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I'd be on your podcast, always on your
pod, had you, that was great.
Yeah, we agree.
Oh yeah, I totally agree.
Adam Currie, John C.
Dvorak.
It's Sunday, January 18th, 2026, this year award
-winning GiveOnNation media assassination episode 1835.
This is no agenda.
It's WEF Week!
And we're broadcasting live from the heart of
the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA region
number six.
Good morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Currie.
Yeah, from Northern Silicon Valley, where the plot
thickens.
I'm John C.
Dvorak.
Oh man, what plot could that be?
There's so many plots.
I don't know what you would know.
All I know is I've got Davos fever.
This is it, the Super Bowl.
Davos fever, WEF Week is coming.
I'm always excited about Davos.
Yeah, he'll be talking on the 21st and
he's going to say nothing.
Oh, he's going to say lots of stuff.
First of all, he's going to take their
bicycles away.
I think that's possible.
I don't think they use bicycles in Davos.
Yeah, well, we'll see if he says nothing.
Obviously, he's going to say something because his
mouth will be moving and words will be
coming out.
And I remember the last time he spoke
at Davos, he said globalism is not the
way, nationalism is the way.
That was kind of a, that was a
statement back in the day.
I think he's just going to talk about
Greenland.
We'll see.
We'll see.
He's taking the full crew, so.
Yeah, they all want to go skiing.
Ah, you are always so upbeat about what's
happening in the world.
What's his name, your buddy?
The second, the Ege, he's a big skier.
Of course he is.
I can, I'll bet he looks good on
the slopes too.
You know what I mean?
He's got, he probably, he tans real quick.
You know, one of those guys.
One of those guys, like, hey boys, time
for some apres ski.
Are you ready?
I, you know, I think the skiing actually
isn't exactly right in the village.
I think they have to get on a
bus to go skiing in Davos.
I don't think you walk out.
It's not like Aspen.
I've known at least two people that have
been to Davos and the whole thing's about
the skiing.
Right, but is it like Aspen where you
walk right out?
No, no, it's not like, no, it's not
like you don't step out of your hotel
and jump on a slope, no.
Well, just so you know, it's my beat.
I'm excited.
I love it when CNBC is on the
scene and they're sitting there out on the
cold.
For what reason?
I'll never understand.
It's like, let's make sure everybody knows we're
here in Davos.
And on a balcony.
I know why.
Okay.
Skiing.
No, why do they have, their set is
always outside.
Yeah, it is, yeah.
So they can get used to the skiing
temperatures.
I don't know.
It's idiotic.
You're right.
I love it.
And there's always someone says something dumb, like
Bill Gates always says something stupid.
No, I find it to be interesting because
they're all kind of loosened up.
You know, you're right.
They're all like, oh, it's great here.
You know, we got to sit through this
stupid conference, but then we'll go skiing.
And at night, well, we know what happens
there.
We know.
We haven't gotten a report yet.
No mainstream media has done a report on
the prostitutes of Davos.
Usually they do that.
I don't remember too many reports on the
prostitutes.
I know about them.
They ship them in because there's not, there's
no prostitutes in Davos.
Well, because who, what the hell are they
going to do there?
Yeah, exactly.
Well, here's a very, I'm following Davos radio,
which for some reason is on YouTube, but
okay, Davos radio, and they have a little
set.
And this is the, this is very short,
just an intro.
This is the, so, you know, they kicked
out Klaus Schwab.
He's gone, which is kind of sad because
he set the tone and it made you
feel groovy.
Yeah, you know who took over, right?
Well, I know who the managing director is
who took over.
Larry Fink of BlackRock.
Well, Larry Fink, so he's part of it,
but he's not, he's not the co-chair.
Yes, but he's not the managing director.
By the way, I'm getting a lot of
slap back.
You are?
Can you turn your speakers down?
I don't think that's me.
Let me see.
Yes, I'm hearing myself.
Hey, John.
You're hearing yourself?
Well, maybe, well, if you turn your speakers
down, you won't hear yourself through the speakers.
There's, well, then I won't hear anything.
You could always consider headphones.
Well, no, I'd be hearing it.
What would that make a difference?
I'd still hear myself.
Well, no one's hearing it double here.
It sounds good.
Okay, well, let's slide.
I don't, I'm trying, nothing's, I'm sorry.
I didn't change anything.
Nothing's changed.
There you go.
So here is the forum managing director, Sadia
Zahid, who's young woman.
She looks like she's got what it takes
to entertain a bunch of boring people.
And they, of course, released their global risk
report because that's what it's all about.
And here is her talking about the headlines
of what's in the global risk report.
What is the main headline this year?
So we find that, of course, in the
very short term, and this is probably no
surprise to our audience, but in the very
short term, geoeconomic confrontation and state-based armed
conflict are the two things that readers are
extremely worried about in 2026.
And then you look two years out and
geoeconomic confrontation actually stays at the very top,
but it's followed closely by misinformation and then
polarization.
And then in the longer term, in that
10-year outlook, that is where the environmental
risks are again at the very top, extreme
weather, biodiversity loss and critical changes to earth
systems.
But following pretty closely behind is again misinformation
and one of the largest rises, which is
around the potential adverse outcomes of AI technology.
They seem to be very worried about misinformation
from AI technologies.
Wow, that is me.
I don't know why that happened.
No, I know what happened.
I know what's going on.
I took my hearing aids out and so
I have the headphones cranked up.
You're probably hearing yourself through my headphones.
Oh, why'd you take the hearing aids out?
Well, it doesn't work very well with headphones.
Yeah.
And I tried- Why don't you work
on open air?
Well, how would that be any better?
I can't hear.
With the hearing aids.
No, no, no.
I've been accustomed to this for 45 years.
There's no way I can use open air.
Like I'm on AM radio in the 50s.
No.
This is WABC, I cover you all ships
and sea.
I don't need headphones.
No, I don't think so.
I'm a modern radio guy.
Modern radio guy, cans.
Cans, man.
Why don't you use the Apple Buds?
Well, unfortunately, there's this thing called AuraCast.
I think we talked about it.
You can broadcast it to the hearing aids.
Yes, that's right.
And it works really well.
I got the little adapter, plugged it into
my roadcaster.
But then my voice, just because of all
the processing, is about, you know, three, I'd
say like 30 milliseconds behind.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Yes.
What?
Wow.
So if you're listening to TV.
That's no good.
Well, no, if you're listening to TV or
something, it's great because you won't see that
difference with people's mouths moving.
But when you're speaking, it's coming back three
tenths of a second later.
Then you start to talk like this, talk
like this.
Anyway, I will be reporting on everything from
the WEF.
It's WEF week.
WEF week, and I'm excited.
And I think something will come out of
this.
Maybe Trump is just going to negotiate the
terms of surrender.
I doubt it.
You're so cynical.
I have great hope in terms of...
Surrender what?
To who?
To us.
Just surrender.
Give us Greenland.
Shut up.
Go away.
We're in charge.
Canada.
You're the next Ukraine.
I think maybe something like that.
Hey, have you been gone back to smoking
dope?
No, no.
What's he going to say?
He's not going to do anything like that.
Okay, we understand what your opinion is.
What is my opinion?
He's going to say nothing.
You said it at the beginning.
Yeah, he's going to say, well, he's going
to talk about Greenland a lot.
Okay, well, I am excited.
I think Greenland is fabulous.
I love the step up that we've done.
I think it's great.
I'd like to know.
I have a clip.
Okay.
I'd like to ask you a question about
this.
All right.
This is the Greenland clip.
This is...
Murkowski?
Yeah.
Can I guess the question or should I
ask the question after the clip?
I would play the clip and then I
want you to guess.
You will guess it.
This is bothersome.
That's why the fact that you brought it
up, you know what the question is.
I already know because I have a similar
clip.
President Trump stepped up his threats about taking
over Greenland today, suggesting that he may place
tariffs on countries that don't support U.S.
control of the territory.
Mr. Trump made the comments during an event
at the White House today where he repeated
his claim that the U.S. needs Greenland
for national security reasons.
It comes as a bipartisan delegation of U
.S. lawmakers were in Copenhagen today.
They met with the leaders of Denmark and
Greenland in an effort to, as they put
it, lower the temperature.
Alaska Republican Lisa Murkowski told reporters the majority
of Americans disagree with President Trump.
Greenland needs to be viewed as our ally,
not as an asset.
When you ask the American people whether or
not they think it is a good idea
for the United States to acquire Greenland, the
vast majority, some 75 percent, will say, we
do not think that that is a good
idea.
Murkowski also told reporters there are, quote, tools
at our disposal for Congress to rein in
President Trump's ambitions towards Greenland, though he himself
has said that anything less than U.S.
control is unacceptable.
Okay, well, you didn't have exactly the same
clip as I had.
My clip, which is a little shorter and
I'll play in a moment, the question I
would have asked is, why are our representatives
going to Greenland?
Because that was the context of this interview.
They're going to Denmark, I think, and then
to Greenland.
They're leaving D.C. to go and visit.
That would be my question.
No, it's not.
You missed it.
Isn't this a violation of the Logan Act?
They made a big fuss about everything that
was going on with Flynn and everybody else
about the Logan Act, the Logan Act.
This is a violation of the Logan Act.
This is non-representatives of the U.S.
government.
They're not representing the Trump administration doing foreign
affairs stuff.
This is the Logan Act violation.
They should be all thrown in jail.
You might have to help us again with
exactly what the Logan Act is.
The Logan Act was passed in the late
1700s, and it says if you're not a
representative of this government, you cannot do negotiations
with foreign countries on your own as an
independent person or group or citizen.
Are they doing negotiations?
I mean, I think the text matters.
They're over there.
What are they doing?
They're over in Denmark talking to who?
What, the public?
They're going around, hey, buddy, what do you
think about this?
No, they're having brown cheese.
They're having fondue.
They're doing that, too.
But this is a clear violation of the
Logan Act.
This is a clear violation of the Logan
Act, and they should all be indicted.
They should be arrested and then pulled back
in irons.
We should bring them back.
It's about time.
No, no, well, maybe James Comer can do
something about it.
Well, here's James Comer.
Oh, no, I'm sorry, Comer.
I have Coons.
Let me just see the Logan Act.
They made a big, the Democrats make a
big fuss about the Logan Act.
Oh, you mean the news media doesn't make
a fuss of it?
No one makes a fuss of it when
it's about Trump?
Well, surprise.
OK, the Logan Act, which was a response,
this is interesting, I didn't know it was
a response to an effort by a Philadelphia
Quaker named George Logan to try and negotiate
directly with the French government.
Yeah.
OK, so the law criminalizes the negotiation of
a dispute between the United States and a
foreign government by an unauthorized American citizen.
OK, so unauthorized, I presume, would mean that
you have to be authorized by the president.
Yeah, you have to be authorized by the
president or secretary of state.
Well, we should throw her in jail, along
with Senator Coons, who was there.
And part of the point of this trip
is to have a bipartisan group of members
of Congress listen.
My point is, why are members of Congress
who represent states doing this?
That's my point, too.
This is a violation of the Logan Act.
It's a violation of their job description.
Listen respectfully to our friends, our trusted allies
and partners here in Denmark and from Greenland,
and to go back to the United States
and share those perspectives so that we can
lower the temperature.
When you ask the American people whether or
not they think it is a good idea
for the United States to acquire Greenland, the
vast majority will say we do not think
that that is a good idea.
Really, what poll is that?
This senator from Alaska does not think it
is a good idea.
Well, good for you, lady.
Oh, you're stepping on the cliff.
Hold on.
This meeting comes, as President Trump said at
an event in D.C. today, that he
was considering using tariffs to pressure countries to
accept the U.S. take over the semi
-autonomous Danish territory.
Now, Trump argues Greenland is vital to U
.S. security because of its location and supply
of minerals.
He has not ruled out the use of
force to take it.
European nations- I always love how they
throw in minerals.
It's minerals.
It's gold.
It's oil.
All the things it's not.
Trump argues Greenland is vital- Right, exactly.
And I don't think I've heard Trump say
specifically, oh, it's minerals, as this report states.
No, you can't get those minerals out of
there unless you bomb the place and melt
the ice.
It's too cold.
Trump argues Greenland is vital to U.S.
security because of its location and supply of
minerals.
He has not ruled out the use of
force to take it.
European nations this week sent small numbers of
military personnel to the island at the request
of Denmark, a NATO ally.
A NATO ally.
So the Europeans are all in a tizzy
because of the tariffs.
And the president did promise.
He said, hey, you know, we can do
this the easy way or the hard way.
And I believe this 10 percent ratcheting to
25 to, I guess, the sky is the
limit, is part of the hard way.
Here's a report from our European friends.
Summoned to Brussels to discuss it.
And I'm always surprised that Euronews keeps using
an African guy to do their voiceovers.
I'm just baffled by it.
Summoned to Brussels to discuss an escalating.
So so the NHK News, when they do
their weather report.
The NHK out of Japan, out of Tokyo,
they use a black guy as the weatherman.
Is this is this a black guys are
even in Japan.
Astrid should tell us.
Summoned to Brussels to discuss an escalating crisis.
EU ambassadors will have an emergency meeting Sunday.
They'll look for a united response to Donald
Trump's threat to impose escalating tariffs on eight
European countries until the purchase of Greenland is
completed.
10 percent at the beginning of February and
then 25 percent by summer.
A response from European Commission President Ursula von
der Leyen was swift on social media.
Tariffs would undermine transatlantic relations and risk a
dangerous downward spiral.
Europe will remain united, coordinated and committed to
upholding its sovereignty.
President Macron had only just sent a symbolic
detachment of French troops to conduct exercises with
Danish soldiers charged with defending Greenland and was
quick to link the situation to wider European
security concerns.
No intimidation, no threat will influence us, neither
in Ukraine nor in Greenland or anywhere else
in the world where we are confronted with
such situations.
Tariff threats are unacceptable and have no place
in this context.
Unacceptable, I tell you.
Well, they have no, all they have is
unacceptable.
This is not, this is not right.
This is not how you're supposed to deal
with us.
I didn't clip her, but.
But everybody knows that the United States has
had bases in Greenland since World War II.
Yes.
So we're there already.
Yes.
Up in the top part.
Yes.
Well, they're making it sound like we're invading
the place.
We've already been there.
Well, because the president said he alluded as
a troll, like, well, you know, I could
just go there and take it by force.
You know, that's.
Yeah, he's not going to do that.
No, of course not.
But that's one day, one day the rest
of the political landscape will figure out his
algo and stop responding that way.
But we did get our scheme.
Well, that's wishful thinking.
You're right.
Are you crazy?
No, they won't.
They're never going to figure.
It's so easy to figure out.
But they will now.
So our our skier, we need a name.
Scott, the Shusher Besant.
Scott, the Shusher.
I like Shusher.
Shusher.
Yeah.
So Scott was on with Manhans Welker this
morning.
And of course, the discussion turned to Greenland.
President Trump threatening to impose steep tariffs against
some of America's closest European and NATO allies.
The leaders of Denmark and Greenland say bluntly
Greenland is not for sale.
What makes President Trump think it is?
Kristen, if we look for you.
Wait, wait.
The first answer should have been, as everybody
knows this, everything is for sale.
Is this not something we always say in
business?
Everything is for sale at the right price.
I wonder why he didn't say that.
Yeah, he's green.
He's green.
He's still green around the gills.
What makes President Trump think it is?
Kristen, if we look for years, for for
over a century, American presidents have wanted to
acquire Greenland.
And what we can see is the Greenland
is the essential to the US national security.
We're building the Golden Dome, the missile system.
And look, President Trump is looking is being
strategic.
He's looking beyond this year.
He's looking beyond next year to what could
happen for a battle in the Arctic.
We are not going to outsource our national
security.
We are not going to outsource our hemispheric
security to other countries.
In Trump 1.0, President Trump told the
Europeans, do not do not build Nord Stream
2.
Do not rely on Russian oil.
And guess what, Kristen?
Guess what is funding Russia's efforts against Ukraine?
European purchases of Russian oil.
So America has to be in control here.
I like the addition of the Golden Dome
as another because it a it's not true,
probably.
B, yeah, right.
Whatever it does.
It does make all the military industrial complex
companies go, oh, hold on a second.
I got to talk to my counterparts in
Brussels about this.
Because, you know, that's how it works.
Hey, let's go out to dinner.
Yeah.
Want some caviar?
I got to talk about Greenland with you
because, you know, we could build some fabulous
stuff for the Golden Dome.
You'll benefit.
You'll benefit.
But the fight for the Arctic, it's real,
man.
Is this a negotiating tactic, Mr. Secretary, or
is President Trump serious about annexing Greenland?
President Trump strongly believes that we cannot outsource
our security because, Kristen, let me tell you
what will happen.
And it might not be next year.
Might not be in five years.
But down the road, this fight for the
Arctic is real.
We would keep our NATO.
Did he say Israel?
Sounded like he said Israel.
But down the road, this fight for the
Arctic is real.
We would keep our NATO.
The Mossad is all right.
BB's making him do it.
It's clear.
Down the road, this fight for the Arctic
is real.
We would keep our NATO code.
Our NATO guarantees.
And if there were an attack on Greenland
from Russia, from some other area, we would
get dragged in.
So better now.
Peace through strength.
Make it part of the United States.
And there will not be a conflict because
the United States right now, we are the
hottest country in the world.
We are the strongest country in the world.
Europeans project weakness.
The U.S. projects strength.
Do you think that he comes down the
slope like, hey, I'm Scott Besson, Treasury Secretary
of the hottest country in the world.
What's your name, son?
OK, this is good.
There's only two more.
But I just I just love I'm a
big Besson fan.
I can't help myself.
Senior Democrats say there are no pressing threats
on Greenland security from Russia or China.
The Danish foreign minister says there hasn't been
a Chinese warship in Greenland for a decade.
What evidence do you have that this is
a pressing threat?
There is no evidence.
First of all, Kristen, we have asymmetric information.
And again, President Trump.
Wow.
What does that mean?
Well, first of all, we have asymmetric information.
I'm just going to use that.
That's a that is a kind of a
hybrid term that, again, as we've both pointed
out, that this administration is filled with these
Silicon Valley a-holes who are coming up
with these, you know, these terms, new creative
ways of saying nothing.
And I think that's one of them.
I think it's something you can say if
you have a disagreement with your spouse.
Listen, honey, we have asymmetric information here.
OK.
Everybody, try that out.
Let me know how it goes.
There hasn't been a Chinese warship in Greenland
for a decade.
What evidence do you have that this is
a pressing threat?
Well, first of all, Kristen, we have asymmetric
information.
And again, President Trump is being strategic.
Hold on a second.
Why didn't she stop him in his tracks?
What is wrong with her?
You're acting like Kristen Welker is smart.
She's a DEI hire.
Somebody should you when when somebody says that
to you in an interview like that, you
stop him right there and ask him to
specifically say what they mean.
What do you mean by that?
What do you mean by asymmetric information?
It's great.
What do you mean specifically?
What do you mean?
You mean you getting lopsided information, something that's
got a bulge that we don't get or
the general public doesn't hear is is a
different form of information.
What do you mean?
It makes no sense.
That word.
Well, I hate to disappoint you.
She did not say that.
This is a pressing threat.
Well, first of all, Kristen, we have asymmetric
information.
And again, President Trump is being strategic here.
They what what evidence was there that the
Russians were going into Crimea?
What evidence was it?
Well, actually, there was a lot of evidence
that the Russians were.
Wait, wait.
He corrects himself.
And you can hear him stuttering because you
can hear he has an interesting brain.
And and his mouth sometimes goes a little
too fast and his brain stops his mouth.
I don't know.
We had a lot of information.
But then he's going to throw Biden under
the bus as he should.
What what evidence was there that the Russians
were going into Crimea?
What evidence was it?
Well, actually, there was a lot of evidence
that the Russians were going to go into
Ukraine.
Biden said, well, just take a little bit
of it.
But what we know is that the US,
the Greenland can only be defended if it
is part of the US and it will
not need to be defended if it is
part of the US.
The president is trying to avoid a conflict.
You bring up Crimea.
The president, as far as I have heard,
has not taken military force off the table.
If the United States were to take Greenland
by force, how would that be different than
Russia's annexation of Crimea?
Look, I believe that the Europeans will understand
that this is best for Greenland, best for
Europe and best for the United States.
Military action is still on the table.
I haven't spoken with the president on that.
And again, I believe that the Europeans will
understand that the best outcome is for the
US to maintain or receive control of Greenland.
Once we tighten the screws a little bit
more, I think they'll start to come around.
They will understand.
This guy, he's kind of frightening.
You know, he's one of those.
Well, there's a lot of illogic in his
approach.
He does a pretty good job of it.
He, for example, says that, you know, the
place needs the US to ownership for protection,
when in fact, it's as part of NATO,
it's protected by Section 5, Article 5, whatever
it is.
So that we're supposed to protect it anyway.
So that's bullcrap.
There's, you know, there may be something we're
completely under.
I mean, there is.
And I'm an idiot for not, I don't
know why I didn't clip it.
I'm sure it's not on the clip list
about the guy who says there's a flying
saucer there.
That's the real reason that we're won.
What?
Yeah, this was the second half of the
show.
You really, I mean, you've let the show
down by not.
I know, I feel terrible.
I have not heard this show.
You win the show.
I have not heard this one and I'm
upset now.
Yeah, there's a flying saucer there, which is
a weather modification saucer that they've did that
is being uncovered as the ice melts.
And it's huge.
It's a monster.
It's like the size of Manhattan.
Wow.
And it's been revealing itself.
And now we have to take ice now
so we can go get because it's still
running.
And it's still, it's still got people in
there monitoring what's going on here.
Can you imagine?
It's not a, it's not a slouch of
an old beat up thing.
It's, it's been there.
Well, well, Kristen, you have to understand when
the ice melts and.
That may be the asymmetric thing he's talking
about.
Yes, we have asymmetric information, Kristen.
When the ice melts and the saucer is
revealed, we don't want the Russians to get
that.
Now, do we now?
That's not how the interview ended, unfortunately.
OK, let's talk about being strategic.
The United States has a base in Greenland.
I've been talking to lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
Why?
Denmark has given the United States green light
to beef up its security as much as
is needed in Greenland.
Why not take that route?
Why is it necessary to take over and
annex all of Greenland?
Something that 85 percent of people living in
Greenland oppose.
Who said that?
What is she making this up?
Yeah, they're doing all kinds of, you know,
Eskimo on the on the ice as opposed
to man on the street.
And you get some dude who's like, oh,
he's wearing a, you know, don't don't make
Greenland great again.
Red hats.
I mean, this.
Well, let's stop for a second with these
clips and let me ask you something.
What is the why is anybody objecting to
us taking over Greenland?
Well, when you say anybody, do you mean
the people in the EU?
And while I mean, the Russians and the
Chinese got nothing to do with this, only
the EU and Denmark.
And they're they don't they're not doing anything.
This is like it's in our hemisphere.
We were reinstituting the Monroe Doctrine, the form
of the Don Roe Doctrine.
And we want Greenland.
We've wanted it before.
And they just want to hold on to
it for dear life.
For what purpose?
OK, I'm just guessing.
But my thoughts are twofold.
And I do want to play this.
Finish this clip.
Twofold.
One is the Europeans still want to get
illegal or sanctioned oil.
And it comes through the G.I. U
.K. gap.
And the less people know about that, the
better.
And the second one, I think it has
everything to do with Canada is the Canada
is a problem.
They are not nothing about the Canadians, but
I'm talking about Carney and the crown.
You know, the the the the prince, the
king, he went to visit Canada.
Everyone like kissed his feet.
So I guess he still owns it, you
know, or the whatever.
However, that works in that system.
Very fuzzy.
Carney.
And I know you have clips on it.
We'll get to in a second.
You know, he's he's in China.
So how it's a it's a it's a
clean shot.
You know, these are great shipping routes.
We want to control what Europe gets.
And we want to control what Canada gets.
I think that's that's the reason it's it.
You're right.
It's our hemisphere.
People may not like it, but that's that's
what it is.
And so it's all about control of the
shipping, all of those, even the ghost ships.
You know, they all go up through there
and they turn around and they they offload
stuff and they're doing stuff, you know, turn
off the transponders.
I think it is it's a direct attack
on Europe saying we're in control of this.
Let me finish the clip.
Necessary to take over and annex all of
Greenland.
Something that 85 percent of people living in
Greenland oppose.
Well, again, let's let's look back.
Denmark has a terrible history with Greenlanders.
There was forced sterilizations up until the 80s
or the 90s.
So all of a sudden.
Wow.
Wow.
He's he's pulling out the podcast stuff.
Nice.
Until the 80s or the 90s.
So all of a sudden, now that the
U.S. has expressed an interest, there is
this new interest.
And again, the United States needs to be
in control to prevent a war and that
we do not want to get dragged into
someone else's war.
Well, but this is about the United States
relationship with its allies, NATO allies, again, reacting
with alarm.
They're warning that this move to annex Greenland
could, in fact, destroy NATO.
So let me just put this good to
you bluntly.
Is Greenland or NATO more essential to the
United States national security?
Well, Chris, that's obviously a false choice that
that that's that's a maximum perspective of European
leaders.
The European leaders will come around and they
will understand that they need to be under
the U.S. security umbrella.
They'll get it.
Don't worry.
They'll understand.
So it was only cute.
It was only cute.
It was only in September when Marie Frederiksen,
the prime minister of Denmark, issued an official
apology to Greenland, calling the campaign to manage
Greenland's population.
She called it systemic discrimination.
It's also known as, oh, what's the word?
Eugenics.
They sterilize.
That's why they do.
That's why when you see the man on
the street reports from Greenland, all the people
say we hate the Danes.
Of course they do, because it was four
and a half thousand women and girls, someone
as young as 12.
They said, hey, come over here.
Boom, here's an IUD.
Without consent or knowledge, often.
And and and so Denmark, this ran up
until 1992.
It was a huge report, 350 pages.
And liberating them.
Yeah.
So.
You know, and where is the Welker?
Where's your report on that?
That would be rather interesting to report on.
That I mean, actual eugenics by the Danes
on the Greenlanders.
Why?
What were they afraid of?
They would multiply like bunnies and then do
something that was going to do here in
Greenland.
They're going to build more houses.
So.
You know, I'm really quite sure.
And by the way, it was interesting.
Hold on a second.
Where is it?
So as if Putin and Trump are having
some kind of phone call.
Which is very possible and possibly even likely.
Here's here's what happened this week with Putin
about Europe.
It's a surprise announcement.
Russian President Vladimir Putin says he's ready to
repair diplomatic ties with Europe, despite relations remaining
at their lowest point since Russia's full scale
invasion of Ukraine.
I would like to believe that over time
the situation will change and our countries will
return to normal constructive communication based on the
principles of respect for national interests and consideration
of legitimate security concerns.
Russia has been and remains committed to precisely
these approaches and is ready to restore the
level of relations we require.
Putin's comments come as Italy and France have
urged Europe to re-engage with the Kremlin.
Until now, European leaders have resisted direct talks,
pointing to Putin's lack of commitment to genuine
peace negotiations.
What do you think that play is?
All of a sudden Putin's like, hey, you
know, I'd love to hang out and talk
with you guys.
I have no idea.
Which is kind of the problem is it's
it's asymmetric.
That's asymmetric information.
Exactly.
It's a problem.
Yeah.
And I have no idea.
And then, of course, we have Carney in
China.
I know you have clips.
I'll play a little intro.
There's not that much.
I mean, Carney in China is something of
a red herring, I think.
But I thought it was fun.
It was fun.
Here's here's the 17 seconds of fun I
got.
As you mentioned, mine is the first visit
of a Canadian prime minister to China in
nearly a decade.
The world has changed much since that last
visit.
And I believe the progress that we have
made in the partnership sets us up well
for the new world order.
The new world order.
Yes, the clip that's been going around.
I love it.
More like, please don't change anything.
This is no good.
We don't like what Trump's doing.
We're afraid.
What's your Carney clip?
I have two Carney clips.
OK, I have I have Carney in Canada,
which is kind of a backgrounder.
Uh, we'll start with Carney.
It says minus.
Is that the yeah, that Canada's Prime Minister
Mark Carney announced today that his country is
cutting its 100 percent tariffs on electric vehicles
from China.
We started a new era, a new chapter
of our partnership.
Carney made the announcement during a visit to
China, the first by a Canadian leader in
eight years.
In exchange, Canada will get lower tariffs on
some farm products.
Carney and Chinese President Xi Jinping also pledged
to work on building stronger ties between their
two nations after years of tensions.
Canada has largely followed the U.S. in
imposing tariffs on Chinese products.
But Carney said today that they are building
a new partnership for what he called current
realities.
So they're all going to be driving electric
cars.
Great.
No, they just can't.
This report sucks.
This is PBS.
They left out a couple of things.
One 49000 car cap.
Yeah, I think that's important.
No, that's that amounts to like three total
percent of all the cars in Canada.
It's nothing.
So the other thing is, why did they
leave out that little when you played them?
I'm glad you played that clip, by the
way.
Why did they leave that part out?
That's the best part.
It's the most interesting, interesting part where he
talks about new new world order.
There's a new world order.
So there's this kid, I call him a
kid.
I don't know.
He's Chinese, so he can't tell how old
he is.
Ken Chow.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I missed the racist comment.
There we go.
Yes, we heard it.
We got you.
Yeah.
Can't tell.
Yeah, I'm sorry.
I shouldn't be doing material like that.
Very, very, very, very bad.
So this guy, Chow, he runs a he's
he's one of these online commentators, but he's
quite good.
And his commentation tends to be about China
going down the tubes.
And I was going to go broke any
minute, which is not there's a guy at
Stanford.
I've been hearing about this.
I've been reading that there's a lot of
people on this boat.
Yeah.
And so this guy's one of them, but
he makes a very good.
I think his little analysis of Carney here,
which is which is more elaborate than our
buddies on PBS, I thought was was valid.
This is a good analysis.
And here's the structural reality.
Canada cannot escape over 75 percent of Canadian
exports go to the U.S. and less
than 5 percent go to China.
That's the mismatch of the century.
In 2025, Canada-U.S. trade is more
than one trillion U.S. dollars, runs a
huge trade surplus with U.S. Canada to
China exports less than 30 billion dollars.
Trade deficit with China, 57.8 billion dollars.
So the U.S. bankrolls Canada's economy while
China drains it.
And security wise, Canada is welded to the
U.S. through NATO and NORAD.
You cannot change geography.
There is no universe, alternative universe where that
can be changed.
And interestingly, this deal also exposed Canada's internal
split.
As I said, Western farmers needed tariff relief.
But Eastern auto workers fear the Chinese dumping
of EVs.
Ontario premier called the Chinese EVs subsidized spy
cars.
So this is a political tradeoff.
Limited EV access, relief for farmers.
That is the only substance of this China
visit by Carney.
And Washington barely reacted.
Why?
Because nothing strategic changed.
Yeah, I think I think he's right.
This is a good kid.
Yeah, I mean, the canola oil, I guess
that's the main thing.
You export more canola oil.
Actually, the canola oil wasn't part of the
deal as much as it was just the
other products from the Canadian.
So I thought it was mainly about the
canola oil.
I misunderstood.
We have asynchronous information.
So yes, we do, which is why the
show is good.
And and so then we have finally I
was able to get, I thought, a reasonable
report about the Alberta separatists and people coming
out in droves for the to sign the
referendum.
This came from Global News.
I was looking for it.
Finally, the chill of a central Alberta night
in January couldn't keep hundreds from lining up
in Red Deer for a chance to support
an independent Alberta.
It's been an abusive relationship for so long,
really.
It's I think most of us just want
out.
Everybody's fed up.
We're done with it.
We've got to do something.
At the end of the line that snaked
around the block, a chance to sign a
petition calling for a referendum that would ask,
do you agree that the province of Alberta
should cease to be a part of Canada
to become an independent state?
I am actually honoured to be here and
see the huge turnout of everybody.
And it makes us all proud to be
Albertan.
The wait here to sign this petition is
more than an hour long, and this is
just one of three signing events being held
across Alberta on this particular night.
Organizers have to collect just under 178,000
signatures.
The turnout here, fueling optimism that that could
be done.
Yeah, I think that'll happen.
But then that's just the ref.
That's just to get the referendum.
Then, of course, you have the referendum and
they'll tell them that they voted wrong because
that's how it works in those countries.
Vote over.
I got a really interesting note.
It's too long to read.
I have it.
Mike McDonald, the long analysis.
Yeah, I put it in the show notes
so people can read it for themselves.
Oh, yeah, that'd be great.
People should go read it.
But I'll just read through.
He set it out in steps.
And so I'll just read the steps.
Step one.
But in that, I'm just prefacing it a
little bit.
In the scenario he presents, which he and
his buddy developed.
The guy lives in Southern California, but he's
Canadian.
And it's dynamite.
But it's not, I believe it to be
true.
And he does make what he does point
out the anomaly that has to be noted,
which is that Carney and Trump have had
a previous relationship.
And Carney and Trump submarine that other guy,
the pull of the pull, whatever the character
is, Paul of year, Paul of years campaign.
And he is the guy that would be
a better.
He's a conservative and he would have been
a better prime minister.
And Trump went out of his way to
submarine him and help get Carney in.
And Carney's the liberal who's going to Canada.
I'm sorry, going to China and having the
visits.
The whole thing is a scam.
And this guy's presentation, I think this are
producers commentary, I think is right on the
money.
So he starts by saying, step one, create
the conditions for the destruction of Canada.
Then his whole thesis is what we put
through Trudeau was put into power to make
us weak, to soften everybody, everybody up.
And he says Carney's role is to be
the closer to which I kind of like.
That is great.
And of course, every issue in Canada has
a Trump angle to it.
Step two, create momentum for Alberta independence in
progress, obviously.
Step three, get Alberta to hold a successful
referendum.
And he says that that has been started.
And again, I question that because that's hard
to do.
And in these countries, just like Ireland, you
know, vote again.
You did it wrong.
The step for post-referendum chaos.
He says this is the wild speculation part,
but we need some chaos.
It's always good to change, to change stuff.
Five, restore order and protect strategic resources.
And then Canada implodes.
Trump sends in troops to restore order, quote,
and prevent bloodshed and to protect our strategic
resources.
And I'm pretty sure that that Canadians would
welcome that if there really was chaos, like,
hey, what's all the fighting?
Hey, it's no good.
We want OOT.
Then, of course, Alberta would be a protectorate
and we'll get our pipeline with all the
oil.
And then he goes in, he kind of
goes off the rails with NATO getting involved.
And I'm not sure, but he says, watch
what happens to Greenland.
If NATO survives, then our scenario is a
little more difficult.
So he's banking on NATO blowing up with
what Trump is doing.
Well, if you wanted to go with that
thesis, you could make the argument that the
only, the real reason to do the Greenland
gambit.
Is to blow up NATO.
Is to blow up NATO.
So we'll call it the Greenland gambit.
I like Greenland gambit.
Potential show title.
Good show title too.
I'm gonna write that down.
Yes.
And so that would rationalize the whole Greenland
action.
If you were out to blow up NATO,
which is quite possible.
Because I don't think Trump's ever liked NATO.
He comes back and forth.
It's been a drain on the U.S.
economy.
There's been a couple of, I mean, these
are just useless drains.
It's not a drain that's done us any
good.
Although it has done a lot of good
for the Blockheeds and the military industrial complex.
Yes, yes.
But with or without our being part of
it, I mean, we've been kind of extracting
ourselves and making them buy more stuff than
less stuff.
We were buying all this stuff before and
giving it to them.
Well, so this clip that I skipped on
the Greenland gambit may come into play.
Because, as you know, everybody sent five guys,
I think.
Like, oh, NATO is doing exercises in Greenland.
Yeah, right.
You got 32 people or something like that.
A couple of dudes hanging out there.
And here's this one.
Or as Trump puts it, one more dog
sled.
Yes.
And here's France 24.
Inviting a possible invader to join your military
exercise is an unusual gambit.
Gambit, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
How about that?
An unusual gambit.
But that's exactly what the head of Denmark's
joint Arctic command has done.
We had actually a meeting today with a
lot of NATO partners, including the US, and
invited them to participate in this exercise.
NATO allies, excluding the US, kicked off military
drills on Greenland this week.
They're small but highly publicized in light of
President Donald Trump's bellicose rhetoric.
Bellicose.
What even does bellicose mean?
What is bellicose?
Well, look up the definition.
Bellicose.
Okay.
Bellicose.
And B-E-L-L-B-E-L
-L-I-C-O-S-E.
Huh.
Favoring or inclined to start quarrels or wars.
How about that?
Don't war over the meaning of bellicose.
Okay, so bellicose is war talk.
I don't think they use these words by
accident.
And Donald Trump's bellicose rhetoric.
The latest warning is that he'll slap tariffs
on any country that opposes his plans to
annex the Danish territory, a necessity, he argues,
because of Russian and Chinese ships in the
region that pose a threat to America.
Commander Soren Andersen sought to dispel that claim.
There are Chinese and Russian vessels in the
Arctic Ocean, but not near Greenland.
But of course, if we have Russia attacking
Greenland, it is my task to defend it.
And I will do that, both with Danish
troops, but of course, within the alliance as
well.
He insisted the U.S. doesn't pose a
threat, but Greenlanders fear they must take Trump
at his word.
Large numbers of them are expected to protest
this Saturday, joined by fellow citizens on the
Danish mainland, with the message, hands off Greenland.
Yeah, they had a big protest in Denmark,
and it was all coordinated.
Same signs, same flags.
Yeah, I'm sure that was coordinated by the
left.
But was there a protest in Greenland, like
he said?
Yes, yes, yeah.
I didn't even clip it, there were so
few people.
And all they did is they got one
dude with a ginger, with red hair, that
was the guy I was talking about, with
a hat.
He's like, no, we don't want Trump.
A ginger?
Yes, in Iceland.
Those are all intuits up there.
I'm telling you.
They're all Eskimos.
They always seem to get the very Western
looking people, who speak reasonable English.
So, has Russia...
Russia hasn't had any historical connection to Greenland,
have they?
No, no, no, they're not going to attack
Greenland.
That's a good one.
We got a new Ukraine, it's called Greenland.
You want to hear the protesters?
Yeah, let's hear the protesters.
It's from Euronews, I think it's the black
guy again.
Thousands of people took to the streets of
Copenhagen on Saturday to protest against US President
Donald Trump's push to take over Greenland.
Demonstrations were also held in several other Danish
cities.
Protesters united under one slogan, hands off Greenland.
We're protesting against the orange dictator in the
US who's trying...
Ah, we're protesting against the orange dictator.
Okay, all right.
We're protesting against the orange dictator in the
US who's trying to bully his way to
undermine the sovereignty of the Greenlandic people and
take away their right to decide who they
want to be part of.
The protest followed Trump's threats on Friday to
impose tariffs on countries that oppose his plans
to take over mineral-rich Greenland.
Mineral-rich.
Oh, brother.
Yeah, that's the narrative now, mineral-rich.
Whatever you do, don't mention the Greenland-Iceland
-UK gap.
Whatever you do, don't talk about shipping lanes.
We can't have that in the news.
We can't have people looking at a map.
Oh, Lord, imagine if they looked at a
map.
And of course, I have to start looking
to see if there's any mainstream news reports
where they say, so how do you feel
about Denmark sterilizing your girls as young as
12?
Up until 92, which is...
Let's do a real survey up there instead
of just some red-headed guy coming on
the air.
I could probably...
Give me a break.
I could probably find that clip.
Let me see.
Let me see.
It might be worth it.
Oh, find Greenland.
Hey, where is it?
Crap.
Let me just...
Yeah, we had too much clips.
Lippage.
Well, it's only because we've talked about this
guy so much.
Greenland protests.
No, I don't know.
I can't find it.
I don't remember what...
I think it's in a Greenland talk.
Yes, I think we've exhausted it.
And it probably will come out at Davos.
And we might...
That's...
you're right.
We're probably going to hear something there.
And there will be outrage.
And that will be the only news that
they cover.
But there's obviously other things going on in
the background.
There's something going on.
Yeah.
I'm telling you.
Give me your bike.
It's over.
Bike?
No bike.
They don't even have bikes.
I don't think I've even seen a bike
going around Switzerland.
Give me your skis.
Give me your sled.
The skis, that would be a big deal.
Give me your sled.
It's all over.
So I've gotten to change topics.
It turns out that Joe DiGenova...
Yes.
...is a regular guest on one of the
radio stations in Washington, D.C., WMAL, News
Talk 105.9. Oh, it's on FM.
Yes, it's News Talk 105.9, News Talk.
Now, question.
I know you're excited about Joe DiGenova.
Is what he says interesting?
Yes.
Actually, they give him a long segment.
It's not a zoo, but there's three people.
There's this guy, Larry O'Connor, who's an
old...
Where's Joey?
It's not a zoo.
They don't play it that way.
Oh, okay.
But they do have a white girl and
a black girl and him.
Larry O'Connor is an old pro who's
been around a lot, who was involved with
producing Dennis Miller, it was Blog Talk Radio.
Blog Talk Radio.
Blog Talk Radio.
Yeah, Blog Talk Radio.
That's when we were all doing podcasting.
Like, no, man, it's called audio blogs, okay?
We're doing Blog Talk Radio.
I don't care what you want with your
podcast.
So I got a bunch of clips from
this show, which is actually quite good for
a local station.
And I have DiGenova, but I have some
other stuff too, and I want to play
it.
Okay.
And this will be Joe on...
This is clip number one.
This is Joe DiGenova one.
I'm not sure what's on this clip, but
most of the clips are about Jack Smith.
Great setup.
Thank you.
Well, it's great to have Joe DiGenova, legal
analyst, former U.S. attorney to the District
of Columbia.
Good morning, Joe.
Good Monday to you.
Good morning, everybody.
Oh, goodness.
By now, you like everyone in America.
Okay.
So what has not changed is he's still
on a horrible-sounding connection over the phone.
Over the phone.
Who still does remote interviews over the phone?
Sorry, that just irks me that he hasn't
upgraded anything.
I'm in total agreement with you.
It makes zero sense.
This is 2026.
This is not 1970.
I'm calling in from the heartland of America.
...District of Columbia.
Good morning, Joe.
Good Monday to you.
Good morning, everybody.
By now, you, like everyone in America and
around the world, have seen the point of
view video taken by the ICE agent who
eventually ended up having to use lethal force
against Renee Goode.
So one ICE agent says, get out of
the car.
That's the third time that ICE agent had
instructed Renee Goode to get out of the
car.
Then Renee Goode's same-sex spouse yells, drive.
By the way, it turns out, as I
heard this morning, they were not actually married
at all.
There's no evidence they were ever married.
Ah, scandal.
I know.
They were living out of wedlock?
Out of wedlock and in severe sin, yes,
sir, did Renee Goode to get out of
the car.
Then Renee Goode's same-sex spouse yells, drive,
baby, drive.
And that she did.
It drove right into an ICE agent's and
then shots fired.
So, Joe, based on your legal analysis, is
there even gray area here on this one?
No, none whatsoever.
First of all, let's remember, this is a
law enforcement action.
You know, I'm sorry.
Hold on.
I am now sad that you brought up
the point, which I kind of ignored, I
guess, psychologically, that he's on a phone.
Now all I hear is an idiot on
the phone, like maybe at a phone booth,
who knows where.
Wait, wait, wait.
He was actually able to find a phone
booth.
Yeah, phone booth is going through my brain.
You've ruined these clips for me before I've
even played them.
We shall continue.
This is a law enforcement action, which is
taking place in a public area where ICE
has the absolute federal legal authority to operate.
They were conducting ICE enforcement operations.
That car had been following ICE all day,
trying to interfere in the execution of their
duties.
This was not just some random car that
showed up.
Goode, the driver, perfectly got.
So this is reiterating everything you said, that
the guy's going to get off, and this
is normal analysis that he does.
I just want to move it along so
I can get to the good stuff.
But this is his gig now, Joe.
He works with this show, and he comes
on, I guess, on Mondays and a couple
other times during the week, and he gives
us...
And he's an ex-US attorney, so he's
got some chops in that regard.
He doesn't bring up anything about sealed indictments
anymore.
Ah, well, that was the whole point of
playing him.
Well, that was in the olden days, but
now he does have some good stuff on
Jack Smith.
Explain who Jack Smith is.
People have forgotten by now.
What?
You really think so?
Yes.
Yes, I think so.
Okay, Jack Smith was a phony baloney special
prosecutor that was illegally dubbed to be a
special prosecutor against Trump, and he did a
bunch of illegal stuff to try to get
the goods on Trump and get him thrown
in jail.
He couldn't accomplish it.
But here's Joe on Jack Smith.
And we're learning more and more about Jack
Smith's Arctic Frost investigation, including a leaked memo
now with some redactions, but at least we
can glean from it based on Julie Kelly's
reporting that Jack Smith paid an FBI informant
to get dirt on Trump during this investigation.
Is that typical behavior for a special prosecutor
to pay an informant?
I mean, if you've got an informant, why
do they have to be paid?
It's almost like there's an incentive there.
What?
What is he talking about?
The FBI pays informants or undercover human, what
do they call it?
Undercover human...
Yeah, there's something.
No, I agree.
He's off the mark there.
But there's a nuance here, though.
OK, OK.
To get dirt on the subject of the
investigation.
Well, it is highly unusual for a prosecutor
to pay informants.
That's usually done by the FBI or local
law enforcement with the consent of a prosecutor.
But it adds to the texture of the
complete unconstitutional conduct of Jack Smith, Andrew Weissman
and everybody else associated who advised him.
And Weissman was clearly one of his advisors
throughout this process.
This is complete, absolute abuse of power.
There was a fascinating article over the weekend
by Jason Wittig, who is a writer, a
columnist for The Washington Post, who described the
damage to the First Amendment that Jack Smith
did by going after the presidential speech of
a politician like Donald Trump in the middle
of the campaign.
That is the least of the damage that
Jack Smith has done.
He has completely upended neutral and detached law
enforcement at the federal level.
And he is singularly responsible for the lack
of trust in the Department of Justice even
to this day.
It just seems like Jack Smith.
Who cares about Jack Smith anymore?
It seems to be completely off the radar.
Well, they're trying to throw him in jail.
Yeah, but you know...
Well, here's part two.
But Minneapolis, man.
But Iran.
Yeah, I'm in partial agreement with that idea.
He does say one more thing about Jack
Smith, which I thought was good.
But we can skip that because I know
you're not going to like this too long.
But at the end of all, this is
going on about how Jack Smith shouldn't do
a public testimony because he's going to slam
Trump.
That's the summary.
But then he says this little interesting kicker,
this is the Joe DiGenova kicker.
Well, there's no doubt that the grand jury
in Florida, which I originally was going to
be supervising but won't be because of Pam
Bondi, there's no doubt that the grand jury
in Florida has every opportunity to do exactly
that, Larry.
Call all of those people into the grand
jury in Florida.
Get their testimony.
Not just for the raid on Mar-a
-Lago, which was an outrageous abuse of constitutional
authority by Jack Smith and Christopher Wray.
Not just that.
But for all of the actions that were
taken prior to that, starting in 2016, six
years before the raid on Mar-a-Lago,
when FBI agents abused their power and when
the FBI director James Comey outrageously violated the
Constitution on numerous occasions.
Yeah.
So what is this?
So I tried doing some research on this.
About the Florida.
About Pam Bondi and about him.
Yeah.
I can't find anything.
Hmm.
So he's got a grudge against Pam Bondi.
Pam Bondi did something.
And I don't know what, but it irked
him.
And so that was the reason for this
series of clips from the Genova, because just
this Pam Bondi thing.
Now, that said, I do have two clips
from the same show, which got nothing to
do with Joe DeGenova.
It's about a trend going on in D
.C. I didn't do nothing about.
And I guess there's a Reddit thread about
it.
And it's a big deal.
And this could go national.
I have two clips.
One of them was actually mislabeled on my.
You have them correct.
Crying in pub.
Tell me if you heard about this.
Crying in public.
I have not heard about this.
I've heard about crying on TikTok and crying
on your Instagram.
Yeah, they cry a lot.
But this this is.
The jaw dropper.
It's amazing.
WUSA Channel nine here in D.C., they've
put together an article.
They've been looking at D.C. Reddit threads
over the last six years where people share
their top places to go to cry in
the District of Columbia.
So we're talking the streets of the excuse
me, the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, the
Andrew Mellon Memorial Fountain, the United States National
Arboretum.
You know, again, these are all public places.
Union Station.
I would cry when I was walking through
Union Station because I was terrified of the
drug addicts and the and the stench of
the criminal vagrants that were urinating in the
halls there before Trump cleaned it up.
How about the Botanic Gardens?
Oh, the steps of the Watergate.
Come on.
Are you serious?
Yeah.
It's a strange, strange stuff.
You've got the Library of Congress National Nationals
Park.
Are we talking about if you're a Nats
fan?
You were doing a lot of crying this
season.
That's somewhat.
OK, that one.
Yeah, that one will forgive.
Yeah, this really is.
It's a disturbing part of, I think, this
trend that you see all the time.
Heather Hunter had a great had a great
post on X about this, that you do
see all these people who are filming themselves
crying and then posting it to tick tock
as though it's this.
Oh, oh, there you go.
It's something that they should be proud of
and to be publicly celebrated or something.
It's very strange.
Yeah.
And it's it's it's like, you know, it's
like a self-induced struggle session on social
media.
Wait, it's crapping out.
What?
What?
He self-induced what?
I don't know.
That was the I try.
No, I was on the recording.
Yeah, I'm trying to figure out what he's
saying.
Self-induced strange.
Yeah.
And it's it's it's like, you know, it's
like a self-induced struggle.
Self-induced struggle session like a Chinese struggle.
Oh, oh, I didn't get that at all.
Interesting observations.
Yeah.
And it's it's it's like, you know, it's
like a self-induced struggle session on social
media that you're supposed to be having, I
guess, because you're ashamed of your privilege or
something.
I don't know.
I honestly don't know.
People, the left in Washington, D.C. run
the show.
They've got, you know, it's not conservatives that
are going out there and weeping on the
steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
They have they own the district council.
They own the mayor's seat.
They vote.
Ninety two percent Democrat.
They have their run of the place, but
it's not enough power for.
OK, so first of all, shame on these
guys for broadcasting through Skype or whatever or
Zoom, because that sounds like a Zoom.
That was off of their website.
I know.
I know.
It's ridiculous.
But I agree.
But yeah, this phenomenon, I mean, obviously people
are so upset.
They really I believe it.
I believe they're really upset and they're upset
enough to cry.
They feel hopeless.
Yeah, but then they put up a website.
So they have certain cool places to cry.
Let's go to the steps of the Lincoln
Memorial and film ourselves crying.
This is a good spot.
It's got a nice background.
It's got the right ambiance.
Give me a break.
This kind of goes along with the Minneapolis.
We're only here for love, which is just
the continuous message from the mayor and from
the governor.
I feel very bad that people are this
disoriented and this sad.
And yeah, of course, you want to you
want to I mean, when you're in a
if you all get together and you're all
sad and you're mourning together, I will mourn
with you.
Yes, I will cry with you.
I feel very play clip to and then
tell me what you more what you think.
You know, and it is interesting that this
has been going on for six years.
So it's not even I mean, we know
that this I would have I wouldn't have
been surprised if this was part of like
the Trump derangement syndrome, people not knowing how
to handle their feelings over the last year
when they've been after the big Kamala Harris
loss.
But no, this is something that I guess
is just a regular feature of Washington, D
.C. life now.
Well, they're being exploited, obviously, six years.
I mean, it started with Biden or the
end of Trump or maybe covid and they're
crying away.
And there's a I think the struggles I'm
glad you caught that because I couldn't I
couldn't hear it either.
This the idea of a struggle session, which
is a very lefty communist thing where, you
know, you you're privileged.
And so you have to get the let's
get the definition of the struggle session.
Of course, it comes for from China, also
known as denunciation rallies, where violent public spectacles
in Mao's China were where people accused of
being class enemies were publicly humiliated.
So it's not quite the same thing.
Now, that's kind of humiliating to cry in
public.
But this is a self.
Well, he said it's self-induced struggle session.
He was correct in what he said, a
self-induced struggle session.
But let me just play the beginning of
this clip because it includes a Minneapolis protester.
And just listen, listen to what he says,
because this is the belief.
Rising tensions came to a head.
Anti and pro ice protesters clashed as police
roamed the streets of Minneapolis, a city emblematic
of a national divide.
I don't know what happened next, but I'm
scared because I think Donald Trump wants to
use Minneapolis as a as a key or
a hotspot to launch his coup.
He's trying to create fascism.
He's trying to end the republic.
He's trying to create violence so that he
can send in the troops.
That is what they believe.
Yes.
And they believe I've got time.
I have no I didn't take any of
these clips.
But I have seen tons of them where
you had exactly what you said.
Yes.
They all say that kind of thing.
And they all genuinely believe it.
They're taught to believe it somehow through the
media and their local leaders.
Yes, yes.
And now that the struggle session idea has
been brought into this thinking, I have to
say that that is very concerning.
Well, this is this is the white privilege
thing taken to the limit.
Yeah, it's this is like a this is
like race, race, race, race, race, suicide.
Oh, I'm glad you brought that up, because
if we look at Minneapolis and I have
clips and, you know, Jacob Fry was on
with Brennan and this morning and with Jonathan
Carl, you know, blah, blah, blah.
It's all kind of it.
First of all, it's all about the midterms.
And both sides, both sides are exploiting this.
This is what you do.
You exploit human emotion to get people to
vote.
And so you you you drive.
It's called a wedge issue.
Used to be abortion.
I'm sorry, health care, reproductive health care, reproductive
rights, reproductive rights.
So the new one is they're ripping families
apart.
They're doing all these things.
And and and so I get emails from
people and they say, hey, you know, I'm
all about ice removing illegal immigrants and violent
crimes.
And then and then go on to say,
but, you know, I'm not OK with the
big.
But I'm not OK with people being stopped
on the street.
And to that, I want to just say
the following.
First of all, everybody had the opportunity to
self not extradite report to self-deport themselves
with a thousand dollars and a plane ticket
to then re-register and come in legally.
And I don't know if that'll take five
months or five years, but and and we
have it here.
We had thirty three people picked up on
Main Street in Fredericksburg.
And I'm sure that these some of these
people are, you know, that they're in fact,
I know for a fact that one of
the cleaning services, ICE raided the cleaning service
and took a bunch of cleaning ladies.
And it's heartbreaking.
But, you know, either we have a country
with laws or we don't then.
And so the whole racist angle, because it
is racist of people thinking this way, is,
well, I don't like it that brown and
black people are being stopped and asked for
their papers.
Well, we are under a kind of an
emergency situation.
But the same people never emailed me and
said, gee, doesn't it suck for straight white
men who cannot get a job and haven't
been able to do that for at least
five, six years?
No one mentioned that.
So, you know, life is not fair.
But if we're going to fix our country,
I think we have to go through this.
And people who are just I mean, you
know, it's like there is no fix.
These people, you know, technology often represents human
behavior.
I think these people are like large language
models, except they've been trained on one set
of data, mainly from Reddit, apparently.
And by the way, there are actual large
language models that train on Reddit.
Oh, yeah, I think a lot of them
do.
So once you have this in your corpus,
what's going to come out is always going
to be a pattern recognition of the same
behavior, the same answers.
And in fact, just to interrupt you, the
but go ahead.
Just to interrupt you.
Just to interrupt you.
Elon posted today a note.
Somebody had done some research and found out
that chat GPT in particular only recommended Kamala
Harris to people who are questioning of, you
know, ask questions about who to vote for
and never once recommended Donald Trump.
That's part of the corpus.
Yes.
Interesting you bring that up.
I was using Gemini a few weeks back.
I didn't I forgot to mention this.
And I was looking up information about Nick
Fuentes and I really, you know, for as
much as I bag on AI, I really
do enjoy the Gemini pro research capabilities and
has sources and you can go and check
everything.
And it does a pretty reasonable rundown.
I'm enjoying it.
It saves me work.
It does.
No, I think this stuff is excellent.
However, however.
So it gave me it gave me a
full rundown of Fuentes.
And then I said, could you please do
the same analysis with a positive view of
Fuentes?
And no matter how I ask the question,
it said, I'm sorry, I cannot do that
for people who are.
And I forget the exact term, but people
who are like basically people who are racist
or who are known Nazi sympathizers or the
anti-Semites.
I cannot do research.
I'm like, well, there it is.
That's exact.
And I had to ask for it because
it wasn't going to give me a pro
and a con.
It gave me Fuentes is no good.
And when I say, please give me an
overview of and just give me a positive
view.
What things are positive?
I'm sorry, I can't even give you that.
That's now there's the reason I dislike AI.
I'm all in with with that thinking.
It's disgusting that the AI does that and
it does it all the time.
So the and and you know what?
No, it's all left.
It's all lefty.
But it's not conservative.
Grok does the same thing.
Grok can't give me a positive Nick Fuentes.
It can't.
You tried it.
Yes.
Oh, I tried Chad GPT.
And, you know, Grok may do a little
bit more.
But, you know, it basically whenever it comes
to anti-Semitism, I can't really do stuff.
And we know because Elon got in trouble
for that and he immediately put some guardrails
around it.
So the point is, when people's brains are
programmed, and even though I complain that, you
know, who's really watching this stuff?
It is the mainstream that the podcast industrial
complex picks up.
You know, the podcast.
Sorry for the phrase circle jerk.
Everybody going on each other's podcast.
I'm on his tomorrow.
You'll be on mine next week.
Be on your podcast.
I was on your pod.
Had you?
That was great.
Yeah, we agree.
Oh, yeah, I totally agree.
They get it all from there.
So it is narrative setting.
It really is.
That's where the clips come from.
So it does trickle down.
So it is important that we that we
do this work that we're doing.
But you cannot deprogram these people.
I think the president's plan, and this is
the only plan, and that give him 45
percent chance it's going to work.
If he can turn our country into a
success where everybody has more money or at
least more purchasing power, where everybody is able
to buy a home or have an affordable
rent.
He added another thing, by the way.
Get a job.
Yes.
If you're white.
Thank you.
Get a job if you're white.
He added something that you can now take
out early, take out money from your 401k
early retirement at no penalty if it's for
buying a house and you never have to
pay tax on it.
It stays within the house.
It's kind of interesting dynamic.
But if he can achieve that, where people
actually see success.
He said this early on, I think in
2015 or 2016, he said, I will bring
together people by making America successful.
And so far, you know, people aren't seeing
it.
They aren't feeling it.
So I just hope that he hangs.
Well, there's a lot of struggle against it.
There's overt action against it.
Of course.
And that's good.
You know, they fight it.
They're fighting it.
Democrats and Republicans alike.
They're all fighting it.
Yeah, they're fighting it.
Either by directly fighting it.
So I feel I really feel bad.
These people need Jesus.
They need prayer, whatever it is they need.
They need something other than a struggle session
on the steps of Watergate.
You know, so believers go out there and
preach over them.
I don't know.
We've got to do something, because even if
we're successful, if we can't look at our
neighbors, the country's doomed.
You know, you can't just have we can't
just be posting videos of people crying all
the time on X.
But it's no future.
It's no future.
By the way, I'm going to be a
granddad.
Oh, good for you.
Yeah.
Well, I had nothing to do with it.
Yeah, you didn't do anything.
What are you bragging about?
I'm not bragging.
I'll take all the credit, he says.
I'm happy.
I'm happy.
I was hoping this would happen.
So I want my grandchild to have some
kind of future.
I know it's not going to be the
EU.
Well, you know, they're in the EU now,
as far as I can tell.
Yeah, I'm going to get him out.
I'm going to do an extraction.
It's not easy, you think.
Agent Orange, get ready.
We're going to black bag them.
We're going to throw hoods over their heads.
You might as well kidnap them.
Might have to.
Our theme.
Yeah, like getting them out of Scientology.
I'm going to bust them up.
So since you were on AI, I wanted
to get these grok clips out of the
way.
OK.
Because there's a bunch of this.
Everyone's got their panties in a bunch.
Hey, I called this.
I called this.
I know you did.
I was looking at dance fans.
Yeah, because I was getting a lot.
By the way, what am I getting now?
I'm getting something new now.
Oh, yeah, I'm getting for some reason.
My feed is loaded with these with the
cop breaking the window.
Oh, oh, I'm getting like, I know, like
the sovereign citizens, people like.
Yeah, I'm traveling.
I am not committing commerce.
Can you can you prove that I was
speeding?
Also for.
Yeah, can I see the thing that proves
it?
I'm not getting out.
I'm not doing this.
And then he breaks the window.
So I think this is a I think
this is.
I put this in one of my comments.
I think this is the the the glass
window replacement lobby.
OK, it's really native advertising.
OK, it is promoting your people not to
open their door on.
You're stuck in an alcohol.
Close.
Here we go.
Close the tab.
Elon Musk was forced to put more restrictions
on his social media platform X and its
AI chatbot Grok this week after its image
generator sparked outrage around the world.
Outrage.
Explains Grok was and still is creating non
consensual sexualized images, prompting some countries to ban
the bot.
Amna Musk finally began bowing to pressure this
week and announced that X will use geoblocking
to prevent Grok from creating deep fake images
of people in revealing swimsuits, underwear and other
clothing in places where the law prohibits it.
But the move has not stopped the standalone
app known as Grok Imagine from generating explicit
images.
The late changes have not appeased regulators.
And now the governments of Malaysia, Indonesia and
the Philippines have banned the chatbot altogether.
Britain and Canada have launched probes into Grok
and the possibility of penalties for Musk are
on the table.
To help us understand more about Grok's troubles
and why they persist.
I'm joined by Rihanna Pfefferkorn, a policy fellow
at the Stanford Institute.
Wait a minute.
That's just German for peppercorn.
Give me a break.
Exactly right.
I'm joined by Rihanna Pfefferkorn, a policy fellow
at the Stanford Institute for Human Centered Artificial
Intelligence.
Rihanna, thank you for joining us this Friday.
Thank you for having me.
Yeah.
I want to start with what does this
latest series of problems with Grok?
These sexually explicit non consensual images.
What does this tell us of the safety
of women and minors on the Internet?
Oh, man, I love this.
Safety.
No, it's sexual assault.
Doing this is they've changed this into sexual
assault where because I had the I started
talking about this because I fell into that
alcohol because, of course, like it's like, hey,
put a bikini on her.
OK, click.
Oh, OK.
And then you do that.
And then then the feed is filled.
I just I just I haven't even looked
at X for a week because I'm just
like, I'm tired of it because I also
was getting the glass stuff.
I clicked on one of those.
But it starts with women who are putting
up pictures that are explicitly provocative.
Look at me.
Look how good I look.
Look at my butt.
You know, so it's like, you know, go
back to the source.
Look at my butt.
Come on.
That's if you know, if you ever go
out and I never leave the house, I
can't take a chance.
Well, this is just not a scenario for
you.
But, you know, we go out with friends
and like, oh, let's take a picture because
we all look great.
We're all dressed.
So I refuse to take part in these
picture taking sessions.
Right.
But so here's how it works.
You take the picture and then you have
to hand the camera to the women and
they all take the camera, the phone one
by one.
I do pinch, zoom, pinch, zoom.
OK, can you see my neck?
How do I have flabby arms?
How does my butt look?
And then you have to have approval from
everybody for 18 years.
But then it's like and here's the funny
thing.
So this doesn't happen.
It rarely happens that that is like Grok
put a bikini on this ugly woman.
No, it's good looking women.
And Keith Starmer, Keir Starmer.
Because this is not about sexual assault at
all.
This is about shutting down Grok in as
many countries, municipalities, states.
I don't care what.
This is about something else.
Most of these women are probably like, dang,
girl, I look good in the bikini because
it's true.
Now, I mean, I can ask you a
quick, quick question.
Yeah, yeah.
As you're going on and on.
What is the difference between put a bikini
on her and let's go back to 1990.
And I take the head off of somebody
with Photoshop and put it on the bikini
clad model.
And then I post it.
Well, this is good.
Oh, Louise looks great here in her bikini.
The funny what is the difference?
The funny thing is that the women look
great in these bikinis.
That's the difference.
It looks good.
I put the head on a on a
bikini model.
How can they look any better than that?
Well, exactly, because it's not about that.
It's not about that.
If you don't want your picture manipulated with
Photoshop or Grok or what's what's the thing?
What does Gemini have?
Something funny.
It's a bunch of Rama or something.
They have some banana, banana.
There's a load of it.
Yeah.
So, you know, I last night I took
this is OK.
Great example.
So we're we're watching the crown, the series
that we've been doing all of our historical
series.
And and we take a break between episodes
and get something to drink.
And I'm looking at my phone says, well,
you have new capabilities and features on your
phone.
I'm like, oh, all right.
What is this?
And it says you can take a picture.
You can add a picture into a text
message.
Just click on the banana.
I kid you not.
And say what you want to change in
the picture.
So I say, hey, team, let me take
a picture.
Boom.
Take a picture.
And I and I type into it, turn
my wife into a queen within two seconds.
It's fantastic.
She looks like a queen.
She's in a royal room.
She's got the crown on.
She's got the Hermelin, you know, the cape,
everything.
And and she's like, wow, that looks really
good.
I said, you should post this.
No, no, no.
I have to have makeup on.
I'm not going to put this.
You see my point is that.
No, it's not about women.
Feeling abused because women love to have great
pictures of themselves.
If they're this type of woman who post
that, even if it's just sporadically at the
restaurant, it's about shutting down Elon Musk.
That's what it's about.
Now, that's a good point because I will
agree with that because they hate.
I don't know what it is, but everybody
seems to ever since Musk went from being.
This is what happens when you leave a
cult.
Mm hmm.
Musk was a lifelong Democrat.
When I left the Democratic Party, which was
in 1980.
Look what happened.
You became a podcaster.
Where's that career gone?
They killed all your career chances.
The point is, is that there were you
would have to spend years taking grief from
the Democrats because you left the cult and
they would do everything they could.
And then after a while, then it was
just forgotten.
But it takes like a decade to be
forgotten.
And Elon Musk left the call.
The same with Trump.
The Trump is the same.
They hate him.
They real reason he was the same reason
he quit the Democrat Party.
And it was recently more so recently than
me.
Excellent.
And he became a an apostate.
Yeah.
And so he had to be killed.
You know, it's just like that.
But like, there's a cult.
And so you end up with them going
after Musk because he did.
He did the sin of sins, which was
quitting the cult.
But I think you're right.
This is all about Musk.
It's all there is to it.
And that's why they featured it on PBS's
clip, too.
Well, it illustrates that having your image online
or taking a view while you're just out
in public living your life is no longer
safe from being manipulated in order to depict
you in a humiliating and harassing context in
which you never appeared in real life.
That's irrespective of whether you yourself personally may
have an account online, since other people could
post pictures of you or of your child,
even if you don't have the account on
X or on Grok.
By the way, I have never, ever on
Grok seen a sexualized picture of a child
with a put a bikini on it.
I've not seen it.
Neither have I.
Just yesterday, Ashley St. Claire, who is the
mother of one of Elon Musk's children, she
sued Grok, alleging that it was negligent and
allowed users to post deep fakes of her
in explicit poses even after she complained to
the company.
Here's what she told CBS.
Take your pictures off the system.
Hold on a second.
Hold on.
This is a woman scorned, should not be
even on the show.
We cannot.
This is the typical example of PBS leaving
out the other side of the story.
And we did play clips of her when
this first came out.
So we once again are way ahead of
the mainstream.
Grok said, I confirm that you don't consent.
I will no longer produce these images.
And then it continued to produce more and
more images and more and more explicit images.
Now, this is I found this to be
interesting because I saw that I saw that
she posted at Grok.
I do not give my consent.
So somehow, not only is she a woman
scorned, is she in the cult, but she
also has this belief that AI actually has
some intelligence and that you can tell it
that and it will no longer do what
you told it to do.
I mean, do these people read at all
ever about this stuff and its capabilities?
No.
How are these images bypassing Grok's safety systems?
How is this legal?
So it's a great question.
I don't have visibility into what Grok's internal
safety systems are.
It sounds like gradually in response to regulatory
and public pressure, they've been trying to institute
more safeguards.
But it's really difficult to implement effective safeguards
against various kinds of unwanted content.
As we can see playing out from Grok's
own users, users are very creative in how
they try to get around any guardrails that
may have been built in, in order to
continue to generate the kind of content that
even in good faith, a platform may be
trying to inhibit its model from producing.
There's no secret.
All you have to do is being a
paying member.
You can do whatever you want.
They're very creative.
Oh, they're prompt wizards.
No, no, you just say it.
But again, you don't want people putting, you
know, a different head on your head on
someone else's body, or you don't want Grok
putting a bikini on you.
Don't post your pictures.
That is the answer.
You don't have some right, like, I put
it on this thing I pay no money
for and I'm upset they did something with
it.
Come on.
This is, this is, this is ego.
It's, it's, it's unconscionable.
All right, the third clip.
Grok has had other problems in the past
year or so.
There was anti-Semitic tropes that it was
posting, it even praised Hitler.
What is the sense in Silicon Valley and
in the tech community about why Grok is
acting this way and cannot get a hold
of itself?
Then suddenly, suddenly the whole concept of the
freedom of speech that you can say what
you want to, and then I may not
like it, but I will defend it to
the death.
This has been thrown out the window at
PBS.
You know, you may not like what Nick
Fuentes says, but he has the right to
say it.
And you have the right to say something
contrary to what he's saying.
But now, you know, we're slipping into this
area where a large portion of our population
and of the world, in fact, but we,
but we have a constitution with the freedom
of speech, not free speech, freedom of speech.
And these people want it gone in certain
instances.
No.
You know, that's a complicated question.
I would suspect that some part of it
may have to do with what training data
has gone into the model.
It may be that there isn't child abuse
imagery directly underlying the model here for Grok,
but it might be that it was trained
on extremist or Nazi and white supremacist material.
So that might go to account for it.
And I'll note that XAI filed a lawsuit
shortly before New Year's trying to enjoin a
California law that has just gone into effect
that would require AI companies to transparently release
a summary of their data trading sources.
You wrote a New York Times op-ed.
Are you familiar with this California law?
Oh, now I am because they talked about
it on the show, but I haven't heard
about it locally.
So are certain sources going to be foreboding
now?
I mean, that would be the idea.
Anything that would be against the Democrat Party.
That would inhibit the sweep of the midterms.
Remember, what were the top global risks?
Disinformation and misinformation.
By artificial intelligence.
And they're starting here.
Yeah, this is all propaganda.
They're starting here.
You wrote a New York Times op-ed
a few days ago.
It said, quote, there's one easy solution to
the AI porn problem.
In a nutshell, what would that be?
What is the solution here?
Well, I'm not sure that it's as easy
as the headline suggests.
Nevertheless, what I argue in the op-ed
for the Times is that AI researchers and
AI model developers need what we would call
a safe harbor in the law to enable
them to- Hold on a second.
This poor mother who feels sexually abused seems
to be somewhat of a well-informed activist.
She's not just some dummy off the street.
She knows all about how it's done, training
models.
She knows about laws.
You're talking about the one person being interviewed?
Yeah, isn't she still the Elon lady?
Or is it someone else?
No, no, no.
The Elon lady is long gone.
This is the person from Stanford who was
a lesbian.
I don't even think she's a mother.
And she's giving us a long lecture on
this.
And she obviously didn't write the headline on
that New York Times piece because people-
Writers don't write headlines.
Well, okay.
People have to remember that.
Let's continue with the sinner.
Better test image generation models for their capacity
to produce potentially illegal content without themselves fearing
prosecution for trying in good faith to better
safeguard those models.
Yeah, I thought that was particularly interesting.
Can you talk a little bit about what
that means?
Those red teams and how AI researchers basically
work on this right now.
So red teaming is the practice of basically
trying to act like a malicious user would
and try and attack your model every which
way to see if you can figure out
what exploits may be latent, what loopholes are
there.
And then you can try and close those
holes in order to make the product safer
and keep actual bad actors from misusing those
potential loopholes.
All right.
So this is, I think we've determined this
is just the first shot across the bow
to shut down public use of artificial intelligence
with distribution.
I would say it's AI with distribution is
what they are worried about.
That'll be the top topic in between skiing
at Davos.
And when it comes to the United Kingdom,
I would say that what is happening right
now in the past 10 days is part
of the reason they want to shut this
down.
Are you familiar with Amelia Rose?
I don't know.
Okay.
So I got a quick explainer, but not
really that quick.
By the way, you're violating your own rule.
What did I do?
You said Davos.
Oh, Davos.
I'm sorry.
Thank you for correcting me.
Davos.
Yes.
Well, I'll get back into it once we
start getting asymmetric information from Davos.
This is the Joy Heretic, a YouTuber, explaining
the Amelia phenomenon.
I assume that you know what the Amelia
phenomenon is.
Just in case you don't, perhaps you're American
or something, there is a video, a computer
game essentially, that's been put out by a
group called Prevent, which aims to prevent young
people getting involved in terrorism, but actually focuses
on preventing young people from getting involved in
what it calls the dangerous far right.
And the computer game is called Pathways.
In that computer game, you can choose to
be Charlie a boy or Charlie a girl.
And you meet a girl called Amelia.
And Amelia basically encourages you to get involved
in things like saving your country and stopping
grooming gangs and protesting against fake refugees and
all of this sort of thing.
Amelia is a girl that you meet at
your sixth form college, where the other people
are very sensibly and normally and boringly dressed,
and Amelia isn't.
Now, why has this become such a phenomenon
from an evolutionary perspective?
It has taken off so much.
And of course it has.
Of course it has.
She is now the new symbol of being
based, the new symbol of being on the
far right or the base right or red
pilled or whatever you want to call it.
You've got amazing videos that have been made
about her.
She's now a cult figure.
And it's happened due to AI technology and
so forth in only about a week.
What is it about her?
Why has this been such a miscalculation on
the part of those that made the game?
What were they trying to do?
Well, they're trying to make Amelia out to
be this evil, nasty, untrustworthy kind of person.
And they are projecting onto the right, basically,
onto those whom they oppose their own qualities.
So what has happened, I think you understand
what his setup was there.
So yeah, I have a peripheral knowledge of
this.
So I'm just going to play some of
the audio, I cut it way down because,
of course, with AI and so now the
anime is going because she's kind of the
whole thing is kind of anime-ish, although
it's a little more life form realistic than
anime.
And they've programmed it to do this.
Hi, I'm Amelia.
And she looks like all of the like
16, 17 year old girls when we were
living in Guilford, Christina's friends.
And they have, you know, a skirt on
and they have cute little socks.
And, you know, they got their little flat
shoes.
She's got pink hair, a cute girl.
Hi, I'm Amelia.
I'm English.
And I love England.
I like having fish and chips and a
pint at the local pub.
I like Shakespeare and Dickens, Tolkien and Lewis,
Harry Potter.
I like pork sausage and dogs and fashion.
Haram!
Haram!
But I don't like that.
Brits are famously polite, but it mustn't mean
we're willing to commit cultural suicide.
Our institutions, the Church of England, the BBC
are a bunch of queers and nonces.
How the bloody hell did we go from
Churchill to you, you git?
Sadiq Khan, the mayor.
This is London, mate, not Afghanistan or Star
Wars.
Our government won't even protect our schoolgirls from
grooming gangs.
Sod off, packy wankers!
Police won't help.
They're too busy confiscating garden tools and suppressing
free speech.
That's right, miss.
What have I done, officer?
You've tweeted rudely and you're under arrest.
Curry is fine, but we have several recipes
already.
We don't need two million Indians here to
make it for us.
There are 50 Islamic nations in the world.
Muslims don't need to be on our island.
They want to conquer it.
The government says it must be this way.
That doesn't make it right, does it, Robin
Hood?
These dragons that threaten our England won't go
away unless brave knights rise up to slay
them.
Or did all the British bloodlines with any
bollocks get killed off in World Wars I
and II?
Englishmen, it's your country and it's being taken
from you.
Chav, posh, doesn't matter.
We're already all in this together.
I don't want this to be the future
of the women of England, and I'm sure
the women of Iran and Afghanistan didn't want
it either.
Your ancestors beat the Spanish Armada, Napoleon, and
the Nazis.
Surely you can handle welfare tourists.
History will record what you do or don't
do.
Get cracking, lads.
Love, Amelia.
It's really the digital version of the Guy
Fawkes mask, but it is powerful.
It is powerful.
I saw this.
I didn't clip it, but I saw this
video.
And it's just a little better than anime.
Yeah, so I said it's lifelike anime.
It's very AI life.
I don't understand what's going on insofar as,
are they thinking that this is going to
repel people?
Or it's supposed to have the opposite effect?
No, hold on, hold on, hold on.
The game that this is based on was
supposed to repel people from Amelia, but they
took Amelia and turned her into a superhero,
saying all the things— the right, the Tommy
Robinson— Who in the right did this?
Well, I don't know who did this, but
this is online.
You could have made it.
I could have made it.
Now everyone's making these videos of Amelia, and
Amelia is a pro-English girl who is
saying, get out with all this nonsense.
Right, get out of town.
It's the exact opposite of what her character
was meant to be in this game.
So you can just see these numbnuts going,
I know how to reach the young people.
We need to repel them from this type
of thinking with a game.
And you'll be— Well, that was a screw
up.
Exactly.
So back to Davos.
They are deathly afraid of what is now
possible with AI for mnemology, mnemonic warfare.
That's what this is.
And they're losing mnemonic warfare.
You like that, huh?
Yeah.
It's fifth generation warfare, man.
That's from down the street, my neighbor.
Man.
That's general.
Is that the guy with the dogs or
the guy with the wild kids?
Both.
It's the same guy he's talking about.
It's the same guy.
Yeah, and it's out of hand.
So now everybody is making— Amelia is doing
everything.
She's plowing down people.
They don't— The Brits are sick of it.
They're sick of it.
And the only power they have, apparently, is
to do this.
Although I remember in the 70s, we saw
those thin farmers coming down from the north
with their literal pitchforks.
It was a little different scenario.
But they don't want it.
They're done with it.
I don't think it's reversible.
You're an optimist.
No, I believe— This, to me, is nothing
more than sublimation.
Sublimation?
Yeah, sublimation.
The idea that you push this out there,
which is good material, and you say, I
feel a lot better now.
And then you don't do nothing.
Well, I believe there's other forces at play
than just the people.
I mean, I believe in a different system.
Yeah, well, you can think that all you
want.
Until I see some action, some change— I
didn't say think.
I said I believe.
That's different.
You can believe what you want.
Until I see the actual change, nothing's— This
is sublimation.
It's a classic example.
And it works great because you feel like,
oh, this is terrific.
Awakening has taken place, and then that's as
far as you go.
I don't see where it's getting anyone riled
up.
Well, they're clearly worried about it.
Otherwise, it wouldn't be the top of the
agenda.
You know, I think historically, you do eventually
push people too far.
I think witness Iran.
Now, I don't know if anything's going to
change there.
We're certainly not going to do it.
But by the way, I love— President Trump
turned on a dime, went, nah, I'm not
going to do anything.
And all of the podcasters, all of the
anti-war podcasters who have been yelling for
years, Trump is in on it.
He's just another neocon.
You're going to be in more foreign wars.
Look at him.
He's going to be the same.
It's all going to be the same.
But when he turns down the opportunity to
do anything, you never hear them say, wow,
that was great.
He stepped away from it.
That's awesome.
No, because they're secretly Trump haters.
It's not about anti-war.
They hate Trump.
And they love likes and clicks and views
and money.
Dave Smith.
Everybody loves money.
Oh, no.
It's not the first thing I love.
It's just not.
I didn't say it was the first thing
everyone loved.
Did I?
I said everyone loves money.
You have to have money to pay the
bills.
We have bills that need paying.
Everybody likes money.
This show has bills that need paying.
OK.
But I— That was a cue.
No, but before you go there, I don't
do this show for money.
That's kind of what I'm saying.
I'm doing this show for other— I like
it.
I like doing the show.
Yeah, well, we both like doing the show.
It's not—it's the first reason.
If I didn't like it, I'd go do
something else.
The public service is what we're doing.
But it still—it results in bills.
We have our own servers because— We have
to have our own servers.
OK, I got the cue, all right.
I got it.
We'll go to the donation section.
With that, I want to thank you for
your courage.
In the morning to you, the man who
put the C in leaving the cult.
Say hello to your friend on the other
end and mine as well, John C.
DeMora.
Hi.
Good morning to you, Mr. Adam Curry.
Good morning as well.
$20.50. Three points on the graph.
BDSM's in the water.
All the dames and knights out there.
In the morning to the trolls in the
troll room.
Let's do it.
I could barely hear the troll count over
your noisemakers there.
We have peak trollage, 1,922.
I'm always amazed at that many people.
I'm amazed.
People who— You want to know what the
high mark was?
Oh, 2,800.
No, 4,000, I think, at some point.
Yeah, over 4,000.
Yeah, well, so?
And what were the circumstances of that?
I think World War III was about to
break out.
That's exactly right.
Then, you know, people are like, let me
see.
It's Sunday.
Is World War III breaking out?
No, it's not breaking out, so let's go
do something.
I'll listen to it tomorrow.
I'll listen to it tomorrow.
It's okay.
But if you want to listen to us
live, you can do that with a modern
podcast app.
Go to podcastapps.com.
We actually give you a live stream in
your podcast app.
You don't get that on Apple, Spotify, Amazon,
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If you want to listen to this show
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We send out the bat signal.
When we're live, you tap on it.
You're listening live.
You're like, you want to go mow the
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It's fine.
Close it and then just wait until we
post it.
90 seconds within posting, it should show up
in your modern podcast app.
If it doesn't let me know, then something's
broken.
But that is all part of the podcasting
2.0 initiative.
Another thing I do, not for the money.
Actually, not for the money.
There's no money.
I just do it for the love and
a public service.
And we do this value for value, which
is just a wonderful way to work.
We don't have a job.
We create.
We are creators of value.
We are convinced, and apparently other people are
as well, that what we do has value.
And all we say is, did you get
something out of this?
Is there something you can talk to your
neighbor about?
Something you can say to your sister or
your mom or your friend?
Is it something that, did you learn something?
You feel better about it?
Do you feel like you can look at
the world and go, nothing new under the
sun.
And maybe you heard a good joke or
two.
Then send something back to us.
Time, talent, or treasure.
And you can participate in many ways.
One of the big things, and this is
important, is hitting people in the mouth.
That is our formula.
It has been for over 18 years.
Tell somebody about the show.
There's no discovery mechanism.
There's no name recognition that makes a show
listenable, you know, that people listen to the
show.
This is not like YouTube, where you click
on one video, or like X, and all
of a sudden you get in all kinds
of smashing window videos.
No, that's not how it works.
People will take that recommendation from you.
And that is how you build up No
Agenda Nation.
That's a great way to help us out.
It really is.
Other ways is creating end-of-show mixes.
I did no AI end-of-show mixes
for today.
And the simple reason, because they're no good.
They're just no good.
And you know what?
So here's, here's...
People that are good?
No, no, those aren't AI.
Those are old.
Those are old.
No, no, not today.
I'm saying, generally speaking, we've heard good AI
songs.
When they're toe tappers, when it's a big
band, those sound pretty good.
But now people are getting, you know, because
now that I've played a few, they like
do a whole song with lyrics.
Unless the lyrics are on the screen, which
is how you're viewing your song, it's not
interpretable.
That's a song that is a hit song.
It's not just because you put snappy lyrics
to it.
It takes a certain magic that you're just
not creating with AI.
And here's, here's why I stopped playing.
Unless it's exceptionally good, and there's some hook
that really grabs me, it's off the table.
And it happened because, here you go again,
I hit, there's one lady on X, and
she posts videos of bands from the 70s,
80s.
And it's always like, do you know the
song?
Do you know the band?
And usually just by looking at them, I'm
like, oh, I know exactly who that is.
And I tap on it.
I'm like, oh yeah, that's a great song.
And I, I hit one because I knew
who it was.
It was Candy Dolpher playing saxophone.
She played with Prince and Dire Straits and
Mark Knopfler.
And, and I was just listening to it.
And I'm hearing, she's kind of playing with
the, you know, there's electric guitar and he's
playing.
And then she goes.
And like no AI has ever achieved that.
It's so beautiful.
And it completely turned me sour on all
the AI stuff, completely.
It's like, no, it's, it's not music anymore.
It's no good.
And the same, and the same.
What a bigot.
No, bigot.
It's, it's, it doesn't do anything for my
soul.
It just doesn't.
And likewise, you know, when it comes to
art, we have so much, what's all AI,
but actually what a comic strip blogger did,
his second in a row, by the way,
for episode 1834, which he titled Swarm Forge.
This could have been done with Photoshop.
And it's Fat JD.
Kind of like a Pulp Fiction pose with
a revolver saying, Gibby Greenland.
And it was, and I think it was
because of its simplicity and that it could
have just been, I mean, yeah, Fat JD.
I mean, you can, you can make a
Fat JD with, with Photoshop, you know, just
expand.
And you can also cut and paste a
million Fat JDs that are out there.
That's what you did.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, this was clearly AI generated.
You're sure it could have been Photoshop?
It's a comic strip blogger.
Like you said.
It's comic strip blogger.
It's AI.
Yeah, what you're accusing him of right there
is that he's only AI now.
He is.
He calls himself the AI arch wizard.
Yeah, you didn't know that.
I did not know that.
Okay.
So I, that's why I know it's AI.
Does he do arches?
Does he do a lot of landscape stuff
that has a lot of arches?
Is that why he called himself that?
No, no.
I believe he just thinks he is really
good at AI.
And so that was the only one that
was any good.
He thinks.
He thinks he's good.
Oh, he is.
He.
Yeah, yeah.
He makes his money with it.
That wasn't me that said that.
He makes his money with it.
So does he?
Yes, I believe he is an AI engineer.
Oh, okay.
Good for him.
Yeah.
And so we don't even need to discuss
anything because the rest was just AI slop
that we didn't choose.
So that means we can go straight.
Oh, no agenda art generator.com for all
your AI slop.
But we do give preferential treatment to things
that don't look like AI slop.
Which brings us to our producers who support
us with a third T, treasure, time, talent
and treasure.
Sending us value.
Clearly, some people think we're very, very valuable.
I mean, it's amazing when I see this
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And we thank everybody $50 and above.
Not under 50 for reasons of anonymity.
There's still people who just want to give
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And Zarin Denzel.
Zarin Denzel.
He's new, I think.
He comes in with $1,111.11 from
Port Townsend, Washington.
Oh, he says, haven't donated in a while.
To let you guys know how much I
appreciate the best podcast in the universe.
Please give me a double deduces.
You've been deduced.
Do we do double deduces?
Seems like, should we?
There's no reason for it.
Well, I'll do it.
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And of course, he becomes an executive producer
of episode 1835.
And in this segment, we thank everybody who
donates $300 and above.
You become an executive producer.
It's a real credit.
You can use it on imdb.com.
Apparently, some people are automatically entered on imdb
.com when you become an executive.
There's somebody out there that is dogging it
and doing it for us, or them.
I don't know if that's a bad thing,
necessarily.
I don't think it's a bad thing.
It keeps people from having to do it
themselves.
As long as they keep updating it for
everybody.
And Dana Brunetti mentioned in his last note
that he did not donate on his behalf.
It was a Scott Adams donation.
We have to change it in the credits.
Oh, okay.
Because he said that he would never deign
to become an associate.
Just for backgrounders out there, Dana Brunetti is
a real...
Yeah, the House of Cards.
A real famous Hollywood producer.
Fifty Shades of Grey, movies, television.
A lot of movies other than that.
He's done all kinds of stuff.
He made all his money from Shades of
Grey, but he did a lot of quality
work.
More highbrow stuff, yes.
So, his thesis is the following, just for
people out there.
Executive producer is a real title in Hollywood.
It means you have something to do with
the movie in one way, shape, or form.
Usually, at least finance maybe is part of
it.
Which is what we use it for.
Associate executive producer, as far as he is
concerned, at the Hollywood level, it's the guy
who gets coffee.
It's a secretary.
It's somebody you hire and you say, what
title would you like?
And you give them a phony baloney title.
It's like executive vice president at a bank.
Everybody's an EVP at the bank.
You're a teller one minute and they won't
give you a raise.
EVP.
So, you become EVP.
I will say at MTV, when I first
got there, because we didn't have those terms
when I was doing television in Holland.
And the AP is what they were called,
the associate producer.
Was literally the person who got my coffee.
But they were also the people I loved
the most.
Because they were always taking good care of
me.
So, you know, it goes to the lovable
group.
So, you should take that into account, even
though he I'm sure.
This coffee is not hot enough.
What do you know better than this?
No, well, that would be you.
But in my APs, they always had the
lunch ready for me.
They knew exactly what I needed.
They make sure.
Oh, hold on a second.
I think we should stop.
He's a little bit.
His forehead's a little shiny.
That is what an AP.
That's an AP who you love.
And when you love them, they love you
back.
So, they are very important to me in
my television career experience.
Onward with Steve Banstra.
Oh, 53, sir.
Yes, he's back.
Yes, sir.
BNA.
Yes.
453 19.
ITM boys, well, I haven't been overboard.
I am behind on episodes and returning value.
A lot of other, it says here, stuff,
shitty stuff stuff has been consuming my time.
Here's three, three, three for my annual AP
donation.
Plus 59 93 plus something times times times
two for the over easy EGGS.
Oh, the eggs, the three.
Hey, he's got a space there with a
dot or something.
Three, three, nine, nine, five golden shower donations.
The way I read it.
No, that I missed on November and December.
Thanks for the keeping up the deconstruction.
Even when other things consume your time.
Jingles, please.
Boogity boogity and F cancer.
He's got an F cancer.
And there's probably something chewing up his time.
I'm sure there's something on the prayer list,
brother.
You've got karma.
Sorry, I didn't mean to cut you off
there.
It's okay, Steve.
Thank you very much, brother.
Joseph Pinto, Brookhaven, Georgia, $333 and 33 cents.
Executive producer credit for you.
I see no note.
Therefore, you get a double up karma.
You've got karma.
Samuel Barrett in Vernon Rockwell, Connecticut.
That's horse country.
Horse country.
Three, three, three, three, three.
He's becoming a knight.
And he sent a note.
He said this came in as a check.
And he said a note.
In the morning, John C and Atom.
I apologize for assuming John was Tom Sawyer
and Adam.
I listened to the show where you guys
switched up to 50s and above, but was
still convinced John had a crafty trick up
his sleeve because that's the way he is.
Being an elder millennial, young Gen Xer, born
29th September, 1980.
For anyone interested in giving him a gift.
And he says for the birthday list.
No, we don't have a birthday list.
Hello.
You got to email us notes at no
agenda show dot net.
At the time.
Yes.
That yes.
The day we're not.
The day before the show.
The bookkeep for anybody.
No, I'm well aware of what a book
looks like.
And even have visited Mark Twain's house in
Hartford, Connecticut, multiple times.
However, I can see how you two would
think the world has forgotten the classics with
all the tick tock insanity you subjected yourself.
Yes, I do think so.
I think the vast majority is not read
those books.
Prove me wrong.
And I would agree with Adam, whether or
not there is even tick tock in existence.
Nobody reads anything.
They get a Chromebook.
They don't even get books anymore.
Yeah, I know.
And they can't read.
After my last great big boobs donation, this
will put me over the top for a
knighthood.
I like to be knighted, Sir Sammy B
of the Eastern Skies and have Mexican Coke,
by the way, which all Coke will be.
Yep, it's coming.
Lefsy and Krum Cocky or whatever that is.
Bukkake.
No, Krum Cake.
Bukkake.
Krum Cake.
Krum Cocky.
Krum Cock.
Krum Cake.
I think it's Krum Cake.
Krum Cake.
Yes.
Okay, well, that's not the way he spells
it.
I request some shape-shifting juice and karma
for all.
Please keep doing a bang up job for
their foreseeable future, Samuel Barrett.
You've got karma.
All right, Samuel.
We go to Ellie Pollack, St. Augustine, Florida.
First Associate Executive Producer title for the show
with a row of ducks, 222.22. Hello,
John and Adam.
Long-time listener, first-time donor.
A de-douching is certainly in order.
You've been de-douched.
I have been listening since your first JRE
appearance, as you used to say, but not
often enough anymore.
Rogan Donation.
Actually, I should have brought it out of
the closet.
Here we go.
Rogan Donation.
All right.
I've been meaning to jump on the monthly
donation of 11.11, but just have not
made it happen until now.
So with that said, here's 222.22 donation.
I start my monthly support of 11.11
to the best podcast in the universe.
Please add this donation to your Jew donation
list.
You mean Jew money.
Let's get it straight.
We are out here and we're listening.
Good.
There she is.
A few months ago, you shared a tip
of the day for a burn cream called
Ching Wan Hung, which I purchased and put
in my emergency kit.
Yes, this was my tip of the day.
Well, a few weeks ago, my four-year
-old daughter took the initiative to rekindle our
burn pile, which resulted in a hot coal
in the top of her shoe where it
stuck.
Ow.
Ow.
She ended up with a pretty nasty secondary
degree burn.
We used the cream for two weeks.
Wow.
Typically, you put it on and well, it
sounds like she was really badly burned until
the blister opened and we could not anymore
and had great results.
Oh, she'll be left with a small scar.
A good reminder not to try such shenanigans
again.
The doctor was very impressed with how nicely
it's healed.
Thank you for the recommendation.
Saving children's toes for 18 years, ladies and
gentlemen.
And finally, thank you for your years of
decoding the news and the culture.
We thoroughly enjoy listening to No Agenda and
can't recommend it enough.
Keep at it.
Four more years, says Ellie Pollack.
Oh, sweet.
Yes, very nice.
Sir Tim in Overland Park, Kansas, 222.22,
from Sir Tim, I had completely missed that
Adam was doing a podcast with Pastor Jimmy.
It's called the I would do a podcast
together until J.C.D. started bitching about
Adam.
Reusing content, bitching about him, reusing content.
Yes, he did that again today, by the
way.
What are your what did I do?
You said on the on the Pastor Jimmy
show, we get to do this.
Yes, we get to do this.
It's called we get to do this.
It's called this.
We get to do this.
God, the world.
Now, who's on first?
What did I reuse?
That Trump is going to go before Davos
and give his terms of surrender.
Oh, well, I didn't come up with that,
actually.
That's I stole that from Tom Luongo, from
Gold Goats and Goats.
You stole material and played it on a
religious podcast?
Religious.
It's just two guys.
It's not a religious podcast.
But for FYI, J.C.D. needs to
lay off on the tirades.
Does that include the one I did today
about the Logan Act?
No, only tirades against me.
Mimi says the same thing.
He comes off like a complete dick.
It goes off, which is exactly what Mimi
said.
What's interesting?
Don't pick on him in his podcast.
And let's do this podcast, podcast, whatever it's
called.
We do this together.
We get to do this.
We get to do this.
You can say it wrong as often as
you like.
It's fine.
We've never had so many listeners.
It's highly appreciated.
Yeah, you're going to be swamped with listeners.
You know, some people feel that you're jealous
of me and Jimmy, and I don't want
you to feel that way.
I don't want you to feel that.
Well, no, but I will tell you what
irked me.
Okay.
When you threw the substack column as my
doing repurposing, which is true because they repurpose
a lot of stuff in that column that
we talk about on the show, but it's
after this.
It's always after we've discussed it on the
show so I can fine tune it.
It's always after.
I don't do a substack column before a
topic arrives on the show.
Oh, well, you have my permission.
It doesn't bother me.
And furthermore, unlike we do this podcast together.
We get to do this.
I plug the No Agenda show at the
end.
People can check this out.
At the end of every single substack column,
there is a promotion for the No Agenda
show.
Well, I would say that of the 18
episodes of We Get to Do This, that
I have discussed No Agenda in at least
17 of them.
I, you can't fault me for not promoting
the show or talking about or even about
you.
In fact, I think that what really irked
you, and I understand it and I apologize,
is that I said, this is the highlight
of my week.
And I think that might have irked you.
But I could be wrong.
That is exactly right.
Okay.
So.
Even though you said earlier on this show.
I said you love doing this show and
you would do it for free.
I would, I would.
But yeah, well, I would.
But if you keep doing that, then I
won't do it at all.
So it was really and then I'll take
my marbles and I'm going home.
If I have to, if I have to.
But I'm taking those marbles.
I'm going home.
But I also as soon as I get
if once I get the name of that
podcast down, I'll stop doing it.
I can't remember that we get to do
this.
Literally, people at church came up to me
this morning.
Are you okay?
And I said, no, I wasn't.
I was I was upset.
They say, well, we don't mind.
We don't mind the repurpose content.
We kind of like hearing it more than
once.
Okay.
Yeah.
So I think we're good.
Well, I would.
I'm okay.
I'll say one last thing.
Yes.
Now I got nothing else.
I also recognize that I needed to change
my attitude.
I am not the same person that you
were talking to three years ago.
And I recognize that I also have to
adjust my own attitude towards you.
Certainly.
So I feel much better after having discussed
the matter with my friends.
And I'll tell you this.
If people followed the dynamic of this show,
they would know that if we actually lived
in the same town or did it in
a studio together, this show would have been
over a decade ago.
So easily.
Maybe even after 100 episodes, which is kind
of where I was ready to quit.
You were ready to quit after 10.
And so, yes.
And the other little bit based on them
done.
Yeah.
With the topic.
Okay.
Is the problem I had with the repurposed
material, even though people like to hear it
twice, somehow, for some reason, is that it
lessens the...
Because I hear that we've had this podcast
together.
We get to do this.
We do this together.
We get to do this.
Is that you do the bit and you've
rehearsed it.
And then you come in...
The spontaneity is missing from this show.
But see, this is where...
So two things.
First of all, I'm always...
I was actually in both cases that you
called me out on it.
I was actually excited to get your input,
your take on it.
That's why I brought it up, not to
have it rehearsed and do it again.
But I am interested in what you have
to say.
Well, if you had presented it that way...
Well, I didn't get far enough.
But that is truly...
That is really the truth.
If something comes up...
Well, I accept that as the truth.
Yes.
And I will refuse...
I should either stop listening to the other
show, which is hard to do.
Because it's...
I know it's a great show.
I know.
It's short, it's only once a week.
It's only what's short.
That's the redeeming quality.
Yes.
It's like Horowitz and I.
We only do an hour.
Yeah.
And the other thing I will say is
that there was never...
Of course, you didn't listen to every four
-hour MoFax with Adam Curry show.
It was hard because there's a word in
there you said, and that explains it.
Four.
Yes.
Now, I know, but I repurpose content from
Mo's show all the time.
I'm sure you know...
I would literally say it.
I would say, here's a clip that I
played on MoFax, and I played it for
you because I was interested in your...
That's interesting you say that, and I probably
would have been annoyed with the MoFax show
if I had the time to listen to
four hours of that show, because it was
long.
Yeah, it was very long.
It was longer than our show.
But just so you know, I don't bring
things up...
Well, I feel I apologized for being a
dick, according to our friend here.
I forgave you, so that's...
But it's the audience that I'm concerned about.
Not you, who cares?
We continue with a short row of ducks.
222 from Claudiu Chere from Liberty Lake, Washington.
And I looked, donation was sent to adamcurry
.com.
Okay, this is a mistake.
You need to send it to notes at
noagendashow.net.
I believe that is made clear on our
donation page.
And I searched on your email, and I
looked in my spam boxes.
I have not received this with the subject
line donation.
And if I saw something come through with
the subject line donation, I would have caught
it.
In fact, I do a regular search because
I get a lot of email and I
didn't get it.
So send the note.
We'll be happy to read it later.
Thank you for your support, Claudiu.
Hmm.
There we have Shauna.
Shauna Norberg in Bellingham, Washington.
217.94, no note whatsoever.
And we'll give her a double up, Karma.
Yes, we will.
You've got Karma.
Sir Brian Tobiason from Gardner, Kansas.
208.88. And he wants respect.
F-35 guy in traditional jobs.
Karma, you guys are great.
And I'd like to throw my two cents
on the whole TikTok and recycled content bickering
over the last few shows.
John, I'm a fan of Adam, but the
only other podcast I listen to with him
is Rogan when he's a guest.
So I've not heard anything discussed with Jimmy.
And I think to assume we are all
listening to everything he does is a mistake.
Adam, and this is good.
Adam, you may not enjoy the TikTok lunatics
that John brings, but I don't ever go
on TikTok or even search them out on
X.
So this is my only exposure to the
nut jobs, and I love it.
Fair point.
Therefore, you can both work on your assumptions
about the audience.
And regardless, you can rest assured, no agenda
will be the only podcast I never miss.
Thank you for your courage, Sir Tobiason, Viscount
of the Chief's Kingdom.
Well, he put us both in our place,
and I appreciate that.
R-E-S-P-I-C-T.
Oh, what in the world is this?
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs.
Well, he's back.
Eli the Coffee Guy.
And I do have a clip I want
to play, a bonus clip for this segment.
But I'm going to read this note first,
then we'll play the bonus clip.
OK.
Bensonville, Illinois is where he is.
He's came in with 2-0-1-15.
Looks like the final domino in the West
Clark 7 may finally be falling.
Funny how a 20-year-old clip aged,
well, it didn't, you know, thing is, they
were supposed to do that in what?
Within five years.
It was supposed to happen in 2005.
Yes.
Yeah.
Within five years, we're going to do this.
They didn't do jack.
Should we play the short version for a
second, just so people know?
Yeah, sure.
Why not?
West Clark 7.
Let me make sure it's the small one.
The short one.
Yes.
So I came back to see him a
few weeks later.
And by that time we were bombing in
Afghanistan.
I said, are we still going to war
with Iraq?
And he said, oh, it's worse than that.
He said, he reached over on his desk.
He picked up a piece of paper.
He said, I just, he said, I just
got this down from upstairs.
I mean, the Secretary of Defense's office today.
And he said, this is a memo that
describes how we're going to take out seven
countries in five years, starting with Iraq and
then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and finishing
off Iran.
Yes.
Unfortunately, President Trump thwarted that plan.
Yes.
So we're still counting.
Yes.
Anyway, he says, he says funny how a
20 year old clip aged better than the
coverage we get in real time.
I don't think that's true.
Thanks to no agenda for the reminder that
none of this is random.
The only thing that's changed in the past
two decades is that the news graphics have
gotten better.
I'm not even sure that's true.
I think the coffee's gotten better.
I mean, I'm just happy to write his
own copy for him.
Yes, it has.
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Eli the coffee guy.
And so I put this clip aside waiting
for Eli to come back on board here
with his donations.
He had a PayPal issue, I believe.
Well, whatever it is, he's got these getting
the clip.
And here it is.
This Dr. Rhonda Patrick.
Drinking coffee appears to actively slow this biological
aging process.
Researchers found that each additional cup of coffee
corresponded to about 0.12 years younger biological
age.
Even more strikingly, people who consumed three or
more cups per day had a 34 to
41% lower chance of accelerated biological aging
compared to non-drinkers.
In a separate multi-ethnic study using advanced
epigenetic clocks, further supported this.
So regular coffee intake correlated with roughly 0
.7 to a full year reduction in epigenetic
age for each daily cup consumed.
I'm going to live forever.
This is good news.
Wow.
Who knew?
They always say you drink too much coffee.
The coffee councils get long tentacles.
Well, you know who also drinks a lot
of coffee are the Dutch.
And they look great.
They look very good.
All right.
That's a good clip.
Onward with $200.
And we thank you, Andrew Seymour from Columbus,
Ohio.
He says, hi, Adam and John.
I've been a longtime listener.
I'm finally reaching out to donate.
This is my first installment toward becoming a
knight of the No Agenda Roundtable.
I will include more notes with my future
installments.
Thank you both for keeping us on track.
Please choose jingles of your choice.
73s, it's a ham.
Andrew Seymour, WHFLG.
You know, I got a whole bunch of
messages.
People like, hey, Fredericksburg hams made the news.
I'm like, oh, what happened?
So we have a repeater here in Fredericksburg.
Two meter repeater, two meter repeater.
And the big news was that they've it
now runs completely on solar power.
They're like, oh, that's that's reasonably cool.
That's actually a smart idea.
But then the you look at the picture
of the guys who are running the repeater.
Not a single young person will ever enter
the amateur radio hobby.
When you see this picture, these guys, one's
got a got a walker.
I mean, I love my hams, but come
on, people.
We need some young people to represent this
hobby.
Got to be something to do that.
You're right.
It was this is this is a long
standing problem.
Yeah, and there's really no reason for it,
because if you look on YouTube, there's lots
of young people messing around with two meter
gear and stuff like that.
Anyway, he asked me for a random jingle.
I have a new jingle, which is an
ode to you, then will be used in
future segments.
Take talking in my car.
Linda Lou Patkins up.
She's in Castle Rock, Colorado.
Jobs Karma, she says for a competitive edge
with a resume that gets results.
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resume and job search needs.
That's ImageMakersInc with a K and work with
Linda Lou, the Duchess of Jobs and writer
of winning resumes.
Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs.
Karma.
And we wind it up with a $200
donation from Sir Writer of Words.
He comes from Redlands, California, and he says,
let me see.
Am I missing a piece of his note
here?
No, he just says, I also it starts
off.
I also ran into the statute of limitations.
Is that all?
That's how his note starts.
I'm missing something here.
That's where I got.
I also ran into the statute of limitations
issue after.
Oh, I also ran into the statute of
limitations issue after being fired for not allowing
the vaccine into my life in 2021.
It was a blessing.
I'm a med school professor and researcher now,
but I wouldn't say no to a nice
settlement.
If any NA lawyers have a creative solution.
Know what I mean?
Rob Carty.
Thanks to all of the NOAA agenda listeners
who bought my book, God's Eye View on
Amazon and Audible.
Yes, God's Eye View.
They talked about it.
He's a PhD and it's a very good
book.
Big thanks for all of the five-star
reviews.
You can also check out my podcast, God's
Eye View, where we talk about faith and
science.
Speaking of which.
Science.
Adam, could you tell us a bit about
Godcaster?
Thank you for your courage, boys.
Sir Writer of Words.
Well, I won't have to because you can
go to Godcaster, one word, dot FM and
download the app and you'll see for yourself.
And yes, you can also get the NOAA
agenda show on it.
And that is our final associate executive producer
for episode 1835.
Thank you all very much.
We'll be thanking the rest of our supporters
and donors and producers.
$50 and above in our second segment.
We appreciate that you do this.
Remember, these credits are the real deal.
Just like Hollywood credits.
People like Danny Brunetti have them more than
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we thank you for supporting the NOAA agenda
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Congratulations to these associate and executive producers.
Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the
mouth.
So I just want to play a kind
of a throwaway clip.
But people keep sending me stuff like this.
And I urge you, when you see or
hear one of these reports, go to the,
you know, just Google the vehicle in question
and look at something called performance.
Sometimes it'll always be listed.
Endurance is another good one.
This is from Rick, the cyber guy who's
reporting to us from CES.
Are you ready for rush hour in the
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why so many people get my newsletter for
free.
Now, this is pretty cool.
Flying cars are coming faster than you think.
Check this out.
It's called the Blackbird demonstrator by Cyclotech.
It's got cyclo rotors.
Imagine propellers that can push you in any
direction.
That's right.
A full 360 degree control in the air.
And guess what?
This thing can take off vertically, break midair
and even parallel park in the sky.
Yeah, parallel parking in midair.
I still struggle with that right here on
the ground.
Plus, it's super safe and stable.
Even if an engine goes out, it just
keeps flying.
First flight happening this quarter.
Like it or not, sky traffic is on
the way.
What do you think?
Are you excited or a little nervous about
this stuff?
Let me know in the comments below.
No, I'm not excited for a thing that
can fly 49 miles per hour.
You can't be over 200 pounds.
And it only flies 49 miles per hour
for 20 minutes before you have to recharge.
This is a useless toy.
Until batteries improve, which I really am.
Please don't email because there's no proof.
And we're like, no, you know, it's improving
the Chinese.
OK, no, they're not improving.
They're not.
It's just not.
Well, there's some improvement, but there's not improvement
in performance.
Improvement in long term stability.
That's the latest.
It's the power to weight ratio that just
does not work for flight.
So just saying.
Everybody's all, oh, look at this.
It's like a drone.
I can sit in my.
Can you imagine a scenario?
I always like to do this as a
as a scenario, a timeline scenario where the
gasoline engine wasn't invented and everything was battery
powered.
And then suddenly somebody invents the gasoline engine.
Yeah, which goes farther and has more energy
per weight.
Everything about it.
It would it would wipe out the electric
business, which it did already once, by the
way, because there were electric cars early on.
It would just be over.
Yeah, but no, it's all it's all of
the climate change stuff and the and the
subsidies that made that rock.
So subsidies.
What did I say?
You said subsidies.
Oh, subsidies.
Yes.
And it is subsidies.
That's what they're gone.
Now the subsidies are gone.
And this is the end of it.
Yes.
So we were mentioning Iran earlier.
And I'm very, very pleased that our president,
for whatever reason, like they were going to
hang 800 people from cranes.
You told me it was just one.
I mean, the president had.
Well, I know there was one guy in
particular they were making a big fuss about.
I didn't know they're going to hang 800.
I don't know there was that many cranes
in Tehran.
It's asynchronous information, baby.
We are just not in the know.
So that was his reason.
Like, oh, they stop.
So I'm not going to do anything.
But that doesn't mean that that isn't exactly
what the true neocons want to do.
They always want to bomb them, bomb them
and bomb them again.
And I loved seeing John the Stash Bolton
come on Ms. Now with the Cabrera lady.
And I pulled two clips for our enjoyment.
You were his former national security advisor.
What do you make of the president's approach
toward this situation in Iran?
Well, I think it's evolving in a typically
incoherent fashion.
You know, the chronology doesn't support Trump's view
here.
He was he was saying a few days
ago that Iranian patriots should keep protesting, take
over your institutions, he said, when in fact
the main killing was over the weekend and
the protests had largely subsided because the people
were scared to death to leave their homes
for what they might what might face from
the besieging militia and other agents of the
Iranian government.
We don't really know what the situation is.
There are 31 provinces in Iran.
Communication is not good.
And in any event, who cares what the
regime in Tehran says?
They lie quite regularly.
And it's it's just a mistake to say,
well, they've said they're not killing anymore.
So I guess things are all right.
I don't know what the president's going to
do.
I think we're missing a real opportunity here
to help the opposition overthrow this regime.
That may not be Trump's objective, but it
should be.
Oh, what an opportunity we missed here to
bomb, bomb, bomb them to help the so
-called opposition, which appears to be the crown
prince.
By the way, there's no evidence he's a
crown prince.
He's just the grandson of he's not recognized.
I like your good.
That's a very good point.
Oh, it was annoying.
I had never been able to look it
up.
When was he crowned?
Yeah, there's no coronation on record.
And it's so funny because there was at
Mar-a-Lago.
There was a big Jerusalem prayer breakfast and
Pastor Steve Berger was speaking.
And he was like, oh, I was going
to have the crown prince here, you know,
to talk about the opposition in Iran.
And he had important business in D.C.
So he sent us this video, like a
45 second video.
But what really happened is Trump said, no,
I've got no time for him.
He seems like a nice guy, but I'm
not going to meet with him because he's
obviously an op of some probably the British
who are doing this.
You know, if there is any kind of
op that's happening, it's not us.
I got to play the second Bolton clip
and I'll play what I was talking about.
How would the U.S. help the opposition
overthrow the regime?
Well, I think we have missed years of
opportunity to help the opposition inside Iran, helping
them with communication, which they could desperately use
at this point.
And other resources.
What?
We did help with communication who slipped into
40000 receivers for the Starlink.
But that's if we didn't we didn't have
anything.
He does.
He doesn't want that.
He wants the bomb.
He wants the bomb.
Listen, I know, but he's just saying what
he's saying is a lie.
Yeah, well, he's he's a douche with the
mustache of American boots on the ground.
It's a tangible support that would help the
opposition get better organized.
Right now, I think that that striking against
the the key elements of repression in Iran,
the Revolutionary Guards, the besieging militia, as I
mentioned, headquarters facilities, military bases, paramilitary bases, the
Iran nuclear program, the missile ballistic missile production
program that would show to the regime and
potential defectors within the regime that its days
are numbers numbered.
And it would give the opposition the moral
support I think they need in the face
of this regime brutality to continue to protest
because we're not going to we're not going
to overthrow the regime for the Iranian people.
They're going to have to be a significant
part of it.
I think the regime is in the weakest
position it's been in since 1979.
And if this latest effort by the people
to get control of the government fails, we
may have to wait quite some time before
the next opportunity emerges.
Oh, we're missing the opportunity to bomb them.
So I do expect the anti-war podcast
crowd to talk about Bolton instead of the
person you actually hate, which is the president,
who just restrained himself.
He's like, no, I'm not falling for this
gambit.
And I think it is a gambit.
The I'm not sure no one really knows
like 20,000 people have been slaughtered.
Maybe I don't know.
Lots of people have been killed for sure.
But this to me, if not boots on
the ground, it certainly smells of some kind
of MI6 media operation like, yeah, let's get
Trump over there.
Let's drag him into a war is a
good idea.
We'll distract him from Greenland and everything else
that we don't want him to do.
And and so out comes the Iranian minister.
I don't know what minister of what I
got this from.
Yeah, I saw this guy.
I just pulled a little bit of a
clip.
Just replace everything with MI6.
The goal was to increase the number of
casualties in the protests.
Why?
Because Mr. Trump, the president of the United
States, said that if people are killed, they
will come and intervene.
This is clear evidence of interference in the
internal affairs of other countries.
We have audio recordings of messages sent from
outside the country to these terrorist elements telling
them open fire while you are among the
protesters.
If you can shoot the police, do so.
If you cannot, then shoot ordinary people.
And if that is not possible, then shoot
the girl or the young man directly in
front of you.
We possess extensive evidence and documents indicating the
involvement of both the United States and Israel
in this terrorist act.
Israeli media outlets are full of reports claiming
they are busy planning operations inside Iran.
Mr. Pompeo, an influential figure who served as
director of the CIA during Trump's previous term,
posted a tweet saying, I congratulate the Iranians
in the streets and Mossad agents walking alongside
them, which constitutes a clear admission.
We, the Iranian government, demand justice for everyone
who was killed.
In the documents we obtained, the detained rioters
confessed that large sums of money were paid
to them and that they were recruited through
financial incentives.
Eighty million tomans were paid to attack each
police station and to attack or ban vehicles
and government vehicles.
Fifty million tomans to set places on fire.
Twenty million tomans for other acts.
There are documents and confessions for each case.
The money that was paid has also been
seized and documented.
We have the proof, Pompeo.
You think Pompeo still has ties to the
CIA?
I don't think so.
I don't either.
I mean, if anything, and the Israelis don't
want to do this.
I love you.
It is clear the Israelis did it.
For to what end?
That certainly failed them.
Where's your boy Trump coming in there bombing
for you?
That's not a good op.
So no, dumb.
What I was surprised to hear, and this
is through the nature of transparency on blockchains,
is that the Iranians, you know, we knew
that the IRCG, they were using Bitcoin to
buy stuff and transact.
Going back to 2018, this has been known.
But I came across this.
Then it seems like some $8 billion is
held in Bitcoin, but transactions being done in
stable coin.
If we look at conflict countries, particularly we'll
take the top two right now that happen
to be Iran and Venezuela.
What we're seeing is a huge uptick in
stable coin usage because their currencies are hyper
inflating.
Venezuela has been for a while.
And Iran, they have 42.4 percent inflation,
food inflation is over 60 percent.
That's just happened in the last few months
that it's just exploded forward.
So we are seeing people try to get
currency that is a little beyond the purview
of the regimes that are in power, that
are eroding their particular buying power of their
currency.
So they'd rather hold something like a stable
coin, particularly a U.S. dollar, that's going
to hold its value a lot more.
And we did get a nice boots on
the ground anonymous from one of our producers
who says, yeah, this is really rolling out.
He's at a big operation that is rolling
them out.
And and certainly in the United States will
replace Zelle.
You saw that note, didn't you?
No.
Yeah, you did.
You were you were you replied to him.
Oh, what did it say?
I work for a company that writes banking
software.
Don't mention.
Oh, yeah, that guy.
Yeah, yeah.
It's good.
I'll read it.
I'm unsure how public this information is.
OK, got it.
We are one of the largest core providers
in the nation.
So he he removed the name appropriately.
Our products are often considered top tier banking
software.
This year we're rolling out stable coin features
to allow for customers and banks to trade
in stable coins directly with and through their
bank.
We are also getting things ready for the
big stable coin rollout in the U.S.
At a meeting last week, it was announced
that this was coming.
Thus, this next financial year, and we're currently
slated to be the first provider of such
a service, their existing integration with Coinbase and
others.
But this will be directly to the bank
and specifically stable coin.
We also were told that we projected the
next two years.
This is going to be how our customers,
his customers, our banks move money.
And it's going to mean we pull back
on some of our support for other services.
It wasn't said.
But the implication was Zelle, which is a
huge pain in the ass, which is true.
Zelle is a huge.
Yes, our bank, the one we use doesn't
use won't even take deal with it.
Our bank here, Guadalupe Bank in Fredericksburg, which
is a hill country bank, they won't use
it either.
Like, no, sorry, Mr. Curry, not doing that.
So it's coming, but it's all for other
reasons.
We'll have to watch Scott the Shusher Besant
very closely in this regard.
But I don't think there's much else to
say about about Iran.
I do have a couple of things to
say about Venezuela.
Yeah, let's do that.
What is this all about?
Venezuela meeting with who?
Let's find out.
Today, the first image of what U.S.
officials build as a historic meeting, CIA Director
John Ratcliffe greeting interim Venezuelan President Delsi Rodriguez.
That handshake and Ratcliffe's trip to Caracas would
have been unthinkable just weeks ago.
Especially to visit U.S. sanctioned nationalist politician
Rodriguez, handpicked successor to captured Venezuelan President Nicolás
Maduro.
But a U.S. official says the meeting
was a sign of an improved U.S.-Venezuela
relationship.
And that Venezuela must block drug trafficking and
provide the U.S. economic opportunities.
This has nothing to do with a tension
or decision between Delsi Rodriguez and myself.
But in Washington today, opposition leader Maria Carina
Machado urged the U.S. to proceed with
caution.
Delsi Rodriguez, yes, she's a communist.
She's the main ally and representation of the
Russian regime, the Chinese and Iranians.
But that's not the Venezuelan people and that's
not the armed forces.
Last night, Machado gifted President her Nobel Peace
Prize.
Only 150 have ever been awarded, and one
will now hang in the White House, dedicated
to President Trump's, quote, principled and decisive action
to secure a free Venezuela.
And she gave me her Nobel Prize.
But I'll tell you what, I get to
know her.
I never met her before.
And I was very, very impressed.
She's a really, this is a fine woman.
I have the rest of that statement after
your second clip, because it's funny.
So Radcliffe goes to Venezuela.
Of course.
The CIA guy.
And it's like, what?
It's because there's something up.
Well, and this was.
Go ahead.
With a lot of.
I'm sorry.
No, go ahead.
Go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead,
go ahead, go ahead, go ahead.
I was going.
You know, it's first of all, well, Machado,
it's obvious, you know, anyone who receives a
peace prize, got a big red flag on
your head.
No, you're a part of some shill system.
I'm sorry.
No, no, no.
If Obama got one, who else got one?
No.
Actually, well, let me let me play this
25 second clip from Trump in between your
clips.
Oh, it's your clip.
OK.
Yeah.
OK.
So and it's it's a little clearer.
OK, good, good.
Yes.
And anyway, the whole thing is believe that
Delsey Delrey, whatever the hell her name is,
she was part of the scheme to get
Maduro out of there in the first place.
She may be a CIA asset.
Well, but think about it.
He's over there saying, look, look, if she's
an asset or not, we have our guys
everywhere.
So do things our way.
Apparently, they deposited 500 million dollars from that
shipment of oil into Qatari banks, which I
think is interesting, but probably smart because there'd
be some stupid judge somewhere in some blue
state district who's going, well, you've got to
block that.
Trump can't do it.
So they put it in Qatari banks.
Qatar is already sending 300 million to Venezuela
and they can do whatever they want, you
know, fill up the grocery stores or maybe
consider a different system.
It's just a thought.
And there and Radcliffe's there saying, just do
what we say or we kill you all.
Maybe.
OK, so let's go to part two.
That's the CIA I'm thinking about.
Machado praised the president, but did not pull
her punches, especially in Spanish, in a criticism
of a politician whom she believes cannot deliver
long term stability.
I don't want to cause us.
There are some things that Delcy Rodriguez may
be able to deliver, forced by power because
she is terrified of President Trump.
But there are things that Delcy Rodriguez or
any of the members of the criminal structure
will never be able to provide trust, rule
of law, reconciliation, citizen participation and support.
Never, never.
Therefore, it is not sustainable.
And she knows it.
But if that's what she argued to the
president, he was not persuaded.
Why am I, Delcy Rodriguez, in the record
of a girl and not with Machado's support?
Well, if you ever remember a place called
Iraq where everybody was fired, every single person,
the police, the generals, everybody was fired.
And they ended up being ISIS.
Instead of just getting down to business, they
ended up being ISIS.
Last month, I spoke to Grey Bull Rescues
Brian Stern, who organized Machado's daring escape from
Venezuela.
She has rock star level status in the
country.
She got on a boat.
And that boat was not what most people
think.
It was a very small boat.
The seas were between 5 and 10 feet.
And now for the first time, Machado admitted
she thought she would not survive the journey.
So it was a very risky, dangerous and
scary moment, I have to say.
And it lasted several hours.
But at the end, as I say, you
know, we we have moved ahead.
Thanks to the hand of God, it is
a miracle.
And I'm here.
And so Machado continues her campaign to deliver
democracy back to Venezuela and convince President Trump
of its potential.
How about this for a thought?
Maduro knew this was coming.
He knew that the Brits and whoever else,
the drug network, City of London, they were
going to do regime change with this woman.
And so the first thing he did is
rig the election.
And then he's like, then he calls Trump
and says, dude, get me out.
I'm convinced that that's right.
We've said this before, because when he did
that video of come and get me, come
and get me.
What are you waiting for?
You're a coward.
That was because they were overdue to get
him out of there.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And then they then whatever this stage that
was probably stage for the MI6 guys like,
oh, yeah, we'll get her out.
We'll do it.
Yeah, we got we gotcha.
We're all about it.
And that would explain why our CIA guy
is in Caracas, because that sends the message.
Hey, look who's look who's in Caracas, who's
in control.
Where are we?
So the CIA guy makes it clear that
you can't make it any more clear than
having the CIA head of the CIA instead
of some diplomat.
Publicly, it should be Rubio.
Yeah, technically.
Is it that made all things a message
to MI6?
I think this this MI6 thesis that we've
been developing on this show is absolutely on
the money.
Those guys are not helping us.
No, no, no, no.
And they may not have been helping us
for a long time.
And so, well, go ahead.
This is what I love so much about
watching Victoria and the Crown.
Then, you know, so now we're in well,
we're in the Suez Canal crisis.
And even before that, where Churchill, you know,
he has a stroke, so he can't go
over to meet, I guess it was FDR
at the time.
And the way they talk about the the
American president and American generals, like we're a
bunch of dumb shits.
We're no good.
We're stupid.
Don't know what we're doing.
We're not sophisticated.
They've never gotten over it.
They've never gotten over it.
We were the colony that got away.
And we grew up to be a big
bad boy.
And they still hate it.
Not the British people, but the elites, the
rulers, the royal families.
Come on.
This is absolutely correct the way I see
it.
And it's very apparent if you read the
history books that I collect books.
So I have old history books pre-World
War I and history books post-World War
I.
And the attitude about the British is completely
180.
The pre-World War I history books that
were taught to the kids in this United
States were incredibly critical of the British Empire.
Yeah.
Our special relationship.
Then they're our best buddy.
Yeah.
When did we start with that special relationship
nonsense?
When did that start?
I don't know.
We should do an Ngram on Google.
I'll look it up, put in the newsletter.
Yeah, because it's we were captured.
I mean, Barack Obama, President Obama, he was
a British intelligent asset.
No doubt.
He's been to 10 Downing Street more than
the prime minister in the past couple of
years.
I'm going to go in and get some
instructions for what I got to do, what
I got to say.
The whole Muslim Brotherhood.
Remember him?
The Muslim Brotherhood?
The Muslim Brotherhood that was used against Nasser
in Egypt during the Suez Canal crisis?
By the way, if you want to understand
Israel, look at the Suez Canal.
Maybe you'll understand why Israel is important, huh?
Sorry, I had to mock.
I shouldn't be doing that.
But OK.
We have time for any more stuff or
we're done?
If you want to do one more clip,
we could.
But I can do I only have four
more clips.
I can do four more.
No, no, no.
Four is too much.
I can.
OK, you're not going to go with that.
I can see what you're angling for.
No, it's just too much.
We can also do the roundup lawsuit is
falling apart.
We don't want to do that.
The script is screwing the Hilton Hotel.
I like that.
Oh, well, I know that story.
Let's do something.
But what else you got?
Student loan fiasco.
South Korea president got slammed, thrown in the
jail.
Virginia gerrymandering.
This is a short look.
This gives me an opportunity to complain more.
Yes, we need more complaining.
Oh, ready?
Go.
Virginia lawmakers passed a constitutional amendment today that
would allow the legislature to redraw voting maps
ahead of this year's midterm elections.
The vote landed along party lines in the
Democratic led state Senate.
If Virginians approve the measure, it could help
Democrats gain as many as four seats in
Congress.
Before the vote, lawmakers from both sides laid
out their cases.
This isn't about payback.
It's about restoring and preserving balance to our
system.
And I will grant that we started it.
But a number of states have stood up
to bad ideas.
Earlier this week, Virginia's Democratic leaders said that
a new map would be made public by
the end of the month, with a referendum
to follow in April.
Democrats currently hold six out of Virginia's 11
seats in Congress.
All right.
I feel the guy in there that said,
hey, we started it is the Republican.
What does he mean by that?
He means that Texas, which was told to
redistrict by the courts largely, wasn't something that
they just started to do it for no
good reason or just to get rid of
Jasmine Crockett.
That's not starting.
It was started long ago by the Democrats.
There's not one Republican representative in Massachusetts or
Connecticut or Maine or Vermont.
There's not one.
They're the ones who started it, not the
Republicans, you doofus.
And that was a concise rap.
That was very good.
It was tight.
It's tight.
You want it tight instead of rambling.
It was tight.
So if I was rambling, I'd just be
doing a podcast where I'm sitting there staring
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Before we get to John's tip of the
day, which sometimes can save your kid's toe.
These tips of the day are important tips.
We'd like to select what ISO we will
use at the end of the show.
I have two.
I don't think I'll win.
So I'll go first.
And you've held these two in the band
since the last show.
Forever.
Here's my first one.
It's unbelievable.
Here's my second one.
It just blows my mind.
I like that it was clear, but it's
not really good.
Let's hear what you have.
Like starting with the stammer.
Let's see what I have.
Well, let's do a tune.
Tune soon.
Tune soon.
Yeah, great.
But that was over way too soon.
Tune soon.
Okay, yeah, it was over way too soon.
Get it.
Yeah, I get it.
Okay, it's best.
This podcast and these guys are the best.
Let me listen again.
Great, but that was over way too soon.
I mean, I'm getting to the same point
where.
His voice, what she says is good, but
it's just so fake.
You don't like her.
No, I don't.
This podcast and these guys are the best.
Well, you know what I like about it?
The honesty.
All right, everybody, stand by.
It's time for John's tip of the day.
Great advice for you and me.
Just the tip with JCD and sometimes Adam.
So this is a gift that was a
gift from JC who researches his gifts and
products and recommendations to an extreme.
My son.
And I got this thing.
Okay, there's a gift he gave to you
is what I'm presuming.
Yes.
And he says, no, no, no, don't take
it lightly.
This is a killer.
And so I loaded it up.
And it's indeed a killer killer.
This is a Flarosol designed in Holland by
an American company and made in China, made
in China.
And it's called the Flarosol Olivia.
And this is a specific oil sprayer for
olive oil specifically.
So what does Flarosol mean?
What kind is that device?
It's a brand name.
It's just their company.
Okay, but it's a device.
Team Flarosol.
It's a device.
And then you look it up.
This is you find it on Amazon.
There's a bunch of Flarosol, F-L-A
-R-O-S-O-L.
You'll find a bunch of their products on
Amazon.
But the Olivia, which is the one is
the one I have, it's the one designed
specifically for spraying olive oil.
You think, well, I've seen these sprayers before.
I've got a bunch of different sprayers.
You squeeze a button and it sprays a
little bit.
And you spray it on pans if you
don't want to use waste oil.
Or you spray it over something that's been
cooked with olive oil flavors.
It adds that little...
Can you spray it on your salad?
You could spray it on your salads, but
I think you should mix the oil in
the salad dressing.
Okay.
But you could spray it on your salads
if you had some really flavorful olive oil
you wanted to spray.
This thing is, besides being gorgeous, it's phenomenal.
The spray is not just any old spray.
This is a, I can't even describe it,
but the spray goes out as a kind
of moon-shaped, kind of an ellipsis.
It's kind of an ellipsis.
It's an artsy spray.
It's very artsy.
And it has a feel that I've never
felt before in terms of the squeezing, when
you squeeze the lever to spray.
It's totally...
Anyone out there who cooks, this is just,
I'm telling you, take my word for it.
Whereas Adam would say, trust me, this is
a terrific product.
It's $26.99. It's a little...
I think that's kind of high for these
things.
Now, does it have a lever or a
trigger?
Is it a trigger that you pull?
That's a trigger.
Can it also be used in the bedroom?
If you want to spray your wife with
olive oil.
And there it is, everybody.
Find them all at NoahJettaFun.com or tipoftheday
.net.
Trust me, bro.
Also, you can always find these tips of
the day on X.
Nico Syme has always posted them.
I think he maintains one of the websites,
so it's good.
These could be life-saving tips, everybody, just
so you know.
Also good is what's coming up next on
the Noah Jetta stream.
If you're listening live in your modern podcast
app or whatever, you don't have to stop.
The music keeps on going, as we used
to say.
DH Unplugged, episode 786, Back From Vacation.
The boys are, so stay tuned for that.
And End of Show Mixes.
We have two classics.
We've got The Machine Killing Machine and Donald
Winkler.
You'll recognize both of them if you've been
around, but they're good to listen to again
because it's all about bombing Iran.
And I'm coming to you from the heart
of the Texas Hill Country here in Fredericksburg,
Texas, in the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from Northern Silicon Valley, where I remain,
I'm John C.
Dvorak.
We'll be back on Thursday.
Please join us for another round of media
deconstruction.
I'm sure something will be happening that you
need to find out what's going on.
And always remember us at noagenthedonations.com.
Until then, adios, mofos, hooey, hooey, and such.
I'm gonna bomb you.
I'm gonna hand it to you, folks.
Now you're talking about you.
We're gonna hand it to you, folks.
Now you're talking about you.
Sweet, sweet, easy, dirty, easy.
I'm gonna hand it to you, folks.
Now you're talking about you.
Sweet, sweet, I'm gonna hand it to you,
folks.
I'm gonna hand it to you, folks.
Sweet, sweet, easy, dirty, easy.
I'm gonna hand it to you, folks.
I'm gonna hand it to you, folks.
Now you're talking about you.
I don't care.
They gotta be stopped.
We need to kill them.
We need to kill them.
Bomb them.
Bomb them.
Bomb them, bomb them, and bomb them again,
eh?
We need to kill them.
We need to kill them.
Bomb them, bomb them, and bomb them again,
eh?
And bomb them again, eh?
Bomb them, bomb them, and bomb them again,
eh?
And bomb them again, eh?
Bomb them, bomb them, and
bomb them again, eh?
We need to kill them.
Bomb, bomb, bomb them again.
Bomb them again.
We need to kill them.
And bomb them again.
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