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No kissing.
Adam Curry, John C.
Dvorak.
It's Sunday, January 5th, 2025.
This is your award-winning Gilmore Nation Media
Assassination Episode 1727.
This is no agenda.
Wearing shades for the glues in.
Broadcasting live from the heart of the Cheshire
country here in FEMA Region No.
6.
In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And from Northern Silicon Valley, where we're fighting
anti-gravity machines.
I'm John C.
Dvorak.
It's Crackpot and Buzzkill.
In the morning.
I think the exact term was gravitic.
It was gravisomethingorother.
Anti-gravitic machine, yeah.
Oh man, I spent some time on this
because I noticed that everyone's going crazy.
And by the way, I expected you to
so I did nothing.
I know, I saw like, wait a minute,
John has absolutely zero on any of this.
Okay.
No, no, you have a backgrounder for the
Vegas guy, which I'll call for that in
a moment.
Yes, the backgrounder.
We'll do that in a minute.
By the way, the backgrounder I think really
sums it up well.
No, no, but I want to start with
New Orleans because everyone's kind of gone off
to the anti-gravitic.
I'm sure that's not intentional at all.
I love it.
Before you go on and you start anything,
I will say this.
Yeah.
That for, I don't know, way before we
started doing this show, we had a guy
on Silicon Spin once who was busted for
something or other.
And he quit his, he was a famous
online guy.
And this was in like 96.
I don't remember who it is.
I'm already disappointed.
No, I could look him up, but he's
97.
He was very kind of semi-famous and
he quit his company because he'd seen Aliens.
Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Was that the guy who later became the
Purple Tracksuit Clan?
I don't know.
Maybe.
No, no, that Purple Tracksuit guy is different.
That was an old guy.
That was another good one.
And so this guy, and I grilled him
about it.
I said, you actually, what, after, not during
the show, but afterwards.
And he said, well, he was kind of
in a dream state when he saw the
Aliens and all the rest of it.
But he did have one thing he was
absolutely convinced of.
And then I've heard this since then, over,
and I probably heard it before then, over
and over and over again, is that they've
got the anti-gravity technology and it's coming
out next week.
They're going to reveal it next week.
This has been decades now.
And the anti-gravity stuff, yeah.
No, no, no, no, don't kid yourself, John.
I know, I know.
Next week.
I mean, I was all on that tip
for about 10 years on this show.
And then I gave up on it because
even I couldn't last anymore.
Where is it?
And that was known as second half of
show.
So we'll bring in a little bit of
second half of show at the start of
this show.
Because this is just, everyone's going off the
rails on this.
And there's a number of things that need
to be deconstructed and need to be evaluated
as to what is really happening.
And I need to say, everything that is
going on right now is related to the
new administration and also confirmation hearings.
And we'll start with New Orleans.
It was right on schedule as a six
-week cycle.
I am pretty convinced that the narrative was
written right away for us, even though that's
not exactly what happened.
And we know the FBI has a six
-week cycle.
They've always employed this in order to assure
funding.
Now, I believe they deployed a six-week
cycle event, which usually exists of the FBI
confidential informants, people talking to somebody, usually some
brother who's already a little bit weak.
Maybe he's changed his meds.
And then all of a sudden, it's like,
well, you're ISIS now.
And here's some bombs and coolers or something
like that.
So let's start with, we have a little
more information than we had.
First of all, it's, of course, horrible.
It's unclear if it's 14 or 15 people
died from this guy driving an F-150
Lightning, the EV truck, which is completely, I
think that's just a happy coincidence.
That a lot of people just, oh, that's
so cool.
We didn't even plan that, guys.
Good work.
But here's…
There's one other element to this, is that
this guy and also the Vegas guy, they
rented from this online…
Turo.
Turo.
And nobody talks about this.
Turo doesn't have cars.
No, you rent from somebody else.
It's an Airbnb.
You're using somebody else's car.
No one has ever discussed…
I'm sorry.
That was a lot of the discussion early
on until, you know, other stuff started popping
up.
I never heard who the owner of that
Tesla car was.
I mean…
No, we don't know that.
We don't know that.
We just know they were from the same
app.
No, I know that.
Yeah, but I know, but it seems to
me that the guy who owned the Cybertruck
more than the Lightning…
Ah, yes.
Now you make a good point.
That poor bastard?
Yeah, does Turo insure you for that?
Do you get a new Cybertruck?
And does anybody talk to these people and
say, hey, what do you think about your
truck?
Why do that?
Too much journalism involved.
You actually have to track the guy down
and ask him, how do you feel about
your truck being blowed up by some maniac?
Are you going to use this service anymore?
I mean, it seems to me that's the
first thing I'd ask.
Excellent point.
You're right.
Excellent point.
I've not seen any reporting on that angle,
other than I think it's a China-based
app.
I could be wrong.
They're not running through China, but it could
be.
Who knows?
Who knows?
They don't tell us anything.
So, I wish I could show you visuals
with this.
It's a rather short clip, but at least
we'll get a little background on what this
guy was actually doing.
On that deadly attack in New Orleans in
the French Quarter tonight, the FBI has put
out new images of the suspect just hours
before the attack.
He is seen placing coolers containing explosive devices
along Bourbon Street.
Now, while Bourbon Street is reopened tonight, there
are new security bollards in place.
Also, we have learned new details about the
victims that the suspect ran down early on
New Year's Day.
And breaking tonight, ABC News has just learned
that the FBI and Department of Homeland Security
are warning of potential copycat attacks using vehicles
to inflict mass casualties.
They are warning—it is a warning, rather, that
has been sent to the nation's 18,000
law enforcement agencies.
The warning set out as out of an
abundance of caution.
All right.
So, it's always good to add a little
breaking news, breaking news, copycats.
Now, what you saw—what you didn't see, of
course, in this video from this report is
you see the guy.
He's in completely different clothes.
So, apparently, he changed clothes into camos before
he got into the truck.
But he already placed these coolers in different
parts of the French Quarter.
We're just going to presume it was mainly
on Bourbon Street, but we don't even know
that.
And so, the guy was planning to blow
stuff up.
So, let's take it all into account here.
We've got the coolers.
We've got his ISIS flag.
You know, the whole thing is pretty well
set up.
It's all the elements that they really love
over there at the FBI for this type
of operation.
But then you see video of this guy
driving down Bourbon Street.
But what you don't see is him trying
to hit people.
You see him in a straight line.
People are jumping out of the way.
If he wanted to hit people, he would
have swerved a little bit, and he could
have gotten an extra five body count.
Yeah, he could have gotten that poor redhead.
You saw it.
Exactly.
Yeah, that showed her a million times.
And by the way, why wasn't she interviewed?
Please.
Please.
Okay.
Why does this show even exist?
You're right.
If all the things I complained about actually
worked, we wouldn't be doing this show because
these guys wouldn't be screwing up their jobs.
So, it's very apparent that the guy was
intending to detonate these coolers.
We have not heard anything about the explosives.
We don't know if they actually worked or,
you know, we just don't know anything about
them.
There's no reporting on that.
But then to top it all off, to
top it off, we get a New York
Post reporter walking right into his apartment in,
I think, Houston.
And the door's busted down, and she's walking
in in her yoga pants.
A very bizarre scene this is.
And the whole place, it's just, it's kind
of left intact.
Listen to this.
We are here inside the New Orleans terrorist's
home.
You can see that it's been clearly destroyed,
the door at least, from the FBI raid
yesterday.
But if we walk through the home, we
see some signs of what he was up
to.
He had this work area here.
Lots of different chemicals.
You literally see work benches with chemicals.
Yes.
I mean, the whole thing.
I know.
I want to give you credit for this.
This is the only, if I was going
to get a clip, this is the clip
I'd get because there's one anomaly in this
clip.
Mm-hmm.
And the clip is, well, you probably saw
another one.
Well, yeah.
Well, no, we'll play it, and then you'll
tell me what you saw as the anomaly.
And different electronics.
This is, again, a work setup.
Left receipts.
Just very unkempt in here.
If we go over here, actually, you can
see the Department of Justice documents here, the
search warrant, and the property that they recorded
here, which seems to be a lot of
chemicals.
So, literally, there on the kitchen island are
two documents neatly placed with the search warrant
and an entire list of everything they found,
but apparently didn't take.
Everything is just there.
And she can just walk right in.
This, to me, means that this was all
meant to be discovered, meant to be found,
and clearly this was supposed to be a
bomb scare, and it went wrong, as often
does.
Maybe this guy got spooked.
He thought something different was happening, so he
hangs a right under Bourbon Street.
I don't think he was intending to mow
down anybody at all, but he just wanted
to get out of there.
Something went awry, and he decided to hoof
it and made that screeching right hand turn.
I don't think he was intending to mow
people down, as has been constantly reported.
They're not talking about the bombs.
They're only talking about mowing people down, breaking
news, mowing people down.
What was the anomaly you saw?
At the beginning of it, this was the
rental place he had in New Orleans.
Oh, I thought it was the one he
had in Houston.
That's what I thought, too, but if you
listen to the very beginning of her clip,
she says this is the place in New
Orleans.
Let me listen.
I'm not so sure about that.
We're here inside the New Orleans terrorist home.
No, she says the New Orleans terrorist home.
I think it was in Houston.
Okay, okay.
In other words, what you're saying, which is
probably right, because it's the only thing that
makes sense, we're in the New Orleans terrorist
home in Houston.
She never says that.
Well, at the end, she does talk about
him leaving.
Yeah, he left, and that was the anomaly.
When she left, she says, well, now he's
headed to New Orleans to get a place.
So, okay, the whole thing is very phony.
It's all staged.
It's phony.
It's completely phony, yes, and it went wrong,
horribly wrong, and maybe John Kennedy will stay
on top of it, maybe not.
And by the way, where's the tape?
Where's the crime scene tape?
She wanders in, the door's wide open, nobody's
fixed the door.
Exactly.
The thing is, it's bullcrap.
And Kennedy's full of crap, too.
He's probably read in.
He almost seems like he is.
We got a note from one of our
law enforcement officers.
Boots on the ground.
We shall share, and then we'll move on.
I'm a law enforcement officer in a large
city in the southeast with 10-plus years
of L.E. experience.
I'm also an FBI task force officer, so
I have access to some, in parents, top
-secret FBI resources and information.
Most of the work I do is related
to criminal gangs.
This producer, by the way, is known to
us, and I trust him.
Just got off a conference call with the
FBI that was open to partner law enforcement
agencies.
There were about 5,000 law enforcement on
the call.
The call opened with FBI Director Chris Wray
and Secretary of Homeland Security Mayorkas.
The call then went on to the FBI
Counterterrorism Director to provide details and updates on
the investigation in New Orleans and Las Vegas.
Now, remember, you just heard breaking news, copycats.
Here are some takeaways from the call.
Everyone was adamant that each incident was a
solo undertaking, i.e., Lone Wolf.
Adamant about that.
Okay.
The news is barely starting to report that.
Livelsberger was an active-duty soldier on leave
from his unit in Germany.
He died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound
to the head prior to the Cybertruck explosion.
U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division, CID, is
part of this investigation since one attacker was
an active-duty soldier.
Din Jabbar had ties in Texas and Georgia
to those local field officers, and they're doing
background work there.
Now, read that again.
Din Jabbar had ties in Texas and Georgia
to those local field officers, and they're doing
work there.
I'm not quite sure what that means, but
I'm still pretty convinced they were jacking this
guy up.
No connection between the two incidents, according to
the presenters on the conference call.
As expected, all directors and leaders highlighted the
need for future funding.
To ensure several future upcoming public events, Mardi
Gras, the Super Bowl, etc., were well-funded.
That's the whole point of a six-week
cycle.
There was very little discussion on ISIS or
other terror groups being propagators of these attacks.
That's interesting because the news is saying something
different.
A lot of discussion about copycat attacks, but
there are no credible threats.
Well, that's kind of the opposite of what
we just heard.
Some personal insights from myself.
I would be very aware of what is
going on around you.
Be cautious in large public gatherings.
Always have a plan of escape.
Set up prearranged meeting places in case something
happens while you're out.
Whether these were genuine terrorist attacks or six
-week cycles gone awry, we will probably never
know.
But innocent people were hurt, and I never
want that for any of the NOAA gender
producers.
Okay.
So then we go to what the mainstream
news is doing.
And this was CNN, and they brought on
this amazing guy.
His name is, let me see, Donald Harvin.
Donald Harvin, Homeland Security and Public Health Emergency
Subject Matter Expert.
Serves as faculty in Georgetown University's Emergency and
Disaster Management Master's Program and Applied Intelligent Master's
Program.
This guy is Denzel Washington with a real
job.
Homeland Security Analyst.
He's a spokeshole on behalf of the intelligence
community.
And he's going to send us down the
ISIS road because we can't let anyone know
that this was botched.
I also think that ISIS, and al-Qaeda
to a lesser extent, but mostly ISIS, appeals
so much more.
They have so much more outreach.
And if you're downtrodden, and I've consumed their
products for over ten years, I have to
dissect them.
I have to train individuals on them.
They're very appealing to many people who are
downtrodden, who are very angry at individuals.
They're psychologically geared towards individuals who are on
the margins or in extremes of our population.
When you say it's psychological, when you say
it's appealing, I mean, how?
Can you, like, what's the detail there?
They have a little bit of something for
everybody.
You've probably heard Director Wray over the last
few years talk about the salad bar ideology.
Oh, not heard about that, but I like
it.
Yeah, I haven't heard that either.
Salad bar ideology, I'm all in on it.
It doesn't matter how you show up to
the salad bar.
There's a little something there for everyone.
So if you're a black nationalist, right, and
you don't like police beatings, they have products
for you.
ISIS does.
We have products.
They've got products.
Exactly what he's referring to.
They've got products.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
We've seen our white nationalists, our far-right
extremists.
They have something for them as well.
They have something for a little bit of
everybody.
And, you know, we saw for the very
first time, I think it was 2018, we
had a suicide bomber in the Middle East
who came from Florida, middle-class family, gated
community.
He'd left the U.S., burned his passport,
and went out there to join ISIS.
He said he didn't like his life, and,
you know, they offered something to him.
So they do this.
There's an appeal that they have for women.
We've seen young women leave the United States
and travel to join ISIS.
And so they're very effective in their communication.
So the narrative is being set here for
ISIS.
Now I want to read a tweet.
Can I add a comment?
Yeah, sure.
American passports are extremely valuable.
Yeah.
If you're going to be one of these
guys, you don't burn your passport.
You don't burn it.
You just threw away $1,000.
It's dumb.
So now we have our other agencies.
We have the CIA.
Now, remember, the CIA and the intelligence community
does not want Tulsi Gabbard.
They don't.
The military.
Now, somehow our military is very broken.
We identified this with the grid is going
down, all of it coming out of kind
of the corner of DIA.
Certainly General Flynn flowing through to all the
way to what's her name?
Naomi Wolf, whose husband is ex-DIA.
Laura Logan, whose husband is ex-DIA.
And so she, Laura Logan posts on ex.
I learned months ago from multiple U.S.
intel sources that the CIA was urging their
friends in the Taliban and Haqqani terror network
to use their sleeper cells inside the U
.S. for an attack that would be blamed
on ISIS.
So I am very skeptical.
It is too easy to blame ISIS.
They do it.
So do we now have a continuation of
CIA versus DIA?
I'm not entirely sure.
But the military definitely is the outfit that
does psychological operations.
That's kind of the same everywhere.
The military is specialized in that.
CIA, they go out, they clear the decks,
they help with color revolutions.
They get ready for the military to come
in.
So now we need to move over to
Vegas.
Before we do that, I'm going to play
your PBS wrap on the Vegas Cybertrucker.
The soldier who took his life outside of
the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas said he
was trying to draw attention to the country's
problems.
Investigators said they recovered a note from a
phone inside the burned out Cybertruck he detonated
in which Matthew Livalsberger wrote that his actions
were not a terrorist attack.
Rather, quote, it was a wake up call.
Americans only pay attention to spectacles and violence.
What better way to get my point across
than a stunt with fireworks and explosives?
An FBI investigator said today they do not
believe that Livalsberger harbored any malice toward President
-elect Trump and that he suffered trauma from
his service.
And although this incident is more public and
more sensational than usual, it ultimately appears to
be a tragic case of suicide involving a
heavily decorated combat veteran who is struggling with
PTSD and other issues.
Pentagon officials have not said whether Livalsberger had
been suffering from mental health issues, but have
turned over his medical records to police.
Seven people were injured in the blast, none
of them seriously.
So what is interesting about your clip is
you actually got the real so-called real
manifesto, which was not the one being discussed
online.
The one being discussed predominantly on the Sean
Ryan podcast and thus everywhere.
That was the anti-gravitic memo.
And I have to say that I'm even
questioning if these cars were rented through the
Turo app.
Maybe that was just put out there to
connect these two.
Because everybody moved very quickly from New Orleans.
Okay, well, that's New Orleans.
But this guy, this is what we got
to be talking about, this cyber truck.
Did he blow his head off with an
Eagle 50 caliber?
What was going on?
Anti-gravity.
Everybody was honed in on this.
And so we get an emergency broadcast from
Sean Ryan.
Now, Sean Ryan, military guy.
I'm not going to say Sean Ryan is
in on anything, but just like these ex
-military guys, they hear stuff.
It comes through the wire.
Again, it's like General Flynn has done a
lot of this grid going down type nonsense.
So they talk to each other all the
time.
They're very active online and Instagram.
It's a silo.
Now, as an ex-military guy, Sean Ryan
has no beard.
That's always a flag for me because ex
-military guys, you got to have a beard.
If you're in the silo, you got to
have a beard.
So he doesn't have a beard.
We have to make note of the fact
that in his bio, he states he was
a CIA contractor for 12 years.
So I'm not sure what he is.
And again, I'm not saying that he knows
anything.
But then what shows up on his podcast
but a guy named Sam Shoemate, who is
an ex-military guy, and he has received
this email the day before, which he says
came from this guy who blew himself up
in the Cybertruck.
And this is the whole China has been
launching anti-gravatic drones from the Atlantic submarines
for years, et cetera.
For years, yes.
Let's learn a little bit about this guy.
Is there anything else we need to cover
that you can think of?
Jeremy?
I like the brown hair.
Oh, yeah.
There's a lot of this.
And then he asks this.
So everyone has a Jamie now.
So now we have Sean Ryan asking Jeremy.
That's his Jamie.
Is there anything else we need to cover?
Like this guy.
I guess he's the producer.
So I guess he has all the questions.
Did you want to go into the other
item we talked about in the ride over
here this morning?
Oh, the other item.
Hold on a second.
There's more.
The other item.
Can I say it?
Yes.
Yeah.
The man pads.
Can I say it?
The man pads?
What?
Well, I'm unfamiliar.
All right.
So I'm saying this with you can you
can decide to use this or cut it
out.
There was there was this is this is
hard to work with because keep in mind,
let me give some background on this.
I'm an intelligence analyst and I've spent.
OK, now now this guy is not just
some rando posting on Instagram.
He's an intelligence analyst.
OK.
Along many years validating sources, taking information in,
putting it back out, telling my human tours.
Hey, this source, this is valid.
Yeah.
And so that sounds more like CIA to
me when you're talking about human tours.
But OK, well, he's an intelligence analyst for
the military, apparently.
But now now he's doing this, putting it
back out, telling my human tours, hey, this
source is valid.
Let's give him a rating of this, do
this, this, this recommendation so we can we
can identify good sources in the field that
give us information and we can say, yes,
this is a, you know, an a source
versus, you know, an F6.
This is just garbage.
Somebody got paid for something.
I still work in intelligence.
I'm an intelligence officer.
I work for a nonprofit.
We we Remnant Ministries out of Texas.
In fact, the website is in my bio
on X.
I work with Dr. I work for Dr.
Pete Chambers.
OK, so so bells go off in my
head.
Wait a minute.
You're an intelligence analyst for the Remnant Ministry
out of Texas.
You work with Dr. Pete Chambers.
Well, I know who this is.
This is the guy who set up the
let's take back our borders convoy down to
Eagle Pass, which was the wettest fart in
all in all history.
Do you remember this vaguely?
Sir Gene went down there and we're going
to take back our borders.
And this guy was it was it was
a little, you know, it was like 50
guys showed up and like, OK, big noise,
very, very small organization.
And but they have a human or not
a human, but a a an intelligence guy
working there.
Really?
Yes, exactly.
So and it's Doc Chambers, who himself, I
believe, was also in intelligence.
So there's something fundamentally broken about these stories.
Many people that are too many guys in
intelligence.
So let's talk about the man pad, shall
we?
We we had some confirmed reporting through two
solid sources, which he never mentions.
And this is where I have to be
very iffy.
And I told him in the car, I
can tell you offline, I cannot say this
on the air.
Why not?
Why not?
I don't understand.
Everything's out in the open.
But he can't.
Oh, I can't say this on the air.
But we had two solid sources, one south
of the border and then one from an
element within our own government that confirmed independently
of each other that some Iranian made man
pads to surface their missiles had come across
the border.
We had the location and everything else.
Well, Doc, that's that's what he goes by.
Doc Chambers, he put this out on a
podcast and I was very emphatic like this
is not stuff that I like to put
on social media.
And I'm an Intel guy by trade.
This stuff is not for social media consumption.
This guy literally all he does is post
on social media, on Instagram.
But now this thing.
Oh, no, Doc, I can't put this on
social media.
OK.
We got this the Secret Service.
We did the whole the whole game and
got everything pushed to them.
And that's why Trump was pushing a lot
of this stuff out when he was because
we had told the Secret Service and they
had the reporting and everything else.
But we we have not, to my knowledge,
have not recovered those man pads.
Now, I'm not I'm not privy to that.
But what I do know we have done
is we have apprehended the couriers on a
second run of theirs.
And we have local law enforcement got together
with federal law enforcement and and rolled up
the safe house.
And I will not say that.
Why say it?
Please.
On this show.
But they rolled up the safe house where
it was.
But it was it was something we found
was was pertinent because at the time Trump
was still campaigning, he was flying around and
there was the reports were their intent was
to take down Trump's airplane.
So at the time, Secret Service switched things
up a bit.
And allegedly, from what I've told, they started
flying him around on charters for a while
until they could identify and kind of mitigate
that threat.
OK, so this we remember this story.
Iran's going to take down Trump's plane again.
We heard this from Laura Logan.
This is all these these rumors that flow
through these networks.
And I'm sad to say, I'm sure the
guy means well, but do they really know
that?
I don't know that for sure.
You're correct.
But it's like, come on.
I mean, can you make it even crazier?
Oh, wait.
Oh, yes, I can.
I'm with you on the not releasing certain
things on social media.
I understand that.
But on the other way, on the other
hand, it seems to be the only way
to demand any type of accountability or get
this in force.
You see what what Sean Ryan is saying
here now is we've been warning you.
We've been saying ISIS is coming.
And I'll get to that in a moment.
No one will listen to us.
It's finally here.
It's finally happening.
We were right against the FBI homeland.
And whoever else is involved to dive into
this shit and actually take part, that's what
we've been doing here on the show with
Scott Mann, retired Lieutenant Colonel Green Beret, Sarah
Adams, former agency targeter.
We brought on legend who's an army intelligence
guy who goes by legend because he doesn't
want to reveal his name because he's still.
Oh, brother.
Seriously.
You know what has happened here is.
It sounds like WWE.
What has happened here is the people who
used to go on cable news, who would
be former this former that former intelligence, former
colonel, they've all moved to podcasts and they're
blanketing podcasts, particularly these military based podcasts with
their literal disinformation, as far as I'm concerned,
because none of it can actually be told
or really checks out.
But this next one here is a doozy.
It's very involved.
We've been talking about this stuff for a
year, a year.
We got it to Congress, congressmen out of
Knoxville, Tennessee, Tim Burchett, and nobody's fucking paying
attention.
Nobody's paying attention.
We tried to get it in the media.
We got a little bit of hits.
Most of them were from from outside the
US.
We had a report around India kind of
cover it.
But we've been warning about what's happening for
damn near a year now.
Sarah first came on, I believe it was
October of 2023 was her first interview.
And nobody took it seriously.
Now we have the New Orleans attack.
We have we have Iranian missiles.
We have these invisible bombs.
Do you know about the invisible bombs?
Oh, no.
The invisible bombs.
John, do you know about the invisible bombs?
No, but I'm about to find out.
So now that now these terrorist organizations have
developed invisible bombs that will get through metal
detectors and kind of screening device that that's
out there.
And they brag about this.
And now we just did a Twitter spaces
with Sarah Adams.
Sarah Adams is important.
We're going to come to her in a
moment.
He just loves her for some reason.
He keeps bringing her.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
And I'd be interested.
They are now bragging that that we know
about the invisible bomb.
It's now even more advanced than it was
before.
So that means who's bragging?
I don't know.
This is the first I've ever heard of
the invisible.
They're bragging and they're bragging and bragging.
I've never heard of this.
But yet yet they're bragging.
They're doing a poor job.
Really, these guys are doing a good job
of spreading it into stadiums.
They can get this into airports.
They can get this pretty much anywhere they
want because you cannot detect it.
That's that's scary.
There's no stopping what's here.
We cannot stop this.
No, you can't roll back.
Not with what we have in the bottle
already in here.
We have sleeper cells.
We're getting reports that now let's just go
back to what Laura Logan said.
Hold on a second.
I learned months ago from multiple U.S.
Intel sources that the CIA, Sean Ryan, 12
-year contractor for the CIA, was urging their
friends in the Taliban Haqqani terror network to
use their sleeper cells inside the U.S.
for an attack that would be blamed on
ISIS.
Yeah, okay.
So this is what we're talking about now.
We're fear mongering about sleeper cells.
Sleeper cells.
We're already getting reports that we're already getting
reports that I just lost my train of
thought.
Oh, we're already getting some reports that there
may be more involved in the Louisiana New
Orleans attack.
They're not releasing.
No, we also I'll tell you this.
There's a group of people flying around and
and basically briefing up different departments, governors about
what's coming, how to deal with it in
their communities.
And so what I basically want to say
is it's going to be a bloody 2025.
Oh, okay.
It's going to be a bloody 2025.
Well, maybe this first month as we have
these confirmation hearings coming up.
So now let's just meet Sarah Adams, who
has been on Sean Ryan show several times.
I mean, whenever I see someone coming out
and saying, yeah, I'm ex CIA, immediately I
go, no, you're not.
You're either still CIA or you were never
CIA.
My uncle was CIA.
He couldn't even publish his book about his
time in Japan without the.
Firstly, he had to run his book, Pot
Shards, good book, had to run it through
the agency.
They said, you can't write anything about being
in Japan.
He lived there for eight years with his
family.
He was in Japan.
He couldn't write a single thing about it.
My aunt, not no one, not even my
cousins.
Her children knew she ran the Russia desk
for the CIA and outranked Uncle Don until
she died.
Because that's not what you do.
You can't just go running around telling everybody
how the CIA operates and everything you're doing.
But let's meet Sarah Adams, Sean.
No, no, no, no.
But you basically sign your life away to
prevent you from doing that.
Exactly, exactly.
It's just not true.
There's another guy with like the long braided
hair who's been on Lex Friedman.
Oh, I'm an ex CIA guy.
I don't believe it for a second.
You're either currently CIA and sending a message
or you were never CIA to begin with.
So here's Sarah Adams.
Let's learn about her as in this welcoming
intro, Sean Ryan runs down her honorables.
For those of you that don't know, this
is your third appearance on the show.
We already have a fourth scheduled for.
Oh, I guess there's another terror attack coming
if she's scheduled for a fourth.
We already have a fourth scheduled for later
in 2025.
But Sarah Adams, co-author of Benghazi, Know
Thy Enemy, a Cold Case Investigation.
Former CIA officer, Libyan crisis before, during and
after the 9-11 attacks.
Counterterrorism analyst, targeter for the CIA, senior advisor
on the select committee on Benghazi.
I don't know what a CIA targeter is.
I've never heard of it in my life.
I haven't either.
I'm just wondering.
I thought you might.
I thought it was.
I miss.
Yeah.
Targeter.
The next bit is the best.
Counterterrorism analyst, targeter for the CIA, senior advisor
on the select committee on Benghazi.
NGO official working across multiple conflict zones, including
Afghanistan, Ukraine and Sudan.
NGO official in Ukraine.
So what you do is color revolutions.
Is that what you do?
NGOs in Ukraine were partly responsible for the
for the overthrow, for the push, for the
Maidan.
Yep.
So that's what she does.
Partially.
Yeah.
Known to be 10 percent humanitarian, 90 percent
warlord.
That's me.
OK, so wow.
Wow.
She is.
She's a badass, John.
That's what you need to know.
So tell me about it, Sarah Adams.
I mean, we talked a lot about, you
know, passports, too.
And in your previous episode, is that are
they coming in straight to the U.S.?
You know what?
This is this is her telling us that
ISIS is coming into the country.
U.S. passports or passports with visas to
the U.S. or the majority of it
going to South America and then funneling up
through the Darien Gap into the southern border.
So in my opinion, terrorists in general just
leaving Afghanistan, a lot of them are coming
up through the Darien Gap to the border.
And that was there was a big push.
Right.
Get in the U.S. while you can.
A lot of these terrorists are coming up.
Right.
Right.
There still is the problem of lone wolves.
There is the problem of we have terrorists
in this country now where those members have
never been in this country.
Right.
We don't have any idea what their intent
is.
Islamic movement of Uzbekistan is a great example.
Right.
They've sent terrorists from Afghanistan region here.
Why?
Right.
We have terrorists in this country that we
don't even know their long term plans against
us because they're not never really been a
focus of ours.
Or we focus on them with this little
piece where they did a few operations or
training with al-Qaeda.
Right.
But we don't know the intent.
And maybe they just are force multipliers for
al-Qaeda or the Islamic army.
Source multipliers.
But we lack the understanding.
So what she does on the Sean Ryan
podcast and you can go listen to two
hours of her or three hours.
It's all this gobbledygook.
Right.
OK.
Why?
OK.
So she is just she's just telling a
story after story.
Luckily, I got a short.
Yes.
I was just say I think it was
creative.
And, you know, there's the idea of force
multipliers.
She has source multipliers.
And by the way, I noticed I'm looking
at one of their logos.
The Sean Ryan show is Sarah Adams episode
116.
Sarah Adams, a.k.a. Superbad.
Yeah, that's her.
That's her handle.
Superbad.
She looks anything but Superbad.
I know.
She looks like a like a like a
wannabe to a sorority.
She's a pom-pom girl, maybe some high
school.
All right.
So it was her message is very convoluted.
The Sean Ryan podcast.
But luckily, I found her on the Dale
Stark podcast because she gets around.
Again, this is exactly what I said.
What happened?
All these podcasts are open microphones.
And it's great.
You get someone coming in and I'm an
ex CIA guy.
Come on.
I got to talk to you for three
hours.
I'm Superbad.
I'm a CIA.
Targeter.
Oh, yeah.
You're Superbad.
I got to talk to you.
You've got the right story.
But on this particular podcast, she just narrowed
it all down for us.
Nobody knew that I had the manifesto.
I had to be very quiet for a
day.
So people were messaging me and they're like,
have you heard of this?
This guy?
Have you seen this?
Hold on.
That's the wrong one.
That's not the one I want.
This is no, I'm sorry.
Where is it?
Where is?
Oh, no.
Maybe it is this.
And they didn't know I wasn't posting on
it.
People expect me to post on these relevant
incidents.
I said, so anyways.
Oh, man, where is where is she?
Oh, I had this.
You give a setup here.
I know.
I feel stupid.
I had this great, this great clip.
Hold on a second.
You'll have it.
Where?
I can't believe it.
This clip is gone.
Well, maybe she is CIA.
Maybe she is.
Well, I can tell you what she said.
She said, we're there.
Oh, man.
Hold on a second.
I can't believe it.
You didn't lose it.
Well, where did it go then?
You misplaced it.
I must have misplaced it.
She basically says we will have 15 terror
attacks in 2025.
In the United States.
Oh, this clip you've got to find.
I know.
I know.
That's I can't believe it.
I must have.
I must have mislabeled it or something.
I'm going to find it.
Gosh, that is really dumb.
I don't understand how that happens.
I'd like to see 15 terrorist attacks.
Anyway.
Crap.
That really, that was my, that was actually
my crescendo.
I can't believe I lost that one.
Yeah.
That was one of the greatest lead-ins
to a dud I've ever heard you do,
ever.
The biggest letdown I've ever produced on this
podcast.
Crapola.
I feel so stupid.
I let you do it.
I feel stupid.
I was convinced I had it, but I
have the wrong, I, for some reason I
have the wrong, the wrong mislabeled clip here.
So let's just bottom line it.
Okay.
Let's bottom line, force exaggerate, whatever is that
term?
Yeah.
Force.
Let's bottom line multiply.
Yes.
Yes.
Force multiply this.
FBI six week cycle.
They don't want Kash Patel coming in, rocking
the boat.
We need all kinds of resources.
CIA, their whole job is to make sure
that Tulsi gets all kinds of complicated questions
and the CIA, these are the people, or
whether they're real CIA, they're certainly not former
CIA.
And the military is just picking up everything
because I think so many of our military
has just been traumatized by everything they've been
through that it's so easy to lob something
to these guys.
They take it, they post it, everyone's going
back and forth.
And meanwhile, we're left with ISIS is here.
We're going to die.
They're going to, they're going to attack us.
Be afraid, be very afraid.
And all of this is, is happening in
this very month when the new administration and
confirmation hearings are coming in and everything else.
I mean, I think this guy who blew
himself up, he probably had a mental problem
and he blew himself up.
And I think what this is, if it
was his form of suicide and it turns
out they try to make it look like
he's some sort of a Trump hater, that's
what he did at the Trump Tower.
But he's, I guess, was a huge pro
-Trumper.
Very pro-Trump from what I understand.
So this is all spinning people up and,
and, you know, of course, it's also great
that these guys get clicks and likes and
views and all of that stuff.
That's all fine.
Let me see.
Is this the clip?
I think this is the clip.
No, that's not the clip.
I cannot stand myself, John.
I'm going to find this.
We're going to, after the show, we're going
to record a drop-in so that I
don't look like a total fool.
It would be the only, by the way,
I should mention to people out there, we
have never done a drop-in.
No, we haven't.
I should though.
And that's a phrase for people that don't
know what that means.
In other words, you take your whole show
and then you go after the show's over
and you find and there's something you wanted
to put in.
So you re-record something and then you
take it, pick it up and drop it
in somewhere in the show as though it
was in the show.
And then we sound brilliant.
And that's what most, you know, people do.
That's post-production.
That's what most people do.
We don't do that because we don't normally,
normally we don't have to because we don't
have these incidents except rarely.
So I don't think we have to be
too worried about stuff.
Especially with a structured presentation, I might add.
Just to rub it in.
Yes.
Goodness gracious.
I can't believe I screwed that one up.
I'm very angry at myself right now.
Sarah Adams.
I'll keep an eye on her.
Oh yeah.
Well, she has a fourth scheduled appearance on
Sean Ryan.
Well, I've never heard this guy's show, but
I've been listening to some of these oddballs.
It's worth mentioning that he showed up on
the Rogan show maybe about a month ago.
And that's where I really first heard of
him.
And I think that really catapulted him out.
And Joe was very flattering, you know, like,
hey man, you're the guy that started doing
all this stuff.
I'm like, huh?
Okay.
I guess.
We did learn, of course, that Tesla has
all kinds of data on you when you're
driving.
That's nice to know.
Oh yeah.
But we got pictures of the guy.
We got video from inside the Cybertruck.
That's what it does.
Tesla's a spying operation.
Yes.
Well, most of these cars.
Do you know how many cars?
The Washington Post actually did a piece on
this about, I mean, cars are selling your
data left and right.
It's unbelievable.
It's a money maker.
It's a big money maker.
And there's some websites you can use, and
they'll send emails to the appropriate addresses of
your car manufacturer to opt out of their
data collection, or I don't know if you
can opt out of the data collection, but
you can opt out of them sending it
to third parties.
Which brings me to the Apple clip.
Apple is going to pay $95 million to
settle a proposed class action lawsuit that claims
Siri violated its users' privacy.
A mobile device owner say Apple routinely recorded
their private conversations after they had unintentionally activated
Siri.
They claim the company then disclosed the conversations
to third parties such as advertisers.
One plaintiff in the suit said he ended
up getting ads for a brand name surgical
treatment after what he thought was a private
discussion with his doctor.
The issue reportedly began when Apple incorporated the
Hey Siri feature into the voice activated assistant.
People who have file claims could receive up
to $20 for each Apple device.
Apple denied wrongdoing in settling the lawsuit.
Wow.
Twenty whole dollars.
How about that?
That's fabulous.
Privacy is worse nowadays.
Yeah.
The BBC did this story.
They did it in kind of a funny
way.
Kind of a way that we might have
done.
The tech giant Apple has agreed to pay
a $95 million settlement to users who accuse
its digital assistant Siri of listening in on
their private conversations.
The BBC's Isabella Bull decided to ask Siri
itself about the allegations.
Hey Siri.
Have you been recording my private conversations?
Sorry, I don't understand.
Have you been listening to me?
I respect your privacy and only listen when
you're talking to me.
You can learn about Apple's approach to privacy
at apple.com.
So Siri, why is Apple settling a lawsuit
over you?
I found this on the web.
Okay.
I can see you've brought up the BBC
News article about this lawsuit.
Can you explain it to me?
Apple means the round fruit of a tree
of the rose family, which typically has thin
green or red skin and crisp flesh.
Do you want to hear the remaining one?
No thanks, Siri.
That's okay.
Okay.
Okay.
BBC.
Way to go.
Way to go.
Not even talking about the issue.
That's kind of cute.
But Apple has, of course, not admitted any
guilt in this settlement.
It's just settling.
They haven't said they'd do it or not.
And no one seems to care.
No.
Why would they?
If you're an Apple user, you've already given
up.
You've given up.
So a couple of news items came around
that might be worth discussing.
Okay.
Let's play this clip.
The Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Yes.
Yes.
This got, indeed, got some attention.
President Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
to big names in the worlds of politics,
the arts, sports, and philanthropy.
Former Secretary of State and First Lady Hillary
Clinton, Academy Award winner Denzel Washington, and world
-renowned conservationist Jane Goodall were among the 19
honorees.
The president said the recipients have made remarkable
contributions to the world and put decency above
all else.
For the final time as president, I have
the honor of restoring the Medal of Freedom,
my nation's highest civilian honor, on a group
of extraordinary, truly extraordinary people who gave their
sacred effort, their sacred effort, to shape the
culture and the cause of America.
The Presidential Medal of Freedom is awarded to
those who have made contributions to the prosperity,
values, or security of the United States.
So, this was kind of interesting, the people...
Wait.
Kind of interesting is that they don't mention
anybody worth mentioning.
Well, what was interesting is the people who
actually got the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Yes.
I have a list.
Okay.
What's the list?
Well, it's a long list.
I mean, it's 19 people.
Well, let's go over them.
Because he doesn't mention any of them except,
you know, Clinton, I guess.
Jose Andres, a Spanish-American...
Oh, he's the chef.
He's the chef.
The chef.
Okay.
He's a good guy.
So, we'll let him go.
Bono.
Bono.
Bono.
Yes.
Bono.
Why does he get anything?
Well, he had a, you know...
He's not even an American.
He's a U2.
He's a U2 guy.
It's an American award for Americans.
I don't know if it's strictly for Americans.
Ashton Carter.
He's dead.
He's the Secretary of Defense.
I don't know what the point of that
was.
Okay.
Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Michael J.
Fox.
Well, I mean, it's Michael J.
Fox.
Well, I mean, I like Michael J.
Fox, but I don't know...
I mean, you know, Trump gave Rush Limbaugh
an award before he died.
Michael J.
Fox is not doing too well.
Tim Gill.
Who's that?
He's an entrepreneur who advanced LGBTQI rights and
equality after transforming and publishing industry through groundbreaking
software.
He should get an award because that LGBTQ
thing had legs.
Lie.
It's an important part of that.
Very good.
Jane Goodall?
The gorilla lady?
Yeah.
And what is the...
Okay.
She's great.
I'm not arguing that, but what's she got
to do with America?
Hold on a second.
Just like any award show, this is how
you have to look at it.
It's always part marketing and it's always part
party.
Joe Biden didn't put this list together.
You know, he or whoever is standing in
for him.
So this is just a list of all
these people before they get kicked out of
the White House.
Like who do you want to meet?
I want to meet that gorilla lady.
Okay.
Let's give her a medal.
I've always wanted to meet Bono.
He's so awesome.
All right.
We'll give him a medal.
Hey, could I get some cooking tips from
Jose?
Yeah.
We'll give him a medal.
That's what this is.
Who else is on the list?
Fannie Lou Hammer, who's dead.
Well, they just throw those in to make
it look legit.
Racial justice.
Irvin Magic Johnson, the basketball player.
Yeah.
I'd like to meet him.
Well, what about Larry Bird?
He's white.
Get out of here.
Robert RFK, the original?
The dead one?
Yeah.
That's just to poke out RFK Jr.'s eye.
Hey.
Well, they actually made, I think RFK Jr.
was there.
Oh, he went there to receive it?
Oh, okay.
Oh.
So that was kind of funny.
It's like I talked to him in the
hallway.
Hey, listen.
Listen.
Ralph Lauren.
Come on, man.
Get me a free suit.
That's what I'm thinking.
That's what everyone at the dinner table the
other night was thinking.
Where was Schwarzenegger?
Did he get one?
Arnold Schwarzenegger?
Not yet.
No.
It's coming.
It's coming.
All right.
Lionel Messi?
Messi?
The soccer player?
Do you know how many people want to
meet him?
Give him an award.
Did he show up?
I have no idea.
Hmm.
I think he's playing for an American team
now.
Miami.
Yeah.
To be specific.
I was right.
He's not American.
William Sanford Nye.
Oh, Bill Nye the science guy.
He's very important.
How is this guy, who's not even a
science guy, is an engineer, I think, a
mechanical engineer or even- I mean, come
on.
And he's a phony.
He's a big phony.
Okay.
Can I just put it this way?
This was trolling.
This was trolling for exactly what you're doing.
Because- Well, I got to finish the
list now.
Everybody was doing this.
Why did that guy get it?
He's not even American.
This was the whole social media was it
was trolling Trolling people and you're all in
on it.
Give it to me.
I'm totally in on it.
Let's go.
I'm gonna finish the list After Bill Nye
the science guy we go to George Romney.
Oh, yeah, who's also dead Yeah, did Mitt
accept on his behalf?
I didn't see that but as I would
guess he was there cuz he lives there
in Washington D.c. Probably was there was
Jimmy Savile on the list by any chance
For the pizza parties David Rubinstein the co
-founder and executive of the Carlisle group what
very important to give it to investors now
very important Somebody wants a job after they
get out of the administration.
They'd love to go to the Carlisle group.
Come on.
Hey Hey, we're so glad you come to
get your Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Can I just give you my resume?
Staying in alphabetical order the one that really
got the attention Hillary George Soros Who didn't
accept the award his son did you know
George can't he's dead.
He can't walk.
He's almost dead.
Yeah That was it no Joe I got
a couple more there's three there's three more
and then we're done George Stevens jr Who's
that?
Yeah, that's the question, isn't it?
Yeah He's a award-winning writer director author
and playwright His career has been dedicated to
preserving and celebrating the best of America film
and the performing arts Including by founding the
American Film Institute and creating the Kennedy Center
honors, okay Well, do you want that guy?
Cuz you know, hey look if we give
you an award Can you give me a
Kennedy Center or honor boom?
Yeah, I think you nailed that one.
Yeah.
Yeah, the rest of these were sketchy Denzel
Washington.
Oh, he's a he's a he's a Pastor
now.
Yeah, you know, I heard that gotta bring
the God stuff in very good Well, they
had one good and then wait last on
the list last one Which is really a
head shaker to me and a wind tower.
Ah Hey, I want to sit on the
front row the next fashion show.
Hey, listen, I'm gonna be ambassador to Paris
Anna can you make sure that I get
a good seat at the front row at
the at the fashion show during fashion week?
Testing list so while you did that, thank
you for doing that list.
I was able to find my clip Ah,
you can thank me.
I'm thanking you.
Here is the clip back back to the
interesting point.
You said that You guys think that they've
sent at least 15 al-qaeda alone has
sent at least 1,500 people here in
the United States, right?
What do they plan on doing with them?
They have a 2025 multi-coordinated multi-city
plot to avenge the death of Osama bin
Laden Okay, so I I've watched your I
watched you on podcast.
I've never heard that There's a could you
explain that more we're gonna put our report
on Monday, but essentially Al-qaeda is actually
who helped plan the Hamas attacks.
The Hamas attacks is a dress rehearsal So
the Hamas attacks is the practice attack and
then the big attack is going to be
in the United States and then in four
countries in Europe, okay You guys want to
go home and love magazine There it is
four countries in Europe there's 1,500 al
-qaeda in America They're going to attack as
as revenge for bin Laden according to Sarah
Adams There you go on the shark the
shark coast tactical podcast Exactly so she just
goes out everywhere the pom-pom We're gonna
do it makes it up as she goes
along.
I don't believe she's even being Scheduled to
do anything.
What does she makes it up?
She's making listen to what she called it.
She's not even an op here.
Listen to what she calls it What do
they plan on doing with them?
525 multi-coordinated multi-city multi-coordinated multi
-city plot to avenge the multi-coordinated Multi
-city, I like it.
Hey, I'll do it.
Are you coordinated?
I'm ready.
Go ahead vomit please You're right.
She does look like a pom-pom girl.
She looks anything but super bad Yeah, she's
likes a pom-pom girl said that she
might not even make the squad at pom
-pom girl You know the lowest no offense
to the women out there who couldn't make
the pom-pom at all at all no,
please yeah Yeah, well now we're aware of
another another lunatic I'm I just find it
a little bit concerning because people are out
there just walking around like oh, yeah Although
I am very proud of a lot of
our no agenda producers who would send me
this This link to the Sean Ryan pockets
like this and this makes no sense.
This has got to be an op well,
yeah of sorts That's the thing I'm not
even thinking it's an op.
No, it's just chatter It's just bullcrap.
I don't chat Well, you know, they are
pretty well structure when they work when they're
back when it's a real op Yeah, they
could try something I guess but I don't
know Boy I have so many different places
I can go right now I can go
with the US steel Buyout which is kind
of interesting, but I have this this series
of clips.
I want to play.
Okay on Manufacturing job training because I have
complaints about these this three clips Manufacturing job
training.
Is this where you have to train your
replacement from India?
No.
No that that's that's that's old news Oh,
okay.
This is just bitching and moaning about the
fact that they want to keep kids from
taking gender studies in college they finally got
a clue and So this this MFG job
training I have commentary.
Okay.
This is the first one PBS W Yep
to reflect this important and concerning risk.
Do you know what those limits should be
how they should be revised?
Well, they should be revised downward is my
opinion Who's talking here?
Give me some okay.
I have no idea what's going on.
Yeah, okay.
They're talking about the fact that Trump wants
to do wants to make as a manufacturing
a Strong manufacturing company once again, and we're
going and we're going to you know crank
it up so we're all in the manufacturing
game and This guy comes on to say
that this I cut right into the middle
of it This was too long to play
the whole thing.
Yeah, so I have to do it It
turns out that if you look at the
data and everything we're done as Manufacturing and
we can't get enough workers kids don't want
to do the job You ask the kids
if they want to go into manufacturing, they'd
rather not they want to be on Tick
-tock want to be an influencer.
You know what you just said is absolutely
part of the bit Okay You actually nailed
it because they'd rather be on tick-tock
or doing nothing and they've never been trained
properly when I was a kid Hi, here
we go When I was a kid in
high school During the summer, I would work
in a manufacturing job in high school and
then and then in college you do this
I mean you would just do that It
was just but you go to school and
you work during the summer or you go
to do you might go to camp?
Most people didn't they they'd get a job
make a bunch of money and you could
coast through the regular year with that money
Yeah, and and then you'd learn the how
important that was because you could have money
Which is a big deal and you'd also
get it get into the good habits of
liking to work because it's actually something the
good way to use your time and The
kids today know they're not interested.
They want they want to be influencers or
they want to work for Rover and be
dog-sitters That is not too far from
what they're talking about what you just said
Okay, so so we're in the middle of
the conversation So you're gonna we're kind of
picking up a conversation in the middle To
reflect this important and concerning risk, do you
know what those limits should be how they
should be revised?
Well, they should be revised downward is my
opinion And you overall with the guidelines committee
needs to do is look at the overall
health impact of alcohol, but here too I'm
playing the one you told me to play
MFG job training PBS W.
Oh My god, that is the alcohol clip
died.
I guess both of us are doing this
today The op is in progress Let's start.
Let's get that road.
We're screwed today That is the alcohol clip
because there's because I'm gonna stop this job
clip because of what I just said is
probably enough But I would let's skip up
to anti alki one PBS Alcohol is the
third leading preventable cause of cancer in the
United States following tobacco use and obesity Alcohol
consumption contributes to roughly a hundred thousand cancer
cases and twenty thousand deaths each year and
a new advisory out today from the US
Surgeon General says alcoholic beverages should have a
warning label about those risks u.s. Surgeon
General.
Dr Vivek Murthy joins us now to discuss.
Welcome back to the news hour.
Great.
Thanks so much.
I'm not good to be with you again
There's a few things that really stood out
to me from your findings I just want
to tick through them for our audience here
number one Alcohol consumption you found increases the
risk of at least seven types of cancer
over 16% of all breast cancer cases
in the u.s. In 2019 were alcohol
related Okay So this is part of the
series of clips.
I played last show which is this anti
health alcohol thing.
That's going on Yes, I've heard about it.
And so now they're claiming it does this
and that somehow breast cancer is related to
having a drink Which it would logically makes
no sense But okay, we're gonna go with
this now you can play the rest of
this clip or you can listen to me
complain Well before we listen to you complain
I have a follow-on clip because there
was a little gotcha in this that came
in from this same story Which was the
same everywhere everywhere.
It was the same everywhere is local news
this was PBS and it was it was
following the last week's the last shows clips
about Sober Yeah, no you play yours played
on the medical watch now alcohol is as
bad as smoking when it comes to causing
cancer That's the best This is important because
it leads into what's coming regarding this surgeon
general who's recommending warning labels on alcoholic beverages
Dr. Vivek Murthy's report cite studies linking alcoholic
beverages to at least seven malignancies including breast
cancer Joining me now to sort out what
this means for us is dr.
Brian health and who is an oncologist with
no Thank you for being guys an oncologist
in here since alcohol is so much a
part of so many people's lives I'm sure
they're not happy obviously about this, you know
when the warnings first arose regarding cigarettes I
think people didn't necessarily believe it then that
cancer connection became so clear Do you see
that happening with alcohol?
I think the information that we obtained through
large studies and we have these, you know
amazing abilities now that we've accumulated Datasets for
many many years and we can analyze it
and the more information that we can get
from that really Convinces us of the harms
that a lot of what we consider routine
behaviors and the harm that they have caused
so again, I think that We are learning.
I do think that we will potentially see
that, you know severe Warnings and potentially even
taxes on alcohol as we Taxes More taxes
on alcohol.
That's what this is.
That's where this is going Higher taxes to
thwart people from drinking alcohol.
It's easy.
I think that's just one of two elements.
What's the other one?
The other element which was shown on local
television and I think local broadcasts will have
this There was there's a there's a non
-alcoholic club in San Francisco.
It's a nightclub and it's only serves Non
-alcoholic wine non-alcoholic champagne non-alcoholic beer
and I think there's a lobby That put
this to put this package together Promote non
-alcohol beverage drinking.
Yeah, that makes sense Cuz that's what you
do If you're you run you you you
get all these different companies there's a lot
of them now Making non-alcoholic beverage you
form a community and you say look we
need a lobbying effort Yeah, we gotta start
getting people to drink this crap What is
your as as a as an alcohol consumer
yourself, what is your thinking on this?
I mean, they're now saying that just it's
just connected you drink alcohol.
You have a chance of getting cancer to
me Nothing water does the same thing and
but and What should give you cancer the
this is I think I think it's nonsense
at some level and the in the late
longevity Studies in France, for example, where they
drink a lot or they used to drink
a lot more alcohol than they do today
and the fact that we had like We
really had a society that was an alcoholic
before prohibition.
Yes.
I'm not buying any of it I and
and when it comes to the non-alcoholic
stuff I have to say it's the improvement
in its quality over the years will It's
probably the right time to try to promote
it a little bit Because I think some
of it's actually quite tasty I've had a
few beers recently and not wine so much
but beers that are non-alcoholic that are
quite quite good And so if I was
in that business I would be going out
of my way to promote people at least
try it and this is probably an attempt
I think this I think this is just
a promotional and it but I like the
tax thing I didn't catch that the tax
thing and then there's also we're still looking
for a reason for the turbo cancers.
Oh Number three, you're right.
I actually thought about that.
Yes.
We have a bunch of turbo cancers caused
by vaccines Which are cancer-causing?
documented And more recent and you've got to
come up with something to explain it away.
So yes Yeah, that would be the third
rationale have you heard of have you heard
of the mirror life have you heard of
this this from this scientific breakthrough mirroring mirroring
mirroring Molecules mirroring life You know, it's it's
ringing some sort of Bell, but I'm not
I don't know what you're talking about So
a warning came out that science it's so
at first I thought it was like gain
of function and it's not Gain of function,
but we'll have I have a couple clips
here.
This is From the current.
Hello.
I'm Matt Galloway and this is the current
podcast Sorry That has to stay in there.
Otherwise, you have no context You know It
sounds like something maybe an episode of Star
Trek a group of scientists is calling for
a halt in research that could lead to
Something called mirror life.
Those scientists worried that the synthetic organisms that
Create these mirror molecules in this field of
research could present an unprecedented risk to all
life on earth That sounds rather serious.
Kate Ademala is one of the scientists She's
a synthetic biologist founder of the build a
cell initiative and genetics professor at the University
of Minnesota They'll do their Minneapolis.
Oh Kate.
Good morning Good morning, let's start with the
basics.
What do you do?
What is a synthetic biologist?
Synthetic biologist is someone who makes things out
of biology that biology doesn't naturally do and
We do that so we can expand that
Diversity of what we can get out of
biology better medicine better drugs better ways of
making molecules Basically making anything that a natural
biology didn't think of doing The mRNA vaccine
during the kovat pandemic is an example of
that, right?
Yes That's one of our poster child examples
of a successful synthetic biology project.
I've got my attention Yeah, I think that
got my attention.
So it seems that there's a bunch of
scientists out there saying we should not be
doing this.
I Think I can agree But when you
get into this, I mean, this is this
is more freaky than the drones.
What is what is mirror life?
Mirror life is the idea that you could
make a cell that looks exactly like a
normal bacteria cell But all molecules in that
cell would be pointing the opposite direction So
every biological molecule points one way or the
other it has a physical Conformation in space
and there are two possible conformations for every
molecule and life is very particular About what
direction all our molecules point?
If there is one Conformation that all life
uses and it's possible to imagine making a
cell where all molecules point the exactly opposite
Direction, that's why we call it mirror life
because it would be like a molecule that
looks at itself in a mirror Why are
these people doing this?
Are they've run out of ideas to kill
us well, they would hope that they could
come up with something that would kill us
faster But they This has been attempted before
it did this I did this all goes
back stems back to something in that was
taking place in the 50s 60s and 70s
Yeah, I knew you'd have context for us
trying to create life from scratch Mmm, that's
it.
This is something that has never been accomplished
and it can't be accomplished for various I
don't know what the reasons the cosmic reasons
are but it hasn't been done and it
seems unlikely it'll ever be done and It's
just it this is part of that Process
hope it is and it's I think it
stems from the thinking of matter and anti
matter And you have life and anti life
because this is basically what she's describing which
isn't mirroring but anti life And so this
is not this is bullcrap.
It's okay.
It's going nowhere good It's got an mRNA
has got nothing to do with this is
that's been a technology as Everyone's known about
mRNA Decades ago.
It's effective papers written about it, but it's
one of the poster children of their work
It says can't be a poster child for
what she's up to.
This is bull.
I have one clip here about why why
are we doing?
This why would somebody want to do that?
Yeah, why?
Because we we wanted to do that for
the same reasons why we don't want to
do it right now So we thought that
it was a great medicine.
We want to do it for the same
reasons.
We don't want to do it These people
get grants What you're talking about that what
you just said is the problem yeah grants
Come on, doge get to work Immune system
wouldn't freak out about it.
We would be able to make cell-based
Therapeutics that would not create adverse immune response
and we also could use it for biomanufacturing
We could use it to make molecules with
biology in bioreactors that are not susceptible to
external contaminations because we thought that they would
be orthogonal to viruses to predators and these
are exactly the reasons why now we Understand
we shouldn't be making it because it wouldn't
only be silent to immune system when we
want it It would always be silent to
immune system.
So it could be a pathogen that we
couldn't fight.
There you go Well, then don't do it
Stop playing God.
Don't do it.
These people are crazy Brought to you by
the same people who brought you climate change
Or the new the new outbreak the new
outbreak John the new outbreak Very mysterious virus
in China.
Have you been following the news?
Well, not right.
Yeah, but not that I don't know what
this is.
Oh, this is great So this is only
out of Wuhan.
It's only on Indian channels It's really strange
That the Indian news has picked this up
and we have a pocky shawarma Who no
longer works at the old place at WIO
and she by the way, by the way,
have you seen the the?
AI version of her.
No, I haven't.
Is it good?
Yeah This is not the AI version of
polkies.
I think I'm at pocky shawarma.
I can't remember her name But this is
she lays and you know, she has such
an authoritative voice I hate to say this
but it feels like 2020 all over again.
All right This is the way you start
baby overflowing hospitals and thousands of patients with
flu-like symptoms China is facing a new
health crisis a new disease outbreak Which looks
a lot like the Wuhan virus and as
always Beijing is sharing.
No information as always They're calling it a
pneumonia of unknown origin pneumonia of unknown origin
That's how Chinese authorities have described it Beijing
says it has set up systems systems to
monitor the outbreak If you feel like you've
heard this before you have From the same
China some four years back.
They're making it sound like it's just the
flu season We do hope it's just that
but sadly the pictures tell a different story.
Take a look at this This is believed
to be from a hospital in China We
cannot verify these pictures but several videos like
this one are going viral clearly there is
more to the story We do not wish
to speculate and it's exact same pictures as
As with kovat, you know, they've got the
everyone in the waiting room.
They've got IVs pictures in Italy Yeah, they
see you're seeing pictures of you know of
morgues everything stacking up feed the fear But
here is what we know so far This
is not a new disease experts say that
China is dealing with an outbreak of HMPV,
that's the human meta nemo virus HMPV HMPV.
Hey, we have a name HMPV, but it's
was it H or S H H M
human meta Nemo mnemonic Whatever is what we
know so far.
This is not a new disease experts say
that China is dealing with an outbreak of
HMPV that's the human meta.
Nemo virus HMPV human meta.
Nemo virus This virus has been around for
at least 60 years.
It is quite common and easy to catch
Virus this time they seem to be dealing
with a known disease and yet there are
reasons to be worried The first one is
the scale of the outbreak.
It is a massive scale cases have been
reported in multiple cities across China, Beijing Tianjin
Shanghai and inner Mongolia these five areas have
reported the highest number of cases But we
don't know about the actual caseload as usual
China has not shared any data, so we
don't know how much worse it could become
So every single Indian Channel had this I'll
just play just a brief little bit here
So you get a little taste for it.
This is China News 18 Welcome back and
well viewers five years after the kovat 19
pandemic Which first originated from China China once
again is witnessing an outbreak of the human
meta Nemo virus or the HMPV according to
reports and social media posts hospitals are overcrowded
with infected individuals and crematories also Some social
media users in fact claim that multiple viruses
including influenza And then we have Wion the
Beijing is denied reports on social media posts
that China is experiencing a rise in respiratory
illnesses including human Meta-neumovirus also known as
the HMPV.
So everyone's got the same.
Well, it's the social media posts.
It's the same thing I don't know why
they're trying to do this maybe because they're
the guys who make the most Ivermectin or
something and I would have dismissed all of
this word not for this late-breaking news
report That is read in a very boring
voice from Euronews European Commission president Ursula von
der Leyen has cancer their engagements for the
first two weeks of January after falling sick
According to an official announcement by her office.
The EU Commission president has been diagnosed with
severe pneumonia Queen Ursula is down Severe pneumonia
Hmm I don't know on the horizon Could
be could be there's no vaccine for HMPV
Yet not yet.
Not yet Meanwhile in America, we finally latched
on to the branding what some people are
terming the quad Demick of infectious diseases hitting
hard this season joining us now is dr
Stephanie Whitmer with more on how to stay
healthy doctor.
Good morning to you.
It's great to have you Thank you guys
for having me Viral syndrome, yeah, I want
to jump right into some of the numbers
here as we get into it because Covid
RSV norovirus making the rounds this winter RSV
cases.
What when we when they add HMPV will
it be the quinn Demick?
You're gonna have trouble naming it.
Yeah higher than they were this time of
year last year Five states reporting high or
very high levels of respiratory illness and the
CDC estimates that there have been at least
5.3 million illnesses 63,000 hospitalizations and
2,700 deaths from the flu so far
this season that's actually low for flu.
That's low Normally, it's 20,000 deaths.
So we just mentioned earlier people calling this
a quad Demick Is it really an accurate
description and how would you explain what's really
going on?
So this term quad Demick it refers to
the convergence of high levels of just like
you said flu Covid RSV and this norovirus
and there are multiple factors at play here
different social Environmental biologic factors that are causing
these numbers that you know in New York
It's not unprecedented to see high levels of
viral syndromes, especially during the winter when there's
indoor crowding increased travel Lots of different gatherings,
but there are other factors at play here
such as viral evolution new strains that emerge
Lots of different things lots of different things.
And this is I have another report here,
which is where's this from?
From Philadelphia, they bring in a doctor because
you know this stuff you got to be
careful with this This is this is not
just stuff that just is out there You're
leaving these clips short because I don't believe
you have any of these clips especially from
the United States that don't promote Vaccination after
the clip is over.
Oh, no, I have it.
I mean I if you wanted I'd be
Sure, it's there Three more clips from a
bit from Good Morning America alone.
I mean here you can hear about the
prevention So you mentioned some of the remedies
there, but what about prevention?
So prevention is key One thing that's very
important if you haven't gotten your flu vaccine
or It is not too late Hand washing
is huge with this norovirus.
So hand sanitizer may not be a hundred
percent effective for norovirus.
So washing your hands Yes, because a lot
of these viruses can live on surfaces so
washing Things like that are huge for prevention.
Yes Sitting there on the surface.
Oh, but wait, there's another way you can
catch some of these viruses It's a doozy.
We're going to ABC, Philadelphia Well, you may
have noticed perhaps in your family at school
or at work Lots of people are getting
sick these days the holiday gatherings and an
uptick in viruses going around this time of
year causing a spread And a spike actually
news reporter Maggie Kenton joining us now live
in with what doctors are saying about this
today, Maggie All right.
How can you get this stuff?
Well, yeah, as you mentioned Brian as the
holiday parties wind down as people stop traveling
and get back to work in school Wait,
hold on a second The other doctor says
everyone's traveling and now this woman says they're
not traveling She's not a doctor.
Can they make up their minds with their
message?
She's not a doctor She's just leading into
the package.
As people stop traveling and get back to
work in school That's when we're seeing the
uptick of both respiratory and GI illnesses.
Here we go It's time to get back
to reality the busy holiday travel rush and
party season is winding down But flu COVID
and norovirus season.
Well, it's spiking.
We see it We see these respiratory viruses
spread through coughing loud talking Sneezing.
Did you hear that?
The respiratory virus has spread through coughing and
loud talking.
I Didn't hear the loud talking COVID and
norovirus season.
Well, it's spiking.
We see it.
We see these respiratory viruses spread through coughing
loud-talking sneezing No loud talking no and
we need signs We need a mask sign
and then a no loud talking sign.
Certainly no podcast is that I think that's
racist No loud talking But why is that
racist because black people in the theater no,
they talk loud.
Yes.
Yes They're always heckling and laughing and joking
around Spreading my booming voices.
Yes spreading virus Very good assumption there.
Yep So this mania is ludicrous, I don't
know anyone who's sick by the way You're
the closest and you had this bird flu
or whatever it was.
I picked it up in Europe You know,
I got and you got in Europe.
We're just sick.
I gave it to Ursula Yeah.
Oh, yeah, maybe yeah Do they ever talk
about smooching?
No, no, but remember that weird.
They would say you think they're all the
coughing and loud-talking.
What about what about kissing on the lips
Do you remember?
During kovat when they said you could have
sex, but you had you couldn't kiss and
you need to have a mask And I
don't remember that.
Yes.
I'm wondering if I still have a clip
of the whole thing is ludicrous Yeah, there
was something about I think they should bring
it into these these discussions.
No kissing No kissing no kissing stop it
no more kissing brother Don't shake hands with
people.
That's how most of it spread You bow
learn to bow I did pick up a
new meme a new meme that's kind of
been around but there it's picking up again
regarding the h-1b visa because of course
the the media is all saying that well,
you know We need to we need to
bring people in.
You know, these Republicans are crazy.
They just hate immigrants They don't like any
kind of immigrants.
They're just they're just moving it towards a
political narrative but They're now using a great
term I think to say to to Let
every people everyone know why we need to
have h-1b workers Here's a little supercut
not because they're cheaper But because they are
truly the best and brightest the best and
brightest best and brightest Is that a fair
characterization?
Certainly some of the best and brightest extraordinarily
profitable and the best and brightest and the
best and brightest Silicon Valley leaders are calling
on the best and the brightest they are
the best and the brightest the hardest working
really attracts some of our best and brightest
best and brightest the world's best and brightest
the best and the brightest the best and
the brightest the Best and the brightest best
and brightest brightest integrate with my best and
brightest hardest working best and brightest from Almost
every country in the world.
They are the best and the brightest best
and brightest Celebrating the best and the brightest
from around the world the best and brightest
Welcome the best and the brightest the White
House just announced that is bringing in the
best and brightest and what we have done
year after years open our doors To the
best and brightest the best and brightest the
best and brightest You know, it's like these
we play these clips for the last 10
almost 20 years now It's always of these
of these things and it's just this it's
so annoying that they all It's like the
mainstream media is no good They're just no
good.
They dropped the ball I don't know when
they dropped the ball, but I think it
was way before our show show started We
always like kind of picked up on it.
Yeah along with everybody else who you know
condemns them, but it this has been going
on too long There's no creativity.
There's no Originality, they all just mock about
parrot each other.
Yeah, it's it's it's horrible Are you even
watching Jesse waters anymore?
Probably not Well, here's the thing I'm just
my analysis of Fox in general Fox is
got about six shows.
They do they do the five they do
the Morning show they do bread bar.
They do the Jesse waters.
They do Tannedy.
They do Laura Terry Ingram, they do all
the show each show is identical They have
the exact and right at the gut felt
you must have just watched gut felt and
get a laugh out of it Because every
show has got the exact same news story
it starts off at the same alert It
has the same they have they will have
they'll have different guests, but it's the same
story Yeah, and so each show just reiterates
whatever the other show.
It's just it's it's a horrible network Yeah,
I guess if you watch one show you
okay if you want to watch one show
or it may be even two on Fox
that's it.
If you watch Fox all day, you're just
watching the same material over and over and
over just re Repackaged very slightly.
It's it's it's terrible.
It there's no better than the mainstream media.
They are the mainstream media Yeah, they are
they are the the ratings reflected everyone's moving
to podcast podcast is it baby?
That's where it is That's where you can
get your message out open microphone.
You can tell everybody that's right and and
YouTube is the place to be That's just
ask Chris Cuomo Man I'm so I'm so
happy we chose this path It's so much
better as opposed to what as opposed to
having to be posting YouTube shorts I can
just see hey John It was a great
show.
We just did and it's already posted on
YouTube and now we have to do the
shorts so And we got to do a
couple of tick tocks And we got to
do some reels so we can otherwise the
algo won't pick it up speaking of which
A lot of people up in arms the
Elon Musk is changing the algo He's changing
the algo there's a scandal going on about
the elgo now because they've asked rock about
it Yes comics for blogger did that you
see now good for him?
Yeah So grok grok revealed the fact that
you get up great and down greatest with
all the crap that was going on before
Elon is still going on and only now
it's just skewed differently I will say they
that even though my numbers I can't get
him I can't get mine at one iota
past what mine is.
No, there's like it's like they have a
limit It's like a day.
What's the number on his well, let's limit
it at 102.4. What do you have?
That's mine.
I have 102.4 is me.
What Oh 2.4 FM.
I'm it can always at 96.2 Never
That's my number and My numbers a little
bit higher frequencies a little better frequency a
better quality.
You're in the classic rock section up there
and 1.4. I'm I'm in the NPR
level.
I'm it's called radio 0.4. Yeah, you're
done in PR public radio actually 96.
That's top 40, baby I'm in top 40
land So we had so this so this
seems to be that you're right I've noticed
this too and it's like it's so it's
that's a scam of some sort and they
can't do anything about that Well, the big
thing is I think if I started from
scratch today, I could get my numbers higher
Well, the big thing is this this metric
called?
unregretted user seconds That's the big metric Which
means that you get regretted user seconds when
people are engaged with your content but don't
engage so if they're not liking if they're
not looking at more that means they regretted
looking at you and Then you that counts
as un as regretted user seconds So they're
looking for unregretted user seconds, which forces you
to do incredibly high value content Which is
the antithesis of?
What social media is?
Social media is the narcissists narcissist outlet There's
nothing to do with with quality content And
it's all the narcissist stuff's the best now.
I want to bring it back around to
the promise clip I do every I'm gonna
do every show until Trump gets actually put
in office because according to these people he's
not gonna make Yes, yes, the Lulu the
Lulu Lulu Lulu say that he's never gonna
get and Kamala's gonna be our president So
we have the latest this week's the Lulu
clip.
I have it right here ready for you
to play Okay, is this number two is
what this says?
Yes, this will be the second of the
series.
Okay.
Yeah, the news is hitting It's looking like
It's all right, it's gonna work out for
us y'all I've been worried I've been
nervous I've been sick every since November 4th,
I have not been able to look at
TV.
I haven't been making videos.
I just had to walk away Today for
the very first time I heard on CNN
I heard them discussing what is happening and
it is turning in our favor guys They
are looking at this shit, and they know
that it wasn't right.
They know that we got cheated.
Oh, no, he stole it And they had
laid the trap already they already laid the
trap and it's coming back Mr. Gardner, thank
you so much This is amazing.
We needed this we needed this we need
you at this moment and at this time
glory to God Mama, we miss you.
Where you at?
Come on out here.
Talk to us This reminds me a bit
of the quantum dots Totally the same.
It's the same script flipped.
It's good.
It's set up.
It was he was a trap Who was
mr.
Gardner?
Who was that?
I don't know.
I couldn't figure it out hmm Some guy
who came out and I don't know what
he said, whatever it was.
She misinterpreted I think I don't know Maybe
this all I know is there's a lot
of black women making these videos going on
and on About how Trump's not getting in
there.
There's a few white guys to that one
guy I got played before I got a
lot of responses to my narcissist Yes, well
you should I think it's a thesis that
we will continue to To pound home until
it goes away at which it won't well,
let me lay this on you There is
a correlation between narcissism and Marxism While Fundamentally
different concept explain while fundamentally different concepts one
being socio political ideology in the other psychological
condition There are intersections how they relate to
individual identity power dynamics and cultural critiques the
discussion often revolves around how societal structures influence
personal behaviors and vice versa and there's and
there's a lot of Different pieces of research
and in fact a very large PDF That
I couldn't even get through but yes there's
a lot of Research has been done on
the connection between these two and it kind
of makes sense if you have a very
narcissistic Society, it's probably easier to introduce Marxism
into that Why?
Why would it be easier?
Well, it seems like if you're if you're
completely consumed with yourself and not with anybody
else You're just open to doing what people
tell you to do for your for your
for your brand For your likes, I think
I think your basis is is correct I
think you might be more susceptible, but I
don't know if that's the mechanism Well someone
out there knows this stuff because enough people
have emailed me about it, but it couldn't
quite bring it home for me Let me
see I had a let me see that
I have a Guess not No, I'm I'm
all over this still.
I'm so I think we should yeah No,
I knew well you should be because we're
gonna get not especially with my clips Yeah,
you get nothing but this sort of thing
because I just I love it Let's talk
about I got a little bit another presentation
since the other one failed This was I
thought a pretty good rundown on pig butchering
PBS finally got a clue finally How long
have we been talking about pig butchering?
Two years two years at least Yeah, they
find but I thought their summary was pretty
decent and they and they really made it
more pathetic than it is And it brings
back to me The whole idea of where's
our law enforcement, especially when you listen to
the numbers?
Yeah, that are the number not the number
of people.
There's hundreds of thousands I guess but just
the sheer volume of dollars that have been
scammed from the America the worldwide public and
Law enforcement's not doing anything about it But
they do a bit they do they don't
even do a decent job in Oakland of
stopping the guy robbing a gas station But
this is the law enforcement is not doing
its job pig butchering PBS many believe we're
living in the golden age of scams Job
scams even the most skeptical among us are
falling prey to increasingly sophisticated frauds One particular
scam called pig butchering has cost victims around
the world an estimated 75 billion dollars in
just the last four years I wrote more
on what it is and how to avoid
it pig butchering investment scams have exploded over
the last few years Named for the practice
of farmers fattening hogs before slaughter The scheme
often starts with a simple hi or a
seemingly innocent wrong number text on messaging platforms
like whatsapp Before they catch on victims can
lose hundreds of thousands and even millions of
dollars in 2023 alone Americans reported losing four
point six billion dollars to an investment schemes
And it's not just the targets that are
being harmed the imposters on the other end
of the line are often human trafficking victims
Forced to run the scheme by large crime
syndicates in Asia Aaron West is a former
deputy district attorney in Santa Clara County, California
Aaron, thank you so much for being here
How do these schemes play out and what
sort of psychological tactics do these scammers use
to trick people Wow?
Welcome to the party PBS jeez They're fine
This is goes you know that I guess
I do over the phones a lot But
so this happened to well attempt was happened
to me on LinkedIn Let me guess let
me guess hey How you doing, it's been
a while since we met at that conference
Cute no, it's actually different profile No, it
was different because the pictures are already in
LinkedIn of the people Yeah, and so and
it was an Asian woman.
They talk about in the next clip about
this mostly Asian.
Yes, and so they said Pretty Asian girl
it that was head of some company or
something.
Oh, you know, I like your profile Yeah,
I think we do business.
I'm It went on and on So I
think so I sent back to her says
I don't know what kind of business you
think I'm in but you know What tell
me more so I love one of the
leader on this It's like so I but
her I found what company she was with
and I looked it up on LinkedIn and
there was a bunch of people Different names
from that company because you can do a
reverse search just company only and many of
them had her same picture with different names
So I mean this was so obvious pretty
obvious, yeah, and so you can mention it
to her like yeah, you know You look
just like this other woman almost identical.
In fact, the photos like exactly the same
Is that you and then you did book
click?
So I had a I've been getting these
phone calls another scam as goes on it
was his phone calls and this could keep
calling about PG&E giving me a discount
on my bill and $50 return and so
the latest one which just has happened in
the last couple of days is a Recording
that comes on.
It's a it's a or it's a phony
voice a AI voice that says are you
there?
Are you there And it keeps repeating this
until you say yes.
Hello and then click No, and then it
goes.
Hi.
Hi.
I'm Ellen or whoever it is from PG
&E We want to give you a discount
on your bill.
Is that something you want?
Yes.
Oh Let me send you to our Hold
on.
Well, I transfer the call.
That's not majoring.
That's not pig butcher.
No, I know but I'm just talking about
general this is the age of scams and
These these the pig butchers do the same
thing when it comes to how you respond
So the guy comes on he says you
got a discount coming got 120 bucks do
He says, how would you like it?
How would you like the money?
Would you like it and your credit card
or your checking account?
How would you like it?
Yeah, and so I wish I had I
gotta start recording these cuz it did hate
cuz I say Oh, we'll just put it
on my bill as a credit click It
was like this thing.
But that's just a regular scam here.
I'm gonna read a few from my for
my text messages Hey long time now see
how you feeling these days.
No, these real.
Yeah, these are real.
Yeah Yeah, here's another one good morning, do
you have any new plans today From who
well, it's just random numbers Here's one that
just says hello.
These are all yeah what you're described.
These are all prop potential pig butchering Potential
these are pig butchering number messages.
Did you have a rest today?
I didn't see you at the meeting That's
a good one, that's a good one.
Let me see what There's a lot of
Recruiter type things.
I mean you get at least one a
day if not more Really, but I know
why I know this So what never really
once the political messages went away that my
number got sold to the pig butchering people
And I'm sure that most of the political
texts were scams as well.
Yeah, a lot of them.
I'm sure most of them are Let me
see if I can find another one this
quickly because I Miss the meeting.
I'd like to miss the meeting one What's
this?
Wow, I can't believe what is this?
No, that's not one Why did you skip
the morning meeting That's a good one, that's
pretty good a lot of it just hello
and usually it's like do you want to
play tennis?
Are we still on for tennis today?
Yeah, well, let's get to your next clip,
okay, big to the way victims are usually
contacted is they receive What appears to be
a wrong number text?
Yeah, and those have gotten increasingly clever They're
doing anything they can to just get your
attention long enough to respond so that they
can drop in a picture of Usually an
attractive young Asian female who will say hi.
My name is Jessica.
I hope I'm not bothering you We're finding
that people will respond to that and they
will start engaging in conversation with a Jessica
Who over the next 90 days will sell
a dream of being with her and her?
Fancy elevated lifestyle and then what happens over
time is they get these victims to invest
in cryptocurrency Like the scammer purports that she
did that's how she became wealthy and our
victims will invest a little bit and they
will see it They'll see a false dashboard
showing their Exponential increase in value and that
will lead them to invest more and more
until ultimately They have invested every penny they
have they believe they're rich and that they're
gonna end up with the girl Only to
find out that it was all a facade
and they've lost everything.
So here's one Hey, we didn't meet for
a long time.
Where where are you live right now?
Where are you I'm gonna answer this one
answer this one I'll say I live in
Austin now.
Who's this?
Okay, I'll just hit that Let's see if
we get a response and then we'll listen
to pig three in the meantime What do
we know about where these scams are coming
from and who's behind them?
What we know is that these scams are
coming primarily from Southeast Asia They're being run
by primarily Chinese organized crime Although the Yakuza
has now gotten involved in Korean organized crime
after seeing how lucrative this is They've built
compounds that are akin to small cities Built
for the express purpose of fleecing the rest
of the world of their money It's massive
and growing the target also isn't always the
only victim here The people who are on
the other end of the phone or the
computer are also in many cases Victims of
human trafficking themselves.
How does that play into all of this?
We have literally never seen a world crisis
like this We've got Americans and people all
over the world who've lost all their money
and then on the other side We have
human trafficked victims that are forced to do
this dirty work in order to fill these
Compounds where the dirty work is done The
organized criminals needed to bring in a workforce
and to do that Constructed websites that look
very authentic and they offer up jobs in
Southeast Asia And so people from all over
apply for these jobs thinking they're getting a
really nice Work opportunity and when they get
there their passports are seized They're put in
buses and they are moved to these compounds
where they are Surrounded with men with ak
-47s and they are locked down and forced
to do this dirty work 17 hours a
day Dirty work.
So this phone number is no longer in
service.
That's a bummer.
Here's another one Hey long time.
No, see, how are you feeling these days?
I'm doing great.
Who is this?
See if that one works So after this
like the third clip, there's a big series
of discussions of how they beat the crap
out of these poor slaves Yeah, and it
goes on and on and then we had
we find it finish it up with this
last clip But this whole thing is like
this has to be state-sponsored at some
even though it's gangs There's no way that
people can do this without some corruption at
the state level Well, I got a hit
I can see the person is typing back
to me Well, let's get to that before
we played the last clip.
Well, it's started.
Okay, let's play a last clip Yeah, we'll
see if we get an answer.
Yeah, this era is not the time to
be making new friends on social media That's
the final really Social media is by far
the problem is text message this this is
the big problem and and it's all the
yes, you're right, there's a lot of Companies
and organizations particularly in states where this is
not well regulated and they let anybody into
the phone network You know, it's the S
is system 7.
That's the whole problem system 7 once you're
in there You couldn't make up numbers.
You can send as many different text messages
as you want and just go on and
on and on That's what it is You
should also be stopped at that level.
You should also probably have to give up
on this international stuff Yes, just cut it
off.
Yep Cut off international text cut off international
contact Cut it off Ah Get a sat
phone if you want to talk to someone
overseas back to ham radio people So, I
don't know this person was typing and now
I've got no message I don't know if
I got hit in the head.
I want to talk about musk for a
second Because he's he's doing stuff he's doing
stuff out in the world and And it's
and it's being noticed by international media.
Here's Deutsche Bella We'll take building there Elon
Musk is planning a live online discussion next
week with the candidate for Chancellor of the
far-right alternative for Germany party Alice vital
the chat is expected to take place on
musk's platform X It is his latest endorsement
of the AFD ahead of Germany's general election
on February 23rd Last weekend musk caused outrage
when he described the far-right party as
the country's last Spark of hope and an
opinion piece in a German newspaper political leaders
in Germany have accused him of election interference
Considering his close relationship with US President elect
Donald Trump So that was Deutsche Bella the
BBC went in a little bit deeper on
this the Chancellor Olaf Schultz told a German
magazine He's staying cool about Elon Musk's activities
He added it's the will of citizens that
counts not the erratic statements of a billionaire
Elon Musk has previously described him as a
fool and recently penned a controversial opinion piece
endorsing Alternativa for Deutschland or the AFD the
AFD is a far-right party That's even
classed as extremist in certain German states by
domestic intelligence Mr. Musk dismissed such allegations and
claimed he'd earned the right to speak out
on German politics because of his significant investments
in the EU's largest economy Notably, mr Musk's
electric car making brand Tesla has a huge
factory in the eastern state of Brandenburg just
outside Berlin Now this coming week.
Mr Musk is expected to hold a live
online discussion with the AFD's candidate for Chancellor
Alice Weidel This all comes just weeks ahead
of Germany's snap federal election The vote will
take place on February the 23rd following the
collapse of Germany's bickering three-way Coalition that
comprised of Chancellor Schultz's Social Democrats the Greens
and the FDP liberals the AFD Despite polling
second has little prospect of taking power because
other parties won't work with it Well, Olaf
Schultz's chances of retaining the chancellery have long
looked slim Nevertheless, Germany looks set to be
the next electoral testing ground for Elon Musk's
apparent willingness to wade in to national politics
Elon Musk has also Tweeted out slashed out
to King Charles that he should dissolve this
Parliament and Nigel Farage should be removed as
the head of the Freedom Party Freedom Party.
Is that his party?
Because Raj yes, he's he's all he's all
against Farage now.
Well, that's interesting What it would brought that
about I wonder the rape of Britain Because
Farage said something was okay So Tommy Robinson
Who of course brought this to light, but
I think he's in jail now for for
ten years because he's such a dangerous guy
He's in and out of jail.
Very very dangerous.
Supposedly.
Yes.
I don't know that he's ever been either
Sir, Brian of London knows though You know,
he's the one that said, you know, these
Pakistani gangs were raping, you know up to
250,000 girls up in the north of
England From the late 80s into the but
maybe into the 2000s till now and And
so Nigel Farage isn't either isn't taking that
Seriously enough or you know, and so what
this does is it breeds all kinds of
other theories?
One of the theories being that just like
Elon is now going to ouster We'll see
if it happens Farage that eventually he and
Peter Thiel And in all the JD Vance
gang, they're all gonna turn on Trump and
get him kicked out.
Yeah I know it's great It's great But
why well Why Musk is what why is
he doing this?
Why what is he?
Well, that's what I'm saying I was gonna
say it's starting to look more and more
like some sort of that You know, we
say it too often on this show, but
this is starting to look like some sort
of a psyop And must seems to be
representing something.
I mean, there's no reason for him to
be doing so much at that Political stuff
as he's doing unless he's like being run
by someone but who?
Well, I would have to think that if
we only knew yes Yes, if we only
knew if we only knew we only knew
but he's definitely out there.
He's risking his life he's causing trouble here
and there and Entertaining as hell.
Mm-hmm.
I Just some of it doesn't make sense
the Farage things one of them, but you
know, who knows Farage's fishy character anyway, and
Tommy Robinson's a fishy character.
This everything is sketchy Well, how about the
typhoon gangs we have all this salt typhoon
we've got the The Flax typhoon I think
is the latest this one this made the
news But I think because of you know
The cyber trucker and New Orleans and no
one really paid much attention to it except
our man Ali Velshi over there at MSNBC.
I want to turn now to a hugely
consequential but largely overlooked story That's been unwinding
this week in dramatic fashion China's escalating cyber
espionage campaign against the US and its allies
on Friday the US announced sanctions against China's
Integrity technology group a Beijing based cyber security
firm over its alleged links to the hacking
group flax Typhoon, which has been accused of
carrying out a litany of cyber attacks on
Americans in recent weeks American officials accused the
company of providing the infrastructure that enabled Chinese
hackers to launch attacks against US targets The
announcement of the sanctions comes after the US
Treasury Department disclosed earlier this week that flax
typhoon had stolen Unclassified documents and what it
described as a major incident flax typhoon specifically
targeted a highly sensitive office at Treasury the
Office of Foreign Assets Control or OFAC which
administers economic sanctions It's a key tool in
America's national security arsenal the attack also targeted
the office of Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen OFAC's
targeting underscores Beijing's determination to acquire intelligence on
its biggest rival According to officials who spoke
to The Washington Post China's growing cyber espionage
operations which FBI director Christopher Wray called the
most significant cyber espionage campaign in history largely
flew under the radar in 2024 but experts
warn that such attacks are likely to increase
as Beijing seeks to gain a competitive advantage
in technology economics and security Okay What happened
to Seoul typhoon?
Well, this is the flax typhoon This is
the same typhoon group only it's a different
strain and then he brings on Brings on
a a Yale senior fellow from the Yale
Law University Something would be let Yale Law
School Yale Law School a cyber a cyber
crime expert I think we're entering a period
where cyber attacks are ramping up for sure
as the US and China Enter a period
of uncertainty in their relationship, but what's notable
here is the level of sophistication We're seeing
by Chinese hackers.
You mentioned the dizzying array of salt typhoon
flax typhoon We also have volt typhoon which
the Chinese malicious actors were Pre-positioning critical
infrastructure saying in the event of a conflict
we can shut down power and water systems
Right now I think we're in a period
of potentially Significant Uncertainty in the relationship and
China's capabilities have certainly improved in ways that
are very concerning to u.s. Officials Yeah,
bolt typhoon you just talked about this is
interesting when we talk about a major conflict
at the moment We've got a potential trade
war with China What does major conflict mean
does that mean if China goes into Taiwan
and the u.s. Decides?
It's gonna stand up for typhoon for Taiwan
that China has potential ability to disrupt Infrastructure
in America We have to look at cyber
attacks as an extension of military power and
in the event of an armed Confrontation between
the US and Chinese militaries.
I think that cyber tools would certainly be
on the table and by By showing up
in utilities companies that are in places like
Guam the West Coast What this signals is
that in the event of a conflict those
West Coast assets would very much be in
play And cyber is going to work in
conjunction with sort of traditional military Powers and
so this is something that we have to
be very cognizant of There you go.
So we have salt fault vault and flax
typhoon and I don't know what to make
of any of that.
Okay have an update on my pig butchering.
Oh Good.
Okay.
Okay, so I sent you got a note.
Yeah, I said I Said odd, I don't
have you my address book.
I was baiting a little bit.
Oh, I'm sorry I may have sent you
a message to the wrong number.
Oh clearly.
There we go.
That's the wrong number I hope you don't
mind my mistake.
So I said not at all.
No prob and The pig butcher says thank
you for your understanding.
I think you are a friendly person.
I'm glad to meet you So, of course,
I say nice to meet you too.
LOL and Then the pig butcher comes back
nice to meet you here.
My name is Lena if you don't mind
May I know your name?
My name is John Dvorak.
Nice to meet you.
Yeah And we'll have an update on that
right after I say in the morning to
you the man who put the C in
the China Cybercrime say hello to my friend
on the other end the one the only
mr.
John C Kramer ship seabass and graph in
the air subs of the one of the
dames and knights out there in the morning
We have 2498 trolls that is not bad.
Oh, by the way.
No, that's exactly what we know.
It's a hundred more It's a hundred more.
No, no 2400 is Thursday, but it's About
this every show because it's 2498 that's almost
2,500 I said within range, by the
way, the pig butcher says you have a
good name John Dvorak What do I answer
to that Why thank you Why thank you
Do you have a pick?
move it along I Don't want to do
I want to see if if Lina does
that if she'll say it'll get the pick
ball rolling Send them to my PO box,
baby Hey, those trolls are hanging out in
the troll room troll room.io And I'm
sure that people are checking in because they
wanted to hear you know What we provide
a public service the service we provide as
we spin you down Although in this case
I again I was very proud of most
of our producers They were not buying any
of this any of it They identified the
six was too corny.
It was really too corny and then they
and it was also just Distressing than that
people did die.
No, thanks to the botched job that was
done by whoever is writing this game, right?
but of course our government doesn't care you
know and that that was really Tina made
a good point about the the fog the
weird fog She's already over it is but
she said people have lost all trust in
government and That's why they immediately go into
well I'm sure the government spraying us with
something or this, you know, so it's it's
a sad state of affairs really But I
kind of addressed this in the last newsletter
Yeah, where I said if they if they
would actually do because Biden is the president
of the United States And the president sets
the stage for everything.
They are the Social a center of things
they are the ones who establish norms I
mean if it was if it wasn't for
Bill Clinton All these high school girls wouldn't
be in to give me so many blowjobs
because it Clinton says not sex And it
made a huge difference in the in that
community.
And so it By the fact that Biden
has really never even given a true press
conference Yeah, this is four years and he
hides behind, you know These various press secretaries
the redhead and the and the one that
looks like side show Bob Whose way who's
sideshow Bob is that John Pierre?
She looks just like sideshow Bob Who is
sideshow Bob?
It's a Simpsons character.
Oh, I don't even know sideshow Well, look
at my book.
You'll see the picture of sideshow Bob when
you look it up and you'll see what
I'm talking about Okay, so Bob this ludicrous
situation that there are present has created He
nailed it it's the hair Oh That's a
good one Okay, I didn't realize that one.
Okay.
So very good.
It's created this situation So nobody trusts the
government.
They never tell us anything about anything.
They don't even try to explain it They
don't have any solid rationales.
They give us nothing.
And so you end up with this situation.
It's out of control.
Yeah yeah, you're right and That's like the
drones that's why it's so easy to launch
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Yes.
It's Adam at curry.com and John's email
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and Lena wants to know if I was
born in, New Jersey Maybe we can have
coffee together.
Oh boy.
All right.
Well, that's a deal with that later.
Oh Connection there.
It's what Lena's in Boston Boston Why when
she asked you if you were in Boston,
no, no, she's in Boston says, where do
you live?
I said I live in New Jersey, New
Jersey a beautiful place.
I will travel there if I have the
chance Maybe we can have coffee together when
I get there Brother, this is a long
game.
I don't have patience for it.
Yeah, they will like they said in that
Nine up to nine months in some cases
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let's cut to the chase cut to the
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Yes No, I was gonna say you want
I would like to go through the US
steel buyout.
Yeah, so we can get People a prize.
This is a big deal, huh?
Well, I think it's a big deal because
they should let him buy him out because
the Nippon Steel is not a bad company
They're Japanese They're fighting with the Chinese the
way we are and the Chinese are gonna
be the crap out of us with steel
if we don't do Something now, is this
something that Trump would seeing as Joe Biden?
No, Trump said, well, you know, it's not
American battery We made some fuss about it
So Biden made a fuss about it and
it was all because it's Pennsylvania's the headquarter
where the big steel mills are They didn't
want to annoy any of the workers, but
the workers are all for it.
Really?
Well, why wouldn't they be it's just a
better company than the operation being run?
It currently is basically going out of business
Let's play u.s. Steel buyout one u
.s Steel is an iconic American brand founded
by legendary business leaders Andrew Carnegie and JP
Morgan in 1901 It still holds up the
Empire State Building and San Francisco Bay Bridge
And it helped build the American ships tanks
and aircraft that won World War two in
December 2023 Nippon Steel announced it would buy
u.s Steel for more than 14 billion
dollars and has recently promised to invest a
billion dollars into u.s Steel mills, but
during the presidential campaign both candidates opposed the
deal a senior administration Official told me today
that the committee that reviews foreign investments in
the u.s Split with the Treasury Defense
and State Departments in favor of the deal
But the u.s. Trade Representative opposed sending
the decision to the White House leading to
today's decision for perspective on that decision We
turned to David Wessel senior fellow in economic
studies at the Brookings Institution and Sheila Smith
Fellow for Asia-Pacific Studies at the Council
on Foreign Relations Thanks very much to both
of you.
Welcome back to the news hour David Wessel
Let me start with you as I just
said the committee that reviews Investments in the
United States don't Assyrius split between the national
security agencies saying that they approve the deal
and the u.s Trade representative saying that
it opposed this deal.
What does that say about today's decision?
Well, it's pretty striking because the only power
the president had to block this deal was
to say it was a threat to national
security But because the committee split he essentially
overrode the national security Apparatus and the Treasury
but says to me is this is a
largely political decision both President Trump and President
Biden have stressed the importance of making it
in America Both of them were courting the
Steelworkers Union in Pennsylvania And so this seems
to me largely a decision made on political
grounds not economic grounds.
Hmm Well, there's no there's no election who
cares Well at this point, well Biden's he
doesn't know what he's doing.
He's not doing any of this No, somebody
else's.
Yeah someone who I'm not sure who the
US trade was the one person is trade
representative What is it?
Why they have more power than the than
all the intel agencies?
It doesn't make a lot of sense I
don't know.
I think this is gonna end up going
through but we'll see Part two after all
the president said that a domestically owned and
operated steel industry is Important to national security,
but what Nippon Steel was saying is we're
still gonna make it in the United States
The owners will just be Japanese which last
time I checked was an ally of the
United States not an adversary So Sheila Smith
there has been no official Japanese response to
this announcement, but what were the Japanese Expecting
leading up to this response.
Well, Nick I think this is a drama
that has been unfolding as you said for
over a year and Initially, I think the
Japanese government in particular was quite quiet They
didn't want to get into the fray and
they understand that it was a presidential election
year But I think as we're getting as
we got closer to the end of last
year in the last couple of weeks I
think there was an effort to really speak
out Prime Minister Ishiba said that he hoped
that this would go through this is in
the interest of both countries the vice minister
of the Ministry of External Trade and in
industry was a little bit more pointed and
said this will affect future Japanese companies who
are thinking about investing in the United States,
so I think the politics Clearly was on
the minds of most Japanese observers I think
it's also important to recognize that many Americans
don't recognize Just how vital foreign direct investment
is to the United States not just from
Japan, but from our European friends as well
Japan is one of the top countries from
for inbound foreign direct investment In fact, it
was I think in 2023 about seven hundred
and eighty three billion dollars And so this
inward foreign direct investment is largely in the
manufacturing sector And so is very helpful to
the through the American economy I you know,
I think we should we should sell it
to the Japanese, but only if they pay
for it in Bitcoin Yeah, so we can
put that in the Bitcoin reserve.
I don't think they're gonna want to pay
for it It's bleep that they got some
and the thing is, you know, they're yen
is so under Just like in the tank.
Yeah that They're really that would they whatever
they pay for it is good is from
their perspective.
It's got to be a lot more It's
like 50% more than they would have
normally paid for if the yen was strong.
It's not I Don't see why we just
don't say yeah We know we have had
nothing but the United States has had nothing
but good luck with Japanese investments What name
some other ones?
well when they bought Rockefeller Center spent all
that money on rock run on Rockefeller Center
and then Because of the downturn in the
climate they just basically walked away from the
deal and left them to hold that left
all that money on the table and we
ended up Scarfing it up all the investments
they made in Hawaii that they lost their
asses on they lose their asses To benefit
us I don't see what the problem is
I'm not making a problem Well, they've the
Biden administration is I think Trump will You
think he'll he'll next he'll Keep the deal
going.
Well, I Think it's gonna be based on
whether the workers want it or not And
I think they do those I think that
three indicates that and what's ironic about this
Is that a combined Nippon u.s. Steel
would have been a formidable competitor to the
big Chinese steel Makers and those are the
ones that have been the target of so
much animosity both from u.s Steelmakers and
u.s. Policymakers Sheila Smith, of course that
leads us to the u.s. Strategy on
China, which has been based largely on creating
alliances enhancing alliances not only between Washington and
East Asian countries including Japan but between East
Asian countries from Japan and South Korea all
the way down to Australia and the Philippines
and a senior administration official who works on
that strategy told me today quote I am
quite troubled by this decision Do you believe
this decision challenges the u.s. Strategy in
Asia?
I think it challenges u.s. Strategy writ
large But particularly in the Indo-pacific where
we're watching China really exerted influence across maritime
Asia But also really sort of engage in
far more Extensive economic coercion against our friends
and allies in the region as well.
So I think you know, there's a tension
here Nick I think it's important to To
see in this deal the specifics of the
deal aside this is a time when United
States is asking its allies partners and friends
to do more to enhance the competitiveness of
those of Countries that are competing with China
this larger strategic competition will define the coming
the last part of our century hmm Okay
Oh People up so it's a news item.
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I'd like to hear some Greenland clips.
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News Yes, this is the C team guy.
He's Christmas vacation week and By the way,
and everybody's not working.
No, everybody's not working.
That's correct.
That's there's your English and he interviewed a
former ambassador, uh What's his name Robert O
'Brien who was a Trump national security advisor
about Greenland The president Trump's also talking actively
about Greenland.
What's the latest there?
Well, the latest is Greenland is a highway
from the Arctic all the way to North
America to the United States it's strategically very
important to the Arctic which is going to
be a critical battleground of the future because
as the climate gets warmer the the Arctic
is gonna be a Pathway that maybe maybe
even cuts down the on the usage of
the Panama Canal And the Russians and Chinese
are all over the Arctic now the day
the government the kingdom of Denmark owns Greenland
and they've got an obligation to defend Greenland
And so president Trump said if you don't
defend Greenland, we'll buy it and we'll defend
it but we're not going to defend it
for free and let you you know and
not develop Greenland and not not extract the
minerals and oil and and resources of Greenland
and While we defend it Denmark gets rich
and the king of Denmark, you know becomes
even wealthier Okay, so that was the most
lame analysis I've heard That's the pitch.
There's a little more here.
Denmark is now on the front lines of
the war against Russia and China They're like
the Baltic States So I pull it because
of their their vast territory in Greenland And
so they've got to defend Greenland And if
they can't defend it, we're gonna have to
and we're not gonna do it for free
So the Danes can either put the frigate
that's necessary there they can put the air
wings and put the missiles in Greenland and
they can put the infantry there that they
need to defend the country or Sell out
to us and I believe in this so
they're creating a false scenario Yes, as if
China and Russia want to get get Greenland
So they'll take it over if they have
to but when did this idea come into
play never?
well The Prime Minister of Greenland mood to
egg No, yeah, he's just a dick that
guy.
Well, he says he's now calling for independence
From Denmark.
Oh, that's a winner And he's and he's
and he's looking for investments and he's he's
this is a very short clip he was
literally standing next to Ursula and I'm sure
Ursula picked up the pneumonia from him and
And she's standing next to him Probably because
she doesn't you know, I'm gonna let Trump
by you come talk to us, you know
You should be one of our guys here
in Greenland.
We need to have some growth.
We need to have some economic growth and
diversify our economy and Of course, we welcome
our strong partners and like-minded nations as
first But if they don't invest there's a
lot of companies who also want to to
invest in this country Sounds to me like
he's saying well, you know the Russians want
to invest the Chinese want to invest So,
you know like I think he's playing the
game he's he's he's That to me spelled
out.
Okay, we're open for conversation here It's not
his business is Denmark's business.
Who's this guy kidding?
He says he would they he wants Gavin
Newsom all of a sudden starting to push
back.
You know, we we can do what we
want We can maybe let the Russians run,
California.
Oh, please kidding.
Oh, please could Russia buy, California.
That would be great, California Put up a
wall Block everything off.
That would be great.
I do have that same That same ambassador
about Panama if you want to hear the
same guy same guy the guy from Greenland
No, no, the the ambassador the Ambassador dipshit
that was that guy So he he explains
what the real problem is that Trump has
with the Panama Canal.
I also want to ask you about China's
role in the Panama Canal because almost seemingly
out of nowhere You've got Donald Trump talking
about the Panama Canal.
I didn't see many stories written about that
last year.
What?
Why why the sudden urgency in taking on
the Panama Canal?
Well, Jason as you know, the Panama Canal
is one of the you know, engineering achievements
of the Stop I did see this guy
now.
I don't know if I saw this particularly
but he's been floating around the guy sounds
plastered Well, Jason
as you know, the Panama Canal is one
of the you know engineering achievements of Yeah,
right there the last Millennia and by the
way, that's what you do as ambassador.
You don't actually do any work as ambassador.
Do you?
You drink a lot.
You have a lot of parties by the
way television tip the diplomat Have you seen
this series the diplomat?
No, it's with Carrie What's her name?
She was in the Americans Give us a
background.
What's the story about?
Carrie Russell She's a diplomat US diplomat and
they're courting her to be the vice president
because it's very much it's very modern So,
you know, it's right after the Afghanistan pullout
and they've got an old coot for president
who's supposed to be Biden, I guess and
but he has a vice president who's female
and She's about to be kicked off out
of the White House because her husband has
some financial scandal They're looking for someone that
she's on the shortlist, but they it's a
try her out.
They make her ambassador to London and And
the story unfolds from there and there's it's
not on not just drinking that she does
She's involved in very heavy diplomacy, but it's
a very good series Well, I've been watching
the agency.
Yes, that's Clooney's a spy show, right?
Yeah It's you know, I couldn't get Mimi
to watch it cuz she watched one episode
said it was any slow this is This
I have to agree.
I mean I still watch it, but it's
too slow slow Film guys film guys film
guys doing television.
It's never a good idea Yeah, you might
be right.
Yeah.
All right back work back to the the
Panama Canal bit.
Well, Jason as you know, the Panama Canal
is one of the you know engineering achievements
of the the last millennia and we built
it we paid for it and we operated
it for many years and then in a
Tremendous act of generosity.
It was it was probably foolish.
Jimmy Carter gave the cow back to the
Panamanians, but it wasn't a just a free
gift their conditions that the canal remained neutral
And so what the the Panamanians have done
and generally we love the Panamanians or they're
good people.
They're friends of America but they gave the
the ports on both ends of the canal
to the Chinese and Even the New York
Times is saying, you know Which has been
an apologist for China for years is saying
that the Chinese are committed espionage or they
could shut down the canal without military efforts
Just using these Hong Kong companies that control
the canal and then on top of that
they're raising the prices on American shipping so
75% of our The commerce that goes
to the cow ends up at American ports
or departs from American ports and they're ripping
us off and so the idea that they've
given the canal to China basically and in
essence and Our charges high prices and the
Chinese are taking that news and that money
to build their own military up That doesn't
work for America anymore Hmm.
Yeah What it is That's the argument.
Yeah, there was a big stink when that
happened if it was years ago in the
Chinese Panamanians are mad.
They are really mad at Trump there.
Well, that's what we're told happened Yeah, well,
sir, Marcus, let's find out do we have
do we have anybody?
Yes.
Yes.
We have sir marks or Mark Hall He's
Mark Hall doesn't live in Panama He go
he was born in Panama has has an
apartment in Panama has business in Panama travels
to Panama He has boots.
He gets me.
I've remitted from pain from Panama.
He has boots on the ground in Panama
He says and he's actually kind of mad
It's like why is Trump doing this?
This will drive us right into the arms
of China the CCP like Peru, whatever he
said Yeah, they're mad boots on the ground.
The Panamanians are mad that Trump said this
they don't like it Well, I think this
needs more Exploration on our part.
Well, does he?
Okay, I will forward you the emails.
He has a lot of emails and he's
mad too He doesn't like it because this
is what got us in the trouble the
first time there What was the first time
I don't know I was Nicaragua Iran Contra.
Yeah stuff like that.
There's still some bad blood They didn't like
then like how we did all that.
Well as we do what we do Yes,
this is the problem people have realized we
do what we do exactly That to wind
this up.
I have two clips from the BBC By
the way, this may just be Trump negotiating
price.
No, I think so.
I think it's all negotiating price all of
it All that's what he does.
He's very quiet these days.
Don't you think he's kind of quiet?
No, he hasn't let's take the heat right
We 2025 ushers in a new era a
new generation Are you familiar with the new
generation?
No generation beta Anyone born in the year
2025 will become generation gonna be the mark
marker for the new after alpha Yes after
alpha is a beta or beta cuck.
It's beta generation beta are people born between
2025 and 2039 so babies born from the
1st of January this year are the first
the Gen B's by 2035 they will make
up 16% of the global population and
most of the members of this generation are
Actually expected to live well into the 22nd
century as well.
I was gonna say that the first generation
that will belong to the next Century, I
guess they're gonna have a life pretty much
dominated by AI we would have from our
vantage point now You would think anyway, especially
now.
Yeah with like kind of technology such as
artificial intelligence is quickly developing right now So
in the next few decades, it's only going
to further advance and they'll be growing up
with that technology as well It'll be similar
to kind of how gen alpha would dub
the iPad kids due to how that technology
had an impact on their childhoods And it'll
be interesting to see that relationship develop in
the decades to come So we've got Gen
B to now taking over from Gen Alpha,
I'm Gen X 1973 I suspect you're millennial
you sound I'm guessing I'm gonna put money
on you being a millennial I'm Gen Z,
but I'll take millennial as a compliment Sounds
like the Gen Z years aren't that happy
about being Gen Z We have another clip
and what are the sort of you know,
does it mean anything?
I suppose is what I'm gonna say that
people are born, you know in similar periods
gonna have different experiences of life I suppose
what else do we take from these labels?
I guess with kind of like technology nowadays,
especially like Gen Z and Gen Alpha and
Obviously with Gen B to social media plays
such a huge aspect in connecting with people
So I think in terms of the generations
when you look at the differences in like
growing up that that's had a huge impact
on how we communicate with people and Their
kind of experiences in society.
Yeah, and I guess in the end, it's
a useful label, isn't it?
And the the cutoff date is a bit
arbitrary But it's a useful label to describe
who we're talking about without needing to give
the date of birth out Yeah, exactly.
So if you want to give your age
away, it's always a good indicator What's been
the reaction online to the name Gen B
to the people like that So overall there's
been a lot of reaction on social media
I think with this new generation It makes
us all reflect on where we are in
life Like coming to terms with the fact
that we're all getting old and there's like
a new generation of youngsters And I think
Gen Z have taken it particularly hard with
some of them saying they're officially like the
new Millennials and then there's kind of like
references to like the 2024 horror film The
Substance which kind of tackles the topic of
aging and then you have like people making
fun of the name kind of Gen Beta
due to like the negative connotations of the
word beta Which is a slang term for
someone who's kind of perceived to be weak
It's kind of the opposite about So people
have been joking that like Gen Beta are
gonna have these characteristics Some people that were
joking about how people rushing to have babies
before 2025.
So the children were Gen Alpha and not
Gen Beta You know what I find kind
of semi just you know, I used to
write for PC magazine UK And so I
spent like a decade.
I was there a couple times a year
And it would concerns me about this particular
report is they always use you know, said
it we say beta So they're a beta
tester and they'd always say beta.
Yes, but then they'd also say Zed They
never said Z.
No.
Oh, why are they saying Z in that
report?
Why is that generation said that's a very
good point.
I Think we should take this up with
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Am so lame How lame are you?
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Let me ask.
I like them both.
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It was a little muddy Let me see
if Oh Lena says you seem very busy
John Dvorak.
Yeah, I'm doing a show.
Come on, Lena.
Give me a break Sometimes
Created by this is a screwy one.
I got this as a gift.
You stepped on the creator by Dana Brunetti
You stepped on his credit You know, I
said it's a runover He can ask for
a make good by Dana Brunetti So I
have the I got this for Christmas Yeah,
and it's a product called the universal dust
cleaning gel and is spelled pool lead Dickey
pull a Dickey Oh, I have this product
Pull a Dickey pull a Dickey.
Yes.
I have this product.
This is an outstanding product made in China
of all places There's some sort of weird
goo and what I would recommend people.
Let me spell it for you.
P U L.
I D IKI And which is kind of
a joke name and it's there's a lot
of there's videos on the on the YouTube
about it and showing you To use it
because you have to know how to use
it.
It's a guy.
It's a jar of goo mine is called
Tick carve T.
I see a RV.
I happen to have it here Is it
a judge jar of goo?
Yeah dust cleaning gel.
It's a jar of goo.
I this is a it's a very cool
product Well, it's the same probably exactly the
same manufacturer.
It is.
Yes pull a Dickey Is your pull a
Dickey it my politic is blue mine is
blue as well.
He has the same stuff same stuff Yep,
you can get it Amazon But you go
look it up and see how it's used
to use it and you could you'd push
this boo on to your keyboard And it
cleans all the gunk out of your keyboard.
It does a pretty good job.
Not just your keyboard It's fantastic on your
car dashboard Yeah, I guess so it's what
it says, you know, how yeah So you
have all that dust that's in in the
little crevices of your dashboard and and I
like my car clean Yeah, you would hear
you being at your OCD.
I would have mostly it this is what
did it?
What did you pay for this for this?
I got as a gift for Christmas.
I don't know what it costs Wow, those
Dvorak's are cheap.
Happy happy.
Happy Christmas Do the main gift that the
whole family did they put it together?
They all chipped in Sometimes
I got Created by Dana Brunette.
I got to talk to Mimi man.
You gotta give you better gifts.
That's bogus.
That's just bogus Boy Hey, we got some
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Chris Wilson.
We have Eric Colburn and sir, Bill who
deck Who have not heard from in a
long time.
I wonder if he's overboard or still producing
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