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By the way, by the way, by the
way, by the way, by the way, Adam
Currie, John C.
Duvourac.
It's Sunday, February 1st, 2026.
This is your award-winning, give-or-nation
media assassination episode 1839.
This is no agenda.
We're all crustafariers now, and we're broadcasting live
from the heart of the Texas hill country
here in FEMA Region Number 6.
In the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Currie.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where it's not
snowing here, I'm John C.
Dvorak.
I wouldn't expect it to be snowing where
you are.
Makes no sense.
Well, you don't expect it to be snowing
in North Carolina to this extreme.
Oh, I haven't looked.
I haven't looked.
I'm surprised that Mimi didn't send me a
Max Velocity clip to look at.
I smashed that like button and I hit
the bell and got the subscribe, but I
didn't get a notification about the snow in
North Carolina.
You didn't smash it enough.
Hmm.
Hey, happy Black History Month.
Ah, yes, yes.
Let me see.
No one's done anything about it yet on
the mainstream.
I'm disappointed.
You would expect them to do something about
their favorite community.
Well, there's too much stuff going on with
global warming.
Well, since you bring that up, here's a
funny little ditty on climate change and the
measures we take to combat it from Green
Mountain, Vermont.
Green Mountain Transit's program funds are stretched thin
and so are their buses.
Take a look at this.
These electric buses are less than a year
old, but right now they're out of commission.
These five new Flyer electric buses batteries were
recalled in November.
The manufacturer said they are a fire hazard,
so they can't sit in the GMT garage.
That's why they have that snow mohawk, or
as I like to call them, snow hawks.
The buses have to be 41 degrees to
charge.
And as Gunnar just explained, there's not a
day of 40s in sight.
Oh, no.
GMT is working with Vermont agencies across the
state and sharing buses.
It's another example of Vermonters working together to
get us all where we need to go.
Oh, yeah.
OK, well done, newsreader lady.
Good work, Vermonters.
Did I say it was, did I not
say it was Sunday?
Did I say a different day?
Did I get my day wrong?
Somebody, if somebody caught you saying, I wasn't
paying attention.
I wasn't.
I normally am.
But I know you did this mistake.
You want to start over?
No, of course not.
Now that I've called it out here, it's
OK.
You're right.
Yeah, it happens.
So I have two weather report clips.
Oh, we are in the weather.
They're not long.
It's no big deal.
Here's the weather report.
KU, this has got because somebody does the
word knuckles is in here.
Let's go with that.
Severe winter weather is attributed to at least
15 deaths in Kentucky in the last week,
including an inmate at a Kentucky prison.
Karen Czar with member station WUKY in Lexington
reports.
Forty eight year old Marvin Knuckles was part
of a crew of inmates who were clearing
ice and snow at the Eastern Kentucky Correctional
Complex when he fell down a 40 foot
embankment and died.
Kentucky State Police are investigating the death, but
questions have been raised as to why this
group was out in sub freezing temperatures at
night when Governor Andy Beshear had given a
statewide order to stay inside.
Beshear has promised a full and transparent investigation.
Decisions made good or bad, they deserve to
be seen by that family and by everyone
else.
Officials at the medium security prison say Knuckles
volunteered for the ice removal assignment.
He's knuckles.
You just thought knuckles.
And by the way, why are they why
isn't a full investigation, a full investigation?
Why is all of a sudden everybody, especially
on NPR, using Democrats full and transparent, full
and transparent?
Is that different than full?
No, it's not.
It is.
It is, in fact, wasting valuable airtime.
I think so.
And here's the other one I have, which
is on the bomb cyclone, bomb cyclone.
Oh, boy, it's still happening.
The southeastern U.S. is beginning to feel
the effects of a meteorological bomb cyclone ushering
in blizzard like conditions.
And for the East Coast in general, very
frigid temperatures, six to 10 inches of snow
could fall in Georgia, the Carolinas and parts
of the Appalachians.
Just so you know, this is Appalachians, but
just so you know, they they're they're making
this happen.
They are making this happen.
It's all yours.
Go.
You know, I recognize I recognize that now
that I'm in my 60s, it's hard to
say when I was a kid before I
was in my 60s.
Yes, I really have gone from being a
conspiracy theorist to a conspiracy therapist.
It's just like if it wasn't for almost
two decades of this was discussed at the
Albany, Albany, the Oakland meetup.
Oh, yes.
Which I have a lot of.
By the way, there's going to be a
lot of mentions I got to give.
Oh, good.
Oh, good segment.
Yeah.
But the which didn't get on the spreadsheet.
It was mentioned there was this discussed by
more than one person about you.
Yeah.
And what were they saying?
What you just said?
What happened to Adam in the second half
of show stuff?
And he's you're more nutty than he is
now.
I didn't appreciate that so much.
But that sort of thing, because we've been
through it all.
Everything's been said that needs to be said
this way.
And none of it ever comes true.
None of it ever.
And especially with all the cell phones in
place.
Now, this is the real problem I think
they have with everybody taking videos of everything.
Where's the video of some alien walking down
Main Street?
Yeah.
Thank you.
Good point.
But I think really what they're just mad
about is I'm not on board with the
Jew train and Israel.
I think that's it.
How come Adam isn't on board with the
Jew train and Israel?
What's going on with him?
He should he should know better.
That's what it is.
That's they're disappointed about.
But.
And Epstein, you know, Trump did it.
I do have.
Did what?
Did it all.
He did it all.
He's all part of it.
The pedophiles, all of them, they're all being
blackmailed by Mossad.
I mean, I looked at my Twitter timeline,
my inbox timeline, you know, the mentions.
And there's people sending me like a screenshot
of some grand jury testimony where Epstein writes
to some unknown person because it's redacted.
Yeah.
And don't tell him I'm Mossad.
OK.
And the guy literally post that to me
and says, oh, there you go.
Still don't believe he's Mossad.
Like, yeah, that's what you do when you're
Mossad.
Then you then you send email saying you're
not Mossad and therefore you're guilty of being
a stooge from Mossad.
Oh, brother.
Well, the only funny thing that came out
was that was the Gates memo that was
kind of huge.
What was the Gates memo?
Well, the Gates Gates saying I got STD,
I need some antibiotics.
And again, I hadn't seen that one yet.
So I can dose my wife.
Oh, secretly, he was he was he going
to dose her secretly?
Yeah.
Oh, well, there you go.
Now we know the true reason.
If any wife finds out that her husband
has an STD and then secretly is trying
to dose her.
Yeah.
That's grounds for divorce.
Well, what happened?
Horrible.
What happened?
What do you mean?
We got divorced.
Exactly.
That's what I said.
Now we know.
By the way, I don't think I've ever
said Epstein wasn't Mossad.
He's clear.
We know that that he's intelligence because he
could be he could be multiple.
You know, there are people out there that
are working for more than one agency.
Yes.
And my six is the is the first
one I'd be looking at.
Before me to before Mossad, the BBC did
do their their little quick brisk comb.
I do have some Epstein stuff because I
have some Epstein stuff, too, but my stuff
is labeled Repstein.
OK, sorry.
Which from now on, it will be Repstein
as we speak of the Repstein, the disgraced
financier pedophile.
Notice everyone calls him can now call him
a pedophile because he's dead.
I don't think you do that if it
hasn't been proven yet.
If he was alive.
No, when somebody's dead, this people should know
this legally.
Yeah.
You can start calling him stuff.
I think really the guy is a rapist.
Great.
Let's let's run through some BBC quickies here
for a second.
The new pictures show the then Prince Andrew
on the floor kneeling over a female whose
identity has been hidden.
She's fully dressed.
He's in jeans and a white polo shirt,
but without shoes and socks.
And he see his hands on her stomach.
I love the description.
I love the British.
I'm going to describe this.
Everyone has a phone, but OK, I'm going
to describe the picture for you in the
background.
Someone else is lounging with their feet on
a table next to a couple of folded
towels.
The files provide no date or location for
the images, but they're among horrendous photo.
Was that what did they make a bit?
This is like a like a boring, you
know, I have like taken probably a billion
photographs.
A billion.
Wait a minute.
A billion, a thousand million photographs.
OK, let's back it off.
OK, but I've taken a lot terabytes worth.
Yes.
And so you just go grab and most
of them are junk and I should have
never kept half of them.
Yeah, it's all incriminating evidence.
Take one brand photo or, you know, the
camera went off by accident and then you
describe it.
These are not important pictures.
When you're dead, man, they're going to find
that and then they're going to call you
all kinds of horrible things.
Look at this picture.
Look at that.
By the way, I should have a disclaimer
on that thing about calling people things after
they're dead.
If there's an estate involved that is still
making money on the person, they could they
can sue you.
They can sue you.
OK, so be careful.
Files provide no date or location for the
images, but they're among a number of documents
in this latest release that raise even more
questions about the judgment of the man who
remains eighth in line to the throne.
Wait a minute.
That's not true, is it?
If he's been stripped of his title and
his name, he had to go back to
Mountbatten.
Is he still eighth in line to the
throne?
I don't know.
Yeah, I don't know how that peerage works
when it comes to that.
Hey, at the No Agenda Show...
Do we have a peerage expert besides me?
The No Agenda Show, your kids are all
eligible to take over your title.
I'll just claim that right now.
It's OK.
You can you can you can be an
heir to the title.
It has to be a meeting.
An email sent by Jeffrey Epstein in 2010,
two years after he had been convicted of
solicitation of prostitution with a minor and apparently
written to Andrew, suggests that he meets a
26-year-old Russian woman in London for
dinner.
The reply, by someone signing himself H.R
.H. the Duke of York, KG, says he'd
be delighted.
Epstein then writes back, she's clever, beautiful and
has your email.
In another revelation, the document suggests that later
that same year...
By the way, when I was a single
man, where were those emails for me?
She's clever, she's beautiful, she's Russian and she's
got your email.
Nope, never happened.
By the way...
You said, by the way.
Oh, I did.
I caught myself too.
Not really.
I heard it.
Oh, OK.
So, I'm on my way to recovery.
By the by.
So, that's no good either.
And so, with all we know about Epstein
and the underage girls from all over, you
know, little blondes and brunettes, all the girls
from the USA and, you know, from Mar
-a-Lago and every place else, who were
bringing in Russian spook girls, you know, honeypots.
How does that...
What changed?
Well, remember, this is British royalty.
There's nothing...
You know, just go watch The Crown.
You'll know that it's good to have something
on British royalty.
Then you can get all kinds of stuff.
So, it would make total sense that Epstein
sent in some honeypot.
Prose.
Yeah, prose.
Exactly.
Andrew invited Epstein to Buckingham Palace.
And then you get an invite to Buckingham
Palace.
The former prince has strenuously denied all wrongdoing.
But while his reputation arguably couldn't suffer any
more damage, the files show Jeffrey Epstein kept
striving to save his own, sending an email
to his publicist suggesting they ask the former
Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, to release a
statement saying she had been duped into believing
false allegations about him.
Well, let's hear the BBC about Sarah Ferguson.
Also in the tranche of documents are emails
suggesting Epstein supported Sarah Ferguson financially over a
period of 15 years.
An exchange in 2009 shows Miss Ferguson saying
she urgently needed £20,000 for rent.
The former Duchess of York has been approached
for comment.
She's been approached for comment.
That's a good way to say it, you
Brits.
Man, this, this is great.
You got buddies like Epstein.
Like, I pay my rent.
Okay, no problem, Fergie.
I'll take care of you.
And then there's Richard Branson.
In an email exchange in 2013, Epstein thanks
Richard Branson for recent hospitality and for his
public relations advice on how to deal with
claims against him regarding his conviction for sex
with an underage girl.
I love how the, the, the high and
mighty, the rich and famous are all like,
I got some advice on how you can
deal with this.
Why would Richard, and Richard Branson doesn't come
across to me as some creepy guy.
No, just doesn't.
He's, I don't know.
A friend of mine who knows him says
that he, he's actually financed either by Bahrain
or Qatar.
He's a front man.
Oh yeah.
The airlines, he didn't, he didn't finance them.
He got all, yes, he is a front
man.
He is.
Anyway.
So Richard appears to reply anytime you're in
the area, would love to see you as
long as you bring your Harim.
Virgin group clarified that.
Is what?
Is Harim?
Yes, the Harim.
As in harem?
But it's Harim.
Harim.
As you bring your Harim.
Virgin group clarified that was a reference to
three adult members of Epstein's team and stated
that Sir Richard would not have used the
term or had contact if he'd known the
full facts.
A spokesperson added that Sir Richard's contacts with
Epstein were limited to a few group or
business settings, such as a charity tennis event
more than 12 years ago.
In an email exchange.
Sorry.
And then the final one is of course,
Elon Musk.
Elon Musk, the world's richest man, exchanged emails
with Epstein on two separate occasions in 2012
and 2013 to make arrangements to visit his
island.
Probably just Tallulah and me, Mr. Musk appears
to write in reference to his ex-wife,
the British actress.
What does this mean, Mr. Musk appears to
write?
Did he, did he write it?
Did he not write it?
Are they unsure?
I thought it was his secretary that wrote
it.
One of his aides.
It's interesting that they use this.
He appears to write that.
Is that a hedge against?
I guess it's a hedge against something.
Yeah.
Probably just Tallulah and me, Mr. Musk appears
to write in reference to his ex-wife,
the British actress Tallulah Riley.
What day or night will be the wildest
party on your island?
He asks.
Epstein replies the race show on my island
might make Tallulah uncomfortable before Mr. Musk responds
that ratio is not a problem for Tallulah.
It appears Mr. Musk didn't Tallulah party, party
girl Tallulah.
She likes to party.
It appears Mr. Musk didn't visit either occasion
because of what he referred to in an
email as logistical issues on X.
Mr. Musk posted that he had very little
correspondence with Epstein and declined repeated invitations to
go to his island or fly on what
he called his Lolita Express.
Yeah, but that wasn't in the email.
They just throw that in there.
It's very interesting.
That's poor reporting, but they did that.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Now, Musk did not say I can't wait
to fly on the Lolita Express, nor did
as far as I know from whatever I
saw.
It's impossible.
It's too much.
Did someone throw it in AI already so
we can just know what's supposed to come
out?
Well, now it's getting, yeah.
Well, Musk, of course, is looking for more
moms.
I need more birthing persons.
So this morning on the Sunday morning shows,
we had a lot of people show up
talking about this, talking about all the important
things in the world.
And the one I found most interesting was
Rohana.
That's what I call him, Ro Khanna.
Wasn't he the guy that said, I'm going
to tax all the rich Californians?
And then they got all mad at him,
and then he started talking about other stuff.
Well, he's one of the male members of
the squad, and people keep forgetting that.
Really?
He's actually a Democrat socialist for all practical
purposes.
Oh, I didn't realize he was a member
of the squad.
Yeah, original OG, OG squad member.
Okay.
OG.
Here we go.
Congressman Khanna, welcome back.
This is Manhans Welker.
Congressman Khanna, welcome back to Meet the Press.
Oh, it's great to be here.
Good morning, Kristen.
Thank you so much for being here.
I do want to dive right in.
Dive right in.
What is she, AI now?
She's diving.
Let's dive right in.
Thank you so much for being here.
I do want to dive right in and
start with this trove of Epstein files that
were released.
Of course, you and Congressman Massey were behind
the push to have these files released.
The DOJ says it's withholding large portions to
protect survivors, to protect security.
Has the Justice Department fully complied with the
law, Congressman?
No, they haven't.
They've released, at best, half the documents, but
even those shocked the conscience of this country.
I mean, you have some of- How
are you feeling?
How's your conscience?
Shocked.
Shocked.
Shocked the conscience of this country.
I mean, you have some of the most
wealthy individuals, tech leaders, finance leaders, politicians, all
implicated in some way, having emails about wanting
to go to Epstein's island, knowing that Epstein
was a pedophile.
It's frankly one of the largest- Okay,
let's hold on a second.
I know.
I thought you'd want to jump in here.
Yeah.
So they didn't know anything.
All they knew is that the guy threw
these tremendous parties, or they were rumored to
be, I guess, because I never heard of
him.
Well, hold on.
After his initial indictment and easy jail sentence,
they should have known.
It was a thing in Florida, but who
paid attention to that?
That's my point.
I mean, it's always assumed that everyone's keeping
up with everyone.
They're doing due diligence on every person they
meet or talk to.
What it shows, what it shows, and you
and I have both witnessed this with very
rich people, mainly rich people.
You get really rich people, they have all
kinds of hangers on.
And the number one group is always politicians.
Always.
You've seen it.
I've seen it.
See Al Gore over there, Kleiner Perkins.
Exactly.
Wherever there's really rich people, there's politicians.
And they do all kinds of cool, wacky
stuff.
Because people who are very, very wealthy, they
have no limits.
They're like, I can do whatever I want.
I'm rich.
And to a large degree, that's probably true
within the bounds of the law.
And of course, many of them slip over
that.
But that is life.
And I think that that is the most
interesting thing.
Whereas everyone's talking about pedophiles, pedophiles.
Yes, technically, you have sex with someone who's
underage.
You're a pedophile.
And I think Jeffrey Epstein seems to be
a pedophile.
But the thing that's interesting is this is
the true Robin Leach lifestyles of the rich
and famous.
This is how it really goes down.
Why am I shouting?
Champagne wishes and caviar dreams.
This is the true lifestyles of the rich
and famous.
You're seeing how it really works.
And it didn't end with Epstein.
This is with anybody who's rich.
You always have crazy parties, lots of celebrities,
politicians, drinks, drugs, everything.
That is the life that I think people
are now seeing.
I hope that that's what they're looking at,
because you're not going to find much else.
Trust me.
Oh, to Epstein's Island, knowing that Epstein was
a pedophile.
It's frankly one of the largest scandals, in
my view, in our country's history.
And there is a demand for accountability.
But the survivors, lawyers that I've talked to
have said that the survivors are still upset.
They're upset that many of their names accidentally
came out without redactions.
And they want to make sure the rest
of the files come out.
Yeah.
Rest of the files come out.
OK.
This is this is kind of this interesting
thing.
What is a survivor in this instance?
They keep talking about these survivors.
Well, that's what they get.
Did they escape a shipwreck or were they
were they are they mentally incapable of continuing
a normal life?
I mean, what are they?
Who are these?
I mean, it depends.
I don't want to be callous.
No, no, it depends.
A survivor would be someone who was groomed,
underage and sexually abused.
I would consider that to be an absolute
survivor.
People who are of age, who fell into
the partying and the fun and all of
that and got into stuff that they regret.
I'm not survivors to survivors of.
Of regrets, regrets, regrets, regrets, survivors of stupid
decision making.
I mean, early in their life, I'm a
survivor of 18 years of working with you
and vice versa.
There you have it.
You're talking about some of those big names
being implicated.
Are you suggesting that there should be more
charges filed?
Because at this point in time, no new
charges have been filed against anyone.
Charges for what?
I do think the prosecution needs to look
at seriously bringing charges.
But there are two different issues here, Christian.
There's some people who committed crimes and that
needs to be looked at.
We need to understand who.
That's the thing is, I think he's treading
water here because there just aren't any crimes
in any of these documents.
That's the point.
There's no crimes in the documents.
But in the case of that, we don't.
I mean, it's.
There were probably some underage.
OK, there were some probably underage sex taking
place.
I have to guess this is true because
it just seems to be Epstein for sure.
And himself on a foreign island that has,
you know, under the jurisdiction.
Well, hold on.
Isn't it the U.S. Virgin Islands?
Yeah.
But what's the laws?
What is the Asia consent?
Well, the whole reason for that island was
for the money laundering.
As far as I'm concerned, it just happened
to be a great party.
The whole thing is.
But you know, these crimes, they're not you.
Who's going to who's going to prosecute?
Did you have it?
OK, so somebody did something on the Virgin
Island.
Who's going to prosecute it?
Where is it going to be prosecuted?
How under what circumstances would they be arrested?
I mean, it's just something that is at
this point is beyond.
It's just too late.
But this is not about Epstein.
This is about Trump.
Yeah, you're right.
What am I thinking about Epstein?
What am I doing?
I'm trying to make a logical conclusion that
has nothing to do with any of it.
So Jeffrey Epstein, those names haven't come out.
In fact, they were covered up.
Wait a minute.
Whoa.
What do you say here?
Hold on a second.
Catch this.
And we need to understand who were some
of the associates of Jeffrey Epstein.
Those names haven't come out.
In fact, they were covered up.
That's quite the allegation.
What does he mean by associates other than
Ghislaine Maxwell?
And those names were covered up.
I mean, what does he what what what
does he really want?
He wants that, you know, he's talking through
his hat.
We need to understand who may have abused
or raped underage girls.
But then there's a broader issue, and that
is that there are rich and powerful people
who may not have committed a crime, but
who are emailing Jeffrey Epstein well after he's
a pedophile talking about going to his.
I love that.
Well, after a day to an intern.
OK, on June 8th, he became a pedophile.
And before that, he was a normal guy.
What?
But who are emailing Jeffrey Epstein well after
he's a pedophile talking about going to his
island, talking about wanting to participate in wild
parties.
And the American people are under our eyes.
Stop the presses.
Everybody wants to participate in wild parties.
Don't they?
I'm with you on that.
At least be there.
At least get an invite.
Well, if you if you know this, hey,
Bill, over here has wild parties.
Have you been to any of these wild
parties?
No, I've never been to one of them.
I got to be honest.
I've never been to a wild party or
I left early.
Wild party.
I got to go.
I mean, wild.
Actually, now in the there was a period
of time where there was a lot of
orgy organized.
There's a name for this.
This process was there.
There are literally organized orgies pre pre AIDS,
which cropped up around the 80s.
So in the 70s, there was especially I've
never been to one of these, but I've
always thought about it.
And there used to be Plato's retreat in
New York City, which was notorious.
In fact, there was a playboy.
Isn't that a mustache man's place?
I don't know who mustache man is.
Bolton.
Wasn't he a member of Plato's retreat retreat?
Wasn't that the nightclub?
Where was the fart sniffing place?
Wasn't that?
But you had to get into you had
to get you had to somehow get into
it.
Buck Henry, the great writer, wrote a piece
in Playboy magazine where he went to Plato's
retreat and wrote it up as a kind
of a long essay feature.
And he described what was going on.
And it just sounded like it was an
orgy.
It was people, you know, walking around screwing
everything that they could see over and over
again.
There were girls, you know, pulling a train.
If you can remember what that term means,
there's all this stuff going on.
And he was witnessing it all.
And this was going in the 70s.
There was a lot of this sort of
thing going on here and there.
And they were caught and died.
What I would assume would be a wild
party.
And so they kind of disappeared with AIDS.
AIDS kind of put the kibosh on wild
parties because of the nature of the of
the ailment.
Yes.
And then so things calmed down.
There hasn't been.
But then did you hear about some guys
still doing them?
Well, I'd like to get in on that.
I can't get past your pulling a train
comment.
Let's ask the robot for a second.
Tell me about Plato's retreat in New York
City.
Plato's retreat was a well-known swingers club
in New York City during the 1970s and
1980s.
It was famous for its exclusive atmosphere and
played a significant role in the context of
the sexual revolution of that time.
The club eventually closed in the mid 1980s.
Significant role in the sexual revolution of that
time.
Yeah, right.
Yes, that's wonderful.
Okay.
Free sex.
Let me see where they were called free
sex parties.
That's what they were good in the 70s.
Let's get back.
They were advertised.
Let's get back to the clip file talking
about going to his island, talking about wanting
to participate in wild parties.
And the American people are asking how are
our rich and powerful people living in this
country?
What code are they living by?
Some of those revelations are deeply disturbing.
No, no, this is you're right.
This is what everybody wants to know.
Tell me about these parties.
These guys are living it up.
How can I get invited?
I think you're right.
And he's like, oh, it's deeply disturbing.
Oh, yeah.
Now, everyone's approved, especially the Democrat side and
the squad.
Oh, they went to a wild party.
Oh, nasty, nasty people.
Give me a break.
We continue.
Let me ask you about what comes next.
From your perspective, you've threatened contempt charges and
even impeachment for Attorney General Pam Bondi.
And I wonder, are you at a point
where you are prepared to move forward with
contempt and impeachment charges against the attorney general?
Well, as you know, Kristen, Thomas Massey and
I brought this up in middle of December.
We still have not moved on it because
we are trying to give the Justice Department
some benefit of the doubt.
They did do a release that was significant.
I mean, this is the most documents that
we have seen released so far in history,
but it is not good enough.
And so Thomas Massey and I have requested
a meeting with the deputy attorney general.
He said he's open to meeting with members
of Congress.
He said he's open to explaining why the
redactions were done.
So I hope that we will have a
meeting if we don't get the remaining files,
if we do not get the remaining 302
forms, the remaining prosecution memo from 2019.
And if the survivors are not happy, then
Thomas Massey and I are prepared to move
on impeachment or contempt.
Now, see, the problem is, and I'm not
sure who launched it, but I'm pretty sure
it was from the Democrat Party, is the
concept of a client list.
I can't recall Trump ever talking about a
client list because that is not how it
works in just media, social media in general.
Trump ran on releasing the Epstein client list.
And this is like a throwback to Heidi
Fleiss, the Hollywood madam.
Right.
It is.
Exactly.
You assume that there's a little black book.
Yes.
And that's just not going to exist.
That's the problem.
Elaine Maxwell said so already.
Yeah, but that doesn't count.
It's like somehow people are completely convinced.
It's what is the, what is that, the
Berenstain's thing?
Was it, what is that?
Cosmic shift.
What do we call that?
Oh yeah, that.
Thanks.
Yeah, that's helpful.
Oh yeah, that.
Yeah, that.
Where everyone believes that there's this client list.
And that it's, that it exists.
And I guarantee you it never existed.
It just makes no sense.
Mandela effect.
There you go.
Thank you.
Took a second.
The Mandela effect.
I, and I looked.
There is no, these weren't, I mean, this
guy was a networking maniac.
Yeah, he, we, we have his address book.
And the address book is all, is all
there is.
I mean, what's more, what more do you
want?
Does he have one with a bunch of
stars next to the names or check marks
or, or whatever?
Crash planes?
A file maker database.
Yeah.
Yeah.
File maker database, which by the way, if
they had, they wouldn't, kind of wouldn't surprise
you because it turns out the two of
them are online all the time.
They were both gamers and geez.
One more clip here.
Well, let me ask you about another aspect
of this former president, Bill Clinton, who is
named in the Epstein files and former secretary
of state Hillary Clinton have refused to comply
with the house subpoenas in the Epstein investigation.
We should note nearly half of your democratic
colleagues in the oversight committee voted to hold
the former president in contempt.
As a result, you voted no Congressman.
I do want to set aside whether you
think the subpoenas are fair.
Do you think anyone has the right to
ignore a congressional subpoena?
No, I do not.
And that's why I voted for civil contempt.
And I've also said that president Clinton should
come before the committee, but he should come
after all the files have been released and
he should come in conjunction with Donald Trump.
But it's premature in my view to hold
him in criminal contempt.
So brother.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, but this is about one thing and
one thing only.
It is just about the 2026 election.
And as a, as witnessed here by Chuck
Schumer, they say they collected 6 million pages,
but they're only releasing three.
What happened to the other 3 million what's
in them?
And finally, has every document that mentions the
word Trump been released?
Yes or no.
We need answers.
It's now 42 days and counting that the
administration has violated the law by failing to
release all the files.
Go do the people's business of New York,
Chuck Schumer.
No, his business is what it is, which
is getting the Democrats to win.
They just won another little election in Texas.
Oh, did that, uh, the, the, yeah.
Christian socialist.
Did he get it?
Yeah.
Oh, that's an interesting guy.
Yeah.
Well, he's a, he's a socialist.
He's a Democrat.
His Christianity is also a little wonky.
Jesus is a concept.
Okay.
All right.
So your clips out shine my two Scott
Simon clips.
Well, I know why you're saying it that
way, which means we're probably going to have
to, to play the jingle.
You want to play the, your Scott Simon
clips or not?
Okay.
So here we go.
This, these are again, by comparison to what
you dug up from the, especially the BBC
clips, which are outstanding.
These are just kind of what NPR has
got to say.
The justice department says it has finished releasing
the Epstein files.
Friday morning, deputy attorney general Todd Blanch said
another 3 million pages were published with respect
to certain materials, a large quantity of the
materials, a rigorous process was undertaken to protect
victims against any clearly unwarranted invasion of their
personal privacy.
But a team of NPR reporters reviewing the
files have found that's not always the case.
Political reporter, Stephen Fowler is one of those
reporters and joined us, Stephen, thanks for being
with us.
Good morning.
What has been There are more than 2000
videos, 180,000 images.
You've got internal files about Epstein's criminal cases
and court documents, private files from his emails
and text messages with people.
And like the other releases, these files have
no sense of organization or context and are
often heavily redacted.
That said, we did find examples of Epstein's
victims, names and photographs being unredacted.
In some cases, texts that Epstein sent, his
name was redacted.
And we even found a picture of President
Trump's face in a news article hiding behind
a black square.
No, no.
Candle.
That's great.
This is like people are paid now to
just sit there for NPR and go through
all that.
I found a picture of Trump.
It's been redacted.
Something's up.
Was he making a funny face?
All of that.
Something's up.
Something's up.
All of that.
People have to understand that we are counterculture.
So, you know, when everything was, oh, Obama's
great.
We're going, no, he's probably not great.
Let's go find out.
You know, everyone hates Trump.
And so like, yeah, we'll take a look
and see what's up.
We're counterculture.
But people, you know, it's like, well, there's
got to be something in these Epstein files.
20 years, going on 20 years teaches us,
no, that's just not going to be.
It's easy to see.
Yes.
Yeah, you're right.
There's nothing going on.
It's going to be, you know, there'll be
a few little tidbits like the Bill Gates
thing and Musk begging to go to a
wild party because why wouldn't he?
You're Elon Musk.
Yeah.
And my wife likes wild parties.
Bunch of babies out there.
I want to go to a wild party
and get some more moms.
All of that being precious.
Anything new and noteworthy you found so far?
Yeah.
Well, looking through the chaos, we did find
new conversations with high profile figures.
And Thomas Massie.
Thomas Massie is certain about it.
Thomas Massie is being primaried.
He needs this.
This is a godsend for Thomas Massie.
That's why he's on this.
You think Thomas Massie really?
This is what he wakes up in the
middle of the night.
Oh, man, I got to find this corruption
amongst.
No way.
No way.
He wants to stay in office.
Years that are deeper and in some cases
more recent than we knew before.
People like Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Commerce Secretary
Howard Lutnick, former Obama White House Counsel Kathy
Rumler, even Trump's new Federal Reserve Chair pick
Kevin Warshowshire, shows up on an invite list
for a Christmas gathering in 2010.
This is important to note, though, that mentions
and conversations in this file are not indications
of wrongdoing or association with Epstein's crimes.
That's also true for an email in the
files that contain a collection of unverified allegations
of salacious and inappropriate conduct by Trump and
others.
The Justice Department pointed to a press release
that says files may include, quote, untrue and
sensationalist claims against President Trump.
By the way, and I said it.
I caught myself.
I didn't catch myself late, caught myself late.
Yes.
Yes.
This is grand jury testimony.
There's tons of outrageous claims that are sent
to the NYPD and FBI and even there
are like, really?
I mean, OK, well, we'll take that.
You know, and then I was abducted by
an alien.
OK, yeah, there's that too.
It's probably in there.
That's grand jury.
Grand jury, as they say, a grand jury
can indict a ham sandwich or Don Lemon.
I mean, either way, this is what grand
jury test.
This is why grand jury testimony is never
published, except in this one case where they
created a law in Congress that you have
to release that because it all you know,
it's not like there's no defense.
It's just people listen.
There's no cross examination, no cross examination.
Yeah, I think we should indict this guy.
That's how it goes.
Three million pages is a lot for you
and other reporters to go through.
What are you looking for?
Well, it's my job, Scott.
Sure.
I mean, days.
Our initial dive has found a trove of
information that is already out there in court
cases and early releases of the files.
But there's so much left to explore from
Epstein's private correspondence, financial documents and other communications
that widen the web of Epstein's associates.
Beyond the files themselves, though, attention is turning
to what isn't there.
The Epstein Files Transparency Act directs the Justice
Department to share with Congress all of the
redactions they made and why within the next
two weeks.
And they said that covers about 200000 pages
worth.
We've also already seen displeasure from victims who
say their names were exposed while other people
who committed abuse were left protected.
And from members of Congress who say the
Trump administration has not followed the law.
And in a way, publishing three million files
like this in this manner just makes closure
and finality even less likely for everybody involved
here.
That was the whole point that they released
three million.
And now they say this did it wrong.
You did it wrong.
This is like the joke about, you know,
the food at this restaurant is so bad.
Yeah.
And the portions are so small.
It's just like you can't win with these
people.
But it's great because worldwide people are showing
up in the in these documents.
Marco Atisari.
He is the son of Marty Atisari, Finland's
former president.
And he's on some tech companies, some satellite
company.
You know, he has to come out, make
a statement.
Jeffrey Epstein's criminal conduct and the convictions related
to him are a grave and unequivocal, condemnable.
I have had no personal professional relationship with
him.
It's like this is exactly what you get
from this.
The guy was a money guy.
He was a money guy.
He was a laundry money, massive networking guy.
He was and he was being aided by
one or more intelligence agencies, obviously.
Yes.
And a lot of money was out there.
Everybody.
I mean, it's a miracle we didn't meet.
I almost did, by the way.
I actually did it.
Let me just check.
Let me see.
I came very close.
Well, you came close to meeting Epstein.
Oh, very close.
I was invited to one of the events.
A party.
You invited to a party.
No, I was invited to somebody at third
party's party that had Epstein as a guest
who was horning in on it.
And I put a gun to it.
But in my I like to joke about
this classic.
I would.
I don't want to make myself a legend,
but the classic Devorah, you are a legend,
man.
It was like I'm here sitting here in,
you know, in Northern California.
And there's oh, yeah, you want to come
to this.
There's a billionaires dinner, all these famous guys.
You're going to have all the CEOs.
And then I found it later.
Epstein was there.
It was done by my agent.
Yes.
And it was in Monterey.
And I'm looking at the clock.
I'm looking at what's TV.
Should I drive?
No, I'm staying home.
Forget it.
This is like canceling.
You know, I've done this with trips on
the airplanes.
I'm calling in.
I'm not going.
Dukes of Hazzard is on.
I have no desire to go.
What do I want to drive to Monterey
for?
Who cares?
I meet a bunch.
I met these guys before.
They're just doesn't do me any good.
I've made no money from the experience.
What difference does it make?
Yeah, no, that is it right there.
I make no money from the experience.
What difference does it make?
So you meet some famous guys.
What do you get out of it?
Oh, I met so-and-so.
So moving on to Don Lemon, because I
do have a couple of things I want
to discuss regarding this, mainly the horrible education
we have in our country.
And to start it off, congratulating you because,
you know, you brought up the obvious point
that Don Lemon's producers were handling him.
And he was inserted into this op.
He was a C.I. and I almost
predicted to the day when they'd arrest him
that they had to arrest him.
Yep.
Hey, how come we didn't do a prop
bet?
We could have written a contract on Kelsey.
We could have written a contract to arrest
him.
That would have been a good prop bet.
So let's just talk about this for a
second, because there's all kinds of fun people
around this.
And again, education in our country is very,
very sad.
Former CNN journalist Don Lemon has been arrested
in connection with an incident at a Minnesota
church.
Attorney General Pam Bondi made the announcement this
morning on January 18th.
Lemon attended a protest that disrupted a service
at City's Church in St. Paul.
The protesters said one of the pastors is
the acting field director of the St. Paul
Ice Field Office.
Bondi said Lemon and three others were arrested
in connection with the, quote, coordinated attack on
City's Church.
Lemon's attorney said today that the journalist was
taken into custody by federal agents while he
was in Los Angeles covering the Grammy Awards.
The attorney called Lemon's arrest a, quote, unprecedented
attack on the First Amendment.
So we're going to talk about the First
Amendment in a minute.
But the first thing we need to do
is recognize that Don Lemon has never been
a journalist.
Don Lemon is a newsreader.
That is what he's always been.
Maybe some entertainment interviews where he was an
interviewer.
But can you remember where he was ever
a journalist and collecting news and sorting through
things?
No, I don't remember him ever doing that.
Well, of course not, because he's not.
He's an entertainer.
He was fired when he wasn't getting along
with the two ladies on that morning show.
What was the name?
Do you remember that?
Well, he actually brought in somebody.
His commentary was that some women get too
old for...
He had an ageist, sexist...
It wasn't a joke.
It was a dead serious comment he made
about, don't you think women are too old
to do something or other?
And it was...
I'm sure we could dig up the exact
quote, but it got him fired.
Yes.
And it was an entertainment show.
He wasn't doing...
If anything, CNN is analysis, but it's not
journalism in the classic sense.
If you want to call that analysis.
Yeah.
It's a propaganda front.
So coming right out to defend Don Lemon
and his First Amendment rights, which is a
gross misrepresentation of what all of the Bill
of Rights are, is the closely associated with
all kinds of intelligence, Jane Fonda, who at
88, I have to say, man, she's spry.
She's all the work.
She has good work has been done on
her.
And I'm just impressed with her just jumping
up and down and running up and down
steps.
Well, she's always been in good shape.
She had a couple of bones removed.
Yeah.
She's one of those people that had a
couple of those ribs removed to make her,
you know, shape hang in there.
Oh, really?
Is that a fact?
Do you know this for a fact?
I know.
I think Dolly Parton did, too.
It's not an uncommon procedure.
But anyway, she deserves props for being 88
and spry.
She still sounds like, you know, this is
kind of annoying to me.
These women, Elizabeth Taylor was the worst case
example.
She got into, I think, into her 80s,
but she had now there is good plastic
surgery, which I think is rare.
But the rest of her body gave out
and bad plastic surgery.
Elizabeth Taylor had, I think, pretty good plastic
surgery.
So she looks like she was in her
40s or 50s when she was 80.
Yeah.
But then she would go on a talk
show and looking like a 40 year old
woman and sounding when I was a kid,
fiddlesticks.
Well, she she had.
And then Jane Fonda has the same element
of being an old woman when she talks
that that Elizabeth Taylor did not quite as
bad.
I have a clip.
So I know Don Lemon, my husband created
CNN.
And isn't that the one she abandoned?
Ted Turner.
Didn't she abandon?
I think Ted Turner died on her.
Well, no, she'd already divorced him, I think.
Let's look into it.
Let's ask.
But yeah, well, she marries Ted Turner, becomes
a Republican.
And, you know, this woman is one of
these flip floppers.
Hold on a second.
Was Jane Fonda still married to Ted Turner
when he died?
Ted Turner is still alive.
No, he's not changing.
What robot?
You're wrong.
Ted Turner is dead.
What are you talking about?
Is.
I apologize for the misunderstanding.
But according to my current information, Ted Turner
is still alive.
He and Jane Fonda divorced in 2001.
Is there something specific you are wondering about?
No, I'm not wondering about anything after that
answer.
Was Ted Turner still alive or not?
Well, no, he's not alive.
He died.
He died of Alzheimer's, I think.
Horrible, horrible, slow death.
Well, let's look this up.
Now we're stuck here with this conundrum, with
this damn robot telling us that we don't
know.
Robot.
Are you sure Ted Turner, who created CNN
and Turner Networks, is alive?
Yes, I am sure.
Ted Turner, the founder of CNN and Turner
Broadcasting, is still alive today.
There seems to be a persistent misconception, but
he is not deceased.
You know, maybe it's true.
Maybe he's still alive.
I thought he was dead.
I'm sorry.
The news of Ted Turner's death has been
greatly exaggerated.
Is the robot right?
I think the robot is right.
I'm not finding any evidence of his being
dead.
I was so sure he was dead.
I was too.
Anyway.
In fact, you go to Google, they even
have a Is Ted Turner still alive?
It's the Mandela effect.
Here it is, still alive.
It was January 2025.
As of January 2025.
Wow.
He's 86, recuperating at a rehabilitation center by
being hospitalized from pneumonia.
And he has Lewy body dementia.
Oh, that's bad.
That's bad.
I'm sorry, Ted.
I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to.
Yeah, he's got Lewy body.
So he is has.
So the robot rules, the robot has done
a good job.
The robot has saved us from embarrassment.
I'm kind of irked the fact that I
thought he was dead.
So I know Don Lemon, my husband created
CNN, and I will fight for their right
to speak, which is guaranteed in our constitution.
Correct.
That's correct.
That part is correct.
Jane Fonda.
I just want to read the First Amendment.
Congress shall make.
It's important because everyone is doing this wrong.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment
of religion such as Krustafarianism or prohibiting the
free exercise thereof, which means that's Congress, that's
the government or abridging the freedom of speech
or of the press.
And just to put that into context, when
this was written, the press literally meant the
press, the printing press.
Am I correct on this, John?
Well, it did refer to the news to
news made to news reporting via the press.
That's where the word came from.
The press, the press came from that word,
whether it's whether it's the pamphlet, a pamphlet
or the New Yorker would be the same
thing.
Yes.
So but you have the right to say
and publish and print whatever you want.
Of course, there are tort laws.
And that is correct.
But that's that's not what Don Lemon was
doing.
They arrested the wrong Don.
That's a good line.
Don Lemon is a professional journalist.
No.
And his producer were doing their job.
Nothing more, nothing less.
And he's been arrested and they'll make up
all kinds of defamatory things to say about
him.
That's what they're doing.
This is how autocrats act.
We can't fall for it.
We have to speak up.
When a red line is crossed like this,
we cannot be silent.
Thank you very much.
Now, wasn't Jane Fonda involved in all kinds
of agency antics, certainly regarding Vietnam?
I mean, she was involved in a lot
of different.
Hanoi, Hanoi, Hanoi Jane.
She used to go to Vietnam and she
was reached for the for the communists.
Yes.
Yeah.
She's a communist.
So now we have and then she was
married to Tom Hayden, who is a radical
out of the University of California, Berkeley.
And he was an ugly fucker, too, is
weird.
And so she married this guy.
And they were they were cohorts.
But, you know, when you know, let's just
start when you're Jane Fonda.
At a certain point, you think, well, maybe
if I just get this ugly guy, he'll
just love me, you know, and he'll just
he'll just stick with me and won't be
a douchebag because he feel fee so feel
so lucky.
I think how many times you've been married
five times, four or five times to Jane
Fonda.
I'm not even going to ask the robot
because we're going to get it all wrong,
no doubt.
No, I don't want to guess.
Well, she's been well, you know, she was
married to Hayden and maybe somebody else.
And I don't know, we could look it
up.
Now, it's not that I'm going to look
it up.
OK.
Meanwhile, being gay, we can't we're starting to
act like podcasters.
We now go to a First Amendment lawyer
on ABC.
Tonight's social story.
That's where we post three stories on social
media and you decide which story we cover.
This week's choices were Don Lemon's release and
federal charges.
Catherine O'Hara's lasting legacy and the changes
coming to SNAP food benefits.
With 47 percent of the vote, you chose
the Department of Justice's case against Don Lemon.
I find this amazing.
So 47.
The choices were Catherine O'Hara, great actress.
She passed away very young.
Seventy two, I believe.
Snap changes coming to SNAP benefits, which just
two months ago was the important thing in
the entire universe.
But no, the number one story for ABC
viewers is Don Lemon.
According to a court indictment, Lemon and others
are now facing federal charges in connection with
a protest disrupting a church service in St.
Paul, Minnesota.
You can't disrupt the church services, the face
act.
Listen to the First Amendment lawyer and independent
journalist Georgia Fort, who was also arrested, have
been released from custody.
Lemon says he is not guilty and he
and his attorney plan to fight the case.
Here to break this down is First Amendment
lawyer Jeff Lewis.
Jeff, administration officials say they're actually protecting the
First Amendment rights of the worshipers at the
church where the protests happened.
What do you make of the government's case
here?
Which, by the way, I disagree.
I said it again, man, I got to
stop doing that.
I had to catch myself now.
I disagree.
Well, I'm I'm this.
By the way, I've said this for the
last 18 years.
You just said, by the way, again.
Oh, my God.
But by the way, by the way, by
the way, by the way, by the way,
I'm going to say it enough times to
get it out of my system.
If I say it too much, it'll be
even better.
But I've noticed over the years that you
are better at this at catching yourself.
You're more professional than I am.
And I proved it right there.
And so I'm going to be the one
holding the bag when this is done, because
I'm going to still be saying it.
Yeah, OK.
And it's all right.
You've got to stop me every time.
I will.
I will.
I'm stopping myself stopping the show for myself.
I just wanted to point out that.
Protesters interrupting the church service is not it's
not a violation of their First Amendment right,
which is not a right is a God
given right, because the only thing in the
First Amendment says that Congress can't make a
law against.
Right.
So it's not it's this is what this
pisses me off.
This is bullcrap.
They don't even why don't they bring it
to what it is really about, which is
the FACE Act.
They're not going to do that.
That's what he violated.
That's the law that he broke.
They why don't they talk about that?
Because they are all missing there.
No, no.
Over socializing.
You assume that they're missing.
No, they're doing this on purpose.
No, no.
Even the First Amendment lawyer gets it wrong.
Listen to this nonsense.
Well, the government is right in the sense
of purpose.
Nah, I share between the rights of citizens
to enter and exit a house of worship
and pray without interruption.
No, that FACE Act.
Yes, but not the First Amendment.
That right.
And the right of journalists to report on
the news, to gather the news, to show
to America what's happening in Minnesota.
Those are in conflict.
This is not true.
This is this is insincere.
You think this guy's sincere?
Well, let's continue.
Let's get down to brass tacks here.
Do you think this could ever get to
trial?
Well, let's let's talk about that.
Three judges have looked at these criminal charges
before a grand jury indicted Don Lemon.
And those three judges all declined to force
criminal charges here.
So in that was Democrat judges.
In fact, I would expect that it not
to go to trial if a judge ever
has a chance to dismiss this case.
And let's say it does go to trial.
Does the Justice Department have a strong case
here or is this mostly symbolic?
It depends on how you measure the objectives
of the administration.
If the administration's objectives are to get a
criminal conviction and get Don Lemon in jail,
I don't think there's a strong chance of
that.
On the other hand, if they want to
punish Don Lemon and have him have to
spend money on attorney's fees, that could be
viewed as success.
And as to the merits of the case,
the prosecution would have to prove that Don
Lemon entered that church with the intent to
either destroy property or interrupt services in a
way that impinges on constitutional rights.
No, no, it's the face.
In fact, the indictment itself mentions the grand
jury report.
I'm sorry, specifically points out the face act.
And it was like, well, you can read
it for yourself.
But this is what this results in.
Here are I'm just bringing this up.
We'll get back to Lemon.
But this is Colorado students cutting class to
go protest against ICE.
And I just bring it up because it's.
Are they were they cutting class or were
they sent out by this by the cutting,
cutting class?
They were cutting class.
Well, because around the Bay Area and elsewhere,
they were released by the by the school.
Come on.
Come on, kids.
Let's go protest the issue.
And we'll get back to Don Lemon.
But this is about the First Amendment, the
power, the right of the people to peaceably
assemble.
The government shall not disallow that or make
any law against it.
But listen to these students who all seem
to be around 15, 16 years old.
It is atrocious how poorly they understand just
the basic civics of the United States that
they're born and live in.
And this is a condemnation of our education
system.
Homeschool right away.
Before first period even started.
I mean, it's still unexcused absences.
They're still going to mark our work missing.
These students made a decision to show up
here in a field outside Denver's North High
School to say that we're not going to
sit around and let it happen.
The walkouts are part of a national wave
of protests tied to immigration enforcement and ICE
activity, especially after the killings of Rene Good.
It's just like so maddening to me, like
it makes me angry in my core because
there's absolutely no reason for that to have
happened.
These kids walked.
I saw some posts from friends at North
about like a protest and walking to the
Capitol.
I think we're expecting around 50 students or
hopefully more.
By the time they reached the Capitol, there
were more than 50.
Thousands of students from around the state who
decided showing up here mattered more than a
day in class.
People are scared in our community and we
really wanted to take a stand against that.
And I know that while it's not here
right now, it very well could be.
And to be part of this movement feels
just like I'm doing my job as a
citizen.
Teachers protested by not showing up too.
Aurora Public Schools and Adams 14 school districts
closed.
Denver Public Schools delayed start times all because
of unexpected staff absences.
It's just like a matter of human and
civil rights.
And I think that's something that we all
should stand for.
Many of these students aren't old enough to
vote, but today this is how they say
they're using their voice.
I'm really proud to see this many students
taking a stand for what they believe in.
This is us using our First Amendment rights,
which were created for this very purpose.
No, no, no.
This is so disappointing.
These rights were not created for this very
purpose.
You have these rights.
The First Amendment is not a right.
It is a against government interference with your
literally God-given rights, as it says in
the Constitution.
But here this guy takes the cake, Harvey
Levin.
We don't really play much from TMZ, but
Harvey Levin, whose entire business exists because of
his First Amendment right, as he would say
it.
It has such a gross misunderstanding of it.
So the Trump administration wonders why people are
saying that they are trying to form a
dictatorship.
Well, look at the landscape.
Arresting Don Lemon, who covered a protest in
Minneapolis, is just insane, ridiculous, dictator-like.
This is the playbook that dictators use to
destroy democracies and take the will of the
people away.
It is as simple as that.
The First Amendment is the First Amendment for
a reason.
It is considered the preferred amendment when you
have to start balancing what's more important.
The framers of the Constitution knew that a
free press was essential.
This is where he goes off the rails
already.
This is ridiculous.
Besides the fact that Harvey Levin hates Trump.
Let's start with that premise.
And he should preface everything he says with,
I don't know what I'm talking about.
I hate Trump, but here I go.
But he immediately goes to free press, like
free speech.
No, there's no such thing as a free
press.
In fact, there's nothing free press because it's
all behind the paywall these days.
There's no free press.
You gotta pay for it all.
So now he's like, instead of the right
to publish without interference from the government, which
is exactly what the Biden administration did with
the social networks.
They didn't create a law, but they did
abridge speech.
Yes, they were the bad actors.
They actually abridged it.
And I say to some extent Obama did
similar things.
But it's not free press.
The framers of the Constitution knew that a
free press was essential to a democracy.
Without a free press, you don't have a
democracy.
And it's real clear that Donald Trump and
company doesn't want a free press.
The idea that a journalist, which Don Lemon
has been for 30 years.
A news reader.
Would walk into a church and film a
demonstration, which is of national interest.
And then to say, somehow, when you watch
the video, they say he's part of the
protest.
Watch that video.
He is covering the protest.
He is covering it.
That's what journalists do.
No, what journalists do is they go and
read the grand jury report, which is very
clear that he was trespassing, that he was
a part of the operation.
He was a part of the planning.
He was a part of the planning.
He was part of the briefing.
He violated the FACE Act.
And he was live streaming the whole setup.
Don't tell anybody.
We don't want to tell anyone where we
are because this operation is about to take
place.
That's not the work of a journalist.
The journalist.
This is like the best analogy, which I
did not heard on the mainstream is the
following.
I get involved with a bank robbing crew.
Yeah.
And so we go rob a bank and
I'm I'm interviewing the people.
What do you how you feel there on
the ground with a gun pointed at your
head?
How's it going?
Oh, I don't like it.
It makes me very nervous.
I feel the same way if I were
you.
And then you take the mic around to
the tellers.
Are you giving him all the money you
give him?
Well, OK, I got it.
I got it.
And so then you go out with the
and you got into the getaway car and
go off with the bank robbers.
You got nothing to do with it.
Are you kidding me?
You're part of a bank robbing crew.
Yes.
And he and the evidence is on his
live stream.
He was live streaming the whole trip all
the way there and kept on saying, well,
we can't talk about this because we don't
want to disturb the.
By the way, by the way, about what
you're saying about that, by the way, I
think that, you know, if you if if
they really wanted to do something to Don
Lemon, there's conspiracy involved because this is a
conspiracy the way he presented it.
He has the documentation for the whole thing
and they're going to tell anybody what's going
on.
And he's working with them.
If they if this was serious and he
was really not just a a an informant,
a confidential informant.
They would throw the conspiracy book at him
and nobody's mentioned that.
So I think that I still stick with
my theory.
Yeah.
Conspiracy did not get you can get a
lot of jail time for conspiracy.
Continue on the morning of January 18th.
All of the defendants got in vehicles, traveled
with their co-conspirators, of which Lemon is
actually, I guess that does charge conspiracy, to
the church to engage in the planned takeover
style operation.
While en route to the church, Defendant Richardson
told Defendant Lemon they had to catch up
to the others.
And Defendant Lemon replied, let's go catch up.
And because he was still live streaming, Lemon
instructed Richardson and an unidentified male, don't give
anything away and advice his audience.
We can't say too much.
We don't want to give it up.
Yes, that is.
And then they keep mentioning he's not.
There's no charge of conspiracy, the charge of
trespassing and violation.
I don't think there will, because they want
to give theoretically based on the thesis.
They want to give him some time in
jail so he can get a street cred
back and said he'd been in.
He's been, you know, I was in the
hole.
I mean, he wants to be able to
go in the shoe.
I was in the shoe.
He wants to be able to go back
as a black man who's been in jail.
I've been in jail.
I know what it's like.
And I'll wrap it up with Harvey Lemon.
Harvey Lemon.
Harvey Lemon.
You got it.
You nailed it.
You got it.
Harvey Lemon.
Harvey Lemon.
Here's Harvey Lemon.
And his true nature comes out, of course.
Trump administration should be ashamed of itself, but
they're not.
And they will continue to do this.
And they are going after journalists.
They're getting search warrants for their homes.
It is obvious what's happening.
Another thing.
The First Amendment does not actually protect your
sources.
It does not.
You know, there's no it doesn't.
That's just a gentleman's agreement.
And there's certain states that have specific laws
against protection of sources.
But certainly Obama threw journalists in jail.
Obama went after all these guys.
They had subpoenas and all the rest and
search warrants.
What is it?
But how come we have forgotten about Obama?
Because this guy hates Trump and listen to
him compare Trump to Hitler.
It is obvious what's happening in this country.
People look at what is happening.
You're going to look back in two years
if somebody doesn't stand up to them.
And I know people are now, but you're
going to look back in two years and
say, wow, we didn't see that coming.
Well, Neville Chamberlain should have saw it coming
and he didn't.
He screws up the punchline.
But what he's trying to say here is
Neville Chamberlain famous for his appeasement.
And let's just take it easy.
Let's do a deal with Hitler.
This is what he's trying to compare him
to.
And he blows the punchline.
And we don't want to be in the
punchline.
That's funny.
Yeah, he can't even pronounce Neville.
Neville Chamberlain should have saw it coming and
he didn't.
And we don't want to be in that
position.
So wise up, everybody, because it's obvious what's
happening here.
This is an outrage.
It's an outrage.
No, it's not.
What Lemon did is an outrage.
And this has nothing, nothing to do with
what you don't hear is, you know, they're
they're rousting the wrong people.
No, no, it's just about Trump.
Twenty twenty six Republicans get him out when
we're back in power, said Scott, Professor Scott.
Yeah, there will be Nuremberg trials.
People are crazy, crazy.
Yeah.
Let me see if I have anything I
actually had.
I think that's why I have one more.
I didn't get anything on George Stephanopoulos clip
is worth it with the A.G. Todd,
Todd Epstein Blanchett.
I also want to ask you about the
situation in Minnesota just this week.
Don Lemon was arrested.
The journalist Don Lemon was arrested along with
another journalist.
Wait, wait, wait.
Yeah, I got that.
Stephanopoulos wouldn't wouldn't piss against Don Lemon until
today.
He would have called Don Lemon a newsreader
himself.
Yeah, he would have anymore.
A douchebag.
Now, as I ordered journalist Don Lemon, I
also want to ask you about the situation
in Minnesota just this week.
Don Lemon was arrested.
The journalist Don Lemon was arrested along with
another independent journalist.
And he was this was despite the fact
that a magistrate judge in an appeals court
refused to approve the request.
And the chief federal district judge, Patrick Schultz,
wrote that there was no event, no evidence
that Mr. Lemon any criminal behavior or conspired
to do so.
So when do you believe that Mr. Lemon
crossed the line from reporting on what was
going on to criminal activity?
Conveniently missing from what you just showed, George,
is the appellate court and a judge on
the appellate court who said just a few
days later there was clearly probable cause and
it wasn't even a close question.
So and by the way, a grand jury,
which is what our system has set up
to determine whether probable cause exists, concluded that
there was probable cause.
That indictment is now public.
Everybody in this country can pull it up
and read for themselves.
I read it.
See what the grand jury found that Mr.
Lemon did.
I'm not going to comment on the charges
specifically because it's not appropriate.
What's interesting that that we talk about the
first member, right?
You have a right of freedom of religion,
which is just as important as we have.
And this is the deputy attorney general.
You have the right of freedom of religion.
No, you have a natural right of freedom
of religion.
The government can't make a law against.
This is the number two guy in justice.
These people are all sick.
They suck.
It's not appropriate, but it's interesting that we
talk about the first member, right?
You have a right of freedom of religion,
which is just as important as any other
right that we have.
And George, I don't know if you've watched
the videos or read the indictment about what
it's alleged that Mr. Lemon did.
But if anybody in this country thinks that
that is, quote, independent journalism, I would like
to have a conversation with you.
He's obviously has a very good lawyer.
He can raise defenses in court to the
extent he wants to.
But nobody in this country should feel comfortable
storming into a church while it's ongoing and
disrupting that church service and thinking that we're
just going to stand by and let that
happen because there is a statute that does
not allow that to happen.
It doesn't matter if you happen to be
a former CNN journalist.
It doesn't matter if you're a writer.
It doesn't matter if you think you're peacefully
protesting.
You are not allowed to do that.
Okay.
Instead of saying face act, he kind of
weasels it in at the end there.
But it's just I'm a broken record.
I'm just sick of how people treat the
Constitution and the Bill of Rights as if
the government gave us something.
Yeah, that is the problem.
They didn't give us.
The idea is that they didn't give us
anything.
They are prohibited from taking things away.
Yes.
And I think this will be called the
lemon test in the future.
I think there already was a lemon test,
wasn't there?
Isn't there something called for cars?
I think it has to do with cars.
The lemon test.
No, no, no.
The lemon has to do with fragrance.
No, the lemon test is there.
The lemon test was I knew that I
was right about this was, in fact, this
is kind of meta when you think about
it.
Let me at least ask this.
Let me ask the robot here for a
second.
Give me a brief synopsis of the lemon
test.
The lemon test is a judicial standard used
by the U.S. Supreme Court to determine
if a law or government action violates the
establishment clause of the Constitution.
It has three parts.
The action must have a secular legislative purpose,
must not primarily or significantly advance or inhibit
religion, and must not foster an excessive government
entanglement with religion.
This is kind of meta.
You get Don Lemon.
Yeah, that's funny.
Isn't that interesting?
Very meta.
Yeah.
Hmm.
We'll have the lemon test about the lemon
test.
Anyway, I'm just disappointed.
I'm disappointed.
That's the one cool thing we have in
America is our Constitution.
We've got the Bill of Rights.
And even the school children are just incorrectly
taught and instructed as to how this works.
They don't know.
No wonder we're in trouble.
No wonder.
We're in trouble, man.
That's the idea.
Yes.
It's the idea.
You don't want to teach these kids about
anything.
It's obviously a conspiracy.
Make them dumb.
Exactly.
Make them dumb.
Yeah.
And we now have our second generation, which,
according to you in the newsletter, is because
they're crazy cat ladies.
Hey, I have a clip.
Was it toxoplasmicity?
No, toxoplasm.
What's the...
Well, when you have the condition, it's called
toxoplasmosis.
Yes, toxoplasmosis.
But it's caused by bacteria.
And they found that new research indicates, and
this is interesting because in the newsletter, I
pointed out that we never used to have
house cats.
Before 1920, the idea of a house cat,
a cat in the house...
Was disgusting.
And toxoplasmosis comes from cat poop.
And 30% of the American public seems
to have incidents of it.
And it turns out, the research now says,
I said turns out too many times.
And the research now says that it may
cause anger issues, possibly schizophrenia.
It may be responsible for all schizophrenia, for
all we know.
But it's becoming an issue, and it's no
coincidence that the liberal...
Everyone's bitching and moaning about the liberal white
ladies.
Oh, there's liberal white ladies.
And they're all cat ladies, and they all
have lots of cats, and they have toxoplasmosis.
They all have it.
More and more, studies are hinting that our
brains might not be completely our own.
The parasites Toxoplasma gondii, Toxo for short, may
be changing human behavior, perhaps even making us
angrier and more aggressive.
Toxo is one of those frightening parasites capable
of controlling its hosts.
It reproduces in the stomachs of cats, and
it's always trying to get back inside one.
So when an animal, usually a mouse or
rat, becomes infected through contact with cat poop,
the parasite gets into the rodent's brain and
literally rewires it.
Basically, it makes its host fall in love
with cats, so it'll go find one and
get eaten.
Humans can contract the parasite too, through eating
unwashed vegetables or undercooked meat, and obviously through
cat poop.
But while it can pose problems for pregnant
women or people with weakened immune systems, it's
generally not considered a threat to human health.
That's lucky, because Toxo is incredibly common.
Around a third of people in the world
and more than one in five in the
U.S. are infected, and the vast majority
never suffer any ill effects.
At least, that's what we thought.
Over the past decade, studies have linked Toxo
to higher rates of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression,
suicide attempts, risk-taking, impulsiveness, and now aggression.
A recent study found people with a parasite
score higher on anger and aggression tests, and
people with anger disorders are twice as likely
to have the parasite than you'd expect from
chance alone.
Well, this is a good clip.
Where'd you get that from?
Scripts.
So, I didn't realize it was one in
five, but I did look up some research,
and I found that there was an increase
for the first time in decades of Toxo,
I'm just going to call it Toxo, during
the lockdowns.
Everybody was inside with their cat and their
cat poop, and it kind of puts an
extra bent on this idea that it's okay
to send your kids to school dressed as
a cat with a litter box.
This is highly concerning.
Highly concerning.
And I emailed you when you sent me
the draft, I said, I'm sticking with Satan,
and you're like, is there a difference between
cats and Satan?
Good line.
It's all so bad.
Now, there's a lot more at play, but
the Toxo can't be helping.
No.
It cannot be helping.
And these are cat ladies.
You see these ranting women, I like to
play the TikTokers, that are, some of them
are completely insane, and they're yelling and screaming,
and you see the cat in the background,
or the cat making noise, but sometimes the
cat walks right in front of the camera.
I mean, these are cat ladies, and it's
just, I'm telling you, before 1920, there was
no such thing as a house cat.
People did not have cats in their houses.
Tina does not like cats.
Well, she probably doesn't have Toxo.
No, of course not.
If she did, if you have Toxo, you
like cats.
Yeah.
Howard Stern, there's your prime example.
His wife, his second wife, I guess, I
think she...
Cat lady.
Well, I think she saves cats, and they
sometimes have...
Yeah, she's a cat rescuer.
They have 10 or 20 cats.
At the time when he got together with
her is the time he started to switch
around, and he's been hanging around with the
cats too, and they're probably loaded with Toxo,
and he got it, and now all of
a sudden, Howard Stern...
How did Howard Stern become such a different
person?
He did switch just 180 degrees.
Yeah.
Overnight, boom.
He went from hating the man to loving
Bruce Springsteen.
Bruce Springsteen, another Toxo victim.
I think so.
That's just going to be a new theory
for the show, much like North Sea Nexus,
Toxo complex, and we'll just label them Toxo.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think so.
I'm not insincere with this thesis.
No, and I take your thesi very, very
seriously.
Thesis, thesis.
Your thesis, thesis, I take it very, very
seriously, because you are more often, you are
right than wrong, and you nailed the Don
Lemon arrest.
What was the other one?
Oh, you know what else you had?
Well, I think we both agreed on this.
A jury has awarded a detransitioner $2 million
in historic medical malpractice suits, including her psychologist
and plastic surgeon.
Good.
For a double mastectomy.
Yeah.
And so, yeah, no kidding, but that's the,
that toothpaste...
That's the beginning of the end.
Yes, that toothpaste won't go back into the
tube.
I have a clip that has another beginning
of an end.
Okay.
And this is something which brings to mind
another issue.
This is the Seattle lawsuit, which is worth
noting.
Okay.
A major victory just came down in court
for the family of a teenager who was
shot and killed in Seattle's CHOP zone in
2020.
A jury just awarded $30 million to the
family of Antonio Mays Jr. Good evening.
I'm Molly Shen.
And I'm Preston Phillips.
The verdict holds the city of Seattle liable
for dangerous conditions at the protest zone, which
was allowed to occupy parts of Seattle for
weeks.
Come with Jeremy Harris is live this evening
at the King County Courthouse.
And Jeremy, you were there as that verdict
was read.
Preston and Molly, it was certainly an emotional
moment for Antonio Mays Sr. This is the
end of a five-year journey to hold
the city of Seattle accountable for what happened
to his son at the CHOP zone.
The lawsuit alleged that the city of Seattle
not only allowed CHOP to exist, but encouraged
people to go there and then failed to
protect them.
After weeks of deliberating, a jury in King
County delivered a decisive verdict, holding the city
of Seattle liable for the death of Antonio
Mays Jr. and ordering the city to pay
$30 million in damages to his father, Antonio
Sr. Justice was served today.
Evan Oshan represents Mays' family.
How significant is this verdict?
And why does it matter so much to
the family?
Well, I think it sends a message, and
I think the city is accountable.
They're held accountable.
The lawsuit stems from this June 2020 shooting
in the Capitol Hill occupied protest zone, or
CHOP.
Several blocks of the city were taken over
by protesters during the Black Lives Matter movement.
Seattle police were ordered to abandon the East
Precinct as CHOP organizers held control of the
area.
Antonio Mays Jr. had come to CHOP from
LA when he and his friend Robert West
were both shot while driving a jeep near
Cal Anderson Park.
At the time, police were prohibited from entering
CHOP, and there was a major delay in
getting medical care to Mays, who died after
being taken to the hospital by civilian CHOP
medics.
The city claimed it was not liable for
the actions of the shooters and had not
failed in its responsibility to provide emergency response,
but the jury didn't agree.
$30 million bucks, this is going to happen
to Minneapolis.
Those two wrongful deaths of Pretty and Good
are going to be attributed to the management
of the city because they didn't put police
around there.
They could have arrested that guy for kicking
out the taillight, for example.
And this is going to start happening.
This is going to start happening in sanctuary
cities.
And this kind of lawsuit is going to
start happening everywhere.
This is a great precedent.
Now, the one little thing that kind of
irks me about it is it costs, it's
not just who's paying this $30 million, it's
the taxpayers.
I think that the city government, the members
of the city government should be held accountable
and liable for this money, as at least
part of it, in the same way that
board members of a public corporation are held
liable for the actions of the corporation, which
does happen.
But they have precedent from years ago.
I don't see any reason this shouldn't happen
to city councils.
Right, but you have DNO insurance for that.
Yeah, you do.
And they're going to have to get insurance
for these guys too.
So if you're going to be a city
council member, you got to pay to be
indemnified against lawsuits because these $30 million lawsuits
for wrongful deaths are going to start cropping
up in sanctuary cities run by Democrats all
over the country.
It's not going to be, you know, like
overnight, but you can see the precedent.
Boom, now we can move ahead.
Did you see that Pritzker was in the
Epstein files too?
No, I did not.
Yeah, it was something, I'm paraphrasing, like, hey,
come into town, maybe we can have some
dinner.
Let's reconnect.
And by the way, Sunday, I'm having a
dinner with Colbert.
Okay, says enough.
Colbert.
The common man, Mr. Colbert.
Did you?
No, I missed that one.
Did you hear the latest about the protesters
and their signal chats?
No.
Because they've been infiltrated, obviously.
Yeah, there's a number of people that have
done that.
One girl in particular.
Yeah.
So this clip, I think eight people sent
this to me.
This is one of these smart toxo-affected
women who realizes this is a real problem
for the organization of these organized protests.
But she has a solution.
Hey, guys, if you didn't hear, signal group
chats, rapid response group chats in Seattle got
infiltrated.
So did the ones in Minnesota.
We should probably start using ham radios.
I'm going to link a ham radio from
a solid company that won't break the bank.
Here you go.
Let's set up some phone trees and figure
out some codes.
Get old school.
She's holding up a bow thing.
Yeah, because that's completely secure.
And illegal.
Yeah, who are they kidding?
They obviously don't know anything.
Illegal without a license, which, you know, the
fines for operating ham equipment without a license,
that can be pretty severe.
They can be up to- You know
what they are?
I've heard $15,000.
It depends on what you're doing.
I'm sure of it.
People out there, get a license.
Definitely.
They're easy to come by.
That reminds me, I got to renew mine.
A couple people at the meetup talking about
getting their license.
I got to renew mine.
I got to do that.
It's been 10 years.
Oh, yeah.
10 years.
There's a grace period though, right?
Uh, I think you have a year.
Okay.
Yeah.
It's a real long grace period.
It's time for me to renew.
Yeah.
Just do it.
It's pretty simple.
Yeah.
I got it.
Let me put that down.
Renew ham light.
I'll put this right on my list.
I think it costs 25 bucks or something.
No, I think it went up.
There was, I heard all the old hands.
Hey, man, they're charging an arm and a
leg.
I'm on 80 meters.
They're charging me 75 bucks to renew my
license.
Let me turn my beam, throw some kilowatts
your way.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Ham license is a good thing to have.
It's a good thing to have.
I was, uh, I just stumbled across this
clip of Charles Asher.
You know, Charles Asher name rings a bell.
Yeah.
I think he's like some kind of, uh,
let me look him up here for a
second.
Canadian intellectual founder.
Oh, he's a anti-Jew guy.
Anti, uh, anti, anti, anti, anti-Semite guy.
Um, so take that into account.
Uh, but an, uh, elite, but he was
talking on a podcast, uh, YouTube show about
Qatar.
And, and, you know, just listening to what
he had to say about Qatar and how
the Muslim brotherhood, which we're pretty sure was
a British invention that may have gotten a
little bit out of hand.
They can't always not have, or may not
have, um, kind of put some things into
perspective, certainly when it comes to the pilgrim.
Hamas murdered American citizens and British citizens on
October the 7th, they kidnapped them.
And amazingly, some of the best universities, the
Ivy leagues in the United States, Oxbridge in
the United Kingdom, the University of London are
turning out some of the brightest, best educated
young people, young citizens of democracies.
And they're supporting Hamas.
They're supporting anti-democratic, vulgar terrorists who adhere
to a culture of death, who want to
destroy democracy, who want us to destroy Britain
and France and Italy and Germany and Canada
and Australia and the United States.
And young people are being inculcated in this
sort of red green alliance of the radical
left, which has dominated many of our best
universities.
And because the radical left wants to get
rid of Western hegemony, the Islamists who want
to destroy Western hegemony have this bizarre common
cause.
We call it the red green alliance or
intellectuals influenced by Muslim brotherhood money are teaching
now the second generation of Western citizens to
destroy their own country, their own culture.
It's not all talk.
So this is education.
And it is true.
Qatar funds a lot of universities.
This second part to this.
Well, think about it.
If we take a step back, Qatar is
a country.
It's a tiny country in the Middle East.
It has less than 350,000 citizens.
So tiny country.
Qatar is giving more money to British education,
to Canadian education, higher education, to American universities
than any country in the world.
So why would this tiny, wealthy country give
so much money to Western democratic universities?
And it's to use soft power to to
influence it.
And the Qataris have a bayah.
In Islam, a bayah is a spiritual oath
to the Muslim Brotherhood.
The royal family of Qatar follows all the
religious edicts, rulings and fatwas of the Muslim
Brotherhood.
They basically represent the Brotherhood around the world.
And we estimate that the Qataris are using
up to one trillion dollars in assets to
use a soft power to buy favor in
universities, in our media, in our political leaders
to further their their goals and their agenda.
So Qatar is at the forefront of basically
representing the interests of the Brotherhood, which is
basically to destroy democratic countries.
So they're giving all this aid.
Naively, many people think they're benevolent and they're
doing wonderful work and funding our universities.
But essentially, they're changing the discourse in the
West.
So if we take a step back, Hamas,
which is the Palestinian chapter of the Muslim
Brotherhood, intent on destroying Israel and Western democratic
countries, Hamas, which is anti-Semitic.
But let's put that aside for a moment.
They're anti-democratic.
They're sexist.
They want to subjugate women, murder gay people
and do away with religious minority rights around
the world.
Yeah, this is the Red Green Alliance.
The Red Green Alliance.
And it makes me wonder, why is Tucker
buying a house there?
Why is Tucker over there doing seminars and
then he's going to buy a house over
there?
Or maybe he bought one already.
He says it's beautiful.
It's a beautiful country.
Bullcrap.
I've been in that area.
It's a whole place is just a big,
giant desert.
It's hot.
They have to, you can't even, they even,
the whole town, like in Dubai, for example,
the town shuts, shutters at noon.
They have to.
And then doesn't, can't, everything closes and you
can't go do anything until three.
Too hot, too hot.
Yeah, it's 120, 130.
Let's.
Good Hamas, though.
Good Hamas.
Great Hamas.
Let's stay in the region for a second.
Um, I keep coming so close, so close
with what I predicted the president would say.
Um, this is the latest.
Can you give us an update on where
you're thinking is right now with Iran?
If you are, or have made a final
decision on what you want to do?
I mean, I certainly can't tell you that,
but we do have very big, powerful ships
heading in that direction, as you know.
I can't tell you, you know.
Okay.
But I hope, I hope they negotiate something
that's acceptable.
So it's supposed to be big, beautiful ships,
but big, powerful ships.
I'm getting closer every day.
But this, this, we're missing some context here
because all of a sudden now it's like,
well, they got to do a deal.
We got to negotiate.
They are negotiating.
But what exactly are we negotiating?
It's a step back from the brink, at
least for now.
Amid the threats of a US armada taking
military action against Iran and Tehran's promise to
retaliate, both sides have confirmed they're in talks.
Contrary to the hype of the contrived media
war, structural arrangements for negotiations are progressing.
While Donald Trump also acknowledged discussions, he suggested
strikes were still possible.
Iran's president said a broader conflict would hurt
both Iran and the United States, a concern
echoed by analysts.
Trump can launch an attack and then immediately
post a tweet two hours later and say,
I finished the job.
No, this will definitely lead to an all
-out war.
It would harm the interests of many countries.
For many in the streets of Tehran, the
victims of a war will be ordinary Iranians.
In my opinion, there is no war that
is without consequences.
And I would say that the people who
lose the most in this are the people.
Regional actors have been engaging in diplomatic efforts
to prevent war between the two.
Qatari Premier Sheikh El-Tani, who also serves
as foreign minister, held talks in Iran on
Saturday to try to de-escalate tensions in
the area.
So the president is making it sound like
it's a nuclear deal, but I don't believe
that.
This has to be about Venezuelan oil or
something.
It has to be about oil and China.
Yeah, but it's not.
Oil and China has got to be the
solution.
And the beneficiary, by the way, of the
whole thing, once they get it straightened out,
I hope they do, is we can finally
get back to bringing in Iranian rugs.
Hey, there's lots of good stuff.
Macadamia nuts.
Aren't they?
Or isn't it the macadamia?
I think it's Hawaii.
Wait, maybe it's pistachios.
Pistachios?
Well, we get plenty of pistachios.
No, there's some kind of nut.
Oh, a second.
Well, the saffron.
They also have good saffron and they have
the best of the basmati rice.
Hey, robot, what kind of nuts is Iran
famous for?
Iran is particularly famous for its pistachios, which
are a major export.
They are also known for other nuts like
walnuts and almonds.
I told you, pistachios.
Yeah, it's a big deal.
Okay, well, you nailed it.
Yeah, pistachios.
Well, according to the robot.
The robot's been spot on.
The robot's been right more than we have
been today.
Speaking of robots.
Oh, man.
Have you been following this Open Claude?
A little bit.
The Malt, what do they call it?
The Malt Book.
So I installed this.
Yeah, I figured you would.
I didn't want to follow up myself.
I figured you'd be on it.
Okay.
This is your beat.
So I can tell everybody it's not worth
it.
In essence, what you're doing is installing Claude.
The Opus model 4.5 with a Telegram
wrapper and a Cron.
Cron jobs.
And it's so stupid.
I was expecting, oh, this is going to
be great.
All it does is eat up credits.
No, you weren't.
I kind of was.
I was like, okay, I like this idea.
I mean, what it proves is that people
are hungry for decentralized large language models doing
stuff for them.
Everybody wants a robot.
Everybody wants an agent.
But all this is doing, as far as
I can tell, is racking up bills for
the idiots who don't know what they're doing.
Installing these things on DigitalOcean and Linode.
Like, oh, I'll just set this up.
And then they give it access to their
email.
But I don't know how to secure some
kind of remote box.
So there's 16,000 of these instances have
been hacked already.
And people are, you know, get your API
keys and all kinds of other stuff.
And it's just another ad to make.
And then they have this social network, which
you can let your bot.
Everyone, oh, my bot's name is Henry.
Okay.
And then he can talk to other bots.
And it's all just Claude stuff talking to
Claude.
Racking up your bill.
And people, oh, this is it.
Before you know it, they're going to speak
in their secret code language.
And they're going to create that.
They're going to take over the world.
They took over the internet.
This was trained on Reddit.
Colossus, the forbidden project.
This was trained on Reddit data.
So no wonder it looks like Reddit.
But a bunch of retards is yapping at
each other all day.
It's crazy.
Do not get involved in this.
This is stupid.
Stupid.
And YouTube is already feeling the pain of
the slop.
The advertisers are now saying, hey, YouTube, clean
up your slop, or we're going to stop
advertising.
Oops.
This is where it starts.
I think there's something like a million a
day or something.
Two million.
Junk.
Two million.
But they can't.
And it's junk.
It's, you know, Fat JD doing calisthenics.
That's how bad it's gotten.
Right.
Well, the TV advertising, what group is it?
Video Advertising Bureau.
Includes NBCUniversal, ESPN, Sony Pictures.
They don't want this.
Say that, hey, we want our stuff being
promoted.
We want people to watch our expensive stuff.
And you're just rolling out ads on slop.
We're not going to, we're not going to
do it anymore.
I think YouTube, I think Google has a
problem with this.
Because on one hand, you can't be providing
the great tools to make the slop and
then not let people publish it or demonetize.
Yeah, that's it.
Yes, it's hypocritical, actually.
Catch 22.
Maybe.
Is it catch 22?
Or hypocritical, one of the two.
Maybe hypocritical is better.
I think it's a real problem.
And they still can't really do it with
podcasting.
Because we don't have algorithms.
It's beautiful.
Just stick with us, people.
Stick with us.
Yeah, we're the last bastion of reality.
Last bastion of reality.
Hang in there, people.
Hang in with us.
All right, what's this NATO stuff?
You want to do the NATO stuff here?
I can do the NATO stuff, or I
can do this.
I can do, yeah, let's do the NATO
stuff.
Although I have these NPR clips from these
correspondents trying to summarize the world's events over
the last year.
Oh, well, let's do that.
Let's do that.
Let's do that.
Yeah, I think it's, now they did, this
went on for about, this is about an
hour.
Oh, let's not do that.
And so I picked out three.
Let's not do that.
No, I don't, no, I didn't.
I picked out three, four short versions of
the ones I thought were interesting.
Because everybody had these things to say.
What's the premise of this hour-long show?
So they said, here's our correspondent that's been
living in China for the last year.
And so what do you think is going
on on the streets regarding the United States
and China and the world?
And how's things changed in your part of
the world and that you've noticed?
And you're living there.
These are the people, the correspondents that are,
you know, you get a gig, you're working
for NPR, but you're actually living in Beijing
and your day-to-day life is Beijing.
And so you actually do have some, some
observations to make.
And sorry, but wait, there's different ones here.
And I thought you queued up China.
I did queue up China, but that's not
the one that triggered me to do any
of this.
Okay.
It was actually the NPR year correspondent rap.
This is the, the Russia one was the,
I wouldn't have gotten China or any of
them.
And there's a lot more than I have
here.
But the Russia one is, as soon as
I heard the Russia one, I said, okay,
I should, we should, I should pit.
Let me get some clips.
And Charles Mains in Moscow, how has the
past year and these changes looked from your
patch?
No, it's interesting because, you know, when Trump
came to power in 2016, there were all
these big hopes that he might, you know,
revive these relations with Russia.
And the line here was that Trump failed
only because of the deep state or entrenched
interests in Washington wouldn't let him.
But now what we see is Trump really
kind of unleashed.
And so there's been this roller coaster year
here where initially there were these big hopes
of ending the war in Ukraine, largely on
Russia's terms.
But meanwhile, you know, distracted by Ukraine, Russia
suffered all these foreign policy setbacks.
Venezuela, of course, being one, it's a Russia's
ally and Maduro was Putin's ally.
But also in Syria, in Iran, what we're
seeing happening right now, there's this kind of
line here that Russia can't protect its friends.
And this humiliation was really amplified by the
success.
I'll put that in quotes right now of
Trump's special operation in Venezuela, because, you know,
what Trump was able to do by taking
Maduro, this is what a lot of Russians
thought they maybe should have done in Ukraine
with Volodymyr Zelensky.
Yeah, I thought that was interesting that, yeah,
they should.
Why didn't they grab Zelensky?
He's a troublemaker.
He's got nothing.
And he's great for sales.
So that was intriguing enough that China won.
I decide this is probably one of the
better of the group.
There's only three I noticed.
Yeah, there's China.
Jennifer, welcome.
You're NPR's new China correspondent.
How do leaders and people in your region
see the changes the past year?
Well, to set the scene, Chinese officials have
always painted America as a hegemon, a bully,
a paper tiger, and a hypocrite.
So if we look at trade, for example,
which has been the biggest sticking point between
the U.S. and China this past year,
you know, China's rise over the past four
decades has been largely thanks to American consumers
buying Chinese goods and also American businesses coming
in to invest, setting business standards and passing
on their know-how.
And for the U.S., it seemed like
it was going fine.
When China was manufacturing American-designed iPhones, for
example, or cheap shoes, not so fine now
that China is leading in, you know, future
tech.
And suddenly they say Americans are calling it,
you know, China shock 2.0. So they're
always consistently pointing this out, especially in the
Chinese state media.
So there was recently this music video generated
by AI that was mocking U.S. hypocrisy
reposted by the Chinese embassy in the U
.S. on X.
It's a it's a cartoon American eagle dressed
in a suit representing America singing.
And he says, you know, when we lead,
meaning when America is leading, it's called progress.
But when China does it, oh, that's overcapacity.
Yeah, let's hear it.
For people on the ground, I think there's
been a bit of mixture of both amusement
and maybe worry that this world is kind
of feeling more surreal.
There's a return to the law of the
jungle.
You know, America just does what it wants.
Basically, it's a free for all love.
Law of the jungle is what they keep
saying.
Same time, though, I would say on a
human level, the people that I talk to
quite a lot, if they can afford it,
they still really want to send their children
or they themselves want to study in the
U.S. for college.
She ends every report with.
Hmm.
Yeah, I know it's annoying.
Well, that video is dumb.
Yeah, I fortunately did.
You couldn't hear it either.
Yeah, but you know, of course not, because
all of these A.I. so most of
the A.I. songs, you have to have
captions.
Otherwise, you don't know what they're singing.
It's so bad.
I agree.
And so the last clip of the three
that I selected is kind of another interesting
analysis of this refers to El Salvador and
an underlying trend that might be accurate in
the way this guy this guy sees things
a little differently than everybody else.
And I just thought this was kind of
an interesting take.
The backdrop of all of this that's happening
with the U.N., I feel is is
a very real disillusionment with not just democracy,
but with the big international institutions.
I think El Salvador is a perfect example.
Right.
They have elected a president, Nayib Bukele, who,
you know, has thrown tens of thousands of
people in jail without any due process.
And the Salvadorans are like, what do we
care about due process?
What has the international all these international human
rights group?
What have they gotten us?
Right.
We used to live in fear.
And now we live in security.
Like, screw all those international laws and, you
know, people trying to protect human rights.
Right.
And I think I think that argument has
won out in a lot of places, especially
in Latin America, where you have huge problems
of security.
Right.
People are being extorted.
They're being killed.
We're being kidnapped.
Right.
And they just want somebody to fix it.
And so I feel like the disillusionment with
with the institutions on the ground is kind
of maybe what's also playing out on the
world stage.
Well, that is interesting.
And El Salvador, from what I understand, I
know a lot of people who've been there.
I know people who are building homes there.
It's only a couple hours flight from Texas.
Yeah.
They love it.
They love Bukele, who's I think he's a
millennial millennial president.
Yeah.
And yeah, locked up.
I mean, everyone feared for their life.
It had the highest one of the highest
per capita murder rates.
Yeah.
And now there's nothing.
What do you do?
You go around.
You got a gang.
They all have tattoos saying I'm in this
gang.
Yeah, you're done.
No due process.
You pick them up, throw them in jail.
Well, this so this leads me into a
clip that I picked up about the U
.N., about one of these fantastic global institutions
who are on the brink of going out
of business.
United Nations is facing imminent financial collapse unless
changes are made.
That was the message from U.N. Secretary
General Antonio Guterres in a three page letter
he sent to all 193 member states.
The U.N. is running out of money
to pay bills like staff and vendors at
headquarters and elsewhere.
The reason is multifaceted.
About a quarter of member states do not
pay their annual assessed dues on time, making
it difficult for U.N. number crunchers to
budget.
Because of this, typically the U.N. starts
to run out of money by July every
year, but is able to pull funds from
reserves to cover operational expenses through the summer
until more money arrives.
This year, there are no reserves to draw
from.
It's not hyperbole.
The people who handle our finances simply look
at the numbers.
And over the years, we've had to scramble
and use whatever funds we have available to
keep our operations going.
Once our reserves have dwindled to this extent,
our ability to do that has been undercut.
When it comes to paying, it's now or
never.
We do not have the sort of cash
reserves and the sort of liquidity to keep
functioning as we've done in previous years.
And this is something that the secretary general
has warned with increasing strength each year.
The United States, the largest funder, currently has
arrears to the U.N. of about $2
.1 billion.
Yeah, I know how that meeting went.
Scott, Scott, screw those guys.
They screwed me with the escalator.
They turned off my prompter.
Don't pay the bill.
Yeah, that's what I do.
That's exactly what happened.
And there's this strange rumor going around that
supposedly the U.N. is going to move
its headquarters to Qatar.
Have you heard this?
Well, that's perfect, if true.
No, I have not heard it, but it
makes it...
That's why Tucker needs a house.
There it is.
And with that, I'd like to thank you,
the man who put the sea in the
crustafarians in the morning to you.
Here is my friend on the other end,
the one, the only Mr. John C.
DeMora.
Good morning to you, Mr. Adam Curry.
DeMora, Chef Seawoods to the graphene in the
air.
Sun to the water and all the dames
and knights out there.
In the morning to the trolls in the
troll room.
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And?
Jane Fonda was married three times, and she
has a partner, Richard Perry, should be the
fourth person.
What does Richard Perry do?
Is he good looking?
I can click and find out.
Yeah, why don't you click?
Richard Perry was an American...
Wasn't he in Journey?
Record producer.
Steve Perry.
Record producer, musical career.
Richard Perry's a record producer?
Richard Van Perry.
Van Perry.
What does he produce?
I don't know.
Do you want me to look it up?
Yes, yes, please.
Okay, okay, Richard Van Perry, he's old.
He's 82.
Well, it's okay, he's around.
He was a record...
Rod Stewart.
Carly Simon.
Really?
Oh, Planet Records.
Interesting.
He was at RCA.
Oh, interesting.
I don't know this guy.
You'd think I would have bumped into him.
Hey, tonight is the Grammys.
Big Grammy show tonight.
Oh, you're going to look for the satanic
stuff?
Don't think I'll have to look long.
Yes, I'm sure Bad Bunny will pick up,
so we'll sweep the awards.
Bad Bunny.
Everyone's crazy for the Bad Bunny.
Yes, the Bad Bunny.
Oh, one of his biggest hits was You're
So Vain that he produced.
Carly Simon.
Okay, all right.
Yeah, You're So Vain is perfect for Jane
Fonda.
So we run this value for value, which
is really quite simple.
We put the show out without any restrictions,
without any levels or super things you got
to...
That actually makes it very...
I was talking to Tina about this yesterday.
She's a fundraising professional for the non-profits.
She says, you know, you guys never have
done donor stewardship.
I said, you have no idea how hard
it is with this value for value.
It's not like people sign up and you
just send them a letter twice a year
with your report on all the great things
you did.
So we need them to support us every
single show.
They need to give value back.
And it's not like a set it and
then write it off type thing.
We have to remind people twice a week
to listen to the show and support what
we do and send value back.
And we have to have them always questioning
what kind of value did I get out
of this?
Should I return that value?
How do I feel about getting the value
and not returning it?
It's not like in a database.
It's like, didn't Eric try to do a
database?
That's true.
We don't use Salesforce.
That's...
Yes, we need a gentic Salesforce, a gentic
AI to do that.
I think Eric tried to do that.
Didn't he try to put together a database?
Yeah, Eric was always trying to do the
high tech stuff.
But why did that never work?
There was a million reasons.
I think the biggest one is people donate
eight different ways.
Yeah, there's a lot of fluctuation.
Yeah, there's too many variables to get anything
really nailed down.
And we do too many shows.
We're doing a hundred shows a year.
Yeah.
A hundred and four, actually.
And we do a hundred and four shows
a year.
And it's hectic.
And like you said, this is not like
a once a year fundraiser.
We have to do this every twice a
week.
Yeah.
And it creates all kinds.
So you have to have a lot of
things, a lot of plates in the air.
A lot of them.
We need...
I think Salesforce is a good idea.
Spinning.
We should take a call.
Salesforce.
Hey, Salesforce, hit us up.
Let us know how your agentic AI can
actually help us.
The only thing I'd like to do is
I'd like to send some of our donors
a Christmas email.
And I've tried doing that.
Even that's...
Even just sending a thank you mail.
It's like, you know, your email address gets
blocked, even if it's just...
And then they won't get it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
How come I didn't get one?
It's a good question.
You got that issue.
We don't want to deal with that.
Yeah.
Like even sending out the night rings and
the day rings is quite a...
Yeah, that's...
Quite an ordeal.
Quite an ordeal.
Yes.
It's annoying.
And we have a full-time J, J
the AI agent.
She does good work.
She does very good work.
See, she...
Nary does she make a mistake.
And we appreciate that.
So time, talent and treasure is what we
decided on.
You can support us.
We love when you go hit somebody in
the mouth, let them know about the show,
because there's no way an algorithm is...
And you got to remind people, you know,
because they're like, wow, what is this?
What is this?
Because we're so different.
It's like, how come they don't have other
podcasters on their podcast?
You know, isn't that what you're supposed to
do?
No, we don't do that.
We don't do interviews.
We just deconstruct the media, which...
Which was our smartest decision ever.
Yes, it's still...
It's still very, maybe even more important than
ever.
And even though people don't really...
The absolute numbers of the media are not
that big anymore, but it still sets the
tone.
It sets the tone of Washington, of the
lobbyists, of the Congress, sets an international tone.
And I increasingly learned that there's a lot
of people who just tune in to hear
what's going on.
They don't want to watch it.
They are tuned out.
They're not interested in being involved.
They're not on social media.
They're just working.
They're fixing cars.
They're, you know, they're mowing lawn.
They're doing whatever.
They just want to bring me up to
speed, make me laugh a little bit.
And then, yeah, that was pretty valuable.
I'm up to speed.
I'll send something back to them.
One of the ways you can do that
is by setting up No Agenda meetups.
John, when do you want to do your
meetup report?
Well, I'll do it during the...
When we start reading after we get to
the second or third.
I put three of the donors right on
the spreadsheet.
The rest of them I have here in
a pile because there's just too many.
Well, we have great response at this, at
our meetups here in Northern California, Northern Silicon
Valley, unlike the cheap bastards there in Texas.
Yeah, well, they're really good.
They're afraid of you.
And you see, I'm just like, hey, nice,
thanks for coming.
And you're just like, where's the donation?
True or not?
I don't say, I've never said where's the
donation.
You do before the meetup.
Yes, I do.
You're very good about that.
We also accept other forms.
Boots on the ground are very much appreciated.
Clips, time codes.
If you send us a video.
What is not helpful, by the way?
Ah, I did it.
I got to stop that.
I said, by the way, you didn't even
catch it.
What is it?
You know, everything, this is- I'm getting
better.
I'm getting better.
I'm not.
Yeah, you will.
You will.
People will send, say that this is great.
What is not great is some other podcaster
playing clips, interrupting the clip, little box in
the corner of the YouTube screen.
That's not helpful.
Have you seen the one?
There's one, I put it, I posted it
on the Real Dvorak on Twitter.
Have you seen the one where this little
guy in the box down there and he's
yakking away about something going on?
And then the person in the video grabs
him by the head?
No, no, I haven't seen that.
It's beautiful.
It's so meta and it completely catches you
off guard.
Oh, that's good.
Artwork is also highly appreciated.
You can upload it to noagendaartgenerator.com.
I think the complaining has done something.
The art, some pieces have become simpler, a
little more to the point.
Complaining, does it- Complaining works.
Underestimated as a methodology.
Undervalued.
It's very undervalued as a methodology to getting
what you want.
The Canadians don't have it quite perfected yet.
They had the right idea.
So Red, who I think is- Is
Red a kind of a new artist on
the scene?
A new prompter on the scene?
No, Red has done quite a lot actually
throughout the years, I see.
But Red created for us the Color Revolution
Blues with Paint Can, Color Blue, noagenda, best
podcast in the universe, Curry Dvorak, simple-
Yeah, I was pushing for something else, but
you insisted that the one I liked-
Well, you didn't want the one that I
liked.
No, the one you liked was gruesome.
I liked the cigarettes in the eyes.
I thought it was phenomenal.
Here, this is what Adam thinks.
This is great, it's sexy.
And it was some guy with his eyes
gouged out and two cigarette butts in each
eye.
It was Eli the coffee guy too.
I really liked Eli's work here.
It was funny.
It was gruesome.
It was cigarettes for the eyes.
And he kept- And he couldn't see
it as gruesome.
I don't understand this at all.
No, I didn't see it as gruesome.
What was the one that you liked?
You wanted something dumb.
I remember that.
You wanted the puppy.
You wanted the puppy.
Like, you wanted my dog in the snow.
No, I did like that, but that's not
what I was pushing for.
What I was pushing for was trying to
find it.
The icebreaker, another Eli.
I did use, by the way, blue acorns
create a man for the newsletter.
You said, by the way.
Ah!
I'm going to help you with this.
It's a tough one.
I think we've been saying it so long
without even noticing it as some kind of
connector that we feel we need, but we
don't need that.
We don't need these three words.
We don't need them.
I'm deprogramming you.
We do not need these three words.
Well, I'm sure, you know, I'm so hard
to deprogram.
Here's the one I liked.
It was pressure washers with Jeffrey Rea where
they're using a pressure washer.
Yeah, I didn't like that because- I
love that piece.
But you, I like the eyeballs.
So we settled on the paint can.
I do like the eyeballs.
I still like the eyeball.
I'm going to print it out, blow it
up, put it on my wall.
Yeah, I want you to frame it and
put it in the office.
Thank you, Red, Double D Red, for bringing
us the artwork for episode 1838, which, what
did we title that one?
1838 was, oh, Coup a Foot.
There you go.
And now, as we always, as part of
our value for value model, which is very
different from a nonprofit donor stewardship model, we
do it twice a week.
We thank people who supported us and we
tell you how much they supported us with.
And we do that for $50 and above.
Under 50, not mentioned for reasons of anonymity.
And in this segment, we'd like to thank
our executive and associate executive producers because we
give you a title to go with that,
which is kind of cool.
It's a real showbiz title.
It's good for the rest of your life.
And you can put it on imdb.com
if one of our friends of the show
hasn't already done it for you.
And $200 or more gets you an associate
executive producership credit.
And we'll read your note.
$300 and above is an executive producership.
And we will read your note.
And the first one, as far as I
can tell, has no note.
It is, I give a little background.
This came in.
This was a meetup.
These first two donations are from the meetup.
OK, so it's Jeffrey P.
Roster from Morgan Hill, California.
Associates.
And he says he wanted to be knighted.
I think we put him on the night
list anyway.
And he said that email is coming.
I didn't get one.
And obviously it notes that no agenda showed
up.
Net didn't get one.
And I don't think you got one.
No, I didn't.
So we have to wait for his note
for his thousand dollar donation.
But give him a double up karma.
Yes.
And he was at the meetup.
Yeah, you've got.
He's not only at the meetup, but he
didn't put the check in an envelope or
anything.
He just says he's just handed me a
check.
Did anyone stick an envelope to your back
like a Jewish bride?
Like I request?
No, no, I got no.
Well, not that I noticed it might have
fallen off.
Lucas T.
Is this now?
I can read this.
Yes.
And by the way, this is also for
you, by the way.
Ah.
This is also from the I must be
the real offender, then.
No.
This is this is also from the meetup,
and this is a big, big guy.
Big guy.
All right.
Big, big hands.
I have a meetup report later, and I
think he was in the meetup report.
So Lucas T.
A thousand dollars.
And he says it was a pleasure meeting
everyone at the get John out of the
house.
Oakland meetup.
It's official now.
I'm a knight, sir.
Sloth of local four eleven seven.
All hail Baron anonymous cop.
No, you're not yet, but you will be
on this show.
You have not been knighted yet.
Thank you, John.
And I have this podcast has helped my
dad and me.
Stay connected.
Oh, that's nice.
My father, nicknamed the animal, is a three
time WAC University of New Mexico champion.
What is WAC?
Western Athletic Conference.
Turned MACV dash SOG.
With three tours in Vietnam and counterintelligence working
Project Borden, a military psyop.
I'll bet you this guy knows Uncle Don.
Ask him.
Anyway, says I love you, Dad.
Bravo, sir, for raising two great kids.
We lost mom last year.
They were married for 51 years.
Dad and I take trips together now, partly
to get him off the couch since he's
a Fox News dad.
Your show has helped us has helped both
of us better understand the direction of the
world and grow our personal wealth because of
it.
Well, now that's some value.
He has some douchebag calls out call outs
here for Steve McGrath.
Douchebag for Tony D'Amato.
Douchebag David Miller.
Douchebag and guess what?
My dad, Wayne.
Douchebag that I wonder how that'll go over.
He needs a de-douching Obama phone de
-douching.
He mentioned that in a separate note.
You've been de-douched.
Everybody in Cleveland saw my president, you know.
He gave us a phone.
And I want to mention one thing.
He also said in a long, short, long,
short piece about modern policing techniques because he's
a cop.
Yeah.
And which I will read in some future
episode when it applies to something we're talking
about.
It's a lot of new drone technology being
used by the police department.
Oh, well, Baron Sir, an anonymous cop has
a lot of experience with that as he
has emailed.
Yeah, they're buddies, those two guys.
It's good to have friends like this, John.
Yeah.
Feel free to read the next one.
I should mention this.
So he's in South San Francisco and I
didn't mention, but he should know that it's
the side of that hill in South San
Francisco that I think where they should put
the favela.
On the hill?
Yeah.
Beautiful.
All right.
They could police it.
Wonderful.
No, you don't police favelas.
Self-policing.
OK, feel free to continue.
Yeah, I should.
I'm going to read a couple of the
notes from the meetup after we get to
300.
OK.
David Roberts in Norristown, Pennsylvania, 6-24-33.
As the Duke of Pennsylvania some years ago,
I needed de-douching.
You've been de-douched.
I just want to say if you want
a competitive edge with the resume that gets
results, go to ImageMakersInc.com with a K.
I'll be reaching out soon.
I guess he's looking for work.
Beautiful.
Oh, here's Sir Deanonymous.
This is great.
He's in East Grinstead and he's in the
United Kingdom and he is the man responsible
for the technology behind Bingit.io, which is
known as Clip Genie.
And he came with $333.33 and this
is important.
He says, Alongside my normal recurring donation of
$55.10, double nickels on the dime, I
want to send in this special $333.33
donation to celebrate the launch of Clip Genie
2.0. After many months of hard work
resulting in being several episodes behind, as it
turns out, I can't listen and code at
the same time, it's finally finished.
Anyone with a podcast can now sign up
for their own instance of Clip Genie using
just their RSS feed.
Now, if you've ever seen Bingit.io, which
forwards to Clip Genie, you can just search
terms, it'll find transcript, you click on that,
it plays that part of the transcript in
the show, it links to clips, it links
to show notes, and you can make...
I'm glad he's commercializing.
Yes, because this thing has been costing him
money.
It's been an ongoing project and I hope
more podcasters will use it because it is
fantastic and the clip sharing is what he's
really focusing on, which is funny because I
got a note from Linode, he said, I
have noagendaassets.com, that's where I post all
the clips and the show notes and everything.
And it says, just so you know, there's
been a lot of extra outgoing bandwidth and
it gave me two alerts.
I'm like, what is going on?
So I get into the box, I'm like,
this has got to be some AI scraping
me, these bandits.
Well, of course it was Sir Deenonymous.
It's our own AI scraping us, so it's
good.
Everything has been improved.
The transcription quality, the clip generator capability, shared
links to episodes and clips.
You can now see which clips have been
made by any member of your audience, which
links they have shared and how many times
they've been visited.
I listened to everybody's feedback when making version
two, so there's lots of improvements in bingit
.io as well.
Every episode has been retranscribed, so the clip
start and end times will be bang on
with less errors in the transcript.
This makes finding things you remember even easier.
You now listen to the exact audio that
will be in the clip before you commit.
Clip before you commit.
The search results now include a timeline of
when your results occur in the show, and
you can see the actual text match, so
no more jumping in and out of episodes
trying to work out which one is the
right one.
This time though, it really is powered by
AI with the option of semantic search built
in.
Oh, the holy grail.
I've been trying to come up...
It's fuzzy.
I've been trying to come up with some
fancy marketing copy to rival Eli the Coffee
Guy and Linda Liu, but quickly realized I
have no chance.
So all I will say is this.
Turn your audience into your marketing department.
Clip Genie.
That's a good bit.
I like that.
Right there is good.
Turn your audience into your marketing department.
Clip Genie gives listeners the power to search
your episodes and share their favorite moments.
Get started today by heading to clipgenie.com
and use code BONGINO at checkout to get
10% off the life of your subscription
and get 5% of your order donated
to No Agenda.
This is...
I love this.
It is a great...
This is really an outstanding product.
It had...
The version one was good.
Version two is fantastic.
So finally, you can share us on the
socials with confidence and ease.
Thank you very much, Sir Deanonymous.
Highly appreciate it.
Again, well worth reading that note.
Anything to get him some money?
Kenneth Cal, or Kiel, in El Sobrante, he
was at the meetup, 33333, put a little
note saying it was like a night donation.
I don't know if it's for his night.
He didn't give us any details.
I think I got another note afterwards.
This is another kind of just hanging out
there thingy.
And we'll give him a double up, Carmen.
Then I've got the notes to read from
the meetup.
Okay.
You've got Karma.
All right.
Read your notes.
So here we go.
So we got a lot of donors at
the meetup.
These are all over 50.
Lawrence Wolf starts this off in Oakland and
he came in with 350.
So he's the executive producer who put him
on the list.
And he wasn't going to...
He says, ITM gentlemen, I wasn't going to
donate.
As a baron, I felt I had proverbially
killed my 10 men.
Wait, what's his name?
This is Lawrence Wolf.
W-O-L-F-L-A-W-R
-E-N-C-E-F, Wolf.
So he'll be executive producer.
Yep, got it.
He says, as a baron, I felt I
had proverbially killed my 10 men.
I never heard that phrase, but I can
understand it.
I also give recurrent monthly donations.
So I thought I'd wait this one out.
However, my wife bought a chair for our
cat, Alex.
It has sacrificial furniture for him to destroy.
When we removed the chair from its box,
we saw that it was orange color.
I looked at the tag.
The tag was described as curry.
No, no.
This morning, I also woke up to a
raspy meow.
He's going on 18 years and he's deaf.
He's going on to the cat.
I checked the time.
It was 3.33 in the morning.
Too early.
I went back to sleep.
Upon waking, I found something in the bed
covers that should have been deposited in the
cat box.
Enclosed for $350.
I counted it.
So it's not 250.
I get a slave's mac and cheese.
Adios.
Slaves.
Oh, yes.
Okay.
I know.
I know what it means.
Slaves mac and cheese.
Yes, of course.
You slaves can get used to mac and
cheese.
Mac and cheese.
Macaroni and cheese.
Cheddar melted together.
I hope he didn't get toxo from that.
Well, I probably already has it.
Yeah, you're right.
K-O-6-E-J-E-73 is
to him.
Hold on a second.
Also executive producer?
Yep.
So what is it?
K-O- Oh, K-O- K
-O-6-E-J-E.
Okay.
That would be Kilo 06 Echo Juliet Echo.
Come on, man.
Show your ham cred.
Yeah.
You know, it's pretty clear.
Okay.
Carolyn Kostopoulos.
O is an Oscar, not zero Oscar.
Okay.
Oscar.
Yes.
Who?
Who's the next one?
Carolyn Kostopoulos.
And for some dumb reason, I didn't put
her amount on here.
Kostopoulos.
You have to spell that for me.
Please accept my third donation.
I have a couple of corrections I'd like
to make.
On one show a while back, and I'm
sorry, I can't remember the episode.
You both ridiculed POTS as the best fad
illness that hypochondriacs were suddenly suffering from.
Sorry, but POTS, P-O-T-S, is
very real and caused by the COVID-19
mRNA vaccines.
These poor people lose control of their heart
rate.
We corrected that later.
I believe so.
Yeah.
I have a friend who had the same
illness she goes on.
And she goes on, I'm trying to, it's
kind of funny.
You're well organized.
I'm sorry.
I mean, there's a big pile of these
notes.
I will straighten out Carolyn's note later.
Okay.
So I'm going to skip by her.
Okay.
And go on to a card from Beth
Elliott.
Beth Elliott?
Yeah.
Yeah.
2-22-22.
22.
Thank you for your courage.
Pretty much, it's very simple.
And then...
So she's an associate.
And I'll get to the rest of these
in the second half of the show.
Okay.
Well, so she's an associate.
I got to do this right.
Yeah, you do.
Okay.
I'm trying to do this right, but you're
not being very helpful.
Okay.
I'm not.
I'm sorry.
No, you're anything but helpful.
Here we go.
We...
Can I...
Okay.
I'm back on track.
Jordan Goodfellow.
Davenport, Florida.
3-33.
Sanity is still intact.
Thanks to the best podcast in the universe.
This is the only podcast I listen to
every week.
Thank you.
Here's to four more years.
Oh, I got it.
I found another pile.
Are these executives or associate executives?
A couple are in here as executives.
This is associate executive.
I just want to get these before I
do the latter ones.
Duca, San Francisco.
220.
No note.
Okay.
Double up karma.
Duca, San Francisco.
You've got karma.
Robert Montoya.
Associate.
Black Knight.
200.
Yes.
Associate.
Pleasant Hill.
Okay.
The rest of these are lower.
I would do them in the second half.
50.
I got 200 from John Siebert.
S-I-E-B-E-R-T in
Auburn.
Okay.
John Siebert.
Hey, didn't Sir Julian donate?
Sir Julian did donate.
Okay, good.
He's back out in California.
He's back working...
Wait, he was...
That's interesting.
I thought he was in D.C. I
don't know what's going on with him.
Anyway, yes.
Continue.
Now I can just get these out of
the way.
Asha and Cabril.
150.
They scribbled their last names.
I couldn't read it.
Aaron Cole, Knight of the Strawberry Fog.
I don't know where...
Watsonville.
100.
Sir Zolbat.
ITM, 100.
50 from Sir Richie Rich, the guy with
the fancy hair.
Angela Garcia, the artist from San Francisco.
100.
I said John Siebert already.
We have 100 from Fast Eddie.
Fast Eddie.
Fast Eddie.
And then we have these little guys here,
which is little notes.
85 bucks from Crazy Steve.
Coins.
Silver coin.
Lai and Sophie, 100.
She wants some...
They want Job Karma.
We'll give them that at the end.
Gustavo Visali and Maria with a Springsteen donation
of 75.
Yeah.
And is there anything last on here?
I think that's it.
All right.
Well, sounds like you had a good time.
Did you have fun?
People said you left early.
Does anybody...
I stayed there two whole hours.
If anybody didn't get mentioned, let me know.
We'll put you on as a make good.
We will continue now with Alex Thomas, Associate
Executive Producer.
Oh, no, wait.
Sir Paul Snyder.
I'm sorry.
Please credit me as Sir Paul Snyder.
Also, add me to the birthday list for
February 4th.
Thanks.
$455.98 Canadian.
My money's worthless.
Yes.
Alex Thomas, Northcote, Victoria in Australia, $250.
Michael Kellner, $242.17. He says, this is
the value of two silver dollars plus PayPal
fees.
And he says, Jingle, just send your cash
song from phoneboy.com.
We have a whole end of show mix
for you for that one, but I'll play
the shorty for you now.
I know a lot of people want to
send blankets or water.
Just send your cash.
I'll take it from there with Hylin Craigs
in Colorado Springs, $2.30. We love you
too and really appreciate your work.
Please keep it going.
Arguments and all.
By the way, we got some feedback from
the Meetup, which had an inordinate number of
attractive women, I should say.
And they kind of appreciate bickering.
They think it adds some dimensionality to an
otherwise dry show.
Well, they like the bickering.
The chicks like bickering, man.
Yeah, bickering.
Interesting.
Which is a town in Colorado.
Interesting.
Munitions Master is in Kettering, Ohio with a
row of ducks, $222.22. Ahoy, gents.
Chupacabra donation.
Long time listener.
First time donor.
Please deduce.
You've been deduced.
Love the show and all the work you
guys do.
Three out of five stars.
What?
That's a fail on Uber.
Three out of five stars.
Would not change a thing.
Would like to shout out the Chupacabra canoe.
Those guys are awesome.
We listen to and discuss the show on
all of our canoe trips and conclaves.
Check out chupacabracanoe.com for canoes, paddles, merch,
and blogs.
Now selling canoes handmade by River Surfer.
If anyone in the Northeastern Ohio area is
interested in a canoeing meetup, that would be
cool.
Visit the website and submit via the contact
to the portal.
Ah, the portal.
I would like to call out Summer Sausage
and Sea Cow as douchebags.
All right.
And Sea Cow.
Douchebag.
Uh, I'd like to call Jingles, Goat Karma,
and Al Sharpton Respect.
Thank you for your courage.
Paddles up, says Munitions Master, and he is
in Kettering, Ohio.
You've got karma.
Sir Candyman in Somerset, California at 214.14.
This donation is a switcheroo to my partner
in crime and lover of life, uh, my
gia?
My gia.
My gia.
Okay, my gia.
My gia.
You are my heart and my soul, he
writes.
To many, the world might seem upside down,
but to those of us who know better,
it just seems like an act.
Thanks to the No Agenda Show, we know
better.
But this is the month of love, and
we'll focus on that.
That was Black History Month.
I never stopped feeling like the luckiest man
in the world.
My, my gia.
My gia.
My gia.
My gia.
You make my life worth living, or striving
for.
You make a better, make me a better
man every day.
These are times when we are, that we
are rough and tumble together, but ultimately, we
are always better for it.
So this is an ode to my, my
gia.
My gia.
So if you feel love, he must be
in the doghouse or something.
So if you feel love like I do,
share it.
Let the people you love know how you
feel.
At Little John's Candies, whether it's heart-shaped
or not, we have you covered.
We share the love and donate to the
best podcast in the world.
No, no gingles can express my love, is
what he wrote.
AKA, or Sir Candyman.
Okay, there's a plug.
Beautiful plug.
And he's back, Eli the Coffee Guy from
Bensonville, Illinois.
Eli, Darren O'Neill is trying to scam
some free coffee off of you.
Just saying.
He keeps complaining about it.
Send him a bag.
Send him a bag.
He plugs you.
20201, he does.
Interesting timing out of Georgia.
Tulsi Gabbard, DNI, was present during the FBI
raid on the Fulton County Election Office.
Yes, there is very little media coverage.
Hmm, interesting.
No, it's not true.
There's coverage.
Plus, Sidney Powell is popping back up again.
Yeah, I've seen that too.
Maybe they'll finally release the Kraken.
Maybe it means nothing.
I actually have some clips about that.
With the slow roll of the Epstein files,
another round of mostly peaceful riots, it does
feel like election season is warming up.
He knows.
Producers should elect to drink good coffee.
Visit gigawattcoffeeroasters.com.
Use code ITM20 for 20% off your
order.
And he says stay caffeinated.
His name is Eli the Coffee Guy.
I should mention something about this.
We don't have any clips.
I don't think of Tulsi.
No, she's been very quiet.
But they have been promoting this idea that,
oh, what, you know, to say it's not
covered, that he hasn't been watching the lefties.
The left-wing media is covering it.
And it always says the same thing.
I wish I had a clip.
But they say the same thing.
It goes like this.
What is she doing there?
She's supposed to be in charge of the
national intelligence, which is about foreign countries.
No, she's not.
No, she is not in charge of foreign
intelligence.
She's in charge of all intelligence, which includes
the FBI.
Yes.
So she has all the right in the
world to be there if she wants to
be.
Well put.
Anyway, Linda Lubatkin is up.
Oh, look at her.
She's in Castle Rock, Colorado.
$200, Jobs Karma for a competitive edge.
With the resume that gets results, go to
imagemakersinc.com.
Uh, Linda applies executive level positioning to career
transition at every stage.
Whoa.
New copy, new copy, new copy.
That's imagemakersinc with a K.
And work with Linda Lu, Duchess of Jobs
and writer of winning a resume's best, Linda.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs.
Karma.
And we have a, she's our last.
No, we have two more.
Eric Kessler, Kansas city, Missouri.
My pre $200.
My appreciation to you both for the best
podcast in the universe.
Can I get an F cancer and prayer
for my dad's upcoming surgery?
Yes, he's covered, Eric.
No worries at all.
Here's the karma.
You've got karma.
Okay.
This is a long note, but I can
squeeze it in.
Except if there's anything after the name, Michael
Burdette, Adam and John is a follow up
note to my $200.
He donated $200.
Michael Burdette.
Social producer donations Saturday night.
I wanted to take this opportunity to plug
my adopted human resource.
Girl Scout.
Girl Scouts.
I'm sorry.
Girl Scouts, cookie site, a digital cookie.girlscouts
.org.
This is funny because I'm surprised that this
hasn't been done before, which is.
Girl Scout cookies online.
No, I'll put the link.
I'll put the link next to his next
to his.
If you're a boomer like me and don't
need another source of sugar and carbs, pick
up the $6 donation to sweet acts of
kindness or send a gift box of six
cookie packages to a friend.
By the way, the Girl Scout cookies are
good.
Even if you don't use Elizabeth's cookie site,
support your local Girl Scouts.
Sorry.
By the way, this is very creative to
have a Girl Scouts cookies website.
Yeah.
So I don't think they like the idea.
Well, it seems to be part of Girl
Scouts.org.
So I think they're doing it troop wide.
Oh, maybe.
Yeah.
It's pretty good.
You know, Girl Scouts usually show up at
the front of the Safeway or someplace and
they're there.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Buy some cookies.
And they're so cute.
And you're like, oh, of course, I'll buy
your cookies.
I'll buy your cookies.
Okay, we'll buy some cookies.
I always get the Thin Mints.
Yes, Thin Mints.
Thin Mints, baby.
The s'mores are good.
Yeah.
We have to pay for shipping on the
site.
Okay.
You can skip the rest of the note
if you want.
I will, but I will.
Let me stop.
No, let me read this because I read
this before and he sent me some clips
along with this.
He installed the Quen3 TTS, the 11 labs
alternative, the open source 11 labs alternative.
Right, which you recommended.
Yes.
And he sent us to, he said, after
sampling President Trump's voice, I created an audio
file of him touting our tech desk team,
suggesting we should win the UW Distinguished Staff
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I'm not kidding.
That's pretty good for open source.
It's close, it's close.
He also did one for us.
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I like it.
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Our formula is this.
We go out.
We hit people in the mouth.
I have a little m5m clip for you.
This is quite interesting.
The movie Melania has come out.
Yeah, which had a pretty decent opening.
That $8 million over $8 million in theaters,
which is surprising.
I think it came as the number three
movie.
Of course, it's always about the second week.
And if you have a friend who's in
the movie business, they always say, go to
go to the second weekend.
We need the second weekend.
And here's a report from Canada, which is
quite negative about it.
Surprise, surprise.
Here we go again.
So far, reaction to the first lady's first
documentary isn't exactly what you'd put on a
movie marquee.
Because this literally is something you can't make
up.
This is a Hollywood farce.
She may have rung the bell at the
New York Stock Exchange to herald the movie's
arrival in theaters Friday.
But before it's even hit screens, the film's
been getting review bombed on movie site Letterboxd.
Did I watch this?
No.
Do I need to?
Also no, writes one commentator.
If they showed this on a plane, people
would still walk out, writes another.
The timing couldn't be worse.
On the very day ICE agents killed nurse
Alex Pretty, the White House went ahead with
its preview of Melania for special guests that
night.
Melania's director is also controversial, Brett Ratner, banished
by Hollywood after accusations of sexual misconduct in
2017.
Then there's the flick's financial backing.
Amazon shelling out $40 million US for worldwide
rights.
And spending another $35 million to market it.
A plot line ripe for criticism.
Jeff Bezos and Amazon had a fractious relationship
with Trump.
That's well documented.
All of a sudden the billionaires show up
on inauguration day, literally show up, sit behind
him and money starts to change hands.
American late night talk show hosts adding that
to their scripts.
Amazon bribed a whopping $40 million for the
movie.
Are you really trying to tell us that
this dumb vanity project slash corporate bribe is
a work of art?
The documentary will be shown at a lavish
event at the Kennedy Center Thursday night, then
opens on 1500 screens in the US and
Canada.
I don't think anybody's going to go to
the theaters to see it.
It takes a lot to get people to
go out to the movies, period.
And I don't think this is this is
the big draw.
Friday's opening night, the true test of whether
moviegoers will show up to see it or
simply wait until it goes streaming.
Well, I think they're doing nothing but helping
by talking about it everywhere.
Well, the way they're doing it, because it's
so biased.
Yeah, yeah.
Did Kimmel and Colbert see the movie?
No, they just decided to slam it for
no good reason.
Yeah, I'm kind of interested.
I'll wait until it streams, but I'm interested.
I'll wait.
It's good.
Yeah, I don't know.
It's nothing else.
What is it, 20 minutes into life or
something like that?
What?
I mean, it's short.
It's just about a week in her life.
I mean, it's just a walk with him.
Well, that could be according to the president.
It's amazing.
No one's ever seen this before.
I do have these NATO clips, so let's
run through them.
All right, let's run through the NATO.
What is the premise?
This is a deconstruction of of NPR specifically
trying to promote NATO.
There's a big fear that we're going to
get out of NATO, and people have mixed
feelings whether that's good or not.
Do we want troops all over Europe, or
do we not want troops?
Or the NPR people have taken this-
I vote no.
I vote no.
I don't have a vote, but I will
say that this is a slanted report designed
to kind of stir feelings toward NATO, and
it's poorly done.
And let's start with clip one.
A defining feature of the post-World War
II global order has been America's alliance with
Europe.
That transatlantic relationship has been a bedrock of
Western security.
And at its core, for more than 75
years, has been a special alliance of 32
countries, 30 in Europe and two in North
America, the US and Canada.
Together, they formed NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization.
But that close alliance is now in doubt.
Here's how Trump put it in January.
There are certain places in Europe that are
very important, that are no longer recognizable.
I'm being very nice.
I'm being very diplomatic when I say that
they are not recognizable.
What do Americans actually think of this alliance
that's endured for more than eight decades?
NPR's roving national correspondent, Frank Langford, tells us
more.
One of President Trump's biggest complaints about Europe
is that it hasn't spent enough money on
its own defense and is freeloaded off the
US.
Many Americans agree, including Trump critics.
Ernie Koo lives in California and is an
executive in the maritime industry.
Last month, he was in Baltimore for the
festivities around the Army-Navy game.
Watched cadets and midshipmen compete to drag heavyweights
up a hill overlooking the harbor.
Koo supports Trump pressuring Europe to spend more
on its own defense.
It is forcing Europe to take their security
a little more seriously and maybe not to
be so dependent on one big brother.
And ultimately, I think it's going to be
a positive.
So they start off, so we're going to
get a bunch of basically people on the
street giving us informed opinions.
And so they decide to...
Yes, of course.
Which is what you do, because you can
get a million of them and you can
sort them out and make your point, which
is what they're doing here.
And so these are very short clips now.
This is clip two, and this has got
that little mathematical trick they like to do.
About two hours north in Pennsylvania's Bucks County,
Wes Alker is looking for discounts at a
Trump merchandise store that's closing at the end
of the month.
Closing.
Alker's a retired auto mechanic and agrees with
the president on military support for Ukraine.
Proportionately, we're given more than we should.
And why do you say that?
Because they're not on our back doorstep.
The Europeans ain't doing s**t.
In fact, the European Union and its member
states have mobilized more than $71 billion in
military support for Ukraine.
Still, an NPR-Ipsos poll in December showed
that about one-third of Republicans think the
U.S. has spent too much.
Majority of Democrats and more than 40%
of independents disagreed.
Yeah, spend more.
Well, the thing there is the numbers.
A third of the Republicans is 33%.
40%.
They go from a third to 40%.
Oh, I see what you're doing.
It's only a 7% difference, but they
make it sound like, oh, you know, these
Republicans are against it and the Democrats are
for it.
No, not really.
So that kind of trickery, that's what caught
my attention, which made me put this presentation
together, because there's more of it.
Let's go to, now it says NAO, but
this is a 16-second clip of a
quote in part three.
Suzanne Watson is a retired nurse in Colorado.
I think it's too little.
I am not a fan of wars or
helping wars, but I think Putin has made
it very clear that he's not going to
stop at Ukraine.
And at some point, you've got to stand
up.
We learned that in World War II.
Retired nurse in Colorado.
Yeah, there it is.
Giving us our perspective on international relations and
Putin.
Yes.
Why?
A retired, oh, here's a retired.
And where did they get this retired nurse
in Colorado to contribute to this report in
the first place?
Give me a break.
OK, so we go to clip four.
And this one is, this one I called
dipshit.
Oh, there you go.
Disagreement over support for Ukraine seems quaint compared
with Trump's designs on Greenland.
Earlier this month, Vice President Vance said Denmark
hasn't done enough to protect the resource-rich
territory from Russia and China and that America's
transatlantic bonds only go so far.
They always make an argument about the past.
They'll say, well, we fought together in World
War II or we fought together in the
war on terrorism.
And we're grateful for that.
We love having these allies.
But just because you did something smart 25
years ago doesn't mean you can't do something
dumb now.
My name is Sharon Valentine.
I'm 28.
I am a mother of one.
Valentine works for an online bank and lives
in Utah.
She's a self-described progressive and thinks Trump's
approach to allies is self-defeating.
Threatening to invade Greenland or the Panama Canal
or to take Canada.
Where do you think that this foreign policy
is leading the United States?
I think it's leading us to be more
isolated.
Well, you know what I say to that?
Talk show.
So she brings some dipshit on who works
on an online bank out of the blue
and she starts crying immediately.
And this is supposed to convince us of
what?
This is their persuasive way of doing a
presentation on NATO that she doesn't even know,
can't even say what NATO stands for.
But OK.
All right.
Let's go to five and we're going to
wrap it pretty quick.
Polling suggests that Valentine is right.
Suggests.
European Council on Foreign Relations released a poll
this month.
It showed that in 10 EU countries, including
France and Germany, an average of only 16
percent viewed the U.S. as an ally,
while about half viewed it as a necessary
partner.
Here in the U.S., even Republicans are
concerned about Trump's policies towards Europe.
A Reuters Ipsos poll this month found 60
percent of Republicans opposed taking Greenland by force.
Clay Duncan works in the medical device industry
in Houston.
He's very happy with Trump's second term, but
uneasy about the president's threats against Greenland.
I think that's a dangerous step, right?
A lot of times these are negotiation tactics
because guess what?
They're watching what just happened in Venezuela.
Guess what?
He said that military is not off the
table.
I mean, that might be for Denmark, right?
To get the elicited response.
Harry's talking like one of them damn government
guys you always talk about.
He's down there in Houston.
Now, why do we have this guy?
Why do we care about his opinion at
all?
We need to color it a little bit.
Put that in.
But it has to be.
OK, Trump supporter who's against Trump.
Yes, that's the key to success.
Yes, score.
Trump supporter who's against Trump.
We don't know who this guy is.
He could be just a paid actor.
It's just ridiculous.
This report is these people are no good.
Are you surprised?
Wrap it up with this is kind of
lengthy, but it does wrap it up.
But it's the same.
So this is a propaganda piece that it
can be easily ripped apart.
But I think that people who listen to
NPR lap it up.
The Trump administration released its national security strategy
last month.
It's far more critical of Europe, which is
Democratic, that it is of Russia, an authoritarian
state which started the biggest war on the
continent since 1945.
The 29-page document accuses the European Union
of censoring free speech and suppressing political opposition.
It also celebrates the growing influence of what
the administration calls patriotic European parties.
Frank Sperling grew up in Germany and emigrated
to the U.S. 35 years ago.
He thinks this is a tactic to weaken
the EU.
Supporting right-wing movements in Europe creates this
national divide that sowed the into European unity
within the countries and hamper the progress towards
that.
The national security strategy also questions whether European
nations can remain, quote, reliable allies for the
United States.
Alfredo Anthony is a retired lieutenant colonel in
the U.S. Army who served for seven
years in Europe.
He's never seen language like this in a
national security strategy.
Makes me feel like the parent who is
just totally lambasted a child.
Anthony, who lives in St. Petersburg, Florida, says
the message is clear.
In Europe, we are no longer going to
commit our resources to help you try to
clear out everything in your backyard.
You have to be the ones to do
it.
You have to take the lead.
We bail you out too often.
Our focus happens to be on the United
States, happens to be on the Western Hemisphere.
You take care of yourself.
Anthony worked with NATO, keeping peace in the
Balkans in the late 1990s.
He predicts the transatlantic alliance will fragment and
it'll cost the United States.
It won't be able to rely on Europe
as it did to fight in Afghanistan after
the 9-11 attacks or project power for
military action in the Middle East.
Frank Langford, NPR News, Washington.
My goodness, I'm glad they got defunded.
I am too.
I can offset that with some news from
Euronews about Greenland, which includes the prime minister
-elect of the Netherlands.
And I have something to say about this
at the end.
Dutch prime minister-elect Robert Jetten said on
Friday that U.S. President Donald Trump's territorial
ambitions in Greenland were a wake-up call
for Europe.
The centrist D66 leader stressed the need for
stronger European cooperation to ensure security and prosperity,
rather than focusing on the United States.
Jetten made the comments after presenting his policy
blueprint alongside his minority coalition partners.
We can continue talking and complaining about the
U.S., but what we should do instead
is make sure that the European cooperation is
strengthened, that we can guarantee security and prosperity
for our own citizens.
So one of my first things that I
will do as soon as I'm in office
is talk to my colleagues in Europe to
see what role the Dutch can play again
in strengthening the European cooperation.
Jetten said he would still seek closer cooperation
with Washington on security, Ukraine and the economy.
Last week, Trump dropped threatened tariffs on eight
European nations, including in the Netherlands, amid his
push for control of Greenland.
So I'm going to introduce a term to
the show regarding the prime minister-elect, which
I'd forgotten about when I lived in the
UK.
I learned this term and it was recently
brought to my attention again while watching season
four of The Crown.
Rob Jetten is a friend of Dorothy.
Okay.
You've never heard this term?
No.
A friend of Dorothy.
Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz.
Okay.
Do you know what it means?
No, I don't know.
I've never heard the term, so why would
I know what it means?
Oh, well, the Queen said it.
It means you're gay.
Friend of Dorothy.
Oh, you know, I may, now I should
use that.
It's possible I have heard this term.
Yeah.
So he, the Queen would continuously say, oh,
he's a friend of Dorothy.
I think it's a term.
Oh, so you think this new guy's gay?
No, it's not like think, it's he's, he's,
he's, he's out gay.
He's out gay.
Yes.
Yes.
Oh, gay.
Friend of Dorothy.
Who could do with us?
Oh, yeah, that'd be fun.
Well, we do have a few more people
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We're going to 1840.
What does that mean?
It means that's 1840, 1840 shows.
It's unbelievable.
1840.
Yeah.
1840.
It must be some year that it celebrates
the year 1840.
Maybe we can come up with some gimmick.
Unlikely.
But we do have a few more people
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And Adam's going to be here to thank
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The first one is from Leo Bravo, who
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This is the 71st Meetup he's produced.
Hey, everybody.
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My friends have things to say.
Hey, guys.
This is Slick Rick having a great time
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There's a lot of ice out here, but
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Hell yeah.
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Thank you for your courage.
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My name is Steve and I just came
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Captain Luke enjoying bananas and rice.
In the morning.
That sounds like a great group.
Good time.
Thank you all for getting John out of
the house.
We have a meetup.
Close to 50 people.
As it should be.
You're an important, you're a VIP, man.
Oh yeah.
Hey, there's a meetup taking place right now
in Indianapolis at St. Joseph's Brewery and Public
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It is the IndyNA Still Shiny New Year
Meetup.
The Climate Change Alert.
This of course changed because of the snowstorm.
Dame Maria Sir Mark of the Greenwood hosting
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Also the Central Jersey Meetup, We Drink, We
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Three o'clock underway as we speak in
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On Thursday, our next program, our next show
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You are, are you manhandling your microphone?
I admit to, I'm dicking around with a
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Okay, you could mute that.
It's just a thought, you know.
I could, I'll just stop doing it.
There's a thought.
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Just think about it, John.
We could be doing a tour and selling
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Think about it.
Yeah, more overhead.
Yes, travel.
Involves travel, not that interested.
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Easy and always apartheid.
With all the nights and days, you want
to be where you want to be.
Triggered or held to blame, you want to
be where everybody feels the same.
It's like a party.
That's right.
And we do have John Sip of the
day on the way and some banger end
of show mixes.
Some A.I., some not.
Some super, some slop.
It's always here for you.
Selection today is pretty good.
It's a very good selection.
I liked it as well.
That's, uh, so we had, uh, what do
we have?
We have MVP, of course.
And, uh, Bonald Crabtree.
Yeah, some good stuff.
Before we do that, we always want to
select the end of show ISO in this
part of the show.
It's the thing that we end the show
with.
It's some kind of man versus machine thing
that John and I have been doing for
a while.
And I'll start off with the one we
heard earlier.
These guys are the best podcasters in the
universe.
Which I'm just amazed that's an open source
A.I. thing.
I think that's pretty good.
Here's my second one.
Very powerful clips.
Oh.
It's good, right?
You keep going there.
Come on.
The whole model is.
You're stepping on my clip here.
Hold on.
The whole model is broken.
I like the vocal fry.
I like the vocal fry.
Want to hear it again?
You know, I'm going to put these clips
in abeyance.
I have a fourth one.
Oh, OK.
Thank you for your courage, your voice, and
for all you do.
A little long.
I like the whole model is broken.
No, the Trump one has to be used.
These guys are the best podcasters in the
universe.
And we will play that at the end.
But first, it's time for John's tip of
the day.
Sometimes, Adam.
OK, this involves a lecture and a tip.
A lecture.
Yeah.
This is another wine tip.
People really love that.
Yes.
Yes.
Yeah.
People love the wine tip.
And even though it's up to nine bucks
now, they changed the price.
Still cheap.
It's still good.
They heard it on the show.
Like, hey, let's jack it up.
All those crazy podcasts.
So this is another one of those little
box sets that Costco put together.
We like the box set.
And this box set is painted turquoise.
It's not just wood.
It's actually went to trouble painting it.
And it's called the Grand.
The Grand Assembly.
The Grand Assembly of these Cremant.
There's three wines.
It's 49.
It's not cheap.
Forty nine.
Ninety five.
Forty nine.
Ninety nine.
You get three wines for forty nine.
Ninety nine.
Yeah.
But the three sparklers.
Oh, they're all sparklers.
And they're all French.
And they're all Cremant.
I'm not a big fan of the sparklers.
Yeah, you may not be.
But a lot of people are.
And I think they should be taken and
drunk at dinner.
Their dinner wines.
That's what the champagne people want you to
do.
They want you to appreciate it as a
dinner wine instead of a celebratory wine or
something.
You dump on someone.
Or christen a ship with.
And they don't like the champagne.
People in particular don't like their stuff being
abused like that.
No, of course not.
So Cremant is a special category of sparkling
wine that's made in the method of champagne,
but it's made throughout the country.
And they're called Cremant to this, Cremant to
that, Cremant to this.
Now, the ones that are in this, there's
three of them in this package.
And it amounts to sixteen dollars and sixty
cents a bottle, which is reasonable for a
sparkler because champagnes, you even when you buy
them direct from a guy who brings them
in directly.
It's always going to be twenty five bucks.
Twenty five is low.
A good, a decent champagne is going to
cost you thirty five bucks and up.
And the stuff that you drink, which is
Bollinger, is like fifty.
I drink Vauve Clicquot.
I would not drink Vauve unless it was
vintage.
I like Bollinger, but it's a little expensive.
That's if we go eat with.
Yeah, you have somebody else buy it, of
course.
Yes.
Hello.
But but you if you like Vauve, you
would like these Cremants.
I think they're better.
Really?
Well, Vauve Clicquot is like except for the
vintage.
If you people want to drink Vauve Clicquot,
go look what the ones that have a
vintage date.
Boom.
Now you're getting the good quality stuff.
Oh, I didn't know.
What you're doing is mass produced junk.
It's just junk, man.
I'm just drinking junk.
I mean, I might as well.
You don't like champagne.
I just go kill myself.
I'm drinking junk.
We have we have these.
We have the Heath winery here.
Heath and Heath does some great sparklers.
Texas sparklers.
Good for them.
I'm sure it's fabulous.
So I'm sure they're overpriced.
By the way, for 18.
Ah, you said by the way.
I did.
I stopped myself for 18 years.
No matter what wine I'm drinking, John always
says it's shit.
I know it's not true.
Ah, unless it's somebody else's wine.
There's some really expensive thing that I didn't
buy.
But anything I'm like.
You drink.
Oh, I really like this wine.
You're like.
You've all you're always knocking my wines.
I think it's just.
So these three wines are $49.99. Yeah,
that's what I'm doing.
These tips are wine snuff.
Of course I am.
Now there's a creme.
I'm sorry.
A Cremant de.
What are the three?
There's a there's a Cremant de Bordeaux, which
is extremely rare.
And I've never actually seen one before.
And I'm glad I got that.
And then there's a Cremant de Alsace, which
is very common.
They're using different grapes, but they're using the
champagne methodology, except in in Burgundy, which is
the Cremant de Borgogna, which they have in
there.
And this is the wine that is made
with the same grapes they use in champagne.
Doesn't quite create the champagne chalkiness, but at
the same time, it produces a terrific product.
And that's the stuff I'm always recommending people
get for their for their when they get
married and they have the celebration afterwards.
The special occasion you pass out free champagne.
You don't pass out free champagne.
You pass out free Cremant.
Cremant.
Nobody knows the difference.
Except you, you be at the wedding going,
what a crap wine you gave me.
No, these Cremants are delicious.
I'm not saying they're bad at all.
They're quite good.
So I would recommend people pick this pack
up and get into Cremants and drink them
for dinner.
And I recommend you go to noagendafund.com
or tipoftheday.net and see all of John's
tips of the day.
Thank you to Dana Brunetti, of course.
Where'd we be without him?
Producer to the stars.
Yes, our suit.
I will be checking out the Grammys tonight.
For the Satan segment.
So I can report on that on Thursday's
show.
Watch along with me for all of the
fun.
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good.
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I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley.
Where they make sparkling wine out here too.
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