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Nyehehehehehe Adam Curry, John C.
DeVora It's Thursday, January 2nd, 2025 This is
your award winning Gilmore Nation Media Assassination Episode
1726 This is no agenda Eating Black Eyed
Peas And broadcasting live From the heart of
the Texas Hill Country Here in FEMA Region
Number 6 Good morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry
And from Northern Silicon Valley Where everyone's talking
about the fog The Fog!
I'm John C.
Dvorak.
It's crack-bottom buzzkill!
In the morning!
Well, I'm glad you started with that.
Before we say Happy New Year, let's talk
about The Fog!
Here is a quick supercut about The Fog!
For the last seven days, the world has
been shrouded in a veil of mystery.
An unrelenting fog that stretches from the poop
-covered streets of Portland, Oregon to the quietest
corners of the countryside.
This is no ordinary weather phenomenon.
It's a dense, suffocating mist with an unsettling
smell of chemicals lingering in the air.
Oh, this is going to be interesting.
Have you noticed this strange, thick fog that
is blanketing cities across the globe?
As a matter of fact, drop in the
comments if you've experienced this.
People are getting sick.
They're coughing, struggling to breathe, and posting videos
about it all over the internet.
And here's the kicker.
They're even reporting the scent of chemicals.
We have some strange things happening, my friends.
This is Tony.
Hey, Tony.
This very bizarre fog, very thick fog, happening
in places that it never happens.
Never!
And things being seen in The Fog!
This is an emergency livestream because the internet
is flooded right now with footage that I'm
about to show you.
Oh, yes.
Many of that footage with a weird fog
issue.
OK, so you guys have sent in some
really wild stuff this time.
Seriously wild.
Videos, social media posts.
I even saw a couple of local news
clips.
Right.
All about this strange fog that seems to
be blanketing everything.
It's popping up everywhere.
Oh, man.
Hey, people, guess what?
It's fog.
It's fog.
You don't have an ear.
I don't know what they're talking about.
Oh, man.
Oh, well, the best one, I couldn't find
anyone on YouTube talking about it, is this
is not fog, it's smart dust.
Oh, I haven't heard that one.
Yes, yes.
I mean, I started off with, I wasn't
even going to use that as the intro.
I'm glad you got that super cut because
I have no clips about it.
I actually made that myself this morning.
Well, good.
I'm glad we do some work on this
show.
We do some work.
So there's this woman who's finally, you know,
she looks at her HEPA filter in her
furnace and it's all, you know, it's black
because who knows why.
Because it's a HEPA filter.
There's a million possibilities.
It's a HEPA filter.
That's why.
It's a HEPA filter.
They collect dust.
Yeah.
And so she's all bent out of shape
because of the fog.
And then there's this idea, this is the
June bug thing.
It's a weird form of hysteria.
Mimi brought it up this morning.
She's on the computer.
She says, what's all this about the fog?
The fog.
What's up?
Wait a minute.
Wait, wait, wait.
Was she on the computer or was she
on Facebook?
She was on the computer.
She was doing scrolling on something.
Oh, yeah, of course.
I don't think.
Of course.
But I told her that the real thing
that's going on.
I thought the fog thing had already passed.
But I do have the clip for this,
which is this thing, which is the only
talk clip I have.
Oh, boy.
This is a woman.
This is a woman.
She's wearing a mask.
She's at the Planet Fitness.
And here she goes.
Hey, good morning, people.
For those of you who watch most of
my post, you know that I am a
proud member of Team Delulu.
Team Delulu?
If you know what that means, then it'll
make sense to you.
But I was watching Empress and Raw Cognizance
and a couple of other people today, and
it's starting.
It's happening.
If you have access to DJT's, that social
media side of his, read the one from
today where he is talking to Republicans and
telling them to be tough.
He knows.
He knows he's caught.
He knows.
What?
He's caught?
This is going to be an interesting few
weeks.
I've told people from the very beginning, no
way things are going to turn out the
way people expect them to turn out on
the 20th.
So it's a wow.
I am so happy I can say a
little bit about it now.
I was stifled at the beginning.
I was told not to talk about this.
I was warned that I would be blocked
if I brought this up in any conversation.
And it shocks me that it's easy for
a person or people to do that and
then condemn me for questioning things that don't
look right.
And now we learn that there's a lot
of people questioning what doesn't look right.
We just lost half the audience.
What is this clip about?
This is all black women.
Trump is not going to be – I've
been playing these clips for a while.
Oh, yeah.
He's not going to be president.
Yes, I've heard this one.
I've been playing these clips for a while.
They're all subtle and they're all like this
is the latest version of these black women.
They've all come out and said he's been
caught.
Yes.
He's been caught for a while.
He's in Guantanamo Bay.
He's in Guantanamo Bay, no doubt.
He's been caught and he's not going to
– and Kamala, the thing that really tops
it from some of these people is that
Kamala is being brought back.
Yeah, to be president.
Of course.
It's obvious.
And she said the thing – now, this
one might be a parody, this woman, because
she says she's from Team Delulu.
As in delusional?
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, you know, okay.
And we didn't lose half the audience.
We only lost a third of them.
So, first of all, it's temperature inversion.
We have fog.
In fact, January 2024, Washington Post, why thick
fog is blanketing a record stretch of the
U.S.? This happens in January.
But you identified correctly what is really happening
in the narcissistic era that we live in.
And I was thinking about this yesterday.
Hysteria.
Well, it's narcissistic, and that's why it breeds
hysteria.
And if it was a parody or not,
what she's doing is very typical.
I can't talk about this.
You know, they told me I'll be blocked.
You know, I had this on – They,
they, they, they.
So, yesterday, we had a New Year's Eve
gathering, some friends of ours, and we had
black-eyed peas, actually, which was the first
– Yeah, it's good luck in the South.
It's good luck in the South.
Here in the North, no.
It comes – I think it originally comes
from the Civil War, I think.
Black-eyed peas were – I don't know.
I used to know the history of this.
Well, I looked it up.
It's superstition.
Of course, it's superstition.
But black-eyed peas were considered a food
for animals who were often overlooked by soldiers.
However, they became a vital source of sustenance
during harsh winters, and it is, of course,
a symbol of luck.
You've got to eat black-eyed peas.
I never had them.
Liked them a lot.
It's a bean.
I liked them a lot.
It was good.
They're very tasty.
It's an heirloom bean.
They're quite good.
There's a lot of these different kinds of
heirloom beans.
There's yellow-eyed peas, too, which are beans.
Well, hold on a second.
I've never heard – Well, now we have
a bean discussion.
Yellow-eyed peas.
Hmm.
Yeah, I have a couple cans.
They came from S&W.
I think they were under their – they
have an heirloom brand.
They're starting to bring out these old heirloom
beans and canning them.
This is a bunch of weird – they're
all good.
I mean, nothing tops – just to say
this, I'm going to say it.
I also like pineapple pizza, so I'm going
to say this, too.
There's nothing better than a pinto bean.
Pinto bean.
Pinto beans for the win.
So, as always, people bring up – it
must have been 30, 40 people there.
At least half of them are watching the
game, the Texas game, when, over time, we
won, of course, Texas, although we didn't deserve
it.
That's my sports ball analysis for today.
I would say you didn't deserve it.
They let Arizona State get that close.
I'm telling you.
We didn't deserve it, but we won, so
we'll take it.
But then everyone – oh, there's this conspiracy
guy.
Hey, what about the fog?
It starts with the fog.
No.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, you want to hear the latest?
Yeah, of course.
That's part of the show for as far
as I'm concerned.
Remind me to come back to the story.
We are about to go into 10 days
of communication darkness.
Oh.
The power to the entire world will switch
off briefly, at which point the internet will
be switched over to Starlink only.
Shutdowns will occur only in certain areas, but
banks are closing, ATMs, credit cards won't work.
Make sure you have at least a month's
supply of food, water, cash, medicine, all the
essentials for yourself, your family, and to share
with others in case of emergency.
But if you're unprepared, don't worry, because the
military will be supplying what we need, and
nonstop education will be broadcast, teaching everybody about
the true principles of freedom and justice.
It's coming.
It's all coming.
It's all part of the plan.
Trust the plan.
I'm not kidding.
This is the stuff that gets talked about
here.
That is amazing.
It's fantastic.
It is fantastic.
It's absolutely amazing how small communities, which yours
is.
Of incredibly well-educated, smart, successful people.
I think you have a high net income
area too.
I think you're not a bunch of poor
people.
No, no, not at all.
In fact, the poor people are probably going
to come up with this crap.
We're the poorest.
We're the podcast family.
Everyone else is in oil and land.
We're like this.
So it's essentially a Texas elite, and you
end up coming up with this left and
right, and it happens continuously.
I've noticed this.
It's nonstop.
And it goes from one to another, and
nobody ever notices that the stuff in the
past has ever failed and never happened.
No one questions this.
This is what bothers me.
Well, then it moved to H-1B, and
I don't want to get into that just
now, but I laid out my rap, which
I laid out on the last show.
It's like, let them all come in.
Silicon Valley, let them all be run by
Indians.
It's fine.
What have they delivered other than the iPhone
16?
At this point, people start laughing and chuckling,
and like, oh, I still have an iPhone.
People pull out their iPhones.
I have an iPhone 11.
I have an upgraded.
Oh, I get an iPhone 12.
And then I pull out the flip phone.
I said, I got a flip phone.
And everyone goes, oh.
Oh, let me look at that.
And it really made me think, like, what
is it?
And they're like, oh, what does it do?
I said, not much.
Does it have a selfie cam?
I said, not a very good one.
I said, it's unattractive to use.
It's not easy, so I don't use it.
I use it for texting, and it's indestructible,
and it costs 62 bucks.
And I realized what is happening in the
narcissistic era.
The narcissism is created by the smartphone and
the selfie cam.
And we're, you know, if you're looking –
I love – hold on a second.
I love the way you come up with
these crazy theories.
You've done this before with the under-socialized
or over-socialized, under-educated.
You have this basic thesis, and you will
use it as a baseline, a tree, as
it were, for all the branches of your
thoughts.
Forever.
And it's actually quite good.
Well, thank you.
And I'm not even done.
I'm just getting ramped up here.
Well, no, I figured that.
That's why I had to stop you.
So, you know, what happens is, you know
– and it's TikTok, and a lot of
older people are on TikTok.
What is happening is, you know, you're completely
in your own bubble.
You know, you have this device in your
hands, and it is the device.
I'm convinced now it's the device.
And if there's something you don't like, you
just swipe away.
We are, in fact, propagandizing ourselves by –
oh, no, I don't want to see that.
No, I want to see more missed videos.
And throughout history, people have carried symbols of
how they're dominated.
Now, slaves, of course, didn't have a choice,
but they got branded.
You had the scarlet letter.
To some degree, even a rosary is showing
that you're dominated by something.
And I think the smartphone now is our
confessional.
TikTok and social networks, they're the church.
A like is like getting an amen.
And instead of asking for forgiveness, we're begging
for attention.
And this is why you're safe.
This is why you're safe, because you don't
have one of these propaganda, narcissistic devices.
I have one.
Yeah, but you don't carry it around like
a rosary.
No, hell no.
No, and in my flip phone, people are
interested.
I can see they're drawn to it because
underneath it all, they know that the smartphone
is the problem.
And they're drawn to the $62 device because
they know that really they have to break
free from this thing that dominates their life.
And it has become a complete narcissistic era.
It's all to raise everyone's own profile, to
raise your own marketability.
Yeah, your brand, your marketability.
That's what it's become.
And those who are tied to it will
probably never get out of it.
The narcissistic era, the smartphone, and the selfie
camera.
Well, that woman who was talking, the talk
clip that I played earlier, she does say,
if you've heard my other discussions, you know
I'm a member of DeLulu.
In other words, a lot of these people
always self-reference.
They talk about me, me, me.
Me, me, me.
Me, me, me, me.
It's like, as I've told you in my
past videos, they all say this.
Yes, yes, yes.
As you should know from my show.
My show, yeah.
And this is also the reason for the
incessant, you've got to have a video podcast.
If you don't have a video podcast, it's
no good.
You've got to show yourself.
It's for you.
You have to raise your you.
It's all about your brand.
Yeah, your brand, your marketability.
Your personal brand.
And I think you and I've...
I'd like to do a Google Ngram search
on personal brand and see if that cropped
up.
How many times have you heard someone say,
oh, that's really off-brand for me?
I've heard young people say this.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They're lost, John.
And we are the life raft in an
ocean.
We are the life raft in an ocean
of narcissism.
Grab a hold of us, people.
Grab a hold.
You can be saved.
Jeez.
Jeez.
That's a great one.
Yeah.
And you can date it all back to
2007 with the iPhone.
That's right.
That's when it kicked in.
There was other smart devices that, you know,
Microsoft had a smartphone and Nokia, but they
didn't come close to once the iPhone rolled
out.
Well, actually, when did the iPhone get the
selfie cam?
I don't think it was on the first
device.
I think it was.
I don't think they had a selfie cam.
No, because there were...
I'll tell you why I think that.
Okay.
Now you would have to look it up,
the iPhone 1.
But because there was selfie cameras on all
the other phones before the iPhone showed up,
they're not going to bring it out without
the camera, because their cameras were already in
play for at least two or three years.
In fact, I remember going to Comdex and
some of these trade shows for Motorola and
other people, and they had the camera.
Not all of them, but a lot of
them already had the camera, and it was
a big deal.
Let me see.
Hardware.
I don't think it had...
I don't think it...
I think that was one of the reasons...
Oh, I can't find it quick enough, but
I don't think...
Troll Room, go to work.
Troll Room says the first iPhone only had
the rear camera.
Oh, you mean...
Okay.
Yes, I don't...
That's what I'm talking about.
Yeah, you're thinking of the two cameras.
Yeah, yeah, the selfie cam.
That's the one on the front.
Oh, the front camera.
Yeah, the one on the front.
You're right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No, that I agree with, because the idea
of a selfie camera, the camera on the
other side, came when they were looking for
additional features.
Yes, yes.
But you could...
They were taking...
People were taking selfies with the rear camera,
and they'd check it.
I know, but it was the combo...
Back and forth.
It wasn't quite the same.
Yeah, it wasn't quite the same.
The combo of the front-facing cam and
Facebook slash Twitter.
You had to have a place to send
it to.
The funny thing is that the camera, the
regular camera that was on all the phones,
was a higher resolution than the selfie camera.
It was always like half as good.
Yeah, it sucked.
Yeah.
It was just a cheaper camera.
Yes.
It was always...
Yeah.
Never could figure out why that was.
Well, they didn't understand the importance that this
would make it the true bonanza that it
is.
The front-facing camera is really the big
deal.
And in conjunction with...
I mean, what is TikTok about?
All these clips, every single one you've brought
is all about me.
Watch me dance.
Watch me cook.
Watch me do my hair.
Watch me do my makeup.
The dancing dipshit clips are...
I mean, we don't play those on this
show because it's just some dipshit dancing.
Watch my morning routine.
Looking at her cool moves.
It's always some girl as a teen.
Watch me pump my husband.
And I don't understand what the appeal of
this is.
If somebody could explain that to me.
I'm explaining it to you.
No, I know.
But why would you...
Yes, but that's different than expressing yourself by
talking yakking, as opposed to taking somebody's song
and then doing some dance.
Look at me dance.
Look at me dance.
Look how good I dance.
I'm a good dancer.
They're not good dancers.
No one said narcissists were realistic.
No.
No, this is...
Really, the dancing thing is despicable.
Anyway, thanks to smartphones, we also have lots
of video of lots of events, lots of
things that are taking place.
And I'm sure lots of people are tuning
in to this live broadcast saying, oh, I
wonder what the guys think about New Orleans.
I wonder what they're talking about.
And I'm going to...
I have way too many clips for the
New Orleans.
Well, that's good.
I have clips that I think will matter.
But I want to remind everybody how we
view these things.
And it was, in fact, November 14th, 2024,
exactly six weeks ago that this report came
over the wire.
Breaking this hour, FBI Houston has arrested a
man accused of attempting to provide material support
for the terror group ISIS.
That was six weeks ago.
Now, when I see something happening with ISIS,
with apparently an ISIS flag, the FBI is
on the scene immediately, I can only think
six-week cycle gone rogue.
Because it had all the other elements.
It had...
No, I'm totally into the six...
I didn't get the previous clip from the
November 14th, but I was totally convinced.
Because you're right, as soon as the story
starts off, FBI starts off with...
Why not local police?
I mean, local police were obviously involved in
New Orleans, but the FBI angle was just
too much.
I need to roll out, I guess, right
off the bat, this guy that the WGN
had on in Chicago, who is professor of
history from DePaul, but he's billed, I believe,
as terrorism expert.
He's got the gray hair.
He's got all the features, John, all of
it.
And I have...
Yes, I have my terrorist experts too.
Okay, let me roll out mine.
What's this guy's name?
This is something weird.
Let's see.
It is mentioned in the clip.
What is your sense about what the city
of New Orleans...
Hold on a second.
I'm going to make sure I got the
right one.
Here we go, this one.
Dr. Tom Makaitis, terrorism expert and...
Tom Makaitis?
It's Makaitis, M-O-C-K-A-I
-T-I-S.
I'm not kidding.
Makaitis, Makaitis.
Dr. Tom Makaitis, terrorism expert and history professor
at DePaul University is joining us live now
to discuss more on this tragedy in New
Orleans.
Tom, thanks for joining us.
What are your thoughts...
And then what happened to Professor?
Tom, thanks for joining us.
Okay, kind of friendly, aren't we, with the
professor?
Tragedy in New Orleans.
Tom, thanks for joining us.
What are your thoughts on this suspect's background?
We heard President Biden elaborating on some posts
to social media where he was praising ISIS
and also his military background.
Just give us your reaction to the details
that we know about him so far.
Yes, details.
Well, it reminds me of the Fort Hood
shooter in that regard, Hassan Nadal.
This is another example of the self-radicalized
or radicalized online lone wolf terrorist, although it
looks like he acted alone, but they're not
entirely sure about that.
But what's really interesting is his attack was
almost, you know, a page taken out of
the Inspire magazine published in 2010.
That was that issue that had this Chicago
skyline and also had an article titled The
Ultimate Mowing Machine, which contained instructions for how
to use a pickup truck to mow down
pedestrians and then follow it up with a
firearm battle, which is exactly what he did.
And, of course, the flag is pretty compelling
evidence that he affiliated with ISIS.
Now, they didn't immediately claim responsibility, which is
further evidence that he's a lone wolf.
Typically, they will only weigh in when they've
made a determination that, yes, he's acted on
our behalf and we bless his actions.
So when I heard this, I hear Inspire
magazine, lone wolf, The Ultimate Mowing Machine.
I dive into our No Agenda clip archive.
2016, Trump enters office in this year as
well.
When I saw this attack and the news
unfolding, I immediately recalled a series of articles
in the Al-Qaeda and the Arabian Peninsula
magazine Inspire called Open Source Shihad, which were
published in 2010.
And one of those articles described exactly what
happened in Paris today.
This was the magazine that was published by
Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan, who are
two American-born Al-Qaeda terrorists.
And this article, The Ultimate Mowing Machine, let
me just read you this.
There it is, mowing machine.
The idea is to use a pickup truck
as a mowing machine, not to mow grass,
but to mow down the enemies of Allah.
Pick your location and timing carefully.
Go for the most crowded locations.
To achieve maximum carnage, you need to pick
up as much speed as you can while
still retaining good control of your vehicle in
order to strike as many people as possible
in your first run.
The ideal location is a place where there
are maximum number of pedestrians and the least
number of vehicles.
If you can get through the pedestrian-only
areas that exist in some downtown city areas,
that would be fabulous.
And finally, this is the kicker, if you
have access to firearms, carry them with you
so that you may use them to finish
off your work if your vehicle gets grounded
during the attack.
The idea would be to implement it in
countries like Israel, the U.S., Britain, Canada,
Australia, and France.
That is exactly what happened tonight.
Al-Qaeda published it in 2010 in their
magazine, Inspire.
Come on.
FBI, we know this script.
Just to pile on.
Yeah, please.
And that was from 2016.
2016, yeah.
NPR?
The clip is called Car Ramming Inspire Magazine.
You know, in 2010, Al-Qaeda came out
in Inspire Magazine and asked people to start
using vehicles to ram.
They, in fact, named the F-350 specifically
as a heavy-duty weapon that could be
used by their people.
And then that was added to by the
Islamic State.
And so it's not something that we should
be surprised by.
And I'll just add that the president, or
whoever that guy is, came out right away
for a four-minute conference, a four-minute
speech about what happened, which was interrupted by
the teleprompter failing.
I think it's important we listen to what
President Biden said.
Here's what we know so far.
The FBI has reported to me the killer
was an American citizen, born in Texas.
He served in the United States Army on
active duty for many years.
He also served in the Army Reserve until
a few years ago.
The FBI also reported to me that mere
hours before the attack, he posted videos on
social media indicating that he was inspired by
ISIS.
I have not seen any of these videos,
by the way.
I have not seen any videos he posted
on social media, but okay.
Expression of desire to kill.
Desire to kill.
The ISIS flag was found in his vehicle.
Okay, now, this is a discrepancy.
The flag was found in his vehicle.
Was he flying on the back of his
vehicle?
The FBI had it covered.
I saw the video where he hangs a
quick right and accelerates onto Bourbon Street.
The flag was not unfurled in that video,
so this stinks.
Was he rented to conduct this attack?
I agree with this, by the way.
I followed this, too, and there's discrepancy.
It was on the trailer hitch.
It was on a flagpole.
It was in the back.
It was in the trunk.
It was on the ground.
Yeah, a little more from the president.
The ISIS flag was found in his vehicle.
Was he rented to conduct this attack?
Why is this relevant?
Was he rented to conduct this attack?
I mean, this is a script.
Some explosives were found in the vehicle as
well, and more explosives were found nearby.
The situation is very fluid in the investigation
as a preliminary stage, and the fact is
that right now- Excuse me.
Mr. President, we're having a problem with the
prompter.
Just one second.
There you go.
Okay, go ahead.
The law enforcement and intelligence community continue to
look for any connections, associations, or co-conspirators.
We have nothing additional to report at this
time.
The investigation is continuing to be active, and
no one should jump to conclusions.
I've directed my attorney general, the FBI director,
the Secretary of Homeland Security, the head of
the National Counterterrorism Center, and the intelligence community
to work on this intensively until we have
a full and complete information.
And once we have that information, I will
share that information as soon as we can
confirm it.
Additionally, we're tracking the explosion of a cyber
truck outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas.
Oh, there we go.
Law enforcement and the intelligence community are investigating
this as well, including whether there's any possible
connection with the attack in New Orleans.
Thus far, there's nothing to report on that
score at this time.
Yeah, this is the Biden weave, where he
weaves all kinds of things together, and this
is exactly how you get stuff started online.
Everyone starts freaking out.
I have one more clip to play, then
I want you to play your clips.
This, I think, is a killer clip.
This is Senator Kennedy, Joe Kennedy, the guy
who's usually just funny.
John Kennedy.
John Kennedy, I'm sorry.
He's from Louisiana.
He's down, boots on the ground.
I've never seen this.
He has, like, an army jacket on with
Americans.
Yeah, he's got a funny outfit on.
He's like, okay, I better put this on
because I'm official now, I'm in official capacity.
But what he said says it all.
This sounds to be some sort of sleeper
cell, a terror cell on U.S. soil.
Terror cell.
Is that what you're hearing?
Well, there's a fine line between anger and
grief, and I'm pretty much straddling that line
right now.
If you don't believe in objective evil, all
you need to do is go walk about
30 or 40 yards that way.
Objective evil.
I'm here for two reasons.
Number one, these are my people, and these
are my people's guests.
Number two, I don't want to hear from
anybody in the federal government that they don't
have the resources.
Now, the White House, the FBI, justice, Homeland
Security are in charge now.
We're cooperating with them.
I want to give them a reasonable period
of time.
There's a lot of information out there.
Some of it is actually true.
I want to give them a reasonable period
of time, but they need to saddle up
and ride.
We need to find out what happened here,
and it's not going to be covered up.
We're going to tell the American people exactly
what happened.
Sure.
And that's why I'm down here.
We know a lot more than what's being
reported.
They are in the middle of an active
investigation, and I don't want to do anything
to screw it up.
Okay.
But I'm also not going to let them
take the pressure off.
Okay, got it, Senator.
You did promise transparency earlier in the press
conference that you took part in this afternoon.
Are you getting the sense that the FBI
have been tracking this suspect, or are you
getting the sense that they perhaps somehow missed
this?
I can't answer that.
I can't answer that, but I shouldn't.
I'm going to say it again.
We're giving the FBI and Homeland Security a
reasonable amount of time to do their job.
Yeah, so that they can prove their worthiness
and existence so Kash Patel can't come in
and fire everybody and move the remaining to
a new building.
This is a script gone wrong, typical FBI
bungle.
They set a guy up.
They want to have IEDs planted everywhere.
The guy goes rogue and drives through a
bunch of people.
This is bull crap.
This is your government.
I don't believe for a second that this
is ISIS-inspired.
I can't argue with you.
I believe this is the same thing.
It was one of the FBI stings that
were set up expecting, I'll just push this
button and then we'll arrest you.
But the guy went rogue and fell off
the script.
These guys are not that controllable necessarily.
There's something going on, and the rest of
this has to be a cover-up, so
they're going to have to cover their tracks,
and that's what this is really going to
be about.
We're assuming this is based on our— by
the way, this is no agenda.
We've been told about the six-week cycle,
and it's been in play on and off.
It's not pure, but it does exist, and
it's done for budgetary purposes.
It goes wrong once in a while.
This Jabbar guy was flagged, I'm not sure
what that means, and barred from re-enlistment
between 2014 and 2015 for an incident.
I don't know what that is yet.
It would be nice to know.
The flag was removed, and then he joined
the reserves.
I think—was this guy also with Fort Hood,
or the other guy?
I think the Vegas guy.
Another military guy, Matthew Leibesberger, active-duty special
forces operations sergeant, who was on leave from
Germany, where he was serving with the 10th
Special Forces Group.
This stinks.
Well, let's go to these clips here, and
then we'll get something out of it.
Maybe.
Maybe we will.
Maybe.
So let's start with the local reporting.
This came out—one of our producers sent this
to me.
It's better than the NPR stuff I had,
so I bounced that, and I put this
in.
This is ISIS, because it has this crazy
-looking commissioner of police of New Orleans, some
old woman.
She looks like my mom.
No, she used to be.
She's the lady who was in Oakland, and
she mowed down two people herself with her
car.
That's who that is.
I don't—well, that's good to know, but she
looks like she's wearing a gray wig.
She looks terrible, and she sounds worse, and
she's in this clip, and then I have
a follow-up clip with her talking more.
I didn't know she was the Oakland woman.
Yes.
She just—I don't know what's the story here,
but here's the ISIS terrorist.
This is the background, and it brings in
the commish.
The FBI is calling the deadly attack in
New Orleans an act of terrorism.
Hello, everybody.
I'm Heather Hayes.
The FBI says that suspect, who is now
dead, was 42-year-old Sham Sadeen Jabbar,
a U.S. citizen and Army veteran from
the Houston area.
They do not believe he acted alone, and
there's now reportedly surveillance video of other individuals
who might be involved.
At least 15 people are now confirmed dead,
dozens of others injured, including two police officers
who were shot.
Fox 4's Stephen Dyle in studio now with
more.
Stephen.
The New Orleans police chief says Sham Sadeen
Jabbar drove onto the sidewalk to get around
a police car that was providing security by
blocking the vehicle's access to Bourbon Street.
The coroner of Orleans Parish just shared that
the death toll has climbed to 15 people.
Three hours into the new year, Bourbon Street
in New Orleans turned into a massive crime
scene.
This particular terrorist drove around onto the sidewalk.
The FBI says 42-year-old Sham Sadeen
Jabbar, a U.S. citizen from the Houston
area, drove a white pickup truck around a
police car blocking traffic and slammed into pedestrians
on the crowded street.
15 people were killed, dozens injured.
Federal investigators are calling this an act of
terrorism.
New Orleans police and all law enforcement is
built, we are built for dealing with evil,
with things that would cause us, others, to
be in fear.
But instead, our officers, and last night NOPD
in particular, stood strong.
They did not run.
They did kill the terrorist.
So, February 20th, 2020, Oakland Police Commission voted
unanimously to fire Kirkpatrick, to be fired with
cause, because the commission's trust in Kirkpatrick was
irrevocably broken.
This was a big deal.
It was a lawsuit and everything over it.
This is, she's questionable.
I'd say, and then here's the, this is
the, I don't know why I named it
number three, because I can't find two.
Here she is finishing her little spiel with
this nonsense.
This city has been tried by fire before.
But fire purifies.
Fire makes things stronger.
We have a plan.
We know what to do.
We are going to get these people.
There is a path forward.
No, she's talking about these people now.
So, she's talking about more than just one.
Not a lone wolf situation, if you're talking
about these people.
This is, this is, oh.
Yes, because they saw somebody plant some supposed
IEDs, two people, a woman and a guy,
maybe another guy.
And this is, the whole thing is kind
of falling apart.
So, I ended up with finding these, and
I went to PBS and found Lopez, a
woman who had this analyst on.
And this guy you'll find to be a
little more interesting than the analyst you had
earlier.
Because this guy's from the Council on Foreign
Relations, works with the CIA.
Nice, okay.
And he's, and this is super scripted.
She reads, she's reading from a script she
can't even, I don't know why they don't
put a prompter behind the guy and let
her read from that.
Because she keeps looking down, it's very poorly
executed because it was a weekend.
So, you know, or it's a holiday, so
they had the holiday crew on, and so
they had Lopez doing the anchoring and she
stinks at it.
But here we go, this is Bourbon Street,
and it is four-parter, Bourbon Street Analysis
PBS.
For insight into the ongoing terrorism investigation, we're
joined by Bruce Hoffman, Senior Fellow for Counterterrorism
and Homeland Security at the Council on Foreign
Relations.
He's advised the CIA and has studied terrorism
and insurgency for five decades.
Bruce, thank you so much for joining us
this evening.
The suspect was an Army veteran and he
had an ISIS flag in his truck, according
to authorities.
How significant is it that he had that
ISIS flag and what else stands out to
you?
The ISIS flag is enormously significant because it's
very clear he was trying to situate this
act of violence in a political context, indeed
in a terrorist context, and show allegiance or
support of ISIS's aims.
Law enforcement has said that they don't believe
that the suspect, Samsouh Jabbar, was acting alone.
So what can we infer so far from
what we know about who else might be
involved or what this means?
This is what's so alarming about this particular
incident is it wasn't just a matter of
someone getting in a truck and driving from
Texas to Louisiana and carrying out an attack.
It's believed that at least two other improvised
explosive devices were found in the French Quarter
of New Orleans and that several other men
and a woman have been captured on video
planting them there.
So this suggests some conspiratorial dimension to the
attack, which means that this may not be
isolated.
Right, authorities did say in the last few
hours that they're not sure if that man
and woman were involved or connected to the
suspect, but there's a lot that we still
don't know.
And again, based on the information that we
have so far, how likely is it that
the suspect was inspired or directly linked to
ISIS?
Inspired.
Use the inspired word, please.
He's a tenured professor at Georgetown University, also
the director of Rand's Washington, D.C. office.
His bio is quite remarkable.
He's very connected.
This is the guy you want on a
holiday weekend.
Hey, I got a poem, I'm not doing
anything.
I got time to do a hit for
you, PBS.
Now, here's an interesting part.
It starts to get interesting.
This is the second clip.
Now, I want you to think about, or
anyone out there should think about how these
things evolve when it comes to the background
information on the person who does these attacks,
when they're real.
They're not, it takes days and days before
we know anything.
But their posts are usually still up, and
they're trying to scrub everything off the internet
as fast as they can.
Now, this took place at 3.14, I
think, or 3.15 in the morning, the
morning of this report that we're listening to,
which was probably done in the early afternoon
of the same day, which is probably less
than.
12 hours later, maybe.
Probably less than 12 hours.
In less than 12 hours, I'd like you
to explain to me how this guy knows
what he's about to tell us in this
short a period of time.
Sorry.
It's difficult to say.
It's clear that he was going through some
personal crisis.
He had financial problems, for example.
He was recently divorced.
He's a recent convert to a religion, for
example.
All of those things may have played in
his mind of doing something daring, dramatic, and
violent that would all of a sudden catapult
him into some sort of infamous notoriety.
But notoriety, nonetheless, as opposed to having been
a failure at everything else that he's tried.
And what we know from the recruitment and
radicalization of individuals is that members of terrorist
organizations, handlers, play on individuals' personal weaknesses or
their personal traumas, and attempt to get them
to engage in acts of violence that, in
normal circumstances, they might never have contemplated.
This is perfect, because all you have to
do in your mind is replace ISIS with
FBI.
I mean, yes, that's exactly what happens.
You jack this guy up, and then all
of a sudden he decides to hang a
right and mow everybody down.
That's pretty much what happened.
But how does this guy, this guy who's
called out, you know, like you said, what
are you doing this weekend?
I'm not skiing in Aspen or anything.
I've got plenty of time.
I'm just hanging around.
He comes on the show with this detailed
information about his finances and his divorces and
his army experience within a 12-hour slot,
time slot, where you just get thrown on
there.
Come on, people.
Yeah.
You know, I was talking to Tina about
this, and I immediately said, six-week cycle.
And I said, but, you know, 15 people
died.
And she turns to me and says, you
know they really don't care about us.
The government doesn't care.
She says, this is just 15 people.
It's a spit in the bucket.
And this is my wife who is not
like this normally at all.
She's like, hey, look at 9-11.
I'm like, okay, all right, simmer down.
Well, she's been living in Texas too long.
Not long enough.
I don't believe for a minute that the
FBI doesn't care that this guy, if our
scenario is correct, and I'm assuming it is,
that this guy went rogue.
Went rogue, yeah.
Yeah, I just don't believe that.
The same with the kid on the roof
at Butler, Pennsylvania.
Yeah, that was it.
The same analysis.
The kid decides to go and do it
for real instead of getting caught.
And by the way, what's with the security
barriers?
Oh, well, we were going to put those
in a few days.
Oh, we forgot about that.
This whole thing is wrong.
But just remember, Inspire, Ultimate Mowing Machine, 2016,
2010.
It's like we've got a- Yeah, I'm
glad you got that clip from 2016 with
this exact same thing, and with President Trump
coming in.
So let's go to- the analysis starts
to peter out a little bit here, so
let's go with clip three.
I think the biggest question is, was this
a broader conspiracy?
And who are the fellow conspirators?
And what conceivably might be next?
I would say, secondly, it's whether that explosion,
a very mysterious explosion of a cyber truck
outside of a Trump-owned hotel in Las
Vegas, is in any way connected to this
event as well.
It seems odd that two electric vehicles were
involved in an explosion.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
whoa.
What two electric vehicles?
The Ford was not an electric vehicle.
Nope.
He rented that thing in Houston, and it's
a Ford F-150.
You saw it.
Everyone saw it.
It's not an electric Ford.
You can tell.
They don't look the same.
Wow.
Hold on.
Step back.
Just step back.
Step back for a second.
Clip of the day.
Wow.
This guy is read in and flubs it.
He's read in and flubbed it.
Wow.
That was a flub.
That's a big flub.
It was a big flub, and he cracked
me up when he said it.
Wow.
They're both electric vehicles.
It wasn't a Ford Lightning, was it?
No, you can see the truck.
I saw photos of it.
It was a Ford F-150.
Yeah, it didn't look like it.
It wasn't a 350, which he would have
used if he could have rented one from,
you know, using the Inspire magazine.
Wait a minute.
The troll room is saying, yes, Ford F
-150 Lightning?
Really?
I don't think so.
Look, let's look at the practicality.
Hold on.
Let's look at the practicality of renting an
electric truck in Houston and then driving it
to New Orleans.
Well, then they would be able to track
that through every Tesla charging station, which we
did hear about the Cybertruck.
I'm just not buying that it was...
Now, if it was electric, then that's the
first...
And then it makes it even more interesting
that why would he be the only guy
that reported that?
And why is he even reporting anything?
Because he's an analyst.
He's supposed to come out...
Here it is.
Here it is.
New Orleans terrorist suspect used Ford Lightning.
Wow.
So this guy knew this already and he
links it to two electric vehicles?
What does that have to do with the
price of matzah?
You and your matzah.
I say it on purpose.
Let me listen to this guy again.
Let's start that clip over.
I think the biggest question is, was this
a broader conspiracy?
And who are the fellow conspirators?
And what conceivably might be next?
I would say, secondly, it's whether that explosion,
a very mysterious explosion of a cyber truck
outside of a Trump-owned hotel in Las
Vegas, is in any way connected to this
event as well.
It seems odd that two electric vehicles are
involved in explosions on the same day.
Wow.
Wait a minute.
This was not involved in an explosion.
He says two electric vehicles were involved in
an explosion.
No.
One exploded.
One killed people on Bourbon Street.
By ramming, yeah.
Do you have a fourth clip for this
guy, or is it just three?
No, that's it.
It ends there because there's nothing else.
Well, let me play this.
He was read in.
This was scripted.
Clearly.
When you saw it, when you got to
watch it visually, you can see the scripting.
It's actually much better in audio than it
is in video because in video it just
looks like a rehearsal.
Hold on a second.
Stop.
So back to our thesis.
I like this.
Let me pull this clip up again.
This guy is good.
I want to hear this again.
So back to our thesis that the Bourbon
Street mowing machine went rogue.
He had IEDs in the truck.
Perhaps the plan was to have two IEDs
explode in electric vehicles because that's what this
guy is saying.
He says, gee, isn't it coincidence that you
have two electric vehicles exploding on the same
day?
That might have been the original plan before
the Bourbon Street mowing machine went rogue.
Listen to this last bit again from this
guy.
Outside of a Trump-owned hotel in Las
Vegas is in any way connected to this
event as well.
It seems odd that two electric vehicles are
involved in explosions on the same day.
Oh, he had the old script.
He didn't realize the script had changed.
Why would you say that?
There was no explosion on Bourbon Street.
Now, maybe it was planned.
I like the idea of being the old
script because he obviously knows too much.
For a guy who was just dragged out
of bed, remembering again this took place six
to 12 hours just before this guy shows
up in the studio as the superstar expert
with connections to the CIA and connections to
the Council on Foreign Relations and doing this
for 50 years.
This guy's 70s.
He's in his 70s.
So he's been a terrorism expert for 50
years, so he's the go-to guy.
And he'd be dragged out of bed.
I'm going to use that.
I just like it.
Because it's a holiday.
Being dragged out of bed and then put
in front of the camera, and he has
all this information and he's just reciting it.
And when you watch the two of these
interchange, Lopez and this guy, it just looks
rehearsed as hell.
And then we have this connection that everybody
made, including our president.
A blast that in seconds turned this Tesla
Cybertruck into a ball of flames.
Parked outside the Trump International Hotel in Las
Vegas, it is now a charred carcass of
a vehicle.
Investigators are looking into whether the explosion was
an act of organized terrorism.
Elon Musk, Tesla's CEO and a strong supporter
of President-elect Donald Trump, confirmed online that
explosives and fireworks were found in the bed
of the truck and that the vehicle's data
seemed normal prior to the blast.
The timing of the incident is also of
concern for investigators, as it occurred just hours
after a car rammed into revelers in New
Orleans.
President Biden said an investigation is ongoing, but
that no link had been found between the
two events.
The intelligence community are investigating this as well,
including whether there's any possible connection with the
attack in New Orleans.
Thus far, there's nothing to report on that
score at this time.
The investigation did find that both vehicles were
rented on the same car-sharing site, Turo.
In a statement, Turo said it was working
with law enforcement.
A troubling coincidence or linked events?
Las Vegas' sheriff also confirmed that they do
not believe the two attacks were the work
of a major terrorist organization.
So the question is, is there any links
to ISIS?
And I will tell you that we don't
have any indication of that here in Las
Vegas, no overt ISIS flag as was seen
in New Orleans.
But again, we are investigating every aspect of
this, and if that comes to light, we'll
certainly update you.
With the area under tight security, the FBI
said the driver of the rented Tesla died
in the blast.
And a reminder that we had a so
-called terrorist attack also set up by FBI
with Omar Mateen of the Pulse nightclub in
Florida in 2016 when Trump just came in.
This is what these crazy people do.
Oh yeah, let's make ourselves really relevant for
the president coming in.
We got terrorists, ISIS in America, everybody.
It's disgusting.
And they do the same script.
They forget that the No Agenda show has
the clips.
We have all the old clips.
We have the clips.
We have your clips.
That's troubling.
It's quite annoying.
Yeah.
And then you get these poor innocents that
just get killed.
I have the Trump casino incident NTD clip.
This is part of this, this is how
the NTD reports on the casino explosion at
the Trump Hotel in Vegas.
Over in Las Vegas, one person was killed
and seven more were injured when a Tesla
Cybertruck exploded in front of the Trump Hotel
earlier today.
Just a warning, some viewers may find the
following footage disturbing due to its graphic nature.
Authorities say the car caught fire in the
valet area of the hotel around 8.40
a.m. local time.
A person died inside the vehicle.
Seven bystanders received minor injuries and were taken
to a hospital for treatment.
Police are investigating the incident as a possible
act of terror.
No cause was given and details remain scarce.
This is a developing story and we'll keep
you updated.
Hmm.
You know, Musk came out with a tweet
about the initial, you know, Brunetti sent some
notes around, you got one, that he believes
it was fireworks that this guy was hauling
around to blow up locally, which you can
do.
But if there was a bomb or anything,
which Musk kind of thinks there was, and
he was bragging about the strong sides of
the Tesla truck, it's so rugged and well
-built that the explosion could only go up.
Yes.
And it couldn't go out to the sides
and do any damage, and then he pointed
out that even the windows of the doors
right there weren't even broken.
This whole thing is just, I think the
initial thesis that this is a botched operation.
And then we need to add this little
ditty to it.
To some breaking news now.
The FBI arresting a Virginia man earlier this
month after finding what prosecutors described as the
largest seizure of homemade explosives in bureau history.
In court documents, prosecutors say Brad Kenneth Spafford
is an extreme danger to the community, and
they're trying to keep him in jail.
They say he had a stockpile of more
than 150 pipe bombs, with some preloaded into
a wearable vest.
Let's get right to our Ken Delaney.
And Ken, what is Spafford charged with right
now, and what else did investigators say they
found?
As of now, Valerie, he's only charged with
illegally possessing a short-barreled unregistered rifle.
But it seems pretty clear they're planning more
charges.
They were arguing to this federal judge that
he should not be released on bond because
he's a danger to the community, not only
because they recovered that massive cache of explosives,
but because he appears to be an anti
-government extremist.
They said that he was using pictures of
President Biden for target practice, and he talked
to a neighbor about bringing back political assassinations.
So he appears to have some very extreme
beliefs, and the federal government wants him behind
bars.
That's where he is right now, while a
judge considers the evidence, Valerie.
Yeah, of course, we don't know much about
this case, but I do like the idea
of incarcerating him for the thought crime.
Because that's basically what it is.
You know, what's up with these IEDs?
Did he really have IEDs in a vest?
I mean, this is all sketchy details at
this point, but the only...
Yeah, it sounds like it's very poorly organized.
But, I mean, was he shooting at target
practicing of Biden?
Well, that's probably...
Well, that's all according to the neighbor.
According to the neighbor.
According to the neighbor.
Yeah, the neighbor.
Okay.
And then here's the lawyer.
And, Ken, what is his lawyer saying about
all of this?
Well, his lawyer is pushing back strongly against
the idea that he's a danger to the
community.
He hasn't spoken specifically to the seizures of
explosives, but he's saying that the idea that
this man is dangerous and an anti-government
extremist is overblown and concocted, and there's no
evidence of that.
No evidence.
Initially, a judge ruled that he could be
released with electronic monitoring, but the prosecutors urged
that judge to reconsider, and he remains behind
bars at this hour.
Yeah, at this hour.
Because it's good for the story.
It's good for everybody to get all spun
up and all excited about it.
Well, there you go.
Lone Wolf.
The Lone Wolf are back.
Or is it?
Is it just the Lone Wolf?
Or...
We have an actual...
The Lone Wolf.
We got this...
We used this Lone Wolf howl for the
first time in 2011.
2011, the first time we used that.
Yeah.
And then, you know, just so you know,
we've been down this path so many times.
Oh, we've...
We have...
This story is just repeating.
Repeating.
Ow!
ISIS.
We will follow them to the gates of
hell.
ISIS.
ISIS in America, everybody.
That's right.
That's the whole point.
Just keep thinking that.
ISIS in America.
So, changing topics, but not changing complete topics.
I do have this musk clip, because we
talked about musk, because it confirms your...
Well, I think we both agree on this,
but...
Oh, yeah.
I love my ex-timeline.
People are like, Yo, man, Curry was right.
He was right.
Curry was right.
Curry's been talking about this for years.
For years.
The thing is, Curry's been talking about it
for years, but musk has been talking about
it longer.
I know.
That's where Curry got it from.
Yeah, exactly.
The CEO of social media platform X, formerly
known as Twitter, teasing X-TV, X-money,
and more in 2025.
X-money!
Elon Musk wants to be in everything app.
The X-app is going to be the
way you manage your life.
I mean, that's what Elon's really got envisioned
for it.
No, we don't.
No, we don't forget that.
Click and go.
Click and go.
Click and buy.
Click and buy.
Every message, every tweet will have the ability
to be monetized, and obviously that's the big
secret sauce here.
Secret sauce!
Nice.
Mm-hmm.
They're going to assassinate Musk someday.
The banking industry is not going to take
this lightly.
No.
That's a good point.
The banking industry, yes.
Well, if anyone's seen the movie, a good
movie, I would recommend, go check it out.
It's very funny.
Well, not funny, but it's interesting.
It's called The International.
Ah, it's a great movie.
Isn't that with, what's that actor's name?
Well, people in the troll room will come
up with the actor's name, but it's a
tremendous film, and it's about...
Clive Owen.
Clive Owen.
Yeah, Clive Owen.
It's a very, it's just a terrific film.
About BCCI, right?
Pretty much, yeah.
BCCI?
Yeah.
Well, since we're talking about digital money, Fifi
Lagarde came out.
She is, of course, convicted of crimes in
France, but it doesn't matter.
That's why she went from the International Monetary
Fund to the president, the boss over there
at the European Central Bank, the Federal Reserve,
if you will, of the European Union, and
she wished everybody a happy 2025.
Things are great, of course.
Things are great.
It's going to be even better, and just
wait.
I want to wish all of you a
happy new year.
Happy, healthy, prosperous 2025.
So we have a big, heavy agenda at
the ECB.
Heavy agenda.
We have made significant progress in 2024 in
bringing down inflation.
Yeah, yeah.
Ask my daughter about that inflation that you
brought down.
And hopefully 2025 is the year when we
are on target, as expected and as planned
in our strategy.
Of course, we will continue our efforts to
ensure that that inflation stabilizes sustainably at that
2% medium-term target.
We will also be reviewing our monetary policy
strategy.
Why do we do that?
Yes, why do you do that?
I thought you already did that.
Just did that in 2021.
Well, we're doing it to ensure that it
still fits the changing world in which we
live.
Uh-huh.
This is changing fast.
Oh, yeah.
Now here it comes.
Here comes the money shot.
We are fit for 2025 and following.
Another significant development on the horizon is our
digital euro.
We are in the preparation phase, and we
are expecting European legislation.
Once that is done, we will decide whether
we move forward with developing a digital form
of cash.
Your digital euro.
Your digital.
She's already doing the slogan.
Your digital euro.
Don't worry, it's coming, Europe.
And you know, we are also working on
banknotes.
We are in the process of redesigning our
banknotes.
This is interesting.
The long-standing exercise that will not be
completed in 2025, but significant moves will take
place with the design phase.
It reflects a commitment to innovation while also
preserving the trust and security that our currency
represents, both in banknote form and in digital
form.
So, when you talk about the security in
banknote form, I'm thinking, yes, plastic, embedded with
some kind of tracking mechanism, guaranteeing that she's
crazy.
Those people are crazy.
She is crazy, but I don't think you
can make that work.
Well, I'm just hearing what she's saying.
All you have to do, okay.
So, you've got a bunch of plastic bills.
They're either good or they're bad.
You take the bill, and you put it
in the microwave and give it about 15
seconds.
That'll blow out anything in there that's a
circuit.
Yeah, but then it won't be valid currency
when you go to pay.
No, it will be.
There's no way they could invalidate the currency
for that happening, because that could happen by
accident.
What are you talking about?
This is exactly what's going to happen.
I'm holding a bill that says 20 euros.
You give me my money.
And the way the new cash registers work
is you hold up the bill against the
little sensor, and it says, okay, this is
that bill.
We know who has that bill.
And if that's the case, you don't need
bills at all.
You might as well have it embedded in
the palm of your hand.
Yes.
Well, hello.
Hello, Mark of the Beast.
Thank you for taking us there in the
palm of your hand.
Exactly.
And do you think that Fifi's going to
let Elon use X money in Europe?
I don't think so.
There's no way.
In communist China, yeah, of course, you can
use the everything app.
In Europe, communist Europe?
Mm-mm.
Mm-mm.
You got to use the digital euro, my
brother.
That's not going to happen.
It's not going to happen.
Well, it's not going to happen for whatever
reason.
Well, that digital euro is coming.
I believe that.
I fully believe that's happening.
They're going to try.
Everyone wants to do these things.
I fully believe that's happening.
Fully believe it.
Of course, we have our own fun here
in the United States.
We've been tracking this for over a decade
on the show.
Let's start with some of these new travel
requirements that are supposed to be coming in
2025.
And one of them we've been talking about,
it feels like, for about 20 years.
We have, literally, right?
But TSA says 2025 is the year we're
going to get real, y'all.
As in the real ID.
We're going to get real, y'all.
May.
Come on.
I'll bring it when I see it.
You got to be, if you're 18 and
up, May 7th, bring a real ID to
travel domestically in the U.S. This is
part of an effort to make sure everything
is secure federally.
If you do not have a real ID,
you can use your passport.
But here's what it looks like.
You may already have one.
Maybe the last time you renewed your driver's
license.
It has a little star at the top.
There you go, in the upper right-hand
corner.
That's how you know if you have a
real ID.
Check your state DMV for how to do
it.
Now, if you are going to the United
Kingdom, this is real.
And it's happening next week, January 8th.
You have to have an electronic travel authorization,
an ETA, for travel in the United Kingdom.
I know.
I know.
What does that mean?
I'm out.
What do you know?
And it means that it's good for two
years and you can go where you need
to go in the U.K. But you
need to get on and figure that out
because they're not going to let you go
to the U.K. without.
The other thing that you're going to need
if you're traveling to Europe, 30 countries, including
places like France, Germany, Spain, is this ETIAS.
The ETIAS, the European Travel Information Authorization System.
Money gouge.
That, technically, is TBD, but it's 420.25.
You have to pay 7 euros, and then
that puts you into the system.
You register online, and that will allow you
to travel to 30 European countries and territories.
So, in reverse order, it's the European version
of our ESTA.
Of our what?
ESTA.
I think it's called ESTA.
E-E-S-T-A.
If you're coming from Europe, you have to
pay, I think it's $7, maybe, funny enough,
and have an ESTA.
It's like a visa.
You do it online.
And now they're saying, oh, you've got to
do it for us, too.
Americans.
You want to come over here?
It's like when you go to Japan, you
have to pay to get out of the
country.
Yes, that's right.
Yeah, with cash.
You have to pay with cash.
I know.
It's like, do you have any bills?
Can't let you out.
Yeah, you've got to do that when you
leave.
And, of course, the real ID.
You're right.
This is just a gouge.
Yeah.
It's just like nickel and diming the traveling
public.
The real ID.
This is the same, by the way, the
same gouging which has been taking, took over
the hotel business with all these phony baloney
fees.
It's taken over the rental car business with
all these phony baloney fees.
There's fees for parking.
The re-parking the car back in the
lot, there's a fee.
There's a fee for the rental asphalt.
There's a fee.
I mean, it says it's $19 a day,
but it ends up being $50 a day
because of all these fees.
This is unbelievable that this is continuing at
this clip.
Then the real ID, of course, that is
just to solidify.
Let me stop you there again.
When we started following the real ID story,
which was over 10 years ago, there was
an outcry amongst the conservatives in particular and
the Republicans and everybody.
Oh, my God, they're trying to track us
all.
They just wanted, there's just a way of
maintaining, you know, control of the public and
they went and it was a big fuss
about it and no one was buying it.
Now, all of a sudden, it's fine.
What changed?
Oh, yeah.
Well, what changed is that when you go
through TSA, they take your driver's license and
now it will be certified.
It is in Texas with a real ID
and that means the picture we have on
you, which will expedite your journey with facial
recognition, will be all certified.
This is already here.
The test they did is already grandfathered in.
It's not a test.
They just went through it, going to Europe
and back.
It's all facial recognition.
All of it.
It's here.
And it's all going up to Starlink.
Elon has control of all of it.
It's Elon.
It's not going up to Starlink.
It's all going up to Starlink.
That'll be the only internet you can get.
There's the Texas, the Fredericksburg coming out in
you every so, pretty soon you're going to
be gone.
You know that.
I'll be toast.
You'll be toast.
Not quite as toasty as the Cuomo kid
who did a New Year's prediction for 2025
that I think we need to listen to
because, you know, it's Chris Cuomo.
Let's be honest.
The guy knows what he's talking about.
Oh, I hope 2025 is everything you wanted
it to be.
How do we know?
We just started.
I'm Chris Cuomo.
Welcome to the Chris Cuomo Project.
I'm going to do something that I don't
really ever do.
Make predictions.
And I'm bringing in for the help with
this segment, the one and only, the inimitable,
the new daddy, Mr. Greg Ott, not real
name, my producer.
Okay, I've got a prediction.
Number one.
The pod scape is going to change.
The pod scape is going to change, John.
I think we should pay attention.
The pod scape.
I didn't know there was a pod scape,
but okay.
It's news to me as well, but it's
now the pod scape.
And the people who were at the top
last year will not be at the top
all of this year.
Uh oh.
Uh oh.
The pod scape is changing.
This is pertinent to the podcast.
This is a podcast you're presumably watching.
Here's what has happened.
Okay.
Now.
Okay.
He says, okay, more than anybody else in
broadcast.
He does.
He does.
He also has a why.
He does that a lot too.
Why?
Why?
Because I got no one to ask me
why.
I'm just going to say why.
Okay.
Now.
Money rushed into the pod space and tons
of.
Now it's pod space.
What happened to pod scape?
I like pod scape.
What happened to pod scape?
I like pod scape.
Don't do pod space.
Okay.
Now.
Money rushed into the pod space and tons
of big and bad deals were made in
the last five years.
That money has dried up.
There's an, there's an aphorism in investing.
You never want to be first dollar in
first dollar and got killed.
People were given a lot of money for
their podcasts and people have gone broke.
They've been bad deals.
I'm kind of like what who went broke.
Who went broke over this?
Did Spotify go broke?
No, they spent a billion dollars poorly, but
they didn't go broke.
Did Amazon, you went broke.
Did Amazon go broke over, uh, over hiring
those, those numb nuts with the, what is
their, the, the podcast that has the presidents
on all the time?
No.
I don't listen to these podcasts.
All right.
Nobody got, went broke hiring Alex Cooper's the
other big moneymaker.
No.
And Gimlet got bought out, but that was
by Spotify.
Who went broke?
Nobody.
I mean, Gimlet got closed down after they
got bought out.
So how'd you go broke?
You get here, here's a hundred million dollars.
Oh, and all of you have to shut
you down.
Okay.
Well, okay.
Does that you going broke?
You got a hundred million dollars.
Give me a break.
First dollar in got killed.
People were given a lot of money for
their podcasts and people have gone broke.
They've been bad deals.
Let me just check.
Joe, are you broke?
Are you broke?
Joe, Joe, are you broke?
Joe says he's not broke.
Um, kind of like what happened when serious
thought that having, um, Howard Stern would make
them like a household thing.
Hasn't happened.
Just made him really rich.
Uh, but it's not like serious is everywhere
now, right?
They're just mainly in like rental cars.
Second dollar in with the pod scape with
this election, people now know that you can
get banged for your buck and you can
get reach and resonance.
And I'm telling you on the right and
on the anti-institutional side, you're going to
do a lot better than Joe Rogan and
his merry band of, you know, cut rate
comedians.
Okay.
So now Chris Cuomo is saying that Joe
Rogan, um, I'm, I'm, I'm going to defend
Joe a little bit here who in the
week before the election had president Trump on,
had vice president elect, uh, JD Vance had
Vivek on, had, uh, what's his face.
Elon Musk that, that he has just a
merry band of comedians.
That's what you're saying.
Chris Cuomo.
Okay.
Who is going to usurp this top spot?
And I'm not saying that those guys will
disappear.
Can you stop for a second?
Yeah.
There's a, uh, I was noticing this.
There is a, uh, the left has been
talking about this.
What Cuomo is actually, Cuomo is despite his
trying to be neutral is still influenced greatly
by the left.
He is invited to the dinner parties.
He goes to eat.
Yes.
The talk of the talk of the town
is what we've got to do to fix
the, our messaging.
Cause they, they don't see that their messages
are just bad.
You know, the trans, the trans agenda and
all the other crap.
Trans Maoist, trans Maoist, the trans Maoist, the,
uh, the defund the police.
They, they still don't get any of it.
They still think this is all good.
If they could sell it.
The problem is that they can't message it.
Right.
And so one of the things you hear
over and over and over again is all
we need to do.
And we can do this.
We can do it is we need a
left wing Joe Rogan.
Yes.
And, and thank you very much because you
are ahead of my clips here, but that's
good.
Cause that is exactly what Chris Cuomo is
talking about.
And I'm sure he will be a part
of it.
And I can also tell you who is
going to be doing it.
And Chris Cuomo.
Before you continue, I have one more little
addition to this.
This is the same way they were thinking
when Rush Limbaugh hit the scene is starting
in 87.
They said, all we needed to do was
do a left-wing version of Rush Limbaugh.
And they came up with air America.
And Rachel Maddow.
And Rachel Maddow who did, she did survive.
Oh, well, let's see who is going to
be part of this.
New, new, new leaders of the pod scape.
And I'm not saying that those guys will
disappear, but you're going to see better, bigger
talent come in.
Like what?
Like what?
He even, he even asked like what?
He doesn't even.
He's interviewing himself.
This is so good.
I'm just going to do that.
Tina, I love you.
Why?
Well, let me tell you why.
This is amazing.
Bigger talent come in.
Like what?
A guy like a Bill Burr.
Lefty.
Bill Burr.
Lefty.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, sorry.
I'm sorry.
Bill Burr, lefty.
Is going to get enticed into that space.
A guy like Louis CK.
Lefty.
Lefty.
These are leftist comedians.
CK.
Bill Burr has a podcast.
But I'm saying ramping it up, that there's
going to be money that puts it into
a steer where he's sitting with major people
as opposed to it just being an end.
That's what I'm saying.
Instead of it just being like an end
to what Bill Burr does, it's going to
be his thing.
Okay.
Stephen A.
Smith is going to explode on the landscape.
I don't know.
Do you know Stephen, Stephen A.
Smith?
Stephen A.
Smith is the black guy that is a
sportscaster who's a lefty, but he's actually more
of a righty recently.
He's actually going toward Trump.
And he's on the Mark Levin TV show
on Fox all the time as his buddy.
But if someone gave him enough money, he
would go right back to being lefty.
I'm just guessing.
Well, that may or may not be true.
But Stephen A.
Smith is one of those personalities that you
only take so much of.
He's good.
But he's not tolerable.
However, you can't just put up with him.
No, none of these people are going to
do what Joe Rogan does.
No, he's full of shit.
Okay, you're right.
I'm sorry.
But let's continue.
Stephen A.
Smith is going to explode on the landscape
of conversation.
So clearly we already know something.
There's a deal that's already been done with
Stephen A.
Smith.
Okay.
Okay.
And again, no disrespect to Rogan.
Okay.
We're never going to get through these questions.
And again, no disrespect to Rogan.
You must give him his props for building
a platform.
Good for him.
But now you're going to have better talent
in that space.
Okay.
Okay.
Now, the better talent in that space, which
is the pod space, also known as the
pod scape.
The whole time he's talking, I'm seeing behind
Cuomo a beautiful YouTube award.
A beautiful YouTube award, which you get for
being beautiful on YouTube.
And now in this final clip, it all
unrolls, for me at least, because I've been
tracking this push for a long time.
Google, a.k.a. YouTube, is going to
be financing a whole air America of podcasting
comedians on video.
And Chris Cuomo knows about it.
He knows what's going down, and I think
he's going to be part of it.
Just to piggyback on that, this came out
recently that more people are watching podcasts now
on YouTube, and you've been doing this.
This podcast dropped first on YouTube.
You, from the beginning, were like— So the
producer sets him up for it.
Hey, let's put myself online.
The producer's in on it.
Of course he's in on it.
So he sets it up.
Oh, this is a money grab.
Good for them.
Oh, yeah.
Just to piggyback on that, this came out
recently that more people are watching podcasts now
on YouTube, and you've been doing— Which, by
the way, is patently not true, but okay.
This podcast— And wait, stop.
You would know.
I would know.
Thank you.
You are the expert that never gets consulted
on these matters, and I bring this up
all the time because it's kind of a
thorn in both of our claws.
More yours.
Well, I'm the one who keeps bringing it
up because you don't want to, but I'll
bring it up.
You are never consulted on this, even though
you're responsible largely for the platform even existing.
There you go.
Enough said.
Enough said.
People are watching podcasts now on YouTube, and
you've been doing this.
This podcast dropped first on YouTube.
You, from the beginning, were like, hey, let's
put myself online.
People want to see me and hear me,
so it's like one product to one, but
the confluence is interesting to me.
Hold on.
Stop.
Sorry.
They want to see me and hear me.
What is this?
They don't necessarily want to see you or
anybody.
I don't even like looking at Cuomo.
This is the marketing.
And by the way, Spotify tried to get
in on this action, and they've so far
failed to launch properly for a whole bunch
of reasons.
But they know that YouTube is doing this
push, and I guarantee you there's going to
be big money from Google slash YouTube going
to leftists, if not complete left-wing.
They're going to do Air America on YouTube,
and YouTube doesn't have an audio platform.
They have a video platform, and this is
what they're doing.
Hey, let's put myself online.
People want to see me and hear me,
so it's like one product to one, but
the confluence is interesting to me.
This thing you used to listen to, it's
like, well, it's quite easy to get a
setup in your house like this and broadcast
in a very DIY way.
And people are now, especially a lot of
the YouTube stats are more people are watching
things on their televisions.
And thus, you sit down and watch a
show.
It's kind of a replacement talk show.
We talked about this before.
That's also bullcrap.
Prediction 1A is you will see mergers in
stream platforms.
Okay, Rumble.
Rumble, get ready to be bought.
I went to YouTube early because I believe
video kills the radio star.
Listen to what he's saying.
He believes video killed the radio star.
I went to YouTube early because I believe
video kills the radio star.
No, you went to YouTube early because you're
in on this complete gambit.
Good for you, by the way.
Good for you.
People want to see more than they want
to listen.
I'm not telling you not to listen.
Look, it's not my thing.
I do an audio book every now and
then.
I'd rather read.
But I want to see.
Why?
Why?
Because I'm a visual learner and you take
so much more in from people when you're
actually seeing them.
Yes.
The way people listen to podcasts on YouTube
is the YouTube app with it closed in
their pocket while it's playing.
That is the true numbers.
People are listening to them on YouTube.
That's what happens.
Do you want to watch it with Trump?
Yeah, you probably want to watch it with
Trump.
But what he's saying here is not true.
He's parroting the exact YouTube propaganda slash marketing
they've been rolling out for the past three
years at conferences, everywhere.
There's podcasts.
Oh, you got to have video.
Without video, there's nothing.
People want to see it.
This is the big YouTube push.
Obviously reading.
Let me stop again.
So this commentary that the video killed the
radio star, it only refers to MTV.
It refers to the buggles.
It refers to radio drama and radio, anything
that was radio pre 87 when radio took
over the talk show game on the right.
The right wingers all figured it out that
that radio yakkers on radio yak yak yakkers
and the call in shows were replaced.
The old radio video has not replaced those
guys.
When Rush Limbaugh tried to do TV, he
did it two or three times.
It was always.
I remember it was horrible.
And it turned out that Rush Limbaugh were
talking for three hours, three hours a day,
every day was much more effective.
Just pure audio.
And so that video killed.
And he made $400 million a year with
that radio program.
$400 million a year.
He was making a lot of money and
he did get a $400 million dollar deal.
I don't know if it wasn't per year.
I don't.
Yes, it was.
Yes, it was.
I had the same syndicators.
I know what they were doing.
Well, he was making plenty of money.
Yeah.
And the point is, is that the video
has never killed that aspect of it.
When it comes to talking, the talk show
format, you don't want video.
It doesn't work.
All right.
21 seconds left.
We can do it.
Obviously, reading them texts, you get the least
context, the least feel.
Hearing their voice, you get more.
But seeing them and hearing them.
This is YouTube.
This is YouTube's marketing.
To me, it's a no brainer.
But what you will see, prediction 1A, is
consolidation in platforms.
Because the problem right now is there are
too many different places that you have to
go.
And you need to monetize.
And they are going to start buying each
other up.
Yeah.
Okay.
YouTube is going on a buying spree.
They're doing exactly what Spotify did.
Which, by the way, I think will be
a mistake.
They will have exclusives to YouTube.
And it's going to be these comedians that
you just heard.
Chris Cuomo will have a part.
He may even have a network deal.
You know, so-called Chris Cuomo truth network
or whatever.
And, of course, Google's in with the Democrat
Party.
They're in on it.
No, they're Democrats is the point.
They're Democrats.
Yes, they're Democrats.
Big time.
And they're propagandistic Democrats.
But I'm going to tell you that this
will not work.
This is a flawed strategy.
We already can tell this.
Yeah.
But I want to mention something.
I don't think Chris Cuomo going on and
on about theorizing about podcasting when he's been
a broadcaster all his life is so loaded
with bull crap.
He's just full of it.
He doesn't know what he's talking about.
He doesn't.
Oh, man.
It's great, though.
It's great.
So he's in on it.
He's in on the YouTube deal.
And I'm pretty sure, not financial advice, but
I would think Rumble would be bought up.
I don't think Brideon is on deck for
an acquisition.
But this is- Bitch, shoot.
Bitch, shoot.
This is exactly what Spotify did.
And it's flawed.
And why?
It's flawed.
Why?
Why?
I'm going to start doing that.
I don't need you anymore.
It's flawed.