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I'm only a dime bag of potato chips.
Adam Curry, John C.
Dvorak.
It's Sunday, January 4th, 2026.
It's your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination
episode 1831.
This is no agenda.
Bathing in warm collectivism.
And broadcasting live from the heart of the
textile country here in FEMA Region No.
6 in the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley where they're all
crying to bring back Maduro.
Hello, I'm John C.
Dvorak.
It's crackpot and buzzkill.
In the morning.
Yeah, finally something good happens that's not on
a show day.
That was good.
That was well-timed, Mr. President.
Yes.
And, and, right after the oil baron called
it, everybody picked up on that.
Hey, man.
Trump must be listening to you guys.
He might be.
It was hilarious.
No, this is good.
Everyone's checking in.
Hey, what do the boys have to say
about it?
I have a ton, too many, I have
way too many clips on this.
Well, you do.
And I've gotten, I've gotten the, I caught
it right at the beginning, luckily.
Because it was, I was working on the
newsletter and could have easily have missed it.
Because it took, it was fast.
I think this is, they grab the guy,
they make a lot of explosions.
No, no, no, no, they didn't grab him.
They captured him.
Words matter.
Captured.
Kidnapped.
Extracted is the way I saw it, but
we'll get to that.
I, you know, I was thinking the same
word.
I was going to bring it up, but
you beat me to it, which is, was
it an extraction?
I think so.
I think so.
There's a lot of things to this.
And the reason why I say extraction, I
don't know if you saw, there was some
video that I caught of him, of Maduro
being walked down some hallway in New York.
And he's like, hey everybody, happy new year.
Now, of course, that could have been AI,
who knows.
But it looked authentic.
And I'm thinking he's going to spill the
goods on Smartmatic and Dominion.
You know, that would certainly get him a
better deal.
Yeah, and he can prove the 2020 election
was rigged.
Yes, yes.
Boom, he's good to go.
That's what I thought would be an interesting
one.
But the thing that really bothered me about
all of this is our, even Marco Rubio,
and when you've gone through your clips, I
have some of the stuff from the morning
shows from this morning, from Stephanopoulos and Manhans
Welker with Rubio, who is good.
I mean, Rubio is just, he is very
good when it comes to talking.
He's amazingly slick.
He is very slick.
Well, he's another one.
He's a performer.
He was, you know, a dancer.
Yeah, he's a dancer.
Yes.
He's another tiny dancer.
The thing that bothers me is that no
one ever explains the simple history.
And I'm going to give you a little
audible, a spoken word history from like 1990.
It doesn't take very long because when it
comes to what this really was about, and
I'm pretty sure we can both agree that
there's a lot of North Sea Nexus stuff
that's in here.
What are the British banking connections?
You know, what are the real drug flows?
All of that's going to be interesting.
The Smartmatic software, Dominion voting machines, and yes,
the oil.
And the president just, I don't know why
he, I mean, he could do it.
He could just explain how they stole our
oil.
But instead he just says this.
We're going to run the country until such
time as we can do a safe, proper,
and judicious transitions.
We're going to have our very large United
States oil companies, the biggest anywhere in the
world, go in, spend billions of dollars, fix
the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure, and
start making money for the country.
We build Venezuela oil industry with American talent,
drive, and skill.
And the socialist regime stole it from us
during those previous administrations, and they stole it
through force.
This constituted one of the largest thefts of
American property in the history of our country.
Absolutely true.
But no one explains it.
Rubio doesn't explain it.
Hegseth can't explain it.
He's just going, F around and find out.
Am I first?
Yeah.
Okay.
We like that.
We got all the ladies all, oh, yeah,
oh, he's a tough guy.
The news media won't tell you, of course.
So let me just give a quick, brief
rundown, interject if you hear I said anything
wrong.
But I think it's, I mean, because this
goes back to 1976.
But if we stay in 1990.
Actually, it goes before, it goes actually way
back.
It's a 45, 47 or something.
It goes way back.
But in 1990, U.S. oil companies, Chevron,
ConocoPhillips, and ExxonMobil, they decided we're going to
invest in production, in extraction, production of this.
I mean, I've seen video, this really thick,
tar-like oil, which it's just goo, man.
It's classic Brent.
It's goo.
Yeah.
All the stuff that comes out of the
ocean typically looks like that.
And it was a really big risk.
At the time, oil prices were around $40,
$50.
They varied one year to the other, but
on average.
So, they set up, Venezuela set up PDVSA,
and they signed the contracts with these three
big companies.
With massive investment in the Orinoco belt.
And the deal was pretty simple.
Venezuela has 100% ownership over the oil,
but we do a 60-40 split.
So, American companies get 60%, and Venezuela gets
40.
And then they put up the billions of
dollars to set it all up.
Everybody was happy.
Especially in 2000, oil prices start rising.
It's at 100.
And then Chavez, the predecessor to Maduro, he
declares the Bolivarian Revolution.
And, hey, everybody, we're super socialist now.
We're going to give you everything for free.
Sound like Mandami.
It's going to be fantastic.
It's groovy.
2001, they implemented new laws, and PDVSA is
now control of operations.
They kicked out the U.S. management.
In 2002, this is the Venezuelan petroleum company.
The employees actually protested and went on strike.
They said, you can't do this.
Companies that refused, there was only one, really,
I think, Chevron, had all their assets frozen.
Everything was taken over.
And then oil revenues collapsed by 75%
because no one knew how to operate this
stuff.
Even better, Chavez broke the strike, fired 18
,000 engineers and rig workers, and he changed
the split 70% for us.
Some say a little less, like 28%, but
around 30% for the U.S. companies.
But we're also doubling the royalties, so you've
got to pay us 30% royalties.
And there's a 50% tax rate on
everything you make.
So they were losing money.
2007, Chavez seizes all the oil assets.
These companies could only file lawsuits, and they
went to international courts.
And they eventually won after five years, but
they got about a billion dollars each.
It was no good.
Everyone lost their shirts on it.
And then the PDVSA oil company becomes bloated,
mismanaged, rife with corruption.
Production has now fallen to less than 25%.
2013, Chavez dies.
In comes Maduro, a literal bus driver who
had worked his way through the system.
He was Chavez's handpick.
Yeah, but the guy was a bus driver.
So these social programs, they're not doing so
well with this lower revenue.
So they start printing money.
Ultimately, this number over time was mind-blowing
to me, 1.3 million percent inflation of
the Bolivar.
So Maduro, of course, would be like, well,
I've got to diversify.
Let's get some drug money in there.
Now, in 2002, it's bad news for Maduro
because oil just went down in the tank
when he came in.
It was like a perfect storm.
2002, ExxonMobil scores big in Guyana right next
door.
No one's mentioning this, really.
2023, Maduro says Esquibo region, that's actually ours,
and moves troops to the border.
And in 2025, just as Trump gets in,
he's ratcheting up the heat.
He's like, we're taking over.
This is Venezuelan territory.
And, you know, and so we didn't really
cover much of this, but it was happening.
And so, of course, you know, Trump's like,
no, you're not going to, you already stole
the first batch.
You're not going to steal anymore.
And that's really what it is because we
need it.
Isn't diesel made from this stuff?
Is this the kind of stuff you make
diesel out of?
No, you can make diesel from anything.
But is it cheaper to make it from
this?
Not really.
It's a tough product.
You need special refining to work this stuff.
For one thing, you need cracking.
Cracking?
Yeah, you need to crack it.
Because normally with regular crude, you can just
run it through it.
Especially if it's super light, you can run
it through, you distill it and you get
all the different cuts.
And the cuts are gasoline and diesel and
kerosene and all the rest.
But it's quite a process.
To get the heavy duty stuff busted up
so you can distill it, you don't distill
it heavy.
You run it through a cracker, which is
a big, giant, it's catalytic, it's usually catalytic
cracking.
And you run the stuff through platinum and
a bunch of other things in it.
And it busts it up into a liquid
that's a little more refinable.
And that's the expensive part.
Not that anyone cares, but that's pretty much
it.
Meanwhile, what's been happening is China and Russia,
they're all getting oil from there.
It was hilarious to see the Chinese delegation
just hours before they capture Maduro.
And the Chinese are like, all right, we're
out of here.
We got nothing to do with this.
You know, people have pointed out that this
was like the Chinese always, they do this
constantly.
They don't want to get involved.
No.
And they gave a number of examples of
this.
But the one they keep forgetting, which we
bring up on the show, is the one
in Libya.
Yes.
Where they had this whole area.
They were building up these big buildings and
everything.
And they just took off.
You're still there.
We don't want to.
And they're very non-confrontational, the Chinese.
So I will say January 3rd.
This actually comes from our, I have a
new contact, former five, former six, not sure
yet.
She's a producer.
She listens.
I think she's, I know she's a spook,
but I'm not sure she's MI5 or MI6.
I believe she's retired.
She said, coincidentally, January 3rd is significant.
36 years ago, Noriega surrendered to U.S.
forces after hiding in the Vatican Embassy, flown
to Miami on drugs charges.
Same date, January 3rd.
Trump likes significant dates.
So I thought that was an interesting observation.
Also, just earlier, let me see, when did
this happen?
I think it happened December 1st.
A U.S. judge authorized the sale of
shares in Venezuela-owned parent company of Sitco
Petroleum to Elliott Investment Management for $5.9
billion.
This is, what's the guy's name?
He's a big Trump donor.
Who's the, I forget his name now.
When did this deal go through?
This happened December 1st.
Elliott Investment, man, hold on, let me just
check.
I had it written down here somewhere.
It's, when I say the name, you go,
oh yeah, yeah, that guy.
Who we are, here we go.
What's this guy's name?
Paul Singer, there you go.
Oh yeah, Paul Singer.
Paul Singer, big Trump donor.
But he knew something.
He clearly knew something.
Well, I mean, it was a court case,
so maybe they waited for it.
I don't know.
They said that they had this ready for
five or six weeks, but maybe they waited
for that to be cleared up just in
case.
But I think the next, and we'll get
into your clips now.
I think, and whenever you want me to
play some stuff from the morning show.
Well, I'm going to have you play something
right now since you just mentioned Paul Singer.
But I don't want you to finish, I
don't want you to finish yet.
In other words, you've got more to say.
But because you played Paul Singer, play this
Paulie Market clip.
Paulie Market.
Looks like we have another Nancy Pelosi on
our hands because last night before U.S.
forces captured Venezuela's President Maduro, someone placed a
bet on Paulie Market that that was going
to happen, and they won big.
This Paulie Market account that was created less
than a month ago in December yesterday bet
$30,000 that Maduro was going to no
longer be the president of Venezuela.
And then overnight, the U.S. captures him,
and this user comes up on a fat
$400,000.
What are the odds?
Now, because of the Stock Act in 2012,
elected officials do have to report their stock
trading activities.
But Paulie Market is a big fat loophole.
Under the Stock Act, elected officials have to
report stocks, bonds, ETFs, and even crypto assets.
But because Paulie Market's a predictive betting app,
well, it falls into a gray zone.
2026 goes, I'd say keep your eye on
Paulie Market for any insider trading versus the
stock market.
Who do you think made this bet?
As always, let me know down below.
Why are you yelling at me?
Is that a news clip or is that
a TikTok thing?
It was on Twitter.
This girl follows this stuff, and yeah, it
was a prop bet.
Well, I think we need to pay attention
to Trump's dates.
That goes back to our MI6 lady.
January 3rd, Trump likes special dates.
I like that.
Maybe it was her.
Maybe it was her.
I don't know.
Well, she brings it up for a reason.
I mean, why is she telling me this?
Well, she likes the show, and we're also
fed the information for the purposes of bringing
it up on the show.
She loves the show.
I think she's actually a dame, to be
honest about it.
I won't say who she is, but I'm
pretty sure she's a dame.
Well, it's not that we're not fed.
We're not read in.
We should mention to people that we do
amateur work.
We're not read in.
We're not read in.
No agenda show.
We're amateurs.
It's not a bad thing.
We're not read in.
No, we're not.
But we can deconstruct.
Oh, we are fed.
Yes.
But we know we're fed, so don't worry
about it.
Yeah, we're fed, fed slop.
There you go.
So the next 96 hours, of course, are
going to be crucial.
And then I have clips for later about
what they're saying and who's running it, what's
really going to happen.
You know, I'm sure it appears that the
Venezuelans are very happy.
Ding dong, the witch is dead.
But they're hungry.
And here's the interesting thing that I stumbled
upon.
So the U.S. dollar basically is the
currency in Venezuela.
People are using it because the boulevard is,
you know, Weimar Republic status at this point.
Yeah, it's junk.
But the U.S. government.
Actually, it switches something called the real.
Well, everything I found is that people are
just using U.S. dollar bills, 10s, 20s,
singles, fives.
Yeah.
Well, if you have the opportunity, that's what
you do.
But they actually, starting in COVID days, there
was a pilot by U.S.D.C.
That's a stable coin via the Treasury and
the State Department for the Heroes of Health
program.
They bypassed Maduro's regime banking system to send
millions of dollars.
I think it was six or seven million
dollars directly to the digital wallets of 60
,000 doctors and nurses.
Who were using the system.
And I'm thinking this might be a great
moment to launch the stable coin.
It's already been launched.
Well, but the stable coin gambit, I don't
think it's really been launched that way with
the Treasury, with the government's endorsement and selling
new Treasury bonds, short-term bonds against it.
And if anything, the rails are kind of
in place.
You're right.
But it just may be an airdrop.
Hey, Venezuela, we're going to airdrop you some
tokens.
I don't know.
It feels like a like a perfect storm.
So you've got analysis, all kinds of stuff
from from the days leading up to today's
show, which, let's be honest, was one.
Mostly came from yesterday.
One day.
One day.
So hit it.
And then whenever you're ready, I'll jump in
with some of the the morning shows.
Yeah, I think you definitely have the morning
stuff is going to be good.
Let's start with the overview by going to
Maduro Grab on PBS.
There are moments in time when history possibly
pivots.
And today, in a stunning act of regime
change, the U.S. military captured and brought
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to U.S. soil.
Not long after that, in a remarkable declaration,
President Trump announced the U.S. would, quote,
run Venezuela and warned of a new era
of United States domination over Latin America.
We will get an on the ground report
from Venezuela's capital, Caracas, in a moment.
But we begin our coverage with Nick Schifrin.
It was just after midnight over Caracas when
U.S. helicopters with Delta Force soldiers descended
toward Nicolás Maduro's compound.
Nearby residents filmed and cowered from U.S.
strikes on at least four locations, all part
of the mission to capture and extract Maduro.
By 2 a.m. local, they had him.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Did you hear that?
So first they used the bogus regime change,
but then.
All part of the mission to capture and
extract Maduro.
Extract.
They used the E word.
They used the E word.
The mission to capture and extract Maduro.
By 2 a.m. local, they had him.
And by 3 a.m., he was shackled
aboard the USS Iwo Jima, the dictator-turned
-detainee of the U.S. Department of Justice.
U.S. military officials said U.S. helicopters
took fire as they left Venezuela, but remained
able to fly.
A source familiar tells PBS NewsHour a small
CIA team arrived in August and created extraordinary
insight into Maduro's pattern of life that made
grabbing him seamless.
So first of all, kudos for the Nat
Pops on PBS.
Well done.
And this was a Nat Pop extravaganza.
It was just perfect.
Even the president was saying, I watched it
on TV.
It was like a TV show.
It was great.
It was awesome.
I think you'll never see it, but I
saw it.
It was good.
And what was at the very end of
that clip?
What did he say right here?
A small CIA team.
Oh, yeah.
The CIA guys, from what I understand, they
had infiltrated Maduro's inner circle.
Yeah, that's the only way they could figure
out where he was.
So, interesting that the CIA might be cooperating
now, these days?
I think the whole thing is a CIA
deal.
Oh, most of it has to be.
And I think, I suggested in the last
show that there was a cooperation going on.
Well, they've been living in the region for
50 years.
They never left.
No, but the CIA has always been, some
of their superior work has been in South
America.
In quote, air quote, superior work.
Well, it depends on what you mean by
superior.
Depends on where you are, yes, exactly.
But the Guatemala stories, where they pretended there
was a, you know, they somehow got the
hold of the media and convinced everybody that
the soldiers, the forces were coming and nobody
was showing up, but they abandoned.
Good job.
Good job, spooks.
In this case, they, yeah, they, I think,
and I think they're at work.
And it comes out in some of these
clips that they're at work doing some other
stuff.
And I'm now thinking they're at work.
I'll bring it up later in talking because
I got a nasty note from somebody, a
Canadian.
Well, hello.
Well, yeah, I did complain.
Canadian.
About our Alberta.
Oh, interesting.
So I think the CIA may be in
Alberta.
And they're probably in Greenland.
Well, there's not much to do in Greenland.
Hang out, fish, tell people to let the
Americans buy them.
It's just a thought.
I'm sure there's nobody.
Maybe.
There's one or two.
Okay, I'm with part two.
This was one of the most stunning, effective
and powerful displays of American military might and
competence.
In Palm Beach today, after he and his
team watched the operation unfold overnight, President Trump
announced the operation was not only about regime
change.
We are going to run the country until
such time as we can do a safe,
proper and judicious transition.
President Trump said Secretary of State Marco Rubio
had spoken to Venezuelan Vice President Del Cid
Rodriguez, who was sworn in to replace Maduro.
She had a long conversation with Marco and
she said, we'll do whatever you need.
I think she was quite gracious, but she
really doesn't have a choice.
But at least publicly today, Rodriguez rejected that.
We demand the immediate release of President Nicolás
Maduro and his wife, Celia Flores, the only
president of Venezuela is President Nicolás Maduro.
Now, time for the thumbscrews.
She's not, that's not what she's cooperating.
Well, you don't know that this wasn't a
set up to, you know, so she can
keep the people in line around her.
Possibly.
She can't, you know, because she's surrounded by
a bunch of stooges that are, that would
shoot her.
Torturers and all kinds of bad actors that
Maduro has accumulated as part of his drug
cartel.
And so she has to play bad girl,
at least in front of that audience.
So I take all this with a grain
of salt one way or the other.
I love the trolls.
She's Sephardic as well.
Okay.
Yeah, I'm sorry.
Forgot to mention that Netanyahu ordered this strike.
Yes.
Forgot to mention Israel's behind this.
Sephardic.
Yes.
Yeah, straight up trolls.
That's it.
And that's exactly what's going on.
If the best analysis you can do is
everything's Jews, you might as well just, what's
the point of even listening to our show?
Well, just doing it to do it.
What else?
You know, when you're a hammer, everything looks
like a nail.
On to the final clip.
And President Trump made clear part of the
plan was to take Venezuela's oil.
The country has the world's largest oil reserves,
which the U.S. helped develop exactly one
century ago.
But former leader Hugo Chavez kicked out some
U.S. and other foreign energy companies.
And today the industry produces a fraction of
its capacity.
We're going to be replacing it.
And we're going to take a lot of
money out so that we can take care
of the country.
But the president made clear today was not
only about Venezuela.
This was about displaying an ability and willingness
to enforce regional domination and embracing the early
19th century declaration by President Monroe to block
foreign colonialism in the Americas.
They now call it the down road document.
I don't know.
Under our new national security strategy, American dominance
in the Western Hemisphere will never be questioned
again.
Rubio made clear the next possible target.
Yeah, look, if I lived in Havana and
I was in the government, I'd be concerned.
And to critics who question whether a president
who was elected in part to avoid foreign
entanglements.
Why is running a country in South America
America first?
Well, I think it is because we want
to surround ourself with good neighbors.
We want to surround ourself with stability.
We want to surround ourself with energy.
We have tremendous energy in that country.
Regime change, not for democracy, but for energy
and for its own sake.
As the question tonight in Caracas and perhaps
around the world.
Now what?
Well, let's just address this for one second.
The oil baron who is 60 percent gas,
40 percent oil.
He says this is not good for us.
He says oil is going to drop even
further, which surprise, surprise, is good for America
because that lowers prices on everything.
In theory, I mean, I don't think grocery
prices actually ever go lower ever, but they
could.
They fluctuate enough so that it's noticeable.
This might be a good time to just
bring in one clip from Manhans Welker on
Meet the Press with Marjorie Taylor Greene about
the America first question.
I think it's a perfect time.
President Trump says he gets to decide what
America first means.
Does America first mean whatever?
Wait, wait, wait, stop.
When did he ever say that?
Did Trump come out and say?
I don't think he said that.
Well, she just claimed that he did.
Well, you meant to say she falsely claimed.
She, you're right.
You're exactly correct.
I meant to say she falsely claimed.
Yes.
In fact, she played that very clip.
And that's her extrapolation by saying, well, the
President Trump says he gets this tells us
he gets to say what America first means.
But we know that that this is America
and the Don Roe doctrine.
They call it, you know, Don Roe doctrine
is hilarious.
And he made it up himself.
I didn't hear anyone else say it until
he said it.
You know, they say it's the Don Roe
doctrine.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I agree.
I agree.
That's totally his creation.
That's how he does it.
He loves alliteration.
He's my guy.
All right.
So he determines what America first is.
Let's hear me.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, who was there with their
big doe eyes and all happy to be
on.
Meet the press.
President Trump says he gets to decide what
America first means.
Does America first mean whatever President Trump says
it does?
What a loaded question.
This is like this is disgusting.
Yeah.
Well, but it also shows you Marjorie Taylor
Greene, who I think is a nice lady,
but she is she's dumb.
She doesn't even see beyond.
You know, she doesn't see the implications of
what this really can mean.
She's not a dimensional thinker.
Yes.
Yes.
You know, America first should mean what was
promised on the campaign.
Well, you won't be able to hear it
if you're if you're doing.
I'm sorry.
I've only had to make that sound once.
You can do it again if you want.
So my understanding of America first is strictly
for the American people, not for the big
donors that donate to big politicians.
Yeah.
Well, yeah.
Well, first of all, the oil company, she
sees that as big donors.
And I guess they don't employ Americans.
I guess, you know, it's not not part
of the American economy.
She just doesn't see it that way.
She wants grocery prices lower and rents lower,
which.
Yes.
But you can't just wave your magic wand.
Not for the special interests that constantly run
the halls.
Well, the silver guy, of course, and and
the the poly market guy, you know, they
won big Washington and not foreign countries that
demand their priorities put first over Americans.
America first actually means for the American people
and the American people have been put last
consistently decades and decades by both both political
parties for far too long.
My kids generation, my kids are 22, 26
and 28, are looking at a future where
this whole entire generation doesn't think they'll ever
see a Social Security check.
They don't believe they'll ever be able to
afford to own their own home.
And 50 year mortgages are really a slap
in the face.
It's insulting.
Americans don't want two thousand dollar stimulus checks
as a payoff.
They want to have good policies brought forth
for them because you want to know something,
Kristen, they voted for this administration and their
small dollar donation should matter.
And MAGA has its own enemy list and
the enemies of the worlds are not on
their enemy list and they're tired of being
ignored.
You're right.
She's not she's not a multidimensional thinker.
And I have three daughters, 29, 30 and
35.
And yes, they see it as rather dim,
but they're not they're not afraid of this.
They're not even thinking of Social Security checks.
And now here's the difference.
The 29 and 30 year old, they can
actually afford rent.
Now, they they're not anywhere in house buying
mood and that's unfortunate.
But I think what we see and we'll
see coming this year, the president's going to
do something with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
That rumor has been out there for a
long time.
That may change things.
Rents may actually go down, which will also
lower house prices as we've removed the incentives
for illegal immigrants to be paid, bought and
paid for by states and other.
Yeah, that's yeah.
Other criminal subsidies.
But the one who's 35 in Rotterdam, she
literally, you know, she cannot find a two
bedroom apartment for the simple reason that the
rule now is and she basically would be
in social housing, which is, you know, up
to like 2000 euros a month.
But in order to to get that, she
can pay it.
But you have to show that you earn
five times the monthly rent.
Well, no, she doesn't make 100000 euros a
year.
And so that whole Europe is really not
Europe first.
America is still doable.
This, by the way, is the biggest complaint
I got from my little rant on the
zoomers versus boomers.
Yeah, but we can't buy a house.
Well, no.
You got jacked.
Absolutely.
My dad bought a house for twenty twenty
thousand dollars in 1990.
Yeah.
But his has probably what was his monthly
payment at 19 percent interest.
So, yeah, it's not great, but I think
that the president does have some plans to
change.
That chronology is off the pick.
OK, what do you mean?
Well, the high interest was in the late
late.
It really peaked.
It ended around 1980, not 1990.
By 1990, the interest rates are way down.
Twelve percent.
I had it.
I don't think so.
I had a 12 percent mortgage in 19.
Well, you got shipped.
There it is with a balloon payment.
With a balloon payment.
Yeah.
So, yes, that's a problem.
But, you know, it's Marjorie Taylor Greene makes
it sound like, oh, it's the end of
the world for everybody.
You know, easy does it.
It's not great.
But, you know, hardships, every generation has its
hardships.
And I think I think the president has
some plans for that.
Anyway, maybe could I just play a couple
of Rubio clips from this morning because it
addresses these things and then we'll get back
to your clips.
Or do you want to play another series?
I don't know.
Why don't you play the Rubio clips first?
And that gives me a better feeling of
what clips I should go with.
Okay.
So, man, I have way too many.
Me, too.
I thought the Manhans Welker was better because
she just she you know, she's a straight
talker, man.
She sits down.
She asked the tough questions right away.
Are we at war?
Thank you so much for being here.
I want to start with this big picture
question.
Is the United States now at war with
Venezuela?
There's not a war.
I mean, we are a war against drug
trafficking organizations.
It's not a war against Venezuela.
We are enforcing American laws with regards to
oil sanctions.
We have sanctioned entities.
We go to court.
We get a warrant.
We seize those boats with oil and that
will continue.
And we will continue to reserve the right
to take strikes against drug boats that are
bringing drugs towards the United States that are
being operated by transnational criminal organizations, including the
cartel de los Souls.
Of course, their leader, the leader of that
cartel, is now in U.S. custody and
facing U.S. justice in the Southern District
of New York.
And that's Nicolas Maduro.
So we made a big progress in that
regard.
By the way, thank you, Alberto Guru, who
says, can't afford a house but drives an
$80,000 four-wheel truck, spends $500 a
month on cell plants, Internet and streaming, DoorDash,
partying, drugs, etc.
Yeah, there's that.
Yeah, there's that.
There's that.
So who's going to be running the country?
Come on, Marco.
Mr. Secretary, who is in charge?
Are you running Venezuela right now?
Yeah, I mean, I keep people fixating on
that.
Here's the bottom line on it is we
expect to see changes.
By the way, this question is never answered
by anybody.
And it's because the president said, we're running
it.
Yeah, Marco and Pete and everyone, they'll be
taking care of things.
That's why this question is a problem and
goes unanswered in every interview.
I don't understand why they let it go
unanswered.
Well, here's his answer.
You know, fixating on that.
Here's the bottom line on it is we
expect to see changes in Venezuela.
Changes of all kinds, long term, short term.
We'd love to see all kinds of changes.
But the most immediate changes are the ones
that are in the national interest of the
United States.
That's why we're involved here, because of how
it applies and has a direct impact on
the United States.
OK, we are not going to be able
to allow in our hemisphere a country that
becomes a crossroads for the activities of all
of our adversaries around the world.
We just can't allow it.
We can't have a country where the people
in charge of its military and in charge
of its police department are openly cooperating with
drug trafficking organizations.
We can't.
We're not going to allow that.
These are these things are direct threats to
the United States.
And we intend to use every element of
leverage that we have to ensure that that
changes.
The one I would point everyone to is
that our military is helping the Coast Guard
conduct a law enforcement function, which is not
just the capture of Maduro, but the enforcement
of our sanctions.
We go to court, we get a warrant,
we seize the boats.
And we think that's this tremendous leverage, incredible,
crippling leverage, which we intend to continue to
use until we see the changes that we
need to see that are a benefit to
the American people.
And by the way, we believe to the
people of Venezuela as well.
It doesn't really answer it at all.
Now, here's now.
Now, of course, this was a good question.
Good answer.
So why aren't you working with Machado?
President Trump said the administration is working with
Maduro's vice president, Delcy Rodriguez.
Why does the administration oppose working with the
opposition leader, Maria Corina Machado?
She's a Nobel Peace Prize winner, of course,
as well.
She should run the country.
Her coalition has the support of 70 percent.
She did win.
Yeah, no, she did win.
But, you know, I just like when you
say she's a Nobel Peace Prize winner.
Well, I am a podcast Hall of Fame
awardee.
I should be running the country.
Why not work with her?
Well, a couple of things.
First of all, Maria Corina Machado is fantastic.
And she's someone I've known for a very
long time.
And the whole movement is.
But we are dealing with the immediate reality.
The immediate reality is that unfortunately and sadly,
but unfortunately, the vast majority of the opposition
is no longer present inside of Venezuela.
We have short-term things that have to
be addressed right away.
We all wish to see a bright future
for Venezuela, a transition to democracy.
All of these things are great.
And we all want to see that.
I've worked on that for 15 years on
a personal level, both in the Senate and
now as national security advisor and secretary of
state.
These are things I still care about.
We still care about.
But what we're talking about is what happens
over the next two, three weeks, two, three
months and how that ties to the national
interest of the United States.
And so we expect to see more compliance
and cooperation than we were previously receiving.
With Nicolas Maduro, you could not make a
deal or an arrangement, although he, by the
way, was given very generous offers.
He could have left Venezuela as recently as,
you know, a week and a half ago.
There are opportunities available for him to avoid
all of this because he's not someone we
can work with.
He suckered the Biden administration into stupid deals.
He's made a career out of not keeping
deals and figuring out how to save himself
by buying time.
And we were not President Trump was not
going to fall into that trap.
This is interesting that I guess no one
really believed the national security strategy document because
it was clearly spelled out.
Well, I have a clip about one of
the analysis clips talks just about that specifically.
Let's do that.
Let's do your clips.
Yeah, let's let's.
This is the Maduro.
This is CNN Nationals at NSS.
Oh, wait, there's this one Maduro.
CNN brings in an SS is a two
parter.
Again, back to Jim Shooter, our chief national
security analyst.
What do you see in all of this
at this stunning moment?
Well, Sarah, remember when this administration released its
new national security strategy just a couple of
weeks ago and folks were reading it and
wondering, is this a serious document?
Does it indicate a major shift in U
.S. foreign policy or is it largely political?
Who had a hand in it, et cetera?
I was just reading through some of the
language for the first time.
And one of the clear headlines was, in
general terms, threats in our own hemisphere, the
Western Hemisphere.
Wow.
They're just now figuring out that's what it
said.
Oh, yeah.
You know, I went back and I did
some research.
Are more important than those elsewhere, whether that
be Europe.
Read that as Ukraine, the war in Ukraine
or Asia.
Perhaps read that as Taiwan.
That here that involve not just regimes or
governments that this administration views as their adversaries,
such as Nicolas Maduro, but also problems that
they view as top of top of their
list.
Drug trafficking, migration flows, et cetera.
And here we see that that document was
quite serious.
Right, Sarah, that that that shift is a
little laughter in there.
We see there was quite serious.
And here we see that that document was
quite serious.
Right.
That that that that that is playing out
before our eyes doesn't mean that the U
.S. withdraws from from Europe or Asia, but
it is certainly more aggressive in its own
backyard.
And then you begin to think beyond this
project underway.
The Venezuela project, the U.S. running the
country.
And we're about to see, as you say,
the leader of the country walk off that
plane, perhaps in handcuffs and a blindfold.
Or is what does it mean for the
Cuban regime, which is also an adversary of
the Trump administration?
Or even it's a little different because Greenland
is run by an ally.
But Greenland is a place that President Trump
has said that's in our backyard.
I want it.
Yeah.
Hello.
Get a clue.
I'll play.
Well, I'm I'm throwing Alberta, Canada into the.
I like that.
I don't have any clips about it, but
I like it.
Well, the thing about it is like we're
talking about our hemisphere, our backyard.
What is more?
And if we really look at this as
a subterfuge for grabbing oil, you got Alberta
over there sitting there with this.
It's the same thing.
They're not producing anything because the Canadian government
won't let them.
So let's go stir up some shit, get
them to go independent.
And we got it made.
We have the CIA go do that.
Now, of course, the guy who wrote the
nasty note to me and mentioned, well, you
know, Mark, Mark Carney, what is Canadian?
OK, let's get this straight.
Mark Carney was born in Canada.
Yes.
He was educated at Harvard and Oxford.
He is the central banker, central banker.
First, he was a central banker in Canada.
Then he went to the U.K. and
became a central banker.
Then he became a U.K. citizen, but
dual citizen.
Then he's also got some Irish connection with
some crazy Irish that are also kind of
nexus types.
And let's be honest, there's a lot of
Irish running a lot of things.
And he's got.
So he's a triple citizen.
And then when he became the prime minister
of Canada, he rebuked the other two citizenships
that he already says he did.
We don't know for sure.
And so, OK, he's Canadian, but he doesn't
like the United States or he's part of
some banking combine.
We don't know.
But the point is, this guy was telling
and he's just a very nasty note.
Wow.
You're really upset by this.
Welcome to the club.
Not upset at all.
But it brought to the fore this thing,
this Alberta thing, because it was like we're
full of crap about this Alberta thing.
And I was reminding me, if you can
remember this far back, this has to be
15 years ago when we first grabbed on
to Farage.
Yeah.
Somebody wrote in this for you guys are
often the deep end here.
Farage is no good.
He's just a clown.
He's never going to amount to anything.
You'll never hear from him again.
You guys are embarrassing yourselves.
Was it the same guy?
No, it could have been.
It probably was the same guy.
So this guy is saying so.
So he says this about Alberta.
And I'm thinking, wait a minute, because when
you start listening to these clips about what
the CIA is up to, they could easily
be in Alberta causing, you know, getting handing
out doughnuts.
You want a nonstop supply of these every
single day, Albertans.
You want more doughnuts.
But the thing is, from the clips I've
seen, the Albertans, they're like, yeah, we'd kind
of like to be part of America.
That's the way it seems to me.
I mean, that could be the long term
goal.
I personally think they should be an independent
country.
They could probably pull that off.
Like Puerto Rico, kind of a protectorate.
Puerto Rico is part of the United States.
Yeah, but it's not a state.
They could be a protectorate.
Oh, that's an interesting, I never even thought
of that.
You get a passport.
You get your doughnuts.
Get your flag.
Get your MAGA hat.
Good to go.
Welcome aboard.
Interesting idea.
That's actually, that might actually work.
A clip, too, on the NSS.
How far is the U.S. willing to
go now to change the leadership and control
of other places and countries in our hemisphere?
So that, you know, the next strategy wasn't
just an empty document, apparently, because of what
we're seeing on that tarmac in Newburgh, New
York right now.
Well, allow me now to play a clip
from Rubio where this question came up about
Cuba.
Is the Cuban government the Trump administration's next
target, Mr. Secretary?
Well, the Cuban government is a huge problem.
Yeah, the Cuban government is a huge problem.
So is that a yes?
But I don't think.
Oh, yeah.
Kristen, they always want yes or no questions.
Is that a yes?
Are we going to take over Cuba?
The Cuban government is a huge problem.
So is that a yes?
But I don't think people fully appreciate.
I think they're in a lot of trouble,
yes.
I'm not going to talk to you about
what our future steps are going to be
and our policies are going to be right
now in this regard.
But I don't think it's any mystery that
we are not big fans of the Cuban
regime, who, by the way, are the ones
that were propping up Maduro.
His entire like internal security force, his internal
security apparatus is entirely controlled by Cubans.
One of the untold stories here is how,
in essence, you talk about colonization because I
think you said Dulce Rodriguez mentioned that the
ones who are sort of colonized, at least
inside the regime, are Cubans.
It was Cubans that guarded Maduro.
He was not guarded by Venezuelan bodyguards.
He had Cuban bodyguards in terms of their
internal intelligence, who spies on who inside to
make sure there are no traitors.
Those are all Cubans.
That was interesting.
Yeah, the whole country is filled with a
bunch of aliens, Cubans and Hezbollah and all
these other groups.
But it's interesting that Cuba was basically the
intelligence apparatus for Maduro.
Well, they didn't do a very good job.
But who runs Cuba?
I always thought that was Russia.
Don't they still park their boats over there?
I think Russia's kind of backed away.
Well, you know, the story now that's out
there is Trump did a deal.
Putin gets Ukraine and we take Venezuela.
They got a deal.
Sounds a little simple minded, but yeah.
So let's go through this analysis.
We do an analysis on because Machado was
brought into the conversation.
Why?
Here's the Maduro CNN analysis on Machado, the
Nobel Peace Prize winner who actually should have
been president of Venezuela.
What are you learning?
I've been speaking to the Venezuelan opposition about
their reaction to this.
Who is this?
Who spoke with the opposition?
Who according to Rubio or not?
One of the spooks that comes in and
does analysis for CNN.
Rubio said they're gone.
They're all out of the country.
Yeah, most of them.
Well, OK.
So you talk to.
They're in the country, too.
But if you're you know, but they're not
in plain sight.
And I'm told that the opposition leader Machado
has been in touch with governments across the
world following this operation.
That includes the government of France, President Emmanuel
Macron.
But also and this is crucial governments in
Latin America, Argentina, Ecuador, Panama, Paraguay, who I'm
told have shared with the Venezuelan opposition their
shared desire in, quote, restoring the will of
the people.
I think this is important, Sarah, because here
is the opposition saying that they are getting
support from other countries for the opposition's role
in the future of Venezuela post Maduro.
And that's, of course, crucial, Sarah, because as
you and I were speaking earlier, President Trump
in his comments from Florida earlier today seemed
to leave that question open.
Right.
He said the U.S. will be running
the country.
He raised some questions about the degree of
support that Machado has in in the country
of Venezuela, which is crucial, given that it
is the wide view of observers of the
most recent election that Machado actually won and
not Maduro.
That would give presumably and certainly in the
eyes of many countries in the region around
the world legitimacy to her claims to leadership
in any sort of post Maduro government.
But the opposition saying here that they are
in touch with governments around the world and
getting that kind of support.
Right.
As I said, therefore, restoring the will of
the people in the country of Venezuela.
But at this point remains very much an
open question as to what the process will
be to decide who leads the country next
and where the U.S. will be in
that process.
Who will it support?
Right.
And does that include the opposition?
He's saying a lot of right because he
doesn't know what he's talking about.
No, he's just rambling.
But but Trump had nothing.
You know, he didn't say much about Machado
being taking over.
And then he said that she didn't have
much support.
And I think what he's referring to is
the fact that they dropped her into the
government.
They just shoot her because she doesn't have
any support from the goons that are really
still at the top of the of the
pyramid.
You know, what's interesting by omission in this
whole story?
Where's J.D. Vance?
He's nowhere.
He's not.
He's doing dances.
He's got a lot of weight.
He's got long hair now.
Have you seen these fat J.D.? Fat
J.D.? He's floating around.
He's on the net.
But also, I'm waiting for Besant.
Scott Besant has to do.
I mean, money has to come in somehow.
And they must.
But this is like Rubio's op.
Well, he has to have a plan because,
you know, there's still drug cartels, drug lines,
money laundering, all of that still in place.
So they've got to be they've got to
have some kind of plan for this, because
I'm pretty sure you take 96 hours.
And if people aren't seeing some bread, they're
going to they're going to go nuts.
Yeah.
Well, maybe that's what they wanted to do.
So so there's all this discussion about Machado.
And so I luckily caught Sky News is
the only only group that actually put her
on the air.
Oh, wow.
OK, let's listen to that.
So I have a clip of her talking.
So we get so she's not like, you
know, just a character in the ether.
This is Machado on Sky News explaining whatever
she's explaining.
Some people talk about invasion in Venezuela and
the threat of an invasion in Venezuela.
And I answered Venezuela was has been already
invaded.
We have the Russian agents.
We have the Iranian agents.
We have terrorist groups such as Hezbollah Hamas
operating freely in accordance with the regime.
We have the Colombian guerrilla, the drug cartels
that have taken over 60 percent of our
populations.
And not only involved in drug trafficking, but
in human trafficking in networks of prostitution.
So this has turned Venezuela into the criminal
hub of the Americas.
And what sustained the regime is a very
powerful and funded, strongly funded repression system.
Where does that funds come from?
Well, from drug trafficking, from the black market
of oil, from arms trafficking, for human trafficking.
We need to cut those flows.
And once it happens and repression is weakened,
it's over.
Because that's the only thing the regime has
left, violence and terror.
So we asked the international community to cut
those sources.
Because the other regimes that support Maduro and
the criminal structure are very active.
And have turned Venezuela into the safe haven
for their operations into the rest of Latin
America.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure we've got CIA all
over the place.
We've got OFAC.
Is that it?
The OFAC?
The Office of Financial Affairs.
They've got to be looking at everything.
And I just want to say that there's
such a simpleton idea out there.
It's in the troll room too.
It's about the oil, man.
They just want to steal the oil.
Well, first of all, that is in fact
our oil refineries.
We just talked about that.
That was stolen.
All these weak presidents did nothing about it.
And yeah, that's American sovereignty.
That's our stuff.
We had a deal.
Yeah, we had a deal.
We had a deal.
So yes, it's about the oil.
And we will sell the oil to everybody
who wants it.
But that money flow going into these corrupt
networks, I think the North Sea Nexus has
got to be somewhat worried at this point.
Like, whoops, are they tracking us?
Do they know where it's...
I mean, they probably got lazy throughout the
years.
Oh, absolutely.
There's no question about it.
That's what happens with everybody.
It's what you do.
But it's so...
You get lazy.
Oh, you know.
It's so strange to see people with so
simple minded.
I mean, even people I like from the
UK.
It's like, why pay for the oil when
you can just steal it?
Hashtag bullies.
That's a good one.
Hashtag bullies.
A friend of ours knows a plastic surgeon
who was on vacation on some Caribbean island,
you know, Ufi or Ifi, I don't know
what it is.
And he was like, oh, great.
Now I can't fly home because of Trump's
private war.
It's like the ignorance of people, the non
-informed, just not even...
You can even get some of this from
Wikipedia.
It's not that hard.
But people just take spoon fed crap from
TikTok and Instagram reels and X, put a
bikini on it.
And like, oh, I'm good to go.
I know what's happening.
Trump is no good.
Oil just wants the oil.
It's disappointing is what it is.
Our education system has failed us.
This has been your lament for 18 years.
Yeah, probably right.
Then this was kind of funny.
The protest groups, they sent them all out
into the streets with freshly printed signs right
away.
All right, everybody, we got new signs.
Help us hammer them onto the sticks.
It's all from the signs of the Party
for Socialism and Liberation.
I got one clip.
I have one, too, after you're done.
I have Chicago.
What do you have?
Would you have Chicago?
I got Baltimore.
Oh, OK.
Here's Chicago.
Cold temperatures did not deter a strong show
of support at Federal Plaza in the loop
on Saturday.
As demonstrators took a loud, invisible stand against
U.S. intervention.
And by the way, every single person you're
going to hear is white, has a nose
ring, has a red beanie on, is holding
a socialism pre-printed sign.
In Venezuela, the violence that we saw last
night was completely ruthless and we cannot allow
this kind of violence from our government.
Several local Chicago groups issued an urgent call
for an emergency protest following a controversial operation
that led to the detention of Venezuela's President
Nicolás Maduro and his wife, with Trump asserting
that the U.S. government would step in
to run the country.
President Trump claims Venezuela's oil has funded drug
trafficking and other crimes, using this as justification
for intervention.
It doesn't matter who does or doesn't support
Maduro.
It's completely outrageous and against international law for
the U.S. to attack him.
Where was your protest when they nationalized our
oil companies?
Where was your international law then, you twerp?
Try to unseat him.
You can say that the Venezuelan government hasn't
been great, and I'd argue that's probably true.
But I would also say that going into
another useless war, abducting someone seems morally unquestionably
wrong.
The protest spilled into the streets as demonstrators
voiced opposition to foreign military intervention, defended Venezuelan
independence, and blasted what organizers described as an
illegal and dangerous escalation.
Yeah, all right.
I guarantee you, I guarantee you there's a
smartmatic angle to this.
This guy looked happy.
He was like, oh, God, I'm safe.
Take my wife too, please, please, please.
Okay, we'll bring her too.
And the kid.
They got the kid, they took his son.
They captured a son as well.
Yes, absolutely.
Trump is no dummy.
He knows what he's doing.
It's going to be fun to watch.
All right, Baltimore.
Demonstrations in Maryland today.
I'm sorry.
What?
I said I'm sorry.
Oh, it's okay.
Apology accepted.
You should say my bad.
I'm never saying that.
Demonstrations in Maryland today as residents and lawmakers
rallied against the U.S. military operation.
Scott Macione from Member Station WYPR has more.
After the Trump administration's surprise attack in Venezuela,
protesters converged on Baltimore's City Hall.
Rachel Vicara of Baltimore's Party for Socialism and
Liberation, Baltimore's Party for Socialism and Liberation, Baltimore's
Party for Socialism and Liberation, helped organize the
protest.
There is no shortage of needs that the
people in the U.S. face.
We want these taxpayer dollars to meet people's
needs ultimately and not destroy other countries on
behalf of, in this case, oil executives.
Maryland U.S. Representative Johnny Oshkoski, who serves
on the Foreign Affairs Committee, says he's deeply
concerned by President Trump's comments that the United
States will run Venezuela.
Oshkoski says he and other members of the
committee are pushing for a briefing from the
White House.
This was actually on the podcasting 2.0,
Mastodon.
I shy away from politics, but someone sent
me a DM and I said, hey, man,
go look at the history.
They stole these companies from us.
And what happens is the lefty's favorite word
is whataboutism.
Yeah, well, haven't we just done bad deals
with people?
Read your history, moron.
There's kind of a new guy there.
Who is that?
Come on, man.
This is a new guy.
He's a new guy.
He's a friend.
I blocked him.
I've now gotten into blocking.
I'm in the JCD school.
It's just, it's like you answer someone.
Block.
Block.
I'm going to block you.
There's no time for this.
I'm too old now.
I'm old.
I'm a boomer.
I'm a boomer.
Two more tips and I'm done.
I'm out of here.
Yeah, boomer block.
Let's start with the last two.
One is the analysis from NPR, but I
also want to get this one in.
They're both from NPR, so let's start with
the basic.
Maduro, important analysis, NPR.
Okay.
Franco, where in this puzzle does Machado, Maria
Corrino Machado, who just won the Nobel Peace
Prize, a leader in the Venezuelan opposition, where
does she fit?
A wildly popular opposition leader.
Interestingly, though, Trump did not throw his support
behind her.
Here's what he said about Machado.
I think it would be very tough for
her to be the leader if she doesn't
have the support.
Trump said she is a very nice woman,
but that she just doesn't have the backing
of the people.
Some strong, profound statements about the opposition leader.
Let me turn you to oil and how
oil fits into this, because President Trump had
a lot to say about the oil reserves,
how they're going to foot the bill for
everything going forward in Venezuela.
I don't think he actually said that, actually.
I don't think he said that.
No, he didn't say that.
Read the significance of that.
I mean, it's very significant.
I mean, we didn't hear much talk about
reestablishing democracy in Venezuela during this presser.
Frankly, we didn't hear that that much talk
about drug trafficking either.
Which was the initial premise for all of
this, we were told, going after drug votes.
Go on.
Exactly.
Go on.
Oh, she's doing a CARA.
She's doing a CARA.
Go on.
I heard that.
When I heard that, too, I heard that
when she did it, and I said, ah,
Adam's going to catch it.
Go on.
Talk about reestablishing democracy in Venezuela during this
presser.
Frankly, we didn't hear that that much talk
about drug trafficking either.
Which was the initial premise for all of
this, we were told, going after drug votes.
Go on.
Exactly.
The focus today was largely on oil.
Venezuela, of course, has some of the largest
oil reserves in the world.
And let's be clear, U.S. involvement in
the Venezuelan oil industry would be a huge,
huge deal.
Though reestablishing it would be wildly expensive and
a really long-term project.
And it's also kind of unclear as of
now which companies would undertake this challenge.
Now, Trump claimed that it would not cost
the U.S. any money because he expects
U.S. oil companies will happily invest billions
of dollars to rebuild Venezuela's oil structure.
But the reality is that oil, or at
least he says, the oil would then be
extracted and sold for a profit to benefit
both Venezuelans and the U.S. Now, he
says the U.S. troops may be necessary
to protect the oil, but he is not
afraid of U.S. boots on the ground.
And that is a tremendous statement for President
Trump considering his aversion to military intervention in
the past.
Ah, boots on the ground, boots on the
ground, boots on the ground.
Boots on the ground.
This is a lot of conjecture.
I mean, NPR is actually way behind on
it.
I looked at all my clips and NPR
was behind CNN in so far as the
quality.
But so this is my last clip is
NPR and it's there.
This is the Maduro China.
This is the China reaction, which was mocked
by everybody because China, you know, is not
just based on what they did in Libya.
They hoofed it.
It's what they do.
They hoofed it.
You know, we got other things to do
with our time.
We're not getting involved.
We can't take care of this.
You were out of here.
Best price.
We out.
China says it's warning its citizens not to
travel to Venezuela and says it's closely monitoring
the situation in that country where China was
the biggest buyer of Venezuelan oil.
NPR's Emily Fang has more.
Although Venezuela contributed just a tiny fraction of
the oil China imports for the South American
nation, China was its primary customer, ferrying sanctioned
oil from Venezuela to small refineries on China's
east coast on what analysts term a shadow
fleet of ships left unregistered or with their
trackers off in order to evade sanctions.
Over the last few weeks, Beijing has been
outspoken against U.S. strikes on boats in
the Caribbean.
And on Saturday, China's foreign ministry said the
U.S.'s seizure of Venezuelan President Maduro and
his wife were, quote, hegemonic acts and strongly
condemned the attack as a violation of international
law.
No.
OK.
Russia also had a strong statement.
They don't care.
They put out a strong press release.
Yeah.
Can we still buy?
That's the question.
I got a clip from just about the
drugs.
I got a clip from France 24.
They have a journalist who I guess is
boots on the ground in Venezuela.
And here's what she had to say.
I think that every Venezuelan was surprised, even
the military, the military and personal, even the
whole statement of the government.
There is not one person in this country
which could have been aware of what's what
was going on.
Even the response was kind of late for
what was happening.
Most of the electricity went down.
Even cell phone carriers went down.
So it was a very confusing situation at
the moment, even for the government and for
Venezuelans, of course.
The drugs smuggling and trafficking allegation has been
broadly covered by private investigations, by international and
independent media.
But since I am a journalist and I
haven't seen the proof in my hands that,
in fact, Maduro was smuggling drugs, I will
be very conservative to say that, to assert
that this is a fact.
I mean, even the Americans are asking or
demanding to Trump to present the proof because
this operation was not a minor thing.
This was a very expensive and a very
dangerous operation, even for military, for U.S.
military personnel.
So there's no proof.
There's no drugs.
The indictment, you know, the one thing that
is not being discussed, which is the indictment,
which is allows by using the second Article
two of the Constitution allows Trump to do
all this, no matter what anyone likes to
think about it being unconstitutional, is the indictment.
Very clearly points out all they have been
capturing audio tapes, tapping his phone.
It's been going on for years.
Everyone who's looked at the indictment against Maduro
says it's ironclad.
And I put a copy of said indictment
into the show notes.
Everybody can read it for themselves.
So this woman is a stooge, whoever she
is.
Well, France 24, that's that's the the nexus
is out there like, oh, we don't even
know the drugs, but we can go back
to 1989.
I love it when these clips pop up.
When Joe Biden himself spoke on behalf of
the Democrat Party about the necessity, the necessity
to go in and stop the scourge of
drug networks.
Every president for the past two decades, Democrat
and Republican alike, has declared war on drugs.
And each of them has lost that war
and lost it miserably.
They lost because they attempted to deal with
only part of the drug problem.
They lost because their initiatives were pulled apart
by bureaucratic squabbling among their advisers.
They lost because they always did too little
and they did it too late.
We don't oppose the president's plan.
All we want to do is strengthen it.
That's President Bush at the time.
We don't doubt his resolve.
All we want to do is stiffen it.
The trouble is that the president's proposals are
not big enough to deal with the problem.
We think we should do more to stem
the flow of drugs across our borders.
And we think we should go one step
further.
Let's go after the drug lords where they
live with an international strike force.
There must be no safe haven for these
narco-terrorists.
And they must know it.
We have to lock up the dealers for
a long, long time.
And we have to attack the source from
which the drugs come.
And we have to do that, not a
piece at a time, but all at once.
And we have to do it now.
And there's not any reason why we can't
do that.
We have the power.
We have the money.
And we have the knowledge.
My, how things change.
Where was the outrage?
Using Joe Biden's old clip.
Because back in the day when he was
erudite, he could actually speak.
He never stuttered, by the way.
No, he's a stutterer.
He's a stutterer.
He's a stutterer.
His whole life, stutterer.
He never stuttered.
He was straightforward and very clear.
And so you don't want a president like
that.
Let's wait until he's into total dementia and
can barely talk or move or figure out
where he is.
Then let's make him president.
That's what we do.
What kind of thinking is that?
Go back to Face the Nation.
This is CBS with Margaret Brennan.
And this is Senator Chris Van Hollen with
a little extra detail on the details.
Yeah, Van Hollen is the guy, as you
recall, is the guy who went down and
met with the Maryland dad.
Yes.
Brega Garcia had margaritas at the cafe.
So Chevron, an American oil company, has been
operating in Venezuela throughout, and they told CBS
yesterday that they continue to work there.
My understanding is there are hundreds of Americans
working and living in Venezuela still.
This is true.
Chevron is the only company that continued to
hobble along.
Reportedly, there are at least four who have
been detained by the regime, the regime that
remains in power here.
You are on Senate Foreign Relations.
What do you know about the detained Americans?
What can you find out about how they're
doing?
I've not gotten an update from the administration
on those detained Americans.
Months ago, I did work to secure the
release of an American, a Marylander, who we
now have back in Baltimore, Maryland.
I think the administration is looking at those
detentions currently ongoing in Venezuela and determining how
many of them are wrongful detentions, how many
that they don't think are wrongful detentions.
But certainly my view is we should work
to bring back every American who is wrongfully
detained overseas.
I think this is going to complicate that
effort, what the Trump administration just did.
Oh, it's going to complicate it.
Okay.
How's it going to complicate it?
So now let's go to Rubio with Stephanopoulos.
Just a couple clips here.
It's all about the oil.
We're joined now by the Secretary of State,
Marco Rubio.
Mr. Secretary, thank you for joining us this
morning.
President Trump was pretty clear yesterday.
He said the United States is going to
run Venezuela.
Under what legal authority?
First of all, what's going to happen here
is that we have a quarantine on their
oil.
That means their economy will not be able
to move forward until the conditions that are
in the national interest of the United States
and the interest of the Venezuelan people are
met, and that's what we intend to do.
So that leverage remains.
That leverage is ongoing, and we expect that
it's going to lead to results here.
We're hopeful that it does.
Positive results for the people of Venezuela, but
ultimately, most importantly for us in the national
interest of the United States, we will no
longer have, hopefully, as we move forward here,
we'll set the conditions so that we no
longer have in our hemisphere a Venezuela that's
the crossroads for many of our adversaries around
the world, including Iran and Hezbollah, is no
longer sending us drug gangs, is no longer
sending us drug boats, is no longer a
narco-trafficking paradise for all those drugs coming
out of Colombia to go in through the
Caribbean and towards the United States.
And obviously, we want a better future for
the people of Venezuela.
We want them to have an oil industry
where the wealth goes to the people, not
to a handful of corrupt individuals and stolen
by pirates all over the world.
Pirates.
That's what we're working towards, and we intend
to use the leverage we have to help
achieve that.
George, ask him again.
Ask him who's running the place, man.
Let me ask the question again.
What is the legal authority for the United
States to be running Venezuela?
Well, I explained to you what our goals
are and how we're going to use the
leverage to make it happen.
As far as what our legal authority is
on the quarantine, I'm very simple.
We have court orders.
These are sanctioned boats, and we get orders
from courts to go after and seize these
sanctions.
So that's, I don't know, is a court
not a legal authority?
So is the United States running Venezuela right
now?
Well, I've explained once again.
I'll do it one more time.
What we are running is the direction that
this is going to move moving forward, and
that is we have leverage.
This leverage we are using and we intend
to use.
We started using already.
You can see where they are running out
of storage capacity.
In a few weeks, they're going to have
to start pumping oil unless they make changes.
And that leverage that we have with the
armada of boats that are currently positioned allow
us to seize any sanctioned boats coming into
or out of Venezuela loaded with oil or
on its way in to pick up oil,
and we can pick and choose which ones
we go after.
We have court orders for each one.
That will continue to be in place until
the people who have control over the levers
of power in that country make changes that
are not just in the interest of the
people of Venezuela, but are in the interest
of the United States and the things that
we care about.
George.
George.
Where?
George.
George.
Sorry, George.
I hit the wrong button.
You've got him on the ledge, man.
Ask him again.
Let me ask the question again.
What is the legal authority for the United
States to be running Venezuela?
Well done.
Well, I explained to you what our goals
are and how we're going to use the
leverage to make it happen.
As far as what our legal authority is
on the quarantine, I'm very simple.
We have court orders.
These are sanctioned boats, and we get orders
from courts to go after and seize these
sanctions.
So there's that.
I don't know.
Is a court not a legal authority?
So is the United States running Venezuela right
now?
I can't stand it.
Well, I've explained once again.
I'll do it one more time.
What we are running is the direction that
this is going to move moving forward.
And that is we have leverage.
This leverage we are using and we intend
to use.
We started using already.
You can see where they are running out
of storage capacity.
In a few weeks, they're going to have
to start pumping oil unless they make changes.
And that leverage that we have with the
armada of boats that are currently positioned allow
us to seize any sanctioned boats coming into
or out of Venezuela loaded with oil or
on its way in to pick up oil.
And we can pick and choose which ones
we go after.
We have court orders for each one.
That will continue to be in place until
the people who have control over the levers
of power in that country make changes that
are not just in the interest of the
people of Venezuela but are in the interest
of the United States and the things that
we care about.
This is going to be the number one
thing for the next two weeks.
I see it right now on the quad
box.
I see, oh, there's General Wesley Clark.
He says U.S. is running it, running
the policy.
Who's running it?
What are we running?
Who's running?
Who's got the ball?
Who's on first?
Who's running it?
Well, I think it's interesting that Rubio can
say the same exact thing almost word for
word three times in a row.
Yeah, thinking that Stephanopoulos will come up with
a better question.
And Stephanopoulos could not push it.
Well, you know, it's not just coming up
with a better question.
It's the way he, I don't know, it
was very poorly done.
Stephanopoulos is not that forceful an interviewer.
I mean, he can ask the same question
over and over and over, but he's just
lax about it.
You know, you have to do it.
You have to twist it a little bit
differently.
You got to find some angle because he's
going to get that same rote answer.
Very rote, by the way.
In fact, he walked off the set.
They went, you sure asked him, didn't you?
You know, the funny thing is, it's interesting
how Rubio is more the politician by a
long shot than Trump is.
Trump in that situation would have said, that's
a nasty question.
You're a nasty, nasty reporter.
You're fake news.
You're a horrible journalist.
You're horrible.
How did you even get this job?
That's what he would have done.
Last question.
Chevron is the only American company working in
Venezuela right now.
Only American oil company working in Venezuela right
now.
Have you gotten commitments from any other U
.S. oil companies to go in?
Well, good question, George.
I haven't spoken to U.S. oil companies
in the last few days.
But we're pretty certain that there will be
dramatic interest from Western companies, non-Russian, non
-Chinese companies.
We'll be very interested.
Our refineries in the Gulf Coast of the
United States are the best in terms of
refining this heavy crude.
And there's actually been a shortage of heavy
crude around the world.
So I think there will be tremendous demand
and interest from private industry if given the
space to do it, if given the opportunity
to do it.
And that will spin off tremendous royalties for
the people of Venezuela, to benefit the people
of that country.
Not the handful of people at the top,
but the people.
And, you know, that can happen.
There will be interest.
I haven't spoken to the companies since all
this has happened.
I'm certainly aware of who they are.
And I have spoken to Secretary Wright and
Secretary Burgum and others.
I know they'll soon be sort of taking
an assessment and speaking to some of these
companies.
But I don't have any concerns that there
won't be interest.
There will be tremendous interest.
If it can be done the right way.
These stupid Democrats.
Now I see on Ms. Now, Debbie Wasserman
Schultz.
Yes, we have an emergency call with the
leaders of the Democrat Party.
We're on this emergency call.
They're doing an emergency pod right now as
we speak.
I got some calls yesterday.
Hey, no agenda needs to do an emergency
pod, man.
No.
That'll be the day.
Wow.
Emergency pod.
Yeah.
And then the final clip is the president
was asked about Colombia.
And that was kind of a similar answer
to Cuba.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro, you know, a couple
weeks ago, he said he's got to watch
his ass.
And today he said he's not concerned about
anything happening to him in the aftermath of
this operation.
So just what your message is.
He has cocaine mills.
He has factories where he makes cocaine.
And, yeah, I think I stick by my
first statement.
He's making cocaine.
They're sending it into the United States.
So he does have to watch his ass.
Tough guy.
He's got to watch his ass, man.
But it's fascinating to see the media just,
you know, this is going to be their
next thing.
Oh, unconstitutional.
Oh, we didn't we didn't notify Congress.
All of this stuff.
And everything else falls by the wayside.
The Jews are no longer talked about.
Israel is no longer talked about.
Epstein no longer talked about.
It's just completely just like a tidal wave
over everything.
And again, I think the next I think
by Thursday we'll have to have a pretty
good idea of what their plan is in
order to to quell any any issues in
the region.
I don't think so.
You don't think so?
I don't think so.
I don't think they're going to get to
the to clarify.
I don't think it's going to be clarified
by Thursday.
I just don't.
I just see it as being a slow
moving process.
And I base that on Rubio mostly because
of his, you know, repetitious answers.
He's not giving us any insight whatsoever.
No, the misdirection of Cuba is bull crap.
We're not doing anything with Cuba.
Let's face it.
Why not?
Because what's our rationale?
The rationale with Maduro is that he was
under indictment.
And they're shipping drugs out of there, left
and right on these boats.
And we can take action.
What is Cuba doing?
So it's just a misdirection?
It has to be.
And you got Rubio who is Cuban.
So it makes it sound like he's a
tough guy.
I think the next target is either going
to be Mexico.
Mexico is the real target.
You want to misdirect from that because they
have issues.
They have more issues than Cuba.
They're right on our border.
We're not doing jack with Cuba.
And Alberta.
Alberta is going to be a ramp up
to October when they have the voting.
And it would be whether the Canadians, you
know, the Canadians can be talked out of
this because they're wishy-washy, generally speaking.
No offense to our Canadian listeners, but, you
know, you're kind of wishy-washy and you
complain a lot.
I got a note about Canada.
One second.
But the Canadians are, you know, they tend
to be up on current events.
And it's possible that they could vote to
be an independent country in Alberta.
It would be a shocker.
And the Canadians kind of like to be
or slight troublemakers.
And this would be like a perfect example
of doing it right.
Canadian Tim, I think he's Canadian, checked in.
He said on the last episode, John had
an aside where you're talking about open AI
hiring in a role that admits liability, just
like how you should never apologize when you're
in a car accident, which it was a
valid point.
And he says, well, this will sound like
a joke, but it's not.
In Canada, because everyone is so apologetic, we
actually have laws on the books that state
explicitly that an apology is not an admission
of liability.
And he links to the statute S09003, effect
of apology on liability.
An apology made by or on behalf of
a person in connection with any matter does
not in law constitute an express or implied
admission of fault or liability by the person
in connection with the matter and does not,
despite any wording to the contrary in any
contract of insurance or indemnity and despite any
other actor law void, impair or otherwise affect
any insurance or indemnity coverage for any person
in connection with the matter and shall not
be taken into account in any determination of
fault or liability in connection with that matter.
Well, about those Canadians.
It's very Canadian.
Yes.
I thought so too.
Like, well, that's interesting.
Yeah.
It wouldn't be a bad law to have
here because people do like to apologize for
getting into wrecks.
But if you do it, you're asking for
trouble in the United States.
It's an admission of guilt.
Why did you apologize, sir?
You knew you did wrong.
That's why you apologize, right?
You just don't apologize for everything.
You don't apologize for somebody punching you in
the mouth when they punch you in the
mouth.
Do you say, I'm sorry?
Yeah.
Well, the Canadians, they're on it.
I got a distressing note from Bill, Strokey
Bill Walsh's longtime friend, Stephen.
He said, well, he sent me a note
out of the blue.
He said, I'm pretty sure it was your
show that Bill was always raving about, if
I'm not mistaken.
Do you remember Strokey Bill?
No, I do not remember Strokey Bill.
Well, you do.
He did several best of shows, and he
would always send long emails about how we
were stupid, and XRP is great, and all
this stuff.
Oh, he's the XRP guy.
Yeah, he was.
He passed away December 19th.
Yeah, and he said, your show really had
an impact on Bill, and he loved listening
to you.
And this, for me, because I had a
very kind of, I'll say, hate-love relationship
with Strokey Bill, because I thought he was
a douche most of the time.
But it reminded me that the people who
are the douchiest are actually the ones that
love us the most.
Yes, and I'm taking that into account.
Yeah, I think there's some truth to that.
Yeah, so we're sorry.
And I prayed for him, and I hope
he's in Jesus' arms, and he's in a
better place.
And I know he had a wife, and
I don't know if he had kids, but
I feel sad that we lost Strokey Bill.
So I have a clip that I moved
from the last show.
This is a New Year celebration.
This is kind of a roundup of different
parts of the world and what they were
up to and this and that.
And there was a little tidbit in this
thing, and I thought it would be worth
playing, because I would like an explanation for
it when it's finished.
Light shows, fireworks, and cultural traditions.
From the South Pacific to the East Asia,
celebrations are lighting up the night.
NTD's Christina Corona brings us some highlights.
The New Year began in the South Pacific,
the first to say goodbye to 2025.
Sydney, Australia kicked off 2026 with fireworks sparkling
over the city's landmarks.
An hour before midnight, the celebration paused for
a moment of silence honoring the victims of
the recent Bondi Beach attack.
In Taiwan, thousands gathered at Taipei 101 for
a six-minute fireworks display synchronized with music
and a light show.
Over in Hong Kong, fireworks over Victoria Harbor
were replaced with a light show in the
Central District.
Officials replaced fireworks after a deadly November fire,
turning eight buildings into countdown clocks for a
three-minute show themed New Hopes, New Beginnings.
In South Korea, more than 10,000 people
gathered at Seoul's Bosingak Pavilion for the annual
bell-tolling ceremony, with civic representatives striking the
bronze bell 33 times.
Whoa!
What?
Whoa.
What's that about?
Yeah, and that's in Korea.
Hmm.
Yeah.
Well, I'd like to know what that's about.
I would like a Korean to explain to
me what the significance of 33 in Korea
is.
And please don't send us emails telling us
your discovered theory about 33.
We've heard them all.
They're all different.
We have.
They're all different.
Yeah.
Every single one of them is different.
Yeah.
Wow, that is interesting.
I have no idea what that's about.
Of course, end of the year, so lots
of lists are coming out.
This one popped up on the radar.
Words and phrases we should no longer use.
Yeah.
You'll like some of these.
Every year, Lake Superior State University in Michigan
puts together a tongue-in-cheek roundup of
overused slang.
This one really hits the nail on the
head.
The viral 6-7 tops the list.
The term demure came in second, followed by
cooked, massive, incentivize, full stop, perfect, and gift
or gifted.
Rounding out the top ten are my bad
and reach out, which also made the list
in the 90s.
I'm going to tell you what.
If you say my bad instead of I
apologize or I'm sorry, it doesn't count.
Yeah.
Agreed.
You've always had a problem with my bad.
Yeah, it's grammatically stupid.
Yeah.
I like full stop, which is also Tucker's
period.
I don't think that can be done anytime,
period, period.
We just can't do that.
Yeah, I've always been annoyed by full stop.
Yeah.
Why would you throw, you're talking to somebody
and say full stop.
What?
Full stop.
Yes.
Full stop.
I pointed this out on the last episode.
France is now doing something about it.
It's horrible.
When she posted her holiday outfit on X,
this young woman did not think that she
would end up naked on the internet for
the past few days.
You just have been asking Grok.
I sent you.
Did you get any of that in your
time?
Yeah, you sent me a couple of these.
The funny thing is the number of fat
JD things I've been getting is up to
like 10 a day.
Yeah.
And I still have yet to get into
the groove to get any of the bikini
things, except the ones you sent me.
Oh, well, that's interesting because of course, you
got to click on them to see all
the variations.
No, I clicked on it, but I didn't
click.
You have to click a lot, but once
you get on the groove and the fat
JD stuff where he's dancing and he's playing
the guitar, he's doing solos.
He's sending people on, on tampon rockets.
Hey, we can, we can do a combo.
Can't we say put fat JD in a
bikini Grok?
Wow.
That's a good idea.
I think that's the combo that should be
next.
X's generative AI chat bot to undress women
and sometimes even minors without their consent.
For Marion, this was a violation of privacy.
It's really upsetting to see this.
You wonder why would anyone do that?
When do you decide to do that to
people?
You don't even know on social media.
I think there have been about 30 cases.
By the way, she posts a very seductive
picture of herself on social media by itself.
A dumb idea.
Why are you doing that?
Why?
What is the point?
I'm sounding like you now.
What is the point?
Why are you putting these pictures on social
media?
I look hot.
I mean, here's a picture of me with
my new hair.
Here's a picture of lipstick on.
Here's a picture of me standing there.
Here's a picture of me and my dog.
Here's a picture of me and my cat.
Here's a picture of me, me, me, me.
Look at me and my boyfriend.
Don't we look beautiful?
Wow.
Not your life.
Wow.
Look at this.
Look at the fireworks in the background.
Oh, we're eating caviar.
Oh, we're so awesome it's fabulous our life
is great this is what you get it
hurts to see yourself like that it's not
my body but it looks similar and then
people can reuse the image anywhere she reported
it to the platform but some images of
her naked are still online instances of free
and accessible AI that are stripping women and
men of their clothing are on the rise
here a user asks the chatbot to put
this young woman in a bikini victims have
been advised to report illegal content on the
platform as well as to authorities this is
interesting because Elon Musk is now posting anyone
who puts up illegal content will be banned
and con and the authorities will be contacted
and everyone's like well what is illegal content
what exactly is illegal content could you please
codify that for us which is as far
as I know has not done for a
party can't of course not ministers and members
of Parliament have also reacted outraged by requests
made to grok AI to strip girls and
women while the image is artificial the harm
is very real the courts must examine excess
criminal liability this is something new because there
is no jurisprudence in France on this issue
yet so it's excellent that the courts are
taking up the case another victim has launched
an online petition calling for greater regulation of
generative AI the US Federal Communications Commission did
not immediately respond for comment while the Federal
Trade Commission declined to comment for its part
an X AI representative responded legacy media lies
legacy media lies man this is modern media
she should say we ever lie she should
say this thing sucks I'm much hotter than
that in a bikini but no no it's
it is so rampant I'm surprised it hasn't
really shown up to your timeline no it
does not show up in my feeds at
all yet hmm that's but I'm getting a
lot more besides the debt the JD Vance
doing all kinds of moves I'm getting a
lot of pretty obscure AI movies you know
all kinds of just poorly done some of
them yeah Trump shooting up the place well
worth the 1.3 trillion dollars I see
more and more now that local municipalities and
city councils are blocking data centers left and
right it's become quite a thing that even
Microsoft is now kind of saying well you
know yeah the rollouts a little harder there's
we have about 20 cases people don't want
it they don't want these data centers near
them any no in fact the one that
they're building the fusion reactor they're building in
Washington State Microsoft which is not going to
work which is going to actually be a
negative number when they're done getting it when
they've if they even started it's got to
be a fiasco I got a note from
J confusion on fusion then I will read
it and then you can respond since I
don't know anything about this other than the
videos that I've seen that show it's all
gonna work oh yeah videos are great I've
been working on promoting fusion energy for years
now and have tried to help your confusion
in the past yes tritium and deuterium fused
the deuterium is easy the tritium requires refinement
or processing like pulling it out of the
heavy water at Hanford for example or processing
lithium to get tritium the main thing you
are missing is the two different types of
fusion reactors the tokamak design is most popular
in Europe and the US it uses magnets
in a theoretical containment system is much smaller
in scale think one tokamak reactor for one
data center the fusion reactor technology proven out
by Lawrence Livermore labs and now merged with
Trump's TAE through TAE uses giant laser systems
the containment system for an industrial size scale
reactor is the last leap required think of
these fusion reactors for an entire region of
the country I have met with the head
of Princeton fusion labs professor Cowley to prove
out the Berner BOER NER Berner fusion future
plan for the nation that's the guy I
ran for president the inside word is I
have not been able to verify is that
the MIT plasma scientist was working on a
containment solution I was pissed when I heard
about the Trump merger because it privatizes the
effort instead of using the US Department of
Energy so that the American citizens own it
this technology can take the US from a
superpower to a hyper nation and eat the
horrendous inflation we've had the Berner plane was
plan was amazing you were contacted early in
the effort which was several years ago well
the good before you react the good news
is my buddy works now at the Department
of Energy in Colorado and I'm going to
ask him and he will give me as
much as he can now your take on
these different systems I don't have it take
on the different systems there are different systems
they were they're all claimed to work and
I've seen no evidence of it well that's
all I can say is that this is
like a great idea I mean I would
be terrific if they get fusion to work
in other words take less energy to make
it start up as opposed to how much
right now the problem is it takes more
energy to it's like it takes twice as
well not twice as much but it just
takes even a fraction more energy to produce
less energy so you spend a bunch of
energy to get less energy but you keep
saying you can do that but you keep
saying the startup so once it started once
it's running no it no it's a continuous
well that makes no sense so you have
to use that let's say 1.1 X
to get 1.0 out and yeah you
can take that 1.0 out and recycle
it and put it back into the to
the making the making the containments feel work
or whatever energy you need but it's you're
still now you're your down point one no
it there's no effort unless somebody shows me
some documents I've never seen one that shows
that it takes less energy if you can
put in just like a half amount of
energy then you get twice as much out
you know fine this is you know for
me this is the flying car thing people
keep sending me videos look it's a flying
car it's here and I'm like no it's
not no it's not you go to the
website it will fly for 35 minutes at
4 at 25 miles per hour what good
is that and you won't be able to
fly it without a pilot's license well in
America would you have a light sport but
you're not gonna be able to fly it
from Fredericksburg to Austin a you won't make
it be you've got a recharge forever you
can go by yourself no baggage Tina what
Tina gonna drive with the backup car with
a battery in the back no all of
these things are toys the only one that's
kind of there is that French guy what's
the French guy good French guy let me
find the French guy he really had just
a back to fusion so I can finish
it off that's that's my concern and yeah
there's different technologies that the tokamak is the
big deal and so and there's this other
thing this helium-3 device that the Microsoft's
gonna build they're not unless I've never seen
any evidence these things were could work at
all they would be built by now well
we'll have to see four more years we'll
figure it out it's the air scooter by
Zapata the French guy Zapata oh that air
scooter yeah no the demos are dynamite what's
what's different about that is he has a
little engine on board which powers the supplies
continuous electricity with so basically a hybrid to
the little rotors but that thing is like
an egg one person he and he flew
it across the English Channel a couple months
ago crashed into the channel we're not quite
sure what happens but that thing is cool
but you know not for three hundred thousand
dollars none of it's everyone's drone crazy like
oh but I could fly the drone and
then and I could sit in the drone
no none of it's going to work it's
you know you just look at the specs
of these things yeah well you can you
can fly for you know literally 25 minutes
some go 40 miles an hour what is
that we're gonna tootle around town I'm landing
I'm reminded of these these things are faddish
and I'd put fusion into the same category
as faddish although it's a long-term fad
but the faddishness do you remember the faddishness
where everyone had the ultralights yeah and they
get in this little didn't weigh anything and
they had a little motor in the back
and I don't even know if he had
a light need a light they're they're actually
better than any of this stuff they still
yeah well but they were all still crashed
and we used to have a bunch of
them in the Bay Area I've never seen
I haven't seen one for ten years when
when they was very faddish I used to
see two or three we have a guy
at church what's his name a kit k
-i-t-t and he still has metal
plates throughout his body because he crashed one
of them in Fredericksburg a couple years ago
yeah and then they did the fad before
that were these auto gyros those are cool
I would love an auto gyro and those
were very popular in the 70s I think
they are one of the safest ways to
fly but it's not an it's not an
eVTOL you still need a runway to take
so a couple of companies have tried to
make rotable gyrocopters I have flown a gyrocopter
I'm very interested in it no one has
quite gotten there except for the the V
pal which is the Dutch guys and they've
and but it's it's like this big thing
it folds everything in it's this huge thing
you know maybe it fits in your garage
you drive you're driving with it's a three
-wheeler I'm gonna drive to the airport like
an idiot whoa and it's two people with
you know a little overnight bag you might
as well one-seaters and they don't go
very fast they go about 90 miles an
hour yeah but it looked when you see
one flying around I haven't seen one for
a year broomstick you're talking about the broomstick
yeah they look like I'm going like a
bat out of hell to me no they
top ninety nine but well usually only about
ten feet off the ground these guys will
fly him well now they have there's a
few a few new ones out that have
seven-hour endurance and three people closed cockpit
side-by-side in the back air-conditioning
an auto gyro yeah really I mean but
you know $400,000 well you might as
well buy a secondhand airplane at that point
there's a bias what is the real benefit
other than safety because they are very safe
engine quits you just float down to the
ground you know so yeah that was if
a rotor breaks but then you you float
faster to the ground with all these drone
things to what well it can fly with
one rotor out what if two are out
well you're dead no sorry that's no good
well then we have the parachute we had
the ballistic parachute which is an extra $20
,000 I I look into all of these
things and none of them does the ones
that get the most traction is that which
you know they say oh we're the first
ones to get a certified flying car I
think it's a Mueller Mueller Mueller that Mueller
that guy he the first time this guy
has been doing this on a cycle of
about a six seven year cycle since I
was a kid oh wow really the first
time I reported this when I was actually
editor of Info World he was one of
the cycles that he in 1980 he brought
it out again Paul Mueller he brought yeah
the same guy Moller he's in SAC he
used to be in Sacramento he's around here
somewhere and he'd bring out the flying car
the Mueller car yeah and he'd bring it
out and he brought I oh look at
this is the flying car we're finally there
and I remember when when I was in
like the fifth grade or something the same
thing came out it's it's the same recycled
car over and over and over again he
gets a lot of publicity he's a good
knows how to get publicity yeah he's had
all kinds of securities exchange issues for investor
frauds unregistered stock sales 40 years 100 million
dollars spent according to Wikipedia yeah and if
you can go ahead go look at all
these great things that you see and China's
oh yeah oh no it's working here in
China okay it's just not there it's not
I'd love it believe me I'm the if
there's a real flying car I'll sell my
regular car to buy one but I don't
see it so it goes right it goes
right up there it's in the it's in
the the fusion category as far as I'm
concerned yeah well when we see well yeah
the fusion thing is gonna gonna collapse I
would like to say blow up but I
don't want to use that but it would
be great I mean obviously it would be
it'd be fantastic if it works yes we
would be a hyper nation of course yeah
it would be fantastic but that's the thing
it's just one of these pitches it's all
pitch you know and no product well I'll
talk to my guy at the DOE yeah
he'll tell you the same I hope so
I hope so all right what else you
got Johnny boy I have a little presentation
here from San Francisco okay this is the
big we talked about it before they're suing
the big food they're suing big food and
this is this the thing that got me
into trouble with you mm-hmm because I
said one thing one day ten years ago
it was two years ago and then five
years later I said the opposite then I
said I flipped they could flip back and
forth and back and forth and so I'm
playing these clips and I'm thinking to myself
as I play these this is the latest
this came out yesterday as I'm playing these
clips I'm thinking wait a minute what is
my position I don't even know anymore it's
okay I'm not holding you to any position
we can flip-flop all we want it's
a pod you think is bullcrap but here
we go San Francisco is the kind of
heavily Democratic city that the Trump administration often
targets but there's one issue they agree on
they're both taking aim at ultra processed food
in the first lawsuit of its kind San
Francisco is suing 11 of the nation's top
food companies saying they sell ultra processed food
knowing that they are harmful to health by
some estimates more than 60% of the
food consumed in the United States is ultra
processed a growing body of scientific research says
diets high in ultra processed food lead to
chronic diseases like obesity type 2 diabetes heart
disease and depression earlier John Yang spoke with
Ashley Gearheart a University of Michigan psychology professor
who studies addiction actually we just heard the
San Francisco City Attorney say that ultra processed
foods are designed to be addictive do you
agree yes in my lab that we see
that these products can really trigger all the
core signs of addiction that loss of control
those intense cravings that continued use even though
you know it may be killing or harming
you so I'll just and this is not
for any other reasons other than it was
Cali means when RFK jr.
was running and he was on Tucker and
the story was that tobacco companies RGR bought
the food companies and then they told their
scientists do exactly what you did to make
tobacco addictive and do it for food that
was that was the claim at the time
yeah and I thought it was bullcrap because
it's like what do you would you put
nicotine in the food I mean there are
there's literally there were literally addictive substances in
cigarettes nicotine mm-hmm that's addictive well you
they don't put nicotine in it no no
but I think it was sugar and other
substances oh no because before before the tobacco
companies even got involved there were tons of
sugar I mean they remember when I was
a kid they had all these crackers and
wafers and vanilla wafers and they took sugar
in that sugary cereal before tobacco guys also
Twinkies and ho-ho's and ho-ho's and
hostess cookie cupcakes mmm delicious little Debbie the
next mm-hmm how do they do that
what's what are in the foods that make
people addicted to it yeah there's a certain
addiction playbook that's been used from tobacco to
opiates to sports betting you take something that
exists typically exist in nature like a plant
or you know fruit and you alter it
so it gives just this just right dose
of reward it stimulates you but doesn't fully
satisfy you so you want to keep coming
back for more you can titrate the smell
the flavor the taste and then you flood
the environment with it so your consumers even
if they have a slight moment of temptation
the product is right at arm's reach and
the next thing they know they're using again
this is what's happened to a big tobacco
really took over and the 70s and 80s
and those same levers have been used to
create ultra processed foods that are now killing
1,400 Americans every day Wow I would
say the marketing and the packaging and the
coloring you walk through the food through the
quote-unquote food aisle at the supermarket it's
just like it's like a circus you know
there's like oh eat me eat me eat
me all this stuff oh yeah it looks
so good and attractive and kids love it
yeah yeah I like using though as a
term I'm used it's called eating not using
I'm using ho-ho's man I'm using some
potato chips hey Dvorak are you holding are
you holding anything man are you holding any
any twinkie I'm going a dime bag of
potato chips I clip three you say when
big tobacco took over food what do you
mean by that in the 1960s 70s and
80s Philip Morris and RJ Reynolds started buying
up the big food companies like craft and
general foods they created some of your favorite
products and marketed them like Hawaiian punch and
Lunchables researchers like Laura Schmidt who has found
that they have applied technologies flavorants marketing strategies
that were honed to sell tobacco products and
have applied them to the ultra processed food
holdings they divested some of these food companies
and the mid-2000s but the stamp of
big tobacco on our food supply has never
changed it's actually just amplified over time and
fundamentally changed the food that we eat should
it be regulated the way tobacco is now
yeah when I read things that the food
industry is saying you know they're talking a
lot about how to turn cravings into corporate
profits or they'll say you know indulgence has
really been a main profit margin for us
that's a big driver of how we're making
money and so we've needed time and time
again for the government to step in and
put some guardrails on those sorts of companies
so we and our children can live happy
sustainable nourished lives rather than being in these
cycles of just craving and crashing that doesn't
benefit us but does benefit those corporations okay
I'm calling it this is a marketing ploy
this is a marketing ploy for these companies
now to start selling healthy non-addictive which
is bullcrap this is how a lawsuit can
become a marketing ploy they're not behind the
lawsuit by the way lawsuits in her in
her commentary Nestle which is one of the
group biggest monster companies what have they got
to do with tobacco no one ever mentions
that well when I was a kid the
the evil big food and and tobacco companies
were already working together and in Christmastime in
our stocking we would get a pack of
chocolate cigarettes remember that that was a setup
man I remember candy cigarettes but I don't
remember chocolate so you had them there were
cigarettes were white some sort of chalky crunchy
yeah that you had some were chewing gum
I've never no not here when I was
a kid we didn't have e-bikes we
put playing cards in our spokes remember that
remember that we didn't have uber we had
feet we had feet we had feet we
walked we had feet we didn't have lattes
we had Folgers with flavor crystals we didn't
have avocado toast with nine grain bread we
had Wonder Bread with butter you know we
didn't have Instagram we went to the photo
mat remember you had to wait a week
we have tick-tock with eight millimeter film
with sound we have a hundred friends we
went to the mall and hung out where
there was no World of Warcraft we had
pong and mrs.
pac-man you these kids don't know how
good they have it I think it was
ms.
pac-man ms.
pac-man yes ms.
pac-man that was good the end the
days were good and we loved it call
me an uber dad walk well I mean
there may be some marketing aspect to it
and you know like coca-cola is named
I know what's coca-cola got to do
with tobacco this tobacco angles what bothers me
it's bullcrap well I go companies you're you're
a big tobacco company you're looking to diversify
so you get into the food food business
because yeah it's not so you can make
the food more addictive it's because you know
how to sell you know how to sell
things and you like and you're you're losing
your ability to advertise but you have the
skill sets to do it so you advertise
you're good at advertising that's what you do
you're basically a sell it sales company yeah
I think you're right you know boom you
sell something else so what difference does it
make yeah you're right blaming tobacco yes evil
tobacco guys I supported them for 58 now
I never supported him but I smoked for
40 40 plus years that's a lot of
smoke there's a lot of roll your own
to it you crack me up well for
most most of my life I rolled my
own when I was young when I was
smoking at 13 14 we go I hang
out at the at the phone booth you
tug on the string and it had the
little packet tobacco no no no you tug
on the string no no no no we
bought drum drum tobacco was in a pouch
he had your papers and and I that
mechanism I can still roll my own cigarette
with one hand because you know or you
you hold the steering wheel with your knees
that's what a Tesla would be good for
I get rolled up my tobacco here yeah
yeah you don't even do all the steering
with your knees yeah drum drum was my
favorite drum and then you had some of
those some of the tough guys they had
the vanilla and that was black tobacco whoo
man whoo and then later I was on
a Gala was kick for a while there
were Gala was oh yeah the French cigarettes
oh it's like smoking a turd but it
was cool people smoke clove cretac was the
brand from Indonesia hey you got any smoking
I got some critics oh that's too bad
because it's horrible it was nasty and it
would pop and sparkle and then you got
a burn hole in your clothes and your
mom would like how did this happen no
no no no no of course later just
had a good old day they were good
old days not like those kids in New
York they've got mom Donny few of these
eight and a half million will fit into
neat and easy boxes some will be voters
from Hillside Avenue or Fordham Road who supported
President Trump a year before they voted for
me tired of being failed by their party's
establishment the majority will not use the language
that we often expect from those who wield
influence I welcome the change for too long
those fluent in the good grammar of civility
have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
these people have been betrayed by the established
order you know before I finish he has
a little bit of a little bit of
an Obama cadence but it's all his own
and as an orator I'm impressed the words
you know this it's blah blah blah but
it's good and of course the classic is
coming up here but in our administration their
needs will be met their hopes and dreams
and interests will be reflected transparently in government
they will shape our future and if we're
too long these communities have existed as distinct
from one another we will draw this city
closer together we will replace the frigidity of
rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism if
our New York yearn for solidarity then let
this government foster it he's not gonna do
any of it I don't think he's gonna
do a single thing I mean no he's
just a big talker yeah and he's good
at it though yes but it's probably just
gonna get more corrupt he owes the he
he did some anti-jew stuff everyone's all
up in arms listen to this pro-israel
groups are slamming their money for revoking two
executive orders by former mayor Adams meant to
support Israel one of them barred city agencies
from boycotting or divesting from Israel the other
adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of
anti-semitism it equates some forms of anti
-israel criticism with anti-semitism these executives orders
are two of nine that Mamdani revoked because
they came after Adams was indicted on federal
corruption charges Mayor Mamdani said he wanted a
fresh start for his administration he did not
revoke the creation of the city's office to
combat anti-semitism which Adams created in May
Oh week week should have done that I
was reading a salon article about the about
the block party you know Marissa Torme is
out there and you know with their red
hats you know their socialists had their DSA
hats and then was passing out coffee and
isn't it great just a great moment 25
degrees in New York we can just call
it the guy's not gonna do anything it'll
just be sad if some New Yorkers get
hurt because he's putting income poops in charge
of police fire you know we'll have to
see I hope I hope oh yeah yeah
he's I don't I agree I think he's
not gonna do anything but he's going to
buy by putting idiots in charge of various
departments it's going to be a problem at
some point and who will get blamed black
women yeah well the head of the of
the fire department that the lesbian is not
black yeah but but listen this is just
this is the socialist playbook like we make
big talk big promises and of course you
know he's gonna tax the rich well how
did that work for Ro Khanna isn't that
his name Ro Khanna yeah he's a he's
out here yeah he's a 5% wealth
tax on all billionaires and everyone went okay
we're priming you bitch I'm sorry I didn't
mean to say that yeah you have 2
,000 billionaires in California apparently you know there's
about 200 baby oh I thought it was
more than that well still I don't think
it's that even 200 I could be wrong
no it's not a lot of money these
days anymore is it but you know a
lot of people worth a lot of money
but a billion is a is an extreme
amount yeah well in 1990 a house was
20 grand well that's the thing that needs
to be fixed definitely neat there's I haven't
really figured it out yet but I keep
hearing Tom Luongo talking about what Trump's gonna
do with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and
that's somehow gonna fix it do you don't
think you the figure how you fix is
you build more houses and get rid of
the migrants yeah well one checkmark on that
it's starting getting rid of the but since
we're in the mood don't want to miss
this report about you know about but superflu
I have it yeah you had it and
of course you know it's already determined that
and they've determined and they like to say
that that you know the vaccine doesn't work
at all for it and but but they're
gonna still beat us up as you know
it may not work but you know it
kind of works and and so now then
the technique they're using in this report is
let's first scare people about measles yes and
then we can tell them to get the
flu shot isn't this the special K the
sub sublocade K or sub sub K sublocades
something stupid I call it special K measles
cases of the US have skyrocketed over three
decades how many is that skyrocket sky is
it to the moon is it to Mars
how high is it it's less than 3
,000 so we have the entire population of
300 million people skyrocket we have we have
less than one less than a percent okay
CDC the number of recorded measles cases this
year has topped 2,000 for the first
time in more than 30 years the measles
cases were confirmed across 44 states here in
Washington there were 12 12 12 confirmed measles
cases in 2025 earlier this month the contagious
virus was detected at two major airports during
peak holiday travel airport international airport in New
Jersey and at Boston Logan Airport measles spike
is being attributed to a drop in national
vaccination rates on the rise new data from
the CDC shows flu cases continuing to spike
across the country by driven by a new
variant called super flu Steve Harrigan shows us
the uptick in infections comes as vaccination rates
remain low health officials across the country are
scrambling to contain a new surge of respiratory
illnesses and while COVID and RSV are on
the radar this year a new variant nicknamed
super flu is causing the most infections it
just so happens that this sub clade K
variant that we're seeing really does seem to
spread very efficiently it's just part of its
genetic makeup you can see here on the
CDC's latest flu tracker most of the country
is experiencing high activity so far this season
we've seen at least seven and a half
million cases 81,000 hospitalizations and more than
3,000 deaths experts say the virus is
affecting children more severely and that trend is
expected to continue as people return from holiday
travel if you go to the urgent care
clinics or doctors offices or even emergency rooms
you are they're flooded now with a lot
of flu patients another big driver vaccine hesitancy
only 42% of adults have gotten the
flu shot this year doctors say well the
new variant is not a perfect match for
the vaccine recent analysis from the UK finds
the shot offers at least partial protection oh
yeah all right what does that mean partial
you won't die you know this is interesting
so superflu I typed that into my into
my handy-dandy clip search machine and I
come up with a clip from September 2019
which would be just before COVID am I
right in the timeline here I think so
and this I mean COVID I think came
out in 2019 no no that's before COVID
became flattened the curve and all the rest
no that I mean because I think that
person died already that person in Washington State
may have died by that by September but
but I wouldn't know because I think I
went to Rogan in October and there's two
weeks after that that because that's when the
dr.
doom was on what's the guy's name again
yeah a guy who got who has long
COVID now ironically whatever that is see I
wonder how that happened so that this could
be a dud but I just like to
listen because this was titled superflu with dr.
Marc Siegel you remember that guy yeah he's
still around he's on Fox yeah and he
was on Tucker a new report by the
World Health Organization says it's just a matter
of time maybe not that much time before
a major flu pandemic these days hyperglobalized world
the report says a superflu could spread worldwide
in just 36 hours and potentially kill 80
million people we prepared for that isn't that
interesting that this this CDC they say CDC
or World Health Organization world health or so
they were talking about a superflu September 19th
2019 that could fly around the world in
36 hours and kill 80 million people yeah
which was the numbers we were given for
COVID hit so think about that setup isn't
that interesting yeah gee so so when they
come up with the superflu again be careful
what they're doing with that I want to
thank you for your courage say in the
morning to you the man who put the
C in the dime bag of chips say
hello to my friend on the other end
the one the only mr.
John I'll end the morning all
right you said occurring this he was some
graphing the SS in the one of the
names of nights out there
2162 I
love a good and I love a good
invasion of distraction I love it when Trump
does something I love it I'll be honest
he needs to do more he needs to
do more of this stuff yeah because everyone
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had we got Sir Paul Couture emailed us
and said well we had a disastrous crash
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it because he invented it he is he
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us the artwork for episode 1830 which was
titled bulb heads got a lot of comments
on that which I didn't get any comment
oh well I mean that's people like put
a bikini on it now I saw it
in the in my timeline Keeney and I
just want to say that this incredibly racist
comment did not come from you or for
me but came from Mimi Mimi's the one
who first told me it used the term
bulb head it's so it's so horrible it's
got to be the worst but there it
is that was her description of the guy
who ran for mayor which mayor for what
Minneapolis though that did some holly that ran
from Minneapolis mayor head of curious shape cranium
crayon yes yeah she called him a bulb
head how about have you seen what's the
girl who was just on Saturday Night Live
the great singer Ariana Grande yes I've noticed
that she's her look has changed she has
an alien head so yeah tissue went through
she got some I think she had some
work done and I don't think it came
out well but it's like the back of
her head extends half a head longer than
it should you gotta take a look at
it yeah she's also doesn't look the fair
faces also skewed but she changed maybe a
different person that's possible but she can sing
I'll tell you that oh yeah she's always
had a good girl can sing so thank
you Jeffrey Rhea and again we can't we
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I do want to get this out of
the way this is that we don't have
anything on the Minnesota fraud at least I
don't I do have a comment from walls
that I think's worth playing is about the
leering center I guess there is no way
to put this delicately so basically we're fucked
they caught us the FBI is looking at
all of us right now so please tell
your brothers your husbands well you're from Somalia
so your brothers are probably your husband's whatever
just tell all your family members to shut
it all down right friggin now if you
have kids put them in a truck and
take them to the nearest quality leering center
I know it's supposed to say learning but
you're also fucking stupid you couldn't even get
the sign right anyway take them to the
leering center and tell them to pretend like
they're learning shit okay it just doesn't work
in audio if you don't see it it
has to have the video I think these
AI things they lose it in audio what
yeah I think they lose it in audio
you think that was AI please no please
yeah I I disagree I think you're telling
me that's no no that was a okay
I'm gonna I'm gonna disagree in general I'm
not disagreeing about that particular that wasn't a
very good voice the voice was not trained
properly it didn't sound enough like walls it
should be exaggerate exaggerate a little bit it
should be I think this is closer this
is Liz Warren complaining sorry it wasn't prepared
for that Liz Warren trans community is not
a violent community we are a peaceful people
I myself am trans I'm trans race I
identify as a Native American from the tribe
of retard ho descendants of the Navajo and
the stupid house and we are a peaceful
people okay you know the problem is you
don't see what's going on the background you
don't see that it's like and and and
for some reason people can't write something funny
up they have to put cuss words in
there and I'm a retard you know it's
like it's it's old I guess put a
bikini on her that would be funnier just
you know no I just thought it was
worth it I'm underwhelmed I'm just yeah you're
picky you have better ears than most people
too but that I thought the Warren voice
sounded very close I got a big report
out of Germany this is right out of
a movie people it's been described as one
of the biggest heists in German history investigators
are now trying to work out how thieves
managed to steal valuables worth tens of millions
of euros from a bank in the western
city of Gelsenkirchen police believe a large drill
was used to break through a thick basement
wall to reach their loot hundreds of furious
customers descend on their bank terrified that everything
they own has vanished I have entrusted and
invested all my savings here I didn't sleep
last night they are not giving us any
information emergency services discovered the break-in on
Monday morning after the fire alarm went off
firefighters and police officers searched the bank for
a possible fire but instead of flames they
found a hole in the basement wall and
a ransacked vault containing cash gold and jewelry
worth tens of millions of euros if someone
had a safety deposit box there's a high
probability that it was broken into because 90
% of them have some victims fear their
losses may exceed the insured value of their
boxes I fear my mother's gold coin is
gone she passed away in 1988 my grandmother's
gold bracelets which I hoped would secure my
daughter's future investigators are still piecing together how
it all happened but they believe the burglars
used a nearby parking garage to gain access
to the bank police say the evidence points
to a highly organized operation I would definitely
say this is quite spectacular it is really
unique compared to anything I've ever seen heard
or read I have never heard of any
similar case except perhaps on TV this was
like an Ocean's 11 they drilled this huge
hole through that you know like a two
-foot wall how old-school is that yeah
that's pretty good you have to have that
takes a lot of planning yeah and who
puts their gold coin in a vault in
the bank anymore that doesn't sound like you
said she said one gold coin and my
one do you know I have a very
small tract of land it's a little parcel
my parcel of land is in the and
then cash why would you put cash in
a safe deposit box yeah put it in
your mattress like normal people that's what you
do or you maybe put it in the
bank where it's insured yeah the big thing
now is people you know come in and
rouse you at home and say give me
a Bitcoin key that's the big one now
kidnapping people everywhere for it first you have
to know that somebody has a Bitcoin key
well if you know how would they know
well if you're the CEO of an exchange
or some or if you're boastful now of
course the way to go is two or
three multi-sig so I can give you
my key without the other two you can
or at least one of the other two
you can't get to it you've just given
it away well no I'm not giving nothing
away yeah you are you just told people
everybody out there every criminal listens to this
show and there's probably more than one you've
just told me there's a three key system
that you use and now they're gonna have
to beat it out of you no but
I don't have the other two the other
two are not in my possession that's the
beauty of it oh where are they with
a trust company no no oh yeah that's
that is the only way we cover them
so you can't be beaten into submission so
you get well they can be forced they
can beat me but they're not gonna get
my Bitcoin but come and take it suckers
we're ready here in Fredericksburg I have to
take clock talk clips okay I'll go whoa
I'll go I'll go with you that's fine
I'll go with you okay just just deluded
women I just I'm sorry I'm gonna try
to I'm weaning myself off is a question
thank you here's a question have you already
posted these on Twitter because I see some
I mean your time you're in my timeline
now all the time and that and it's
like it ruins it because then I see
I see these clips on an excellent on
the you play him on the show I
you need to segregate that stuff I'm going
to do this why are you giving valuable
show material to Elon Musk I'm I'm not
gonna argue with your point okay let's start
with the box checker I always get asked
if I want children and the short answer
is maybe the long answer is I will
not be having kids with a man unless
he could check off these boxes for me
for starters the man will absolutely have to
be my husband I would never give a
man a baby without the biggest rock on
my finger the second box would be a
push present is a non-negotiable for me
I want either a car or house it's
a non-negotiable also assuming the man I
will be with would be tatted so he
would have to get a tattoo of my
face on his stomach because it's a body
for a body my body's gonna change forever
so should his third box would be that
I need a house cleaner and then the
fourth box would be that I need a
full time nanny I already know who the
nanny would be it would be a family
member but I want that family member to
be very well compensated for their time and
energy so yeah remember before you type some
nasty ass shit that these are my requirements
right you don't have to have any requirements
if you just want to have a baby
for the free or if you just want
to be a man that wants to give
a woman a baby and you want to
do nothing else but spread your seed and
have nothing else to offer the woman then
you know live your life this is my
life and I will not be changing and
sacrificing my whole entire life without these boxes
being checked off okay okay well first of
all I think the correct term for a
woman like this is not a box checker
but a box Fox second although this is
somewhat exaggerated this is in fact the problem
with many women as I've ever heard from
many young men that they do have these
boxes and it's the sixes typically six feet
tall six-pack abs six six-figure salary
etc etc and I think that the the
woke Democrat liberal culture that we are weaseling
our way out of has ruined them yeah
I think so too they're ruined so it's
a ruined person that's yeah that's actually very
sad I'm very sad for her but I
believe that to be reasonably authentic oh thank
you that's one of the few clips that
you thought were real yeah I think it
was authentic and I'm not sorry for her
I'm just I think she's a sickening person
yeah but but I have love for everybody
John yeah yeah I do even my enemies
here is the another one this is a
now this one is interesting because this this
is a another delusional woman and and she
this has got a twist in it which
was the really took me aback and the
only reason I'm playing it is for the
little twist at the end but I find
really fucking comical me and all my liberal
friends want to be traditional housewives well not
all of us but most of us but
the problem is we don't like Republican men
because they don't have the same sense of
justice and morality that we do because we
care for every human being and the liberal
men don't believe in exploiting themselves for labor
so like we have to have an equal
household because the only one ones that bust
their ass and make enough money to support
a stay-at-home mom wife whatever are
the Republican men because they will exploit the
shit out of themselves for money then they're
miserable and burn out and take it out
on everyone around them and refuse to take
meds so it's like yeah I'd rather be
alone well your wish is granted young lady
yeah she'll be alone but what is this
thing that they get all you know they
they have issues because they're working too hard
and they have to and they were and
they refuse to take meds was the kicker
what is wrong with these people oh they
refuse I'm not gonna run off of the
Republican men they refuse to take meds everybody's
on meds man obviously on meds but I
would say nine out of ten of the
tick-tock women you play are on meds
you have no idea and it's all it's
all SSRIs all of them you know what
I'm what I'm kind of worried about or
this is a quick conversation so if President
Trump pulls off what he's trying to pull
off and there will be a lot of
jobs but these will be trade jobs do
you think that there will be enough young
people who who actually want to do this
who want to retool reschool learn how to
do these things can we actually go back
to a productive a production type economy with
the type of people we have now do
you think the the Zed's will do it
or have they been completely ruined I think
they can be brainwashed into doing it well
really I mean it just seems that at
some point you've just got to be sick
of a board the boring life of sitting
behind a PlayStation or not having a girlfriend
or not having anything going on and you're
getting old and by old I mean 30
and maybe you can learn how to be
a plumber I mean it's I think people
that are already 30 it may be too
late for them but people are coming up
they look at what's ahead and they see
the opportunity for them not to go that
way I hope either the 40 year old
guy living in the house still living at
home yeah I hope 40 year old virgin
basically yeah I hope so we'll find out
I hope the people take advantage of the
opportunity because it's gonna be good money I
really there's gonna be good paying union jobs
it's gonna be good money you can already
see it happening I think it's what is
it apprenticeships gov they're doing a million apprenticeships
but no no one talks about it no
one ever says hey there's some opportunities out
there you should probably jump in on that
get your hands dirty oh I've been looking
at this Fuentes on Owens AJ clip for
three hours I'd love to know what that
is before we just a clip a snippet
from tell me it's not he's not AI
John it's not AI this was a snippet
of Fuentes was on Alex Jones recently oh
I missed it yeah you did and they
Alex Jones just a love fest between these
two I mean they're genuinely like each other
it seems unlike Tucker I like him and
like me kids got he's got gusto he
is yeah kids got gusto and I'll glow
bless he's all against them yeah you got
it you nailed it I nailed it come
on to work so so they get along
but so but Fuentes drops this little bomb
about Candace and you know he does understand
that she comes you know that she's married
a character who's part of the British royal
nexus and all the rest but she throws
in another character I never knew anything about
specifically and he puts it in there as
a quizzical situation that he's doesn't understand why
people are talking about one thing or another
about Candace but they never bring this guy
up and this is the guy this guy
who's been supporting her John Mappin I don't
know why nobody's talking about John Mappin the
Scientologist the heir to the jeweler that creates
the crown jewels for the British royal family
he allegedly introduced her and her husband he's
been so supportive she retweets him he's writing
letters to her he was best friends with
Charlie Kirk his wife is from Russia I
don't know why nobody's talking about that guy
no one's talking about George Farmer they all
met through turning point UK so you have
turning point USA she met her husband through
turning point UK she made a bag off
of turning point USA and turning point UK
so there's definitely something suspicious going on there
maybe a foreign intelligence play of its own
oh he's finally catching on to the North
Sea Nexus oh that's good we need him
to be talking about that that's good yeah
I know about this John Mappin guy Mappin
m-a-p-p-i-n John Mappin
a globalist you know it's interesting Tina and
I've been watching the series Victoria on Netflix
which is about Queen Victoria who ascended to
the throne when she was I think 18
years old and I'm a virgin Queen she
was the Virgin Queen yes and of course
Albert's the and they're all Germans which is
great because she came from Coburg Albert came
from they're all they're all Germans the whole
they just changed their name later Windsor from
Windsor but it's and it's I think it's
a very accurate portrayal of those times this
is 1800s and you just see the rich
the riches that they they got from the
entire British Empire and how the British people
suffered under them even though it's a it's
a love story and it's all beautiful the
costumes are phenomenal but the the British royalty
do not give a hoot about the people
not for one they never have ever they
just living in squalor among rats and eating
stale bread and they got cholera Indian cholera
and just they don't care at all about
them it's amazing that people still want to
live there at all because you know it's
still the same with the House of Lords
they're just no good can I just state
that they're just no good I don't the
Brits I know I live there for a
couple for five years I like their humor
but they don't care about plebs they really
really don't don't give a rat's ass about
him your thoughts I'm not gonna disagree I
mean I've I had I worked there I
went twice a year to London and the
rest of the UK for about a decade
so I've been there enough to find my
way around and drive which is always amusing
especially on the roundabouts when you do it
for the first time the roundabouts they're very
the roundabouts are a little frightening but the
rest of it's pretty easy when you go
in against traffic on the roundabout I've done
that I've done that the roundabouts are a
rough go but and there's lots of them
but but I found that the there are
royalists that really are just crazy about the
Royals and I think it's very important to
have them and there's people that hate the
Royals and always considered like communists when they're
not it's I really can't put my finger
on whether I I mean I enjoy going
there I I can I can blend in
as best I can is anywhere and there's
a pale white guy you just eat some
fish and chips or a curry and you're
good to go but more did we do
research the more it's obvious that the British
monarchy is stronger than we think it is
that we're convinced they're they tried as they've
sold the operation suckered everybody into believing everybody
but if you started looking at their total
net worth which is who knows it's outrageous
you think Elon Musk is rich no no
you look at the net worth of these
guys in the buildings and things that they
own all over the place where this where
what's his name Andrews kicked out of the
lodge which was a huge mansion behind Windsor
Castle you had to go to another mansion
someplace else yes he used his old name
Vaughn was it Mountbatten or whatever he's not
whatever it is but who cares but and
so he's yeah he's down one made Victoria
she they call her the grandmother of Europe
because all of her kids they're all royalty
in Spain and all these different countries all
all throughout Europe I mean the Nexus really
does come from them and of course some
the event the orange family who Queen Victoria
said is they were looking for her to
get married I don't want to marry that
pumpkinhead Dutchman from from orange which pretty much
describes the Dutch royal family pumpkin heads yeah
it's just yeah and they hate us they
hate us they can't stand that we did
so well so I think that's that concludes
our North Sea Nexus analysis the Brits hate
us and they hate and they hate poor
people well
we have a few people who think there
gave us $50 and more and Adams going
to read the list one by one it's
very short list today it's only told very
few we didn't get good response separately Kim
of the nutty fluffer she helped us out
quite a bit she sure did pull this
out and I want to thank loose from
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a box to my PO box by the
way I got my liquid smoke as well
from our our muscle car Dame who we
damed on the previous he was one of
the first dames of 2026 my liquid smoke
was not breached so it was good and
and I thank you very much and loose
she sent me a box with seven bags
of Dutch licorice I cannot have any bags
yes all different kinds all because Dutch licorice
is just it's something to behold I mean
the the the different kinds and I'm pre
-diabetic at this point because I'm addicted to
this stuff you see you can't just eat
the bag you have we have a little
liquor you don't buy a tobacco company it
definitely they've made that stuff into crack so
thank you very much loose it's appreciated on
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donation is being made in honor of the
67 days our daughter Emerson spent in the
NICU we've known him for a long time
to kick off the NICU dad donation challenge
for 2026 he says he challenges NICU parents
grandparents aunts uncles and others to donate in
honor of their NICU warrior for each day
they spend in the NICU I appreciate your
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California happy New Year she says thanks for
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Zezhnelov Zezhnelov from will and that is the
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all Jeffrey Rhea we didn't get a note
from him on the last show so he
said this donation should make me a night
let's go with sir prompt jockey of Madeira
yes he is from Spain Portugal I'm sorry
four more years of sifting through my artwork
thank you Jeffrey Rhea Darius Gandhi also a
make good note he sent in three hundred
and thirty three dollars and thirty three cents
he says congratulations on 18 big beautiful years
Madeira in Portugal that was in Spain I
thought but I think he is in Portugal
I thought it was from if I recall
he was all your memories and I thought
it was in Madeira but it could be
by the way a lot of Madeira drinking
at the at Windsor Castle in the Victoria
show I didn't know that Madeira was such
a big big deal for the Brits I
think it was a bigger deal back then
I mean it's still the same product and
you can still get it I coming up
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I'll give a little Madeira lecture and you
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Darius congratulations where else can John's file naming
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show you both somehow turn hours of LA
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I've now met the requirements I would like
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California would love a bean and I didn't
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best we drink it here in Texas and
by the way that all coca-cola will
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Kennedy has his way no that's right that's
right he says much respect and love to
both you and your family so I'll give
him and the earlier requested Nick you dad
karma a karma here we go you've got
karma and let's night those two gents right
now if you can give me your blade
yeah I got a blade right here that's
a British blade I can see both of
you hop up here on the table I
mean the podium well you can hop on
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to both of you have supported the best
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Welcome gentlemen to the roundtable Noah Jenner meetups
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Oakland.
I haven't talked to Steve about what this
was if that's a Steve meetup it doesn't
say on my list.
It's probably a Violetas.
You should have Steve send someone to pick
you up I think you deserve a car
service at this point.
I don't want a car service.
Send a limo.
I hate car services.
I rather drive.
And there it is.
Stop and pick up a kitten.
Yes how somehow I get I get a
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you you didn't mention this on the show
I think you did before the show that
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have a I have the the superflu which
is kind of crossed over into the cedar
fever because I was getting better from the
superfluous like three days maybe didn't feel too
bad you know sneezing but then it just
didn't stop you know my wife you won't
even come near me she won't you know
she won't snuggle up to me in bed
she's like I don't want whatever you have
I don't want it which I understand but
it's lonely it's lonely all I have is
you John on the other side of the
microphone yeah this is where you could say
something nice but no I could have something
nice I could add a one-liner I
don't know I'm missing a lot of you
had I must have I must have some
some virus you got the super cuz I
have missed more than one or two softballs
you got that I keep lobbying you keep
lobbying me yeah keep keep it up all
right we got John super today coming up
and some AI slop and some not in
our end of show mixes but first we
check out what we want to choose for
an ice so at the end of show
do you have AI or they have some
real ones in here I have a combo
as usual okay well you want me to
go first I only have yeah of course
you go first that way I can read
that I can I can relent all their
work is fantastic it was like a item
me no no it's not a that's dr.
Richard White that's that's a real person did
you like it or did you think man
it was okay as my second one I
mean wow come on you can't you can't
beat AJ you can't beat AJ no okay
what you got okay I got I got
I so genius financial geniuses no that's it
sounded real that was kind of good it
was real yeah okay let's go with soccer
this beat soccer any day no no you
don't think it beats soccer no soccer's okay
now here's the one that's because of today's
show I thought this was a thematic one
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or wait for John C for the day
I'm in the rotation so we're going back
to websites and with the breaking news of
the raid and capture and kidnapping and extraction
or whatever we want to call it of
Maduro it might be a good time to
put this on your list of websites to
check out this is the website is online
newspapers.com oh that sounds online newspapers.com
every newspaper in the entire world is a
this site but are they all behind a
paywall no well I mean if the individual
newspapers behind a pair like the Wall Street
Journal yeah there's not much but most of
them aren't and they're worldwide and they and
it tells you if they're in English or
what language it is so you get these
English-speaking newspapers in different parts of the
world and you get all kinds of this
is a very valuable site for you researchers
out there especially you kids in college that
want to have a couple some some references
that are a little up seem obscure but
you nailed them from going on to this
site well my newspapers.com I'm looking at
the Dutch newspapers this is good this is
wow this is I'm now a lot of
these are syndicated so they're owned by one
entity but still this is this is quite
interesting huh yeah who maintains the site do
they make any money off of it they
got any ads I can't I can't see
it making any money it must be a
front for some Intel agency that issues it
themselves also use it but hey since we
got it you might as well just let
the public use it oh that's I don't
know that's pretty good by the way one
of our producers sent me a note that
open AI is testing ads I know they
are yeah and if you like the ad
you're supposed to shake your phone to send
him feedback I can't wait it's gonna be
a hootenanny there it is ladies and gentlemen
John's tip of the day find them all
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John Nance created
by Dana Brunetti that's right thank you Dana
Brunetti for producing once again where would we
be without Dana Brunetti let's see oh coming
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end of show mixes from MVP Martin JJ
slip something in there and these laughs to
round it out actually this kind of made
me happy this end of show mix sequence
so keep the slop coming everybody listen to
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will return on Thursday with more of your
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next we can't wait we'll be here to
unpack it all for you and I am
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