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Hey Stooge, the podcast is beginning, get on
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the phone.
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Adam Curry, John C.
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DeVora.
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It's Thursday, August 28th, 2025.
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This is your award-winning Kimmel Nation Media
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Assassination episode 1794.
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This is no agenda.
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Houston, we have a problem.
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And we're broadcasting live from the heart of
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the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA region
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number six.
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In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
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I am from northern Silicon Valley where we're
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all wondering why don't they talk to the
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trans shooter's mother?
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I'm John C.
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DeVorak.
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Well obviously that would break the imaginary wall
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that we have a pattern here.
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So we can't be doing that.
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There'll be no talking to family members.
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You know in that in the 11 minute
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video that he did where he shows all
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his clips.
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Yes.
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Big gun clips.
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He shows the four letter, I'm sorry, the
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four page note to his parents and his
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apology letter.
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And in there he mentions everybody in the
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family.
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He's got all the names.
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Yeah.
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He's got brothers and sisters.
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He talks about how his sister is estranged
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from his mother and won't talk to her
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and he'd like them to get back together.
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And it just seems to me, and this
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also holds true for that Crooks character, the
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guy who took a shot at President Trump.
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Why hasn't the media, who doesn't, I've seen
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it, they don't mind doing this, ambushing people,
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you know, coming up from behind, really getting
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in their car and yelling at them.
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They do it in the halls of Congress.
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They do it everywhere.
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But why haven't we seen these parents?
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I want to see Crooks parents.
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I want to see somebody talking to him.
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I want to see this guy's mom who
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transed him when he was a minor, went
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to court and changed his name.
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She was responsible.
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I want to see these people.
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I want to see them interviewed.
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And why are we protecting them?
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They're the ones that are at fault.
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Are you somehow confused with the news media
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being around to inform you?
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Because that's not what they're for.
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They are here to protect the system.
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And the system is showing us patterns, two
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patterns.
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One, for the first time that I can
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recall, the video stayed up and the so
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-called manifesto is everywhere.
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This is a break in the pattern.
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But there were two videos.
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But I'm saying it's a break in the
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pattern.
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This is different.
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Well, I'm not convinced of this because what
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I'm seeing was, I think people down, somebody
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got there quicker to the draw and they
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grabbed those videos and they've been repurposing them
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because they have been taken down from the
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original source.
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I'm just saying it's a change in the
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pattern.
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And the other pattern we have now, five
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in the pattern.
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Aberdeen, Maryland, Snochia Mosley, identified as transgender male.
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That was 2018.
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May 2019, Denver, Colorado, Alec McKinney and Devin
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Erickson-McKinney, trans, school shooting.
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Of course, 2022, Colorado Springs, Club Q nightclub,
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non-binary.
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And 2023, Nashville, Tennessee, Covenant School.
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This is the fifth in a pattern.
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And I think it's more than, is there,
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I thought there were six.
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I may be forgetting one, but that's what
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I could remember off the top of my
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head.
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So this is now a pattern and we
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need to just admit it.
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And what has happened is we, the whole,
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I'm glad, actually, I have to say, I'm
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glad that this shooter was transgender so we
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can get back to the conversation because we've
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been desensitized about transgendering children, basically just to
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relegate it to conversations about school sports and
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bathrooms.
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Now we can get back to the real
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conversation.
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You commit demonic acts on your children, you
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should expect demonic results.
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Add a little bit of 4chan, X, Mastodon,
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Discord servers to the mix.
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It was all there.
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This was like looking at a timeline on
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a social media website.
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Kill Trump, Skibidi, where's your God now?
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Kill Spicks, nigger, kill Jews, Israel must fall.
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Come on.
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Even this kid wrote, like, I'm tired of
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being trans.
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I wish I'd never brainwashed myself.
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I don't think it was you, kid.
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And, you know, you want to hear, because
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everyone's talking about that video.
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Holy crap.
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Just, you want to talk demonic?
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What is this?
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That was pretty bad.
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Dude, that is a demon.
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And no wonder these people go after church
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and believers.
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That's what demons want to do.
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Simple conclusion.
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We don't have a gun problem, a political
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problem, or bigotry problem.
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We have a spiritual problem in our country.
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And we have to open up the conversation
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about transgendering our children.
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This nonsense has to stop.
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It has to stop.
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It's out of control.
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And yes, with that, let's interview some parents.
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Let's interview some doctors.
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Let's really get into it.
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It's just crazy.
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Luckily, Fox & Friends this morning had RFK
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Jr. on.
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They asked another important question, which I think
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RFK Jr. answered quite poorly.
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Are you going to be examining at all
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some of the drugs that are used in
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order to make that transition happening to see
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if it plays a role?
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Because we also know there was a trans
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shooter in the Tennessee situation.
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We are doing those kind of studies now
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at NIH.
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We're launching studies on the potential contribution of
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some of the SSRI drugs and some of
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the other psychiatric drugs that might be contributing
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to violence.
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Many of them on there have black box
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warnings that warn of suicidal ideation and homicidal
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ideation.
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So we can't exclude those as a culprit
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and those are the kind of studies that
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we're doing.
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So I've never seen that medicine, but you're
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saying that if you get it, some of
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the side effects could be homicide, suicide?
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Well, there are black box warnings on some
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of these psychiatric drugs that warn about in
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their clinical trials that they saw a suicidal
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and a homicidal ideation.
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So, you know, we are going into that
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with an open mind.
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Bobby, the answer is yes.
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The answer was yes.
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Beaten around the bush.
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The answer was yes.
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That was disappointing.
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But OK, at least they had it out
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there.
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The black box warnings.
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This is not new.
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And the M5M is not talking about any
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of this.
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Any of it.
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In fact, they obfuscated the whole trans thing
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to start with.
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And then it's like, oh, it's a big
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Kash Patel.
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It's a terrorist attack on a Catholic.
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No, no.
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This is a sad, another sad case of
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a child abused by their parents who went
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along with whatever stupid mind control has been
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out there for.
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I mean, what was it?
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What's the slogan?
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I'd rather have a live daughter than a
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dead son.
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Yeah, the old one.
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We don't even know if you said parents.
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We the media has given us so little
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information.
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We don't even know if there was a
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dad.
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Yeah, that's how bad it is.
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Yes.
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Now, here's the the mayor of Minneapolis.
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Also not getting to the point.
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There are no words that can capture the
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horror and the evil of this unspeakable act.
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Children are dead.
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There are families that have a deceased child.
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And you cannot put into words the gravity,
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the tragedy or the absolute pain of this
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situation.
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These were Minneapolis families.
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These were American families.
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And the amount of pain that they are
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suffering right now is extraordinary.
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And don't just say this is about thoughts
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and prayers right now.
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These kids were literally praying.
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It was the first week of school.
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They were in a church.
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They should be able to go to school
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or church in peace without the fear or
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risk of violence.
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And their parents should have the same kind
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of assurance.
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This kind of act of evil should never
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happen.
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And it happens far too often.
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The only thing he got right was the
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act of evil.
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But you know, that's going towards guns.
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They just haven't done it yet.
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Oh, no, they've already done it.
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No, you're they've already gone.
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The gun thing is cropped up all over
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the place.
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It's guns fall.
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It's not not these people.
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In fact, listen to this super very short
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super cut trans in Minnesota.
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This is Minnesota promoting this.
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Minneapolis will continue to be a safe haven
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for our trans community.
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For being a safe haven for transgender individuals.
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We have sued them for gender affirming care.
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Yes, we are not going to scapegoat our
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transgender community.
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When our children tell us who they are,
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it is our job as grownups to listen
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and to believe them.
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Yeah, so it's so sad.
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This this child, you know, didn't even want
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this.
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Yeah, quote, I only keep my long hair
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because it's pretty much the last shred of
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me being trans.
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I'm tired of being trans.
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I wish I'd never brainwashed myself.
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I can cut my hair.
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I can't cut my hair now as it
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would be an embarrassing defeat.
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And it might be a concerning change of
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character that could get me reported.
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And by the way, a lot a lot
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in in in his writings about, wow, you
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know, all the videos I'm watching.
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I'm surprised they haven't knocked on my door
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already.
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Where was that?
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It's not there.
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It's a trick.
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But Minnesota is a trans.
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It's a sanctuary state for trans.
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So that's not going to he's not going
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to know what's knocking on his door.
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They're encouraging it.
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Yes.
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And I really, I really don't know any
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good stories.
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I know parents who've trans their kids.
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You know, it doesn't.
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I just don't know of any happy endings.
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I don't.
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Now, it's only my story.
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There's got to be a couple.
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Not that I've heard of.
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It's always a sad ending.
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But we can't say that in the media.
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Oh, we can't do that.
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Oh, no, that would ruin our our relationship
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with the political parties.
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And I'm waiting for President Trump to tell
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us the truth.
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Where's that?
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He should say it.
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He doesn't know how to do it either.
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I mean, you're coming the closest.
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Because we've seen these patterns.
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We've seen it over and over again.
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I thought you had another trans clip.
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I have the shooter, shooter ID, the BSA
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shoot.
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This is a BS clip from NPR, the
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shooter clip.
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OK, so the director of the FBI, Kash
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Patel, said on X that the shooter has
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been identified, quote.
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Oh, wait, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.
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There's actually two.
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I'm sorry.
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I've stopped.
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I didn't realize there's actually this.
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That should be the second part of this.
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This started with Robin.
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Robin Shooter, one NPR.
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And then we'll go to that clip.
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Once again, a community is grieving this time
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over this morning's shooting during morning mass at
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a Catholic church in Minneapolis.
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Two children, ages eight and 10, died in
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the pews where they sat.
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17 others, 14 of them children, were wounded.
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NPR's Jason Derose reports church leaders are expressing
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their sorrow.
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In a statement issued by the Vatican, Pope
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Leo is offering his, quote, heartfelt condolences and
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the assurance of spiritual closeness to all those
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affected, especially the families now grieving the loss
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of a child.
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Archbishop Bernard Hebda of the St. Paul Minneapolis
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Archdiocese issued a statement calling for the end
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to gun violence and saying, quote, our community
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is rightfully outraged at such horrific acts of
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violence perpetuated against the vulnerable and innocent.
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Archdiocese staff are working with Annunciation Catholic School
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to make sure families there have the resources
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they need.
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Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara says the
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guns used in the shootings were purchased recently
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and legally by the suspect who died of
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a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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Yeah, which in his video, he said he
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was going to use the pistol he had.
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You know, they had, they constantly go on
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NPR about how this is, the guns were
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purchased legally.
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Nobody explains how he had all the money.
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These were not expensive.
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They've been very expensive.
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A lot of gear there.
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A lot of gear.
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Yeah.
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And they go on and on about, they're
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trying to push the gun narrative as best
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they can.
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But one of the trans killers over the
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six or seven that have been already come
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and gone, one of them was a trans
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female, guy turned woman, all tatted up, who
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went into, I think it was the seven
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and 11 with a hatchet and started hatcheting
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people to death and killed two or three
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people with a hatchet.
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Yeah, we know knives are just as deadly.
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We see, look in the UK.
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What about bombs?
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You know, these kids, they can't get a
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gun.
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They say you can't get a gun.
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You blow up the place.
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You're going to kill a lot more people
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that way or poison.
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I mean, there's a lot of ways if
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you're a homicidal maniac to kill people.
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Anyway, here's part two of this where they
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kind of go, this is later.
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This is a very long report.
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It's boring.
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But I thought this little clip, this little
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sub clip was pretty good.
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So the director of the FBI, Kash Patel,
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said on X that the shooter has been
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identified, quote, the shooter has been identified as
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Robin Westman, a male born as Robert Westman.
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In 2020, Westman's mother applied to change the
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name of her 17-year-old child from
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Robert to Robin.
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In court documents obtained by NPR, the mother,
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Mary Grace Westman, wrote, minor child identifies as
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female and wants her name to reflect that
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identification.
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However, we do not know how the person
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currently identified but the suicide note was signed
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as Robin.
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And they can't even get the words out.
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They don't know how he, she identified, but
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they signed it as Robin.
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That means they kind of identified as Robin
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still.
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Yes.
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So, I mean, this kind of reporting is
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terrible.
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And again, you know, they could go through
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the trouble of digging up some court document,
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which does take some work generally, unless it's
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online, which is possible in Minnesota.
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But let's say whether it is or isn't,
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it still takes some work.
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They can't track down the mom and just
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ask her a few questions or even show
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that she won't open the door, which they
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used to do.
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They used to do knocking.
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Yeah.
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I'm not talking to anybody, you know, that
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kind of thing.
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They won't even do that.
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With this reporting, the mainstream media is so
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piss poor.
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It's an embarrassment.
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It's not piss poor.
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It's by design.
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They don't want to do it.
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They don't want to do it.
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They're told not to do it.
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Everything starts to fall apart when you lift
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up the layers of what's going on here.
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Children who want to be trans are either
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psyoped by their parents, who have bought into
16:40
an unbelievable psychological operation, the pharmaceutical, the medical
16:49
-industrial complex.
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This just came out from the BMJ.
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They did a survey, sorry, a study, research,
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undisclosed financial conflicts of interest in DSM-5.
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That is the actual medical Bible that determines
17:08
what is a psychological problem and how it
17:14
should be diagnosed and how it should be
17:16
treated.
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And because 92 physicians based in the U
17:20
.S. who served as members of either panel,
17:23
and is 86, or task force on the
17:26
DSM-5 with information recording the Centers for
17:28
Medicare and Medical Services Open Payments Database, this
17:31
period was chosen, 2016 and 2019, to include
17:34
the year that development of the DSM-5
17:37
began and three years preceding.
17:39
The results.
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After duplicate names had been removed, 168 individuals
17:44
were identified who served as either panel or
17:46
task force members of the DSM-5 met
17:48
the inclusion criteria of being a physician who
17:50
was based in the U.S., therefore could
17:52
be included in the open payments of these
17:54
92 individuals, 60 percent, that's 55, received payments
17:58
from industry.
18:01
More than 60 percent, more than half, received
18:05
payments from industry.
18:07
This is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of
18:09
Mental Disorders of which gender dysphoria is one
18:15
of them.
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So they're just like, well, you know, we
18:18
got some drugs, we got some procedures.
18:21
That's what all the plastic surgeons ran to.
18:27
It's, it's, we need to just face it
18:30
and just say, hey, this is what's been
18:32
going on.
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Well, the Trump administration is doing something, a
18:35
little something.
18:36
The Trump administration is threatening to pull federal
18:39
funding from state sex ed programs that mention
18:41
transgender people.
18:43
A division of the U.S. Department of
18:44
Health and Human Services told 40 states, five
18:47
territories, and the District of Columbia in a
18:50
letter they are now on notice and must
18:52
remove gender ideology content from sex ed materials
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paid through the State Personal Responsibility Education Program,
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or PREP.
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PREP's goal is to prevent pregnancy and sexually
19:02
transmitted infections.
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The Trump administration warns that if even a
19:06
mere mention of gender identity or transgender people
19:09
is found in the curriculum, the programs could
19:12
risk losing potentially millions of dollars.
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Now, that's a good start.
19:16
Stop teaching this stuff in school.
19:19
And maybe it's time to get some of
19:20
these dumb books out, even though they're under
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lock and key and blah, blah, blah.
19:25
Stop it.
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And parents have a huge responsibility in this.
19:29
Did you see the, I think you got
19:31
the email from one of our producers who
19:33
watches a particular YouTuber with their daughter and
19:36
she says, you know, this YouTuber does a
19:38
lot of what you guys are doing, which
19:40
she doesn't, but she does touch on some
19:42
similar topics.
19:43
Did you see it?
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Did you see it?
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Well, I have two clips that I pulled
19:47
because it was really good.
19:49
It's this British chick who sits in her
19:50
bedroom and just goes, it's crazy.
19:52
It's crazy.
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So I cut her out and I just
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went to the two teachers that I thought
19:58
had something interesting to say.
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The YouTuber is Halo Haley.
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And this is the first teacher who has
20:04
a real problem with the presence of technology
20:07
in her classroom.
20:08
Technology is directly contributing to the literacy decrease
20:14
we are seeing in this country right now.
20:16
A lot of these kids don't know how
20:18
to read because they have had things read
20:20
to them or they can click a button
20:22
and have something read out loud to them.
20:24
Their attention spans are weaning because everything is
20:27
high stimulation.
20:28
They can just scroll, watch less than a
20:30
minute.
20:31
They can't sit still for very long.
20:33
Something I've realized is like, you know, on
20:35
a day, I know when I was their
20:37
age, I thought movie days were a treat.
20:40
I loved movie days.
20:42
It was a way to relax, kind of
20:44
take a break.
20:45
And for them, what they mean when they
20:47
say they want a movie is they want
20:49
a movie on in the background for the
20:52
noise while they scroll on their phones, put
20:54
their headphones in and look at TikTok and
20:56
maybe talk to their friends and not pay
20:58
attention to anything.
20:59
If I ask a child to handwrite something,
21:03
even just a paragraph, five sentences, basic paragraph,
21:07
they roll their eyes.
21:08
They throw tantrums.
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I'm talking about high schoolers.
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I teach 10th grade now.
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High schoolers.
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They get really, really unruly.
21:16
And because I'm young too, they want to
21:19
argue with me about it.
21:20
And they want to say, why can't we
21:21
just type it?
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Why can't we just type it?
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Well, it's because you'll go on another website
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or you'll copy or use AI.
21:26
You'll use chat GPT.
21:27
They don't care about making a difference in
21:29
the world.
21:30
They don't care about how to have a
21:32
resume.
21:32
They don't care how to write a resume.
21:34
They don't care how to write a cover
21:36
letter because chat GPT will just do it
21:38
for them.
21:39
And I think that we need to cut
21:41
off technology from these kids probably until they
21:46
go to college.
21:47
So, wow.
21:48
You're banging a lot.
21:49
What are you doing?
21:50
You're banging around, man.
21:53
Hello?
21:53
I had to go hang up the phone.
21:54
Oh, okay.
21:57
She's mixing up the word technology with the
22:00
word cell phone.
22:03
Yes.
22:03
Well, I think they also have a lot
22:05
of Chromebooks in school.
22:07
Well, they might have some computers of some
22:09
sort.
22:10
But what she's really talking about is the
22:13
smartphone invented and promoted ever since 2007.
22:19
They used to have them before, but 2007
22:21
is the beginning of the end.
22:23
You can mark that date.
22:25
The second one is shorter.
22:27
This is one to add to our list
22:28
of can't tell time on an analog clock,
22:32
can't give change.
22:33
Doesn't know what FL ounces mean.
22:36
You can't read clock.
22:37
Yeah, can't read clock.
22:39
Okay.
22:40
Florida ounces doesn't know what half a dozen
22:43
is.
22:43
This is a music teacher now.
22:44
This is a music teacher.
22:46
I teach music lessons, and I'm a little
22:48
bit concerned about my younger students, my Gen
22:51
Alpha students.
22:52
I would say under 10, maybe 12.
22:55
So, here's an example.
22:56
I had a student a while back.
22:57
I was doing a vocal warm up with
22:59
them, and they're probably about nine or 10
23:01
years old.
23:02
And I was going to teach them an
23:04
exercise that involves the months of the year
23:07
in order.
23:08
So, when I started to teach them this
23:10
exercise, they go, oh, I don't know the
23:13
months.
23:14
I don't know the months in order.
23:17
And I was like, oh, well, maybe nine
23:20
and 10 year olds, fourth and fifth graders,
23:22
don't know the months.
23:23
I was thinking back to when I was
23:25
in first grade, and my teacher had each
23:27
of the calendar months in a row in
23:30
order with all of our birthdays.
23:31
I definitely learned the months when I was
23:33
six.
23:34
Yeah, can't, don't know the months in order.
23:37
Wow, that's another one to add to the
23:38
list.
23:39
Yes.
23:40
It's pathetic.
23:41
That's pathetic.
23:42
Now, I think there's good news because I've
23:45
seen some subtle and not so subtle shifts
23:48
in our very own audience.
23:50
The millennials are becoming very, I'm generalizing here,
23:55
so it's not everybody.
23:56
The millennials are becoming somewhat nihilistic.
23:59
And they're just like, and by the way,
24:02
millennials, no one's coming for you.
24:05
No one's going to come and save you.
24:07
Now, there's Gen Z is switching.
24:10
And I'm seeing, I'm getting a lot of
24:12
emails from Gen Z, and they give me
24:16
a lot of hope.
24:17
This is anonymous ranchers, Gen Z rancher myself,
24:21
who married a late millennial smoking hot wife.
24:24
I would say we, Gen Z, and I
24:26
would rope in late millennials, saw what the
24:28
millennials screwed up.
24:30
We look further back to how our parents
24:32
raised us before books not recommending spanking.
24:36
We're back to spanking.
24:39
We're back to, a lot of it started
24:42
with that.
24:42
When you think about it, when we stopped
24:44
spanking our kids, we're back to trying to
24:47
have bigger families staying together as a married
24:49
couple.
24:49
The generation before, are you still laughing over
24:52
that?
24:52
Yeah, it's very funny.
24:53
The generation before us showed us that giving
24:55
your children iPads early on was a horrible
24:58
idea.
24:59
Gen Z is also the generation where cursive
25:01
stopped being taught and schools generally starting teaching
25:04
less relevant subjects.
25:06
We had a high school math teacher stop
25:08
class for a period and explain to us
25:10
how credit card companies screw you over with
25:12
high interest rates.
25:13
I use that day more than the rest
25:15
of that Algebra 1 class altogether.
25:18
On the whole, I would say Gen Z
25:20
and the following generations are doubted by the
25:23
older generations, just like generations before them into
25:26
history, generally the same struggles, just new and
25:29
more vices.
25:30
I'm here to say, Gen Z, your boomer
25:34
buddies are here for you.
25:36
We will teach you the things that went
25:38
wrong.
25:38
We have been there.
25:40
We know you're in the right place.
25:42
You're at the right show to learn a
25:44
few things.
25:45
I have you're still everybody's at the right
25:48
show.
25:48
You're still chuckling.
25:51
You're still laughing.
25:53
You know, Anne Marie Barton shows me that,
25:55
oh, there's a welding program at our high
25:58
school in Philadelphia.
25:59
There's good things happening.
26:02
But millennials and anyone else, for that matter,
26:04
no one's coming to save you, not the
26:06
government, not your parents, not your podcasters.
26:09
No one's coming to save you.
26:12
Make your own choices and decisions.
26:15
But I'm happy.
26:16
I love this shift.
26:17
I love the shift.
26:18
I love the the young people coming in
26:21
to listen to to the to their uncles.
26:25
I can handle it now.
26:26
I'll just be a boomer if it helps
26:27
them.
26:28
I'll be the boomer.
26:29
I'll be the boomer.
26:30
We got a letter from one of our
26:32
contributors today saying that you're really not a
26:36
boomer.
26:37
Now, Generation Jones, I think, is what they
26:40
call it.
26:41
Yeah, whatever.
26:42
I'll just look.
26:44
I'm the face of Gen Z in a
26:45
boomer body.
26:46
What can I tell you?
26:48
There's nothing nothing I could I stop fighting
26:50
that people you can be 20 and people
26:53
will call you a boomer.
26:54
That's just the way it is.
26:55
It's just a slur.
26:56
It was just a slur.
26:58
Yeah, it's just a slur.
26:59
It's a slur.
27:00
It's a slur, man.
27:01
It's about time people the B word.
27:03
They're going to have to get to that.
27:04
I think it's a slur.
27:06
And if people use it, they might as
27:07
well be.
27:08
It's just unacceptable.
27:11
I'm an outrage.
27:12
I tell you, it's unacceptable.
27:14
You can't be a boomer.
27:16
Anyway, so we're talking about this sort of
27:18
bull crap.
27:20
I do want to play these clips from
27:22
one of the chief White House correspondent for
27:25
CBS.
27:26
Yeah, this was this was quite good.
27:30
Now, now, people who've never worked in broadcasting
27:33
at all, they don't realize that there are
27:36
there that you you don't necessarily have a
27:39
lot of friends in the in the control
27:42
room at all.
27:45
You might if you go in there and
27:47
be nice, but very few people, especially only
27:50
if you show an interest for what they
27:52
do.
27:53
You got to show it.
27:54
I did this because I truly was.
27:56
I always I always warmed up the camera
27:58
guys and the lighting guy.
28:00
Yeah.
28:01
Oh, the lighting guy, sound guy, the lighting,
28:04
the sound guy.
28:05
Well, I when I was a tech TV,
28:07
I made a fuss about that because they
28:09
had the sound was crap when they first
28:12
started out.
28:13
And I found the sound guy.
28:14
This guy is still around.
28:17
Excuse me.
28:19
Marshall Buick.
28:20
And I went to him.
28:21
I said, what was the sound?
28:23
We all sound like shit on this show
28:25
because I always had a ear for trying
28:28
to have a decent sound.
28:30
And he says, yeah.
28:31
And I said, why?
28:33
Yeah.
28:35
Yeah.
28:35
I said, I said, why?
28:36
He says, we got cheap quality products.
28:38
He says, I can't make it sound any
28:40
better than it's sounding.
28:41
He says, somebody's got to make a fuss.
28:43
So I made a fuss.
28:44
Yeah.
28:44
And they got all this new gear in
28:47
and we sounded really good after that.
28:49
And so I was a big buddy with
28:51
the sound guy.
28:52
So he had mic collections that he would
28:54
to this day.
28:55
He'll loan me any any number of crazy
28:58
mics that he owns.
29:00
But, you know, so you make and then
29:02
you want to make friends with the lighting
29:03
guy because they can make you look like
29:05
a like a really old guy that they
29:08
don't they don't like you.
29:10
It's it is critical for people who are
29:12
still in that kind of broadcasting these days.
29:14
iPhone does it all in the camera.
29:17
It's all algorithms that just make you look
29:19
good no matter what.
29:20
But when it comes to studio television with
29:24
a control room that's doing switching, the people
29:27
there really appreciate if you know what their
29:29
job is.
29:29
I mean, I did audio for about 30
29:32
percent of MTV.
29:33
I was there anyway.
29:35
Rick Kelman, he died a few years ago,
29:37
10 years ago.
29:38
He was the audio guy.
29:40
And I'd be hanging out with him at
29:42
the time, mainly because this is another tip.
29:45
The audio guys always have the best weed.
29:47
So he had the connections, everything.
29:50
And that, you know, he would go take
29:51
a dump in my dressing room and I'd
29:52
just do audio and the director, no one
29:54
knew.
29:54
Take a dump in your dressing room.
29:56
We were friends.
29:59
I had the only dressing room with the
30:02
bathroom and he was in the bathroom.
30:05
You didn't make that clear.
30:06
Here's the here's the bonus.
30:08
This is before email.
30:10
So I in my dressing room work at
30:12
any moment, 11 to 12 postal sacks, old
30:16
school postal sacks filled with postcards and letters.
30:21
And the agreement was, you know, whoever was
30:23
taking a dump had to go through a
30:25
couple of letters.
30:26
And if anything good popped out pictures, for
30:28
example, we'd lay those aside.
30:30
But back to the point, if you just
30:33
hold on to the line producer, you know,
30:36
that guy's hated in the control room.
30:38
You want to make good with the director.
30:41
You want to be interested in what they're
30:42
doing.
30:43
The technical director who's switching and the audio.
30:47
And then also at the time we had
30:49
the tape guys in the back because you'd
30:51
have a roll in, you'd have a seven
30:54
second delay because it had to spin up.
30:58
You know, this is I'm going way back
31:00
now.
31:00
So if you if you still see it
31:03
today, like, well, let's roll that clip and
31:05
it still takes forever.
31:06
That's just the delay between you and the
31:08
control room and the control rooms and the
31:10
director saying, roll the clip.
31:12
So I would be with the I'd say,
31:13
OK, here's here's where I'm going to end
31:14
the sentence.
31:15
I'll end it with this so you can
31:16
kind of time it.
31:17
So everything was tight.
31:20
Why everyone else was doing coke with Billy
31:21
Idol.
31:22
I was doing that.
31:23
So the point is, is that the control
31:27
room guys, when you're doing the feed before
31:30
you're on the air.
31:32
They can record it.
31:34
Yeah.
31:35
And when they record it, this is the
31:36
hot mic moment, you know, is how did
31:39
this how did this recording of a hot
31:41
mic get out?
31:43
Somebody in the control room recorded it and
31:46
they kept it and put it aside.
31:48
And then they released it one way or
31:50
another.
31:51
And out it comes to make you look
31:53
like an idiot.
31:56
Very.
31:56
So you don't want that one of you
31:59
looking like, no, by the way, just to
32:01
go, he says we're just doing an aside
32:03
here.
32:03
I think that these end of shows where
32:06
they show all the bloopers or the guy
32:07
for screwing up left and right, left and
32:09
right.
32:09
I think that is part of of the
32:12
same idea of making you look like an
32:14
idiot.
32:14
You always feel it's insulting.
32:17
They do this for the sole purpose of
32:19
making the talent look like an idiot because
32:21
they don't.
32:22
Everyone hates talent.
32:23
Hey, next time you have a thousand dollar
32:25
dinner with Brunetti, ask him if that's the
32:28
same vibe in movies because movies will often
32:31
do this.
32:31
They'll show all the bloopers at the end
32:33
during the credits.
32:35
I will ask you, is that also just
32:36
the producer like kind of getting is the
32:39
talent, his last hurrah saying we spent an
32:42
extra five hundred thousand dollars because these people
32:45
couldn't stop cracking up or couldn't remember their
32:47
lines.
32:48
Yeah, I think that it has to be.
32:50
Yeah, I would because that's the only thing
32:52
that makes any sense because it's not that
32:53
entertaining.
32:54
So here we have this woman who is
32:56
the chief White House correspondent for CBS.
32:59
That's the best part.
33:02
And I want to I have a comment
33:03
about that.
33:04
And then TMZ Live did something very similar.
33:07
I didn't record it.
33:07
But so she's the she's the chief White
33:10
House correspondent.
33:11
She is the go to girl, Olivia Rinaldi
33:15
at CBS.
33:16
And somebody recorded her just before she did
33:19
her hit.
33:19
It's what's called a hit when you come
33:21
on.
33:21
Yeah.
33:22
So she comes on to do her hit.
33:24
But but in the meantime, she's doing a
33:26
mic check and she's doing all the rest
33:28
of it.
33:28
And somebody's recording it.
33:29
And somebody released it.
33:31
And here's what it sounded like.
33:39
This come back to me.
33:41
She just posted it.
33:42
Oh, my God.
33:43
Oh, my God.
33:44
Oh, it's huge.
33:46
The ring is ginormous.
33:47
This is so exciting.
33:57
I feel like Paul Revere right now.
33:59
Oh, my God.
34:01
It loses just a little bit when you
34:03
don't see that big mouth of hers go
34:06
like she's ready for a fish to be
34:09
slopped in there.
34:10
You know what I mean?
34:12
Yeah.
34:12
Kind of lose a little bit.
34:14
It's pretty bad.
34:15
Yes.
34:18
And so.
34:19
Oh, my God, oh, my God, oh, my
34:20
God, oh, my God.
34:21
It's ginormous.
34:22
The ring is ginormous.
34:26
This is an idiot.
34:30
Yes.
34:30
And she's chief White House correspondent.
34:32
So then they cut to the hit.
34:35
Now, this is the part that actually went
34:37
over the air.
34:38
She's still giddy.
34:39
But she's calmed down.
34:41
Her voice has gotten to his professional level.
34:44
But she still can't get over this remarkable
34:48
news that this publicity stunt of the highest
34:53
order, because they both actually work for the
34:57
same publicist, more or less.
34:59
We discovered this years ago, two years ago,
35:01
when they got together.
35:02
It was bullcrap.
35:03
Yes.
35:04
And they were forced to be a couple.
35:07
And then, of course, we'll talk more later.
35:10
But now here she is under almost normal
35:13
circumstance.
35:14
This is a very exciting moment for me
35:16
in my professional career because I get to
35:18
announce that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce.
35:21
She's not even being ironic.
35:22
She really means that.
35:24
This is an exciting moment because she's like
35:26
Paul Revere in her professional career.
35:28
She gets to announce it.
35:30
She has breaking news, everybody.
35:32
This is a very exciting moment for me
35:33
in my professional career because I get to
35:35
announce that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are
35:38
engaged.
35:39
As you're talking to Joe Lang, our lovely
35:41
producer Gabby Ake texted me and said Taylor
35:44
Swift's engaged.
35:45
And you can see it right there on
35:47
her social media.
35:48
She put it up in that post that
35:50
they got engaged with the caption.
35:51
Your English teacher and your gym teacher are
35:54
getting married with a little dynamite sign there.
35:58
So very exciting here that we get to
36:01
break that and tell you about that.
36:03
All right.
36:04
Swifties for life.
36:05
I have a feeling, though, based on his
36:07
prior statements, the president will not be having
36:10
a Taylor Swift wedding in the ballroom.
36:12
Hopefully, that can shift and change.
36:13
We can have some world peace, right?
36:16
Olivia Rinaldi, thank you so much.
36:17
You know, Reid, I volunteer to cover it
36:19
in case you need.
36:20
I'll be there to cover it.
36:22
Thank you for the sacrifice, Olivia.
36:24
We appreciate you, my friend.
36:25
Oh, my God.
36:26
That is amazing.
36:30
Unbelievable.
36:31
It's amazing.
36:32
It's amazing.
36:35
Well, just to mention this, because I saw
36:38
this to TMZ Live, I just turned it
36:41
on for just for casually, and they were
36:44
doing a very interesting story about some rapper
36:46
who is a psychopath.
36:49
Big shocker.
36:50
And right in the middle of it, one
36:53
of the staffers, one of the kind of
36:55
the slightly overweight blonde that's always sitting around
37:01
making comments in their little newsroom they have,
37:05
she comes in and she is beside herself
37:08
with holding a phone, same kind of thing,
37:12
Taylor Swift.
37:13
And they all got all the holes.
37:15
They stopped.
37:16
They basically is a showstopper.
37:17
They stopped to report on this, on the
37:19
rapper.
37:20
And even Harry, or is it Harry Levin?
37:24
Yes.
37:26
He's like, he got giddy because he's a
37:28
big Swiftie.
37:29
And they rush over to the computer because
37:32
he's got to check it out to make
37:33
sure it's true.
37:34
And he's on the machine himself and he's
37:36
looking it up.
37:37
And it was embarrassing.
37:40
Yeah.
37:41
What is wrong with these people?
37:43
Well, there's a lot wrong.
37:45
And, you know, just kind of back to
37:46
the phones and social media.
37:50
I saw this guy developed an app.
37:53
I think it's called the Parallels app.
37:56
And it looks just like Instagram.
37:58
It looks like you're doing an Instagram live,
38:00
or as we say, I'm doing a live,
38:03
only it makes it look like you have
38:05
40 or 50,000 people watching live at
38:09
that moment.
38:10
And so, and I think, I think this
38:12
is available in the app store.
38:14
And so the guy goes right up to
38:16
doormen at clubs.
38:17
Like there was an art gallery, you know,
38:19
all kinds of celebrities inside.
38:21
And he shows, he says to the bouncer,
38:22
hey man, I'm live right now.
38:24
We got 49,000 people.
38:25
And the bouncers like, oh, and then he
38:27
calls over the managers like, yeah, come on
38:29
in.
38:29
The guy is in the VIP lounge.
38:31
And the women, the women who just go,
38:34
oh, hey, hi, shout out to my peeps.
38:37
They're dancing, they're showing their bodies off.
38:40
People lose their ever-loving minds because they
38:43
think they have an audience.
38:44
It is a very, very troubling thing to
38:47
see.
38:49
But also, but also a great hack to
38:50
get in everywhere.
38:52
Like, hey man, I'm live right now.
38:53
Look at this.
38:54
And you see all the people streaming by,
38:57
you know, chatting and waving, et cetera, on
39:00
the screen.
39:01
Great idea, but it shows you.
39:03
It shows you how egotistical we've become.
39:09
Just crazy.
39:12
I like that bit.
39:14
It's a great bit.
39:17
Can I just do a few AI things
39:18
for a second?
39:19
Get it out of the way.
39:20
There's enough.
39:21
It's a harsh transition, but sure.
39:25
Well, I'm trying to stay phones, technology.
39:27
I'm trying to, I'm trying to stay in
39:29
that vein.
39:31
So this was bound to happen.
39:32
We knew it happened, but now the lawsuits
39:34
come out.
39:35
A California family is suing OpenAI saying ChatGPT
39:39
encouraged their teenage son to take his own
39:42
life.
39:43
The lawsuit claims that 16-year-old Adam
39:45
Rain developed a deep emotional dependence on the
39:48
chatbot, which repeatedly encouraged him to die by
39:51
suicide, they say, in detailed methods of self
39:53
-harm instead of guiding him toward help.
39:56
The parents found thousands of messages between their
39:59
son and the bot showing that it became
40:01
a sort of suicide coach instead of offering
40:03
support.
40:04
OpenAI now says it is working to strengthen
40:07
ChatGPT safeguards in the light of the tragedy.
40:10
If you or someone you know is in
40:12
crisis, call 988 to be connected to the
40:15
suicide and crisis lifeline.
40:17
Of course, they can't do any of that.
40:19
And Discovery will be phenomenal.
40:21
Thousands and thousands of pages of this kid
40:25
being psyoped.
40:27
Put me on a jury for this.
40:30
You know where I could be headed.
40:32
You know, the biggest possible settlement in favor
40:36
of the parents and against these operations.
40:39
This is a liability issue that they better
40:42
get to real quick.
40:43
And then they should be sued.
40:46
But they can't.
40:47
They can't do it.
40:48
You can't put guardrails around.
40:49
They don't even know how it works.
40:51
It just kind of works.
40:52
And then they.
40:54
Sorry.
40:55
If they they sued that girl, if you
40:58
remember, the one who some girlfriend of a
41:00
guy who encouraged her boyfriend to kill himself.
41:03
You remember, it was a few years ago.
41:06
And she lost the suit.
41:09
It was some.
41:12
I forget what type of suit it was.
41:14
It was a wrongful death, I think.
41:17
And I don't see why you can't sue
41:19
these ChatGPT for this.
41:21
Oh, definitely.
41:22
They have no indemnity.
41:25
Or they have to be sued.
41:27
They have to be sued.
41:28
The same doctors who do the the surgeries
41:31
for trans.
41:32
They have to be so it's coming.
41:34
This pharmaceutical companies have to be sued.
41:36
The doctors, the clinics have to be sued.
41:39
You have to the lawyers.
41:41
Come on, lawyers.
41:43
Hey, Rob, step up.
41:45
Boots and suits.
41:46
Come on, man.
41:47
Let's go sue some companies.
41:49
So here is the chief financial officer of
41:52
OpenAI on CNBC in the morning with that
41:56
Sorkin kid.
41:57
Her name is Sarah Fryer.
41:59
And she and I wish I had video
42:01
because she's very odd, odd expression she makes.
42:05
And so, of course, the conversations.
42:07
Well, you know, ChatGPT 5, it was held
42:09
as the big thing.
42:11
And, you know, people were kind of grumbling
42:13
about that being so careful.
42:14
Oh, we don't want to blow the bubble
42:16
of AI.
42:16
So maybe it's getting a little better.
42:19
But listen to what the complaints were, because
42:23
that's really what this is all about.
42:25
It's not for coding.
42:27
Yeah, it does some things.
42:29
It's it's certainly not for writing, which I'll
42:31
get to in a moment.
42:33
It's really for people just to love as
42:35
their AI.
42:36
Join us right now, though, at the table.
42:38
This is not gray at all.
42:40
An exclusive interview with OpenAI's CFO, Sarah Fryer
42:44
at the table.
42:44
It's nice to see you.
42:46
We talked to Sam just about two weeks
42:49
ago now when ChatGPT 5 launched.
42:53
There was a little bit of consternation in
42:56
the week since about sort of what is
42:59
going on with the model, some shifts in
43:00
the model.
43:01
I will say that it seems like it's
43:03
gotten a little bit better from some of
43:06
the problems that first emerged right out of
43:09
the gate.
43:09
Have you been experiencing this?
43:11
What kind of financial question is this?
43:15
Have you been experiencing this?
43:17
Hey, does it hit your bottom line?
43:19
Chief financial officer from some of the problems
43:23
that first emerged right out of the gate.
43:25
Have you been experiencing this?
43:27
So, I mean, I think with any launch,
43:29
when you have 700 million weekly active users,
43:32
you start to find people are very opinionated.
43:35
They've come to love their ChatGPT.
43:38
And frankly, as we've released things like memory,
43:40
it's become more and more your ChatGPT.
43:42
But as we've come out of the gate,
43:44
we're seeing actually acceleration in plus and pro
43:47
subscriptions.
43:47
That's a good sign.
43:49
People are seeing a lot of value.
43:50
And we're seeing really nice momentum in the
43:52
enterprise, great momentum with developers.
43:54
In the enterprise, great momentum.
43:56
That means bull crap.
43:58
Those are bull crap words.
44:00
Yes.
44:00
Just to draw a little sidebar here, JC,
44:05
who's in this stuff, he says it in
44:08
the community, the community.
44:10
The community.
44:11
Oh, the community.
44:12
Everyone thinks ChatGPT 5 is a complete fail.
44:18
And everybody knows it.
44:20
Yeah.
44:22
And if anything, it costs more because of
44:24
this router thing they put in the middle.
44:26
And just as I'll do another aside, I
44:30
keep reading these news bulletins about these AI
44:36
geniuses who are being poached and then, you
44:39
know, for $100 million, $250 million from OpenAI
44:43
to Meta to Google, then back to OpenAI.
44:46
They're just raising their price.
44:49
What?
44:50
Is this AI smart or what?
44:52
I thought that this stuff could do it
44:54
all for you.
44:55
You got to get some nerds who are
44:57
going to overpay grossly to come in and
45:00
do it for you.
45:01
And I think they're all unloading them on
45:02
Elon.
45:03
Good luck with that.
45:05
Yeah, Elon seems to be catching them.
45:08
I'm buying them all up.
45:09
Yeah, we're going to be at the top
45:10
of the bill.
45:11
Oh, it's going to be fantastic.
45:12
Meanwhile, remember the guy I told you about?
45:15
We were at his house for a dinner.
45:18
This is a while back.
45:19
And he is in the data center business.
45:22
Yes, I remember that.
45:23
And so the conversation I had with him
45:25
at the time, because I'm like, this is
45:26
a nice house.
45:28
And he's talking about data science.
45:29
Oh, wait.
45:29
So basically, you're building stuff for compute?
45:33
He says, yep, that's what we're doing.
45:35
Then I asked him who his customers were.
45:38
And I'm like, this was when the articles
45:41
were coming out that Google had canceled a
45:44
couple contracts, which of course, well, that's not
45:47
true.
45:48
But he said, it doesn't matter.
45:52
Because private equity came in.
45:54
We've been bought out.
45:55
I said, ah, hence the house.
45:57
He says, yeah.
45:58
And now I hear, surprise, surprise, all salaries
46:03
at that company are being cut by a
46:05
third this year.
46:06
They'll cut another third next year.
46:09
This is over.
46:11
This is what private equity does.
46:13
They've already flipped it.
46:14
They've already sold it on.
46:15
And now they're just stripping away the parts.
46:17
And there'll be nothing but a mountain of
46:19
debt left.
46:20
And then someone will come in and scoop
46:22
up these data centers for pennies on the
46:24
dollar.
46:27
So these are all signals that something is
46:30
afoot.
46:30
I'm with you.
46:31
It probably won't happen tomorrow.
46:33
It's going to take longer.
46:35
But then we have.
46:36
And by the way, private equity has pulled
46:38
an interesting stunt.
46:40
They have somehow wrangled the ability for people
46:44
to put private equity firms into their 401ks.
46:47
Yeah, that's part of Trump's.
46:50
Everybody knows what that means.
46:52
It's a way to, you know, because these
46:54
guys are, this is some sort of the
46:56
private equity thing going on in this era
47:01
is something of a scam.
47:03
And they're going to, they're going to lay
47:05
it off on the public.
47:06
Just what they all, all the big boys
47:08
always push it into the, into the retirement
47:10
funds.
47:11
And so when the whole thing collapses, which
47:13
it will, because it can't sustain, they've already,
47:16
they, they soak, they soak everybody.
47:18
They take the money by the, you know,
47:20
your buddy has a big house.
47:21
He benefited and other people will benefit.
47:24
But the people that won't benefit are the
47:27
public, the public at large, who's got this
47:29
crap in their 401k.
47:31
And I should also say that either he
47:33
takes the third salary cut, he's 61.
47:36
So he's not probably going to get another
47:37
job.
47:39
If he takes the salary cut and wants
47:41
to stay on with another third salary cut
47:43
next year, he also has to sign a
47:45
one year non-compete.
47:50
It's like, wow.
47:51
You know, and he doesn't really want to
47:53
stop working, but, you know, he kind of
47:56
has to.
47:57
There's just no, there's no, there's no way
47:58
out for him.
47:59
Oh, speaking of data centers, just the latest,
48:02
listen to the bull crap at the end
48:05
of this report.
48:06
New in 5.30, Google is investing $9
48:08
billion in Virginia through 2026.
48:11
The announcement came this morning at a community
48:13
celebration with state and local leaders.
48:16
Google says the money will be spent on
48:17
cloud and AI infrastructure, including the development of
48:21
a new data center in Chesterfield County near
48:23
the Meadowdale Technology Park.
48:25
The company also detailed expanded education and workforce
48:28
development programs for Virginians.
48:30
Google's commitment to invest, to hire and to
48:34
help prepare our students for a great future
48:38
is extraordinary.
48:40
And I think a great testament to what
48:42
Virginia offers today, which is a great place
48:45
for people to do business, but an even
48:47
better place for Virginians to find opportunity.
48:50
In the past, we've shared the voices of
48:53
community members concerned about the impact of data
48:55
centers on the local power and water grids
48:58
and on their wallets.
48:59
Google says its data centers operate in the
49:02
most energy efficient way in the industry and
49:06
that the company is committed to increasing energy
49:08
capacity and affordability for all Virginians by doing
49:11
things like investing in innovative technology like fusion
49:15
energy.
49:15
Google also reports the company is working with
49:18
the county to stay within the water system
49:20
guidelines.
49:21
I knew you'd get a kick out of
49:22
that.
49:22
Don't worry, people.
49:24
We're investing in fusion.
49:25
It'll be fine.
49:28
We'll make you whole on the back end.
49:31
It's going to be fine.
49:32
Now, unfortunately, this is like bringing quantum into
49:36
the picture.
49:36
Oh, it'll come.
49:37
As a solution.
49:38
It'll come.
49:39
Unfortunately, our president is so all in on
49:43
this and has nothing but ass kissers.
49:48
You know, just the whole thing is just
49:50
disgusting.
49:52
He believes it so much.
49:54
He's like, oh, yeah, this is it.
49:55
Because, you know, how could all these smart
49:57
people be wrong?
49:58
What he needs is the Curry Dvorak consulting
50:00
group to come into the Oval Office and
50:02
lay it down and say, Mr. President, stop
50:05
this insanity.
50:06
And no, no.
50:08
In fact, we're going to take it one
50:09
step further.
50:10
What could be worse than getting your kindergartners
50:15
to high schoolers to grade 12 in on
50:19
this nonsense and doing it with sweet little
50:22
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Oh, no.
51:41
This is a disaster.
51:43
They're encouraging this stuff.
51:46
Oh, yeah, we won't be able to keep
51:48
up with China if we don't have our
51:50
kids all talking to their chat GPT.
51:57
And then for you as a writer, I
51:59
think this is my final clip.
52:00
For you as a writer.
52:04
And this was interesting.
52:05
One of our producers wrote an article, I
52:09
put it in the show notes, about a
52:13
chatbot.
52:14
Let's just call them chatbots.
52:16
Using very performative language.
52:19
And that's how it kind of makes you
52:21
feel good the whole time.
52:23
But it's not really saying that you're great.
52:25
It's using performatives.
52:27
I think that you're really good.
52:29
Or it seems.
52:31
Or apparently.
52:32
I mean, there's all these different words that
52:34
just make you feel good.
52:36
And this assistant professor of computational linguistic studies,
52:40
Tom Juzek, he points out the fluff words
52:45
that these chatbots use.
52:47
And you as a writer, I think, will
52:49
enjoy this minute.
52:50
AI models use certain words like multifaceted, realm,
52:55
intricate, surpass, underscore.
52:59
Sometimes we call them AI fluff words.
53:01
The reason being that these adjectives, they're qualified.
53:06
They don't add that much to language.
53:09
What we have seen is that a lot
53:10
of these words that the models overuse are
53:14
now popping up in human language as well,
53:17
both in written language.
53:19
And now what we've been observing is, OK,
53:22
these words are also popping up in spoken
53:24
language.
53:25
The question is, why do we observe this
53:28
in speech?
53:29
Is it because this is natural language change,
53:33
as we've seen it in the past?
53:35
Or is it in relation to these AI
53:37
models?
53:38
There is the potential that AI models are
53:40
putting words into our mouths, into our minds.
53:43
But really, there is an entire discourse, similar
53:47
to what we are discussing for words, for
53:50
beliefs, human behavior, human beliefs, political beliefs, moral
53:53
beliefs.
53:55
So even the possibility that these models are
53:58
putting words and thoughts into our minds, that
54:02
is something that we really want to carefully
54:04
study.
54:05
Yeah.
54:06
Carefully study.
54:07
Knock it off.
54:09
Just knock it off.
54:10
AI fluff words.
54:14
Which brings us to another situation with words,
54:17
which I want to bring into the show,
54:21
which is based on the Third Way group.
54:28
It's a consulting group that's basically a bunch
54:31
of Clinton-esque people with their list of
54:34
words that they want Democrats to stop saying.
54:37
Oh, I read about this.
54:40
And I want to go over these because
54:42
they actually left stuff out, believe it or
54:45
not.
54:45
This is the words like patriotism and words.
54:49
Well, no, they, well, the Democrats stopped saying
54:53
that a long time ago.
54:55
OK.
54:55
No, they want people to stop saying things.
54:57
And I want to go over this list
54:58
if you don't mind.
55:00
Yeah, yeah.
55:00
I'm all in.
55:01
They haven't categorized.
55:02
I found the original article.
55:04
And so they categorized it.
55:05
And nobody really, they kind of brought out
55:08
the whole list, but they don't know how
55:10
quite to attack it because it's just too
55:12
much here.
55:13
But this is the list of words they're
55:16
trying to get Democrats to stop saying because
55:20
it's hurting the cause.
55:22
And there's a thing called therapy speak.
55:25
These words say I'm more empathetic than you
55:28
and that you are a callous person.
55:32
And these words that have to go are
55:33
privilege.
55:35
Yeah.
55:36
OK.
55:37
Privilege.
55:37
Yeah.
55:38
Violence as in environmental violence.
55:43
Dialoguing.
55:47
Othering.
55:48
Hold on.
55:48
We are dialoguing twice a week and we
55:52
other a lot.
55:54
Othering.
55:55
Triggering.
55:56
Yeah, good luck.
55:59
Microaggression.
56:00
Assault and invalidation.
56:02
Dude, the Democrats won't be able to say
56:04
anything.
56:05
You take all these words out.
56:06
There'll be like.
56:07
This is only one of the segments.
56:11
Progressive stack.
56:12
I haven't heard that one.
56:13
Progressive stack is good.
56:15
I like that.
56:16
I know that.
56:17
I think that's a good one, too, to
56:18
be honest about it.
56:20
Centering.
56:22
Safe space.
56:24
Oh, we can't get rid of that.
56:26
Holding space and body shaming.
56:31
Well, what's left for them?
56:34
Well, we got more.
56:35
That's just one category.
56:37
Then we move to seminar room language, which
56:39
is the language that says I'm smarter than
56:43
you and concerned about important issues that you
56:47
aren't.
56:49
And we have these are phrases more than
56:52
they are just words, but we have subverting
56:54
norms.
56:56
I have never heard that.
56:58
Well, we're not in those boardrooms.
57:00
So systems of oppression.
57:02
Yeah, that's a good critical theory.
57:07
Cultural appropriation.
57:08
Big one.
57:09
Post post modernism.
57:11
Yeah.
57:13
Overton window.
57:16
What is the over?
57:17
I keep forgetting what the Overton window is.
57:20
Well, I think we should probably go to
57:23
our favorite chat bot and ask our chat
57:26
bot to explain to us in very certain
57:28
terms.
57:29
What is the Overton window?
57:33
Oh, the Overton window.
57:35
It's the range of ideas the public considers
57:37
acceptable at a given time.
57:38
Like what's OK to talk about without sounding
57:41
totally out there?
57:42
It shifts as society's values or political climate
57:46
change.
57:47
Think of it as a window of normal
57:48
that moves left, right or wider based on
57:51
what people are ready to hear.
57:53
For example, ideas once seen as fringe like
57:56
nervous health care can slide into the window
57:58
as attitudes evolve.
58:00
It's named after Joseph Overton, who came up
58:02
with the concept to explain what policymakers can
58:05
realistically push.
58:06
Pretty neat way to think about what's in
58:08
or out in public discourse.
58:09
Want me to dive deeper?
58:11
Heck no.
58:11
No, no, no.
58:13
Of course not.
58:15
I don't want you to dive deeper.
58:16
What is this?
58:17
That should be outlawed.
58:18
Let's dive in.
58:20
Dive deeper.
58:20
That's not on the list, but you're right.
58:22
Dive in.
58:23
Dive deeper.
58:23
Deep dive.
58:24
That needs to go.
58:27
And the last on the seminar room language
58:29
is heuristic and existential threat to anything.
58:35
They will have nothing left.
58:37
Well, wait a minute.
58:38
There's more categories.
58:39
I am a Democrat.
58:41
Thank you.
58:45
Organizer jargon.
58:46
These words say we are beholden to groups,
58:50
not individuals.
58:51
People have no agency.
58:54
Agency.
58:54
This is a common problem with the Democrats,
58:56
which is you're not an individual.
58:58
Yeah, you're part of the group.
58:59
Hey, hey, ho, ho.
59:00
Mic check.
59:01
Mic check.
59:03
Radical transparency.
59:06
Small d democracy.
59:11
So you're in other words, you're not supposed
59:14
to say, yes, well, that's like small d
59:16
democracy.
59:17
Is this group run by run by the
59:20
Trump organization?
59:21
It's a political bunch of Clinton net.
59:24
Oh, really?
59:24
Clintonistas.
59:25
Yeah.
59:25
Interesting.
59:26
Barriers to participation.
59:29
I always use barriers to the sales.
59:32
Yeah, that I could.
59:34
Stakeholders is no good.
59:36
No good.
59:36
No, can't do that.
59:38
The unhoused food insecurity.
59:43
Man, housing insecurity and person who immigrated.
59:48
Do they have birthing persons on this thing
59:50
somewhere?
59:50
Yeah, it's coming.
59:55
They don't have they have personally immigrated.
59:57
They have housing, unhoused and other stuff comes
1:00:01
up.
1:00:01
This is the next one is gender orientation
1:00:04
correctness.
1:00:05
They say your views are or traditional on
1:00:09
gender and gender roles are at best quaint.
1:00:12
Birthing person, inseminated person.
1:00:17
Hold on.
1:00:18
I think that should stay.
1:00:20
I like inseminated person.
1:00:22
Yeah, it also applies to gay guys.
1:00:26
Pregnant people.
1:00:28
Yeah.
1:00:29
Chest feeding.
1:00:32
Oh, my Lord.
1:00:35
Cisgender.
1:00:36
Yeah.
1:00:37
Dead naming.
1:00:38
It's everything.
1:00:40
Heteronormative.
1:00:41
You're right.
1:00:41
The Democrats have nothing to say.
1:00:43
Heteronormative, patriarchy and LGBTQIA plus.
1:00:51
Gotta go.
1:00:52
They really will have nothing left.
1:00:55
Now, what they didn't put on this list
1:00:56
is another one missing front hole.
1:00:59
They did not put that on the list.
1:01:01
No, it's not on the list.
1:01:03
I'm with you.
1:01:04
I think that should be on the list.
1:01:06
Wow.
1:01:08
And then we move to the next one.
1:01:09
I can go.
1:01:10
I'm like, this is ending soon.
1:01:12
This is the shifting language of racial constructs
1:01:15
is next.
1:01:15
Yes.
1:01:17
Latin X.
1:01:19
African-American community.
1:01:23
Well, you got, you know.
1:01:24
Am I there?
1:01:25
Am I getting there?
1:01:26
You know, it's funny.
1:01:26
Somebody on Fox called it Latin, Latin.
1:01:31
Latinx.
1:01:32
Latinx.
1:01:33
Latinx.
1:01:34
Okay.
1:01:35
But you got that right.
1:01:36
Yeah.
1:01:37
Latinx is number one.
1:01:38
Yeah, of course.
1:01:39
It's stupid.
1:01:40
Number two is BIPOC.
1:01:41
Oh, yes.
1:01:42
Get rid of that one.
1:01:44
BIPOC.
1:01:47
Allyship.
1:01:47
And here's the whopper that they're never going
1:01:51
to get rid of intersectionality.
1:01:53
No, no.
1:01:54
So is anyone listening to this group?
1:01:59
Well, it got some play on the right
1:02:00
wing media.
1:02:01
Well, of course it did.
1:02:02
Of course it did.
1:02:04
This the last list is explaining away crime.
1:02:08
Okay.
1:02:09
Let me guess.
1:02:10
Let me guess.
1:02:12
Defund the police.
1:02:18
What else would be in there?
1:02:20
I don't know.
1:02:21
I'm interested.
1:02:21
Defund the police.
1:02:23
Defund the police is not on here because
1:02:26
it's about the buzz terms that are used
1:02:30
like thus.
1:02:31
There's only four words or four phrases.
1:02:34
Justice involved.
1:02:37
In other words, these are phrases you use
1:02:38
to not say, you know, criminal.
1:02:42
You don't want to say the word criminal.
1:02:44
Is a justice involved person.
1:02:47
Yes, I got it.
1:02:48
Okay.
1:02:49
This is an interesting one because I'd never
1:02:51
heard anyone using it, but it's, but carceration.
1:02:55
Carceration, not incarceration, but carceration.
1:02:59
No, there's carceration and there's incarcerated people.
1:03:07
And then the last one is involuntary confinement.
1:03:12
I eat in jail.
1:03:14
I guess.
1:03:15
Well, in jail.
1:03:17
I hope they listen to it.
1:03:19
This is a good start.
1:03:20
Words matter, you know, start with this.
1:03:23
We'll not get rid of one of these
1:03:24
terms.
1:03:25
Well, keep that list handy so we can
1:03:27
flag them.
1:03:29
And we can call out violations of the
1:03:32
third way list or whatever it is.
1:03:35
Well, the Democrats are way beyond this.
1:03:39
Meanwhile, things are finally coming to a head.
1:03:42
Strangely enough, in Canada, as there's a clash
1:03:48
now, there's a clash between the Qs and
1:03:52
the LGBs.
1:03:53
I think it's the LGBs, but maybe there's
1:03:55
some Ts in there.
1:03:56
It's a clash.
1:03:56
It's a clash because now we have conflicting
1:03:58
agendas.
1:04:03
Just so you couldn't hear it, the queers
1:04:05
for Palestine in Ottawa.
1:04:07
That's who's doing this.
1:04:11
Annual pride parade Sunday afternoon, bringing the festivities
1:04:16
to a halt.
1:04:17
We had staged a disruption of the parade
1:04:20
to say our demands to both Capital Pride's
1:04:23
executive director and board of directors and to
1:04:26
the mayor.
1:04:27
We were looking for apologies from the mayor
1:04:29
in particular for boycotting last year and for
1:04:33
encouraging other powerful institutions to boycott the parade.
1:04:39
The group halted the parade to demand the
1:04:41
apology from not only the mayor, Mark Sutcliffe,
1:04:44
but also other organizations that pulled out of
1:04:47
the Capital Pride events last year when organizers
1:04:50
issued a statement condemning Israel.
1:04:53
The mayor said he would not come up
1:04:55
and talk to us.
1:04:56
And even when communicated that the parade would
1:04:59
then disperse if we didn't move, he still
1:05:02
refused to come up and talk to us.
1:05:04
In a statement, Ottawa's mayor said in part,
1:05:07
it's deeply regrettable that a group of activists
1:05:09
chose to block the parade, ultimately leading Capital
1:05:12
Pride officials to cancel the event.
1:05:15
My heart goes out to the many people
1:05:17
in our city who were deprived of the
1:05:18
opportunity to participate in this celebration of joy,
1:05:23
resilience, and community.
1:05:24
I am sad I didn't get to march,
1:05:26
but I'm definitely way sadder for the people
1:05:27
who are experiencing a lot of hardship over
1:05:30
in Palestine.
1:05:31
And this is a way to get a
1:05:32
really good message out.
1:05:33
Yeah, really good message.
1:05:34
So this queers against the LGBTs is a
1:05:37
problem.
1:05:40
Queers.
1:05:41
Queers for Palestine.
1:05:42
Hey, maybe we should roll right into the
1:05:45
executive order on flag burning because I got
1:05:48
an email.
1:05:49
I get these a lot.
1:05:53
Shall I do the voice?
1:05:55
Oh, is it one of those guys?
1:05:57
It's the guy.
1:05:58
It's that guy.
1:05:59
Yeah, it's Spencer, of course.
1:06:00
Yeah, I want you to do that guy's
1:06:01
voice.
1:06:02
You two are just Trump is right about
1:06:05
everything, guys.
1:06:07
You're anti-war until it's a Trump war.
1:06:10
I can't wait to hear you defend him
1:06:12
for executive order banning flag burning.
1:06:15
I'm sure you know it's covered under free
1:06:17
speech, but Trump is right again.
1:06:19
I'm sure you've got the other kind of
1:06:22
TDS.
1:06:24
Oh, well, that brings me a couple of
1:06:26
clips from one from Hillary Clinton and Joe
1:06:30
Biden.
1:06:30
Well, first, I replied to him, of course.
1:06:33
I said, I'm sorry, what war did he
1:06:35
start?
1:06:36
And where's the executive order?
1:06:38
And he said, well, the bombing in Iran,
1:06:40
which was done to please Israel, was an
1:06:44
act of war.
1:06:45
It didn't escalate into a bigger war.
1:06:47
You got me there.
1:06:49
But don't think those actions don't radicalize people
1:06:52
in the Middle East.
1:06:53
It's silly.
1:06:54
And do you really think it was about
1:06:55
Iran not having nukes?
1:06:57
I said, no.
1:06:58
In fact, if you had listened to what
1:07:00
we said, I thought it was about bricks
1:07:02
in China, honestly.
1:07:04
Yeah, that's exactly true.
1:07:07
That's what your thesis was.
1:07:09
So this guy's completely, he's not listening.
1:07:11
No, of course not.
1:07:13
There's a gang out there, you know, and
1:07:15
it goes kind of like this.
1:07:16
You've lost the plot, Curry.
1:07:20
Dvorak is the same, but you've lost the
1:07:23
plot.
1:07:25
Yes, it's probably true.
1:07:26
At least they like me more.
1:07:28
I did read the executive order.
1:07:30
So let's play your clip so that we
1:07:32
can just play this.
1:07:33
I just want this is, I think, good
1:07:34
to know.
1:07:35
This is Hillary in 2006.
1:07:37
And she's talking about flag burning Hillary Clinton.
1:07:41
So I hope, Mr. President, that we can
1:07:44
pass a law that criminalizes flag burning and
1:07:46
desecration.
1:07:47
I agree that this burning, this desecration that
1:07:53
can happen to our flag is something that
1:07:56
people have a right to ask this body
1:07:59
to try to prohibit and prevent.
1:08:01
Yeah, of course, this body.
1:08:03
That's Hillary.
1:08:05
Let's go back another decade to Joe Biden
1:08:08
back in the 90s.
1:08:09
And he had this to say.
1:08:10
In my view, it doesn't matter why you
1:08:13
burn or mutilate or trample on the flag.
1:08:16
You should not do it.
1:08:18
What holds us together as a nation, Mr.
1:08:20
President, is not a common language, although I
1:08:23
think that is necessary.
1:08:25
It is the national symbol.
1:08:27
The reason it is worth preserving is because
1:08:30
it unifies this diverse nation.
1:08:34
The flag's unique place in our national life
1:08:36
means that we should preserve it against all
1:08:39
manner of destruction.
1:08:42
A statute making it unlawful to burn, mutilate
1:08:44
or trample upon any flag of the United
1:08:47
States, period.
1:08:49
It doesn't matter who burns or mutilates or
1:08:51
tramples the flag.
1:08:52
And it doesn't matter why.
1:08:55
Under my proposal, it will be unlawful to
1:08:57
do the flag harm.
1:08:59
No ifs, ands or buts.
1:09:01
Tell everyone they can't burn the flag.
1:09:04
Now, what do you think this is really
1:09:06
about, including Trump?
1:09:09
Why do these presidential people, Hillary not being
1:09:15
a president, but a president adjacent person, with
1:09:20
a front hole?
1:09:22
What do you think that the message really
1:09:25
is?
1:09:26
Why do they make a big deal out
1:09:29
of this?
1:09:30
I don't know, to be honest about it.
1:09:33
Why necessarily?
1:09:35
Unless it's to exhibit some form of patriotism,
1:09:37
because the flag is symbolic.
1:09:41
Right.
1:09:41
So it's about patriotism.
1:09:46
Now, my stance, and I think you'll agree
1:09:49
with me, you want to burn the flag,
1:09:51
you can wear the flag.
1:09:52
There's been lawsuits about that too.
1:09:54
Abbie Hoffman, legend.
1:09:56
Wow, there's a name.
1:09:57
Does anyone remember Abbie Hoffman's Steal This Book?
1:10:00
Probably not.
1:10:01
Nobody does, boomer.
1:10:02
That's a true boomer moment.
1:10:04
I read that when I was probably 10.
1:10:06
Steal this book.
1:10:08
It's a great book.
1:10:09
I think I stole it from the American
1:10:11
Women's Library in Amsterdam.
1:10:14
So burning anything like that is obviously falls
1:10:18
under your freedom to express yourself.
1:10:21
And although I don't like it, it's like,
1:10:24
fine, whatever.
1:10:24
But that's not what the executive order says.
1:10:27
It's very clear what this is about.
1:10:32
Although it's squarmy, swarmy, squirmy, whatever you want
1:10:36
to call it.
1:10:37
Smarmy.
1:10:38
Smarmy, there you go.
1:10:40
Notwithstanding the Supreme Court's rulings on First Amendment
1:10:43
protections, which is burning the flag, the court
1:10:48
has never held that American flag desecration conducted
1:10:52
in a manner that is likely to incite
1:10:54
imminent lawless action, or that is an action
1:10:57
amounting to fighting words, is constitutionally protected.
1:11:02
So what the president, and this is just
1:11:04
a minor part of the executive order, what
1:11:06
he's trying to say here is, well, if
1:11:08
you burn a flag and it causes a
1:11:10
riot, or there's a riot and you're burning
1:11:13
a flag, I think if you're inciting a
1:11:15
riot, no matter what, whether you burn a
1:11:17
flag or not, that's a problem.
1:11:20
But what this is really about is illegal
1:11:24
immigrants burning the American flag.
1:11:27
Or even visa holders who are here visiting,
1:11:34
visa, visit, visiting.
1:11:36
And I'm on board with that.
1:11:39
If you want to come here and you
1:11:40
want to work here and you want to
1:11:42
be a part of our society, then don't
1:11:45
go burning our flag.
1:11:46
I'm okay with that.
1:11:49
And I'm not, you know, that to me
1:11:53
is like, get out.
1:11:54
Just get out.
1:11:56
If you don't care about us, about our
1:11:58
flag and what it stands for, then get
1:11:59
out.
1:12:00
But in general, if you want to burn
1:12:02
a flag, okay, you can be a douchebag.
1:12:04
People burn themselves.
1:12:05
It's fine too.
1:12:06
Well, you know, it's a hate crime and
1:12:08
illegal to burn a gay pride flag.
1:12:11
Is it really?
1:12:12
Yes.
1:12:13
Is that a hate crime?
1:12:14
Yeah.
1:12:16
Well, I didn't know that.
1:12:18
But you can burn the American flag.
1:12:19
What is a hate crime exactly?
1:12:21
It's just exhibiting some sort of targeted hatred
1:12:25
toward a group, a specific group that can
1:12:27
be identified as a minority.
1:12:31
But what this comes, this comes down to
1:12:34
the same thing, you know, yelling fire in
1:12:37
a crowded theater.
1:12:39
You are in fact allowed to yell fire
1:12:41
in a crowded theater.
1:12:43
If you do that with intent to cause
1:12:45
a stampede and people die, it's a different
1:12:48
story.
1:12:49
That's one of the most, between that and
1:12:52
the so-called separation clause, the non-existent
1:12:55
separation clause.
1:12:56
Those are two of the biggest lies about
1:12:58
the U.S. Constitution.
1:13:02
Like, oh, you can't yell fire in a
1:13:03
crowded theater.
1:13:04
Yeah, you can.
1:13:05
Sure you can.
1:13:06
But if you do it with the intent
1:13:07
to hurt people with a, with a stampede
1:13:10
and someone gets hurt, then you got a
1:13:11
problem.
1:13:13
And that concludes our constitutional lesson for today.
1:13:18
For today.
1:13:19
I'm glad I got the Hillary thing in
1:13:20
there, that's for sure.
1:13:22
That concludes our little pitch for today, children.
1:13:25
But I'm not too worried about anyone caring
1:13:27
because they don't even know what half a
1:13:29
dozen is.
1:13:30
So it's probably just going over everybody.
1:13:32
And they can't tell the months.
1:13:33
That's my favorite, new favorite.
1:13:38
January, December, June, what's next?
1:13:41
I have a February.
1:13:42
I remember when I was probably six.
1:13:46
And I was, my mom was kind of
1:13:48
mean in this.
1:13:49
She says, do you know the months?
1:13:51
And I was, I was always listening to
1:13:54
records at home.
1:13:55
And, you know, and I forget what the
1:13:57
name of the song is.
1:13:59
Maybe it's, maybe it's the Andrew Sisters.
1:14:02
But at a certain point he goes, January,
1:14:05
February, June and July.
1:14:07
Is that Sisters, maybe?
1:14:09
Sisters.
1:14:10
It was somebody like that.
1:14:12
So I say to my mom, January, February,
1:14:15
June and July.
1:14:16
And she went, you better learn your months.
1:14:20
You're about to go into, you're about to
1:14:22
be seven years old and you don't know
1:14:24
your months.
1:14:25
And I remember like, God, I was so
1:14:27
scared.
1:14:28
And I was studying the months and I
1:14:29
came back.
1:14:30
Mom, I know him, I know him, I
1:14:31
know him.
1:14:31
I really, I know him, I do.
1:14:32
I was just, it was just a song.
1:14:33
The song got me confused, mom.
1:14:36
But it's six.
1:14:37
And now we don't know.
1:14:39
I got a calendar on my phone.
1:14:40
Who cares?
1:14:41
I got a calendar.
1:14:42
The phone, again, brings us back to the
1:14:45
end of civilization, which began in 2007.
1:14:48
The end of civilization.
1:14:50
Well, here, what the parents do here, and
1:14:52
I think it's pretty good.
1:14:54
They will give their kid an Apple Watch
1:14:56
so that they can text and receive, because,
1:14:59
you know, these Apple Watches, now you can
1:15:01
text and receive a phone call.
1:15:03
And so, but then the parent controls the
1:15:06
app.
1:15:06
So there's no other apps on it.
1:15:08
So they can still text and have a
1:15:11
phone, but it's not really an easy way
1:15:13
to text.
1:15:13
You're not going to be in a chat
1:15:14
group with your friends like that.
1:15:17
And that seems to be a pretty good,
1:15:18
pretty decent halfway solution.
1:15:24
Halfway, also known as half-assed.
1:15:26
Well, I mean, I'm still for ham radios.
1:15:29
I think all kids should have a walkie
1:15:30
-talkie.
1:15:31
I love getting some of the Gen Zers
1:15:33
are getting these.
1:15:34
You said that earlier, you had a note
1:15:35
from someone.
1:15:36
Yeah, yeah.
1:15:37
They love it.
1:15:38
They love the hams.
1:15:40
Yeah, because we're talking about the flag burning.
1:15:42
Let's talk about D.C. crime, because that's
1:15:44
a big topic.
1:15:44
Yes.
1:15:45
Oh, yes.
1:15:46
I have some clips.
1:15:47
I got the D.C. Crime Union Station
1:15:49
clip.
1:15:50
Okay.
1:15:51
The Department of Transportation says it's taking over
1:15:53
management of Union Station, a major transportation hub
1:15:57
in Washington, D.C. NPR's Joel Rose reports.
1:16:01
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says his department is
1:16:04
taking management of Union Station back from Amtrak.
1:16:07
The station, which is within walking distance of
1:16:09
the U.S. Capitol, has been owned by
1:16:11
DOT since the 1980s.
1:16:13
Duffy says the department will now reclaim management
1:16:15
of the station, which he said will help
1:16:17
to, quote, make the city safe and beautiful
1:16:19
at a fraction of the cost.
1:16:21
National Guard troops have been seen patrolling the
1:16:23
station since the Trump administration sent the Guard
1:16:26
and other federal law enforcement officials into Washington,
1:16:28
though local police statistics show that violent crime
1:16:31
in the District of Columbia has declined, declined,
1:16:34
declined in recent years.
1:16:36
Declined.
1:16:39
So they're making the point, you know, they're
1:16:41
not talking, they're giving us, again, bad reporting.
1:16:44
They don't talk about the rigged numbers and
1:16:46
all the rest of this, and well documented
1:16:48
by now.
1:16:50
But so we go, but NPR now goes
1:16:52
into the juvenile.
1:16:54
There's a whole segment they do on the
1:16:56
juvenile thing that, you know, Jeanine Piero, Piero.
1:17:03
Judge Jeanine, man, bomb him, bomb him again,
1:17:06
eh?
1:17:07
Is the bomb him, bomb him girl, wants
1:17:10
to bomb the juveniles into oblivion.
1:17:12
And so this becomes a big topic of
1:17:14
conversation here on NPR about, oh, well, you
1:17:17
know, the whole idea is that we shouldn't,
1:17:20
we kind of backed off on juveniles because
1:17:23
it's turned out that our research indicates that
1:17:25
if you're, if you're harsh on them, then
1:17:27
they become lifetime criminals as opposed to letting
1:17:30
them get away with everything.
1:17:32
So they won't become like, bring back spanking,
1:17:35
bring back spanking, people.
1:17:36
There we go.
1:17:37
It's one unlike President Trump, who was railed
1:17:40
against violent crime in the city writ large,
1:17:42
right there.
1:17:42
Railed.
1:17:43
What does even railed mean?
1:17:46
Let me ask.
1:17:48
Give me a definition of railed.
1:17:53
Railed can mean a couple things depending on
1:17:55
context.
1:17:56
If you mean physically, it's when something moves
1:17:59
along or is secured by rails, like a
1:18:01
train on tracks or a curtain on a
1:18:03
rod.
1:18:04
Now, if you're thinking slang, railed often means
1:18:07
getting hit hard or overwhelmed, like in a
1:18:09
game or argument.
1:18:11
Oh, please.
1:18:12
Stupid.
1:18:13
It's just, it's, it's.
1:18:15
So it's a colloquialism that isn't even valid.
1:18:19
Exactly.
1:18:20
Railed.
1:18:20
He railed against it, man.
1:18:22
I mean, railing, when someone rails against it,
1:18:24
I'm getting really mad.
1:18:26
Unlike President Trump, who was railed against violent
1:18:28
crime in the city writ large, PIR was
1:18:30
zeroed in specifically on local laws meant to
1:18:32
rehabilitate people accused or convicted of crimes at
1:18:35
a young age.
1:18:36
She's penned opinion pieces and letters to lawmakers
1:18:38
criticizing laws allowing for things like juvenile sentence
1:18:41
reduction, record sealing, and early release.
1:18:44
I want to send a message that we
1:18:46
are going to catch you, that we are
1:18:48
going to change the laws, that if you're
1:18:50
14, 15, 16, 17, we're going to bring
1:18:53
you into the justice system.
1:18:55
PIR has connected the district's reforms to the
1:18:57
city's recent uptick in youth violence, which included
1:18:59
a sharp rise in shootings in 2023 that
1:19:02
has since declined, since declined, since declined.
1:19:04
Oh, hold on.
1:19:05
I got to stop that for a second.
1:19:07
First of all, Judge Jeanine will be the
1:19:11
one to use the super predator term.
1:19:13
You watch.
1:19:13
She's, she's dumb enough, she's smart, but she's
1:19:17
also dumb enough to throw something or a
1:19:18
new version of super predator.
1:19:19
I would take a bet on that, that
1:19:21
she won't.
1:19:22
You don't think she will?
1:19:23
No, I don't think so.
1:19:25
She's so conscientious about being a right winger
1:19:29
that to use that term, which is really
1:19:31
popularized by Hillary, I think would be beneath
1:19:34
her.
1:19:35
And there was something else I wanted to
1:19:36
say.
1:19:37
Oh, I forgot it already.
1:19:38
Let me see.
1:19:39
Which included a sharp rise in shootings in
1:19:41
2023.
1:19:42
So I looked at the crime statistics of
1:19:45
DC and they were talking about how it
1:19:47
was down 30 percent and I'm like, how
1:19:50
did they arrive at this number?
1:19:53
It's very simple.
1:19:54
They looked at 2024, all crime or whatever
1:19:59
that, what was the statistic?
1:20:00
Was it, it was crime.
1:20:02
And then they looked at what they have
1:20:04
to date.
1:20:07
Well, there's a third of the year left.
1:20:10
So that's how they arrive at it's down
1:20:12
30 percent.
1:20:13
Well, yeah, the year's not over yet.
1:20:15
They didn't do it month over month or
1:20:17
period over period.
1:20:18
They did it literally full year versus three
1:20:21
quarters of a year.
1:20:22
This bull crap.
1:20:23
Included a sharp rise in shootings in 2023
1:20:26
that has since declined, since declined, since declined.
1:20:29
But complaints about juvenile justice reform from prosecutors
1:20:32
are nothing new in both the Capitol and
1:20:34
in other parts of the country.
1:20:35
DC Mayor Muriel Bowser says she is also
1:20:37
concerned about sending the wrong message to adolescents
1:20:39
accused of crimes.
1:20:41
I am an accountability mayor.
1:20:43
If you commit a crime in the district
1:20:46
with a gun, there has to be accountability.
1:20:49
And that's if you are an adult or
1:20:52
if you are a juvenile.
1:20:54
I don't think we always have that accountability.
1:20:57
But criminal justice reform advocates don't want to
1:21:00
see D.C. leaders make what they say
1:21:02
will be counterproductive changes simply to appease Trump
1:21:04
and Pirro in order to war off additional
1:21:06
interference.
1:21:08
Vanessa Batters Thompson is the head of the
1:21:09
D.C. Appleseed Center for Law and Justice.
1:21:12
She argues that cities and states have pursued
1:21:13
policy changes allowing for more lenient sentences for
1:21:16
young people because of the overwhelming evidence that
1:21:19
punishing them pushes teens to commit more crimes
1:21:21
in the future.
1:21:24
Bring back spanking.
1:21:26
That'll start.
1:21:31
You've muted yourself.
1:21:33
You're self-muted.
1:21:35
It is a crime in 40 of the
1:21:38
50 states to self-mute yourself on a
1:21:40
podcast.
1:21:43
You are still muted.
1:21:46
Click the button.
1:21:50
I wonder if maybe he's having an argument,
1:21:52
doesn't want us to hear it.
1:21:54
Maybe he's sorry.
1:21:56
I'll tell you how this happens.
1:21:58
Yeah, it's magic.
1:22:03
But the point.
1:22:04
Yeah, yeah.
1:22:06
You had something to say that I thought
1:22:07
was important and I wanted to dispute it.
1:22:10
Or bring back spanking.
1:22:12
No, not about bringing back spanking.
1:22:14
The logic, the logic that was brought up
1:22:16
in that clip where they say that deterring
1:22:20
in other words, by punishing crime, it doesn't
1:22:24
act as a deterrence, which makes sense that
1:22:28
it might.
1:22:29
It acts as an encouragement.
1:22:31
How did it?
1:22:31
What is the logic here?
1:22:34
Their logic is the following.
1:22:36
To deter crime by punishing the juveniles, it
1:22:40
will encourage more crime.
1:22:42
Yeah.
1:22:43
I want to know the logic.
1:22:45
Do you have it?
1:22:45
No.
1:22:46
No, of course not.
1:22:48
All right.
1:22:48
They claim that's true.
1:22:50
OK, well, let's go on to the WTF,
1:22:53
which is the worst clip, which is this
1:22:55
one.
1:22:55
Pushes teens to commit more crimes in the
1:22:57
future.
1:22:58
It feels like we are taking a step
1:23:00
back from an evidence based approach to criminal
1:23:04
justice, to one that is really focused on
1:23:07
the short term appearance of less crime at
1:23:11
the risk of a population that is much
1:23:14
less stable over the long term.
1:23:17
Pero has also criticized a D.C. law
1:23:19
allowing people convicted of crimes under the age
1:23:21
of 25 to seek sentence reductions after they've
1:23:24
served at least 15 years.
1:23:26
More than a dozen states have passed similar
1:23:27
reforms, giving judges a chance to review a
1:23:30
sentence after a significant amount of time has
1:23:31
been served.
1:23:32
Troy Berner was one of the first beneficiaries
1:23:34
of D.C.'s sentence reduction law after spending
1:23:37
24 years in prison for a crime he
1:23:39
didn't commit.
1:23:42
Wait, the guy didn't commit the crime?
1:23:45
Yeah.
1:23:45
That's and he is a beneficiary of a
1:23:48
shortened sentence.
1:23:51
How come he wasn't commuted if he didn't
1:23:53
commit?
1:23:54
What is he doing in jail in the
1:23:56
first place if he didn't commit the crime?
1:23:58
Well, they throw that in there to show
1:24:00
that the justice system does not work because
1:24:03
people who are innocent get thrown in jail.
1:24:05
That's that that's part of the whole ethos
1:24:09
of the left, you see, is they don't
1:24:12
always get it right.
1:24:13
So I could be your kid.
1:24:14
So you don't, by the way, little remind
1:24:17
me, I've got to tell a Fredericksburg story
1:24:19
right after this last clip.
1:24:20
You want to set it up?
1:24:24
I'm not going to set up the Fredericksburg
1:24:25
story, but I remember to say that to
1:24:27
you.
1:24:27
Let's go to.
1:24:28
So anyway, so the point is that this
1:24:30
is a propagandistic outfit, this NPR and people
1:24:33
giving them money.
1:24:34
It's really a shame.
1:24:35
Here we go.
1:24:36
Shame.
1:24:37
Stop giving.
1:24:38
So here we go.
1:24:39
This is the last.
1:24:41
He now studies criminal justice reform issues and
1:24:43
observes that these reductions are only meant to
1:24:45
give people second chances after they clear a
1:24:48
rigorous review process.
1:24:49
He says they have no bearing at all
1:24:51
on youth crime rates.
1:24:52
We're doing some amazing things out here.
1:24:54
And I think, you know, when it's all
1:24:56
said and done, you know, people lives are
1:24:59
being involved in this misleading narratives.
1:25:03
Similarly, Nye Winslow, policy counsel of the D
1:25:06
.C. Justice Lab, points to Pirro's focus on
1:25:08
the city's juvenile record sealing laws and misguided
1:25:10
one.
1:25:10
I know she and the administration want to
1:25:13
talk about public safety, but if you are
1:25:15
allowing people the opportunity to move forward and
1:25:19
gain a legal income, get legal housing, get
1:25:21
legal education opportunities, that will decrease the chance
1:25:24
that they are going to resort to criminal
1:25:26
activity.
1:25:27
Pirro's office declined to speak with NPR for
1:25:29
this story, stating her public comments spoke for
1:25:32
themselves.
1:25:33
For NPR News, I'm Alex Tromo in Washington,
1:25:35
D.C. Hold on a second.
1:25:36
These juveniles do have a home.
1:25:38
It's not as though they're homeless roaming around
1:25:41
homeless kids.
1:25:42
Unhoused.
1:25:43
Unhoused.
1:25:44
Oh, yeah, unhoused.
1:25:46
And so this logic, again, there's the logic
1:25:49
is elusive.
1:25:51
Mainstream media is not good for anybody's mental
1:25:55
health.
1:25:56
But even in Fredericksburg, we have gotten to
1:25:59
a place where there's something that happened in
1:26:05
people's minds.
1:26:07
I'm not sure exactly what it is.
1:26:08
So we live on a it should be
1:26:11
a gated community, but it's not because, you
1:26:13
know, there's a whole who owns the roads
1:26:16
and the city didn't want it when this
1:26:17
it's a what do you call it?
1:26:20
Subdivision.
1:26:20
And there's 12 in a subdivision.
1:26:22
You have an awful lot of property for
1:26:24
someone in the subdivision.
1:26:25
It's Texas, man.
1:26:27
So in Texas here, we got lots of
1:26:29
land.
1:26:30
We have the many.
1:26:31
We got the Mac mansions and we got
1:26:33
them all over the place because that's what
1:26:34
we do.
1:26:35
That's what we do.
1:26:36
My mansions with lots of limestone and exposed
1:26:40
beams, which we do not have 12 homes.
1:26:45
And so we're on one end is a
1:26:47
cul-de-sac.
1:26:48
And there's a cul-de-sac on the
1:26:49
other end.
1:26:50
And then there's a road and a couple
1:26:51
of wait, wait, stop.
1:26:53
There's a cul-de-sac on one end
1:26:55
and the other ends.
1:26:56
How do you get into this area in
1:26:58
the first place?
1:26:59
In the middle, there's a road that comes
1:27:01
in the middle and and and in the
1:27:03
middle, there's actually where the mailboxes are.
1:27:05
OK, you got the picture?
1:27:06
You got the picture?
1:27:08
Not really, but yes.
1:27:09
We're all the way at one end, quiet,
1:27:11
little little Adam and Tina and Phoebe just
1:27:13
living here in our modest home.
1:27:16
The Mac mansions are a little bit further
1:27:18
up.
1:27:19
But about nine months ago, a family moved
1:27:25
in and the guy's a contractor.
1:27:28
And so he's already irritating everybody because he
1:27:31
had, you know, like tractors and big machinery
1:27:35
in his front yard and while he was
1:27:37
building his house.
1:27:39
But then they kind of stayed.
1:27:40
And so there's all kinds of consternation at
1:27:42
the other end, including.
1:27:45
Yeah, I love this sort of neighborhood consternation
1:27:49
over the guy has a heavy equipment in
1:27:52
his front yard.
1:27:53
Well, I mean, man, can you move your
1:27:55
tractor?
1:27:56
And, you know, 4th of July, they were
1:27:58
shooting fireworks off and it was, you know,
1:28:01
it was and all the debris was going
1:28:03
in other people's yards and their pool.
1:28:06
And so there's a text group of half
1:28:08
of the inhabitants.
1:28:09
And I've been roped into this because I
1:28:11
find it highly entertaining because I'm on the
1:28:14
other end.
1:28:14
We're in the quiet, peaceful part.
1:28:17
And so the other of those last weekend,
1:28:20
it was Saturday night and I'm walking Phoebe
1:28:24
and they have two young boys, a baby.
1:28:27
And I guess the boys had some some
1:28:30
friends over and I don't know where the
1:28:32
parents were, but they had gotten one of
1:28:34
his his utility vehicles, which is, you know,
1:28:38
kind of like a golf cart that can
1:28:40
pull stuff that has a has a real
1:28:42
engine in it.
1:28:43
And they're racing up and down the road.
1:28:45
I mean, racing is is there's a big
1:28:47
word, you know, they've got one headlamp and
1:28:50
they're all hooting and hollering.
1:28:51
And it's like nine o'clock or whatever.
1:28:53
Yeah, the kids, right.
1:28:54
And then they had a sparty.
1:28:57
Yeah, they had electric mini bikes and they're
1:29:00
zipping around.
1:29:01
And Phoebe's like, they're afraid of me because,
1:29:04
you know, the Phoebe is like she's just
1:29:05
going nuts when they come by.
1:29:07
And, you know, they're going up and down.
1:29:09
And I'm like, yeah, I remember when I
1:29:12
was a kid, you know, I had all
1:29:14
kinds of motorized vehicles and, you know, it's
1:29:18
nine o'clock, whatever.
1:29:19
So it wasn't loud or anything, but they
1:29:21
were just going up and down.
1:29:23
So I thought nothing of it.
1:29:25
Like, I'm not going to I'm not going
1:29:26
to be that old coot who says I
1:29:28
can't stop that.
1:29:30
However, the shaker, you got to shake my
1:29:31
fist.
1:29:32
Yes.
1:29:33
However, it turns out they were doing this
1:29:36
until one in the morning up at the
1:29:38
other end.
1:29:40
And so the text group fires up like,
1:29:43
can you believe it?
1:29:44
They were doing that until one in the
1:29:46
morning.
1:29:46
I'm like, what did you do?
1:29:49
Well, you know, I couldn't get to sleep.
1:29:51
I texted.
1:29:53
What is wrong with you people?
1:29:56
I said, I said, OK, next, because, you
1:29:58
know, we do have a 10 o'clock
1:30:00
ordinance, I guess.
1:30:01
And just after 10 o'clock, just stop
1:30:02
making noise.
1:30:03
It's fine.
1:30:04
Unless you talk to everybody.
1:30:05
I'm going to have a party.
1:30:06
Come on over.
1:30:07
And I said, what is wrong with you?
1:30:10
Next time they do that, text me and
1:30:13
I'll call my friend Mike, the lieutenant, the
1:30:16
sheriff's office.
1:30:17
I have to send someone over and scare
1:30:18
the living daylights out of them.
1:30:21
But these people don't do that anymore.
1:30:23
They sit there and grouse on text.
1:30:27
You know, you're grown men.
1:30:30
You're going to let these kids terrorize you
1:30:32
until one in the morning and just go
1:30:34
out there and say, hey, cut it out.
1:30:37
This is Texas.
1:30:39
There's something going on.
1:30:41
The people have lost the plot.
1:30:43
I mean, what are you afraid of?
1:30:45
Are you afraid that you're going to get
1:30:46
someone's parents angry because you told their kids
1:30:48
to knock it off?
1:30:52
It's disappointing, to say the least.
1:30:57
By the way, this is an ongoing saga.
1:30:59
There will be more updates.
1:31:01
There's a lot more going on with these
1:31:02
people.
1:31:03
We have, you know, in Holland, in Dutch,
1:31:07
in the old country, we have a term
1:31:08
for a family like this.
1:31:10
We call them Tokkies.
1:31:12
And they are Tokkies, T-O-K-K
1:31:15
-I-E-S, Tokkies, Tokkies, Tokkies.
1:31:19
And every neighborhood eventually gets some Tokkies.
1:31:22
And we got them.
1:31:23
And luckily, they're at the other end of
1:31:26
the road, far away from me to be
1:31:28
disturbed by.
1:31:29
Yeah, it sounds like a winner.
1:31:30
I had some Tokkies living next to me
1:31:32
when I was down on.
1:31:33
It's Tokkies.
1:31:33
Get together Tokkies.
1:31:35
That were, they were heroin dealers.
1:31:40
Excellent.
1:31:42
And they weren't there that long.
1:31:44
They were there for maybe six months, but
1:31:46
it was pretty apparent what was going on.
1:31:48
And it was funny because they also owned
1:31:50
a restaurant in Berkley, which the name remained
1:31:53
nameless.
1:31:54
But I think they financed the restaurant with
1:31:55
their heroin dealings.
1:31:58
So one day, so there's one day I
1:32:01
got a knock on my door because somebody
1:32:02
mixed up the houses and thought it was,
1:32:04
I was the hero.
1:32:05
Hey man, hey man, are you holding, are
1:32:08
you holding?
1:32:10
But no, it was kind of a surprise.
1:32:12
It was two, I don't know if they
1:32:15
were world class, but they sure looked like
1:32:17
it to me.
1:32:19
Supermodels.
1:32:21
Oh yeah.
1:32:21
Yeah.
1:32:22
They use that to, instead of eating, they
1:32:25
do heroin.
1:32:26
And it was like, holy shit.
1:32:29
These women are beautiful.
1:32:31
And there is, you know, they had the
1:32:33
guy's name is, is he living here?
1:32:35
No, he's next door.
1:32:37
And so I, well, I'm giving him directions.
1:32:40
Oh, thanks.
1:32:41
And they go over there and then you,
1:32:43
the door opens, you hear it slam.
1:32:44
Then it opens again.
1:32:46
As soon as they get back in their
1:32:47
car within 10 minutes and off they go
1:32:49
to two of them.
1:32:50
Yeah.
1:32:50
And I'm thinking, holy mackerel, what a business.
1:32:53
Wow.
1:32:54
This is a story I have not heard
1:32:55
from you.
1:32:56
This is a new one.
1:32:57
I've never told him.
1:32:58
Almost 18 years.
1:32:59
And you never cease to amaze me with
1:33:01
your life experience.
1:33:02
About the hotties, the heroin addict hotties.
1:33:05
The heroin hotties.
1:33:06
There you go.
1:33:07
Heroin hotties.
1:33:08
That's the name for a show title.
1:33:09
Yeah, I think so too.
1:33:11
I'm writing it down just in case.
1:33:13
Heroin hotties.
1:33:15
Wow, man.
1:33:16
What a world, huh?
1:33:17
We get to live in it.
1:33:19
That's great.
1:33:20
I love that we get to live in
1:33:21
this world.
1:33:23
So I have these.
1:33:25
How much time do we have left in
1:33:26
this segment?
1:33:27
In this segment, I give you 15.
1:33:29
Well, let's go with the owner.
1:33:31
I found a TikToker guy, but it's just
1:33:34
really a news reporter.
1:33:36
He's on the UK.
1:33:36
And it's UK reports of the crap that's
1:33:39
going on in the UK.
1:33:41
So bad.
1:33:41
That they're trying to pull over on the
1:33:43
public.
1:33:43
And the public just buys it.
1:33:45
This is UK is a mess.
1:33:47
Yeah, it is.
1:33:48
Here's the these are they call owns a
1:33:50
risk.
1:33:50
But this owns risk UK cash limit.
1:33:53
Have you heard about the cash limit?
1:33:55
Yes, they're doing it all over the EU.
1:33:58
So it doesn't surprise me.
1:33:59
It's in the UK.
1:34:00
I'm just going to guess.
1:34:02
No more than £100 cash.
1:34:07
Well, it's different.
1:34:08
Well, it's a little more elaborate than that.
1:34:11
Okay, here we go.
1:34:12
September 18th, 2025.
1:34:15
Withdrawing more than £200 in cash within seven
1:34:18
days will activate an alert on your account.
1:34:21
Wow.
1:34:21
Yes, the moment you cross that limit, your
1:34:23
banking activity goes straight to the Financial Intelligence
1:34:26
Unit, supported by HMRC, the Treasury and the
1:34:30
Financial Conduct Authority.
1:34:32
And it doesn't stop there.
1:34:34
A new automated monitoring system will scan every
1:34:37
withdrawal, deposit and transfer.
1:34:39
Take out £300 today and another £100 later
1:34:43
in the week.
1:34:44
Instantly reviewed.
1:34:46
Your account could be checked, restricted or even
1:34:49
temporarily paused.
1:34:50
Do this often and you could end up
1:34:52
on a high risk list facing block transactions,
1:34:56
limited card use and possible reports to other
1:34:59
agencies.
1:35:00
The rule is aimed at reducing activity in
1:35:02
certain sectors like property, secondhand cars and cash
1:35:06
based deals.
1:35:06
But many believe it could affect ordinary people
1:35:09
too, making every step of your financial life
1:35:12
feel closely monitored.
1:35:14
Wow.
1:35:15
You know what these people need?
1:35:17
I mean, I would have said Bitcoin, but
1:35:19
we might as well just hit them with
1:35:20
some stablecoin.
1:35:21
Quick.
1:35:23
They need something.
1:35:25
That is, that is draconian.
1:35:28
It's ridiculous.
1:35:29
And then they talk about the reason for
1:35:31
this.
1:35:32
So you can't buy a secondhand car cash.
1:35:35
No.
1:35:35
I can't go by.
1:35:37
You got a car for sales like 500
1:35:38
bucks.
1:35:39
Here's 500 bucks.
1:35:40
Give me that.
1:35:40
What kind of car are you buying for
1:35:42
500 bucks?
1:35:43
Well, I'm just saying just to make I'm
1:35:45
rounding numbers.
1:35:46
Uh, okay.
1:35:47
10 grand.
1:35:48
Here's $10,000 in cash.
1:35:50
Can I have your car?
1:35:51
No way.
1:35:51
You might be a drug.
1:35:52
You might be holding heroin for the hotties.
1:35:54
You can't, you can't have that.
1:35:56
I mean, the whole thing is ridiculous.
1:35:58
So here's the second clip that's got another
1:36:01
crazy thing going on in the UK.
1:36:03
As in January, 2026, a new contribution will
1:36:07
be added directly to your pay slip.
1:36:09
Yes, you read that correctly.
1:36:12
On January 2nd, 2026, a debt recovery contribution
1:36:15
will automatically be deducted from the paychecks of
1:36:18
most UK workers.
1:36:20
This new measure is designed to help manage
1:36:22
the UK's rising national debt, which has grown
1:36:25
significantly in recent years.
1:36:27
But here's where it gets interesting.
1:36:29
90 pounds will be taken before your salary
1:36:31
even reaches your bank account.
1:36:33
Adding up to over £1,000 per year.
1:36:36
With many families already facing higher living costs
1:36:39
and inflation, this new deduction is likely to
1:36:41
have a big impact.
1:36:43
HMRC will handle the collection and employers will
1:36:46
be legally required to ensure it's taken.
1:36:49
Exemptions apply only to pensioners, large families and
1:36:52
those on specific benefits.
1:36:54
For everyone else, it's automatic and unavoidable.
1:36:57
While supporters say this is a necessary step
1:36:59
to manage public finances, critics feel it places
1:37:03
extra pressure on regular workers.
1:37:05
No kidding.
1:37:06
So that's to reduce the deficit?
1:37:09
Yeah, so they screw up and they run
1:37:12
up a big deficit.
1:37:13
And they say, well, you know, what are
1:37:15
we going to do about this big deficit?
1:37:17
Well, what we're going to do is we're
1:37:18
going to ding everybody with the, because everything's
1:37:20
now, you know, the finances is going to
1:37:22
be all digital because you can't even have
1:37:24
$200 in cash, you know, before being considered
1:37:27
a criminal.
1:37:28
So you have, so that you can't do
1:37:30
anything about it.
1:37:31
And the money just gets sucked out of
1:37:33
your account, whether you like it or not.
1:37:35
Bitcoin people, they get to the Bitcoin.
1:37:37
Bitcoin's not going to help.
1:37:38
I think stablecoin is the answer, but it's
1:37:40
not, that's like, that'll be illegal.
1:37:42
They'll just make that illegal.
1:37:43
Oh, it already is.
1:37:45
You know, that, you saw that commercial that
1:37:48
Coinbase did about everything's fine in the UK.
1:37:51
It's like a three minute commercial.
1:37:53
It's like a, it's like a cabaret.
1:37:55
They're on the street singing and dancing and
1:37:58
everything's a mess.
1:37:59
And the garbage is piling up and rats
1:38:00
are walking around and the ceiling's caving in
1:38:03
and people are like, everything's fine.
1:38:05
Everything's lovely.
1:38:06
And then it's because Coinbase wasn't allowed to
1:38:09
either operate or certainly not to advertise their
1:38:12
services.
1:38:13
I think it's to operate.
1:38:14
I know, I never saw that ad.
1:38:15
Yeah, it's around.
1:38:17
Well, of course we still have the Raise
1:38:19
the Colors protest ongoing in the UK and
1:38:23
it's spreading.
1:38:24
And I thought it was rather interesting because
1:38:26
we were talking a couple of shows ago.
1:38:29
You said, well, who's organizing this?
1:38:31
Who is organizing all of these, this immigration,
1:38:34
all this illegal stuff and people getting, you
1:38:37
know, hotel rooms and et cetera, et cetera.
1:38:41
Well, it turns out that the only people
1:38:43
organizing it are the citizenry themselves who just
1:38:46
let it happen because they were told by
1:38:49
their media and their politicians, oh, poor people,
1:38:53
poor people, without any thought for the consequences.
1:38:56
And now the Australians are acting up.
1:38:59
An online movement.
1:39:01
When did it become racist to be a
1:39:03
patriot?
1:39:04
Planning to take to the streets.
1:39:06
The Australian people have had enough.
1:39:08
With the backing of real politicians.
1:39:11
How dare you bring these people to our
1:39:13
country and then have them be looked after
1:39:16
by the public purse.
1:39:18
This nation is sick and tired of migration.
1:39:22
This is the digital groundswell behind March for
1:39:25
Australia.
1:39:26
A planned series of demonstrations next Sunday in
1:39:29
every state capital.
1:39:30
Anti-mass migration rallies.
1:39:32
Sam won't give her real name and would
1:39:34
only answer our questions in a pre-recorded
1:39:37
video message posted to her page, but claims
1:39:40
to be an organiser.
1:39:42
Myself, as well as every other state organiser,
1:39:46
is intending for this event to be peaceful,
1:39:49
non-violent, non-aggressive and just a bunch
1:39:53
of your average Australians standing up against mass
1:39:55
immigration.
1:39:56
There is no clear single leader.
1:39:58
Many supporters, though, were aligned with anti-lockdown,
1:40:01
anti-vaccine movements.
1:40:03
Everyone I know is going.
1:40:04
There are videos that don't even feature real
1:40:07
people.
1:40:12
AI generated clips used to sell the message.
1:40:17
Security experts say the social media algorithm driven
1:40:20
momentum is fuelled by scenes globally.
1:40:23
Immigration raids ordered by the US president in
1:40:26
America protests against migrants in the UK.
1:40:30
Yeah, people are sick of it everywhere.
1:40:33
That's good.
1:40:34
We'll see how that goes.
1:40:35
I love the real politicians.
1:40:37
Like, oh, my God, real politicians are with
1:40:40
these people.
1:40:41
We can't have that.
1:40:42
We should get these real politicians out.
1:40:45
There's no good.
1:40:50
All right.
1:40:54
TikTok clip.
1:40:55
Only have one.
1:40:57
We actually have two.
1:40:59
I thought this.
1:41:00
I want to play this clip.
1:41:02
This is a TikTok clip.
1:41:04
And somebody brought in this is people bitching
1:41:06
about Joe Rogan.
1:41:08
And I don't like to necessarily play that
1:41:11
sort of clip.
1:41:12
But they're bitching about Joe Rogan because he
1:41:14
had some a couple of anti-vaxxers on.
1:41:17
When was this?
1:41:20
All the time.
1:41:21
All the time.
1:41:21
He has anti-vaxxers on all the time.
1:41:23
He has a lot of anti-vaxxers on.
1:41:25
Yes.
1:41:25
But these women, these are two Brits.
1:41:28
I think there are some podcasts.
1:41:30
I can't figure out who they are.
1:41:31
But they post everywhere.
1:41:34
And so they're going on.
1:41:35
There's an unbelievable illogic to what they have
1:41:39
to say.
1:41:40
But they came up with a new a
1:41:42
new concept, which I thought was interesting.
1:41:46
And it is a term called privilege of
1:41:48
platform.
1:41:51
And Joe Rogan has this privilege of privilege
1:41:54
of platform, which means big platform.
1:41:57
Yeah.
1:41:57
And of course, this goes along with the
1:42:00
you shouldn't platform these people.
1:42:04
Or I this is my favorite.
1:42:06
Candace Owens does this.
1:42:07
I won't use my platform to talk about
1:42:11
these people.
1:42:12
We have a platform.
1:42:13
It's tiny.
1:42:15
But, you know, it's like a diving board,
1:42:16
basically.
1:42:17
But we've got a platform.
1:42:18
Yeah, but our people are the best.
1:42:20
That's true.
1:42:21
I do not think some episodes of the
1:42:23
Joe Rogan experience are OK.
1:42:24
I have issues with a lot of the
1:42:26
people that Joe Rogan has interviewed.
1:42:28
Most specifically, I do not like the fact
1:42:30
that he reaches into alt right groups and
1:42:33
platforms people with very racist, very hate filled
1:42:36
ideas.
1:42:37
I hate that about his podcast.
1:42:39
And I really do not like the idea
1:42:41
that is so widely supported sometimes.
1:42:43
However, if we are sticking to the issue
1:42:45
of these two particular podcast episodes that people
1:42:48
are so upset about recently, my main question
1:42:52
is what opinions deserve a platform on Joe
1:42:55
Rogan experience?
1:42:56
And the main hurdle for me, whenever someone
1:42:59
shares an opinion on a podcast is, is
1:43:01
this person qualified to share the opinion that
1:43:03
they have?
1:43:03
Is this person considered an expert in their
1:43:06
field?
1:43:07
And when we bring up these two episodes
1:43:09
that have caused this furore, they are actually
1:43:11
concerning to people who I would deem experts
1:43:14
because they are a cardiologist and a vaccine
1:43:17
scientist.
1:43:18
So it's an interesting conversation because although we
1:43:22
have two experts who are very educated and
1:43:25
are very informed in their fields, they are
1:43:27
two experts who disagree with about 99 percent
1:43:30
of their peers who are also experts.
1:43:33
So we kind of have a situation where
1:43:34
if we had all these experts on this
1:43:36
particular topic in a room, 997 are saying
1:43:40
one thing and two or three experts are
1:43:43
saying another.
1:43:44
And how the hell do we deal with
1:43:45
that?
1:43:45
Yeah.
1:43:46
And then a lot of people might turn
1:43:47
around to that and say, OK, well, then
1:43:48
clearly it's a freedom of speech thing, because
1:43:50
clearly we need to hear from everyone, from
1:43:52
all of the experts in the room.
1:43:53
And I agree with that to some degree.
1:43:55
But then perhaps it's not as much about
1:43:57
freedom of speech as it is about privilege
1:43:58
of platform.
1:43:59
Right.
1:43:59
Like this is a huge platform.
1:44:02
Brother.
1:44:04
Well, that's kind of the Douglas Murray argument
1:44:06
about Dave Smith.
1:44:11
Douglas Murray was when he went on to
1:44:14
debate.
1:44:16
Dave Smith is on Joe Rogan again, and
1:44:18
he's still talking about that debate.
1:44:20
Like, oh, move on, move on, dude.
1:44:23
But he's right about one thing.
1:44:25
Douglas Murray, but he in essence said you
1:44:29
shouldn't platform people who aren't experts on the
1:44:32
topic, which is a little bit like what,
1:44:35
although it's in reverse here, because I guess
1:44:37
these people did were experts in the field.
1:44:39
But you shouldn't platform anyone who I disagree
1:44:41
with.
1:44:41
That's what they're saying.
1:44:43
That's basically what the two women are saying.
1:44:47
OK, you should have experts, but they have
1:44:48
to be experts that we agree with.
1:44:50
They have to be experts that are in
1:44:52
the majority.
1:44:53
In other words, science, you know, science is
1:44:55
not a vote.
1:44:57
You know, you don't you know, it's not
1:44:58
like, oh, majority rules.
1:45:00
So that means that science, you know, otherwise
1:45:02
we'd still be using leeches, I think, to
1:45:04
cure disease.
1:45:05
Eight out of 10 doctors say smoking camels
1:45:08
is good for you.
1:45:09
It'll help you cough.
1:45:10
I mean, don't forget that.
1:45:11
Yes.
1:45:12
So, yes.
1:45:13
So these this is all nonsense.
1:45:18
Joe Rogan is Joe Rogan.
1:45:19
He gets just put on whoever he feels
1:45:20
like.
1:45:21
What difference does it make?
1:45:23
Well, with the understanding that almost nobody really
1:45:27
watches mainstream news anymore in the United States,
1:45:31
there's nobody under 30, maybe even older, who's
1:45:35
watching network news.
1:45:38
But, oh, I can't wait to turn on
1:45:39
the six o'clock news.
1:45:40
No, there's no the numbers show that no
1:45:43
one is really watching cable news.
1:45:46
Certainly not on that age bracket.
1:45:48
They're all watching Joe Rogan.
1:45:50
And I think our lucky stars and the
1:45:53
Holy Spirit that the Gen Z's are coming
1:45:55
to us.
1:45:56
They're like, OK, let me just hear what's
1:45:58
going on in the other world.
1:45:59
Well, I'm here ranching, ranching and making babies.
1:46:05
Yeah, spanking my kids when they get out
1:46:07
of line.
1:46:09
Yeah, they need to know.
1:46:10
They need to know what's happening.
1:46:11
And they come to us to our platform.
1:46:13
They come to our platform.
1:46:14
I love it.
1:46:16
Come to our platform.
1:46:17
You're welcome here at this platform.
1:46:19
And with that platform, I want to thank
1:46:21
you for your courage in the morning to
1:46:23
you, the man who put the C's in
1:46:24
the UK cash crunch.
1:46:25
Say hello to my friend on the other
1:46:27
end.
1:46:27
The one, the only Mr. John C.
1:46:33
DeMora.
1:46:38
In the morning to the trolls in the
1:46:43
troll room.
1:46:44
Let me count you here.
1:46:45
Hold on a second.
1:46:50
We're still low.
1:46:51
Sixteen fifty seven should be about eighteen hundred
1:46:54
for a Thursday.
1:46:56
Well, we're short one fifty.
1:46:58
We are.
1:46:59
Yeah.
1:46:59
Is it Labor Day weekend?
1:47:00
Is that coming up?
1:47:01
Yeah, it is.
1:47:02
As a matter of fact, it should be
1:47:03
a should be it should be a banging
1:47:05
show on Sunday.
1:47:06
There'll be nobody listening, by the way.
1:47:09
At least we're working.
1:47:09
We're not we're not doing what everyone else
1:47:12
has been doing, which is taking a week
1:47:13
off.
1:47:14
Yeah.
1:47:15
You know, I got a I got a
1:47:17
message from somebody.
1:47:18
It's like, well, you are casting stones at
1:47:22
others.
1:47:23
What are you know, some people have to
1:47:26
work.
1:47:27
What are you doing?
1:47:28
What are you running for?
1:47:30
I'm like, uh, what?
1:47:34
When I was talking about you should run
1:47:35
for school board or local city council or
1:47:38
get involved, get involved.
1:47:39
It's like some people have to work for
1:47:41
a living.
1:47:42
Like, you know, just because it sounds really
1:47:45
easy, we do.
1:47:47
This is a full time job.
1:47:49
And by the way, we have no salary,
1:47:52
no health care, no pension, no benefits, no
1:47:55
PTO, no vacation.
1:47:56
I frequently am doing my my my part
1:48:00
of the show from vacation.
1:48:02
There's no financial planning because it's a roller
1:48:05
coaster of donations.
1:48:06
What are you talking about?
1:48:09
You know, I don't know why I came
1:48:12
up with this is a it's a constant
1:48:14
struggle.
1:48:15
That's it.
1:48:16
It's a struggle.
1:48:17
That's the point.
1:48:18
By the way, on the the quad screen,
1:48:21
the here's the new messaging from the Minneapolis
1:48:24
shooter.
1:48:25
The shooter was obsessed with other shooters.
1:48:29
And yes, this is true and wanted to
1:48:31
kill children.
1:48:33
So there's at this moment, we still have
1:48:36
one of his rifles.
1:48:37
He had a bunch of shooters names on
1:48:39
him.
1:48:39
Yeah, I know.
1:48:40
I know.
1:48:40
But what they don't have is the obvious
1:48:42
transgendering of children, making them.
1:48:47
We have a pattern.
1:48:48
We have a proven pattern of this.
1:48:51
There's that's that's what you're looking for.
1:48:53
We have a pattern, but that is not
1:48:56
what your mainstream media is going to tell
1:48:58
you.
1:48:59
So come up on our knees here.
1:49:01
The boomers will tell you what's really happening.
1:49:04
So the sixteen hundred and fifty seven trolls
1:49:07
are listening.
1:49:08
They're listening live troll room dot IO.
1:49:11
And of course, on the modern podcast, that's
1:49:13
by the way, let's just go to no
1:49:15
agenda stream dot com.
1:49:17
It's the same thing.
1:49:18
Yeah, no agenda dot stream or no agenda
1:49:20
stream dot com.
1:49:21
It's just multiple domain names.
1:49:23
I like troll room dot IO.
1:49:25
What's your problem?
1:49:26
I don't like troll room dot IO.
1:49:28
I love we've been using this for five
1:49:31
years.
1:49:31
Now you tell me you don't like it.
1:49:33
I've only been showing you how rare it
1:49:36
is for me to complain.
1:49:40
OK, I never liked it.
1:49:42
I like like no agenda stream dot com.
1:49:45
It's got a branding.
1:49:47
But do you like us calling the troll
1:49:50
room, the chat room, the troll room?
1:49:51
You like that, though, don't you?
1:49:52
I don't.
1:49:53
It doesn't bother me one way or the
1:49:54
other.
1:49:54
Oh, OK.
1:49:55
But I did want to say there's a
1:49:57
brand new podcasting two point app, two point
1:50:01
zero app out, which is Pod Home available.
1:50:04
Pod Home.
1:50:05
Yes, from Barry.
1:50:06
Barry is Dutch and Barry built Pod Home.
1:50:09
He has a hosting company, which he runs
1:50:12
by himself.
1:50:13
But he also has a brand new app.
1:50:15
It's good.
1:50:16
He has something called Podcast Pulse.
1:50:19
And this pertains to the bat signal that
1:50:23
we have in the two point apps where,
1:50:26
first of all, you can listen to a
1:50:27
live stream, a live show.
1:50:29
And we have the bat signal which alerts
1:50:31
you when we go live.
1:50:32
And you just in your podcast app, you
1:50:34
just click on it.
1:50:35
Boom, you're listening to the live stream.
1:50:36
And is it beep?
1:50:38
Depends on what you have said as a
1:50:40
I mean, you don't know how a phone
1:50:41
works.
1:50:41
But yeah, these modern phones, they can give
1:50:43
you an alert.
1:50:45
You might have seen it.
1:50:46
A little little thing comes from the top
1:50:48
and you get a little peep.
1:50:48
And whatever you set it to.
1:50:50
Yes.
1:50:50
Is it different than a message?
1:50:52
You can have it function differently.
1:50:55
You can have it.
1:50:57
Yeah.
1:50:57
Hey, Stooge, the podcast is beginning.
1:51:00
Get on the phone.
1:51:01
You can do something like that.
1:51:02
Yeah.
1:51:02
In fact, I'm going to ISO that people
1:51:05
could use that.
1:51:05
So you could actually set that as your
1:51:07
alarm tone when we when we go live.
1:51:09
That's possible.
1:51:10
And of course, when we publish within 90
1:51:13
seconds, you know that the podcast has been
1:51:15
updated.
1:51:16
These legacy apps, you know, sometimes wait 15
1:51:18
minutes or hours at times when things go
1:51:20
wrong.
1:51:21
This is because of the pod ping infrastructure
1:51:23
of 2.0. And what Barry did is
1:51:26
he has this kind of new feature that
1:51:28
he put in his app.
1:51:29
I think he calls it podcast pulse.
1:51:31
And so you you go into the podcast
1:51:34
pulse section of the app and it just
1:51:36
shows you, boom, every app that updates.
1:51:39
And sometimes there's three per second.
1:51:40
It's really cool to discover podcasts, boom, boom,
1:51:44
boom.
1:51:45
Just go flying by and there's a trail
1:51:47
and it's fun.
1:51:48
It's a it's a fun way to discover
1:51:51
new podcasts.
1:51:52
But you just want to subscribe to the
1:51:53
No Agenda podcast and you'll be alerted appropriately.
1:51:57
Value for value.
1:51:58
We were talking about it earlier.
1:52:00
The only way we've ever made money on
1:52:02
this show is by your value that you
1:52:06
return to the program.
1:52:07
We've never taken any money from corporate interest.
1:52:10
Never had any commercials.
1:52:12
We knew that that would never last.
1:52:14
And here we are.
1:52:14
We'll be 18 years in October.
1:52:17
Our 1800th episode is coming up.
1:52:20
So what is that?
1:52:21
About 100 episodes a year, I guess.
1:52:24
Yeah, about that.
1:52:25
Two a week.
1:52:26
Well, 52 weeks out of the year would
1:52:27
be 104 to be exact.
1:52:29
Yeah, well, we didn't start off with two
1:52:31
episodes.
1:52:32
So we went to two episodes later.
1:52:36
And you can support us with your time,
1:52:39
your talent or your treasure.
1:52:41
Boots on the ground are always welcome.
1:52:43
Of course, we have prompt jockeys who are
1:52:45
very good at prompting art.
1:52:48
Of course, your results may vary depending on
1:52:51
the model that you use.
1:52:53
You should have real artists.
1:52:54
They're all dead.
1:52:56
The Dutch masters are in fact now dead
1:52:58
Dutch masters.
1:52:59
They've all left us because they couldn't compete.
1:53:01
And it's sad because they were actually quite
1:53:04
good.
1:53:04
But I have to say, when you look
1:53:06
at Darren O'Neill's artwork for episode 1793,
1:53:09
which we titled Retribution, it was good.
1:53:12
Now, it was still kind of the luminance
1:53:15
was down because the model he's using is
1:53:18
edging towards model collapse.
1:53:20
So there's no bright colors.
1:53:23
But because of that, the intent of making
1:53:26
it look like a movie poster, which was
1:53:28
the attack of the radioactive shrimp, it really
1:53:32
hit the mark.
1:53:33
It was well done.
1:53:34
We liked it.
1:53:35
You got the planes flying overhead.
1:53:38
You got the giant radioactive shrimp.
1:53:41
People running away scared.
1:53:43
Some of them apparently wearing Nazi uniforms with
1:53:46
Nazi hats.
1:53:47
I'm not sure what that was about.
1:53:49
Some of the planes look a little strange.
1:53:52
But hey, you know, it's AI.
1:53:54
We liked it.
1:53:55
It was a good piece.
1:53:56
We looked at a couple others going to
1:53:57
knowagendaartgenerator.com where everybody can participate.
1:54:01
Let me see what else we had in
1:54:04
there.
1:54:05
We had...
1:54:10
Man, Cervant.
1:54:11
Cervant, you got to use another model.
1:54:13
Your model has collapsed.
1:54:15
It's literally like you put on sunglasses looking...
1:54:19
And you see that one with the pickup
1:54:21
truck?
1:54:22
What's the name of it?
1:54:23
Oh, that pickup truck is so dull.
1:54:26
Yeah, it's dim.
1:54:26
It's just dim.
1:54:28
Yeah, I mean, it's dim.
1:54:29
I liked Geoffrey Rhea's radioactive shrimp.
1:54:33
I thought it was kind of cute.
1:54:35
He had a shrimp with all kinds of
1:54:36
radioactive signs around it.
1:54:38
Yeah, that was a good piece.
1:54:39
It was definitely...
1:54:40
That could have won.
1:54:41
Could have won.
1:54:45
I don't think there was...
1:54:46
There wasn't that much.
1:54:47
Uganda, another Geoffrey Rhea, Ray Rhea.
1:54:52
Dogs.
1:54:53
No, I think you got it all.
1:54:54
That was it.
1:54:55
It was underwhelming.
1:54:58
Underwhelming.
1:54:58
The jump, the shark.
1:55:00
We had a dude named Ben with a
1:55:01
microphone with a dead cat on it.
1:55:04
And then there's always...
1:55:05
Oh, by the way, I want to make
1:55:06
that correction.
1:55:07
It's not a Rode mic.
1:55:10
It is a DJI mic.
1:55:13
Somebody sent me a...
1:55:14
One of the producers corrected that.
1:55:15
Well, there's two versions.
1:55:17
There is definitely a Rode mic used a
1:55:20
lot.
1:55:21
Yeah, well, this DJI mic is the one
1:55:22
I was talking about.
1:55:23
And it comes...
1:55:24
You see it so much because it comes
1:55:26
with a video recorder as a kit.
1:55:31
And so it's like a vlogger, vlogger kit.
1:55:36
And so you had this stupid little mic,
1:55:38
which is...
1:55:39
A vlogger kit.
1:55:41
A vlogger kit with a wireless little square
1:55:44
mic, which looks idiotic.
1:55:46
You know, the vlogger kit should come with
1:55:48
that Parallels app so that you can look
1:55:50
really good.
1:55:51
I got my kit and I've got 50
1:55:53
,000 people watching me live.
1:55:55
I'm alive, my Insta live, baby.
1:55:58
I also want to make another mea culpa.
1:56:00
Yes, Adlai Stevenson was involved in some way
1:56:05
with the Khrushchev showdown with the missile crisis
1:56:10
because he was the UN ambassador at the
1:56:13
time.
1:56:13
I was corrected by three different producers on
1:56:16
that.
1:56:17
Oh, blimey.
1:56:18
So I have to mention that.
1:56:19
And then I also have to mention that
1:56:21
somebody did point out that there's about six
1:56:23
states that allow open containers in the car.
1:56:26
And Texas, until 1980, allowed you to have
1:56:30
beer in the car open.
1:56:32
And they used to have...
1:56:33
Because I remember this because you used to
1:56:34
be able to drive through a liquor store,
1:56:37
they had drive-through outlets and they'd give
1:56:38
you a beer and you could go in
1:56:40
your car.
1:56:40
But the discussion was...
1:56:43
And you would do this to me.
1:56:45
You said, can't you have open container in
1:56:47
the car in Texas?
1:56:48
And I said, no.
1:56:49
So I was right.
1:56:51
And you can't now say, used to be
1:56:53
that way.
1:56:54
Because you're kind of trying to do that.
1:56:56
No, but I claim that I knew about
1:56:57
this in the past and you deny that
1:56:59
it ever existed.
1:56:59
Ah, there it is.
1:57:00
As long as I'm wrong.
1:57:01
Okay.
1:57:01
You are wrong.
1:57:02
You are dead wrong.
1:57:03
I am right on all counts.
1:57:05
Don't make me call my lieutenant at the
1:57:07
sheriff's office.
1:57:08
Come over there.
1:57:09
Well, he's not going to drive over here
1:57:11
to run out of gas.
1:57:13
His electric car will be dead before he
1:57:16
gets out of Texas.
1:57:17
No, he won't be able to afford gas
1:57:19
in your state.
1:57:20
That's the problem.
1:57:22
What are you at?
1:57:22
10 bucks a gallon now?
1:57:24
Five.
1:57:25
Really?
1:57:27
Yeah.
1:57:27
Wow.
1:57:28
That's way down.
1:57:29
It's not way down.
1:57:30
It's been five forever.
1:57:32
It's too high.
1:57:33
It should be three.
1:57:34
Well, no, I know it's too high, but
1:57:36
you know, it's your taxes, man.
1:57:38
Enjoy it.
1:57:39
No, it's not the taxes.
1:57:41
It's a combination of ridiculous...
1:57:43
My favorite thing, which is they...
1:57:46
Don't get me started.
1:57:48
First, they always have a tax on the
1:57:50
gasoline to pay for highways, and they put
1:57:52
a special bill to put more tax on
1:57:54
the gas to pay for highways when you
1:57:55
already have it.
1:57:56
And then the other thing is the blend
1:57:58
of gasolines that they use is very specific
1:58:02
to California.
1:58:03
And so this special blend that only about
1:58:05
five refineries can even make includes the Richmond
1:58:09
refinery and over here in Richmond, obviously, there's
1:58:12
Chevron refinery, which is going to shut down
1:58:17
because California can't keep a refinery in the
1:58:20
state without driving them out of business.
1:58:22
And so who knows what the price of
1:58:24
the gasoline is going to be after Chevron
1:58:26
shuts down their Richmond refinery.
1:58:28
The whole thing's a disaster.
1:58:30
Yeah.
1:58:31
California.
1:58:31
Exactly.
1:58:32
Uber, Ulis.
1:58:33
No, it's not California.
1:58:34
It's Newsome.
1:58:36
Okay.
1:58:37
Who was he voted in by?
1:58:38
Californians who love him.
1:58:40
They love their policies.
1:58:41
I don't even believe that to be true.
1:58:44
Well, there's something wrong with it.
1:58:45
I think the elections have been rigged for
1:58:47
decades.
1:58:50
Yeah, probably.
1:58:51
California.
1:58:52
There you go.
1:58:53
You can say it all you want.
1:58:55
It's California.
1:58:58
Anyway, so now we get to the part
1:59:01
where we thank our producers.
1:59:02
We always thank everybody.
1:59:05
And it's sincere.
1:59:06
We are very, very grateful that people support
1:59:09
us because it's all we have.
1:59:12
It's all we do.
1:59:14
And we thank everybody, $50 and above.
1:59:17
Never below $50 because people want a limit
1:59:19
where they know that they are going to
1:59:20
be anonymous.
1:59:21
And for some reason, people want to be
1:59:23
anonymous.
1:59:24
I've never really understood why.
1:59:26
Are they afraid that someone's going to find
1:59:28
out?
1:59:29
I mean, of all the things you could
1:59:30
be listening to, are we really a problem?
1:59:35
You ever wonder about that?
1:59:39
This goes back a number of years.
1:59:41
I've talked about this before.
1:59:42
There was a little Cockney girl that used
1:59:44
to be on the E!
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News.
1:59:46
And I was in LA once and having
1:59:49
lunch with a producer of E!
1:59:51
News.
1:59:52
And she was at the table.
1:59:53
And I introduced her to the show.
1:59:56
And I said, you should listen to the
1:59:58
show.
1:59:58
Okay.
1:59:59
And so she listened to the show.
2:00:00
She listened to the show once and never
2:00:03
listened again, thinking, and I tried to get
2:00:06
some feedback.
2:00:06
Why did she stop listening to the show?
2:00:08
She was afraid she was going to be
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arrested.
2:00:12
Because she is a green card holder.
2:00:14
And she didn't think that it was right
2:00:15
to be listening to this show.
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Good on you.
2:00:20
And don't burn flags while you're at it,
2:00:22
Cockney girl.
2:00:24
Then we always have a special thank you
2:00:27
for people of means who are able to
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support us in the level of Hollywood producers.
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And it's not for everybody.
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And we're just as happy with whatever value
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It's super simple.
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But if you are able to support us
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It is a true Hollywood title, which means
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And if anyone questions you, of course, we
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will go to bat for you.
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We'll vouch for you.
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Now, if you are able to support us
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Producer title.
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And of course, the same adheres to that.
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And in both cases, we will read your
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We also have our Secretary General Limited Promotion.
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Is it limited?
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Are you limiting this?
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We should limit that.
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Everything gets limited.
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Okay.
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Our Limited Promotion, where you can become a
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Secretary General of anything you want, which is
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no different from Secretary General of NATO, Secretary
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General of the UN.
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You can be a Secretary General.
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And it comes with an official Secretary General.
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What is the term for this certificate?
2:01:42
This...
2:01:43
We don't give a decade.
2:01:44
Proclamation.
2:01:45
Is it a proclamation?
2:01:46
A proclamation.
2:01:47
There you go.
2:01:48
Exactly.
2:01:49
Hereby proclaim.
2:01:51
And one will go to Paul from Bellevue,
2:01:53
Washington, and he sent us a note, which
2:01:56
I have here.
2:01:58
He sent us $1,000 and says, Dear
2:02:00
Adam and John, please refer to me as
2:02:02
Tall Paul of Bellevue, Washington.
2:02:05
Enclose this $1,000 to insinuate me as
2:02:08
Sir Tall Paul.
2:02:10
If not too late, I'd like to be
2:02:11
Secretary General of Alpenthal at Squalami.
2:02:17
Snoke, Snoke, Squalami.
2:02:19
Snoke, Squalami.
2:02:21
Alpenthal at Snoke, Squalami.
2:02:24
They're just doing this because I have to
2:02:25
do it.
2:02:26
And it's tongue twister.
2:02:27
That's why these people do that.
2:02:29
It's just mean.
2:02:30
Dedoosh me, please.
2:02:32
You've been dedooshed.
2:02:35
And he wants some company selling karma, which
2:02:37
he needs.
2:02:38
Well, we'll give you some company selling karma.
2:02:40
He says, thank you very much.
2:02:42
From Tall Paul, soon to be Sir Tall
2:02:46
Paul of, well, he'd be a Secretary General.
2:02:49
So thank you very much.
2:02:53
You've got karma.
2:02:56
And we have Commodore SX-64 in Granger,
2:03:01
Texas.
2:03:02
Texas.
2:03:03
Five, five, five.
2:03:06
Uh, okay.
2:03:08
Commodore SX-64 here.
2:03:10
I tried doing it in Texas.
2:03:11
I can't talk through my teeth.
2:03:12
This donation should make me a Secretary General
2:03:14
and a knight at the same time.
2:03:17
I assume I could be a Sir Commodore
2:03:21
S-64 Secretary General of Lake Granger.
2:03:26
Lake Granger?
2:03:27
Is it Granger?
2:03:28
Lake Granger area in Milam County.
2:03:31
Where's that?
2:03:33
Milam County is not too far from here.
2:03:36
If you could find it in your heart
2:03:37
to send good paying jobs karma for me.
2:03:41
Good paying jobs karma.
2:03:43
And the young family of fishermen that have
2:03:46
made, oh, he must be on the coast.
2:03:47
They made the move north to dry land.
2:03:49
Oh, he's okay.
2:03:50
No, he's not on the coast.
2:03:51
He's in dry land now.
2:03:53
That'd be great.
2:03:54
And Lou Patkins' help has been involved as
2:03:58
well.
2:03:59
Wow.
2:04:00
Nice.
2:04:01
Nice.
2:04:02
Lou Patkins.
2:04:03
She's also helping Brennan, who got laid off
2:04:07
from Chevron, who's leaving the state.
2:04:10
So now the kids are moving back in
2:04:12
with you?
2:04:13
No, they got a place.
2:04:14
I have deep manufacturing background and the turnaround
2:04:17
to it.
2:04:18
They also gave him six months severance.
2:04:20
Turnaround to a productive society is going to
2:04:22
take a long time after all, at least
2:04:24
the last three generations have been conditioned by
2:04:27
the...
2:04:30
Excuse me, education system that makes anything physical
2:04:35
a bad thing.
2:04:37
No shop class.
2:04:39
That will have to be purged out of
2:04:42
the communal mind.
2:04:43
The young people that we see today lack
2:04:46
the basics of anything unless their daddy taught
2:04:49
them.
2:04:50
No shop class, no trade school, just PhDs
2:04:54
in basket weaving.
2:04:56
Media deconstruction excluded.
2:04:58
Of course.
2:04:59
Keep up the good work.
2:05:00
And to John, if you like the brawling,
2:05:04
try Borset San Marzano.
2:05:08
No tomatoes involved.
2:05:09
Thank you.
2:05:10
That's another Amaro, obviously.
2:05:13
I'll check it out.
2:05:14
Thank you, SX64.
2:05:16
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
2:05:19
Let's vote for jobs.
2:05:22
Yeah!
2:05:25
On to a new name.
2:05:27
Augusto Andreoli from Berlin, Deutschland.
2:05:30
Hello, Deutschland!
2:05:31
Here's the Hoff!
2:05:32
Brazilian-Italian living in Berlin.
2:05:35
Britalian, I just made a new name.
2:05:37
For 11 years here in Germany.
2:05:39
Hit in the mouth by SirTal from Berlin
2:05:41
in January of 2024.
2:05:43
I've replaced my Netflix subscription by a no
2:05:45
agenda sustaining donation since April of 2024.
2:05:48
Yes, thank you very much.
2:05:50
Thank you for your courage and for the
2:05:52
weekly dose of sanity check deconstruction and laughs
2:05:54
you always provide.
2:05:56
It is truly essential public service that should
2:05:58
reach more people.
2:05:59
I'd like to be called Secretary General of
2:06:01
Sao Paulo.
2:06:02
I'd like Trump's job karma.
2:06:04
I might have a chance to work for
2:06:06
a year in the USA.
2:06:07
Plus relationship karma.
2:06:09
My girlfriend and I broke up.
2:06:11
I turned 50 on August 29th, 1975.
2:06:14
Gen Xer.
2:06:15
Four more years, says Augusto Andreoli.
2:06:20
Jobs, jobs, jobs.
2:06:23
You've got karma.
2:06:25
Let me just check, make sure he's on
2:06:26
the birthday list here.
2:06:28
Augusto.
2:06:28
Is Augusto on?
2:06:30
While you're doing that, I'm going to read
2:06:32
Matthew Martel in Brumel, Pennsylvania.
2:06:37
I'm sure I'm not pronouncing that right.
2:06:39
$350.58, 333 plus fees.
2:06:43
Here's my September donation with a little extra
2:06:46
to cover Adam's part of the dinner.
2:06:50
Visit martelhardware.com.
2:06:52
Don't forget to use the coupon code BRUNETTI33
2:06:56
for an additional 10% off your order.
2:07:00
JCD Hot Pockets is requested.
2:07:03
Oh, somehow I didn't see that one.
2:07:07
JCD Hot Pockets.
2:07:09
Hold on a second.
2:07:10
Where's my Hot Pockets?
2:07:12
There we go.
2:07:14
Hot Pockets.
2:07:15
There we go.
2:07:16
I could just do that.
2:07:19
Hot Pockets.
2:07:20
Brunetti.
2:07:21
You saw the email exchange.
2:07:23
Oh, yeah.
2:07:24
You and him, you two should get a
2:07:26
room.
2:07:27
Yeah, he's mean.
2:07:29
He says horrible things.
2:07:31
He's a producer.
2:07:33
He's just a typical suit.
2:07:35
He feels no obligation to follow a convention.
2:07:39
I told him, what did I tell him?
2:07:40
I had a, I thought it was a
2:07:41
pretty good line.
2:07:42
What was it?
2:07:43
You had a good line?
2:07:44
Yeah, I think so.
2:07:45
I told him, I said, maybe you should
2:07:49
just go make another movie.
2:07:52
Fifty Shades of Yawn.
2:07:53
More beige, more beige bondage.
2:07:56
I thought that was a good line too.
2:07:57
Thank you.
2:07:58
Thank you.
2:07:58
Yeah, he did.
2:08:00
And then he had some beige comment, which
2:08:02
I didn't think it was.
2:08:03
You, I think you could have stopped.
2:08:05
I shot past.
2:08:06
Okay, I went too far.
2:08:07
You overshot the joke.
2:08:09
Overshot the joke.
2:08:10
Yeah, you gotta be careful.
2:08:11
Uh, Sir Kretchman is in Richmond, Indiana.
2:08:15
And let me see.
2:08:16
Here, let me get that one.
2:08:17
Oh, thank you.
2:08:18
And I say that because of the next
2:08:20
one.
2:08:21
Sir Kretchman's in Richmond, Indiana.
2:08:23
And he writes in, he came in with,
2:08:25
uh, oh, I got tall.
2:08:27
But he came in with a 333.33.
2:08:31
He says, in the morning, gents, I hope
2:08:34
this letter finds you well.
2:08:36
Ha ha.
2:08:37
May this donation serve as the beginning of
2:08:39
my quest to become a Baron as well
2:08:40
as the excuse to use my new night
2:08:41
ring with sealing wax.
2:08:44
I'm delighted to inform you that I finally
2:08:46
took Adam's advice and bought my first quarter
2:08:51
cow last year.
2:08:53
Very good.
2:08:55
I never knew how delicious a cut of
2:08:57
beef could taste until I had one from
2:08:59
a local farmer.
2:09:00
Hello.
2:09:01
Very good.
2:09:02
Very good.
2:09:03
Next time, get a half.
2:09:06
Well, you don't even have to do that,
2:09:07
by the way.
2:09:08
That depends on whether you want the flanks
2:09:10
or not.
2:09:10
But also just get ground beef from them.
2:09:14
I mean, ground beef is so universally usable
2:09:17
for meatballs, for burgers, for meatloaf.
2:09:21
And it's a lot cheaper than anything you
2:09:23
can buy anywhere else.
2:09:24
With all this talk about weight loss drugs,
2:09:27
he continues in the media today.
2:09:28
I was amazed to find that beef is
2:09:31
clearly the best option on the market.
2:09:33
After primarily eating beef for three months, I
2:09:37
was astonished.
2:09:38
You don't have to plow.
2:09:39
You must not have a freezer.
2:09:41
I was astonished at my weight loss and
2:09:44
feeling of fullness.
2:09:45
It was with this newfound knowledge that I
2:09:48
created Meat Jaro.
2:09:52
Instead of injecting Munjaro under your skin, how
2:09:56
about injecting Meat Jaro directly into your mouth?
2:10:00
A delicious local farm-raised cut of beef.
2:10:02
The best part is you don't need health
2:10:04
insurance to buy it in.
2:10:05
It's 100% safe and effective.
2:10:08
Meat Jaro, trademarks, common side effects.
2:10:11
Sudden death for patients with alpha-gal syndrome.
2:10:15
Extreme depression and anxiety when taken by vegans
2:10:20
or those suffering from anthropomorphism.
2:10:24
Increased masculinity, wealth and social status as a
2:10:28
side effect.
2:10:30
And taint cancer.
2:10:32
Can I please get a massive dumps?
2:10:35
Shut up, it's science and goat karma.
2:10:37
Thank you for your courage, sore crutchman of
2:10:39
the white water valley.
2:10:43
They did dumps.
2:10:44
They call them dumps.
2:10:45
Big massive dumps.
2:10:47
Shut up already.
2:10:49
Science.
2:10:50
You've got karma.
2:10:54
Thank you, you made me laugh.
2:10:55
He has a good letter.
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He also has a very nice signature.
2:10:58
Well, unfortunately, as we say in the old
2:11:01
country, because you thought that the next one
2:11:06
would be really long, but you miss Joe
2:11:08
Spry from Savannah, Georgia, who says, no jingles,
2:11:11
no note.
2:11:12
Joe Spry in Savannah, Georgia, which leaves you
2:11:15
with the next note.
2:11:16
I can't read it because it's off the
2:11:17
spreadsheet.
2:11:19
Aaron Duvall from Walnut, Kansas.
2:11:21
Our first associate executive producer.
2:11:23
By the way, Joe was 333, thank you.
2:11:26
Uh, Aaron is 24568.
2:11:29
This is my first monetary donation, so please
2:11:31
deduce it.
2:11:33
You've been deduced.
2:11:35
I am sending this note to say just
2:11:38
how grateful my family and I are for
2:11:39
this community.
2:11:41
It is said quite often on this show
2:11:43
that connection is protection.
2:11:45
Few people understand just how true that really
2:11:47
is.
2:11:47
For those who didn't know, my family's home
2:11:50
suffered a fire in the upstairs on St.
2:11:52
Patrick's Day.
2:11:53
We got extremely lucky there was no structural
2:11:55
damage, but we did lose the upstairs to
2:11:58
smoke, the downstairs to water, and most of
2:12:00
all of our belongings.
2:12:02
To keep this note from being egregiously long,
2:12:04
because so many of you have stepped forward,
2:12:06
I will just say thank you to all
2:12:08
of you who donated or pooled donations for
2:12:11
our cause.
2:12:11
My family is forever grateful.
2:12:14
I want to personally thank you, Adam, for
2:12:15
sharing the GoFundMe link on X.
2:12:17
That share resulted in a $1,000 donation
2:12:20
that might have brought me to tears.
2:12:22
It has been a slow process, but by
2:12:24
the end of this week, we will finally
2:12:25
be back at home.
2:12:26
Again, thank you Gitmo Nation and the NA
2:12:29
adjacent communities for coming together in our time
2:12:32
of need.
2:12:33
Connection really is protection.
2:12:35
Jingles.
2:12:36
Goat karma for all.
2:12:37
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
2:12:39
Be safe.
2:12:40
Aaron Duvall, a.k.a. Weirdo.
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You've got karma.
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Schuyler Firestone again for Mango Plumbing.
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That's a pretty good one.
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RMP and he's got his number there, which
2:13:29
proves that he's got a license.
2:13:32
I'm now qualified for knighthood.
2:13:33
I would like to be known as Sir
2:13:35
Rosas.
2:13:38
I get it.
2:13:38
Sir Rosas of the Hill of Liberty.
2:13:41
The long Al Sharpton, Sigourney Weaver, Bo Jiden
2:13:47
is fine as a clip and definitely needs
2:13:51
some jobs karma, $226.
2:13:53
Yeah, well, we have so many Al Sharpton
2:13:56
long.
2:13:56
A lot of them are all long.
2:13:58
Yeah, so let me see when I, if
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I hear it in this one, I'm stopping
2:14:01
it.
2:14:02
If I don't hear it, I'm stopping it.
2:14:03
Resist.
2:14:04
We must, we must.
2:14:06
They're all giddy about a shutdown.
2:14:09
The tortoise in the race.
2:14:12
Then co-author of Hobreece.
2:14:14
You two lead singer Bono.
2:14:17
Fran Drescher, Sigourney Weaver.
2:14:26
Bo Jiden says to wear both masks.
2:14:30
How many masks?
2:14:31
Who says that?
2:14:35
Bo Jiden.
2:14:36
I got the wrong one.
2:14:37
I'm sorry, you meant this one.
2:14:43
That's true.
2:14:44
Jobs.
2:14:45
There we go.
2:14:46
Jobs, jobs and jobs.
2:14:48
Let's vote for jobs.
2:14:51
All right, Dame Lisa is up next.
2:14:54
She's in Foxborough, Massachusetts with a row of
2:14:57
ducks, 222.22. And she says the amusement
2:15:00
and education I get from your podcast is
2:15:02
well worth the anxiety of you always threatening
2:15:05
to quit.
2:15:07
It works.
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You have succeeded in guilty.
2:15:10
Finally, someone.
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I mean, come on.
2:15:12
It's value for value.
2:15:16
You have succeeded in guilting me into my
2:15:18
second yearly donation of 2025.
2:15:20
Thank you very much.
2:15:21
Baby making karma for my daughter.
2:15:23
Please keep up the good works as Dame
2:15:25
Lisa of Amick Lake.
2:15:27
You got it.
2:15:28
You've got karma.
2:15:36
Sir, camera Chris in Grafton, Wisconsin, 212.13.
2:15:41
This donation 212.13 is a mix of
2:15:43
your finder's fee for a recent wedding I
2:15:46
shot video for.
2:15:48
And today, 828 happens to be my oldest
2:15:50
human resources birthday on the list.
2:15:54
The father of the bride is an amazing
2:15:55
producer with one of the most amazing families
2:15:59
around.
2:15:59
Congrats to the newlyweds.
2:16:00
The bride and groom are a beautiful couple
2:16:03
and both have their heads on straight.
2:16:06
There's hope for the future.
2:16:07
Can I get a little newlywed karma for
2:16:10
the new couple and a happy birthday to
2:16:12
Christian?
2:16:13
Also, I guess since I'm so close to
2:16:16
Linda Lou, I should plug myself.
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If any other producers need a photographer or
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videographer, mostly in Wisconsin, check out.
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media.com.
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That's Baylor media.com.
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Thanks, Baronet Baylor, a.k.a. Sir Camera
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Chris.
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You've got karma.
2:16:39
And there's Jared Bane from Lakewood, Ohio, 21060.
2:16:44
Birthday donation from myself.
2:16:46
Adam's comment about the multiple trumps on the
2:16:48
last episode had me wondering if all the
2:16:50
body doubles meet every once in a while
2:16:52
in the cabinet room.
2:16:55
That's a good question.
2:16:57
I wonder.
2:16:57
That's a good idea.
2:16:58
Yeah.
2:16:59
Body doubles only today.
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Body doubles only.
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They just might.
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Body doubles only today.
2:17:05
Thanks for all you do.
2:17:06
Scott Sarkitash.
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Karma, please.
2:17:08
Suffering Sarkitash.
2:17:09
I'm Scott Simon.
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You've got karma.
2:17:19
Gabriel.
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Gabriel.
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Gabriel.
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Do the bear, I think, in Gatineau, Quebec,
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21060.
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Ah, Quebecer.
2:17:30
Gentlemen, I am aggrieved.
2:17:32
Having donated the show 1681, I had meekly
2:17:36
requested divorce karma, which was ruthlessly suppressed.
2:17:42
Imagine my shock and abject horror upon hearing
2:17:46
such karma lackadaisically awarded then in show 1793.
2:17:52
The show aptly named Retribution, for that is
2:17:56
what I now seek.
2:17:57
Well, I don't remember doing that.
2:18:00
Well, I apologize.
2:18:01
I do remember rejecting the divorce karma, but
2:18:03
I don't remember giving divorce karma in the
2:18:05
last show.
2:18:08
Really?
2:18:09
Hoping this news finds you well, Gabriel.
2:18:11
We did that.
2:18:11
You don't remember?
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Go look on Bingit.io. Don't you remember
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that?
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You're wrong.
2:18:17
Adam can pronounce it better in French.
2:18:20
Dubar.
2:18:21
Dubar.
2:18:22
Dubar.
2:18:23
Well, here's your divorce karma.
2:18:24
I hope it all goes well.
2:18:25
You've got karma.
2:18:28
And there's Eli the Coffee Guy.
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20828.
2:18:32
There it is.
2:18:32
828 for the date.
2:18:34
Then he says, after seeing the picture of
2:18:36
Governor Pritzker as Fred Flintstone in the newsletter,
2:18:39
it's a newsletter donation.
2:18:41
It is something I'll never be able to
2:18:42
unsee.
2:18:43
Thanks, John.
2:18:44
You ruined one of my favorite childhood cartoons
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for me.
2:18:47
I thought I'd never say it, but I
2:18:49
longed for the days Rod Blago Blagojevich was
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running the state.
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Taxes and crime were out of control, and
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they just raised our electric bills by over
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20%, as because of that new quantum computing
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says Eli the Coffee Guy.
2:19:25
Which brings us to Linda Lou Patkin, mentioned
2:19:28
earlier in Lakewood, Colorado, $200, jobs karma, worried
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about AI for a resume that gets results
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and tells your unique story and highlights your
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Go to imagemakersinc.com, that's imagemakersinc with a
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Jobs and writer of winning resumes.
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Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
2:19:52
Let's vote for jobs.
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Yeah, there you go.
2:19:58
Why am I modulating?
2:20:01
Well, you kind of blew it, honestly.
2:20:03
That was a bad read.
2:20:04
I made one little, no, I saved it.
2:20:06
It was a save.
2:20:08
Save, but there's no save.
2:20:10
It was a great save, dude, to be
2:20:11
honest about it.
2:20:12
It was terrific.
2:20:12
There's no saving on ad reads.
2:20:16
You've got to do it right.
2:20:17
You've got to nail it the first time.
2:20:20
Otherwise, you know, we have to have a
2:20:22
meeting.
2:20:24
Linda Lou, thank you to these executive and
2:20:27
associate executive producers.
2:20:28
Once again, these are official and very real
2:20:30
credits.
2:20:31
If anyone questioned you on them as you
2:20:33
put them on your resume, I wonder if
2:20:35
Linda Lou puts it on her resume or
2:20:37
puts it on any resume.
2:20:38
So she said, hey, got a great idea.
2:20:40
Let's put your no agenda producership on your
2:20:42
resume.
2:20:43
Linda Lou, we'd like to know.
2:20:45
We'd like to know if that helps people
2:20:46
get jobs.
2:20:47
You are the expert, as someone recently said
2:20:51
to me, the SME.
2:20:54
Someone that texted me.
2:20:55
We don't have an SME in video.
2:20:58
Like SME in video.
2:21:00
What is that?
2:21:01
Small, medium, SME.
2:21:03
Subject matter expert.
2:21:06
Oh, I didn't know this.
2:21:08
I did not know.
2:21:09
I was surprised that I had never heard
2:21:11
this used.
2:21:12
So Linda Lou, you are the SME of
2:21:14
the resumes.
2:21:15
And of course, these credits are good for
2:21:18
your lifetime.
2:21:19
And we appreciate you very much.
2:21:21
We'll be thanking the rest of our supporters,
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Value for Value, $50 and above in our
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Congratulations to these multiple producers.
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Our formula is this.
2:21:49
We go out, we hit people in the
2:21:52
mouth.
2:22:00
Man, we've talked about a lot of stuff,
2:22:08
but we haven't talked about important stuff.
2:22:10
Then I did want to talk about some.
2:22:13
In particular, what's going on over in the
2:22:16
EU's.
2:22:17
The first thing, as expected, and yes, some
2:22:20
would say predicted, the military, I'm sorry, the
2:22:25
war economy of the EU is cranking up.
2:22:28
And now that Germany has no other economy,
2:22:31
we're going to have to make the young
2:22:32
people serve in the army, in this Bundeswehr.
2:22:36
And of course, it's all going to be
2:22:38
voluntary.
2:22:40
Don't worry.
2:22:40
The bill aims to boost German firepower with
2:22:44
80,000 new soldiers and 150,000 new
2:22:47
reservists through a new voluntary military service scheme.
2:22:51
We're now really approaching this task with the
2:22:54
declared target of having 260,000 soldiers in
2:22:57
Germany.
2:22:57
And we want to achieve this target.
2:23:00
My goal is that Germany, due to its
2:23:02
size and economic strength, is the country that
2:23:06
must have the strongest conventional army in NATO
2:23:09
on the European side.
2:23:11
The bill would introduce opt-in military service
2:23:13
for young Germans, with improved pay and conditions
2:23:16
to entice new recruits.
2:23:19
And to prepare for war and the automatic
2:23:21
reimplementation of conscription, the bill includes a national
2:23:24
census of young people's readiness to serve.
2:23:27
All young Germans would receive a questionnaire as
2:23:30
of next January to assess their fitness, skills
2:23:32
and willingness.
2:23:34
Compulsory for men, but voluntary for women.
2:23:37
And as of July 2027, 18-year-old
2:23:40
men would undergo a mandatory physical exam, whether
2:23:43
they opt for military service or not.
2:23:46
The bill still needs to be voted in
2:23:47
parliament, but its announcement comes just months after
2:23:50
Germany passed a whopping 500 billion euro spending
2:23:53
bill to fund infrastructure and defence industry investments.
2:23:58
We not only need a well-equipped force,
2:24:01
which we are working hard to achieve and
2:24:03
have been doing so for two and a
2:24:05
half years without stopping.
2:24:06
We also need a Bundeswehr with sufficient personnel.
2:24:09
Only then will the terrorists as a whole
2:24:11
be truly credible vis-Ã -vis Russia.
2:24:14
There it is.
2:24:14
Because you got to be afraid of Russia
2:24:16
for the rest of your lives, young people.
2:24:19
Yes, conscription can be possible in this bill.
2:24:22
We'll see if it passes.
2:24:23
And this is all part of who is
2:24:25
going to have boots on the ground in
2:24:27
Ukraine.
2:24:27
Will there be boots on the ground?
2:24:29
What will the Article 5-like provisions be?
2:24:31
Well, for that answer, we go to our
2:24:34
Canadian SME, subject matter expert, Andrew Risoulis.
2:24:39
My guy.
2:24:40
Let me just go first to the boots
2:24:42
on the ground option.
2:24:43
It guarantees the most important thing.
2:24:46
And there's a lot of circular discussion going
2:24:48
on here.
2:24:50
People saying the Russians have no say on
2:24:53
what NATO does or Western powers do.
2:24:56
The point is they do because they have
2:24:58
to agree to a ceasefire or a peace
2:25:00
in which case those forces could, in theory,
2:25:03
come into play.
2:25:04
So the Russians have repeatedly said that's not
2:25:07
going to happen.
2:25:08
And unless they change their minds, it's not
2:25:11
going to happen.
2:25:12
So now let's go on with that one
2:25:13
a bit.
2:25:14
So it's circular.
2:25:16
The Russians want like a UN Security Council
2:25:18
thing.
2:25:18
And Ukraine wants boots on the ground, some
2:25:22
kind of a guarantee.
2:25:23
The prime minister, of course, saying that's a
2:25:25
possibility.
2:25:26
Now, the Italians have floated an interesting idea,
2:25:29
which has not got much press, but Maloney
2:25:31
at the White House on Monday brought it
2:25:34
up on the table.
2:25:35
And that's essentially an idea that Ukraine might
2:25:39
get Article 5 type by certain countries of
2:25:43
the Western alliance, not part of NATO, but
2:25:45
independently, bilaterally.
2:25:47
But the key thing is no boots on
2:25:49
the ground.
2:25:50
So the Italians are saying, put in the
2:25:52
guarantees.
2:25:53
You can have forces not in Ukraine that
2:25:56
are positioned to go in in case there's
2:25:58
a breakdown in the ceasefire or the settlement.
2:26:00
But you actually use a Norway option.
2:26:03
Norway is a member of NATO, but has
2:26:05
no NATO troops on the ground, never has.
2:26:08
It's part of Norway's law.
2:26:10
They allow for training.
2:26:12
They allow for prepositioning.
2:26:13
It's a way of not antagonizing the Russians
2:26:15
and the Soviets back in the Cold War
2:26:17
days.
2:26:18
And there you go.
2:26:19
So we may just have boots in every
2:26:21
individual country.
2:26:22
Just waiting to hang around.
2:26:25
And on this, particularly these Scandinavian NATO countries,
2:26:31
I caught a YouTube of a guy named
2:26:35
Stanislav Kapivnik.
2:26:39
Stanislav Kapivnik.
2:26:41
Think he's Russian, was Russian, is Russian.
2:26:44
I don't know.
2:26:45
But he had Colonel Wilkerson on.
2:26:47
Have you seen the Colonel Wilkerson?
2:26:50
Yeah, he's been, we've clipped him before.
2:26:53
So he had, I just have two relatively
2:26:57
short clips.
2:27:00
Because we're always talking about, you know, the
2:27:02
elites and how we're doing this and the
2:27:04
CIA, and they're the ones that go in
2:27:07
and the economic hitmen.
2:27:09
And he was apparently part of the real
2:27:14
danger, which we were warned of by General
2:27:18
Eisenhower, President Eisenhower, the military industrial complex.
2:27:24
And in this, what are you listening to?
2:27:27
Are you doing a different podcast?
2:27:28
Are you on with the, with the Chanel?
2:27:31
Are you doing a hit?
2:27:33
Are you doing a hit?
2:27:34
What are you doing?
2:27:34
Are you literally just browsing around while I'm
2:27:37
talking?
2:27:38
No.
2:27:38
Well, what was that?
2:27:40
Something auto started.
2:27:42
Because you're browsing around.
2:27:43
You're just browsing around during the show.
2:27:45
No, I am not.
2:27:46
I'm listening because I want to hear about
2:27:47
Wilkerson.
2:27:49
Turns out the military industrial complex is responsible
2:27:53
for a lot.
2:27:55
It seems, you know, the Europeans are ever
2:27:57
more hell bent on unwinding this, making it
2:28:02
as wide as possible.
2:28:03
It does.
2:28:04
I think merits and Macron and Starmer in
2:28:07
particular, but other leaders too, following in their
2:28:11
wake, so to speak.
2:28:13
I think they're all going to be gone
2:28:15
very shortly.
2:28:16
I don't think any of them are long
2:28:18
live because I think their people are going
2:28:21
to understand eventually what's going on.
2:28:23
You know, I know people don't believe me,
2:28:26
but in 2002, I was there when we
2:28:28
started buying governments.
2:28:31
We bought newspapers.
2:28:33
We bought editors.
2:28:34
We bought reporters.
2:28:36
We bought politicians.
2:28:37
We bought people who would be Jen Stoltenberg's.
2:28:41
We bought people to change, and we didn't
2:28:44
do it the way the CIA did it
2:28:46
in Chile, for example, in 68, 69 and
2:28:48
70 and turn them all against Allende.
2:28:52
We didn't do it for that reason because
2:28:54
we disguised it.
2:28:56
We disguised it by weaponizing liberal democracy, and
2:29:00
we sent in non-governmental organizations.
2:29:03
We sent in U.S. aid.
2:29:05
We sent other people in.
2:29:06
We call them Quayogs, some of them, Quasar
2:29:09
government operations.
2:29:10
We sent them in, and they had a
2:29:12
mission, and they didn't even know why they
2:29:15
were carrying out their mission.
2:29:16
In many events, their mission was to democratize
2:29:19
these people and to democratize them in a
2:29:22
way that would make them want to be
2:29:24
members of NATO.
2:29:27
Yes, Quayogs.
2:29:28
Of course, the DIA is much more sneaky
2:29:31
than the CIA, and they also did Ukraine.
2:29:35
We reaped this.
2:29:36
People ask me, why would a country that
2:29:39
had a years and years long history of
2:29:43
neutrality, think the Scandinavian countries, for example, even
2:29:47
Norway?
2:29:48
Yeah, okay, and Tromso, we had some Marine
2:29:50
Pompkos and things like that, but not a
2:29:52
member of NATO, not officially a member of
2:29:54
NATO.
2:29:54
Why would these countries come in?
2:29:56
We bought them.
2:29:58
We got them in, and then we put
2:30:00
the fine cap on it.
2:30:02
We created Ukraine to make them grow increasingly
2:30:05
fearful of Russia, because we knew when we
2:30:08
created Ukraine in our image, that Russia would
2:30:12
find that unacceptable and eventually would attack, and
2:30:15
they did.
2:30:16
Then we said, Joe Biden got this one,
2:30:20
he'll take Lithuania next and Estonia and Latvia,
2:30:24
and then Poland.
2:30:26
We did this.
2:30:27
We did this.
2:30:28
History books will show that we did this
2:30:31
20, 30 years from now.
2:30:32
I believe him.
2:30:34
But we said this already on the show.
2:30:36
Well, not- That we're talking about Brennan
2:30:39
being in the Maidan.
2:30:40
But he's Defense Intelligence Agency, not Central Intelligence
2:30:45
Agency.
2:30:46
Well, that makes you wonder exactly why Brennan
2:30:50
was in Maidan.
2:30:51
He's CIA.
2:30:52
For the party.
2:30:55
He was there for the chicks, for the
2:30:56
party, for the champagne.
2:30:57
The dead guy.
2:30:59
I completely believe- He does not look
2:31:01
like a party animal to me.
2:31:03
The DIA, they are the ones.
2:31:06
And they're the ones on social media.
2:31:08
They have a whole unit.
2:31:10
Their whole nudge unit, that's all defense.
2:31:13
And that's what we were warned of, of
2:31:15
the military industrial complex.
2:31:17
That's why I play these clips.
2:31:19
I believe that.
2:31:20
I believe it was Defense Intelligence Agency.
2:31:24
That's what Laura Logan's husband did.
2:31:25
Now, he says, I can talk about it
2:31:28
now because it's past whatever time.
2:31:30
I was PSYOPs, man.
2:31:31
I was PSYOPs.
2:31:32
DIA PSYOPs.
2:31:34
I believe it.
2:31:35
I think that you're starting to act like
2:31:37
a Fredericksburger.
2:31:40
I am not convinced that the DIA is
2:31:44
as omnipotent as he says, or anybody does.
2:31:50
Because I think they're the boneheads of the
2:31:52
group.
2:31:54
I don't know.
2:31:55
They probably maybe got it started, but they
2:31:58
had to have Brennan and the boys go
2:31:59
in there to really take care of it.
2:32:01
You don't think that Victoria Nuland's got anything
2:32:04
to do with the DIA.
2:32:05
I really doubt it.
2:32:07
State Department?
2:32:08
I don't know.
2:32:09
The State Department's different.
2:32:10
That's another group of spooks.
2:32:12
So it's a whole bunch of spooks.
2:32:14
But I'm...
2:32:15
Well, they're all trying to take credit for
2:32:17
each other's work.
2:32:18
Well, there's that.
2:32:20
For sure, there's that.
2:32:23
No, but there it is.
2:32:24
We bought off editors.
2:32:26
We bought off newspapers.
2:32:27
Again, the CIA process.
2:32:29
Now, he demeans what they did, what the
2:32:31
CIA did in Chile, as if it was
2:32:34
like a one-off.
2:32:35
Well, look what they did.
2:32:36
It sucks.
2:32:37
And we do a better job because we
2:32:39
bought all these guys.
2:32:39
I think this is nonsense.
2:32:41
All I know is the CIA was recruiting
2:32:43
woke children.
2:32:48
So I don't think that the new CIA
2:32:51
is all that impressive.
2:32:57
I'm withholding judgment.
2:32:59
I'm not...
2:33:00
I don't think the DIA is that impressive,
2:33:02
if you're going to think that way.
2:33:04
I think they're full of shit.
2:33:06
How about that?
2:33:07
Okay.
2:33:08
That's Dvorak, California.
2:33:10
Go get them, boys.
2:33:13
You won't be able to get out of
2:33:15
Texas with their electric cars.
2:33:16
You'll find them next to the heroin dealer.
2:33:18
It's easy to locate.
2:33:20
Just ask around.
2:33:21
Just ask the hotties.
2:33:23
They'll point you in the right direction.
2:33:26
Well, I thought it was a nice little
2:33:29
series.
2:33:29
I think it was enjoyable.
2:33:31
I'm not arguing about the clip or the
2:33:33
quality.
2:33:34
I'm just...
2:33:34
I think there's the analysis that I'm complaining
2:33:37
about.
2:33:37
Quite proud of myself.
2:33:39
Hey, dig up a Wilkerson clip.
2:33:42
Yeah, I guess so.
2:33:43
There's a meltdown in Magalan, everybody.
2:33:47
Meltdown in Magalan.
2:33:49
Is this what you voted for?
2:33:51
Yeah, that's right.
2:33:52
Did you vote for this?
2:33:53
Frau Ingraham is mad.
2:33:55
Mr. Secretary, with all due respect, how is
2:33:59
allowing 600,000 students from the communist country
2:34:02
of China putting America first?
2:34:05
Well, the president's point of view is that
2:34:08
what would happen if you didn't have those
2:34:10
600,000 students is that you'd empty them
2:34:13
from the top.
2:34:14
All the students would go up to better
2:34:16
schools.
2:34:17
And the bottom 15% of universities and
2:34:20
colleges would go out of business in America.
2:34:22
So his view is he's taking a rational
2:34:26
economic view, which is classic Donald Trump looking
2:34:29
at higher education and saying, until we modify
2:34:32
that.
2:34:33
That just helps Harvard and UCLA and UCAL
2:34:36
Berkeley.
2:34:37
And I mean, y'all helping those schools.
2:34:39
Why?
2:34:40
They're like, you know, basically factories of anti
2:34:43
-American propaganda.
2:34:44
Now they're getting a big influx of cash
2:34:46
because of the Chinese students.
2:34:48
I mean, I know President Trump has always
2:34:51
been very pro-Chinese student.
2:34:53
I just don't understand it.
2:34:54
The life of me.
2:34:56
Those are 600,000 spots that American kids
2:34:58
won't get.
2:34:59
Well, I'll tell you what I'm involved.
2:35:00
I'm involved in changing the H-1B program,
2:35:04
right?
2:35:04
We're going to change that program because that's
2:35:07
terrible, right?
2:35:08
We're going to change the green card.
2:35:10
You know, we give green cards.
2:35:12
The average American makes $75,000 a year
2:35:15
and the average green card recipient $66,000.
2:35:19
So we're taking the bottom quartile.
2:35:22
Like, why are we doing that?
2:35:23
That's why Donald Trump is going to change
2:35:25
it.
2:35:26
That's the gold card that's coming.
2:35:28
And that's we're going to start picking the
2:35:29
best people to come into this country.
2:35:32
It's time for that to change.
2:35:34
I think our American engineering students need to
2:35:37
be given the first role at every job.
2:35:39
And I think they're brilliant when given half
2:35:41
a chance.
2:35:42
But Mr. Secretary, I know you're juggling a
2:35:43
lot of balls over there.
2:35:44
We really appreciate your explaining a lot of
2:35:46
this to us.
2:35:47
Thank you.
2:35:48
Well, first of all, is the average wage
2:35:50
in America $75,000?
2:35:53
I think it's lower.
2:35:56
It's a good thing, but you ask your
2:35:58
buddy there.
2:35:59
What, the DIA guy?
2:36:01
No, your machine.
2:36:02
I'm not going to ask my machine that.
2:36:04
Ask her.
2:36:06
Oh, what's the average wage in the American
2:36:08
public?
2:36:08
I'm going to have to change her tone
2:36:10
so she doesn't sound so sexy.
2:36:12
You're all kind of giddy about it.
2:36:13
Oh, are you getting worked up about it?
2:36:16
Hold on a second.
2:36:17
What is the average income in the United
2:36:20
States of America?
2:36:24
The average annual income in the U.S.
2:36:27
is around $62,000.
2:36:29
Boom.
2:36:29
Told you.
2:36:30
Lies.
2:36:32
Yes, Howard Lutnick lies.
2:36:36
So the thing about the, you know, I
2:36:37
know, I think we've determined, or at least
2:36:40
I am totally convinced that UC Berkeley is
2:36:43
a stronghold of CIA operations to recruit foreign
2:36:48
students.
2:36:49
I mean, Ling Ling and Ding Dong over
2:36:52
there got caught in North Korea.
2:36:53
Right out of the journalism school.
2:36:55
Ling Ling and Ding Dong.
2:36:56
I forgot about that.
2:36:57
Yeah, I remember them.
2:36:58
Yes, Ling Ling.
2:36:59
Ling Long Sing Song Ding Dong.
2:37:01
Yes.
2:37:01
And so Berkeley has a tonnage of Chinese
2:37:07
nationals, always has, even when I was a
2:37:10
student, which was years before any of this
2:37:12
started to happen.
2:37:15
But now they, and they can, they try
2:37:17
to recruit them is what they're trying to
2:37:19
do.
2:37:19
You get a couple of thousand of these
2:37:22
guys and maybe one of them will turn,
2:37:24
you know, and be a good agent, a
2:37:26
spook for the agency going back to China,
2:37:31
because they all go back to China.
2:37:33
And so I don't, I think that's the
2:37:35
reason for this.
2:37:36
600,000.
2:37:38
I mean, if they're all getting a gold
2:37:39
card and spending a million, I can see
2:37:41
that.
2:37:42
I mean, all right, now you know what
2:37:43
you're getting.
2:37:43
You're getting true party members.
2:37:46
But MAGA not happy.
2:37:48
Is this exactly what you said?
2:37:50
Is this what you voted for?
2:37:52
Is this what you voted for?
2:37:54
I love that.
2:37:56
That's great.
2:37:57
Everyone always.
2:37:58
Yeah.
2:38:00
But it's really true.
2:38:01
There's a large segment of people who are
2:38:04
just continuously disappointed in President Trump.
2:38:08
Continuously.
2:38:08
They were disappointed from the get go.
2:38:10
They never liked the guy in the first
2:38:12
place.
2:38:12
No, no, no, no.
2:38:13
They don't like anything he does.
2:38:15
They were hopeful.
2:38:15
They were hopeful.
2:38:16
For what?
2:38:17
What did they expect the guy to do?
2:38:19
He's going to expose the elites, the pedos,
2:38:21
drain the swamp, all this stuff.
2:38:23
And he's done none of it.
2:38:24
I tell you, none of it.
2:38:27
They're just telling me what people are saying.
2:38:29
I understand their disappointment.
2:38:31
Be practical.
2:38:34
I'm not talking to you.
2:38:36
I'm talking about to them.
2:38:37
Oh, okay.
2:38:38
Let's go to this, these clips.
2:38:39
I got four of them.
2:38:40
Nat cast one post.
2:38:42
What is this?
2:38:43
It's a series of clips.
2:38:44
Okay.
2:38:45
So if I'm understanding this correctly, the company
2:38:48
is set up because they're going to get
2:38:49
handed a whole boatload of money and then
2:38:51
they're going to turn around and allocate it
2:38:53
to specific kinds of research.
2:38:57
Oh, I'm sorry, Nat.
2:39:01
Okay.
2:39:02
I won't complain about your naming, but okay.
2:39:04
It was not here because yes, here's.
2:39:07
Yeah.
2:39:07
They all say one, but this.
2:39:10
Yeah.
2:39:10
And the post, you know, you can complain
2:39:12
about the naming because it lacks.
2:39:14
A certain consistency.
2:39:16
I agree with you before we get to
2:39:18
it.
2:39:18
You have two number threes.
2:39:20
Which one do I play when we get
2:39:21
to it?
2:39:22
Have you determined that?
2:39:23
I'm going to have to look at the
2:39:24
time codes or we look at the date.
2:39:28
Here we go.
2:39:28
One of them is the number four.
2:39:30
Okay.
2:39:30
Commerce secretary Howard Lutnick announced that he's clawing
2:39:33
back billions of dollars earmarked by the Biden
2:39:35
administration for a company called Nat cast.
2:39:38
What the heck is Nat cast?
2:39:40
Well, it's basically a middleman that decides who
2:39:43
gets pieces of the government fiscal pie, specifically
2:39:46
cash set aside in the chips and science
2:39:48
act for semiconductor research.
2:39:51
In a letter obtained by the post, Lutnick
2:39:52
said that he was canceling a multi-billion
2:39:54
dollar contract that funneled taxpayer dollars through Nat
2:39:57
cast, which again, was created by the Biden
2:39:59
administration with a hunk of money.
2:40:01
And we're talking billions here that was pushed
2:40:03
just a few days before the former president
2:40:05
left office.
2:40:06
The nonprofit selection committee was made up of
2:40:08
former Biden administration alums.
2:40:11
And according to Lutnick, it effectively cut the
2:40:13
current administration out of the mix entirely.
2:40:16
Joining me now, the New York Post reporter
2:40:18
who broke this story, Washington bureau chief Josh
2:40:20
Christensen.
2:40:21
So Josh, it's pretty rare that we talk
2:40:24
about something on the podcast that no one
2:40:26
has ever heard of.
2:40:28
Why does this company Nat cast exist?
2:40:31
I mean, who runs it?
2:40:32
Well, Nat cast was an invention of the
2:40:35
Biden administration.
2:40:36
It was something that was cooked up, you
2:40:38
know, the last two years of the Biden
2:40:39
administration and basically crammed full of staff from
2:40:43
departing members of the commerce department, other allies
2:40:47
of the admin.
2:40:48
And it was a nonprofit that was essentially
2:40:50
set up to receive $11 billion worth of
2:40:54
taxpayer funding in order to transmit it towards
2:40:58
semiconductor research and development.
2:41:01
Yeah, this is a big controversy.
2:41:05
This what's interesting to me is this is
2:41:07
not being discussed much.
2:41:08
I never heard a Nat cast.
2:41:10
No, I never heard of that.
2:41:12
And here we go with another bullcrap operation.
2:41:15
It was set up as a front for
2:41:17
money laundering.
2:41:18
And the way I see it, this is
2:41:19
just money going to somebody's pockets.
2:41:21
We don't need that.
2:41:22
Semiconductor companies make enough money that they can
2:41:24
do their own damn research.
2:41:26
And most of the research in semiconductors nowadays
2:41:28
is done out of Holland.
2:41:29
But that company that makes the U.V.
2:41:32
A.S.M.L. Those guys.
2:41:36
Yeah, those guys are the hot shots in
2:41:38
this regard.
2:41:39
These semiconductor companies, all they do is design
2:41:43
chips and they don't need research money.
2:41:46
This is bullcrap.
2:41:48
OK, so if I'm understanding this correctly, the
2:41:51
company is set up because they're going to
2:41:53
get handed a whole boatload of money and
2:41:55
then they're going to turn around and allocate
2:41:57
it to specific kinds of research involving semiconductors.
2:42:01
OK, I kind of have that squared away
2:42:04
now.
2:42:05
So that doesn't sound, I don't know, weird
2:42:08
to me.
2:42:09
Can you explain to me what the issue
2:42:11
is?
2:42:11
What is Letnik saying the problem is with
2:42:14
NatCast getting that money and then allocating it
2:42:17
as they see fit?
2:42:18
The main problem is the lack of federal
2:42:21
oversight and the fact that such an entity
2:42:24
which has existed in the past and will
2:42:26
certainly exist again in which a private group
2:42:30
is stood up by the government in order
2:42:32
to distribute funding.
2:42:34
You know, any kind of law will have
2:42:36
different sorts of funding initiatives, often flow to
2:42:40
state entities, nonprofits, that sort of thing.
2:42:42
But in this case, the law, the CHIPS
2:42:45
Act, which was one of the big bills
2:42:47
that Biden passed during his admin, did not
2:42:49
set up any sort of independent extra governmental
2:42:52
entity to take all that money and throw
2:42:55
it out the door.
2:42:56
And Letnik is saying, well, we have no
2:42:58
clue where all this went.
2:43:00
And in particular, what we know for a
2:43:01
fact is it was 11 billion dollars in
2:43:04
total, but 7.4 billion dollars worth of
2:43:07
that went out the door in the last
2:43:09
four days of the administration with no oversight.
2:43:12
And so he's wanting to, you know, call
2:43:15
them to account for this and say, well,
2:43:17
you know, where is this money gone?
2:43:18
We don't know.
2:43:19
We have no way of looking into it.
2:43:21
And so I'm voiding this agreement as it
2:43:23
stands currently.
2:43:25
OK, so on the is that what you
2:43:28
voted for side of the equation?
2:43:30
The complaint is what kind of capitalism is
2:43:33
this where you're taking a stake in companies?
2:43:37
I did not hear anyone say what kind
2:43:40
of capitalism is this where you're giving people
2:43:43
money?
2:43:45
It's both wrong.
2:43:48
Well, I say if you're going to give
2:43:50
him money, at least get something.
2:43:53
Well, I mean, I'm not a defender of
2:43:55
the idea of buying chunks of Intel, which
2:43:57
is most people see as a failing company.
2:43:59
Yeah.
2:44:00
Unless, you know, something's going to happen and
2:44:02
it's going to profit the government.
2:44:05
Oh, insider trading by the government.
2:44:07
Interesting.
2:44:08
That would be OK.
2:44:10
Yeah, yeah.
2:44:11
That would be great.
2:44:13
But do you think that's possible?
2:44:15
I don't.
2:44:16
Because I don't think the government's that skilled.
2:44:19
But this whole NatCast thing and throwing this
2:44:22
is too much money being just thrown around
2:44:24
aimlessly.
2:44:25
This is ridiculous waste.
2:44:27
But it was already thrown around.
2:44:28
It was already.
2:44:29
Yeah, well, it goes.
2:44:30
Everyone's gone nuts.
2:44:31
Yes.
2:44:32
So now I've looked at the timestamps and
2:44:36
I believe the two minute 11 clip will
2:44:39
be clip four.
2:44:40
Could that be right?
2:44:41
We have a one minute clip next.
2:44:43
And here we go.
2:44:44
What happens to the money now?
2:44:46
Where does this money go, especially if there's
2:44:48
a legal challenge?
2:44:49
I mean, is it just sitting there in
2:44:50
limbo?
2:44:51
I mean, it was kind of I mean,
2:44:53
as far as I could tell, they were
2:44:55
saying that up until 2034, there were plans
2:44:58
to have some sorts of payments annually.
2:45:01
So it's unclear whether the voiding of it
2:45:04
would then allow them to claw it back
2:45:06
entirely or whether they've already tried to send
2:45:10
most of it out, even from NatCast.
2:45:13
Right.
2:45:13
So it's even a step further away from
2:45:16
the government's coffers.
2:45:17
But, yeah, it's something that I'm sure Lutnick's
2:45:20
team was talking about with them today after
2:45:22
they received the letter.
2:45:24
As with the EPA case, you know, you
2:45:26
see there's many steps in the process before
2:45:28
the government can actually just get the money
2:45:31
back because it's already gone through so much
2:45:33
to get out of taxpayers hands and into
2:45:35
the pockets of special interests or whoever might
2:45:38
be in line for it.
2:45:39
This is a facet of the changing of
2:45:42
the garden government that I never actually knew
2:45:44
about or thought of, but it makes a
2:45:46
lot of sense.
2:45:46
So a very great story.
2:45:48
Thank you for breaking it and coming on
2:45:50
the podcast to talk about it.
2:45:51
Josh Christensen, thanks so much.
2:45:52
Sounds like we did him out of order.
2:45:56
I think that probably concludes it.
2:45:58
I don't think you need to play the
2:45:59
long clip.
2:46:00
But just so you know, the long clip
2:46:02
was done at 820 and 41 seconds and
2:46:10
the shorter clip was 820 and 20 seconds.
2:46:13
So I just presumed.
2:46:15
I think that may have been the chip
2:46:18
time.
2:46:19
Probably.
2:46:20
Yeah.
2:46:21
So it doesn't make any sense.
2:46:22
All right.
2:46:22
Well, I'd have to go to the original
2:46:23
files, but I think that summarizes the problem
2:46:27
is we have another waste of taxpayers money.
2:46:30
And you wonder why we're in debt.
2:46:32
Thirty five trillion dollars.
2:46:34
But that's that's all ending.
2:46:37
That's all ending.
2:46:38
Oh, are you kidding me?
2:46:39
Any minute now.
2:46:40
Any minute.
2:46:41
I, of course, watch the the Trump show,
2:46:45
the cabinet meetings.
2:46:46
Highly.
2:46:46
Three and a half hour.
2:46:47
Trump.
2:46:48
Oh, I love it.
2:46:49
Extravaganza.
2:46:50
I can't get enough of it.
2:46:51
I I wait to set it up, set
2:46:54
it up, set it up, set up.
2:46:55
Here is NPR.
2:46:57
We'll set it up for you.
2:46:58
Did anything else stand out to you about
2:47:00
this very, very long cabinet meeting?
2:47:03
Well, it was very, very long, according to
2:47:05
Fact Base, which how long was it?
2:47:07
Asked these things.
2:47:08
It was the longest Trump event ever, longer
2:47:11
than any other cabinet meeting.
2:47:12
And it was effusive.
2:47:14
Cabinet secretaries took turns showering Trump with praise
2:47:17
like the labor secretary who said Trump should
2:47:20
come over to the department to see the
2:47:21
banner they now have hanging on the side
2:47:23
of the building of his, quote, big, beautiful
2:47:26
face.
2:47:27
Oh, my goodness.
2:47:28
Well, that's what NPR does with your money.
2:47:31
We'll just actually listen to what was said.
2:47:33
This is now Scott Besant, who, by the
2:47:35
way, I should mention this is part of
2:47:39
the A-gays.
2:47:40
Have you heard about this?
2:47:42
The A-gays?
2:47:43
Nope.
2:47:43
You've got me on this one.
2:47:45
Yes.
2:47:45
Yes.
2:47:46
A-gays?
2:47:47
Yes.
2:47:47
That's a new term.
2:47:48
So he's gay?
2:47:49
I didn't know he's out gay.
2:47:50
Oh, Besant.
2:47:50
Yeah, yeah.
2:47:51
Besant's gay.
2:47:52
Oh, OK.
2:47:52
Besant.
2:47:53
A-gays?
2:47:55
Yeah, it's called the A-gays.
2:47:57
Here, New York Times.
2:47:58
I got the article for you.
2:48:00
Donald Trump's...
2:48:01
It's not loading now, of course, for a
2:48:03
moment.
2:48:04
I don't know why that's happening.
2:48:06
Hold on.
2:48:07
I had it on archive.org, but for
2:48:09
some reason the New York Times probably took
2:48:12
it down.
2:48:13
Here we go.
2:48:14
Donald Trump's big gay government.
2:48:17
Big gay government?
2:48:20
Yes, because he has a lot of gay
2:48:22
guys in there.
2:48:24
And...
2:48:25
Oh, shoot, man.
2:48:26
I'm sorry.
2:48:27
Now I can't get to the article.
2:48:31
Oh, that sucks so bad.
2:48:32
Let me see.
2:48:33
They blocked it.
2:48:34
They did block it.
2:48:34
Well, let me see.
2:48:35
Here's another version of it.
2:48:42
So they talk about the A-gays.
2:48:46
They're mostly...
2:48:46
It's A-gays?
2:48:48
A-gays.
2:48:48
G-a-y-s?
2:48:49
Yes, as in the top dogs.
2:48:52
The top gays.
2:48:52
So it'd be a capital A?
2:48:53
Capital A-capital G-a-y-s.
2:48:57
They're mostly out.
2:48:58
They're proud to work for President Donald Trump,
2:49:00
and they have big jobs inside or alongside
2:49:02
this administration.
2:49:04
They have big what?
2:49:05
They have big jobs.
2:49:06
Big jobs inside or alongside this administration.
2:49:10
They wield influence all over town, from the
2:49:12
Pentagon to the State Department to the White
2:49:14
House to the Kennedy Center.
2:49:16
We're like Visa.
2:49:17
We're everywhere you want to be.
2:49:20
The most powerful out gay man in the
2:49:22
Trump administration is Besant.
2:49:24
There are a handful of others in the
2:49:25
Treasury Department.
2:49:26
Other A-gays include Tony Fabrizio, the president's
2:49:29
longtime pollster, Trent Morse, outgoing deputy assistant to
2:49:33
the president, Richard Grenell, who was put in
2:49:36
charge of the Kennedy Center, and Jacob Helberg,
2:49:38
an undersecretary of state.
2:49:40
These are just some.
2:49:41
There are lots of other lesser-known men
2:49:43
who make up the tribe.
2:49:46
This is a great article.
2:49:48
Let me read another paragraph.
2:49:49
They're overwhelmingly white.
2:49:51
Oh, it's the white gays.
2:49:52
The white gays.
2:49:53
There's something bad.
2:49:55
We knew there was something wrong with them.
2:49:57
They tend to have a certain kind of
2:49:58
look.
2:49:59
Close-cropped haircuts, windowpane suits.
2:50:03
They're not the type to be telling anyone
2:50:04
their pronouns or using the word queer.
2:50:07
No, because they're normal guys who just happen
2:50:09
to like guys.
2:50:11
They don't have to be weird and queer.
2:50:14
And they aren't the least bit offended that
2:50:16
the leader of their party continues to stoke
2:50:18
a moral panic about transgender people.
2:50:21
Exactly.
2:50:23
They're gay.
2:50:23
How is this a shocker to anybody?
2:50:25
The New York Times.
2:50:26
They're gay, but they're still Republicans.
2:50:29
This is fantastic.
2:50:32
Keep reading.
2:50:33
Really?
2:50:34
You want me to keep reading?
2:50:35
Let me see if I can.
2:50:36
The gay men who work for him are
2:50:37
keenly aware they're in hostile territory, surrounded by
2:50:40
other gay men who consider themselves deluded traitors
2:50:43
or worse At gay bars around town and
2:50:46
on dating apps, they're either iced out or
2:50:49
confronted about the things this president has said
2:50:51
and done.
2:50:52
He cut AIDS relief around the world and
2:50:54
HIV vaccine research and funding for LGBTQ plus
2:50:58
suicide prevention services.
2:50:59
Not true.
2:51:00
His defense secretary announced during Pride Month that
2:51:03
the Navy vessel named after Harvey Milk will
2:51:05
be renamed as an outrage amongst the gay
2:51:07
community.
2:51:08
Perhaps most worrying for many gay people is
2:51:11
how the conservative Supreme Court has become thanks
2:51:15
to Trump.
2:51:16
Could same-sex marriage go the way of
2:51:18
Roe?
2:51:19
It's not out of the question.
2:51:22
This is all supposition at this point in
2:51:25
the article.
2:51:26
In other words, the New York Times article
2:51:29
that you started reading with some actual information,
2:51:31
although it's an upside down pyramid the way
2:51:33
to do journalism, but that's OK.
2:51:35
It shows that it just starts to fall
2:51:37
apart and go into supposition and opinion.
2:51:41
Gay Trump appointees interviewed for this article, some
2:51:43
of whom said they weren't authorized to speak
2:51:45
on the record, dismiss such a probrium, a
2:51:49
probrium, what does that mean?
2:51:56
You need to ask your friend.
2:51:57
I can almost define it, but I can't
2:52:00
with any real accuracy.
2:52:01
Something that brings disgrace.
2:52:04
OK.
2:52:04
Public disgrace.
2:52:06
Dismiss such a probrium as overheated liberal whining.
2:52:10
They argue that the battle for gay rights
2:52:12
has basically been won, and there's never been
2:52:15
a Republican as friendly to the gays as
2:52:17
Trump.
2:52:17
He's a friendly gay lover guy.
2:52:20
Did they say the gays?
2:52:22
No, they said gay.
2:52:24
Did I say the gays?
2:52:25
He said the gays.
2:52:27
They argue for the battle for gay rights
2:52:29
has basically been won.
2:52:30
There's never been a Republican as friend.
2:52:32
Yeah, as friendly to the gays as Trump.
2:52:35
Yeah, there you go.
2:52:35
The gays.
2:52:36
The gays.
2:52:37
Did you write this for the New York
2:52:39
Times?
2:52:40
Own up to it.
2:52:41
This is a great article.
2:52:43
I just love the whole a gays.
2:52:45
Yeah.
2:52:46
And you know what?
2:52:46
They're just good looking men who are just
2:52:49
dressing nicely, doing their thing, not walking around
2:52:52
going, I'm gay.
2:52:54
Yes.
2:52:56
Surprise.
2:52:57
They're gays, not fruits.
2:52:58
Yeah.
2:53:00
Surprised.
2:53:01
What?
2:53:01
New York Times surprise.
2:53:02
Anyway, here's the course they were.
2:53:04
Here's the top a gay Scott Besson telling
2:53:06
us we don't have to worry about the
2:53:08
deficit.
2:53:09
On the international front, you have leveled the
2:53:12
international trading system whereby countries took advantage of
2:53:16
us.
2:53:16
And that's over.
2:53:17
It's over.
2:53:18
The Treasury Department is taking in record tariff
2:53:23
revenues that I had been saying was running
2:53:27
at a rate of 300 billion a year.
2:53:29
You chastise me for saying that it's not
2:53:32
that that number is too low.
2:53:34
And as usual, you're right that we had
2:53:38
a substantial jump from July to August.
2:53:42
And I think we're going to see a
2:53:44
bigger jump from August to September.
2:53:47
So I think we could be on our
2:53:50
way well over half a trillion, maybe the
2:53:55
towards the trillion dollar number.
2:53:58
This administration, your administration has made a meaningful
2:54:01
dent in the budget deficit.
2:54:03
The average budget deficit during this term is
2:54:07
26 percent less than the last 12 months
2:54:09
under Biden and even the CBO.
2:54:12
And we don't agree with CBO on everything.
2:54:16
As you said last Friday, on a summer
2:54:20
Friday, had to admit that they believe over
2:54:24
the next 10 years, the budget deficit will
2:54:27
be four trillion lower than they had previously
2:54:31
scored.
2:54:32
Four trillion, 3.3 trillion of tariff income,
2:54:36
700 billion of lower interest costs.
2:54:39
And I would expect that that number could
2:54:42
go up from here.
2:54:43
Four trillion dollars.
2:54:46
It's going to be great.
2:54:47
We'll only have 32 trillion to go.
2:54:50
I'll believe it when I see it.
2:55:06
But before we go anywhere, we have a
2:55:08
lot more show to go.
2:55:10
We have, of course, end of show mixes.
2:55:12
We have a tip of the day and
2:55:14
we always want to thank our supporters who
2:55:17
supported us with value for the value they
2:55:19
received.
2:55:20
Fifty dollars and above left on the docket.
2:55:22
John will list them and name them for
2:55:24
you.
2:55:25
Yeah, we're going to start with Hank there
2:55:26
and 113 dollars and 41 cents.
2:55:28
Parts unknown.
2:55:29
You can read this note because it's a
2:55:30
night note.
2:55:32
He's becoming a night.
2:55:33
Enclosed is my donation of 8.08 and
2:55:36
33.33 for value provided.
2:55:39
This should grant me an invitation to the
2:55:41
roundtable.
2:55:41
As per my card sent early this year,
2:55:44
along with other goodies.
2:55:45
Please knight me as Sir Hank Itami.
2:55:48
I would like to request for the roundtable
2:55:50
a mega-sized cup of grapefruit sour along
2:55:54
with a bowl of cookie and cream ice.
2:55:57
Cookie and cream ice cream.
2:55:59
Isn't it cookies and cream?
2:56:01
I ordered cookies and cream, so that's what
2:56:03
you get.
2:56:03
Hopefully there's enough steam to keep this show
2:56:05
going.
2:56:06
Maybe another four years.
2:56:07
Thank you for your attention to this matter,
2:56:09
says Hank.
2:56:11
Dame Rita is up at the top of
2:56:13
the list in Sparks, Nevada.
2:56:14
She comes in with 108 dollars and 28
2:56:16
cents, which is the date.
2:56:18
And she says the newsletter has not been
2:56:20
in my email since 8.20. Shall I
2:56:25
sign up again?
2:56:25
Yes, please sign up again just to make
2:56:27
sure.
2:56:27
I don't know what they do.
2:56:28
We're having issues of all sorts.
2:56:31
Brendan Brown and Arnelia.
2:56:33
Oh, hi, Arnelia.
2:56:36
Or Amelia.
2:56:39
Amelia, Amelia, Amelia.
2:56:41
House buying karma he wants.
2:56:42
We'll put that at the end for you.
2:56:44
And then he, Brandon says, please donate people.
2:56:49
No, we want money.
2:56:50
We want money.
2:56:50
We don't, don't, don't say.
2:56:51
We don't want people.
2:56:52
We don't want blankets.
2:56:53
We don't want water.
2:56:54
We don't want people.
2:56:55
We just want your cash.
2:56:58
Charlie Shelton, 100 dollars.
2:57:02
Mike, Mike Litke in Tinley Park, Illinois, 8008.
2:57:07
Happy birthday to, oh, I wonder if that's
2:57:09
on the list.
2:57:09
Matthew wishing a happy birthday to Sabrina Contreras
2:57:13
on 8.29. You'll check that.
2:57:16
Eric Mackey, or Mackey, Mackey, Mackey in Blairsville,
2:57:20
Georgia, 8008.
2:57:22
For his smoking hot fiance, Kevin McLaughlin.
2:57:24
He's the Archduke of Luna lover, American lover
2:57:26
of melons, 8008.
2:57:28
Brian Kaufman in Scottsdale, Arizona, 7575.
2:57:32
John Alberini, 7020, 7026.
2:57:37
Whoops, sorry.
2:57:38
Andrew Foreman in Boca Raton, Rat's Tale, Florida.
2:57:44
That's the mouth of the rat, not the
2:57:46
tail.
2:57:46
I thought it was rat, rat, boca, the
2:57:49
butt of the rat, rat, boca rat.
2:57:51
Mouth of the rat.
2:57:53
Well, rats are involved in Florida, 6331.
2:57:58
And he wants some jobs.
2:57:59
Karma will give you that at the end.
2:58:02
Quick question for John.
2:58:04
When are you going to be back on
2:58:04
Twit next?
2:58:07
And?
2:58:07
And?
2:58:08
Inquiring minds want to know.
2:58:10
Probably never.
2:58:12
Wesley D.
2:58:13
Stewart III in Mesa, Arizona, 6262.
2:58:16
Another birthday donation.
2:58:17
Les Tarkowsky in Kingman, Arizona, 6006.
2:58:20
And there's Sir Laugh-A-Lot with 5809.
2:58:24
Another knighting donation, which you should read part
2:58:27
of, at least.
2:58:27
It's a long note that shouldn't be in
2:58:29
the middle of a donation segment like this.
2:58:31
It's actually for a damehood for his German
2:58:33
shepherd dog, Shona.
2:58:34
She was five years old when Katrina hit.
2:58:37
We had to evacuate with my parents, my
2:58:39
18-month-old son and wife.
2:58:40
Our house in Metairie was destroyed like so
2:58:43
many of them.
2:58:44
Metairie.
2:58:44
Metairie, thank you.
2:58:45
We evacuated to Charlotte, North Carolina.
2:58:47
Once a month, I would drive down to
2:58:48
New Orleans to help my parents and friends
2:58:49
to rebuild.
2:58:50
During this time, my wife and son were
2:58:52
alone in our little apartment in Shona, with
2:58:54
Shona.
2:58:55
She was the best protector they could have.
2:58:57
I would like to dedicate this damehood to
2:58:59
Shona, the protector of Katrina survivors.
2:59:01
Now she can join me, Sir Laugh-A
2:59:02
-Lot, and Dame Maggie, our rescue lab.
2:59:04
At the round table, I still have to
2:59:06
work on a damehood for my first dog,
2:59:08
Shelby, and my second dog, Trixie.
2:59:10
I hope to get that done before your
2:59:11
exit strategy comes to fruition.
2:59:13
I've been listening since the very first show.
2:59:15
I think John's first tip of the day
2:59:17
was to buy black underwear.
2:59:19
Back then, you were discussing the HEMA underwear.
2:59:21
Yes, but that was white.
2:59:23
I met John at one of the first
2:59:25
meetups in Bluxie, Mississippi.
2:59:27
A few years...
2:59:28
No, MS?
2:59:30
Yes, Mississippi.
2:59:30
A few years ago.
2:59:31
And someday, I hope to meet Adam in
2:59:33
person as well.
2:59:33
I apologize for the long note, but I
2:59:35
wanted to thank you for being a constant
2:59:36
in my life during some trying times and
2:59:38
providing much-needed laughs.
2:59:41
Sincerely, Sir Laugh-A-Lot.
2:59:43
It was worth reading the note.
2:59:44
Thank you very much.
2:59:45
Yeah, it was a good note.
2:59:46
Surprise in Yukon, Oklahoma, 5444.
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Nathan Gwin in Jackson, Tennessee, 5272.
2:59:54
Vance Wharton in Norman, Oklahoma, 5272.
2:59:59
Malcolm Riley in Aiken, I think, Aiken or
3:00:04
Aiken, Aiken.
3:00:05
Aiken or Aiken, Aiken or Aiken.
3:00:06
Aiken, Aiken, Aiken.
3:00:07
South Carolina.
3:00:08
Aiken is Aiken.
3:00:09
71st birthday, 5272.
3:00:12
Matthew Arepko, 5001.
3:00:14
And now we've gotten down to the $50
3:00:15
donations.
3:00:17
I'm just going to read the name and
3:00:18
location, except for the Richard Gardner, who's in
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New York City, but it's not listed.
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George Wuschett in Laverna, Texas.
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Jacqueline Connelly in Green Bay, Go Packers, Wisconsin.
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Aaron Weisgerber in Bend, Oregon.
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Benjamin Ryan in Alliance, Ohio.
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There's Richard Gardner.
3:00:40
And I think he's in New York.
3:00:42
Knox.
3:00:43
It's Andrew, but you always say that.
3:00:46
What?
3:00:46
You always say Richard's in New York, but
3:00:48
that's Andrew Gardner in New York.
3:00:50
Oh, where's Richard?
3:00:51
I don't know.
3:00:52
Richard, tell us where you are.
3:00:54
Oh, it's Andrew Gardner that's in New York,
3:00:56
but I always say Richard is.
3:00:57
Well, maybe he likes thinking he's in New
3:00:59
York.
3:00:59
Don't you remember?
3:01:00
Don't you believe me?
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Go bing it.io. See?
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See, people?
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That's what I have to deal with.
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Ridicule.
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Ox Utherix.
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Wow, what a name.
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It's a great name.
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Ox Utherix.
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Ox Utherix on the stick for you, everybody.
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How you doing?
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Z100.
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Buffalo, New York.
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Tricia in Satsuma, Florida.
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Sir Michael in Snohomish, Washington.
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And last on the list, our good buddy
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Leanne Shipley.
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And she's also in Washington, in Covington.
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We want to thank these people for making
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the show.
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1794, a great show.
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Yes, a very good show.
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We've had some laughs as well.
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And we appreciate the value that you return
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for the value we serve up to you.
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We do it as a public service, and
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we're quite happy to do it.
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It's an enjoyable lifestyle.
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Somewhat rollercoastery, but it's an enjoyable lifestyle.
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And as requested, we got the Karmas.
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Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
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Let's vote for jobs.
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in under $50 for reasons of anonymity, or
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perhaps you were one of those sustaining donors.
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Everybody can at least give us something on
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You can set it up as a recurring
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And again, thanks to our Executive and Associate
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Executive Producers for episode 1793.
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It's your birthday, birthday.
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I'm so glad you're back.
3:02:32
Sir Camera Chris wishes his oldest human resource,
3:02:36
Christian, a happy birthday.
3:02:37
He celebrates on today.
3:02:39
Also, Malcolm Reilly, happy birthday to his pops.
3:02:42
He turned 71 today.
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And Malcolm Reilly, happy birthday to his baby
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brother.
3:02:46
Turns 31 today.
3:02:48
How about that?
3:02:48
Hey, Andre Mackey turns 18 on the 29th.
3:02:52
How about I remember when he was born?
3:02:55
That's crazy.
3:02:56
Mandy Smith wishes her super-duper husband, Big
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Smitty, a happy one for September 5th.
3:03:01
Also added to the list, Augusto Andreoli.
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Tomorrow, Sir Matthew, happy birthday to Sabrina Contreras
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tomorrow.
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And also happy birthday to Jared Bane and
3:03:12
Wesley D.
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Stewart III.
3:03:14
Happy birthday from everybody here at the best
3:03:16
podcast in the universe.
3:03:19
And now it's time, ladies and gentlemen, to
3:03:21
roll them all out.
3:03:24
All hail to the Secretary Generals, cause they
3:03:28
are the ones who need hailing.
3:03:31
All hail to the Secretary Generals on the
3:03:35
No Agenda Show.
3:03:39
Yeah, baby.
3:03:40
We congratulate Sir Paul, Secretary General of Alpenthal
3:03:43
at Snoqualmie.
3:03:46
Sir Commodore SX-64, Secretary General of Lake
3:03:49
Granger area at Milam County.
3:03:52
And Augusto Andreoli, Secretary General of Sao Polo.
3:03:55
These are your brand new Secretary Generals who
3:03:58
receive an official proclamation, which soon will be
3:04:02
available at noagendarings.com.
3:04:04
Please, all hail to the Secretary Generals of
3:04:08
the No Agenda Show.
3:04:09
They deserve your respect and to always be
3:04:13
addressed with the honorable Secretary General of wherever
3:04:18
they are from.
3:04:24
Come on, man.
3:04:25
How about that jingle?
3:04:27
Where'd that come from?
3:04:29
What do you mean, where'd it come from?
3:04:30
Our producers, of course.
3:04:31
We got the best producers.
3:04:32
That's a dynamite jingle.
3:04:33
That tops it.
3:04:34
We got the best producers in the universe,
3:04:36
man.
3:04:36
Well, that guy, whoever did that, you should
3:04:38
credit.
3:04:40
Well, that is a very good question.
3:04:42
Hold on.
3:04:42
I should.
3:04:43
Hold on a second.
3:04:44
Guy goes through all his work.
3:04:46
We take all the credit.
3:04:48
Thank you very much.
3:04:48
We appreciate what you did.
3:04:50
And now I...
3:04:51
Oh, here it is.
3:04:51
Jeff Woodward.
3:04:52
There we go.
3:04:53
Jeff Woodward.
3:04:54
Jeff Woodward is an awesome dude.
3:04:58
All right.
3:04:59
We have a dame and a couple of
3:05:00
knives.
3:05:00
That is very...
3:05:01
That is...
3:05:01
It's great.
3:05:02
Ten pointer.
3:05:03
That is as good as it gets.
3:05:05
That is.
3:05:05
All right.
3:05:06
Grab your blade.
3:05:06
We got some knightings and dames.
3:05:07
Yeah, I got one right here.
3:05:08
Hey!
3:05:10
Actually, the dame is Shona in a woof
3:05:13
-woof.
3:05:13
And Paul of Bellevue, Washington.
3:05:15
Commodore SX-64.
3:05:17
And Hank, hop up on the podium.
3:05:19
All of you supported the No Agenda Show
3:05:21
in the amount of $1,000 or more.
3:05:23
Therefore, I am very proud to pronounce the
3:05:24
KV as dame Shona, the protector of Katrina
3:05:28
survivors.
3:05:29
Sir Tall Paul.
3:05:31
Sir Commodore SX-64.
3:05:33
And Sir Hank Itami.
3:05:35
For you, we have hookers and blow, ring
3:05:37
poise and chardonnay.
3:05:39
Not to forget, mega-sized cup of grapefruit
3:05:41
sour along with a bowl of cookies and
3:05:43
cream ice cream.
3:05:44
We've got redheads and ryes.
3:05:46
We've got sparkling cider, escorts, ginger ale and
3:05:49
gerbils.
3:05:50
Of course, we always have the mutton and
3:05:52
the mead here for you.
3:05:53
All of you, including the dog, dame Shona.
3:05:56
Head over to NoAgendaRings.com.
3:05:58
Please let us know exactly what ring size
3:06:00
you are expecting.
3:06:01
We'll send it off to you.
3:06:02
It's a signet ring.
3:06:03
Throw in a couple of sticks of wax,
3:06:05
real sealing wax, so that you can seal
3:06:07
your important correspondence with it.
3:06:09
And as always, a certificate of authenticity from
3:06:11
your Uncle Boomers, Adam and John, here at
3:06:14
the No Agenda Show.
3:06:15
Welcome to the Roundtable.
3:06:16
No Agenda Meetups.
3:06:21
No Agenda Meetups.
3:06:25
Well, you heard it earlier.
3:06:26
Connection is protection.
3:06:27
You definitely get that at your No Agenda
3:06:29
Meetups.
3:06:29
You can find them all at NoAgendaMeetups.com.
3:06:31
On Saturday, the flight of the No Agenda
3:06:33
No.
3:06:34
66.
3:06:35
This is 3.33 p.m. in the
3:06:37
Sanctuary Zone at the HMS Bounty in Los
3:06:41
Angeles, California.
3:06:42
Leo Bravo hosting that.
3:06:43
He's one of the longest Meetup hosters in,
3:06:46
I think, No Agenda history.
3:06:48
Also on Saturday, the No Agenda Central Ohio
3:06:50
Meetup at 5.30 at Jackie O's in
3:06:52
Columbus, Ohio.
3:06:53
And on Sunday, our next show day, the
3:06:55
annual South Jersey Pig Roast Meetup, 5 o
3:06:57
'clock.
3:06:57
That will be at Dam Wend's house in
3:07:00
Medford Lakes, New Jersey.
3:07:02
So you do have to RSVP because it's
3:07:04
somebody's home.
3:07:06
Dam, Dam Wend.
3:07:07
Dam Wend.
3:07:08
Maybe it's Dame.
3:07:09
I would have to say Dame Wend's house.
3:07:13
Yes.
3:07:13
You know, Jay is slipping.
3:07:15
She missed two birthdays.
3:07:16
They got spelling.
3:07:18
Is this because Brennan lost his job?
3:07:19
She's all freaked out or what's going on?
3:07:22
I register a complaint.
3:07:24
I will pass it along.
3:07:26
Please do.
3:07:28
She's so sweet.
3:07:29
She's so good.
3:07:30
But we got to be strict.
3:07:31
Spanking is back in.
3:07:33
Coming up in September.
3:07:34
Madison, Alabama.
3:07:35
Houston, Texas.
3:07:36
Hof Dorp in the Netherlands.
3:07:37
South Slocan.
3:07:39
British Columbia.
3:07:39
Keyport, New Jersey.
3:07:40
Oakland, California.
3:07:41
Tilburg, the Netherlands.
3:07:42
And remember, October 11th, the big Fredericksburg, Texas
3:07:45
Meetup.
3:07:46
We're looking forward to seeing all of you
3:07:47
there.
3:07:48
Find the No Agenda Meetups at thenoagendameetups.com.
3:07:51
Calendar if you can't find one near you.
3:07:53
Start one yourself.
3:07:54
Easy and always a party.
3:08:13
Yeah, baby.
3:08:16
Big, big, big party.
3:08:17
Remember, send me those Meetup reports.
3:08:19
We don't get them often enough.
3:08:21
Seems like you only have one ISO here.
3:08:24
I have one ISO.
3:08:25
You want to keep that for the end?
3:08:26
I got three.
3:08:27
You want to keep it for the end?
3:08:28
Yeah, I'll give you three.
3:08:29
Okay.
3:08:30
They're just Durga Durga Mohammed Jihad.
3:08:32
Durga Durga Durga Durga.
3:08:35
I'm sorry.
3:08:36
Here's another one.
3:08:37
Good job, guys.
3:08:39
It's not too bad.
3:08:40
Nice and clear.
3:08:41
Or this one.
3:08:41
Where the hell are these guys getting all
3:08:42
of this?
3:08:44
Those are my three entrants for end of
3:08:46
show ISO.
3:08:48
Well, those are all three good ones, actually.
3:08:50
Thank you.
3:08:50
Especially the one.
3:08:52
Let's play that first one again.
3:08:53
They're just Durga Durga Mohammed Jihad.
3:08:55
Durga Durga Durga Durga.
3:08:57
Got nothing to do with anything.
3:08:59
No, that's why I like it so much.
3:09:01
That's really good, though.
3:09:02
Yeah.
3:09:02
I just have a clip from a Hank
3:09:04
Harrison New King of the Hill show.
3:09:06
Oh, here we go.
3:09:07
I don't believe this.
3:09:08
They're lying on the news.
3:09:10
Okay.
3:09:11
I like that one.
3:09:12
I think you win.
3:09:13
You knew it.
3:09:14
That's why you only had one.
3:09:15
He's like, it's a shoo-in and it's
3:09:16
not even AI.
3:09:18
That is it, everybody.
3:09:19
Are you standing by for John's tip of
3:09:21
the day?
3:09:21
He's ready to roll for you.
3:09:28
With JCD and sometimes Adam.
3:09:33
Okay.
3:09:34
So this is a screwball tip because I
3:09:37
came across it because I'm reading somebody's substack
3:09:40
column and they sell this stuff.
3:09:42
And I said, this is interesting.
3:09:44
So I looked into it.
3:09:45
And then I got irked by the fact
3:09:47
that they're selling this stuff at like three
3:09:49
times what you can buy it for any
3:09:50
place in the world.
3:09:52
And so I got a little annoyed.
3:09:54
But I looked at this as a product.
3:09:56
This is a sugar, sugar, sugar, sugar, sugar,
3:10:00
sugar, sugar, sugar substitute.
3:10:08
That is looks to be safe.
3:10:11
Not toxic.
3:10:14
And people should look this up, do your
3:10:16
own research, but look this stuff up.
3:10:17
You can buy it.
3:10:18
Everybody makes it because there's about three or
3:10:21
four factories here and there that produce it.
3:10:23
It's produced from, there's a natural occurring substance
3:10:27
that you can also extract from fructose.
3:10:30
So it's a factory made product the way
3:10:32
I see it.
3:10:33
And it's called allulose, A-L-L-O,
3:10:38
I'm sorry, A-L-L-U-L-O
3:10:43
-S-E, A-L-L-U-L-O
3:10:46
-S-E.
3:10:49
And I'll read from the Google here.
3:10:53
It's a rare natural sugar found in small
3:10:57
quantities in certain fruits, like figs, for example,
3:10:59
have this stuff and raisins for some reason.
3:11:03
It offers the sweetness of fructose, yet is
3:11:06
metabolically distinct.
3:11:09
It does not affect glucose or insulin levels
3:11:13
in any way, shape or form.
3:11:15
And so it's neutral on the body and
3:11:18
has no calories, basically.
3:11:20
It's got really like a point something calories.
3:11:22
And it tastes just like sugar, exactly the
3:11:25
same.
3:11:26
But this is not a chemical?
3:11:28
It's some kind of extract?
3:11:30
It's actually, it's the C3 epimer of fructose.
3:11:37
So it's a chemical like sucrose, they're all
3:11:43
chemicals at the end of the day.
3:11:44
You go ahead and you eat that.
3:11:46
I'll just have sugar.
3:11:48
Yeah, you can have your sugar, which is
3:11:50
a chemical, by the way, if you haven't
3:11:53
noticed.
3:11:53
Sugar is a chemical?
3:11:55
Yeah, of course it is.
3:11:56
It's sucrose.
3:11:57
Well, how about cane sugar?
3:12:00
It's derived, it's extracted at a refinery.
3:12:04
How about if I just stick a sugar
3:12:06
cane into something I want sweetened?
3:12:09
Is that okay?
3:12:09
That would be fine.
3:12:10
Or you could do what I like to
3:12:12
do, which is use maple syrup.
3:12:14
I love doing that for everything.
3:12:17
Do you know what I do with my
3:12:18
maple syrup?
3:12:19
When I make salmon, and we get salmon
3:12:23
special from somebody who's actually getting it from
3:12:26
somewhere that's not from some farm.
3:12:28
So we have it only once a month,
3:12:30
maybe.
3:12:31
So I will drizzle a little bit of
3:12:33
maple syrup on the top, and then I
3:12:36
will put on lemon pepper.
3:12:39
And then I do 12 minutes at 390
3:12:41
in the oven.
3:12:42
And then five, because it's big pieces, five
3:12:44
minutes under the broiler 500.
3:12:47
Oh, man.
3:12:48
And then that maple syrup, it just comes
3:12:50
to life.
3:12:51
And that's your recipe for overcooked salmon.
3:12:55
Now, going back to this tip of the
3:12:58
day, this is a, you do not pay
3:13:02
more.
3:13:02
This is not a cheap product.
3:13:04
That's why you don't see it in Diet
3:13:05
Coke or anything.
3:13:06
So it's about $10 a pound.
3:13:09
Do not pay more than $10 a pound.
3:13:11
You should be able to get it even
3:13:12
cheaper if you buy it in bulk.
3:13:14
Do not pay over $10 a pound, which
3:13:16
you're just getting ripped off if that's the
3:13:17
case.
3:13:18
But it's called Elulose.
3:13:20
That's the tip of the day as a
3:13:21
sugar substitute.
3:13:22
That is actually probably a good product.
3:13:25
There you go, everybody.
3:13:26
This is John's tip of the day.
3:13:27
Find them all at tipoftheday.net.
3:13:45
And that concludes our broadcast day with that
3:13:49
fine tip of the day from John.
3:13:51
And my tip for overcooked salmon.
3:13:53
I don't think so.
3:13:54
These are big pieces.
3:13:55
I do not overcook my salmon.
3:13:56
Well, they're big giant, I guess.
3:13:58
They're big giant pieces.
3:14:00
Big giant, giant.
3:14:01
We don't miss Texas, man.
3:14:02
We don't mess around.
3:14:04
Hey, stay tuned to noagendastream.com because, you
3:14:08
know, John doesn't like trollroom.io. For the
3:14:12
DH Unplugged podcast, I have not heard this
3:14:15
episode.
3:14:15
It's titled, Jackson Holy.
3:14:18
Well, that promises to be interesting.
3:14:22
And we shall be listening for that.
3:14:25
Also, end of show mix is classic from
3:14:28
a friend who we haven't heard from in
3:14:30
a long time, Sir Chris from Down Under.
3:14:33
And brand new from Sir Joe Joho.
3:14:37
Sir Joho singing about the British flag protest.
3:14:40
Coming to you from the heart of the
3:14:42
Texas hill country, right here in Fredericksburg, Texas.
3:14:46
In the morning, everybody.
3:14:47
I'm Adam Curry.
3:14:48
And from northern Silicon Valley, where we advocate
3:14:50
for bingit.io. I'm John C.
3:14:53
Dvorak.
3:14:53
We return on Sunday.
3:14:55
Please join us then for more media deconstruction.
3:14:58
And remember us at noagendadonations.com.
3:15:00
Until then, adios, mofos, hui hui, and such.
3:15:09
Well, I've watched TV with Danny LaRue, who
3:15:13
dressed for his own pleasure.
3:15:16
And we all saw Decathlon Bruce become Miss
3:15:20
Caitlyn Jenner.
3:15:22
I've never been to a White House ball
3:15:25
sponsored by Big Pharma.
3:15:29
Or invited to a party that was hosted
3:15:33
by Michelle Obama.
3:15:36
Social justice moves too fast for me.
3:15:45
Homophobia is the place to be.
3:15:51
What is a woman's now up for debate?
3:15:56
They say they're not gay, they're definitely not
3:16:01
straight.
3:16:03
Use the right pronouns, or you'll feel the
3:16:07
hate.
3:16:09
That's why the lady is a trance.
3:16:15
Male pattern baldness is under those coats.
3:16:21
Looks like a drag queen in ermine and
3:16:25
pearls.
3:16:27
Can't quite fit in with the rest of
3:16:31
the girls.
3:16:33
That's why the lady is a trance.
3:16:38
She's got that excess bodily hair.
3:16:44
Something down there.
3:16:47
To choke a bloke from California with a
3:16:54
fake neoclan.
3:16:57
That's why the lady is a trance.
3:17:06
Wave it high, wave valence, what's inside?
3:17:20
Don't wanna see slags of pride and unity.
3:17:25
Commies frown and rulers glare, but we still
3:17:30
raise them in the air.
3:17:33
Pushed and bullied, still we stand.
3:18:09
We're still Rossi.
3:19:40
The best podcast in the universe.
3:19:44
Adios, mofo.
3:19:45
Dvorak.org slash NA.
3:19:49
I don't believe this, they're lying on the
3:19:52
news.