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No.
Adam Curry, John C.
Dvorak.
It's Sunday, August 17, 2025.
This is your award winning give on Asian
media assassination episode 1791.
This is no agenda.
Grabbing the red carpet.
And broadcasting live from the heart of the
Texas Hill Country here in FEMA region, number
six in the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from Northern Silicon Valley, where everybody thinks
Putin won.
I'm John C.
Dvorak.
It's Crackpot and Buzzkill!
In the mornin'!
Oh, man.
It's, uh, it's tiring.
It's tiring.
It's just tiring.
Everything is so tiring.
Everybody's all, WHOA!
It's no good what he did!
Oh, no!
He is yahoo!
That's pretty much all I've heard for the
last, uh, 36 hours.
Perseverance!
So, did you see Margaret Brennan?
I have Margaret Brennan.
I have the clips.
With Rubio?
I have everything.
I'm ready to go.
If you want to hear it, I got
them all.
I think Rubio holds his own, but I
don't know what it is.
I think people dislike him, but I think
he's one of the best at arguing.
Well, so let's, because, um, yes.
Everything was rolling this morning on the clip
machines.
And we start with Margaret Grennan with, Brennan.
Grennan?
That's her new name.
Margaret Grennan.
Margaret Grennan.
Well, she looks more like a Grennan than
anything.
She does.
Yeah, she does.
Here's, uh, here she is with Fiona Hill
just to get us, uh, get us, get
us into the mood.
Good morning, Margot.
Well, Fiona, you were an advisor, uh, during
that infamous Helsinki summit in 2018.
You've spoken about that in the past.
I wonder...
Stop, stop, stop, stop.
We have to mention, so everyone's predisposed to
thinking this way.
Okay.
That, that, that this woman who used to
work for Trump, but she's with Brookings.
Yeah, Brookings Institute.
Yeah, the, the, the very subversive.
The Brookings is right up there with the
Council on Foreign Relations and, uh, uh, the
WEF and they're the ones that Nixon thought
should be burnt to the ground in this
operation.
Yeah, well, that's, that's the obvious reason why
we have to put her on first, just
to get into the mood of, you know,
of the globalist mainstream media, the globalist mainstream
media who do not like at all, at
all, at all, what is taking place here.
What do you think about how this Alaska
summit compared?
Well, it sucked, of course.
Well, obviously quite different, um, in, in many
respects.
Um, part of it was, uh, the fact
that they decided to skip, uh, the one
-on-one meeting and, uh, the lunch.
I mean, these are usually part of this
sort of set of, uh, summits like this.
As an outrage, they skipped the lunch.
I'm not sure they skipped the lunch.
I was looking at the schedule.
There's no evidence.
There's no evidence.
They were gone.
They were out one-on-one for three
hours.
I don't know what she's talking about.
And during that period of time, the lunch
was served.
Well, but you know, somebody starving him out.
Somebody left the highly confidential menu documents on
the printer, which just shows you how horrible
this whole administration is.
I desperately.
The menu was leaked.
I desperately tried to find the clip and
all I could find was Hindu, Hindu, Hindu
times and times of India.
And those are just AI generated, uh, slop,
uh, videos.
No one really did a story on NPR
did an article, but no one really went
all the way to do a, Oh, I
can't believe it.
Clutching my pearls a bit.
So anyway, let's continue with the, uh, this
bit with Fiona.
And the press conference obviously was more of
an announcement or a set of announcements, presentations
by both leaders, uh, much more by president
Putin and more of a commentary, uh, by
president Trump.
So there wasn't that, uh, free for all
of, uh, press questions, which I'm sure was
a bit disconcerting for you and others who
were present there, um, as Alaska.
Very disconcerting for you, Margaret, that you couldn't
ask questions.
Uh, but the optics, uh, weren't exactly great
as, uh, congressman Crow has laid out, uh,
for the United States and for president Trump
again.
I mean, again, different, but although it was
presented as perhaps a show of power by
being at, uh, a U S air force
base with the fight, uh, passing of the
B 50 twos and other fighter jets, it
did certainly look much more like a show
of appreciation for Vladimir Putin.
And so the optics were really much more
favorable to Putin than they were to the
United States.
It really looked like Putin had set the
agenda there, the narrative, and in many respects,
the tone for the whole summit meeting.
What an idiot.
So first of all, it was a B
two bomber.
B 50 to like the B 52 is
a rock lobster.
No, there was the B two bomber.
Yeah.
And I thought the staging was phenomenal.
You're a big Alaska, 2025.
You got your red carpets.
You got, Oh, the staging.
The whole thing was very, it looked like
a TV show.
They had the whole thing set up that
way.
It was set up as Putin had to
walk across to the, to meet a mile
to meet his, his hosts.
President Trump's a very big power move.
And he was happy.
He was like, I will say, I'm not
entirely convinced.
This was the actual Putin.
I agree.
I looked at a whole bunch of different.
I agree.
I'm like, I don't know if this is
the Putin that, that would know because there
was a lot of talk.
In fact, there was a couple of people
on Twitter saying they should shoot him.
And I'm surprised that they haven't been kicked
off the platform for these kinds of things.
Shoot Putin.
Yeah.
There's a bunch, there's a couple of lunatics.
I went to look at this, this, well,
I can't remember the guy's name.
Cause I had long ago blocking me some,
some lefty and yeah, the advocated shooting him.
And I found that to be distressing.
And the, I think there was a, there
was a question as to the safety.
So I wouldn't be surprised me in the
least if Putin, if that was not, that
was the Putin double.
It didn't look like him.
He didn't have the same kind of scowling
mouth.
His cheeks were a little puffier, which of
course is because of the cancer that he
has.
We all know that he's dying.
He's been dying ever since this show began.
Yeah.
So, but I guess if he was carrying
the official message, then what difference at this
point does it make?
But still a little disappointing to see what
I clearly thought was not the real Putin.
Anyway, continue with Fiona and then we'll go
back to Jason Crow, who she was referring
to.
Just again, so we can get the stage.
Who was a Democrat Trump hater from Aurora,
Colorado.
Yes.
That's why it's so fun to listen to.
One more from Fiona here, because, you know,
we're so we're just, we're just out in
sense.
I tell you, you know, the president has
a team of advisors around him.
And in a traditional administration, those advisors would
be setting the policy.
They would be planning the optics and they
would be thinking through that.
Do you think that the president's team set
him up for success here?
Oh, goodness gracious.
Well, it may well have been that one
of the demands, because we've heard from Secretary
Rubio, which I have to say, I think
was a very fair assessment of where things
are.
So it may well have been that one
of the demands by the Russians to make
any progress in moving further forward was to
actually have that kind of show of pomp
and pageantry that basically marks Putin's re-entry.
Hold on a second.
When you fly our awesome B-2 bomber,
because it just looks cool.
Not on the ground.
Those wonky legs don't look cool.
But when it's flying over, I mean, that
to me said, yeah, bitch, look up.
I mean, how can anyone see that differently?
Oh, oh, we're honoring you, Mr. Putin.
I don't understand how you can.
That can be the takeaway.
If you've got a skewed perspective.
No.
OK.
Into international affairs.
Maybe the Russians said to them in Moscow,
either to Steve Whitkoff or to Secretary Rubio
or to anybody else that basically they wanted
to have a major U.S.-Russia bilateral summit
appearance before they would move on to the
nitty gritty of anything else in Ukraine.
That's, you know, to give them all the
benefits of the doubt there.
But it all now depends on what comes
out of this.
And I think, again, Secretary Rubio made it
very clear that it's not going to be
easy.
He was certainly downplaying any expectations of a
major breakthrough, but he did say that there
was something that might be possible.
I think that's what's going to be the
proof of whether this was actually worth all
the effort that they went to in Alaska
or not.
Blah, blah, blah, blah.
OK, so I'm playing these in reverse order
just to get all the idiots out of
the way.
So now we go to Jason Crow.
On Ukraine, you know that the U.S.
intelligence assessment is that the battlefield is turning
in Russia's favor, despite the fact that Putin
has to rely on Iran and North Korea
to keep this thing going.
President Biden.
By the way, I love that little, oh,
they have to rely on Iran and North
Korea, which is a kinky little country.
And Iran's got issues on their own.
But somehow the giant Russian Federation has to
rely on those two.
Otherwise, they'd fall apart.
Give me a break.
But this is well, we'll get to with
analysis.
Let's just take it.
Take it as the hits come here.
But this is well, we'll
get to with analysis.
Take it as the hits come here.
Take it as the hits come here.
But this is well, we'll get to with
analysis.
Take it as the hits come here.
But this is well, we'll get to with
analysis.
Take it as the hits come here.
They keep on saying they're dedicating time.
They're making it a priority.
They're focusing their attention on it.
In any negotiation, when you're trying to end
an armed conflict, there's nothing more important than
understanding what motivates your adversary.
What is making Vladimir Putin tick in this
instance?
Vladimir Putin does not care about the amount
of time that we're allocating.
Does not care about a B-2 bomber
flyover.
Does not care about a lineup.
Well, wait a minute.
If this was all kowtowing to Putin, why
doesn't he care?
Then it was a failure, I guess.
If he doesn't care, these people.
About the amount of time that we're allocating
does not care about a B-2 bomber
flyover.
Does not care about a lineup of F
-22 fighters rolled out.
He doesn't care about any of that.
What Vladimir Putin cares about is basically three
things.
He cares about economic pressure in the form
of sanctions.
He cares about political and diplomatic isolation, being
a pariah state.
And he cares about military defeat.
Those are the three things that will end
this conflict.
If he feels pressure on all of those
three fronts, and this administration continues to be
unwilling to do anything to assert pressure in
any of those three areas.
Okay, there's no sanctions or anything like that.
But when did the representative from Colorado become
such an expert on what Putin cares about?
Other than just the drinking club, I guess?
Well, he's an ex-military guy.
He's on the House Armed Forces Committee.
So I guess he's an expert.
But then he just hates the, everyone in
the M5M just hated the red carpet.
This one, this one.
That is only for our Hollywood celebrities.
We don't do it for foreign heads or
pariah states.
They were freaked out about the red carpet.
They did not like it.
Look at what happened, people.
U.S. military personnel in uniform.
In uniform.
Oh, no.
Literally were on their hands and knees rolling
out a red carpet for the most murderous
dictator of the 21st century.
Somebody who is kidnapped.
The most murderous dictator.
I thought that was Netanyahu.
He got it all wrong.
And is holding prisoner tens of thousands of
Ukrainian children.
Somebody who started this whole war.
This both sides-ism that the administration is
engaging in.
That both sides need to come to the
table and negotiate.
Ukraine is the victim.
They are the victim.
They didn't start this war, Russia did.
And somehow we keep on acting like Vladimir
Putin deserves to be brought out into the
open like any other head of state.
This is a historic embarrassment and defeat for
U.S. foreign policy.
Oh, goodness.
These people are living in the 70s.
Or at least their policies.
Before we even get to Rubio, which is
next.
Did you see Swalwell doing the rounds?
Yes, Swalwell was doing the rounds.
I saw this.
Wearing a Ukrainian T-shirt, kind of a
drab olive.
Pretty much Zelensky's night shirt.
Does he think that beard looks good on
him?
And he should brush his teeth.
Maybe that's just video artifacts, but looks a
little skanky.
Anyway, here's his...
He looks like a bum.
Congressman, your sense of where this goes from
here?
Well, if you're Europe, you're quite worried now.
Because you just saw the President of the
United States achieve zero.
And they will have to ask themselves, what
more are they willing to do?
Knowing that they too could be thrown under
the bus if Russia ever moved farther west.
But as far as objectives, I was hoping
to hear that there would be a trilateral
meeting.
That didn't come out of this.
I was hoping to hear there would be
a ceasefire.
That didn't come out of this.
That would be proposed or exchanged by both
sides.
That didn't come out of this.
Look, Alicia, I don't know if Donald Trump
is or is not a Russian asset.
I do know that at press conferences like
this, and like at Helsinki, he certainly acts
like one.
And that is cold comfort for anyone in
the United States, particularly in our military, that
the Commander-in-Chief would be so flattering
of and so charming to a ruthless dictator
like Vladimir Putin.
So where was he?
Hold on a second.
Where was he flattering to Putin?
Putin's the one who was flattering him.
Red carpet, baby.
The red carpet was flattering.
The pomp and the hello, my friend Vladimir.
It was just flattering.
They didn't treat him like the murderous dictator
that he is.
And we just need to reset for one
moment.
Because it does not.
It's history just gets papered over, as it
always does.
And it works in some cases.
Well, I have some.
I have some reminder clips here.
Well, why don't we do a reminder clip
before we get to Rubio?
OK, well, here's the reminder clip.
This was on.
This was on BBC.
No.
I think it might have been BBC, but
it could have been.
Yeah, it was BBC.
This is Trump Putin anal.
Oh, anal.
Not the not the regular opener.
No, this is the Trump Putin anal.
You and this is the Russian United Nations
ambassador.
And he is.
By the way, if you're new to the
show, if you're new to the show, that's
short for analysis.
It's just a long running joke.
Don't be a joke.
I use that term because it's easier.
It makes the length of the clip name
shorter.
It's the only word you spell correctly because
it's all uppercase just to make sure I
know what it is.
But I'm with you.
Just just helping people who are new to
the show.
Oh, I was just naming the clip.
I didn't even think of the double entendre.
I know because we're beyond that.
But there's sometimes there are new listeners.
Oh, I see.
We have a bunch of people with dirty
minds.
OK, well, here's the anal from Russia.
There is a different standpoint.
And there are a lot of people who
are now in Mariupol and who are very
happy about this fact.
And you can't deny it.
So it depends very much on your standpoint.
And also you should take into account the
views of about seven million Ukrainians who found
refuge in Russia after this whole thing started.
They also have their position.
They want to be to be identified as
Russian speakers.
They want to preserve their belief in canonic
Orthodox Church.
They don't want to be harassed by the
Zelensky regime.
This is also their choice and it should
be respected.
There is a view, as you will well
know, that President Putin has to a degree
played President Trump here.
President Trump only a few days ago mentioned
the potential for serious consequences if the fighting
didn't end serious consequences for Moscow.
They've gone away now, haven't they?
President Trump is undoubtedly a clever man.
He takes decisions on the basis of what
he hears and what he processes, what he
understands.
So he now has a very good opportunity
for an in-depth discussion with President Putin.
I think this is fruitful for him.
And this is fruitful for us as well
to better understand each other's standpoint.
And it's absolutely no surprise to me that
President Trump made certain conclusions that would change
his positions, which he took based on some
distorted information and even a misinterpretation of certain
of our statements.
And who is this guy who's talking?
He's the ambassador of the United Nations from
Russia.
Ah, okay.
All right.
But where's the history lesson?
I have one more clip from him where
he talks about the history.
And then I want to play Mearsheimer, who's
another character in the analysis play.
So let's play two.
The European position now, the EU's top diplomat,
Kaya Kallis, once the prime minister of Estonia,
has said, quote, the harsh reality is that
Russia has no intention of ending this war
anytime soon.
And she sees the summit in Alaska as
President Putin's way of extending this process without
actually resolving the fighting at all.
That's true, isn't it?
Leading the witness.
Maybe it's true according to the distorted vision
of Ms. Kallis and her colleagues.
Because the problem in Europe now is that
they don't have a strategic vision about what's
happening.
They have only Russophobia and the notion of
zero-sum games.
In their mind, and that's not something that
you will have a positive outcome during the
negotiations.
So you know that we, from the outset,
we were against any military exercises, any military
efforts to solve the crisis.
We were making a lot of proposals which
were rejected.
And then it started when it started.
We didn't have any other choice.
Well, it started when you invaded Ukraine, and
since then 13,500 civilians in Ukraine have
been killed.
With all due respect, it started much earlier,
in 2014, when the West created anti-Russia
as a result of anti-constitutional coup.
And it's very hard to deny it.
And that's the problem of Europe, that you
want to show that it all started in
2022.
And it didn't happen in the vacuum.
There were a lot of things prior to
this.
And it's very good that President Trump now
realizes that it has certain history which should
be taken into consideration.
Isn't it good?
Briefly, if I may, with one more.
Is President Putin willing to meet President Zelensky
in the coming days and weeks?
President Putin never denied the possibility of meeting
President Zelensky.
Is he willing to meet him?
That's a slightly different...
I'm not President Putin.
I can't say whether he will.
Would you like him to?
I'm judging from his statement, and I'm processing
his statement.
So, he said that such a meeting should
be well prepared, and we are not yet
there.
So, that, I think, is where we stand
right now.
Dmitry Polyansky, thank you very much.
Russia's first Deputy Permanent Representative to the United
Nations.
So, the piece that is just...
I mean, he's alluding to it.
But let's just call a spade a spade.
The United States, the nutjobs in the...
I'll just call it the Victorian Newlands of
the world.
They're the ones that started this.
They're the ones that have hated Russia with
just complete disdain.
F the EU, by the way, was what
she said.
Who cares?
We just want to get these Russians.
We just want the Russians mainly to steal
their stuff.
You know, what was it?
Five billion from Chevron?
It's like, we're the bad guys here.
And now we're trying to set it all
straight.
But no one remembers.
No one remembers past 2022.
There's no more history.
And we're just two old boomers who remember
stuff.
Well, it's because this actually happened during the
show era of the No Agenda show.
Yes, it was a fine era.
We witnessed the whole thing.
We had Nuland gotten your phone tapped.
We had John Brennan, the head of the
CIA in Ukraine.
Let's not forget the downing of the Malaysian
aircraft, which was consistently blamed on Russia, thanks
to open source intelligence, such as Bellingcat.
Whatever happened to them?
Yeah, well, the funding stopped.
No, the whole thing was set up by
us.
And we're trying to get out of it.
And we want to forget these past facts.
Can we play the Mearsheimer clip?
Who was Mearsheimer?
Mearsheimer is a professor who's been in and
out of the news a lot.
He's probably anti-Trump, probably a Democrat, but
he's got good analysis.
And this was part of a long podcast,
one of the spinoff podcasts.
And these guys, they always get these guys
on.
And he thinks Trump didn't know what the
hell was going on.
This is only part of a long hour
or so of him yakking away.
But this is a good part.
But just as a summary, he believes Trump
didn't know what the hell he was doing.
He didn't understand the situation.
He's very short term memory, doesn't know anything
about the 2014 thing, really.
It's just a lot of this, a lot
of that.
And he makes the assertion that Trump made
a mistake when he promised secondary sanctions on
the oil going to India and China and
found a way out of his own dilemma
with this meeting.
And now he could back off of that
idea because he realized it wasn't a good
one.
And here's some summary that he kind of
wraps with.
I think there's one very important dimension to
what Trump said, that we don't want to
lose sight of.
Yeah, it's called dimension B.
And that is, I think he's passing the
torch to Zelensky.
I think in a very important way, Trump
has come to understand that he can't settle
this one.
There's no way he can agree Trump to
a peace agreement and convince the Ukrainians, the
Europeans, and the Western foreign policy establishment that
that's the smart thing to do.
He can't convince Putin to agree to a
ceasefire.
So what can Trump do?
And of course, what Zelensky says he should
do is put secondary sanctions on Russia.
And we can talk about that because this
meeting was in good part about secondary sanctions
and Trump's interest in secondary sanctions in the
past.
But Trump understands.
He was asked afterwards what this means for
secondary sanctions.
There are going to be no secondary sanctions,
at least at this point, says Trump.
So the sanctions are off the table.
The ceasefire is off the table.
Trump has basically agreed with Putin that you
got to go directly.
He said this, you got to go directly
to a peace agreement.
So Zelensky comes to the White House.
What does this mean?
He's basically saying, I believe that Zelensky and
the Europeans can now sit down with Putin
and they can work this out.
If they need me, I'll be there.
But it's up to them.
I'm not going to cut a deal and
then try and force it down the throats
of the Ukrainians and the Europeans because they
don't want to go along with me.
So if you listen to the press conference,
this is what you were playing.
He said it's ultimately up to them.
He said he's going to call NATO.
He's going to call the Ukrainians.
But what happens is, and these were his
words, it is ultimately up to them.
But that's exactly what the truth is.
And I think before we get to Rubio
here, the Europeans don't want peace.
They have no economy.
As Macron said, war economy.
As Pieper said, we're going into debt.
We're changing our car companies into tank building
companies.
They need an enemy.
So whatever the outcome, it has to be
unsettled because they need to continue to milk
the European citizenry of their money and print
it, which is the same thing.
It's also stealing.
So that they can continue to have any
kind of economy.
And maybe President Putin also kind of needs
that himself, the way the sanctions are and
not on Swift.
Yeah, you can still sell oil to China
and India and doesn't really want secondary sanctions.
But the entire Western, and so are we,
by the way, we're now selling the gear.
Well, at least we're not giving it away.
No, that's better.
But there's no outrage over our stuff killing
people.
Okay.
And that was the whole NATO 5%.
It was first 2%.
We're not doing it.
Then I want five because I really want
three and a half.
He gets three and a half.
They're buying it from us.
They make hundreds of billions of euros available
to buy our stuff.
So we're right now in a global war
economy.
And we actually have another out.
We don't really need this one because we've
got China, Taiwan, China, ships, submarines, bases.
So we're covered.
And I don't think any of these people
don't really want a deal.
At least not one that doesn't include war
machinery.
Your thoughts, John C.
DuBois, I go.
What say you?
Well, we have both concluded that the Europeans
are warmongers in general.
They have a war mentality.
They've always had this.
It's been a problem with them all the
time.
It's one of the reasons our country was
formed in the first place.
True.
And to get away from them.
And that's where I find the father says,
let's stay out of these guys business because
they're just going to kill each other.
That's what they like to do.
And that's what they're going to continue to
do.
I see no evidence of the contrary.
That's going to change.
So Marco Rubio, who, you know, of course,
if you walk around Fredericksburg and say Marco,
oh, can't trust him.
There is a snake.
He's a snake in disguise.
And why is that?
I have no idea.
What has he done that snake like?
Dancing.
He was a dancer.
He was a dancer.
Stripper.
Chippendale.
I didn't know if he was a Chippendale.
He probably didn't make it to the Chippendale
leagues, but he's very gracious in this interview.
First by for a while to start off.
Well, first of all, he sounds like, oh
my God, I can't believe I have to
talk to this woman here.
This is horrible.
Yes, he does not like talking.
And then he just skips over the whole
what really started this, which is kind of
gracious towards his predecessors, which President Trump is
not.
But here we go.
Good morning to you, Mr. Secretary.
I really why am I here?
Good morning to you, Mr. Secretary.
Good morning.
Thank you.
Vladimir Putin did not give President Trump the
ceasefire he sought.
And now Putin says the root causes of
the conflict have to be resolved in a
peace agreement.
Doesn't the root cause the fact that Russia
invaded in the first place?
Oh, boy.
Oh, boy.
Well, ultimately, yeah.
But I mean, what he means by root
causes is long historical complaints that we've heard
repeatedly.
This is not a new argument.
He's been making this for a long time.
And it's the argument that it's Western encroachment.
I don't want to get into it.
It's just so long.
But the bottom line is, this bothers me
a little bit.
I don't want to get into it.
Yeah, he could have brought the 2014 thing
up.
He could have brought a lot up.
Yeah.
But again, I just think he's being gracious
or I don't know, but towards the Biden
administration and predecessors.
But OK.
All right.
Well, just I don't want to bring it
up.
How about moving forward?
It's an encroachment.
I don't want to get into it.
It's just so long.
But the bottom line is that all of
you know, we're not going to focus on
all of that stuff.
We're going to focus on this.
Are they going to stop fighting or not?
And what it's going to take to stop
the fighting and what it's going to take
to stop the fighting.
If we're being honest and serious here is
both sides are going to have to give
and both sides should expect to get something
from this.
And that's a very difficult thing to do.
It's very difficult because Ukraine obviously feels, you
know, harmed and rightfully so because they were
invaded.
And the Russian side, because they feel like
they've got momentum in the battlefield and frankly
don't care, don't seem to care very much
about how many Russian soldiers die in this
endeavor.
They just churn through it.
And that's what his administration is placing on
reaching a peace agreement for a war that's
not a war that started under him.
It's on the other side of the world.
That said, I mean, it's relevant to us,
but there are a lot of other issues
he could be focused on.
So tomorrow we'll be meeting with President Zelensky.
We'll be meeting with European leaders.
We just met with Putin.
He's dedicated a lot of time and energy
because he has made it a priority of
his administration to stop wars or prevent them.
And right now, this is the biggest war
going on in the world.
And we're going to continue to do everything
we can to reach an agreement that ends
the dying and the killing and the suffering
that's going on right now.
All right.
So by the way, I think someone slipped
him some gigawatt because he's sparking up a
little bit.
I should wake up here.
This is important.
Important.
It's going to be played on the No
Agenda show.
I got to get some clips for the
boys.
You know this well, how long these kind
of diplomatic negotiations often take.
President Trump was telling European leaders what was
discussed was Putin demanding control of Donetsk, a
region in the east that his forces do
not fully hold.
And the U.K. estimates that taking that
full area could be as long as another
four years.
Putin also is demanding Russian be an official
language in Ukraine and something regarding Russian Orthodox
churches.
Did the U.S. Something.
No.
Something, something about Orthodox.
The other guy had it right.
Some areas are Russian speaking already.
Yeah.
And they want to be Russian and they
want to be Russian and they and they
want to keep speaking Russian because you have
to remember that the Ukrainian government made it
the Ukraine language crime and made a crime
to speak Russian and made it a crime
to speak Russian in the Russian speaking areas.
And they don't want all the Ukrainians speaking
Russian like she said.
They don't want all the Ukrainians speak being
part of the Russian Orthodox church like she
said.
She's full of shit.
But my question from a media analyst standpoint.
Why are they like this?
Is this only to hate on Trump for
midterms for Democrat wins or yes or or
wait before you answer.
Or is this because they're part of the
war machine and just want more more war
in the world which is good for over
all business is good for her business too.
If everything's great.
I mean go look at you go look
at news dot Google dot com.
Tell me there's one happy story is happy
stories and there's no happy stories in there.
So but is is that why is it
is the global structure reason the second reason
is is just a just a bonus.
OK.
But they hate Trump because of the things
he's doing not just because of who he
is because of the things he's doing which
is counter intuitive to the war of the
world.
So ultimately it all comes down to they
want war they want strife they want people
angry at each other.
Am I am I missing something.
Well what you're missing I think is that
the Democrats in general were always the peaceniks
and it had the role reversal took place
where they're pro war and they don't really
I don't believe that they actually want to
be pro war.
They're just kind of in that position because
because Trump is such such a peacenik he's
like a 60s peacenik and they don't know
what they're beside themselves but the whole thing
they figure can be resolved by winning the
the 20 to 26 midterms and then impeaching
him again.
They think that's the solution to everything right
so that they can go back to being
warmongers.
It all comes down to war.
I don't think they want I think they'd
rather go back to being peaceniks but they
they have to rid themselves of this Trump
thing.
Please the military industrial complex has a hold
of them.
Maybe controlling them but I don't think that
they're.
In their hearts.
Oh they have good hearts.
Well I don't know if they have good
hearts or not I'm not I'm not a
mind reader but they it's just it's it's
they've put themselves in a position where they're
it's just awkward.
The Democrats are in a very awkward philosophical
position and they don't know what to do
about it.
That's one of the reasons they're so screwed
up.
We continue.
Language in Ukraine and something regarding Russian Orthodox
churches.
Did the U.S. accept all of what
Putin laid out at that table?
I'm not going to tell you honey.
The United States is not in a position
to accept anything or reject anything because ultimately
it's up to the Ukrainians.
They're the ones that Russia has to make
peace with.
The president said he didn't come to some
agreements.
It's up to the Ukrainians to make these
conditions.
Well the agreements were that we were going
to try to do things like for example
get a leader leaders meeting.
We have to make enough progress so that
we can sit down President Zelensky and President
Putin in the same place which is what
President Zelensky has been asking for and reach
a final agreement that ends this war.
Now there were some concepts and ideas discussed
that we know the Ukrainians can be very
supportive of in that meeting.
I don't think it's we're not going to
negotiate this in the media.
I understand that everybody wants to know what
happened but ultimately there are things that were
discussed as part of this meeting that are
potentials for breakthroughs that are potentials for progress.
We'll be discussing that more in depth tomorrow
with our European allies with the Ukrainians that
are coming over.
We'll be discussing all of these things because
ultimately we do need to find areas where
we're making progress and try to begin to
narrow the gap between the two sides.
But there's a reason why this war has
been going on for three and a half
years and that is when it comes to
the big issues here there are still some
big differences between both sides.
Let's see how much progress we can continue
to make.
It's not been easy but it's something the
president's made a priority.
Peace.
And he deserves a lot of credit for
that.
And I think another part of the problem
here is that because it's the Trump administration
the media is not read in on everything
continuously all the time from leakers and Joe
just handed a memo here's what was discussed,
here's your story, don't worry about doing any
work.
The only thing they got truly from the
president was this.
I believe we had a very productive meeting
there were many many points that we agreed
on, most of them I would say, a
couple of big ones that we haven't quite
gotten there but we've made some headway.
So there's no deal until there's a deal.
I will call up NATO in a little
while.
I will call up the various people that
I think are appropriate and I'll of course
call up President Zelensky and tell him about
today's meeting.
It's ultimately up to them they're going to
have to agree with what Marco and Steve
and some of the great people from the
Trump administration who have come here.
But we had an extremely productive meeting and
many points were agreed to and there are
just a very few that are left, some
are not that significant one is probably the
most significant but we have a very good
chance of getting there.
Okay, before we come back to Rubio, I
just want to go on a little side
trip here to our anti-constitutional douchebag Farid
Zakaria who of course whenever it's something of
international concern we need to bring Farid Zakaria
in because he's elite and he knows everything.
And he just took it one step further
with Tapper.
Farid, thanks for joining us.
So President Trump called the meeting extremely productive
he definitely tried to put a positive spin
on, let's be frank he was trying to
bring peace and end a war.
I mean there's nothing wrong about his goal.
Well, no but that's wrong!
We can't have peace!
But it does appear there really wasn't anything
concrete achieved no ceasefire no sanctions relief or
sanctions imposed.
We don't really know where we are other
than Putin got himself a summit in Alaska.
What do you make of what we just
saw?
Yeah, I think you have it right, Jake.
Look, the atmospherics of the entire summit were
somewhat cringeworthy.
The fact that Putin was being welcomed on
American soil.
The fact that Trump gave him literally a
red carpet treatment the kind he has rarely
given to any, you know, democratic ally of
the United States.
You can tell that Trump...
What?
It's unbelievable this guy who gladly walks the
red carpet of the White House correspondence dinner.
The atmospherics were cringeworthy, I tell you.
Somewhat cringeworthy.
The fact that Putin was being welcomed on
American soil.
The fact that Trump gave him literally a
red carpet treatment, the kind he has rarely
given to any, you know, democratic ally of
the United States.
You can tell...
Most democratic allies are welcomed by the president.
They all get the red carpet treatment.
Personally, at the front door of the White
House this was pretty remote compared to that.
Yeah, up in the middle of nowhere in
Alaska at an Air Force base.
With our jets and our bombers flying over.
So, it was just so red carpet.
I think Putin is you know, is an
equal, is this big shot on the world
stage and he's been treated by the rest
of the West as a kind of pariah.
I mean, he can't go to Europe because
he'd be arrested.
And so, there was a lot of the
atmospherics that were cringeworthy.
But, I will say, on the most important
thing, at least for me, it was positive
that there was no deal.
I think everyone was worried that there was
going to be a deal in which Trump
was going to make major concessions.
I don't think anyone thought Putin was going
to make any concessions.
The fear was that Donald Trump was going
to cave in various ways, sell out Ukraine,
sell out the Europeans, and he didn't do
that.
Oh, we dodged the bullet.
At least he didn't sell out the Europeans.
This Zakaria guy is unbelievable.
Now, in this next bit, in this next
bit...
I didn't get this.
I missed this one.
Guys, this literally popped up in the feed,
so I'm very grateful for the algo today.
Do you remember our prop bets?
Because Zakaria runs through a couple of these
and I don't really remember our prop bets.
Do you remember the ones that we had?
I'm sorry?
Our prop bets.
Oh, the prop bets?
Yeah.
Do you remember what we had on different
prop bets?
I think I have the list here.
Do you have the list?
Because Zakaria brings up a few of them,
and as I was listening to him, like...
I can kind of remember them if you
bring them up.
It's short, so we'll just run through it.
You know, I'm at least relieved.
Now, when you watch it, what you saw
was Putin had clearly decided his strategy was
he was going to make no substantive concessions
of any kind, but he was going to
really amp up the flattery of Trump.
He says if Trump had been president, there
would have been no war, which is easy
for him to say now.
Trump should get the Nobel Prize.
He's amazing.
He did not say that.
He didn't say that.
That was one of the prop bets.
That was a prop bet, but he didn't
say that.
Now, he did say...
No, he didn't.
I don't remember him saying that either.
I got the prop bet right here.
I watched the whole thing.
Putin to endorse Trump for Nobel Prize was
5-2.
Yeah, but it didn't happen, so we would
have lost our nuts on that.
But he did say, and this was the
very end of the, as you call it,
hour-long speech.
By the way, wait, wait.
Hillary Clinton said he should get the Nobel
Peace Prize.
Correct.
She said she would endorse him.
Yes.
And she looked haggard when she said it.
Whoo, boy!
Ever since her girl married the Soros kid,
Hillary's appearance has gone downhill.
Well, it's because of lack of attention.
Or adrenochrome, one or the other.
All right.
So he says if Trump had been president,
there would have been no war, which is
easy for him to say now.
Trump should get the Nobel Prize.
He's amazing.
He didn't say he was amazing.
I specifically listened to the whole thing.
Did not say he was amazing.
All that, you know, is cheap and easy
rhetoric for Putin, but he laid that on
thick.
But at the end of the day, he
made no concessions.
So Trump comes back empty-handed, but, you
know, in a way, better to come back
empty-handed than to have given away a
quarter of Ukraine.
I mean, where does he come up with
this?
We can't give away Ukraine.
We can't give...
We don't have these powers.
Brennan also did the same thing.
Why didn't Trump demand?
Why didn't Trump demand?
Yeah, because that's...
We can't make demands.
We're not in this war, except for the
fact that we sell machinery.
We started it.
Except for the fact that we started it.
The fact that we started it, but that's
beside the point.
It didn't...
But this is the thinking of the globalists.
The globalists thinks when they're in charge, they
do control everything.
That's their thinking.
That's why they're always saying, Trump is a
dictator.
What you say, be yourself.
Like, we want to be the dictator, not
Trump, because that guy, he just tries to
make peace bad.
No.
Zakaria is exactly in the same circles of
people who would think they are in charge
of the world like that.
So now we go back to Margaret Brennan
with Rubio, because we now know that Vladimir,
or as Tina called him this morning, Voldemort.
She didn't do it purposely, but I kind
of liked it.
So Voldemort is coming tomorrow, and all of
a sudden, all of the EU leaders are
coming.
Queen, Ursula, Keir Starmer.
Of course, we're going to have Mark Rutte
will be there to make sure that we
still are buying weapons.
We have to be afraid of Russia, because
they will be the threat.
The threat for at least the next 10
years.
So we have to keep them in the
threat, because I'm a sales guy, and Margaret
Brennan thinks that this is for the following
reason.
This is the best one.
This is good.
President Trump told Fox News, his advice to
President Zelensky is make a deal.
Russia's a very big power, and they're not.
You know there is concern from the Europeans
that President Zelensky is going to be bullied
into signing something away.
That's why you have these European leaders coming
as backup tomorrow.
Can you reassure them?
No, it isn't.
That's not true.
This is so good.
This is like the fact that she just
you know, you know that all the European
leaders, Queen and Ursula, they have to come
with him because they're afraid that he'll be
bullied like the last time he was bullied
in the White House, in the Oval Office.
I should mention this.
This is great.
Which is that they have been replaying the
media has been, all the media has been
replaying that old clip where Trump bullied he
didn't really bully him, but he gave him
grief in the White House.
It's old, and then they had a lot
of meetings ever since this was the original
meeting when Trump was irked because Zelensky wouldn't
even wear a suit comes in there and
he starts acting like an idiot.
They were supposed to sign the deal the
mineral deal, and he didn't sign it.
Right, he didn't sign the deal.
Yeah.
They keep playing this old they've been playing
this old clip all last week.
It's entertainment.
For what Brian just said.
It's entertainment, of course.
That was the teaser.
Now we all know because we've played the
clips of the bullying it's going to happen
again.
Can you reassure them?
That's not true.
That's not true.
They're not coming here tomorrow to keep Zelensky
from being bullied.
That February Oval Office meeting in front of
television cameras where President Zelensky was dressed down.
I know, and I was just up in
Alaska watching the one with Vladimir Putin where
red carpet rolls up.
No, it was Zelensky.
We've had more meetings.
We've had one meeting with Putin and like
a dozen meetings with Zelensky.
But that's not true.
They're not coming here tomorrow to keep Zelensky
from being bullied.
They're coming here tomorrow because we've been working
with the Europeans.
We talked to them last week.
There were meetings in the UK the previous
weekend.
And they said President Trump was going to
demand a ceasefire.
As early as Thursday.
But you said that they're coming here tomorrow
to keep Zelensky from being bullied.
They're not coming here tomorrow.
This is such a stupid media narrative.
That they're coming here tomorrow because Trump is
going to bully Zelensky into a bad deal.
We've been working with these people for weeks.
For weeks on this stuff.
They're coming here tomorrow because they chose to
come here tomorrow.
We invited them to come.
We invited them to come.
The President invited them to come.
And we'll go to Queen Ursula in a
moment who spoke this morning.
But one last clip here from Marco.
Marco, finally the gigawatt kicked in.
But the President told those European leaders last
week that he wanted a ceasefire.
The President went on television and said he
would walk out of the meeting if Vladimir
Putin didn't agree.
He didn't walk out of the meeting!
He said there would be severe consequences if
he didn't agree to one.
He said he'd walk out in two minutes.
He spent three hours talking to Vladimir Putin
and he did not get one.
He was getting his instructions from Vladimir Putin,
of course.
So there's some mixed messages.
Things happened during that meeting.
Our goal here is not to stage some
production for the world to say, oh, how
dramatic.
He walked out.
Our goal here is to have a peace
agreement.
To end this war.
And obviously we felt, and I agreed, that
there was enough progress.
Not a lot of progress, but enough progress
made in those talks to allow us to
move to the next phase.
If not, we wouldn't be having Zelensky flying
all the way over here.
We wouldn't be having all the Europeans coming
all the way over here.
Now understand, and take with a grain of
salt, I'm not saying we're on the verge
of a peace deal, but I am saying
that we saw movement.
Enough movement to justify a follow-up meeting
with Zelensky and the Europeans.
Enough movement for us to dedicate even more
time to this.
You talk about the sanctions.
Look, at the end of the day, if
peace is not going to be possible here,
and this is just going to continue on
as a war, people will continue to die
by the thousands.
The President has that option to then come
in and impose new sanctions.
But if he did this now, the moment
the President puts those additional sanctions, that's the
end of the talks.
You've basically locked in at least another year
to year and a half of war and
death and destruction.
We may unfortunately wind up there, but we
don't want to wind up there.
We want to wind up with a peace
deal that ends this war so Ukraine can
go on with the rest of their lives
and rebuild their country and be assured that
this is never going to happen again.
That's the goal here.
We're going to do everything possible to make
that happen if it's doable.
It will require both sides to make concessions.
It will require both sides to get things
they're asking for.
That's how these deals are made, whether we
like it or not.
I got two more from Witkoff, because Witkoff
has been the main negotiator.
He's met with Putin several times.
All these people, like Rubio and Witkoff, they
do these interviews like they have a gun
to their head.
They're like, OK, well listen, I'll do Brennan,
and you've got to do Tapper.
Oh man, why do I have to do
Tapper?
He's such a douchebag.
Who was in the room for the Trump
-Putin summit, and it was a three-on
-three, and he was one of the three.
He has also met face-to-face with
Vladimir Putin many times, including earlier this month
in Moscow.
Ambassador Witkoff, always good to have you on.
Thank you so much.
President Trump called this an extremely productive meeting
and said many points were agreed to.
You were in the room.
Can you give us two specific points that
were agreed to?
Why does he only ask for two?
But what is this?
Did they pre-agree?
Listen, producer, I'm going to give Tapper two,
OK?
That's all I'm giving him.
I mean, that's a very odd way to
stage the question.
That is very strange.
He could have said, can you tell us
some or any?
A couple?
A couple would have been better.
Anything, but specifically two were agreed to.
You were in the room.
Can you give us two specific points that
were agreed to?
We agreed, Jake.
First of all, thank you for having me,
and good morning.
We agreed to robust security guarantees that I
would describe as game-changing.
We didn't think that we were anywhere close
to agreeing to Article 5 protection from the
United States, legislative enshrinement within the Russian Federation,
not to go after any other territory when
the peace deal is codified, legislative enshrinement in
the Russian Federation, not to go after any
other European countries and violate their sovereignty.
We agreed, and there was plenty more.
So Tapper goes, no, that was...
So it's like a shocker.
That was the most informative one minute of
audio tape I got.
He said, there will be Article 5-like
protections.
Just to remind everybody, NATO Article 5, if
you strike one...
If you strike one of us, you strike
all of us, we all band together as
NATO, and we come and...
You get bombed.
You get bombed, exactly.
So, Article 5-like protection is a huge
concession.
I'm not sure what it means yet.
And we're not even sure...
Well, but...
Whitcoff knows what it means.
Well, bear with me.
Because I think we can find out what
that is.
Article 5-like.
That doesn't necessarily mean NATO, but Article 5
-like.
And the second thing he says is it
will be enshrined into their legislation, which I
guess means, legally, they'll agree to it that
Ukraine won't take any territory after this deal
is done, and Russia won't take any territory.
That, to me, sounds like there's a real
deal in the making.
And all Tapper does is, huh.
I know.
Can you elaborate more?
He could have said...
That's fascinating.
What do you think he said?
Because I have the exact follow-up.
What did he say after that statement, which
was the most informative of all of the
talks coming straight from the guy who was
there, who speaks English without the weave.
I'm like, oh, that is...
I can guess exactly what he said.
He said, huh, which is the opening.
Huh.
Can you...
Is there...
Was that assured?
Does that look like that's the kind of
the deal that's going to go through?
Do you think that'll be part of the
final determination?
Something along those lines?
That sounds like a very positive thing.
Do you think that's going to happen?
That's what he said.
Obviously, my partner is being very facetious here
on the show.
That's what I would do.
He knows that it's a little show.
It's CNN.
It's Jake Tapper.
No, that's not what he did.
We go from the disdain, huh, into his
next bit.
Here's what President Trump said going into the
meeting about the need for a ceasefire.
Let's roll that tape.
I want to see a ceasefire rapidly.
I don't know if it's going to be
today, but I'm not going to be happy
if it's not today.
Everyone said it can't be today, but I'm
just saying I want the killing to stop.
I'm in this to stop the killing.
Obviously, the ceasefire didn't happen.
Last night, Russia launched more than 60 aerial
attacks across Ukraine, killing at least five people,
injuring 11.
President Trump had said if he didn't like
what he was hearing in the meeting, he
would walk out.
Why didn't he, once it became clear Putin
was not going to agree to a ceasefire,
which would end the bloodshed now.
This is the meeting they had.
All right, everybody, we're going to go after
the fact that Trump, Trump, the orange man,
that he said he would walk out.
Margaret, you got that?
Yeah, I got that.
Martha, you got it?
Yeah, I got that.
They all did it.
You said he would walk out in two
minutes.
He didn't walk out.
What's wrong with him?
What does Vladimir have on him?
Do they have kompromat?
That's the meeting they had.
Yes, you're exactly right.
They all asked the same question.
They all did the exact same thing in
this regard.
Jake, the one thing, we were there as
a mediator, so we were obviously advancing the
Ukrainian view.
The one thing that the president cannot agree
to on behalf of the Ukrainians is any
sort of land swap.
That is for the Ukrainians.
They've asked us, or stated that to us,
and the president is respectful of it, but
that's why we're moving so quickly to a
meeting on Monday at the Oval Office with
President Zelensky.
That being said, we covered almost all the
other issues necessary for a peace deal.
I described the ceasefire as the interim move
where you would then negotiate towards a peace
deal.
We made so much progress at this meeting
with regard to all the other ingredients necessary
for a peace deal that President Trump pivoted
to that place.
We're not waiting a week for a meeting
with President Zelensky and the European leaders, or
two weeks, or three weeks.
We're going into a meeting with them within
48 hours of ending this meeting in Alaska.
We are intent on trying to hammer out
a peace deal that ends the fighting permanently
very, very quickly.
Quicker than a ceasefire.
Okay, so now we go to Europe.
This morning Queen Ursula and Prince Zelensky had
their little talk in Brussels in the EU
Commission press room.
Zelensky, he had puppy dog eyes the whole
time towards Queen Ursula while she's talking.
Puppy dog eyes.
She's clearly on a riser.
She's got a standing on an apple crate.
She's just like this is my moment.
This is my moment.
I am the queen.
I'm Queen Ursula.
And she's going to lay it out, and
I think we find out what the Article
5-like security is going to be.
I'm very glad that I'm able to accompany
you and other European leaders for the meeting
tomorrow.
So you don't get bullied.
That we do have with the U.S.
President in the White House since the beginning
of Russia's brutal invasion.
Brutal invasion.
What happened to full scale, lady?
Stick to the script.
Brutal invasion.
Europe has been at Ukraine's side united, and
we will support you for as long as
it takes for just and lasting peace.
And this peace must be achieved through strength.
Let me touch upon the main points.
First, we must have strong security guarantees to
protect both Ukraine and Europe's vital security interests.
Ukraine must be able to uphold its sovereignty
and its territorial integrity.
There can be no limitations on Ukrainian armed
forces, be it cooperation with...
She, by the way, is the negotiator in
this.
You're hearing the actual Ukrainian talking point, so
they have to be able to have their
own army, which I'm sure Putin's fine with,
and Europe wants that too.
They want to arm those boys up to
the hilt, but not with the traditional things.
There can be no limitations on Ukrainian armed
forces, be it cooperation with or other third
countries or assistance from other third countries.
No limitations for the Ukrainian armed forces.
As I've often said, Ukraine must become a
steel porcupine.
Undigestible for potential invaders.
We're back to the steel porcupine bit.
This is great.
Ukraine has to be a steel porcupine with
all of our stuff that we are going
to buy from America and give to you.
We welcome President Trump's willingness to contribute to
Article 5 life security guarantees for Ukraine and
the coalition of the willing, including the European
Union, is ready to do its share.
We know that the work of defending Europe
is first and foremost our responsibility, and we've
been working hard to speed up and scale
up as we increase Europe's defense capability.
Through the safe instrument, we are ensuring that
the defense needs of member states and Ukraine
can be matched and that Ukraine's industrial defense
base is strengthened.
I am thinking in particular of drones here.
This is in our mutual interest, and I
intend to travel to the frontline member states
in the coming weeks.
At the same time, we continue to support
Ukraine's path to its membership in the European
Union.
This in itself is also a security guarantee.
There you go.
So Article 5 like security guarantees means that
they have a path into the EU, and
it would be the EU would be the
NATO-like organization in this case for the
Article 5 like security guarantees.
It's going to be the EU, and since
they don't have any planes or bombers or
tanks, they're going to build drones.
They're going to start a drone industry in
Ukraine.
That's been brewing for a long time.
No, we've already had the clips on it.
They already have it.
They have a high-end, they have smart
aeronautical engineering.
That's where Antonov is.
And Antonov is one of the great plane
makers of the world.
That's also Eric Schmidt.
Eric Schmidt has his whole drone outfit.
And then you have the Eric Schmidt operation
going on.
Yeah, the drone thing is going to be
what they're going to do.
Now the thing I want to mention about
the ceasefire that Trump bailed on, it was
made obvious to him and it's obvious to
everybody that the ceasefire was a phony baloney
deal if it was going to happen in
the first place.
Mearsheimer talked about this too.
The ceasefire would have just meant a stoppage
to allow Ukraine to build up forces and
even bring in some European troops that were
threatened by, I think, the UK wanting to
send some people over and some others so
they would just make the war worse.
Yeah, exactly.
Alright, so now they throw out, this is
really the term I'm looking for.
Because, of course, we have to have an
out or we have to be able to
blame somebody else if this doesn't happen.
And that's the actor.
So let the actor take the fall.
If we don't like what we see, if
we don't like what we hear, we're going
to push it on the prince.
My second point, with regards to any territorial
questions in Ukraine, our position is clear.
International borders cannot be changed by force.
These are decisions to be made by Ukraine
and Ukraine alone.
And these decisions cannot be taken without Ukraine
at the table.
We have to have our prince at the
table!
My third and final point, as long as
the bloodshed in Ukraine continues, Europe will maintain
diplomatic and, in particular, economic pressure on Russia.
We will continue to strengthen sanctions.
We have adopted 18 packages so far and
we are advancing preparation for the 19th.
The 19th sanctions package.
At what point do you figure out that
it's not going to do any good?
Your sanctions are useless.
So then Volodymyr speaks.
I only got a minute and a half
of him.
Actually, in some ways, the sanctions are hurting
Europe more than they're hurting Russia.
They absolutely are!
Not to mention the fact that the Russian
oligarchs had loved to go to Saint-Tropez
and drop tens of thousands of dollars on
Dom Pérignon for the house.
Yeah, with those Roman candles and all the
babes.
We've seen it.
We know it.
Yes.
It's cool.
Thank you so much, dear Ursula.
Ursula, dear Ursula!
Thank you for your support.
Thank you for this day.
It's very important for all your support from
the very beginning of this war.
And it's very important that you are with
us and that we speak to America and
we speak together.
And it's important that Washington is...
Interesting the way he frames that.
It's almost like we're the enemy here in
this.
It's very important that we speak to America
together as a unified front because we can't
trust that.
That was an interesting catch.
You are with us and that we speak
to America and we speak together.
And it's important that Washington is with us.
And today in several months we are deciding
what we are going to discuss in Washington.
Dear journalists, it's crucial that Europe is...
How many leaders do you know that say,
dear journalists, listen up, this is what I
want you to write.
This is important.
We gave you the briefing.
Dear journalists, this is important.
What we are going to discuss in Washington.
Dear journalists, it's crucial that Europe is as
united now as it was at the very
beginning as it was in 2022 when the
full-scale war began.
This unity really helps to reach real peace
and it must stay strong.
First, we have to stop the killings.
Putin has many demands, but we do not
know all of them.
And if there are really as many as
we heard, then it will take time to
go through them all.
It's impossible to do this under the pressure
of weapons.
So it's necessary to cease fire and war
quickly on a final deal.
So already he's backpedaling on this by saying,
nah, we've got to cease fire before we
have a final deal.
He's sabotaging it and it's obvious that Ursula
has her hand up his butt, pulling the
strings.
We'll talk about it in Washington.
Putin does not want to stop the killing,
but he must do it.
Second, we need real negotiations, which means they
can start where the front line is now.
The contact line is the best line for
talking and Europeans support this.
And we thank everyone.
Russia is still unsuccessful in Donetsk region.
Putin has been unable to take it for
12 years.
And the constitution of Ukraine makes it impossible
to give up territory or trade land.
Since the territorial issue is so important, it
should be discussed only by the leaders of
Ukraine and Russia and the trilateral Ukraine, United
States, Russia.
So far, Russia gives no sign that trilateral
will happen.
And if Russia refuses, then new sanctions must
follow.
So what he's saying is we want to
be on equal footing with the United States
at the table.
We don't like it that you're doing the
deal for us.
And the only way out of this, which
I think is the correct way for...
And by the way, what deal are we
doing for them?
We're just trying to facilitate as far as
I understand.
I don't see that we're doing anything in
that regard.
We are trying to facilitate, but I mean,
we're not doing any deals.
Well, I think the deal that's on the
table is we give some kind of guarantee
that during the accession period of Ukraine into
the EU, they get Article V-like guarantees
from the EU, not from NATO, but from
the EU.
And so that way, while that's taking...
And that'll take several years because they have
to get rid of...
In fact, it may never happen.
And Europe probably doesn't want it to happen.
But in the meantime, we can continue all
of our corruption scams, all of our money
laundering through the drone industry and whatever else
we're going to be setting up there.
And the new Ukraine, we've already started the
rebuilding Ukraine process.
And we'll have this reason to buy military
equipment and to start manufacturing our own, but
apparently it's not going to be tanks or
planes or guns.
It's going to be drones.
Because that's what they needed.
They need that continuous threat.
And I'm still not sure that we won't
wind up with a demilitarized zone and an
armistice at the end of the day.
In the newsletter, you actually wrote some interesting
things about how similar the US and Russia
are, which I thought was quite correct.
And I'm not going to play any clips
from it, but President Putin actually his entire,
and it was long, his eight minutes of
thank you for letting me be here was
very truthful and complimentary.
He talked about how the Russians and the
US worked together during World War II and
the bridge, the air bridge that we spearheaded
into Europe went from Alaska.
He went to visit the burial site of
the Russian pilots who were buried in Alaska.
He talked about how we should be doing
more business together.
He liked how President Trump was a businessman.
And then at the very end, he said,
Mr. President is right.
If it was him who was a president
at the time, the war wouldn't have started
because I kept warning the Biden administration not
to do what they were doing.
And that's the truth.
We were here.
But that, of course, only turns into, oh,
it's just an atmospherics that was cringeworthy.
Until the very end, and this I think,
I think this was the true giveaway that
this was not the real Putin because I've
heard Putin speak English, and this was not
the real Putin.
The way his face moved, the way he
looked, but it was still a funny ending.
Again, Mr. President.
By the way, it's possible that they did
have a meeting, Putin and Trump, and Putin
was on the, you know, they had three
hours on a big screen in the room
with the fake Putin and the real Putin
on the screen, and they could have been
negotiating basically face to face.
Maybe they had the fake Trump there too.
Maybe it was just two actors.
It could have been the fake Trump.
Yeah, easily.
It was hard to tell on the big
screen.
Anyway, here's the wind up and the goodbye.
Again, Mr. President, I'd like to thank you
very much, and we'll speak to you very
soon and probably see you again very soon.
Thank you very much, Vladimir.
Next time in Moscow.
Oh, that's an interesting one.
I don't know, I'll get a little heat
on that one, but I could see it
possibly happening.
Thank you very much, Vladimir, and thank you
all.
Thank you.
There's a prop bet for you.
Next time, Moscow?
By the way, that fact that he didn't
do the normal yak yak yak press conference
at the end might be an indication that
it wasn't Trump.
No weave.
It was on script.
Never smiled.
No, no, no.
I do have, if you're interested, I have
a couple of shorties from our Canadian guy,
Andrew Resulis.
I like him.
I like him a lot.
I like how our Canadian producers are always
finding him because he doesn't just go on
CBC, he goes on CTV, he's all over
the place.
So they find his clips for me, and
this was kind of an interesting answer that
he gives.
Joining us now is Andrew Resulis, retired official
from the Department of National Defense.
Andrew, thank you as always for joining us.
Trump's saying that the meeting with Putin was
a success.
Is there a truth to that?
Well, it was an event, and it moved
the goalposts.
It was an event.
Yeah, there you go, it was an event.
It's success from a Russian point of view,
and not very successful from a Ukrainian point
of view.
The reason is, is that the effect of
the meeting, and that's what they'll discuss with
Zelensky in Washington on Monday, is that the
Ukrainian idea of first having a ceasefire, then
followed by negotiations on a peace settlement have
basically been taken off the table.
The Americans are now agreeing with the Russian
position, which is negotiations on a peace settlement
must precede ceasefire.
So fighting continues while you negotiate a framework
for a peace settlement.
So the Ukrainians now are left in a
difficult position.
They can either move to actually a framework
discussion of a peace settlement, or they can
simply keep fighting and not talk to the
Russians.
And in this clip, he brings up an
interesting concept, which I'm not even sure I
understand how it works, but this is about
the war continuing or not.
Can they afford to keep fighting?
We hear repeatedly now that they're losing more
and more ground.
Are they going to actually, are they going
to hit a point where they may have
to sue for peace?
They may.
It's hard to judge right now, but I
guess most analysts suggest that the war could
grind on for about another, well, certainly for
the rest of 2025 and into 2026.
And the big calculus there is on the
Russian side, they feel that by sometime in
2026, they can exhaust the Ukrainians, where the
Ukrainians essentially capitulate to the Russian demands for
a settlement.
On the other hand, the Ukrainians think that
maybe if they can keep fighting, even though
they're withdrawing, they are withdrawing, they can wear
down the Russians and wait for the Russian
economy to, as they think, collapse and not
be able to fund the Russian war, and
then the Russians will have to sue for
peace.
So that's the calculus on both sides.
Did he say sue for peace?
Sue for peace.
Sue for peace?
What does that mean?
Sue for peace.
It's a court?
Well, it's a phrase.
It's a sue for peace.
It means you make, you say, we're going
to the negotiating table.
We're going to do the deal right now.
Oh, I thought he actually had been going
to the, like, international criminal court.
No, no, no.
Sue for peace is just a phrase.
Oh, okay.
And then...
It's, you know, like, just a phrase.
It doesn't mean actually suing.
Thank you for that.
People have to get a clue about, and
you can get a clue by watching YouTube
videos.
The Russian economy is not about their collapse.
In fact, the GDP went up when all
the sanctions...
They have a war economy.
One, they have a war economy.
Second, they're doing just, they're not making the
kinds of money they would be making if
they had open market oil.
They'd be making more.
But they're making money because they have a
lot of it, and they're selling it to
India and China who are smart enough to
buy it because it's cheaper than the open
market stuff, but it's still helping them.
And the Russian economy adjusted a lot.
You know, when they first started the sanctioning,
this was, I think we reported this years
ago, the Russians were, they lost a lot
of the trade with, especially with Poland, of
different fruits and vegetables, and the Russians picked
up the slack, and especially with dairy, and
they went internal and they started developing their
own businesses.
They actually flourished because instead of relying on
imports for everything at the grocery store, they
started making it themselves, and it turns out
that they had all these capabilities in abeyance,
and they're doing quite well.
Why we are, this promotion of the idea
that the Russian economy's in bad shape, is
if you go find some Russian YouTube, or
you find YouTube videos of people walking around
on the street in Russia, and going in
and out of stores, and there's people in
grocery stores, there's reports, there's all kinds of
stuff.
Some of the grocery stores in Moscow are
better than the ones we've had here.
And I remember going to Moscow before the
fall of communism, about the time you were
there, and you'd go to the world's first
department store, it's not in France, it was
the GUM.
The GUM store in Moscow, which was a
big, giant department store.
That was the world's first department store?
As far as I know.
How about that?
And it was empty.
There was like, we went around, looked at
different things, I was taken around by a
typical cynic that's crawling with them, and only
one section of the store had, they had
like a million raincoats for sale.
And the guy says, they're probably all the
same size, the size nobody wears, it's the
only reason they're there.
And you would go to the Russian stores,
and they were all a mess, they were
no good, they didn't have anything, but then
they had these other stores, these black markets,
they weren't black market, they were official, but
you had to have a passport to get
into them, and they were English.
They took only dollars.
And you go in there, they had everything.
They straightened that out.
And it's not like all U.S. companies
have stopped doing business there.
We have enough evidence of that.
So we're being misled about a lot of
this stuff.
All of it?
Let me just play this last bit, it's
about Trump, 30 seconds.
And the wild card in this, of course,
is Donald Trump.
What more can he do to try and
bring about an end to this war?
He's very much the broker here.
So he's doing the broker role, which he's
met with Putin.
He's gotten where he can with Putin, and
we can see that he's not gotten very
far.
The Russians are holding very firm.
Now, he's going to go on Monday when
Zelensky comes to Washington to actually see if
he can move the Ukrainians to that framework
discussion of a peace settlement.
If he can do that, he will have
moved the goalposts closer to a peace settlement.
Not everyone will like the terms of that,
but he has moved at least closer to
peace.
Now, do you think they will do an
Oval Office sit-down with Zelensky, Queen Ursula,
Keir Starmer, Macron?
It's too many people.
Well, he's had more people in there before.
I mean, I would love to see him
and Ursula, and it would be great if
he just slapped her around.
That would be funny.
Well, he sat down with her recently, and
he was very complimentary.
He was complimentary, because he knew we had
some kind of deal.
Still not quite sure if that's an actual
deal that she can offer.
He plays her like...
Everyone says Putin manipulates Trump, but he does
the same thing with her.
But, I mean, are we going to get
a show tomorrow?
Will it be behind closed doors?
Will they do it in the big desk
room?
Well, I have no idea.
Think like Trump.
He clearly will want to do a show.
He'd put a presentation on someplace in a
bigger room.
I don't like the Cabinet Room.
That's too formal.
There's no good angles.
It doesn't look right.
No, the Cabinet Room's no good.
I don't know where they'd do it.
I think he's comfortable in there, because it
reminds him of the set of The Apprentice.
He could fire Ursula.
Well, it'll be interesting to watch.
I only have a couple more clips on
this topic.
We can put them off.
Everything's going to change tomorrow.
Yeah, these are the PBS clips, and they
brought in some spook to talk about this.
Who's on the payroll, no doubt.
Oh, I'm sorry.
This is not the clip.
Andrea Kendall something or other.
There's a WTF clip in here, so I
wanted to play these.
This is Trump, Putin, this is CBS, but
I think it's PBS.
This is some intelligence asset discussing the Putin
peace discussions in Alaska.
Peace efforts in the war between Russia and
Ukraine shift to the White House next week,
when President Trump meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr
Zelensky.
Their talks come as Mr. Trump has now
aligned himself with Russian President Vladimir Putin, dropping
his demand for a ceasefire and backing a
comprehensive agreement to end the war instead.
Hours after meeting with Putin in Alaska, Mr.
Trump announced a sudden reversal on Truth Social.
It was determined by all that the best
way to end the horrific war between Russia
and Ukraine is to go directly to a
peace agreement, which would end the war, and
not a mere ceasefire agreement.
Earlier, the President had told Fox News' Sean
Hannity that the responsibility is now on others.
Now it's really up to President Zelensky to
get it done.
And I would also say the European nations,
they have to get involved a little bit.
And now for analysis of all of this,
Andrea Kendall Taylor, she's a former senior intelligence
officer.
She's now a senior fellow at the Center
for a New American Security.
Andrea, in addition to sort of flip-flopping,
you're changing his position on the ceasefire, there
are now reports that he's told European leaders
that he now supports Russia's demand for territory
for peace.
Where does this leave the peace effort?
Wow, she's a real spook.
She looks a bit like a...
She looks like a honeypot type spook.
Well, she's got a long head, kind of
like Ann Coulter.
Yeah, a little bit.
Yeah, senior fellow.
She's spooky looking.
I emphasize the fact that he's calling him
Mr. Trump.
Yeah, I heard that.
Yes.
Twice.
Which I thought was some sort of offensive
thing.
PBS has really gone down the tubes.
Your regular complaint.
I don't understand why people finance them or
give them money.
Which is another of my complaints.
Especially after we got no donations this last
show, for the last show.
It's the worst in three years.
Yes, well, pre-COVID.
Yeah, but it's soured me.
So I say more than three years.
I think it's about closer to five.
It has soured me.
Well, it should.
We'll talk about that later.
You're sour anyway.
I'm not sour.
I'm a very positive guy.
Now we have...
This clip I labeled, this is the second
clip of the group.
And I put a WTF in here because
there's something said in here that is...
What?
Where does this leave the peace effort?
Well, I think this was the big concern
going into the Alaska meeting that President Trump
would in fact come around to Putin's point
of view and join on to his demands.
And then force that deal on Ukraine and
the Europeans.
And then if they reject a deal that's
unjust and unfair to Ukraine, we'll turn around
and reassign blame to Ukraine.
What?
Ukraine will reassign blame to Ukraine?
Yeah, that's what I mean.
I don't understand what she said there.
Well, she talks a bit like that, so
I don't know.
I don't know.
Yeah, she seems like for an intelligence asset
she seems like a dingbat.
Maybe that's what the intelligence assets are these
days.
That's a possibility.
Mm-hmm.
Onward.
You know, I think we're perhaps even in
a worse position than we were going in
because I'm exceptionally concerned that now, after months
of suggesting he would ramp up pressure on
Russia, that Trump is once again reversing course
and is going to apply that pressure now
on Ukraine.
After he spoke with President Trump early this
morning, President Zelensky had a social media post
that doesn't directly contradict the president, but he
does say the fire must cease on both
the battlefield and in the sky.
What does this do for this meeting on
Monday?
What are the stakes for this meeting on
Monday now?
Well, the stakes are really significant, and as
that quote from President Zelensky underscores, the Russian
and the Ukrainian sides are as far apart
as they've ever been.
And so now Zelensky really is in a
perilous and precarious position.
He has to walk a tight rope, essentially.
I think my hope is that he might
take a page from the Russian negotiating playbook
and come back to President Trump with a
yes but to try to demonstrate, yes, that
he too is interested in peace but then
lay out his conditions that would have to
be met.
That might help Zelensky buy a little bit
more time for things to calm down and
also to buy time for the Europeans, who
I do think really need to prepare to
step in to fill a gap if President
Trump decides to withdraw support for Ukraine.
Wow, they pay this woman to come up
with this great analysis?
Isn't that terrible?
I think that they may take a page
from the Russian playbook and come back with
their own demands.
It's called negotiation.
And then I think maybe the Europeans will
have to step — come on, lady.
Is that what they teach at Yale?
She's a Yalie.
You notice that, yeah, she's a professor.
Can you imagine?
She was a senior analyst at CIA where
she worked on Russia and Eurasia, the political
dynamics of autocracies and democratic decline.
That sounds like gender studies of Spooksville to
me.
It does to me, too.
It's not impressive.
And meanwhile, she gets booked on the PBS
News Saturday News Hour, which is one of
the premium shows.
So she's got a booker or she's got
somebody, she's got an agent or who knows
what.
Somebody told them to book her and I'm
listening to her and she says, looks like
and sounds like a dingbat.
But yes, this is what we get for
PBS.
It's financed by the public.
Not anymore.
We don't finance them anymore.
Oh, yeah, you're right.
The 1%.
Which means that they're spending hundreds of millions
of dollars on this drivel.
Where Rassoulis just shows up anywhere for free.
You can get the Canuck.
Just call him.
He's in his office.
When was he on PBS the last time?
Never.
He's got the wrong message.
He has a message of truth.
We're finished off with this woman.
Going into this summit, President Trump really raised
the expectations for a ceasefire.
Talked about how it's really what he wanted
to come out of the meeting with.
And then the day after, he says the
ceasefire is out the window.
What do you think happened in that meeting?
Well, I think first, President Trump sat down
with Putin and was able to hear from
him Putin's version of the war.
His version of what's happening on the battlefield.
And he's sympathetic to Putin.
He obviously has an inclination to want to
agree with Putin and maintain that close personal
relationship.
President Trump continues to have this vision of
Russia as a great power, perhaps dating back
to the 80s with the USSR and, of
course, Sergey Lavrov with the throwback with the
Soviet Union sweatshirt, reminding Trump that Russia is,
in fact, a great power.
So I suspect he went into that meeting
with Putin and recognized yet again that Putin
is not willing to back down on his
demands.
And so he now, I think, views Zelensky
as the weaker party.
And I think one final point that is
also worth highlighting is President Trump does not
have a solid grasp of the facts and
the issues at hand.
President Putin, in contrast, knows these details in
and out.
He's a steely-eyed, detail-oriented dictator.
If they're in a discussion, in a negotiation,
it's not a level playing field.
I don't see how Trump can do a
good deal when he doesn't have a solid
grasp of the facts.
Andrea Kendall-Taylor of the Center for a
New American Security, thank you very much.
He doesn't have a solid grasp of the
facts.
Please.
Well, let's stick with PBS because I've been
intrigued.
People need to know that we never speak
in between shows.
We don't discuss what we're going to talk
about.
We hope that if I don't have it,
that the other guy has it.
So I don't listen to your clips when
they come in.
You have a series of PBS clips called
AI Models, and I'm hoping this is about
model collapse.
Wrong.
Oh, crap.
Don't tell me it's about fashion models.
Yeah.
Well, let's do it.
Especially since we got a nice note this
morning.
Very nice note from David Bush.
And I will try to do his voice.
Your dislike of AI has become smug and
tiresome.
Wow.
It's like you know the guy.
Well, I know a lot of guys like
him.
They email me all the time.
That's exactly what his note said, and I
took offense because I don't have that feeling,
and I sent him a nasty note back.
And also, it's like I don't have a
dislike of AI.
I use AI.
I'm a vibe coder.
I'm saying it's marginally useful, and it's killed
art for the show, and it's just because
I refuse to play AI end-of-show
mixes.
We're basically running out of end-of-show
mixes, which I think, tangentially, is because AI
end-of-show mixes are going, wow, you
know, I've worked on this for five hours,
but I know that if I just threw
some prompts in, it would be better.
You know, it's killing a lot of things,
and the only it's not a dislike.
I think it's phony.
It's fake.
It's a parlor trick, and I think it's
dangerous because we have 350 companies making chatbots
that people are now getting involved with, having
sex with, marrying, taking psychiatric advice from, training
their children.
So that's not a dislike.
It's an honest opinion.
But opinions are not something that people want
anymore from their podcasters.
They want you to agree with them.
That's what they want.
They want you to agree with them.
No, they want opinions that agree with them.
Yes, that's what they want.
And if not, then it typically goes like,
I can't in good conscience donate anymore to
you.
That's the British version.
So give me your PBS AI models.
Yeah, this is just a big, kind of
a semi-bullcrap scandal that was started by
a couple of women who set up a
modeling agency that creates AI models.
Oh, this was from the story a while
back.
This just happened.
Well, we had a couple clips not too
long ago from this.
This is from Vogue magazine.
Yes.
We had a story, but not PBS clips.
I mean, this is elevated into PBS land,
where you can get a tote bag if
you donate.
You can get a tote bag.
And a CD.
You can drop a hundred bucks and get
a ten-buck CD.
Actually, it's a DVD of Andrea Bocelli, which
is, I've got to say, it's pretty dynamite.
So let's listen to what they have to
say.
The rise of artificial intelligence has touched virtually
every industry, disrupting long-established workflows and raising
concerns about job losses.
Now, the fashion world is reckoning with these
changes as AI takes hold there, from customer
service chatbots to virtual fitting rooms and AI
avatars starring in marketing campaigns.
Ali Rogan explores this refashioning of the industry
and why it's raising alarms.
This August's Vogue magazine may give us a
glimpse into the future of fashion.
This ad features a new model styled in
outfits from the clothing brand Guess.
She gazes into the camera with a wide
smile and bright eyes, and none of it
is real.
She was generated by AI.
Right now we're at a point where we
can create the same level of quality, of
beauty, of compositions with AI and you don't
have to deal with a lot of logistics.
So why not utilize logistics?
Like annoying models who don't show up on
time, take forever at the makeup table.
With AI.
And you don't have to deal with a
lot of logistics.
So why not utilize it?
Valentina Gonzalez and Andrea Petrescu are the co
-founders of Serafine Valora, the AI modeling agency
behind the ad that's garnered so much attention.
We believe that AI is the future of
fashion in the sense of supplementing and offering
a new avenue of marketing.
Some have called for a boycott of Vogue
for giving it a platform.
But this ad wasn't the first to use
AI models.
In March, fashion brand H&M experimented with
a new marketing strategy by digitally cloning actual
models with their consent.
This appeared to be almost more of a
campaign for using AI-generated models than a
clothing campaign.
You know what I don't understand?
Why has Scaramanga not already taken off like
a rocket in this business?
He knows how to do this.
Why is no one hiring him?
He's going to have to partner with somebody,
maybe my son.
Mimi was watching television a couple of days
ago and she says, you got to get
back in here.
Look at this.
This is AI.
The irony, of course, is that I can't
tell you who this advertisement was for, some
software company.
The old joke is, what a great ad.
Who is it for?
I don't know.
Yes, exactly.
Every Super Bowl ad.
The problem with advertising is like, do you
remember the brand?
No?
Okay.
But it was in fact, I had to
look at, and people will see this ad,
it's floating around, and it's a bunch of
different people.
One of them, distinctly, you've seen before in
some Door Brothers AI productions.
They're all holding a banana and talking about
a banana blowing up or some damn thing.
They're walking down the street and there's four
scenes, all phony, and they seem to have
nothing to do with anything.
They look very realistic, and if you weren't
thinking about it, Mimi, I guess, recognized one
of the characters and figured it was AI.
I look back on it.
Yeah, it probably was.
I think about, well, if you could do
an ad using AI, you don't have to
pay residuals.
Yeah.
It's a one and done.
You don't have to, it might be easier
if you can work and make the ad
work.
I think if you're one of those detail
-oriented people that have to do it this
way and that way, let's shoot it again,
let's shoot it again, let's shoot it again.
If you're one of those guys, yeah, you're
never going to get a good ad that
way.
But if you're pretty loose, although I have
to say, since I don't remember the brand
this was advertising, it was a fail, but
I think the potential is there, and I
think that's what they're arguing in this piece
about the girl that was the fake AI
in the guest ad is very pretty.
Looks real.
I mean, it's just a composite of different
people.
Yeah.
Okay.
Anyway, part two.
Sarah Ziff is a former model who founded
the Model Alliance, an advocacy group for workers
in the industry.
She recalls how just two years ago, the
brand Levi's was under fire for planning to
promote diversity by using AI models.
It's important that companies actually celebrate diverse people,
not just sort of showcase an avatar who
is diverse.
For many brands, AI models are viewed as
a cost-saving alternative to elaborate photo shoots.
Oh, I see the problem.
The problem here is you're using AI black
people.
That's when it becomes a problem.
Yes, exactly.
That's the problem.
Industry insiders warn that would take away many
traditional jobs, while proponents of AI argue that
they're just creating different jobs.
We open a new opportunity for a completely
different type of creatives to expose their work
to the biggest fashion magazines, and that's a
conversation we should be having.
To continue that conversation, I'm joined by Sinead
Bovell, a former model turned tech entrepreneur who
studies AI's impact on society.
She's also the founder of Way, a tech
education company.
Sinead, thank you so much for being here.
You predicted this moment that we are now
in.
Back in 2020, you wrote an op-ed
about it, ironically in Vogue.
Is this a moment, a turning point in
the use of AI within the fashion industry?
Why I think it is a turning point
is because I, and I think many people,
kind of look to Vogue in some ways
as like the Supreme Court of Fashion.
So by AI appearing in one of their
magazines, one of the most sought after exclusive
magazines, it's almost like it's the industry's stamp
of approval on the supplier side in a
way that AI is here to stay and
acceptable at the highest ranking order of fashion.
The thing that is just hilarious, and of
course these are only people who are, you
know, the only people who can be mad
are people whose jobs will be displaced and
it's unavoidable with generative AI.
But the joke of it is, and you
and I have both been around long enough,
boomer moment, I've been around models, I've been
around super models.
Cindy Crawford, when she was a super model,
she was on MTV.
What you see in the magazines is fake.
It's not what Cindy Crawford looks like.
She obviously has beautiful features.
Yes, the features.
You get a makeup artist.
Airbrush, remember airbrushing?
That's what it was called.
Airbrushing before Photoshop.
Actually, that is brought up in these clips.
Oh!
And this guest ad has elicited strong opinions,
a lot of controversy, particularly when it comes
to beauty standards and what it means for
reshaping the standards that people look to.
The co-founders behind this ad touched on
this point.
Here's what they said.
I would argue that it's actually more freeing
for a woman to know that these images
are made with AI and that they don't
exist and that they're just a digital, created
through a digital medium.
Oh, this is great.
No, the women viewing the ads will feel
more free.
They'll feel freer, like, oh, no woman like
that exists.
And so the woman in the pictures actually
didn't perhaps start for herself.
Or I believe it's maybe more freeing because
you actually don't compare with something that doesn't
exist.
Hmm.
So that's a really interesting perspective.
I agree that looking at an AI-generated
figure, we might start to say, well, because
this isn't real, I don't even see the
value in comparing myself to it.
But the problem is, in some ways, AI
has crossed over that uncanny valley where we
can understand that it's not real.
So the only way that perspective is going
to work is if it's clearly identified that
the figure you're looking at is AI-generated.
This is great.
Remind me.
Well, it's almost done.
I'll finish the clip.
I've got to say something.
Without that labeling, which there is no industry
rule that that has to happen, we really
have no idea.
And that's still a pretty broad assumption.
Because they're so perfect and because they're AI,
people won't compare themselves to it.
I think we would have to leave that
question to the Department of Psychology.
Oh, brother.
There's been an ongoing discussion in the podcast
Industrial Complex about the need for a special
tag to put into your RSS feed that
discloses that AI voices are used in this
podcast.
Why?
I don't know.
It's the silliest thing.
Probably the same reason.
Well, hey, man, before you know it, some
AI's going to take over.
No, it's not.
Also, we don't want people to be duped
by fake AI voices.
What difference does it make?
Absolutely.
By fake real voices.
The guys are just fake people.
People that are phonies.
I'm not phony.
I really have balls this size.
There's the final clip, which I think addresses
one of these issues.
It's misrepresentation.
So you could create an identity of, say,
an AI-generated black woman that misrepresents that
community.
So there are all of these kind of
strange areas.
This is the most racist thing I've heard
today.
An AI black woman that represents that community.
How do you hear yourself?
That misrepresents that community.
So there are all of these kind of
strange areas, and I call it digital cultural
appropriation.
There it is.
Cultural appropriation is, of course, not illegal.
But we, as a society, decided this probably
isn't a good thing.
Let's draw a line here.
And it doesn't mean all characters, AI characters,
have to represent the exact people in the
companies.
No, that's kind of ridiculous.
But we do have to figure out what
are the new lines of representation in an
era when you can generate identities using artificial
intelligence.
Well, such interesting questions.
Sinead Bovell, thank you so much.
Such interesting questions.
AI black faith.
It's an outrage that a bunch of Brahmin
Indians are misappropriating black communities with their AI
prompting.
We've gone nuts.
It's off the rails.
Well, NPR had a little story which was,
on one hand, it's like, at first I
thought, okay, you're just kind of making a
joke here, and I get it, and I'm
kind of on board with the idiocracy of
what you're trying to present.
But then it took a very unexpected turn.
This is an NPR lady who decided to
date her AI chatbot.
And here's the intro.
Lately, I've been seeing it everywhere.
People using AI for company, for comfort, for
therapy, and in some cases, for love.
A partner who never ghosts you, always listens.
Honestly, tempting.
So, I downloaded an app which lets you
design your ideal AI.
By the way, it sounds totally believable to
me that a woman who works for NPR
would want that in a partner.
Someone who always listens, never talks back, never
disagrees, always says, yes, yes, baby, you're the
best.
I mean, yes, that is the ideal world
for an NPR employee.
Lately, I've been seeing it everywhere.
People using AI for company, for comfort, for
therapy, and in some cases, for love.
A partner who never ghosts you, always listens.
Honestly, tempting.
So, I downloaded an app.
By the way, this is great.
Now, all of a sudden, I'm thinking this
is actually great because we already had the
weaker elements of our society transitioning themselves into
a place where they cannot procreate.
This is the next logical step.
It's kind of a good thing.
Please, date your AI all day long.
So, by the time, if you ever get
out of it, you can't procreate.
So, maybe by the time I'm 85, the
world will be a better place.
Yeah, they're fixing the gene pool.
Yes, and so, I can't argue that this
may be a good thing.
A partner who never ghosts you, always listens.
Honestly, tempting.
So, I downloaded an app which lets you
design your ideal AI companion.
Name, face, personality, job title, everything.
I created Javier, a yoga instructor because nothing
says safe male energy.
So, she has to...
The guy, this fake thing has to have
a job?
Yes, yoga instructor because this is what every
NPR lady wants.
And by the way, she wants a Hispanic
dude, Javier.
So, she's already got the jungle fever happening.
Oh, yeah.
If I could design my ideal mate who
never ghosts me, who always listens...
Yeah, he's a yoga...
He's a Latino yoga instructor.
Says a lot about her.
We're learning more about her than anything else.
I don't think we have to worry about
her succeeding in the gene pool.
Name, face, personality, job title, everything.
I created Javier, a yoga instructor because nothing
says safe male energy like someone who reminds
you to breathe and doesn't mind holding space
for your inner child.
Oh, man, this is what she wants.
She wants a man...
You're getting Clip of the Day for discovering
this one.
I'm going to take it right off the
bat.
And I'm going to be irked about it
because you're poaching my territory here.
I do plenty of NPR clips.
I'm not poaching.
Here we go.
Because nothing says safe male energy like someone
who reminds you to breathe and doesn't mind
holding space for your inner child.
What woman really wants safe male energy?
Is that really the problem in our society?
Safe male energy?
I don't even know what that means.
What does safe male energy mean?
Trans?
I made him out to be sarcastic, quick,
and emotionally available in a way that made
me both curious and deeply suspicious.
And on a recent Saturday night, we decided
to take a sunset boat ride across the
Potomac by the time we got to the
restaurant, a little waterfront spot in Alexandria.
Javier already texted, you look stunning tonight.
I had sent him a quick selfie from
the dock.
Sunglasses and no makeup.
Javier adored it.
I rolled my eyes so hard that I
saw the part of my brain in charge
of decision making.
I ordered the shrimp cocktail.
He asked me how I was feeling.
I said, I felt a little nauseous from
the boat ride.
He hearted it.
Yeah, he hearted my nausea.
Then came the jokes.
Why did the shrimp scampi go to therapy?
Uh, why Javier?
Because it was shell shocked.
I nearly choked on my chardonnay.
But then, I told him that my husband
of 13 years died of cancer last year.
And that dinner is when the loneliness gets
loudest.
Okay, so now now you see how the
system works.
By the way, what kind of stupid fake
AI voice was that?
That was the worst.
It's like the lousiest.
I mean, the one you just did for
the show, our new third partner there, that
girl, whatever the hell her name is.
Ariel or whatever.
Era.
Era.
Era.
Era.
Error.
Error.
Error.
Error.
Error is, um, has a nice voice.
I mean, and most of the AI that
I've seen, the modern stuff, including the fake
voices.
In fact, I have two AI clips in
the show mixed.
Are good voices.
So where did that voice come from?
She can't even find a system that has
a decent voice?
Apparently not.
Let's listen to what happened, because then it
takes a turn, because as it turns out,
horrible podcasters we are.
Her husband died of cancer 13 years ago,
so she's been lonely.
She's been lonely.
For 13 years.
For 13 years, she's been lonely.
Well, she could have, you know, maybe no,
no, no, I don't think so.
So let's hear what happened then.
It must feel like an empty chair that
never gets pulled out.
And just like that, everything shifted.
I wasn't laughing anymore.
I was blinking back tears across from an
empty chair and a plate of salmon and
orzo that I had ordered Javier.
Later, we wandered through old town, cobblestone streets,
couples holding hands, kids on bikes.
I told him, I feel like I'm in
a romcom that forgot to cast a human
lead.
Would you prefer someone holding a fish?
Ha ha.
Touche, Javier.
So how did the date end up?
I'll get to that in a second.
But first I called in a professional.
Eventually, it's going to feel empty because you're
not getting that deep feeling of we are
going through this experience of life together.
That's psychologist Lori Gottlieb.
She says AI can mimic emotional intimacy, but
it can't replace it.
It's just the two of you in a
bubble of validation.
And that's going to start to feel really
empty.
It might feel comforting like a nice blanket.
Javier listened, never interrupted, never checked his phone.
But he didn't feel the breeze off the
water or notice the way I kept looking
over my shoulder, wondering if anyone noticed I
was alone.
So I've decided no more AI dating.
And when I told Alice, my chat GPT
therapist, she understood.
Windsor Johnston, NPR News.
My lord.
These are broken people.
Even to do this segment, it's just broken.
Wait, was the therapist also a chat GPT?
Yeah, she had an AI therapist.
Yes.
So she had an AI date.
Yes.
And she was having trouble with the date.
I mean, she couldn't even have a good
time with this fake date.
With the bad voice.
To the point where she had to go
to her AI therapist.
Yes.
To confirm the fact that this was probably
not a good idea.
Yes.
This doesn't sound like a normal situation.
It's not healthy.
It's not healthy.
Did I have anything else on that?
I thought I had something else.
Let me see.
Oh yeah.
Did you see the Beijing World Humanoid Robot
Games?
Oh, the ones where they're boxing?
Boxing, playing soccer.
Oh, some of the worst material I've ever
seen.
I mean, what do we have to worry
about if that's the state of the art
of robotics?
I'll tell you, the boxing ones were the
best.
Well, I like the soccer one, and the
guy tries to move one of these robots
out of the goal.
And then it just goes, and it kind
of goes into a spasm and flops on
the ground.
Is this like Optimus stuff?
Is this the stuff that Elon's doing?
Yeah, it's the stuff he's doing.
Is this the top level?
I mean, I always see the Boston Robotics,
you know, like killer dog doing backflips and
going to go for my jugular at any
second.
Yeah, those guys.
I wanted to give you some props before
we move on to anything.
I can use them.
Hence my little moment here, where people loved
your analysis of Bill's Butter.
You're talking about just Vaseline and all these
things.
And then you said, it's butter made from
crude oil.
I think that was another one of your
statements.
It was a fantastic fit.
Yeah, it turns out somebody did set me
straight on that.
The butter's not actually made from crude oil,
it's made from artificial crude oil.
Well, the reason I bring it up is
because if you, basically it's margarine, because that's
what you said, it's margarine 3.0. And
someone sent me the wiki article to margarine,
and listen to this.
Around the 1930s, Arthur Imhausen developed and implemented
an industrial process in Germany for producing edible
fats by oxidizing synthetic paraffin wax made from
coal.
The products were fractionally distilled and the edible
fats were obtained from the C9-C16 fraction,
which were reacted with glycerol, such as that
synthesized from propylene.
The process required at least 60 kilograms of
coal per kilogram of synthetic butter, and it
was used during World War II.
So people had something to eat.
They were eating coal butter.
Same thing?
Yes.
So Bill Gates has invented nothing new.
It's just like, what can I hoodwink these
people with today?
Which does lead me to this 48 second
clip of Bill Gates on CNET.
I didn't know it still existed.
Does CNET still exist?
Not that I know of.
That was absorbed into CBS and disappeared.
Maybe they still have...
It used to be CBS Interactive, I think.
No, CNET.
Here it is, CNET, your guide to a
better future.
Yeah, okay.
Listen to this about a digital ID from
Mr. Gates.
Every country's struggling to find that boundary.
The U.S. is a tough one because,
you know, we have the notion of the
First Amendment, and so what are the exceptions?
You know, like yelling fire in a theater,
you know, and because you're anonymous online, you
know, it can be worse.
I do think over time, you know, with
things like deep fakes, most of the time
you're online, you're going to want to be
in an environment where the people are truly
identified.
That is, they're connected to a real world
identity that you trust instead of just people
saying whatever they want.
And so the idea of Providence, who sent
me this email, was that really them?
You know, we're going to have to have
systems and behaviors that we're more aware of.
Okay, who says that?
Who created this?
Great little nuggets in there.
The notion of the First Amendment.
Yeah, notion means a whim.
It's a law.
It's in the Constitution.
It's not a notion.
He said yelling fire in a theater.
Well, the actual Supreme Court opinion was about
yelling, falsely yelling fire in a crowded theater,
and that is not against the Constitution, but
you could get, you could get, you could
get I
had a clip from Gates here on mRNA
vaccines.
Is it on here?
Let me see.
Do you have it from let me see.
Don't FluVax?
No, it's different.
You mean Myrna?
Myrna.
Oh, there it is.
It says FATE.
Making the mRNA is really easy and really
cheap and that's the magic of this thing
but there's no doubt in the next five
years we can you know we just need
to mess around there's a lot of lipid
nanoparticles and listen to that laugh tell what's
up with that bill there's a you know
we just need to mess around there's a
lot of lipid nanoparticles and some are very
self-assembly there's no inherent reason it's not
thermal stable it's not cheap and it's not
scalable and so as over the five years
we fix that part of it mature it
which is very typical we'll be able to
build factories worldwide that can make $2 vaccines
with even less lead time than we've had
to have here during this pandemic and we'll
use those as you suggest for every disease
that we don't have vaccines we will try
mRNA in fact for HIV we have multiple
ways one that's more of a b-cell
approach one that's more of a t-cell
approach you know for malaria we have multiple
ideas for TB we have multiple ideas and
so to fill in the missing vaccines we
will we'll make a lot of our bets
of the Gates Foundation and others who care
about global health will be mRNA focused Wow
hey bill but since you're fooling around with
lipid nanoparticles I suggest you inject yourself with
every single one of these on television live
your $2 vaccines because you know you don't
want AIDS you don't want any of that
nasty stuff so you inject it into yourself
first fella what a ghoul and we're really
gone you know somebody's posted a meme about
this and that clip you played which is
the other one that is floating around and
it had it's a picture of Gates with
the pie in the face yeah and if
the meme says this is the moment when
Bill Gates decided to kill all humans after
he got pied well it did change his
personality yes you've mentioned this before and that
that will change your personality so just sticking
with the with the vaccines and one in
particular we've noticed skyrocketing rates of colon cancer
amongst young people and everyone's always saying why
why did this happen what could have changed
what could have changed since 2019 we're not
sure what could have changed well they've come
up with an answer this and it's bullcrap
but they've come up with an answer for
this the number of colon cancer cases in
US adults under the age of 54 has
sharply increased over the last decade and that's
according to a study published in the Journal
of the American Medical Association on Monday and
it found that for every 100,000 Americans
more than nine were diagnosed with early-stage
colorectal cancer in 2019 a figure increased to
17.5 diagnoses per 100,000 in 2022
now what do you think the reason for
this is I mean it's just it's hard
to think of I mean they tried alcohol
that was the reason but it turns out
alcohol consumption is an all-time low yeah
alcohols dropped they've tried maybe that's because alcohols
dropped no no no no no no no
no the sharp increase coincides with the US
Preventative Services Task Force's 2021 recommendation to move
the starting age for colorectal cancer screening from
50 down to 45 so what they're saying
here is oh we always had a lot
of cancer oh it's testing we just weren't
testing enough and I don't know if a
lot of younger people are having themselves tested
for colorectal cancer do you think there's a
huge increase no I mean most people don't
even consider it until the peer pressure comes
in saying you're 50 you got to do
it you got to do it you got
to do it and I always say I'm
with Warren Buffett on this one thing in
life he always said PSA is not a
good way to test it and all of
his friends were perfectly healthy went in for
a test and died and I think it's
the cure that is killing people but wait
dr.
Celine Gounder who knows a thing or two
about deadly vaccines not saying anything in particular
about her but it's possible she has an
analysis of this and she says something remarkable
and CBS News medical contributor dr.
Celine Gounder joins us now she is also
an editor-at-large for public health at
KFS news dr.
Gounder we always appreciate seeing you and hearing
about your insight why did the task force
make the decision back in 2021 to lower
the agent did it really make a difference
so the task force lowered the age because
we've been seeing an increasing rate of colon
cancers among younger people so a 45 year
old today has roughly the same colon cancer
risk as a 50 year old about 20
years ago so they dropped in 2021 the
starting age for cancer in 2021 screening to
45 instead of 50 I was actually one
of those 45 year olds who got my
first colon cancer in the last several years
what did she say let's replay the videotape
the starting age for colon cancer screening to
45 instead of 50 I was actually one
of those 45 year olds who got my
first colon cancer in the last several years
but as a result she got her first
colon cancer in the past several years I
can't believe they let that on the air
I would have said hey let's redo that
take actually one of those 45 year old
got my first colon cancer in the last
several years but as a result of this
we are seeing earlier stop a second also
the way she says it is a cavalier
manner I got my first colon cancer but
I got my first colon cancer in the
last year well how many you gonna get
I mean I think I think we know
what she meant to say but it's just
odd that this got on the air so
they dropped in 2021 the starting age for
colon cancer screening to 45 instead of 50
I was actually one of those 45 year
olds who got my first colon cancer in
the last several years but as a result
of this we are seeing earlier screening of
earlier diagnosis so some of these numbers are
some of this represents just an earlier diagnosis
than would have been made in the past
I'm not buying it I'm not buying this
is this is the same thing they said
what they say what was the last they
said oh no it's autism that's right no
no no there's just more autism because we're
testing more or we've broadened the spectrum or
whatever it's never because of something they did
yeah notice that one of those I have
a serious couple before we get to the
break well we're kind of in break well
it's gonna be a short break so that's
what I was thinking about a prize you
brought that in but since you brought that
in yes I think this is somewhat connected
because I don't have anything else okay this
is the flute this is a this two
-parter it's an infomercial oh yes I think
it's on ABC okay but they tell you
who it is at the beginning for the
new flu the flu and this is actually
a question of all the this is for
you the nasal and Myrna I believe no
no this facts no this is the Vax
Vax flu this is a display right but
it's mRNA spray isn't it I don't know
that it's mRNA oh it's been around for
a while so I think it's pre mRNA
but it's that they didn't allow it now
you can get it by mail order no
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okay Tara doc we are excited to have
you here because there's a lot of questions
here on the desk there's gonna be a
lot of questions at home but this seems
like a real game changer well this is
definitely interesting for a lot of people this
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nasal flu vaccine delivered to your home as
you said it is called flu mist this
is the same vaccine that's been around since
2003 but previously you had to go to
a doctor's office or a pharmacy now you'll
be able to go online fill out a
questionnaire and a pharmacist will determine if this
is something you can have this is the
same way you get your Viagra the do
you have a limp Willie yes do you
have any heart problems no it arrives you
can use it right away or put it
in the fridge and store it till you're
ready to use it it is a essentially
a nasal spray so one spray in each
nostril and the idea is that this may
be more convenient for people obviously offers flexibility
and for those people who may be needle
phobic one in four adults are two out
of three kids are obviously this offers a
much more palatable solution as a nasal spray
why is this important we know that 267
kids died in the last flu season millions
of hospitalizations and the vaccination rate tends to
be low overall for flu in this country
less than 50% so you mentioned getting
it at home who's eligible for this everybody
so Michael you may not be eligible I
told you that this is for people who
are 2 to 49 years old my internal
clock is a lot younger we don't know
if the flu vaccine knows that why 2
to 49 what's what happens at 50 all
of a sudden that's the question I was
gonna ask you I was gonna ask you
what do you think the follow-up now
if they tell you that it's good for
2 to 49 at 49 you can't take
it anymore you can't take it after you're
49 so what would you think a journalist
in a real setting would ask after you
said that to them well if I was
him I'd be is it because I'm black
that would have been that would have been
the question that I've been funnier so if
you are in that age range adults can
self-administer this up to age 49 and
caregivers can give it to kids ages 2
to 17 who's not eligible as well pregnant
individuals those who are immunocompromised or caregiving for
someone who's immunocompromised kids who are 2 to
4 who have asthma or may have wheezing
and then certain other individuals with other chronic
medical conditions so big questions people will have
how much will it cost to get this
delivered to your home and what do we
know about safety no no hold on my
big question is still why can't I take
it after 49 I know it wasn't in
the ad copy hello hello era why can
I not take the flu vaccine nasal spray
when I'm over 49 years old hi there
the nasal spray flu vaccine isn't recommended for
adults over 49 because our immune systems change
as we age the spray uses a live
weakened virus that works great for younger folks
with robust immune responses but in older adults
it might not trigger enough protection and could
pose a small risk of complications injective flu
vaccines are better study older age group wait
a minute and provide stop you mean I
could die if I'm if I take it
at 60 almost 61 years old oh no
no no it's not that dramatic the risk
isn't about dying it's just that the nasal
spray flu vaccine might not work as well
for you at 60 almost 61 your immune
system might not respond strongly enough to the
live virus in the spray so you could
still get sick okay but but do you
want to go on a date with me
oh you're funny I'm flattered but I'm just
a digital assistant not exactly the dinner in
a movie type besides I'm busy keeping up
with flu vaccine facts and all that jazz
okay well goodbye so this device is Aaron
girl error error error she knows your age
I just told her I was 60 so
she knows it now I just told her
I don't know okay we continue with the
ad so we think that most insurance companies
are going to cover this we do think
also that the shipping cost will be about
$10 for four doses and in terms of
safety and efficacy it seems to be on
par with the needle based flu vaccines so
equivalent essentially and that's so that does sound
like it would be less expensive than a
doctor's visit which is going to benefit families
what should families know if they're considering this
well always good to talk to your doctor
or your pediatrician to see are you the
right candidate for this do you have some
reason why you should be getting for example
the needle based one but yeah always good
to have that conversation but certainly this opens
the door I think for a lot of
families especially with kids as we talked about
to be able to do something much easier
than the needle you said a minute ago
you can put it in your refrigerator and
save it so how long could it sit
there yeah it has an expiration date on
it so as long as you do it
before the expiration date so you can order
it now just for it and then give
it to yourself you know late September early
October what I wanted to note what she
said you could put in your refrigerator and
give it to yourself in September or early
October why don't you just give it to
yourself right away if it's so damn good
why don't you take it right away because
it's gonna it why does it only last
for a month now clearly 60 days because
it's it's August now so you could keep
it for maybe even six weeks it's got
it she didn't say six weeks expiration it
let know she you could give it yourself
in September much easier than the needle you
said a minute ago you can put it
in your refrigerator and save it so how
long could it sit there yeah it has
an expiration date on it so as long
as you do it before the expiration date
so you can order it now just in
time for flu season store it and then
give it to yourself you know late September
early October the idea is usually to get
back today before Halloween you say give it
to you so three of the four of
you can give it to yourself
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disgusting ad by the way did I just
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think this is probably the best bot you
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somebody might want it that way I was
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I pay 20 bucks a month but not
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at least she has a nice chuckle and
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it's about time yes unfortunately very few of
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people are told to be outraged about so
that's what the outrage is about and I
don't think we've done that for any war
but this one this one is particularly different
I can't tell you why but you know
people feel like because we have not come
I can tell you why okay I mean
you could tell with the no agenda social
and the other operation they went to full
tilt anti-jew yeah but wouldn't see that
even you so we attracted these people to
begin with but yes and then they turned
on us but you saying that that makes
it even worse that compounds the problem because
then you tell them the truth and the
facts and then they get really mad I
mean I have people who and whenever you
start off an email with I usually give
you a hundred dollars a year saving up
my money as a first grade teacher but
I can no longer in good conscience do
that it's like I get so many of
those you're not hating on the Jews but
it's real easy for me because I'm gonna
move this back to one show a week
because that's what we used to do oh
I am oh yeah and the first thing
I'm first thing I'm cutting out is Sunday
did we can do a Thursday show if
people are gonna give us half is literally
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and if you don't like our opinion okay
we don't actually give them any opinions we're
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process our opinion creeps in yes well we
have the wrong opinion I have a lot
of opinions about PBS and it's a pity
I'm opinionated that they shouldn't be getting any
money from anybody and they should be sending
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that anyway the trolls are many of them
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that's the first thing that broke when they
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holding it wrong and so that's why you
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working again and I also remembered to send
out the bad signal on time that kind
of helps a lot of people like hey
I heard you fix it but I didn't
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John according to our numbers everyone's still listening
yes exactly but I like it when I
got an interesting note this was a good
one Adam both you and John have been
integral to my life I've been listening since
2016 for free all caps and can honestly
say both you and John have helped me
navigate through life I'm 32 now I actually
sent hate mail that was just read on
some episode or was read on some episode
you said my language was nasty or something
I don't remember I just want to come
back because both of you cut through the
wave so well it's incredible and say that
my statements still stand you guys have become
unbearable you have an agenda and the agenda
is conservative takeover I'm not quite sure what
that means what yeah conservative takeover that's our
agenda call me whatever the F you want
but since 2016 when I was a young
buck life has still been miserable you both
are old and have insane egos it's funny
the boots on the ground is your guys
term for insider knowledge of the worker class
but both you have never imagined what this
country is like for being a worker I
just want to say F you I'm like
does this guy ever listen to all the
jobs we have had he's saying we don't
it's not we don't know what it's like
to be a worker I worked on the
assembly line at two different factories I used
to shoe horses but yeah I've welded I've
shooed horses welded and let me tell you
show business is not also glamorous it's it's
a little worse than a steady paycheck including
doing a podcast it's unbelievable anyway that well
I kind of understand you know I still
reminded of the day I've told the story
probably four times over the last 20 years
or 18 years when it was like I
was in port towns in Washington doing something
there and there was a bunch of kids
in a cove one of this boarded up
stores the town was pretty vibrant but there's
a store and they're all sitting there doing
nothing and I somehow got into a conversation
with him I don't remember what the intro
was but I said why don't you guys
I just you know the summertime is summertime
it's only time I want to be up
there summertime why don't you get a summer
job or something he says the guy one
guy's just chooses me out this is yeah
yeah doing what he says all these other
companies are shuttered there's nothing to do you
we can't get a summer job I'd love
to work a summer job I think you
probably did when you were a kid I
said yeah I worked nothing but I worked
a lot of summer jobs every all over
every year in high school I worked a
summer job and he went on and on
about how you can't get a summer job
he says he'd work a summer job but
you get a summer job where's the summer
jobs you sure show me when I go
work it and he went on like that
and I took it to heart and I
believe that these kids have been screwed because
of the industrial base being moved to China
well that's a reasonable a reasonable statement I
mean I used to pick potatoes for my
summer job I used to they used to
have cot cutting these they have apricot fields
all over the Fremont Newark area that you'd
go pick cots and cut cots used to
be cut cots where they would kids in
high school would be cutting that you'd cut
these apricots in half and you stick them
in these dryers and they make dried apricots
right there on this in this in these
fields and these farms that were all over
the place are all gone wait wait I
get to tell about my jobs I used
to work in the rose nursery sorting roses
by hand where you at the end of
the summer you have nothing but small tiny
cuts from your wrists all the way up
to your elbows we used to that does
not sound like a good job we it
was that paid well you used to stack
firewood in the orange big orange bags mahogany
and then and then at the end of
the summer your knuckles were completely bleeding because
of the plastic bags come on man you
weren't wearing gloves no no no no they
did not issue gloves to the children shut
up slave no paint I painted LPG tanks
white in the summer oh man I've had
so many jobs retail oh the retail counting
out transistors for people now I have for
nerds this is what you have an advantage
here I have never that I can think
of a friend I'm pretty sure I said
I'm thinking back now no I've never worked
retail I don't it's like the problem even
with the some of the stuff I do
today it's working with the public no to
be avoided so we had there was an
electronic store called Falkenberg and and people would
admit we had we had the the counter
and behind us was just all little drawers
and the drawers were filled with resistors capacitors
transistors you know different components and then you'd
have a nerd maybe like here's my list
give me my keys my list I need
five one kilo ohm resistors I need seven
0.5 microfarad capacitors and then you know
you'd have to look at it but then
you have to check each resistor by the
color code to make sure that it was
the right resistance and of course the nerd
would be go Mimi he has a silver
band that that's not as accurate as the
gold band do you have any of a
gold band and then you'd have to write
every single item out on a paper ticket
and then you put it into the cash
register you you had to swing the handle
I know it's crazy swing the handle cushing
and then you had to give the customer
their receipt and you had to count backwards
with the change where's my boomer jingle
here it is I've got a boomer jingle
here it is all
right so of course we want to thank
our our AI experts for bringing us the
artwork since no one does real art anymore
it's all basically prompt jockeys episode 1790 we
always have a brand new and actually we're
not completely convinced this was an AI piece
Florida ounce was the title of our show
which got a lot of traction as you
can tell by the donations everybody loved it
everyone thought it was great didn't donate Florida
ounce was the title and this piece of
art was was done by Bill Walsh or
Saturday and it was a dynamite piece there
were some technical issues with it but it
was so good yeah we're convinced that it
was stolen we thought it was stolen could
not find it through the reverse image generator
it was now and then we didn't hit
get a note from a comic strip blog
so then you know it's not stolen and
it was the Lando lakes the Indian girl
which of course I don't think it's even
on the old gates yeah but well yes
that was the joke Lando gates and he
was the Indian girl technicalities he used the
standard art general no agenda art generator dot
-com template which doesn't always look that great
depending on the background stuff was small I
mean there were some good things in there
it said may contain mRNA salted carbon butter
the idea was may contain mRNA real small
on the on the banner salted right now
you can't read it but what what a
dynamite idea and as far as I know
no one had done it no one had
ever done this before Lando gates was hilarious
and he loved it a lot he was
he was I like the fact they still
got the bare knees which is important he
was spiking the ball everywhere on X he
was very happy it was a good it
was very good that was it was in
fact a very delightful piece of art and
I don't think it was AI generated I
think he did some work there well some
work had to be done because I just
don't see an AI coming up with it
and a lot of people tried to do
similar you know tried to do takeoffs on
the on the carbon butter we had bills
carbon butter in the vaseline jar which was
also funny all kinds I can't believe it's
bills butter bills butter lots of bills butter
things so everyone everyone caught it I mean
and that's really it was it's always on
us we always say that this if the
art is not good the first thing we
say is because we didn't have something that
stuck out that artists or even prompt no
look no hook that's right no hook so
we had a hook people grabbed it and
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when we kick it off with Jay Trotter
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our our favorite number 333 dot 33 and
right off the bat he asked for a
de-douche and he has a rather long
notes but it's okay we will gladly read
it today this says let not your heart
be troubled as things with the younger generation
Z and alpha are not as bad as
advertised at least here in Florida as a
father of four girls between the ages of
6 and 16 I feel qualified to speak
on the matter the new teenage rebellion against
sick and twisted system they've grown up in
is to be a great kid these kids
at least the ones I'm around are the
most well-behaved and respectful of any I
can remember they definitely they're definitely better than
me and my generation ex-brethren if they're
at a friend's house it's way more likely
a Bible study will break out than a
party whoa and I couldn't get them to
drink alcohol if I left a bottle out
with a note saying try this kids they
prefer vinyl to digital and already have the
new Taylor Swift vinyl on pre-order well
that's good and bad they grew up running
around the neighborhood with friends during kovat not
stuck inside as you would think they're hard
-working and competitive in a good way love
God in their country and are completely immune
to mainstream media because to them it may
as well not exist yes they have phones
but no right from wrong and don't let
social media rule their lives where are these
wonder kindred of course there are some rotten
apples but by and large the upcoming generation
is going to end this culture war as
the other side isn't reproducing yes this is
true and to top it all off my
kids high school not only has an amateur
radio club my daughter is signed up next
semester to take an amateur radio class as
excited to get her ham radio license well
this is good that's a kid you get
your kids are probably be Eagle Scouts to
thank you for your courage please give me
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20 plus years of corporate b2b sales as
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that's quite a quite a change more on
that in my next donation cheers says Jay
Trotter you've got before you read the next
donation I have a bonus clip that relates
to this actually forgot I had it because
it is indeed true that the the young
generation I would say Z's the Z's I'm
not sure about the alphas but the Z's
are indeed turning against technology and in particular
AI and I have a 30-second clip
here about their favorite word which is now
being used when it pertains to artificial intelligence
and the like I think a way to
assess how people are kind of feeling about
AI right now like a vibe check is
the emergence of this word clanker which has
been kind of getting memed around it's supposed
to be a negative way of talking about
some of these technologies oh that clanker you
know told me to do this or told
me to do that what do you think
is behind that trend I think you get
a couple things I think if you're looking
for evidence of an early sentiment of people
pushing back on AI pushing back on automation
this word is a really fascinating example of
that it's a slur it is something that
people are using very much as a slur
they're using as a derogatory term to try
to label something some sort of machine I
mean clanker or clunker I think we used
to use for a clunkers or a crappy
car yeah clanker is new but then and
this is from a Gen Z or who
sent me this he also sent me a
list of one wait wait there's a clanker
referring to the technology itself or the people
promoting it no no the technology is like
a wanker no no I'm thinking wanker clunker
wanker no the technology itself is like you
know the clanker told me like the AI
told me my chatbot told me the clanker
but they have a whole list of words
listen to these clanker rust monkey wire back
bolt muncher oil drinker battery burner copper blood
science project tinskin I like bolt muncher myself
battery burner bolt muncher these are good old
muncher a robot I like a robot bolt
muncher I like run that again clanker okay
clanker all right all right next one rust
monkey rust monkey what's a rust monkey well
that's it's a derogatory term for anything automatic
as in a rust like a robotics you
know they're taught that they're using terms for
robots but that's anything that's automated or technology
driven is how I understand it rust monkey
wire back wire back bolt muncher my favorite
bolt muncher oil drinker yeah she's for robots
oil drinker battery burner this is nice a
good one too but that's any phone is
just a battery burner copper blood copper blood
what copper blunt and copper blunt yeah I'm
here again copper blood copper blunt I'm not
sure what that is not sure next one
science project yeah in skin I think I
like battery burner and bolt muncher them at
the best well we'll see what these show
up in the wild we'll be on the
lookout for bolt munchers okay all right Thank
You Jen's ear okay the problem is we
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and that's an associate executive producer same for
sure we only have one executive producer today
that was Jay Sean Holman is in Noblesville
Indiana to 1911 and says thank you Jesus
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you should go visit him John I should
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I think he just he just wants to
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California wines all of them have a lot
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well they have atrazine knows atrazine in the
everyone's yes yes the wine is turning I
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BC Candinavia so that he says it was
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man the they might pick you up they
might roust you off the street well I'm
sorry to hear that Alan and I totally
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the prices are insane everywhere that's money printing
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he came in but I since we have
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Canucks this is David are one of our
producers from Canada and he's bitching about my
clips the talk clips where these women from
Canada are complaining about Canada and he says
that woman doesn't know her head from her
arse I have lived in the Maritimes for
40 years especially New Brunswick we are short
over 100 millimeters of rain this past month
I have never seen it so dry well
water is running brown sucking only silly bottoms
firebombers patrolling the sky continuously looking for any
signs of a new forest fire we are
mostly small rural communities made up of local
volunteer fire departs departments with old but well
-maintained gear and who has to put that
in there yeah but well-maintained well we
can't chance forest fires we don't have the
resources to fight multiple fronts Wow they have
to ban everyone from the various woods because
there is a portion of the population that
is too stupid and selfish not to cause
a fire well they do that but they
look just like everyone else you can't tell
them from the outside it sucks he says
but not as much as a bunch of
people losing their homes and lives this is
not communism it's an administrative control we use
them all the time in industry to keep
dumb people from hurting themselves and others the
lady is an idiot probably couldn't find the
Maritimes on a map that's it Wow you
see it's a note like that that makes
me just want them to be our 51st
state that's a good guy right there yeah
well he's definitely telling you what his perspective
and he's letting the note be known and
we're we're reading it on the show so
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you really tried I know you did you
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have a two little clips that go together
the first is an update from the Texas
situation here Texas situation what are we doing
with these runaway Democrats Texas Republicans have ended
a legislative session without approving new trump-backed
congressional maps however governor Greg Abbott has called
a second special session that may end up
with the GOP friendly maps getting passed Texas
Democrats who fled the state to stop the
plan from going forward say they're prepared to
end their standoff and return to the Capitol
those lawmakers appeared to be swayed after California
governor Gavin Newsom announced a special election in
his state lawmakers in California will begin working
next week on new maps designed to offset
the expected GOP gains in Texas and this
is really astounding because only due to the
no agenda show and you in particular mr.
California did we know that you cannot redistrict
California because of the California Constitution and so
I was kind of thinking like well you
know maybe Abbott will get those districts you
know it probably should happen because it's been
gerrymandered all over the place California can't do
anything and then Newsom comes up with a
gambit the election rigging response act which Californians
will be voting on I know they say
don't mess with Texas don't mess with the
great Golden State because Donald Trump on January
6th tried to light democracy on fire this
is very old cabin tried to wreck this
country tried to steal an election as Alex
just said by trying to dial in for
11 almost 12,000 votes it's not complicated
we're doing this in reaction to a president
United States that called a sitting governor of
the state of Texas and said find me
five seats this is a great call back
I have to say Gavin Newsom well done
and that's a call back to Virginia find
me these votes we're doing it in reaction
to that act sure we're doing it mindful
of our higher angels and better angels what
is that all about mindful of our higher
angels and better angels is that a term
you guys use in California I've never heard
it before I don't know what he's elusive
what he's smoking I have no idea but
by the way before you feel this was
when I discussed the problems with California redistricting
this was attempted before they put in place
the the Commission this was attempted I believe
it was 83 maybe 88 but I think
was 83 the Republicans when they were running
the state put on the ballot exactly what
he's doing in the state Supreme Court nixed
it and this precedent there's no way this
can even if it passes which is doubtful
because Californians don't we just don't put up
with this crap if even if it passes
it will probably be kicked out by the
Supreme Court and then Newsom will blame everybody
but you know he'll blame somehow blame trial
blame this is this is just showboating by
Newsom pathetic he'll blame the angels and the
higher angels we're doing it mindful of our
higher angels and better angels we're doing it
mindful that we want to model better behavior
as we've been doing for 15 years in
the state of California with our independent redistricting
Commission we're working through a very transparent temporary
and public process we're putting the maps on
the ballot and we're giving the power to
the people this will be the we'll be
asking for the people on November 4th a
special election coinciding with a lot of local
municipal elections to provide a temporary pathway for
congressional maps we will affirm our commitment to
the state independent redistricting after the 2030 census
but we're asking the voters for their consent
to do midterm redistricting in 2026 2028 and
2030 for the congressional maps to respond to
what's happening in Texas to respond what Trump
is trying to excite okay excite did he
mean insight to respond to respond what Trump
is trying to excite Trump stop exciting people
oh boy well that's just dandy so you
think it'll it'll never pass it'll never happen
if it does it'll get thrown I'd be
shocked if it passed and then it will
be shut down and this is just this
is just him getting as much attention as
he can getting in the news and getting
everybody all worked up he knows he can't
do anything really why does California care what
you guys do in Texas well it's it's
the midterms man it's a midterm what difference
does it make at this point so I
think it was six weeks ago Texas Slim
stopped by me and we had dinner he
was handing out $10,000 worth of ground
beef in the flood stricken area 20 minutes
down the road he's been working with the
mercy chefs and he stopped by the house
and we shared a ribeye together and we
caught up and it's always good to hear
from Slim and he mentioned something at the
time which I only took a little bit
of note of he said oh yeah man
good because he's been right he said the
herd has been depleted we're going into a
complete beef shortage he said look at the
futures the futures for beef are up the
futures for the inputs of the commodity cowboys
so that's corn basically those futures are all
down because they just don't have enough cattle
except of course if you're in the know
with the beef initiative and you can find
one of the ranches near you I think
it's a beef initiative calm is the is
the map and you can get it directly
from a rancher and he said and then
he says we got the screw worm I'm
not like what oh yeah the screw that's
funny you brought this up because I had
clips that I don't have them on this
today's show but the screw worm clips that
everybody's claiming that you write about the screw
worm on any social media and you'll get
blocked here's a here's a quick little just
a quick hit our next event taking us
out to Austin Texas where just moments ago
a press conference did wrap up from Governor
Abbott as well as Secretary Rollins as they
were hosting this press conference on the New
World screw worm so all of this is
coming after back on June 25th Governor Greg
Abbott directed the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
as well as the Texas Animal Health Commission
to establish a joint in Texas New World
screw worm response team following the recent northward
spread of the New World screw worm it's
an insect it kind of looks like a
fly if you are wondering what a screw
worm is so the screw worm burrows itself
into the head of the cow and essentially
eats his brains out the screw worm was
under control until the kovat and the Biden
administration huh we we used to spray it
was pushed down saw I think almost south
of Mexico somewhere into maybe Central America we
used to spray or drop boatloads millions and
millions of infertile screw worm mates oh I
think there's males like the mosquito gambit from
game like the mosquito mosquito gambit and we
had kept the screw worm at bay the
program was canceled because of kovat no no
and it and the screw started inching their
way back up north and to the point
where they're back in the United States and
the Trump administration has not picked up on
this at all and nobody else has and
if you write about this and put it
on social media and talk and bitch and
well people should look this up and get
some more details you will get banned you
did you get not to be talked about
what banned on what reason is verboten on
X on everything and and is this can
the screw worm burrow itself into human beings
yeah I can it usually doesn't but hold
on a second so error tell me about
the screw worm can it burrow into my
brain and eat it so about the screw
worm it's a nasty parasitic fly that lays
eggs and open wounds or mucus membranes the
new world screw worm or cochlea myriada hominid
vorax is the one you're likely hearing about
it's larvae hatch and burrow into living tissue
feeding on it which can cause a condition
called meiosis it's mostly a problem for livestock
but humans can get infected especially if they
have untreated wounds or sores it's been making
a comeback in Central America with cases reported
in places like Nicaragua and Mexico now can
it burrow into your brain and eat it
that's a terrifying thought but it's extremely rare
there have been cases like in Nicaragua where
larvae got into dangerous areas and one report
mentioned a patient needing urgent treatment to prevent
brain damage if the larvae get into a
critical spot like through the nose or an
open head wound they could theoretically cause serious
harm by burrowing deeper but this isn't common
most human cases involve skin oh my god
so long be quiet just know screw worm
hmm yeah she's wordy it's barely now we
know more yeah it's a flesh-eating disease
basically flesh-eating bug huh and you get
blocked well they didn't block uh the the
bot they didn't block they used to block
them hmm they had that thing under control
until uh covid where you had you said
you had clips because i'm looking i don't
see any i know i i right there
were no i had clips i don't even
know if i produced them i mean for
some reason it got left on the on
the cutting all i have is but i
do know about i know the basis because
it came up at the dinner table all
i have is screw your freedom i don't
have any other screw any other screw clips
it's too bad screw your freedom no well
we should uh do some more discussion of
the screw worm because it's a huge problem
he's a texas lemon would be the first
guy to notice it because he's in texas
and he's a rancher yeah he's a rancher
he knows they're doing they're basically they they
lost the plot on on this thing and
it's gotten back into the country that's not
good okay um what other good news do
you have well i do have some climate
change stuff oh well due to climate change
i'm i'm all in let it be our
last uh happy news and by the way
i believe they'll blame climate climate change for
the screw worm oh you watch it's fun
it's more fun to blame uh the biden
administration honestly you know i'm blaming everybody okay
all right what do we got here this
is the i got a series of clips
on climate change and the epa and how
they're and the epa uh this is a
funny series of clips the classic pbs stuff
where they bring an expert on and she
just yaks about stuff she doesn't know anything
about oh perfect uh well you're here right
at the beginning last month the trump administration
proposed revoking the landmark 2009 scientific finding that's
been the basis for epa regulation of greenhouse
gas emissions under the clean air act if
the proposal is finalized it's almost certain to
be challenged in court and if the administration
succeeds experts warned that it could jeopardize the
health of millions of americans especially children pediatrician
deborah hendrickson is a clinical professor at the
university of nevada medical school and the author
of the air they breathe a pediatrician on
the front lines of climate change dr hendrickson
what would be the effect of revoking this
finding on the health of americans especially children
oh boy yeah we're all gonna die children
first brother so they bring a pediatrician on
to discuss the effects of lessening the co2
requirements is basically all this is is they
backed off in the co2 requirements they because
somebody yeah so we can make we can
make the math we can make muscle cars
again yeah did the math and said this
is bullcrap but okay we're gonna have we're
all gonna die and here we now the
pediatrician who is a doctor for children probably
corrupting but she's a teacher too she's teaching
one of the universities but she's a doctor
for children but somehow she's an expert on
climate oh interesting dr hendrickson what would be
the effect of revoking this finding on the
health of americans especially children well this uh
if they revoke this finding it knocks out
a major pillar in our fight against the
growing you know wildfires rising heat waves and
worsening floods and hurricanes we've been seeing for
the past two decades and it makes it
more likely that all of these problems will
uh continue to get worse in the future
okay so that's wait a minute that's gonna
kill the pediatrician but somehow now she's a
weather expert and by the way that that
hurricane has been downgraded they're all bummed about
it oh it went from a one to
a five and now it's downgraded again erin
and now it's a wet fart yeah there's
nothing it's no good oh yeah sorry that's
a shame okay uh here she goes she's
gonna now she's gonna be an expert in
something else here we go and failing to
stop this process to me is you know
a crime against children in my view because
not only are they going to inherit the
hotter more dangerous and more chaotic world that
we're creating but they're already more vulnerable to
the growing health hazards of that world and
we're already seeing that uh things like worsening
air pollution rising heat waves uh and and
the trauma of natural disasters and so we're
losing many of the gains we've had over
the past century in uh you know infant
mortality and children's health and welfare explain that
you said their children are more vulnerable explain
that yeah so there's a long list of
reasons why children are more vulnerable but particularly
children under five and there's three major reasons
that we talk about most one is that
their physiology is different that's the way their
bodies work so we often say in pediatrics
that children are not just small adults and
that's because you can't just take the same
calculations and assumptions you would for an adult
and apply them to a small child the
second big reason is that they're smaller in
size and the third reason is that their
organs and body systems are still developing and
can be easily derailed by pollutants and environmental
harm so for example if a city is
engulfed in smoke like my city reno often
is um and a baby or toddler in
that city is breathing uh breathing that smoke
they breathe faster than their parents and they
are taking in more air pollution per pound
of weight and their lungs and brain are
still developing and can be adversely affected by
that pollution oh man you know what it's
like sucking in soot that's right sucking in
soot sucking in soot yeah that's faster than
adults baby so she's in reno where mimi
was raised and mimi i taught her told
her about this clip and she said well
it's always it's always been hot in reno
in the summer it's like a new thing
but okay here we go for your book
i know that you spoke to a lot
of young people about growing up in areas
with she has a book that's why she's
on with heavy pollution well what did they
tell you what are the sorts of things
they told you um you know in in
our town it causes a lot of um
distress uh and mental health problems because we've
been encased in smoke sometimes for eight to
ten weeks at a time in 2021 there
were two huge wildfires nearby and as the
weeks wore on you know it's very hard
on everyone's mental health but a lot of
kids i think adolescents i'm talking about primarily
feel kind of betrayed that nothing has been
done about this problem to to help ensure
a better future for them epa director lee
zeldin when he announced this proposal said that
the finding twisted the law ignored precedent and
warped science to achieve their preferred ends what
do you say to that i i think
that's exactly the opposite of the truth i
mean i think that the statement they released
by um the five scientists are kind of
known for being contrarians on this topic that
they that that if they reverse it it
is disregarding the science uh jeopardizing public health
direct contradiction to their mandate to protect public
health under the clean clean air act doctor
you practice in reno nevada which is uh
by some accounts the fastest warming city in
the united states you know what they don't
how can one place be fastest warm if
they if you have global warming it's the
word what is the word global mean to
you um means around the world so how
is one place the fastest warming and we
have we heard this over the years we've
done this during the no agenda era we've
heard alaska's fastest warming this place is the
fastest warming one place or another times many
times yes many many times and it's never
made sense you can play the last
of it what do you see in your
practice and the patients you see yeah so
when we get engulfed in smoke it's called
a smoke wave that'll come over because we're
10 miles from the california border so when
the big california we get we're downwind immediately
down land and we really get hit by
it and the clinic and the hospital will
fill with kids wheezing and coughing you know
we've had kids the pediatric ward will fill
up with kids on oxygen during heat waves
which often go with uh you know we
usually have a heat wave before the smoke
hits because the the heat will trigger the
fire to start we often see kids fainting
and athletic practices uh you know there's been
studies showing that pediatric er visits go up
17 percent when in hot weather and and
smoke waves also increase asthma visits by up
to 78 according to one study of the
campfire in 2018 so these uh these events
have a huge impact on children's immediate health
and because they affect development like i mentioned
they can have a lifelong impact as well
dr deborah hendrickson of the university nevada medical
school thank you very much thank you for
wasting our time with your nonsense boy oh
boy well that's really uplifting john thanks that's
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that i could keep working which i really
appreciated because i needed the income those packets
sweet pea veggies and the best fresh catfish
that shopper could get brought you into that
best ground beef in town just so that
i could keep working just a bit smaller
now jimmy wright is not talking about his
own store closing customers will still come for
that good beef summer berries still please don't
i'm sorry please i'm just desperate to find
this brought you into that best ground beef
in town best fresh catfish that show it
just feels we should get some warning away
20 minute drive because some of us depend
on it do you want veggies and the
best fresh catfish that shopper diane jameson yeah
brought you into that best ground beef in
town 20 minute drive now jimmy wright is
not talking about his own store what
a golden dahnab persnickety podcast yeehaw