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Hello!
Hello!
Adam Curry.
John C.
Dvorak.
It's Sunday, December 28th, 2025.
This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media
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In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And from Brothers Silicon Valley, we hope everybody
had a happy Christmas.
I'm John C.
Dvorak.
In the morning...
Yeah, merry Christmas.
We already went through this.
Happy Christmas.
That's what the British say, by the way.
They say happy Christmas.
Happy Christmas to you.
So what's wrong with happy Christmas?
We already went through this on the Christmas
show.
There's nothing wrong with it.
It's just un-American.
What's so American about merry?
That's just what we do.
We do merry Christmas.
I think we do merry holidays.
I just brought the old joke back.
Yeah, yeah, I know.
I know.
But, you know, I hear people saying it
in the shops.
Merry New Year's.
Okay, I'm going with that.
I'll go with that.
Happy holidays.
I don't want to offend everybody.
Happy holidays.
Happy holidays.
Did you say, who was it that just
posted a video about Kwanzaa?
It was a newsome.
Whatever happened to Kwanzaa?
Kwanzaa used to be great.
They're pushing it.
They're pushing the Kwanzaa on us again, John.
Yeah, I didn't notice a lot of people
celebrating Hanukkah this year.
Borowitz did.
Oh, yeah, no, the Jews celebrated, but they
didn't post about it because it's not worth
it.
It's not worth the aggravation.
It's not worth the aggravation, exactly.
Actually, that's a good point.
You're right.
I didn't hear too many.
It's usually Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas, and now
they just dropped to Hanukkah.
Yeah, I mean, we had a menorah art
that we didn't post out of fear, out
of fear for backlash.
I don't know if it was out of
fear for backlash, but it could have been.
I blame Nick Fuentes.
Yeah, he's definitely partially responsible.
It's the punk rock podcasters, man.
That's what they do.
Rock against religion.
Look at us.
We're so bold.
I expect him to put a safety pin
through his ear pretty soon.
I don't see that.
I've been studying this guy.
He's not to extol the virtues of Nick
Fuentes, but I'll say this.
I think he's a consummate pro.
If you can listen to him for three
hours, he never flubs.
He never says uh.
He never says um.
I heard him say um once.
Oh, wow.
He never says uh.
He never says um.
He doesn't stammer.
He doesn't stutter.
He doesn't stammer like I do.
Well, if he can run the board, then
there you go.
I can retire you and Nick Fuentes can
do the show.
I'm happy.
He uses an EV20 and knows how to
use it correctly.
He's got an EV20 and knows how to
work it.
He's got a terrific voice that's very understandable.
He is unbelievably talented.
I think he's the best podcaster working right
now, even though I think he's controversial.
Wait a minute.
We're the best podcast in the universe.
No, I'm talking about an individual, one of
those guys who does the solos.
Solo guy.
Solo guy.
Okay.
No, he's the best podcast.
We're the best podcast.
Hello.
Yes, he's the best soliloquist.
He's really unbelievable.
He's a white, and he's not a white
supremacist.
He's a white pride, and I consider that
different.
But anyway, this is beside the point.
He's also tricky.
No, he's very tricky.
He's the one that nobody can figure out.
Everybody else kind of knows what these other
folks are doing.
I can figure this guy out.
I know.
Do you want to roll right into it,
or do you want to do African news?
We have African news.
We have so much African news, it hurts.
I'm going to push the Fuentes thing until
we get to African news next.
I could have put a presentation together.
I have three clips just to show you
how he operates, how he does his thing.
He's so good.
But to give you a briefing, right now
he has gone hard against J.D. Vance.
Oh.
Well, wait a minute.
That is what most people are shilling for
in the North Sea Nexus podosphere.
Yeah.
They all want J.D. to be the
next president.
Even if it hurts Trump, J.D., J
.D. Okay.
He's hard against Vance, but he's going to
prove his worth, he thinks, or he hopes,
because he's going to go extremely hard in
2026 against Vivek Ramaswamy.
Who cares?
Well, he's testing himself with Vivek.
Well, do you want to do these clips
or not?
Yeah, I'm going to do the clips.
I'm just trying to give you a briefing
on the background, because what happened was— Briefing
on background.
Briefing on background.
So he called Vance's wife a jeet.
Oh, man.
Which I didn't even know what that meant.
I had to look it up and do
a little research.
It's awesome.
So he calls her a jeet.
So Vance comes out, and as vice president
of the United States, tells him to eat
shit.
You can talk about your wife.
No one really cares about your wife.
No, wait.
I have to set this clip.
You gave me a clear, audible clue.
I said it in such a way that
I could see you.
But let me finish.
How long have we been doing this?
Too long.
Yeah.
And you are correct on that last cue.
But he does—I'm going to give you a
three-parter here.
This is a classic Nick Fuentes.
Part one, he starts you off by creating
a doubt in your mind, and then he
does his long soliloquy, and then he does
a follow-up, which is even better.
This guy is slick.
Here we go.
You can talk about your wife.
No one really cares about your wife.
No one cares about any of that.
We want to know, are we getting an
immigration moratorium?
Will you restrain Israel?
And what the fuck does Peter Thiel have
on you?
And what is your relationship with him and
Elon?
That's what we want to know.
You can save the bitching about your wife.
No one cares about your wife.
Okay, she's pretty.
She's gorgeous.
Your kids look great.
Whatever.
No one cares.
Okay, you did the tough guy shtick.
You stood by your woman.
Good for you.
Now, we want to know.
And we want to know because this guy
is being foisted upon us.
I've never seen anything like this ever.
Well, you're only 12, so it doesn't surprise
me.
Well, he has seen this before.
This is the key to his presentation.
He starts off with what I would consider
a false premise to put a little piece
of doubt in the mind and open the
mind of the listener so he can then
rant at them.
Well, yeah.
But the way he describes it, he's never
seen anyone just foisted on us ever.
Did Barack Obama come to mind?
There's a guy who came out of nowhere.
Next thing you know, he's president of the
United States.
That doesn't come to mind.
Clinton came out of Arkansas, out of the
blue.
He was literally 12.
Well, maybe he was, but the point is
that he sets you up.
Yeah.
Because Hillary Clinton's another one out of the
blue.
Who hasn't come out of the blue except
Reagan?
John, this is the perfect Zuma Waffen rage
bait where you talk about Israel, Palantir.
You like Zuma Waffen?
I do.
Thank you.
The Zuma Waffen.
That is our new term.
The Zuma Waffen, yes.
He is part of the Zuma Waffen.
Okay, so he's opened you up just a
little bit, just enough to do the rant,
which is the long part.
This is like in journalism, this would be
the nut graph, only he makes it really
long.
And he usually repeats things three times in
different ways, much like a broadcaster, like a
Jim Rome or anybody.
He's very professional at this.
Limbaugh used to do the same thing.
I put him in that category, and here
he goes.
I've never seen anything like this, ever.
First of all, this administration's not doing so
hot.
Let's get that straight.
The war in Ukraine is still going on.
The war in the Middle East is about
to get started again.
We don't have mass deportations.
We don't have a wall.
The economy's not going so great.
Epstein files just came out because Congress made
you release them.
And yet everyone is telling us already you
got to vote for J.D. Vance.
Well, time out.
This administration's not going well, and he's the
vice president.
We're not even a year in.
They already want us voting in the next
one.
Think about how crazy that is.
It's not even a year in.
It is 2025 still, and they've already got
us thinking, oh, we've got to vote in
2028.
It's 2025.
Oh, I'll be 14.
And you suck.
This administration sucks.
So not only do you already want us
thinking about the next one, this one isn't
even going well.
You think we're ready for more?
We're not even finished with this, and this
is a pile of shit.
We've been eating shit for a year, and
they're ready to blow through any kind of
a primary.
Trump has been on the ballot three times.
It's unprecedented in modern history that you have
something like this.
Trump was on the ballot in 16, 20,
24.
28 is the first Republican election since 2012
that Trump was not on the ballot.
It should be wide open for us to
decide where we're going to go after this.
And not only are they telling us, well,
you've got to get ready to vote again
in the next cycle.
They're telling us a decision has been made
already.
It's Vance.
Turning Point is telling us.
Tucker is telling us.
Elon is telling us.
Everyone is already telling us Vance is the
guy.
No one chills J.D. Vance more than
Tucker Carlson, and that's really weird.
Turning Point, Erica, has crowned Vance the next
president.
They've all crowned him next president.
Who even is this guy?
You're right.
Not a single or.
And he'll never.
He doesn't.
He's unbelievable.
And he just picks one one topic.
I mean, this is.
You know, in a way, he's he has
a limbo type quality to him, too.
No limbo is definitely in the mix.
You know, I would throw him back.
I would say that if this guy was
if back in the day, he's like he's
like a 50s Democrat in his mentality.
Archie Bunker.
Yes, he's Archie Bunker.
But without without with more with a Republican
slant.
Yeah.
But it's like he has he would have
he would have been Edward R.
Murrow.
I'm totally convinced of it.
Yeah.
And you'd have the Fuentes Awards.
You'd be getting.
Oh, yeah.
Did you get you're up for the Fuentes?
No, I didn't get a Fuentes this year.
I guess.
What kind of spick name is that?
So he has a.
So he has the chops.
And so so he finishes.
That was the net graph.
So he goes after the guy and then
and then to top it, the little icing
on the cake is at the end in
this third part when he does these things
in triples, which is the way to go.
He he just throws in some discrepant facts
to confuse you further.
And they're all explainable.
But the way he way he pieces them
in and this is the third and last
clip.
It's just it's just a bunch of rando
things that are just, oh, yeah, there's something.
There's something wrong.
Here we go.
Before he was VP, he was a senator
for two years.
Before that, he was a never Trumper.
Before that, his name wasn't even Vance.
It was Hamel.
He didn't even start going by Vance until
2014.
Who even is this guy?
So not only do they want us.
OK, this administration blows.
Get ready to vote for the next one.
And we already have a nominee, even though
it's the first time in 16 years we're
going to have a wide open primary.
And it's going to be this guy that
no one even knows who he is.
And if you don't like that, well, you're
a problem to be eliminated, which is effectively
what they've told me.
It's good.
Yeah, it's entertaining.
Oh, he's very entertaining.
He's super entertaining.
Yeah.
And he's funny.
He does bits.
He does schtick.
And the thing is, he's not wrong about
Vance.
He's not wrong about TPUSA and Tucker and
others.
And, yeah, he's exactly right about, well, this
was Peter Thiel's guy.
And, of course, we know that Peter Thiel
is responsible for killing us.
I mean, that's obvious.
Palantir.
Palantir.
Gaza.
Killing people.
Even though we know how weak Palantir really
is.
Stuff doesn't really work.
He doesn't have the North Sea nexus down.
No, he needs that.
He needs that.
He's got kind of a slickness to him
and professionalism that is so high-end that
it's as though he had some training.
Somebody had to have trained him.
I don't think so.
I don't think so.
I don't know.
You can be a natural, and I've seen
it, but this guy's over the top when
it comes to if he's a natural.
Anyway.
Definitely, people should check him out.
Luckily, the Algos picked up a new hero
on the scene, which I hope you saw
it, because your algorithm on X is probably
still crazy women.
Yeah.
And now I'm getting a lot of cooking
videos.
Cheese.
Just put some cheese.
Oh, look at that nice melted cheese.
Everything.
I've got fudge with cheese.
I'm beginning to think these are done by
the Dairy Council.
Well, we have a new hero, Nick Shirley.
Nick Shirley was dominating the Algos, for me
at least, and for Tina and for other
people.
Like, have you seen this guy?
Nick Shirley has been going around Minneapolis to
all of the child care and health care
facilities run by Somalians.
Nick Shirley's not a new actor.
He's been doing this sort of thing for
quite a while.
That's not what I said.
I said we have a new hero.
He's a new hero.
He's a new hero.
It's funny you say this, because who just
told me about Nick Shirley the same way
you're, like, doing now to the audience?
My wife Mimi calls.
Have you seen this guy, Nick Shirley?
So it's like, yes.
Yes, he's a hero.
A list of all of the health care
companies.
Loads of them right here.
We want health care.
Yes, we'd like to speak about getting health
care here.
Why can't I get health care here?
This is the strangest place I've ever been
to get health care.
Just a bunch of different places.
Health care here.
Health care right here.
Another health care company right here.
There are three health care companies inside of
this building right here in this room of
7C.
Now we have another Helping Hands.
Home Care LLC.
Another health care company.
Present Help right here.
We're looking for the best rates of health
care here inside this building, because we have
so many options.
Who can we talk about getting the best
health care?
I don't know.
No?
Sorry.
All right.
We will not get any health care here.
David, this is one of the stranger places
I've ever been.
Literally, health care every door you go to,
yet nobody will give you a rate.
How much money do you think has been
funneled through this building?
Every year, I would say 50 to 60
million at least.
This is what you wanted.
No one's talking about this.
And, of course, the mainstream media is still
not talking about it.
It's astonishing to me that the mainstream media
has avoided this topic like the plague.
Well, because it will make so many Democrats
look bad.
That's the only thing I can come up
with.
I don't see any other reason besides the
fact that Trump, you know, whatever, Trump, the
quad screens are all Trump and Zelensky this
morning.
I have clips on that.
I'm getting close to my – I'm going
to be able to do Zelensky.
Really?
You want to give it a shot?
You want to give it a shot?
No, I know, because it's one of those
things that's funny about trying to do voices.
You do the same thing with your Ruta.
Ruta, yes.
You need a trigger.
Okay.
And my trigger is a phrase that I
lost a copy of.
What's the phrase that pays, John?
I can't remember.
If I hear it, I can do it
and go right into it, but I can't.
So it's coming.
It's coming for the 2026 season.
So I have a couple of different outlets
regarding the strike on Nigeria.
All of them get one thing right.
None of them have the full story, which
is, I mean, not really surprising, of course.
Let's start with the BBC.
President Trump has been making some bold claims
following the Christmas Day strikes he ordered against
the Islamic State group in northwest Nigeria.
Like the attacks on Iran's nuclear sites earlier
this year, Mr. Trump has declared that the
U.S. military has decimated its targets, in
this case, IS camps.
It's not yet clear how many people were
killed, but U.S. and Nigerian officials said
that fighters were among the dead.
The Nigerians said that there were no civilian
casualties.
Mr. Trump told the Politico news website that
the operation, which was agreed with the Nigerian
military, was planned for Wednesday, but he chose
to delay by a day so he could
give the IS fighters a Christmas present, as
he put it.
I love the Christmas present line.
Here's NBC.
Oh, Nat Pops.
Yeah, see, BBC, you're boring.
You got to spice it up.
You got to get missile launches.
You got to get war sounds.
Your reports are no good.
Tonight, the first images of American missiles launching
from a U.S. Navy ship, killing multiple
Islamist militants in Nigeria, according to the president,
who posted about the surprise Christmas Day attack
after repeatedly warning terror groups that if the
slaughter of Christians did not stop, there would
be hell to pay.
And I'm going to jump into that one
particular little psyop in a moment.
Nigeria's government now confirming it worked directly with
the United States to carry out the mission.
But the foreign minister also pushing back against
President Trump's claim that Christians alone are being
targeted by the Islamic State.
This is not about religion.
It is about Nigerians, innocent civilians and the
wider region as a whole.
The strikes come just one day after the
president thanked U.S. troops on Christmas Eve
for last week's attack against ISIS in Syria.
It was a big attack and you really
did a big job.
I know you will continue to show no
mercy.
You can't show mercy because they show no
mercy to us.
In recent weeks, the U.S. military has
launched strikes against ISIS targets in Nigeria, Syria
and Somalia, seized oil tankers off Venezuela and
earlier this year hit Iranian Revolutionary Guard positions
inside Iran.
Back in Florida, President Trump is expected to
host President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday.
The Ukrainian leader announcing today the two will
discuss security guarantees and saying a U.S.
negotiated peace deal with Russia is now 90
percent ready.
Even as the Kremlin continues to hammer Ukraine,
launching new strikes through Christmas.
So every report was like this.
Every single report was like, well, Trump said
it was Christians.
The Nigerian said it's not.
But they all missed what this what's really
going on here.
So first the PSYOP.
This has been going on for well over
a year, maybe longer.
They're killing Christians in Nigeria.
They're killing Christians in Nigeria.
I obviously was interested.
And when you go and look, they're actually
killing more Muslims than Christians in Nigeria.
The so-called ISIS fighters.
But when I saw the news of the
strikes, let me see the northwest.
Do you just off the top of your
head, do you know where Boko Haram operates?
The northeast, the northeast.
Exactly.
So why is he shooting missiles at the
northwest?
Well, the answer came to us with the
gold price on Friday, which skyrocketed along with
silver.
But also you might want to take a
look at lithium.
What what was bombed or what was targeted,
whatever you want to call it, were the
the rebel groups who are protecting the illegal
mining operations.
Nigeria themselves hate this because they're losing out
on probably $10 billion a year easy on
mining of gold and lithium.
And who do you think buys all that
gold and lithium?
China.
This is a move against China.
This is a move against the rare earths.
There's a whole bunch of benefits.
One, Christians go, yeah, Trump.
I'm sorry to tell you, fellow brothers and
sisters, that's not the primary reason for this
attack.
If the reason at all, this is only
about minerals and natural resources that Nigeria has,
that China is getting on the cheap.
It's to cut them off.
That's all that it is.
Complete gold mining and lithium, big on lithium.
And I'm not quite sure exactly how silver
fits into it, but, you know, silver has
been kind of manipulated for 40, 50 years,
I guess.
But that's what happened.
And you saw the spike in price right
away.
So none of this has and no one's
talking about it.
I don't understand.
Are they all working for China?
They don't want to say it.
I think there is an element of that.
Now that you mention it, there are some
Chinese influencers and in the media.
There's no doubt about that.
And I will say this.
I watched Al Jazeera's report on this.
Do you have a clip?
And they said they did not.
And they had three guys, one guy from
the Council on Foreign Relations, all black guys
from Africa and all experts.
And they were pretty good.
And they said, no, it's bullcrap.
This is religious.
He says, and the reason they're killing all
the Muslims and the Christians and anybody else
is because it's an Islamist group.
Two parts of the country, these Islamists mostly,
and that's that.
And to say it's not religious is bullcrap.
They also said that the Nigerian people are
happy that the United States got involved and
started bombing the place.
And the government thought it was great.
And the government invited them to do it.
So that kind of flies in the face
of what everyone might want to think.
But I think you're totally correct.
Totally.
Hello.
Hello.
He said it.
What happened?
You can't argue.
That's what we do.
And any chance we have to cut China
off at the knees, even though Trump doesn't
get a lot of credit for it from
any corner.
No.
It's always a good thing.
And there was a second shoe that dropped
on this.
Hold on a second.
I have it here.
Where was it?
No, I'll find that.
Hold on.
Let me just listen to CBS.
Let's see what they had to say.
Do they have a nut pop?
The U.S. military fired more than a
dozen Tomahawk cruise missiles at ISIS targets in
Nigeria.
And why are they even calling him ISIS?
I mean, isn't that supposed to be in
the savant?
I have no idea.
This is just branding for some reason.
Just call him ISIS.
That might be it.
Yeah, branding.
The U.S. military fired more than a
dozen Tomahawk cruise missiles at ISIS targets in
Nigeria.
And the timing was deliberate, President Trump told
a radio interviewer.
They said hit them on Christmas Day.
It'll be a Christmas present.
We hit ISIS.
It was terrible.
They're butchers.
People could be seen carrying debris away from
one target site.
The Pentagon's initial assessment indicated multiple ISIS militants
were killed.
Trump warned last month the U.S. would
go into Nigeria with guns a-blazing if
the government failed to protect Christians from ISIS
attacks.
They're killing the Christians and killing them in
very large numbers.
We're not going to allow that to happen.
But Nigeria denied those accusations.
So far this year, nearly 12,000 people
have been killed.
CBS News national security contributor Sam Vinograd.
Violence by insurgent groups, criminals, and others in
Nigeria doesn't just target Christians.
It also targets Muslims.
And where and when these strikes occur will
certainly be scrutinized by analysts to see who
exactly is hit and whether the violence stops.
Nigeria's foreign minister said his government provided the
U.S. military with intelligence before the strikes.
We have been working closely with the Americans,
with other countries, to combat terrorism, to stop
the death of innocent Nigerians.
Both the U.S. and Nigeria have signaled
more strikes could follow.
All right, so it's like a threefer, you
know?
You get one, you get the Christians are
happy.
Yeah, I'm telling you.
Christian broadcast news, you know, all of the
Christian news outlets.
Yeah, they're all jacked.
It's all jacked about this.
And I'm just saying, no, I'm sorry.
I think it's a fourfer.
Give me your threefer and I'll add one
to it.
Okay, so the next one is screw China
out of their resources, which they are not
obtaining in a good way.
I mean, they are in effect sponsoring these
groups.
And for these groups, kidnapping girls, which really
happens more in the northeast, but they've kidnapped
people from churches and from schools in the
northwest.
It's a business model.
It's been that way for decades.
Let's see, anyone of any value there?
Okay, we're going to kidnap and get some
money.
So that's your twofer.
The threefer is the gold price, which I
think benefits the whole stable coin strategy, which
is supposedly going to start around the second
week of January.
And I think maybe a fourth.
Am I at three or four yet?
You're at three.
So somehow the silver thing is funny because
it completely screws everything, particularly solar panels, EVs,
the cheap EVs from China.
I saw like the prices in the U
.S. were $79 at close on Friday, but
in Shanghai, $85.
They're so desperate, and just everyone's trying to
get silver all of a sudden.
Do you have any view on that?
No, not at all.
But I'll tell you the other little extra
bonus is by sending those missiles into that
area, they get to soften up the soil
a little bit, making it easier.
Better mining.
It'd be easier to mine.
Yeah.
Send two extra missiles right here.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
It costs more than dynamite, but it's at
the U.S. taxpayer's expense.
But the lithium, watch the lithium prices.
So it's an interesting time.
There's a lot of interesting things happening, but
no one is reporting on it properly.
They're not even reporting on the Somali scammers.
They don't report on anything.
The media is shot.
So I tried really hard looking for anything
about the redacted documents from the Epstein files.
And as far as I could tell, I
could not find a single M5M resource or
news report that gave us this.
This is just a 30-second YouTuber telling
us.
I'm at justice.gov where all the Epstein
files are being held.
And there's a lot of different files that
have been redacted.
So you can go ahead and scroll down
until you get to a redacted area.
Here's a redacted area right here.
Guess what?
If you want to look at these files,
all you've got to do is copy it
and paste it into Microsoft Word.
And guess what?
All the files are unredacted.
There it is.
So go back to justice.org, find all
those files, and start unredacting before they figure
out how to stop you.
So no one is reporting on that.
And it works?
It's been reported on Fox.
I heard it.
Oh, you did?
Well, I have a feeling we still have
a number of these reporters who are part
of the agency, and they're not allowed to
look at these documents.
I think you're dead on.
Wow.
Again.
What is going on here?
Totally.
It's Christmas after Christmas.
So here, we got into a conversation at
the dinner table about this.
You know, everybody's an expert.
Because when the Doge guys came in, they
fired a bunch of people, and they canceled
a bunch of software licenses.
This would be the gossip mill.
They canceled a bunch of software licenses and
started using the free Adobe Acrobat instead of
the one you pay for.
I like that theory.
Which doesn't redact properly.
Yeah, I like that theory, but no.
My comeback to that was, and nobody could
argue against it, which is, so you don't
think they did this on purpose.
Boom.
Exactly.
I think you're right.
Of course they did this on purpose.
Of course.
That was the whole point.
Absolutely.
Everyone's like, they're so stupid.
No, they're not.
I know they're so stupid.
No, they're not.
They're so stupid as the way to play
it.
That's perfect.
Yes.
And you get all kinds of extra info
and extra ditties that show up.
And most of them are useless, by the
way.
The stuff that I've seen unredacted is junk.
And then my favorite story.
More than one million files, more files potentially
related to dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein have just
surfaced, according to the Justice Department.
I love the term dead pedophile.
Somehow the justice...
The dead pedophile.
Oh, I didn't pick up on that.
It used to be financier.
Now it's the dead pedophile.
Related to dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein have just
surfaced, according to the Justice Department.
They say the new trove originating from the
U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of
New York and the FBI may take, quote,
a few more weeks to comb through and
release to the public.
As the department scrambles to find more volunteer
prosecutors over the holidays to help redact the
newly discovered files.
Now, remember, by law, the Justice Department was
supposed to release everything it had a week
ago today.
So far, we've seen tens of thousands of
documents over a few sporadic releases, including pictures
of former President Bill Clinton, emails that mentioned
Donald Trump's...
President Donald Trump's name on the Epstein jet
flight log and an FBI email exchange that
indicates there are 10 other co-conspirators.
President Trump weighed in with another stim-winding
Christmas tirade, saying he, quote, was actually the
only one who did drop Epstein and long
before it became fashionable to do so.
Trump added the Democrats and some Republicans who
pushed for the release will see their, quote,
friends, mostly innocent, will be badly hurt and
reputationally tarnished.
He then signed off with, enjoy what may
be your last Merry Christmas.
Starting off, I'm sorry, that's just a very
interesting way to end that.
No, he means it.
Hello?
Idiots.
Yes, absolutely.
And these new documents, I have a feeling
they'll also be copyable.
Just, you know, I like JC's theory.
That's, it's cute.
Well, they didn't want to pay for that.
They just used the free Adobe version.
Yeah, that's not how government works at all.
They pay the extra super premium plus they
do.
I got to just throw money away.
This was uncovered, though I did.
I didn't hear about this.
This is from the Canadian broadcast news.
Two years after Canadian Peter Nygaard was convicted
on four counts of sexual assault.
The former fashion mogul is making headlines again,
named in documents released by American officials as
it discloses more files related to Jeffrey Epstein.
Peter Nygaard's name appeared in an April 2020
letter sent by the Department of Justice to
authorities in the UK seeking to interview the
man previously known as Prince Andrew.
The letter reads, in part, the investigation has
revealed that on at least one occasion, Prince
Andrew traveled to Nygaard Key in the Bahamas.
Nygaard Key.
See, this guy had his own island.
This gets interesting.
A location where Nygaard is believed to have
trafficked minor and adult female victims.
I've counseled over around 50 survivors of Peter
Nygaard in the last five years.
And some of them had certainly mentioned seeing
him, seeing the former Prince Andrew at Nygaard
Key in the Bahamas.
So I wasn't surprised.
Two other Canadian women appear in FBI intake
documents accused of grooming potential victims, though not
by name, identified only as a Serbian-Canadian
lingerie model and a French-Canadian aspiring model.
Any piece of evidence has to be confirmed.
You can't assume it to be true.
You can't.
We don't have a conclusion, for instance, that
the president was involved directly in Epstein's crimes.
But there's suspicion.
And that's how investigations work.
The latest release of 30,000 documents, the
most voluminous to date, contained many mentions of
the U.S. president, but did not link
Trump to any of Epstein's crimes.
So let's start with that guy who actually
has been convicted, had his own island.
Prince Andrew was at his island.
But it's Trump.
Let's go back to Trump.
Trump, Trump, Trump.
Meanwhile, there's actual work being done on actual
pedophiles.
Good evening, everybody.
I'm Rup Raj.
We begin with a disturbing case involving prominent
Metro Detroit professionals arrested on child pornography charges.
They include a Detroit-area doctor and attorney
who are both in federal court today.
Let's get live to Fox News' Charlie Lankton
in Detroit with the new details.
And, Charlie, I think you said in the
tease some of these details are so sickening,
so gross, they're hard to even repeat.
In fact, I can't even say some of
this stuff on television.
I'm holding up three of the criminal complaints
against three very prominent, a doctor, a lawyer
and a psychotherapist, all from the Metro Detroit
area.
Why am I yelling?
Well, why not?
But they got caught up in an FBI
sting that actually got them arrested in Toledo.
And what they found when they raided their
houses, 155 images of child porn, including movies
and pictures of the most disgusting things that
you really can think of.
And there may very well be more.
Now, two of the three were in court
today.
Hold on a second.
You know the little neuro-linguistic programming, the
thing you just heard?
Which one?
They're made very well.
Oh, yeah.
Well, there's some, yes.
But it's not, that's not what he was
saying.
This is, there may be very, there may
be well, there may be more.
Yes.
I mean, but what you heard was they
were made well.
Oh, let me listen again.
Things that you really can think of, and
they're made very well.
Oh, I see.
You're thinking high quality.
High quality is what he's saying.
That's the neuro-linguistic programming message.
Wow.
More.
Now, two of the three were in court
today, in federal court behind me, for what's
called a detention hearing, meaning that the feds
thought these people were so bad they should
be denied bond.
One of them said, okay, I'll stay in
jail.
The other one said, let's have a hearing.
The judge said, no, you're staying in jail.
Why?
In part because some of the bad stuff
that came out.
And this is, and I'm really playing this
just to make the point that everyone yelling
about Epstein, they don't really care about the
kids.
They just care about Trump or, you know,
whoever's being blackmailed.
They don't actually care about what's actually happening
to toddlers.
Toddlers.
According to the criminal complaint, encrypted phone messages
showed 45-year-old Joshua Ronenbaum was an
English teacher in Japan who invited 10-
and 12-year-olds to get naked with
him and play with their, well, you get
the message.
The FBI seized his phone, which showed 155
images, including a toddler being sexually molested by
an adult man and numerous conversations discussing his
sexual interest in children.
And then Jeremy Brian Takom, 51 years old,
who lived at the same Palmer Woods address
with Ronenbaum.
The FBI seized his phone that contained an
exchange with an undercover agent, something like this.
Wish we could find a kiddo and have
our way.
Take him to a motel and molest him.
F yes, brother.
Are you free tomorrow?
Any more clips?
Six additional clips were sent showing an adult
man sexually assaulting a toddler.
And finally, Lincoln Erickson, Dr. Erickson, is a
medical doctor who lives in Farmington Hills.
The complaint indicates that he's currently on probation
for domestic violence for an incident in 2024.
His phone indicates he discussed plans to travel
to Thailand to sexually abuse children.
And the details about his friend, who is
a father to a three-year-old who
Erickson allegedly sexually abused, forcing the three-year
-old to perform a sex act.
Where is the outrage?
There's no outrage over this.
Where's the story?
I never heard any of this.
Just came out.
Yeah, no, because it's all bullcrap.
People, you don't care.
You just are sucked up into a swirling
pool of poop of innuendo and QAnon.
Because it was really Q that started this,
if I recall.
And it was the Democrats.
It was all Democrats.
And they were sending kids in wayfared boxes
and kids, kids, kids, everything kids.
Kids in wayfared, that's right.
Yeah, I forgot about that one.
But when actual horrible crime, and these guys
should be killed.
Right, did you do it yet?
Dead.
Dead.
No, I have no problem saying that.
But no, that's not the game.
Israel, Mossad.
What ever happened to Nambla?
They're probably still around.
Nope.
I haven't checked.
I looked them up.
No, they folded.
Oh, they did?
Yep.
Well, then you know what happened.
Yeah, they became Democrat Party members.
I'm sorry.
It's the best I can do.
All right, I'm going to do one little
quick series here just because I predicted it.
However, he hasn't quite said the phrase yet.
But we knew they were coming.
The president saying the collection of ships is
called the Golden Fleet and will become the
quote flagship of the American naval fleet.
Now the Navy has created a website named
after the fleet.
It gives people the opportunity to look at
specs of the ships.
As you know, we're desperately in need of
ships.
Our ships are, some of them have gotten
old and tired and obsolete.
And we're going to go the exact opposite
direction.
The website states the ships will be up
to 880 feet long, reach over 30 knots
and require a crew of anywhere from 650
to 850 people.
The ships will also have hypersonic weapons, state
of the art electric rail guns and high
powered lasers.
U.S. Senator Mark Warner says he disagrees
with the project.
The one thing the Navy had decided didn't
need more big ships because of the threats
from drones.
It needed more small, mobile, faster, deployable ships.
Some Navy officials have estimated the first ship
will cost $10 billion to design and build.
It's a price tag.
Retired Navy admiral and founder of the National
Security Leaders for America, Michael Smith, tells 13
News Now the Navy can't afford.
I just don't know how he's going to
be able to pay for it.
I think if the first part of that
sentence was I'm committed to doubling the Navy's
budget and delivering the Golden Fleet, I think
that would have been a realistic first statement
to make.
The president has also told reporters he expects
the first ships to be built in the
next two and a half years.
Smith also calls that timeline unrealistic.
My concern is with this president, you have
to deliver in the time he's saying.
And so there are going to be so
many mistakes made.
No, no, it's not about mistakes.
It's about one big, huge, corrupt business known
as the military industrial complex, who somehow the
lawmakers and money spenders who hold the purse
strings decided to give even more to the
military industrial complex than President Trump even wanted.
So it's now up to just shy of
a trillion dollars.
But here is what the president also said,
which, of course, didn't make the news.
We'll be discussing the the pay to executives
where they're making 45 and 50 million dollars
a year and not being able to build
quickly.
They're going to make that kind of money.
They have to build quickly.
Again, we make the best equipment in the
world, but they don't make them fast enough.
And we're going to be also discussing dividends.
We want the dividends to go into the
creation of production facilities.
So we'll be talking about all capex dividends
and the pay.
We're also going to be talking about buybacks.
They spend so much money on buyback.
They want to buy back their stock.
I don't want them to buy back their
stock.
I want them to put the money in
plant and equipment so they can build these
planes fast, rapidly, like immediately.
Yeah, exactly.
Stop with your buyback.
Stop enriching people like yourselves and get down
to business.
There's a substacker that's an ex-spook.
He went on about this.
Isn't that an oxymoron, substacker and spook?
Maybe, close to it.
And he made the assertion that they've decided
they're not going to do any of this.
They're going to keep pocketing the money as
best they can.
And they're going to just wait out Trump's
three years.
And they're not going to build one ship.
You're never going to see a ship out
of this deal.
Well, we'll see.
You know, he's doing the same with the
insurance companies.
He had another stand up with all the
drug manufacturers, going to make them cheap, going
to make them cheaper.
It'll be cheaper for us, but it won't
be $88.
But I guess it's going to have to
even out between other countries.
But then another thing that wasn't really discussed
was this.
I'm going to call a meeting.
It could be in Florida this coming week
or it could be back in the White
House the first week, not the second or
third week.
I'm going to call a meeting of the
big insurance companies that have gotten so rich
by receiving money and really much far, far
more money than they're entitled to.
And I have a feeling maybe if they
would act like these incredible, brilliant, responsible citizens
behind me, people that love our country.
And they love the world.
I mean, frankly, they love these are international
companies for the most part.
I'm going to call a meeting of the
insurance companies.
I'm going to see if they get their
price down, to put it very bluntly.
And I think that is a very big
statement.
And what happened here is the biggest statement
of all, because nobody thought a thing like
this was possible.
So where are all the Luigi fans?
Yeah, this is great.
This is what Luigi is going to jail
for.
No, no.
Nick Fuentes is great.
Candace, she's just asking questions.
That's the best part.
Just asking questions.
Just asking questions.
No, Zuma Waffen, you are welcome here at
the No Agenda Show.
We'll help you understand what's really going on
in your world.
The information is out there.
You're just being lured away by shiny objects,
trinkets, to go and watch something else.
And that's something else in the two instances
you mentioned, Fuentes and Owens.
They're long talkers.
Yes.
Those are hours and hours a day.
It's unbelievable.
You can really chew up a lot of
your time.
But again, it's the clips.
It's all about the clips.
I don't think I've ever watched the full
Fuentes episode.
I mean, is he on YouTube only?
I don't know.
No, no.
Rumble.
Rumble.
But I see the clips.
You know, that's funny because I've only watched
full episodes.
I've never seen the clips.
I watched the full episodes to look for
the um or the uh.
Yeah, it's not there.
Not there.
It's just horrifying how good he is.
Yeah.
So that's why I call on the Zuma
Waffen.
You are good here.
We'll take care of you.
Don't worry.
This is where you want to be.
Listen to your uncles.
You can learn something.
Now, let's play.
I have a couple of series here that
are kind of interesting.
They're going out of their way.
It seems the powers that be, and in
this case NPR, to start trying to reconstruct
in advance of Trump getting kicked out or
getting Trump three years from now or whenever.
To rebuild USAID.
This is a disaster.
Weren't they getting money from USAID as well?
I'm sure there's some backdoor from USAID to
NPR.
Oh, absolutely.
There has to be.
But the USAID is a money laundering operation,
a worldwide money laundering operation for everybody, for
the intelligence agencies, for all kinds of slush
funds.
Mainly.
Mainly.
And it goes to the NGOs and that's
where the laundering takes place.
So they're going to go out of their
way now, NPR, to try to turn the
ship around and show what a bad idea
this was and everything in between.
And here we go with the USAID.
Wait, wait, wait.
Before we start, have we seen any, is
Africa now dead of AIDS?
According to this report, yeah.
Okay.
I'm sorry.
I stand corrected.
It's been a cataclysmic year in global.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
Hey.
You keep doing this.
I have a code.
See NPR-SS?
Okay.
Well, all right.
You have a good point there.
I didn't recognize the code.
Suffer and succotash.
Suffotash.
I'm Scott Simon.
It's been a cataclysmic year in global hell.
In January, the Trump administration.
Did he say in global hell?
Yeah, this is the leverage they're going to
use to promote USAID.
Wait, global health or global hell?
It sounded like he said global hell.
He says it fine.
Yeah, he screws it up.
You're right.
Global hell.
It's been a cataclysmic year in global hell.
In January, the Trump administration.
He said hell.
He says hell.
He says hell.
I heard it.
It's a cataclysmic year in global hell.
In January, the Trump administration froze billions of
dollars in foreign assistance funds.
Then it dismantled the United States Agency for
International Development.
These actions had ripple effects all around the
world and changed how the U.S. approaches
foreign aid.
NPR global health correspondent Fatma Tanis has been
covering the story for the past year.
Joins us in her studio.
Fatma, thanks so much for being with us.
Thanks for having me, Scott.
Take us back to the beginning of 2025.
How did this shakeup to USAID programs begin?
Well, it was really chaotic.
He switches here to USAID.
I love that.
Oh, I missed it.
Well done.
Oh, yes.
Oh, yeah.
USAID to USAID.
Take us back to the beginning of 2025.
How did this shakeup to USAID programs begin?
Well, it was really chaotic, Scott.
Hundreds of agency staff were put on leave.
The USAID website was taken down in the
middle of the night on a Saturday.
In the middle of the night?
And thousands of programs that provided critical health
services and poverty solutions and more were terminated.
And this all happened within a matter of
a few weeks.
And what did the administration do?
Hey, what are poverty solutions?
I like that.
Poverty solutions.
Poverty solution.
Alcohol.
Poverty solutions.
I'd like to be in charge of that
department.
That was the end of that clip?
Yeah, it ended funny, but that was the
end of the clip.
It did end funny.
It was something I did wrong.
Okay, well, let's go on to clip two.
And what did the administration do?
You know, foreign aid has historically had bipartisan
support.
Yeah, he brings it.
What did the administration do?
It was a funny ending.
It didn't make any sense.
And he drops it in.
He says, what did the administration do?
She never really says when he asks it
again.
That's a very screwy report.
I'm sorry.
I could have done a better job of
segwaying it, play it on.
And why did the administration do that?
You know, foreign aid has historically had bipartisan
support.
It saves lives and has been generally seen
as a way for America to wield influence
and build goodwill.
But the Trump administration saw it differently, that
the way America was doing foreign aid was
ineffective and wasteful.
USAID in particular was viewed as far left
and irredeemable.
It's programs that provided support for LGBTQ people
or reproductive health and climate solutions were seen
as part of a woke.
She just did a woke lineup of epic
proportion.
I just need to hear that again.
Irredeemable.
It's programs that provided support for LGBTQ people.
Support for LGBTQ people or reproductive health.
Reproductive health.
Read abortions.
And climate solutions.
Climate solutions, which I think is part of
poverty solutions.
This is wonderful.
Yes, it's a liquid.
It's great.
Seen as part of a woke agenda that
taxpayers shouldn't be funding.
Here's Max Primerack with the Conservative Heritage Foundation.
He previously held several senior roles at USAID.
A lot of the aid programs that we
were doing were not always tied to our
foreign policy objectives.
And by subsuming the aid agencies, you can
better align with our national interests and also
with our values.
So the administration shut down USAID and moved
a handful of the parts they wanted to
keep, like humanitarian relief and a few hundred
staff, under the State Department.
Let's talk about the effects.
Secretary of State Rubio said in May that
no one died as a result of the
cuts.
Is that true?
Unfortunately, no.
NPR interviewed a mother in Nigeria.
Her son had sickle cell anemia.
And he began running a fever.
But the clinic that they usually went to,
funded by USAID, had been closed.
And the boy died the next day.
OK.
So tell me she has a few more
examples than one boy with sickle cell anemia.
She's got another example.
Because of the cruelty.
This is, by the way, a big theme
for Trump.
They like to use the word cruel.
It's cruel.
The cruelty of Trump has resulted in a
boy in Nigeria.
By the way, there are homeless all over
San Francisco.
They're dropping dead in the streets in Los
Angeles.
We have shootings in Oakland.
But there's a boy in Nigeria who died
because of Trump's cruelty.
Yes.
Wow.
That's the troll room.
I want to see the death certificate.
We want proof.
You're sick.
The funny thing that the troll room brought
up, it actually may be bull crap.
Yeah.
She has another example coming up.
OK.
And the boy died the next day.
A doctor who treated the child before said
he would have likely survived if he had
received care.
We also know that many people lost access
to drugs that treated diseases like HIV AIDS.
And in countries torn by conflict, many malnourished
children lost access to therapeutic protein-filled foods.
But we don't know the full scale of
lives lost.
And that's because aid groups are no longer
on the ground able to track what's going
on.
You went to Uganda to report on how
people there were trying to live with the
cuts.
What did you see?
Well, the LGBTQ people are in trouble, of
course.
Yeah, I was there in August.
And, you know, locals and officials were still
grappling with the ripple effects, not just on
health care, but local economies, too, because so
many people lost their jobs with aid groups.
In one rural area in southwest Uganda, we
learned that there were only four ambulances for
the 200,000 people who lived there compared
to eight ambulances before.
And that's because the U.S. was funding
the drivers and the fuel for those ambulances.
Well, what?
America first, people.
Where's my America first people cheering on the
nonsense that we were funding?
So so they were it was our fault,
the cruelty of Trump, that four ambulances in
Uganda are no longer no longer have their
ambulances must still be there.
They didn't dissolve.
But there's four ambulances there, but they don't
have a driver because nobody can afford to
pay the driver and they can't afford the
fuel without our money, without U.S. taxpayers
money.
Does this our country?
I need to reiterate that the international arms
dealer, my friend here in Fredericksburg, that he
has an ongoing pipeline of C-130 aircraft
that the U.S. government sells to Uganda.
They're not cheap.
Certainly, a couple of ambulances worth and they
and he has to keep supplying them because
they all learn how to fly on YouTube.
So how is it our fault?
It's true.
It's true.
I keep crashing into hangars and stuff.
Oh, I learned how to fly on YouTube.
Yeah, but no, no, no, no.
It's the it's Trump's cruelty that stopped that.
They only have four ambulances.
It's their own decisions that they're making to
buy aircraft and take their pilots on YouTube.
So it's Trump's fault.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So the U.S. I think is was
there another fourth clip, fourth clip wraps it.
It's just one example of how thorough and
extensive USAID used to be.
So she did it.
Let's hear that again.
It's just one example of how thorough and
extensive USAID used to be.
It's so thorough and extensive.
How many hundreds of billions of dollars did
we stop flowing from USAID?
I don't know.
I can't remember the number.
It's a big number.
Big number.
So what's the future of U.S. foreign
aid look like?
It's looking different.
Instead of funding aid organizations to do health
work around the world, the administration is now
working directly with governments and faith based groups.
Their focus so far has been on Africa.
The State Department announced several agreements with nine
African countries.
In total, the U.S. is going to
be investing eight billion in the health sectors
of those countries to help fight diseases.
And those governments are expected to chip in
as well.
As part of the deal, the U.S.
wants more opportunities for American businesses and access
to minerals.
Now, global health experts are cautioning that in
the year ahead, the challenge is going to
be doing more with less as millions of
lives could be on the line.
And Pierre Sputmatanis, thanks so much.
Thank you.
Thanks so much.
Millions of lives.
Millions of lives.
Well, Rubio came out and said, he said,
we're not going to fund NGOs anymore.
And that's ridiculous because he knows.
And certainly the State Department knows.
It doesn't take a genius to figure this,
that these guys are just taking us through.
We're going to help you out.
We're going to give you global hell.
Hell.
He said global hell.
I'm sticking with it.
I'm going to give you global hell.
But we want some minerals, which is a
much better deal than the Chinese are giving
you.
Much better.
So, we can build more AI chips for
the data centers.
Speaking of.
So, we had that MIT scientist who was
killed.
And somehow the guy who did the Brown
shootings was blamed for it.
Although, have you seen any photographic or video
evidence that he was there?
That he did that?
It feels just like, I don't know, something
is off with that.
Yeah, I'd say.
So, the MIT scientist was working with, I
have the name of the company somewhere.
It's a fusion guy.
Fusion guy, yes.
But it was one of the three, there
are three main companies that are poised to
supposedly provide a fusion reactor.
I think you used the right word.
Supposedly.
Yeah.
Yeah.
This is quantum computing.
This is in the same league as quantum
computing the way I see it.
Well, I watched a couple of videos on
these companies.
Yeah, the videos are great.
The videos.
It works terrific in a video.
This technology, it's killer.
Well, we got this announcement on pretty much
the same day.
Tonight, President Trump predicting pricing.
I'm sorry, that's not the one.
Oops.
How did I?
Wait, wait, wait.
It's here.
This is the one.
This is Devin Nunes, who is the CEO
of Trump Media, which is now- Right,
which just did a big merger.
Yes.
Now, I spent a lot of time in
Congress working on nuclear power.
Unfortunately, legislation that I proposed 20 years ago
didn't pass because the Congress decided that they
should invest in windmills and solar panels.
However, there was a company called TAE, the
one that we're merging with, that actually continued
to invest.
So families like Chuck Schwab's family, investors like
Stanley Druckenmiller, Google, Chevron, many others continue to
invest in TAE.
So this is private money, not government money.
But for a quarter century, they've amassed the
best scientists that the world has to offer,
and they've produced enough.
They've built five generations of the reactor.
And now we're stepping in, folding them into
our company so that we can help them
build their first reactor.
So this is a fusion reactor.
It's clean.
It's one that can—the first one will be
up to 50 megawatts.
The future ones will be somewhere between 350
to 500.
Now, what does that mean?
Wow.
That means these are big enough to replace
pretty much or add to the existing power
generation that we have in this country.
It's a good size.
Now, look.
Look.
Now, look.
When this is done, and I don't say
this lightly, this will be the most important
discovery and invention since the first Manhattan Project.
So the professor was working— Wait, wait, wait.
What was the second Manhattan Project?
Well, this will be the second Manhattan Project.
Oh, I see what you're saying.
I don't know.
It's Nunes.
So Lorero was working with Commonwealth Fusion Systems
to build SPARC, and SPARC is supposed to
start operations in 2026.
And I just can't get beyond the coincidence
of this guy getting iced.
Yeah, I can't either.
There's also a system being put—a plant being
built right now in Washington State from Microsoft
using yet another fusion trick, technology supposedly that
supposedly works, supposedly, supposedly, that uses helium-3
and deuterium somehow, and it causes the people
who say, look at the—I did a lot
of reading on this.
So the idea, as I understand it, the
idea is that you can almost pretty much
use saltwater, seawater, and then helium comes out
of it.
You can use the helium to create steam,
and in the video that I watched, the
TAA video, they're saying, oh, no, we can
convert that straight to electricity somehow.
Uh-huh.
No.
Whatever you said was just nonsense.
Well, I'm just telling you it was in
the video.
Yeah, the video is nonsense then if it
talks about turning seawater and using seawater because
you can get some helium out of it.
It's almost—getting helium-3 is a pain in
the ass apparently, and then any of the
deuterium fusion reactors supposedly is, again, you know,
it just—listen, I'm just reading what the critics
say.
The problem with deuterium is that, yeah, it
will fuse with helium-3 and form a
90-million-degree temperature for a small amount
of time, but deuterium also fuses with deuterium,
and when it does that, a bunch of
neutrons are released, and now you have a
radiation problem, and the neutron release in the
reactor will just melt the reactor.
The whole thing's a disaster.
It seems that this technology has not been
proven to work anywhere.
And it's really cool the way they contain
plasma in a tube, and the plasma has
to spin around, and the problem is keeping
the plasma in there.
Oh, yeah, and the guy that got killed
at MIT, what was his specialty?
Plasma.
Plasma.
Mm-hmm.
So there's one other company out there.
I think it's the ZAP.
I think it's ZAP, who would do the
Z-pinch.
I think there's one more scientist who has
to die for the theory to be—I have
a feeling that they may be closer than
we think or than we think is possible.
Yes, the fusion has been talked about for
a long, long time.
I think it's certainly—somehow I feel it's more
likely that this is happening than quantum, which
you might have noticed is everywhere now.
The pivot to quantum is happening, and I
predicted it would happen, which means AI is
just not panning out the way they expected
it to.
Well, by panning out, you mean profitable.
Well, how about productive-wise?
It's not productive.
It's productive for social media.
It's great for newsletters and for art and
funny videos, but it's not panned out to
be productive in the workplace.
No, not at all.
And it's not profitable.
In fact, it's counterproductive when you think about
what you just said.
How about this?
How about this?
Let's just break it down.
Maybe, maybe this is just the next hype
that they're kickstarting.
Because why else—it was like, oh, Trump, you
know, he's a conflict of interest with the
data centers.
Yeah.
It's his kids running it, I guess.
Nunes.
It doesn't matter who's running it.
This will just be the next thing, because
what is the power—what is the problem with
AI right now is power.
So as long as everyone's out—oh, we're almost
there.
2026.
Oh, it could be—little glitch, 2027.
This could be an enormous addition to the
GDP now that we're kind of, you know,
the data center deals are starting to slow
down.
The big guys with the money are like,
we don't want to put any more money
in the data centers.
Hyperscalers, which is another word for builders of
data centers.
This could just be the next hype, you
know, just to keep the train rolling.
We have to keep it rolling.
AI is now 90% of our GDP.
That's not true.
Well, that sure seems like it.
Well, 90% of the mind share, maybe.
That and GLP-1.
I mean, that's all we have.
We have AI and Ozempic.
Welcome to America.
And Apple phones.
That's about it.
But, I mean, I'm hopeful because it would
be fantastic.
Think about it.
Think about the changes that would happen if
Fusion actually came about.
That would be amazing.
How about showing me one example of where
it works at all?
Well, on the video.
You can see it on the video.
Actually, it was like a 45-minute video
from the company itself.
Not once did they show, hey, it's working.
Look at the meter.
Look at the power coming out.
They didn't show that at all in 45
minutes of talking about their product.
That's because it doesn't work.
Could it work?
I mean, it might work someday.
Somebody might come up with a good idea
or something.
Well, what is the problem?
What is the main problem with it?
It costs more energy to get it to
get going than it delivers.
Okay, because you've got to fire up the
plasmatron.
The plasma, you've got to control this.
And that costs money to extract the H3,
in the case of the helium ones.
It costs money to get the deuterium.
That doesn't come in, you know, it's not
bottled by Coca-Cola.
I mean, it's something you have to develop.
How do you make that?
I have no idea, but it's not cheap.
That costs money.
And it costs money for the other stuff.
It costs money to get the plasma going.
It costs money to build the plant.
And then when you turn on the power
to make it, so it creates power, it
costs more money to create than it's worth.
That's the problem.
It's negative.
It's got negative numbers all over the place.
So it's not, it's a loser until somebody
figures something out and they haven't done it.
Oh, well, back to zero point energy, I
guess.
I just can't get beyond it.
I can't get beyond that guy.
That guy getting killed the minute this TAE
merger takes place, folded them in, which I
don't like that term.
I'm not sure what you're talking about.
But that Trump media is for one thing
and one thing only.
It's a money gobbling machine.
It's beyond me whether you, well, yeah.
If you know what you're doing, you got
some good creative bookkeepers and you got a
few other guys that know how to set.
It's a creative.
Five salesmen and two creative bookkeepers and you
got a company that'll make billions.
It's an accretive acquisition.
That's what you have to say at Wall
Street.
It's accretive.
Oh, really?
Yes.
It's accretive to the balance sheet.
The good news is we have the best
producers in the universe.
No doubt we have someone out there working
infusion who can give us the straight answer
and the details on what's really happening.
We probably do have somebody working infusion.
Of course we do.
You're going to say the same thing.
Well.
We wish.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So it's not a good idea if more
goes into it.
It would be a great thing if we
could get it to work.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Hmm.
Okay.
Well, that's disappointing.
Well, it's just, it could be completely wrong.
I may be out of touch.
But they didn't have to kill the guy
then.
If it doesn't work, someone believes it works.
How about that?
There's Devin Nunes, I'm sure, is like, oh
yeah, that's going to work.
Someone believes quantum computing works.
Yeah, no, you're right about that.
Some people believe, and maybe, you know what?
Maybe that guy was the guy I'm talking
about who needs to, he has the little,
that one piece of knowledge that would make
it work.
And so that's the guy you want to
kill to keep it from ever coming to
fruition because you're the, because you're the oil
companies.
Yeah.
The one I love the most is the
quantum computing people.
Quantum's going to break Bitcoin.
Like, okay, which Bitcoin is not encrypted.
It's your wallet that's encrypted.
But if quantum can decrypt Bitcoin wallets, you
got a much bigger problem on your hands
because they can decrypt your bank login, everything.
It's the same encryption.
No, no, no.
Quantum's going to do all that.
Okay.
All right.
All right.
We'll just have to wait for it.
I don't know why that became an important
element to quantum.
Oh, it's the people who are short Bitcoin.
Hello.
Maybe that.
I don't know what it is.
It's easy.
It's easy.
But it's a, it's a something.
Okay.
It'll solve some sort of problem that no
one can solve, I guess.
What, quantum?
I'm not sure what the real appeal of
quantum is.
Oh, I can tell you exactly what it
is.
It's going to give you the right ad
at the right time for the right product.
That's always been the sell.
Or it's going to tell you that the
milk in your fridge is out and it
will order it for you automatically.
Yeah.
Call the repairman.
So, I just want to talk about Europe
for a second with Ukraine, since we do
have Zelensky now at Mar-a-Lago.
We have, let's see, we have a couple
of things here.
Let's just a little catch up from NBC.
In the Ukrainian capital, the sound of drones
once again buzzing across the night sky.
Buzzing.
Buzzing.
As Russian strikes pounded Kiev.
Pounding.
Killing at least one person and injuring more
than 20, according to Ukrainian officials.
Russia launching a massive barrage of more than
500 drones and missiles.
Massive.
Just hours before the Ukrainian leader is set
to meet with President Trump in Florida.
On his way to the US, Zelensky's stopping
in Canada for a meeting with Prime Minister
Karny.
And tomorrow I will have a very important
and very constructive meeting with President Trump.
Peace talks are slowly inching forward.
The Nat Pops are great.
Constructive meeting with President Trump.
Peace talks are slowly inching forward.
Is he shooting it up in the Oval
Office?
No, no, it's in Canada, right there in
Karny's office.
He's shooting it up there.
Oh, they're shooting it up Karny's office?
I hope a very important and very constructive
meeting with President Trump.
Peace talks are slowly inching forward.
The main sticking point remains territory.
Moscow is looking for full control of the
Donbass region in the east.
Vladimir Putin saying tonight that if Ukraine doesn't
want to resolve the conflict peacefully, then Russia
would resolve all its goals by force.
Zelensky has said any compromises on territory should
be decided by the Ukrainian people in a
vote and that his country needs US security
guarantees in any peace deal.
Trump telling Politico on Friday the Ukrainian leader
doesn't have anything until I approve it.
Back in Ukraine, another day spent sifting through
debris.
We are begging the whole world, says this
woman, let there be an end to all
this for the sake of our children.
So I thought it was interesting that first,
you know, Zelensky's coming to Mar-a-Lago
and then all of a sudden, you know,
over the weekend, well, he's going to stop
off in Canada.
And I should mention something, because I followed
at least five or six of these reports
and they all go out of their way
to mention the stop off in Canada.
Oh, and it wasn't just to talk with
Carney.
No, it was to talk to a bunch
of some other stooges from representative of Europe.
And there was a meeting.
This was a pre-meeting meeting.
This was a yes.
OK, what do I need to know here?
I got to deal with Trump again.
Tiny dancer, here's what you do.
We're going to tell you exactly what to
do.
Let's get the the the true analysis from
our guy, Andrew Rassoulis.
He's our guy.
He's our guy.
Andrew Rassoulis.
And we'll talk first about the stop in
Canada.
Our thoughts on that.
At least the initial press press conference with
Carney and Zelensky.
It was quick.
Yeah, difficult times.
I mean, and then sort of fast moving
time.
So the main event will be tomorrow, of
course, in in Florida, Mar-a-Lago when
Zelensky meets Trump to kind of finalize the
sort of Ukrainian slash European proposal that they're
going to give to Trump.
And if Trump likes it, he'll give it
to the Russians and we go there.
The Halifax meeting is a stopover.
It's important.
It's a coordinating meeting between Canada and also
the European Union.
That's also being held with the Coalition of
the Willing, which is being held right now
on video.
So it's important.
But it's a stepstone to the main event
tomorrow afternoon.
And, of course, the question is, whatever the
Coalition of the Willing come up with, will
they will the Russians accept it?
So is this essentially these two meetings just
to get everybody on the same page before
they hear from Trump?
Yeah, it's fine tuning.
It's actually to give Zelensky more backing as
he goes to see Trump at Mar-a
-Lago.
And, you know, Trump's not going to be
an easy sell.
Trump has already said that, you know, he's
going to look at what Zelensky gives him.
But if he doesn't like it, he's not
signing off on it.
So that's the kind of atmosphere that Zelensky
is walking into.
And then even beyond that, are there any
odds that Russia will say yes to this?
No.
I mean, the odds are they will say
no.
They will negotiate maybe, but they will say
no.
There's a lot of things in this thing,
like about the Russians pulling back from the
Donetsk area, equal amounts of Ukrainians.
I doubt the Russians will accept that one.
And there's a lot of the uncertainties about
the Coalition of the Willing in terms of
guarantees.
Will that mean legally Article 5 type?
But will it mean troops on the ground
in Ukraine?
That part, if it's in the package and
we haven't seen the full package, I would
think the Russians would be very opposed to
that part.
So all I'm trying to say is that
there's a lot of things the Russians have
said they will be constructive.
That means they will probably counter-propose something,
as opposed to just shut it down.
I love the whole Article 5-like guarantees.
It's like, well, this is almost like a
Bentley.
It's not quite.
It's like a Bentley.
It's like a Bentley.
It's Article 5-like guarantees, which already, I
think it's Article 6, says, you know, Article
5 says an attack on one is attack
on all.
I think it's Article 6 that says, and
then if you want, you can do something
about it.
It's not a given.
So it'll be less than a given by
calling it Article 5-like.
And meanwhile, Canada, more of your tax money.
And just quickly before we go, one question
about the spending that the Prime Minister announced
today, $2.5 billion.
How will that be allocated?
How does it help Ukraine?
Yeah, it's going to international funds like the
IMF and the World Bank and others.
It's not a direct transfer to Ukrainians.
And I think that's actually wise, given that
Ukraine is going through a lot of corruption
issues right now.
So there's a question of where's the money
going inside Ukraine.
But also I think that the other question
is, you know, what's Canada going to get
back for this?
Canada's poured in quite a lot, many billions,
in terms of Ukraine's economic situation.
So is Canadian industry going to benefit by
this in the longer term?
Because Ukraine is on the precipice of bankruptcy.
The European Union bailed them out with a
two-year loan.
But they were going to go bankrupt in
April.
So these things have to be watched very
carefully, I think.
So the bank loan from the frozen Russian
assets, seen internationally as theft, resulted in the
Belgian Prime Minister, Bart de Wever, who of
course, you know, he said, hey, you can't
really do this.
This is a problem.
You have to give us Article 5-like
guarantees so Russia doesn't come over here and
kill us all for taking the money.
Well, he just stepped it up.
He said, this is such a good deal,
we won.
The immobilized assets will be kept immobilized and
will ultimately be used to repair the damage
Russia has caused to its unprovoked and unjustified
war against Ukraine.
I think nobody in the European family wants
to see that money returned to Moscow.
But we're going to return to the original
philosophy.
It is going to be used to repair
the damage that Russia has caused in Ukraine.
So I think Ukraine has won.
They have their finance, and they still have
the perspective of getting reparation money.
I think Europe has won.
Perspective.
And financial stability has certainly won.
We've all won.
Ukraine won.
Europe won.
It's a win-win.
Now, I'm going to play two clips from
Yanis Varoufakis.
I know you don't like the guy.
I haven't heard about him for a while.
Well, he's been doing his own podcast, soliloquy
style, where he's really reading his own script
off camera, which looks kind of odd.
I always find that creepy.
Oh, yeah.
Get a prompter.
Stop for one second.
So off-camera reads, I don't even know
when they became popular, but they started showing
up in maybe the late 80s, and they
became more and more used, more and more.
Alex Jones uses them a little bit.
Candice Owens does it.
I mean, it's the second shot.
It's the shot where you see someone reading,
but you see them from the side.
Yeah.
And I call it an off-camera read.
Who are they reading to?
They're reading to the other camera, which is
the one that represents the audience.
But so now we're seeing him as a
third party, so an interloper from the side.
I find it disturbing.
I don't like it.
That's art, John.
Either talk to me.
It's art.
That's the problem.
That's what they think it is.
It's art.
If you're talking to me on camera, I
want you talking to me, not over to
the left, over to some guy.
Where's that?
Who's she talking to?
Well, that ship has sailed.
That's sailed with the Dutch windmill tilt and
with the jump cut, which are all pioneered
in the 80s and 90s, primarily by MTV.
And then Ze Frank.
Ze Frank.
Remember Ze Frank?
Zay Frank?
Ze Frank?
And they usually, when you're in a studio,
they always called it exactly what you say,
dutching the camera.
Yes.
Or they say you're shooting over the axis.
All of the things we learn in film
school have been just cast aside.
Anyway, he's not reading off-camera the way
you describe, his camera is next to his
monitor instead of where it should be, right
in front of his monitor.
Okay, I got it.
All right, I'm sorry.
I got carried away with my complaint.
I've been wanting to get it off my
chest.
Your complaint has been registered.
Then we will send it to the Austin
Film School.
Yes, please do that.
So Giannis, he does know a lot about
European finance because he was the finance minister
and later prime minister of Greece when the
International Monetary Fund screwed them.
Over.
Into severe austerity.
Zoomer often listen up.
We've been around.
This happened when you were three, but it
was bad news in Greece.
It was really, really bad.
This is how the international finance system works.
So he gives us a little rundown in
two clips of the retaliation that Russia, the
retaliatory measures, measures as you would say, that
Russia has taken against the EU.
And trust me when I say you haven't
heard this anywhere.
And it's quite severe.
Russia announced that all remaining energy exports to
Europe.
I'm sorry.
Start with this one first.
Within 48 hours, Russia announced the nationalization of
all European corporate assets on Russian territory.
BP's stake in Rosneft.
$14 billion gone nationalized.
Shell's Russian operations.
$3 billion seized.
Total energies projects.
$4 billion confiscated.
Societe Generale's banking operations taken over.
German automotive plants.
Volkswagen, BMW, Mercedes facilities worth billions.
Nationalized pharmaceutical operations.
Food processing facilities.
Retail chains.
Infrastructure projects.
Intellectual property.
Everything European companies owned in Russia was suddenly
Russian state property.
The total value exceeded $120 billion.
More than the EU had seized.
European boardrooms erupted in chaos.
Shareholders demanded answers.
Stock prices plummeted.
Insurance companies faced massive claims.
But this was just the opening move.
Didn't hear about that, did you?
We've won, everybody.
We're winners.
Okay, clip of the day right there.
Why do I not know this?
I don't know.
I know, because the mainstream media, they've stopped
doing their job.
A long time ago.
A long time ago.
Well, at least 18 years ago we started
this show.
It already was 10 years past due.
Now listen to the second thing, and I
checked the exchange rate, and it checks out.
Russia announced that all remaining energy exports to
Europe would now be priced exclusively in rubles
or yuan.
No euros accepted.
This was different from previous energy threats.
Russia wasn't cutting supply.
That would hurt their own revenues.
Instead, they were forcing a currency choice.
European countries that wanted Russian gas or oil
had to acquire rubles or yuan first.
This meant going through Russian or Chinese financial
intermediaries, paying fees, accepting exchange rate risk, losing
transparency on pricing.
But the real impact was psychological and systemic.
By refusing euros, Russia was making a statement,
your currency is no longer acceptable to us.
The euro, which Europeans assumed was a global
reserve currency that anyone would accept, was being
rejected by a major commodity exporter.
This had cascading effects.
Countries that needed Russian energy had to hold
ruble reserves.
This meant selling euros to buy rubles.
Euro selling pressure increased.
The ruble, which Western sanctions were supposed to
destroy, strengthened.
The currency that was supposed to be worthless
became necessary for European energy security.
China benefited enormously.
Countries buying Russian energy and yuan had to
acquire yuan first.
This accelerated yuan internationalization at the expense of
the euro.
The European Central Bank watched helplessly as energy
importers dumped euros for rubles and yuan, weakening
the euro and importing inflation through currency depreciation.
Yeah.
Go look at the ruble USD or the
ruble euro chart.
It happened exactly as he just said it.
Boom.
40% up.
Everyone's now got to buy rubles.
This is weakening the euro.
Well, it's strengthening the ruble, really, in first
case.
But the craziest thing, and I got this
from Sir Gene, our duke here in Texas,
that the whole Ukraine strategy, or really the
Russia strategy, was written up in a single
document by the Rand Corporation.
Titled, Extending Russia Competing from Advantageous Ground.
And I'm not going to read it.
I'll put it in the show notes.
People can look at it.
I confirmed it.
What year?
2019.
Okay.
And it's still on their website.
Just a couple of items from the index,
a table of contents.
Let's see.
Hinder petroleum exports.
Reduce natural gas exports.
Hinder pipeline expansions.
Impose sanctions.
Enhance Russian brain drain.
Provide lethal aid to Ukraine.
Increase support to the Syrian rebels.
Promote regime change in Belarus.
Exploit tensions in the South Caucasus.
Reduce Russian influence in Central Asia.
Challenge Russian presence in Moldova.
The whole thing.
It's almost like they followed it step by
step.
Increase U.S. and NATO land forces in
Europe.
Increase NATO exercises in Europe.
Withdraw from the INF Treaty.
Invest in new capabilities to manipulate Russian risk
perceptions.
You know, and they're still trying it.
Oh, I got an idea.
Guys, Reuters.
This is a Reuters report.
I'm 99% certain it's an AI voice.
Here, read this.
And a Reuters exclusive has shown that Moscow
is likely stationing new nuclear-capable hypersonic ballistic
missiles at a former air base in eastern
Belarus.
That's according to two U.S. researchers who
have been studying satellite imagery.
It's a development that could bolster Russia's ability
to deliver missiles across Europe.
We're going to kill you.
Oh, the Russians are coming.
It's unbelievable.
That is a good one.
And the Europeans are like, yeah, man, hey,
Russia.
That's no good.
We got to be careful.
According to two randos who study satellite imagery.
Give me a break.
It's good.
It's great.
It's fantastic.
I got to love it.
Got to love it.
I think that's it for Europe.
So the European companies.
That is it for Europe.
Yeah.
I mean, I don't know.
I don't know.
How do you come back from this?
Except first, one, you got to give the
money back.
They're going to have to give the money
back.
They're really counting.
I mean, we'll see what comes out of
the Mar-a-Lago talks.
Nothing?
Probably not.
Sadly, probably not.
Oh, I want you to get into whatever
you want to do next.
But something happened.
A report came out from CBS.
I have been predicting this for a long
time.
And finally, here it is.
Ladies, the free ride is over.
And now you're telling me that you're going
to charge me $1,199 or whatever it
is to return items.
Are you out of your mind?
Hassle-free online returns may be a thing
of the past.
Most major retailers are now charging customers to
return items even if they're unopened and in
perfect condition.
Who wants to lose money, especially not in
this time and in this economy?
$850 billion.
That's how much Americans will return to the
stores this year.
Nearly 20% of the stuff we buy.
That doesn't sound right.
$850 million.
I don't know about billion.
$850 billion?
No.
$50 billion.
That's how much Americans will return to the
stores this year.
Nearly 20% of the stuff we buy
online just ends up in the return pile.
Return fee?
Macy's now charges $999 for mail-in returns.
TJ Maxx and Marshalls charge $1,199.
Other stores, including J.Crew, Abercrombie & Fitch,
H&M, and Zara all now charge fees
between $4 and $8.
It can now cost as much as $45
to return certain electronics at Best Buy.
Amazon, too, has tightened its policy, charging some
customers unless they use its box-free, in
-person drop-off option.
Merchants now are under a tremendous amount of
cost pressure.
They're really trying to offset some of the
costs that they face in returns by asking
shoppers to share some of the burden.
David Sobey co-founded his company, Happy Returns,
that uses these AI robots to help make
returns easier.
Is there any way to avoid these fees?
Well, the best way to avoid them is
just to read the retailer's return policy before
you check out in the first place.
I've been seeing this coming down Broadway for
a long time.
Women, in particular, will order 15 items of
clothing and return 10, 11.
They'll try them on.
No, I don't like it.
Try it on.
No, I don't like it.
And I've always said, how can these stores
accept that?
This just becomes shopping at home.
And now they're going to start charging return
fees.
Well, this is basically what you would do
at a retail store, especially a woman.
She would go in and go to a
dress rack and grab, like, seven dresses and
go into this changing room and try all
of them on.
And then, you know, turn around and look
at herself and then go back and not
buy any of them and then go take
another seven in.
And so they figure this is the analog
of doing that exact same thing, but instead
of being at the store where you're putting
it back on the rack, you are having
to go through this rigmarole.
Yep.
And I don't know how they can put
– I don't know how the system can
work with that.
It can't, clearly.
But it's going to change behavior because I
just see it everywhere.
I don't know.
I mean, Tina does it, too.
I told her this morning.
They start charging.
What?
Yeah.
They start charging for returns.
Oh, $9?
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I don't know if that's per item
or per box that you ship.
It's probably per item.
Oof.
Yeah.
So that's going to end that.
It's going to bring people back to the
mall.
Back to brick and mortar.
It's going to change behavior.
You're right.
Because it's too expensive.
Yeah.
Or maybe order them like that but then
return them in person.
I think that's probably where it'll wind up.
Return them in person.
So then you have to have a store
to return them to.
You can't do that with Amazon.
No.
They have their drop places, their drop boxes,
according to that report.
So we'll see.
That's still going to cost money.
They have to recharge you to drop it
off in one of those little cubicles at
the grocery store.
I've seen those.
Oh.
Is that where you pick up your scratch
-offs?
Scratch and sniff?
What are you talking about?
Your scratch-off.
You have lottery tickets, man.
Your scratch-offs.
You know, I have the same chance of
winning whether or not I buy a ticket.
What is this untitled clip you have?
I love seeing those.
It's actually—that's not a mistake.
It's just a—it just got in there.
I should have taken it off.
It doesn't mean anything.
Okay.
I do have an AmFest—kind of an interesting
clip from this, you know, the America First
big meetup.
It was during our show day off.
Not America First.
It's the America Fest.
America Fest.
America First.
America First.
Yeah.
The TV—the big turning point in USA.
There were like 35,000, 40,000 people
were there.
Well, I heard 30,000, but it was
a lot of people.
Everybody showed up, and it was like a
big— Well, everybody was mad.
We had—what's his face?
What's the little weasel man?
Fast talker?
Ben Shapiro.
Shapiro.
Ben Shapiro calling people out.
He saw his way in big controversy.
Oh, yes.
A million dollars from the Jew money, the
shekels, and all he did is rag on
Candace and everybody else and Tucker.
And I think there was a lot more
going on at AmFest, but those were the
highlights.
I think you summarized it, but I thought
that this little report, which added a tidbit
I did not know, and I thought—and I
have to agree.
This is a woman, a British woman, called
the Warwick Report.
She's one of these—she's online.
She's more of a blogger than a podcaster
or a video blogger.
And she's very good at what she does,
and she gets in and out of these
things.
And she went to this one, and she
found something at AmFest that is kind of
disturbing.
Are you ready for my AmFest recap?
This is going to piss a few people
off.
I was not invited, and I was not
paid to go.
At the last minute, I applied as independent
media, pulled a few strings, made a few
calls, and got approved.
AmFest day two, I arrive and immediately feel
the vibes are off.
Not only did it feel as if I'd
walked into a tense, blurry proxy war, but
attendees were looking each other up and down
with suspicion.
We all saw speakers like Ben Shapiro, Tucker
Carlson, and Megyn Kelly go after each other.
Quite frankly, that was rather embarrassing, and the
left are laughing at conservatives.
The House is divided against itself and cannot
stand.
And what's the division?
One simple but loaded question.
Are you pro-America or pro-Israel?
You'd think the answer was obvious.
We were at AmericaFest, but the nuances were
palpable.
Several activities and events seemed in bad taste.
For example, the tent replica.
Yes, there was a replica of the tent
Charlie was publicly executed in for people to
take selfies in.
Now that doesn't sit right with me.
The public's online takeaway of the event is
rather telling, and they have every right to
question what's going on.
As someone who was physically there, I can
attest that there was something seriously off.
There needs to be a ceasefire of the
friendly fire in the conservative movement.
Traitors must be removed from power, and we
should focus on the enemy that is trying
to destroy the UK, America, and the West
in general.
However, I must say that I did meet
an interesting group of people there, and the
networking was fantastic.
Hmm.
So there was a tent that was a
replica of where Charlie was shot, so you
can go have a picture taken?
What?
Well, that may just be their standard TPUSA
tent.
That's maybe just how she's categorizing it.
I don't know.
Look, let's just face one thing.
TPUSA, the organization, its main mission was to
register voters and to activate them when necessary.
Because you can scream and yell and say
Trump or Biden, whatever you want to say,
but if someone isn't registered in time, they
can't vote.
TPUSA is a voter registration organization.
And then, of course, an activation, as Mo
would say, an activation organization to get you
going at the right moment.
So you go vote because you're already registered.
You don't have to go through a two
-step process.
So everyone who was there is there to
get people involved in all these tents and
everything.
It's always to register.
You need to register to vote.
Yeah, it's important.
I'll register to vote.
And once you're registered, then we're going to
activate you.
They're kind of doing things out of sequence
now because they're pre-activating.
And I think it's true.
J.D. Vance, that's what they're doing now.
And that may or may not be with
approval of the president, but it seems like
that's all that it's about.
And all the other stuff is just, it's
noise.
It's just noise.
Oh, and Alex Jones is involved.
Alex Jones, he's, Candace, you were wrong.
Got to call that out.
I read all the documents, been doing this
for 20 years.
Candace, you're wrong.
I love you, but no, I got to
call it out when you're wrong.
I love you.
I love Candace.
I love Candace.
But when she's wrong, she's wrong.
Got to call it out in my car
while I'm driving.
It's insane.
And at this point, it's just idolatry, just
being in the mix.
Dave Rubin jumps in.
I know, the whole podcasting industrial complex, which
I blame on you, by the way.
It's totally my fault.
It's out of control.
It's Candyland, everybody.
We're in Candyland.
That's where we're at.
So you were talking about, the clip before
was about liars.
I have to play this series, and it'll
be my last real series for today.
Oh, you got a series, huh?
This is a series.
Well, these have all been series.
I do a lot of series.
I don't know why.
Because that's what we do.
We do series so that we can tell
the kids.
So we can bitch and moan.
We can bitch and moan in our own
way.
No, we want the kids.
We want the kids to learn something from
us.
Ultimately, that's what we are.
We are teachers.
Don't laugh.
We're teachers.
We are teachers.
We're educators.
So this is Brooks.
Okay, I take it back.
We're just bitching and moaning.
We're not teachers at all.
This is Brooks on the PBS NewsHour, which
nobody who listens to this podcast watches, ever.
So Brooks goes off.
Brooks, I've now determined, is actually, he's supposed
to be a, you know, this is my
main complaint for the, over the years, I'll
do it again.
PBS does not have balanced coverage of anything.
So they put two people on to argue
with each other, but they are both in
100% agreement.
I'm a lefty.
I'm more of a lefty.
That's the argument is how left can you
be?
Hey, these clips are loud.
They're really modulated.
Did you clip these?
Yeah, I did.
I did give them a, yeah.
I'm looking at the waveforms.
These are maxed out.
I'm looking at the waveform.
I try to do this with my clips.
Why?
Why?
All I'm doing is potting them down.
You'll be potting them.
You'll be having some fun with these.
So they don't have Capehart on.
So the two of them can't agree with
each other.
They brought some woman on who's, it's not
even worth, I clipped none of her.
I just wanted to clip Brooks to make
a point about Brooks being not only a
left winger, but he's a New York Times
columnist who is going to blatantly lie.
President Trump's return to the White House has
seen several significant changes from his first term,
turning this into a consequential year for the
presidency and for the country.
So to reflect on it all, we turn
now to the analysis of Brooks and Atkins'
store.
That's David Brooks of the New York Times
and Kimberly Atkins' store of the Boston Globe.
Jonathan Capehart is away.
Welcome to you both.
Thank you for being here.
David, one of the biggest questions at the
starting of this year is what Trump 2
.0 was going to look like compared to
the first version.
And we have now seen a year of
it, an incredibly aggressive flexing of executive authority.
When you look back on this year, what
really stands out to you?
Yeah, I tell two stories.
The first is that since 1945, the American
establishment, if you want to put it that
way, has built a series of institutions.
Things like the Western Alliance, NATO, the Department
of Justice, USAID.
And all of those things have been hollowed
out over the last year.
The Department of Justice?
The Department of Justice.
That's new?
He put that in there.
He said specifically.
That's new?
The Department of Justice.
Let me just read a little segment here.
Oh, you've done.
You've done.
You've done.
You've got the documents.
Yeah.
On February 19th, 1868, Lawrence introduced a bill
in Congress to create the Department of Justice.
In 1868, President Ulysses S.
Grant signed the bill into law on June
22nd, 1870.
What does that have to do in 1945,
1946?
Well, it's hollowed out, man.
It's hollowed out.
It's like an empty eggshell.
But you did notice he got the little
thing in there about USAID.
Yes.
Of course, because PBS, I think you nailed
it when you said that they were getting
money from USAID.
Sure.
Under the table.
Whatever.
Probably not even under the table.
Probably through an NGO.
So we start off with a blatant lie
about the Department of Justice, but it gets
worse.
It doesn't get worse before another clip or
two.
It gets worse.
John C.
DuBois, he's got all the documents.
And so we've seen a great decline in
state capacity.
He knows their globalist agenda.
You have to worry about if we're a
nation in decline, because China is investing in
science.
They're investing in technologies.
They're kicking our butts.
And so the decline, this has been a
tragedy, an error of historic proportions.
They're kicking our butts.
Is there a lie in there somewhere?
No, not yet.
Well, it's the fact that the Chinese are
kicking our butts in AI.
Okay.
So then we have this next clip, which
is actually a WTF clip.
This proves to me that this guy represents
conservatives about as much as Hillary Clinton.
Earlier this spring, David, you remember you called
for or arguing that all of these little
protests, pushbacks that are happening against the Trump
administration were insufficient for what you're diagnosing.
And you called for a civic, a collective
civic action.
I don't think I'm breaking any news to
you that I don't think that that has
happened.
Yeah, no.
Yeah, I mean, I was reading all these
lefty revolutionaries and I'm like, yeah, yeah, let's
go get them.
I think it has not happened.
What in the world?
So he's reading alternate and God knows what
other left wing publications routinely.
And he's getting all worked up saying, yeah,
yeah, let's go.
David Brooks reading all those alternate.
Okay, we get it.
You can you're getting your I would say
you're five percent.
You're really close.
The reason why is because I've had the
flu for the past two days.
And that's why I'm overdoing it.
And what I say really close.
I'm talking about his being able to do
Alex Jones in a couple of moments back.
Yes, I had it moments ago.
He nailed at least five or six words
that sounded exactly right.
So now you're I know if you're trying
to get my attention.
Yeah, but you yes, you've got it.
Okay, thank you.
But can you sustain it without your cold?
No, I can't.
It's not a cold.
It's the flu, man.
It's the flu.
I'm jacked up on all kinds of meds
right now.
You didn't even know that.
No, you don't because you don't have that.
You're good at you cover up sickness somehow
over a microphone, especially mental.
I've been talking like this.
Well, the way I see it, I can't
breathe through my nose.
I'm just going to have to blow a
couple of times.
If you don't mind.
No, I refilter.
I refilter.
When I sat down, I got to refilter.
So I'm going to keep this filter, though.
All right.
Let's go to the last clip.
Do you want to get it out of
your system?
Let me try again.
Josh Dvorak.
Now I can't do it.
Okay, well, you have to work on it
more.
I'm glad I didn't.
I'm glad I didn't try my Zelinsky.
So this is the part.
This is the end of it.
And he just drops a bunch of bombs
in here at the end.
Lies.
The second thing that's happened is there has
been such a decay of moral norms that
it's hard for any institution to say, no,
we are going to stand up for this.
You are not going to talk about Rob
Reiner the way you did.
You're not going to use the racial language
that is on the present now.
And it's hard to articulate when the corrosion
is not only in our laws, but in
our minds, in our language.
That's a hard thing to challenge.
But I'm hopeful in the long term it'll
happen.
In the 1890s, we had a civic renaissance.
We had the creation of the Boys and
Girls Clubs.
We had the creation of the NAACP, the
unions, the Sierra Club.
All these civic organizations were created by a
group of people who said, we can't go
on this way.
And once you had the civic institutions, then
in around 1900, you had the progressive movement.
Wait a minute.
Wasn't the Sierra Club, weren't those the population
bomb people like kill everybody?
No, they were just conservationists, which is not
a new operation.
Now, he said in the 1890s, we had
the NAACP, the Sierra Club, and the Boys
and Girls Club.
Let's go over the facts.
Here we go.
He's got the documents.
Boys Club.
There was no Boys and Girls Club.
Let's make this clear.
There was no Boys and Girls Clubs in
the United States.
Was there a Girls Club?
There may have been, but the girls usually
joined the Girl Scouts.
The Boys and Girls Club came about in
1990, not 1890.
In fact, the Boys Club was first founded
by women, actually, curiously, in 1860, which is
not 1890.
It was then nationally organized in 1906, not
1890.
And then it was reformed in 1930, in
the 30s and the 40s, not 1890.
Oh, well, let's go to the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People, which was
formed, according to him, in the 1890s.
The NAACP was formed in 1909 by people
like W.E.B. Du Bois.
This was not 1890.
The Sierra Club was indeed founded in 1890,
but that's a conservationist group.
It's not a political group.
And then we take it to the end,
which he says labor unions, which were actually
founded, the first, the founding of the National
Labor Union was in 1866, not 1890.
And there's plenty of examples of unions that
were formed.
The Knights of Labor was in 1869.
And then the Great Railroad Strike, which was
a union-inspired strike, 1877.
This guy is a liar.
He works for the New York Times, and
he spews bullshit on PBS, which people lap
up like lapdogs.
It's pathetic.
So does this end the clips on the
No Agenda show of the PBS NewsHour, since
it's all lies?
Can it?
Can it possibly mean the end?
Could this be a New Year's resolution?
Let's hope so.
All right.
Let's do a little bit of Trump derangement
syndrome before the break.
This was a fine example, which is going
to cost somebody a lot of money.
To the index, and what was meant to
be a celebration is now a controversy.
The Kennedy Center canceled its annual Christmas Eve
jazz concert.
The show's host, musician Chuck Redd, says he
called off the performance in the wake of
President Trump adding his own name to the
arts institution.
Many legal scholars say Trump's move violates the
law.
You know, Chuck Redd has been doing this
Christmas concert since 1890, and now all of
a sudden he decides to cancel?
1890.
That's, you know, Grinnell is the president, which
is perfect for the job.
Remember Grinnell?
He was ambassador.
He's the gay guy.
He was...
Oh, yeah, I do remember him.
He's the gay ambassador.
Yeah, he is perfect for the job.
That's true.
Yes, and I think he then was, for
a moment there, he was national security advisor,
I think.
I had to look him up.
I like him.
He's a good looking man.
Good guy.
Handsome man.
Very handsome man.
And so this Chuck Redd decides to cancel
a day before the concert.
That's going to cost you money.
That's going to cost...
Someone has to pay for that, because ticket
sales, everything's already done.
That's just a...
That's a career killing move as far as
I'm concerned.
Yeah, for political purposes.
Yeah, I was like, what do you care,
man?
What do you care?
Trump put his name above JFK.
This is a Bloomberg podcast called The Balance
of Power.
You can already imagine what this is like.
I think it's audio only.
Thank the Lord.
No, it's on TV.
It's on TV too?
I'm pretty sure it is, yeah.
Well, here they are complaining about Trump.
Incredible reporting today in the New York Times.
If you've not seen this story, they spend
time in the Oval like no one has,
cataloging each inch.
And all of the changes that have taken
place over the last year, there have been
a lot of them, by the way.
The flags are abundant.
We've got the gold framed copy of the
Declaration of Independence.
Gold statuette of an eagle flying over the
Constitution arrived last month near the flags behind
the desk.
A wooden box with a red button.
You know, that's the Diet Coke button.
That's different.
It's not gold.
But the question of whether the gold is
real, also acknowledged.
When you look at all the frames that
are in the mirrors and the photos, some
thought that this was just cheap plastic.
No, the White House says that while the
underlying materials are made of plaster or metal,
they are covered in real gold leaf.
A craftsman from Florida travels to the White
House on the weekends to gild, gild, gild
parts of the Oval Office by hand.
What is the problem?
I mean, I'm not that much of a
guru.
I do that myself at the house.
Yeah, with gold spray paint.
No, you can get gold leaf.
It's actually relative.
It's not as cheap as it used to
be.
Are you gilding stuff?
I've gilded stuff.
I'm not doing it as we speak.
Could you gild my microphone?
You want to spray it.
You want to spray it.
You don't want to gild it.
How do you gild?
Is gild done by painting?
Or how do you gild?
No, no.
There's a sticky undersurface and you lay a
piece of gold leaf over it and press
it down and over the bumps and little
things and get it so it's all pushed
in there.
So it's one gold leaf at a time.
It's only one atom thick, which is crazy.
One atom?
Oh, man.
Yeah, gold can be one atom thick and
still be gold.
Is that the stuff the high-end chefs
put on the food?
Yeah, exactly.
That's the stuff you can eat?
Exactly the same stuff.
You can eat it?
Yes, you can because there's really not that
much to it.
I've eaten it.
It's just a line of atoms.
You're probably not getting enough gold to do
anything.
I mean, there's not much gold.
I've eaten gold in my day.
Most people have.
If you go to a high-end restaurant
over the years, at some point, someone will
bring out a gateau that has a piece
of gold leaf on the top.
And foam.
Foam.
Foam is so passe.
It's ridiculous.
Oh, foam.
It's still a thing.
Yeah, well, maybe where you are.
Let me clue you in about foam.
The foam.
I've always loved the foam.
And so these guys didn't stop.
Do you know about the peephole?
Oh, brother.
This is fascinating.
You know about the peephole in the outer
oval?
Most people don't know about this.
There was a peephole that until quite recently
would allow staff to just check on the
meeting to see what's going on in there.
Make sure the president's all right.
You're going to walk in.
You know what you're walking in on.
Trump has blocked the peephole with new mirrors.
If the door is now closed, they cannot
see what is happening in the room.
Oh, God.
I'll have what she's having.
He's blocked the peephole.
I can't believe that's also on television.
That's crazy.
Well, on television, they have it.
It's a very small box, and it's surrounded
by nothing but stock market information flying all
over the place.
Right, right, right.
It's not really a television show.
Yeah, I know.
Exactly.
Well, John, with that fine news of the
peephole being blocked, I think it is time
to thank you for your courage.
The man who put the sea in Candyland.
Say hello to my friend on the other
end, the one, the only, Mr. John C.
DeMora.
Yeah.
Good morning.
Chips and sea boots on the ground, feeding
the airships in the water, all the dames
and knights out there.
And the morning to the trolls in the
troll room.
Hold on.
Let me count you.
There we go.
There we go.
Okay.
We're at 1838.
That's not bad for a holiday weekend.
It's good to have everybody here.
Now, 1,838 trolls are listening live to
this podcast, and we are a podcast.
We're just a podcast.
You can do other things while listening to
this podcast.
We are an OG podcast.
And genuine.
A pod, as some would say.
The pod.
Well, you shouldn't be saying it.
You've rejected that moniker.
Yes.
Yes, I have.
So you can be driving while you're listening
to this.
You could be walking the dog.
You could be doing chores.
You're washing the dishes.
Walking around.
You can be gardening.
Gardening.
All kinds of wonderful activities.
In fact, we encourage that you're outside when
you listen to this podcast.
Just walking around, laughing to yourself.
So people think you're nuts.
It's perfect.
And you recognize each other on the street.
Oh, you're listening to the best podcast?
Yeah, I'm listening.
ITM.
ITM, everybody.
When did that happen the other day?
You got an ITM?
I got an ITM out of the blue.
Oh, from a pastor.
We were talking to a pastor.
One of the Bryans?
No, not one of the five Bryans.
No, this is for Godcaster.
And the pastor says, ITM.
I'm like, holy moly.
ITM.
There we go.
A man of the cloth.
Of many different cloths.
And, of course, if you have a modern
podcast app.
And, by the way, PodVerse is working on
a new version, which is going to be
amazing.
PodVerse 2.0. I mean, Mitch is...
Well, the new version of PodVerse.
I mean, what?
What's it going to do?
I mean, it's hard to explain, but it's
really going to help you find new podcasts,
find music.
We have value for value music.
Did you hear about the music hack?
It's interesting you bring that up.
Yes.
And it's not a hack.
It's just a great idea.
It's a download.
I think it's...
What is it?
Anna...
Anna's blog.
No, not...
Yeah, it is.
Anna's blog.
They backed up Spotify and they're making...
All of it.
Well, I think 90% pretty much...
I thought it was all of it.
We archived around 86 million files representing 99
.6% of listens.
300 terabyte in total size.
And, of course, they're putting this all on
torrents.
And so you can already get the metadata.
I've never even heard of Anna's blog.
But if you want to get a book...
They're hackers.
They do a lot.
Anna's blog has been in business.
Nobody knows anything about them.
But they're the ones who have the giant
libraries that they've stolen.
I'm going to use the word stolen.
They have downloaded all kinds of stuff.
They're very important to the underground community for
information archiving.
Well, you like downloading movies.
No, I don't.
I pay for everything I view.
I'm sorry.
Yes, you're right.
You pay for everything you do.
But there's lots of people who like downloading
movies.
But they have books.
I'll bet you your books are on here.
You wouldn't be surprised.
Yeah.
So it's kind of a super hack because
I can see people putting together...
They even have some kind of their own
player, if I understood correctly.
So in essence, you can load up the
metadata in their player.
And then you can access the files from
the torrents in your player.
And it'll just kind of work like Spotify.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean...
I can't see how that helps the stock.
Well, it depends.
If it gets kind of the scale of
Napster, it'll be very interesting to see what
happens.
But basically, the musicians aren't really losing any
money.
I mean, no one's making money.
They're not making any money anyway.
Yeah.
So in a way, it's kind of fun.
I mean, I don't condone stealing.
But, you know, I just like the idea
that they just sat there and had all
of these machines just screaming, grinding away and
taking it.
Saving everything.
I like that.
Just something radical about it that I like.
Of course, with podcasts...
This was at the dinner table conversation, too.
A couple of things to note.
One, I also posted this on X, this
little hack.
And the notes I got back from typically
my followers go, So what?
This is not WAV files.
Everybody knows if you're going to save stuff,
you got to save it in WAV.
You got to save full...
Lossless, lossless audio.
Lossless, lossless.
Lossless.
Lossless.
And so I got that.
And so then you also had the...
Which is what...
You've heard it.
No one cares.
No one cares about quality anymore.
That went out the window a long time
ago.
That's what I said.
That's what came up at the dinner table.
J.C. says, well, he only downloaded it.
It's 160K.
And I said, which is more than adequate
for today.
It's not 128 or 64.
This podcast is 96.
Yeah, we're 96.
We're 96, man.
We don't care.
It's great.
And I started doing that for file size,
but now it became part of our sound.
It is literally part...
Our sound is fine.
People would say we have great sound and
we're doing it at 96.
Yeah, well, that's because you get a little
bit of artifacts when you do it at
96.
It adds a little more crunch to it,
which I enjoy.
It's almost like over-modulating onto magnetic tape.
That's also part of sound.
I'm a sound designer, Chuck.
Yeah, you're...
I'm a sound designer.
It's designed for earbuds.
But, yeah, so that was the only pushback
you got.
It was not Wave, not Wave.
Go talk to Neil Young with his failed
Wave product.
Remember that?
Yeah.
It was a good idea, but no one
cared.
Nobody cared.
Once MP3s came in and Napster, and you
could be sharing with your friends, it was
fantastic.
Man, I loved those days.
The sales of CDs were at their absolute
peak.
Yes, because everyone was...
During Napster, because you could hear music you
never thought of, because Napster had a recommendation
engine.
No, no, it wasn't the recommendation engine.
It was you got a file and then
you go look at the guy's drive.
What else you got in here?
Yeah, right.
Well, it was a...
Exploration system.
Okay.
But it basically was a kind of a
handmade version of recommendation.
It was beautiful.
Because what you do, you hear some music
from some guy, and you say, what else
is this guy like?
You go look at his files, and you
say, oh, I never heard of this band.
You download it.
Wow, these guys are good.
I'm going to buy their album.
But think about how good that was as
a discovery mechanism versus what you get on
Apple Music or Spotify.
Which sucks.
There is the left.
It sucks.
Oh, you might also like this.
No, I like rooting around in the guy's
hard drive.
Oh, look at that.
He's got 78s.
This is John.
This is John's drive.
That would be me.
What?
He's got all this cool...
Oh, he's got entire radio dramas.
It was all kinds of fun stuff.
We got to bring that back.
That was super fun.
Now, Anna's blog.
Bring that back.
That's what people want.
Yeah, the internet got ruined by apps.
Apps.
Got to have an app.
So anyway, get one of those modern podcast
apps.
And apparently, Podverse 2.0 will help you
find perfect podcasts.
Podcastapps.com is where you can find all
of them.
And these are the ones that also automatically
will give you a bat signal when your
favorite podcast goes live, which is what we
do with the No Agenda show, which is
really the only way to do it because
you have a built-in studio audience and
it's just more fun.
There's more energy.
It's great, which is great.
Face it.
What else?
I guess we'll talk about the Christmas special,
which Donald Winkler put together for us.
I got a lot of positive feedback on
this.
Did you get any feedback at all from
people?
None whatsoever.
None.
Hmm.
Well, I like the art that I chose,
even though we had...
Even the art that we chose.
Yeah, but did you not like my choice?
It was much better.
No, it was an executive decision you made.
Yes, I...
Wisely, because that's a terrific piece of art.
I called an audible.
You called an audible and you nailed it.
Baron Darren O'Neill created a piece of
art, which, and they had two of them,
and one kind of hid the pretty blonde's
face.
But I opted for just a...
She looks a bit like my mom, honestly.
That's how my mom looked back in the
50s, 50s, and 60s.
That was a very typical American look.
Wouldn't you agree?
Yeah.
No, she's a pretty...
For AI, it created a very pretty...
That's a pretty face.
Pretty face.
Pretty classic face.
Yeah.
And I even got...
I got comments on that, people saying, I
like how Adam and John just don't care.
They'll just put a pretty...
Don't care?
What are you talking about?
They'll just put a pretty blonde in the
picture.
He's a pretty blonde.
This is, we do care.
Hello?
It's just the opposite.
Because we know a pretty blonde sells.
Come on, let's be real.
It's money in the bank, people.
A pretty blonde always sells.
And she was holding up a No Agenda
Christmas book by Currie and Dvorak as curated
by Sir Donald Winkler.
It was a little small, but I decided
to go with it anyway.
It was fine.
Darren is a master.
He's a master, I tell you.
I don't know how he does it, but...
And of course, he doesn't do anything else.
I think his wife works.
I'm pretty sure.
Hold on to that one, Darren.
Whatever she says, do the chores.
Don't change anything.
Don't change anything.
It's a gem.
There were, of course, a lot of pieces
of art that were uploaded to noagendaartgenerator.com.
We should probably just take a quick look.
And let me see.
There was a lot of Christmas art.
There was a lot of redacted naughty and
nice lists.
You used the Jeffrey Rhea Christmas special artwork,
which was a nice piece, which Jeffrey did.
It was a tree, stylized tree with the
letters.
Do you think that was AI?
Absolutely.
Yeah?
Well, it was good prompting done.
And then there was just a ton of...
Well, okay, there's Darren's.
Some stockings.
I don't know.
It's just...
Oh, yeah.
Very funny blue acorn with the sweater puppies.
Okay, yeah, I'm not going to choose that.
Yeah, that was kind of cute.
The one you wanted, the actual cheesecake, because
that's what we discussed by Darren in honor
of Scaramanga, which I was...
Well, I didn't...
No, I don't think that's true.
I think that's the one we decided on.
No.
Oh, the Christmas cheesecake by Scaramanga?
I think so.
No, by Darren.
Oh, there's a better one by Scaramanga, but
it's ridiculous.
Not usable.
As long as you mention him, that's all
that matters.
He just wants to be mentioned.
Yeah, well, I just mentioned it, so he's
got his mention.
He's got a girl with big breasts.
So we're always looking for something fun, something
that...
But I don't really see anything yet, except
another butt from a comic strip blogger.
He's always showing the butts.
I don't know.
I think there's still room, people, to swoop
in and get the art for this episode.
It's part of the value for value model,
is how it works, is you give us
your time, your talent, and treasure in return
for the outstanding podcast that we deliver twice
a week for 18 years.
We just keep on delivering.
We're just delivering.
Are you tired of our delivery yet?
Because it's never going to stop.
We're going to keep on delivering for more
years, or a thousand more years.
Depends.
Johnson Newsletter.
Yeah, you saw that.
I did see that, yes.
Inside joke, everybody.
So we always thank our financial donors, value
for value supporters, $50 and above.
It's nice to hear your name called out.
It's even nicer when you get a credit
for it, like an official Hollywood credit, which
we do with our executive and associate executive
producers.
That's $200 and above.
And we'll read your note for an associate
or an executive, $300 and above.
But once again, thanks to Sir Donald Winkler.
He is a full-on producer, and was
credited as such in episode 1828.
We really appreciate what he did.
And we will be needing, of course, more
best ofs, special shows for this coming year.
There's always stuff going on.
So we appreciate whenever someone puts something like
that together for us.
Now to start with our first executive producer
for this week, just as we wind up
the year, the last one for this year.
Paul Lincolns comes in from Lansville, Pennsylvania, with
a cool $1,000.
And he says, see attached note.
It's a dame for his mom and his
dad.
So I'm going to read that now.
He says, ITM John and Adam.
My name is Paul Lincolns.
My mom, Rose, made an instantite donation in
May when I graduated from Thaddeus Stevens College,
earning my associate degree in welding technology.
I remember this kid.
I know, because whenever we get someone who's
doing something actually productive like welding, we're the
first.
Like welding.
Everyone can use a welder, by the way,
in their Rolodex.
Yes, we're always the first one to say
yes.
We approve that career move.
And he says, I scored my first job,
and now I get to sew with metal
for a living.
It's a welding term.
I sew metal.
She hit me in the mouth in 2020,
and this show has been the best amygdala
-shrinking bonding experience for us.
This is also my chance to make an
incident donation for her.
My gift to you, Ma.
Although it might be late, Merry Christmas.
I would like my knight name to be
Sir Mama's Boy of the Arc Welders, and
my mom's to be Dame Rosie Posey of
the Flower Child.
At the round table, we would like best
Texas brisket and ice cold beer.
This is also a reply to the quote
John read in episode 1768.
Please read the following.
Mom, though through our struggles in this insanity
-inducing world, you, Dad, and I have always
stood strong together.
You tell me I light up your day,
while you guys brighten my universe.
Oh, this is so sweet.
I could never have asked for better parents
who have taught me so much in life.
I am proud to be your son.
I love you so much.
And now I'd like a noodle gun and
a goat scream followed by health and jobs
karma for jingles.
That is a beautiful note and a beautiful
gift.
I'm gonna shoot you in the face with
my noodle gun.
You racist piece of shit.
I got my pasta glock locked and loaded.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs.
Yeah!
Karma.
Then we go on, and you're gonna have
to read this note because it blew out
my spreadsheet, and I can mouse around it,
but my mouse dropped dead in the last
segment.
Okay, hold on.
And so I'm recharging it as we speak.
Oh, you don't just put in, uh...
No, my mouse's battery is rechargeable.
Yeah, there's no batteries in it.
Oh.
Oh, I like to just put battery kind
in.
That's my favorite.
Yeah, I do, too, if situation.
This is from Baba Yaga.
Baba Yaga.
Hold on a second.
Baba Yaga, because you have some requests here.
I didn't have set.
Okay.
Let me get the Pelosi.
Okay.
So difficult.
I don't have Pelosi.
Hello from Baba Yaga in Littleton, New Hampshire.
This is $500.
Ooh, the witch has been active out there
in the world.
She is dancing upon the earth on bony
legs with her rusty metal teeth, eternally chomping
and clanging.
With bottomless hunger, she feasts on the world's
children as they laugh and frolic into her
waiting oven with nary a complaint or outcry.
Oh, how she shrieks in delight how easily
they come, how easily they are seduced into
her whimsical hut sitting high on scaly old
chicken feet.
Oh, how lucky she is to have an
endless stream of food that comes right into
her home.
And as the world turns, she cackles and
creaks on.
I'm not sure why that came out there,
but it's an interesting little bit.
I very much appreciated your media deconstruction since
COVID times.
I will forever turn a big bloodshot eye
of skepticism toward any and all major news
developments spewed from the grassy mouths of the
foul new ghouls, thanks in part to your
program.
Please deduce me.
You've been deduced.
And call out my dad, Rick, as a
major douchebag.
Douchebag.
Wow.
Rick.
Can you give a shout-out to my
ultra-mega-awesome Main Street business community here
in northern New Hampshire, the Woodcocks?
And please check out my art and store
at babayagaville.com.
That's babayagaville, B-A-B-A-Y-A
-G-A-V-I-L.com.
Check that out.
Thank you and a happy 2026 to you
both.
You deserve the world and more.
And as Jingles, he wants chemtrails.
I didn't have any of that.
Somehow I missed this entire note.
Chemtrails, yes.
And what else does he want?
Pelosi, shut up.
From Zach in the great North Beast, Baba
Yaga, Littleton, New Hampshire.
Chemtrails.
We will not shut up.
No, that wasn't Pelosi.
Hold on a second.
Where's Pelosi?
Here's Pelosi.
Shut up.
I knew I had it.
Shut up.
Shut up.
Shut up.
The Baron of Old Bay is in Willamington,
Delaware, and he came in with $343 and
says, wishing everyone a Merry Christmas.
I'm donating to help John and Adam enjoy
a well-deserved Christmas break from the show.
What is on the menu this Christmas, asks
the Baron of Old Bay, who finishes off
with cheers.
What did you have this Christmas?
Our Christmas dinner is coming up.
Mimi sent me a text.
Hey, Merry Christmas.
I said, Merry Christmas for whenever you're going
to celebrate.
Tuesday?
Yes, we had tamales.
What?
Tamales, yeah.
Do you have a tamale?
You made the tamales or you bought some
commercial tamales from a local?
No, one of our Mexican friends made tamales
for us.
They're a pain in the butt to make.
I wouldn't make them.
Yeah.
So, yeah, they were dynamite.
Also, I had some of Sir Patrick Scoble's
Shine Nog, which he gave me when I
saw him here in Texas, which is moonshine
egg nog.
He would have access to such a thing.
I would not recommend drinking it at 10
a.m. like I did because, man, I
got hammered.
Sir Scobie, Charlotte, North Carolina, 333.33. These,
by the way, of course, are combined donations
for the Christmas episode and today's episode.
And he wants to hear George Bush send
your cast and says, Merry Christmas, gentlemen.
JCD's tip of the day for egg nog
recipe warrants mention of another egg nog recipe
in the Too Many Eggs cookbook, George Washington's
recipe.
GW loved his distilled spirits and included copious
amounts in his egg nog, supposedly to get
sloshed with his holiday guests.
This is the third year in a row
I've used the recipe.
It's always a hit with family and friends
as both a drink and a topic of
conversation.
So this is the egg nog that Mimi
has in the book.
Is that why?
Is this what he's saying?
Yeah, yeah, it's in there.
Thank you, John and Adam, for another year
of superb media deconstruction and an overall outstanding
product.
Fellow producers, join in to support the best
podcast in the universe.
John and Adam deserve that holiday bonus, says
Sir Scobie, Duke of the Piedmont.
I know a lot of people want to
send blankets or water.
Just send your cash.
Boom.
Yeah, which brings us to Joe Henning, who
is in Flower Mound.
He's our Flower Mound guy.
$333.33. Hold on one second while I
bring this note up to the proper size.
The notes are a little fuzzy today.
Yeah, it's interesting.
You noticed that.
Yeah, I thought it was my eyes, but
no, it's the notes.
It's the camera.
She probably had smudge on her lens.
Gents, thank you for your awesome show.
I just love it.
Please consider my first-time donation at $333
.33 and give me a de-douching.
You've been de-douched.
I'm wondering if you could put the word
out.
I'm looking for a CNC machine shop.
A CNC machine shop to buy in the
following areas.
He wants to buy a machine shop in
either North Texas, anywhere in North Texas, Austin,
San Antonio, Wisconsin, Denver, or Colorado Springs.
Anybody selling their machine shop?
CDC machine, CNC machine shop.
What does that mean?
That's a computer-assisted CNC.
My target SDE or EBITDA range of $650
,000 to $1 million.
It's EBITDA, EBITDA.
EBITDA.
Hello.
Interested parties or anyone who might know of
something, please call or text me at, and
he's got a number.
I'm just going to read it out.
You can play it back if you want
to call him.
262-623-2294.
They can also email me at joe at
techwork, T-E-K-W-E-R-K
.com.
John or Adam, please spell out the email.
In addition to me, I just did that.
Regards, Joe Henning.
Wow.
He's using this show to do mergers and
acquisitions.
No agenda.
We're here for your M&A.
Love it.
Let me see.
That brings us to Dame Cheryl from Pinedale,
Wyoming, 333, and she also sent in a
note.
Then she says, good day, gentlemen.
I hope this finds you well.
Thank you for breaking down all the latest
news around the world, some of which is
quite terrifying and downright mad.
But coming from your voices, I can take
it.
You make me laugh, and for that, I
am grateful.
Happy Christmas.
Happy New Year.
Cheers to 2026, says Dame Cheryl, cowgirl of
the Wind River Range in Boulder, Wyoming.
She says, P.S., can you guess this
font?
Now, that's one for you, John.
Oh, I'm not on the note.
Oh, well, that's too bad.
I'll go.
I'll go.
I'll go.
It's on this page.
I'm going to say this is Geneva.
Geneva.
Whatever you say.
It's Vienna.
Whatever you say.
Whatever.
Let's take a look.
Okay.
Can you guess this font?
It looks like Times New Roman to me.
Okay.
I'll take it.
All right.
Onward.
Okay, now I've got to go back.
Since I haven't got a mouse, it makes
it that much more difficult.
But we've got Waterworks Plumbing.
Okay, now this is a donation from Waterworks
Plumbing in Minnesota.
$250 is no note, but I'll give them
a double up.
Karma, before you do that, there's something, I
think there was a run, like there was
an overload or something at PayPal.
So people who sent in last-minute donations
after the newsletter, they all ended at 3
.30, even though a number of them came
in, including Gigawatt Coffee, Dame Astrid, a whole
bunch of 60-buck donations.
Some of them will be missed.
So if you get your donation missed on
today's show, send us a note.
If you had something to say, and we
will read it in a future show.
I mean, there was so many people were
donating to the show that it clogged up
the pipes?
No, so many people were using PayPal.
It wasn't anything to do with our show,
but all I know is that I kept
downloading the spreadsheet, and it ended at 3
o'clock yesterday when there were donations still
coming in, and I waited and waited and
waited.
I waited until midnight to go to bed.
It still said 3.30 or whatever the
time was.
And so everything that came in after that,
it either had to be put in by
hand or it was going to be missed.
Okay, so send us a note, and here's
a double up Karma.
You've got...
Karma.
For Waterworks Plumbing LLC.
Patrick Brown from Fairfax, Virginia, also $250 and
no note, so we'll give him a double
up Karma as well.
You've got...
Karma.
And in the same...
In the same vein, Michael Raimondi in Hollis,
New Hampshire, $250 double up Karma.
You've got...
Karma.
And coming in with 242, we've seen that
number before.
It's Christopher Graves in Mount Ockham, California.
Happy holidays, John.
Mount Ockham is in El Dorado wine country,
not far from the Shingle Springs.
Pick up some shingles.
Well, we may have run out of eggnog
fudge, by the way, dynamite.
We can say we had 100 plus producers
participate in our ITM 10 plus 10, bringing
in an additional donation of $1,131.30
from these brave knights and dames.
No eggnog fudge?
Well, we were inspired by Gigawatt Coffee and
made an amazing chocolate mocha fudge for the
new year.
Shop littlejohnscandies.com and use ITM 10 plus
10, you spell that P-L-U-S,
through January 10th.
No jingles, just jingle bells.
All right, thank you very much.
It's an outstanding product.
I love showing it to people and saying,
they've been doing this from 19...
They've been supporting Noah Jenner since 1924 and
making this fudge.
And it's a hit.
Everybody who eats this fudge just falls in
love with it.
North Idaho Sanity Brigade in Post Falls, Idaho.
23456, a favorite.
On behalf of the North Idaho Sanity Brigade,
here's another crowdfunded donation, courtesy of our Christmas
meetup.
We have continued our once a week broadcast
of North Idaho, our hyperlocal podcast, deconstructing the
mainstream of the Idaho panhandle, noidshow.com.
It's a good podcast.
They took my advice to heart.
They're doing a hyperlocal podcast.
To reiterate what we asserted when we last
donated, every region needs its own Noah Jenner.
Adam, can you give us an update on
the Noah Jenner hyperlocal podcast network you proposed?
Yes.
So far, you're the only ones.
But when we have more, we'll have a
network.
If you don't want to do it anymore,
perhaps we'll reach out to Tom Green.
Blow, blow.
Blow, blow.
Please play What's That in Your Mouth, the
crowdchant version, if we have it.
We do.
It comes from them, so of course I
have it.
Oh, he's doing self-promotion.
That's good.
All signed off is Sir Scott the Jew
and the North Idaho Sanity Brigade.
What's that in your mouth?
There you go.
Sir Rosas, associate executive producer for this episode,
2-2-2, a row of ducks, and
he sent in a note.
Greetings, podosphere heroes.
Please accept my humble donation and shout out
to my lovely girlfriend's hand-cut vintage tin
jewelry shop, No Remnants.
Each piece is unique, being hand-cut from
vintage and upcycled biscuit and tea tins.
She also has the history of every tin
listed on her website, where they were manufactured,
what they were used for.
She also accepts custom projects.
If you have an item you'd like created
into custom jewelry.
No Agenda producers, please check out najewelry.shop
or noremnants.com.
Oh, that's some good marketing right there.
najewelry.shop or noremnants.com.
I've also included a pair for each of
your wives.
Oh, I didn't see you come in.
Yeah, no, we have.
Have you seen it?
Are they nice?
They're nice.
I gave them to Jay.
Did you wrap it up and say Merry
Christmas?
No, she's the one who opened the box.
I hope you have a happy Christmas, Uncle
Adam and Uncle John.
Sir Rosas, Knight of Show 1000.
And he adds there at the end, I
might be a baronet, but I'll get it
sorted for the next donation.
Perfect.
Thank you very much.
Dean Astrid came in from Tokyo.
From Tokyo, 22026.
They're John and Adam.
You always will be the best, all caps.
The Christmas special was much fun.
And hearing Sir Chris's and Sir Felix's songs.
I didn't know they were.
Yeah, they were in there.
Brought us a real tear to my eyes.
Thank you to Sir Donald Winkler for putting
it together.
You're all such geniuses.
Wishing you, the keepers, all the lovely people
in the back office and all the fantastic
producers around the world a happy new year
to celebrate somewhere around the 10th of January,
perhaps.
That's your date.
You're referring to me, I think.
I believe so.
Dame Astrid and Sir Mark, Duchess and Archduke
of Japan and all the disputed islands in
the Japan Sea.
Thank you, Dame Astrid.
Yeah, thanks.
James Story from Lower Hutt, Stokes.
Stokes Valley?
Let me see.
Yeah, Stokes Valley in New Zealand.
Yeah.
That's our only New Zealand.
It's funny because I had a New Zealand
clip about...
50 shows ago.
No, there's a show.
I have a clip, I think, on today's
show.
But there's a big exodus and they're bitching
and moaning in New Zealand about all the
people leaving to move to Australia.
Well, hold on.
Is that a bonus clip?
Well, if it's on the list, let's see.
I don't see any...
I don't see it.
Yeah, we take...
Regan Boag, Rusky Bloggers.
I don't think you put it in.
No, it's too bad.
Would have been fun.
Would have been.
He says, $220.
Merry Christmas, gents.
Thank you for your hard work this year.
Best regards, Sir James Story from New Zealand.
Thank you very much.
And...
Okay, lost word.
Oh, Eli the Coffee Guy is up.
He's in Bentonville, Illinois.
$212.28. 20...
It says 28.
Yeah, today's the 28th.
2-12-28.
Oh, I thought it was the...
Okay, yeah, you're right.
What am I thinking?
Happy New Year.
We made it through 2025 and what a
wild ride it's been.
We've kicked things off Joe Biden.
We kicked things off Joe Biden as president.
I don't know how that wording works, but
okay.
I think he means we kicked things off
with Joe Biden.
With, maybe.
Yeah, ISIS on Bourbon Street and a special
forces operator self-immolating in front of Trump
building in Vegas.
Wow, forgot about that one.
Forgot about all of that.
Yeah, I forgot about the guy who lit
himself.
And somehow with everything...
That's interesting.
And somehow with everything else that followed, it
already feels like ancient history.
Or forgettable history.
This is because time is...
Elon and big balls, Charlie Kirk, Katy Perry
coming out as Trudeau's beard.
And that's barely a highlight reel.
You know, I think time is compressing.
Time is accelerating.
Something's happening.
It must be three-eye vision, whatever that
comet is that's coming towards us.
Now we're sitting on the precipice of 2026
as the old Chinese saying goes.
May you live in interesting times.
Mission accomplished.
Here's wishing everyone a peaceful and enjoyable new
year to that end.
Here it comes.
To that end, new year, new coffee.
This Tuesday, 1230.
We're releasing our new bourbon barrel-aged Mexican
Veracruz.
Start the year off right.
Visit Gigawatt Coffee Roasters and grab a bag.
Stay caffeinated.
Happy 2026.
Eli the coffee guy.
That's gigawattcoffeeroasters.com.
Wow, I can't wait to taste that.
Bourbon barrel-aged Mexican Veracruz.
Juliana Lee.
Don't know where she's from, but she sent
us $200.60 and says, Merry Christmas.
Thank you for everything.
And we thank you very much.
Ray Rials in LaGrange, Texas.
$200, no note.
Gives him a double up.
You've got...
Karma.
The same goes for William Spratt from Marietta,
Georgia.
$200, no note.
Also a double up karma for you.
You've got...
Karma.
Onward to Linda Lepatkin in Cuyasol Rock, Colorado.
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He says, Hi guys.
Hope this note finds you well.
After some time away in Edmonton, I moved
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I didn't know that.
51st state, baby.
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and he just simply says Merry Christmas, which
does have a jingle request.
He'd love that Obama phone clip.
Everybody in Cleveland, low minority, got Obama phone.
Keep Obama in president, you know.
He gave us a phone.
I found the longer version of it, but
it's like a minute.
When he says Romney sucks, that's my favorite
part.
Sir Skizzle.
We don't know where Sir Skizzle is from.
Wait a minute, Sir Skizzle has a note.
Let's see.
Sir Skizzle.
Where is Sir Skizzle?
Well, I guess this is Sir Skizzle.
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Now we go on to the last donation.
And I had blown up the other one,
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It's another note.
Daris Morris.
Yeah, these are all handwritten notes.
Daris.
Daris Morris.
See, you said Darcy.
Yeah, I messed up.
It's Daris.
So I messed up, too.
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Daris Morris.
Daris.
It says right there.
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I do, too.
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200 bucks.
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Outed by Adam.
One of my dad's favorite terms.
It's up to four as of today.
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I can't stop saying it now.
You're going to break the poor woman.
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Thank you, Daris.
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It's a good term.
And thank you to all of these executive
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Our formula is this.
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What's that in your mouth?
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Yeah, that was good.
Thank you.
Thank you all very much.
It was a nice Christmas giving.
Don't you all feel good about it?
You should.
You should feel very good.
Because when you give, it always comes back
to you.
It always does.
It's amazing how it works.
I have to find the clip list.
I have two little things I'd like to
discuss here.
Okay.
I've been looking up some.
So, I came up with this term, limbic
capitalism.
Limbic capitalism.
You came up with the term or you
ran into the term?
Well, I came up with it, but I'm
sure that it's been used before.
I have a feeling.
And limbic capitalism is basically everything you see
online.
It's your news feed.
This porn is limbic.
Limbic being the brainstem.
But also ultra-processed foods qualify under limbic
capitalism.
In essence, everything people are making money on
these days is limbic capitalism.
The number one being gambling.
And I've been talking to a lot of
the Zuma Waffen.
And they all say, oh, yeah.
It's out of control.
And the young people are so happy.
Oh, I won 25 bucks.
Because it's not even about the money.
It's just about that innate, natural dopamine.
It's either dopamine or in some cases cortisol
if you lose.
It's all these things that your body needs
to have these reactions.
But they're just being created artificially.
Mainly by Silicon Valley companies.
And NPR had a report about sports betting.
And it was done by...
Suffer and Succotash.
I'm Scott Simon.
Now it's time for sports.
A world series to cherish.
An NFL dynasty deflates.
Plus, what sport didn't have a gambling scandal
in 2025?
Sports writer Howard Bryant joins us.
Howard, thanks for being with us.
Hello, Scott.
One gambling scandal after another in sports this
year.
From the NBA, Major League Baseball, college basketball.
Players suspended for gambling and having bets on
certain occurrences in the game.
Which is how I'll describe prop bets.
In the year ahead, do fans need to
ask, can I trust what I'm seeing?
This day was coming.
And I think that the sports leagues had
taken the position that I never agreed with.
I never quite understood it.
These players make so much money.
That they would not risk the adrenaline rush
that comes with gambling.
And we've seen that not to be the
case.
We've seen that Major League Baseball with Luis
Ortiz and Emmanuel Clase are involved in a
scandal.
They may never play again.
We've seen the Jonte Porter in the NBA.
Now the Chauncey Billups and Terry Rougier case.
And the attitude has been that, well, essentially
the leagues are going to take the money.
The commercials are everywhere.
I mean media is funded by DraftKings and
FanDuel and the rest of it.
And then the players take the fall.
And so the more you watch these games
with your high-definition televisions and the controversial
calls.
Especially in the NFL and the NBA.
The more you begin to wonder, are you
watching a legitimate contest?
And that is the death knell for sports.
So the question is really going to be,
are you going to trust what you're watching?
Or are we simply going to watch these
athletes be the ones who individually get bounced
out of the game.
And the game maintains its legitimacy.
I think it's a very, very difficult balance.
And I think 2025 really showed that.
You're a sports ball guy, John.
How do you feel about it?
Is it ruining sports?
It can.
I think it's not good.
I think gambling should be discouraged.
And the fact that these guys are all
in bed.
ESPN now has ESPN Bet.
They talk about DraftKings.
But ESPN Bet is like an operation run
out of ESPN.
The NFL and both the NFL and the
NBA.
I'm not sure about Major League Baseball.
But I know those two operations have done
deals.
So they're in bed with the gamblers.
It's just like everybody, it's all the gamblers.
It's gambler, gambler, gambler.
And they push it and push it and
push it.
They got whole shows on ESPN about the
betting lines and what you should be betting
on.
They have a couple of women in particular
that I have watched on ESPN Bet, one
of their shows, who are quite good at
this.
And it's all a lot of prop bets.
I think you should go with this.
It's disgusting.
Here's Scott Simon choking up over it.
But there was a historically great World Series.
Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Toronto Blue Jays
in a series that twisted, turned, and set
records.
I love that.
I love that he left that in.
He choked on his own spit.
Those guys all have cough buttons at that
facility.
It was perfect.
This is Scott Simon.
Scott Shyman at his best.
Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Toronto Blue Jays
in a series that twisted, turned, and set
records over seven games.
See, I'm choked up.
You are.
You're reclaimed.
It's incredible, Scott.
I mean, that is the thing that we
love about the games.
Every time there's a scandal, whether it's steroids,
whether it's gambling, when the game is played
at its best, people come to it, and
they love it, and it reminds them of
all the reasons why they got hooked in
the first place, when their team wins.
It is that reminder of the power of
what sports brings for us.
You know, so I was looking into this
limbic capitalism, and to be fair about it,
it was Gemini that came up with the
term.
I'm like, oh, I made up a term
because it was my prompt.
And I'm like, how can the No Agenda
show benefit from limbic capitalism?
That was my prompt.
And I think I'm glad the way you're,
I like the way you think.
And it said, well, the No Agenda show
is, in fact, the antithesis of limbic capitalism.
I'm like, yeah, I guess you're kind of
right about that.
But it had a suggestion for us.
It had a limbic capitalism suggestion.
And who doesn't?
It was to randomly choose a below $50
donor to receive a special knighthood, thereby spurring
people on to gamble on the show.
I can hear your wheels crunching.
But I did like how it said that
we are the antithesis of limbic capitalism, which
is true.
Limbic capitalism hacks the system by offering super
stimuli that trigger rewards more intensely and frequently
than nature ever intended.
Over time, this bypasses the brain's executive function
of self-control, leading to habit formation, compulsion,
and eventually addiction.
Oh, there you go.
There you go.
That's it.
That's it.
Not good.
We are addictive, but not for your limbic.
Not for that reason.
We don't want to do that.
In fact, now I should mention it.
No, we don't.
Definitely out.
We are amygdala capitalism.
That's what we are.
Ha ha.
Well, talking about getting sick, I have the...
Getting sick.
I got the Rinvoke ad.
What?
Rinvoke?
What is Rinvoke?
Rinvoke is one of these drugs, and this
is the contraindications and all the bad things
that can happen to you from using Rinvoke.
And lasting steroid-free remission.
Check, check, and check.
Rinvoke can lower ability to fight infections.
Before treatment, test for TB and do blood
work.
Serious infections, blood clots, some fatal.
Cancers including lymphoma and skin.
Serious allergic reactions, GI tears, death, heart attack,
and stroke occurred.
CV event risk increases in age 50 plus
with a heart disease risk factor.
Tell your doctor if you've had these events,
infection, Hep B or C, smoked, are pregnant,
or planning.
Don't take if allergic or have an infection.
Put UC and Crohn's in check.
Oh, it's for Crohn's disease?
Yeah.
Oh, wow.
And I think what they're doing, because I
can't prove this, because I didn't get the
other clip, but I think they have, they
rattle off all these dangerous things that can
happen, different, for the same companies, the same
drug, but they have a different ad and
they have a different list.
Oh, interesting.
Just a way to get around, I think,
a way to get around the rules.
So I've been searching for you, actually not
really searching, I've had my eye out, because
you were looking for a fourth or fifth
vector in this particular story.
And it's from Reuters.
Again, I'm pretty sure Reuters is using AI
voices.
Yeah, you said that.
I said it, I'm saying it again, because
when you listen to it, it sounds like
it.
Were you not on the lookout for EEOC
stories?
Yeah, I believe so.
Here we go.
Under the Trump administration, the EEOC is ramping
up scrutiny of corporate diversity programs.
It's already opening inquiries into how companies handle
sex and race in hiring and promotions.
Our race and justice correspondent, David Hud-Nuno,
spoke with Lucas and explains what's...
Tell me this isn't AI.
You know, I'm not convinced of it.
The pauses are too lengthy.
If someone did this read, I'd be like,
go and read it again.
It's too lengthy.
So those priorities boil down to four buckets.
One of them is attacking all forms of
race discrimination, which includes diversity, equity, and inclusion
-related race and sex discrimination.
The second is dealing with religious liberty issues
that spans the gamut of antisemitism to COVID
-19 vaccine mandates.
And then the third is gender identity and
focusing on women's sex-based rights.
And then the fourth is national origin discrimination,
which in her view is protecting American workers
regardless of their race, which is a shift
in the EEOC's mission, which used to protect
workers against discrimination in the sort of traditional
sense.
And so this conservative view of civil rights
is a massive pivot for the agency that
has huge ramifications for companies, for employees, et
cetera.
Please tell me this is part of what
you wanted to hear because it was so
boring.
No, not at all.
It was so boring to me.
Hey, we have a...
No, you purposely picked a very boring, useless
clip.
No, I didn't.
This is your way of getting back at
me.
No, no, I was trying to help you.
I was trying to help you.
We have the president and Zelensky on the
quad screens.
How are they doing?
Are they fighting?
Are they punching each other?
Are they shaking hands as you're putting your
hand on this guy's shoulder and towering over
him?
They're at lecterns.
They're at lecterns with American...
Well, let's listen in, shall we?
Let's have a quick listen.
Get something done, and if there's something that
comes up, I'd speak.
But otherwise, I don't think there's any reason
to.
In your mind, sir, what are the thorniest
issues still unresolved?
Well, I think the land you're talking about,
some of that land discontent.
All right, they resolve nothing.
Of course not.
This is just bullcrap.
Okay, I got a last series I'm going
to do today.
All right, let me guess.
This is from the BBC, World Service is
about rusky bloggers and podcasters in the training
centers around the world.
They're training these Russians.
They're going to be attacking us with the
bots and the bloggers and the podcasters.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Yeah.
So we can be Putin's puppet once again?
Can we go to these training centers?
Is there money involved?
If there was money involved, we'd be there
already.
Well, after Russian forces invaded and captured large
parts of eastern Ukraine over three years ago
now, the Kremlin tightly controlled any information about
life in Ukraine's occupied regions.
But in recent months, one source of information
has come from pro-Russian bloggers and content
creators.
Their videos about life under occupation have gathered
thousands of online followers.
The BBC's James Beardsworth has the story.
Across Russian-occupied Ukraine, hundreds of content creators
are making slick, professional-looking videos celebrating life
under Russian occupation.
Mariupol is becoming better and better every day.
Its changes are literally shocking, says 23-year
-old content creator Maria Chushkina, one of hundreds
of channels run by often young, attractive men
and women, which broadcast pro-Russian content from
occupied Ukraine to tens of thousands of followers.
Oh, this is great.
So instead of what's probably true, that these
people are happy, because Ukraine was killing them
previously, now they're just shills for Russia?
I have no...
You know, the validity of this story is
somewhat baffling to me.
I don't know if it's true or these
people are just a bunch of propagandists.
But it's interesting, and I would expect something
like...
This is, like, a good use of the
medium if you're a propaganda outlet.
I'm just fascinated by the story.
I don't know whether any of it's true.
But here's the thing.
They're speaking in Russian.
It's not like they're talking to American audiences
or European audiences.
Yeah, no, it's for local consumption, yeah.
I like how this particular British North Sea
Nexus reporter says young, young.
It's like H.
H, that's another thing.
There's a certain type of Brit that says
H.
H.
H?
Yeah, instead of H, they say H.
H.
Yes, H.
It's code.
No, one of my helicopter instructors was a
Brit.
He says, just land over there on the
H.
I'm like, what's the H?
The H.
What's the H?
The H over there, the H.
Oh, you mean the H?
Yes, the H.
Young, young H.
H, young H.
One of those creators is Elizaveta Churyakova, a
21-year-old from Mariupol.
Despite her city being almost completely flattened by
Russia's invasion of...
H speech.
...three years ago, Elizaveta now posts pro-Russian
content, posing in front of the Russian flag
and celebrating the Kremlin's rebuild of her city.
I asked her why she began making her
videos.
She is voiced by one of my colleagues,
as she didn't want her voice to be
broadcast.
To be honest, I always want to create
a content even before all the famous events.
And when everything changed, I saw that my
city was often presented on the internet as
a ghost town.
And I wanted to show the reality that
we are living, not what is sometimes written
in the news.
The bloggers carefully choreographed their videos, often showing
newly built apartment blocks, shops and restaurants built
by Russia, but rarely mentioning the death and
destruction caused by the war, or who started
it in the first place.
Elisaveta told me more about how she believes
her city has changed since Russia's arrival.
There is a feeling that the city is
coming to life, that the constant internal tension
that used to be in the background has
gone.
Like many other content creators in the region,
Elisaveta learned how to make her eye-catching
content at the Donbass Media Center.
The center offers free, vocational video making courses
to people under 25.
Pavel Khodbovsky is a blogger and teacher at
the school.
The Donbass Media Center is a school of
bloggers.
A few hundred people have studied here.
In Donetsk, in Lugansk, in Mariupol and one
in Malitopol.
It's very cool, because somebody needs to say
what is happening in our region in order
to tell, let's say, residents of Britain or
France, so that when they watch the content,
they understand that their government, or the Ukrainian
government, is trying to sell them something that
is far from the truth.
Ilya Yablokov is an excellent blogger and teacher
at the Donbass Media Center.
He is an expert on Russian disinformation at
the University of Sheffield in the UK.
He has been monitoring these schools.
They've created this network of media centers, propaganda
outlets, let's put it that way, that aggregate
information, but also produce it on an industrial
scale.
If you look at the pictures, you see
absolutely regular boys and girls.
These guys are being trained to spread the
message about the war in Donbass, or rather
the peace in the Donbass.
I put those claims to Elisaveta.
I just live in my city and show
my reality.
I'm a patriot of my country, but this
is not about work or promoting interest.
Videos posted by the Donbass Media Center show
hundreds of teenagers doing presentations about what they
call Russia's new regions, with prizes, including trips
to Moscow, for the most successful students.
Wow.
Maybe we could hand out Donbass Media Center
diplomas.
That's actually not a bad idea.
The Russians have, in the earlier report that
you played, they've absconded with all the nationalized
everything and IP.
That's right.
So IP, that means they've given up IP.
So the IP, which is the Donbass Media
Center, is now public domain.
There you go.
So we could give a degree from there.
Well, I think there's one last clip.
For some of the millions forced to flee,
like former Mariupol resident Alena Kildeshova, the content,
which she says often appears on her social
media feed, is just another cruel reminder of
a home she knows she may never be
able to return to.
How dare they?
There were dead bodies all around the streets
and now they are saying that Mariupol is
in bloom.
I can't understand how the city can be
blooming on blood and rebels.
That report from James Beardsworth there.
Well, I'm not going to hire James Beardsworth,
who says, what kind of English are they
speaking over there?
You know, I've had, I had a conversation
with Andrew Olowski recently over the phone, basically.
And the English is, a lot of these
English guys, it's getting harder and harder to
understand.
And I noticed this when I was writing
at PCMag UK over the years, I was
there probably there for a decade.
So I'd go to England at least twice
a year.
And I was there and it was just,
I just started noticing that the English is
harder and harder and harder to understand.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It must have been BBC Regional.
I have no idea.
It was BBC World Service, you said?
It was World Service.
Yeah, that was World Service.
But it doesn't mean it wasn't an original
report they just repurposed.
It's the Christmas Bee Team.
That's what it is.
Christmas Bee Team.
I got three clips left in a series.
This is, I just thought it was interesting.
It is from NPR.
This is about South America and how South
America is loving Trump and is shifting right.
Several countries in the South.
Wait, wait, where'd this come from?
NPR.
And they say South America loves Trump?
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, they say a lot of things.
Well, of course it's all bad, obviously.
It's not good.
Several countries.
It didn't make sense.
No, it's not good.
In South America elected conservative and even far
right leaders in 2025.
The goal here is to bring security and
stability to the hemisphere, to the region, the
region we live in, which has not received
enough attention.
For more, we go now to NPR Correspondence.
Which you, by the way, called it.
You called it that Rubio was going to
be doing this.
Rubio was focusing on South America and there
he is in the clip.
It's all his fault, of course.
And he is.
He's Trump's a little minion in South America.
For more, we go now to NPR Correspondent
Kerry Kahn in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Thanks for being here, Kerry.
Hello, Daniel.
Hello.
Hello.
So let's start just talking about this big
turn to the right in the region.
Overwhelmingly, voters are concerned about crime, violence and
security.
And in the case of Chile, also illegal
immigration.
That to me is the significant shift in
the landscape here.
When the left took power, the major emphasis
back then was economic inequality, social issues, the
environment.
Now it's safety.
And the left just has not come through
with either effective policies to combat the organized
crime, violence or credible promises that they're going
to do something better.
And the right has really straightforward, tough on
crime plans and slogans.
And I'm not commenting on the quality of
the rights proposals.
All I'm saying is that they are resonating
better with voters.
Is great.
Our hemisphere.
This is exactly what we want.
We wanted to turn against the communist, socialist
morals and values that have destroyed everything.
And they can't stand it.
OK, so what are what are some of
those measures get tough on crime like those
made infamous in El Salvador, the mano dura
iron fist policies that are just being emulated
everywhere, bringing the military to patrol the streets,
sound familiar, build maximum security prisons, toughen sentences.
And in many places, the population is more
than willing to curb civil rights to combat
that crime.
Also, many just want to crack down on
illegal immigration.
Remember, nearly eight million people have fled the
authoritarian rule of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela.
And most have stayed here in this region.
And the right has deftly conflated and merged
the high crime fears and illegal immigration sound
familiar, like with the recent win in Chile
by the ultra conservative there.
He pledged to build fences, even dig huge
ditches along the border, as well as start
mass deportations of migrants.
Does sound familiar.
Wow.
Which sounds a lot like Trump's pledges here
in the U.S. Diaries.
Yes.
No surprise that Trump's policies get a very
warm reception, and they're being mirrored here to
among conservative voters and anti left voters.
His military intervention against Venezuela and drug traffickers
is very popular.
Trump's also stepped in for many of his
favorite candidates and his allies.
There was that 20 billion dollar bailout for
Argentina's far right libertarian president Javier Millet that
came
right before he was facing a tough midterm
election.
And Trump pledges support for the new right
leaders in Bolivia and in Chile.
And the populist anti crime rhetoric is really
working.
Some have even coined it with a new
term security populism.
Will Freeman of the Council on Foreign Relations
was talking to me about that.
It's not surprising that this is gaining so
much popularity, given how powerful and rich organized
crime groups have become here.
Yes.
Killing fishermen is very popular in South America.
It's amazing.
But here it's a big problem.
They're like, yeah, kill those fishermen.
Why are these crime groups becoming so powerful
right now?
I mean, hasn't organized crime been a problem
for a long time in Latin America?
But they're richer than ever.
Wait, wait.
Sure.
How do you answer it when you ask
me something?
Sure.
You know, it just makes.
Sure.
Sure.
Sure.
Well, it was it was it was a
leading question.
Let's hear it again.
Why are these crime groups becoming so powerful
right now?
He answers his own question by saying, I
mean, hasn't organized crime been a problem for
a long time in Latin America?
Sure.
But they're richer than ever.
They're making billions and not just from drugs,
but migrant trafficking and increasingly illegal gold trafficking.
Gold prices are soaring right now.
Now listen to the example that's coming up.
And so is demand for drugs in the
US and Europe and especially cocaine.
It's on the rise.
The use in the US, but cocaine use
is at an all time high in Europe.
And so is coca production.
And that happens mainly in Colombia.
So most cocaine smuggling and transportation goes through
Ecuador.
And I just spent a lot of time
there this year and I spent time with
this one banana farmer and I just want
to tell you a little bit about him.
He battles extortion and kidnapping attempts by the
cartels.
He told me this one story that has
stuck with me so much.
He was visiting friends in Europe and they
were all partying and someone pulled out cocaine
and he said he was just floored.
He told them, don't you know what that
has done?
Your consumption has done to my country.
And he said the people at the party
just could not connect the dots with him.
Oh, wow.
Oh, wow.
Oh, wow.
Oh, wow.
Oh, wow.
Oh, wow.
You're partying.
You're partying.
It's killing my country.
Oh, wow.
Oh, wow.
Oh, wow.
By the way, we're closer to a deal
than ever, according to the quad screen.
Closer than ever to a deal.
Closer than ever.
We are.
So that means what?
It means nothing.
It means absolutely zip.
I'm going to show my support by donating
to No Agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
Yeah, on No Agenda.
In the morning.
And talking about meaning zip, Adam's going to
zip through the list of donors above $50.
But last two shows, it'll take a little
while and here he comes.
Is it really going to take a while?
Is it that long?
Is it that long?
It's 30 more than usual.
Okay, well, here we go.
Where's my spreadsheet?
Here's the spreadsheet.
Here we go.
Christopher Gaya, Dallas, Texas, 133.33. Jim Buell
in Fitchburg, Wisconsin, 125.25. Lorraine Converse, Edmond,
Oklahoma, 12345.
We see what he did there.
Same goes for Dame Brazen Bird from Edmond,
Oklahoma.
Wait a minute.
That's the same.
Edmond, Oklahoma, 12345.
Interesting.
Wants a health karma for our friend, Dave,
who survived a cardiac event and a jobs
karma from my daughter, Grace Ann, who has
been job searching for over seven months.
I suggest giving Linda Liu, the Duchess of
Jobs and writer of resumes, a call.
I will do that at the end.
Zadok Brown, the third, 105.35. Mahalo.
Ward Detweiler, spots, location unknown, 105.35, and
he said, a lot of people are saying
this, Merry Christmas, you filthy animals.
That was part of our special.
$100 from Ian Fields, parts unknown, Alice Bradley
in Knoxville, Tennessee, Jacqueline Lentz in Muskego, Wisconsin,
Deanna M.
Evie in Pacific City, Oregon, Joshua Chartier in
Riddleton, Tennessee, and Anonymous in Lake Oswego, Oregon.
And there's Kevin McLaughlin, the Archduke of Luna
and lover of boobs.
Merry Christmas, he says, with his 8008.
He's in Concord, North Carolina.
Robert Ludwig, Nevada, Iowa, with a boob donation.
Herb Lamb, Sugar Hill, Georgia, 8008.
Boob from him as well.
And a second on form, Kevin McLaughlin, the
Archduke of Luna and lover of boobs.
He did it for both shows.
Thank you.
Brian Kaufman.
That's nice.
Yes, it is nice.
Brian Kaufman, Scottsdale, Arizona, 75.75, which is
69.69 plus fees.
Greg Hartlaub in Cincinnati, Ohio, 75.75 from
Fat Dad BMX, North Little Rock, Arkansas.
I haven't heard from him in a while.
Thank you very much.
Nicholas Leary in Columbus, Ohio, 72.72. John
Alberini, Parts Unknown, 70.26. Victoria and James
in West Orange, New Jersey, right near where
I used to live, Verona, Montclair, $70.23.
Dame Becky Arlington, Washington, 69.69. Semper Pici,
LLC, in Sharerville, Indiana, 68.86. Nice palindrome.
Strike.
Thank you, Bitcoiner, 66.74. Robert Sourin, Nunheim,
Nunheim, Nunheim, Nederland, 65.
Marco Masse, Parts Unknown, 63.31. Matthew Elwert
in Weatherford, Texas, small boob, 6.006. Dame
Liberty Mom in Vista, California, small boob for
her, or from her, 6.006. Christopher Witzel,
Spirit Lake, Idaho.
That is also a small boob, 6.006.
Tim Heasel, Hanford, California, 58.09, which is
double nickels on the dime plus fees.
Thank you for mentioning that.
Preston Price, 55.55. He's from Woodstock, Georgia.
Jim Caslin in Buda, Texas, 55.
Hakon Andersen in Portland, Oregon, 52.72. Jonathan
Dennison, Parts Unknown, 52.72. Nathan Gwynn, Jackson,
Tennessee, 52.72. Baron Henry of Outpost West,
Ranchos Palos Verdes, California, 52.42. Cameron Ling,
or Ling, North Branch, Minnesota, 52.21. Forrest
Martin with the palindrome, 50.05, Parts Unknown.
John Carini, Port St. Lucie in Florida, 50
.01. Noah McDonald, Traverse City, Michigan, 50.
These are all 50s.
Alex Delgado, Aptos, California.
George Wuschit in La Vernia, Texas.
Mitchell Goheen in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Lindsey Christensen in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Michael Biscagli in Staten Island.
Oh, Staten Island, how you doing?
That's New York.
Brian Gately in Bayville, New Jersey.
Scott Van Gelder in Centerville, Massachusetts.
Benjamin Ryan in Alliance, Ohio.
Richard Gardner, Parts Unknown.
Aaron Weissgerber in Bend, Oregon.
Laura Bertolini in Mobile, Alabama.
Stephen Jaffe in Ranchos Palos Verdes, California.
No name, Christmas bonus, thank you.
Salt Lake City, Utah.
Leanne Shipley in Covington, Washington.
Michael Myers in Diamond Head, Missouri.
Mississippi.
Mississippi, thank you.
Laura Bertolini comes in again with $50.
Thank you for both shows, Automatic.
And Stephen Jaffe rounds it out with $50
from Ranchos Palos Verdes in California.
A nice list, thank you all very much
for supporting us through the Christmas holiday.
It's highly appreciated.
Of course, it's value for value, which means
whatever you get out of the show, you
just send it back to us.
That is the value that we deserve.
As long as you send something, we're totally
happy with that.
And of course, we never mention anyone under
50 for reasons of anonymity.
We thank you all very much for your
49.99s, your 33s, your 11s, your 12
.12s, your 3s, your 4s, whatever it is,
it is value for value.
Thank you very much.
And support the show.
Go to noagendadonations.com.
Support us with any amount, any time you
wish.
In fact, you can set up a sustaining,
recurring donation, any amount, any frequency.
noagendadonations.com.
♪ It's a bad thing, bad thing ♪
♪ On No Agenda ♪ Strangely enough, a
very short list.
David Kekta, also known as Melo-D, happy
birthday to his awesome stepdaughter, Bella Green.
She turned 24 on December 18th.
And Sir Donald of Calgary, as we heard
earlier, celebrated his birthday on December 27th.
That was yesterday.
We say happy birthday on behalf of everybody
here, the staff and management of the best
podcast in the universe.
♪ It's a bad thing, yeah ♪ ♪
Title changes, turning faces late ♪ ♪ Nice
changes, don't wanna be a douchebag ♪ Well,
he's been around for a long time, so
no chance of him being a douchebag.
And he said he'd figure out the numbers,
but it is the honor system.
We trust you.
Sir Donald of Calgary, double night is what
he called it, but we just call you
a baronet here on the No Agenda peerage
ladder, which I think is still available somewhere.
Maybe noagendapeerage.net or something like that.
It's out there somewhere.
Congratulations and thank you very much for your
support, sir.
And we do have one of the final
awardees of a No Agenda Peace Prize, thanks
to his very peacemaking, peace-loving donation of
$1,000, because that's all you need to
do to receive this prize.
Paul Lincolns, you are now an official recipient
of the No Agenda Peace Prize.
Please go to noagendarings.com and make sure
that you send us an address where to
send this very handsome and very authentic-looking.
It's Nobel Peace Prize-like is what it
is, but it's an official Peace Prize.
It looks exactly the same.
I should mention and make a correction here
on you.
For peerage, it's dvorak.org slash peerage.htm.
And is that an updated list?
Yes, this list has always been there.
We haven't changed the peerage around.
Oh, no, but I thought there was a
list.
No, no, a list of people.
Yes.
I thought you meant a list of the
various levels.
No, so let me correct you on your
correction on me.
Okay.
You're corrected.
Thank you.
Hey, I forgot to give the jobs karma
that was requested early on.
Let me do that right now.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs.
You've got karma.
And we do have one dame and one
knight to bring into the No Agenda round
table.
If you can bring out your blade, that'll
be just the deal.
Yeah, right here.
That's beautiful.
Perfect, very much.
Thank you.
Paul Lincolns and Rose, please step up on
the podium.
Both of you support the No Agenda Show
in the amount of $1,000 or more.
I'm therefore very, very proud to pronounce the
K-D as Serp Mama's Boy of the
Arc Welders and Dame Rosie Posey of the
Flower Child.
These are great names.
For you, of course, we have Hookers and
Blow, Red Boys, and Chardonnay.
We've got the best Texas brisket and ice
cold beer on tap as requested.
Along with that, we've got Ruben S.
Ruben and Rose, Geishas and Sake, Vodka and
Vanilla, Bong Hits and Bourbon, Sparkling Cider, Nestor's,
Gin, Dirt and Gerbils, Breast Milk and Mablam,
or if you so please, we've got the
Mutton and the Mead.
Congratulations to both of you.
The last Dame and Knight of 2025.
You get a beautiful Knight or Dame ring.
Go to noagenderrings.com.
You can see them right there.
Let us know what your ring size is.
We'll get it off to you as soon
as possible.
In the package, you will find some wax.
You can use that to seal your important
correspondence.
And of course, as always, a certificate of
authenticity.
And thank you both for supporting the No
Agenda Show, value for value, and becoming Knight
and Dame of the No Agenda Roundtable.
No Agenda Meetups.
Yeah, baby, it's always a party.
Yeah, baby, it's always a party.
And it doesn't matter if it's vacation time,
summertime, wintertime, springtime.
There's always meetups taking place.
You can find them all at noagendameetups.com.
Here is Scott the Jew with the North
Idaho Sanity Brigade Meetup, the Christmas extravaganza.
Here at the Christmas extravaganza with the North
Idaho Sanity Brigade.
Why wouldn't it be Sir Scott the Jew,
your host for the evening?
This is Jason here at Trails End Brewery.
I want to wish everybody a Merry Christmas
and a Happy New Year.
Jack from Post Falls here, where we're not
thinking of a white nationalist Christmas.
Good morning.
This is Brian, a spook in the federal
government from Post Falls.
Sick of all the renouncing and the denouncing,
I wanted to do a good old-fashioned
announcing.
So I would like to announce the No
ID Hyperlocal podcast for Northern Idaho.
It has been announced.
We have the gold-digging cowgirl here just
wishing Adam and John and the whole No
Agenda family a Merry Christmas and many blessings
in 2026.
Sir Donald of the Fire Bottles here, Secretary
General of Greater Idaho, even though that is
not what it says on my Secretary General
Certificate.
Hey guys, my name's Megan McElmore.
I'm working at Trails End Brewery and it
was such a pleasure serving these guys again.
It was so fun.
Hey guys, who is the original Podfather?
Tom Green.
Tom Green is the Podfather.
You people are horrible.
Do you hear what they said?
Tom Green.
Tom Green.
That's not right?
You guys suck.
When did that happen?
I have no idea.
I don't know.
It doesn't matter to me.
I mean, Adam Carolla I thought was bad
enough.
Now it's Tom Green.
He keeps shifting around.
Hey, Leo Bravo.
We all know, we all know.
We're not idiots.
Leo Bravo had his, gosh, this must be
number 70 by now up there in Los
Angeles.
Pretty wet, but they still had their meetup.
Hey everybody, it's Leo Bravo at meetup number
70 at Brewery X in Anaheim.
Here's the phone for some greetings from our
friends.
Adam and John, Shabbat Shalom.
We're here at the meetup with Leo at
Brewery X.
Thanks for your courage.
I love we got one guy who was
actually Scott the Jew and then we got
this guy doing Shabbat Shalom.
It's fantastic.
ITM, Dames by your friends.
ITM, Sir Mainframe of the 7th Fleet here.
Defender of the Archduke and Duchess of Japan
and all the disputed islands in the Japan
Sea.
Chilling with Bravo Meister in SoCal.
Hi Adam and John.
I'm Noemi from Philippines.
This is Leo Kim Fopop wishing you a
happy festivus, Merry Christmas and Gregorian calendar new
year.
Hey guys, good to be here.
Good to be at Brewery X finally once
again.
Adios mofo.
Hello fellow listeners.
This is Sean at Brewery X with Leo
Bravo.
Supporting no agenda.
I kill bugs for a living so you
don't have to.
In the morning, this is Lady Chinaka of
California.
Don't give up on us Adam.
We love Cali.
And by the way, this is how the
Tucker laugh goes.
Gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen.
I'm so happy to finally be here with
the ACJCD crew.
Thank you for having me.
In the morning, this is Angie from the
ranch here at Brewery X.
It's a great time.
Come on down.
We all bust our tables so you heard
from the servers.
Hey Adam and John, it's Steve surviving.
I'm out here in California visiting Leo and
friends.
Coming out from Wyoming.
This is Becky saying to the loom motherfuckers.
In the morning.
There's always one cusser in the bunch, isn't
there?
Also got a note from Shannon Summers, the
Fort Wayne Club 33 Navidad post Christmas meetup.
They had a six pack, five regulars and
a fellow traveler, aka a newbie visiting from
Arkansas.
And he's had a great meetup.
So it didn't provide a report, a audio
report, but did provide a written report.
So I wanted to give you that.
These are the no agenda meetups.
There's one taking place on Tuesday.
That's the 30th, the Tri-State Propagation version
1.0. Gert House in Evansville, Indiana.
You need to RSVP for that.
It may be at Gert's actual house.
And then we have a bunch coming up
in January.
Santa Rosa, California, Raleigh, North Carolina, Berg en
Dal in the Netherlands, Alpharetta, Georgia, Oakland, California,
Los Altos, California.
Many more meetups to be found at noagendameetups
.com.
This is the place where you go to
get connection.
It always gives you protection.
These are your first responders in an emergency.
Go to one.
You will never stop.
You will keep going to them.
They're a lot of fun.
And you will meet children from other lands.
Noagendameetups.com.
It's easy and always a party.
♪ Sometimes you wanna go hang out with
all the nights and days ♪ ♪ You
wanna be where you want to be ♪
♪ Drink it all, hell's a flame ♪
♪ You wanna be where everybody feels the
same ♪ ♪ Just like a party ♪
All right, everybody.
Just like a party.
We do have end of show mixes, a
heavy metal ditty from Baron Darin coming up.
He did that because John wanted to hear
a different kind of voice on the A
.I. Slop song.
So you got that.
And this is where we also...
Oh, of course.
I should mention anything would be better than
the Pogues.
People say it's the best Christmas song ever.
I'm like, no.
It stinks.
It stinks.
Well, that's not what it is.
It's a No Agenda Happy New Year song
is what it is.
And it's good.
And we got some MVP with some big,
beautiful ships and scary weather.
It's all slop and it's all good.
You'll love it.
End of show ISOs, which you always choose
here in this very moment.
This is always the man versus the machine
where John prompts his way to victory and
I just get real people.
So I'm going to play mine first.
Here's the first.
They nailed it.
I like it.
I know you do.
How about this one?
We know what we're doing.
We got the documents.
I like this one too.
Blah, bitty, blah, bitty, blah.
Okay, so I'll delete those two and this
one's still in the running.
They nailed it.
That's in the running.
Yeah, it's not bad.
All right.
What do you got?
I have a real one.
I always put a real one in when
I can.
I got where, I got, I think this
would be great.
This is the wherever.
Wherever you get your podcasts.
Huh?
No.
It's a perfect ending, no?
No, no, no, no.
Okay, let's go with great.
Great show, again and as usual.
No, no.
You need to come up with better ones.
Okay, let's try this one.
This at least has a message.
Donate.
Well, that was a show to remember.
So, donate.
It's just not grabbing me.
All right, you can win this one.
I will win this one and we'll play
it later after John's tip of the day.
♪ Great advice for you and me ♪
♪ Just a tip with JCB and sometimes
Adam.
♪ Last one, last one of the year.
Oh, yeah, well, this is the time to
clean up the mess that these storms are
creating and a lot of people have blackberries.
Blackberries?
Blackberries, you ever heard of any blackberries in
your yard?
A lot of people do.
Yeah, well, okay.
They're invasive.
Well, in Texas, I don't think you can
grow berries.
No.
But much of the country.
We grow shrooms.
You need these gloves.
These are hand-landy, rose-pruning gloves for
men and women.
Long, thorn-proof gardening gloves made out of
pigskin.
They're gauntlets.
Best garden gifts and tools for a gardener.
They're only, they're about 17 bucks.
They have different styles, but they're gauntlets.
These giant gloves that go over your forearms
and they got pigskin.
You can pull stuff out of the ground
that's got thorns and it's good for roses
and specifically blackberries.
Oh, so these go all the way up
to your elbow?
Yeah, pretty much.
Oh, that's good.
You can get all cut up.
Yeah, well, I used to work in the
rose nursery as a kid in Holland.
Well, you, these gloves is what you wanted.
We did, we had bare hands.
Bare hands.
And that sucked.
And our arms were completely scratched from.
Yeah, no, this will keep that from happening.
Yeah, well, I'm not going back.
They're cheap.
I'm a podcaster.
I'm not a rose picker.
I'm a podcaster.
That's an interesting one.
You know, I gave Tina the knife tip
of the day for Christmas.
Yeah.
And as a gag, I gave her the
gloves that you recommended, the chain mail gloves.
The chain mail gloves, yeah.
Yes.
It's not a gag, it's actually a good
idea, but it's a little insulting.
Have you ever seen a lefty cut something
with a big sharp knife?
It makes me cringe to think about a
lefty cutting anything.
There you go, everybody.
It's John's tip of the day.
Find it all at noagendafund.com and tipoftheday
.net.
Well, there it is.
The last show of 2025.
We will be working on your New Year's
Day.
All is quiet on New Year's Day, but
we will be working for you because there
may be peace in Ukraine, closer than ever.
Don Bass demilitarized zone still not worked out.
Yeah, surprise, surprise.
Hey, just to wind up your Christmas joyous
spirit week, Nick the Rat is next with
his Christmas, what does he call this show?
It's the Merry Predictions.
Oh boy.
When the rats are predicting things, it's time
to jump ship.
That's all I know.
So thank you once again for being here.
Trolls, noagendastream.com.
Thank you to our producers.
Thank you to the producers who supported us
financially.
It is all highly appreciated.
Coming to you from the heart of the
Texas Hill Country where it's still kind of
Christmassy.
It's Fredericksburg, Texas in the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from Northern Silicon Valley where I remain,
I'm John C.
Dvorak.
Baron Daron O'Neill coming up in the
end of show mixes and two back to
backs from MVP.
We'll be back on Thursday.
Please join us.
And as always, remember us at noagendadonations.com.
Until then, adios, mofos, hui, hui, and such.
Hit it!
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continents are changing and the rifts
to open the lathe ♪ ♪ It's high,
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in, find out your
place ♪ ♪ A valley from high, oh,
it's simple, it's the day, it's the night
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