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Hey man, tell Joe, tell Joe, tell Joe!
Adam Curry, John C.
Dvorak.
This Wednesday, January 30th, 2025, this is your
award-winning give-on-Asian-media-assassination episode
1734.
This is no agenda.
Parsing the prescriptives and broadcasting live from the
heart of the Texas Hill Country right here
in FEMA Region No.
6.
In the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from Northern Silicon Valley, where I've determined
that Vogue magazine is an outlet of the
American Communist Party.
I'm John C.
Dvorak.
In the morning.
What magazine now?
Vogue.
Oh, Vogue?
Vogue is a commie rag?
Is that what you're saying?
Well, I, you didn't, you know, when they
did this slam of poor Melania Trump's official
portrait.
Oh, have they done that again?
Did they publish it?
Last time they said she looks like a
freelance magician with that outfit on.
That's a good line.
It's funny.
But, but then it harkens back to the
Teen Vogue article on Marxism.
But this is about three or four years
ago.
We talked about it on the show.
They did not only an article on like
how Marxism works, but they were advocating for
it.
Wow.
For Teen, in Teen Vogue.
Oh, no, Teen Vogue is a complete Marxist
magazine.
But Teen Vogue is part of Vogue.
And the whole operation is run by Advanced
Publications, which bought Condé Nast some years ago.
And I think they're now suspect.
Oh, totally.
My, my youngest stepdaughter sometimes does production for
some of their shoots.
Totally, totally Marxist.
Which is fine.
That's fine.
Yeah, but I think people should know.
Before the show started, we were discussing the
origin of mind your P's and Q's.
As I said to John, I think you
should mind your P's and Q's, son.
Yes, and I was condemning him for drinking
too much coffee in the morning.
Mind your P's and Q's is an English
language expression meaning mind your manners, mind your
language, be on your best behavior, or watch
what you're doing.
Yeah.
One explanation favored in Letters to the Editors
of Notes and Queries, dated from 1851, is
a literal interpretation of the saying regarding possible
confusion between the lowercase letters P and Q
in schoolwork or typesetting.
So you were right.
You were very close to being correct.
I was correct.
Story of your life.
Story of your life.
Very close to being correct.
Very close.
I was close enough is the way it
goes.
Close enough.
Unlike the close enough mishap that took place,
which you have to discuss.
I do.
And it's always interesting how it went really
fast this time.
Like, oh, it was remote control.
Oh, come on.
The stuff that came in is ridiculous.
It is.
And there's two things that bother me.
One is the lack of information, of which,
of course, there's not going to be that
much.
The second one was the fact that it
took up all the airwaves on all the
networks for hours on end, and there was
nothing to show or see except the one
little looped video plus a million.
I don't know how many police there are
in that area, but there must be 10
,000.
And they just kept showing this one shot,
and they had nothing to talk about.
Why do they do this?
What is the point?
Oh, I can answer that question.
Many of these news models are in Washington,
D.C., or commute into Washington, D.C.,
have been in Washington, D.C., regularly to
get their marching orders, to talk to their
inside sources and people familiar with the president's
thinking.
And they love this airport.
So they're like, oh, man, that could have
been me.
Let's do some more story on it.
It's all about them.
Well, that actually brought Swalwell on, of all
people from California.
But he flew in like two or three
planes before the crash.
And it was the same thing.
It could have been me.
Yeah, of course.
As always, it could have been me.
Well, that's how it works with air disasters.
Of course, everyone knows it could have been
me.
I am somewhat uniquely qualified because I am
both a helicopter pilot and a fixed-wing
pilot.
And this seems quite obvious to me what
happened here.
This is actually Sky News, I think, in
Australia.
This guy came pretty close to what was
going on, I think.
I understand, though.
Very shortly before this accident, the aircraft in
question, the Bombardier CR7, was actually cleared, asked
to operate off a shorter runway, runway 33.
So the fact that they changed the runways,
I mean, that presumably is relatively common, is
it not?
It is relatively common.
The challenge, though, of course, is that it
means for aircraft departing, that's fine.
But for an aircraft that's already set up
to land on a main runway, he's now
got to fly an S-curve to actually
reposition himself to come on a straight approach
down on runway 33.
That means that he's actually in a different
position.
He's now over the Potomac.
Why is this important?
Because for the military helicopter pilot, his brain,
which they call situational awareness, but you've got
a brain map of where everything is, you'll
have assumed everything is on approach to the
main runway or departing the main runway.
You won't have factored in.
This one aircraft that's now coming in, doing
a descent over the Potomac.
He's pretty close.
It is a situational awareness issue.
And this is a known procedure to divert
because it's a very busy airspace.
Probably too busy because everyone loves it so
much and want to go into DCA instead
of the alternative.
It's just closer.
Well, yeah, the big difference is about an
hour because DCA is right downtown and Dulles
is a million miles away.
Yeah.
It's like Midway and O'Hare.
So, the military are on a different frequency.
So, he wasn't necessarily monitoring what was going,
the pilot.
And this was an annual, well, they call
it a re-inspection flight, which is kind
of an, all pilots go through it, an
annual inspection.
You fly with instructors.
In this case, a crew of three.
So, they may not have completely been aware
of the change that was made for that
flight.
And having flown at night, and this is
the same thing with the drones over New
Jersey.
It's not easy to see things.
It's not easy.
He probably was looking at, or what they
thought they were looking at was American Airlines
3130, which was somewhat behind the aircraft that
got hit.
And they may have even had all eyes
inside the cockpit.
You know, this happens sometimes.
It just happens where no one is looking
outside.
You're doing your procedures.
You're looking at the instruments.
It's a night flight.
The whole point is to, you know, is
flying at night.
And it's just not easy to see things.
And from what I could tell, I actually
have a little bit of the audio because
you hear, the tower hears, you can hear
the collision alert in the tower.
And it's just seconds before it happens.
That's the collision alert.
So, the helicopter says aircraft in sight, visual
separation.
He could not have been looking at that.
And he's looking at it from the side.
He must have been looking at a different
aircraft.
It's so easy when you're, I mean, it's
happened so often.
I've even, in the U.K., I was
setting up for an approach, and it turns
out I was looking at the wrong airport.
I mean, at night, things are very different.
This is why planes sometimes land on the
taxiway.
It's just, it's not easy to fly at
night.
And then here, of course.
There it is, boom.
He says visual, and then just seconds later,
it crashes right into it.
But there's nothing more, nothing less than a
very bad day.
Now, the president went out and talked to
the press this morning, and I watched most
of that.
He said, we're going to get to the
bottom of it.
Mistakes were made.
I mean, seriously, I think mistakes were made
because when you have this helicopter at basically
the same altitude within, you know, 50 feet
of the incoming regional jet.
I mean, it would have been very easy
for the controller to say, okay, I mean,
you can do a lot with the helicopter.
You can turn on a dime.
You can do a lot.
I don't know exactly how fast they're going,
but you can do a lot of different
things.
And the controller took it for, I'm not
blaming the controller or anybody really, took for
granted that when the pilot said visual, that
he saw it, and that it was visual.
But they were already kind of, I mean,
you know, when you, when you're flying and
you see another plane, you know that you're
on a collision course when it looks like
the other plane is not moving.
So, and that's what you train for.
It's like, I'm looking at this aircraft.
It's not moving.
That means I'm on a direct collision course
with it, if you're at the same altitude.
So, they just didn't see it.
And then there's all this talk of night
vision goggles.
You know, you're not going to, it's going
to be even worse with night vision goggles,
all those lights of DC.
That's going to bleed everything out.
So, it's just a horrible situation.
And it's maybe not even necessarily anybody's fault
other than, you know, President Trump took it
to DEI.
He actually went there.
Yeah, you know, that was going to be
expected.
Yeah.
And he was, it was a light touch
on it.
But, so, this is just a bad day.
And, you know, stuff happens.
Lots of people die in traffic accidents all
day long.
30,000 a year.
Yeah.
You don't hear about it.
And this is just, it's a crappy one
because people fly and everyone feels that pain.
So, but the conspiracy, oh, it was runway
33.
Do you know how many runway 33's there
are?
It's a very typical runway heading.
So, no conspiracy, just a bad day.
Well, here's something for you to do.
Explain why.
There's not 33 runways at DCA.
There's not.
There's about four.
No, that's a compass direction.
33 degrees?
Yes, 33.
Well, 330 degrees, yes.
So, when you hear runway one, that's basically
10.
So, 10 degrees.
It'll be the, or 100 degrees.
It'll be the exact opposite of the 33.
No, I'm sorry.
That's not true.
I mean, so the typical headings you have
on runways will be 27, 22, 33.
It all has to do with the typical
wind direction that is, that happens at that
particular airfield.
And there's a lot of 33 runway headings.
So, you know, but then it's like, oh,
33 runway heading and three people on the
plane.
Oh, yeah.
Clearly remote control to kill who was on
the plane.
Well, it's sadly a bunch of figure skaters.
Yeah, that was kind of tragic.
It's always tragic.
These things are always tragic.
And what was on a continuity of government
flight?
It was a training flight.
Wow.
No, there's been a lot of this sort
of thing.
It's annoying.
I find it annoying.
It's to be expected.
It's to be expected.
But it's just bad.
It's just a bad day.
And then the social media, there's a whole
line of tweets I ran into with these
guys carping at each other.
I'm a chopper pilot from the Vietnam War
and blah, blah, blah.
Oh, no, you're full of shit.
You can't turn that thing off.
You can't turn off the transponder.
Yeah, you can.
No, you can't.
And it just goes on forever.
I will mention that.
So you have something called TCAS, Traffic Collision
Alert System.
And it's pretty much useless below 1,000
feet because it's going to be going off
all the time.
And it also doesn't give a – below
1,000 feet, it's not going to tell
you to go up or go down.
It's just going to say traffic, traffic.
And in busy airspace, you'll hear that thing
a lot because it's thousands of feet separation.
So you're just going to hear this.
And you just want to hope that no
one's on the same – at the same
altitude.
But this, again, it's military and civilian sharing
the same airspace, different frequencies, bad day.
Day wrecker for everybody.
That's it.
There's nothing more to give you on that.
And there will be a report, and we'll
hear something, and I'm sure somebody will give
it.
Everyone got to get up and speak.
You know, this was the first time for
Pete Hegseth to speak.
J.D. Vance, our vice president, came out
and spoke.
Everybody was all in on this because it
was bad.
And, of course, you want to keep the
– I'll just be cynical about it.
You want to keep the attention away from
the televised hearings, which is what it definitely
did, which – I don't even know if
anyone cares about these anymore.
They're so performative and everybody trying to get
their sound bite in.
And, you know, it's a yes or no
question.
I love the yes or no thing.
It's just – I'll take that as a
no.
Yeah.
I'll take that as a yes.
It really doesn't work anymore as far as
I'm concerned.
It just doesn't work.
Yeah, but I think it does work.
For who?
We've been watching this yes or no thing.
It works for the guy who's running for
re-election.
Yeah, okay.
Good point.
It's not working for the hearings because everyone
knows they're all full of crap.
And, in fact, Kennedy himself – I have
a bunch of Kennedy clips, obviously.
Yeah, that's good.
And Kennedy himself – I don't have this
clip, but he says, you know, you guys
used to all be my friends, all you
Democrats.
And I know what you're doing.
And it's like this is what you have
to do.
And he goes on and on.
Because he does.
He's not an idiot.
But to listen to these guys widen –
and then the thing that I like the
most is that every one of these guys
who slammed on Kennedy – because there's a
real strong movement to get him in here.
All these TikTokers and Twitters and Tweeters and
all the rest of them are coming out
with, well, I can see why Elizabeth Warren
didn't.
She took $1.2 million from Big Pharma,
$1.1 million from her, this and that,
and they're just going after these people.
Well, I just wanted to say on Elizabeth
Warren, we know from firsthand sources that she
took significant amounts of money from Bose to
get this hearing aid scam.
Right, the hearing aid thing.
This is one of your pet peeves.
Well, it is because Bose – and by
the way, it failed for them – but
Bose had hearing devices which you can get
over the counter.
And they were called amplifiers or hearing –
no, I think it was hearing amplifiers.
Enhancers, I think.
They couldn't call it hearing aids.
She took the money, and she got everyone
together, and then Apple was a part of
this too.
So they could call either their software or
their hardware devices.
They could call them hearing aids, and you
can get them without assistance from an audiologist,
which is just – it's stupid.
If you really care, if you're going deaf
because you've been – if you don't care
about your hearing, just want to amp it
up and you don't want to hear Fidelity
and be able to fine-tune it, okay,
don't go to an audiologist.
But from my own personal experience, having an
audiologist is a good thing.
Because you may not know exactly what you
should be hearing, and these devices that shoot
tones into your ear, and then AI discovers
the exact frequency.
No, no, it's just not true.
It's like glasses.
You have to have the guy going, okay,
how about this?
How about that?
And you're going, I don't know.
Go back again.
That's just how it is.
A or B.
A, back again.
A or B.
This one or that one.
Okay.
Let's try this.
Oh, you can't see at all?
No.
Okay.
Okay, how about now?
It's just – that is how you –
it's not an exact science.
So she took money for that.
There's a whole – No, she is a
corrupt woman.
Yeah.
I mean – And she is like –
it's an embarrassment.
And – but Wyden was even worse.
I mean he's opened it up with a
real – let me play a clip.
Let me see.
I think I have the list, I think.
I got the list of a lot of
these people and what they took from Big
Pharma.
And you're right.
Now that we all know how it works
and I think a lot of people –
and you're right.
This is where social media of course does
a reasonably good job of saying, hey, this
guy is defending this or this lady is
defending this because this is who they represent.
They don't represent people.
They represent big interests, pharmaceutical interests being one
of them.
And this is what D.C. is full
of, is dinners and lunches and hangouts.
And I think a lot of them believe
it.
I mean graft.
Let's use the right word.
Graft or grift.
Which one is it?
Graft.
Yeah.
And I think a lot of people believe
it.
Here's the 40 studies that say that –
who was that horrible witch woman?
No, no.
It was some woman.
Oh, Smith?
No, no.
It was about – I don't even remember
what it was about.
They just brought up – it was like
bring your kitchen sink and dump it on
Kennedy's head because this is going to be
fun, people.
That's what it was.
All right.
Why don't you go ahead and start with
some of these because we might as well
get some of them out of the way.
Yeah, and I do want to say I
don't have the clip and you might –
I don't know if you have it or
not.
I have a couple.
I know, but do you have the clip
of Shanahan?
No, don't have Shanahan.
What was – I missed the Shanahan.
Shanahan, the vice president for Kennedy's campaign, the
billionaire girl.
Yeah, yes.
She came – I got to get this
clip.
Maybe I'll run it on Sunday.
She threatened, literally threatened everybody who votes no
on Kennedy with – she's going to take
her resources, and she's got plenty of them,
to go primary these people, and she named
names.
Oh, here it is.
Here it is.
Yes, please.
Hey, everyone.
Tomorrow is a pivotal moment in our nation's
history.
At 10 a.m. Eastern time, RFK will
sit in front of the Senate Finance Committee
for his confirmation hearing to be our nation's
next secretary of health and human services.
I urge everyone to call their U.S.
senators over the following days and demand they
vote yes on Bobby's nomination.
He is more than qualified.
He's proven, principled, and prepared to lead.
I'll list – I'll share a list below
of key senators.
If they represent your state, they need to
hear from you.
If they don't, please call your own senator
and ask them to vote yes.
We need as many votes as we can
get.
So, this hasn't been widely reported, but in
2020, I cut large checks to Chuck Schumer
to help Democrats flip two Senate seats in
Georgia from red to blue.
The two candidates I helped elect, Senator Raphael
Warnock and Senator Jon Ossoff, please know I
will be watching your votes very closely.
I will make it my personal mission that
you lose your seats in the Senate if
you vote against the future health of America's
children.
And more than that, I also want to
say to Senators Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, Lisa
Markofsky, Susan Collins, Bill Cassidy, Tom Tillis, James
Lankford, Cory Booker, John Fetterman, Bernie Sanders, and
Catherine Cortez Masto, this is a bipartisan message,
and it comes directly from me.
While Bobby may be willing to play nice,
I won't.
If you vote against him, I will personally
fund challengers to primary you in your next
election, and I will enlist hundreds of thousands
to join me.
Yes, call me!
Big Pharma and Big Ag have exploited us
for far too long.
It ends now.
You're either on the side of transparency and
accountability, or you are standing in the way.
The choice is yours.
Please choose wisely.
I thought this was a bit much.
Well, that's how it goes, you know.
It could be going that way because, you
know, Musk is still irked about his one
kid transitioning.
But she took it to the level that
I've never seen anyone do.
This is open threats.
Well, what's wrong with that?
Well, that's the question.
I mean, until now, it's always been considered
bad form.
I mean, you do what Soros did.
You create the open society and then go
behind the...
No, no, that spell is broken.
It's long gone.
It's balls to the wall.
We're to the mat.
Have you seen our president?
No, no, no.
Hey, hey, you don't want to take these
people.
We're sending back tariffs.
Next week, double tariffs.
Oh, now you want to do it.
No, this is just...
it's threats.
It's threats.
This is who we are.
That's who we are now.
So we open up with Kennedy and here's
Wyden.
This is a very short clip of him.
He went on for five, six minutes slamming
Kennedy.
Now, Wyden, of course, took a lot of
money from Big Pharma.
So there's a good reason for him to
be...
and he is the co-chairman of the
finance committee.
So he got to speak and yak away
all he wanted.
And here we...
this is the best part, I think.
Committee staff have examined thousands of pages.
I forgot how he talks.
That's great.
Yeah, he talks like a...
it's not even...
I don't know how to explain it.
It's Jason Calacanis.
Committee staff have examined thousands of pages of
statements, books and podcast transcripts.
Podcasts?
In a review of his record.
I just need to...
I just need to stop for a second.
Podcasts have come quite a way, haven't they,
John?
Podcasts have come quite a way.
They're right in their media now.
It's mainstream, baby.
It's mainstream.
No, it's mainstream.
Podcasts is...
It is mainstream.
Yeah, it is.
And people joke about...
I was watching one of these, you know,
the Fox shows where they talk about, oh,
I guess she's going to quit.
Or, you know, they're talking about Acosta for
one guy who's going to do a podcast.
And somebody says he's going to do a
podcast and a person did the joke.
I've done it a million times, which is,
well, who isn't?
Yeah.
You know, I mean, it's become such a...
it's like a trope.
I have thoughts about that for later.
The receipts show that Mr. Kennedy has embraced
conspiracy theories, quacks, charlatans, especially when it comes
to the safety and efficacy of vaccines.
He has made it his life's work to
sow doubt and discourage parents from getting their
kids life-saving vaccines.
It has been lucrative for him and put
him on the verge of immense power.
This is the profile of someone who chases
money and influence wherever they lead, even if
that may mean the tragic deaths of children
and other vulnerable people.
See, I don't think this works anymore.
First of all, it's a blatant lie because
he's been very clear about safe and tested
vaccines.
He's been very clear about that.
And I'm sure that Wyden knows it.
They keep lying and lying and lying because
they don't want this guy in.
No, but the whole world knows, even the...
I like the way you're so cavalier with
this statement you just made.
What?
The whole world knows what?
Well, I'm about to finish the statement.
You interrupted my statement and said I was
cavalier before I even finished it.
Because the premise, I'm already disagreeing with whatever
you're going to say.
I believe that the entire world knows that
maybe I'm not.
Maybe you're right.
Maybe I'm cavalier.
A large percentage of the world knows that
the COVID...
Uh-oh, you changed it.
Yes, I said maybe you're right.
It's OK.
Would you like a medal, a little star
on your forehead?
Yes, I would, actually.
You're a good doobie.
A large percentage of the population realizes that
the vaccine for COVID was not effective.
It did not prevent transmission.
It did not prevent you from getting COVID.
And I think a portion of that knows
it was probably not safe and effective.
And they're wondering why they keep getting sick.
So, you know, people are not all in
on vaccines anymore.
And the more people hear about the...
And I think this is a small percentage
who realize that in the United States that
there's immunity.
As in you can't get sued if your
product is defective.
So, this is...
It's just...
I don't know how many people are buying
it.
But that doesn't matter because it comes down
to the vote, ultimately.
No one's going to call up their senator.
Who does that anymore?
Can I text him?
Can I send him a tweet?
Can I do a TikTok?
This is passive politics.
I'm going to get on TikTok.
I'm going to give Wyden a piece of
my mind.
No one cares.
No one cares.
All right.
Back to you, Bob.
Did you...
Was that the end of the clip?
That was...
Yes.
And the end of my rant.
Well...
Not much of a rant, Curry.
Whatever.
Whatever, he says.
Okay.
Gloves are off.
Yeah, I'm like a woman now.
Gloves are off.
Okay.
What would you like to play next?
I have Kennedy clips.
I've got a bunch of them here.
Let's go with...
One of my favorites was Bennett.
This Colorado senator comes up and he's another
stooge.
And he's the guy who was the most...
Yes, no.
Yes, no.
It's just yes or no.
It's a yes or no question.
I take that as a yes.
Say that it targets black and white people
but spared Ashkenazi...
I quoted a study...
I quoted an NIH study that showed that...
I take that as a yes.
I have to move on.
I have to move on.
Yeah.
Did you say that Lyme disease is highly
likely a materially engineered bioweapon?
I made sure I put in the highly
likely.
Did you say Lyme disease is a highly
likely militarily engineered bioweapon?
I probably did say that.
Did you say that...
Okay.
I want all of our colleagues to hear
it, Mr. Kennedy.
I want them to hear it.
You said yes.
Did you say that exposure to pesticides causes
children to become transgender?
No, I never said that.
Okay.
I have the record that I'll give to
the chairman and he can make his judgment
about what you said.
Yeah.
Oh, that's...
Which is a fungicide, I believe.
It's not a pesticide that causes the frogs
to go gay.
Yeah.
It's the...
You know what it's called.
What's it called?
You know, it's funny.
I can't remember because I played a whole
presentation on this about six years ago.
You have something to say about me.
And the professor at Cal who studied this
to death.
Yes.
And it's possible that is part of...
And this guy is going nuts.
But the Lyme disease thing, which doesn't crop
up much, but it does.
Plum Island.
That's the Plum Island story in New York.
Yeah, Plum Island.
Exactly.
I'm glad you remembered that.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, the Plum Island, which is where Lyme
disease seemed to have originated from.
Originated from, yeah.
And it was a military bioweapons lab.
And all of a sudden, from this area,
this new disease, Lyme disease, appears.
And so this...
Yeah.
And so this Bennett guy is an asshole,
typical Colorado guy.
Well...
All right.
Yeah, exactly.
Colorado.
I'm sorry.
Sorry, sorry, Colorado.
Now, White House was given five minutes, so
he bitched about that.
And so he decided not to ask any
questions, but just reamed Kennedy.
And I just want to play the beginning
of how he prefaced this.
I'm looking for White House.
It should be Kennedy.
Oh, I got him.
I got him.
I got him.
Senator Whitehouse.
Thank you, Chairman.
Mr. Kennedy, I only have five minutes with
you.
So...
And I've got a lot of experience with
CMS. So you're just going to have to
listen.
Now, this is another thing.
People are no longer interested in your soundbites
and your, I only have five minutes.
People have become used to the Joe Rogan
three hours.
They're like, what is this?
What is this nonsense?
Talk.
Give the guy some time.
Talk about whatever it is.
The whole thing is outdated, wrong, antiquated, and
an arachnonism, and something like that.
Arachnonism.
Arachnonism.
Anachronism.
Anachronism.
The word is anachronism.
The secret word is anachronism.
I like arachnonism.
It's like some sort of bug or something.
The secret word is anachronism.
Mm-hmm.
All right.
So here's Warren.
She does a two-parter.
Oh, my favorite.
She was by far my favorite.
I only have a couple of parts of
it.
I don't believe me.
I've cut this.
This is the shortest presentation I could do.
So she starts off with a softball, and
this is Warren 1.
So here's an easy question.
Will you commit that when you leave this
job, you will not accept compensation from a
drug company, a medical device company, a hospital
system, or a health insurer for at least
four years, including as a lobbyist or a
board member?
Can you just repeat the last part of
the question?
Can I commit to what?
You're not going to take money from drug
companies in any way, shape, or form.
Who?
Me?
Yes, you.
Oh.
I'm happy to commit to that.
Good.
That's what I figured.
I said it's an easy question to start
with.
You know what was most offensive about her
presentation is when she put her fingers together
like showing money, like her thumb and her
fingers, getting money, getting money, because that just
shows you.
It's her own projection of that.
Getting money, getting money.
She and Wyden and a number of other
of these guys and that other guy screaming
about yes or no, they were visibly shaking.
Yes.
All of them.
They're so mad because they must have threats.
Threats.
Threats on the back side.
I think they have.
I believe that might be it.
They may have threats.
They were visibly shaking.
She was just shaking like a leaf.
Do you think that Shanahan is a threat?
What do you think about the farmer rep
who drops by and says, if you don't
make sure this Kennedy guy doesn't get in,
if you don't discredit him, I'm going to
primary you.
You don't think that conversation happened?
Yeah, not in public though.
No.
I'm sure he has.
Yeah, of course.
Well, this is good.
Let's shake him out.
Let's smoke him out.
I don't know.
It's not good, actually.
An N can be put to this in
one quick executive order.
And what would that order be?
Television drug advertising.
It takes the money out of the, it
takes all these ridiculous profits out of these
stupid drugs that have all these side effects.
And it takes the money away from the
media who's been banking on this drug money
since day one, since it began and they've
like kind of leaned on it.
And that will hurt the media big time.
I don't think the president has the balls
to do it because he knows that then
his entire base will get primaried.
It will be an all-out war if
he does that.
Well, there's going to be an all-out
war anyway, if Kennedy doesn't get in.
Now here's where she starts to get mean
and she starts to go after him because
he's a lawyer that's been suing pharma companies.
This is great.
This is a good clip.
You could change vaccine labeling.
You could change vaccine information rules.
You can change which claims are compensated in
the vaccine injury compensation program.
There's a lot of ways that you can
influence those future lawsuits and pending lawsuits while
you are secretary of HHS.
And I'm asking you to commit right now
that you will not take a financial stake
in every one of those lawsuits so that
what you do as secretary will also benefit
you financially down the line.
I'll comply with all the ethical guidelines.
That's not the question.
You and I, you have said- Senator,
you're asking me not to pursue vaccine-
No, I am not.
Yeah, you are.
That's exactly what you're doing.
Look, no one should be fooled here.
As secretary of HHS, Robert Kennedy will have
the power to undercut vaccines and vaccine manufacturing
across our country.
And for all of his talk about follow
the science and his promise that he won't
interfere with those of us who want to
vaccinate his kids, the bottom line is the
same.
Kennedy can kill off access to vaccines and
make millions of dollars while he does it.
Kids might die, but Robert Kennedy can keep
cashing in.
Oh, man.
She's just not a good person.
She's been visibly, and she's visibly shaking.
I think, you know, your comment that the
drug company guy, the rep coming by saying
we're going to primary you if you don't
get this guy killed, I think is dead
on.
Because there's no reason to be this nervous.
She was shaking when she was condemning him.
Pretty bad.
That was really pretty bad.
So it went back and forth because the
Republicans were all amenable, and they were happy
with it, and they think they can get
the votes, you know, except for the couple
of them.
And so Ron Johnson, who is just a
gentle guy who is really interesting.
Well, he's held a lot of these side
room conferences about food.
Oh, yeah.
He's the one who does the, right, right.
He's the one who does those extra ones
that are in a bunker someplace that puts
together what looks like a congressional investigation.
They throw some skirts over some Ikea tables,
and it's like, all right, you're in the
Capitol right now.
Uh-huh.
Yeah, that guy.
Yeah.
So he let Kennedy talk, and these are
the last two clips, and this is not
really about the back and forth.
This is Kennedy giving his side of the
story.
And I think if you listen to this,
it's pretty hard to not want this guy
in.
This is Kennedy to Johnson one.
When I launched my campaign, it was about
uniting Americans, Democrats and Republicans.
There's no issue that should unite us more
than this chronic health epidemic.
There's no such thing as Republican children or
Democratic children.
These are our kids.
Sixty-six percent of them are damaged.
I know what a healthy kid looks like
because I had so many of them in
my family.
I didn't know anybody with a food allergy
growing up, peanut allergy.
Why do five of my kids have allergies?
Why are we seeing these explosions in diabetes,
rheumatoid arthritis, neurological diseases, depression, all these things
that are related to toxics in the environment?
Why can't we just agree with each other
to put differences about so many issues, intractable
issues aside, and say, we're going to end
this?
I don't think anybody is going to be
able to do this like I have.
I'm all in with that.
And it is interesting how there's a decrease
in people are saying, you know, let's process
food.
I mean, the word is seeping out.
It goes very slow.
I think it takes years before it goes
slow.
Yeah, thanks to McDonald's.
This has gone faster than most because of,
you know, no one watches television anymore.
They're on social media.
If you look at one video about processed
food on TikTok, you'll get a thousand of
them.
It's interesting.
It is interesting.
I have to agree.
So the second part of this, he goes
on after another back and forth, and he
gives this spiel, which to me is the
kicker.
This is the reason you want the guy.
Because of my peculiar experience, because I've litigated
against these agencies.
When you litigate against them, you get a
PhD in corporate capture and how to unravel
it.
I've written six books about these agencies.
I know a lot about them, and I
know how to fix it.
And there's nobody who will fix it the
way that I do because I'm not scared
of vested interests.
I don't care.
I'm not here because I want a position
or a job.
I have a very good life and a
happy family.
This is something I don't need.
I want to do this because we're going
to fix it.
And the other thing is we are attracting
now a caliber of people to HHS like
never before in history.
And they're entrepreneurs, they're disruptors, they're innovators of
immense talents that are walking away, many of
them, from growing concerns.
They're not coming there for a position.
They're coming there because they want to save
our country.
Yeah.
Maha.
Make America healthy again.
Of course.
Of course.
So this vote will be very interesting.
There's one more hearing today with him, but
it's not the important hearing.
The hearing that took place at the Finance
Committee is, I was told, the hearing that
really determines whether he's going to go forward.
And he will because the Republicans are going
to vote for him.
And then it goes to the big…
Are you sure?
Are you really sure?
Yeah, I'm pretty sure, yeah, because there's nobody
on the Finance Committee that is a waffling
Republican.
I need to play a few clips here
before we move off of Kennedy.
And with this, I will say in 1997
or 1998, I got a call from Caroline
Kennedy, and she wanted to meet with me
because I was doing Internet stuff.
And so I meet with Caroline Kennedy, and
she said, well, you know, Tom Brokaw said
I should talk to you about the Internet.
And so I spoke about the Internet.
And she did an invitation to Brokaw when
she did this?
No, that was me.
Tom Brokaw, I want to talk about the
Internet.
Adam Curry.
And she was like, oh, I want to
get the Internet for the – I think
it was for the Kennedy Library or something.
She was in charge of that.
And it became very apparent to me.
She did not give a – not one
hoot about the Internet.
She just wanted a press release.
That's all she cared about.
She just wanted to have a press release
saying we're on the information superhighway.
We're on an onramp to the information superhighway.
And she just did not care, and then
she went away, and then nothing ever happened.
But what she did to Bobby Jr. here
is pretty – I mean, again, is she
just looking for a headline?
Is she looking for – I don't know
what she's looking for, but this was from
your family.
I mean, all of his family are crazy,
but she just really took it all with
this.
And I think she does this for herself.
She doesn't even do it to save or
protect anybody.
She only cares about herself.
Now that Bobby has been nominated by President
Trump to be secretary of health and human
services, a position that would put him in
charge of the health of the American people,
I feel an obligation to speak out.
I've known Bobby my whole life.
We grew up together.
It's no surprise that he keeps birds of
prey as pets because Bobby himself is a
predator.
He's always been charismatic, able to attract others
through the strength of his personality, his willingness
to take risks and break the rules.
I watched his younger brothers and cousins follow
him down the path of drug addiction.
His basement, his garage, his dorm room were
always the center of the action, where drugs
were available, and he enjoyed showing off how
he put baby chickens and mice in a
blender to feed to his hawks.
It was often a perverse scene of despair
and violence.
That was a long time ago, and people
can change.
Through his own strength and the many second
chances he was given by people who felt
sorry for the boy who lost his father,
Bobby was able to pull himself out of
illness and disease.
I admire the discipline that took and the
continuing commitment it requires.
However, but siblings and cousins who Bobby encouraged
down the path of substance abuse suffered addiction,
illness, and death.
While Bobby has gone on to misrepresent, lie,
and cheat his way through life.
Nice.
So nice, Caroline.
Thank you.
I want to play a couple of clips
for you.
She is a horrible person.
That's what I said.
Just from a few years being in the
Biden administration, she was the ambassador to Australia.
With no credentials for this, by the way,
that I could tell.
She doesn't really do anything.
She's a nude nick.
Wasn't she also ambassador to Japan for a
bit there, if I recall?
I think she might have been.
Yeah.
Again, with no credentials, doesn't speak the language,
etc.
No, she doesn't.
But she looks like she's 50 years older.
Yeah, she does not look 50.
From just four years ago.
She looks like Phil Collins.
That was bad.
Let's listen to the elite messaging system, which
is severely broken.
But here's NBC picking up the ball and
approaching the obvious attack vector against RFK Jr.
Tonight, on the eve of Robert F.
Kennedy Jr.'s Senate confirmation hearing to lead the
Department of Health and Human Services.
Bobby himself is a predator.
Caroline Kennedy is lashing out at her cousin,
calling him unqualified.
What?
Like a Nat Pop.
Caroline Kennedy is no, she's only good for
Nat Pops.
Bobby himself is a predator.
Caroline Kennedy is lashing out at her cousin,
calling him unqualified to oversee critical agencies, including
the FDA and CDC, pointing in part to
his stance on vaccines.
Bobby preys on the desperation of parents of
sick children, vaccinating his own kids, while building
a following hypocritically discouraging other parents from vaccinating
theirs.
Do you have any response to the letter
released by Caroline Kennedy?
RFK Jr. ignored NBC News's questions today.
Ignored it.
Oh, no, he ignored NBC.
His cousin's concern is echoed in- How
dare he ignore the NBC.
Franklin, Tennessee.
It's very scary that that person is going
to be making- Very scary.
Public health decisions for our family and the
country as a whole.
Jen Fisher's 12-year-old son, Raleigh, was
born with a congenital heart condition that makes
him more vulnerable to all types of sickness.
Her fear now made worse, Jen says, by
growing vaccines- Hold on a second.
This is the worst reporting I've ever seen
for a while.
It's not a report.
She is hysterical in the reporting, reportage.
Yes.
And she's going, she's ratting it off like
there's nothing going- She's just a maniac,
this reporter.
Aaron.
Aaron McLaughlin.
This is a terrible product.
NBC has lost the plot.
Well, that's why I call it the broken
elite messaging system.
All types of sickness.
Her fear now made worse, Jen says, by
growing vaccine skepticism within the Franklin community.
What does that mean for Raleigh?
It's a scarier thing to send him out
the door every morning.
It's cold and flu season.
There's a lot of illness going around.
It's a lot of illness going on.
It's very scary.
Well, there's a second part to this.
Here in Tennessee, according to the CDC, more
and more parents are choosing not to vaccinate
their children against preventable diseases such as measles
and whooping cough, a reality Dr. Daniel McGinley
says he is increasingly confronting in his practice.
Do you worry that people are going to
die because of this skepticism?
Some will.
You're confident that that is going to happen?
If these diseases come back, more people will
die.
No, no, no, no.
People will die.
Vaccine skepticism is growing across 40 states plus
Washington, D.C. Last school year, the percentage
of kindergartners exempted from one or more mandatory
vaccines was the highest ever recorded, fueled by
online conspiracies and high profile critics of vaccines
and vaccine mandates, like RFK Jr. There's no
vaccine that is safe and effective.
Wow.
Isn't that a good one?
Well, that's taken out of context.
That's what's so good about it.
This is terrible.
This is NBC at its worst.
This is awesome.
There's no vaccine that is, you know, safe
and effective.
Wait, you and pharma advertising, this stops instantly.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Because, yes, you're correct.
You are correct, sir.
There's no vaccine that is safe and effective.
Since his nomination, he said he's not anti
-vaccine and he won't take them away.
But parents like Fisher say they'll be watching
tomorrow's confirmation hearing closely, knowing that for Raleigh
and children like him, the stakes are high.
It's life or death for Raleigh.
The stakes are high.
We need to go to the other side
of the messaging system, to CBS.
We'll bring in Dr. John LaPook.
LaPook.
LaPook is here.
We are joined now by our chief medical
correspondent.
I'm sorry, chief medical correspondent, not just the
doctor.
He's a chief medical correspondent.
Makes you sound official.
He should be wearing a uniform with braids
and medals and all kinds of stuff.
We are joined now by our chief medical
correspondent, Dr. John LaPook.
John, start our conversation off by telling us
what RFK Jr. would oversee.
Massive department.
Yeah, you're right, John.
You know, HHS is huge.
We've put together something I want to show
you.
The annual budget is $1.8 trillion.
That is 26 cents out of every dollar
that the government spends every year.
And it oversees 13 federal agencies, including the
CDC, the FDA, Medicaid, Medicare, and the NIH,
which oversees a tremendous amount of medical research.
So this organization really affects almost all of
us.
Wasn't Collins the guy who was running it
before this?
That kook with his guitar?
HHS?
No, no, no, no, no.
The whole NIH.
Yeah, HHS.
I'm sorry.
No, HHS was Becerra, I think.
Oh, well, that guy's even worse.
No, Becerra's got no creds.
I mean, he's just a California lawyer.
We continue.
What would be his powers as he oversees
all these agencies?
He would be very powerful.
You know, tremendous.
I'll give you an example.
The CDC has an advisory committee that recommends
to the CDC what vaccines to give and
when to give them.
Well, the HHA secretary appoints the voting members
of that advisory committee.
Laugh Tale.
Laugh Tale.
Oh, yeah, that committee, which we know is
all shills.
Of that advisory committee.
Even without official changes, the views of somebody
at the top of such a powerful organization
can affect public opinion.
So if there's doubts, for example, about vaccines,
that can trickle down and perhaps increase vaccine
hesitancy.
Oh, hesitancy.
Oh, no.
All I've ever heard Kennedy say is, yeah,
I just want people to know and I
don't want to force them.
I don't want to force their kids to
take this stuff, which, of course, is very
bad.
Dr. LePoucq, you're not just a doctor and
chief medical officer, but what do your colleagues
think of this?
What do your colleagues, what do other doctors
make of RFK Jr. and if he got
this job?
You know, there's agreement and even excitement about
the idea of making America healthier, decreasing obesity
and improving our diets.
Well, here we go.
Where the concern comes in is there's belief
and there's evidence.
And when belief doesn't square with evidence, you
either change the belief, that's science.
No evidence.
Or you change or you cherry pick the
evidence.
And there's concern among my colleagues about holding
on to belief in the face of contradictory
evidence.
How concerning is it that people believe these
things nowadays?
Loaded question.
It was once when this was believed to
be settled fact, right?
Science fact.
In the 1950s, the high watermark, you know,
when polio vaccine.
Of course, in government vaccines were given for
polio.
Like two million people got it at a
time when people were so terrified about what
these infections can do.
But now people don't even remember what the
measles, mumps, rubella.
Most people haven't seen it.
Diphtheria, whooping cough.
That's one of the problems.
When public health is working, nothing happens.
And so people don't appreciate it.
Yeah.
Well, don't get us started on the measles,
Brady Bunch.
I do want to go to Tina Smith.
Yeah.
Tina Smith, the Democrat from Minnesota.
Who's this?
Tina Smith, the Democrat from Minnesota.
And she, her task was to, her attack
vector was SSRIs and other stuff that science
can't actually explain how it works.
But we know it works.
You just might have to take Relenza or
Cibolta or some extra thing that increases it.
And you're on it forever and you feel
great.
In an interview in 2023 and again in
2024, you blamed school shootings on antidepressants.
You said, and this is a quote, there
is no time in American history or human
history that kids were going to shoot schools
and shooting their classmates.
It really started happening coterminous with the introduction
of these drugs, with Prozac and with other
drugs.
So do you believe, as you've said, that
antidepressants cause school shootings?
This should be a simple question.
I don't think anybody can answer that question
and I didn't answer that question.
I said it should be studied along with
other potential culprits like social media.
What?
Gaming.
You forgot gaming.
But I don't know.
I would never make because there's no science
on that.
Well, there is, Senator.
I mean, excuse me.
There is, Mr. Kennedy.
Thank you for the promotion.
The science shows that there is no link.
You gave me a joke.
What?
You get the line in there.
Thanks for the promotion.
This is so good.
Mr. Kennedy.
Thank you for the promotion.
The science shows that there is no link
between school shootings and antidepressants.
And in fact, most school shooters were not
even treated with antidepressants.
And of those that were, there was no
evidence of association.
I don't think you need to say that,
Senator, because HIPAA rules nobody knows.
Well, that is Mr. Kennedy.
Do you think that people who take antidepressants
are dangerous?
Yeah, yeah.
I just went on from there.
Is my neighbor on antidepressants going to kill
me?
Oh, yeah.
These people are just the worst.
I thought the funniest was Bernie Sanders.
Bernie was like...
This was...
I'm glad you got these clips, because I
had to stop at some point.
Oh, yeah.
You had to.
It was too much.
It was too much.
But Bernie, this Bernie...
And this is actually a shock to me,
because I thought Bernie would be on the
side of Kennedy.
Yeah.
And somebody, like you said, the only thing
you can assume is somebody bumped up to
him and said, hey, you know, Bernie.
Hey, I got to got you, man.
It's going to look great.
Your profile is going to be fantastic.
Yeah, see this?
Look at this photo.
Hey, look at this.
What's that in your mouth, Bernie?
I think the gist of what you were
trying to say today is you're really pro
-vaccine.
You want to ask questions.
You have started a group called the Children's
Health Defense.
You're the originator.
Right now, as I understand it, on their
website, they are selling what's called onesies.
These are little things, clothing for babies.
One of them is titled Unfaxed Unafraid.
Next one, and they're sold for $26 apiece,
by the way.
Next one is No Vax, No Problem.
Now, you're coming before this committee, and you
say you're pro-vaccine.
Just want to ask some questions.
And yet your organization is making money selling
a child's product to parents for $26, which
casts fundamental doubt on the usefulness of vaccines.
Can you tell us now that you will,
now that you are pro-vaccine, that you're
going to have your organization take these products
off the market?
Senator, I have no power over that organization.
I'm not a part of it.
I resigned from the board.
That was just a few months ago.
You founded that.
You certainly have power.
You can make that power up.
Are you supportive of this?
I've had nothing to do with leadership.
Are you supportive of these onesies?
I'm supportive of vaccines.
Can you imagine that someone wrote down in
his script, you have to say, are you
supportive of these onesies?
These onesies.
These onesies are an outrage.
That's actually a subclip.
Are you supportive of these onesies?
Now, the other thing is his preoccupation with
this $26.
Does he think that's a jip or what?
I mean, what is he so preoccupied?
Who cares about the price?
Oh, but the portions are so small.
Oh, man, I'm sorry he has to go
through all that.
I'm sorry for all these people.
These people are sad and pathetic.
They really are.
The onesies.
The onesies.
What's my script, Buff?
You're going to take the onesies, Bernie.
I want to take the SSRIs.
Are you supportive of these onesies?
I want to take the SSRIs.
I got the onesies.
What did you get?
I got MMR. It's not all that great,
is it?
Can we move away from this?
Do you have any more?
Yeah, I do have the summary clip from
NTD, which is kind of, I guess, worth
playing.
This is the Kennedy rundown.
Yeah, it's worth it.
Robert F.
Kennedy Jr. spent hours in front of the
Senate Finance Committee Wednesday making statements and answering
questions on day one of his nomination hearings.
There is no single culprit in chronic disease.
Much as I have criticized certain industries and
agencies, President Trump and I understand that most
of their scientists and experts genuinely care about
American health.
Therefore, we will bring together all stakeholders in
pursuit of this unifying goal.
Kennedy is scheduled for two days of hearings,
which will be followed by a full Senate
vote on whether or not to confirm him
as the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Many senators probed Kennedy about his stance on
vaccines.
Senator Ron Wayden alleged that Kennedy has embraced
conspiracy theories, especially on the safety and efficacy
of vaccines.
He has made it his life's work to
sow doubt and discourage parents from getting their
kids life-saving vaccines.
But Kennedy pushed back, saying that he's not
anti-vaccine or anti-industry, but he is
pro-safety.
I worked for years to raise awareness about
the mercury and toxic chemicals in fish, and
nobody called me any fish.
You know what a guy like Kennedy really
needs?
And not just because I can do it,
but someone like me who can sit there
with the vast array of no-agenda clips
in our archive and just go, oh yeah,
here's what he really said, boom, hit the
clip.
You know, that's what he needs, because it's
all, they're just lying, all of them.
They lie.
And they twist it, and they make different
terms out of it.
Well, that's because they have an agenda.
Yeah, but that's why the no agenda has
to be there.
Speaking of which, we have our debutante who
came out this week.
Her name is Press Secretary Leavitt.
Leave it to Beaver?
Leave it to Beaver.
Leave it.
Caroline?
Is it Caroline?
Caroline, I think.
Caroline Leavitt, who is 27.
Yes, the youngest press secretary in history.
I can't imagine any of our daughters doing
this job.
And she's, I mean, she's getting her sea
legs.
But this was something that everybody had to
send me an email about.
This White House believes strongly in the First
Amendment, so it's why our team will work
diligently to restore the press passes of the
440 journalists whose passes were wrongly revoked by
the previous administration.
We're also opening up this briefing room to
new media voices who produce news-related content
and whose outlet is not already represented by
one of the seats in this room.
We welcome independent journalists, podcasters, social media influencers,
and content creators to apply for credentials to
cover this White House.
Again, podcasting has come a long way.
I don't know if you got any.
No, probably you get nothing.
I got a couple.
You know, like, are you going to apply
for credentials?
No.
Why in the world?
We cover media.
We deconstruct media.
We don't want to be the media.
That's true.
And the second thing that should be noted,
by the way, 7,200 podcasters have applied.
How do you know?
I didn't hear about that.
It was a news report that came out.
Somebody, I think, came out of the White
House.
That's a lot.
That's more than I expected.
And they said the thing was that it
has to be a daily publication, which eliminates
us immediately.
Oh, we're out.
We're done.
The thing is, if you go to the
website, whitehouse.gov slash new media, you get
a landing page, which is iopra.my.site
.com, which is in a frame of the
White House, and says, interested in joining a
future White House press briefing?
Share your information below.
And then there's a button that says Siguiente,
which I think is Spanish for enter?
What does Siguiente mean?
I don't know.
Let's look it up.
It probably does mean enter.
Siguiente.
Or go home.
Go away.
Let me see.
This means next.
Oh, next.
It means next, I guess.
Oh, next.
Sequente.
That would be sequence.
From the root sequence.
So I hit next.
And then it has first name.
What is your first name?
Introduza hasta 200 caracteres.
So this thing is in Spanish.
It's the craziest thing.
Maybe you just have the Spanish.
You're in the Spanish track.
No, it's all.
I've tried the VPN.
It's all.
Are you on a VPN?
I've tried it on.
I'm not on a VPN now, but I've
tried it on VPN for different countries.
I keep getting.
It's the same.
I get the same form.
Interesting.
Well, no, it's unprofessional is what it is.
Well.
It's lame.
Like how come the podcasters have to all
speak Spanish?
And what are you doing?
Anyway.
So no, we are not going to apply
for press credentials.
And I guess we don't even qualify.
But we're not going to do that.
We are the media.
Podcasts are now the media.
We will have to deconstruct podcasts, which is
okay.
We're starting to do that.
And this is I'll just give my mini
spiel here.
This is why we need people starting hyper
local podcasts.
Because there's no way that any human being
can go through Rogan and Megan Kelly and
Victor Davis Hanson and Tucker Carlson and call
her daddy.
And you need people in your community who
are doing that distilling it down so that
when you're walking down the street, you can
say, hey, I heard you were talking about
that.
What's going on?
Hyper local podcast dot com.
It'll get you started.
It'll get you started.
The people are very interested in doing this.
They really.
And also, what is it?
What does it mean to your community?
Pot Angeles.
Yes, exactly.
Mimi's got the right idea.
Now.
She does.
We are anachronism.
So I'm trying to use my new word.
Yeah, you got it.
You nailed it.
So that is why, you know, people still
tune in to us because we now are
hyper local.
We're hyper local community of interest.
And we've been around long enough in our
18th year.
But essentially, we're doing the same thing.
You know, come to us.
We'll distill it down.
We'll give you some ideas.
We'll play some clips.
Except we can't talk about your specific neighborhood.
And we certainly never talk about Canada.
Now, along these lines, I would like to
promote Dvorak dot substack dot com.
Where, you know, you don't promote that enough.
I heard you promote it on DH Unplugged.
Yeah.
You should promote that more often.
I should.
You know, I'm not good at promotion.
It's pretty apparent.
D-V-O-R-A-K.
Dvorak.
Dvorak.
We need somebody to do a jingle with
spelling my name.
Oh, yeah.
We'll do that right after Dvorak dot org
slash N-A.
Which I'm sure you've already made the forward
to knowagentthedonations.com.
Which Tina asked me about every other day.
No, she doesn't.
Yes, she does.
No, you're acting like NBC.
No, she comes every other.
She says, oh, how's that microphone company coming?
About as good as the vinegar book.
About as good as the vinegar book.
And then she'll say, oh, how about the
donation page?
Yeah, that's okay.
Hey, it's all right.
I love you regardless.
It's okay.
I don't need another company.
Get to work, Dvorak.
Somebody should love me.
Get to work.
Newsletter didn't pay off.
Lousy donations, thanks to you.
Oh, excuse me.
You're like, donations are great.
It was the newsletter.
Yeah, okay, fine.
You want to take that side of the
coin.
It doesn't matter because I think there's a
big future for you.
By the way, Spam Assassin is out to
get us.
Spam Assassin is the reason a lot of
people don't get the newsletter.
If you have anything to do with Spam
Assassin, that's a lousy operation because they have
blocked us and make our newsletter.
People subscribe to this newsletter.
It's not spam.
I think there's a way to unblock ourselves
from Spam Assassin.
You can go into Spam Assassin and say,
no, this is good.
What happens is the way these things get
on the block list is some jabroni hits
block.
The whole email is broken, just like everything.
The only thing that still works is podcasts,
and this is where I was leading up
to, since you have a sub stack, you
should do a sub stack live.
Sub stack live.
Look, even Jim Acosta is doing it.
Hey, guys.
Hey, guys.
He's going to make a lot of money,
that guy.
Hey, guys.
Hey, guys.
You know what?
Before you play this, which I'm glad you
got, and by the way, it is sub
stack, Dvorak.substack.com.
You can read.
Adam was trying to promote there was the
freak show column I just wrote describing the
freak show that we're literally getting from the
Democrats.
Yes.
You know, people with the blue hair and
the nose rings and the gauged ears and
the whole thing.
They're all Democrats.
It was a groovy old man post.
It was something.
A lot of people like this structure.
No, it's a classic Dvorak structure.
Classic.
That's why I bring it up.
Well, I'm glad you did, by the way.
And I think you should get your phone,
and it has a camera.
I know it has a camera, and you
should do a sub stack.
No.
I think you got the wrong idea.
Sub stack live.
Here he is.
Hi, guys.
It's Dvorak here.
No.
No.
I've got, as you noted in the tip
of the day, I have the three-way,
the three-channel car cam.
Do it from your car.
Do it from your car.
And I have that.
I can point the camera at me in
the driver's seat, and I can do my
podcast from the car like a pro.
Let me tell you.
I would pay good money to see you
do a sub stack live from the Lexus.
You have no idea.
Let me be your manager for a moment.
Instant classic.
No, instant bestseller.
We'll put a gold star on it.
Instant bestseller if you do sub stack live.
And here is your example.
This is your leader, Jim Acosta.
Hey, guys.
It's Jim.
And let me just say this.
I've had quite the day.
But as you could see earlier today, this
was my last day at CNN.
And I did want to jump on sub
stack live here for a moment and say,
welcome to my new venture.
I'm going independent, at least for now.
This is just the beginning.
But I wanted to invite you to join
me here on this platform as we talk
about the day's news, talk about politics, and
so on.
I do want to, just in case, just
in case you missed my closing message earlier
in the day, don't give in to the
lies.
Don't give in to fear.
Hold on to the truth.
And hope.
And keep this conversation going.
Great to see all of you here.
We'll talk some more soon.
And I think you should sign off like
that.
Don't give in to the fear.
Keep your hope alive.
And I'll see you soon.
We'll keep the conversation going.
That is how you do it.
That is your example for Dvorak alive from
the Lexus, ladies and gentlemen.
I'm telling you, it's an instant topper, chart
topper, winner.
iTunes is ready to put you on top.
I'm all in, but I think it's going
to come off as the tech grouch.
Well, then wear the beard.
It's fine.
Do the tech grouch.
I've got the beard.
I still have the costume.
Yeah.
And then just do straight up news.
Grouch.
Straight up.
Tech grouch.
Yeah.
Speaking of mainstream, of course, we have a
new FCC chair.
And wouldn't you know it.
The FCC has reinstated complaints against CBS, ABC,
and NBC regarding last fall's presidential election.
New Republican Chairman Brendan Carr brought back these
cases after they were dismissed in the final
days of the Biden administration.
Notably, a complaint against Fox News will not
be reinstated.
The CBS complaint accuses the network 60 Minutes
of editing an interview with Kamala Harris, claiming
it distorted news to benefit her campaign.
ABC faces a complaint for alleged bias during
Harris's debate with Donald Trump, where moderators were
accused of favored treatment.
NBC is under fire for a Saturday Night
Live episode that featured Harris without a similar
opportunity for Trump.
Former FCC chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel dismissed all four
complaints just before leaving office.
Carr, who has been vocal in support of
Trump, promises to address these issues as FCC
chair.
The reinstatements may signal a shift in oversight
of broadcast media.
Yeah, baby.
This is good.
This is good.
This is going after him.
I like it.
We have an associated clip.
All right.
Which is the.
Where is it?
I don't know.
It's the May.
It's a meta meta lawsuit paid.
Oh, yes.
Yes.
Is this the mega clips?
No, no.
Meta.
Meta.
I was going to.
Well, you never know.
You know, the mega clips are coming.
You never know.
Facebook parent meta is agreeing to pay 25
million dollars to settle a lawsuit filed by
President Trump against the company after it suspended
his accounts following the January six attack on
the Capitol.
Just the latest settling of litigation with the
president who threatened retribution on his critics and
rivals.
Meted and CEO Mark Zuckerberg among the billionaires
who sought to ingratiate themselves with Trump since
he won reelection.
Oh, I have.
I think I have a little better clip
because it has.
I hope so.
Yeah.
Because let me see if I hear.
Here we go.
This is.
Where's this from?
This is from NBC.
Of course, NBC is going to be great.
Let's give you some breaking news into the
White House.
Valley.
President Trump, we've learned, has signed an agreement
with Meta to settle a lawsuit that he
filed against the company for suspending his account
after the attack on the Capitol on January
6th, four years ago.
The settlement, we understand, to be 25 million
dollars, most of which is going towards his
future presidential library.
This story first was reported by The Wall
Street Journal.
Meta says it has no comment on that,
but says they can confirm that they have
a 22 million dollar number to the Trump
library.
Garrett Haake is at the White House.
Garrett, this is so interesting for a lot
of reasons here.
And I know you've just confirmed this with
some of your sources here.
Your sources are great, Garrett.
There is a fascinating detail in the initial
Wall Street Journal article that I should note
NBC News has not confirmed.
It's not confirmed, but it's fascinating and it's
a detail.
So let's go to the White House.
He's standing in front of the White House.
It's so official.
For the end of the November dinner.
So this is a dinner that we've reported
on, or at least a visit to Mar
-a-Lago by Mark Zuckerberg, went down after
Donald Trump won the election.
Why are they talking?
Hold on a second.
Why are these women reporters for NBC, this
is the second one, this is a different
woman, talk so fast?
Oh, the new shipment of snow came in,
if you know what I'm saying.
I'm just saying.
Soon to be President Trump raised the matter
of the lawsuit, the people said.
The president signaled that the litigation had to
be resolved before Zuckerberg could be, quote-unquote,
brought into the tent, according to one of
these sources speaking with the Wall Street Journal,
Garrett.
He can be brought into the tent.
There's no evidence this was said.
There's no evidence.
But they go on and on about, oh,
Trump said, well, you can't be brought into
the tent.
Into the tent, my brother.
I mean, does that even sound like Trump?
No, not at all.
Can't bring you into the tent, Zuck.
Meanwhile, wow, another opportunity.
Another one for you.
I'm excited about this.
You really need to get the Lexus mobile
cranked up, the 2006 Lexus, with your three.
2005.
Whoa.
I'm sorry, don't want to insult you.
With your three-way camera or whatever it
is, your tech grouch beard because there's instant
guaranteed cash.
Meta is making a bold play to attract
TikTok creators by offering up to $5,000
to influencers who join Facebook and Instagram.
With TikTok's future in the U.S. uncertain,
this breakthrough bonus program is a tempting opportunity
for creators.
To qualify, you need to post at least
20 reels on Facebook and 10 on Instagram
every month.
All original content.
But here's the catch.
It's only for those who've never posted on
either platform before.
Plus, accepted creators get perks like a free
verification subscription.
Meta isn't stopping there.
They've launched edits, a CapCut-like app, and
revamped Instagram's layout to mimic TikTok.
While some users are frustrated with these changes,
it's clear Meta is serious about dominating the
short-form video space.
I mean, this is great.
To five grand.
Top that with a newsletter.
This is good stuff.
This is cash money money in the bank.
Okay, I want to just stick with this
in this area for a second because this
is probably the best truth wants to come
out clip I've heard this year.
I know we're only a couple weeks into
it, but it's the best, best this year.
So Vivek Ramaswamy.
Vivek.
Vivek Ramaswamy.
Vivek is an ache.
All of a sudden he drops out of
the Department of Governmental Efficiency.
You know, it's very shady.
I mean, he walked in.
He walked in as part of the cabinet
during the inauguration, and then he's kind of
out.
He's like, oh, no, no.
He can't really talk about it, but he's
probably going to run for the Ohio Senate
seat and everything.
But the truth came out in his discussion
with Jesse Watters, and you'll love it.
So we're hearing you're leaving Doge after like
three scaramoochies.
What happened?
Well, the reality is I'm pursuing elected office
very shortly.
We'll have an announcement soon.
But, Jesse, things are off to a great
start.
I think President Trump has proven.
Look at the actions that he took in
that first week.
The most pro-merit president I think we've
had in a long time.
And as for my vision grounded in constitutional
law and the future of the country, I
think it's best pursued through elected office, and
I'm confident that they're going to succeed in
slashing and burning that federal bureaucracy.
People are saying you didn't get along with
Musk.
What happened there?
I think that's incorrect.
But what I would say is we had
different and complementary approaches.
I focused more on a constitutional law, legislative
-based approach.
He focused more on a technology approach, which
is the future approach.
No better person to lead that technology.
Did you hear it?
No.
Broge.
He said broge instead of doge because, of
course, that is what he's saying behind closed
doors.
This is just broge, man.
It's just the tech bros.
The tech bros have broge.
Play it again so I can hear it
because I was listening as hard as I
could for the truthfulness to come out, but
I missed.
I knew that he said broge before because
I'd read about it.
I never heard him say it, but here
it is.
No, I read about it.
I never heard him say it.
I just read about it.
Constitutional law, legislative-based approach.
He focused more on a technology approach, which
is the future approach.
No better person to lead.
Broge.
Come on.
Come on.
It's the broge.
Oh, you know what I heard?
I heard it was the future approach.
No, future of broge.
He said broge.
Yeah.
I didn't hear it because I heard something
else.
Well, speaking of the future of broge, well,
breaking news, CNBC.
Breaking, breaking, breaking.
X is striking a deal with Visa to
be the first partner for what it is
calling the X money account.
Since buying Twitter in 2022, Elon Musk has
talked about turning the social media site into
a quote everything app where users can send
payments and store cash.
By using the payment rails of Visa, the
world's biggest credit card network, X users can
move funds between traditional bank accounts and the
X money account.
They can store funds there and also make
instant peer-to-peer payments with other X
users like with Zell or Venmo, I'm told.
The X money service is expected to launch
in the first quarter and deals with more
financial partners are likely, said one person with
knowledge of the matter.
One of the first use cases for X
money is so that creators on the site
can accept payments and store funds without using
external banks.
I'm told.
Minutes ago, X Corp CEO said in a
post that it is, quote, first of many
big announcements about X money this year.
Hugh, I have a question about regulation with
regard to social media.
Is it different for a partnership like this
than it would be, say, for more traditional
interchanges with financial partners?
Yeah, Leslie, it's a fascinating question because, you
know, X money, Twitter has been accumulating money
transmitter licenses.
Listening to this guy, I think you're right
about the delivery of the snowballs or whatever
you, however you put it.
The snowstorm.
That's a guy yakking away like a maniac.
Interchanges with financial partners.
Yeah, Leslie, it's a fascinating question because, you
know, X money, Twitter has been accumulating money
transmitter licenses in more than 30 states over
the past year.
So they're going to be what's more like
Stripe or other fintech intermediaries where they're going
to be able to provide banking like services
without really going to the work of being
a regulated bank.
And so I would think that there is
some elements of the banking universe.
Think community banks, think smaller banks, which are
going to potentially protest this incursion by technology.
Yeah, we'll see.
I don't know, man.
I don't know if people will trust their
Twitter account with their money.
I'm not so sure.
Well, bringing Visa in is probably a smart
idea because they have a brand name.
He's doing that.
Well, I think he's doing that because of
Plaid.
Visa owns Plaid.
I think they own Plaid.
I think they acquired Plaid.
And Plaid is the connector.
That's how Venmo does it.
That's how Cash App does it.
That's maybe for the streets, but I don't
know.
I don't know how that's going to work,
which brings us to the contentious conversation we
need to have.
But I actually think we're both on the
same side of this, but maybe approach it
from slightly different vectors.
I like this.
It's my new word today, vectors.
Vectors.
Vectors.
Today's word is vector.
No, it's anachronism.
That's the secret word.
We go to NPR for some in-depth
reporting on DeepSeek.
Tech stocks have plummeted around the world over
the past day as Investors Digest reports that
a Chinese company developed a competitive AI model
on the cheap.
The company is called DeepSeek and it even
caught President Trump's eye.
The release of DeepSeek.
By the way, there's something with the president's
voice here.
And by the way, CheapSeek is the way
of what I call it.
I heard it.
It was funny.
But you already used it on DH Unplugged
as a title.
So I can't use it again.
It's not even funny.
I already heard it's not even funny anymore.
CheapSeek.
The president's voice is very weak here and
it's uncharacteristic.
I don't know.
Competitive AI model on the cheap.
The company is called DeepSeek and it even
caught President Trump's eye.
The release of DeepSeek AI from a Chinese
company should be a wake up call for
our industries that we need to be laser
focused on competing to win.
And PR's John Rewich is on the line
now from China to help make sense of
how big a deal this actually is.
We've got a guy in China.
Hi there.
So first of all, tell us about this
company that many people, including me, just heard
of now.
Yeah, DeepSeek is a spinoff from a Chinese
hedge fund.
It was established just two years ago in
2023 and it's based in the eastern city
of Hangzhou, which is sort of a tech
hub here in China.
And in a nutshell, what they did was
hire a bunch of top notch engineers and
develop new algorithms, basically more efficient ways of
training and running artificial intelligence with less computational
power.
And what's the significance of that?
Well, the product is said to rival tools
from competitors like OpenAI and Google in terms
of what it can do.
Things like analyzing data and solving complex problems.
It's impressed a lot of people.
It rattled markets.
And what rattled the markets is the narrative,
which comes with some caveats that DeepSeek basically
did it all cheaper, quicker and with less
powerful microprocessors than its big competitors.
It's no surprise this comes out of Hangzhou
because it's a very Hangzhou type of company.
I couldn't resist.
Well, one more clip and then we'll discuss.
OK, so tell us more about those caveats.
Sure.
The first one is around cost.
DeepSeek says that it spent under six million
dollars to make this thing.
That's tiny relative to the hundreds of millions
of dollars that others are investing, even billions.
But analysts say that that low figure is
easy to misinterpret because it doesn't include, for
instance, the cost of developing various versions from
which this latest version was distilled.
OK.
So we really don't know what the total
development cost was, how inexpensive it was.
The second caveat has to do with the
hardware, has to do with the chips that
are critical to developing AI.
OK, tell us more about that.
The Biden administration banned the best AI microprocessors
from being sold to China.
Were they able to get around it?
It's tricky.
You know, the chips that really matter for
AI are made by NVIDIA, which, by the
way, took a massive tumble on the stock
market after the DeepSeek news.
Back in 2022, NVIDIA were told they couldn't
sell their best product to China.
Of course, some of those were already those
chips were already there.
Some may have leaked in, but they made
a slightly downgraded version at the time that
they could sell to China legally.
That's what DeepSeek says it used to train
its latest model.
The Biden administration subsequently decided that those chips
were actually too powerful.
They banned those ones from being sold to
China, too.
That was in 2023.
A year had passed.
The horse was sort of out of the
barn.
Here's Gregory Allen, the director of the Wadwani
AI Center at the Center for Strategic and
International Studies in Washington.
We are currently living through the era of
the lagging impact of the Biden administration's misfire
in that first batch of AI export controls.
All right.
So you've you've looked at this.
You I heard some of your conversation.
I have some thoughts as well.
I'd love to hear what your take is
on cheap seek.
Well, a couple of things.
This was discussed and people should go back
and listen to DH unplugged, which we don't.
Which is on Wednesdays, Wednesday night.
You do it live.
And there's a podcast.
Listen to it.
It's very good.
Although Andrew is getting a little he's getting
a little uppity.
I think I think he lost money.
I think he lost money on this somehow.
I don't think he did, which is not
good because Tina has her retirement fund with
him.
I think he lost money big, bigly somehow.
He's really done.
He seems pretty chipper to me.
I don't know what you think.
He's here.
He sounded uppity.
You know, like he was choppy and you
know, like slice.
Well, he was he was made.
Well, he does maybe subscribe to the bull
crap.
But you don't you think that all AI
is crap.
So, so, so this so that that's a
little different than what I think.
And I think that what CheapSeek is doing
here is doing things best price, which is
to look because I the reason I'm going
to say this is because I ran a
what is the no agenda show.
Somebody sent me a link to it to
a CheapSeek results on what's the no agenda
show.
And it was a rundown of the show.
And it was pretty accurate.
And I said, this is pretty good.
And so I decided to do the same
search on perplexity and grok and chat GPT.
And they all had the same elements within
them, although they weren't summarized as well.
And I'm getting the impression that CheapSeek is
using probably distributed system to go into the
other systems, take their stuff and use the
AI mechanism to take that stuff as the
as the language model that they want to
use.
And then just shrink it down a little
more and give it back to you.
I just don't think they're doing anything from
an original from a point of originality.
I think they're derivative.
I think this is something of a scam.
So I download because the results were basically
the same.
Sure.
Well, as the other guys, only it wasn't
as much of it.
They just shortened it.
I have a slightly different take.
I downloaded the the R1 V3 model and
some of the other ones.
And I run that here locally, which is
that's kind of to me.
The story is it's all open source.
And, you know, it'll just come down to
compute.
How much compute do you have to run
it fast for for, you know, millions of
users?
I just saw your little beelinks.
That's how my start nine.
But equivalent, equivalent.
And I disconnected network access so it could
not go out and cheat.
It couldn't go out and cheat.
So it's I think it's what they call
a, you know, a model distillation.
And and really the thing is, these are
not benchmarks.
You know, tell me about the no agenda
show.
So what?
I mean, go to Wikipedia.
I mean, that's where it's getting it from.
But I think that what I'm happy about
is not.
Well, what I'm happy about is that this
will only accelerate the entropy.
There's just more crap that's going to come
out.
They're done.
No one has any more data to scrape.
So this model, you know, Sam Altman apparently
is already saying they stole our data.
Well, you stole it from us in the
first place.
You douche.
You're stealing everything.
Everything.
It's it's it has to degrade sooner or
later.
And it's still if you lock it down.
It's still not really impressive.
You know.
Yeah.
It can write an email.
Yeah.
It can.
I use it for Bible scripture.
Oh, good.
Jeez.
It ingested every single word of the Bible.
Every translation.
What do you mean you use it for
Bible scripture?
You're writing tracks.
Are you doing some.
So what are you using for Bible scripture
for?
If I want to find a Bible passage
about a certain situation, it can usually come
up with something.
You still use one of those Bible search
engines.
There's a bunch of them and they have
they have all the different versions of the
Bible.
That's that.
So they've ingested that.
So the inference is I want a scripture
that talks about this and then you can
say, and by the way, answer me as
a Southern Baptist pastor.
It's hilarious.
Let me tell you, my friend.
No, it's so it does that kind of
stuff.
I think it's really good for repetitive tasks.
If you can train your own model, which
which eventually will be coming.
But it's it's just none of it's really
impressive.
Really test this.
It's not impressive.
There's a note of detestation.
Well, yes, there is.
I wanted to die.
I wanted to die a horrible death.
I love that.
Why?
Because it's annoying.
It's annoying.
What's annoying about it?
What's annoying to me is that everywhere I
turn, there's AI.
I mean, so now France, France comes out
with an AI chat bot that they were
going to put into the schools and the
don't find this hilarious.
I mean, I think it's good for the
show, but then I go.
Someone sends me a report.
It's a crappy AI voice reading a report
about AI.
Welcome to generative AI news.
Today, we delve into the story of Lucy,
France's ambitious AI chat bot that recently made
headlines for all the wrong reasons.
Launched with high hopes and national pride.
Lucy was designed to embody European values and
challenge the dominance of English language AI tools
backed by President Macron and public funds.
It aimed to promote cultural diversity and digital
sovereignty.
However, just days after its launch, Lucy faced
widespread criticism for providing inaccurate and nonsensical responses.
Users reported that the chat bot made historical
inaccuracies, such as stating that Herod the Great
played a role in developing the atomic bomb
and bizarre claims like cow's eggs being a
healthy food source.
These errors led to mockery and concern, especially
when it was revealed that Lucy was intended
for use in French schools.
In response to the backlash, Linagora, the French
open source software firm leading the project, temporarily
suspended Lucy.
They acknowledged that the chat bot was an
academic research project in its early stages and
admitted that the launch was premature.
The firm expressed regret, stating, we got carried
away by our own enthusiasm.
This incident highlights the challenges and complexities of
developing AI tools that are both accurate and
culturally relevant.
So I guess maybe I'm trying to, I
love that story.
I mean, come on.
No, I'm trying to, I'm trying to examine
where my disdain comes from.
And I think it comes from this promise.
And I have friends who are, I mean,
it's the same friend who tells me he
can't wait to pull up with his flying
car and park it in my front yard.
I'm like, Vic, it's not going to happen.
He's going to bring some cow eggs over.
Now he's also selling AI into, where it
works is like telemarketing, you know, that kind
of stuff.
But I think, you know, humans, it's go
humans.
We're going to have to come back to
humans because it's like the hoverboard.
It's never really going to pay off.
They made a huge mistake by releasing chat
GPT and, you know, and they did it
all for greed.
It's all for money.
Sam Altman drives a $4 million EV.
I know.
It's it's disdain for brooch.
It's just disdain for Silicon Valley.
It's disdain for the wasted energy and just
nonsense.
And it's eventually it's, you know, we saw
what happened.
One little blip and, you know, 600 billion
child of Silicon Valley, which you are, whether
you like it or not.
This is unbelievable.
Listen to this.
I am the antithesis to Silicon Valley.
The antithesis.
You've gone out and done your Silicon Valley.
And I hated it.
And I hated it.
That doesn't mean anything.
You hated it.
Because it sucks.
It's horrible.
It's not an efficient way to to progress
technology.
I like the open source stuff, but no
one is.
It's all part of the tricks.
Nothing is impressive.
Nothing is without error.
And, you know, the only thing that this
may show is that by running smaller language
models, you'll get mistakes cheaper.
And what is it?
You see that coming.
What is it really telling me?
But oh, no, no, we've got to we've
got to get it into government.
OpenAI has launched ChatGBT Gov, a new platform
specifically designed for U.S. government use, which
builds upon the security features of ChatGBT Enterprise.
This new product enables government agencies to implement
sensitive, non-public data into OpenAI's models while
maintaining the security of their own hosting environments.
Since the start of 2024, over 90,000
government employees at various levels have utilized ChatGBT
to generate over 18 million prompts for tasks
such as document translation and summarization, policy memo
drafting, code generation and application development.
I mean, it says something when Apple stock
goes up because they have been very cautious.
And, you know, we're not really we're not
really putting much.
We're going to brand it a little bit
kind of.
But there really has been no no innovation
in technology since the smartphone.
I mean, has there really been anything exciting
and new?
And now it's already all it's Chinese.
You can't run this.
They're spying on you.
Oh, I'm so tired of it.
I'm just tired.
It's funny for the show.
It's funny.
I don't mind that.
Let's just show me something.
Give me my hoverboard.
You know, this constant and hundreds of billions
of dollars.
Just send it to us for the show.
Stop.
You don't understand my my complaint.
No, no, no.
It doesn't understand.
Okay.
It's but I admire it because you're consistent.
Yeah.
I mean, do you you don't vary?
You're not wavering.
Do you use AI or chat GPT in
your daily life regularly?
And do you find it efficient?
Yeah.
Tell me what you use it for.
I told you the one thing I use
instead of search engines.
I'll use perplexity or something.
By the way, when they make mistakes, which
they do, it's obvious because it's just so
you said, what is this?
This is bull crap.
This is not even close to anything that
I am interested in.
Right.
Or it's just office.
This is these numbers aren't accurate.
Then you can go double check them using
a regular search engine.
So you just basically spent the wasted time
and went back and had to do extra
work here.
Now, if I was going to complain about
it, I would say it's the same thing
as the as the the problem you have
with with hand calculator in schools.
Kids don't can't do math in their heads.
And so you go to a grocery store
and you give somebody a two dollar bill
for a buck fifty item and they give
you twenty one dollars and fifty cents in
change because they put it into the machine.
Right.
And so the machine tells them you just
you just gave him two bucks and the
machine tells him to give you twenty one
dollars back and they see that number and
that's what they pull right out of the
till.
This has happened to me more than once.
And this is because nobody's aware of anything.
There's just a lack of awareness.
And I'm fearful that because of the lack
of awareness of reality, at some point, a
certain the next generation coming up with a
disease or whoever comes after them will start
to see this stuff as they'll be unable
to look at a result and say, no,
no, no, this can't be right.
Right.
Which is what you would do at the
cash register.
But that's already that's done.
Everyone.
No one can do it.
They can't.
As I mentioned this on the show before,
I'm at the store and some one kid
who's walking past and he and he says,
oh, it's three o'clock.
We got to get out of here.
And the other kid says to him, oh,
you can read clock.
You can read clock.
It's like Chinese.
You can read Chinese.
You can read clock.
So the kid says, you can read clock.
He says, yeah.
And he said, oh, wow.
And then they leave this on their way.
But when I heard that phrase, I said,
oh, my God, this is not good.
And this is like, you know, people can't
read cursive.
They can't read clock.
And they won't be able to see that
a perplexity result is bull crap.
So that's what my concern is.
Right.
Well, that kind of your your your theory
is that because it's going to deteriorate to
such an extreme that we will get to
my fear.
No.
Well, my hope my hope is that it
deteriorates to an extreme.
So, for instance, so I use chat GPT
because you you question this.
And I said, here was my question.
Find Bible scripture when I'm annoyed by an
older colleague.
And it sends it's very good.
It sends back Leviticus 1932.
Leviticus, the worst.
Stand up in the presence of the aged
show respect for the elderly and revere your
God.
I am the Lord.
There you go.
So that's what Mimi says.
Mimi said that she Adams acting a lot
nicer towards you.
I wonder why.
And I guess because he's become born again.
That's right.
He says, no, that can't be.
But now you have just actually confirmed what
I my theory was.
It is again.
I'm right on the money.
Yeah.
And I didn't need chat GPT to tell
you you are right.
Absolutely.
Be quick to listen.
Slow to speak.
Even slower to get angry.
Yes, that's correct.
I know you get a kick out of
it.
Well, the funny thing is, I actually believe
you did this.
Look up.
Yeah, of course I did.
Of course.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No, I did.
Yeah.
Thanks.
Yeah.
It's good for that.
Let's talk about getting fired because I have
several boots on.
And we have several boots on the ground
reports, which I think are interesting because they
from our audience, because they go a little
bit against the narrative.
We go back to mislead.
It's to beaver regarding the mass federal employee
buyout.
We want to start with the administration's offer
to buy with a mass buyout to federal
employees out there.
How many do you hope will take it?
And by what percentage of the president want
to downside the federal workforce?
Well, good morning, Michael.
It's great to see you.
Thanks for having me on the program.
This is another promise made and kept by
President Trump.
He told the American people on the campaign
trail that he was going to make our
federal government more efficient and productive.
And it is a fact that only 6
% of the federal workforce here in Washington,
DC actually shows up to the office.
That is completely unacceptable.
Middle-class Americans, our teachers, our nurses, our
law enforcement officers who keep this economy working,
show up to the office every single day.
And president Trump expects that federal employees do
the same.
So his order, as presented in that memo
last night, directs federal agencies to come up
with a return to work policy for their
agencies.
And if the federal bureaucrats in this city
don't like that, well, guess what?
They can resign from their positions and this
administration is offering them eight months of pay.
They will be paid through September just to
simply resign from their positions.
Now, what I thought was interesting is that
when, when this this order came out kind
of the same day, I kept receiving emails
from people saying, keep me anonymous.
This is going around.
Yeah.
I took the memo that you, you had
it too.
Yeah.
Somebody sent us the entire memo.
I cut and pasted the appropriate part and
put it in the last newsletter that a
lot of people didn't get because they're not
complaining to spam assassin that the newsletter is
not showing up, but it was in there.
You could read it yourself if you were.
Yeah.
But my, my point here is that it
was, it was policy.
It wasn't like some secret thing, but this
is, this is kind of how broken the
whole system is.
I agree.
So here's boots on the ground.
Adam, I have to wait.
Memo is out there.
I mean, what?
Anonymous.
Okay.
I have to weigh in on all this
stuff happening with Trump and the federal workforce,
mostly because this is complete bullcrap fork in
the road.
That was the title of the email fork
in the road.
Okay.
Here it is.
I work, I work from home and I
work my ass off and a lot of
us do.
I'm a team lead HR specialist for CBP
customs, border patrol.
I don't mind going to work every day
in person, but can we have a little
respect?
There's a ton of waste systems that don't
work lazy and overpaid people.
Things need to change, but getting people to
quit isn't actually going to fix the problem.
It's literally just a publicity stunt.
I cut down the federal government.
No, you got a bunch of people quit
because you didn't fix anything.
We're just going to hire everyone back.
I guess I'm really frustrated because they just
introduced a new HR payroll system at CBP.
That's a complete failure.
We have to go with the new system
because we spent too much already.
Pay gets delayed.
Our hands are tied due to system glitches.
No one is going to be held accountable.
It's all bull crap.
And we on the lowest, on the lower
level are left to take the blame for
leadership and programmers bad work.
So as much as I don't regret voting
for Trump, don't talk to me about forks
in the road and the self-righteous bull
crap.
It's a publicity stunt.
I lived through the VAX mandate.
I'll live through this because people still need
to get paid and someone needs to sort
through people's mistakes, mistakes made by the higher
ups that we got blamed for draining the
swamp, my ass.
It should be steady and meticulous.
I see waste every day.
Maybe they should ask me, but insulting your
whole workforce and getting people to quit won't
change anything.
It's a scam.
I think we need doge, doge to the
rescue.
Wow.
That's a guy's on a roll, but there
is a girl.
Actually, this is, um, well, she's good.
Well, I think she makes a good point.
It's like what you need.
You need it.
You need a suggestion box.
She likes working at home.
And I, I, I was waiting for your,
for your, uh, analysis of this.
She likes working at home and now she's
irked because it was, it's been going on
for years now.
And it's like, if you can't, I know
again, talking about, you mentioned earlier, the substat
columns, you go to dvorak.substack.com.
There's an old column.
I wrote about a year or two ago
about how working at home is not what
it's cracked up to be.
Cause I've been doing it most of my
life and I know how it works and
I know why, why it works and why
it doesn't work and why some people can
do it and some people can't.
And it's overrated.
And so you still wake up grumpy, whether
you're working from home or not.
So the point, but I can see her
position.
She's like, you know, she's got it all
worked out.
She's doing a good job.
But a lot of people, I mean, most
public relations people nowadays work from home and
they don't have the big offices anymore.
And in some, it's a good way to
save money cause you don't have to offices.
You have to, you know, people have to,
you know, they don't have a coffee machine.
They have coffee at the house.
Uh, there's a lot of benefits to it,
but at the same time, uh, and I
think a publicity stunt idea is not bad.
I have two clips, one which goes beyond
the publicity stunt, but I want you to
play your rap.
This, if you got more before I play
these two.
No, I want to come back to your
working at home and your grumpiness, but I'll
do that after your clips.
That'll be fine.
Well, the first is just the general clip,
which I thought was the classic, you know,
background or, and this is the worker buyouts
NTD clip.
The Trump administration is offering substantial buyouts to
federal workers as part of a plan to
drastically shrink the government.
And it is Daniel Monahan has for on
the so-called deferred resignation program.
The program allows federal employees to stay on
the payroll until September 30th without having to
work.
A mass email was sent to federal workers,
giving them until February 6th to decide whether
to participate.
The unprecedented message instructed those interested to simply
reply with the word resign.
The offer applies to most civilian employees, excluding
those in immigration, national security, and the postal
service.
The government currently employs around 2.3 million
civilian workers, not counting postal employees.
The email warns that those who decline the
offer should expect a shift toward a more
streamlined workforce based on four key pillars, return
to office, ending remote work, performance culture, implementing
updated standards to reward top performers while addressing
those who fail to meet expectations, more streamlined
and flexible workforce, downsizing federal agencies through restructuring,
realignments and layoffs, and enhanced standards of conduct,
tightening workplace rules.
Now that I'm thinking about this, wouldn't it
be better instead of complaining to a podcast,
which I appreciate, by the way, to take
the buyout and then go public about these
horrible systems?
Say, you know, I have something good to
get on TikTok and say, you know, there's
a problem with what's going on.
I mean, it's a good rant, but you
should just take the money and then be
a whistleblower.
I mean, I guess you can do that
or maybe not.
I don't know.
I think you can.
I don't think they're giving you a non
-disparagement clause to sign.
But I think people should go public with
this.
What she said is important.
If there's a payroll problem, then we got
to fix that.
It's possible she won't get her money.
Here's the deal.
Now, this is a local report from WAMU,
which I think is American University, public radio
station in D.C., and they bring in
that maniac, Tim Kaine, who has a whole
theory about this, which I've not heard anyplace
else yet, but I think it could catch
on.
This is the Trump layoff scheme.
The pressure from President Donald Trump is mounting
on federal workers to return to the office
full-time or quit.
Last night, the Office of Personnel Management circulated
a letter to federal workers.
The letter offered, quote, deferred resignation to any
federal worker who would take the offer by
February 6th.
The offer would allow workers to continue receiving
their full benefits and pay through September 30th.
An OPM spokesperson says employees that accept the
deferred resignation would be put on administrative leave
until they depart.
Virginia Senator Tim Kaine, speaking on the Senate
floor, called it a classic move in the
president's business playbook.
Yeah, the president has tried to terrorize you
for about a week and then gives you
a little sweetheart offer.
If you resign in the next week, we're
just going to pay you for doing nothing
for the next seven months.
Don't be fooled.
He's tricked hundreds of people with that offer.
If you accept that offer and resign, he'll
stiff you just like he stiffed the contractors.
You don't have any authority to do this.
Kaine added that Congress has not approved a
budget item for such a move.
Oh.
Whoa.
A little twist.
Well, yeah.
That seems like that would be a bad
look if he did that.
I don't think this is good.
Yeah, I agree.
Bad look.
Tim Kaine is nuts.
But I liked him throwing it in.
If you want to throw a wrench in
the works and you want to create fear
and doubt, you throw something like that out.
I have a procedural issue I'd like to
discuss, just briefly, since we both work from
home and I don't have an HR department
to complain to, although you do our payroll,
which I appreciate.
When I forward an email to you, I
forward an email to you.
Yeah.
You have this habit.
It's happened three times.
I know exactly what you're going to complain
about.
And then you will reply to me and
cc the original person with my comment to
you.
That is a total breach of netiquette and
protocol.
That's your response?
I'm not...
Is that what you expected me to say?
No, no.
I knew that I'd been doing this, but
I don't know that I didn't know, and
I apologize for this, that I'm including your
little one-on-one gripe, because that's a
back channel the way I see it.
Yes.
And I should not be putting that in
there.
It should have been taken out.
But most of the time it goes like
this.
You do something and you send it to
me and then I'll send a note.
I'm sorry, my time is limited.
It's a yes or no answer.
That is the end of that.
I will be careful in the future, because
that is a huge mistake on my part.
But you took the time to copy and
paste.
I don't think you had to be made
public that I'm a doofus, but okay, thank
you.
Thank you for pointing this out in public.
You take the time to copy and paste
and then berate the person.
And it was a simple meme, because you
were grumpy.
You did end with, I woke up grumpy.
And I said, hey, maybe something for the
newsletter.
And then you wrote this substack-length email
about why this meme was no good.
So it wasn't a huge problem.
But yeah, I found it interesting.
No one has ever done that to me
but you.
So it's okay.
Okay, now I know to which specific email
you're referring to.
I did not think that this may be
a good, for the newsletter comment, was a
back-channel comment that was so secretive that
I couldn't leave it in there.
No, I'm using that example.
The other ones are irrelevant.
But it just makes me weird.
But okay, noted.
Wow, you might just say, F you, it's
noted.
You have taught me well, Dvorak.
I know all the tricks, I really do.
I really do.
No, I just, anyway, we're done.
Apology accepted, it's no problem.
But you know, I am kind of your
secretary.
You know, it's like I get all the
emails for you.
You know, Johnson, Johnson, Johnson, Johnson.
Would you please email John?
I like the last, you got one recently,
you forwarded, it said, I'm writing this to
you because I can't spell Dvorak's name.
It's on the website.
It's on every album art.
It says Dvorak and Curry, every single album
art's got my name spelled.
It was the same as the sub stack
from our Wall Street guy, Angel of Smyrna.
And I spelled it five times in the
podcast during the donation segment.
And people like, eh, I went to bingo
.io and I couldn't find it.
Like, no, you didn't.
You're just lazy, you want me to look
up a link for you.
That's what it is.
It's all right.
We do it as a public service.
We do all of this as a public
service and we're happy to.
We're happy to because I would, I could
not imagine doing anything different or with anyone
else, John.
So just so you know, I love doing
this.
Did that come out of the biblical thing
too?
It sure did.
Approach everyone with kindness, gentleness, and love.
There you go.
And with that, I want to thank you
for your courage saying the morning to you,
the man who put the sea in the
cow eggs.
Say hello to my friend on the other
end, the one, the only, Mr. John C.
DeVore!
Yeah, well, in the morning to you, Mr.
Abercrombie, we're going to ship sea boots on
the ground, feed in the air subs, and
we're one of the names of nights out
there.
In the morning to the patrols in the
patrol room.
Let me count you all for a second.
There we go.
Now, just because it's our, we do it
every single, every single show.
What is normal for a Thursday?
Is it 1800?
Thursday, 1800, yeah.
Okay, 2298.
Yeah, that's good.
That's like a low Sunday number.
But you know why?
I wonder what they're going to say about
Runway 33.
Yeah, Runway 33.
Which should be the title of the show.
Runway 33.
Runway 33.
It's kind of, kind of gruesome, and maybe
a little bit too early.
Not necessarily.
A little bit too early for it.
But that is, that is kind of true,
though.
You know, people are so used to the
algo chasers.
You know, it's like, oh, I got to
check in and see what those guys are
saying about it.
Oh, I got to go to the YouTube
and see what Tim Pool's saying.
Oh, what does Megyn Kelly say about it?
By the way, did you see, notice that
Megyn Kelly was at the Kennedy hearing sitting
right behind Sheryl Hines?
No, I didn't see that.
I saw Sheryl.
I didn't see, Megyn was there?
Yes, she was sitting right in the row,
right behind her.
And it was only from, I forgot which
feed I got this from.
Because the feed that you saw on C
-SPAN didn't show it.
But if you went to NBC or somebody
else, you could see her.
She was sitting right there.
And the way the shot was done, it
was like, might as well have been a
shot of Megyn Kelly.
Interesting.
So she was there.
Hmm.
Meanwhile.
Yeah, I thought that was interesting.
All she's talking about is the Ryan Reynolds
wife and that actor dude who she did
the movie with, that they're suing or whatever,
and all kinds of nonsense.
You're talking about Blake Lively?
Yes, Blake, you know about this.
Who cares?
You know, I was going to do a
series of clips for today's show, actually.
Who cares?
But I was going to do, I went
to page six of the post, and they
have this video feed that goes on and
on, and they're talking about this person and
that person.
And I was going to just start clipping
it, because I know you were going to
do the same.
I have never heard of any of these
people.
Well, I saw the movie.
It's quite a good movie, actually.
And Blake Lively is married to Ryan Reynolds.
And by the way, Candace Owens is all,
I mean, it's like, look at the world
around you.
It's like, well, but they're digging, you know
what?
It's their niche.
Let them go.
It's good.
Let them do that.
So they're not cruising around in our lane.
Get out of here.
Get out of here, Megan.
She's a lawyer.
She loves this stuff.
A family lawyer.
Yeah, it's hard not to.
Yeah, she loves this stuff.
Thank you, Trolls, for being here.
Trollroom.io and, of course, the modern podcast
apps.
Go to podcastapps.com with an S and
get one of those, because it has a
lot of benefits, including the live stream when
we go live, which, you know, you can
stick your earbuds in and listen at the
office.
Oh, I'm sorry.
You're working from home.
Even better.
Why don't you just, sorry, I can't work
right now.
I'm listening to the boys, hearing what they're
saying about Runway 33.
It's very important stuff.
Of course, it has all of the fabulous
chapters with art, which Dreb sets up for
us.
You can actually skip around the topics.
Like, yeah, remember they're talking, you want to
play something for someone.
Here, here, here.
This here.
Boom.
Click on it.
Done.
It's good.
I think in this segment, we might as
well read the note from Nestworks.
Yeah, I was going to get to that.
Nestworks won the, and so we're going to,
you jumped the gun a little bit, because
I need to say the words value for
value, because that's how we, how we function
here.
We have no HR department to complain to,
because, you know, it's all value for value.
It's just John, Adam, a little bit of
Mimi, a little bit of Jay, a little
bit of Tina.
Jay is sick, by the way.
We should.
Oh, what's wrong?
Have some, I don't know.
She's got some horrible cold or something.
She can barely talk.
Is it, is she coughing?
Is it her, is it in the chest?
Because there's a lot of.
A little coughing.
Yeah.
Everyone's coughing.
Mimi had something to.
Could be tuberculosis.
You know, there's a lot of that going
around.
That's only in what?
In Kansas, I think.
Is it Kansas?
All right.
Well, good.
Well, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
Feel better, Jay.
She didn't mention it.
She just sent me the spreadsheet and went.
No, she doesn't.
She's not a complainer.
She is not a complainer.
That, she is the best employee we have,
which is great, because she's the only employee
we have.
Yeah, pretty much.
Yeah, she's great.
So, yes, value for value, time, talent, or
treasure, and the artist, and this kind of
falls, flows into a lot of different conversations
we're having, because this was not an AI
artwork piece that we chose for episode, let
me go to it, 1733.
We titled that one Rat Note.
Rat Note, and this was the code that
we uncovered, Cute Winter Boots, and it was
a duck with some cute winter boots, and
it was just the best piece, and there's
no doubt about it.
Before we, I'd read that note from Nestworks,
because Nestworks is the one who did it.
Now, was there anything else that we looked
at that we, that came close for us?
There were a lot of winter boots.
A lot of people tried to do cute
winter boots.
We kind of liked, Comix or Blogger had
a piece that reminded us of Mad Magazine,
which is probably where the original was stolen
from by AI.
What else was there?
Was there anything?
Season of Reveal from Darren O'Neill was
cute, but it was like, eh, you know.
He just takes the same prompt and just
changes the term, and it kind of pops
out that way.
Are you looking at all, or are you
just letting me talk into space here?
You've muted yourself, so we can't hear you.
I'm back.
It's illegal in many states.
No, what happens was when I click on
the art, sometimes if the arrow's in the
wrong spot, it clicks on the other window,
the little arrow.
The little arrow, and you click on the
window.
It mutes me, and then I don't know
until you complain.
Your hand-eye coordination is interesting.
Yeah, no, I was talking about Darren.
Oh, the Season of Reveal, yeah.
Yeah, he's got, I guess, one series of
prompts that developed this particular.
This started off as a circle, and somehow
he squared it.
Yeah, we just said make it a square,
whatever.
And most of the AI stuff was typically
boring.
And my favorite was Peter Knopfhart, who had
the cheerleader, and the pom-poms are hanging
in space like they're stuck to her armpit
hair.
And her arms are very short, if you
look objectively.
Yeah, her arms are short.
It's the worst possible example of AI.
The entropy has set in.
It's obvious.
Because this originally, of course, was a Scaramanga
piece, and now it's just making it worse.
A copy of a copy of a copy
of a copy.
A lot of cute winter boots.
But, yeah, this was good.
I think we even said, is this AI?
Do you think it's AI?
I don't know.
And I think, if I recall, you said
there's probably elements of AI.
However, if we read the note, and this
is a very nice note, and artists will
feel happy about this.
But, Devore, just to say, there's a cute
little thing I didn't notice before, but if
you notice his no agenda, the no is
on the duck hat.
Yes.
As though it was like a logo on
the hat.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's cute.
Yeah, because he's a pro.
Yeah.
Feels awesome to get back on the board.
Show 1733 with cute winter boots.
Just a bit of a back story in
the piece.
I'd originally worked on this duck piece a
couple years ago, pre-AI.
There was a backlash regarding security with DuckDuckGo,
hence the orange circle theme I was going
with, and I wanted to title the piece
DuckDuckNo.
Funny.
I was inspired by the classic cartoon clip
art look and based the piece on a
mallard duck asset from iStockPhoto.
The reason I chose the iStock asset was
because it reminded me of Donald Duck, but
it wasn't Donald Duck as pertained to copyright,
et cetera.
I was working on developing my outline and
brush skills on the iPad in Procreate and
recreated the main duck graphic.
The topic did not get covered on the
show, so I archived the .png graphic I
created for a possible future use.
This is what artists do.
All artists do this.
A friend of mine was a graphic designer,
and he had so many cows, smiling cows,
backed up that if you needed a cow,
whatever cow you wanted, he had them from
years ago.
They archived their work.
When I heard the topic of cute winter
boots on Sunday, I thought it would be
funny to have the duck holding a shotgun,
sporting a trucker's hat, and wearing a pair
of oversized Timberlands.
Cute winter boots.
Using cute winter boots to try to confuse
the algorithm.
You're a quack, LOL.
I modified my original duck graphic in Photoshop,
adding the shotgun, adding the boots asset, modifying
the hands on the rifle, and adding the
text.
I mainly use Photoshop for graphic asset manipulation,
layered art design, and occasionally use a custom
cartoonizer program.
Oh, fake news!
To achieve a unique look and draw out
pieces on my iPad when I have time.
I have not dove, dove, I think, I
did not dive into the world of AI
prompts as of yet.
I dig some of it.
I'm always blown away by Darren Francisco's and
CSB's AI skills.
I think y'all have nailed it in
the art segment.
It still comes down to executing an idea.
Darren is so funny, talented, and creative, it
shines through in his pieces.
Mm-hmm.
Scaramanga is brilliant for boobs.
It's impressive to me that he is...
What?
Yeah, but he's concerned with kind of the
dimensionality and sound, specifically the...
Scaramanga?
Dynamic range.
Oh, the dynamic range.
It's impressive to me that he has created
and cultivated a style, humor, and design look
that when you see a Scaramanga piece, you
know it's a Scaramanga piece.
Good point.
Yeah, tits.
Capitalist's agenda is amazing, and I admire his
drawing skills, creativity, and humorous ideas.
Mike Riley and Roundy, they're gone.
No, Riley posts sometimes as well, when they
decide to post on the Art Generator.
I was initially hit in the mouth approximately
five years ago by my buddy Serdino, the
monkey boy with curly hair.
He gave me some sage advice regarding the
Art Generator.
Here it is.
Sage advice.
Strive to design a piece around a show
subject that you might think will best represent
the show that day, which is exactly what
I tried to do with AI on the
last show, and it came up with garbage.
And he finishes by saying, shout out to
the No Agenda artists who are talented at
creating pieces on the fly during show days.
Tontanil, Kenny Ben, Capitalist's Agenda, Darren O, Scaramanga,
Corrector Records, CSB, Nick the Rat, and many
more.
I enjoy the competition and respect my fellow
NA artists.
I take pride in participating in the V
for V process for the show and always
feel fortunate when honored with a selection.
Also, as a No Agenda artist, it's cool
to check the show chapters in a podcasting
2.0 app and see if a piece
is used.
Hating that y'all have been dealing with
some negativity in reference to the art segment,
I wanted to send some positivity your way.
Love you guys.
Nesswork.
Yeah, there you go.
That is a great note.
That is.
It sums it up completely.
A little long.
A little long.
It's an artist.
They're not writers.
That's just how it is.
They're not writers, man.
They're not writers.
All right.
Now we go to the treasure portion of
the Value for Value, and we want to
thank everybody who supported us with $50 or
above.
And in this case, like every single show,
we stop and give special attention to people
who donate $200 or more.
We give them the title of Associate Executive
Producer, which is a real title.
You can use it anywhere where these are
recognized, these are credits, Hollywood credits, such as
imdb.com.
So we will read your note as well.
$300 or above, and you get an Executive
Producer credit.
Same hold, same applies.
Whoa.
Why did I get a pew?
Valid everywhere.
Hold on a second.
Who is that?
Studio Two Rocks.
Okay.
Let me just mute that.
There we go.
And we start off.
That pew, by the way, is the same
reason I mute the thing by accident.
No, the pew comes from something else.
Hey, we start off with a Rub-A
-Lizer donation.
Here we go.
India.
Hang out.
Mike.
Stand by.
33.
33.
33.
Rub-A-Lizer out.
And this is from the Archduke of Central
Florida.
He says, Rub-A-Lizer donation 333.3.
Wait, 3333.33. It's a massive, massive support
for the show.
Rub-A-Lizer donation from the Archduke of
Central Florida.
Sorry, no $2 bills like Seronomous.
Really appreciate the work you guys put in,
even working on a holiday like Inauguration Eve.
Sure, you had some invites to the balls,
and you didn't go.
There you go.
Should be some interesting activity over the next
couple of years for you to dissect and
deconstruct.
We will be looking forward to it.
No jingles, no karma.
He says, five more years, Archduke of Central
Florida.
All right.
That's a new one, five more years.
Thank you very much.
We appreciate that highly.
Onward.
That was very nice, yes.
Super nice.
Aaron Cole in Watsonville, California, 1111.77, which
is $1,000 plus fees, I'm guessing.
Although that's a lot of fees.
That's a lot of fees.
No, that's over 10%.
That's got to be something else.
Adam and John, listening since 2009, best podcast
in the universe.
Finally time to finish my knighthood and come
in with a big thank you.
First donation was for the 200 Club.
Yeah, the old 200 Club.
Yeah, remember that, the 200 Club, sure.
That was very successful, by the way.
This podcast has been a pillar for information
for years and has been great for me.
The other douchebags that I've been able to
drag along, helping center ourselves in chaos, pulls
immense value.
I'll have Adam's brisket and some bourbon at
the round table.
Do you have any left?
It was a good brisket.
Yeah, I got some left.
Knight name, Sir Aaron Cole of the Strawberry
Fog.
Jingle, if it's not too much.
Well, not with this donation.
Climate Gate with the violin and birds.
WTC7 won't go away.
You're going to die.
P.S. Heading up to get John out
of the house meetup this weekend in the
Bay Area.
I'll see you there.
Looking forward to it.
To the gate, to the gate, to the
climate gate.
WTC7 won't go away.
You might die.
There you go.
Nice sequence.
Thank you.
Earl Christopher is in Marshfield, Wisconsin, and he
sends in 543.21 plus fees, and his
note is awesome, no jingles, no karma.
Thank you very much.
Speedy Bubble in Cholula, Florida.
Speedy Bubble, yes.
Speedy Bubble.
Speedy Bubble.
Adam, this is for the 33rd day sobriety
chip per our email exchange.
Yes.
Please.
Well, yes.
What he said was he wanted to set
up a 33-day sobriety chip.
This is for Nussbaum, our Grand Duke.
Ah, yes.
And he said, you know, I want, and
he didn't put it in his email, but
I think he is donating for the 33
sobriety chip for Nussbaum, so there's your chip,
and you can continue.
What is he talking about?
Well, it's a chip from Alcoholics Anonymous, you
know, the sobriety chip.
I don't know.
You wouldn't know.
Please encourage others to donate in kind.
I also love the 1911 and own more
than one of them.
I'm not familiar with the platypus, but we'll
be inquiring.
You cannot have too many guns.
I can't wait to fire this thing.
It's quite amazing.
Yes.
It was stealth arms.
Yeah.
The platypus.
It's the 380, right?
No, no.
It's a 9 mil, and it takes the
double stack.
Oh, that's right, because it takes 17 rounds.
Yeah.
So you can really do some damage, man.
Sir Digi is in Indianapolis, Indiana, 35093, from
Sir Digi.
Thank you for your courage.
Adam, I was recently baptized.
I want to say that hearing your story
has helped me on my journey to getting
to know Jesus.
Thank you for reminding us that his peace
he left, that his peace he left, reminding
us of his peace, I guess, that he
left with us.
Yes.
And I recommend you look up scriptures on
ChatGPT.
It's good for it.
And ask for the Baptist pastor voice.
Jay Gordon, Chicago, 333.33. In the morning,
John and Adam, please accept this humble treasure
from the mean streets of downtown Chi-town.
Oh, boy.
Incredibly grateful for all you do.
The tips of the day have been almost
as good as Adam not knowing what day
it is.
Adam, being a productive heavy stoner, one of
my favorite pastimes was to get high and
listen to the best podcast in the universe.
You were high.
I was high.
It was great.
When you stopped smoking, I couldn't help but
be a bit bummed, but got over it
quickly, shortly after I was inspired to quit
smoking, and it's now been a full year
since I've taken a puff.
All right.
Congratulations.
You were a big part of that.
Thank you, Adam.
Boots on the ground.
Every night for the past few weeks, there
have been multiple drones flying back and forth
across downtown Chicago, and I'm surrounding, in the
surrounding neighborhood.
Sometimes I will see four of them flying
around in the sky at one time.
I'm writing this email.
I can see, as I write this email,
I can see two.
They're not planes.
You can watch them fly the same path
back and forth for hours.
They likely belong, and then I don't have
anything after that.
That's all I have.
They do.
They likely belong.
Agreed.
They likely belong.
And since this is the donation segment, the
secret donation clip is coming your way.
People who skip over the donation segment miss
all the good stuff.
The Trump administration's explanation about drones over New
Jersey were authorized to be flown by the
FAA for research and various other reasons.
It was disappointing.
I had expected a lot more.
You will see red and green blinking lights.
When they get over you, that's what's confusing
people.
When they get over you, they look like
a small aircraft.
They are fixed-wing drones.
I'm a little bit disappointed in the fact
that the FAA didn't announce this and caused
us to exhort a lot of manpower toward
vetting suspicious activity reports.
Disappointing.
I mean, to have a statement, honestly, it
sounds like it's a cover story because they
had no cover story.
It's disappointing.
It's disappointing when they don't communicate with their
own Federal Bureau of Investigation, the FBI, who
spent hundreds and hundreds of man-hours vetting
through hundreds of phone calls to the TIPS
line.
Mayor Mellum and Monmouth County Sheriff Golden say
they are less concerned about threat but feel
more transparency is needed about exactly what's being
researched and why.
You're flying around in urban areas and densely
populated areas only 100 feet above our homes.
We are concerned, and we deserve to know
what they're doing up there.
So that's an example of a crap report.
Really, really crap.
Because it sounds like these people are disappointed
that, oh, they're not flying saucers, they're not
UFOs.
Here's what the White House press secretary actually
said, short.
And before I turn to questions, I do
have news directly from the president of the
United States that was just shared with me
in the Oval Office from President Trump directly,
an update on the New Jersey drones.
After research and study, the drones that were
flying over New Jersey in large numbers were
authorized to be flown by the FAA for
research and various other reasons.
Many of these drones were also hobbyists, recreational,
and private individuals that enjoy flying drones.
In time, it got worse due to curiosity.
This was not the enemy.
Yes, everyone was excited and flying their drone,
exactly as we posited.
And the research, yeah, there's a base there.
They're flying their fixed-wing drones and doing
stuff.
How crazy was everyone over those drones for
about a week?
They were nuts over it.
Listen to no agenda, people.
We'll calm you down.
Sean Dietrich, Invergrove Heights, Minnesota, 333.33, that's
St. Paul.
Belated birthday donation.
I turned 33 on the 28th.
It seemed like the right time to donate.
Long overdue for a de-douching.
You've been de-douched.
And any 33 drop would be much appreciated.
Thank you, Adam and John, from Sean Dietrich.
33, that's the magic number.
Yes, it's the magic number.
Nelson Ariza, in Lawrenceville, Georgia, 333.
I appreciate what you guys do.
Thank you.
Can I get some Trump Jobs Karma?
And I love my truck.
I'm waiting for your truck.
It's on the other desk.
I have to go get it.
Okay, I'll do the Karma, and you run
like the wind.
Jobs, Jobs, Jobs.
You've got Karma.
The timing is uncanny.
Can you find it?
I love my truck, and I love what
I do.
Cool.
Yeah, I moved it to the right.
Beautiful timing.
It got moved.
It ain't no use to cook it if
you don't use fresh vegetables.
JD is in Elkhorn, Nebraska, 234.56. Nice
sequential number.
With the help of Linda Liu, listen to
this, I started a new job in December.
Wouldn't you know it?
My corner office is Building 33.
Woo!
And this donation takes me to knighthood.
I will be known as Sarcastic the Nomad,
henceforth, given that I can't seem to stay
in one place for long.
Tam-do, Tam-do?
Is it Tam-do?
12-year and lamb chops at the round
table.
Tam-do?
Does that sound right?
I don't know.
I've never heard of Tam-do.
Tam-do sounds like a scotch.
Yes.
A single malt, probably.
Well, that wouldn't be legit.
Jobs, karma, and a stay safe to christen
the occasion.
JD, formerly of Elkhorn, Nebraska.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs.
Yeah!
You've got karma.
Daniel Williams in Mount Shasta, California, right up
the road.
Two-two, which is, yeah, nice area.
Two-two-two-dot-two-two.
Row of ducks for some travel karma for
the...
The Karnowskis?
Karnowskis, Jeans, Williams, and...
Jerrys.
...and Bailey's on the go over the next
few days.
I think it's Karnowkis, Jerrys, Williams, and Bailey's.
Karnowkis, something like that.
All right, here's travel karma for you.
Stay safe.
You've got karma.
And that's an Associate Executive Producer credit for
you, as well for Sir Bates from Bloomington,
Minnesota.
A lot of Minnesota today.
$219.04 is his donation.
He says, no jingles, no karma, no note.
Beautiful.
Good man.
Eli the Coffee Guy in Bensonville, Illinois, $201
.30. You're familiar with his work.
I'm excited for the...
I am.
...Chicagoland No Agenda Meetup at Reggie's in the
South Loop on Saturday, February 1st.
Oh, good.
I've been to a bunch of meetups over
the years, and will affirm that connection is
protection.
I can't wait to hang out with some
awesome people.
Can I...
Bring some bags of coffee and...
...and raffle them off.
There you go.
Raffle them off.
Can I get a goat karma for...
Yeah, that's a good idea.
Can I get a goat karma for good
measure?
And if you haven't tried our coffee, by
the way, visit gigawattcoffeeroasters.com.
You'll be happy you did.
The code ITM for 20% off your
order.
Stay caffeinated.
Eli the Coffee Guy.
Code ITM20 for 20% off your order.
What did I say?
You said code ITM.
It's code Bongino.
Code Bongino is the go-to.
No good, no good.
And he wants some goat karma.
Of course we got that for you, Eli.
You've got...
...karma. And there she is with $200 helping
people get jobs.
We just heard about it.
Linda Lopatkin, Lakewood, Colorado.
And she asked for jobs karma and says,
for a winning resume and a faster job
search, go to imagemakersinc.com.
That's imagemakersinc with a K.
And work with Linda Liu, Duchess of Jobs
and writer of resumes.
Your go-to for all of your executive
resume and job search needs.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs.
You've got karma.
Brian Antoniotti in Pembroke, Massachusetts.
$200.
I put my father onto the show about
a year ago, and he still loves it.
I'm donating on his behalf and would like
to credit this donation.
This is a switcheroo.
Yep, switcheroo.
To my grandmother Lorraine.
Please de-douche her.
You've been de-douched.
She's new to this show, and she's been
enjoying it very much.
I could use a proving the random number
theory.
There it is.
I love my truck jingle.
Give it up for four more years.
I love my truck, and I love what
I do.
And our final associate executive producer, Sir Tim
from Overland Park, Kansas.
$200.
And he says, Adam keeps talking about a
universal ID.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that
what real ID is?
No, it's universal digital ID.
He goes on to say, there are two
alphanumeric sequences on the bottom of my real
ID driver's license that weren't on my old
DL, and I have no idea what they're
for.
It's to target you with a drone.
Also, when I worked as a contractor for
the RTC Savings and Loan bailout in the
early to mid-90s, when contracts came up
to be bid on only minority-owned companies
were allowed to bid, and that was 35
years ago.
So large companies just formed a joint venture
with some minority-owned company and bid on
the contracts using the loophole.
I don't think anything has changed in 35
years, Sir Tim.
That's clear.
And thank you very much for supporting the
show with your treasure.
Thank all of you for supporting us for
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And of course, we'll be thanking everybody who
comes in over $50.
Looking forward to that in our second segment.
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I love my job, and I love what
I do.
Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the
mouth.
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Stay safe!
Shut up, Steve.
I know you don't like it when I
do this, but you filled up the intro
of that jingle with I love my truck
perfectly.
It was tight.
I mean, there are radio professionals around the
world right now going, wow, how do those
guys do it?
You're right.
It was awesome.
That was really good.
I just have to say.
I had it at the ready, waiting for
the moment.
You're right.
Okay, it was planned, perfectly planned.
So I do have some clips that are
unreported in the mainstream media I want to
play because I'll bet you don't.
You know about Mega?
Is that the big guy from New Zealand's
place, Mega?
The Megacorp?
What's his name?
What's the guy?
The German guy?
Yeah, Kim.
Kim.com.
Yeah, that guy.
Nope.
Oh.
No.
I'm not aware.
This Mega, when I heard the story, I
said, this is like literally not being reported
anywhere as though it's not even happening, but
it is.
You'll find out all about it by Unreported
Mega 1.
Conservative movements and politicians rallied in Brussels for
a Make Europe Great Again meeting.
It talked about how European countries could follow
the example of the new Trump administration and
some of its policies.
NTD's international correspondent, David Vives, reports from Brussels.
More than 50 politicians across Europe, mostly members
of parliament, state officials, former ministers, have gathered
today in Brussels.
They rallied under the slogan Make Europe Great
Again.
They said that Trump's victory has empowered conservative
movement across Europe and are envisioning a future
where European policies could follow the path set
by the US president.
Speakers said the Trump administration set an example
to follow.
Up until now, the people have been told,
well, we can't protect our borders.
We can't close our borders.
It's impossible.
We simply can't do it.
Even if we wanted to, it's impossible.
And now, Donald Trump is just, guess what,
I'm just doing it.
So, of course.
And then people will say, well, wait a
minute.
It is possible to do that.
Of course it's possible.
Oh, that's Christine.
Christine Anderson.
Christine, what's her name?
Yeah, I can't remember her name.
Yeah, she's a heavy hitter.
So, Mega, that's interesting.
Yeah, this is not, of course, who wants
to report this?
Because we have to be told, the American
public has to think that Trump is an
international divisive figure.
Do they have red hats?
I didn't see it.
Well, here's an opportunity, people.
This is a noagendashop.com.
Here is a marketing opportunity.
I'm just saying.
Make Europe great again.
Here's clip two of this.
They also say European countries should work to
defend their values and identities.
We need to defend our European civilization, which
is something quite different from just the current
globalist trend.
I want to refer to a very specific
historical, cultural and spiritual identity, and which today
is seriously threatened both by the threat posed
by woke ideology.
We need to find back faith, tradition, also
belief in God.
Trump's diplomacy toward Europe seems to have taken
a different turn from his first term.
Top EU diplomat Kaja Kallas said she invited
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to a
foreign ministers' meeting to strengthen ties, but was
offered no answer.
According to an article published by Politico, President
Donald Trump may prefer to deal directly with
individual state members rather than EU officials.
This potential strain in relations may benefit European
leaders who align their policies on Donald Trump's
approach.
According to President of the Italian think tank
Nazione Futura Francesco Jubilee, EU top officials have
distanced themselves from Trump in the past, which
may explain the situation.
Hmm.
You know what I'm noticing in a lot
of these clips?
God seems to be trending.
Well, God's trending every now and again, but
it was overdue.
Now, there's a couple of other things that
was...
You mean the Third Awakening?
It comes and goes.
They...
I want to mention something else before we
play the last clip, which is that even
though they're not part of Make Europe Great
Again, is that I was thinking about this
because you had me...
You got me watching The Diplomat, which is
a very kind of a woke-ish, but
interesting...
Well-done show.
Very...
The structure of the story is terrific.
I think this is the first time I've
actually got you to watch a show and
stick with it.
It's because it's one of the best-written
shows on television.
Have you seen Landman?
I'm not going to watch Landman or anything
to do with Yellowstone.
It's just too much.
It has nothing to do with Yellowstone.
I'll check Landman out some other time.
But I'm going back to...
That's not the point I'm trying to make.
I'm Diplomat, and then there's this other show,
which is Black Dove, which I, by the
way, had to stop watching it.
We stopped.
We could not last.
No, it's unwatchable.
It is unwatchable.
Only because what's-their-face is in it
that we watched at least two episodes?
Keira Knightley.
Keira Knightley.
But, oh, no, it's horrible.
It's a terrible show.
And then there's The Agency.
Yes.
Now, what do these three shows have in
common?
Spooks.
What else do they have in common?
Gay sex.
I'm just...
Okay, I'm not going to go on and
on.
But what they really have in common is
a kind of a...
I'd say a presentation of the British Empire
as a bunch of screwed-up a-holes.
Yes.
All three shows are about how screwed up
and how crummy the Brits are.
That's a good point.
And this fits right in with Elon Musk
being the hitman for the British Empire.
For Trump going after Keir Starmer, Starmer, Sturmer,
whatever his name is.
The Prime Minister of England.
I think you've identified an important trend here.
This trend is huge.
And what they're doing is they were cutting
off England because...
And I think it's...
These storylines were started long before Trump showed
up and won.
But these storylines began some time ago.
This hatred of England.
We're turning on England for some reason.
I'm not sure exactly what it is.
How about that they stand for everything perpendicularly
opposite to America?
Like freedom of speech.
They're against free speech.
They have all kinds of issues going on
over there.
They're threatening us by saying we're going to
extradite anybody who says anything that we don't
like.
Yep.
Yep.
And Starmer is a creep.
And the fact that he sent people over
to campaign for Kamala Harris is not sitting
well.
And these three shows and I think there's
other shows too that are showing up are
so anti-English.
There is a major movement going on that's
anti-England.
And we should be aware of it.
Well, come to think of it, when's the
last time you saw UK on a spreadsheet?
I haven't seen UK.
They're not donating.
They've left the building.
Oh, that's a good...
You're right.
We've probably been cut off.
We probably can't get our message into the
country.
Hey, get some thumb drives and drop them
off in the UK.
These people need help.
They need help from us.
It's so hard to cover the...
Actually, I have a...
Funny you bring this up.
I have a Prime Minister Question Time clip.
Let's play that right after we get out
of the...
Okay, number three.
Here we go.
The position of the European Union in the
last few years was a position totally against
the Republican Party and a position totally against
Donald Trump.
But now we must have a real politic.
Donald Trump, also if maybe Ursula von der
Leyen or some other people in the European
Union they don't like him, but right now
he's the President of the United States.
So we must talk with him.
He believes Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who
was the only European head of state invited
to Donald Trump's inauguration, could be a leading
figure for Europe.
And having a Prime Minister which can talk
with him in a good relationship like Giorgia
Meloni can be something good for all the
European Union.
Was she there?
Was she at the inauguration?
Did she go?
I don't know.
I think so.
She might have been.
She should have been invited.
She should have been Elon's date.
I'm surprised he didn't walk in.
Or Obama's date for that matter.
She could have been anybody's date.
This is a very interesting trend.
Thank you for identifying this.
This is a very...
Particularly with the Hollywood stuff, because it's all
Hollywood.
It's Netflix really.
Isn't most of this Netflix?
The agency is Showtime.
OK.
Black Doves.
Black Dove and The Diplomat are both Netflix.
Well here's the Prime Minister's question time.
Turning now to the United States.
Can the Prime Minister guarantee that he will
not sell out Britain's fantastic farmers to Donald
Trump in a trade deal that undermines our
high food and animal welfare standards in the
way that the Conservatives sold them out in
the Australia and New Zealand deals?
Can I do it, sir?
Mr. Speaker, we will work with the US.
We will work with other countries, but we
will never lower our standards.
Yeah, we don't want you.
You can have our government cheese.
Yeah, we've got to be anti-England now.
This is interesting.
I know that Ursula...
Once you spot this trend, I think we're
going to start seeing a lot of it.
Well, Ursula has been...
Queen Ursula has really been trying to step
up.
She's like, we're going to reboot everything, but
we're still going to be green.
I was looking at her like, I don't
think so.
And of course, we're also stopping all the...
I so agree with this.
Of course, we need to quickly reinstate things
that are killing people, but the withholding all
foreign aid is kind of cool.
It's like, let's just stop for a second
and see what everybody thinks when we shut
down, which hopefully, well actually, it brings us
a rare Africa news clip.
Hundreds of aid programs are on edge after
U.S. President Donald Trump paused trillions of
dollars in federal spending, domestic and foreign.
The global impact of U.S. foreign aid
is massive.
It funds programs fighting disease, malnutrition and human
trafficking, security programs and aid for pregnant women
and babies.
Three million lives a year are saved just
from U.S. aid funded immunization programs.
The White House says Trump ordered the freeze
to root out any funding that isn't consistent
with his agenda.
So what does this pause mean?
It means no more funding for illegal DEI
programs.
It means no more funding for the green
new scam that has cost American taxpayers tens
of billions of dollars.
It means no more funding for transgenderism and
wokeness across our federal bureaucracy and agencies.
Initially, only emergency food programs and military aid
to Israel and Egypt were exempt from the
foreign aid pause.
But after international uproar, Secretary of State Marco
Rubio granted a waiver to continue funding humanitarian
programs that provide life-saving medicine, medical services,
food, shelter and subsistence assistance.
Still, many organizations are unclear whether they are
allowed to operate and worry about losing staff
and infrastructure.
Trump's order is being challenged in U.S.
courts, and Tuesday, a judge temporarily blocked the
directive.
The White House says it will defend the
funding freeze, and this fight is likely to
go all the way to the Supreme Court.
This is how a businessman thinks, like, okay,
let me shut it all off, let's see
who comes crying first, and we'll evaluate on
a first-come, first-served basis.
It's, I mean, it sounds cruel, but it
is our money.
Yeah, I think the clip I have, which
includes this screwy one, this is the one
that's unfortunately, it's smudged, but it's the one
that has condom bombs in the title.
Yeah.
Yes, I have it here.
And during the signing ceremony today, President Trump
also announced a new order to send up
to 30,000 illegal immigrants, or what he
calls worst of the worst, to Guantanamo Bay.
And President Trump's borders are Tom Homan, talking
to us on the White House campus this
afternoon, told us that that's already actually expanding
an existing migrant center at Guantanamo.
Detained the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the
American people.
Some of them are so bad, we don't
even trust the countries to hold them.
The significant public safety threats, we can fight.
We're doing it.
We're already doing it.
We identified and stopped $50 million being sent
to Gaza to buy condoms for Hamas.
$50 million.
And you know what's happened to them?
They've used them as a method of making
bombs.
What?
You haven't heard this?
No.
They make bombs out of condoms?
They use the bombs as some sort of
like a balloon, and then they hang some,
you know, explosive off a bunch of them,
and then they fly them over.
That's what they say.
I mean, it just is news to me
of condom bombs.
If it's condoms, that's a lot of rubber
that you're sending over there, $50 million.
I don't know what they cost.
It's been a while.
Well, that number changes from $50 million to,
and I've heard, $15 million, so I don't
know.
Well, Christy Noem is our new secretary of
the Department of Homeland Security.
Before you discuss this, if you listen to
that last clip when they're talking about opening
up Gitmo for $30,000 and sending people
there, she said, very subtly, and I caught
it, she says, we already are.
Oh, sending people to Gitmo?
Yeah, I think that's a secret that she
dropped.
But anyway, go on.
Well, I very much enjoyed her talking about
my favorite topic, which is the NGOs, which
is, and she actually explains how she, whether
it's true or not, incorrectly thought, you know,
NGOs are doing good things, you know, it's
nonprofit, it's good for people, and these are,
of course, in some cases, billion-dollar organizations
run, sadly, run by many faith-based organizations,
like the Catholic Bishops Conference, which, I don't
know if there's a Catholic or a bishop
actually in the organization, but it's a money
-making scheme, and it's hundreds of millions, if
not billions of dollars, and she lays it
out as we've cut it all off.
Madam Secretary, I don't think people fully understand
the role that NGOs play, many NGOs play,
in facilitating illegal immigration.
I just want to share these numbers with
everybody up on the screen.
We spend over $380 million, did in 2024,
for sheltering and service programs for illegal immigrants.
But the vast network of NGOs that help
facilitate it through Panama, through Mexico, and make
it a landing spot here in the United
States is a massive contributor here to illegal
immigration.
So what you're telling us today is that
now stops?
At least the federal funding of that stops?
Yes, through the Department of Homeland Security, we
have stopped spending those dollars to fund those
NGOs, and well, what's been so revealing is
that many of these NGOs actually have infrastructure
and operations set up in Mexico, on that
side of the border that are telling those
illegal immigrants to come to them, and they
will get them across the border.
So they're not just operating in the United
States, they're operating outside of the United States
to help make it easier for those who
want to break our laws.
And while I was one of those Americans
that years ago, when somebody said NGO to
me, I thought, oh, that's amazing.
That's a non-profit that's out there telling
somebody about Jesus, or spreading faith and salvation,
or doing good work and charitable work, helping
people that are less fortunate, and then I
realized over the years it's been perverted into
this shadow government.
An NGO is sometimes an operation that does
things that the government cannot do, can't legally
do, so they create an entity to use
government dollars, taxpayer dollars, to do something that
the federal government isn't allowed to do, to
do a shadow government operation that really has
been used recently to undermine our country's national
security.
Yeah.
This is, I mean, wow, how long have
we been talking about this since Obama days?
Since Obama days.
And of course, with the president, new president,
we have to set the doomsday clock again.
We've been tracking the doomsday clock for many
years, and of course I keep track of
these clips.
This is the doomsday clock in Trump 1.
The board concludes in no uncertain terms that
words matter in ensuring the safety and security
of our planet.
They are not the same as actions, but
they matter a lot, especially when the risks
of accident and miscalculation are so high.
The first has been the cavalier and reckless
language used across the globe, especially in the
United States during the presidential election and after,
around nuclear weapons and nuclear threats.
And the second is a growing disregard of
scientific expertise, expertise that is needed when it
comes to responding to pressing global challenges, including
climate change.
The board takes the unprecedented step, the first
time in our four-minute history of moving
the clock hand 30 seconds closer to midnight.
Today we move the clock a half minute
closer to midnight.
It is now two and a half minutes
to midnight.
So that was, sorry about that channel loss
there, two and a half minutes to midnight
in 2017.
We go back to the last time we
honestly pulled the clip, the doomsday clock in
2023.
Now they call it the doomsday clock and
it symbolizes just how close humanity is to
self-annihilation.
The closer the clock gets to midnight the
more danger we're all in.
Well the sad news is that a couple
of factors have resulted in that doomsday clock
advancing by 10 seconds, meaning we're now just
90 seconds to midnight.
So we went from two and a half
minutes through Trump and Biden somehow to 90
seconds in 2023.
And boy, here is today's announcement.
It's a shocker.
It is the determination of the Science and
Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic
Scientists that the world has not made sufficient
progress on existential risks threatening all of humanity.
We thus move the clock forward.
Any move towards midnight should be taken as
an indication of extreme danger and an unmistakable
warning.
This is the closest the world has ever
been to midnight.
So what do you think they moved it
to?
It was 90 seconds to midnight in 2023.
What do you think they moved it to?
I know what they moved it to but
the question in my mind is where are
all these intermediate steps between the 2017?
We must be missing clips.
No, no.
I don't think they've I don't think they
did it in those years.
During Biden?
No.
I mean, I looked at all our clips.
The thing is, the photo, I think it's
8 seconds now.
No, no.
They moved it one second to 89 seconds.
Oh, is it 89?
One second.
They show a picture of the clock and
these two scientists and these two scientists, especially
the guy on the right, if anyone can
find this photo.
He looks like just a depressed sad sack
character.
It's like you look at it and say
this guy, they're not going to make the
90 seconds.
I mean, this is pathetic.
What's so odd is that these guys are
the organization of nuclear or atomic scientists and
you heard in that 2017 clip oh, it's
about...
Climate change.
It's all about climate change.
Listen to the rest.
Arms control treaties are in tatters and there
are active conflicts involving nuclear powers.
The world's attempts to deal with climate change
remain inadequate.
In nuclear powers and climate change.
As most governments fail to enact the financing
and policy initiatives necessary to halt global warming.
Financing.
You bet.
Advances in an array of disruptive technologies, including
biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and in space have far
outpaced policy, regulation, and a thorough understanding of
their consequences.
All of these dangers are greatly exacerbated by
a potent threat multiplier.
Yeah, to take it one second closer to
midnight.
Please.
The spread of misinformation, disinformation, and conspiracy theories
that degrade the communication ecosystem and increasingly blur
the line between truth and falsehood.
Yes, we've broken the messaging system.
The only effective response is for nations to
work together.
Ah, globalism.
Which is why it is so alarming that
President Trump has signaled his intention to withdraw
from the Paris Agreement.
In this crucial year for climate action, we
urge all other signatories to double down and
reaffirm their commitment to meeting the Paris goals.
So, that only lost us one second?
Eh.
It doesn't seem so bad.
I mean, considering it was two and a
half minutes in 2017.
Well, there's time.
You know, 2017 to today, there's a lot
more time.
I mean, this clock doesn't make any sense.
No.
No.
No kidding.
No kidding.
This is such a stupid thing.
Climate.
I'm so sick of it.
Is everyone else sick of this?
Is anyone sick?
No.
I think you've taken this optimistic attitude about
being sick of stuff.
Yeah.
And fed up.
And everybody knows.
And all this other stuff.
Which is, it's a joke.
What?
Climate change is a joke?
Or?
No.
No.
Your attitude, as if this is like everyone's
noticing, is not.
You're inaccurate.
Nobody is picking.
I mean, we're a small niche of people
that have a clue.
All the listeners, the producers of this show,
I'd say we have a clue, but they're
all susceptible to being pulled away from it
by the mainstream media, which is still lying
to them.
No.
I think the mainstream media is over.
It's done.
It's toast.
It's no more.
You can say that all you want.
I will.
And I want, and I will continue to
say it.
Yes, you will.
Because it's true.
It's Joe Rogan.
That's it.
It's all we need.
It's all Joe Rogan.
I'm going to shut down the whole podcasting
business.
I think you're going to be on the
Rogan show pretty soon.
Again, after a two-year hiatus.
I wasn't going to mention anything.
Oh, I'm sorry I did.
Was it going to be a surprise?
Yeah, I wanted everyone to be astounded.
The reason why I wasn't going to say
anything is because of the TJs.
What's that?
The Tell Joes.
Oh.
Hey man, tell Joe, tell Joe that Bitcoin
is the way to go.
Hey man, tell Joe he's got to get
in with Jesus.
Hey man, tell Joe, tell Joe, tell Joe.
I get a lot of that.
But thanks.
I'm going to send a message out to
everybody.
Do not send Adam any suggestions as to
what to tell Joe.
You want to tell Joe something?
He's got an ex-Twitter account.
He's got his name Joe Rogan.
Just send him a note right there on
the Twitter.
Tell him yourself.
Tell Joe.
It's really amazing.
People are excited.
I understand.
People are just excited.
One of our own is going on.
Yes.
It's been on before two or three times.
You're like a regular.
This will be my fifth time.
But it's been two years.
It's been a very long time.
So it's not really regular.
It's regular enough.
I keep getting bummed for Trump, Vance, Musk.
I'm sure there was no one available.
You are at best the reliable substitute.
Tony Randall, Regis Philbin.
Exactly.
I'm perfect.
The Joan Rivers.
There he comes.
Who didn't show up?
Oh God, call Adam.
As we I guess are in the season
of reveal.
The CIA has come out with some.
I didn't clip this.
I got it from CBS because we need
to take a medical approach to this story
with Dr. Celine Gounder.
Wasn't Dr. Celine the one who lost her
husband, who died during the sporting event, died
suddenly?
I think she is.
Well, we don't know.
China said today that it's quote extremely unlikely
that COVID-19 came from one of its
laboratories two days after the CIA said the
virus may have begun to spread after an
accidental leak from a research facility.
The agency's finding is not the result of
any new intelligence.
The report was done during the Biden administration
and then declassified and released Saturday on the
orders of new CIA director John Ratcliffe.
The CIA does however acknowledge it has quote
low confidence in its own conclusion.
Dr. Celine Gounder is here with me now
in Studio 57.
She's a CBS News medical contributor and editor
-at-large for public health at KFF Health
News.
Editor-at-large!
So why has the CIA shifted its stance
toward this?
And remind us what the other possibilities were.
I mean, I remember only a few years
ago, the wet market in Wuhan.
Why that maybe isn't the prevailing theory anymore
for the CIA?
She doesn't even remind us, you just did
it.
John Ratcliffe, who's the new head of the
CIA, has long thought that COVID was the
result of a lab leak.
Again, this is not the result of any
new intelligence per se, but really how people
synthesize, analyze, and weigh the existing evidence.
But I think it's also important to emphasize
that the confidence that the FDA, or excuse
me, the CIA has in this assessment is
low confidence.
And so I think, big picture, we still
really don't know and we may never really
know where COVID emerged from.
What kind of analysis is she giving?
What?
We may never know.
We may never know.
Well, let's talk about the theories.
What is the lab leak theory?
Again, just catch us up to speed.
The idea being that there may have been
an accident in a lab where scientists were
working on COVID or COVID-like viruses, perhaps
mutated at some point to become COVID.
And in fact, there are different theories about
even which lab.
You have the Department of Energy that thinks
it was from the Wuhan Center for Disease
Control.
You have the FBI, which has said with
moderate confidence that they think it comes from
the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The CIA has not said which lab they
think it came from, but they think it
might have come from a lab.
So there's a lot of still, even within
the intelligence community, conflicting opinions about where this
came from.
And Wuhan being where the first cases were
discovered.
Exactly.
She's such a stooge, man.
What a stooge.
A stooge for who?
Well, let's listen.
What does it tell you that these agencies
don't even agree?
Well, you know, there's also disagreement with the
medical and public health and scientific community.
I think some of this is a result
of, we focus on different kinds of information.
So intelligence agents are going to focus on
what are emails and telephone calls that they
can intercept satellite imagery, those kinds of information.
Whereas we as scientists will look at the
genomics of the virus, how it's mutating, at
what pace over time.
Can you find a bat that has a
close ancestor of COVID?
Can you find direct evidence in the lab
that they were tinkering with the genetics of
similar viruses?
Yes.
So we just weigh these things slightly differently
and have a different perspective as a result.
So your question is, you know, stooge for
who?
Well, maybe this clip will answer.
It's the last one.
Does it make you worry that if we
may never know?
Are you worried?
How are we going to prevent the next
one?
I mean, yes, it is important to be
prepared.
We know that we need more PPE stocked
up just in case something happens.
But the ultimate goal for finding the origin
is to make sure we never have to
live in times where refrigerated morgues are parked
on the street.
Well, I think it depends.
Refrigerated morgues are parked on the street.
You remember that?
Oh, yeah, because yeah, well, and she's laughing
about it because she knows it's a scam.
Yes.
Finding the origin is to make sure we
never have to live in times where refrigerated
morgues are parked on the street.
Well, I think it depends.
I think for some people, it's important to
know how it emerged because they want retribution.
They want to maybe revenge.
And, you know, I think it depends on
your perspective.
Accountability.
Code.
Code for Trump.
Yes.
The scientific community, public health community, we just
want to prevent the next big one.
We're not really focused on the past.
We're more about, okay, how do we prevent
this in the future?
And I did have a conversation recently with
Admiral Brett Giroir around this.
As many may remember, Giroir was the COVID
testing czar under Trump in 2020, and we
talked a bit about how do you prevent
something like this from happening again?
Is wastewater that kind of early warning system
that might alert us that there has been
a lab leak from one of these BSL
-4 labs?
Yeah, absolutely.
Wastewater monitoring is an outstanding way to monitor
any geography at a given time for the
organisms of your choice.
And so it certainly could be used as
an early warning system for a lab leak
or a natural epidemic.
So we want to be preventing, whether it's
a lab leak or it's a wet market
in Wuhan, we want to be preventing these
things from happening again.
And what we talked about was could you
use wastewater testing, for example, right outside one
of these high-tech BSL-4 labs that
work with dangerous pathogens?
If you have a lab leak, you would
see it in the wastewater.
If you have a lab leak outside of
a wet market, you would see it in
the wastewater.
So can we be more targeted in that
way?
Interesting.
Just stick a dipstick in my septic and
let me know what's in my wastewater.
I should mention, by the way, we have
wet markets around here.
We have them in San Francisco, Chinatown.
Yeah, and they're all Trump voters now, I
hear.
It could be.
But the wet market, I want to explain
to people what a wet market is in
so far as Chinatown is concerned because there's
been a big scandal.
Oh, they're a wet market.
They have a wet market and it's like
ground zero, the next virus coming from San
Francisco wet market.
What is it?
Do you know what?
I'm going to explain what a wet market
is, but do you have any idea what
a technically a wet market is?
Yes, that's where you have greasy, grimy, dead,
pussy bats that people sell to other people
to eat in Chinatown.
Yeah.
So a wet market in Chinatown, which is
quite kind of a funny thing to visit,
is a it's like a store and inside
they have tanks and tanks and tanks of
live fish, live lobsters, live everything wet.
They're living beings and so you have this
whole place that's just filled with wet it's
wet.
Why is it called a wet market?
No one ever explains this.
Because of water.
Because of water and so you go in
there and the thing that happens, they're getting
bent out of shape about this, but I
remember when I was in college or even
in high school that this was going on.
You go into the wet market in Chinatown
and you go in and there's a big
giant tank full of fish.
Whatever fish it is.
Catfish, let's say.
And you see a fish and you say,
I want that fish.
And by the way, there is a the
equivalent of a similar wet market, only it's
not wet, of poultry that's run by a
Muslim group in Oakland and you do the
same thing there.
You see the live fish, you point at
it and they say, okay, and this is
how you get fresh fish.
They pull it out of the tank and
then club it in front of you as
the fish is flopping around, they're clubbing it
with a big club.
And the fish sometimes falls on the ground
and they're clubbing away and it's nightmarish.
And so that's a wet market.
Now they and you witness this, you get
to see these guys clubbing away.
And how hungry are you after that, for
eating this fish after you've seen it clubbed
like a baby seal?
This is the damnedest thing you've ever seen,
by the way.
Oh, this is cruelty, and so they made
a big fuss about the wet market.
And so I don't know how many of
these are left but in Oakland they've got
this Muslim thing, Butler and I both Oh,
you still see Butler?
No, I know, it just goes back because
Butler started using this place almost exclusively for
his poultry.
And it depends on the time of the
year, but they have turkeys, they got ducks,
they got geese, depends.
Sometimes they have geese, which is really excellent.
You go in there, there's all these cages,
tons of cages, all these animals, and you
point one out and some guy sticks his
hand in there, grabs him by the neck,
takes him, they don't club him in front
of you, they take him into the back,
chops their head off and dress him, and
you come out with a perfectly dressed you
know, goose or a duck or a chicken.
I'm still kind of hung up on the
clubbing of the fish.
Yeah, the clubbing of the fish.
It's quite the sight, believe me.
Can they just chop his head off or
shoot him?
No, they club him.
Shoot him.
They don't shoot him either.
No, they club him, and it's the damnedest
thing you've ever seen.
But what is the benefit to clubbing?
Does that, uh, does that, I mean...
It stuns them.
I don't know, it's cheap, low, best price.
I mean, it's the easiest way to do
it, I don't know.
The things I even learn on this show,
it is amazing.
I can't wait.
Hey, kids, guess where this fish was an
hour ago.
Swimming happily in this tank until I had
him clubbed.
Nice.
Yeah.
Um, just one more big farmer thing.
Did you see, this was making the rounds,
I thought it was probably important to play
this TikTok video from a singer named Avery?
Oh yes, poor Avery.
Yeah, with the pink hair.
Yeah, do we know Avery?
Do we know any person?
I've never heard of her, but she sure
is mournful.
Hold on, let me see Avery.
Music, one more second.
She's British, I believe.
No, I don't think so.
Well, I know she doesn't have a British
accent, but I think she's maybe popular.
Is her name Avery Anna?
Let me see, music.
Somebody in the troll room should know.
No, no one in the troll room knows
her.
Avery, let's see, Avery.
I can't even find something.
Anyway, Avery.
So here she is with a very, very
sad story.
I just left the doctor's office.
I went to get a checkup because I've
been off of Ozempic for two months now
and I just wanted to see if my
body was in better condition, if there were
any permanent damages.
Kind of in shock right now because I
wasn't expecting this, but I guess Ozempic can
cause bone density loss and I didn't think
that that would happen to me because I
was only on it for a year, but
I have significant bone loss.
I have osteoporosis and osteopenia.
I don't know, there's like several of them
that I have.
I wasn't expecting that, but that's what happens
if you use Ozempic for weight loss and
you lose too much weight.
This is horrible.
I have a song by Avery.
Let's see, let's get to the hook.
Okay.
No, don't need to hear that.
That's very sad.
Don't talk about that.
That was the only Ozempic information I got
this week and it was from Avery and
that was just very sad.
I think it's probably been taken down.
President Trump announced the Iron Dome.
Very excited about that.
Very excited.
We're going to be safe.
We're going to be very safe from hypersonic
missiles, anything that Russia can throw at us.
Too bad for those Europeans, though.
They're not...
Mark was out trying to get people to
pony up again, spreading fear.
Mr. NATO, Rutte.
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte warned Russia was
trying to destabilize countries in the alliance as
he called on members to increase defense spending.
Rutte spoke at a joint briefing alongside Portuguese
Prime Minister Luis Montenegro as he visited Lisbon
on Monday.
We also know that the goal of 2
% now set a decade ago will not
be enough to meet the challenges of tomorrow.
Not enough.
The threat from Russia may seem distant, but
let me assure you, it is not.
Russian ships and long-range bombers menace the
Portuguese coast.
Portugal's vital undersea infrastructure is squarely in Russia's
sights.
During the press conference, Rutte also addressed recent
cable ruptures in the Baltic Sea, saying NATO
was operating alongside allies to enable a fast
and coordinated response.
Yeah, OK.
Bombers.
The bombers, they've got bombers.
They're getting your cables.
So very, very scary.
It is so scary.
So scary, so scary.
Do you have any thoughts on the Federal
Reserve not cutting rates while the European Central
Bank did cut rates by 20 or 25
basis points?
The market didn't like it, but no, I
have no thoughts on it.
It should raise rates the way that the
economy's doing so well.
Well, that's not what the President wants.
He's mad.
No, of course not, because you jack up
everything if you lower the rates.
He's mad.
Overheat.
No, no, he wants the rates to go
down.
Yeah, I know he does, because it makes
him look good.
Oh, OK.
There's that.
I have the Trump legal update, but that's
kind of boring.
I do have Robert Menendez, I guess, was
thrown in the slammer.
Eleven years.
Eleven years.
That guy was so corrupt.
But I do have an idiot on TikTok,
which I think is the book I want
to play.
I was looking for a way to get
out of here.
OK.
Idiot on TikTok.
TikTok idiot.
Talk idiot.
I think it's really funny that I have
to explain political vendettas and retribution to you,
because it's all I've been hearing about for
the last eight years, is how your guy,
everyone else has it out for him.
But unlike your guy, who thinks that everybody
has it out for him, he absolutely has
it out for other people.
We're going to have to pay double for
coffee, because he's pissed at the president of
Colombia because he didn't want to take Mexicans
that he wanted to deport to Colombia because
they were brown.
Your guy specializes in vendettas.
So yes, Biden pardoned his loved ones because
he doesn't want to see them drugged through
the mud by a sociopath.
Dad.
Man, I'm surprised you didn't get the Selena
Gomez.
I don't understand her.
She's crying and bawling over what?
Her people.
She's Italian.
She's Italian?
Her mom's Italian and her dad, I think,
is Mexican.
She's from Texas.
She's from Texas, yeah.
She got nothing but grief.
She had to take it down.
She took the post down.
And she's going to eat it for that.
She's a billionaire.
She's on the list.
Do you really think she's a billionaire?
No, I don't.
But she's on the list.
She's not starving to death, that's for sure.
Perfect.
Guess who's also not a billionaire?
Us!
However, we do have people who like what
we do.
They like the value they get from the
show, and they like sending value back to
us, and we appreciate it.
Here is the supporters, donors, value returners for
Episode 17, $34.50 and above.
Yes, starting with Reneade 6 in Caldwell, Texas.
This is a switcheroo for Sparkles of Chaos.
Sparkles!
For her 30th birthday.
133.33 Harry Pilgrim in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
An oldie but a goodie.
Our good old Harry.
He's been around for a while.
Harry's been around for a while.
131.91 And this is celebrating 34 years
of marriage to a smoking hot redhead named
Jennifer.
Nice.
Michael Formanek in Maple Grove, Minnesota.
124.33 Ash in Texas and Flower Mound,
Texas.
Flower Mound.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
Flower Mound's a burial site.
I didn't know this.
Actually, I did know.
I think I've seen it.
Yeah, it's a big mound.
It's like, what's that?
It's a burial site.
Yeah, I've seen it.
It's like a hill.
Kurt Binney in Saint-Lazare, Quebec, Canada.
110.
That's a birthday call-out.
Bronwyn Dawes.
Bronwyn Dawes in New South Wales, Australia.
105.35 That could be 200.
Not quite.
Jason Marrerer in Vancouver, Washington.
$100.
Best place in the world.
Anonymous in Columbus, Ohio.
100.
Daniela Pompo in Los Angeles, California.
100.
Good job, guys!
She writes.
Sir Scott and Dame Elizabeth in Gardner, Kansas.
100.
That's another happy birthday.
This is a switcheroo for Brother Ken.
A switcheroo for Ken.
Amy Gelinas.
Gelinas, Gelinas in Bureau in Washington.
You all have been there if you've been
to the airport.
$100.
Alexander Bell.
Opelika, Alabama.
8888.
Sir Fast Eddie in Alameda.
8008.
Kevin McLaughlin in Concord, North Carolina.
Continues with the 8008.
Unbroken streak.
Unbroken streak.
For years now.
Years.
Years.
Show after show after show.
Donation is the Archduke of Loon, the Love
of American Boots.
He's gotta be moved up from Archduke by
now.
What is above Archduke?
Grand Duke.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Yes, Grand Duke.
Then we'd have to have a jingle.
Someone's gonna have to do the math on
this.
Jorge Alvarez in Ponte Verde Beach, Florida.
7171.
That is sometimes pronounced George.
Or Jorge.
Craig Kohler in Evansville, Indiana.
6502.
Which is a chip.
I'm the only one who can say it.
Nobody wants to donate 6502.
No one cares about your chip.
The original chip in the Apple II.
The Donnellys in up Lamoore, UK.
There it is.
There it is.
Our one UK donor.
Yeah, you're right.
6354.
33, I'm gonna read the note then.
33 is the magic number.
My smoking hot husband and I just bought
a house and I based the house purchase
price on the 33 theory and it worked.
Well, here it is.
Keep reading.
Here's the 5333 pounds.
No, she says, I promised to myself that
if we bought the house, I would donate.
Not quite sure how that works.
Yeah, she wrote that right there.
I left it out.
She's in Scotland.
Scotland.
Doesn't count.
Jamie Buell in Vista, California.
6006.
Norman Wetz in Kailua, Kona.
Hawaii.
5798.
Mahala.
Michael Eger Eger Eger Eger in North Bethesda,
Maryland.
5747.
57.
And he's got a note there about the
meetup coming up.
The Outer Swamp meetup.
Next meetup, Thursday, February 13th, 6 o'clock.
Java Nation in Rockville.
Says, it's noteworthy how many dudes named Ben
attend these events.
Of course.
that's near Spooksville.
Spooks.
State of Spooks.
Dame Tracy and Sir Canebrake in St. George,
Louisiana.
5510.
John Matero in Media, Pennsylvania.
5377.
The Shouts to Billy and Spud.
Kevin Adam in Clover, South Carolina.
5272.
Rebecca Hooper in Pinehurst, North Carolina.
5272.
She likes the newsletter.
No, she loves the newsletter.
She loves the newsletter.
And she says it brings your readers joy.
Tom, it's because of the memes.
Which, another thing Adam hates.
I don't hate them.
I hate bad, oh, okay, fine.
I hate them.
You're right, I hate them all.
There you go.
Now you're being honest with yourself.
Look it up.
Thomas Key in Lansing, Kansas.
5272.
Eric Hochul.
This guy's been with us forever.
He's in Bouleros, Deutschland.
Yes.
$52.
And now we go to the $50 donor
starting with Richard Gardner, who I believe is
in New York.
No.
Richard, I think.
Oh no, yeah, Richard.
Andrew Richard?
I'm not sure.
He might be.
Aaron Weisgerber in Bend, Oregon.
John Taylor in Florissant, Colorado.
Bobby Bowe in Bluegrass, Iowa.
Leif Thompson in Meridian, Idaho.
David Asari in West Hollywood, California.
Josh Kwa in St. Catherine's, Ontario, Canada.
Do you see if there's anything in there
we need?
Yeah, I'll read it because it was a
$75 Canadian.
Listen to that math, huh?
I'm only able to send you a small
donation.
I'm hoping you guys will wish my brother
Nicholas a happy 24th birthday at some point
on the Thursday, January 30 show.
To say he's been an avid fan of
yours is an understatement.
He's been a dedicated listener, rarely missing an
episode since the early COVID days.
He got me into the show several months
ago, and I myself become a huge fan.
Excuse me.
I should have hit the cough button.
He's the best brother a guy can ask
for, even though he's younger by age.
I find myself looking up to him often.
Keep on rocking our socks off twice a
week, Adam and John, and happy birthday, Nick.
Onward with Joshua Johnson in Omaha, Nebraska, and
last on our list is good old Dame
Rita.
She's always there from Sparks just outside of
Reno, Nevada.
$50, and that concludes our list of producers,
well-wishers, and people we have to thank
for show 1734 because they've done a good
job of keeping us going.
Yes, they have.
We appreciate you so much.
Thanks to everybody who came in under $50
for reasons of anonymity, because we will not
read any of those, and several of those,
of course, are sustaining donations.
Consider doing that no matter what you donate.
Any amount, any frequency, it's all up to
you.
It is all value for value.
NoahJennerDonations.com It's your birthday, birthday of Noah
Jenner Sean Dietrich turned 33 on the 28th.
We say happy birthday to him.
Renegade6 wishes sparkles of chaos a happy one
for today.
Kurt Binney is celebrating today, and my buddy
Jimmy Pruitt here in Fredericksburg, also celebrating his
birthday.
Sir Scott and Dame Elizabeth wish their brother
Ken a happy one, turned 61 on the
30th.
Happy birthday to Dr. Ken and Sammy celebrating
their 60th anniversary today, and they never had
a fight.
And finally, Joshua Kwa wishes his brother Nicholas
a happy birthday.
He turns 24 today as well.
Happy birthday for everybody here at the Best
Podcast in the Universe.
It's your birthday, yeah!
Two knights to bring up on stage, on
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Here you go.
Very nice one.
That's the Mother of Pearl handle.
I like that.
Aaron Cole and J.D. step on up.
Both of you are about to come knight
to the Noah Jenner Roundtable.
I am very proud to pronounce the K
.D. as Sir Aaron Cole of the Strawberry
Fog and Sarcastic the Nomad.
You asked for specifics at the Roundtable.
I have them here for you.
Brisket and some bourbon.
Tam-do 12-year-old and lamb chops.
In case you want it, we've got hookers
and blow-ring boys and Chardonnay.
We also have cowgirls and coffin varnished.
Rubenesque women and rosé, geishas and saké, vodka,
vanilla, bonhits and bourbon, sparkling cider and escorts,
ginger ale and gerbils.
This is a favorite.
Best milk and pabulum or the mutton and
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It's always here for all of our knights.
Thank you very much for supporting us.
The amount's aggregate.
Doesn't matter how long it takes you.
Once you get there, you get that beautiful
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Go to NoAgendaRings.com You can see them
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And please send us your ring size, the
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Once again, welcome to the Roundtable, our two
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No Agenda Meetup!
That's right.
Connection is protection.
If you go with an attitude of gratitude,
you will find out that the people at
the meetups are your first responders in an
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They are producer-organized and you can find
all of them at NoAgendaMeetups.com This is
where we see that today the North Georgia
Monthly Meetup takes place at 6 o'clock
at Cherry Street Brewing in Alpharetta, Georgia.
Saturday, to the Best of My Ability Meetup,
2 o'clock at Reggie's at Reggie's in
Chicago, Illinois.
That's a good one.
And we do want reports.
We didn't get any reports for today's show,
which is kind of disappointing.
Then on Saturday, oh, it's the Get John
Under the House Meetup 6.0 in Northern
Silicon Valley at 3.33 p.m. Club
Mallard, Albany, California.
It's a home game for you, John.
Everybody will be expecting you to show up.
Oh yeah.
And bring your kids.
They may or may not.
They're probably still going to be sick.
No.
No.
Yeah, that's no good.
Is Mimi coming?
No, Mimi's not there.
She's up in North right now.
Also on Saturday, in case you're not in
Northern Silicon Valley, Dayton, Ohio, search for the
actual tinfoil Meetup 5.30 in Dublin Pub,
Dayton, Ohio.
And on our next show day, Sunday, Too
Many Kegs!
I see what you did there.
3.30 at McGillin's Old Ale House in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Organized by your local 76.
These are just a few of the meetups
that are available at knowagendameetups.com.
I'm looking down the list if we have
any international.
We have Ottawa on the 22nd of February.
Safenim in the Netherlands, March 29th.
There's too many to mention.
Go to knowagendameetups.com.
That's where you can find all of them.
If you can't find one near you, start
one yourself.
It's easy and always a party.
Goodness gracious.
Goodness gracious.
That's right.
Do I have another one?
Yes, this one here.
That was really cool.
Come on, those are all good.
I think only one of them is good,
and that was goodness gracious.
The other two were negative about the show.
I didn't like that.
I only have two.
And they're very positive.
One is more than good.
More than good for a podcast.
You're killing me with these.
These are so good.
This is more than good as an ISO.
For a podcast.
And then the best.
This is simply the best anyone can do.
More than good for a podcast.
You just win with that.
Yeah, it's a winner.
I can't beat that.
Here we go, everybody.
It's time once again for the famous John's
tip of the day.
The JCD.
And sometimes Adam.
Created by Dana Brunetti.
Everyone's excited.
Everyone's excited for John's tip of the day.
It's an exciting thing.
This is one of those really great tips
like the people finder tip.
That was not a great tip.
That was a horrible tip.
Horrible.
A lot of people found relatives.
They did a lot of things.
I know it's for you because you had
a picture of your house.
I did not like the tip of the
day.
This one's a killer.
This is a website.
Temp-mail.org slash E-N for English.
Temp.
Say again?
Temp-mail.
This is a temporary email.
Mail?
Yeah.
This is a temporary email address generator.
You can sign up for websites, protect yourself
from spam, because you sign up with a
fake email that you can use, and then
you can confirm, because I always say, well,
this isn't a joke, confirmation.
And while you're on the site, you can
pick up that confirmation right there on the
spot.
Yeah, that's me, sign me up.
And so, now you have a fake email.
So this is for people who do, I
say espionage, poison pen letters.
Bitcoin scams.
Anything you want, I would say this is
a bit sketchy in that regard, but at
the same time, this could come in very
handy.
Give that URL again, please.
temp, T-E-M-P, dash, mail, dot,
org, slash, E-N for English.
Very nice, well, you can find that tip
on noagendatipoftheday.net, or noagendafun.com, and of
course, we are grateful to Dana Brunetti.
Created by Dana Brunetti, the No Agenda Tip
of the Day.
The No Agenda Tip of the Day, starring
John C4, Adam Hurd.
Ah, there you go, that wraps up our
broadcast day.
We hope that we have settled your amygdalas
down to their proper size, and you're feeling
good about the world once again.
Do not be worried, everything will be okay.
You can't add a single hour to your
life by worrying about anything.
Just worry about us coming back on Sunday.
That's all you really need to worry about.
We hope we'll make it.
John's got a lot of sick people around
him, so stay safe, John, stay safe.
Up next on No Agenda Stream, and of
course, TrollRoom.io and the Modern Podcast Apps,
it's the Millennial Media Offensive.
It's episode 155 for them, The African Itch,
well worth the listen.
We have end of show mixes from, let
me see, we've got David Kekta, we've got
Matt Lazari with some classics, and why don't
we know who this one is from, the
6K Dimebag.
I'll find it and put it in the
credits.
Coming to you from the heart of the
Texas Hill Country in the morning, everybody, I'm
Adam Currie.
And from Northern Silicon Valley, where it's gonna
finally rain again a little bit, keep us
from getting any fires, I'm John C.
Dvorak.
We return on Sunday with more of your
media deconstruction, not coming to you from the
White House press office, press room, because we're
not gonna do that.
Remember us at noagendadonations.com until Sunday.
Adios, mofos, hui hui, and such.
We're on the process of euthanizing.
We're gonna die.
Morbidity and mortality.
We have 13 recalls telling hospitals how they
can protect patients and protect their own health
workers.
The CDC is warning that raw milk from
an infected cow, not only just drinking it,
but potentially even just being splashed in the
face with it.
Contact with raw milk from an infected cow
is one of the ways people can be
exposed to this emerging epidemic of bird flu.
This is a huge blunder.
There's one thing that's interesting that no one's
picked up on.
We want you to be safe.
The Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
in the East Rising will be humanely killed.
Hey, citizens.
I'm back.
In the morning.
Let me ask you about China.
How could I get to China?
I dislike China.
I love China.
Don't do that.
You know, you know, I love them.
I love China.
Space Force.
You know, you know, I love them.
I love China.
Space Force.
Don't do that.
Don't trust China.
China is asshole.
Don't trust China.
China is asshole.
Don't do that.
I love China.
China all the time.
Papu-Tata-Ching-Ching.
Ching-Chong-Chong-Ching-Chong.
Big League China.
I love China.
China all the time.
China now.
Don't do that.
Are you talking to me?
Are you talking to me?
Let's say China.
China.
China.
China.
China.
China now.
China.
Don't do that.
You know, you know, I love them.
I love China.
Space Force.
You know, you know, I love them.
I love China.
Space Force.
Don't do that.
Don't trust China.
So don't tell me about China, I know
China, people from China, they love me, people
say you don't like China, I like China,
buy toys from China, Chongqing China, Chongqing China,
Asshole, don't laugh, I have to have my
China, how can I dislike China, I go
to China, I love them, China now, bing
bing, bong bong, bing bing bing, China, China
asshole, don't laugh, why you are laughing, shut
up.
I went back and I looked, this is
cringeworthy, bought a dime bag of drugs on
Silk Road for 6 Bitcoin, $600,000 I
lost for the show, for a $10 bag
of weed or whatever you bought, I remember
it came through the mail too, and it
wasn't even all that good, it was stems
and seeds, horrible, I got chipped, for the
show man, it's a service we provide to
the show, what?
You spent 6 Bitcoin on drugs?
Exactly, that's how I felt.
.