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They're blacked out in Berlin, they're freezing to
death.
Adam Curry, John C.
Dvorak.
It's Thursday, January 8th, 2026.
This is your award-winning Kibble Nation Media
Assassination Episode 1832.
This is no agenda.
Monitoring the mayhem.
And broadcasting live from the heart of the
Texas Hill Country here in FEMA, region number
six.
In the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, we're congratulating Montana
State and also the Iranian people.
I'm John C.
Dvorak.
It's Klagbaum and Boskill in the morning!
Yeah, I love that.
Just throw in a sports thing.
The North Sea Nexus quad screen is broadcasting
Minnesota 24-7, including the BBC.
They have not stopped.
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah,
oh yeah.
They got their marching orders from Schumer.
Oh man.
I had, where is it?
I had this one clip which really says
it all just in the intro.
Now to the protests in Minneapolis and across
the country after an immigration agent shot and
killed a woman on the street just blocks
away from where George Floyd was killed in
2020.
That's all.
That's all you need to know.
It was a mile away.
It was a complete mile, not a couple
of blocks.
It's all, but it doesn't even matter.
That's what this is.
This is the, it's like a fraxel.
It is a fraxel in an odd way.
As long as, as long as Walz is
governor, they're gonna let it riot.
Let him riot, let him burn the tires.
His wife can smell there's burning rubber through
the window.
It is.
And it's so interesting that this came right
on the heels of Walz dropping out of
the race.
Like, how happy must he be about that?
Where he can, he can leave, you know,
a man of the people.
Hero, a hero.
So this thing, the whole thing is sad.
The whole thing is nasty and sad, but
it context is everything.
And your media is not giving you context.
They're not showing you the people assaulting these
ice agent, while assaulting with snowballs.
You know, they're showing you one angle.
It's like, and also this ice agent.
Yeah, I, you know, if someone's trying to
run me down with a car, I might
pull my weapon too.
So I'm sure he's not feeling great either.
Well, he got hit too.
Yeah, he did.
Oh yeah, no, you could see it.
But, you know, then to, you know, triple
tap.
I mean, it's hard to say what you
do in a moment like that, but I
can.
Oh yeah, every time you see these cops
shooting, they unload the gun if they can.
Well, I think it's one, two, three.
That seems to be kind of the training.
That's like, it seems like it kicks in.
And that's what he did.
What was interesting with the story that hasn't,
I don't think has been told yet, is
that this woman.
Wait, what's her name?
Good.
No, you have to say her name.
It is exactly the George Floyd stuff.
It's, it's, it's a, it's a carbon copy.
Although it's not a man, it's a woman.
And it's, and she was white.
But her wife, I don't think this was
told yet.
Her wife.
It was told.
Her wife is the one who told her
to come down and lead this protest.
And she was, she was leading the protest,
blocking ICE.
It's like.
Well, here I have the clip that explains
some of that.
This is from Jesse Waters.
He, he didn't have any trouble saying she
was a lesbian.
Um, where is it on here?
Minnesota.
Shooting.
I don't see it.
Woman backgrounder.
Ah, there it is.
Kristi Noem, who is in Minneapolis today, overseeing
operations, is describing it as an act of
domestic terrorism.
Multiple eyewitnesses have confirmed that this activist was
screaming, yelling, disrupting ICE operations all day.
One witness says she was the main car
leading the protest.
You know, I think she was the target.
I don't know if she was a target.
They clearly wanted her out of there because
she was the main car leading the, the
protest is my understanding.
I talked to another guy who was driving
behind her.
But she was, she was very, she was
very successful in blocking traffic.
She was doing what she was, what she
was set out to do.
And so they wanted to get her the
hell out of there.
The woman who lost her life was a
self-proclaimed poet from Colorado with pronouns in
her bio, a 37 year old white woman
named Renee Good.
The Daily Mail says she leaves behind a
lesbian partner and a child from a previous
marriage.
She was a disruptor, though she considered herself
a legal observer, but there's no evidence she
had a law degree.
Different angles show different things.
You can see here the officer was actually
hit by the car.
Yeah, even the angle, that's, I mean, if
you don't have the context then of what
he just said, that, that, that was good
context.
She was leading it the whole day.
When did people become so emboldened, and Chicago
does this too, that they think they can
just assault ICE officers?
How, how does that happen?
And in what world do you think that
that can't turn out bad?
Well, this was discussed in a couple of
different, by a couple of different people claiming
that this only takes place.
This never happens in an area where you
don't have political cover, where it's encouraged by
the governor in this case, and Minnesota encourages
it.
They say, get to, put your body on
the line, get out there.
Really?
Yeah.
Wow.
That, do you have any clips of that?
I'd love to have that.
Well, I have a bunch of analysis that
may, from NTD that, that might have something
to do with it.
Let's play these clips.
This is a Minnesota shooting analysis, NTD.
Joining us now is Kyle Schradler, Director and
Senior Analyst for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism at
the Center for Security Policy.
He's also the editor of the book, Unmasking
Antifa, Five Perspectives on a Growing Threat.
Kyle, thank you for joining us tonight.
Now, tensions are already beginning to flare in
Minnesota following this killing with protesters this afternoon,
showing aggression towards police, driving them out of
the crime scene.
In your assessment, though, what are the chances
this shooting sparks retaliation from anti-ICE and
other far-left groups?
And what could this look like?
Well, I think it's probable.
We have already seen in some far-left
extremist social media calls to use arms, to
pick up arms against police in response to
this incident.
So the rhetoric is certainly hot.
It is certainly there.
We've seen attacks, violent, perpetrated ambushes against ICE
officers in the past already.
So it's certainly within the skill set of
some of these far-left extremist actors.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey this afternoon accused federal
immigration agents of, quote, causing chaos.
He said Minneapolis is demanding ICE to leave
the city immediately.
What do you make of the mayor's response,
seemingly putting the blame on federal agents here?
Look, none of this would be happening if
the state of Minnesota and the city of
Minneapolis did not illegally act as a sanctuary
city, trying to shield criminal illegal aliens from
deportation.
If they cooperated with the federal government and
federal law enforcement in upholding immigration law, as
do most of the states in this country,
they wouldn't be having these kinds of situations.
They deliberately inflame these situations with their sanctuary
city policies.
And then when federal law enforcement attempts to
uphold the laws they're sworn to do, they
take the side of radical protesters against the
federal government.
Does he expound further on the Antifa angle?
Because, you know, that's kind of cropping up
everywhere.
Germany has been out of, you know, parts
of Berlin have been on a blackout because
Antifa, as they say, has been blowing up
power plants using some kind of relatively sophisticated
method.
I mean, this could be more of a
worldwide problem, which I paid squarely.
Well, it would surprise me if it was
worldwide.
There was an end.
I saw an Antifa flag in what?
What protest was it?
It was, it was one.
It was either.
It wasn't the Venezuela.
No, it was.
I can't remember, but I took a screenshot
of it.
I didn't follow up.
Well done.
Well done.
Yeah.
You know, there's only so much stuff you
could do.
I didn't get any of the Berlin stuff.
And Mimi is always hounding me.
They were blacked out in Berlin.
They're freezing to death.
Yeah, it's true.
It's true.
It's bad.
Yeah, but, you know, it's only so many
hours in the day to get this research.
But let's go with the I got two
more clips from this guy.
All right, here we go.
Now, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz this afternoon announced
that he issued a warning order to prepare
the Minnesota National Guard to, quote, protect Minnesotans
from rogue ICE agents.
How would an order like this work?
Ordering state law enforcement to act against federal
law enforcement?
Well, in practice, I don't see much likelihood
of that being the case.
In all likelihood, I think probably Governor Walz
is trying to get ahead of President Trump
ordering the Minnesota National Guard to Minneapolis by
having the state activate them first.
I don't anticipate that there being a real
probability of conflict between the National Guard and
federal law enforcement.
In most cases, they have very good cooperating
relationship.
If need be, President Trump could certainly federalize
the Minnesota National Guard if Governor Walz was
to attempt to use it in a way
to prohibit federal law enforcement officers from doing
their job.
That certainly has sort of shades of some
of the incidents in the 1960s where the
federal government deployed National Guard and even active
military forces to some of the southern states
to uphold civil rights legislation and to enforce
segregation, desegregation.
So Tim Walz really is finding himself on
the wrong side of history here with some
of his rhetoric.
Let me just play some of that rhetoric.
I think it's like a minute here at
the end of this clip of what he
said because he made it sound very different
than our analyst here.
We won't let them tear us apart.
We'll not turn against each other.
To Minnesotans, I say this.
I feel your anger.
I'm angry.
They want a show.
We can't give it to them.
We cannot.
If you can't give them what are on
our side.
To Americans, I ask you this.
Please stand with Minneapolis.
To Donald Trump and Kristi Noem, you've done
enough.
There's nothing more important than Minnesotan safety.
I've issued a warning order to prepare the
Minnesota National Guard.
We have soldiers in training and prepared to
be deployed if necessary.
I remind you, a warning order is a
heads up for folks.
And these National Guard troops are our National
Guard troops.
They're teachers in your community.
They're business owners.
They're construction professionals.
They are Minnesotans.
Minnesota will not allow our community to be
used as a prop in a national political
fight.
We will not take the bait.
So he's saying, hey, you know, these are
our people.
They're going to go fight the government forces.
Yeah, sure they are.
But the president can nationalize them.
I don't think he needs to because it's
not going to happen.
This is all talk.
Yeah.
Well, it's all unfortunate.
The whole thing is just it sucks.
And now there's a guy with a Black
Lives Matter t-shirt.
Okay.
All right.
You're still looking at the quad screen.
How can you not?
It's like it's nonstop.
It's like a loop over and over and
over again.
All right.
Oh, yeah, we're programmed.
We get it.
This is all designed to get more votes
for the midterm elections.
Absolutely.
And so your quad screens are all...
The media is desperate to get the Democrats
back in.
You know what's interesting?
Ever since the Venezuela op, it is so
apparent.
And it's kind of good that we deconstruct
media.
It is so apparent that the mainstream media,
despite their low viewership, the incessant repetition and
breadth of where they can post and broadcast,
it does determine the narrative of the podcast
circle jerk.
They all immediately switch.
Like, no one's talking about Israel.
Where's the Mossad in all this?
Charlie Kirk, he's dead.
He's gone.
We don't talk about that.
I mean, you know, we don't even care
about the Macron brothers.
All of this stuff is just in one
in one fell swoop.
It's all gone.
And interestingly, the biggest story, which, of course,
is Venezuela and the fallout from that and
the subsequent Cuba, Colombia, Greenland, we'll talk about
that.
That also just just all wiped off the
table.
Now it's all George Floyd the second.
It's insane.
And just listen to the podcast.
That's all they're talking about because they just
got to go on the narrative.
Maybe it's because they're doing a show every
day.
If we had to do the show every
day, I guess we do the same.
Be like, what's going on, man?
Well, this is the hot news.
You're talking about.
Well, well, here's the.
Yeah, you actually might be right, because if
we did a show every day, we couldn't
do any research.
No, you and I would just be talking.
Yeah, which is what most podcasts do.
Let's yak, yak, yak about something.
What do you see on TV?
Well, let me yak about that.
Oh, what is Matt Walsh saying?
Whoa, what is Tucker saying?
Whoa, what is that?
Alex Jones talking about.
Yeah, that every day is unless we had
even if you had a staff.
OK, here we go.
Less of these analysis clips on this.
Well, most regular Americans would never harm law
enforcement.
How, in your experiences, this kind of messaging
interpreted by already radical individuals?
Well, I think what it sends the message
is that if they if they act, if
they attempt to foment a riot or an
unlawful assembly, they can expect some level of
political cover where it is far left extremists
think that they will get political cover from
local or state politicians.
They have a tendency to be a little
bit more aggressive.
We've certainly seen that in in the case
of Portland, in Oregon, in Seattle, in Washington
State, for example, in places where they know
they will not get political cover.
These sorts of protests tend to be disrupted
relatively early.
They tend to stay more peaceful.
And I think it really is important for
the politicians in some of these areas to
get ahead of this stuff and say, look,
you know, you can have whatever political opinion
you want.
You are allowed to be upset.
You are allowed to protest lawfully.
But we will not countenance any criminal activity.
We will not countenance rioting, will not countenance
attacking police officers, whether local, state or federal.
It's interesting, you know, you said about doing
research.
I was talking to Tina about the the
history of Venezuela, which we talked about on
the last episode.
And she says, well, how come how come
Megan Kelly, she has she has a staff.
She has a staff millions of dollars, which
may or may not be true.
I don't know.
But how come they have staff?
How come they don't do this?
What's going on?
I said, because that's not because they're dumb.
They're no good.
They're just about no good.
That's the real reason.
They're no good.
They just want clicks and smash that subscribe
button and watch my clips.
Nobody watches a full Megan Kelly anymore.
They just watch the clips on YouTube, which
I don't even think she can monetize properly.
And I don't know.
I noticed this, too, if I didn't realize
because I'm still looking at Fuentes now and
again and the clips that he does the
same thing.
And all these the negative things that everyone
thinks about Fuentes is all from the clips.
It's all from his own clips that he
did.
Yeah, he's good.
It's not somebody else doing the clips.
He purposely puts together clips that are taken
out.
He takes his own stuff.
This is genius in some funny way.
He takes his own material out of context.
Yeah, and then post it.
Yeah.
Well, I guess everybody all riled up.
Yeah.
And then, you know, you actually go and
watch it.
It's like, oh, I'm tired.
I mean, it's nothing to watch, really.
He's someone I just want to listen to.
I can't watch him.
This is the dude behind a desk for
two and a half hours.
Imagine if we had video.
People like, what is this?
What are these boomers doing?
I want to watch that.
Yeah, unless we're smoking cigars.
And I want to play this.
The response from Kristi Noem, I just find
to be such an interesting character.
Now she's got a big cowboy hat.
Yeah, she likes getting.
She's like a cosplayer wannabe.
She's always dressed up.
She wears the DHS uniform.
Camo, camo.
She'll wear a bulletproof vest during a press
conference.
So she's dressed like the sheriff.
I don't know.
She's a fascinating person to look at.
And here's what she said.
You asked about a shooting that we just
had in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
It was an act of domestic terrorism.
What happened was our ICE officers were out
in enforcement action.
They got stuck in the snow because of
the adverse weather that is in Minneapolis.
They were attempting to push out their vehicle
and a woman attacked them and those surrounding
them and attempted to run them over and
ram them with her vehicle.
An officer of ours acted quickly and defensively
shot to protect himself and the people around
him.
And my understanding is that she was hit
and is deceased.
We're continuing to gather more information.
But this goes to show the assaults that
our ICE officers and our law enforcement are
under every single day.
These vehicle rammings are domestic acts of terrorism.
We're working with the Department of Justice to
prosecute them as such.
We will continue to protect our ICE officers.
How does she get domestic terrorism out of
this?
Unless it's political.
I just don't see the connection.
Doesn't terrorism by definition have to have a
political?
Well, I guess it is in a way.
It's about the midterms.
But I think it's a stretch.
Yeah, feels like that too.
Operation with other law enforcement agencies as well.
You've seen me in the last couple of
days deploy over 2,000 more officers to
the Minneapolis area.
And in the last two days, we've arrested
hundreds and hundreds of dangerous criminals.
Not just fraudsters who stole from the American
people billions of dollars and put it in
their pockets and enriched their friends from overseas
and themselves, but also individuals who committed acts
of murder and rape and trafficking and drug
exploitation and child exploitation.
So we're going to continue to do our
work.
And I want to remind everybody that the
act like we saw today of using a
vehicle to try to kill an officer and
his colleagues and the other people around him
is something that every politician, every elected official,
everyone in this country should be able to
rally around and say that it is wrong.
And that sanctuary cities and sanctuary states that
protect individuals who do that should no longer
be allowed.
So that is the I just call it
the counter narrative at this point, if you
look at the media.
And of course, you know, I'm sure that
Candace and the folks that redacted will be
examining every frame of the video.
Bring in the experts.
Did he hit her?
Did she hit him?
Did she hit?
Did she not hit him with the wheels
turned in the right direction?
It's so out of context.
So here's the narrative being launched by the
mayor, Jacob Frey.
I think he's the mayor, right?
Minneapolis guy.
He's on with pooper.
Mayor, appreciate you talking to us.
You heard the comments from President Trump, from
Secretary Noem.
They said the ICE officer acted in self
-defense.
There's obviously a huge disagreement about what the
videos show.
Have you completely made up your mind or
do you still have questions?
Well, we know what his mind is at.
I'm not going to preempt the investigation that
will be taking place.
I'm told by the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension
at the state.
But I got two eyes.
I saw the same videos that you saw.
And the notion that this is domestic terrorism
on the form of the victim.
Yeah, it's positively ridiculous.
I mean, the way that ICE is behaving
is reckless, not just in this incident, but
numerous others.
And here's the thing.
The chief and I have been saying not
just privately, but very publicly for well over
a month.
That something like this was going to happen.
Either a civilian, a police officer or even
an ICE agent getting injured badly or killed.
And so, look, I saw exactly what happened.
What you saw was the victim taking at
least like a three-point turn.
This was clearly not with any sort of
intention to run somebody over, but to get
out of there.
And you don't need a legal degree to
know that that does not authorize the use
of deadly force.
Yeah, this is the narrative based upon the
video.
We all saw the video.
You saw the video, didn't you?
I saw the video.
I saw it with my own two eyes,
the video.
So that is the counter narrative or the
narrative, I should say.
It's like she was trying to get away.
No, but there's no context of what happened
before.
I've got another clip here from this guy.
Secretary Noem criticized you directly in a news
conference a short time ago.
I just want to play that and let
you respond.
Yeah, why does it take so long to
start your clips?
Because Governor Walz and Mayor Frey refused to
protect Minnesotans.
And instead, they protect these criminals.
That's why we are here.
And we didn't just show up yesterday.
We've always been here.
By not working with us, Governor Walz and
Mayor Frey are putting those criminals and prioritizing
them over our children and our grandchildren.
The Secretary's adamant ICE is staying.
You're calling for ICE to leave.
What happens now?
And what do you say to her accusation?
First off, when I hear that, that sounds
to me like someone that does not believe
a word that she is saying.
We have worked with federal agencies, by the
way.
This is a good clip.
What?
This is a good clip.
Yeah.
This guy.
He's amazing.
This guy, I mean, he's the liar.
Actually around investigating violent crime, preventing a narcotics
trade, getting guns off the street.
We've worked with the U.S. Attorney's Office
substantially.
We've driven down crime on the north side,
for instance.
Crime is, and specifically shootings are at an
historic low.
So look, we're pro-law enforcement.
We're anti-violating the Constitution.
We're anti-crime.
But we're pro-getting ICE out of here
because I got to say, they are causing
so many problems in our city.
You know, the stated reason, again, is safety.
But what we are seeing is that they
are tearing families apart.
We are seeing people that are terrified to
go outside, go to their local businesses.
And now exactly what we said would likely
happen, happened.
I hate to be right here.
I hate to be right.
Oh, brother.
There was, there's also another narrative.
Hate to be right.
Yeah, there's another narrative launched by, what's his
name here?
This is Hakeem Jeffries.
Let's listen to him.
First up, Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York,
leader of the House Democrats.
I spoke with him this afternoon and started
by asking his assessment of what happened in
Minneapolis today.
There is no evidence that has been presented
to justify the shooting of an unarmed woman
resulting in her unnecessary death.
Kristi Noem, the so-called Secretary of Homeland
Security.
What?
So-called.
So-called.
That's her job.
She's got the job.
She was approved by Congress.
She's not so-called.
So-called.
This guy's the worst.
No, he's great.
Is a stone cold liar who has zero
credibility on this issue or on any other
issue.
And what we need, as I believe the
governor has indicated, is a full and complete
investigation.
This rogue ICE agent who pulled the trigger
should be criminally- This is the narrative
he's playing.
They used rogue in the other clip.
Somebody else used it.
Rogue was the, that came out of Minnesota.
The, I think even Walsh used it.
Rogue.
Yes, rogue.
You went rogue.
This rogue ICE agent who pulled the trigger
should be criminally investigated to the full extent
of the law, including for demonstrating a depraved
indifference to human life.
All right.
So it's all very sad.
Nobody wins in this one.
But in the meantime, there's so much going
on in Minnesota.
The Minnesota Department of Health and Human Services
has done an audit.
I think this came out on the 6th.
And here's the lady who's running this audit.
It's pretty interesting.
Another sobering report by the Office of the
Legislative Auditor.
This one concerning the Behavioral Health Administration within
the Department of Human Services, which issues grants
to providers treating mental health and drug and
alcohol addiction.
Hundreds of millions of dollars each year.
The audit found them issuing grants to applicants
without a bidding process.
So what we saw is that there was
multiple entities that could have been eligible, and
they chose not to provide a justification for
why they were picking those.
This report is quite stunning.
One outrageous example.
The auditors found a grantee that was paid
$672,000 for one month of work without
any info on what they do.
And the audit says the grant manager who
paid it then left DHS a couple days
later and became a paid consultant for that
company.
That's what you do.
To me, that's criminal.
Auditor Judy Randall says she was most shocked
that during the audit, multiple DHS managers backdated
or created new documents to try to cover
their tracks.
Frankly, in the 27 plus years I've been
with OLA, I have never seen this before.
I will say we have had suspicions periodically,
but we have never been able to prove
it, to document it.
And we did in this case.
And it's very troubling.
Temporary DHS Commissioner Shereen Gandhi's response.
I was shocked to hear this information in
the exit conference.
And it is absolutely unacceptable that any staff
would provide anything other than accurate representation of
the work done to an auditor.
Yeah.
So the whole...
And this is not just Minnesota.
This has got to be everywhere.
I have a clip called...
The fraudster's clip covers this a little bit,
adds a couple of items.
But I like the way they use the
intermixing of using the Department of Health and
Human Services, DHS, with Department of Homeland Security
in the mind is, oh, DHS is corrupt.
Yeah, we have too many acronyms.
Well, I mean, we don't have enough, apparently.
Let's listen to the fraudster's clip.
House lawmakers on the oversight committee are exposing
a multi-billion dollar fraud scheme taking place
in Minnesota.
Around $9 billion meant to support Minnesota programs
may have been stolen since 2018, a federal
prosecutor reported last month.
House Republicans on the committee this morning criticized
Minnesota officials for not acting quickly enough to
stop it.
Governor Tim Walz, Attorney General Keith Ellison, and
Minnesota's Democrat leadership have either been asleep at
the wheel or complicit in these crimes.
The child care fraud scheme was first exposed
more than a decade ago between 2011 and
2013.
One state lawmaker who appeared as a witness
today said that those who tried to initially
report the fraud faced government retaliation.
They revealed that retaliation now includes threats of
being fired with cause, which means you do
not get unemployment insurance in the state of
Minnesota, being blacklisted from all state agencies.
The Democrats witness a former DOJ official push
back on the idea that fraudsters haven't faced
repercussions, highlighting the consequences that some have faced
so far.
The department has charged over a dozen people
for stealing $14 million from a program meant
for children with autism.
The state's governor, Tim Walz, has repeatedly defended
his handling of the fraud crisis.
But since the crisis has been exposed on
the national scale, Walz has since dropped his
reelection campaign for a third term.
Some Republicans aim to expose that some of
the stolen money was used to fund Democrat
politicians, even the state's attorney general.
Did money flow to Mr. Ellison's campaign a
couple weeks later from some of the folks
who were in that meeting?
Sure did.
How much?
Do we know how much that was?
I do not have that number.
So it wasn't just wasn't just overlooking the
fraud.
They were actively trying to make sure this
program continued.
And then they benefited from that politically with
contributions to their campaign all in this same
year, all in 2021.
You know, it's who is that again?
Who does that voice?
That was Jordan.
Yeah.
I mean, he's got to calm down.
I'd like the fact the facts of what
he's saying, but no one listens to that.
It doesn't make any difference what they did.
Comer was the earlier guy who said something.
These guys are do nothing Republicans.
They make a big fuss.
They get their clips on the air.
Who gets arrested?
But that's my point.
It's old fashioned.
Like, if you really want to do something,
speak like a normal human being.
Stop with the print preening and the and
the clip clip moments.
Yeah.
And then in a perfect like, even if
they spoke like normal human beings, they still
wouldn't do anything.
Well, that's true.
Yes.
Then it's all about the midterms.
Then in the perfect, almost proof of the
simulation, we get Dr. Oz, who is, you
know, he's a good looking guy.
He's not an ugly politician.
He's now in the administration and he knows
how to read a prompter.
And like, wow, everything has become show business.
At CMS and HHS, we're increasingly worried about
the deep rot within Minnesota's Medicaid and social
services, which are supposed to protect the most
vulnerable Americans.
The more we uncover, the more it becomes
clear.
It's much worse than we were led to
believe by state government officials.
We'd previously learned that illegal immigrants were still
getting care within allegedly state only Medicaid programs
that were actually using federal taxpayer funds.
And because of that, we already withheld one
point three billion dollars from California, Illinois and
yes, Minnesota, which always seems to show up
on the list of states with the worst
fraud, waste and abuse.
But this is only the tip of the
iceberg for Minnesota.
We have an unfortunate announcement for the Walsh
administration.
They have to admit they were warned.
Last month, we instructed the Walsh administration to
produce a corrective action plan by the end
of the year, which we received late New
Year's Eve.
And he sounds a bit like Hegg, Seth.
Now, you know, they're all they're all made
for you.
Milieu, yes, insufficient.
We don't want to hear, for example, that
your state law doesn't allow you to protect
federal taxpayers from Somali fraud.
And we want a sense of urgency.
I keep waiting for him to say we'll
be right back after this break.
And fix this, as well as clear milestones
to hold Minnesota accountable on progress.
Enough is enough.
I just notified Governor Walsh.
We will begin auditing Medicaid receipts and defer
paying on claims based on fraud, waste and
abuse until we can verify what is legitimate.
We're going to defer payments for the 14
programs that the state itself identified as rife
with fraud.
That figure could be in the hundreds of
millions of dollars.
If the state cannot get a handle on
this fraud, as we find more, we intend
to withhold more payments moving forward until the
state cleans up its act.
Why don't they just withhold all funds?
Can they do that?
Because we're just not going to give.
And by the way, why are my tax
dollars going to Minnesota health care?
I don't understand.
That's that's to me is the scandal.
Take care of your own people.
We got our troubles here in Texas.
And what an opportunity I've missed to open
up my own facility for Tourette's sufferers.
There you go.
Made a bundle.
Yeah.
So the president is also very worried about
the midterms.
And he's I've watched the whole the whole
speech he did for the GOP off.
So the whole the funny one that we
had all the jokes in it.
The one.
Yeah.
But the thing is, if you want to
clip anything from it, he starts with the
serious topic.
And then he just he's going on cracking
jokes.
You know, I want to say one thing
about the Republicans in the midterms there.
They they're not handling this right.
They're handling as though they got it, that
they're going to win the midterms.
Well, they're moronic if they believe that.
But I don't know whether they believe it
or not.
I didn't say they believe it.
I'm just saying that's the way they're they're
acting.
They're pretending.
I think pretending because they have to be.
They can't they can't be this stupid.
They're pretending they're going to wipe the floor
with the Democrats in the midterms.
And they're going to win.
And they're so so they're exuding their the
message that's going out is don't worry about
voting.
Yeah, we're going to win anyway, instead of
instead of trying to pay what they should
be doing is scaring the Republicans and making
them panic that they're going to lose.
And the rest of the next two years
after 2027, 2028 are going to be just
nothing but impeach, impeach, impeach, you know, and
impede and just screw up the whole the
whole thing is over.
I mean, basically, the Democrats, it's like a,
you know, throwing a wrench in the works.
Well, this was and I'm sorry, but they
keep acting as though they're going to they
should be panicking.
Well, I think there's a probably a large
number of Republicans who have the let's just
sit it out for a couple more years
vibe.
I truly believe that like this just all
sucks.
Trump is unpredictable.
He's not playing the game, not playing the
way we're used to.
And so let's just sit him out.
The sit him out doesn't matter.
You know, well, you know, OK, so maybe
we got through four years of Biden.
We get through any of that.
It's not just wait it out.
But in fact, the president said exactly what
you just said.
You got to win the midterms because if
we don't win the midterms, it's just going
to be.
I mean, they'll find a reason to impeach
me.
I'll get impeached.
We don't impeach them.
You know why?
Because they're meaner than we are.
We should have impeached Joe Biden for 100
different things.
They are mean and smart.
But fortunately for you, they have horrible policy.
They can be smart as can be.
But when they want open borders, when they
want, as I said, men and women sports,
when they want transgender for everyone, bring your
kids in, we're going to change the sex
of your child.
He was in rare form, but it was
just too even the jokes shaggy dog for
five, six minutes before he got to the
punchline.
But he said one thing, and I agree
on him with him, particularly since right now
they're in the House doing the important people's
work on voting on the health care extension
subsidies.
No idea how that's going to turn out.
But and he's oh, man, he does such
a poor job of explaining things.
He just his sound bites are the worst
because I know what I think I know
what he's trying to say.
But this is how it comes out.
I read a story about insurance companies making
a fortune, a fortune.
Their stocks were up 1700 percent.
Who invested recently in this stock?
That's up 17.
He's he's he's instead of just saying Nancy
Pelosi, which is what he's what he means
here, he doesn't say that doesn't say who
invested in these health care, who made all
that money?
Who invested recently in this stock?
That's up 17.
And that's because the money that they're getting
from Obamacare is massive and the government generally.
That means they're making a fortune.
I came out with a statement.
Let the money go not to the big
fat cats in the insurance companies that made
1700 percent over the last short period of
time.
Let the money go directly to the people
where they can buy their own health care.
And and I don't think I'm not sure
that I've ever said anything that was more
impactful.
You know, I say a lot of things
and have a lot of good ideas.
And this was an idea that I mean,
the whole world went crazy.
The whole country went crazy.
The world went crazy with envy.
If you can somehow do that, Mr. Speaker,
Tom, all of you, Steve, if you can
do that, you're going to have this is
going to be your issue.
The funny thing is that you don't have
to wait for that to happen.
I mean, it's been I've just been studying
this since since we got to two and
a half years ago.
I got on the was it the ministry
health health care ministries, whatever it's called.
Tina's got crowd health.
You know, these these crowdfunding initiatives are doing
so well.
They're giving the first three months free.
Like you don't have to you have to
pay for the first three months and you
can't do it in California.
That's right.
You can't.
There may be other states, but yeah, you
can't do it in California because you get
dinged.
Yeah, a thousand dollars.
But even that's worth it.
Well, if you calculate it, but nobody they
don't see it that way.
No, I understand.
Why?
Why should they get dinged at all?
No, they shouldn't.
But that's a state.
That's a state.
Who's putting up with that?
California.
No, well, the point is mail in ballots.
It's not anybody in California that likes the
idea.
I understand what you say.
It's the corrupt election system in California, Washington
and Oregon.
They're all mail in ballots states.
My point is, why doesn't the president bring
a couple of these companies in to explain
how it's already working?
And because really, we've saved, I don't know,
what is it?
Like $12,000 more probably.
No, that would be great.
Great.
They don't do that.
I've always wondered, you know, if you remember,
you probably don't.
Ross Perot ran for president.
Now, what we got here, you see, on
my blackboard is here's the money coming in
and here's the money going out.
He would have these little charts, just like
you tried to do there.
I did quite well.
Yeah, not bad.
It's screechy.
But he would show a little chart and
it would explain, not just one or two,
but constantly show these little charts that were,
what do you call them when you have
an example that people can visualize?
A chart.
Well, I know there's a word for it.
A Venn diagram.
No, it's an influential tool.
A meme, a cartoon.
I'm running out of ideas.
Stop.
And so he would show these little charts
and diagrams and explain very carefully what they
meant.
And then you could look at him and
you'd understand.
Yeah.
And nobody has done that since.
And it's just beyond me.
Well, the reason why.
I mean, Trump should know that he's been
told, but if he was, he's going to
believe that God saved his life.
It was when he was looking at one
of the few charts he's ever used.
That's a good point.
He turned his head to point out the
chart of showing the immigration chart that he
still uses it to this day, showing the
drop in immigration.
He turns his head and he misses a
bullet.
Well, maybe that was the sign to use
these charts more.
It is quite baffling.
Okay.
So sir, by his grace, that's because he's
in on it.
I don't know.
I think this is just, he's in on
it.
Oh yeah, sure.
I don't think so.
He doesn't care.
All right.
No, but what boggles my mind is the
fact that you can already opt out of
the system today and it works.
It's fantastic.
I'm just blown away.
And now if I could get a thousand
bucks or 500 or nothing, give me nothing.
I'm fine.
It cost me 500 bucks max per thing
that happens.
And you help out other people.
And so you're still out a couple thousand
dollars a year.
That's what insurance is supposed to do, by
the way.
But it's the people's insurance, by the way.
Yeah, but that's what insurance is supposed to
be.
Well, it's not.
And if you look at...
Well, there you go.
Why is that?
Well, and so here's my next question.
Why do drug companies not try to cure
people?
They just want to keep them on drugs.
The whole system's corrupt.
Insurance is corrupt, and so are drugs.
But instead of going and fighting ICE, fight
the system, people.
Gosh.
And doesn't Berkshire Hathaway, isn't their, maybe it's
no longer their main, but isn't their main
business reinsurance?
So insuring the insurance companies?
I don't think it's, I think it's just
pure insurance.
Okay.
So one share of Berkshire Hathaway went from
like 50 bucks to 750,000 bucks.
That should give you a clue about how
well the insurance business works.
And by the way, I think a lot
of these insurers are tied back to Lloyd's
and Barkley's.
You know, that's all theft from the North
Sea Nexus, as far as I'm concerned.
And of course, these are the companies that
kick back to election campaigns.
I've, I, I need to look up some
of those clips where, where politicians are saying,
well, there's just one thing you don't touch
in Washington.
You don't say anything about the insurance companies.
And the same goes for- You need
to get your funding cut off.
Yes.
It's like pet insurance.
I think Obama was the number one, in
all of history, the number one guy, president
- Recipient of insurance related- Getting the
most insurance money.
Well, of course he did Obamacare, which was
literally putting money in their pocket.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So I'm just saying, it's like, opt out
of the system, people.
Do it already.
But yes, the president should totally just, and
don't even claim your time.
Just buy some time.
Buy some time out of your own pocket
and do a 20 minute podcast on TV
and get some charts.
You know, he could, I'm sure he could
do it.
You're right.
He did that.
Oh, I love this.
This is a beautiful chart.
This chart saved my life.
Well, save, save the midterms and do some
charts.
You know, and then- They're going to
have their asses handed to them because Schumer
is outflanking me, even though Schumer is pulling
stunt after stunt like this.
The latest thing with this stupid candlelight vigil,
which was pathetic.
But, but they gave these speeches.
I do have a clip from it.
Oh, good, good, good, good.
This is Jeffreys talking about the cat.
Now talk about a liar.
Jeffreys comes, first Schumer comes out and bitches
and moans about Trump being a horrible guy.
And he's instigated January 6th, which is a
fraud if ever there was.
And so now Jeffreys comes out and listen
to his discussion about how fantastic the Capitol
Police were.
For more than five hours, they were forced
to engage in hand to hand combat.
Confronting thousands of bloodthirsty rioters who were unleashed
by Donald Trump.
They were beaten with pipes, whipped, assaulted by
bear spray and pummeled by Confederate flagpoles.
They were bloodied, but unbound.
We owe these heroes an eternal debt of
gratitude and we'll never forget their service and
their sacrifice.
Had it not been for their bravery on
that fateful day.
I would have been dead.
Many of us would not be alive right
now.
Wow, wow, of course.
Well, and then in true Republican Party fashion,
I know what we'll do.
We'll get them.
We're going to change our website.
Today is the five year anniversary of a
deadly assault on the US Capitol by a
mob that was trying to overturn the results
of the 2020 presidential election.
And there's a fresh attempt by the Trump
administration of trying to alter the facts of
what happened on that day.
A new page on the White House website
mischaracterizes several of the events.
The site accuses Capitol Police of escalating tensions
and also accuses the Democrats of staging the
real insurrection.
There was no official event to memorialize this
day in 2021, when a mob stormed down
Pennsylvania Avenue and breached the Capitol as lawmakers
fled.
Instead, a march took place today made up
of dozens of people who were charged in
those riots, but later pardoned by President Trump.
This was quite they had time.
These are all prepackaged, of course, because they
were ready for it.
So it didn't matter what happened in Minnesota.
And it doesn't matter.
What do we got in the calendar, Bob?
We got the anniversary of January 6.
Oh, good.
Let's do some packages.
Yeah, I got a package.
You know what?
I'm going to get Pelosi on.
Joining me now is House Speaker Emeritus Nancy
Pelosi, Democrat from California.
It's great to see you.
I know this day is so difficult for
everybody who lives in this city.
It was so difficult for everybody who lives
in this city.
I thought of you a lot today.
I was going to talk to you.
But just given everything that happened, everything we
all watched.
And now we have the current House speaker
refusing to put it aside.
That's Jen Psaki.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
She's going primetime.
And of course, you know, nobody watches that
show.
No, but the argument is over.
Well, they were supposed to put up a
plaque and they didn't put up the plaque.
Now this is a good.
OK, yeah, this is very funny.
Current House speaker refusing to put a commemorative
plaque.
We have Donald Trump, who's, of course, president
again, still lying about 2020.
Lying, lying.
How is this sitting with you five years
later?
Well, today is an emotional day for all
of us.
Five years since the president of the United
States incited an insurrection on the Capitol, on
the Congress, on the Constitution.
And it's a notice bringing just they completely
changed history back to where they wanted.
It was an insurrection.
On our ability to honor our oath of
office to certify the election of the president
by way of certifying the Electoral College, what
was sad is that this president refused to
send the National Guard saying, oh, I wanted
it, but they didn't want to.
It's amazing.
It's just it's just it's just amazing.
It's mocking.
Have you seen the White House meme clip
that they put out?
No.
Where they clipped that little part there.
Then they clipped the part from the movie.
Her daughter, Nancy, says, yeah, I could have
sent the National Guard, but I never did.
Yeah, Nancy, they didn't want it.
His own secretary of defense testified under oath
that that was not true.
But he is not under oath.
So he just lies, lies, lies, lies, lies,
lies.
But what's important is our democracy.
What happened then was horrible, was horrible.
Confederate fags under Lincoln's dome, the dome that
Lincoln built.
Hold on a second.
The dome that Lincoln built.
I have a feeling that that lasted a
couple of presidencies.
He didn't build the dome.
OK.
No, he built it himself.
What?
No, he Lincoln himself.
Actually, from scratch, he poured them with cement.
He did.
He put it up.
He engineered it.
He's an engineer.
He's a structural engineer.
Everybody knows what she does.
And then the blacks did it, too.
The black slaves.
And of course, funny enough, it was completed
under Monroe, the predecessor to the Donro.
Under Lincoln's dome, the dome that Lincoln built
while he was unifying.
She just makes stuff up as she goes
along.
Yeah, it's great.
Unity of our country.
Why don't they call it Lincoln's dome?
Together, our union together.
And this president, for some reason, decided that
he was going to well, incite an insurrection,
lie about it because he couldn't face the
fact that he was not elected president of
the United States.
I mean, it's what you do.
But it just show everybody.
Every he's lying.
He's lying.
He's lying.
Let me lie.
It's it's great.
You know, it's just the way and sake
just sits there and she's nodding her head.
She lives in.
She's a you.
She's useless.
She's so she's going to understand how she
gets work.
She's it.
Well, what do you mean?
Of course, if you do, we could you
and I could have a show on Ms.
Now, Ms. Now, if we did that, just
do that.
Oh, yes.
It's so hard.
I mean, now that we live in D
.C., we really make more money.
Our rent will be higher, but we'd make
a lot more money if we did that.
But missing from all this the same day.
Did you see the announcement from Levitt on
Tulsi Gabbard's declassified declassification?
I did.
You have a clip.
Well, unfortunately, it's long, but she's a good
speaker and we can cut it off or
stop wherever we want.
Over the past few days, director of National
Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has unveiled shocking new evidence
that former President Barack Obama and top aides
in the Obama administration conspired to subvert President
Trump's 2016 election victory and undermine the Democratic
will of the American people.
While publicly pretending to engage in a peaceful
transfer of power in private, former President Obama
went to great and nefarious lengths to try
to sow discord among the public and sabotage
his successor, President Trump.
The new evidence released by the director of
National Intelligence, who is here with me today,
confirms that the Obama administration manufactured politicized intelligence,
which was later used as a justification for
baseless smears against President Trump in an effort
to try to delegitimize his victory before he
even took the oath of office.
The truth is that President Trump never had
anything to do with Russia, and the Russia
collusion hoax was a massive fraud perpetuated on
the American people from the very beginning.
And the worst part of this is Obama
knew that truth.
And so did all of the other corrupt
officials involved in this scam, including former CIA
director John Brennan, former director of National Intelligence
James Clapper, former FBI director James Comey, former
deputy director Andrew McCabe, and many others.
So I expect these people to be indicted.
Do you think that will happen?
That's a good one.
So they're just doing talk and they're not
going to do anything?
Well, Chris, we knew all this already.
Of course, we knew this.
We knew it for a long time.
You're a conspiracy theorist.
Okay.
But now that Gabbard's brought out the, you
know, she's declassified a bunch of stuff, which
indicates this to be true.
It doesn't.
Nobody picked it up.
You know, you're playing the one clip that
says it all.
And she's at the press conference.
She's talking to the mainstream media right in
front of her.
Nobody even wrote a story.
Where's the story?
You see a story in the front page
of the New York Times about this?
No, I still see.
I still see a car in the snow
on the quad screen.
You know, of course not, because she also
calls them out.
She calls out the New York Times, the
Wall Street Journal.
She calls out reporters.
And you can go look at the or
listen to the clip in the show.
By the way, I have a new feature
to the show notes.
I now am posting all the sources to
the clips in the show notes, which is
handy.
So you get the clips so you can
do your own podcast.
I see what you're doing over there.
And now you also get the sources.
But of course, those are prone to change
because you know how that works.
You may just go away.
But yeah, it's, will the Department of, are
there not thousands of sealed indictments?
I mean, will the Department of Justice not
do something?
I mean, it seems like you're going through
to just have Caroline leave it, just say
it, and then nothing happens.
That would surprise, it would surprise me.
It wouldn't surprise me.
Bloomberg, by the way, had a story this
morning that Tulsi Gabbard was not, as the
national security advisor, was not included in the
Venezuela op.
And the joke, according to Bloomberg, going around
D.C. is DNI stands for do not
invite.
And I'm like, that's kind of interesting.
Of course, you know, once a Democrat, you
can never really be trusted, I guess.
You know, the less people that know about
these things, the better, the better, and because
it's obvious that the Congress in particular, there
are a bunch of, there are a bunch
of, we have, that's the enemy within.
Let me just play this clip.
This is the, this is a very short
discussion of the War Powers Act, which is,
was passed since 1973.
It's been around for 50 years.
And it's what the president uses to do
this stuff, even though everyone says, oh, you
can't do this, you can't do that.
Yes, you can.
And here's the short explanation of the whole
thing.
War Powers Act states that notification should be
made to Congress within 48 hours following the
initiation of hostilities.
In addition, the military must leave the country
within 60 days unless Congress provides a declaration
of war.
According to House Speaker Mike Johnson, the military
has already left Venezuela.
Yeah, there you go.
It's within the law.
And they brief Congress after the fact.
It has to be within 48 hours, not
before.
They don't need congressional approval.
It's right in the War Powers Act that
Congress passed.
Well, this is all posturing.
Trump used an antiquated document, a little used
law.
It's used all the time.
It was used by Obama.
It was used by Clinton to bomb Bosnia.
It was used by Clinton to, I get,
no, it was, who was it?
Obama to bomb Libya.
It was used over and over again.
It was used to get Noriega.
I mean, it's not new, but yeah.
Oh, it's unconstitutional.
I didn't clip any, but I love seeing
clips of Obama and Biden talking about Venezuela.
You know, well, they put sanction.
Remember Guaido?
Remember that gambit?
They put in an Obama-like guy and
no one even looked at him.
No one came to the rallies.
He went to the- He was the
Venezuelan Obama.
Yeah, didn't he go to Congress?
They would, oh, yes, Guaido.
Oh, yes, Guaido.
He's the man.
He's going to do it.
Yeah, Guaido, they get whatever happened to him.
This CIA op, they just threw, by the
way, just on CIA ops for a second,
you know, J.D., Fat J.D., now
I have him in my, in my algo,
thanks.
Oh, you're getting the Fat J.D.'s? Yeah,
I'm getting the Fat J.D.'s. I'm even
getting- He's a pretty good dancer, that
guy.
I'm getting Fat J.D.'s in bikinis.
It's very disturbing.
My algos have crossed.
When he was an anti-Trumper, do you
know who he endorsed for president?
It was either Rand Paul or- No,
no, no.
Oh, Ted Cruz.
Nope.
No?
It was that dude from Utah, the CIA
guy.
Really?
Yes.
He endorsed him.
That makes me question Vance.
Well, yeah, well, a lot of people question
Vance.
Well, because he's fat.
I think he's also, he was on Jesse
Waters' show last night.
Spencer Cox, that's the games guy.
Yeah, Spencer Cox, I think.
And he's a smooth talker, I have to
say, I give him credit for that.
He's very smooth.
He's not a good tweeter, he tweeted some
stuff.
He's not a good tweeter, you can't be
president.
No.
He doesn't quite know what he's doing.
He should shut up about the Minnesota shooting
for Starbush.
He's been given that portfolio.
He was on all the quad screens this
morning.
I didn't clip it because it was too
close to the show.
But that's in his portfolio.
He doesn't get Venezuela, he doesn't get Greenland,
he gets Minnesota.
So I think he's kind of being sidelined
a little bit, it feels like.
I don't think he's getting sidelined, he's getting
more airtime than before.
He's just being, they just gave him, you're
right.
But for minor stuff.
For minor, yeah, it's like, who wants that
aside?
Go stand with Kristi Noem.
She's wearing a hat.
I can't see her eyes.
I don't know.
She's on a horse.
So I just love the fallout from Venezuela
and now Greenland.
And I got to play this clip because
I was watching a lot of the financial
stuff.
This is Squawk Box Europe.
Which, of course, is rife with City of
London operatives.
Listen to this Brit freak out.
What world do we live in where America
is potentially threatening or refusing to rule out
military action on Denmark, an ally, on an
area where they can actually put as many
troops as they want there anyway.
They could have as many deals to extract
resources they want anyway, almost certainly.
But they want to have military action.
But that is not even the most gobsmacking
of these headlines.
Gobsmacking!
But the fact that all pretense that this
extraction of Maduro was about narco-terrorism.
See, by the way, he's read in.
He knows it was an extraction.
He doesn't call it a capture.
Doesn't call it a kidnapping.
He calls it an extraction.
So this guy is clearly read in.
All pretense that this extraction of Maduro was
about narco-terrorism or bringing a drug kingpin
to justice is just completely out the window.
All pretense that there is a process which
the US administration wants to bring democracy to
Venezuela is out the window.
Whoever said we want to bring democracy?
Nobody said that.
That's old thinking, brother.
To just say Venezuela has hundreds of billions
of dollars of liabilities on a global basis,
some of them to US oil companies.
To China.
But to say we're just going to have
now this 50 million barrels of oil.
We're going to take them.
We're going to take three billion.
We're just going to take them.
And we'll work out the process.
It'll be fine for the Venezuelan people.
It's just gobsmacking.
This is just a shock show.
Gobsmacking is a shock show.
I mean, where do we live in?
Where the US, the paragon of the liberal
democratic order for the last 80 years, is
just now saying, yeah, we'll have that oil.
And for what justification?
Yeah, exactly.
The rules-based order is over.
There's a new cowboy in town.
Then you can see he's freaking out this
guy.
By the way, the oil baron, they're going
to the White House for the big meeting.
There's a big meeting with all of the
oil executives.
Oh, we'll get a report.
A real report.
And he's actually really been educating me a
lot on the US.
We can now basically make the strike price
for oil.
We could say, OK, it's $45 if we
wanted to.
And we could sell it whatever price we
want.
There's all kinds of very interesting angles to
this taking of the oil.
And he gave me a book to read,
which I've been devouring.
It's called The World for Sale, Money, Power,
and the Traders who Barter the Earth's Resources.
And it's the commodity traders.
And you never hear about these.
Well, you've heard probably about Glencore, Gunvor, Trafigura,
Vital.
These aren't really names that you hear all
the time.
But these are the guys who literally ship
the oil.
They'll buy the oil.
They get it from one country.
They put it on a lot of these
shadow ships.
They ship it across the country.
They might trade it for grain.
You know, it's not even money sometimes.
They trade it for either a different kind
of oil or a different commodity.
There's also all kinds of metals in the
same ship.
It's amazing how this really all works, which
you just never— Well, one of the top
people in this business is a guy named
Louis Dreyfus.
Where have I heard that name before?
Good name.
Yeah, Julia Louis Dreyfus is the heir to
that fortune.
Then he's a commodity trader.
Well, I don't know if Louis is.
I don't know if Louis is still alive.
But yeah, she's more than a Democrat.
She's tarred.
Another thing that came up in conversation is,
you know, Venezuela has anti-aircraft batteries that
are supplied by Russia.
You got to wonder, did they malfunction?
Did they just not work?
Or was Russia in on the deal?
I think so.
I think Russia was in on the deal.
I think China probably knew about it.
Maybe not the timing, because they had their
boys there doing the meeting.
Huge.
China has loaned Venezuela $90 billion so far.
Yeah.
And it could be more than that.
And they're going to be on the hook
for that.
Yes.
But exactly what I said is like, hey,
they've got to do something for the Venezuelan
people soon.
And I think that's this, you know, the
30 or— It's not clear how much it
is.
30 or 50 million barrels.
That's $2 billion.
Okay.
So that's going to keep the food in
the supermarkets for a little bit longer, because
you can just change their system.
But I think it's fascinating.
This isn't just one thing that changed here.
This is a lot of things that changed.
Here's— so everyone's— we'll kind of go from
Venezuela to— Well, let's go leave Venezuela there.
You want to do Venezuela?
Okay.
Yeah, let's do Venezuela.
What do I have on my list here?
I see you have three steps.
Oh, yeah.
This is kind of interesting, because this just
came out.
I think this is Rubio, who would be
a great dictator.
He's funny.
He says funny things.
He has little— Oh, and by the way,
somebody in the— one of the people from
the— I think the— that works in the
White House that of all the people that
are on the— in the White House, Rubio
is the funniest.
Well, you hear him say stuff.
He's— He's funnier than Trump, they say.
He has quips.
He has little snide quips that just slash
away.
And I should get— I should get a
supercut together.
We had to find something that has— yeah.
Before we played this— Well, remember, he's an
entertainer, after all, so.
Well, he was, and he's the one who
came up with the small hands joke.
Yes, it was good.
He was— when he started doing kind of
a stand-up bit when he was running
for president in 2016, 2015, he went into
some stand-up material that was top-notch.
I remember.
Do we have that clip, by the way?
Do we have— I don't know if we
do and how you'd find it, but he
did top-notch material.
And then he was condemned by the non—
never Trump or Republicans for being too glib.
And he just shut it down.
He shut it down.
But obviously, he had the chops.
Yes.
So he probably is the funniest guy.
Let me see.
Hands.
Do you have the little hands?
Little hands.
No.
No, I don't have any of that.
I don't know.
Well, here's— let's start with the Maduro hate.
This is a supercut from the various talk
shows on MSNB— MizNow and CNN and all
the rest of these guys going off on
Trump.
This was an illegal, unconstitutional regime change effort.
This is about taking over and running another
country.
This is illegal.
It's unjustified.
Clearly, this is wildly illegal.
This is a president who has been operating
illegally since he was sworn into office, stealing
from the American people.
This is the worst form of gun vote
diplomacy that proceeds to create a lot of
problems for the United States.
The reality is that, you know, to fund
these operations, to fund nation-building, they need
the approval of Congress, right?
And so they're going to have to come
to us when it comes to funding all
these things, or do more illegal things and
move money around illegally like they have in
the past.
They care about the president running this country,
not trying to have some dominance in the
hemisphere.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So this is what I thought was interesting,
because one of the things that keeps coming
up in the conversation is, oh, Trump's got
no plans.
He doesn't know what he's doing.
He did this, and he grabbed the guy,
and now they don't know what to do.
Yeah, right.
So here is the, this is the Venezuela
three steps.
And congressional Republicans agreed with the Trump administration
that the removal of Maduro was not about
regime change.
Step one is the stabilization of the country.
We don't want it descending into chaos.
The second phase will be a phase that
we call recovery, and that is ensuring that
American, Western, and other companies have access to
the Venezuela market in a way that's fair.
The opposition forces can be amnestied and released,
and from prisons are brought back to the
country and begin to rebuild civil society.
And then the third phase, of course, will
be one of transition.
It is not a regime change.
I want to emphasize that.
It is a change of the actions of
the regime.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
There's a lot more to it.
Let me see.
I have a BBC, let me see.
Well, no, I have three clips, all British
related, of course.
Here's Reuters.
This is about the ghost ships, the ghost
fleet, which is a lot of these guys
that are in this book I'm reading.
The US has seized two Venezuelan linked oil
tankers in the Atlantic.
Notably, one of the tankers bearing a Russian
flag was being shadowed by a Russian submarine.
American forces had been pursuing the marinera for
more than two weeks.
The ship was reportedly empty, but US officials
are saying it's been used to move Venezuelan
crude.
This comes just days after US forces captured
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and as Trump announced
a deal to bring up to 50 million
barrels of the crude into the US.
Just a thought.
Let's say, because Russia has been selling their
crude cheap, cheap to China, whoever needs it.
Just undercutting the price.
And India.
So what if Trump says, you know, I'm
going to peg this, I'm going to sell
this at 35.
Russia, because oil is, you know, it's, what's
the term?
You know, it's the same everywhere.
It's not the same oil, but, you know,
the price are the price.
So then Russia will have to lower their
price.
It'll put pressure on them.
And maybe this would be a good tactic
to use, like, hey, come on, Vladimir, let's
just figure this thing out.
Do a demilitarized zone.
Let's just end that stuff.
And then we'll screw Europe together.
Because Europe, the only way they can survive
is with Russian oil.
That's it.
I mean, yeah, they can use our LNG,
but Europe is dead without Russian energy.
I just don't see where else it's going
to come from.
Yeah, they got nothing.
I think that could be part of the
ploy.
It's like, yeah, I'm going to sell this
really cheap.
Something's up.
Yes.
Here's national security reporter Idris Ali.
Anytime you have a superpower taking over something
that belongs to another superpower, in this case,
the United States and Russia, it does risk
sort of tensions faring.
It does risk, you know, a diplomatic demarche.
The Russian transportation ministry put out a statement
saying this is unacceptable.
We request and really demand, you know, our
citizens from the ship to be returned to
us.
But beyond that, I think we're trying to
figure out what happens next, right?
Do the Russians say, OK, this was a
vessel that was under our flag, but it
really wasn't something that was that belonged to
us previously.
So we're going to let this go.
Or do they have some sort of response
where they go after some vessels that is
important to the United States?
The U.S. Coast Guard is in possession
of the vessel.
It does appear to be heading in the
direction of British waters, but we don't know
what the final destination is going to be.
OK, so I don't know what that means.
Here's the BB.
BB was a tug.
And the Russians would, you know, the Russians,
I think, are a little more concerned about
the 300 billion stolen from them in hard
cash.
You think?
By the EU, as opposed to some old
beat up.
I've seen pictures of this.
This thing is barely.
If it makes it without sinking, I'd be
shocked.
And just because you paint a Russian flag
on it doesn't mean it belongs to Russia.
You know, you fly, you sail under a
flag.
That's registration.
Doesn't mean that Russia owns it.
Here's the BBC version.
The United States has seized two oil tankers
with connections to Venezuela.
One that the U.S. had been pursuing
for weeks since intercepting it off the Venezuelan
coast was boarded in the North Atlantic between
Iceland and Britain.
During the chase, the ship, which is reported
to be empty of cargo, changed its name
and adopted a Russian flag.
Before the tanker was seized, Russian naval support,
including a submarine, had been on its way
to escort it.
The second vessel, which was carrying oil and
sailing under a Cameroonian flag, was seized in
the Caribbean.
It's now being escorted to a U.S.
port.
A former Russian deputy foreign minister, Andrei Fedorov,
told the BBC Moscow would take the U
.S. action very seriously.
For Russia, it's a very important thing because
if there will be attack from U.S.,
it will be considered as attack on Russia,
and it could lead to very critical or
maybe even crisis situation in relations between Russia
and U.S. Dream on, Brit.
No, they're all playing a part.
I think this is a game much bigger
than they understand.
It's much bigger.
Well, to throw a wrench in the works,
I have this not reported clip from NTD.
That I don't understand how this fits into
the scheme of things, but it's not nobody's
talking much about.
This is my WTF clip for the day.
WTF oil deal.
President Trump announcing a historic oil deal with
Venezuela.
Under its terms, Venezuela will purchase only American
products with the money made from the U
.S. selling Venezuela's sanctioned oil.
This coming as the U.S. apprehends two
more sanctioned oil tankers in the Atlantic.
NTD's Washington correspondent brings us more from the.
I haven't heard this story at all.
What a great what a great idea.
It's like we're not going to give you
the money.
We're just going to send you some goods
in return.
This is a great idea.
All eyes are still on Venezuela as the
White House today confirms the seizure of two
more sanctioned oil tankers.
One of them, the Sofia.
This is a stateless, sanctioned dark fleet motor
tanker.
This vessel was operating in international waters and
conducting illicit activities in the Caribbean Sea.
And the other, Bella One, the British military
says, was part of a Russian-Iranian axis
of sanctions evasion.
The vessel this morning was seized in the
North Atlantic.
This was a Venezuelan shadow fleet vessel that
has transported sanctioned oil.
The vessel had a judicial seizure order and
the crew.
So that means the crew is now subject
to prosecution for any applicable violation of federal
law.
This comes as President Trump announced Tuesday night
that the interim authorities in Venezuela will be
turning over 30 to 50 million barrels of
sanctioned oil to the United States, where it
will be sold at market price.
The White House saying the Trump administration, led
by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, is in
close correspondence with interim authorities in Venezuela.
The interim authorities have agreed to release that
oil to the United States, so it will
be arriving here at home very soon.
The United States government has already begun marketing
Venezuelan crude oil.
Levitt says the U.S. is selectively rolling
back sanctions to enable the transport and sale
of Venezuelan crude oil to global markets.
They are not generating any revenue from their
oil right now.
They can't move it unless we allow it
to move because we have sanctions, because we're
enforcing those sanctions.
This is tremendous leverage.
We are exercising it in a positive way.
And we're going to refine it, though, first,
I presume.
I mean, who else does anyone else really
need?
Well, yeah, Venezuela has some refining capabilities.
But we have it.
We have the refineries.
Louisiana, Texas is great.
Right down in that area.
Yeah, it's good for us.
Yeah.
Go, Texas.
Yeah, it keeps these guys busy.
Now, here's part two.
Proceeds from Venezuelan crude oil sales will first
settle in U.S.-controlled accounts.
And then those funds will be dispersed for
the benefit of the American people and the
Venezuelan people.
We're going to market that crude.
We're going to allow that crude to be
sold so that revenue can be generated.
But then we're going to control the flow
of that revenue to make sure it's going
for productive reasons in Venezuela.
Meanwhile, as the effects of former Venezuelan dictator
Nicolas Maduro's capture are felt around the world,
President Trump warning other Western countries that his
administration won't allow America's neighbors to be used
as proxies for U.S. adversaries.
We need Greenland from a national security situation.
It's so strategic.
It's great.
Greenland is covered with Russian and Chinese ships
all over the place.
We need Greenland from the standpoint of national
security.
President Trump says Russia and China have, quote,
zero fear of NATO without the U.S.
and that the only nation China and Russia
fear and respect is the America that he's
rebuilding.
The White House confirms the U.S. is
talking about what a potential purchase of Greenland
would look like.
More control over the Arctic region and ensuring
that China and Russia and our adversaries cannot
continue their aggression in this very important and
strategic region.
Levitt says all options are on the table,
with the first option always diplomacy.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says he plans
to meet his Danish counterparts next week to
talk about the U.S.'s interest in Greenland.
Reporting from the White House, Mario Tsu, NTD
News.
I think that there's disinformation that the president
is spreading with this because it's not every
single report mentions the national security part of
it.
But then always, oh, minerals.
They got oil.
They got minerals.
There's gold in them hills.
I tell you, it's all great stuff.
No one's going to drill for minerals in
Iceland.
You're not going to drill for oil in
Iceland.
No, they're not.
It's cold.
There's ice.
Oil's frozen.
Greenland, I'm sorry.
You can't pump out something that's frozen.
Greenland.
I'm sorry, I meant said Iceland.
I meant Greenland.
You said Iceland, yeah.
But no one's going to do that.
But that's what they keep saying.
As you've pointed out many times, rare earth
minerals, it's not that you can get them
anywhere.
Almost anywhere.
It's the processing.
That's the processing is the problem.
That's the key.
But every report ends with it or has
it as a feature.
You listen to CNBC again.
We need Greenland.
President Donald Trump is fixated on making Greenland
a part of the United States.
And there are three key reasons why.
Trump says his interest in the huge and
sparsely populated Danish territory is essential for national
security.
The White House has even raised the prospect
of military action.
But there are some other reasons why Greenland
finds itself in the U.S. sites.
First, location, location, location.
Greenland sits between Russia and the U.S.,
separating the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic
Ocean.
Second, shipping routes.
The largely frozen island is close to new
shipping routes as the climate crisis melts Arctic
ice, creating opportunities to upend global trade.
And third, despite Trump's recent dismissal of this
being a primary driver, minerals.
Greenland is widely known for its wide range
of raw materials, which play an integral role
in things like EVs, smartphones and loads of
other tech products.
Despite Trump's posturing, European leaders have been unequivocal
in their support of both Denmark and Greenland.
So minerals, oh yeah, minerals, minerals.
It's about one thing and one thing only.
It's called the G.I.U.K. gap.
The Greenland, Iceland, U.K. gap.
Which falls under surveillance by NATO currently because
of the NATO connection with Denmark and Greenland
being a part of that.
So we don't trust NATO anymore.
NATO is falling apart.
Now, I don't think Trump wants to blow
NATO up because he still wants to sell
a lot of gear to him.
A lot, a lot, a lot of gear.
But he does want to police that G
.I.U.K. gap.
And the only way you can do it,
well, there's a couple of ways you can
do it, but you need to, you know,
either own Greenland.
So you have your 200 mile economic zone,
which would cover it, and then you can
actually patrol it.
Now, there's other cases where you can do
sonar monitoring, but that's not really what we
want.
We want to do the same thing China's
doing in the China, in the China Sea
and around the disputed islands.
We want to be in control there so
that you can't have the Brits.
They literally have Russian submarines showing up off
their shore.
How do you think they got there?
Duh, through the gap.
And then why are we building 10 icebreakers
or six icebreakers in Pennsylvania that we bought
all the know-how and everything from Finland?
Because we're going to crush through all that
ice.
We're going to make this the most fantastic
shipping route ever, and we're going to control
it.
And that's, if you look at the globe,
if you believe in the globe, that's part
of our hemisphere.
It's very simple to me, but everybody's like,
oh, it's about the minerals, methaminerals.
And boy, the Brits and the whole system,
they're all, oh, they're afraid of this.
They do not like it.
Witness Canada's solidarity.
Prime Minister Mark Carney in Paris at a
summit focused squarely on Ukraine.
Our main objective is to finalize the security
guarantees, which create the possibility of a just
and lasting peace.
Did you see the signing they did of
the security agreement?
I did not.
Oh, so, and Whitkoff and Kushner are there.
And they say, oh, we've signed a EU,
NATO, blah, blah.
We've signed a security agreement with Ukraine.
And if you look at the fine print,
all we're going to do is monitor intelligence.
We're not providing anything.
But they act like, oh, yes, it's a
lasting peace, and the US is a part
of it.
We're not.
The agreement really states we're just monitoring a
little bit.
You know, we'll let you know if we
see anything suspicious.
We're not providing.
We'll keep an eye on it.
That's exactly, we'll keep an eye on it.
Let's see, I had the, yes, here it
is.
It's the Coalition of the Willing Security Guarantee.
I think I have the exact wording that
will do it.
These elements will be European-led with the
involvement also of non-European members of the
coalition and the proposed support of the US.
That's in the agreement.
Well, that's nothing.
We're not doing anything.
Crucially, the monitoring and verification of future ceasefire
would be led by the US.
We're going to monitor and verify.
We're not doing anything.
This is, they're delusional.
Along with Carney, European leaders and US representatives,
Donald Trump's peace envoy, Steve Whitkoff, and the
US president's son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
But it was Trump himself who cast a
long shadow over this meeting with his increasingly
bellicose threats against a NATO ally.
We need Greenland from the standpoint.
Everybody likes that Nat pop.
We need Greenland.
Of national security.
And Denmark is not going to be able
to do it, I can tell you.
After sending US troops into Venezuela to capture
the country's president, Trump has once again turned
his attention to Greenland and his desire to
take over the territory from Denmark.
In a statement today, the White House called
acquiring Greenland an important foreign policy goal and
pointedly refused to rule out military action.
That after Trump's hardline policy chief, Stephen Miller,
this week dodged a question on the US
potentially taking the island by force.
The United States should have Greenland as part
of the United States.
There's no need to even think or talk
about this in the context of a military
operation.
Nobody's going to fight the United States militarily
over the future of Greenland.
The question just doesn't make any sense.
So we could do it under the Compact
of Freedom Association, which you would do with
Palau and Micronesia, which in a deal would
give us full authority.
And so we don't own Greenland.
We just say, OK, we have a compact
of free association.
We'll pay the 600, 700 million a year
that Denmark is currently on the hook for.
And then we get strategic denial rights, the
legal power to deny military access to third
parties.
And I think this is the setup.
Russia, you take care of that region.
We'll take care of our hemisphere.
China, you do your thing.
They may actually invade Taiwan, but it's not
going to cut us off from chips.
They'd be crazy to do that.
Why would China take over Taiwan and not
sell us chips?
That's not going to happen.
And if you read the Russia, I decided
to.
I was looking, I've got some material on
Iran, which is either falling apart or not.
Well, I want to stay with Greenland before
you go to Iran.
Yeah, I know.
But I'm just saying I was looking at
the Russian material to see what was going
on.
If they have anything, there's nothing.
And but I did spot this article in,
I think it was Sputnik and maybe another
one in RT saying the US is going
to buy Greenland.
Well, the Russians don't even think there's going
to be military action.
They they're already convinced that the deal is
in play to buy.
You know, this is a matter of what
are you going to pay?
I think so, too.
But it's not going to be an invasion.
They could also do a lease.
You know, you can do under the 1951
defense of Greenland.
If I was in Denmark, maybe the lease
would be a good idea for a while
if you can get enough money out of
it.
But 99 years to me.
Oh, maybe.
But it's always 99 year lease might work.
I think that just a straight up if
you can get a lot of money, a
big.
I mean, it's got to be good.
I mean, Denmark has no interest in Greenland,
but they could use it.
You know, 100 billion dollars or two billion
or 100 billion is a lot.
There's a lot of money.
But under that 1951 agreement between the United
States and Denmark, we have a free hand.
We can pretty much do anything we want
with Greenland.
But that's not the point.
It's about the water.
We want to have the right to patrol
and and basically own that water that as
the ice melts and as our big, beautiful
ships that we bought from Finland start to
break up the ice, it's going to be
a dynamite place.
And it also, I think, kind of hurts
China's Belt and Road, or at least we
can start charging for passage.
There's all kinds of benefits to it.
The rules based order has changed.
And the only people who haven't realized it
yet or aren't copping to it is the
EU.
And they're just beside themselves.
Where's Ursula in all this?
Where's Queen Ursula?
She hasn't been yelling about anything recently.
I'm missing that.
Here's part two of this Canada solidarity with
Greenland.
Denmark's prime minister, Mette Fredriksen, says the question
needs to be taken at face value.
I believe the American president should be taken
seriously when he says he wants Greenland, she
says.
But I also want to make clear that
if the United States chooses to attack another
NATO country, then everything stops, including NATO.
Mark Carney met the Danish PM at the
Paris summit and announced Foreign Affairs Minister Anita
Anand and Governor General Mary Simon would visit
Greenland next month to open a new Canadian
consulate.
Carney today trying to strike a diplomatic tone.
We stand with Denmark.
We stand with Greenland.
Our closest partnership is with the United States.
And we'll work with everybody to make sure
that we move forward together.
The leaders of six European NATO countries, the
UK, France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Spain, joined
Denmark in a joint declaration calling the U
.S. an essential partner, but underlining Greenland belongs
to its people, that Denmark and Greenland alone
will decide their future.
The question whether a newly emboldened U.S.
president shares that view.
I think it's just trolling.
It's just trolling.
He's going to make a deal.
And I think everyone will be like, oh,
that's a pretty good deal.
Yeah, it'll be a good deal.
It's going to be a great deal.
And, you know, then things slowly unfold.
I see that the music is going to
stop and we're going to have the EU
with nothing.
Nothing.
So what do you know about the Berlin
blackout?
I don't have any clips.
I couldn't get anything that was useful.
No, Euronews has these African guys doing voiceover.
You can't even understand them.
Did they run out of Europeans to do
the Euronews?
I guess so.
So they've targeted power stations.
I don't know if it's a transformer or
a relay or if it's the actual power
station, but the word is that they're using
some kind of EMP or, you know, they're
frying the electronics.
So they're not planting bombs, they're frying stuff.
And it's taking six, seven days to get
these things back online.
I have a feeling we got some people
out there who might be able to help
us understand what's going on.
Yeah, maybe.
And it's all being blamed on Antifa, which
is, at this point, isn't Antifa just basically
radical Muslims?
Because they got enough of those in Europe.
It may be code.
It's probably code.
I think so.
It's code.
But we don't know what the code is.
Not yet.
Not yet.
So I've been following this Iranian thing.
There's a bunch of live streamers.
Yeah, it's groovy.
And this one guy, 2CTOUSI.TV and his
crew of TV, supposed TV people, has been
pushing the fact that I think one city,
at least one, the second biggest city in
Iran, Mossad or Massoud, whatever you pronounce it,
has fallen.
And there's other towns fallen.
They're making it sound as if there is
a, all hell's breaking loose.
And so this is either, but nobody's covering
it in the West.
And so I looked up, I looked at
all the media reports, because this guy says
the Russians, that's why I was looking at
Russian stuff.
The Russians have said that it's going to
be a matter of days before the regime
falls.
Meanwhile, American mainstream media is not, no mainstream
media is covering this.
The New York Times did have an article
yesterday that discussed, and it looked like hell
is breaking loose.
And it was, but it was buried.
It was buried for some reason.
So this can't be an op, our boys
doing anything, because usually we plant stuff in
the media.
If we're doing, if it's our boys doing
the intel and causing trouble.
So this is somewhat mysterious.
But I want to play these.
I only have two clips because otherwise it
doesn't make a lot of sense.
Nobody even knows this is going on.
But this is from this guy.
This is from yesterday, last night, actually.
This is the Iran falling from 2CTV.
Hello, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to 2CTV.
Oh yeah, I know this guy.
He's good.
Thank God for YouTube.
Your global news channel, Ammar Tursi, and the
revolution in Iran is getting closer and closer
to completion.
The Iranian people are now celebrating in multiple
cities, as we now have reports from two
or three new cities who have now fallen
into the hands of the anti-Islamic occupation
Iranians.
That includes, of course, the second largest city,
Mashhad.
But most of Karaj is now also under
the control of the people, as their security
forces have now retreated from those areas.
The members of the military, police, and Basij
have defected to the revolution from the regime
and government buildings have been taken over in
multiple cities and regions.
There is a lot happening.
We're going to show you all the videos.
We're going to get your reaction as usual.
And also, we are getting literally minutes before
we came live, Russian media, the Russian...
What is going on here?
The Russian media are now reporting the fall
of the regime in Iran is imminent.
And okay, so we also got a big
shout out to Cheyenne X, just telling me
another government building headquarters in the city of...
Oh, this is actually in the northeast that
has now fallen.
We're just going to go to the videos
that we are receiving as we speak, and
we'll talk about what's going on with the
Russian media as well.
A lot to talk about.
First things first, earlier today in Charmahal-Baghdadi
province, we had armed individuals fighting back, defending
themselves against the Islamic occupation forces in the
eastern part of Iran.
He's a little bit of a yak yakker.
He could get to the point a little
faster.
Yeah, that's why I didn't like clipping him.
At least there was something there.
I got some clips after you're done.
Okay, and this is the second part where
he just yaks a little more.
So he mentions Russian media.
So I went to Russian media.
I did deep searches.
I went to two or three different sites
that I could get to on a VPN.
There's nothing.
I don't know what he's talking about.
This is an op of some sort, maybe,
or maybe this is actually taking place.
They have a lot of videos coming in
from these, you know, that you can think
Elon Musk might be behind it because it's
his satellites that are providing us with any.
Wait a minute.
So what you're saying is you question if
it's real?
Oh yeah, big time.
Okay.
But at the same time, New York Times
does have a story, but they couch it
slightly differently, but it's buried.
And you'd think it might not be buried
because remember the last time there was like
a pink revolution or some bull crap during
Obama, I think.
Green, green revolution.
Green and that they, that's crapped out, but
it got a lot of, got a lot
of PR in Western media.
This is getting nothing.
This is getting no play at all.
Well, hello, we have, we have ice in
Minnesota.
That's much more important.
And if this is not, and if this
is an op and it's not taking place
and it's all created, it's all a fantasy,
that's worth covering too.
I mean, you either cover it as a
revolution that's taking place in Iran because this
is a major country or if it's bull
crap, you cover that as such.
It's not being covered in any way at
all, except by, you know, right here.
And it's, so it's something somewhat mysterious, the
whole thing.
But the Russians, I don't see anything in
Russian media that's the, that the, that the
regime has fallen, but maybe he's got a
different source than I do.
But let's play part two.
Shortly after this, we had a massive escalation
as the offices of the representative, the direct
representative of Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader.
So his branch, basically his IRGC branch, it
was taken over and destroyed.
This is crazy, absolutely insane.
The updates that we're getting tonight, every night
is just escalating slightly more.
And just a reminder, only about three days
ago, four days ago, the update came that,
of course, the backup plan for Khamenei and
20 of his closer people in the inner
circle will be planning to flee to Moscow
if the regime can't handle this.
And if defections begin, both of them have
now started.
The IRGC are not able to take back
control of the country.
And we have, we'll continue to get more
defections from the regime.
So as I said, the Russian media are
now reporting that the fall of the regime
is imminent, it's coming now at this point.
And so we don't know exactly how many
hours or days we are looking at.
But if tomorrow is like this, or even
escalates, more government buildings fall, well, it's going
to be bye-bye, Ali.
But Khangan in Iran, the Islamic forces, they
are panicking so much.
What did I tell you?
Over the last 10, 11 days, they're not
able to actually form an organized, structured crackdown
like previously.
So you only see a small group standing
in a corner, the IRGC guys, and when
they get desperate, when they get terrified, they
start shooting at whatever they see in front
of them.
Okay.
So I have a couple of clips that
I was able to find from France 24.
And I think it's real.
And I think it really for one reason,
and that's the money.
With crisis in years, they just don't have
the money.
A liter of cooking oil used to be
790,000 rials.
It's now 1.85 million.
As the government announced, prices for other goods
will rise by 50% to 100%.
As goods become more expensive, costs for all
services will increase too.
The price hikes will spread into other areas
of people's lives.
Iranians took to the streets late last month
as the rial plunged to 1.4 million
against the US dollar.
With inflation in overdrive, the rials lost 60
% of its value against the greenback since
summer.
While warning of severe consequences for rioters, Iranian
authorities have struggled to shore up the collapsing
economy, recently ending a subsidized exchange rate for
importers that was meant to suppress prices for
essential products in favor of paying Iranians directly.
We have not eliminated subsidies.
Instead, we have started depositing the subsidies into
the bank accounts of all residents.
The sum, about $7, ought to pay for
around 100 eggs and a few kilos of
rice or chicken at current prices.
While it will help Iran's poorest, the policy
change is set to push prices even higher.
I think they saw that they couldn't rein
in inflation, so they said, let's give people
a million tomans so we can somehow absorb
the pressure to hold it back.
I mean, it's like a temporary painkiller.
Iran's reformist president has acknowledged his people's pain.
But if he wants to make more than
just a gesture, he may need far deeper
change than Tehran has until now been willing
to make.
Okay, so if you have rampant inflation like
that, and your solution is to give everybody
a thousand bucks, that's not going to last
very long.
That is the definition of how you ruin
it.
And I think that there is real frustration.
Water has been mismanaged.
People have been watered.
They're out of water.
There's no water.
They can't.
And I mean, there's video.
The bazaars are all closed, which is the
main way of doing business.
That's the main thing.
So this inflation thing is, but again, this,
even this report seems, you know, they never
give you numbers.
What's the number?
I'll ask you, right, because it wasn't in
that report.
What is their inflation number in Iran right
now?
Well, he didn't give the inflation number, but
the guy said it used to be 750
,000 shekels, whatever they use over there.
Rials.
Rials.
And now it's 1.5. So, I mean,
that seems like a 100% inflation right
there.
Yeah, which is not.
Right now, the inflation rate in Iran is,
depending on who you ask, is between 40
and 50% per year.
That's not good.
That's not good either.
No, it's not good.
It's bad.
In fact, we had 9%, but it's cumulative,
which makes it really worse over time.
But it's, but at a 40%, the numbers
they're giving don't make sense because a 40
% year over year, I'm going to go
with the low number, 40% year over
year means that something from that last year
cost a buck is not going to cost
you a buck 40.
Okay.
Is that, is that, that's not like the
numbers are going into the millions.
That's just, that's just.
I think this, listen, I'm telling you, there's
an up going on here.
Well, it could be a financial up.
Scott Besant may be doing something really interesting.
I don't know.
So yeah, the annual inflation rate 42.4%.
This is from my robot.
Point to point inflation, which is between December
2024, December 2025 is 52.6. So it's
rising by about three, 4% month over
month.
But you make it impossible for people to
buy food and have no water.
Yeah.
They're going to get angry.
Now I did find one guy.
I can't find any op connections to him.
His name is Kian Habibian.
And by the way, Iran is not a
bunch of towel head bunnies running around in
the desert.
No, they're Persians.
It's a very old culture.
Yes.
And they have a lot of connections to
America, in particular California.
And I think they're sick and tired of
covering their pretty women up.
Well, so this guy actually comes from, he
was the co-founder originally of We Are
Iranian Students.
And he was also a part of something
about the women.
The Iranian students, by the way, the ones
responsible for putting this administration in place in
79 in the first place.
It was the Iranian students, but okay.
Okay.
1979.
Okay.
I know.
I'm just saying the Iranian students are just
a bunch of screw ups.
Okay.
Well, let's give them the benefit of the
doubt.
And let's listen to this guy, Kian Habibian.
These protesters in Tehran's Grand Bazaar chanted slogans
calling for the fall of the Iranian regime.
They were ultimately dispersed when security forces fired
tear gas.
Since the 28th of December, the demonstrations have
spread from Tehran to other areas, particularly in
the west of the country.
They were initially against the high cost of
living, but are now taking aim at the
regime itself, as this founder of a group
supporting Iran's protesters explained to France 24.
Since last Sunday, it started with the Bazaar
who went on strike and quickly joined by
students.
But the protests and the pressure inside of
Iran, whether it is social or economic, is
so high on the population that you have
different parts of the population who are right
now in the streets.
You have all the people who don't find
jobs.
You have the students.
You have the merchants.
You have our parents, our grandparents.
All the people have joined in a common
call to end the regime.
Iranian authorities have announced they will give a
monthly allowance to every citizen in the country
in a bid to alleviate economic pressure.
But for some Iranians, it's not enough.
The government says it has heard the concerns
of protesters but has stepped up a crackdown
on what it calls rioters.
According to Norway-based NGO Iran Human Rights,
security forces have killed dozens of demonstrators, including
several minors.
Iranian authorities say clashes have also claimed the
lives of members of the security forces, including
a policeman who was shot dead on Tuesday.
U.S. President Donald Trump has warned Iranian
authorities against killing peaceful protesters, threatening that the
U.S. would intervene.
So this Kian guy, he's based in Paris.
He used to be a professional ice hockey
player.
So that's how, I guess, he ejected out.
But this thing started, kind of, there was
a, they have their martyr, Masha Amini, who
died in the hospital under, you know, suspicious...
Yeah, that was over a year ago.
Yeah, so it's been brewing since then.
That's when he came onto the scene and
started making noise.
So, I mean, to me, I don't know
if this is an op.
I mean, you're right.
I agree with your premise that if this
was an op, we'd have a story.
All we have is this ice hockey player.
So there's no story.
There's no one to talk to.
There's no officials.
There's no intelligence officers on TV saying anything.
You got President Trump saying, hey man, if
you kill people, I'm going to step in.
And meanwhile, you have real economic problems.
You know what?
We need to airdrop some stablecoin on these
people.
That's always the answer.
We need to airdrop some stablecoin.
I do have a BBC.
So anyway, my point is, is that this
is going on one way or the other.
And it's, the media is so poor in
this country that we don't even, it's not
even an inkling.
No one's even touching it.
It's just beyond me.
I got two more short BBC reports.
So tell us more about these protests, which
have been going on for 10 days and
which seem, if anything, to be intensifying.
They're a big challenge to the Iranian rulers'
grip on power.
That's true.
We are definitely getting the picture of the
spate of unrest expanding rather than dying down.
Today, so far, we've got reports of unrest
from several cities, from the very top of
Iran to the bottom of Iran, from the
west to the middle of Iran.
And some of them are violent.
Violent by who?
Between the demonstrators and the security forces.
An interesting thing in this expansion of this
unrest in Iran is reaching smaller villages.
And this is what we witnessed during the
1979 revolution, that it had got to the
level of villages.
And today we're getting signs of that.
So yeah, it is deepening.
Now, also Venezuela plays into this.
You know, there has been a stop of
money flow.
And oil is money.
It's just pure money.
You can trade it for anything you want
anywhere in the world.
And, you know, that Venezuela may have been
more of a hub than we realized for
the Iranian regime.
And I still don't, I'd like someone to
explain to me why, you know, what has
happened to the real?
Is that purely money printing?
Because they only compare it to the dollar.
So what is going on?
What happened there?
That's the part that I don't understand.
But the economy is always money printing.
Yeah, okay.
So then they printed a whole bunch of
money trying to pacify everybody.
It didn't work.
It doesn't have to be an op.
It just doesn't have to be.
No, I agree.
It could, this could be an actual revolution,
a real grass roots revolution that's actually from
taking a sincere one that's not being run
by an intelligence agency, that's not being run
by us or the Russians or anybody else.
It could actually be genuine.
And then that makes it even worse to
me because you have a genuine situation taking
place.
That's in today's day 12.
And after 12 days, the mainstream media does
not cover a bit of it because it's
not being run by an intel agency.
So the mainstream media is only gonna cover
what they're told to cover by the CIA.
Is that what we're ending up with here?
Is that the conclusion I can draw?
Well, of course it is.
It's either about the midterms or it's an
op.
Why cover anything else?
And by the way, this does have an
application to the midterms because if Iran falls,
they'd be immediately friendly with the United States.
Trump would get credit for it because he
bombed the nuclear facilities.
Oh, and supposedly if you listen to this
guy, he's always referring to Trump.
He's doing Trump gags and he's doing Trump
voices and he's saying the public loves Trump
and Iran.
They love him.
I believe that to be true.
I believe it to be true too.
And I think it's the same thing in
Venezuela.
And so you have to downplay it to
a max because you don't need Trump getting
credit because we have the 2016 midterms coming
up and the Democrats might lose a seat.
And so that's the only thing I can
think of for suppressing this to an extreme.
Well, how about this?
Trump's NSS is working.
The national security strategy is working.
And this oil deal where we can set
the price, that is not gonna do any
favors for Iranian oil either.
Like, hey man, why should I go through
the hassle of getting it from you and
changing my transponder and shutting it off and
then just get it from Trump?
Seriously.
Yeah.
There is, luckily, there's an Israel angle from
the BBC.
As protests continue across Iran, a human rights
group says at least 36 people have been
killed during the past 10 days of demonstrations.
The human rights activist news agency says two
of them were affiliated with the security forces.
The unrest was sparked by an economic crisis
and has now spread to most of Iran's
provinces.
Meanwhile, officials say a man accused of spying
for Israel has been executed.
Kazra Naji of the BBC Persian service told
me more about him.
According to Iranian officials, his name is Ali
Ardestani.
The Iranian authorities are saying that he was
a key Mossad agent and that he was
passing on sensitive information to Israelis and photographing
particular places.
And gathering information about sensitive subjects in return
for a million dollar reward, according to the
Iranian authorities, in cryptocurrency and also rewarded with
a British visa.
We don't know anything more than that.
They haven't, by the way, connected this to
the present unrest in Iran.
Oh, they haven't?
They haven't.
But nonetheless, the message is clear.
And this man is probably the 12th or
13th person who's been executed vis-a-vis
Mossad and Israel on alleged spying for Israel
in the past six months.
Ah, luckily.
Luckily, the BBC can kind of insinuate the
Jews did it.
That's always good.
The thing that we're missing here is who
wants to fill the vacuum if the regime
really does fall.
And you've got that prince in London living
in exile.
And he's only doing YouTube and podcasts in
Farsi, which is another reason to believe it's
more real than an op because he's not
doing any English spoken podcasts.
It's all Farsi.
And he's going on for 10, 15 minutes.
And who knows what he's talking about?
Well, this has been discussed by this Tusi
guy, Tusi TV guy.
He's giving him orders.
He says, I think the latest one is
you're supposed to all stop doing some bribery.
You're supposed to come out in a certain
time, a certain day.
Oh, the prince is doing that?
The crown prince?
Yeah, he's doing that, yeah.
He's telling him what to do.
And if you watch enough of this other
guy, there's a lot of chanting for him
to take over, which is suspicious.
But at this point, this guy, the prince
has got to be British intelligence.
I mean, you don't live in London for
40 years.
Unless they've dropped the ball.
Wow.
Well, with that new MI6 lady, it wouldn't
surprise me.
She doesn't seem like she's very good.
It's possible they've dropped the ball on this
guy.
The Python lady.
Like, we want you all to learn to
code Python.
That lady.
Yeah, right.
Yeah, she's a dummy.
And then in the trifecta, or is it
quadfecta at this point, we have Colombia and
breaking news, President Petro had a little phone
call with President Trump and that changed everything
overnight.
Well, the thousands of supporters assembled on this
Simon Bolivar Square in central Bogota assisted to
a remarkable twist of events this evening as
President Petro stepped onto the stage, basically mumbled,
took some papers out of his pocket and
explained that he had just spoken to Donald
Trump on the phone, in the car as
he was driving to the event and that
he would have to change his whole speech.
Indeed, everybody was expecting a frontal attack against
the American president.
Well, in fact, he explained that he had
spoken for 15 minutes with him and that
both men had decided to meet in person
with President Petro, inviting Donald Trump here in
Colombia and Donald Trump inviting him to the
White House.
Donald Trump later confirmed that, indeed, he had
charged Marco Rubio of organizing the meeting in
a close future.
President Petro also explained that he'd spoken with
Del C.
Rodriguez, the new leader of Venezuela, saying that,
there as well, he would like to organize
meetings, trilateral meetings, with the United States.
So, indeed, it was a complete shift in
the whole paradigm of this crisis.
Paradigm.
Indeed, President Petro saying there would be a
complete change when it comes to the relationship
with...
The guy said paradigm.
For paradigm is the word he's looking for.
He would like to organize meetings, trilateral meetings,
with the United States.
So, indeed, it was a complete shift in
the whole paradigm of this crisis.
Paradigm.
Indeed, President Petro saying that there would be
a complete change when it comes to the
relationship with the United States, that the canal
had been reopened and, indeed, solutions could be
found.
So, I wonder how that phone call went.
Hey, did you see Maduro?
Would you like a nice ride or would
you like a not nice ride?
I really don't think so.
I think there's other...
And Rubio's the main guy.
I mean, when they picked Rubio, I said
it right at the outset.
You nailed it.
You nailed the whole hemisphere.
You actually front ran the down road doctrine.
I did.
You did.
And that's because...
Hold on, hold on, hold on.
I want you to take that for a
second and do a little victory lap, because
I'm going to give it to you.
You called that months in advance.
You said Rubio's the guy.
It's going to be north-south and that...
Another reason people should be listening to the
No Agenda show, because we are months ahead
of this stuff.
You nailed it.
Months.
You nailed it.
A year almost.
Because Rubio is fluent in Spanish, obviously, and
he's not Spanish-Spanish, but Western Hemisphere Spanish,
which is different.
And he can talk to these guys directly
and emphatically with probably a fabulous vocabulary.
And he is the guy that was probably
doing the translation between Trump, Rubio, and the
guy, because Rubio was involved.
This Rubio is the guy.
He's doing the job here to take care
of these things.
And I don't think there's threats going on.
I think it's just after the Maduro thing,
it's all going to be a lot of
agreeing.
And I think Rubio can sell it.
I think Rubio's learned from Trump, if nothing
else, how to sell better than he used
to.
He was always, you know, had to have
some chops, but now he knows what he's
doing.
So now that we've seen the national security
strategy unfold, someone actually gave me a good
idea.
One of our producers said, hey man, you
should do a comparison between the national security
strategy and the project for a new American
century.
Which I thought was a good idea.
And indeed, if you see, there's a lot
of commonalities.
Space dominance, global missile defense versus the Golden
Dome, peace through strength, military spending, which by
the way, I don't know if you caught
this.
This was crazy.
Let me see.
Here it is.
Listen to this.
The US president made the announcement on Wednesday
on social media.
He wants to increase defense spending to $1
.5 trillion in 2027.
He wants to build a, quote, dream military
and pointing to the unstable geopolitical landscape as
motivation.
The spending allocated in this year's budget is
at $901 billion and basically was at that
level over the $900 billion mark for the
previous four years, as you can see on
that graph.
This has led to major US defense stocks
like Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon rising
in extended trading in New York after the
announcement.
But Trump did set conditions on these groups
in a separate post, vowing to force these
companies to speed up arms deliveries and to
build new manufacturing plants by cracking down on
payouts to shareholders and executives.
He singled out Raytheon for criticism, saying, quote,
either Raytheon steps up and starts investing in
more upfront investment like plants and equipment, or
they will no longer be doing business with
the Department of War.
That didn't get a lot of play, interestingly
enough.
No, I didn't hear that either.
That is so, hey.
Well, I did hear about Trump bitching and
moaning about stock buybacks.
No, we played that a couple of shows
ago.
But I didn't hear about the increase into
1.5 trillion.
Well, I never heard that.
But I never heard the threat to Raytheon
either, which is funny.
I love that.
I love that.
What he's saying is we need an economy.
We need factories.
We need people.
And that means jobs for engineers, jobs for
lawyers, jobs for marketers.
Good paying unions, good paying military jobs.
It's, you know, that's, forget the...
You know what they should also pay for?
They should pay for?
Auditing the Pentagon.
Yeah.
Let's face it, 1.5 trillion is going
to be...
Half of that's going to be a scam,
a fraud, a ripoff.
You know, there's no doubt about it.
Well, remember, remember that Hedgeseth announced a whole
new procurement system.
So I don't think we're ever going to
audit retroactively.
But I have a feeling that going forward,
there's going to be a lot more accountability
for how the money is spent.
Because that's all that Trump is whining about.
And it's like, hey, you're taking too long
to build it.
You've got overruns.
You're doing stock buybacks.
No.
You want money?
You got to do it right.
So no, we're not going to...
There's never going to be an accounting for
all the stolen money in the past.
But it seems like there's going to be
some accountability moving forward.
And it's going to benefit America.
Oh, no.
America first.
Oh, no.
It could happen.
No.
And this other...
You know, I get a lot of notes
after doing our Zoomer versus Boomer segment.
And people always come back to the same
thing.
It's always, how come we're helping the people
of Venezuela, but we're poor?
And I go into dialogue, and it always
comes down to the same thing.
I can't afford to buy a house.
My dad bought a house for $16 in
1922.
$16 and 50 cents.
From the Sears catalog.
And this is interesting because this is something
the former New York banker said.
That's not happening.
That's not happening.
President Trump now announces he is immediately taking
steps to ban large institutional investors.
Yes, I saw that.
Blackstone from buying single family homes.
Blackstone and BlackRock both.
And I'm...
That's what John buys barrier houses.
You always see these things in the local
papers around here.
Or the TV says this.
Hey, Bill and Jim, we'll buy your house
unlooked at.
We'll just give you the money.
And I get phone calls.
I get two or three phone calls a
month.
Wow.
Yeah.
I'd say, because I own my mom's old
house.
They keep asking if I want to sell
it.
They ask me if I want to sell
this house.
We'll give you cash.
Just tell us what you want.
And they are paying top dollar.
Well, that's going to be over.
Yeah, good.
I have a feeling he might even force
them to sell.
He's going to Congress.
His post says, I will be calling on
Congress to codify it.
People live in homes, not corporations.
I will discuss this topic, including further housing
and affordability proposals, and more of my speech
in Davos in two weeks.
He's going to Davos?
Holy...
That's interesting.
Holy...
Well, it's interesting in light of...
Hold on a second.
Where do I have it here?
Um, this...
Let me see.
Withdraw.
Here it is.
This is a crappy report because, of course,
it was impossible to get any good mainstream
reporting on it.
But this just happened.
President Trump announced the United States will withdraw
from 66 international organizations and treaties.
This includes major bodies like the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change.
The decision follows a review by Secretary of
State Marco Rubio, citing these groups as contrary
to U.S. interests.
Critics warn the move could hurt American companies
and communities by sidelining the country in the
booming clean energy sector.
Supporters argue it will stop U.S. funding
for what they call ineffective global agendas.
The withdrawal marks a historic shift, leaving the
U.S. as the only nation outside key
climate treaties.
66.
They haven't published the executive order yet, I
looked.
But that's a lot of international things you're
leaving.
Yes, it is.
And then to go to Davos and then
rub it in everybody's face.
This is going to be an interesting Davo.
What do you think?
What will the hooker price be this year?
I would say you bring extra security.
Probably a good idea.
Speaking of security, I want to thank you
for your courage.
Hey, in the morning to you, the man
who put the C in the I.C
.E. Say hello to my friend on the
other end.
The one, the only, Mr. John C.
DeMaria.
Hey, in the morning to you, Mr. Adam
Curry.
In the morning, I'll ship seaboats in the
ground, feed in the air, subs in the
water, and the dames and knights out there.
In the morning to the trolls in the
troll room.
Hold on a second.
Don't move.
Get out from under that bridge.
Okay, all right.
People are still interested in what we have
to say.
1621 today on the troll counter.
If you're listening live, because they want to
know what the boys have to say.
I heard Darren and Larry, they're talking about
us.
You know, you know.
You know what, Max?
What's that?
I just noticed that Darren didn't have a
Pogues medley on today's show.
They're so convinced that they are the heirs
to this show.
And I want them to keep thinking that.
I think that's a very good idea.
It's called the licensing deal, and we're open
for conversation.
Yeah, we'll do the deal.
We can do a 99-year licensing deal
with Planet Rage.
It would be funny.
They're an interesting team.
They're an interesting team.
I do like listening to them.
So yeah, that's the trolls checking in.
And of course, you can also troll along
in the troll room, which is known as
stream.com.
It's an IRC chat.
It's very simple.
It's ephemeral.
You yell, you rant, you rave, and it
just scrolls off, and no one hears about
it anymore.
So it's much better than social media, and
it's better for your health.
Much better for your health.
I was going to...
Was there something I wanted to...
I was thinking, was there some M5M bonus
clip?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
You know, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting shutdown?
Yeah, I know.
When they decided to shut down, they're still
kind of shutting down.
Well, whatever they're doing.
So I have this clip from WNIN Evansville,
Indiana.
Before you play it, I want to reiterate
the fact that that woman who's running NPR
and has association with Wiki and the rest
of that...
I can't remember her name.
Marr or whatever her name is.
Yeah, the...
Yes, that girl.
Blondie.
She's the...
She said that the public sponsorship, the public,
the taxpayer money that goes into NPR amounts
to 1%.
1%.
Well, that 1% is ruining the business
of WNIN in Evansville, Indiana, who are a
PBS affiliate as well as an NPR affiliate.
And they did a little statement about this.
And, well, I can predict what's going to
happen.
The end of an era.
After 58 years of service, the Corporation for
Public Broadcasting is closing its doors.
The organization voted today to dissolve.
It has been operating since 1967.
Over the past six months, public broadcasting station
WNIN in Evansville has faced federal and state
funding cuts.
Station leaders tell us the decision is just
a formality.
He tells us not much of the station's
operations is expected to change.
What our supporters see and hear is not
going to change a whole lot.
We're going to continue to focus on what
our mission has always been.
Internally, it probably is going to mean somewhat
of a different business model.
Not exactly sure what that's going to look
like at this point.
But certainly, because we can't depend upon a
lot of funding from the federal government, we're
going to have to find other ways of
generating that revenue.
Virgil, the content will remain the same with
only behind-the-scenes changes as the station
looks to find new ways to do business.
Yeah.
Ads.
Yep.
Code Bongino.
Yeah, ads for pharma.
Ads.
Yes, ads are coming.
And maybe they'll throw in some Archerdale Midlands.
By the way, another big commodity trader.
They'll throw that in there.
So yeah, ads are coming.
And it's a death spiral, particularly the dynamically
inserted ads.
Oh man, the podcast industrial complex has just
gone crazy about it.
Because people are now starting to complain to
such a degree that there's ad-blocking podcast
apps and ad-blocking companies popping up everywhere.
Oh, good.
Yes.
I think it's a great idea.
I mean, I don't think the way they're
doing it is great because they're, in essence,
copying the file and selling it for $1
.25. It's not exactly the way it should
work.
That's kind of theft in a way.
But people are sick of the ads.
And it's rampant everywhere.
Because whenever you do a dynamically inserted ads,
there is an unlimited inventory.
It's unlimited.
So the CPM, the cost per thousand, just
goes down and down and down and down,
which means you have to have more and
more and more ads.
And it just becomes unlistenable.
We're not going down that route.
We also, we never have, we're not going
to do subscriptions.
Oh, my, how many subscriptions can you afford?
That's the first thing to go.
Well, you know, I subscribed to Pivot.
But, you know, it's like, I just, I
should probably just watch the clips on YouTube
for free.
That's what's going on.
No, instead, we said, we would like to
have longevity.
A friend of mine pulled episode number one.
And they said, oh, he said, OK, the
sound wasn't as good.
No, but it was 37 minutes in length.
Our first episode ever.
There were no jingles.
In fact, we were proud of not having
jingles.
Yeah, we made a big deal about it.
But he said, he said, you know, the
way you guys interacted, despite a little more
delay, because we were using Skype back in
the day.
And, you know, and you sounded like you
were talking through a straw from time to
time.
He said, but it's it's been remarkably consistent.
And I'm like, yeah, well, that's true.
We have we have never changed.
And this is what I was explaining to
Tina.
See, you're never going to fly private, OK?
Just get used to it.
It's never going to happen.
It's never unless you want to go in
my little, my little little sister that's flying
private.
She doesn't consider that to be flying private
if she has to get it.
What is it then?
Getting in over the wing is not flying
private.
She's unless there's stairs that drop down from
the fuselage.
It's not flying private.
And I have to agree with her.
I disagree.
I think getting in a helicopter is flying
private.
Anyway, that's beyond the point.
I said, because we're going to we're going
to do that.
She says, I hope you make it until
20 years.
And what do you hope you make until
20 years?
We're going forever with this thing.
We're going to die in this cell until
we drop.
Yeah, one of us is going to drop.
And then, you know, hopefully we should probably
have a dead man switch and have that
licensing deal for for Darren and Larry in
the pocket for, you know, for our heirs.
Think about it.
We just give them half.
Half.
By the way, we do the money.
I'm loving this idea more and more every
single day.
They could they could be everybody has a
B team.
Why don't we have a farm team set
up?
Yeah, well, you know, you make a good
point.
I knew you'd like it.
All right.
Well, we should hold open auditions, really.
I'm liking the open auditions.
I'd like to see a few of the
ladies.
Yes.
Yes.
And we'll even switch on the video.
We would like to have an audition to
do five minutes, five minutes, five minutes of
media deconstruction.
You can throw in a clip or two.
Send it in out of McCurry dot com.
I am very curious.
And if you if it's video, even better,
even better.
But you have to adhere to the same
value for value model.
Otherwise, you're going to screw it up for
yourself because that's what we've learned after 18
years.
This is what works.
And it works because we don't have to
kowtow to subscribers, advertisers, any of that stuff.
No, we just we are consistent with this.
We are not captured by our audience.
People get get mad and leave in a
huff and they come back or they don't
or new people come in.
It's John Spurlock who runs OP3 dot dev.
It's an open source measurement system, part of
podcasting 2.0. He says, I have never
seen in all the podcasts he monitors.
He monitors four and a half million.
There is no audience as loyal as the
no agenda audience.
I should probably get a like an official
statement from him.
Yeah, have him sign it and seal it.
Yeah.
What does he mean by that?
He says that the loyalty, I guess you
can see this, the loyalty.
Doing it by IP addresses.
Well, it's not just it's he has a
whole system.
This guy is a genius.
He's ex Google.
He retired.
He lives on a ranch in New Jersey.
One of those guys.
Yeah.
And he says he's a guy who's got
a yeah, I know the type.
This is an engineer's a true.
You know, these some people can.
I've said this before.
I'll bring it up one more time.
There are people out there like, for example,
Chad Heath.
He used to work at IBM.
He always used to look and I know
other people, too, that could do this.
George Morrow could do it.
He'd look at a bus structure and see
what the what the signals were supposed to
be.
And he could see immediately where there'd be
a conflict.
Another friend of mine was a used to
be an antenna engineer at Grumman.
And he said he could look at it
and just look at an antenna and say,
that's not going to work.
And and then he just says it took
him decades before he realized that nobody else
could see what he was seeing when he
saw that the antenna wouldn't work because he
could see how the waves came in.
I don't know what he's looking at, but
it's like that these kind of guys are
out there.
And he's obviously one of those guys who's
got a sense of this stuff.
He's also a super nice guy.
And he's worth a follow because he always
has links to very interesting stories and posts.
And he's a he's a he's a good
guy.
And he's doing all of this just for
the love of podcasting.
Doesn't charge anybody for it.
And he's yeah.
So when he says when he said makes
a statement like that, I tend to believe
him.
How he does it.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I probably right.
He's probably right.
I mean, we do a redirect through OP3
.dev, which, you know, thousands of podcasts do
this now because you can go right on
OP3.dev. You can take a look.
You can you can see all of his
stats and everything is great.
So that's the point.
We have a loyal audience.
So people who stick with us are with
us for a long time.
Now, that doesn't mean a lot of them
don't donate.
Well, no.
Why would it's free?
Why would you do that?
You know, like I don't have to go
to that cheese shop.
What happened to the cheese shop?
Oh, it's gone.
You know why?
He didn't buy any cheese.
So keep buying our cheese, people.
Yeah, it helps.
And supports open podcasting by getting a modern
podcast app, podcastapps.com.
So now we want to thank people, our
supporters, our producers.
Yeah, our Duke of Texas, Sir Gene, he
posted a like a negative comment on X.
He showed some video of like some dear
born Muslims celebrating.
Is this some holiday they celebrate?
You know, the 40 years after somebody of
Mohammed's died?
I don't know what it was.
And they do this dance and looks kind
of militaristic.
And he posts, I would I trust my
own eyes watching a video over some so
-called listeners who have anonymous listeners boots on
the ground.
I trust our boots on the ground.
We sniff out the spooks and we encourage
the spooks to email us.
Oh, yeah, we need more spooks.
We need spooks to tell us what's going
on.
They they're trying to feed us stuff, of
course.
Yeah, but we try to spot that in
there.
And they maybe sometimes donate from a safe
house or someplace where they have some extra
money and they can send it in.
We encourage that, too.
We encourage that.
It has not been happening much.
No, we are a safe, a spook safe
outfit.
Send your money.
Yeah, I don't understand what I think, you
know, they must have us.
I see it as some sort of cycle
where they get a bunch of money and
all of a sudden they, OK, you guys
send it to your favorite podcasters.
It's a memo that goes out.
It's a memo once every quarter.
This is the month you can send some
money to these guys.
Here's the credit card you can use.
Go ahead.
Use that.
Yeah, they're good credit.
Here's the credit card is, you know, they
can't be traced.
And here's the credit card you use for
your honey trap operations with the hookers and
use it to send some money.
Put some extra money in there for the
podcasters.
So, yeah.
But we haven't seen that recently.
And think about it.
Unless they're really slipping it in surreptitious.
No, no, no.
We're pretty good.
It's pretty obvious when it comes in.
Yeah.
And and and it's much better that we
have this this this method because then what
are they going to do?
Buy more farmer's dog to influence Joe Rogan?
No, it's not going to work.
Anyway, time, talent, treasure.
We want to thank the artist for episode
1831.
Of course, we had to title that the
Don Road Doctrine.
Once again, we're a little bit ahead of
the curve.
Now, everybody's using it, but we heard it
because the president said people are calling it
the Don Road Doctrine.
It's amazing.
I don't know how they came up with
it.
And Darren O'Neill nailed it.
He just nailed it.
This was, although very orange, meaning we kind
of know what what language model he used.
He had the no agenda nicotine cookies.
They're satisfying and smooth.
Thirty three packs and be fat and addicted
is a beautiful piece of art with some
fat like loser with, although it has very
good looking teeth.
Yeah, nice beanie and a beanie with a
propeller.
Although the propeller was kind of the A
.I. didn't do the propeller very well and
that that kind of failed.
But it was a great piece.
It's very funny.
You can't look at it and not laugh.
Now, the question is, when Darren and Larry
do the show, you know, on our licensing
deal, will they do their own art or
will they will they sub license the art
to someone else?
Let me think.
Darren, it'll be doing all the art and
all the all the end with Jeffrey Raya,
that guy.
I was going to take a look at
the art generator, although it seems to have
slowed down to a crawl.
Looks like the troll room's having trouble, too.
I got on it a little while ago.
Oh, you got on it earlier.
You just got a lot of stuff.
Yeah.
Well, do you want to talk about?
Oh, OK, I got it.
Some of the other pieces that were submitted
that we looked at.
I mean, there's a lot coming in.
I like the little the Jeffrey Ray had
a couple of good pieces.
He had the ultra lights, a flying scooter.
You would.
That was Darren's.
Didn't like the flying scooter.
I like the flying scooter.
It was aeronautically dumb.
Made no sense.
Oh, yeah, that's that's because it would make
sense.
So it would chop you in half.
It was no good CIA travel.
I kind of like comics or bloggers emergency
pod.
But you nix that right away.
Like we're not.
No, I didn't.
You nix it.
We're not going to do emergency pod.
Oh, I did not.
I thought it was funny.
I thought it was a funny piece.
I didn't nix it.
I thought it was a funny piece.
Well, we're not using emergency pod.
It makes it sound like we just did
an emergency pod.
Well, that's kind of the joke.
We don't do emergency pods.
And we and then Darren did Fox Box,
which was just wrong because it was box
Fox.
He got that the wrong way around.
We got a note about that.
I'm going to read that note.
This is a Dame Jen with a G
protector of women's vaginas.
Yeah, her.
That's a note that always gets some some
attention from us.
Listening to John's clip from TikTok girls, specifically
the baby checkboxes.
These gals are no longer on SSRI medication.
I'm seeing more and more of them in
the clinic because she's a protector of women's
vaginas that are on a much stronger Molotov
cocktail of atypical antipsychotics such as lithium, Abilify,
etc.
They start on SSRI medication, but still feel
sad or anxious at times.
So they get dosed up and more and
more powerful drugs.
Yeah.
And then she had a hypothesis about.
She and and the spook from Spokane hit
the gym on January 2nd, were shocked by
the lack of crowds, and she says she
attributes that to the GOP one epidemic.
I thought that was a good observation because
there was always talks about on the DHM
plug show.
He's always talking about checking out the gym.
You know, the first month of the new
year is always the parking lots are packed.
And then by March, there's nobody in the
parking lot.
But it sounds like the way she's seeing
it, it is not even going to be
packed in January.
Now, why bother going to the gym when
I just take this pill?
She says it's a good time to invest
in orthopedic surgery surgeries if there's such a
stock as these mostly women have shrunk to
toothpicks and with the muscle loss or one
slip away from breaking their hip, pelvis or
knee.
Invest in orthos.
There you go.
Another tip from your no agenda show.
Thank you very much.
All right.
Let's thank our executive and associate executive producers.
That's part of the time, talents and treasure.
The way it works is you get the
show.
We just give you the show.
It's out there.
You download it.
You don't have to worry about any way
of getting it.
And when you have and there's no ads,
of course, when you get it, you're like,
hey, that was worthwhile.
I'm going to help these guys out, keep
them going to hit at least 20 years,
maybe more, which we're hoping will be more
than that.
And you send in any amount that that
equals the value you feel you got out
of it.
It's that simple.
Sir Danimal comes in with five hundred dollars.
And he says, thanks to Nico Sime's tip
of the day archive, I had the best
gift at my white elephant party.
Tip of the day.net is an outstanding
resource.
Merry New Year, Sir Danimal, baron of the
secret city.
Another there's another reason.
So he bought a twenty five dollar gift
based upon a tip.
And he and he was a hero at
his at his white elephant party.
And he thanks the no agenda show for
that.
And we appreciate it.
Thank you, Nico Sime, for maintaining tip of
the day.net.
Also to be found at no agenda fund
dot com.
Tremont.
What do you think?
Campbell, Campbell, Campbell.
Yeah, I think Campbell.
Yeah.
And he's in a town called Supply.
Really Supply, North Carolina.
What are you doing there in Supply?
Three thirty three sixty nine.
This is Tremont Campbell of the Brunswick Isles.
Hi, team.
I want to start off calling out my
close friend R.P. for being a douchebag.
He hit me in the mouth in twenty
seventeen, but he's yet.
But he still remains a douchebag.
I also need a de-douching.
You've been de-douched.
Quick production note.
The wife, the wife, the wife enjoys listening,
but gets.
The wife enjoys listening, but gets irked when
y'all go on runs of constantly stepping
on clips with jokes, comments, noises, et cetera.
I enjoy it, but she wants to let
you know she does not.
Well, can we recognize can we recommend Pivot
as a podcast you might enjoy?
Yeah, Pivot.
That was the pivot.
I say step more.
She says less.
By the way, John, she loves Mimi's egg
book.
Oh, well, there you go.
Win too many eggs.
Dot com.
Too many eggs.
Dot com.
There's a win.
V slash R.
But I don't know what that means.
It's some code, I guess.
Tremont Campbell of the Brunswick Isles.
P.S. I need some Reverend Al in
my life.
Dealer's choice.
Let's do a classic.
But resist we much we must and we
will much about that be committed.
Clint Young is in Spokane Valley, Washington, sends
in three hundred twenty dollars and twenty six
cents.
I.T.M. Adam and John.
John and Adam.
This donation takes me to knighthood.
See accounting below jingle.
He's Trump, the president and a jobs karma
with the jobs yak karma.
OK, we can do that for you.
I would like to be known as Sir
Clint Tillius of the Pacific Northwest and would
like smoked brisket and zip fizz at the
round table.
Zip fizz.
What is zip fizz?
Is that an idea?
Must be a drink.
I'm sending this donation January 7th in honor
of my father, Clark Young, who passed away
just before Thanksgiving as he would have turned
83 today.
No, we're sorry to hear that.
That's too young.
He was a hardworking blue collar patriot who
served in the Air Force and taught me
to love God and country.
Perfect guy.
I know he's in a better place and
I'm await the glorious day when I go
to reunite reunite with him again.
It will be glorious indeed.
Hey, by the way, I'd like to quickly
plug my mobile DJ business.
Anyone in eastern Washington or northern Idaho looking
for a DJ or emcee for your wedding
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bris, please visit clever yak dot media.
Clever yak dot media.
Adam and John, thank you for all you
do.
Certain to be soon to be Sir Clint
Tillius of the Pacific Northwest.
Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs.
You got.
Karma.
Christopher Graves, our buddy from Little John's Candies
in Somerset, California, 242.
One as one major candy holiday ends and
the next is around the corner.
We want to do, which I think is
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Oh, that's interesting.
They'll ship it fresh for more years.
Yeah, because, you know, the this world famous
English toffee doesn't stay good forever.
No, it's got butter in it.
It's got a lot of butter, a lot
of butter.
And I love butter.
I love the cards.
They're sending out to producers who use the.
We didn't know about.
They didn't tell us, but they're sending out
this great little card that plugs the show.
Yeah, it's really nice.
I love this system.
And, you know, who's taking advantage of this
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Eli, the coffee guy to a 108.
I'm out of coffee, by the way.
Gentlemen, it's barely a week until the new
year and things are already feel lively.
Raids, riots and revolution.
Oh, that's so right.
Raids, riots, revolutions.
I got to write that down.
That's a possible show title.
And it's something you said that you got
cut off.
It's the same calendars, just a new header.
I'm planning to sit back and sip some
coffee and enjoy the wild ride.
You two won't be short on show material.
That's for sure.
That's never that's always the case.
One thing after another.
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Eli, the coffee guy.
Can I get an Atlas Shrugged jingle?
Oh, I totally miss that rare.
Yeah.
Wow.
That's been OK.
Here we go.
Yes.
By Ayn Rand.
There you go.
Wow.
A long time since we've had that plate.
Colin Fannin, Matawan, Michigan.
201.
Thank you.
Associate executive producer.
First donation.
I'll give him a deduce.
You've been deduced.
I have lots to say, but I'll hold
back for the good of all.
No, you didn't.
No, you didn't.
First heard Adam on Megyn Kelly, who I
no longer listen to.
Then on Glenn Beck, who I now rarely
listen to.
I'm like the black plague of podcasts.
You're like the kiss of death.
And lastly, on Joe Rogan, who I still
occasionally listen to.
But I now always listen to the best
podcast in the universe.
Here's the first of what will hopefully be
many more donations.
I quit my corporate gimmicky personal training job
to start my own personal training business.
Oh, this is a good idea.
An entrepreneur.
I specialize in strength training and sport performance,
but also a vast experience with weight loss,
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What?
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Our formula is this.
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You do.
You do send it from your Bakelite.
My Bakelite phone one letter at a time.
So I do have a funny clip.
That's good.
We love funny clips.
Well, we have Johnny.
Johnny from the water show.
Johnny's back.
Well, he's back a lot.
I just don't get a lot of his
stuff because it's not that.
I mean, it's always okay.
And this is probably the best reasonable one.
And it's always better when he goes to
the beach.
What beach?
He would say he went to Fort Myers.
Oh, okay.
They fly him from New York.
Hey, you want to go to Fort Myers
and do your segment?
Oh, I think so.
That's a big budget show right there.
It is.
Well, so if they find the Fort Myers
and again, the beach people that live on
the basically live their lives on the beach
or dingbats.
And so we get to we get to
hear this segment, which it's this takes a
lot of editing.
Believe me to get some of this stuff
out of here.
But this is, I think, the crux.
How'd you ring in the New Year?
Got fed some shots by the bartender.
Stayed out till about 3 a.m. and
got very drunk.
I gave a cow a beer.
That's about it.
We rung it in kind of by the
toilet.
I blacked out at a party and my
friend had to carry me home and I
lost my shoes.
What was your New Year's kiss?
My last call of the night.
Just the toilet.
Ended up going home with a random guy.
What was the random guy's name?
Don't know.
Don't remember.
What was your biggest mistake in 2025?
Partying more than I should have.
My ex-boyfriend, honestly.
It's just a piece of s***.
Broke my foot.
That was a pretty big mistake.
Dating a man that I did not like.
What do you predict is going to happen
in your life this year, 2026?
I'm going to climb Mount Everest.
Get famous and rich.
I go to Minnesota.
What's going to happen with your governor, Tim
Walsh?
I don't know.
Do you know your governor, Tim Walsh?
No.
Why do you know that?
He was Kamala's running mate.
Oh, okay.
Not know that.
We call him Tampon.
Really?
I kind of like that.
I'm going to commit tax fraud.
Good luck, because you're saying that on camera.
Can't catch me.
What's your name?
I'm Nick.
Where do you live?
Kansas.
Oh, wait, shoot.
I shouldn't have said that.
2025 was Donald Trump's big return to the
White House.
How'd he do?
Our economy is on the uphill climb.
Gas is cheaper.
Groceries are cheaper.
I do a little bit of stocks, so
that's done well.
Best president ever.
What should Donald Trump's New Year's resolution be?
World peace.
Let's just be peaceful.
How did Trump capture Maduro?
I don't know what that is.
Maduro.
Is that a place?
Is that a location?
I think it's a disease.
I don't even know where Maduro is.
I don't know what Maduro is.
He was the leader of Venezuela.
Okay.
Where is Venezuela?
I don't know.
Is it north or south of Florida?
I mean, the world's circular, so it's both.
Oh, my God.
Okay, first observation.
Why are these people complaining about not being
able to afford a house?
It sounds like they're having a good life.
Sounds groovy.
This is like nobody.
I always like to bring these in once
in a while just to remind people that
this is the level of knowledge about current
events.
Nobody knows who Maduro is.
They don't know where Venezuela is, and we
get all worked up about a lot of
this stuff, and women go out and try
to run over ICE agents and get shot
and get over yourself.
Well, it's interesting because I have two clips,
and I'm not fishing in your pond.
I did get them off TikTok.
I got them off TikTok.
And the first one, you've seen this type
of TikTok teacher, but this is the lead
into the second TikTok teacher, and it explains
a lot about your clip.
Things that do not exist inside high schools
anymore that I think might shock some people.
None of these things shocked me, but then
on the internet, I realized I was like,
oh, people don't know this.
So now I have to share it with
you.
There are no textbooks.
I did not know that people would not
know this.
Yeah, no, I have never seen a textbook.
This is my third year teaching high school.
I've never seen one for a singular class.
And what we're starting to see in education
is everyone's like, I think we need to
go back.
We need textbooks.
I love when I find a PDF that's
from a textbook.
I found The Most Dangerous Game.
I was printing that out for my ninth
graders last year, and I found a textbook
version with questions on the side.
And I was like, oh my god, Jackpot,
need that.
I miss textbooks.
But I remember having that in middle school.
I remember having that in high school for
a little bit.
I graduated in 2019, mind you.
I think that a lot of these things
don't shock me because while I was in
high school, that was kind of like when
we were transitioning away from all these things
that are now completely missing in high schools.
The third thing, there are not computer labs.
There's not a singular computer lab in this
school.
Mind you, this is a brand new school.
Those aren't necessary.
All of our kids are one-to-one.
They all have their own Chromebook.
We don't need a computer lab.
I remember being so excited to go to
the computer lab, especially elementary school.
By those computer lab days, oh my god,
golden.
Okay, I didn't actually know this.
I guess if I thought about it, yeah,
I know about Chromebooks in schools.
I didn't realize that there's absolutely no textbooks
at all.
And from the sound of this teacher, who,
by the way, teacher, you should be able
to speak for at least a minute without
having to pause after every sentence to restart
the recording.
I mean, that says a lot about you.
I'm sorry to say.
Were you aware that there's absolutely no textbooks
in school anymore?
I mean, I know I'm a boomer.
I find that hard to believe.
Well, it turns out it's true.
Just asking around, even here.
I know in colleges, there's plenty of textbooks
because the professors make you buy their book.
Yes, yes, this is true.
So in middle school, high school, it seems
that there's maybe a generality.
But for sure, I know that Google spent
an exorbitant amount of money and we followed
all this.
It started with Common Core and, you know,
the whole ushering it.
Apple used to have kind of the market
for schools.
They had a whole K through 12 program,
and they would fund the computer labs, and
they put MacBooks and Macs in there, and
people could learn how to use a computer.
No, that apparently has just gone by the
wayside.
And I'm sure people will say, we have
textbooks in our school, but it doesn't sound
like a lot of schools have them anymore.
And I found this TikTok teacher who, he
says that what you're seeing on the Jesse
Waters show, the complete lack of knowledge of
anything, other than I got blackout drunk and
I dated a guy I hated, is because
of the Chromebooks.
I have been teaching for 25 years.
I've watched education change, evolve, reinvent itself.
And on more occasions than I'd like to
admit, education has chased shiny nonsense.
And from experiencing all of that, I'm going
to say this as clearly as I possibly
can.
Chromebooks are killing education.
And this is not coming from some technophobic
teacher clutching a chalkboard.
I teach K through 8 computer science.
I believe in technology.
I have taught kids to code, debug, use
Google Docs, Google Slides, Google Classrooms, problem solve
and create.
I remember when computers were a privilege, not
a pacifier.
And I feel like that is really the
difference right now.
Chromebooks were supposed to be tools.
Instead, they have become crutches and babysitters.
Digital worksheets with better branding.
We have handed kids screens before they could
even hold a pencil properly.
And then we act shocked that attention spans
have evaporated and frustration tolerance has hit zero.
I have watched students who can swipe, tap
and close pop-ups with Olympic level speed,
but can't write a paragraph to save their
life or follow multi-step directions or sit
with a problem without instantly asking, is there
a video for this?
Paper slows the brain down in a good
way.
Pencils create the friction that thinking needs.
Books require patience, stamina and imagination.
Screens train kids to expect instant answers.
Dopamine hits and endless stimulation.
And then we wonder why school feels boring
and hard.
And don't even get me started on kindergartners
with Chromebooks.
Five-year-olds do not need personal laptops.
They need scissors and crayons and blocks and
conversations and play a whole lot of it.
Developmentally, screens are skipping steps.
And those skipped steps are now showing up
as behavior problems, anxiety and academic gaps later.
And here's the irony, because there is always
irony.
We killed the computer lab in the name
of one-to-one devices.
And in doing so, we killed actual computer
skills.
Kids do not know how to type properly.
They don't understand file systems.
They don't know how computers fundamentally work.
They just know how to click next or
scroll up.
Let's bring back the computer lab.
Make technology intentional again.
Teach kids when to use tech, not just
how.
Chromebooks should be a tool used sometimes with
purpose, not the default for everything.
Education does not need more screens.
It needs more thinking, more writing, more reading,
more hands-on learning and more human interaction.
I have seen what school looked like before
this experiment.
And I'm watching the fallout now.
This isn't nostalgia speaking here.
This is 25 years of teaching experience.
It is beyond time to course correct, especially
before we raise a whole generation fluent in
apps, but illiterate in focus.
Man, I thought that was good.
I was good.
I give the credit for digging it up
and taking my spot on the TikTok report.
I think the point that I got out
of it, which I didn't think about, was
the getting rid of computer labs.
Because when they had computer labs, they would
actually teach you how to use a computer,
how the processor integrated with the memory.
File systems, file systems.
So you knew how a file system worked,
how a desktop worked, and how the fact
is that there's memory that's permanent, there's memory
that's temporary, and all that stuff works together.
And now they don't teach anything.
People don't have a clue.
Oh, okay, it's in the cloud, whatever that
is.
I don't know.
I just scroll and there is another picture
I can watch.
I still think it would be a great
idea to get...
Kids, get your Chromebook.
Here's the thumb drive.
Now install Linux on it.
I think you can do that.
I think you can...
I don't think so.
I mean, a Chromebook, it runs on a
version of Linux anyway.
But you want to...
I mean, let me see.
Can I install...
There you go.
Ask the AI.
Linux on a Chromebook.
I'm actually asking Kaji.
Kaji, man.
Kaji.
Yes, set up Linux on your Chromebook.
Google actually has a help document for it.
How about that?
Okay, so they hook it up and so
what?
You can install that.
Well, because you get a real idea of
how it works.
Yes.
Yeah, I mean...
I think it's to get rid of the
Chromebooks to begin to use a real computer.
Okay, and install Omarchi.
Omarchi, that's the hot new Linux operating system.
Omarchi.
Oh?
Oh, have you heard of it?
Omarchi?
No, I have not heard of it.
I should have.
Oh, there's the...
Why is it so good?
Well, software developers in particular are installing it
on their MacBooks.
It's O-M-A-R-C-H-Y,
I think, Omarchi.
Because it redefines the whole idea of the
user interface.
And it's all with very simple keyboard commands
using mainly the super key or the command
key or whatever it is on your keyboard.
And all that irritating stuff about how windows
are always getting in the way and you
have to move the window over here and
there's no menu bars.
The whole thing just works exactly how your
brain thinks.
I'll send you a video.
Send me a video.
I'll send you a video if you can
learn about Omarchi.
And it's built on Arch Linux.
It's really phenomenal.
And funny enough, believe it or not, some
people I've been talking to, they have figured
out a way...
I can't wait for this.
I just don't have the time to make
the Roadcaster work with it.
And I've been wanting to get off of
this Windows machine for the show for the
longest time.
Decade.
At least.
But I need time.
I mean, the show takes up all my
time.
People are like, this is a great podcast.
It has everything.
It has millions of clips.
Listen to it.
Time codes are useful people.
So, yeah, I found that to be very
eye-opening.
That's horrible.
Yeah.
Five-year-olds need scissors.
They do.
And they need to run with them.
They need scissors with blunt, not pointed scissors.
Run with them.
They need crayons to write on the wall.
Yeah, this is good stuff.
Exactly.
Exactly what they need.
Here's another kind of a screwball report that
just came out.
And I thought it didn't get a lot
of play in the mainstream, but I think
it's kind of important.
This is the visa bonds.
Have you heard about this?
Visa bonds?
Yeah, you haven't heard about this?
No.
Travelers from several countries will now need to
pay up to a $15,000 bond to
enter the U.S. It's meant to deter
them from overstaying their visa when they're here
for tourism or business.
The State Department has just added 25 more
countries to this list, including Venezuela, Cuba, Nepal,
Nigeria, and others.
That brings the total to 38 countries.
Officials say that these are countries with high
rates of visa overstays, insufficient screening and vetting,
and those that don't require proof of residency
to obtain citizenship.
So travelers from those countries are going to
need to pay the U.S. Treasury anywhere
between $5,000 to $15,000.
The amount will be determined during their visa
interview, and that money will be returned to
the traveler if they don't overstay their visa.
This comes as federal authorities are cracking down
on illegal immigrants, including those that came in
legally but then overstayed their visa.
Great idea.
Long overdue.
Big fan.
Great.
Now, of course, no one has $15,000,
but then you get a financing guy in
the middle.
So you'll pay, you know, like $100, and...
You have a bondsman.
It's like a bondsman.
Like a bail bondsman.
A bail bondsman.
Exactly.
You probably will have to pay 10%, $150
for the $15,000.
It's a great idea that we should...
I remember we were...
Tina and I were in New York.
This is going back a while.
I can't remember when.
This must be eight, nine years ago.
And we were talking to this waiter or
a server in an Irish pub, I think.
And he was Irish, which was kind of
fun.
And we're talking and chatting.
I said, you know, so when did you
get here?
He said, I got here about eight months
ago.
Oh.
He says, yeah, I'm working here illegally.
Don't, don't, don't rat me out.
I'm like, well, this is the problem.
This is a problem.
You know, you can't overstay your tourist visa
for this.
You know, do it properly.
I'm like, yeah, people like that.
You know, as much as I like the
guy, but he has every opportunity to do
it legally.
You know, get yourself a Trump platinum card.
You got a million, a million bucks.
No problem.
No, I think this is a good idea.
Now, it's not going to be from the
EU, but it'll be from some other countries.
Yeah, well, I looked at the list.
It's mostly Africa and pieces of Asia, some
South America.
Yeah.
What's the latest on the H-1B visas
and all that nonsense?
Is that, is that?
There's no news.
Because I read somewhere there was like, there's
all kinds of scams people are uncovering.
There's like human body mills, essentially.
Oh, yeah, there has to be.
Where, you know, they just, you know, here,
here's, you know, and by the way, they
all look the same.
Yeah, this is your picture now.
You're not this guy.
Now you got this H-1B visa.
Shut up and get back in your cot.
Now, it's a mess.
We got a lot of problems.
We got a lot, you know, we got
a lot of problems.
But we're still the best country in the
world.
I can say that hands down, having lived
in a couple of them.
What do you think?
Yeah, I think so.
I want to finish off this segment with
a little sports talk.
Okay.
You have any clips left?
Yeah, I got tons, but it's okay.
We're, we're running out of time here.
So is this Seahawks?
So for people who like to bet on
the Super Bowl, we're getting to the end.
So I found an interesting coincidental index.
Hmm.
Which indicates the Seahawks should be in the
Super Bowl, whether they win or not.
It's another question.
And here's the reason.
In 2005, there was a new Pope, Pope
Benedict.
Okay.
That year, Seattle went to the Super Bowl.
Okay.
In 2013, again, a new Pope, Pope Francis.
That year, Seattle won the Super Bowl.
Hello, Leo.
I'm just saying, hello, Leo.
This could happen again.
All right.
It's the papist prop bet.
I like it.
Yeah.
Papist prop.
You like the alliteration.
I do.
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Well, the meetups are kicking off once again
for the new year.
We have a nice list, which you can
find at noagendameetups.com.
These are gatherings that are not sponsored by
the show.
You don't need our permission to do it.
You just say, hey, I'm going to organize
it.
You list it on noagendameetups.com.
We'll mention it on the show.
And we always love it when you give
us a report.
Let us know how everything went down.
Fort Wayne Club 33, I think it's the
third time they tried to send me their
meetup report from just after Christmas.
So I'll play it here for you.
Adam and John, this is Shannon reporting in
from Fort Wayne.
Having a good time.
We'll see you at the next one.
Hi, it's Shelly in Fort Wayne.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Hey, this is Jeremy McCool, Axe of the
K.
Support me, please.
This is Michelle from Fort Wayne.
Happy New Year.
Sir Fat Dad of the BMXicans all the
way from Arkansas hanging out in Fort Wayne,
ITM.
And this is Michael from Fort Wayne.
Happy New Year.
And John, I don't know if this is
a tip or not, but I've heard, according
to AI, that the six-sided yellow stop
sign was invented in Nauvoo, Indiana.
In the morning.
In the morning.
Wow, very lackluster in the morning there.
And of course, nothing from your server.
Come on, people, step it up a little
bit.
There is a meetup taking place today.
It is the New Year New Scam North
Wake Meetup.
Kicks off at six o'clock at Saints
and Scholars in Raleigh, North Carolina.
On Saturday, the Quality Leering Meetup.
I'm sorry.
The Quality Leering Meetup at Moe's Irish Pub.
It'll be at four o'clock in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin.
And on Saturday as well, the Treasure Valley
Boise Meetup.
Three o'clock at Old State Tavern in
Eagle, Idaho.
On the way in January, Charlotte, North Carolina.
Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Bergendal, the Netherlands.
Sao Paulo, Brazil.
We need meetup reports from all of you.
Indianapolis, Indiana.
Alpharetta, Georgia.
Oakland, California.
And many more on the calendar for 2026.
Go to noagentandmeetups.com.
See if there's one near you.
You will love it.
You will get connection that always brings protection.
These people will be your first responders in
an emergency.
If you can't find one near you, it's
real simple.
Start one yourself.
List it at noagentandmeetups.com.
Always a party.
Yeah, baby, it's always like a party.
And of course, at this point in the
show, as we wind it down, it doesn't
mean that there's any reason to leave because
we have tons of show left for you.
Including John's tip of the day.
We have our end of show mixes.
And we always like to check out some
possible end of show isos.
I don't know why we do it.
It's just fun.
It's kind of man versus the machine these
days with John's AI.
And I am over clipped for the iso.
So I'll just play them and you listen.
Here we go.
Number one.
We nailed it again.
It's always a classic from Alex.
There's this one.
Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow.
That was great.
Come on.
I like that one.
You should.
It was fantastic.
Love this show.
This one.
I'm getting tingles.
That is so cool.
Tingles, tingles.
And then this one.
Damn, love the pod.
How can you not reject that one?
It is rejected, but I got to play
it anyway.
OK, well, then I relent and I'll give
you the wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow,
wow, wow.
Thank you very much.
But we're not going anywhere.
First, it's time for John's tip of the
day.
All right.
Well, we've been trying to keep things low
priced.
I don't like to bring in, you know,
we had people complained about us recommending a
TV, TV that I told you that wasn't
a good idea.
I didn't feel it was a good idea
for people who need to know if people
needed a TV.
It was a great idea.
Yes.
Yeah.
Well, I got another expensive item here.
Oh, OK.
Two hundred ninety nine dollars.
Well, that's up there.
And I recommend if people haven't moved to
these these high density hard disks, I'd say
start now because this is doesn't even it's
not even a bare drive.
This is in one of the enclosures.
This is a twenty two terabyte Seagate drive.
Holy moly.
I need this.
Yes, you do.
Two hundred ninety nine bucks.
These high density Seagate drives have been out
for about three or four years.
What does high density mean?
That means it's got more than 20 terabytes.
Oh, I said thought it was something special.
I didn't understand.
Well, it is special because two hundred ninety
nine bucks is what you used to pay.
I remember when I was a kid, I
got that was comdex.
Yeah.
And I forgot what hard disk company, one
of the hard Mac store or Prairie Tech
or one of these guys that is long
since out of business.
This was way back.
And this is when the nine terabyte drive
first showed up.
I'm sorry.
Let me back up the nine gigabyte drive.
Hold on.
Hold on.
Hold on.
Nineteen eighty seven.
I bought.
I think it was a Seagate external SCSI
connected drive for my Mac.
Plus it was two hundred ninety nine dollars
for 20 megabytes.
So this guy says that sounds right.
Yeah.
So this guy says to me.
It was nine gigabytes.
This is the story coming out.
These nine gigabyte drives.
And there was about about two ninety nine.
And it was like the guy.
One of the companies out of business says
to me, I don't know what these guys
are thinking.
Who is going to trust nine gigabytes on
one spindle?
That's the exact.
Yeah.
Well, you get the heads touching that disk.
You're screwed.
So you got you got your nine gigabytes
lost to risky.
So now we have twenty two terabytes.
Now, do you have one of these?
No, no, I have an 18.
But I'm getting one of these now because
I looked at the over.
I looked at all the reviews and everything.
This is the thing is that when they
had the 18s, which were nice, they were
bare drive.
So you had to buy one of the
enclosures or you had to put it in.
No, you don't want that.
That's a pain.
Well, you do if you have the enclosures.
The enclosures are OK.
Yeah.
And how big is this thing?
How big is it?
It's a three and a half, three point
five inch drive.
It's small.
Is it is it does it have it
has a case around it has a case.
Yeah, it is with the connector.
You just put in a USB 3.0
connector on it and and you're ready to
go.
It's it's it's a beauty.
And two ninety nine.
Twenty two terabytes.
Don't fool around.
Let's start here and we'll go from there.
I'd highly recommend it.
The Seagate high club is a high capacity.
I shouldn't use high density because it's confusing.
The high capacity Seagate drives of dynamite.
Well, you kind of had me at high
density.
Now you're like pulling back.
It was high capacity.
That's not the same thing.
It is to me.
There it is, ladies and gentlemen.
Find all of them at no agenda and
fun dot com and tip of the day
dot net.
And sometimes at home created by Dana Brunetti.
Wow, these tips are off the hook, man.
And by the way, I did get to
joke about no bone.
Yep.
Yeah, that was good.
And also I should mention Ferris State won
the Division two football championship.
It'd be great to have a shirt from
a hoodie or a sweatshirt.
So I can go for a sweatshirt now
and again.
And I do have the our baron of
Bozeman is going to send me a hoodie
for Montana State.
So that's a plus.
So I don't have to dress myself anymore.
Hey, if you stick around and no agenda
stream dot com, we have random thoughts coming
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Sir Darren O'Neill on the show.
That should be fun.
And end of show mixes from MVP plur
and D's laughs.
So it's a mix of slop and knots,
which is always good to see.
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Everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And from Northern Silicon Valley, where I remain
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Until then, adios, fo fo's, a hooey, hooey
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Inside the halls where the laws get made.
A perfect hand is deathly played.
While the tickers tape and the markets swing.
Nancy's body low on the next big thing.
From tech giant speaks to the valley floor.
Lucy's portfolio grows a little more.
A show of hearts goes.
As technologies advance, so do our adversaries.
But here at the War Department, we are
not sitting idly by.
Nice.
Unlock new possibilities across your daily workflows.
The best case scenario is that AI diffuses
into everything that we do.
If anyone builds it, everyone dies.
Wow.
Format content.
As technologies advance, so do our adversaries.
Nice.
It crashed as soon as everyone noticed the
icon.
Grok five nine.
Chad GPT two point thousand.
What else can we do for you today?
It's hard to predict the plays.
It's all better.
Hands under a skyscraper crushed by the AIs.
The opposite of entropy.
Smarter AIs.
It's a violation of the laws of physics.
The entropy is what happens all the time.
Just stay kind of dumb.
Okay.
The opposite of entropy.
Meanwhile, stay kind of smarter AIs.
They're going against the very laws of nature,
Mr. Neal.
There's nothing but blatant bullcrap.
Here's your intelligence.
You're an idiot.
Why do you say that?
This is terrible.
Dumb lady.
Meanwhile, is it true?
He's an idiot.
This is terrible.
He's an idiot.
He's an idiot.
You're an idiot.
The opposite of entropy.
It's hard to predict the plays.
It's easier to predict the winner.
They're dumb.
Safe and beneficial.
Crashed as soon as everyone noticed the icon.
It's only going to get worse.
If anyone bills it, everyone dies.
It's bad.
I think you're dead right.
Man, it's tiring.
This is terrible.
What a bunch of dicks.
Please welcome Maryland representative, Jamie Raskin.
And where Franklin D.
Roosevelt was re-nominated by Democrats in 1940
to defeat fascist dictator.
On a former show on NBC, calling Kamala
the vice president of the United States.
October surprise.
They heightened stakes.
She has been the vice president of the
United States?
Calling her the vice president of the United
States.
I mean, the DNC lending support.
Vasectomy, abortion, mobile clinics outside to help their
voters abort.
I mean, champion these women's rights to choose.
This is more.
To say right, we lose.
No enthusiasm or grassroots support.
Donors tied to the ticket seeming like a
last resort.
No activate.
It's our time of the year.
Scaring black folks with the chance for more
years.
For more years.
Shyster show up and take advantage of people's
goodwill and generosity for more years.
I'm saying it's the most important election of
our life.
At this point, the only choice I want
is having kids and a wife.
Yeah, it's a vibe.
It's a vibe.
And tell me why I'm running through the
fire while we're breaking through all around.
It's boots on the ground.
Sticky boots on the ground.
Listen to the echo of the heavy metal
sound.
We got boots on the ground.
Keep the boots on the ground.
Yeah, the
best podcast in the universe.
Mofo.
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Wow.
Wowie.
Wow, wow, wow.
That was great.