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What's the point of keeping it a big
secret?
Adam Curry, John C.
DeVora.
It's Thursday, January 15, 2026.
This is your award-winning give-on-Asian
-media assassination episode 1834.
This is no agenda.
Cutting through the grass and broadcasting live from
the heart of the Texas Hill Country right
here in FEMA Region Number 6.
In the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from Northern Silicon Valley, where nobody's surprised
that President Clinton told Congress to pound salt.
I'm John C.
DeVorak.
Is it pound salt or pound sand?
Well, he's pounding salt.
They said, we're not coming.
We're not going to testify.
You can't make us do that.
Yeah, it's pretty interesting.
Steve Bannon in jail and Navarro in jail.
They throw all these other when the Democrats
are running things.
And then once you know that it's Comer's
committee, what do you think's going to happen?
Yeah, nothing.
Pretty much nothing.
Nothing.
The guys that do nothing.
Yeah, it's amazing.
It's unbelievable.
James Comer is the biggest do-nothing I've
ever seen.
I mean, I'm still waiting for the Hunter
Biden stuff.
Well, we're connecting the dots with the banks.
We see the crime family.
You know, zip, nothing.
Yeah, well, they're in Congress.
It's not even their job to do that.
This Justice Department, I don't see why anyone
puts any faith in Congress to do any
kind of any, you know, locking people up.
It's not going to happen.
And there was a period of time, if
you recall, when I think the Republicans held
Congress, but the president was Obama.
And what's his name?
The attorney general, the black guy.
Holder.
Holder comes on and he gives them a
bold-faced lie about one thing or another
about where all these missing weapons went to
the cartels in Mexico.
And they said, well, we're going to get
to the bottom of this.
And then they actually sent in a referral
so he could be in contempt of Congress
for not answering some questions.
Nothing.
Nothing came of it.
You seem surprised.
You're just going off.
Are you just going off?
I'm just going off.
I'm not surprised at all.
I've been hearing this for 18 years, everybody.
Of course.
I mean, where's my 10,000 sealed indictments
at?
I gave up.
There's another one.
That guy disappeared, of course.
He stopped talking.
I gave up.
Yeah, 10,000 sealed.
Who was that guy?
What was that guy's name?
Judge Knapp.
No, it was Joe DiGenoa.
Oh, Joe DiGenoa.
Whatever happened to him and his wife?
Did they still do a podcast?
She got indicted.
They were in the 10,000 indictments.
I don't know.
Joe DiGenoa.
Yeah, he'd come on.
We have tons of clips of him coming
on, talking about, oh, tomorrow.
And it was always tomorrow.
It wasn't like he pushed it off for
a year.
It was tomorrow they're going to release 10
,000 sealed indictments.
Yeah, let's see.
I have this.
Let me see.
What's a good one?
I think this is a good one.
Oh, wait.
I have an ISO.
What is this?
How many sealed indictments there are?
More than 100,000.
Hold on.
We need to answer.
Yeah.
DiGenoa.
Here we go.
Here's DiGenoa.
So we should see a report by the
end of the summer.
Are you hopeful?
I am.
I'm a little surprised by the news.
This is when he was talking through his
microphone.
And that John Durham is going to publish
a report before filing criminal charges.
That's really fascinating to me.
When I was an independent counsel of the
United States.
No, blah, blah, blah.
I don't want to hear him anymore.
This sound is too bad.
I guess, uh, does he know DiGenoa?
Maybe he's dead.
Well, let's not make fun about dead people
today.
It's been a bad week.
Let me see.
Does he have a podcast?
Yeah, that would be it.
Believe me, if he had a podcast, we'd
be listening to it.
Joe, the American Spectator?
Nah.
No, he has no podcast.
I don't know what happened to him.
He's just gone.
That's interesting.
Somebody pulled him from his assignment.
Somebody do a wellness check.
So, uh, you already talked about in the
newsletter.
But we are obviously mourning the loss of
Scott Adams.
Yes, he, uh, was a friend of the
show.
For sure.
And, uh, he didn't plug the show as
much as he could have.
He never plugged the show.
I don't think he ever plugged the show.
Did he ever plug the show once?
I think once or, well, I know a
couple of times he mentioned the show.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, that's right.
That's right.
And, uh.
You just say Dvorak and Curry.
He wouldn't even say no agenda.
Thanks, Scott.
Yeah, it was stuff like that.
But there was a number of things that
were, you know, there's all these tributes.
And they were all well-deserved.
I mean, the way I saw it, and
I've known him for, guess how many years?
You have known him for 32 years, 33
years.
Exactly.
33.
What does that tell you?
Tells you something's up.
So, um, so he had, there's a couple
of things that came about.
I mean, I knew him early on and
then I lost track of him for about
a decade.
I hadn't seen him.
And then I started seeing him again.
I, last time I, when I.
Well, you interviewed him for the show.
Yes, we did for the show.
We should repost that for sure.
Yes, I was thinking about it.
That's a good idea.
We should repost it.
And, uh, it brought a lot of stuff
out.
But he was a couple of things that
people never got to know about him.
One, he was the, I think he was
the hardest, he's a hard worker.
He was just a killer hard worker.
He was, he did, even when the cartoon
was largely canceled, he kept writing Dilbert.
Yeah.
Which was, it took a lot of work.
He did about five books and he did,
he did about 50 cartoon books.
And do you remember when, when he got
canceled and then he had this arm problems
and he couldn't, he couldn't draw and he
needed to do all kinds of things to
figure out how to still make the cartoon.
Yeah.
He had a lot of physical issues that
came and went.
Um, yes, I remember the guy couldn't draw
for a while.
Kind of sucks as a cartoonist.
Yeah, but he got over it.
Yeah.
And he, he would, a couple of things
that you should know about him.
One, he did not really like people.
No wonder you two got along.
Amazing.
He didn't really like people.
He said to me once, he said he
doesn't have respect for people.
And the reason was, he says, because everybody
is so susceptible to suggestion that they can
be easily manipulated.
And he went on about this.
He had this preoccupation with this manipulation thing,
which brings me to the common place that
he was a trained hypnotist.
Yes.
As he often said.
Yeah.
Cause he was a big believer in repeating
stuff until it became true.
Uh, there is no evidence of this.
Who, who trained him and who does he
ever hypnotize?
What did you, you're gonna, you're gonna kick
the legs out from underneath the dead guy.
Don't do that.
Don't just say that I'm protecting you here.
Don't do that.
A couple.
Okay.
I won't go on about that, but, but
I will, but if anyone likes this, like
this cartoons and I have a couple of
panels.
Luckily I collected, uh, from years ago when
he drew, actually drew the cartoons.
Yeah.
Not on the computer.
Um, he, that he got fired.
The story about him getting fired is fascinating.
So he was a bureaucrat type.
He was not an engineer really, even though
he became one at Pacific Bell.
He was a Pacific telephone.
Pactel.
Pacific Bell.
Pactel.
Pactel.
He was a natural engineer.
He was, he had the mentality of an
engineer and he could, that's why he felt
he could engineer everything.
And, uh, so he would work at Crocker
and Mimi's actually the one who helped him
get his job at Crocker when she worked
there.
No way.
What's, what's Crocker?
What's Crocker?
Crocker bank.
It used to be a famous bank in
San Francisco Bay area.
Scott worked there.
Wow.
How did, how did Mimi hook up with
him?
She didn't.
She was, he was hanging out with a
bunch of pot smokers.
Oh, comics, comics, you mean?
No, no, no.
He was hanging out with the, some of
the girls that worked at the bank and
they were, and he was a pot smoker.
And girls want, want a lid, want a
copper lid.
He was a real heavy duty pot smoker.
People have to realize that.
Oh yeah, we connected deeply on that.
It wasn't, it wasn't a secret.
No.
And, uh, so he, he worked at the
bank and then he, I don't know how
he lost his job there cause she was
already gone by then.
And he, uh, ended up going to work
for Pac Bell and he was just doing
system stuff.
And working on the computers, he got on
the web early on.
First guy ever showed me the web cause
I visited him at his offices.
And he, wait a minute.
How did you, how did you meet him?
If, cause I don't know the origin.
Oh, I can't remember.
I was 33 years ago.
I can't remember when I, how I hooked
up with him, but I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm
over there and he's shown me the web.
And, uh, and so he, and then about
three years later, after I, after that, about
96, I think he got, they fired him
from Pac Bell.
And the story behind that is quite fascinating.
What happened was they brought in some, cause
Scott was not doing a lot of work
at Pac Bell, but he was famous for
doing Dilbert cause Dilbert was a huge hit
during that era when he was at Pac
Bell.
And so the sales people from Pac Bell
would use Scott as a foil to get
appointments.
He was their go-to guy for the
sales team.
And so they say, well, you know, we'd
like to meet you about to do some,
you know, some sort of whatever business, the
phone company does, but they do a lot
of business obviously.
And we'll bring Scott Adams, you know, Dilbert,
he's, we got him, he works for us.
Oh yeah, sure.
Yeah.
I didn't want to have the meeting, but
now I do.
He always was thinking past the sale.
That was one of his big things, thinking
past the sale.
So he was used as the guy, the
bait for the sales team at Pac Bell.
And they were just rolling in dough with
this guy.
A guy comes in who is, they just
hired the guy and he's going to do
a, what do you do when you go
from job to job to job to do
the check, see if these people are doing
anything.
There's a word term for it.
Somebody in the chat.
Yeah.
A Fed.
No.
If we call that a Fed, in business
speak, he's a Fed man.
He's checking to see if you're doing the
job right.
There's a term for this process and it's
called, it's work analysis or something.
I haven't been in business for so long.
I can't remember it.
But so they brought this guy in to
do efficiency analysis and they go through one
person after another and they get, the guy
gets this guy, he figures this guy's not
doing anything.
NARC, maybe NARC, call him a NARC.
And so they fire him because this guy
comes in and the guy, this was unbeknownst
to the sales team.
And so Scott is out.
And so they freak.
I remember you telling me this.
Yeah, I remember this story.
They freak out and they try to get,
and Scott is out now for about a
month before they put two and two together.
They try to get him back, but he
looks at his cash flow and he says,
I don't know, I screw it.
He never goes back.
And so he stays out for good.
And the guy who fired him was depicted
in his earlier cartoons.
If anyone goes back to his cartoons, there's
one guy with a full short facial beard
that got, he's got a complete facial beard
and black hair.
And he's kind of a shorter guy.
That's the guy who fired him.
Auditor?
Sorry?
An auditor?
No, no, not.
I'm still trying to think of the name
for that position.
There's a word for what it is.
The same guys that were in, if you
watch the movie, uh, Office Space, those two
guys who come in to, to check on
the employees.
Okay.
So, uh, so, so he has the, uh,
that guy in the cartoons for a while
and he's always in a hole.
He finally dropped him cause he wasn't really
a good character.
Uh, the other, the other one I know
there's the, the care, the woman that's in
the cartoons who has the triangle shaped, uh,
hairdo.
Yeah.
She was actually, I actually chatted with her.
She ended up working at Cisco.
And, uh, this is so deep, man.
This is great.
I love the slide in the weed stuff.
Cause I just, I mean, I went to
his, he had a chain of restaurants for
a while that was Stacy.
He was financing this woman, Stacy and the
restaurant Stacey's.
I went to lunch there a couple of
once at the one in Pleasanton and met
Stacy.
And I think he had a crush on
her, but she was just using him to
finance the restaurants.
He was not good at pulling the birds.
I hear he was not really good at
it.
Well, you know, I don't think he, I
never could figure that part out, but he
was funny.
He had a dry, odd, dry, super dry
sense of humor.
That was quite, uh, efficiency experts.
Yes, exactly.
Thank you.
Trolls.
Who said that?
Who was that?
MVP.
Oh, all right.
Mark.
Yeah.
Efficiency experts came in and this guy was
the efficiency expert.
He hired him.
And about three months after the sales guys
made a fuss, they fired him.
He got fired.
The efficiency expert.
Yeah, of course.
Get rid of that guy.
Wow.
That's amazing.
So, you know, so Scott has a, uh,
is an interesting, was an interesting person.
And he, it's a shame that he, uh,
well, you know, you and I had a
little chat about it and you said something
very interesting.
Can I just relay that?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm kind of convinced of this, which, because,
well, it's based on one of my old
stories, but yeah, we'll go ahead then.
Well, I had this thesis and it's not
a thesis.
It's, it's something that everybody does.
Uh, if you're a motorcyclist and you're on
a dirt trail and you're bouncing around and
you see a big, you see a big
rock, you know, what's going to happen.
If you keep looking at the rock, you
look at the rock, you hit the rock.
This is the, this is you.
You always look where you're going.
Not what you don't, what you're trying to
avoid.
If you're trying to avoid it and you
look at it, you'll hit it.
And this is the same thing with driving
a car.
And it turns out, cause I was talking
to Brunetti about this and his wife, Alex
says you do the same thing with horses.
Huh?
I don't know how that works.
My horse is going to stumble.
Well, you, you don't, you don't look at
what the horse is going to hit.
You look at where you, you look where
you're going.
Yeah.
And, uh, I mentioned that to Mimi and
she says, yeah, cause she's a horse, she
rides horses.
And yeah, you do.
You don't look at, it's the same thing.
And Scott Adams was so preoccupied with, uh,
with, uh, suggestibility to an extreme.
He, I mean, he, he basically was looking
at the rock all his life.
Yeah.
The shoemaker, the shoemaker's kids have no shoes.
And so he, so because he was so
preoccupied with this, he was, and believed in
it so much that he himself was suggestible.
And the only reason that it came up
with this is because he was, he sounded
okay on his podcast until he went to
the radiologist.
And the radiologist said, put your affairs in
order.
It's over, son.
The radiologist and Scott said it had no
good news.
I'm cooked.
And, and he did not sound the same.
He, he sounded like he was cooked.
Yeah.
The radiologist by the rate, the radiologist had
suggested to him that he was through.
And he, and he took this because he's
always looking at the rock.
He hit the rock.
Yeah.
That's just the thesis.
I don't know, but I did notice the
difference.
And within five days he was done.
Uh, we've got a lot of, uh, cause
people know about the connection between Scott and
the show.
And I just wanted to read one or
two notes, uh, Mitchell Reeves.
He says in the morning with the passing
of Scott Adams, I felt it was important
to tell you both how much you mean
to me.
See, this is what people do.
Like, oh crap.
What if those guys go away?
What am I going to do?
How much, yeah.
Yes, we, and they should.
Yes.
I'm 32 years old, 33 in one month
with a wife and two young daughters.
I'm approaching my last semester of law school.
I work full time, go to law school
at nights, but this guy's busy.
The two of you, as well as Scott
Adams have been with me the entire time
and given me something to look forward to.
And have also helped me feel a lot
less alone.
It gives me a bit of escape from
the stress I'm under right now.
I always tell people my non-negotiable can't
miss podcasts are no agenda and coffee with
Scott Adams.
I can say with certainty that I am
better because of your show.
And of course, I don't want to make
it about us, but I just thought that
was interesting because I got a lot of
those.
I don't know if you got any emails,
people saying, you know.
Yeah, I got a few.
And based upon, I'm not going to recycle
content, but based upon his last words, which
his ex-wife read, Pastor Jimmy and I
had a conversation about whether he's going to
heaven or not based upon his accepting Jesus
as his Lord and Savior.
And one of our producers said an interesting
note.
He said, one of the persuasion tips Scott
hammered on was thinking past the sale.
Thinking past the sale was not about whether
he was going to heaven.
It was whether Jesus was real.
And it seems like it's one of those
last, very Scott Adams type thing to do.
And you can listen to the podcast to
hear us talk about that.
But a lot of people got really excited.
Like, yes, he accepted Jesus on the deathbed
conversion, we call it.
Yeah, I always thought of it when he
did it as a, why take a chance?
Well, that's basically what he said.
Yeah, and that's the way he always was.
Yeah, what have I got to lose?
But the problem was, his logic was, because
he was a natural engineer, it was to
overthink everything.
This is why he got the vax.
He was overthinking.
For one thing, unfortunately, being suggestible himself, he
believed that the propaganda about the, without question,
that came out of the government about long
COVID and its dangers and all the rest.
This is what, during that era where if
you touch something, oh, you can pick up
COVID from touching things.
And so he bought into that, and he
was very adamant about it.
But his earlier mistake, and I think I
pointed this out on the show before, which
irked him to no end, was his decision,
but through his own logic.
And I can still see him doing this
on the blackboard.
He has his whiteboard, actually.
And he had, where's the origins of this
come from?
And he had two choices.
He broke it all down on the blackboard.
And one was the virology lab that investigated
coronaviruses in Wuhan and the wet market.
And through some screwball logic, which I never
could understand, he says, it's so obvious to
me that it's the wet market.
Well, he later rescinded that.
Well, yeah, sure.
Yeah, people are yelling at him.
No, man.
No, no, no, no, no.
Don't do that.
Yeah, he's pretty good.
He was very good at resisting people yelling
at him.
So even because he was- You got
to.
You got to have that.
Yeah, well, yeah.
But he was also, he got into trouble
once, about 20 years ago, and it was
some back and forth that was going on
online.
I had to chat with, I talked to
him over the phone about it, because I
had a solution.
And I told him how important it was
he had to fix this, because I had
gotten into an online mess years earlier.
Yeah, with the Mac people.
They hated you.
Well, no, it was something that he said
on, it was something I said on when
CompuServe had these forums, we had ZDNet or
something on there, and it was, I had
taken a stand on some stupid thing.
You don't remember?
You were taking a stand against social media
in the early, early days.
No, it was about something else.
It was about some product.
And I had one of the, a friend
of mine called me up and says, you
got to stop.
And because he says, this is just getting
out of control, just apologize and you'll be
good to go.
And so, which is the same thing I
kind of told Scott.
And I did, and it just ended.
Whoa, well, crap, he's not arguing anymore.
Go figure, let's move on.
There's just a lot of argumentation that people
like to do.
They just like to argue.
You know, speaking of the VACs and choices,
just to pivot a little bit for a
second, because I think we've discussed Scott and
we miss him.
He was good.
He was fun for podcasting.
Oh, he was a great podcaster, natural.
And I was always, envious is not the
right word, but I always thought his simultaneous
SIP was a genius podcasting thing.
It was a gimmick.
It was a good one.
It was a great gimmick.
That was really good.
So RFK Jr. sent a letter to Germany,
a stern letter, I'm sure, sealed with his
night ring and sealing wax.
And it's about a similar topic.
Hi, I'm Robert F.
Kennedy Jr., your HHS secretary.
Welcome to the podcast, everybody.
These guys are all doing podcasts now.
Hi, I'm Robert F.
Kennedy Jr., your HHS secretary.
Today, I want to tell you about a
letter that I just sent to Germany's federal
minister of health, Nina Warkin.
Because what's happening in Germany right now demands
a clear public response from the United States
of America.
We don't know why, but.
I've learned that more than a thousand German
physicians and thousands of their patients now face
prosecution and punishment for issuing exemptions from wearing
masks or getting COVID-19 vaccines during the
pandemic.
When any government criminalizes doctors for advising their
patients, it crosses a line that free societies
have always treated as sacred.
In my letter, I explain that Germany is
targeting physicians who put their patients first and
punishing citizens for making their own medical choices.
The German government is now violating the sacred
patient-physician relationship, replacing it.
Where was he during COVID?
Did he speak up during COVID about this?
No, not that I know of.
I can't recall.
With a dangerous system that makes physicians enforcers
of state policies.
Your health is no longer your doctor's priority
under this system.
Your doctor instead is serving the welfare of
the collective as determined by unelected technocrats with
no medical training.
Anybody can see the danger in this system.
No democracy grounded in confidence and transparency should
move in that direction.
Patients must always have the freedom to make
personal medical decisions without coercion or political pressure.
That principle forms the bedrock of every democratic
nation.
Okay, well, we're going to remember you said
that, RFK Jr. I'm not quite sure why
he's doing this other than to get people
to smash that like button.
It's just like, okay, well, I wish we
had had that voice of yours in 2020,
2019, 2020, 2021, 2022.
And his voice sounds better, actually.
I think about it.
That sounds, you can hear him.
Yeah, it's better.
So another person died.
You only know him because we got some
donations because of him, Robert Jensen.
Yeah, he's one of your buddies in Holland.
Yeah, and I would say one of my
friends.
Certainly, maybe I talked to three people in
Holland still, excluding my daughter.
And he had a massive heart attack on
Monday at 52.
And it's just like, oh, man.
During COVID, he called me up because he
had a TV show.
It was a fun interview, kind of like
a Tonight Show vibe with people sitting in
chairs and he's interviewing, but it was funny.
He had a bit of Letterman in there.
He was a good guy.
And he also came when I was still
in downtown Austin in the apartment.
He came by and he was doing a
whole thing about Trump.
And during COVID, his TV show, they wanted
to renew him.
He said, no, I don't feel like doing
it.
And then we were talking.
I said, well, man, why don't you just
do a podcast?
And he said, yeah, but advertise.
I said, no, just do value for value.
And he was a very, very successful value
for value podcaster.
He really did a good job.
Although he added merch, which I said, why
are you doing?
But he was making the T-shirts in
his house.
Yeah, I guess if you want to be
a hobbyist, you keep merch in your house
because you got a little room.
Whenever he came out with a new hoodie
or something, I'd order it.
And he was a good guy.
And we hadn't spoken for a couple months.
It was, which I'm, I guess I'm sad
about because he wanted to, he asked me
to come back on.
I said, yeah, I said, but I can't
do it now.
I said, what are you, are you, are
you mad at me?
I said, I'm not mad.
I'm just busy.
I got other stuff going on.
But he had also, he'd interviewed David Icke
and he had taken such a right-hand
turn.
And then, and his whole demeanor, I found
to be depressing.
Like Ike.
You got to be an Ike?
An Ike-ite.
Yes, an Ike-ite.
An Ike-ite.
Yeah.
And like, you know, nothing is real.
We don't exist.
You know, lizard people.
It's all energy.
You just happen to see it now.
And it was, it was, it was just,
he went really far with that and it
didn't look like he was happy about it.
So I'm sad that I didn't get to
talk to him.
But a lot, you know, my phone's been
ringing all morning.
I see you Dutch M5M.
I'm not picking up.
Like, oh, area code.
It's country code 3-1.
Yeah, I'm not picking up.
Oh, please.
We want a statement from you about Robert.
No.
I despise that when people do that.
So anyways.
You give him a statement and say, if
you give him a statement, if they plug
the No Agenda show.
Come on.
Oh, what was I thinking?
I'm so sorry for that huge No Agenda
show audience.
Yes.
Well, actually Holland is our- We got
a big audience.
Yeah, Holland is our- Meetups.
But they know.
They already know.
And then, you know what?
They'll cut that out.
If I say, you know, you say, well,
No Agenda show.
They'll cut that.
They don't care.
No, you have to tell them you have,
they have to put it in.
It doesn't work like that.
You talk for 20 minutes.
They do a 30 second soundbite.
I don't know how they do it.
But you wind up hating it.
You wind up hating it.
And Robert would have hated it too.
Okay.
Well, it's your decision.
I can't believe it.
My friend died.
You're bummed the fact that I didn't take
advantage of the opportunity to promote the show.
That's terrible.
You're the best.
Well, let's make this solemn agreement.
Whoever dies first, the other one will use
the opportunity to promote the show with whoever's
left and Darren.
Darren.
Don't say that.
Darren will find some way of shooting us.
So, but that is life, people.
That is life.
And, uh, yeah, I think that's interesting.
I can't imagine just having a meeting with
David Ike and then going south.
Oh, he totally bought into it.
And, you know, we both like Ike.
You know, I like Ike.
He's done a lot of really interesting stuff.
But he was, you know, in Ike's world,
this just forget about it.
You know, the elite.
Has Ike ever cracked a smile?
Has Ike ever told a joke?
Has Ike ever laughed at anything?
No.
The guy's humorless.
Yeah, well, that that was the direction I
felt Robert was going.
Yeah, he would smile.
He would laugh.
But everything was just like, you know, it's
like like Ike has given up.
You know, it's like he'll still write books
and do his tours and everything.
But you can't help it.
You can't stop it.
Trump is one of them.
They're all part of it.
You know, they're all laughing.
I didn't know Trump was one of them.
Oh, yeah.
No, Trump.
Trump is going to bring in the CBDC
and the digital ID and the LMNLP and
the AI and it's over.
And you just got to go sit at
home and it's just coming.
Just, you know, it's like, so, you know,
no, no.
Yeah, you're right.
Missing a bit of the humor.
And when Robert started, man, it was he
was funny when he started with the with
the podcast.
He said some really outrageously funny stuff.
Anyway, so there you go.
The older you get, the more they drop
by the wayside.
So on that happy note, the astronauts are
back.
The SpaceX Dragon capsule splashed down off the
San Diego coast around 340 this morning.
His new video showing the four person crew
leaving the hatch.
Their mission to the International Space Station was
cut short due to a medical concern with
a crew member.
Officials have not explained the concern, but confirmed
that astronaut is stable.
So, of course, we still don't really know
who's pregnant, but it probably would be the
one female who returned because that is the
show thesis.
On Deutsche Welle, though, they brought in an
analyst.
This is the NASA groupie and he does
have something relatively interesting to say.
Well, NASA is bringing a four person crew
back from the International Space Station due to
medical issues.
It's the first evacuation of its kind.
U.S., Russian and Japanese astronauts undocked from
the station after five months in space.
NASA has declined to disclose which crew member
has the health problem or give details about
the issue, but the U.S. Space Agency
has stressed that the return isn't an emergency.
It's great to welcome Keith Cowling back to
DW.
He's editor of nasawatch.com.
Hi, Keith.
Now, this is the first medical evacuation from
the ISS in its 25 year history.
We don't know what the exact medical problem
is, but it's evidently serious enough to cut
the mission short.
How are you reading into this?
If somebody, and I don't know who it
is or what's wrong with them, if someone
was really, really sick, they could have been
home in a matter of hours.
They just get the suits on, push a
button and come home.
The fact that it takes a few days
and they're all happy and smiling makes me
think that if anything, it's probably something as
simple as they don't have a CAT scanner
up there.
They have a lot of medical devices and
medicines, but there's some medical gear that you
just don't have in space and do adequately
help this person.
The smart thing is to bring them home
and they're more or less at the end
of their stay up there.
So a lot of work has not been
sacrificed as a result.
What an apology for this guy.
It's not an emergency.
It's just expedited or quick or a short
end to a long trip.
Who cares?
Very suspicious.
I think you're spot on, man.
And notice the black guy stayed behind.
He didn't leave.
Just saying.
Got some jungle fever in space.
Well, yeah, I don't know.
That's pushing it.
I mean, it's possible.
But whatever the case was, I'm sure I
have night.
See, the question I'd be asking if I
was a reporter in this situation, I'd say
is that I would have asked a pregnancy
question right away.
Of course.
But but I also would say, is there
anything that anyone has to sign to refrain
from sex?
This is an interesting question that people would
want to know.
Yes.
Do you have to?
Do you sign a document, an NDA of
sorts that says you have to refrain from
sex while you're in the space station?
Do you have to?
Is there anything like that that's signed or
do you have to agree, especially if you're
a female, to not have sex?
OK, you get a waiver from H.R.
or something.
I mean.
While you're in outer space, because they don't
want anybody having sex in outer space because
they don't know what the results would be
for the baby.
And there's all these issues.
And if you get pregnant, you won't fit
into the suit.
I mean, that's the thing, it seems to
me.
Thank you very much for the art.
A comic strip blogger will be.
Yes, a comic strip blogger nailed it.
Nailed it.
He nailed it.
Yeah.
The pregnant girl in a pregnant suit.
We deserve an answer.
I think we should know this, you know,
this great expense.
We brought them back.
It's not cheap.
And they're going out of their way to
avoid saying what it is.
Why?
What is it?
Is it a hangnail?
Is it a toenail?
Ingrown toenail.
I mean, what's the point of keeping it
a big secret?
Somebody got, you know, have some ulcers.
I mean, what could it be?
Upset tummy.
Something's wrong.
Yeah, we deserve answers.
Well, let's just stay with the with health
and pharma for a second.
There is a massive ad campaign underway right
now, which is both explicit and native.
Here is the here is the ad.
The new week Ovi pill is now available.
Finally, powerful GOP one results in a simple
pill at the lowest price available.
Get doctor support, personalized nutrition programs and side
effect management all in one place.
I can't imagine being on a GOP one
without Weight Watchers and Weight Watchers handles the
insurance for you and offers affordable cash pay
options.
See if you qualify for the week Ovi
pill at Weight Watchers dot com slash TV.
It's amazing how Weight Watchers, which literally had
a program with points and it was about
how much how much you eat, what you
ate, how you ate all of those.
The whole thing was all about natural weight
loss.
How do you lose weight?
You do this.
You do that.
You exercise.
You do now.
Oh, dear.
Take this pill.
We'll co-sponsor it.
And what?
And we remember Oprah.
Now, this was a year ago, maybe even
longer.
I think it was longer.
She's a shareholder in in Weight Watchers.
She was on the board and they decided,
you know, maybe we should just hop on
this GOP one bandwagon.
And she quit by then, hasn't she?
Oh, if you recall, she left the board
and she donated her shares, which is a
huge tax tax write off.
She donated her shares to some nonprofit.
And now she's back.
And of course, she shows up on CBS
with her with her BFF, Gail.
Oprah reveals how she went from blaming and
shaming herself to transforming her health.
The book is co-written by Dr. Anya
Yasterboff.
She's the founding director of Yale Obesity Research
Center and an expert in obesity and GOP
based medications, GOP one based medications.
We're very happy to say that Oprah and
Dr. Anya are here in the studio with
us.
Good morning.
Good morning, girls.
Good to have you here.
Hi, Dr. Anya.
I wanted to share because I've always when
I discovered something that I thought was important
for other people, I always wanted to share.
And I remember doing a show many years
ago and Janet Jackson was on it and
lost weight.
And I said, if there's ever a pill,
I will be the first one to tell
you about it.
And so now there actually is a pill.
But more importantly than the pill is understanding
that obesity is a disease.
And if you have this chronic disease, it
is not because you are overeating.
It's because you have the disease that causes
you to overeat.
And I did not know this.
What's the bacterial agent or viral agent that
causes this disease?
What are you going to get technical now?
I'm just asking diseases.
We know what the definition of disease is.
Is it something that's caused by a viral,
a bacterial agent or some parasite?
Depends.
It can be dis-ease.
You're just at dis-ease.
You know, it depends on how you do
this.
Oh, yeah.
You're not at ease.
Yes.
I get it.
Dis-ease.
And I did not know this until 2023.
For so long when I was raised, we
always thought just willpower because I was at
Weight Watchers and got my key to success
three times and thought, now I'm done.
Now it's just a matter of willpower.
And you're saying, Dr. Anya, no matter how
much you do and how much willpower you
think you have, that is not enough.
So now I realize that I'm on the
medications and will have to be on the
medications for the rest of my life because
I did a whole year last year.
From my 70th birthday until my 71st birthday,
I tried to be without the medication.
You stopped taking.
I stopped taking.
And what happened?
Because I wanted to prove you wrong.
Yes.
You are wrong.
I have reached the weight, the goal weight,
and I can fix it.
And what happened is I gained three pounds
and five pounds and seven pounds.
Oh, no.
Were you eating more food?
No, I wasn't.
No, you were not.
No, I wasn't eating anything.
You're drinking water.
Smiles a day.
Smiles a day, doing all the things.
Magic.
And still gain weight.
Over Christmas, I gained eight pounds.
And then, you know, so I thought, maybe
you're right.
Maybe the science is right.
And I got back on the medication.
The science is right.
And along with that comes more native advertising.
Listen to this report.
Weight loss medications like Wigovi and Ozempic have
changed the game for people looking to-
Notice how Wigovi is now first.
It used to be like Ozempic and then
there'd be, you know, all the other ones.
Now Wigovi, who are the ones footing the
bill, they're the ones that are first.
Duh.
They're the ones that are first.
Weight loss medications like Wigovi and Ozempic have
changed the game for people looking to shed
a few pounds.
However, new research shows people who stop taking
the drugs could see an increased risk of
diabetes and heart disease.
The study published in the British Medical Journal
reviewed the trials of more than 6,000
adults who use GLP-1s and other weight
loss drugs.
The results are a cautionary tale as people
who went off the meds regained weight almost
four times faster than those who simply stopped
exercising or didn't stick to a healthy diet.
That rapid weight gain then had a domino
effect on overall health as people then had
an increased risk of developing conditions like high
cholesterol and high blood pressure.
Doctors say the findings point to how these
medications are not a quick fix and anyone
looking to take the drugs should consider the
long-term effects.
Yeah, and otherwise you take it, you can't
stop taking it.
But this is good news according to CNBC.
Wall Street is happy.
Airlines are going to...
Headline.
Airlines will save big money on fuel as
new weight loss pills gain popularity.
Yeah, that's not a native ad.
That's a good one.
Literally, I mean, these guys are so shameless.
Wall Street is finding an unexpected beneficiary of
America's weight loss boom.
Airlines with the first GLP-1 weight loss
drug now available in pill form, Link.
Analysts at Jeffrey say broad adoption across society
could quietly lower fuel bills.
I'm all in on it.
I think it's also going to save on
pavement in the traffic.
There you go.
You won't have to pave the road so
much because all these fat people won't be
driving.
There's a lot of benefits.
Well, that's only if we get it on
Medicare.
Only then.
Only then will it...
This is all...
This push is coming again.
We got to get it in.
We got to get it in.
It's a happening.
Got to get it.
Make the insurers pay for it.
Everybody.
It's all good.
It's fabulous.
So that was your native ad of the
day.
There's a lot going on.
They have to stop.
Kennedy, you brought him up earlier.
He's bitching him on it.
And Germany, who cares what they do.
And Kennedy did it too, by the way.
Didn't say anything to them.
Why doesn't he say something about this, about
these advertisers?
He was one of his things.
Stop letting these guys advertise on TV.
And that would include native advertising.
Well, it clearly doesn't.
Because they're not doing any disclaimers at all.
At all.
In fact, I think I had a...
Actually, you're right.
Because native advertising is more effective because they
don't have to do the disclaimers.
In fact, I think I saw a report,
which we didn't talk about on the last
show, that the FDA, yes.
Where was this?
The FDA said the weight loss guys can
take off the warning that it could cause
suicidal tendencies or self-harm thoughts, as we
call it now.
Because there's no evidence of it.
FDA was saying that to the weight loss
people.
And I'm still waiting for the erectile dysfunction
benefit.
It's a common...
Yeah, yeah.
I don't think they're going to need to
do it.
That's the rabbit out of a hat.
Once it goes there, man, boom.
Boom, we're all good.
Give me that stuff.
So I got a disturbing email conversation this
morning with Boots on the Ground.
And it pertains to this particular story, which
of course really has nothing to do with
X other than the UK doesn't like people
being able to speak out freely on X
and have that flow through everywhere in the
UK.
We can't have that.
Here's the report.
And I'll tell you what the Boots on
the Ground report was.
Facing pressure from governments around the world, Elon
Musk is reining in his controversial AI tool,
Grok.
On Wednesday, X announced that it would no
longer generate undressed images of real people in
jurisdictions where this is illegal.
It was a welcome development in the UK.
By the way, we called this.
We called this right away.
This is a big feature.
Put a bikini on her.
Big feature.
Where Grok and X are under investigation for
generating sexualized deepfakes of women and children.
If UK watchdog Ofcom determines the platform has
broken the law, it can fine X for
up to 10% of its global revenue.
I have been informed this morning that X
is acting to ensure full compliance with UK
law.
If so, that is welcome.
But we're not going to back down.
We will strengthen existing laws and prepare for
legislation if it needs to go further.
The limits imposed on Grok's image generation came
hours after California prosecutors also opened a probe
into the chatbot.
Amid backlash last week, Grok limited the ability
to create AI images to paying subscribers.
But this was far from enough for women's
rights groups who called for X and Grok
to be removed from app stores.
Listen to this definition.
Decrying this new widespread form of sexual abuse.
What?
We are really imploring Apple and Google to
take this extremely seriously.
They are enabling a system in which thousands,
if not tens of thousands of people, particularly
women and children, are being sexually abused through
the help of their own app stores.
So this is now sexual abuse?
Yeah, and this is really about all the
bikini pictures of Starmer.
That's definitely part of it.
It's not about any kids.
Put a bikini on a little kid.
No, let's put a bikini on Starmer.
And they keep doing it.
And he sits there talking.
Some of the Starmer stuff's hilarious.
I have one clip about something adjacent to
this.
Well, can I get my boots on the
ground before you move on and move off
the topic?
Maybe this adjacent clip might add to the
boots on the ground.
Okay.
Ava, your buddy.
Oh, but you actually clipped that?
I was like, this is F-A-F
-O.
It wasn't surprising to me.
Well, we'll play it.
It was surprising to me.
What do you mean?
She was out there protesting with Tommy Robinson.
Okay, I won't play the clip.
No, we'll play it.
No, no, no.
I want to play it because when I
see people, of course, 50 people sent this
to me, tagged me in every post.
I'm like, what do you expect?
Well, it's because you're her friend.
I have never met the woman.
Well, she should be your friend.
So I just got an email I didn't
expect.
I have officially been banned from traveling to
the United Kingdom.
I'm not allowed to enter the country.
It's actually, I'll just call it what it
is.
What she did here is engagement farming.
I mean, if you're going to go out
there and into the UK, which is not
part of the EU anymore, in case you
hadn't noticed.
And you're going to say, hey, you guys
suck.
Keir Starmer, you suck.
And then you're, we do that here.
We do that here.
I mean, it's like, if you want to
come in and we see that you say
America sucks.
Okay, you played the important part of the
clip.
No, I don't want to play anymore.
I want to play the whole thing now.
The UK government under Keir Starmer deems my
presence in the UK, and I quote, not
conducive to the public good.
I don't know what that means.
Since when is being conducive to the public
good a requirement to enter a country?
I mean, especially.
You're undesirable is what you are.
The United Kingdom where, if I'm not mistaken,
thousands of illegal immigrants.
Oh, okay, this is what we're going to
do.
Oh yeah, but all the illegal immigrants could
come in, but I can't come.
This is engagement farming.
Enter through the channel every day.
And you got to do.
That's what she does.
She's good at it.
You got to do it in your car.
That's the best.
Why don't we do this show from the
car?
I am in the car.
Nobody's asking them to be conducive to the
public good, but I cannot come.
And now this email came out of the
blue in a sense that I didn't apply
for an ETA.
Now, I went back in September to join
the Tommy Robinson rally where I spoke.
I'm planning.
I was planning, I should say, to do
that again in May.
Guess not.
Guess not.
And now the timing is quite suspicious, isn't
it?
Suspicious?
It's hmm, hmm.
I'm just asking questions.
She's the Candace Owens of Holland.
Because three days ago, I posted this about
Keir Starmer calling out his hypocrisy that he
wants to ban X because of women's safety,
whilst at the same time, he's the one
who's allowing these migrant gang rapes to happen.
Obviously, he's just doing that because he wants
to ban free speech.
And that is also the reason why I
am now not anymore allowed to go to
the UK.
But it's pretty dystopian.
I mean, it's a very severe limitation of
my freedom.
And as it says in the email, I
cannot appeal.
I cannot appeal.
I'm not convicted of any crime.
I'm not under suspicion of any crime.
They just decided, Keir Starmer just decided that
someone like me is not welcome in the
UK.
Yes.
Well, yes, you're a troublemaker and you're hanging
out with troublemakers and they don't want you
there.
And by the way, why do you care?
Because it's so great.
It's cold.
It's wet.
The buildings are ugly and cold.
You don't want to go there.
There's no reason for you to go.
But you want to go to Harrods?
Well, all you see is Muslim women all
over the place.
It's not it's not fun anymore.
I'd love to pick up some pretty good
jams at Fortnum & Mason.
Well, you can order those online.
Yeah.
But, you know, the price of shipping is
ridiculous.
So one of our producers, who's a dude
named Ben, at Grok, says, and this was
an interesting back and forth, he says, I
don't know what to do.
I just reached out to you.
OK, it's regarding sexually explicit images of minors
being created by Grok on its own, he
says, he claims.
Without evidence.
Without evidence.
Despite prompts explicitly requesting the opposite.
I have photos and screenshots and copies of
prompts.
Currently, Elon says all of the explicitly sexual
content is being generated because of user prompts.
I have proof that Elon is absolutely wrong.
My response was do not repeat.
Do not send me anything.
Do not have any of this so-called
evidence on your device, because that is a
very dangerous situation because they'll be used against
you.
Elon, indeed, is saying, what do you say
here?
I'm not aware of any naked underage images
generated by Grok.
But wait, what's going to be used against
you again?
If you have, if you have.
If I have a prompt saying put a
bikini on this kid.
No, no, no.
He says that there are underage minors that
are being depicted by Grok, you know, in
a sexual way.
So I said, I do not send me
any pictures.
That's what I said.
I learned that from you.
Oh, you're saying, OK, I'm messing up who's
talking here.
And I say you shouldn't have them either,
because that will be used against you.
Get rid of it.
Yes.
And this is the reason that I've said
this before.
I'll say it again.
You get a 22 terabyte hard drive.
I don't know if you ordered yours.
I did.
All it does is collect all the evidence
against you because we don't do any cleanup
anymore.
When I was a kid, we had a
hard disk.
It was a nine, nine megabyte hard disk.
And you clean it up because there was
you'd run out of room.
And so you'd go in and take old
files off.
No, nobody does that anymore.
You just accumulate everything you've ever done.
It builds up and builds up.
And then when the FBI takes the hard
disk, there's definitely something on there that shouldn't
be.
Always, always, always, there's always something on that
shouldn't be there.
Meanwhile, there has been a change, although this
is funny window dressing, I feel.
Keir Starmer has announced the digital ID.
Well, we've got a change in mind for
that.
The government has confirmed that it is to
scrap the compulsory element of its flagship digital
ID scheme, which was supposed to deter people
from traveling to the UK to work illegally.
So Keir Starmer unveiled the policy last autumn
as part of a crackdown on migration.
But in the latest in a series of
U-turns, the government has announced that workers
will be given the chance to use other
forms of ID to verify their eligibility.
What a trap, he said.
This is great.
Oh, OK, it's not going to be used
for that.
Oh, I just might as well get it.
It's easy.
I never knew it was going to be
used.
I thought it was just going to be
used for surveillance.
No, well, duh.
But they were selling it.
The whole selling point was if you don't
have a digital ID, you can't work.
And now it's like, well, we're not going
to make it like that.
So don't worry about it.
You might as well just download it and
use it.
It's going to be fine.
It's a trap.
It's a trap.
Are they going ahead with this?
Oh, yeah, of course.
Idiots.
That's fantastic.
It's great.
So Johnny Ive and Sam Altman, this is
all the rumor mill, you know, the Chinese
factory.
Johnny Ives.
Johnny Ives.
I'm Johnny Ive and I invented the iPhone.
So, you know, there's this long rumored open
AI device that people are talking about, which,
of course, is necessary because open AI is
falling behind, in my opinion, certainly behind Gemini.
Now we just signed the big Apple deal.
Do you think that Apple is going to
get paid by like the way they were
paid by Google to put Google search as
the default?
That's what I would do.
I would do it too.
So apparently open AI to go.
Codename Sweet Pea.
It'll be a little tiny little thing you
put behind your ear.
OK, a little egg shaped case right behind
the I guess they're going to use bone
induction, then it will be your assistant in
daily life.
So as you're looking at somebody, God, if
there's anything in the world I don't want
is that some little thing carping at me
about one thing or another.
Move away.
This guy's no good.
He has a very low credit score.
Move away.
Move away.
The low credit score I had.
That wasn't bad enough.
The War Department has launched its AI acceleration
strategy to secure American military AI dominance.
I won't even read it to you.
It's so dumb.
More AI in the War Department.
Swarm Forge.
Yeah, some of these names are cool.
In war, in war fighting, Swarm Forge competitive.
Why is Swarm Forge doesn't even make any
sense?
Well, let's listen to the definition.
Competitive mechanism to iterate, discover, test and scale
novel ways of fighting with and against AI
enabled capabilities.
It sounds like they hired someone from Silicon
Valley to write that copy.
Combining America's elite war fighting units with elite
technology innovators.
Yes, I think you're right.
Swarm Forge.
I like, I want to, I want a
badge.
I want to write that down.
Swarm Forge.
Swarm Forge.
Then we have Agent Network.
Unleashing AI agent development and experimentation for AI
enabled battle management and decision support from campaign
planning to kill chain execution.
This is what?
Kill chain execution?
Yes.
Oh, this is Silicon Valley talk.
Then we have the Enders.
Who the hell got in there from Silicon
Valley with all this gobbledygook?
Google, I think mainly.
Enders Foundry.
Enders Foundry.
Accelerating AI enabled simulation capabilities and SimDev and
SimOps feedback loops.
SimDev.
To ensure we stay ahead of AI enabled
adversaries.
Then we have under intelligence.
That was all war fighting.
Now under intelligence.
Open Arsenal.
Who comes up with these?
They're not very good.
And, uh, yeah.
Open Arsenal is no good.
No, I like Swarm Forge though.
I like that.
I don't know why you like that.
Wording doesn't make any sense.
Swarm Forge.
The whole thing doesn't make any sense if
you think of the two words.
I think Swarm Forge would be an Eagle
Scout badge you can get.
I got my Swarm Forge.
Show title.
Put it down to the list.
No, I wrote it down.
And then, of course, the last thing, uh,
on, uh, on the big tech agenda was
the big outage.
The big outage.
And good evening.
We begin tonight with the nation's largest cell
phone service provider in the middle of one
of the worst outages ever.
Customers across the country unable to call, text,
or scroll.
It's kind of like Iran.
As the company scrambles to get fully back
up and running.
How pathetic are we as a nation?
Let's just, let's just listen to it.
Unable to call.
Yeah, it was here to go.
Customers across the country unable to call, text,
or scroll.
Oh no, my life is over.
I can't call, text, or scroll.
Oh, what am I going to do?
As the company scrambles to get fully back
up and running.
Scroll what?
Huh?
Wait, scroll what?
I can scroll.
Not, not, yeah.
Ah, please, please let's not go through this
loop again where you tell everybody that you're
great on the computer.
You got a desktop and you can scroll.
People don't even have.
No, no, I can scroll on a phone
with Verizon being out.
Yeah, yeah.
What are you going to scroll?
You like a text?
Like, just like a.
There's stuff on the, on the phone to
scroll.
Look at this map.
These are just some of the most populated
areas of the country and the hardest hit
by the outage.
This is what many customers saw today on
their phones.
The dreaded SOS, meaning no bars and no
service.
Oh no, it's dreaded.
City officials from New York to Charlotte to
DC even warning that impacted customers might not
be able to get through to 911.
Now Verizon is racing to fix the problem
and find out what exactly went wrong.
Brian Chung is following all of it for
us tonight.
Well, Brian Chung, guess, guess who they blame?
It's almost, it's almost like us blaming Canada.
I, I don't know who they, would they
blame that Putin?
I don't know.
No, New Jersey.
Tonight, the major meltdown for the nation's largest
wireless carrier.
Your call cannot be completed at this time.
Verizon customers across the country cut off by
a massive network outage.
The trouble began around noon Eastern time with
the outage tracking website downdetector.com listing New
York, Philadelphia, Houston, Atlanta, and Miami as among
the places with the most reported issues.
Emergency management teams in multiple cities warning that
people may not be able to call 911.
If you have access to a landline, use
that.
And if that is impossible, go to a
police precinct or go to a firehouse.
Verizon customers taking to social media expressing outrage
that they couldn't contact loved ones.
Baby, this is unacceptable.
Great Nat pop.
Connected for work.
Counter days because I literally had to stop
at Starbucks.
Verizon telling NBC News that their team was
on the ground actively working to fix the
issue, adding that we know this is a
huge inconvenience.
The company did not provide a reason for
the outage.
Verizon with more than 146 million wireless customers
often promotes itself as the most reliable network
with its famous catch line.
There's only one best 5G.
You hear me now?
But tonight, the advice from officials for when
you can't.
It's also a good reminder for people to
have an emergency plan to have backups.
Plan A, Plan B.
Yeah.
Ham radio is your backup.
Ham radio.
Have you seen the new bow fangs?
The new what?
The new bow fangs.
Uh, no, I haven't.
Oh, man, they're completely digital.
They got a huge still 35 bucks.
It's still so cheap.
It's still 30.
And you can get 10 watts out of
them, which, of course, is outside of the
realm of legality, according to the.
Well, it's also not too good for your
health or this blister head.
Yeah, well, that's true.
So anyway, I have other clips, but it
turns out it was a software glitch in
New Jersey.
OK.
What kind of world are we?
The Internet, everything.
It's also centralized.
This is not how we designed it, John.
You and I, we sat down like we're
not going to.
We shouldn't design this this way.
The whole idea of the Internet was designed
to withstand a nuclear attack.
Yes.
That was the idea.
That was the plan.
Let's set up a network.
Whatever happens, you can bomb New York City
with a H-bomb and the network would
still be going because it goes from here
and if it gets blocked here, it goes
around and it goes over the here and
then it goes around.
And so when did that change to like
three nodes?
That's what it is.
Although, you know, I have the Galaxy, new
Galaxy phone that I got, the flip flip
phone because I need to do real business.
So now I'm tracked, but it does.
It is one of those phones that can
talk.
What real business are you doing that you
need to be tracked?
No, not tracked.
I need to be able to communicate with
people who are on iPhones because if you
can't do that with your other phone, if
you if you don't have an RCS compatible
phone, which is the is supposed to be
the hybrid so that, you know, iPhones and
Android phones can talk to each other when
you're texting.
The chances are that your message won't come
through, will get missed.
You get kicked out of a group are
very high.
Oh, no.
Yeah.
So, yes, terrible.
Yeah, I have a business.
I'm running a business over here.
It's called Godcaster.
You know that, I guess.
So Godcaster requires you to be in the
in the network to be tracked.
Well, no, it requires me to be able
to communicate with the worst communicators in the
world, which are pastors.
Oh, yeah.
So but by default, then you get tracked.
Of course.
Let's just have a second phone.
What difference does it make?
OK.
All right.
Thanks.
Well, because you can drive around without the
second phone.
Well, I guess I'm driving around with my
phone.
When I'm driving, I'm driving.
I'm not on my phone.
I'm not texting people.
I'm listening to podcasts.
That's why I'm imagining you on the phone
texting while driving and.
No.
And then holding the phone up to your
ear and yelling at somebody.
I barely drive.
Just missing an old lady in the street
because you weren't paying attention.
Yeah, this is what I'm seeing.
I don't.
I'm visualizing.
Don't even drive.
There's nowhere to go.
H.E.B. is three minutes away.
I'm not a driver anymore.
I'm just an old coot doing a podcast.
Thanks.
You've got me finally.
You go to San Antone.
Oh, yeah.
Big trip to San Antone.
Big smoke, everybody going to San Antone.
Yeah.
No, the two big trips I make are
to the hair, the hair girl and to
Rogan.
That's about it.
When have you done Rogan last?
Yeah, it's been a while.
Certain to show.
Oh, please.
Go do Rogan.
I've been on Rogan six times.
Hey, we got a donation today.
I was just looking at the notes and
somebody credited your visit to Megyn Kelly for
the donation.
That happens.
Yeah, I think that's great.
She's also not burning down the phone here.
Well, she doesn't.
You don't even like her.
I do like her.
I like her a lot, but, you know,
I'm not in the circle.
Remember when I was the last time I
was on and she bumped me like five
times for Glenn Beck.
Because, you know, what happened?
Something happened.
You called her out for Putin hate.
You look like a Putin apologist.
That's you.
You're in the list.
Oh, yeah, you're right.
Putin-ness.
Putin-ness.
That's what it was.
Yes, you're right.
Yeah, well, my mistake.
Yeah, you and Putin, you guys, you should
get a room.
All right.
All right.
I know you got some clips, but I
have to play this because there's a big
change.
Big change.
Big thing happened.
For the first time since we've been doing
this show, since the IPCC was the Paris
Agreement, I should say.
It was not 2025 was no longer the
hottest year on record.
This is amazing.
Global temperatures in 2025 was slightly lower than
2024, but that still makes it the third
hottest year on record across the globe.
Third, oh brother, you came up with something.
The third.
The third.
The top ten.
A study by the Met Office and European
Climate Scientists also found it was the third
year in a row in which temperatures reached
more than 1.4 degrees Celsius above pre
-industrial levels.
Dr. Samantha Burgess is the Deputy Director of
the Copernicus Climate Change Service.
She told me what this all means for
the planet.
Yeah, so the key findings from this year's
report was that 2025 was the third warmest
year on record after 2024 and 2023.
The global temperature anomaly was 1.47 degrees
above the pre-industrial average, which is an
average of the global climate before significant human
impact on the climate from burning fossil fuels.
And 2025 marks three years above 1.5
degrees.
And this is important as we're now 10
years on from the Paris Agreement, where almost
every nation committed to lower global warming to
well below 2 degrees, ideally below 1.5
degrees.
Ideally.
So it's working.
If you want to, you could also report,
wow, it's working, everybody.
Everyone is driving electric cars and it's fantastic.
And we're now down to number three.
This is classic, what you just said.
You can report it any way you want.
You can report it as a good thing
or the reversal.
And you could.
Actually, I think that's the mistake.
They just made it.
They made the mistake.
They should say, thanks to our efforts.
Yes.
Electrolyzing, electrolyzing, electrifying.
Electrification.
This and that.
This is working.
And it looks like things may be going
in the right direction.
No, no, they don't do that.
It's gloom and doom, no matter what.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, it's bullcrap.
That's why.
Yeah.
All right.
What you got?
And I'll let you go because we got
a bunch of stuff.
I wanted to get, you know, I think
this deportation, the Sudan clips, which I had
from Al Jazeera.
This is not widely reported.
No, it's not.
You know, Trump has decided, you know, the
Trump administration has decided to ship people to
Africa when they deport them.
Okay.
And so now the big move is to
ship them to South Sudan.
All right.
And so there's some background on it.
This is, I guess, three clips.
Actually, it's interesting.
Yeah, well, you have two Sudan number two.
So it'll be interesting to see which one
I have.
I'm supposed to play.
Are they the same time?
No.
One is two minutes and one is one
minute.
Okay.
One of them is obviously the third.
Yeah, obviously.
We just, which one is what we don't
know?
Well, we don't know.
Let's play the intro.
We'll play the intro first and then we'll
figure it out.
Clip one.
These are democratic values that we remember, Stephanie,
that we're hard fought for.
And blood was shed for us to gain
independence and for us to gain this democracy
that we are seeing fail at this moment.
So we must stand up and say, no,
we're not going to.
What is happening here?
Okay.
Okay.
What is going on?
Okay.
He starts.
I had this.
I couldn't start.
I couldn't play the whole bit.
It was a half hour.
So he's going on about Sudan being a
democracy.
Who?
Who's going on about Sudan?
One of the Al Jazeera Sudan experts.
Oh, okay.
And so he's going on about how they
can't put up with having a bunch of
people shipped there from the United States where
they don't know anything about anything and they're
not Sudanese.
And so it just starts off as a
rant and it resolves itself as the clips
continue.
And these are democratic values.
I do remember, Stephanie, that we had fought
for and blood was shed for us to
gain independence and for us to gain this
democracy that we are seeing fail at this
moment.
So we must stand up and say, no,
we're not going to allow our leaders to
get into these agreements without consulting us, the
people, without consulting civil society.
And worst of all, in Eswatini, without consulting
Parliament, who actually has the sovereign right according
to the constitution to scrutinize whatever agreement our
executive gets into.
Absolutely.
And picking up on that point, there was
a lot of articles I was reading really
underlying the racist tone of this from the
Trump administration.
Now, more and more African content creators are
expressing frustrations over why their content is being
used for these deporting schemes, like this gentleman
on TikTok.
So what, we're just dropping them off?
We're just flying them over there and dropping
them off?
We intend to, from what I can tell.
And so basically, and the agreement, the way
I understand it is that we're not just
dropping them off.
We're putting them in prisons over there.
And then the Sudanese will have to deal
with them, whatever they want to do.
They can take them in and they can
kick them out or release.
I mean, this is, it's almost comical, but
let's start with the two minute clip.
Well, the situation of these deals, around these
deals, adds further complexity to South Sudan, already
fragile environments, illustrating how external powers may exploit
vulnerability.
And this is something that many people are
expressing about South Sudan.
It's a country on its knees.
It's a country that is facing multiple humanitarian
crises.
So is this something that they're taking advantage
of, so they can dump these men, so
to speak, in those terms, because there's not
much the government can do or they want
the money?
I doubt if it is just the money.
Because the countries are not really uniform.
There are countries where people actually could get
some small money.
But the people behind this decision in South
Sudan are very wealthy.
And actually, they got into a problem because
of corruptions in the past.
And there had been sanctions by the US.
And they were hoping that if they could
do a deal like this, those sanctions might
be lifted or at least some ease on
those sanctions from the US.
So it's a bit different from a country
to a country.
But the fundamental similarity is really the vulnerability
of the countries that are being targeted.
Yes, we heard that there have been countries
who have rejected this and they're not sending
them to Italy or to Malaysia.
Melusi, Trump is not the first US president
to carry out deportations.
We saw it under George W.
Bush.
We saw it under Barack Obama.
But he's doing it in a very different
way.
Why is that?
I think, as I mentioned earlier, Stephanie, they
are parading what it means to an American.
And it goes back to this conversation around
bolstering their exceptionalism, because they can see that
their power is waning around the world.
Nobody is taking them as serious as perhaps
they would have post-Cold War.
And I think they are now using these
deportations as sort of a weapon to say
it costs so much to an American.
And it's going to cost as much to
get into a trade deal with us.
This is really risky to play all this
Africa news this early in the show.
It might hurt the show.
Well, it's so funny that the idea of
this, I think it was missing the point
about shipping these guys off to God knows
where Africa.
You know, you got a deportee and he's
like a bad guy.
And so you were going to ship him,
drop him off in Africa.
This is not like sending him across the
border, kicking him off, you know, kicking him
in the butt on the Mexican border and
saying, get out of here.
This is a couple of interesting historical aspects.
Eisenhower deported a bunch of people and shipped
them all to the Yucatan Peninsula, someplace where
there's nothing to do there.
What kind of people?
Were they illegal immigrants?
There was Mexican, you know, Mexicans, but they
were...
They sent them to a part of Mexico
that they're not from.
And it was like a pain in the
ass when they got there and how to
get out of here.
And so then if you recall, during the
era of the show, the British wanted to
send their guys off to Rwanda, which I
thought was funny.
And so we're going to ship you.
You're coming here illegally.
You're going to Rwanda.
And so which is kind of the whole
idea is to discourage people from coming in.
Yes, from coming in because you're going to
end up in the middle of nowhere, Africa.
And then now what are you going to
do?
How do you get out of there?
So, you know, that's kind of the thing
where they get thrown in a jail or
not.
It doesn't matter.
Just drop them off.
So I find it to be kind of
interesting.
And they're not doing it, though.
I mean, there's a set for the jail.
I hadn't even heard about it.
I don't know why Sudan is all upset
that I haven't heard the president out there
saying we're shipping you off to Sudan.
This has been going on.
It's been negotiating.
They're trying to do a deal with the
South Sudanese government to pay him money.
We're going to give you a couple hundred
bucks per guy.
And we're going to drop these guys off.
You can do what you're supposed to put
him in jail, but you could do what
you want.
So basically what we're hearing on Al Jazeera
is a bunch of Sudanese Democrats who hate
Trump.
Basically, that's what you're hearing.
Yeah.
But the fact that this kind of stuff
is going on in the background, to me,
seems at least amusing as hell.
We all got news that the United States
deported some of the violent criminals, as they
call it, to some of our African countries.
They deported some to Eswatini.
They also deported some of them to South
Sudan.
Why is it that whenever they want to
dump their stuff, or they want to dump
anything, and now that it has to do
with these violent criminals, the best place that
they think they should deport these people to
is Africa.
Why is it always Africa?
Do we do with our expired drugs?
Like I said before, if we start getting
it every now and then, they will start
coming for our videos.
They will start flagging us and all of
that.
But why?
Why is it that- Why not?
They always think that all the bad things
should always go to Africa.
When they want to carry out their test,
when they need human beings to use like
guinea pigs to carry out their test, their
trial processes, it's Africa.
Bill Gates.
What's your reaction to that?
Do you feel the same way?
Okay.
All right.
So now, finally, we come to the end
of the series.
Okay.
And there's something in here, this is a
WTF clip, which means there's something either particularly
odd or particularly funny.
Daniel, I want to broaden this out at
this point.
When we talk about immigration, migration, of course,
this is due to a lot of social
and economic reasons.
But, you know, many are also now talking
about climate change.
There is going to be more and more
migration from areas like Africa, for example, to
further north because places are simply going to
become uninhabitable.
Haven't you heard?
Last year was number three on the list.
It's going down.
It's okay.
All right.
That was your Africa news.
Please let me play your Iran killings clip
unless you have a different Iran clip.
Do I have any Iran clips?
Yeah.
Iran killings right here.
Iran killings.
Okay, let's play Iran killings.
Flight of momentary a posture shift from the
president's escalating threats against the Iranian regime over
the past few weeks.
That's as anti-Iranian regime protests have grown,
as has the regime's crackdown on protesters with
horrifying footage of body bags at Tehran's morgues.
And now showing us a glimpse of that
of that bloody crackdown as authorities have also
blocked the Internet off there since Thursday.
And President Trump has in recent weeks said
that help is on the way at one
point, saying that the U.S. is locked
and loaded and ready to go, urging protesters
to keep protesting.
On Monday, the U.S. State Department urged
Americans to leave Iran.
But now President Trump saying he's been told
on, quote, good authority that the killing has
stopped.
We have been informed by very important sources
on the other side, and they've said the
killing has stopped and the executions won't take
place.
There was supposed to be a lot of
executions today and that the executions won't take
place.
And we're going to find out.
This comes a day after President Trump warned
of very strong action in response to reports
of the regime hanging those detained during the
protests.
He says he's watching Iran as the Pentagon
today withdraws some troops from a key base
in Qatar, echoing a move taken before U
.S. strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities back in
June.
Now, I question this 12000 killed.
To me, this feels like an EU move.
I question all of it.
I mean, the information is coming from very
sketchy sources and the Internet guy.
I mean, there's troublemakers everywhere.
I mean, as possible as 20000 dead, they
could have whole cities could be wiped out.
But the one thing they were going to
do and because they said they were, and
I think it may not happen now, is
that there's one kid, this 26 year old
that they're cited that this could be bullshit,
too.
But they cited him as the first guy
they're going to hang.
They're going to hang him.
But they're not just going to hang him.
They were going to hang him from a
crane.
So it's like one of those five story
cranes that goes way up to the service
buildings and whatever, this big, giant crane in
the middle of Tehran.
They were going to have him dangling from
that.
It was pretty gruesome, the idea.
But it was like a show of force.
We'll show them.
And that would have ended the regime.
Yeah.
To me, it feels like this is meant
somehow to drag us in or distract attention.
And it seems like the president is kind
of like, well, you know, they said the
killings are stopped.
It doesn't really sound like we're going to
do anything.
He's talked a bit about it.
But it just sounds like, no, stay away.
He's got much bigger things he's doing.
And to me, you know, the whole Shah
of Iran, it's all France.
France has got to be involved in this
if it's an op.
And this was funny.
Brett Baer on Fox, he had an interview
with Iran's foreign minister.
And he's discussing it with, what's his face?
John Roberts.
It was kind of interesting.
What the foreign minister came up with, it's
a classic.
And essentially, what he's saying is that this
was a Mossad operation.
Yeah, there we go.
They were, they looked like Iranian agents designed
to kill a large number of people.
And that that was designed to spark President
Trump's action into Iran.
And I said, Mr. Foreign Minister, if that's
true, you don't have control of your country.
Because there are agents all over the place
killing people indiscriminately in the streets.
And, you know, we went round and round.
Also, he said it was designed to taunt
President Trump.
But if anybody's taunting President Trump, it is
the ayatollah himself, the supreme leader.
Yeah, because he took to ecstasy some things
about the president.
And also, there's this headline in the New
York Post that the Iranian state TV posted
an image of President Trump at the Butler
Rally as the Secret Service is whisking him
off the stage.
And it said with the caption, this time,
it will not miss its target, which is
more than a failed threat of assassination against
the president, which I'm sure will only serve
to piss him off.
I say put a bikini on him.
If we're going to do X wars, we
might as well.
Stupid.
Something is very fishy about this.
It doesn't smell right at all.
So the crown prince, quote unquote, who lives
in the D.C. area, he wanted to
go meet with Trump, as we heard from
Raz, the squirrel spook.
And Trump said, nah.
And he said, why don't you go meet
with Whitkoff and Rubio over there?
Go meet at some other place.
I'm not interested in talking to you.
So one of our boots on the ground
says, we know the young Shah well.
This is the crown prince.
In fact, I did some formation flying with
him just three months ago.
He was flying with a former U.S.
Air Force Thunderbird pilot.
And let's see, he has no interest in
becoming a monarch and only wants to help
usher in a transition to a functional democracy.
That sounds like it's dubious.
The whole thing is dubious.
And here's a report from France 24.
The woman you hear speaking is a representative
from Chatham House, which is basically the MI6,
Council on Foreign Relations.
The protests in Iran, which have been met
by a bloody response, were sparked by economic
distress, the collapse of Iran's currency and soaring
prices to impart international sanctions.
As the opposition has grown to challenge the
regime, experts say there are doubts about whether
it has the structure and momentum to endure.
It's not as if the Iranian diaspora over
50 years has created a unified, integrated protest
movement.
It's very fractured.
It's not united.
Some Iranians are putting their hope in the
son of the last Shah of Iran, deposed
in 1979.
Reza Pavlavi now lives in exile in the
U.S. And speaking to Fox News, he
said he could lead a transition to a
democratic system.
We have come to the point where people
are just fed up with this regime.
They are saying death to the dictator.
They want to liberate themselves.
And their demand for freedom is met with
the most brutal reaction by a regime that
is waging war on its own citizens.
Heir to a dictatorial regime and thought to
be close to the Israeli government, it's unclear
if Pavlavi has wide support among Iranians who
oppose the Islamic Republic.
The People's Mujahideen of Iran, based in France,
sought to represent an alternative to the monarchists,
but was seen as having lost credibility after
siding with Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq
War.
And minorities in Iran, such as the Kurds,
have political agendas of their own that go
beyond regime change.
There are plenty of activism and ideas and
agency that exists inside the country.
But many Iranian opposition figures and leaders are
in Iran's jails.
In the past, the Islamic Republic has eventually
crushed any attempt to organize resistance.
And many are now wondering if this time
will be different.
Yeah, I don't know.
I don't know.
We had a clip on the last show
that they're releasing some of these prisoners.
So there's that.
Yeah, I don't know.
It feels like it's just been started up
as a thing.
I mean, even when I talked to Alex,
he's like, man, you know, there's some protesting.
It felt like a lot.
And also, a lot of the video you're
seeing isn't even from Iran.
It's Egypt.
It's all other countries.
You can't trust what you're seeing on social
media.
No, you can't trust anything you see online.
You can't even trust us.
Well, you can trust us.
Oh, OK, just checking.
What are you thinking?
OK, let's talk about Greenland for a moment,
because this is...
We've got to figure this out.
And it seems like...
Well, here we go.
Let's start with ABC.
Tonight, as President Trump escalates his push to
take over Greenland, top officials from Greenland and
Denmark traveling to Washington to plead their case
to the vice president and secretary of state.
But they emerged saying the two sides have
a, quote, fundamental disagreement.
We didn't manage to change the American position.
It's clear that the president has this wish
of conquering over Greenland.
We made it very, very clear that this
is not in the interest of the kingdom.
Trump says the U.S. needs Greenland for
national security and has not ruled out using
military force to get it.
I would like to make a deal, you
know, the easy way.
But if we don't do it the easy
way, we're going to do it the hard
way.
Denmark, our NATO ally, says they're happy to
work with the U.S. to bolster security
in the region.
But that doesn't mean that we want to
be owned by a United States.
A new poll shows 86 percent of voters,
including 68 percent of Republicans, oppose using military
force to seize Greenland.
And as Trump ramps up his threats, Denmark
now increasing their military presence in Greenland and
asking other NATO allies to help, Sweden today
also sending troops.
Tonight, Republican Senator Mitch McConnell warning if the
U.S. takes on a NATO ally, it
would be incinerating the hard-won trust of
loyal allies.
But President Trump insists NATO would be stronger
with Greenland, quote, in the hands of the
United States.
Adding anything less than that is unacceptable.
And we'll see how it all works out.
I think something will work out.
And David, we have just learned that France,
at the request of Denmark, is also sending
military forces to Greenland.
And again, President Trump says this is all
about national security.
He says Russia and China are poised to
take Greenland.
But the officials visiting here today insist that's
simply not true.
They say they haven't seen a Chinese warship
in Greenland in over a decade.
But both sides tonight agreeing to keep talking.
So this is the big news in Europe.
Everybody's talking about all the troops going to
Greenland and they're doing NATO exercises.
NATO forces are on exercise in Greenland at
a time when American designs on the island
threaten the alliance's very existence.
NATO has not confirmed its approval of the
drills, which reportedly involve troops from Sweden, Germany,
France, the Netherlands and Canada.
Hosts Denmark framed it as part of a
bolstering of Greenland's defences.
It is within the framework of NATO that
we are conducting these activities.
And it is Denmark as the host country
that has taken these initiatives.
Therefore, I cannot imagine, nor do I want
to speculate, that a NATO country would attack.
France says it's acting in full solidarity with
Denmark.
Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu warned that Washington must
be taken at its word.
It is clear that the intentions of the
Trump administration are serious and that we must
absolutely not underestimate the words of the American
president.
NATO Chief Mark Reaser will meet a delegation
from Denmark and Greenland on Monday in Brussels.
It's unclear whether this particular exercise, Operation Arctic
Endurance, is anything but routine.
There have been many similar drills in recent
years.
The latest in September was called Arctic Light.
It involved more than 550 troops, including military
observers from the United States.
Observing from afar is the covetous eye of
the man in the White House, who continues
to say that the U.S. needs Greenland.
The covetous eye.
You know, this also may be purely...
I mean, it's obvious that the Greenland-Iceland
-UK gap, the G.I.U. gap, we
have to be there.
These are all the shipping routes.
There's a lot of shipping going on.
And for them to say, oh, never seen
any...
Of course, there's all kinds of Chinese shipping
going on all the time.
Chinese, Russian, etc.
It's like the Straits of Hormuz, you know.
I think they were talking about Chinese flag
doing most of the Chinese stuff.
Oh, well, flag, sure.
Okay.
But Rutte looks like a deer in the
headlights.
Come on in, Mark.
What do you got to say?
All allies agree on the importance of the
Arctic and Arctic security.
Because we know that with sea lanes opening
up, there is a risk that the Russians
and the Chinese will be more active.
And as you know, there are eight Arctic
countries.
Seven are within NATO.
We have to work together to make sure
that the Arctic stays safe.
And currently, we are discussing the next step
to that.
How to make sure that we give practical
follow-up on those discussions to make sure
that...
Practical.
As an alliance, we do everything collectively and
through our individual allies to make sure that
the Arctic stays safe.
As we all agree, that has to be
a priority.
Sounds to me like what's happening here is
NATO troops are being...
Of course, it's all our gear.
NATO forces are being focused on Greenland.
And we can just roll our ships in.
We say, we're going to provide you guys
cover over here.
I don't think we actually need Greenland to
just patrol the waters there.
And there may be a North Sea Nexus
angle to this.
You know, we've been watching all these, you
know, Victoria, and then we watch all these
British Royal Monarch series.
And so we started the crown.
And I was reminded, of course, they all
speak German.
I was reminded that Queen Elizabeth II, her
husband, Prince Philip, was from Denmark.
You know, these bloodlines, it's all connected.
And so who knows what kind of real
attack this is on Denmark.
We can listen to a report here where
the foreign minister of Denmark and the foreign
minister of Greenland talked after their meeting with
Rubio.
And I think Witkoff was there as well.
But first, we have to make sure we
know the German troops are also in Greenland.
Denmark's and Greenland's foreign ministers held inconclusive talks
in Washington with U.S. Vice President J
.D. Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Well, you know, if they send in J
.D., it's not meant to do a deal.
J.D. is just going to dance around
for you.
The Danish foreign minister, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, said
the two sides had agreed to create a
working group to discuss ways to address American
security concerns while also respecting Denmark's red lines.
We had what I will describe as a
frank but also constructive discussion.
The discussions focused on how to ensure the
long-term security in Greenland.
And here, our perspectives continue to differ, I
must say.
The president has made his view clear and
we have a different position.
And we therefore still have a fundamental disagreement.
But we also agreed to disagree.
And therefore, we will, however, continue to talk.
Well, Greenland's foreign minister, Vivian Motsveld, doubled down
and said her government simply cannot accept a
U.S. takeover.
I think it's very important to say it
again that how important it is from our
side to strengthen our cooperation with the United
States.
But that doesn't mean that we want to
be owned by the United States.
But as allies, how we can strengthen our
cooperation, it's all our interest.
Well, I think we just send our ships
there and just start doing it.
I think your earlier idea of a long
lease.
Yeah, Trump says he doesn't want that.
He doesn't want the long lease.
That's what he says.
Yeah, well, exactly, exactly.
So I only have one clip on this
and it's from NTD, which would have the
anti-Chinese perspective.
Meanwhile, President Trump calling anything less than Greenland
in the hands of the U.S. unacceptable,
citing national security.
And the problem is, there's not a thing
that Denmark can do about it if Russia
or China wants to occupy Greenland.
But there's everything we can do.
You know, I can't rely on Denmark being
able to fend themselves to put an extra
dog sled there.
Last month, they added a second dog sled.
That's not going to do the trick.
This comes as Vice President J.D. Vance
and Secretary of State Marco Rubio meet with
the foreign ministers of Denmark and Greenland.
And we therefore still have a fundamental disagreement.
But we also agree to disagree.
And therefore, we will, however, continue to talk.
It is not a true narrative that we
have, you know, Chinese warships all around the
place.
According to our intelligence, we haven't had a
Chinese warship in Greenland for a decade or
so.
While top Danish officials say there are no
Chinese ships near Greenland, major Chinese Communist Party
media outlets echo these denials, alleging the U
.S. is acting out of self-interest rather
than national security.
President Trump draws attention to a Danish intelligence
report released last month that starkly warns about
China's military goals in the Arctic.
If you take a look outside of Greenland
right now, there are Russian destroyers, there are
Chinese destroyers and bigger.
To me, it just seems like a gambit.
There's something up.
But it may not actually have to do
with owning Greenland.
Maybe we just need a pretext for going
up there.
But we already have bases.
It's not a huge base.
It's a base.
Yeah, but how much do you need?
Well, you need the ships.
I think maybe the gambit is just to
show you get these guys to put all
these troops in Greenland to freeze their asses
off.
That cannot be a pleasant assignment.
And there's also the thought, which I don't
have in any of the clips, but it's
just been floating around about them offering $100
,000 per Greenlander to vote.
Seems low.
Seems like a low.
Well, if you imagine you live in Greenland,
it's probably not low.
What are you going to spend it on?
Well, that's the point.
So it's a lot of money.
You're going to be rich.
Yeah, which immediately gives it makes inflation, even
57,000 people.
Inflation happens.
You give everybody 100 grand.
You want a dog sled ride?
100 bucks.
Should be 100 bucks.
Never ridden a dog sled?
No.
Don't plan on it either.
They go like I have.
I've ridden a dog sled and the dogs
go a lot faster than you think.
I do have two clips from Anderson Pooper
with Nick Robertson.
I think Nick, isn't he an MI6 kind
of spy dude?
Remember him?
I don't know that guy.
Yeah, I think you do.
He used to do the satellites in Iraq
and then all of a sudden he was
on camera.
I think that was Nick Robertson.
Well, this is a report from the Nexus,
I think.
Let's see if Nick Robertson joins us tonight
from Greenland.
Is there a sense of what happens next
there?
Because again, the White House doesn't seem interested
in compromising.
He's doing a remote from Greenland.
Why?
He's protecting the interests of the empire, obviously.
I think people here are still perplexed.
They still don't quite...
Remember right now?
This guy was always in Iraq and he
used to just...
Oh yeah, this guy's a spook.
Yes, he's a spook.
I think people here are still perplexed.
They still don't quite understand what the diplomacy
means.
I was just talking to a couple of
high school graduates here and they wanted to
know what had happened in the meeting in
DC and what it really meant.
And they are both and their parents, they
tell us, are still really worried about whether
or not the United States might come here
in a military form to annex the country.
Right now, I can just tell you, Anderson,
that we've just learned through a flight tracking
site, something that we were hearing about earlier
today, a Danish C-130 military transport Hercules
aircraft has landed at Nook Airport.
The Danish had said that they were going
to land, they were going to bring in
more military into Greenland.
It would be troops, it would be aircraft,
it would be Navy.
We've heard that the Swedish, the Norwegians, the
Germans, the French are all coming here to
sort of step up a NATO military security
presence, not per se to defend against the
United States, but it will begin to establish
an image for President Trump of what NATO
can do to project the level of security
that he is saying that he requires.
But I think in no uncertain terms, the
reason that people like these young girls we're
speaking to before are concerned is because that
meeting in Washington has left everyone with the
understanding that both sides are still poles apart,
high level discussions to come, but it really
buys a little time for Denmark to prepare
time to hope that the White House reconsiders.
But the reality is the can's been kicked
down the road and it is as big
a can as it was before Andersen.
I think technically NATO...
You said nothing.
No, of course not.
Well, he has a little more here, but
I think technically NATO forces can take military
control of another NATO country.
You know, there's one thing that the YouTubers
have, there's a bunch of different interviewers that
are out there floating around Greenland.
And it seems to me that the people
that live there would rather have the United
States running it than Denmark.
They literally say, yeah, yeah, they're all Asians.
But that's not the man on the street
you see on France 24, the BBC or
anything here.
You see them all saying, no, no, no,
no.
They're all saying, at least on these men
on the street reports from the YouTubers, that
there are really more men on the street.
And they're young Eskimo looking people generally.
They say, yeah, we'd rather have...
And they all speak...
Or they don't all, but a lot of
them speak English and pretty good English.
They say, we'd rather...
We don't like the Danes.
We just don't like them.
But why would you?
They got smelly cheese, brown cheese.
Brown cheese.
There it is.
Here's the follow-up.
And this, of course, is about NATO.
Congressman, where do you see this going?
I mean, given the fact the president isn't
budging, neither are officials from Denmark and Greenland.
Wait, now he's with Jake Auchincloss?
Who is that guy?
Anderson, good evening.
Before looking forward, let's wind the clock back
to 2019.
The Danish intelligence services uncovered a Russian false
flag operation in Greenland that was attempting to
sow discord between Greenland, the United States, and
Denmark by claiming that the United States was
trying to secure Greenland, its independence and its
annexation.
That failed.
It turns out that the Kremlin need not
have worried because the U.S. president is
now doing its bidding for it.
The U.S. president is doing exactly what...
Oh, hold on.
Stop.
The U.S. president is doing the bidding
of Russia.
Gee, I never heard that before.
There it is.
That's exactly what it is.
Let's listen to that bid again.
Before looking forward...
He's a Democrat representative, former military guy.
Let's wind the clock back to 2019.
The Danish intelligence services uncovered a Russian false
flag operation in Greenland that was attempting to
sow discord between Greenland, the United States, and
Denmark by claiming that the United States was
trying to secure Greenland.
I don't remember that.
Do you remember said false flag?
We are the false flag show.
I don't remember some...
It's bullcrap, that's why.
Its independence and its annexation.
That failed.
It turns out that the Kremlin need not
have worried because the U.S. president is
now doing its bidding for it.
The U.S. president is doing exactly what
Russian intelligence services hope to accomplish in 2019,
which is two things.
Wait, stop, stop, stop, stop.
So let's take one stop here and listen
to the...
What is the logic of this?
The logic is that the United States is...
They created a false flag to make it
look like the United States are bad.
No, no, no, no, no, no, the Russians.
The president's doing the bidding of Russia by
taking over Greenland because we want to stop
the Russians.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
He said that the Russians created a false
flag.
Right.
Yeah.
So...
Yeah, I got that.
But then he says now, he says the
president...
They don't have to do the false flag
because the president is doing the bidding of
Russia by trying to take over Greenland.
How does that benefit Russia?
Well, I actually thought differently when I heard
this, and I thought, oh, this is ARC.
America, Russia, China.
Yeah, exactly.
We want to work with them.
We are doing their bidding because we have
a plan.
Somebody has a plan.
I hope somebody has a plan.
Whether they have a plan or not, his
logic is no good.
His logic is no good.
His logic is ridiculous, in fact.
Well, but it's talking points.
Worried because the U.S. president is now
doing its bidding for it.
The U.S. president is doing exactly what
Russian intelligence services hope to accomplish in 2019,
which is two things.
First, fracturing NATO at a time when NATO
needs to be strong on its eastern flank.
It is being weakened on its western flank.
And number two, driving the Greenlandic people closer,
actually, to Chinese and Russian influence for their
own polar security.
Why do you think...
Yes?
So the Greenlanders, according to this joke, are
thinking, well, gee, we don't like the Danes.
We don't like the Americans.
Let's turn to Russia and China, who they
have no contact with whatsoever.
They're not even in the picture.
It's not even a part of the debate.
But that's what they're...
Come on, dude.
Get this guy off the air.
What network was this?
This is CNN with Anderson Cooper.
Well, let's continue because he comes to a
logical conclusion.
Why do you think that would weaken NATO?
Why would the U.S. occupying...
I mean, I don't even know how to
phrase how the U.S. could do this.
But a greater U.S. presence or control
over Greenland, how would that increasingly fracture NATO?
Well, I mean, Anderson, you may not have
the right verbiage, but Article 5 does, which
is an attack on a NATO member.
The United States forcefully occupying Greenland, which is
a part of the Kingdom of Denmark, Denmark
being a founding member of NATO, would be
an attack on NATO by a member of
NATO.
Yeah.
There is no treaty provision that can withstand
that.
NATO would fracture, and Xi Jinping and Vladimir
Putin would win.
Win what?
I don't know.
I think Trump is just trolling NATO.
He really wants the ships there, and that
makes a lot of sense.
We've got to have control of that because
that's the Donraux doctrine.
Yeah, it is in our hemisphere.
Yes.
And it's pretty important with all this, you
know, melting ice and everything.
Oh, yes.
You know, this is the kind of another
ill logic is that they, you know, they
have to say the ice is going to
melt completely, which is going to put that
night.
If it does, it's going to, or if
it melts enough, there's going to be a
shipping lane there that's going to be much
more efficient than going over the Pacific, for
example.
You just, you know, sneak across the top,
shorten the routes.
So that's why airlines fly over the polar
route, largely.
Yeah.
Because it's faster.
And so it would be a big deal.
It'd save everybody money.
But these guys are seeing it differently.
I don't know.
It has yet to be revealed.
And there's probably oil up there.
I think that's much less important.
I really don't.
That's, you know, I've heard oil, I've heard
minerals, gold, diamonds.
Gold.
No, I think it's just about the shipping
routes.
That's it.
All those ghost ships are going through there,
which would be about oil, ultimately.
All right.
So the next attack on, I'll just say
the nexus, is Jerome Powell.
And this is really, I think this is
fun to watch.
Here's a brief statement.
The president's general feeling about Jerome Powell, the
head of the Federal Reserve.
As you know, the inflation numbers just came
out.
And we have very low inflation.
So that would give, too late, Powell, the
chance to give us a nice, beautiful, big
rate cut, which would be great for the
country.
But rates are falling also.
And growth is going up.
We have tremendous growth numbers.
So growth is going up.
And I can only say that the country's
doing well.
He's billions of dollars over budget.
So either he's incompetent or he's crooked.
I don't know what he is, but he
certainly doesn't do a very good job.
Now, did you see the, was it like
the hostage video that Powell did?
Yeah, I thought it was kind of dull.
I didn't think much of it.
What was the point?
Well, the point is, is he's making it
sound like this is political.
But it was actually, I think it was
a Democrat who referred Powell's testimony before the
Senate Banking Committee to the Department of Justice
saying that he perjured himself during that testimony.
It has nothing to do with the rates,
and Trump just keeps saying that.
But it seems like it's about something else.
It's about spending too much money.
No, no, no.
We don't know because the grand jury, you
know, it's not public.
I don't know how he could perjure himself.
Most of the time he's asked for opinions.
Well, you know, I don't think the testimony
was public either, was it?
I don't think so.
I looked for it.
I couldn't find it.
But what this has done is it has
put the Federal Reserve, and I'm always amazed
how many people don't know that the Federal
Reserve is not a government organization.
It's a so-called independent institution created in
1913 by the banking cartel.
Yeah, and what was the reason for it
being created?
What was the reason for it being created?
I was sick and tired of the business
cycle getting out of control.
Every 10 years, you'd have a depression.
Half the banks would go out of business,
and people would lose all their money.
This kept going on and on and on,
and they had to do something about it.
So they decided that, you know, since we
can't have a central bank, quote-unquote, we
had to have some sort of a faux
central bank.
And they decided that if they got control,
all of those bullshit hasn't worked.
No.
But they decided that, well, maybe this would
be one way of stopping that business cycle
from breaking us every, you know, it was
the crash of 1907 that really triggered it.
That was the end of the end.
That was worse than anything we've seen for
a short term.
It just broke everybody's back.
So you're telling me that the Federal Reserve,
of which we don't even know who all
the members are.
Yes, we do.
No, we don't.
We don't know all the members.
Yes, we do.
We know who all the members are.
The members are all public.
No, we know who the Board of Governors
is.
We know who all the members are.
Who are they?
Well, I don't have the names off the
top of my head, but it's not secret
like you seem to believe.
I'm pretty sure that it is.
No, no, no.
Well, I'm pretty sure that it is.
No, we know who all the members are.
There's not a secret guy in the background
that's doing anything.
This is all, you know, it's public.
The members are all known.
In fact, I did a search on this.
Are all the members of the Federal Reserve
known?
Yes.
Well, who are they then?
The identities of the Federal Reserve's key decision
-makers are public, not secret.
Not the decision-makers.
All the member banks.
The Board of Governors or the decision-makers
are all known.
There's no secret people back there.
I don't know where you got that.
Are all the member banks known?
Yeah.
Yeah?
That's what I dispute.
What, do you think there's a secret bank?
Well, I think the Federal Reserve in general
is a bad idea.
Well, that's different than thinking it's secret.
Well, I'll leave that.
You don't have any proof.
I don't have any proof.
No, there's plenty.
You can Google it.
There's no proof that there's one secret person
or bank.
There's no secret bank in the Federal Reserve.
Okay.
Not all banks in the United States are
member banks, but not all bank members are
known.
But that's Google.
Not all bank members are known?
No.
Where'd you get that?
From Google.
So, take that for what it is.
Really?
Yeah.
Well, but let's not argue over that.
Let's argue over...
Well, it's something to argue about if you
think it's a secret society or something running
the Federal Reserve.
Well, the way I understand the history is
the Federal Reserve originally were the same banks,
same people, who started the American Bank, the
Second Bank of America, and the First Bank
of America.
And Andrew Jackson dissolved that because he was...
Yeah, you talked about this on Jimmy's show.
You're repurposing information.
Just calling you, just saying.
Yeah, but I actually got some clips.
So, I'm not...
You know what, John?
It's fine.
You know everything.
No, I'm just saying you're thinking there's some
secret organization running the Federal Reserve, and there's
not.
It's okay.
You know, Rand Paul, if you remember, during
the era of our show, Rand Paul made
a big fuss about end the Fed, which
is, you know, okay, you can try doing
that.
And then he got ahead of the banking
committee.
He couldn't do Jack because he was going
to, oh, he's going to audit the Fed.
Nothing came up because there was nothing onerous
going on.
No, Rand Paul was running on his dad's
mission to end the Fed.
I mean, Ron Paul...
What I want to get to here, without
going into some endless conversation about who owns,
because I think that, and I will, on
Sunday's show, I will find out some information.
I will tell you that not everything about
the Federal Reserve network is known.
I believe that to be true.
Yeah, you do believe that to be true.
I do, and you believe it not to
be true, but that's beyond the point.
They certainly didn't stop the boom and bust
cycle that the businesses had gotten us into.
I said that right at the beginning of
my presentation right here.
Right, right.
Yeah, no, but we don't know that it
could have gotten worse.
I mean, after 1907...
Has it gotten any better?
They had to do something.
Has it gotten any better?
Well, the problem they had was...
Has it gotten better with the money creation
they do?
No, it has not gotten better.
It's because they make too many assumptions.
They think they can...
They're inept.
I'll give you that.
And should commercial banks be in charge of
our monetary policy, by your reasoning?
Well, who should be in charge of monetary
policy?
Before the Fed, every bank had their own
notes.
That's right, and I believe that what is
happening here is that Scott Besant will follow
in the...
Gosh, I forget who it was.
They had like three different secretaries of the
Treasury under Andrew Jackson.
And the third one, who ultimately became a
Supreme Court judge, he drained the Federal Reserve
of all of the...
But there was no Federal Reserve.
I mean, the Second Bank of America drained
their accounts and then gave it to what
was called Andrew Jackson's pet banks, which dissolved,
effectively, the Second Bank of America.
Now, he screwed it up because he eventually
created enormous hyperinflation.
But I think that you're going to see
a move by Besant in particular, who is
going to redistribute.
He's already going to do the short-term
T-bills, and I think that's...
This is the point I'm getting to.
I think that's where the stablecoin gambit comes
into play.
I'm just saying that this...
I think there is a scheme afoot, and
every single central banker...
I've never seen this before.
Trump has always, for as long as he's
been in office, has complained about the Federal
Reserve.
But it's the first time that we see
all the central bank guys coming out all
around the world and saying, Oh, no, no,
this is no good.
We have to have independent banks.
I think they're worried.
I think they're scared.
Something is going on.
Of course they're worried.
But they've never all come out en masse
and signed letters.
We have some maniac coming out there and
really pretty much threatening the entire monetary system
of the world with stablecoin, and I can
see that being a huge problem.
I can see it as being a great...
I mean, I'd be worried too if I
was a banker.
I can see it as being a great
idea.
Well, they don't see it that way, and
so they're worried.
So I'm not stunned by this.
My point is they've never...
It's not being discussed.
All that's being discussed is he's going after
Powell for political reasons.
And I think that what I'm trying to
say, which you're just...
For some reason, you just keep fighting me
on it.
No, I'm not fighting you on it at
all.
I just think some of the things you're
saying are bullcrap, like that there's secret banks.
That's one.
Are you going to argue any of the
other things?
Or the stablecoin gambit.
I understand where it could replace SWIFT, but
whether or not it's going to replace the
banking system is another issue.
I don't think so.
What is the banking system?
What do these central banks do?
What is their one...
Besides making money, printing money, they do the
settlement.
If you can do that through a blockchain,
if you can get more flowing through your
blockchain than what they do, I think you
can effectively neutralize them.
And let me tell you, Shopify is already
adding stablecoin to their checkout options.
Our own donation page has a stablecoin checkout
page.
Why?
I didn't ask for it.
I don't even know how to get a
hold of a stablecoin.
No, not yet, but it's being set up.
Why else is this happening?
Why would Shopify, who arguably are one of
the most successful financial companies in the world,
who are outpacing Visa, why would Shopify add
stablecoin to their checkout?
Shopify is outpacing Visa?
In stock price, yeah.
And in success.
Oh, yeah.
And stablecoin will have no fees associated?
Well, there you just answered your own question.
It's all about the fees.
Yes, and the same thing is that I
think it's all connected.
I'm trying to explore this with you instead
of...
Yeah, well, keep exploring.
I'm going to keep pushing back.
Unless you don't want any pushback and you
just want me to roll over to these
thoughts.
Okay, so you think everything's just going to
continue as normal and nothing will happen?
Pretty much.
Okay.
I believe that the 10% cap on
credit card interest rates is related to this.
I think it's not just to make it
more affordable.
I think he's trying to put the credit
card companies on notice, if not severely hurt
their business.
Well, let's hope so.
All right, so we'll leave stablecoin for what
it is.
And we'll leave the central bankers for what
it is.
But I'm going to put it in the
red book that this is an attack on
the entire financial system.
And yes, I think they're serious about doing
it.
I really do.
And I think it's about time.
Every year there's a bill to end the
Federal Reserve.
Yeah, every year.
It was Massey, funny enough.
And he has 10 co-sponsors.
Massey.
It was Massey.
That tells you something right there.
That's why I found it interesting.
So the credit card cap came up on
CNBC.
And here's the Sorkin kid trying to explain
the business of credit cards, which was a
little more intricate than I thought.
I was on the phone with a bunch
of bankers over the weekend who were basically
not just mad.
Just flipping.
Flipping out of their minds, frankly.
And they were flipping out of their minds,
I believe, and the argument they were making
is if you don't want credit in America,
if you want us to shut down millions
of people's credit cards because that's what we
will have to do to make the economics
of these businesses work, that would be the
outcome.
I don't know if that's true.
I don't know if that's a threat.
I can't tell you about the actual math.
I do think that what's happened to the
business, from what I've been told, is because
there are so many services that are now
being layered on top of credit cards, that
the only way for them to obviously make
money, really, is to actually charge what might
be described as usury rates or not.
What kind of services?
I mean, there's all of them.
Some cards have loyalty points.
Some cards don't.
Some cards have insurance on the product.
Some cards don't.
But there's all sorts of things now that
are embedded in your credit card that go
far beyond strictly just buying and selling products,
whether it's insurance on when you go to
rent a car or this or that.
Now, some of these cards, as I said,
their fees, American Express charges you fees.
There's other cards that give you the card
for free.
But those cards that are giving you for
free, the way they're making up their money
is typically on the other end, meaning they
want you to charge everything on it.
They want you not just to charge everything
on it because they're getting the 3%
for each sale.
They really want you to actually not pay
so that you pay the interest rate.
That's the business.
So Sorkin, they're defending the business, saying that,
well, because they give you insurance and all
this other stuff.
I don't know.
That seems like maybe a crap.
Exactly.
And then Kernan says, well, he basically said,
well, what about the free market?
How does that not work?
Once again, in a world where you don't
like to use the word cap ever on
something that you're doing because you immediately think
there's going to be less of it when
you cap it.
It's supposed to work where if someone's charging
too high an interest rate, then competitors come
in and go down an eighth at a
time until you get to an equilibrium where
demand equals supply.
So I don't understand.
But once again, is Elizabeth Warren going to
go President Trump again?
Are they on the same side?
Probably.
So two things here.
One, that's a good question.
They must be colluding, I guess, because everyone
has high interest rates.
Do you know of any low interest rate
credit cards?
No, they all brag about it.
They maybe have your low interest rate.
I'm going to correct you on something, by
the way.
No, you're right.
They're all high interest rates.
Visa is over three times bigger than Shopify.
Has their stock price risen the same?
Their net worth.
The stock price is way up there.
Of Shopify.
But the market cap of Visa is $632
billion and Shopify is $200 billion.
I didn't say their market cap.
I said that their stock price.
Stock price is all relative.
Well, okay.
Well, the stock price of Visa is $327.
Yeah, but look at the charts.
I believe Shopify has exploded since they came
on the scene.
Well, it's not that it's a crappy company.
No, but...
But you said they were bigger.
Shopify is $157.
It's not even close.
It's half the stock price.
And I qualified it by saying the stock
price.
Well, Shopify is $157.
It's half the price of Visa stock.
All right.
Because you throw this stuff out out of
the blue and it just goes out into
the ether and people hear, oh, geez, Shopify
is bigger than Visa when it's not even
a snowball's chance in hell it'll ever be
bigger than Visa.
It's a huge company, Visa.
Yes, and if you put the two charts
next to each other, has Shopify increased in
value?
I guess that's what I meant.
Recently, it's fallen off a rock, off a
cliff.
Okay.
Well, then I was wrong.
I believe Shopify is a very successful company.
I'm not saying Visa isn't.
I'm not saying it's not.
You didn't say that.
I know.
I'm conceding to you.
No, well, with provisos.
Actually, Shopify once at one point really hit
some good numbers.
I know because...
It's just kind of interesting it fell so
much.
I know because the reason why I said
that, I didn't say it correctly for sure,
is because the former New York banker, go
ahead, you can discredit him about Goldman Sachs.
Which is skyrocketing.
The former New York banker has been investing
in Shopify for eight years, I think.
He says it is a much better company
and deal than Visa if you want to
make money.
So he was just talking about stock price
increase, I believe.
But we can't believe anybody.
Certainly not him because he was wrong about
Goldman Sachs.
No, we can believe that.
And it is true.
It's a newer company.
They're doing quite well, but they're not bigger
than Visa.
That's all I was...
You were saying that they were.
And I already told you, I said I
was incorrect in saying that.
Yes.
Okay.
We got to keep the show honest.
Okay.
Well, it always is difficult for me when
the first thing you say is, you're recycling
content.
I'm trying not to recycle content.
I'm really trying not to.
But I think it's important.
And when you do that, it's just like,
fuck you, is what you're saying.
No, I'm saying you're recycling.
But not everybody...
If people are your fans, and there's plenty
of them out there, they're going to listen
to all your stuff, and they're going to
keep doing the same thing over and over.
There's original material.
I'm baffled by you.
I'm baffled.
You write the sub stacks that are the
same material.
What do you care what my fans listen
to?
What do you care?
Isn't it about this show?
Isn't it about bringing the best to this
show?
Yes.
Okay.
So what do you care?
If you're taking retreaded material from other shows,
you're giving our show second-tier status.
You've got your first-tier status, which is
you and Jimmy, and then you bring your
same stuff over to our show at a
second rate.
Okay.
It's an insult.
Oh, you feel it's an insult.
Oh, okay.
To the audience.
No.
How many people listen to Noah Djinn, and
how many people listen to We Get to
Do This?
What's the difference in audience size, do you
think?
Just take a wild guess.
It's not an insult to anybody.
Thousand to one.
No one has complained except you.
Well, I'm trying to get you an audience
over there, if you haven't figured this out.
Well, you're doing a great job.
You haven't mentioned the name of the show
once.
Believe me, I would love to mention the
name of the show.
I can't remember the name of the show.
You ready?
We Get to Do This.
We Get to Do This.
You actually, and not only that, you've had
somebody write a song.
Jeff Smith.
Oh, Jeff Smith wrote the song?
Yeah, of course.
That's where I, you know, I'm sorry if
I weakened our show by using Jeff Smith
somewhere else.
He doesn't do anything for us anymore.
We might as well.
Anyway, final clip here.
So, Kernan says, what's happening here?
Is President Trump going to call Elizabeth Warren?
And he actually did.
He called her, which is amazing by itself.
And she was asked about it on CNBC.
And what do you think she answered?
I think she was positive, if I'm not
mistaken.
That's not what I heard.
I had just given a speech about the
future of the Democratic Party.
And the basic point that I made in
the speech is that Donald Trump had promised
for an entire year in the run-up
to the 2024 election that on day one
he would lower costs for American families.
He gets elected.
And the very first interview, he says, on
day one.
Day one.
She didn't answer the question at all, or
even during the full 11-minute interview.
All she said was, there's cheaper credit cards
out there.
She's part of the system.
She doesn't want credit card companies to get
screwed by Trump.
I heard a different clip from her.
I don't have it.
I listened to the whole 11 minutes.
Where she was somewhat complimentary for the fact
that they agreed on this.
And now she turned, somebody gave her a
call.
But who?
Well, listen to the rest of the clip.
For costs for American families.
And that's why he got elected.
And yet, here we are a year in.
And the cost of groceries is up.
The cost of utilities is up.
The cost of housing is up.
The cost of health care is up, up,
up.
And all of those costs are up.
Because of policies that Donald Trump and the
Republicans in Congress have pushed on our economy.
So, the argument I was making in the
speech is it's time for Democrats to jump
in.
To hold Donald Trump and the Republicans accountable
for these higher costs for American families.
And then make a choice as we go
forward.
We can take our economic agenda and sand
it down, narrow it down to make it
more acceptable to billionaire donors.
Or we can actually go full-throated on
behalf of the American people.
And make bold proposals and demonstrate that we
will get in there and fight for it.
Like what?
But this was all about lowering costs for
American families.
Because that's what Democrats are going to do.
And that's what the election of 2026 is
going to be about.
That's all she could do.
That's all she could do is talk about
the 2026 election.
She doesn't care about people.
Doesn't want to help them.
Doesn't want it.
No.
Somebody called her up and said, hey, hey,
hey.
You can't be talking anything good about Trump.
We've got to win this 2026 thing.
This is the whole thing is about 2026.
I'd have clipped it somewhere about 2026, I
thought.
I don't have.
Let's do more Africa news.
I wish I had more Africa news.
Let's do something.
I don't want to do too much on
Minnesota because that's the biggest distraction of the
week.
Miami in the midterms.
This is from Al Jazeera.
And this is, you know, unbeknownst to everybody,
you know, Chuck Schumer has been working behind
the scenes.
They've been Democrats have been winning all these
little local elections.
The Republicans are lazy.
The Republicans are lazy and no, no, no.
The Republicans don't want Trump to win.
I think most of them.
Well, you're talking about the professional Republicans.
I'm talking about the public at large.
Oh, OK.
The professional Republicans don't like Trump.
They don't want to do anything.
James Comer is the worst.
He's never going to indict anybody.
Clinton can give him the finger.
I'm not coming in for the talk.
And you've been subpoenaed.
You know, now you're breaking the law.
Screw you.
Oh, OK, whatever.
I mean, the guy is a horrible person.
And so you have.
Meanwhile, the Democrats are making inroads left and
right.
And now this.
The U.S. midterm elections aren't happening until
November, but the political posturing is already well
underway.
Democrats hope a strong showing will help to
limit the president's power.
They recently received a boost in Donald Trump's
home state of Florida.
From Miami, here's Phil Lavelle.
This is Miami, Florida.
It is colorful, it is cultural, it's competitive.
And politically, is this place seeing the start
of a big shift?
Democrats hope so.
Eileen Higgins is Miami's new mayor, a Democrat
herself.
Which is significant because Miami has not elected
a Democrat to run it for 30 years.
Quick bit of background for you, then.
Florida is as red as it gets, dominated
by the Republicans.
Democrats have been trying to shake it up
for years and turn it blue, or at
least make it purple, a blend of the
two.
This was once the ultimate swing state.
The 2000 presidential election hinged on Florida.
Al Gore just lost out to George W.
Bush after a Supreme Court battle.
But it has moved steadily to the right
ever since.
Looser COVID restrictions drew in older, more conservative
-leaning voters, joining an already huge and broadly
conservative Latino base.
It helped Governor Ron DeSantis with a record
-breaking landslide in the 2022 midterms.
But here's why Democrats are feeling a bit
more hopeful right now.
They've notched up a handful of wins elsewhere
lately, small but symbolically important, for a party
still regrouping after losing the White House in
2024.
How do you capitalize on that?
How do you keep that going?
We keep it going by being on the
ground.
That's what we need to do.
We need to continue voter registration, especially here
in Florida.
We need to have voter registration.
We need to up our numbers.
We need to reach out to our Democrats,
independents, and Republicans, because there are Republicans that
have buyers' remorse.
Think about where we are right now at
this particular moment in time.
See, President Trump is only a year in,
a quarter of the way through his second
term.
The midterm elections take place in November, and
Republicans need to do well there to fulfill
his election agenda.
If Democrats want to slow him down, this
is their chance.
Now, what's my takeaway from that?
Thirty years, there hasn't been a Democrat mayor
of Miami, and now there's one.
These Democrats are doing a lot better than
anybody wants to admit to.
The Republicans are flat-footed.
They're complacent.
I watch all the great shows, and they
spike in the ball left and right as
though they've won the midterms, that they think
they're going to win the midterms.
They don't put any fear of God into
the voters saying, hey, we're going to lose
the midterms, which is what's going to happen,
and then Trump's going to get impeached again,
and probably again he's going to get impeached
four times, probably.
It's unbelievable.
These Republicans are lazy.
Well, they don't have the spark right now.
They don't have the MAGA spark, which is
partially thanks to the podcast wars, Nick Fuentes,
other agents of change and destabilization.
Then Trump is busy doing stuff.
He doesn't care.
I think even if he gets impeached, he's
still going to keep moving.
They can't stop him from doing what he's
doing.
No, he's not going to change anything, but
he's not going to get anywhere with the
Congress that's deadlocked.
He doesn't need Congress.
He'll just kill everything that he wants to.
He's not going to get everything he wants
to.
He would be better off with a Congress
that was amenable to passing laws that were
in his favor, as opposed to a bunch
of asshole Democrats who are going to be
lording it over everybody.
And Republicans.
They're just as bad, the Republicans.
I'm telling you, they do not want Trump
to win.
They're sick of it.
They want stability.
They want to go back to their home.
They want to hang out.
People need to.
Yeah, you're right.
Republicans, if you're talking about the public at
large, the organization, the fire, I think is
gone.
Feels lost.
So it reminds me of California.
We have a Republican National Republican, California Republican
Committee, whatever it's called, and they don't do
anything.
They didn't put any money behind Garvey when
he ran for Senate.
They let this guy, you know, this screwball.
What's his name?
Schiff becomes senator of California.
That's a humiliation.
And now they're going to have governorship running.
They got within a run and they're running
Steve Hilton.
And that's the Republican guy.
I mean, this is ridiculous.
They're going to hand over some fat Katie
Porter will be the governor.
Or or Steyer, Tom Steyer.
He's got a shot at it.
We have to listen to this guy.
And you still won't leave.
No, I can't complain enough.
All right.
A couple we're we're late now.
A couple of clips on.
Oh, no.
Yeah, we are.
We're like a couple of clips on my
fault.
Minnesota, the first one, where did this come
from?
This was.
Where is it now?
Oh, yes.
CBS.
A week after the killing of Renee Good
in Minneapolis, the fallout continues.
A vigil this morning followed fierce overnight clashes
as massed immigration agents by the thousands continue
to work in the city.
And after this incident caught on tape showing
a woman pulled and dragged by agents.
Meanwhile, a half dozen federal prosecutors in Minnesota,
including the man Trump named acting U.S.
attorney last summer, Joe Thompson, have quit in
protest, according to sources speaking with CBS News.
Some over the Trump administration's decision not to
investigate the federal agent who shot Renee Good
and to instead investigate good herself and Good's
widow.
The woman and her friend were highly disrespectful
of law enforcement.
CBS News has also learned six others in
the Department of Justice and Civil Rights to
Barry White and have left in a mass
exodus to know about the department's decision to
block local authorities from doing their own probe.
Renee Good's family attorney spoke with CBS News
today.
The thought.
And who do you think her attorney is?
Same guy, you know who this same guy
who defended George Floyd?
Yeah.
Yeah.
That there is only a one sided investigation
is really not palatable to the family, nor
should it be to the government or the
American people.
The wave of resignation show crumbling confidence, great
morale.
And what are you talking about?
One sided investigation.
An investigation is an investigation.
Now, it's one sided or the other.
Yeah, but it's Trump is corrupt.
We all know this.
Everything's corrupt.
Epstein is really not palatable to the family,
nor should it be to the government or
the American people.
The wave of resignation show crumbling confidence and
morale inside the Justice Department.
The pattern seems to be that the administration
wants us to do work that advances their
political agenda rather than evaluate cases based on
the facts.
About the federal agent that fired the shot,
Deputy U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanch said
in a statement, there is currently no basis
for a criminal civil rights investigation.
That is a statement that has upset local
authorities in Minneapolis.
So there's all kinds of back and forth.
They're sending in jags now.
I'm not quite sure why, other than to
do more stuff.
And the fraud keeps being uncovered by Nick
Shirley.
He's got a new one with another guy.
Yeah, I like this new.
He's got four bodyguards with him now.
He's not an idiot.
And he has a new guy, another old
guy who's unidentified.
But OK, it's not the same guy.
No, it's not.
It's a new guy.
It's a new guy.
When a Somali goes to the doctor magically,
they forgot how to speak English.
So they needed an interpreter there.
So the county brings in an interpreter at
one hundred dollars an hour, minimum eight hours
to interpret what the doctor is telling the
patient.
So that's another layer of fraud that nobody's
even talked about or revealed.
And it's millions and millions, hundreds of millions
of dollars all in its own interpreter services.
Because what percentage do you think of these
people, especially if they were born here in
the United States?
They speak English, right?
Of course they do.
They should not be saying no English.
And then remember, the interpreter has to get
to the doctor's office or the hospital.
How are they getting there?
The transportation company.
And then they got to get back home
and that patient had to get to the
doctor's office.
How?
Transportation.
Kids got to get to school.
How?
Transportation.
That's why I said the transportation is the
hub of really, I think, all of this.
So basically what we're talking about between all
these fraudulent businesses, the daycare, the autism centers,
the adult daycare, the home services, and then
the transportation.
And then on top of that, you have
it looped in with them going eventually to
the doctors for translators to be paid by
the state.
That's exactly what's happening.
Yes.
What a business.
I love all these people now doing Nick
Shirley's in their own towns and they're all
running around.
Everybody's Nick Shirley.
It's all out of the blue.
We need.
Out of the blue.
Every.
You're right.
I got it here.
We got in the Bay Area.
We got it.
I'm sure you get a few in Texas.
Probably not as many because there's not so
much corruption.
There's corruption, but not like here.
And yeah, but they went to these transportation
companies.
There's none of those.
There's nobody there.
There's no office.
It's bull crap.
And they're billing him left and right for
nothing that's going on.
Well, the guy.
And then they get threatened.
They're threatening him.
The guy said, I thought that was he
said transportation.
He said, that's really what this is about.
Have you heard that?
Yeah.
No, he's.
Yeah.
And they went through.
They did a thorough investigation.
The bull crap.
Transportation companies.
Yeah.
It's not.
It's not just Minnesota.
It's everywhere.
There's no doubt about it.
They're just.
It's just corruption everywhere.
You know, Joy Reed has, you know, ever
since she got kicked off of Ms. Now
or MSNBC when I was still MSNBC still
does a show on YouTube and she gets
guests.
And I wanted to play these two clips
before we take a break because the Emilio
popped in the state of Minnesota under occupation.
Minnesota, of course, is our latest state to
be inundated by the Trump regime's armed secret
police.
And I want you guys to understand.
I use that language very intentionally.
Because if these scenes were playing out in
any other country, particularly in a global South
country, they were in the Middle East somewhere
or in Africa somewhere.
We in the media would absolutely describe.
I love we in the media on YouTube.
What you're about to see as the invasion
of a city by regime secret police or
by armed regime regime paramilitary.
She's got video Rollins and everything.
John's like the show never went away.
And she probably has more viewers on YouTube.
That's probably true.
He said, have you not learned?
This is why we killed that lesbian.
Can you tell us what happened to you?
So first off, I'm a United States Marine
veteran.
They we were following them from a safe
distance, following ICE agents, following ICE agents.
They tried.
They stopped in the middle of the road
and reversed on 62.
They tried to ram our car.
They broke my window.
They yanked me out by my neck.
They threw me to the ground.
They stomped on me.
They pushed my face into the ground.
They put the cuffs on as tight as
possible to the point where it took six
agents to try to get him off.
Talk about slanted investigation.
Wait a minute.
Why is she even there?
She was cuffed and beaten to a pulp
and then obviously taken somewhere.
Why is she standing there?
Because it's nonsense, I think.
Or she was a troublemaker.
Here's the second part.
You'll notice that when ICE started out, they
were targeting Latino men very intentionally.
Most of the people they were running up
to on the street were brown men.
And that was very intentional because they were
trying to put forward a narrative that what
they were doing was hunting down the worst
of the worst.
And the worst of the worst were Tren
de Aragua and other gang members.
But now, particularly in the wake of Renee
Good's murder.
Murder?
The complexion and gender of the targets is
shifting.
Have you noticed that?
You're seeing more and more women.
Now, this is really egregious what she does
here.
Now it's like, oh, we're just going after
black women, that ICE is just a bunch
of Nazi SSers.
I mean, do these people really think that
ICE is just going around just grabbing people?
Do you feel like that's happening, John?
No, I don't think so.
But I'm under the impression that these people
believe it.
Oh, there's no doubt about that because this
is the continuous message.
And here comes the milieu talk.
And as you see in that video, more
and more people who are black.
Because remember, the quota is being set by
Stephen Miller.
And he wanted 3,500 people a day.
You saw a black pregnant woman being thrown
to the ground and kidnapped and thrown into
a van.
Kidnapped.
You saw a brown woman who was just
on her way to a doctor's appointment who's
being given conflicting directions.
Go, don't go.
Go, get out of the car.
She has no idea what to do.
Then she gets dragged out of the car.
She's not being accused of a crime.
She's just in their way.
And you saw a black woman whose husband
is dragged off from their home, and you
see her out there crying.
This is where the regime is going.
Yes, please.
I have to say, we shouldn't fall for
the okey-doke.
We know what they're trying to do.
They're trying to excite black folk.
And everybody else will get angry.
Correct.
So they can go ahead and have the
authority to pass this stupid state law where
they can basically just take over the country
and do what they want to do.
So black folk, do not fall for the
okey-doke.
Do you remember the okey-doke?
That was Obama's phrase.
If we okey-doke, you know, it sounds
okey-doke.
The tweets are okey-doke.
That's right.
Obama, I think Obama's still giving people direction
with his okey-doke.
Oh, you might be right, because I keep
seeing Schumerisms in some of the crap that
the Democrats pull.
Like that candlelight vigil has Schumer written all
over it.
Of course, he was at the front of
it.
But the whole idea, it's like when they
all took a knee in Congress, and they
had some wrap around their neck, that was
Schumer.
The sit-ins, I think, were Schumer.
Remember when Congress was sitting in its own
chambers?
Oh, yes.
They did the sit-in.
They did a sit-in on themselves.
Yeah.
Yeah, these guys, they never let up.
No, but you're right.
There's a portion of the country that absolutely
believes what they're saying.
They absolutely do.
There's a big portion.
This was a classic Scott Adams.
Same movie, two different screens.
That was a classic.
That was one he would hammer over and
over again, and there's no changing it.
Yeah, we had it as Dimension A and
Dimension B.
Yeah, well, we don't even go there anymore
because they're lost.
It's sad.
They're lost.
I don't think we can ever get them
back to reality.
Well, they say every once in a while,
this is the problem.
I can't disagree, which is what you hate
me saying.
But every so often, one of them snaps
and goes over and they say, wait a
minute, I've been bullcrapped.
I'm not going to put up with this
anymore, and they quit.
Remember the leave the party?
Well, yeah.
You remember who that was?
Candace Owens.
Blexit.
That's right.
She was one of the first to do
it.
And what did she turn out to be?
A disruption.
You got to be careful.
You got to be careful.
Yeah, yeah.
Candace Owens is a good example.
You don't know what the hell's going on
with her.
No, and she's kind of falling off the
radar.
I mean, the whole everything is falling apart.
As predicted, it's like you can't be hammering
on one thing continuously.
They don't understand.
Audiences don't like that.
They get tired of it.
And they need good arguments from time to
time, which is why people continue to come
to us.
Well, that's because we don't stay on one
topic.
No.
You can be in Africa one minute, and
you can be in Minneapolis the next, and
you wouldn't know the difference.
And with that.
Yes, well, okay.
Thank you for the reminder that I did
Africa clips.
So I'm now the one minus one.
No, Africa.
It's your turn to do Africa clips next.
Africa and Somalia.
That was my point.
Somalia.
Somalia, Sudan.
It's all the same.
Yes.
Hey, with that, I want to thank you
for your courage in the morning to you,
the man who put the sea in the.
I don't have anything.
I don't have anything.
What?
Yeah.
You know, whenever there's a war where somebody
dies, people show up.
We're almost back at 1800 for our Thursday.
Yeah.
It's a death.
Death and war is good for the show.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I noticed this.
Yeah.
The trolls are with us here in the
troll room, a troll room dot IO or
no agenda stream.com.
You can always listen live through a modern
podcast app.
I highly recommend you get one of those.
It's it really is the way to listen
to the no agenda show.
If you want to listen live.
And if you don't, you want to get
one of those because within 90 seconds of
us posting the show, you will be notified.
You don't have to wait 15 minutes.
Sometimes hours when your app updates, it's a,
it's very old fashioned.
So go with the modern podcast at modern
podcast apps.com.
And the trolls are of course, a part
of our value for value system.
They contribute.
Well, we got a good contribution.
We found out that efficiency experts, there you
go.
That was a good troll contribution.
Finally, many other ways you can contribute your
time and your talent and your treasure.
The three T's of value for value.
One of them is by bringing us artwork
for the show.
And we already mentioned him earlier, but comic
strip blogger just nailed it for episode 1832.
We titled that spicy mode.
And, and there she was, there was the
pregnant astronaut floating in space.
And it was good.
I mean, we both looked at all the
different, you also had a naked astronaut.
Yeah, that wasn't happening.
That was not going to happen at all.
Oh, what happened?
Oh, I hit the wrong one.
There we go.
Let's see what we had.
It's all AI, obviously, um, which is just
what it is these days.
Uh, yes.
He had two pregos in space.
Obviously we're not going to do the naked
lady.
I'm not going to do that.
Um, you kind of like the Matthew Dopko's,
uh, astronaut baby, the space baby, which is
another contender.
This is all a no agenda, art generator
.com, uh, which has been available for probably
15 years in one version or another.
And anybody can contribute by uploading art to
it.
And we just select one and we credit
someone as an artist.
And, um, and it's all AI.
What can I say?
It's, uh, it's bland.
It's weak.
It's annoying.
It's annoying.
Was there anything else that, uh, that we
liked?
I don't think there was anything.
I did use, please donate for the newsletter.
Of course, that's what you want to do.
That was a good one.
Yeah.
Oh, the little sad puppy for some, instead
of being Brown or white, he's black and
white, which I thought was, I know I
did that.
The one by Senate, by M Senate, that
one.
Yeah.
It was something else.
I thought that somebody did something very creative.
Well, talk about it.
Uh, wait, like tomorrow, we'll talk about tomorrow,
tomorrow show, tomorrow show.
Let me see how many, lots of Scott
Adams, of course.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, there's still room people.
I recommend you, uh, give it a shot.
Go to your, go to your favorite AI
art generator for as long as they last.
You know, there's all kinds of things happening
now with, um, Claude, I think it is
code generator.
Is that a Claude code generator?
Now they're saying, Hey, you know, it's been
in our terms of service for a couple
of years now or whatever, all of 2025.
Uh, but you can't actually use us and
other products, uh, unless you pay for higher
tier access, everybody's losing their minds.
It's like, well, what do you expect?
These guys got to make money at some
point.
That point is now.
And I think the only I've said before,
I think Google will win.
Nobody else.
Current numbers.
I think it was, I don't know.
It was chat GPT or one of these
groups.
They, they came out with some numbers and
they were, they did like a hundred and
a hundred.
I think it was a hundred million in
sales and, and they lost 1.4 billion.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So the basic, so the numbers, so you
have, you have a more or less everything
you do for free on these systems.
They're, they're giving you the, the, the result
plus 10 bucks for all practical purposes.
They're giving you a $10 bill every time
you use these things.
I was thinking this morning that when, when
they have to upgrade all of these data
centers with all new NVIDIA chips and everything,
there's going to be so much cool stuff.
You'll be able to buy for pennies on
the dollar that you can then run at
home.
Cause right now there's a business opportunity.
Oh yeah.
Reselling these.
Cause what, what does the high end NVIDIA
stuff go for?
10,000 50, some go for 18, most
of the whole systems.
Now they sell a complete data centers.
They're in the business of makes it hard
for anyone to compete.
Yeah.
Well, they're going to keep that going for
a while.
That is 90% of our GDP.
Probably.
We can't, can't ruin that.
Got to keep that, got to keep that
thing going.
There's going to come with a new gambit.
The, the new chat.
This one's going to break the bank.
Sorry.
So we don't even need a central bank
to break us.
We just need Chad GPT.
That'll break us.
That'll break the bank.
There's no doubt about it.
I mean, the numbers don't add up, but
if you only give us a little more
power, then a little more power, then we
will have, we will finally have real intelligence.
I'm impressed though.
I'm impressed with Gemini.
Yeah.
I know you've been saying this for weeks.
You really like it for search, for search
stuff.
It's good at search stuff.
I mean, and for some coding, but how
big is that market?
What's the TAM of coding?
It's not going to pay for it.
That's for sure.
No, this is, this is a, it's a
great technology.
I think, I mean, you think it sucks,
but I like it.
And it's just, it's a super.
And the reason, one of the reasons I
like it because I think I sense that
I'm, I'm getting, they're shipping me money.
Well, I'm, I'm not saying it sucks.
I'm saying the art sucks that, that, you
know, we don't have real artists anymore.
We don't have, well, we actually have two
today because people got so fed up with
hearing the slop, but it, yeah, it sucks
because it's hurting the show.
It's hurting the show with mediocre art.
That's okay.
It's not great.
I think like that last piece that Thomas
strip blogger did of the pregnant woman in,
in space.
I think it was an, you know, who
no one, nobody has time to, to actually
render that in time to get it in
by the end of the show.
It's the, this is made it.
No, we get lots of quick art, 10,
15, 20 people who would do it and
they all gave up.
It is hurt.
The quality would have given up.
How about this?
It would have given up anyway.
Cause it's too much work.
No, no, they gave up because they, it's
like this song.
Okay.
Here's the songs are a good example.
Yeah.
We had same five years ago.
We had fabulous songwriters and people doing parodies
of songs and yes.
Cutting in Obama's.
Yes.
Stammering and all the rest of it.
And they all quit.
Because, because, because they can't compete.
No, they all quit before the day I
started taking over.
Well, that's true.
They did start, they started, but I think
COVID kills a lot of people.
I mean, not literally as well, but, and
you know, a lot of people just were,
did they, they blew their wine.
I have saved the show.
Okay.
Let us thank our executive and associate executive
producer for episode 1834.
We thank everybody, $50 and above.
And we start with a donation from Spain,
from Valencia.
And this is interesting.
I think this is Eric, Eric, Jan Huben.
He's a Dutch guy, but I think he's,
he's in Valencia, but he's part-time Brazilian.
It was very confusing.
And here he is.
Dear John Adams.
Since the beginning of the no agenda show,
I'm a listener, but I've only donated $33
over 10 years ago.
Well, okay.
Good to see you back on the list.
I'm here by stepping up to knighthood with
this $966 donation.
Adam may top it off to a thousand
dollars.
He actually did email me about this.
And I say, yes, I would drop in
a silver dollar.
So there it is.
As a Dutchman, I got to know the
U S a lot like the penny.
Yeah, it's a yes.
I didn't have time to hit it a
hundred times as a Dutchman.
I got to know the U S and
86, 87 as a senior at Petaluma high
school, Petaluma.
I still remember it as the most outstanding
athlete.
More importantly at the school, I wrote a
paper about an ambitious New York businessman.
And I predicted that one day he would
become the U S president.
My teacher, Mrs. Paula's Donich was really proud
to read that.
That would be so nice.
She said, because he's German, just like me.
Now, almost 40 years later, I conclude that
the no agenda show is the only one
that can separate the politics, the show and
the trolling by that man from New York.
And that is something very much needed in
today's crazy media world.
Chow says, Eric, by the way, PS as
a part-time Brazilian, I want the title
Baron of big, beautiful Bahia, but it seems
my donation Bahia, but my, it seems my
donation only makes me a night in that
case.
I'd like to be referred as the night
of the big, beautiful Bahia, please add Bahia.
What am I saying?
Bahia, Bahia, Bahia.
Where is Bahia?
It's a kind of a North, the East
of Sao Paulo.
It's a, it's a big giant.
It's a big state that had, that is
known as you don't go there without partying
24, seven, three 65.
It's the party state of Brazil.
And, uh, by he, by he, by he
is very famous for music and parties.
And as sound clips, he wanted Adam's birds
in space from yesterday's show with the echo
effect.
Well, we don't typically clip stuff out of
the show because like, wow, someone's going to
request that, but I'll do it live for
you.
And his second clip is space force.
So I can do that.
Space force.
Sir.
Fat dad.
Parts unknown.
Three 69.
Uh, he's sir.
Fat.
He's also sir.
Fat dad of the BMX.
Uh, BBM Mexicans.
He has been a frequent supporter of the
show.
Yeah.
BM Mexicans.
Uh, with this donation at three, six, nine,
six nine.
I'm now two times a night, which I
believe is a baronet.
Uh, gay as gay, as that title sounds.
Oh, okay.
Gay is that he's got a spelled funny.
I'll take it.
No, that's the spelling of fake and gay.
G H is it?
Yes.
I've never seen it spelled out.
They can gay with G H E Y.
That's cute.
May I please have a S F 35
race karma as I am once again, attempting
to qualify for the USA BMX world championship
team in the 50 plus.
Wow.
50 plus cruisers category.
Uh, BMX, man, I 50 years old driving
a motorcycle like a maniac.
Uh, I don't know.
BMX cycling championships.
It's not a motorcycle.
It's a, uh, it's a, it's a bike.
It's a bike.
It's a mountain bike.
R a.
Yeah.
But they do.
It's rough.
Uh, or it's, it's rough on the prostate
are in Brisbane, Australia this year.
And sure.
I won't win, but I couldn't think of
a better place to get my butt whooped
on a bike.
Then on the vacation of a lifetime down
under, thank you for your attention to this
matter.
Rob, AKA sir, fat dad of the BMX
again, you've got karma.
Now, before we continue, did you get a
bag?
Did you get a bag from, uh, Katie
Dietrich.net?
The, the toiletry bag.
Uh, maybe.
Yeah, I think so.
Now, yeah, it had a devil shaver stuff
in it.
No, I didn't have any shavers.
It's a, okay.
No, this is a bag I got before.
Okay.
Because she sent me Kate Dietrich.net.
She sent there.
They have a no agenda, but toiletry bags
now on the website.
There's, there's the pod father bag.
And the grumpy bag, I think it's called.
Why am I the grump?
I don't know.
Go figure.
But my bag included, uh, a small box
of Dutch licorice.
And you and your Dutch licorice.
I know it's going to kill me and
$450 in cash.
So I wondered if you had received $450
in cash so we can credit them appropriately.
I, it would be, it would have been
opened by, it would have been in the
box.
It wasn't, there was no big box.
So she sent it to me.
So, um, but we'll, uh, we'll make sure
that gets into the, uh, into the proper
accounts.
So thank you very much.
Kate Dietrich.net.
I don't think there was a note other
than here's your bag.
Love you.
Maybe.
Okay.
Yeah.
Make double, double check that though, because you
know, well, maybe something will come.
I mean, we did, uh, we got a,
a donation from Jackie Green and his wife,
Kyle.
And she, uh, that's coming up.
Yeah.
But she said, I'm just saying she sent
something about a month ago, never showed up.
I hate that.
And then this, the other thing she mails,
it shows up the next day.
Hmm.
Wow.
So Aaron, the Darien's up, he's in Trabuco
Canyon, California.
Uh, he is, in for four, I'm sorry,
three 43, 75.
And he says, rest in peace, Scott Adams.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I've just read two in a row.
Let me do it.
The one I was supposed to read that
was yours.
Yeah.
So I'm going to, so I don't want
to get off schedule.
So I'm going to go sir.
Cucaracha who's in Finland, Minnesota.
The only reason is because I have the
note queued up three 3333.
And he wrote a, a typed note that
says, sir.
Cucaracha of the North woods, Finland, Minnesota nuts.
And he wants noodle gun, WTC seven and
F 35 karma.
I T M get bone nation.
I feel like a massive douche for not
donating for so long.
Please.
D douche me.
You've been D douched Adam.
How can I donate Bitcoin to the show
directly from my hardware wallet?
No QR scanner.
There is a link.
There is a newsletter that is specific for
this.
Yep.
You just go to that link.
Well, does it take you to the QR
scan?
He's looking for the Bitcoin wallet address, which
we can certainly put on the website.
No, it doesn't take it.
The QR codes are on the newsletter.
And then the link for people that use
a computer is there too.
And you click on it or you click
on it.
You can click on the, on the QR
codes and it'll take you to that normal
methodology.
No, that's, that's not true.
What does it do?
It doesn't, it just takes you to the
QR codes.
He wants, he doesn't want to scan.
Did you take that little link at the
bottom there and cut and paste it?
And it's just more QR codes.
What link on the newsletter in the newsletter?
No.
Yeah.
That's what I'm talking about.
The newsletter.
I don't know what you're talking about.
Well, my point is, it's very easy for
us to add that to the website.
It's on the newsletter.
And it's, I think it's, I think it
takes us to the website, which is our
website, which has that information.
I'm pretty sure.
Okay.
I don't use Bitcoin, so I can't confirm
any of this, but nobody's complained about it.
Well, he is.
He's, he's complaining.
Does he even get the newsletter?
But the newsletter takes you to the website.
That link.
And on the website, it's just the QR
codes.
Let me double check.
That's redundant.
Does it make sense?
Well, yeah.
Or, or click here to use Stripe.
Let's see.
Go there.
No, no, no.
I'll, I'll, I'll work with you.
You fix it.
Yeah, I'm going to fix it.
I found your North Sea continues his note.
I found your North Sea Nexus analysis to
be particularly enlightening.
I was trying to describe the North Sea
Nexus thesis to a friend, a friend I
have tried to hit in the mouth multiple
times, but to no avail.
He was intrigued, but I still can't get
him to listen to the show.
This gave me an idea for the next
vacation special calling all no agenda producers are
actually competent with technology.
Please make a special show with all the
clips discussion discussing the North Sea Nexus.
We have two hours worth.
I don't think I think this could actually
be a good intro show to hit some
people in the mouth and leave a Mark.
Please credit my son Galvin with this donation
towards the future knighthood.
Thanks John and Adam for all the producers
and the producer for everything you do to
make the best podcast universe possible.
Sir Cucaracha of the North woods.
I got to my pasta glock locked and
loaded.
You've got karma.
We go to sir young inkeeper of Amsterdam
three 33 dot 33 and he says, dear
Adam, I'm not sure if my note was
delivered last Tuesday.
In the meantime, the horrible news came in
as Robert Jensen has passed away.
You and he had dinner in my restaurant
together prior to COVID.
Yes, I remember he's a very nice restaurant
in Amsterdam.
Let's make it a Robert Jensen donation.
A request karma for my best friend heel
with love, AKA sir young, the innkeeper of
Amsterdam.
Thank you very much.
You've got karma but it plugged his own
restaurant.
Now he doesn't have to do that.
Dutch Travis Moore in Gibsonville, North Carolina, three,
three, three dot three, three ITM.
Thank you for being the best podcast in
the universe.
You're welcome.
I'd like to congratulate our son Jordan on
getting his commercial plumbing license at 22.
I didn't know you needed a license to
be a plumber.
Can I get some goat karma for the,
for the bill for a bills win over
the Broncos go bills.
You've got karma and good luck.
And there we have a dame girl, Kyle,
Kylie.
I forget now Kylie.
I think it was Kyle.
No, no, it's Kyle.
Kyle.
Thank you.
Insert TG.
That was the note wishing you and your
families.
And all of no agenda nation, peace, love
and good health for 2026.
Dame girl, Kylie and sir, Jackie green.
And the amount was 333 dot 33.
Thank you very much.
Yeah, that was nice.
So Joshua in, in noon in noon in
Georgia, I TM gentleman coming to you from
the Chile from Chile, Poland.
He's in Poland.
My only request for you is to pull
up.
No agenda show episode eight 75 at 22
minutes, 33 seconds of 45, two minutes, two
hours, 33 minutes, 45.
Adam discusses the electoral process where no candidate
gets to 270.
Lo and behold, Adam is the reason we
had sleepy Joe as president and four years
of Adam is the reason.
Huh?
And four years of stumbling and mumbling.
That's your fault, Adam.
And John was cheering for it too.
No, I think you, you, you really tip
the scales by cheering for it.
Thanks guys.
Random Alex Jones, jingle and a F 35
karma, which just seems to be very popular
today.
Thank you.
Third time today.
That's crazy.
Yes.
Thank you.
It's a random number theory, sir.
Joshua protector of the, of the gun line.
What is he talking about?
I don't know.
The apparently on shows eight 75 at two
hours, 33 minutes and 45 seconds.
I mean, if you want, I can listen
to that real quick for a second.
And a, what was the number?
Eight 75.
Might as well check it out now.
It's 75.
Oh, there is no N a eight 75.
How about that?
Huh?
What did we miss a show?
Somehow the plot thickens.
Oh, I'll have to look that one up
and see what that was about.
He wanted a random age.
A and F 35 music has made me
nauseous.
Where'd you get that one?
It was random karma, random, purely random.
I doubt it.
It was random.
Sir, Nate, the rogue in central point, Oregon.
Oh, that, that you sure you're up.
Sorry.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I was already off looking at episode eight
75.
Uh, sir, Nate, the rogue central point, Oregon,
uh, two 25 associate executive producership.
I TM appreciate you both suffering between dimensions.
No kidding.
A quick note on Iran.
I have a childhood best friend whose dad
is from Iran.
They live in California.
Now a lot of the Persians do.
He still has aunts, uncles, cousins, sets are
over there.
And he confirmed yesterday.
They're not able to contact anybody in Iran
right now.
Yes, we're aware.
Keep the people of Iran in my thoughts,
sir.
Nate, the rogue.
Thank you very much, sir.
Nate.
And there we have Linda Lou, Patkin and
castle rock, Colorado's $200 jobs.
Karma.
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Let's vote for jobs.
Karma, which brings us to, Oh, how about
that?
Dana Brunetti checks in with no note.
That seems unlikely.
Yeah.
I mean, he'll email me about the slightest
thing, but no notes, $200.
And he continues his streak as a mere
associate executive producer.
So that is wonderful.
Thank you very much.
Dana Brunetti.
I'm suspicious.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Shingle Springs.
Is that where he is?
Shingle Springs, California.
Yeah.
Well, maybe it's him.
Well, we'd like a note.
If, if you somehow forgot to send us
the note, Dana Brunetti, go look them up
on IMDb.com.
He will now be adding yet another associate
executive producer title to his, to his IMDb
account.
He actually has a pin to the top,
which is kind of cool.
And that is our executive and associate executive
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Thank you so much.
And of course, we'll be thanking the rest
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Our formula is this.
We go out.
We hit people in the mouth.
Music has made me nauseous.
Still trying to find show eight 75.
I don't know what happened.
Oh, here it is.
We did have show eight 75.
What was the time code on that?
Let's listen to this time.
Code was two, two.
Oh, I get it.
Oops.
Huh?
Let's see.
Yeah.
Two, two 33 45.
Okay.
Two 33.
That's tough to get there.
Let's see.
What were we talking about?
Oh, it should be playing.
Why is it not?
Oh, here we go.
Yeah, it is.
It is, but they didn't do it.
I haven't.
You're about to protest it.
Wow.
You're cutting out.
You're cutting out.
Listen to how crappy this sounds.
I'm cutting out.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You're cutting out.
I'll find it for the next show.
This, this too much.
That's too much nonsense to listen to.
But some, someone else said that I was
right about something else.
I forgot what it was.
Yeah.
You're right about stuff all the time.
Nah, well, not really.
Yeah.
So, um, I have a Venezuela clip.
I have a, I have two Tik Tok
clips that are interesting.
Okay.
Here is the independent woman.
When someone tells me that they're interested in
me and I should just give them a
chance.
I genuinely ask them, what are you going
to give me that I already don't give
myself?
I have an extensive routine.
Okay.
I wake up at four 30.
I read for an hour.
Then I go to the gym for an
hour.
Then I get ready to go to my
full time job while I'm getting ready.
I make myself breakfast.
Then I pack my lunch, which I have
already meal prepped for myself for the full
week.
I go to work.
I come home from work.
I come home.
I go to the gym for another hour
or two.
Then I come back up to my apartment
that I pay rent for and I clean,
I cook anything else.
And then if I have any time before
my nine 30 PM bedtime, I do another
one of my many hobbies that I have
color, read, crochet puzzle.
Who knows?
What are you going to give me that
I already don't give myself?
I want something.
I buy it.
I pay for all my own bills.
I cook for myself.
I clean for myself.
What are you going to give me that
I already don't give myself?
Because my time is fully booked.
Now that was interesting.
You said yes, because I'm listening to this
woman who is a psycho and I'm thinking
this is the perfect employee that you want
to hire for a company.
She's a dedicated person is very independent.
She work her butt off till she drops
dead at the company.
And you, and she probably works cheap.
I just think this to me is exemplifies
a modern woman who has just decided to
become a cog in the wheel.
And one of her hobbies is coloring, by
the way, which tells you a lot.
I think that's a key.
The show is off the rails.
Now this is what are you doing?
Okay, let's play this one.
Then, then we're done.
I won't do any more tech talks for
a month.
Fat chronically ill woman.
If I needed a job, I would ask
for a job.
I'm disabled and chronically ill and can't work.
I'm disabled and chronically ill and can't work.
Hi, I'm disabled and chronically ill and can't
work.
I had somebody DM me yesterday, had a
message request.
Hi, I have a website.
You could do that work.
It's probably the same amount of work or
less than making tech talks.
First of all, I'm hyper fixated on tech
talk.
If you don't know what that means, then
you don't get to have a conversation with
me.
If you don't understand how that works, you
don't get to have a conversation with me.
But all of my videos say I am
disabled and chronically ill and cannot work or
they should, or they imply that I am
disabled and chronically ill and cannot work.
I am asking for money.
I am asking for money specifically because that
is what I need.
If I needed a job, I would ask
for a job.
Say again.
If I needed a job, I would ask
for a job.
Y'all are so abusive and make yourselves
believe that you're being helpful when you are
just ignoring people and imposing your own will
onto them.
I am disabled and chronically ill and cannot
work.
If I needed a job, I would ask
for a job.
Okay.
And this was interesting.
Why?
Well, she's fat for starters.
Well, she can, she can do a call
center work.
No, she doesn't want to work.
Oh, and there's a bunch of people out
there like this.
There's a lot of tick tockers that I,
I'm not going to take a job.
Why should I be working?
I just want money.
Yeah.
And it's just beyond me and I can't
quite figure it out.
And they, and you, you can't have a
conversation with them because you don't understand anything.
You're an idiot.
And, uh, I just, I don't know.
I'm just kind of baffled by these people
out there in the wild that are doing
these things because I know she's sincere.
I don't see why you're baffled.
This has become ever since Patreon, this has
become a business model.
Just send me money, subscribe to my Patreon.
I'm doing fun stuff.
Send me money.
this is, but she's not doing fun stuff.
Well, she's just complaining.
Well, you're on deck.
That's right.
Put her on deck.
You put it, you would do an interview
with her, Darren.
And this lady is going to be beautiful.
Oh, that's a great show.
Well, along those lines, uh, maybe we could
make a Barbie doll for her.
At 28 years old.
Ellie Middleton says, this is the first time
she's seen a doll that reflects her day
-to-day experience as an autistic person.
She's looking off to the side slightly, which
is really nice.
Cause she's not, I basically never make eye
contact.
Developed with advice from the autistic self-advocacy
network, autistic Barbie wears noise canceling headphones to
protect her from loud noises.
Carries an AAC tablet, which some autistic people
use to communicate and a pink fidget spinner
that provides an outlet for stimming or self
-stimulatory behavior.
I think it's so nice to see those
parts of, I guess, myself that I may
be embarrassed of sometimes or not as proud
of as I should be.
But seeing those like as part of who
she is, I think was, was really nice
to see.
Autistic Barbie follows in the footsteps of blind
Barbie, Barbie with down syndrome and Barbie with
type one diabetes.
Holy crap.
I had no idea.
They expanded the line.
Yeah, that's fantastic.
We need podcaster, Bobby, Barbie.
That's what we need.
Podcaster, Barbie influenced Tik Tok or Barbie.
Yeah.
All of these.
And.
That's money.
What you just said is money in the
bank.
And obese.
Tik Tok or influencer Barbie.
Obese influence who doesn't want to work.
Barbie.
I'm telling you, Mattel, give us a call.
Final clip for me is, um, this may
actually lead into your Venezuela clip because I
believe this is about, uh, intelligence and secret
documents, uh, regarding the Venezuela op.
Members of the media expressing deep concern.
The FBI took the rare step of going
to the home of a Washington post reporter
and confiscating her phone and other electronic devices.
After early morning, FBI searched at the residence
of reporter, Hannah Nathanson, the post issuing an
urgent message to the staff, quote, this extraordinary
aggressive action is deeply concerning and raises profound
questions and concerned around the constitutional protection for
our work.
So none of this, it wasn't a big
deal.
I mean, when Obama did all this through
people in jail, he threw people in jail,
but that was okay.
But, but Trump's FBI, Trump's FBI, the FBI
looking for the goods on somebody that they
have targeted, not this reporter.
Uh, that's not right.
Okay.
I just want to get that straight.
After early morning, FBI searched at the residence
of reporter, Hannah Nathanson, the post issuing an
urgent message to the staff, quote, this extraordinary
aggressive action is deeply concerning and raises profound
questions and concerned around the constitutional protections for
our work.
But tonight, DOJ officials pushing back claiming that
the search was necessary because the reporter had
received a classified information from a government contractor
who was arrested last week for the unlawful
retention of national defense information.
Justice department official telling ABC news at the
time of his arrest, Aurelio Luis Perez Lugones
was communicating with the Washington post reporter on
his mobile device.
And in the chat, there was classified information.
Washington post leaders say they were told the
newspaper and the reporter were not targets of
the investigation.
But David, this action is so rare that
a number of media experts are calling it
an aggressive escalation and a threat to the
free press.
Now, my understanding was that this guy had
some information on the Venezuela op and that
that's maybe, and it tells me that you,
that everything you do on your phone is
pretty much public.
Right?
How do they know this?
How to know the chat, whatever chat they
were talking about, you use a signal, a
signal is supposed to be end to end
encrypted.
How is it possible?
Well, they, on the end to her end,
they can look at the chat.
Just look at her.
Just look at her screen.
You mean?
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
Do you have the Venezuela?
That was the idea.
The Venezuela clip.
I have just the update from yesterday.
President Trump is announcing that what he calls
a very bad leaker on Venezuela is now
in jail.
This is coming as the FBI searches the
home of a Washington post reporter as part
of an investigation into a Pentagon contractor who
allegedly leaked classified information that attorney general Pam
Bondi says post a risk to the nation's
national security.
President Trump is also recently giving a readout
of a call he had today with interim
president of Venezuela, Dulce Rodriguez.
He says that they discussed oil, minerals, trade
and national security and touts the partnership between
Venezuela and the U S and tomorrow, the
president's expected to meet with the Venezuelan opposition
leader, Maria Machado here at the white house.
Yeah.
The more I think about Machado who, by
the way, wasn't the candidate.
Someone pointed that out to us.
She, she was an organizer, but was not
the candidate.
It was some other dude.
You remember his name?
No, I don't.
Um, but she's obviously, uh, some kind of
shill.
Why else?
Why else would you get a peace prize?
But who else got a peace prize?
Let me think.
Uh, Obama Trump doesn't.
That's why he doesn't want her in there.
He'll, he'll meet with her to take the
peace prize from her cause she's going to
give it to him, but he doesn't want
her running it.
It makes no sense.
If you, if you win a peace prize,
you're in the system.
Wouldn't you say I'm not going to be
able, I can't think of any reason that
that's not absolutely true because Obama's thing was
a scam.
Yeah.
And so is this, he got a peace
price for giving a couple of, this is
before he became president, just before they inaugurated
him.
They, uh, he gave a bunch of speeches,
you know, for about a year and they're
all just, you know, pieces of speeches about
peace.
So there you get the prize just for
talking about talking to big game.
Then as soon as he got in office,
he started bombing people.
We got, it was a farce.
Yes.
So there's, and also the oil baron keeps,
he's very forceful with me.
He's like, nobody wants to do anything in
Venezuela unless the government pays them to.
There's, there's, it's very low reward for the
risk.
And the only, the only guys who will
make any money is actually who didn't, the
president, uh, say, we're gonna, which oil company
do you say they can go pound sand?
Was it Exxon?
Um, no, no, definitely not.
Exxon.
It wasn't Exxon.
Tell them to pound sand.
No, it was salt in my case.
Hold on a second.
It was, um, uh, well, those, who was
it now?
I can't remember.
What are the big three?
Well, Chevron, who's already there.
They're not being told to do anything other
than what they're doing.
Yeah.
They just, Chevron's got the best.
They got the foothold.
I thought it was.
And the other big boy is mobile.
And, uh, Exxon.
I thought it was Exxon mobile.
Exxon mobile.
So that doesn't count.
That's right.
They merged.
And so you have, uh, Phillips is the
big boy.
Hmm.
Well, uh, Tonico Phillips, I think it's, uh,
he, the president told someone they, the, uh,
because they were BP or these Europeans, maybe,
maybe it was BP.
Well, anyway, but, but they, no, it wasn't
BP.
It was one of the big refiners who
was already here in America already refining this
stuff.
And it's like, oh, those guys, aren't going
to get anything from us.
I don't know.
I wish I remembered.
I'm sick.
And I'm ill prepared.
I'm trying to, but I can't find it.
Uh, thank you to the multiple, um, military
Department of defense.
29 years of Department of Defense intelligence experience.
Yep.
We love people like you.
300 rounds a minute is nothing, apparently.
Delta Force operators could easily achieve 650 rounds
per minute, and the squad automatic weapons have
a cycling rate of 450 to 500 rounds
a minute, which I think kind of goes
to your point that that sonic weapon and
all that stuff, which some say would probably
be concussion, a flashbang without a flash, that
that is indeed just a bunch of propaganda.
Yeah, to scare them.
Yeah, and scare the drug networks.
Yeah, and I think the guy who made
all the commentary, the so-called guard, you
know, who said, oh, they did this, and
I don't want to experience that again.
I'm bleeding from my nose and my eyes,
and I'm throwing up.
I mean, it's just to scare these, you
know, dumb drug dealers.
Yeah.
It was Exxon, John.
President Trump...
Really?
Exxon?
Of all of them?
Yeah, it was Exxon.
I wonder what happened there.
But Exxon in Baton Rouge has a refinery
perfect for Venezuelan oil, so they're like, yeah,
bring it on.
Let someone else go do that.
We're not going to do it.
So, it's the weirdest thing.
What is oil at?
Oil is, like, at a very low rate
right now, very low price.
Yeah, that heavy stuff's still expensive.
Yeah.
That's the Brent.
If you look at the two prices, the
West Texas WTI number's always about 10 bucks
less a barrel than Brent, which is the
heavy, sour crap.
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It is 1834, and Adam will read them
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Yes, and we got a really long note,
which I'm not going to read, because we
don't have to, from Mason Strong, but Mason
did say, please consider this a Scott Adams
donation.
He wrote a beautiful eulogy, but it's a
little bit too long.
In fact, it's way too long.
He was very appreciative of what Scott Adams
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It was $150, and Mason is in Cochran,
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ITM.
Thank you.
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And he wants to know, what did I
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I have not watched that.
Have you watched?
I have not.
For some reason, I'm like, I don't desire
to watch Chappelle anymore.
Well, I heard about it like a week
or two ago, this new thing, and I
tried to find it on Netflix, and the
order was out or something.
I said, I just gave up looking for
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Now, it's there.
Now, go look.
By the way, did I say Alberta, California?
Yeah, you did.
I was going to.
The problem is, I can't see what it
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because I'm going back saying, what is he
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Alberta, California?
Well, you know what?
Alberta, Canada?
Is that what he really means?
You know what?
Before you know it, it will be part
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Thank you very much.
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The reason that happens, that's this check that
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There you go.
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Thank you.
Paul Erskine.
I think it's Erskine.
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Wodzis, north, Wodzis, Gisela, I would say Gisela.
Maybe.
Maybe Gisela.
I think Gisela.
Yeah, Gisela.
Gisela, yes, you probably, yeah, I think it
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Yeah, you're running a series of them.
They're all, we know every one of them.
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Oh, the Mercy Side, Great Britain checking in.
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And he says, with this, I'm a little
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Please knight me, Sir Brian of Ashbury.
No jingles.
He does have a request for Guinness and
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For some reason, this doesn't sound, I like
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SFW funded Hulunar in Arnhem, the Netherlands.
And he sent me a note about the
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Yeah.
It's all built on Linux and no AI,
no mention of AI anywhere.
Good.
Well, go play those games.
We'll have $50 from someone on strike.
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And we thank, of course, everybody who came
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We do not read them for reasons of
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This is Baron.
We'll give Alan Bean Baron now.
Oh, he's Baron.
Baron Alan Bean.
Wow.
Put it in your, in your note, man.
Let us know.
He's another guy who's, wait, that comes in
as a check.
So the bank won't do it.
Um, what?
He's another guy has been donating.
He donated when we first asked for donations.
Was he, was he one of the first
ones?
He was one of the first.
He was lived in Oakland and he never
showed up to any meetings.
He lived in Oakland and he sent it
was one $50 check.
And he says, I'll send you one of
these every month is for as long as
you stay good.
Stay good.
As long as the show is good.
Well, there you go.
Giving us $50 a month for, I don't
know, 16 years.
Well, if it was from show one, then
it was longer.
No, it wasn't from show one.
It was when we first asked for money.
Oh, well, we, we started asking for money
sooner than two years in.
Well, you know, knowing you for sure.
Well, somebody has got to do it.
But the, but immediately he sent in a
check for 50 bucks and said, well, I'll
keep sending these checks in as long as
the show stays great.
Now, are they handwritten checks or bank?
Yes.
Yeah.
They're handwritten checks.
So it's not like he's just dead and
it's just on an automatic renewal.
No, no.
They said checks it with a signature on
him.
He could be AI.
I don't know.
Maybe not.
Auto pen.
Auto pen.
He's doing fine.
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Before we get to John's tip of the
day and our end of show mixes, which
are not all AI, I warn you in
advance.
Some stuff you'll probably actually like.
We always like to select the end of
show ISO in this portion of the segment.
I have three, you have two.
Do you want to go first?
No, because I like to bump mine.
Okay, here's number one.
Like, I genuinely think it's hilarious.
Let me try this one.
You guys have had a most magnificent season.
Season.
Season.
This is, this is, this is the one.
These two guys are the best, period.
Come on.
Okay.
Okay, what?
You got it.
You're not even going to play yours?
I'm bumping mine.
All right.
Well, we move straight on to our last
segment, John's tip of the day.
All right.
This website, people should have on their list
of websites they go to routinely.
It's called Snap Files.
Snap Files?
Yeah, Snap Files.
This is a listing of the current, the
current, snapfiles.com, the current freeware and shareware
products that are out there, the latest versions.
Haven't you done this one before?
No, I don't think so.
I've done other stuff similar, but not this
one.
This is different.
All right.
This is basically keeps up with stuff.
So you get, for example, you have, although
this is a different list than it was
the last time I looked, because it keeps
changing daily.
You have like the latest VLN and some
of these other products that you should be
using for it.
And there's products you never think of using.
It's just a good website to get, they
have a freeware pick.
These are software systems that are free.
You don't have to pay money.
Free like AI free?
Free, well, no.
AI is a negative free.
Yeah.
Well, what does it have on here?
What does it have on it?
Freeware.
Shareware.
So they still list shareware?
That's still a thing?
Yeah, well, it is.
This site looks like it's from 1987.
Yeah, well, that's because it's probably made with
shareware.
Nobody said shareware is modern.
Shareware, that was great, wasn't it?
Shareware, shareware.
What do they have under shareware?
We have anti-spam tools.
Well, they still have Outlook add-ons.
Really?
Yeah.
Hey, it's for a real computer enthusiast.
And there's freeware.
Oh, man, my favorite freeware.
Open source, formerly known as freeware.
Wow.
Will this load on Windows?
Or do you need Windows 3.1 to
use?
No, it loads fine.
Okay.
There he is, your tip of the day.
Find them all at noagendafund.com, tipoftheday.net.
And sometimes add-on.
Created by Dana Brunetti.
If you stay tuned to the No Agenda
stream, noagendastream.com, you will hear up next
on the stream, who are these broadcasters?
I've not heard this, have I heard this
podcast?
Who are these podcasters?
No, who are these broadcasters?
I think it's the same guys.
Okay.
Nikki Glazer's Golden Globes and a crybaby takes
over CBS.
Oh, yeah, we didn't do anything on the
Globe.
You know, it's interesting to note that we've
stopped covering the award shows completely on this
show.
We used to mock them.
Well, because they had shills with a podcast
award and Snoop Dogg awarded it.
And as far as I'm concerned, if Joe
Rogan isn't nominated, it's bogus.
And I agree with that.
And us, of course.
It's totally bogus.
So sorry, M5M, we're not promoting you.
End of show mixes.
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I'm John C.
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Until then, adios, mofos, hui hui, and such.
And I'm adding one more.
We're bringing all the true coins right to
the shore.
The frozen north is open for the ultimate
trade.
The biggest real estate deal that has ever
been made.
Queen Lil Marco's busy on the digital screen,
turning every tundra into something pristine.
We sent a gazillion million tokens through the
cold Arctic air to buy a massive island
with the landlord's flair.
It's the 50-foot estate, and it's shining
so bright.
Paid in full with the crypto in the
middle of the night.
The U.S. is getting bigger as the
glaciers all shine.
We're the digital currency that is truly divine.
Welcome to the union.
Well, that was something we read about in
our newspapers that was always happening in other
countries.
Perhaps the people in other countries had just
reasons to riot against their governments.
After all, many of the nations of the
world are dictatorships in one form or another.
What business was it of ours anyway?
Newsworthy, perhaps, but it could never happen here.
Then, in the summer of 1964, widespread rioting
and looting suddenly broke out in Harlem, in
Rochester, in Newark, in Jersey City, in Philadelphia,
Cleveland, and Chicago.
All within a few days of each other.
It was as though an unseen hand had
given the signal.
Then, on August 18, 1965, guns replaced nightsticks
in the hands of law enforcement officers as
the Watts area of Los Angeles literally burst
into a cauldron of insurrection.
Thousands of rioters roamed the streets both night
and day, smashing and looting, and setting the
torch to over 50 square miles of the
city.
Hidden snipers held police and firefighters at bay
as fires raged unabated.
At least 35 Americans died in the violence
and gunfire.
The sheer magnitude of this monstrous madness drained
the abilities of the civil authorities, and the
California National Guard was sent to Watts with
orders to quell the violence with brute force
if necessary.
The spectacle of American soldiers shooting it up
with American civilians was even more shocking than
the rioting itself.
The nation was stunned and horrified, but no
smugglers now.
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