Play it.
And it has some clips of the actual
slander.
Yeah, I was...
Sorry.
I'm sorry.
Go ahead.
But before you play that, I had...
Didn't clip it, but I have the clip.
I posted it on Twitter, anyone who follows
me, the entire interview with Nancy Mace, which
I thought she did a great job of
pushing back.
I actually have the clip in the show
notes if anyone wants to...
Yes, it's a good clip.
And I would say that Stepanopoulos said that
Trump was a rapist.
They said 10 times, but I counted about
14.
And he kept doing it over and over
and over and over again.
Then later, Stepanopoulos found out they were being
sued and he went on the Colbert show
and said it again.
Yes.
Disney, I mean, I don't understand how this
guy has a job.
I'm thinking, didn't Joy Behard also say something
about he's a rapist, convicted rapist?
There was something there, also an ABC show.
Well, actually, well, first let's play this.
ABC is out of control.
Breaking news into CNN, ABC News anchor George
Stepanopoulos has reached a settlement with President-elect
Donald Trump in his defamation suit.
The lawsuit stemming from an interview that Stepanopoulos
did with Congresswoman Nancy Mace, where he asserted
Trump was found liable for rape in a
civil case.
The network will pay out $16 million as
part of that settlement and have to issue
an apology.
CNN chief media analyst Brian Stelter joining me.
And Brian, this is actually a lawsuit with
ABC News, the network and Stepanopoulos.
What else can you tell us about this?
That's right.
It's not every day that you hear about
a major network, a TV network, paying millions
of dollars and apologizing to the president-elect.
So this is a headline with real ramifications.
And as you said, it stems from an
episode of George Stepanopoulos' Sunday morning news program,
where he was talking with a lawmaker.
I think it was Nancy Mace.
And they were talking about the Eugene Carroll
case.
And George Stepanopoulos repeatedly used the word rape,
saying Trump was found guilty of rape, liable
of rape.
Well, in fact, the accurate phrase he uses
is sexual abuse.
That is what the New York court found.
But because Stepanopoulos kept using that R word,
rape, Trump filed a lawsuit.
He filed a defamation suit.
Well, why don't we count them?
I have the clip here.
Because it was really egregious.
It wasn't just once or twice.
Should we count them?
You want to ring the bell?
We can try.
I'm asking you a question about why you
endorse someone who's been found liable for rape.
It was not a criminal court.
It was a civil court that found him
liable for rape.
And by the way, she joked about the
judgment and what she was going to do
with all that money.
And I find that offensive.
I'm asking you about the man who's-
But as a rape victim who's been shamed
for years now because of her rape, you're
trying to shame me again by asking me
this political question.
You've repeated that again and again and again.
I think it's offensive.
As a woman, I find it offensive.
I'm asking you- My political choice is
I've endorsed the man that I believe is
best for our country.
It's not Joe Biden.
And you looked at the dueling rallies yesterday
in Georgia.
Lakin Riley's family was with Donald Trump.
They weren't with Joe Biden.
The same guy yesterday that apologized for calling
her killer an illegal.
Who was an illegal?
And here you are trying to shame a
rape victim.
I find it disgusting.
I mean, you keep saying I'm shaming you.
There's nothing- The question is- It
is.
It is.
How is the question asking you about a
presidential candidate who's been- You're asking a
rape victim.
And there's no question about that.
And you were- You're questioning my political
choices because I've been raped.
I think that's just- No, I'm questioning
your political choices because you're supporting- You're
shaming me.
You're trying to shame me.
Someone who's been found liable for rape.
Actually, I'm not trying to shame you.
You are.
That's exactly what you're doing.
You're not answering the question.
I think it's disgusting.
Well, you're welcome to say that, but you
also have to answer the question.
Why are you supporting someone who's been found
liable for rape?
I just answered your question.
What is the answer?
He was not found guilty in a criminal
court of law.
He was a civil- It was sexual
abuse.
It wasn't actually rape, by the way.
And E.
Jean Carroll joked about all the money she's
going to get.
And made a mockery out of this case.
I didn't hear that many.
I don't have- Maybe it was more
of the clip when he kept going on.
But I just remember- No, they kept
going.
I got five so far.
At the end, he kept saying it.
And at the end, when they changed the
topic, if you played the extended clip, he
brought it up two more times.
And then he brought it up on Colbert.
I mean, the lawsuit was- Now, this
is the reason we want to talk about
this is because, as you mentioned, there's a
difference between private and public figures only to
a point.
You can't accuse people that- The funny
thing, kind of a kicker in there is
you can't- It's also a defamation to
say someone has a disease.
Yes.
Which is very- People just don't get
that.
But to say somebody has a disease-
But now, can the TikTok guy at McDonald's
- Because you said he was gay.
If he's not gay, can he sue you
for that?
He's pretending to be gay.
And he would take it as a compliment.
There's nothing defamatory about it.
And I don't use gay as a defamatory
epithet.
Descriptive.
Yeah, it's just descriptive in this regard.
He's flamboyant.
He was just being gay.
He didn't have his husband to hook him
on the whole thing.
But there are moments where there are certain
kinds of things you have to be careful
about.
And podcasters, especially, should be wary.
But social media people, doing these short clips,
they can get in trouble.
So it's a good thing to read over,
at least so you have some familiarity with
the problem.
Well, Megyn Kelly is kind of adjacent.
The stuff she finds important, she's all upset
about Caitlyn Clark.
Do you follow WNBA at all?
Yeah.
Yeah?
You like it?
Well, no.
I follow it only because I watch sports
shows and they bring it up.
I don't like, not that I'm a bigot
about it, but I find women's basketball to
be boring.
I don't think it's anything, you know, but
people like to watch it.
But it's a women's basketball.
I don't know.
I don't like that.
Currently, the NBA, I don't even like basketball
as much anymore because of the anti-Trumpian
nature of it.
Right.
And China owns it.
Yes.
China owns it.
People kowtow to China.
But this is an example of what Megyn
Kelly is doing.
And I just find it bizarre.
Are people really...
What is she doing?
Here you go.
We need to talk about Caitlyn Clark.
No, we don't.
Let's move on.
In fact, you mentioning her is the first
time she's ever been mentioned on the show
in 18 years.
So Caitlyn Clark of Iowa, but now playing
for Indiana in the WNBA, gets honored in
time as the athlete of the year.
I don't know.
I guess they need a lot of covers
or something.
I don't know, whatever.
I get that they just want people who
are going to sell their shitty magazine.
So she gets elected as athlete of the
year.
And what does Caitlyn Clark do?
Like this woman who's a superstar.
She's the Michael Jordan of the WNBA.
And she's become a phenom in part because
the players of the WNBA can't fucking stand
her.
Why?
Because she's white.
She drops a lot of F-bombs too,
Megyn Kelly.
Yeah, this is recent.
She's gone just the opposite direction of most
podcasters.
You know, podcasters, generally speaking, especially the ones
that came out of broadcasting, they first go
into podcasts and they cuss a lot.
People notice this.
Cuss, cuss, cuss, cuss.
And then they start to back off because
they get people like, hey, my kids are
listening to this show.
Come on.
Yeah, exactly.
And so they start to cuss less, which
is the normal process.
She goes in the other direction.
She has never cussed before.
Now she's cussing all the time.
Like a trucker?
I mean, what is the point?
It's abject, absolute racism.
It's total racism.
And one of the things that's been admirable
about Caitlin is she just continues to play
her game and put points on the board.
And she does very well.
And she wins games and she puts butts
in the seats and she sells tickets.
And she gets people tuning in on television.
And all really we want to hear from
anybody about this is thank you.
Thank you to Caitlin Clark for making our
league relevant and so on.
But instead, she's been bullied repeatedly by the
players in this league.
She's been assaulted physically.
She's been scratched in the eye.
And I mean, all this is on camera.
We've covered it repeatedly on the show.
So she gets this honor.
And all she has to do is continue
staying above it.
Thank you.
I'm grateful.
Love being in the WNBA.
And I love my colleagues who I play
with, my teammates.
That's it.
Instead, she decides to go racial.
And what she says is she feels the
need to acknowledge her white privilege.
Basically, she's sorry she's white.
That's what Megyn Kelly is doing.
It is kind of funny.
Now, there was a funny meme that I
put into the last newsletter.
I hope people saw it.
It was a Caitlin Clark meme.
It was Babylon Bee phony headline.
It was very humorous.
And I would hope people would subscribe to
the newsletter so they can see some of
these memes that I put up.
And yeah, that's the Caitlin Clark story.
The whole thing is dumb.
Yeah, it is.
I'm sorry I brought it up, actually.
I'm sorry you did, too.
Did you read the Time Person of the
Year article about Trump?
I did not read the article.
Well, let's ask Joy Reid about it.
But we begin tonight with a dream of
a boy from Queens, New York.
This boy wanted so desperately to impress those
on the other side of the East River
in Manhattan, to be accepted by its elites.
One way to achieve that was to be
featured on the covers of major magazines, most
especially to be Time Magazine's Person of the
Year.
Well, today, Donald Trump celebrated securing that distinction
for a second time.
As Time Magazine describes it, for 97 years,
the editors of Time have been picking the
person of the year, the individual who, for
better or for worse, did the most to
shape the world and the headlines over the
past 12 months.
In many years, that choice is a difficult
one.
In 2024, it was not.
The key line, for better or for worse,
is not much of a ringing endorsement.
And we all know which one Trump falls
under.
And let's remember who else has been given
this title in years past in the same
category.
Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Ayatollah Khomeini, and Vladimir
Putin.
In fact, Stalin won the distinction twice, just
like Trump.
But it seems Time Magazine must have a
real special place in Trump's heart, because he
once not only made a fake Time cover
with his face on it, he hung it
at a number of his golf clubs.
Oh, man.
So this Time Magazine, it was really interesting.
Now, Reid Hoffman owns Time.
He and his wife own Time Magazine.
They bought Time Magazine.
And I actually heard a pretty interesting interview.
But he's kind of, strangely enough, somewhat agnostic
about Trump.
He's like, you know, I'll work with Trump.
I'll work with the president.
Of course, he's got a lot of AI
stuff going on, so he can't go really
too hard against him.
But this article was pretty much a bunch
of journalists got together.
Or writers.
And just wrote all the stuff that they
said about Trump.
And then kept saying, you know, you watch,
you watch.
It's going to happen.
And he's a narcissist.
And he's going to, and they interviewed him.
But there's maybe three lines from Trump in
the entire, you know, it took 25 minutes
to read.
It was bizarre.
You should really read it.
No, I probably won't.
It was bizarre.
You know, and Reid Hoffman, you know, he's
now leading the AI revolution, John, with a
new term, which I think this will be
the only thing that AI will do for
the business community.
You ready for it?
I didn't know he was leading anything, but
okay.
Oh, with Salesforce?
Oh, yes, Salesforce.
Oh, they're all about AI.
Salesforce isn't Reid Hoffman.
He, what am I thinking?
Reid Hoffman is a Netflix.
Wrong guy.
I'm sorry.
Not Reid Hoffman.
The other guy, the other, uh, what's his
name?
Yeah.
The guy who runs Salesforce.
That's who you were talking about all along.
And he owns time.
Yes.
I forgot.
What's his name?
I think he sold time, by the way.
No, no, no.
He and his wife.
Now that you brought Reid Hoffman, he got
him in my brain.
I can't get the other guy's name.
I just had to, in fact, I just
sent an email to him recently.
Mark Benioff.
The chat room will get a Benioff, Mark
Benioff.
Benioff.
Okay.
Sorry.
Reid Hoffman.
What am I thinking?
Mark Benioff.
But yes, he.
Mark Benioff is not completely agnostic.
He's a Democrat.
He supports the Democrat party.
I heard an interview with him and he
was, he was very positive about Trump.
Well, he could be because the valley is
becoming positive.
That's exactly what I said because of his
AI.
And he even says Salesforce invented most of
AI.
I got it.
I got to pull some clips from that
interview.
That's a good one.
Oh yeah.
No, 18.
We've been doing AI for 18 years.
I got to pull some clips from that
interview and, but the term here's what Salesforce
is selling, which is, is hilarious.
Ready?
Agentic AI.
What does that mean?
It's a smart agents.
Agentic.
Oh, agentic.
That's an agent.
Yeah.
So agents will chat with you.
Agents will call you.
Agents will email you and they're doing away
with all the, the, the previous AI, the
anonymous Indians.
Now it's agentic AI.
So we've, we've downgraded now from, um, uh,
general intelligence to, uh, generated, intelligent, generative intelligence
to now agentic because it's not working.
And I see more and more articles about,
uh, quantum Google has, uh, stuck a little
as stuck a wrench into the works.
Now they're, they're a chip that doesn't work,
but there's interdimensional that chip, the chip that
goes into outer space somehow and finds another
dimension does the calculation there and brings it
back.
It's dynamite is dynamite, right?
Uh, the bubble is going to pop the
bubble for quantum is going to pop for
sure.
Oh, well, but the first, the BBC was
all upset with, uh, with Apple.
This, this is great.
They said, we don't like what your Apple
intelligence has done.
It has the emojis.
No, the, um, so Apple intelligence will pop
up alerts, news alerts from different organizations, such
as the BBC, but then their Apple intelligence,
uh, uh, for your benefit will, uh, make
a little summary of the headlines.
So here's the BBC news headlines that pops
up at Luigi Mangione shoots himself.
And the BBC is like, we stand by
our journalistic integrity.
We do not think it's very good that
Apple's artificial intelligence is doing this.
Yeah.
It's Apple is they've made a mistake with
this.
I don't think anybody wants their Apple intelligence
shoots, shoots.
Anyway, let's get out of here with the
Pelosi clip.
You have the Pelosi clip.
I see.
So I want to poor old Nancy.
Oh, poor Nancy.
Yeah.
Former house speaker, Nancy Pelosi underwent successful hip
surgery in Germany after falling during a congressional
delegation trip.
And here's Claudia Crisales reports.
She was part of a group commemorating a
world war two site.
Former speaker Pelosi was part of a congressional
visit to Luxembourg to mark the 80th anniversary
of the battle of the bulge.
At the time house foreign affairs chairman, Michael
McCaul was leading the bipartisan delegation of more
than a dozen members ahead of the anniversary
on December 16th.
During an official engagement on Friday, Pelosi fell
and was admitted to a nearby hospital for
evaluation.
She was transferred about two hours away to
the medical center at lunch stool army base
to undergo hip replacement surgery Saturday morning.
A Pelosi spokesman said she was well on
the mend and she thanked the U.S.
military staff for their care.
And where was that report from?
That report was some NPR.
Oh, man, they didn't have any audio of
Nancy.
No, they just gave.
No, there's audio.
There's my report has audio of Nancy.
Well, play your report then.
I've fallen and I can't get up.
All right.
I fell right into it.
Like imagine all the people who could deal
with us.
Oh, yeah, that'd be fun.
Man, I had to wait for two hours
and 45 minutes to do that guy.
The big guy.
It was good.
You did.
I would say I'll give you 10 points
for you.
Set it up.
Well, you had me play the clip and
then you suckered me into pushing your clip.
Because you got me mad.
I got you mad.
Because you had a better clip.
And then you pull out the old switcheroo
with a stupid clip leading right into the
donation segment.
It's beautiful.
Yes.
Best you've ever done.
Thank you very much.
Yes.
John will now thank everybody who supported this
episode.
Fifty dollars and above.
Not a very long list, but here we
go.
A very short, pathetically short list.
It's a short list.
We hope that people start to get the
Christmas spirit and donate to the show.
Yes.
Brandon Maroney starts us off in Brown Hills,
New Jersey.
101 dollars and one cent.
Followed by Sir Dodd.
He's in Friendswood, Texas.
Where is that, by the way?
100 dollars.
I don't know where Friendswood is.
Lucas Williams in Roswell, New Mexico.
There we go.
100 dollars.
Sir Loud Pipes comes up from Charlotte, North
Carolina.
With $84.38, which turns out to be
the 80-80 boobs donation.
It is.
With the fees, including Matthew Gill did the
same thing from Raleigh.
And he's in Raleigh, North Carolina.
It's interesting.
Both of them did this, and they're both
in North Carolina.
$83.38. Exactly the same.
Butts and boobs, he calls it.
Kevin McLaughlin doesn't do that.
He came in with $8.008. Dodge Duke
of Luna, lover of America and lover of
boobs.
And then Ryan Gordon from Dobson, North Carolina.
$8.008. The ladies should be so happy.
Christopher Myers in Dallas, Texas.
$75.00. Les Tarkowski in Kingman, Arizona.
$6.006, which used to be the small
boobs donation.
Christopher Dechter, $56.78. Sir Economic Hitman in
Tomball, Texas.
$50.01. In an hour already, the $50
donors.
I'll just read them off name and location.
There's a few of these, but it's still
the total number of donors today is under
32.
I'm sorry.
Number 20 on the list is Brandon Savoie
in Port Orchard, Washington.
Jared Yaw in Nashville, Tennessee.
Patricia Dane, Patricia Worthington in Miami, Florida.
Diane Schwannenbach in Johnsburg, Illinois.
Christian Freeman in San Marcos, Texas.
Kevin Dills in Huntersville, North Carolina.
Chris Lewinsky in Sherwood Park, Alberta.
In Canada, Easy Landscapes.
Easy Landscapes.
They're in North Stonington, Connecticut.
Philip Ballou in Louisville, Kentucky.
Michael Peratt in Salem, Oregon.
William McCutcheon in Briarclift, Texas.
He has a note.
My question is, with all their worry about
vaccines, have they made sure the newcomer...
Oh, that's kind of an old material.
Sorry I mentioned it.
Jerry Wingenroth rounds us out.
He's in Saugus, California.
And last on the list, Dame Knight in
Edmonds, Washington.
She's also, I think, a baroness.
Yes.
Well, thank you very much to these donors.
And thank you to everyone who came in
under $50.
We don't do that.
We don't mention them for reasons of anonymity.
So we don't mess anything up.
It has happened in the past.
So I see you, $49.99. Thank you
very much.
And of course, you can always do a
sustaining donation, any amount, any frequency.
Go to noagendadonations.com.
And yes, we do hope you get into
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We'll be thanking people who produce both the
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So go to noagendadonations.com.
And support this valuable service, noagendadonations.com.
Only one birthday.
That is surprising.
I would have thought there would be more
birthdays.
Yeah, it's odd.
No nights, no titles.
We go straight to the meetups.
Noah Jenner meetups.
Yeah, baby, the Noah Jenner meetups is where
people love to hang out together.
Connection is protection.
Do not accept the little blips of dopamine
that you get from liking someone or being
liked on social media.
You need to get the real deal.
Go to a Noah Jenner meetup.
You can find those listed at noagendameetups.com.
We love playing the reports.
Here's the Denver Ramadan Mekwanda whatever meetup report.
Hey, y'all.
Denver Chris Mekwanda Ramadan holiday meetup.
There was a lot of drinking involved, even
as a child.
This is Colin.
Dana Brunetti sponsored this meetup.
So he's picking up the tab.
Thank you.
Salaam alaikum.
This is Sir Scott.
I might be overboard, but I'm treading water
behind the boat.
Mile high gal here reminding you trains good,
planes bad.
Barka on whatever holiday you're celebrating.
And greetings from Denver.
ITM everyone.
Nate, fifth or sixth meetup.
Still not a spook.
Sir Soothsayer here.
I skipped the game awards for this.
You're welcome.
Josh Suscension checking in from North Aurora, where
I still have yet to see any trend
to Aragua out on the streets.
T-Dog here in the morning.
Finally off the road to be able to
make one of these.
Colorado Care Bear.
Denver out.
All right, Denver, thank you very much.
And yes, always good to meet each other
there.
It's a nice little group.
You have the Netherlands.
Leiden had their.
What did they call their meetup?
It was the fourth amygdala checkup report.
Eldorado in Leiden.
Peace, peace, peace, peace, y'all.
Mornings in the morning.
Super awesome meetup.
You here.
Thank you for your courage.
My name is Anita and I love and
and and and and.
Baron Rob from the city of the smart
people.
Adam and John, thanks for all you do.
And remember, they're eating the bugs.
Doesn't it sound like they all work for
NATO?
Twice a week.
Never too much.
So Bob, your redoer.
Thank you for your courage.
This is Roland again for more years.
In the morning, John and Adam.
This is Irma.
I'm not a douchebag.
And this is Sebastian.
There's no unity without community or the other
way around.
Anyway, those Dutch guys and gals love them.
And finally, we have Leo Bravo.
The flight of the no agenda meetup number
59 already.
Hi, everybody.
It's Leo Bravo at meetup number 58.
I'm passing a phone around.
Our attendees have things to say.
Sir, Robertson, a two sticks here.
And I traveled approximately four, maybe five hours
via train.
Train's good.
Plane's bad.
Woohoo!
That's Sir Leocum Full Pop.
I used to have hairy legs, but I
shaved them.
Hello, gentlemen.
I just was thinking about you guys and
how much I love this show and how
much I wish that I had found you
much earlier in my life because my whole
life would have been way better.
In the morning.
Oh, this is Greta.
Bye.
Oh, hey.
Yo!
Kwanzaa was invented by an FBI informant.
At the full moon in downtown LA.
So a couple of meetups taking place today.
I hope that we get reports from the
Brunch on the River near RVA, from Hopewell,
Virginia, from West Palm Beach.
That's where the Reiki princess was doing the
tequila and axe throwing.
Hopefully, some will be alive after that to
send a report.
The Black Hills of No Agenda meetup in
South Dakota.
Well underway now.
And also the Indianapolis Indiana Christmas Pitching meetup.
That's at the home of Mark and Maria.
Dame Maria.
Sir Mark.
And let me see.
Says next.
Oh, okay.
That's, I'm sorry.
This is a production notes I have.
Thursday, our next show date.
Well, it'll be the best of show.
Doesn't mean that you don't want to send
in a meetup report.
We want to hear how it went.
Home for the holidays.
Four o'clock at Canyons Crown in Tucson,
Arizona.
And the North Georgia Monthly at six o
'clock at Cherry Street Brewing in Alpharetta, Georgia.
The No Agenda Connections Protection for North Kentucky.
Seven o'clock at Longneck Sports Grill in
Hebron, Kentucky.
Charlotte's Thirsty Third.
Thursday, seven o'clock at Ed's Tavern in
Charlotte, North Carolina.
That is the meetups coming up this week.
Of course, we'll play the meetup reports on
Sunday as we have our best of show.
The most horrible psyop ever.
That is COVID.
That will be our best of show.
Strokey Bill produced that for us.
These are just a couple of the No
Agenda meetups to go find every single one
listed.
Go to noagendameetups.com.
Connection is protection.
The people you meet at the meetups will
be your first responders in an emergency.
It's good.
It's healthy.
And you need to go one.
If you can't find one, stop yourself.
It's like a potty.
All right.
Like a potty.
Potty, potty, potty, potty, potty.
I have two ISOs.
Do you have any ISOs?
I have three, of course.
Three.
You want me to go first?
Yeah, go first.
Okay.
I do believe we did our best.
Not bad.
And here's the next one.
Please send money.
I couldn't understand it.
You couldn't understand this?
No, it was mud.
Well, hold on.
It was a little low.
And hold on, let me crank it up
a bit.
I thought it was appropriate for this episode.
Please send money.
I couldn't understand.
That's fine.
Don't worry about it.
It's a loser.
It's a loser.
You're up.
What did he say?
Please send money.
Oh, okay.
So he's doing a voice.
All right.
So I got three.
We'll start with Santa.
Santa?
Santa here.
It's just a dumb thing I picked up.
I try stuff.
That's pretty good stuff.
I like that.
Is that from the notebook LLM?
No.
Oh, okay.
I like that one.
And then I have thank you.
Thank you.
I like...
That's pretty good stuff.
Although I think...
I do believe we did our best.
I kind of like that one.
Okay, you win.
I win?
Oh, I wasn't expecting it.
Thank you so much.
Your no agenda tip of the day.
Created by Dana Brunetti.
That's right, everybody.
Yeah, he created it.
It's time for everyone's favorite moment of the
show.
Still haven't heard from the creator.
Haven't heard from the creator of the tip
of the day.
Yeah, I hate your guts.
Clearly.
So this is a note from Claudia Hernandez.
I'm going to read it.
From Claudia Hernandez.
I made the donation on show 1716 and
mentioned the Libby app.
Yes.
It's a digital library service that allows users
to enjoy ebooks and audiobooks from their local
library.
Just needs your local library card and download
the app.
I have to give credit to my boyfriend
for making me get a library card.
And it's a library, by the way.
And download the app.
It's a good product.
It doesn't work at every library, I might
mention.
It only works at libraries that will...
And they loan out ebooks and audiobooks.
And the thing about this is that I
think audiobooks are a jip.
You buy the audiobook from Amazon and then
you listen to it.
You know how many people listen to...
It's not like a book where you can
reference it and you'll thumb through it and
you might want to keep it.
Audiobooks you listen to, it's like entertainment.
Libraries have these things and the Libby app
allows you to find these libraries that have
them and pass them around.
Which brings me to...
And that's kind of the tip of the
day.
But it brings me to another thing that's
called Link Plus.
And this is available in California and Nevada.
And this is an astonishing operation.
And you can get to...
This is a library system in these two
states.
And I think other states may have these,
but I can't seem to find any of
them.
But California, every library and every university library,
which is a big deal.
The universities have the biggest libraries in the
state.
They're all linked together in one giant card
catalog called Link Plus.
And this is...
I've used this...
My son, who likes to read obscure material,
used it for years and he turned me
on to it.
I used it during a period of time
when I was kind of interested in female
screenwriters as a genre because they would...
I was noticing that if you like movies,
old movies from the 30s and 40s in
particular, the female characters don't exist in today's
movies.
Some of them are just dynamite characters, the
Margaret Dumonts of the world.
All characters in today's movies have blue hair.
Dr. John Sanford And so they're characters in
today's...
But it's largely due to the fact there's
two screenwriters, Anita Luce, L-O-O-S,
who I was...
I read her biography just because I had
it and I read it.
It's a fascinating story.
But that led me to Frances Marion, who
wrote over 320 screenplays, novels, and did a
bunch of stuff on Broadway.
And Frances Marion and Luce both had books
and Marion had a book on screenwriting and
I wanted to read it.
So I looked it up.
Yeah, the book was written in the 30s.
You want a copy?
500 bucks, 1,000 bucks.
Go to Link Plus, type it in.
I'll give you the web address for people
out there.
Type it in.
There's the book.
I got it from UCLA.
They ship it to my local library.
I go to the library, pick it up.
I have it for a month.
These loans are for a long time.
And then I give it back and the
book goes back into the library.
Otherwise, I couldn't ever get to read this
book.
And the website is screwy.
It's csul.iii.com.
That's csul.iii.com.
This is so obscure, it's ridiculous.
csul.iii.com.
And what about doc.go?
I mean, come on, people, get it together
with your marketing.
So for people in California and Nevada in
particular, but other states should look to see
if there's anything like this.
This is like a virtual lending library.
Every book imaginable is available through the Link
Plus.
And you can read this no matter how
rare.
And that's the tip of the day.
I feel obligated to read this because we
care a lot about our producers.
And we have just amazing talent everywhere in
every field.
And I have a note from the anonymous
No Agenda librarian about the Libby app.
So this is not to detract from your
tip of the day.
But when you mentioned it, I remember she
had sent a note in a couple weeks
back.
I guess the Libby app came up on
the show, not as a tip of the
day.
And I'd like to share what she said.
The Libby app is a great way to
shovel residents' tax dollars into corporations' coffers.
The Libby app is paid for by your
local library whose budget is paid for by
taxes.
Libraries pay at least three times the consumer
price for e-books and audio books.
Popular titles are metered access, meaning libraries have
to pay that inflated price every two years
to provide continued access to those books.
From the library patron side, I'm sorry, Libby's
parent company, Overdrive, used to be good.
But then it was bought by a couple
of VC firms, including Rakuten and now KKR.
Overdrive has been buying up and gutting competitors
in the digital library market.
So.
OK, well, there's that.
But the tip of the day was actually
the Linked Plus program that she's led me
to.
Yes.
So we can take the Libby app and
throw it away.
But.
Yeah.
KKR also bought.
They bought, they're, they're, they're horrible.
They bought Canvas LMS, which is a very
interesting product.
We talked about it in the newsletter.
Canvas LMS. Oh, yes, the blue book guys.
No, no, no, the anti-blue book guys.
The anti-blue book guys.
Yes, sorry.
Yes.
Canvas LMS, which is a learning management system,
turns out to be, according to our contact
at University of Pennsylvania, it's used in all
the universities, is a online learning system.
And it's a system that they take note.
It's like it really encompasses a lot of
stuff that when I was a kid, it
was never even something you could dream about.
But it's fascinating what's going on.
I sent you a link to the award
winning educational software.
There are a million companies in this business.
There's it.
We're we're completely missing the missing the boat
on this information.
Huge exit strategy.
We've missed one.
I don't know what exit strategy we can
do it.
It's like two guys.
I think late to the game would be
the theme.
No kidding.
That'd be the name of the company.
Yeah.
But yes, there's a lot going on that
that we need to make everyone aware of.
I'm just amazed how, you know, digital books
was supposed to be great.
The whole world at your fingertips.
And now a library who used to just
lend out a book and then you bring
the book back and they can lend it
out.
Now they have to keep paying for the
same book over and over again on a
subscription basis.
The Internet has not improved things, in my
opinion.
Will allow us to do the show.
Well, well, that's there's although we could have
done on ISDN.
Yeah, we could have done on ISDN and
we could be pivot.
We could be pulling the big bucks.
Ten million dollars easily.
Your no agenda tip of the day created
by Dana Brunetti.
That's it.
Everybody go to tip of the day dot
net or no agenda fund dot com.
And sometimes I need your jingles, John.
I need that.
Maybe Dana will contact me when when you
do one of the jingles for his.
I have a gem for his creation.
I'm sure you do.
You'll hear it next Sunday.
We have end of show mixes, some classics,
some some for the Yule season.
We have Sir Michael Anthony and Sir Chris
Wilson.
These are classics that have held over from
for for many years, actually.
Chris Wilson is seven years old now.
It's unbelievable.
So those are coming up.
And we have let me see who are
these broadcasters?
Oh, with the let me see.
Episode number seven.
The guys who do who are these podcasts?
Yes.
So I don't know.
I'm not familiar with this, but it is
up next on the no agenda stream.
Troll room dot IO.
You can stick around and troll along and
you can always stay logged in because there's
some connection and protection to be had there
as well.
Best of show on Thursday.
We'll be back live on Sunday.
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I'm Adam Curry and from northern Silicon Valley.
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We'll talk to you on Sunday.
Until then, how do you pose a hooey
hooey and gather around children?
I have a tale to tell.
Of the cute little green frog.
Who wasn't the least bit gay?
Peppy the green faced fascist was a very
harmless mean.
Hanging around on my space and in other
online zines.
All of the trolls on 4chan knew that
he was public domain.
They would appropriate him for their evil shit
post game.
Pre-election 2015 4chan came to say.
Peppy with your face so green, won't you
be our alt-right mean?
Then how the Nazis loved him and they
tweeted out with glee.
Donald Trump was elected, the rest we know
is history.
Peppy the green faced fascist was a very
harmless mean.
Hanging around on my space and in other
online zines.
All of the trolls on 4chan knew that
he was public domain.
They would appropriate him for their evil shit
post game.
Pre-election 2015 4chan came to say.
Peppy with your face so green, won't you
be our alt-right mean?
Then how the Nazis loved him and they
tweeted out with glee.
Donald Trump was elected, the rest we know
is history.
Reversed punishment will be for the climate change
deniers.
If you are naughty, do not worry.
We will not put a lump of coal
in your stocking.
Coal is made of carbon and carbon is
forbidden by ESG.
So we will just take your stocking and
your other gifts.
You will get nothing and be happy.
Another tradition is the leaving of cookies and
milk for Santa.
These cookies must be 100% vegan and
the milk must be soy milk.
Under ESG there will be no more cow
milk and of course no more meat.
You may also leave for Santa cookies made
with the cricket flour and a glass of
cockroach milk.
But even I will not eat this, you
will eat this.
Maybe not this year, maybe not next year.
But we still have plenty of time to
implement Agenda 2030.
So now is the opportunity for giving the
hogs, exchanging the gifts and eating the ham.
Make the most of your unsustainable freedom while
you still got it.
We at the World Economic Forum wish you
a Merry Christmas and a Happy New World
Order.
So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, good luck.
Best in the universe!
Adios, mofo.
Dvorak.org slash N-A I do believe
we did our best.