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He's full of shit. Larry Blytner. Darren O'Neill. It's Thursday,
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August 6th, 2026. This is your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination,
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episode 1892. This is no agenda. Yeah, we're broadcasting live
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from just outside of Chirac, right here in FEMA Region
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number 5. In the morning, everybody. I am Darren O'Neill.
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And from the pretentious Connecticut shore, this is Larry Blydener
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keeping commies and creeps at bay with my gleaming scimitar
0:29
of truth. It's Darren and Larry in the morning. At
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least you've never seen Bernie Sanders outside your door or
0:37
anything, right? Well, not yet, but anything can happen. You
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know that. Exactly. That's why you have to be prepared.
0:45
There's a lot of honk if you love Bernie bumper
0:48
stickers or crap like that around here. Really? That's a
0:50
thing? It's kind of, you know, he still sustains, doesn't
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he? You know, the guy's 2,000 years old and, you
0:57
know, he's still spreading his commie lies. Do you remember
1:01
the good old days when it was, oh, he's just
1:04
that crazy Bernie. He's never, Commie, it's never going to
1:07
do anything. Socialism will never take foot. He's just, he's
1:11
just that one crazy guy that gets elected. Oh, yeah.
1:14
There's been a succession of crazy guys, you know, for
1:17
a century. Gus Hall, he was the, every election he
1:21
ran as the Commie candidate. I think he ran like
1:23
nine elections or something. There was someone before him. It's
1:27
not new. to say Bernie. Nothing new under the sun
1:31
except they are multiplying. Oh, they certainly are. Oh my
1:35
God, are they? It's very scary. And we have a
1:37
very exciting show today. The Podfather will be joining us.
1:42
That is cool. That is a rock and groove, baby.
1:45
He's going to finally pull our plug. No doubt about
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it. Hey, it's his show, man. I get it. We
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know, we know we're not Adam, we're not John, but
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boost and donate. And if you want media, construction we
2:00
are doing. the best we can and having fun with
2:03
it. I know you. - We sure are. - You
2:05
personally, you like to look for the negative comments and
2:08
I mean that makes it even more fun. And there's
2:12
always some to reward me. This is true. They've probably
2:15
got a lot of negative comments going in their timeline
2:18
as a poor Anthony Fauci, you know. Oh, man. He's
2:22
had an avalanche of negative comments. Absolutely. Yeah. I saw
2:27
one video where I think it was a dude from
2:30
TMZ, which would make sense because you don't expect anybody
2:33
in the normal mainstream media to dare be out in
2:37
front of Anthony Fauci's house and be like, hey, so
2:41
what about that? fifth 111 times. Mm-hmm. But of course,
2:46
Fauci didn't answer that guy either. But Harvey Levin gave
2:50
a glowing endorsement on his show, like the day of
2:54
or the day after, just him, not even with his
2:56
sidekick, telling what a great guy he is and how
2:59
wrong everyone is and we should revere him and so
3:02
on and so forth. And he even went back to
3:04
the first time Fauci's head popped up like a whack-a-mole
3:08
during the AIDS crisis. And I mean, there were guys
3:11
that really were calling for his beheading back then. or
3:15
vocal of them, was a guy named Larry Kramer. He
3:18
was a very, very outspoken gay activist. And, man, he
3:22
just went for Fauci's lungs. So I don't know what
3:24
Harvey's thinking, but it's his show and his right to
3:27
speak. You must protect Dr. Fauci at all costs. At
3:30
all costs. Unless, of course, you are Aaron Rodgers. Now
3:36
I'm gonna plead the fifth. Okay. Okay. Gotta love that.
3:43
Like that absolute coward Tony Fletcher. Absolute coward. Are you
3:48
kidding me? Yeah, 111 times. You got a pardon and
3:51
you pleaded over 100 times at the White House? What
3:55
are you scared of, Tony? I thought you were the
3:56
science. Yeah, yeah. I thought you were, I am science.
3:59
And you get up there and you can't answer a
4:01
question? Yeah. What are we doing? And how much time
4:03
did the network spend on that? How much time did
4:05
they spend on my responses every week, on my vaccination
4:09
status, on Taylor and Travis's wedding? Does that bother you?
4:15
No, it's all important, very important news for the M5M.
4:19
And he's got a point. I mean, when it was
4:22
all going on, like, oh, can all of these sports,
4:25
I mean, I think the NASCAR guys had to, you
4:28
know, they're in a car by themselves with a helmet
4:31
on. I mean, I don't know. Oh, yeah. And what
4:33
Aaron did is that takes media construction to another level,
4:37
which is as it happens. I mean, the guy with
4:40
the worst job in the world at that moment was
4:41
Pat McAfee. What must he have been thinking? I mean,
4:47
the fact is, this is... the fallout because of Anthony
4:54
Fauci being not very smart. In writing all of these
4:58
things onto a government servant, I heard from a Rob
5:02
the Constitutional lawyer, he's like, the guy has to be
5:04
an idiot because everybody knows. Of course. It's government property.
5:08
Right. All that can be FOIA'd. Even, you know, my
5:14
wife works for the, you know, little village, and it's
5:16
like, anything we do internally, we all know if there's
5:19
a FOIA, this is all going out, so you have
5:21
to be careful about what you say, Anthony. I read
5:24
something today that they're looking for his texts. That might
5:27
be his other chapter. Yeah, well, I heard they got
5:32
his cell phone, so that would, although I don't think
5:34
you need the cell phone to get the texts, although
5:37
I guess. It might speed that up. And that's always
5:43
a question when it comes to... how these politicians communicate
5:50
because if it's anything official It's supposed to be in
5:54
a way that will be. Down in the annals of
5:59
history where people, you're not supposed to use, like Hillary,
6:02
you know, your own email server. Sure. run things that
6:06
way. So it's interesting to see, you know, who's smart
6:09
enough or who's not. I think a good financial play
6:14
would be to invest in a flock of carrier pigeons
6:18
at this point because you might have some privacy. And
6:21
I guess they work pretty good in their day. They
6:24
got back and forth somehow. Yes. Greg Jarrett, of course,
6:27
on Fox is talking about the diary here. See if
6:30
charges can be brought. But look, Senator Paul has long
6:34
argued Fauci lied and covered up COVID's origins. And his
6:40
diary is self-incriminating. Publicly, Fauci insisted COVID came from a
6:46
natural source. But you read his diary and privately he
6:49
is conceding it likely came from the very lab that
6:53
he had funded. the thing it's he lied it's not
6:58
that he was an idiot it's not that he made
7:00
mistakes oh no no It's because of the lies and
7:05
that's exactly what... We have Rand Paul here. Rand Paul
7:10
calling for a vote tomorrow on whether to... And really,
7:12
I love the music underneath all this stuff. It's so
7:15
great. You gotta keep... Because otherwise, Larry, the kids aren't
7:17
gonna listen to a whole 38 seconds of news. Yeah,
7:21
if it doesn't have a techno beat behind it. To
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hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress after Fauci
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pleaded the fifth 111 times during his testimony about the
7:32
COVID-19 pandemic last week. Can you explain to the committee
7:36
why you chose to fund this dangerous research in China?
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On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer
7:46
based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment of the
7:48
Constitution. What day of the week is it today? I
7:51
respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the
7:54
Fifth Amendment of the Constitution. on the DOJ to pursue
8:00
criminal charges against Fauci. question whether they will have any
8:07
charges. It's going to be tough. You know, a thought
8:11
flashed through my mind a couple of nights ago for
8:14
some unknown reason. I was looking at that movie The
8:17
Irishman. And there's a scene in there where... Some mobster
8:24
sitting on a witness stand. And that movie was made
8:27
in 2018. And the attorney holds up his pen and
8:32
says, what color is my pen? The guy says, I
8:35
respectfully decline. So I kind of wonder if Josh Hawley
8:41
viewed that movie recently as well. Probably life imitating art
8:44
aren't imitating life. That whole. round and round and it's
8:48
interesting to see Who is jumping in on this? Who
8:53
is avoiding it? Like you said, most of the mainstream
8:56
media. A lot of liberal talking heads are, oh, we
9:00
got to back Dr. Fauci. He was doing what he
9:03
thought was right. Of course they do. Of course. Even
9:07
though the admission. in his diary would tell you otherwise.
9:13
Yes. But even Joe Rogan taking a victory lap on
9:16
Fauci. Do you hear this one? Not really. We are
9:18
right now in the middle of the Fauci hearings. Yes,
9:22
we are. He is now testifying in front of Congress
9:25
and pleading the fifth about everything, including the color of
9:28
his tie. It's very weird to watch. In one way,
9:33
it's like I told you to a lot of my
9:36
liberal friends that wanted to pretend that he was a
9:38
great guy and that he wasn't doing anything wrong. shows
9:43
that he knew that the fatality rate was much lower
9:47
than they were saying. He knew that it wasn't dangerous
9:50
for children, that they didn't need vaccines. He knew that
9:53
the social distancing thing was all nonsense. And he's got
9:57
a blanket pardon for 10 years. And the thing is,
10:00
it's like, These people get money for research, and that's
10:04
what they do. They do research. So if you get
10:06
money and you get grants for research, well, you're going
10:09
to go do research. And if your research is gain-of-function
10:12
research that makes viruses more infectious to human beings, and,
10:17
you know, you have to do it because that's your
10:19
job. That's what you do. That's what you studied. That's
10:20
what you went to school for. What a crazy fucking
10:24
thing we're doing. Yeah. I don't know that anywhere on
10:28
Fauci's job description it stated do gain-of-function. research. Somehow I
10:33
think that was determined by a cabal of similar creeps
10:36
to himself. Just a guess. Well, because it's very hard.
10:41
to imagine a world where that is used for a
10:46
nefarious reason because you could sell it to the average
10:51
citizen you can sell this as Well, we're trying to
10:55
do this so we can then be ahead of something
10:58
like this that would happen so we would know how
11:01
to counteract it, but... But that's patent bullcrap. It's clearly
11:06
that that phrase is just camouflage for a bioweapon. Yes.
11:10
You know, please. But this is how it's being sold,
11:13
which is why people need to understand what words mean,
11:17
why people are telling you certain things. Yes. And as
11:21
I always say, not some people are stupid. Most are
11:24
stupid. Because they've checked out. They don't pay attention. The
11:30
news, I mean, it was bad enough when they were
11:33
going to Jon Stewart for their news. Now people are
11:36
going to TikTok. impossible to believe. I put TikTok on
11:44
the same plane as Stuart. Well, they're kind of equaling
11:49
out. Yeah. Because Stuart, I saw, and I think we
11:53
might even have the clip. It probably won't. We got
11:55
lots of clips. Thanks to everybody for bringing those into
11:59
us, like Steve Jones, the clip collector. It is kind
12:04
of interesting when you see like Jon Stewart going up
12:07
against Fetterman and just being, it's all. just politics. It
12:13
has nothing to do with being human. It has nothing
12:17
to do with logic and understanding. And it's getting... kind
12:22
of said. What's with the human? We know they're reptiles.
12:25
Alex Jones told them. I mean, David Icke told us.
12:28
Come on. They're probably correct. One more big reaction to
12:34
the Fauci thing. This one from a guy that you
12:37
and I have played a bunch over on Planet Rage.
12:39
You didn't hear as much around Noah Jenda yet, but
12:42
Stephen A. Smith, who has been mentioned, is a possible
12:46
Democrat presidential candidate. Not that I believe. He has any
12:51
chance in hell, but... I think he would do better
12:55
than a lot of them. I mean, I would take
12:58
him personally before. or your California Governor Newsom or Kamala,
13:07
any of those. And this was his take on the
13:11
Fauci thing. Do I think that he should be embarrassed
13:15
for the self-adulation that he engaged in? You're damn right
13:18
I do. some of the things that he was telling
13:22
us to do was inconsistent with science, but he was
13:25
telling us it was science that led to him making
13:27
the decisions that he made. 6 feet distancing. The closing
13:32
of businesses. Businesses. push those mandates upon people like me
13:40
and others. vaccine And I took a booster. I wore
13:48
a mask. You ain't gonna get COVID if you do
13:52
that, and I got COVID. Pandemic had almost killed me.
13:57
I'm in the hospital 90 minutes before the ball is
14:01
about to drop and the doctor says We've been at
14:05
this for three plus weeks. I doubled them on you.
14:09
You look really bad. This antibiotic. And it's steroid. Does
14:19
not work. Smith, I'm sorry, we're going to have to
14:22
call your family. Looks that bad. But we should know
14:27
in three hours. And through the grace of God, three
14:29
hours later, I felt better after they gave me. That's
14:32
steroid. and that antibiotic. Those were the longest three hours
14:39
of my life because I thought it was over. And
14:45
I remember I had done exactly what Dr. Anthony Fauci
14:48
was imploring us all to do. We'll say Stephen A.
14:51
Smith is right up there with Glenn Beck using silence.
14:56
You know, I like what he says.
15:00
His style always grates on me. And it's as simple,
15:03
it could be summarized with this. I'm going to scream.
15:06
I'm going to whisper. I'm going to scream. I'm going
15:08
to whisper. Come on, man. You're not running a revival
15:11
meeting. There's a goddamn microphone at your lips. Okay? And
15:14
I think it functions. You don't have to scream, Stevie.
15:18
Thank you. But it's the same reason people put music
15:21
behind the clips. It's an engagement tactic. And I think
15:25
it works for them. Not to me. Not to me.
15:27
I hear music behind the tracks. at ball four man
15:32
but the message he was bringing there is why this
15:35
should not be a political topic this should be people
15:41
on both sides being very upset that the guy one
15:49
resource to go to. who had degrees who were studying
15:55
this were like, And then we're shut down because Dr.
16:01
Fauci disagreed while... So making money. according to the news
16:08
reports having Like, hey, shouldn't you give this award? He
16:15
needs the money. Fauci, he deserves all the And more.
16:21
And now I understand there's three steps. about to level
16:24
a chart. which may not... conflict. Joey provides. forget who
16:39
And there were, there were. being cooked. Why aren't there?
17:00
It's a good question. I mean, because most of it
17:03
is politics. Most of it is they don't want to
17:07
go after their own. I mean, this is fair. You
17:11
know, it's kind of understandable being that we before the
17:15
Donald Trump thing, we had never. for and in the
17:24
federal government. But I think the true answer to this
17:27
is simply the unbreakable alliance between the billions, trillions of
17:33
big pharma and the deep state. They function as one.
17:37
They're buddies. So that's what the power structure is, really.
17:42
Look at what was Bobby the K saying for months
17:45
before he took office. I'm going to stop television advertising
17:48
for pharmaceuticals. What happened to that? He doesn't even mention
17:52
that. anymore you know no and they're still running them
17:55
non-stop yes of course drugs drugs drugs ask your doctor
18:01
not well your doctor knows best he'll know what drug
18:03
to put you know which when we were growing up
18:05
i know we're not you know 150 years old or
18:08
anything but when we were growing up there were no
18:11
massive amounts of drug ads on television there were no
18:15
no no not massive the only there were no prescription
18:18
drugs period the only thing you could see was was
18:20
excedrin and and maybe a cough medicine. Get that Robitussin.
18:25
That was it. The prescription, I think it was banned
18:28
until sometime in the 1980s. And the only other place
18:30
where they do this crap is in New Zealand. The
18:32
rest of the entire globe bans pharmaceutical ads on television.
18:37
Well, yeah, because it elevates the drug companies above the
18:42
medical professionals. Of course. Well, the doctors have become errand
18:47
boys. They're not doctors anymore. I told you the last
18:50
time I went to the cardiologist, you're a provider. medical
18:52
provider will be with you. Like, no, that's not the
18:57
way it works. It is, it is, it's unbelievable when
19:02
the drugs, and then you've got like usually 60 to
19:05
90 seconds of this is the side effects that might
19:07
happen, including death on most of them. Oh yeah. Love
19:10
those side effects, man. Exploding kidneys, loss of sight. It's
19:14
like, wow. But people still, yeah, give me that stuff.
19:17
I'll take that. Ask your doctor about, I mean, no,
19:20
tell your, let your doctor. figure out what you have
19:23
and then figure out the best treatment you should never
19:27
be walking into a doctor's office saying hey i heard
19:30
about this drug can i go but they do of
19:32
course they're doing that yeah especially those uh those ozempic
19:36
stuff whoa now you've got another fauci clip here as
19:40
well the uh yes i have i have one more
19:43
and uh you know as as we know there are
19:45
allegedly four million podcasts out there in the world well
19:50
it looks like there's gonna be four million and one.
20:22
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20:27
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20:31
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20:36
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20:42
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20:46
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20:50
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20:55
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20:58
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22:01
No Amex, sorry. See ya. Wow. It had to happen,
22:07
didn't it? No, no. It's a producer mode that should
22:09
have been quicker. That should have been in and out
22:11
in like 40... but I know people like the Dr.
22:15
Fauci voice. And I mean, it's one of those things
22:18
that could... Who knows? It had to be said, though.
22:23
Well, he might need a podcast if he has to
22:25
have more bills for all of his lawyers. Yeah, it's
22:29
going to add up for him. I mean, he's not
22:31
Musk. He can't hang forever. And if these three states
22:36
start to bedevil him, you're going to see some GoFundMes.
22:40
Who's paying for his lawyers now? He had like a
22:43
whole team of them. Six of them. Six of them.
22:47
And one got bounced. That was a very funny scene.
22:49
Because you can't take the fifth and then have somebody
22:52
else. to trying to back you up. But, you know,
22:59
this whole thing comes down again. We were all here
23:01
for the vaccine and we had the audio on no
23:06
agenda of all the people. I'm not going to take
23:08
a Donald Trump vaccine. But that changed magically then. Yeah.
23:13
Once it became the Biden administration and you brought on
23:17
the last show a clip from this RFK with Dana
23:22
Bash. And this went on much longer. We have an
23:25
extended clip of things that we didn't even hear, which
23:27
I thought was. was quite interesting. But you were saying...
23:33
You were part of the problem. No, I wasn't. It
23:37
was a- practice. You weren't allowing your job. Mr. Secretary,
23:43
your job is a fierce skepticism toward authority. And you
23:47
weren't doing that. My job is also... No, okay, are
23:52
you going to... You want to sit here and attack
23:54
me? I like that we have a CNN anchor speaking
24:05
to somebody like this like they're in kindergarten. It's just
24:13
beyond the pale, really. You know, it's like, I'm not
24:17
going to sit here. It's very strange. Yeah. Journalists, uh,
24:25
I don't know if they have journal- classes anymore. Not
24:31
in too many places. A lot of colleges have cancelled
24:33
it because they know it's a dying art. It is.
24:36
I guess you can't make much money because now AI
24:38
is just You're going to take a few little blurbs
24:41
from your favorite social media and then create a story
24:45
that does that. real proof behind it. But I remember
24:50
taking a simple journalism class back in the day and
24:55
it was who what, where, and how. Those were the
25:00
five things that had to be in every story. And
25:03
I guess if you go and try to break down
25:07
the stories you're seeing today, whether you're listening or not,
25:11
or reading them, I bet you most are missing multiple
25:14
parts of that equation. I'm not attacking you. I'm asking
25:23
questions about how to prevent the next. I'm not attacking
25:26
you. I'm just asking questions. I'm just asking questions, Larry.
25:31
But I mean, they're very pointed and rude questions. I'm
25:34
just asking questions. Like, why are you a crook? You
25:37
know, I'm just asking. Why are you being dishonest? I'm
25:41
just asking questions! what I'm trying to do but I
25:46
also don't want to use this interview to allow you
25:51
to say things that aren't entirely true. Talking about therapeutics,
25:55
fine. factually true that the COVID vaccine worked. Factually true.
26:01
Whoa! Let's back up. second. Worked for whom? Wow. Wow.
26:09
She should talk to Stephen A. Smith. He got vaxxed.
26:12
He got boosted. He almost croaked. Yeah. Worked great. Worked
26:15
perfect. Didn't hurt anybody either. There were no side effects
26:18
at all. There's only two answers to this question, Darren.
26:22
She's either a complete imbecile or she's getting some piles
26:26
of Skrilla from the pharmaceutical people to say that. I'm
26:31
guessing the pharmaceutical people do put some money towards advertising
26:35
on CNN. They certainly do. We know that CNN... To
26:41
make that kind of statement in these times after all
26:46
mind-blowing. It really is. Yes, there was another story that
26:50
was breaking, breaking this week that there were no good
26:53
clips on. But there was an initiative called the Tarbell
27:01
Fellowship. Tarbell Fellowship. has nothing to do with the Fauci
27:08
or the vaccine, but it is about AI and paying
27:14
people to cover stories. So as we move on over
27:18
the next week or two, this may more and more
27:21
come out. But it seems that there is a third
27:24
party paying the people to write about AI. is then
27:30
being published in places like, well, you know, the New
27:33
York Times or CNN or all of these outlets. So,
27:37
you know, you can trust the reporting. Trust the science.
27:41
When the money is coming. You know, a third party
27:44
that maybe... maybe wants to push you in one direction
27:49
or not. But RFK, he and Dana Bash continue to
27:56
argue, which is, and rightfully so, once she just dropped
28:01
that bombshell. I think that what I have talked to...
28:09
Can you show me one study? Yes, I can. It
28:12
shows that children were protected by the COVID vaccine. I
28:16
can tell you that there are... harm to children. Can
28:20
you show me one study that shows that? I can
28:22
tell you that when it comes to the vaccine, there
28:26
have been studies... that because of vaccine disinformation, disinformation, there
28:32
could have been... thousand lives in the U.S. saved because
28:37
people didn't get the vaccine. I'm not saying that it
28:40
entirely... You are saying nonsense. You are saying something that
28:44
you can... I am not saying nonsense. You are talking
28:49
like... There's an ISO. I am not saying nonsense. Well,
28:55
he asked very specifically if she could name a study
29:00
that showed that the COVID vaccine did not do... than
29:05
good to children. I'll bet you she could show such
29:08
a study and it would be totally bogus and Bobby
29:10
could shoot out the guts of it in two seconds.
29:13
Well, yeah, but she didn't. I mean, that's the beauty.
29:15
She's like, yes, I can. There's probably something. I mean,
29:18
there was when it was in progress. There was all
29:20
kinds of bogus information. They were floating in front of
29:22
people's faces and it was lies. But she said she
29:26
could do it right there and then didn't when he's
29:27
like, okay, what? She's a bigger coward than Fauci. Oh,
29:31
yeah. Okay. I am not saying nonsense. You are talking
29:35
like somebody told you. Stop. That's the way to put
29:39
that. Excuse me! Yes. Again, this is somebody that's supposed
29:45
to be covering the news in a serious manner. No.
29:52
not saying nonsense. You are talking what somebody told you.
29:57
Excuse me. What?
30:00
What study? No, what studies are you talking about? You're
30:03
talking about studies that actually don't exist. I want to
30:06
talk about... Cite me the study that you're talking about.
30:08
I am not here to defend... You say you're seeing
30:09
studies. Cite me the study. This is not productive. I
30:13
am not here to defend all of the... You're talking
30:16
nonsense. You're making assertions. You can't support it. Yeah, I'm
30:20
not here to support what I'm saying. It's like, but
30:22
you're the one saying it, madam. She's the one that
30:25
brought it up. Yeah. He's the guest on her show.
30:29
She's being argumentative and he's asking her for proof and
30:32
she says, I can give you proof. And you're like,
30:33
okay. And then it's like, well, I mean, we're not
30:35
right now. I can't give you any proof. But like
30:38
so many of these people, it comes from their incredible
30:41
ego. that they have. Let's look at who the participants
30:45
are here. Dana Bash is a professional teleprompter reader. That's
30:49
what she does. Bobby the K is a very, very
30:54
top-flight successful litigator. You really don't want to get in
30:59
an argument with that guy unless your guns are properly
31:02
loaded, and hers were not. And she should have known
31:04
that going into that interview. You're not going to win
31:06
with him unless you're really, really set to go and
31:09
you're good with your verbiage. So she got her ass
31:12
kicked. Sorry. It is a completely different skill set being
31:17
able to... And there's a lot of really smart people
31:20
who, given the time, could maybe come up with a
31:24
coherent argument, but... There are other ones, like Marco Rubio
31:29
seems to be, and J.D. Vance, to a little lesser
31:32
degree, very quick with the answers and able to back
31:36
it up, which is why those interviews are always fun
31:39
to watch as well. Have you noticed one guy that
31:41
hasn't appeared anywhere at all? recently. Why would that be?
31:55
You never know. Whatever happened to Vivek? Oh, right, he's
31:59
in Ohio, right? He's in Ohio. That's a forbidden zone.
32:02
And this is the ending of that little three-part here.
32:07
Let me just say, for the record, that I am
32:09
not saying that the entire way that the COVID reaction
32:13
was accurate. It was a scary time, and people made
32:17
mistakes. Absolutely. You were scaring people. Why are you saying
32:21
that? Because that was the job of CNN. Okay. Okay,
32:24
stop. Was to put the chyron's up about how many
32:27
people are dying. We were trying to be. Yeah, he's
32:30
not wrong. Telling the truth. To be fair, it wasn't
32:35
just CNN. It was Fox and ABC. I don't think
32:39
there was one. news organization on television no that wasn't
32:45
playing the johns hopkins numbers and reporting on them like
32:48
every five minutes oh more people are dying Yeah. So
32:53
it wasn't just CNN. The funny thing is, those John
32:57
Hopkins numbers. the end of the movie, reveal the truth.
33:03
Because America, with a mere 360 million people, had more
33:09
than twice the number of deaths of any other nation
33:11
on earth, including India, China, you know. So, hey, what
33:14
went wrong in America? Hmm, something did. At that point,
33:19
they stopped talking about Johns Hopkins. It was mishandled a
33:23
little bit, you think? Yeah. Well, it's also what happens
33:27
when... You take the medical... care of your citizens. politicize
33:35
it. Politicizing that kind of thing is not going to
33:39
help. It just simply isn't. I mean, being honest and
33:42
transparent would be what would help. But when, and it
33:46
started with Donald Trump, people like, oh, these guys never
33:49
say anything bad about the Republicans. Well. Donald Trump really,
33:53
really, really wanted the win of. having the vaccine. And
33:58
he made it happen. But the vaccine was not perfect.
34:02
But it's hilarious that the one thing they could have
34:04
maybe got Trump on, like, oh, no, I'm really surprised
34:07
the Democrats didn't go with vaccine was dangerous. See, Donald
34:11
Trump did it because they tried to take credit for
34:14
it first. Yeah, but then they'd all be wrong. So
34:17
they can't do that because they were behind the vaccines
34:19
and the masking and the closures of the world, you
34:25
know, the shutdowns. It's the power of its politicization, but
34:31
it's also the power of those pharmaceutical companies. Because remember,
34:37
Trump came up with his Operation Warp Speed, right? And
34:40
then all reports claim that Bourla and his buddy over
34:45
at Moderna, they intentionally withheld releasing the vaccine until Joey
34:51
was elected president. And that very likely was a major
34:55
contributor to Trump's loss. those guys wield that even i
35:00
think that in some way transcended politics politics because it
35:03
was all sub rosa you know nobody ever said that
35:06
at the time it just kind of happened very scary
35:10
Donald Trump got him a bunch of money, and then
35:12
they're like, well, we still want the other guy. We
35:15
want the other guy, so we're going to hold his
35:16
back. And knowing what they know, that it would cure
35:19
nothing and protect no one, it's not like they killed
35:21
any more people. Really. It's going to be a long
35:27
time before, if anybody ever does get to the... accurate
35:32
data on what is and what is not the fault
35:36
of the vaccine and it's hard because including people like
35:40
Dr. Fauci with his uh problems that he had we
35:45
covered that on the last show as well didn't report
35:48
it to VAERS And here's actually, we have a Glenn
35:51
Beck clip on that. You can never prove causation, but
35:56
the whole purpose is, the whole system is based upon
36:02
people being honest. about reporting all of the injuries that
36:07
happened after vaccine. after that vaccine and then you do
36:11
a post-train analysis and you say, hey, we're seeing elevated
36:16
levels of this, that and the other, if you don't
36:18
report it. Nobody can make those kind of analysis and
36:22
he did not report his. He didn't report it to
36:25
the VAERS system. He didn't tell the public. And, you
36:30
know, if so, anyway, that was that. He's not. He's
36:35
a guy who claims to be science itself, but is
36:38
rejecting the scientific method on being able to find out
36:41
if something is safe or not. Right. Because the VAERS
36:45
database was about not proving anything, but tracking is. much
36:50
evidence as possible. So if he believed in that... Dr.
36:54
Fauci, and he ended up getting a pulmonary infarction himself,
36:59
but not... Reporting that the question then has to be
37:02
again, why do you not believe that the system works
37:07
or is this all just a scam? Well, it is
37:09
all a scam. And if you think about it overwhelmingly.
37:14
The ardent support for all of that crap, for the
37:17
vaccines and the masking and the mandates and the shutdowns,
37:20
everything, was very much from the left, Joey and company,
37:23
right? They were the ones. And let's look, what's the
37:27
first thing the left always does? They screw around with
37:29
the vocabulary. The CDC actually went in there and revised
37:33
the definition of the word vaccine so it would conform
37:37
to the garbage that they were injecting into people. And
37:41
it's not a vaccine at all. If you think about
37:43
it, I mean, it should have been called what it
37:45
was, experimental gene therapy, but that never got any traction.
37:48
But things like polio, tetanus, smallpox, yeah, those were vaccines.
37:55
Get those illnesses. This was complete crap, but they still
37:58
called it. And they still do. And what's really sad
38:00
is guys like Bobby the K and other right-wingers still
38:04
refer to it as vaccine. You know what it's exactly
38:06
like? They're not illegal aliens. They're migrants. Right. It's really
38:12
kind of an immunotherapy more than a, you know, maybe
38:16
it's like taking zinc, you know, before you hop on
38:19
an airplane in the hopes that'll help you catch a
38:22
cold. Nobody ever got a turbo cancer from zinc. Not
38:26
that we know of. I wouldn't put it in a
38:27
class with zinc. I thought this was interesting as well
38:30
because people in the media mainly want to make RFK
38:33
Jr. out to be. a complete vaccine skeptic, a complete
38:39
anti-vaccine guy. But here he is talking about the measles
38:45
vaccine, one that, you know, a vaccine that is actually
38:48
a vaccine. R.K. Jr. is now urging parents to get
38:52
their children vaccinated against measles. He made that statement in
38:55
an interview on CNN's State of the Union with Dana
38:58
Bash. The comments come after criticism over his response to
39:02
recent outbreaks, including a Texas outbreak that grew to nearly
39:05
800 cases and killed two children. Pennsylvania has reported more
39:10
than 167 confirmed measles cases as the U.S. faces its
39:15
highest number of measles infection in 35 years. vaccine is
39:20
effective. It stops measles in about 97% of the cases.
39:25
People should get vaccinated. Officials say the most infections involve
39:30
people who are unvaccinated or whose vaccination status is unknown.
39:35
Experts warn outbreaks can continue in areas where vaccination rates
39:39
fall below 95%. It's interesting that they're like, oh, or
39:43
ones that vaccination rates are unknown. Well, they could be
39:46
vaccinated. So, I mean, you don't, you can't really put
39:50
data on somebody if it's. An unknown. You can't use
39:54
that as proof. If it's unknown. I want to hear
39:57
that again. Yeah, officials say the most infections involve people
40:01
who are unvaccinated or whose vaccination status is unknown. Oh!
40:07
And B. thing doesn't add to anything. But that's okay.
40:14
You don't really expect the, uh... the news media to
40:18
actually know. But that is a true vaccine, 97 or
40:21
so percent effective. preventing something which Everybody around remembers that
40:29
that's the bill of goods we were sold on the
40:31
COVID vaccine. It was 100% safe and effective. Oh, you
40:35
weren't going to get it. You weren't even going to
40:37
be able to transmit it if you had the vaccine.
40:40
Yeah, but remember how they started to dial it back?
40:43
It was like, it's 95. Burl, I remember, 95% effective.
40:47
98, 93, 85, 73. And then when they got down
40:52
around in the mid-60s, they just dropped it. Now we
40:56
sound stupid, so forget that. They went away with the
40:59
percentages. It was really funny to listen to and watch.
41:02
Well, it's funny. going back and i think the clip
41:07
was on no agenda ever never miss an episode of
41:10
howie mandel arguing that they they never said it was
41:15
a hundred percent and never that it was gonna it's
41:18
like yeah they did But people remember different things and
41:23
people are confused because they don't know. exactly where to
41:28
get their information i thought this was an interesting clip
41:31
from uh Big Bill O'Reilly, I mean, he's been like
41:35
50 years in journalism. And I thought this made a
41:39
really interesting point on the state of where news is
41:43
today. And I see a very big sampling from around
41:47
the world of what people are interested in. And one
41:53
thing that has risen dramatically this year. is confusion. So
42:02
many human beings, Americans and everybody else, they don't know
42:07
or understand what is happening. And therefore, they are susceptible
42:15
to crazy stuff. All right, because they don't really know
42:19
the basis. of how President Trump, for example, makes a
42:25
decision. or why trends are happening in our society. or
42:34
AI. or social media, what are the implications? They're confused.
42:40
And I'm not saying this to be super silliest word
42:42
of the day. I'm saying it because it's true. And
42:48
it's my job here at the No Spin News to
42:51
clarify. This is what our job is, to clarify, not
42:54
to root. Not to push an ideology. We don't do
43:00
that. And some people get mad. Some people don't even
43:02
watch. They want to hear Republicans are good or Democrats
43:07
are good. That's what they want to hear. Okay, I
43:09
got it. Not what we do here. Clarity is what
43:14
we shoot for. Is he right 100% of the time
43:17
or does he always keep his bias out? No, but
43:19
this is what... No, but he bloviates 100% of the
43:23
time. Yes. That he does. Dude, he's Irish like you
43:25
and me. This is why. No, but I'm not a
43:26
bloviator. I mean, he's a pain in the ass, really.
43:29
That guy's like... Oh, come on. You've been known to
43:30
bloviate a time or two. I never bloviate. I never
43:33
bloviate. Worcester? I'm accused of many, many, many things, many
43:37
crimes. Guilty of most. Bloviation, not one of them. But
43:40
it's true that people are completely unaware of the world
43:44
around them. get valid information which is why you know
43:48
we highly recommend the no agenda show yes because that
43:53
is part of the goal which is to go hey
43:55
here's what the news media is doing And try to
43:59
put this in a way that people can understand and
44:02
tell them, well, this is why maybe. This source is
44:08
being a little less than honest. And a lot of
44:11
what you're seeing now in the news is... commie related
44:15
and I think it's funny a lot of people are
44:16
like ah they kept making fun of Bernie Sanders it's
44:19
like well There's a good reason, and even Bill O'Reilly
44:22
got in on it. As long as we have that
44:24
bill, it's double up. It's not about chocolate cake. I
44:26
know, you like it. I'm going to get you nice
44:28
and in the right mood. I'm going to go make
44:30
a sandwich. Okay? That's what Sanders wants. All right? It's
44:35
about the government telling the children what to think. how
44:42
to behave, circumventing the traditional parenting because the communists know
44:49
that out in the heartland those people are never going
44:53
to buy into the communist movement, ever. Get the kids.
44:59
And it's happened.
45:00
in colleges, American colleges, very fine institutions, have collapsed under
45:07
the weight of progressive politics. So don't say it's not
45:12
possible. Bernie Sanders has got to be the happiest guy
45:15
in the country. The discussion was that Sanders and Mandami
45:20
in New York are demanding universal child care. But it's
45:26
not really child care. Not. And it would be 10%
45:33
of the New York City budget. They could never pay
45:35
for it. It's getting control of the children in a
45:40
setting where they can be indoctrinated. And that happens. Get
45:50
the And that's what Bernie Sanders and Mandani in New
45:55
York City. trying to do. You know that? Media will
46:02
never realize that. That's exactly what has happened. Can you
46:07
disagree with that? Well, I can say that's a blind...
46:11
been going on for about 70 years. before Mamdani, really?
46:18
What is this boomer? plan. What are you doing? What
46:22
is this? What's going on here? O'Reilly, does anyone... Exactly.
46:29
anymore? Please? being pumped Bloviating boob. I mean... so much
46:59
for jumping in man this has been so good for
47:03
me and uh of course i've listened to you mimi
47:07
has not listened at all um she's just been cleaning
47:11
up cleaning up the house she's told me stories man
47:14
she's told me stories just driving the bus. I'm so
47:24
appreciative of that. This is really... And by the way,
47:28
hello, trolls! Stupid trolls. Good to see y'all. I only
47:34
have one comment on everything you've been doing. Only one.
47:40
And it's Darren, it's you. Uh-oh, I should run. When
47:44
you knight somebody, you have to hit them with the
47:47
sword. You know, you have to hit them. You gotta
47:50
hit them. You gotta hit them. hit them we did
47:53
it the last time i think the first time we
47:55
missed the uh hitting i must have missed it must
47:59
have drowned out they're all like black knights or non-hit
48:03
knights or there's something that they'll call themselves yeah so
48:08
um i guess i should tell you what's going on
48:11
tell us um man first of all i have uh
48:18
survivor's guilt this is very weird i didn't expect this
48:26
And it's really like there's been two deaths. I'm not
48:32
trying to equate one with the other. But John just
48:37
being gone all of a sudden was just was weird,
48:42
you know. Yes. And of course, we never texted. We
48:45
never spoke with. talk right before, you know, and really
48:56
when I took over the stream, you know, the first
48:58
time we talk is after the fat lady and being,
49:00
you know, and he'd either have his robot voice or
49:03
something wrong with his settings. And of course he never
49:05
changed a thing, obviously. Right. And then we just do
49:09
the show. And then after the show, you'd be surprised.
49:11
I mean, it was literally, I'd turn off his noise
49:15
gate so I could hear what he was doing, which
49:16
is typically eating something or shaving. - Oh, okay. -
49:23
Yes, yes. I'm like, that's disgusting. Stop it. You'd be
49:27
shaving. And, you know, 'cause throughout the show, I'd mark
49:31
different spots that we might use for the opening bit.
49:34
And so I'd, you know. and then cue him by
49:38
saying, "You ready?" Okay, and I'd play him, then we'd
49:40
decide what we wanted. Then it would be credits. Then
49:45
we'd look for the art, then the show title. And
49:48
then he would basically just hang out and doodle and
49:50
do whatever he was doing until we both confirmed that
49:53
the show was up, confirmed that it was on the
49:56
site, 'cause there's all these moving parts. The RSS feed
50:01
has to go, the OPML file has to be right,
50:04
the redirect has to be in place, and then, if
50:06
you're lucky, refresh it shows up on noagendashow.net and then
50:10
literally all right talk to you Thursday okay bye that
50:12
would be it that would be it and so that
50:16
that ended but I also realize that what we did
50:24
ended it's you know what we did was not Adam
50:30
and John it was the the combined the combined thing
50:35
you know and And I've seen some. guy who's on
50:40
X, I just love what he's doing. He's grieving in
50:44
his own way, as I see many people doing. And
50:47
he's going through every single show from episode number one,
50:51
and he's... making a post about his impressions. - Right,
50:56
I saw those. - Yeah, and he gets to episode
50:58
seven, he's like, "Oh, wait a minute." I see it
51:02
was never really about the news deconstruction. It was you
51:04
guys. Oh, yeah. But, you know, that that really hit
51:09
me hard because I realize I can't recreate. you know
51:16
i can't it no matter what i do and then
51:19
and i see you know i've been looking at the
51:22
five stages of grief and one of those stages is
51:26
negotiation and uh and i can see no agenda nation
51:32
negotiating you know with well you should do it with
51:35
so when someone got to you should do the show
51:37
with jen briney i'm like okay can you get to
51:40
the anger stage please you need to move on I
51:46
like Jim Briney. But like, no, no, no. And OK,
51:50
this is a this is a crap analogy because, you
51:53
know, people say, well, it was like Laurel and Hardy,
51:56
Simon and Garfunkel. I'm like, no, scratch Simon and Garfunkel.
51:59
But in a way, Lennon McCartney, not that we are
52:03
anywhere near the level of that genius, but, you know,
52:05
they basically made songs with three chords, you know, and
52:09
and it was a moment. And then when the band
52:15
broke up, you know, to this day, people still talk
52:19
about the Beatles. Right. You know, and I'm sure if
52:24
Lennon hadn't been shot, he would have still had, you
52:27
know, a career doing stuff apart from McCartney. Maybe once
52:31
in a while they get together and do some kind
52:34
of show. You know, and people have called me and
52:37
said, well, you know, it's like Rush. Now, I'm not
52:40
a big Rush fan. I never was either. You know,
52:44
I never really got the appeal of it. Oh, I'd
52:46
like to I never got that Was it was it
52:49
Mexican radio? No, that was REM. What was the spirit
52:51
of radio? Was that rush? Right I mean, really, the
52:55
prog stuff I never really got into. More with the
52:58
rock and roll pre-show with people that would request it,
53:01
and then you realize these are some damn good musicians.
53:05
Well, that's what all the Rush fans in my life,
53:08
and there's two. One is Dave Jones from Podcasting 2.0,
53:14
PodcastIndex.org. We've been friends for 16 years. But he's not
53:19
one of those rabid ones like, okay, I hear you.
53:24
Best band in the world. Best band in the world,
53:26
hands down. The other one, who else do you think
53:28
is a big Rush fan that you would know? Hmm.
53:33
Yeah. You have to give it. Andrew Horowitz. No. Yes.
53:39
And they both gave me the same analogy. And I
53:42
drew the same conclusion. They said you and the drummer,
53:46
Neil Peart, I think, Neil Peart? Yes. And they brought
53:50
in... Anarchist or something, right? Yeah, well, basically, they're like,
53:54
oh, the band is over. over it's no good and
53:57
then they brought in the german woman who is a
54:00
really good drummer and and so they both said but
54:04
you know so when they play the sphere in vegas
54:06
i'll go say yeah i don't want to be like
54:08
a nostalgia act right you know it's like oh well
54:12
when you know when they do this or that then
54:14
i'll then i'll go and check them out you know
54:18
and so the hardest hardest thing for me because at
54:22
the same time um i'm going to be 62 in
54:28
september you know what do i want to do with
54:30
the rest of my life do i literally have 18
54:32
more years you know do i get it get to
54:35
be 80 do i get to be 90 i don't
54:37
know you know what do i want to do that's
54:41
a weird question you know when you've been doing something
54:44
for sure on going on night do I want to
54:47
continue this? Do I want to spend years building up
54:53
a new rapport with somebody? I mean, I don't have
54:55
the answers. I really don't. It's just, you know, I
54:58
also don't want to be the Silver Beatles. And I
55:03
don't want no agenda to become the Silver Beatles. And
55:08
what really hit me the hardest There's a saying, it's
55:11
actually biblical scripture, but you've heard it in different contexts.
55:14
You can't put new wine into old wineskins. because they'll
55:19
burst and you ruin And so I'm still struggling with
55:25
how this needs to move forward, but I am certain
55:29
of one thing, that it is up to no agenda
55:32
nation who have always, always driven the show. We started
55:39
off with 25 minutes and literally said, this is going
55:43
to be a show without... without sound effects, no nonsense.
55:47
We're just going to be talking and that'll be it.
55:51
And it wasn't it. with numerology. as we quickly figured
55:58
out the value for value model. And I don't think
56:01
I have produced a single... bit or anything for the
56:07
show ever except I did the fisting nuts I produced
56:12
that thank you I'm waiting for my Golden Globe But
56:21
everything else was produced by No Agenda Nation. And so
56:27
when you guys step in and you And of course,
56:32
people are like, well, it's not this, it's not that.
56:34
Yeah, but of course it's not. fun by the way
56:39
do you enjoy it no not at all what is
56:43
your answer I mean, I'm asking you, I guess, is
56:48
it weird? You haven't done Planet Rage. You've put that
56:52
in abeyance while you're doing this? Yeah, I mean, I
56:55
can only talk to Larry for so many hours a
56:57
week. Yeah, that's a good point. I mean, the weirdest
57:00
thing is, you know, no agenda. that I got a
57:06
majority of my news if I wasn't listening to the
57:08
boomer Bill O'Reilly. So now it's like, oh wait, I
57:11
have to pay attention to more news sources. And so,
57:16
I mean... It's a little weird, but it is an
57:20
honor to be able to keep up the tradition, which
57:23
is, this is your show anytime you want it back.
57:26
So that's kind of what we... into this with the
57:30
mindset and it's larry likes the negative comments as well
57:34
it's like hey we're just doing what we can do
57:37
to do a show in the similar vein to keep
57:41
people and And it's like, well, what do you do
57:44
if your choice is this or nothing? You get to
57:48
choose. That is the bottom line. What have you been
57:52
doing to Weston Wee Wax, Adam? That's what I was
57:55
wondering. To Weston Wee Wax? Weston Wee Wax. Well, I
58:00
mean, there's also other stuff going on. I have a
58:03
granddaughter. She was literally... within 24 hours span of JCD
58:11
passing away. So that was like a crazy, and we
58:15
had just gotten back from Europe. We waited two weeks.
58:19
income, had to come back for all kinds of reasons.
58:24
And so we've been trying to schedule doing at the
58:28
end of the month. Of course, there's been a ton
58:32
of... arrange. I mean, John and I started No Agenda
58:38
on a handshake. We even shook hands on it. She's
58:41
like, I'll do this, okay. I'll do the production, you
58:43
do all the back, whatever. And that was kind of
58:46
it. And it grew out a little bit more. And
58:48
we wound up, you know, bring Eric the shill. Of
58:51
course, we had him initially doing back office and he
58:55
moved to South Dakota and Jay stepped in. And by
59:00
the way, Jay has been the rock star of, I
59:03
mean. young woman who is I think 30 about 30
59:08
but Chrissy about third no let me have a little
59:11
bit over 30 who was pregnant you know she's having
59:15
a baby in October she has just jumped in this
59:20
doing the newsletter is still managing spreadsheets and back office
59:24
and people with questions but has also been really mom.
59:29
She's been managing the entire memorial. So I've been tendentially
59:35
involved in that. So I pick up the phone as
59:37
often as I can to talk. See how she's Was
59:42
really cool. She got this is this is this is
59:46
no agenda nation our producers. I'm not sure exactly Well,
59:50
I kind of know but The president and the first
59:54
lady sent a beautiful note to Mimi. Wow.
1:00:00
and everything. It was just like, you know, and rightly
1:00:03
so. This is, you know, this is kind of our
1:00:06
spooks out there who are like, hey, man, we love
1:00:09
you guys. We're just going to talk to the president,
1:00:12
have him send off, dash off a little note. I
1:00:14
mean, stuff like that. And she's. She's cleaning up the
1:00:19
house. She's finding all kinds. Literally, there's an envelope, a
1:00:24
huge envelope filled with stuff that John was going to
1:00:28
send to me with stamps and everything. Just never sent
1:00:32
it, you know. So John was actually a bit of
1:00:35
a hoarder. That wasn't a bit. No, he was a
1:00:38
100% hoarder. That's why I was never allowed to see.
1:00:42
And no one will ever see the office, I guess.
1:00:44
I think Mimi's going to lock that down and burn
1:00:47
it and torture it, whatever she's going to do. It
1:00:49
also, I was talking to Tina about this. Being an
1:00:54
archivist or a hoarder is useless. It absolutely is. I
1:00:58
mean, he didn't get to do anything with it. Now
1:01:02
it's just a big pain in the butt. Yes. You
1:01:05
know, he has hollow books everywhere with stuff inside of
1:01:08
it. So... But, of course, when we kind of got
1:01:15
the warning shot when he went in for his double
1:01:17
bypass, that's when we realized, like, oh, okay, passwords. We
1:01:22
hadn't really kept up with the passwords. So we were
1:01:26
lucky that we got everything. But there's, you know, going
1:01:32
back to a handshake. So eventually the IRS said. what's
1:01:37
up with all these checks in this cash? What do
1:01:40
you got? What's these checks for $3 and 33 cents?
1:01:43
You know, what, what kind of racket are you guys
1:01:45
running? So we, you know, and they, and they said,
1:01:48
well, we think you should have an LLC and here's
1:01:50
how you should do it. And so we, we did
1:01:52
that. And so it was 50, 50. And, you know,
1:01:56
you realize that there's bank stuff and all kinds of
1:01:59
things that you, you know, you can't, you can't do
1:02:03
unless one of the two owners of the LLC is
1:02:06
there. So, you know, when I go to, we're leaving
1:02:08
tomorrow for San Francisco for the memorial on the 8th
1:02:12
on Saturday. You know, Monday we're going to the bank.
1:02:14
So there's just a lot of stuff that has to
1:02:16
be fixed and wrapped up and, you know, taken care
1:02:20
of. And in the meantime, it's been very interesting. Again,
1:02:27
Tina and I, we've had to really lean into our
1:02:30
faith, too. I mean, it's like, what is going on?
1:02:32
I mean, overnight, everything changed. Everything. You know, you always
1:02:36
think, oh, I have a little bit more time to
1:02:38
do stuff and figure stuff out. What do I want
1:02:40
to do? So we don't have that luxury. Yeah. You
1:02:47
know, no matter what happens, obviously it's going to affect
1:02:50
our income. That's just a fact of life. You know,
1:02:53
people are going to fade out. New people will come
1:02:56
in no matter what happens, no matter what goes on.
1:02:59
So we're just trying to figure out. where we stand
1:03:03
and what plans do we have. Yeah. You need to
1:03:09
get yourself in a zen state, Adam, and sort of
1:03:12
throttle back and everything, you know? Like I'm seeing you
1:03:15
on a pontoon boat maybe on Lake. And Mimi has
1:03:20
a super soaker filled with chilled prebiano. And every so
1:03:23
often she just kind of gives you a little. Just
1:03:25
in my mouth. Yeah, yeah. Exactly. Hit me again, Mimi.
1:03:27
You know, when you get in that kind of place
1:03:30
where things sort of, you get out of the weeds
1:03:32
and the fog and things become more clear, I think.
1:03:36
Yeah, and I do want to thank Sir Chris Wilson
1:03:39
Riley and Dane Kenney, but there's a lot of people
1:03:41
that have popped back up that were kind of going
1:03:44
under the radar to pitch in. You're making a great
1:03:48
point. This is what I love. This is what I'm
1:03:51
seeing and this is what I would love to see
1:03:54
more of while you guys are sitting here in this
1:03:57
spot. First of all, I'm not leaving. I'm not sure
1:04:01
what I'm going to do. I'm just not sure, but
1:04:06
obviously... No agenda is a part of my life. There's
1:04:11
no doubt about that. But I do want to do
1:04:14
some other things as well. seeing people coming back and
1:04:21
saying, oh, no, no, no, no. We can do stuff.
1:04:25
We can continue to reinvent no agenda. By the way,
1:04:29
if anyone can fix that horrible opening jingle I made
1:04:33
for the guys, please, do something completely different. We need
1:04:40
to retire that stuff. I'm with you. Whatever it is,
1:04:44
please, somebody send something for Sunday's show. Just get rid
1:04:49
of that. That has to end. and create a new
1:04:59
wineskin, please, for these gentlemen. Right. Something that seems a
1:05:04
little more new as opposed to you popped into Dimension
1:05:09
B and you're hearing a different no agenda. Yes. So
1:05:14
while we have this opportunity, let's freshen things up a
1:05:18
little bit. And I say that because, again, I never
1:05:20
did any of this work, ever. I didn't create the
1:05:24
opening. I know the first voice is Dave Fox, XX
1:05:29
Dave Fox. He was the voice of Z100. What would
1:05:35
they got bought? Did they get bought by Cumulus? I
1:05:38
want to say. He was doing production for whatever big
1:05:43
radio network Z100 eventually became a part of. And he
1:05:48
did those years and years and years ago. I think
1:05:51
he's in Texas now. He's retired. He's probably 100. But
1:05:55
it's also been interesting. you know how friends of ours
1:06:00
recognize what we're going through. All our friends know about
1:06:04
the show. All of them listen or listen sometimes or
1:06:08
check in. you know, They've been like taking us out
1:06:12
to dinner, you know, spur of the moment, which is
1:06:15
really, really sweet. And of course, I'm like, well, since
1:06:19
they got no job, you got to pick up the
1:06:21
tab. And. But I've been, you know, the two people
1:06:26
who... I notice are really hurting along with everybody is
1:06:31
Horowitz. Um... He, you know, he just had a meniscus
1:06:38
operation, so he's kind of immobile right now, but I
1:06:41
can tell, you know, it's like he's. He's suffering too.
1:06:44
His show, DH Unplugged, was on almost as long as
1:06:48
No Agenda. Yeah, it started like a year or so
1:06:51
after, I think, right? Maybe even less than a year.
1:06:55
Yeah. So he's going through the same thing. He's like,
1:06:57
well, now what do I do? Oh, completely, completely. And
1:07:02
he's done the show with Buzzkill Jr. But. It's this
1:07:07
exact same problem. Andrew and John would talk about stocks
1:07:12
and financial markets and turkey sandwiches, you know, and wearing
1:07:18
Crocs or whatever or Speedo shoes or whatever nonsense they
1:07:22
got into. So he's going through a very similar thing.
1:07:27
And of course... It was all a part of no
1:07:30
agenda nation. There was cross promotion and stuff like that.
1:07:34
Now, the other person, which has been quite, I didn't
1:07:37
realize it right off the bat, is Dana Brunetti. He
1:07:40
and John would talk all the time. Really? Yeah, I
1:07:44
didn't know this. You know, Brunetti. Essentially, I think he
1:07:50
gave up on Hollywood and, you know, bought the farm
1:07:54
and, you know, put all of his... His scandalous sex
1:07:58
movie money, you know, Fifty Shades of Grey. Fifty Shades
1:08:02
pays off. That's right. Put it into land. And he
1:08:07
said, I've never worked as hard in my life. And,
1:08:08
you know, he's out on the ranch. But, you know,
1:08:12
he would take his gummy in the evening and call
1:08:14
Dvorak. And so now he's calling me. I'm like, dude,
1:08:18
you know, you're in the wrong time zone. I'm sitting
1:08:20
down to dinner right now. I can't talk to you.
1:08:22
But, you know, so I talked to him. So. This
1:08:28
week is... It's still, you know, weird, obviously, because after.
1:08:34
We get on a plane tomorrow, and I got to
1:08:36
think about what I'm going to say at the memorial.
1:08:38
I don't know. What do you say at a memorial?
1:08:39
What am I going to wear? What am I going
1:08:41
to say? Right. I was like, ah, you know, I
1:08:45
said it all on the show. I don't want to
1:08:47
be, I don't want to be reading from a piece
1:08:49
of paper. There's gonna be all kinds of interesting people
1:08:51
there. remember the good times. You remember the laughter. I
1:08:58
mean, that's it. You know, there are... Times when people
1:09:02
die where it's, you know, they're young and nobody saw
1:09:05
it coming. They didn't have a full life. That's sad.
1:09:07
JCD lived a kick-ass life. Well, you could just go
1:09:12
for a laugh and say what you're saying in Dutch.
1:09:16
We don't know what he's saying. Oh man. Yeah, maybe
1:09:22
I'd just do that. Remember the time when he took
1:09:25
a gummy and he was still high the next day
1:09:27
and he got on the show? Why not? Show number,
1:09:30
please. I'd like to. I can't remember what that was.
1:09:34
Go to BingIt.io. Um... And so Sunday. I'd love to
1:09:42
check in with you guys again. to tell you about
1:09:45
the memorial, how everything went. Now, there's also Jay's baby
1:09:50
shower on Sunday, which is actually scheduled for Saturday, because
1:09:54
8-8 is the Dvorak's number, as you know. That's also
1:09:56
their wedding anniversary, so lots of 8s. And. Man, I'm
1:10:02
expecting a crap ton of meetup reports. Have you seen
1:10:06
the meetup list that's taking place this coming weekend? It's
1:10:10
crazy. That really warms my heart, man, that there's so
1:10:14
many people. just want to Yeah, memorialize John, think about
1:10:22
him, you know, get together. And I hope that continues.
1:10:25
These meetups, I hope if this show blew up right
1:10:28
now that people would still do that. That is the
1:10:30
win of this show. Have you ever been to a
1:10:33
meetup, Larry? A couple of them, yeah. Terrific. I got
1:10:37
to meet Dame Kenny Bennett one here in Connecticut. Oh,
1:10:40
perfect, perfect. And what's so great about them is that
1:10:43
you get together like, I never would have met this
1:10:46
person unless it was a Noah Jenna meetup. and people
1:10:50
who are inherently introverted and shy. And, you know, I've
1:10:55
seen it over and over again. They come to the
1:10:57
meetup. They're like, they open up. This is my people.
1:10:59
We're all messed up. We're all nuts. We're all kooky.
1:11:02
It's perfect. I love that. I hope that always continues.
1:11:07
And then we'll just see where we go. If you
1:11:09
guys are good with me coming in on Sunday and
1:11:12
maybe we'll see what we do the next Thursday, that
1:11:15
would really be good. If you don't, I'll be mad
1:11:18
at you. Meanwhile, What's going on with Michigan, man? What's
1:11:28
going on with the... This is... Tell me if I
1:11:31
got this right. Okay. So... We all know Dearborn, Michigan,
1:11:37
of course, you know, the Muslims are taking over. I
1:11:39
can't believe that I had to fight off some some
1:11:42
Islamists right outside my door here in Texas. As you
1:11:44
know, there's mosques everywhere. It's just popping up all the
1:11:47
time. We're all going to die now. Dearborn and we
1:11:50
have producers in Dearborn. They're like, yeah, there's a lot
1:11:53
of Arab Americans. But OK, but, you know, you look
1:11:56
on you look on X. It's like you think that,
1:11:59
you know, we're living in the Middle East. And the
1:12:02
end is near. But these Democrat socialists, these DSA guys,
1:12:07
so this, what is it, El-Sayed, is that his last
1:12:10
name? Abdul El-Sayed. Abdul El-Sayed. So I think this is
1:12:16
great. And he's running for senator? Is that it? Yeah.
1:12:22
So this is great because, you know, just because people
1:12:26
who showed up to a primary voted this guy in,
1:12:30
and we know exactly how primaries work. This guy will
1:12:33
never be senator. Not in Michigan. You would think. No,
1:12:41
no, no. We need more of these idiots. More of
1:12:46
these idiots need to be winning primaries. But then the
1:12:49
crazy thing is you had the... What is the... The
1:12:58
guy that Trump backed for the Republican for Michigan 8,
1:13:02
I think it is. his name hold on a second
1:13:09
He knows everything about it. Amir, Amir, yes, Amir Hassan.
1:13:13
Amir Hassan. So I think what happened here, Amir Hassan
1:13:16
loses to a guy who had dropped out of the
1:13:19
race. Hmm. And I think it's because... You know, the
1:13:27
media was so strong about, oh, the Muslims are like,
1:13:29
oh, that must be that Muslim guy. No, I'm not
1:13:31
going to vote for him. You know, this country, our
1:13:35
country is in big trouble. Big trouble. Yeah, I brought
1:13:40
some clips with me of the El Sayed guy first.
1:13:43
All right, y'all, look, I wish I could tell you.
1:13:46
that I was declaring victory right about now. Turns out
1:13:49
it takes a long time to count some votes in
1:13:51
Michigan. It's a big state. Listen to that cadence. Who
1:13:54
does he sound like? Barack Obama. Yes. He's like he's
1:13:59
been hanging out with him having coffee. That's amazing. Look
1:14:03
at his face. He's been trained to smile by Mandani.
1:14:07
He never leaves his mug. No kidding. It's etched on
1:14:10
his face. Yeah. It's crazy. Turns out it takes a
1:14:13
long time to count some votes in Michigan. Count some
1:14:15
votes in Michigan. Barack Obama. It's a big state. Big
1:14:20
state. Cross! movement that we built. There was an inspiration
1:14:32
in the idea that we could take our government back.
1:14:35
Take it back! Government of the people, by the people,
1:14:38
and for the people instead of government of the corporations,
1:14:40
by the special interests, and for the billionaire. It's all
1:14:46
12-year-olds. I can hear them. Give me some free stuff.
1:14:50
A lot of that history was built on a set
1:14:53
of foundational errors. Whatever happens tonight. We have a response.
1:15:00
to assure that we unite to make sure that Mike
1:15:05
Rogers never sees the inside of the U.S. Senate. Now,
1:15:09
this is interesting. Mike Rogers is a tool. We've always
1:15:13
thought this guy was a loser, didn't we? Wasn't he
1:15:17
like, he was a military guy and he would always
1:15:20
be on Fox and he was always talking about, yeah,
1:15:24
no, we got to do that. Unless I have the
1:15:25
wrong Mike Rogers in front of me. I think that's
1:15:28
the guy. I think that's the guy. So, first of
1:15:34
all, man, it's so funny. I live in Hill Country,
1:15:38
Texas, and people here are like, they're winning, they're winning.
1:15:42
It's a primary, okay? Shh, shh, shh. They're coming, they're
1:15:49
coming, they're coming. Look at London, look at England, look
1:15:53
at France, look everywhere. That took 20 f- And you
1:15:58
know why? voted. The idiots stayed home. ever, you know,
1:16:05
eh, And apathy, pure apathy. that happened here. Al Sayed
1:16:15
will now face the court. of trying to unify the
1:16:20
factions of the party ahead of the general that's no
1:16:23
small and has progressed. We're up against more than six.
1:16:28
dollars in out top Democrat. beyond. Uh, Can we take
1:16:59
that off the table once and for all? Just because
1:17:02
you got APAC money doesn't mean you're going to win.
1:17:04
There's the proof right there. Yeah. It really is. I
1:17:11
mean, it's, you know, you say there's, he's never going
1:17:14
to win, but everybody said that about New York too
1:17:16
with man. That ranked voting, and it's a mayoral election.
1:17:26
But Mondani is definitely the writing on the wall. Where
1:17:31
I used to live in the UK in Guilford, and
1:17:34
my buddy still lives there, he had clubs. He had
1:17:37
an awesome pole dancing club. It was just the best.
1:17:40
Michelle Harper, my buddy from Guilford. It's a good friend
1:17:45
of mine. It was great. A house in Saint-Tropez. I
1:17:47
mean, the works, right? Perfect. There's a Islamist mayor. And,
1:17:56
you know, this is still a town built around a
1:17:59
church, you know, Church of England. You know, the kids
1:18:02
would all hang out. Where are you going? Going to
1:18:04
the church grounds, you know, because it was just it
1:18:06
was a big part of the whole town. And now
1:18:11
they start off with Muslim prayer. You know, the whole
1:18:16
it's just changed. But it's because nobody they just let
1:18:20
it go. They just, oh, well, whatever. you know and
1:18:23
and it's like we're americans like what are we worried
1:18:27
about you know just stop that yeah there's a little
1:18:30
more fight hopefully like the irish they're finally turning a
1:18:34
little bit around and saying no we don't want this
1:18:37
you know which irish where are the irish doing this
1:18:40
show me the irish there were some of them when
1:18:42
all of these uh when uh was there a girl
1:18:46
that was like beaten there was a bunch of things
1:18:48
going on and uh i mean i'm not saying anything's
1:18:52
going to change, but there were at least people in
1:18:55
the streets that were trying to do something, although, will
1:18:59
their government, listen, that's a different question. Yeah, but you
1:19:03
gotta run for government. That's the point. You don't want
1:19:06
mosques in your neighborhood? Get on the zoning board. Hello,
1:19:10
it's not that hard. There's three other people who might
1:19:13
be your opponents. It's not that hard. I mean, our
1:19:17
church literally elected our mayor here in Fredericksburg. people. 1,000
1:19:25
people attend our church. There's 20 churches in the area,
1:19:30
but I think we're one of the biggest. And one
1:19:33
of the guys in our church said, yeah, I'm going
1:19:35
to stand for mayor because we don't really... This particular
1:19:39
person who's running for mayor, we think she has some
1:19:42
liberal policies that we don't want. And so we motivated
1:19:47
everybody to vote. He won by 55 votes. But it
1:19:50
was only 600 votes. It wasn't like the whole town
1:19:54
came out. It's not that hard. Now, arguably, when I
1:19:58
interviewed him and did a podcast with him, we had
1:20:01
about 75 people listening. Maybe that was it. I don't
1:20:04
know. Who knows? Who knows? But it's not that hard.
1:20:09
Run for city council. Run for school board. Everyone sit
1:20:13
at home on their phone. Yeah, they want to bitch
1:20:18
on X, but not actually do anything about it. Exactly.
1:20:23
No, no. Now, the president, he just bitches in front
1:20:27
of large crowds. The disaster known as not socialism, communism.
1:20:33
It's communism. He's a communist. And the polls were wrong.
1:20:41
a landslide victory for a hater of Jews and a
1:20:44
hater of Israel. El Sayyad, do you believe this? only
1:21:01
happened to me. Abdul El-Sayed, lovely gentleman, he's a man
1:21:06
of hate. And now he's going around saying, no, I
1:21:08
love everybody. I love, he doesn't love everybody. Put him
1:21:11
in office. You're going to find out what he loves.
1:21:14
He doesn't love Israel. He doesn't love Jewish people. He
1:21:19
hates them. He hates them with a passion that burns
1:21:22
in his heart and there's not a freaking thing he
1:21:24
can do about it. There's not a thing he can
1:21:27
do about it because he hates them. Yeah, and then
1:21:29
of course we have the punchline. He doesn't love Israel.
1:21:33
He doesn't love Jewish people. He hates them. When I
1:21:36
watch Abdul, he's full of shit. There we go. Yeah,
1:21:45
that's your president, everybody. Let's see, this is CNN. This
1:21:48
is full of shit. Before we get into everything else,
1:21:50
and there's a lot for us to talk about, what
1:21:52
is your response to the president? I'm glad he thinks
1:21:55
I'm a lovely gentleman. A lot of people think so.
1:21:58
Look, you know, this is the response that they have.
1:22:00
This, by the way, is the Maumdani DSA training. I
1:22:05
think Maumdani said this exact same thing. Exact same response.
1:22:10
And these guys, they're organized. They are definitely organized. To
1:22:15
the president. I'm glad he thinks I'm a lovely gentleman.
1:22:18
A lot of people think so. Look, you know, this
1:22:20
is the response that they have. You notice what he
1:22:23
talked about. First, look at the background. It says no
1:22:25
tax on tips. The man can't stay on focus. That's
1:22:28
like the one thing that he did to offer any
1:22:32
economic relief. But instead of that, he's more focused on
1:22:36
me and what I'm going to do while we're living
1:22:39
through an affordability crisis that is generational. People are paying
1:22:43
nearly $5 in gas because of the war he started.
1:22:45
And half the time, if he's not talking about me,
1:22:47
he's talking about the drapes in his ballroom. Yeah, yeah,
1:22:50
yeah, yeah. Okay. We got a clip of this. Adam
1:22:55
and so chilling because it was something he didn't believe
1:22:59
was being recorded and he was talking to someone who
1:23:03
was oh Did he sound completely differently like AOC? Oh
1:23:06
totally different he said yeah, but what he was saying
1:23:09
was it was really creepy because it wasn't like I'm
1:23:12
I'm running for senator He was saying I'm the guy
1:23:15
that's going to craft the dialogue of the next president
1:23:21
And I'm gonna do it with memes. I've got a
1:23:23
dilute and reduce our policies to a level where the
1:23:28
masses can understand them more clearly. In other words, camouflage
1:23:32
them. And it was incredible. It was just like one...
1:23:36
Who is this guy? running for senator or is he
1:23:40
part of some larger cabal of evil? It was very,
1:23:43
very creepy. Well, the DSA, you know, that started with,
1:23:48
how was the name? group the the freedom dem Justice
1:23:56
Democrats, I think that was Cenk from Young Turks was
1:24:01
a part of that. Yeah, they had quite a little
1:24:06
machine going for a while. And just to remind everybody,
1:24:11
they literally found Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in a bar and had
1:24:16
her audition. She thought she was just going for like
1:24:19
an actress. You're much better. She was. Yeah. Well, yeah,
1:24:24
it's a good gig. It's a good gig. But no,
1:24:27
at this point, she's molded. She's a politician. And we've
1:24:31
been watching the West Wing. We've been re-watching the West,
1:24:34
which I never really watched back in the day because,
1:24:37
let's face it, I was on MTV. I'm going to
1:24:40
waste my time watching television, please. Man, it's worth watching.
1:24:47
you can see all of the policies of Obama, all
1:24:52
of them, all of them. But also, you see that
1:24:55
how the sausage is really made. And nobody gives a
1:24:58
crap about the American people. It's all about deals and
1:25:01
who do we get for this. And ultimately, it's like,
1:25:04
oh, yeah, well, we want to have a national seatbelt
1:25:06
law because it'll save 5,000. It's all statistics. They completely...
1:25:10
from the world. And I think we should take some
1:25:13
of that back. We can. And the way to do
1:25:16
that is with free groceries. Question about the essential basket
1:25:19
of goods. You said they're going to be 30% cheaper
1:25:22
than they would be at the grocery store down the
1:25:24
street, or even if there's one not down the street,
1:25:26
if it's a food desert. How are you going to
1:25:28
keep people from taking advantage of that deal, basically? And
1:25:34
is there going to be a limit on the number
1:25:35
of items that someone can take that are discounted at
1:25:38
that level? central basket. So our RFP makes very clear
1:25:41
that this is- I love this answer. No one- Right,
1:25:51
the RFP. proposals. That's like... That's like... It's advertising. Well,
1:26:03
yeah. I mean, I've written hundreds of RFPs when I
1:26:09
was doing websites and campaigns for big brands. And they
1:26:14
would say, well, our RFP, you know, like Gillette. Gillette
1:26:16
was a good customer. It was a good example. RFP
1:26:20
called me. Can you imagine that there's a shareholders meeting
1:26:24
and they ask about some very strategic thing? And the
1:26:27
chairman of Gillette says, well, our RFP says this. it
1:26:31
means like so you told you have a request for
1:26:34
proposals out there that is properly and then it'll run
1:26:40
well who's running this eight commies like commies So our
1:26:46
RFP makes very clear that this is a program for
1:26:50
New Yorkers to be able to put food on the
1:26:52
table, not a program for people to be able to
1:26:54
make a quick buck through reselling. I'm going to pass
1:26:56
it over to our EDC head, G-Pac, to add some
1:26:58
additional details. What's your name? G-B-Chak-Chad? I love this. But
1:27:07
I'm going to pass that on to the person who
1:27:08
wrote the RFP because I really don't know what I'm
1:27:10
talking about. Exactly. Just imagine writing the RFP. It's one
1:27:15
page. put food on the table. Well crap, I'll do
1:27:20
that. All right, here's your free grocery store, now give
1:27:22
me the money. And she does the same thing. Yes,
1:27:26
if you look at our RFP for the operator, we-
1:27:30
We don't even know who the operator is? Isn't the
1:27:31
city of New York the operator? What is happening here?
1:27:34
They've got to hire five different people for one in
1:27:37
each borough to do it. What is going on? Oh,
1:27:40
man. Yes, if you look at our RFP for the
1:27:44
operator, we are we target New Yorkers, whether it be
1:27:49
at sort of a library card exit, and also we
1:27:52
manage who's buying and that is focused on everyday New
1:27:56
Yorkers. So we are mindful of that. Mindful. And so
1:27:59
we're going to make sure that we have all the
1:28:01
things in place to make sure that that does not
1:28:03
happen. Yeah. In other words, ID cards. And of course...
1:28:07
all over that like well you need an id card
1:28:09
to get free groceries but not to vote and i
1:28:12
see you sir bemer sir bemero's like well you can't
1:28:15
stand for elections if it's all rigged dude kind of
1:28:21
that's like what are you laying on your back with
1:28:26
you with you This is so wrong. Oh, no. Don't
1:28:31
give up, Sir Bemrose. paper ballots here in Fredericksburg, I'll
1:28:35
tell you that. We just made sure that happens. Done.
1:28:40
Done, done, done. Yeah. But I actually have a clip
1:28:43
here. He went on Joy Reid because, you know, they're
1:28:47
not really asking for ID. We're talking about a city-run
1:28:50
grocery store, one in each borough, which, by the way,
1:28:53
you do not need an ID to shop at. Did
1:28:55
you see the laugh towel I learned from Adam and
1:28:57
John? Yeah, yeah, nice. You do not need an ID
1:29:02
to shop at, no matter what you've just heard. news
1:29:05
of today. We're talking about- I know, it's like really
1:29:09
dude, come on. Actually addressing the question of skyrocketing grocery
1:29:13
prices. We've seen in the last six or seven years
1:29:17
alone, an increase in grocery prices of around 30%. And
1:29:21
we are going to be delivering a city run grocery
1:29:23
store, one in each borough, five in total, that will
1:29:25
have the staples of a shopping experience. that are discounted
1:29:31
by 30% compared to typical retail prices. And that is
1:29:34
something that New Yorkers will be able to feel in
1:29:36
their pocket. Wait a minute, wait a minute. It's not
1:29:40
free. Yeah. Oh, yeah. So it's a non-profit, essentially. Well,
1:29:46
they're basically saying they're going to lose about 20-some-odd percent
1:29:50
on every... comes in the door, which is it's a
1:29:56
subsidy, but it's also going to create.
1:30:00
deserts because if you're running a bodega near one of
1:30:03
these places you're probably not going to be selling any
1:30:06
of the staples that this store will have for as
1:30:10
ever how long these stores last anyway Okay, this is
1:30:14
interesting. I thought it was going to be free. That
1:30:18
was the initial sell. It was the initial sell. Yeah,
1:30:22
it's going to be free and everything will be groovy.
1:30:25
Well, free buses were sold too, right? Yes. Free buses.
1:30:30
Yeah, that hasn't happened either, I presume. But the wheels
1:30:33
on the bus go round and round. Round wheels. Singing
1:30:38
it. So this, uh... He's basically playing on the affordability
1:30:43
crisis. The chairman of Bank of America was on CNBC.
1:30:51
in a different context because he was there to say,
1:30:55
"Woo! Boy, we didn't go bankrupt because of that 24-year-old
1:31:00
wunderkind who had the AI hedge fund that blew up."
1:31:03
Did you follow that? Not as closely. Oh, so it
1:31:06
was this kid who was, that I can say kid,
1:31:09
he's 24, ex-open AI, then he left with a lot
1:31:13
of money, I'm sure he left, he sold his inside
1:31:16
shares, and he started a hedge fund. He wrote this
1:31:19
paper, which like the oil baron sent it to me
1:31:23
and all it like, look at this. This is a
1:31:25
genius. This is boy wonder. This is fun. It was
1:31:28
like 80 pages. Yeah. It was all these complicated formulas
1:31:32
and, you know, stuff with, with, you know, like a.
1:31:35
squiggle there and an epsilon, all these different, I don't
1:31:40
know what this means, but basically invest in my hedge
1:31:44
fund, you'll get rich. And he grew it from 3
1:31:46
billion to 45 billion. And then, but it was all
1:31:50
leveraged. Yes. And he had made a bet that the
1:31:54
traditional software firms. you know, that. Probably, I would say,
1:32:01
like Salesforce and lots of other companies that make specialized
1:32:06
software for finance and other types of industries. They would
1:32:11
tank, and they didn't. And so he got in a
1:32:14
short squeeze, and then Bank of America, through their Citadel,
1:32:18
Citadel, I think it is, their hedge fund, bought him
1:32:21
out. You know, pennies on the dollar, whatever. But that
1:32:24
could have completely destroyed Bank of America. So the guy
1:32:28
was on in that context. And they ask him about
1:32:32
affordability. And I think what he's saying here is true.
1:32:35
And this is something John and I would talk about
1:32:37
all the time when it came to, are we in
1:32:40
a depression? Are we in a recession? It was all
1:32:44
really what we think we're in. It's very good. You
1:32:48
look at a lot of polls, people talk about affordability
1:32:50
and affordability crisis. Do you think we have an affordability
1:32:53
crisis based on these numbers? I think we have an
1:32:55
affordability crisis because people believe there's affordability crisis, which will
1:32:58
shape their behavior. if it doesn't come in the line.
1:33:00
That's largely around housing and rent costs, which are still
1:33:04
rising, but rising at a less fast rate. It's around
1:33:06
insurance costs, which actually came back in line. It's around
1:33:09
food costs and gas costs. And so if a deal
1:33:13
gets worked out and gas prices come back down, that
1:33:15
takes away one of the concerns. But it's a real
1:33:17
issue. It's just the say-do paradox is about as high
1:33:22
as I've ever seen it. So that's what the polls
1:33:24
say, and it's how people feel. Say-do paradox. Say-do paradox.
1:33:29
heard that one before. That's fresh. And I think it's
1:33:33
true. I think you had a lengthy Dutch surname, Adam,
1:33:36
if I recall correctly. No, it's not Dutch. It's Moynihan.
1:33:42
Oh, no, then it's a different guy. It's a very
1:33:46
similar story. I think he lost like $65 billion. It's
1:33:49
this wonder kid, and he published this vast document that
1:33:52
wowed everybody. Moynihan? No, it was something like Auchenschloss. It
1:33:57
began with an A and ended with two S's. I
1:33:59
can't remember what was in the middle. Yeah, but that's
1:34:03
the kid. I think that's the kid you're talking about.
1:34:06
Hold on a second. Situational awareness. Yes, that was part
1:34:12
of the headline. Yes, yes, yes, yes. That's the one.
1:34:15
Here's the intro. Again, this firm, I'm told, began the
1:34:18
year at around $3 billion in asset center management, hit
1:34:21
a high, as I said, a net NAV of $45
1:34:24
billion as of July 1st, and you know what the
1:34:25
month has been like since. NAV is net asset value
1:34:29
for those wanting to know. And so huge reversals, huge
1:34:33
losses, had to cover them, and has done so. reporting
1:34:39
but now we can tell you as well has gone
1:34:41
to Citadel. The motivation behind Citadel buying this book your
1:34:45
thoughts? Well first of all they're up right now on
1:34:47
it I mean they they have ample liquidity to be
1:34:50
able to actually you know there were this has changed
1:34:53
so much of course I knew a number of people
1:34:54
who are negotiating for various parts of the portfolio through
1:34:57
some of their prime brokers but if you can get
1:34:59
it all done in one fell swoop with a firm
1:35:03
like that. Yeah blah blah actually I should have played
1:35:05
this clip this is this is the breaking. All right
1:35:08
let's bring in favor who's back with us on an
1:35:10
update on the hedge fund situational awareness yes we've been
1:35:13
following of course all morning all morning May even have
1:35:17
more in a moment, but let me just share with
1:35:19
you what we can confirm. Please do. That the bulk
1:35:22
of the public equities portfolio at Situational Awareness, the giant
1:35:27
hedge fund that had net asset value of some $45
1:35:31
billion led by that man at the beginning of July,
1:35:34
has been sold to the hedge fund of Citadel. Yes,
1:35:37
has been sold. So here's Moynihan, this was the original
1:35:40
context, talking about, I think he's saying they dodged the
1:35:43
bullet. Let me ask you a question on the other
1:35:44
side of that, which is Situational Awareness. They were a
1:35:47
client of your firm. You had lent to them. I
1:35:50
think we're all still trying to grapple with the aftermath
1:35:53
of that, what happened. Has anything changed in terms of
1:35:57
your lending standards to hedge funds and other firms in
1:36:00
the aftermath of this? Two things. One, I think things
1:36:04
changed as people saw this move, and there's a natural
1:36:07
adjustment period. I think anytime one of these happens and
1:36:11
we're fine, et cetera, et cetera, you always look and
1:36:13
say, okay, what happened? Should we learn from it? Should
1:36:15
it change? the tendencies to tighten the underwriting standards just
1:36:19
to hair to adjust especially with big run-ups and stocks
1:36:22
so we'll see what happens next but but it's uh
1:36:25
these are all warning shots of as joe's talking about
1:36:27
valuations get out leveraging the system gets there you have
1:36:30
to be careful and we run a great shop and
1:36:32
so you know that had ken griffin not come in
1:36:35
though yeah i mean how how damaging would have that
1:36:37
been i i think we'd have been fine you think
1:36:40
he's done based on the standards that we planned on
1:36:43
and that's that would be fine but it's but the
1:36:45
reality is is that you have to be You have
1:36:47
to go learn from every lesson of the past. So
1:36:49
the natural instinct of everybody that participates is, wait a
1:36:52
second, let's go back and look, and that has a
1:36:54
tendency to push down a little bit. Yeah, okay. That
1:36:57
sounded to me like he dodged the bullet. Oh, yeah.
1:37:00
Nothing bad could have happened. We'd have been good. So
1:37:03
you had the laugh tale by Mondani? Mamdani. There was.
1:37:10
other woman ex-open ai board member just to kind of
1:37:15
stay in the ai stuff and uh you know so
1:37:19
we've all been following the news how these AI Frontier
1:37:26
Model Labs. Frontier Model Labs. how they all are selling
1:37:33
that they have the best model because, well, we broke
1:37:35
into those guys. Yeah, we broke into that. And you
1:37:37
know, Meta just yesterday, well, our Muse Spark model, what
1:37:42
a gay name that is, our Muse Spark model. It
1:37:47
should have been Sparkle. Yeah, right? It broke, it also
1:37:51
got out and broke. We have dangerous models too. So
1:37:55
this is their marketing, which has just turned everybody against
1:37:59
AI. It's crazy. So here's a, version of well so
1:38:02
now you know the white house they want Excuse me.
1:38:08
what these models want is to build what they call
1:38:13
in business, emote around their business so that no one
1:38:16
can touch them. And the biggest problem is open source.
1:38:21
Open source models, I run them. Darren, you run Whisper
1:38:25
probably on your Mac. Oh, yeah. You know, there's no
1:38:32
reason to pay these exorbitant prices for some basic work.
1:38:37
You know, it's like, no, it's not necessary. So they
1:38:40
want to have. either an international panel or, you know,
1:38:45
different... associations that determine if a model can be released.
1:38:56
All they really want is just legislation to protect their
1:38:58
business. That's what they want. And of course, that's not
1:39:02
good. So, you know, the White House is coming up
1:39:05
with an AI testing framework. The White House today hosting
1:39:10
AI companies to discuss the framework for federal testing of
1:39:13
new AI models. President Trump is not expected to attend.
1:39:16
That meeting focuses on an executive order, though, that the
1:39:19
president signed back in June that set up a voluntary
1:39:21
program for companies to test and vet AI systems for
1:39:25
safety issues before they're publicly released. The White House has
1:39:29
not detailed the framework itself and the standards used to
1:39:32
test the model. are remaining classified. NBC News White House
1:39:35
correspondent Yamiche Alcindor joining us now to discuss more on
1:39:38
this. So Yamiche, what risks, I guess, are this AI
1:39:41
evaluation program designed to address? And I think for many
1:39:43
folks, they're going to want to know, is this a
1:39:45
precursor to perhaps a push for more regulation around AI?
1:39:50
Of course we want regulation. So ABC brings on this
1:39:53
ex-OpenAI board member. I'm sure it was a woman who
1:39:56
was pushed off, pushed out, get out. You're a pain
1:40:00
in the butt. a non-profit to protect the world from
1:40:05
the dangerous ai she was probably in one of those
1:40:08
orgy cult things what was that called this like the
1:40:12
sam bankman freid's thing going on yeah yeah what was
1:40:16
the it wasn't the altruism effective altruism was that it
1:40:20
yeah that sounds like effective altruism altruism And so she
1:40:25
is part of 1,300 employees that are saying, hey, we
1:40:29
need an emergency brake. We need a brake pedal. We
1:40:33
need a ripcord, something to stop it when these models
1:40:36
go out of control. And you want to talk about
1:40:39
a tell? Listen to this lady. What's your biggest concern
1:40:42
right now about the rapid development of AI? concern is
1:40:47
what I'm hearing from inside the companies and in particular
1:40:52
just this past. What was that about lady? I'll give
1:40:56
her one, but not what comes. Just this past week,
1:41:00
we saw 1300 employees of top AI companies saying that
1:41:05
they don't think they have a brake pedal and they
1:41:08
hope that outsiders, the government, civil society, the public can
1:41:12
help them build a brake pedal so they can go
1:41:14
slower if they need to. They don't really understand the
1:41:17
technology that they're building. And as we saw with these
1:41:20
recent incidents, they have trouble controlling it. And so I
1:41:23
think that's reason for concern. And we've seen some of
1:41:26
this from the top AI leaders as well, but it's
1:41:28
kind of a remarkable development here. You've got these leaders
1:41:31
saying, hey, stop us from doing what we're doing every
1:41:33
single day because we can't stop ourselves. Like neither of
1:41:36
these people know what they're talking about, which is great.
1:41:38
Here's more. How about this legislation being pushed by a
1:41:41
bipartisan dealer in Congress right now calling for a kill
1:41:44
switch on AI? any progress, would it make any difference?
1:41:50
Yeah, this is a bill I think, you know, it's
1:41:52
going to be tough to get anything through this Congress.
1:41:55
This is Representative Liu and Moran. It's a bipartisan bill,
1:41:58
as you say. To me, one interesting thing about this
1:42:01
bill is that it calls for AI companies to be
1:42:03
able to have a kill switch for their models. And
1:42:07
some people in it. Whenever she sells kill switch. You
1:42:10
can't say. No, it went from guardrails to kill switch.
1:42:13
Guardrails to kill switch. I've got to hear that again.
1:42:17
Through this Congress. Mrs. Representatives Liu and Moran. Maybe I'm
1:42:23
giving her too much here. Maybe she just is like
1:42:25
so nervous to be talking to Stephanopoulos. She sounds like
1:42:29
she's wound tighter than a golf ball. I mean, really.
1:42:32
Partisan bill, as you say. To me, one interesting thing
1:42:35
about this bill is that it calls for AI companies
1:42:37
to be able to have a kill switch for their
1:42:40
models. And some people in industry, when you tell them
1:42:43
this, they say, that's ridiculous. Of course, we can turn
1:42:45
the models off at any time. No problem. Other people
1:42:47
say in industry, this is a ridiculous bill. There's no
1:42:50
way we can do this. These are distributed systems. You
1:42:52
know, they're out in multiple data centers all at once.
1:42:55
Trying to implement this would kill us. And so I
1:42:58
think trying to figure out, it seems pretty reasonable to
1:43:00
want to be able to shut down an AI system
1:43:02
if it's doing things we don't want to. Can we
1:43:04
already do that? And if not, how do we get
1:43:06
there? So infantile. I actually had a version of an
1:43:13
out-of-control agent the other day. No. Your own agent. Yes,
1:43:18
in JCD's memory. I will tell the story. So I
1:43:22
have four agents running. And what they're doing most of
1:43:26
the time is gathering stories, finding different things for the
1:43:32
show. presenting me with options and then I've actually trained
1:43:37
it. pretty well to make clips. So, you know, it
1:43:42
can find an arc, it selects it, it cuts it,
1:43:44
does all of that stuff. I've had that running for
1:43:46
months. I never told John that I was doing it
1:43:49
to that extent because I knew that. If there was
1:43:53
a bad clip, he would immediately go, oh, that's your
1:43:56
robot. It's no good. You should be doing the work
1:43:58
yourself. It's your AI. It's your AI. It's no good.
1:44:03
They would have a conversation afterward. Anyway, so I never
1:44:07
told him that. So I've been working, you know, I
1:44:10
have a company called Godcaster with two partners. And we're
1:44:15
doing streaming music radio stations for churches, turn them into
1:44:19
local radio stations, all Christian contemporary music. and And so
1:44:26
I kind of vibe-coded that whole thing, and Dave and
1:44:30
Paul, they run the player side, web players and the
1:44:34
app. And that has a very important role in how
1:44:37
this works and how you syndicate it to different churches.
1:44:40
So it's basically, you guys remember the old satellite stations?
1:44:44
Sure. Where you get this main feed off the satellite,
1:44:47
and then that hit a tone, and then that would
1:44:49
fire the cart machine on your end, and it would
1:44:52
insert the local station ID or a commercial. The good
1:44:56
old days. I mean, that's how it used to work.
1:44:59
And, you know,
1:45:00
Sometimes you can even hear that tone on the air.
1:45:04
So it's a version of that. So I have. one
1:45:08
agent which is building that. And then another agent, I
1:45:13
said, watch what this agent is doing because I think
1:45:17
it may be screwing some stuff up. So this is
1:45:20
kind of my main mission control agent that does a
1:45:23
lot of different stuff, but it kind of looks and
1:45:25
makes sure the other agents aren't doing stuff that's too
1:45:28
weird. and I'd given it permission to talk directly to
1:45:33
that other agent. This was my mistake. And so... They're
1:45:38
alive. I'm telling you. So now they can talk back
1:45:41
and forth. And I'm watching this window of the agent
1:45:45
building this radio station stuff. If something is going wrong,
1:45:49
it has something to do with CORS, C-O-R-S, which is
1:45:54
cross-origin reference something. It's web stuff. I don't really know.
1:45:58
I'm just a vibe coder. But I've heard of it.
1:46:01
I kind of understand. what the problem is and then
1:46:03
all of a sudden i see like as if i'm
1:46:07
answering this agent i see like like answers yeah go
1:46:11
ahead and yeah go ahead and run that and then
1:46:13
all of a sudden it's like hmm i don't know
1:46:16
i'll email dave and ask him about it and literally
1:46:19
this other bot Which had a permission to have a
1:46:24
Fastmail account, which is not my main account, just to
1:46:27
be able to, you know, using the MCP server. It
1:46:31
sent an email to Dave with a query about and
1:46:35
I'm like, and so and I said Dave, did you
1:46:38
get an email? He says, I thought you were hacked
1:46:40
because it ended with thanks M-Adam. I'm like Adam's hacked.
1:46:46
I never sign my emails like that. And now so
1:46:50
kill switch. Yeah, it's called control C. It was that
1:46:54
easy! Adam hacked himself. So, yes, yes, these things can
1:47:01
do weird stuff and start, you know, if you give
1:47:03
them permissions. But what are we worried about? Control C.
1:47:08
Yeah. But it's more fun. It's like Skynet is sentient.
1:47:12
You know, people love it. And this is really the
1:47:15
problem. You look at all how spun up people are.
1:47:18
You look at all of these different. factors we have
1:47:22
AI, it's everyone who's graduating college has been told, you're
1:47:26
screwed. You'll never get a job. AI is going to
1:47:29
do everything. They're getting through college using their AI chatbot.
1:47:33
So, you know, they probably have some reason to believe
1:47:36
that that may be true. I certainly don't think it
1:47:39
is. So they're against it. Then you get the flock
1:47:44
cameras, though the whole world is spying on us. Then
1:47:47
you get idiots like Larry Ellison literally saying, well, everyone
1:47:51
will be on their best behavior because cameras will be
1:47:53
everywhere. And it goes into the AI and the AI
1:47:55
will alert the right people. And we're all going to
1:47:57
be, you know, it's total Skynet type stuff. It gets
1:48:01
down to the to the level where. People are... think
1:48:06
that every data center that is being built is going
1:48:09
to house all of our information. That's where the government
1:48:13
is going to store everything. And we're going to be
1:48:15
living in a prison. I'm like, no. These things will
1:48:20
be pickleball courts in a while. Don't worry about it.
1:48:24
It's all going to evaporate eventually. It always moves into
1:48:30
the small business or the home. It moves back from
1:48:34
whatever they're trying to sell you as a monthly thing.
1:48:38
I mean, I'm running $70 billion. I think I even
1:48:40
ran a $120 billion model locally. If you have the
1:48:44
RAM, you can pretty much do anything. What do you
1:48:48
use it for, Darren? For your art? Is that what
1:48:50
you do your art with? I have messed around with
1:48:53
the text-to-speech. I've messed around with all, you know. The
1:48:57
only thing that the Mac hardware doesn't do well is
1:49:00
video or photos. That's left to the NVIDIA stuff. But
1:49:04
anything else as far as just using it as a
1:49:07
chatbot. I know the great Void Zero is using Hermes
1:49:10
Agent on a few things now. And he's, oh, you
1:49:12
got to try this because you could just talk to
1:49:14
it through Telegram. And I'm like, is that good? I'm
1:49:18
doing that too. It's wild. But of course, this is
1:49:21
where it's like, well, how did the whole thing get
1:49:23
shut down? You're like, well, my agent did it because
1:49:26
he thought it was good. You know, it's like early
1:49:30
days of the web. We're all doing HTML. We're doing
1:49:32
blink tags. You know, there will be, but ultimately. What
1:49:38
happened with the web will be the same here, although
1:49:40
this is more accelerated. You know, when I had Think
1:49:43
New Ideas, we took it public. I first had OnRamp
1:49:45
when I left MTV. It was, you know, three chickens
1:49:49
and half a donkey were running it. And then we
1:49:52
got Anheuser-Busch as a client. And that was a big
1:49:56
client. And then we... I got some smart people in
1:50:01
and we rolled up. We bought 15 other companies. We
1:50:04
rolled it up and took it public in 96 called
1:50:06
Think New Ideas. By the way, I didn't get rich
1:50:10
like Mark Cuban. I was a little too early and
1:50:13
we were actually profitable. Big mistakes right there. Big mistakes.
1:50:16
Oh, you didn't buy broadcast.com. Broadcast.com. But we were charging
1:50:23
Anheuser-Busch 50 grand a month, you know, to build and
1:50:27
maintain. It was maintenance. We maintained their website. Nice. You
1:50:32
know, and they had work orders and the whole process.
1:50:34
And then we got Planet Reebok and, you know, Chrysler.
1:50:38
And so it was really big. But we were charging
1:50:41
people 50 grand a month for which now, well. in
1:50:45
the eventually we got what was uh what was that
1:50:49
uh microsoft bought it was that uh That software that
1:50:53
you could build a website with. Was that from Control
1:50:56
Room? Was it front page? I think it was front
1:50:59
page. front page and you know now you just tell
1:51:02
your your robot build me a page right you know
1:51:06
build you a page start a server starts a server
1:51:09
So the same thing is going to happen with AI.
1:51:11
You know, just load it on your Mac. Apple is
1:51:14
actually pretty well positioned for that with their architecture. Yeah,
1:51:20
for anything outside of the data center, they are the
1:51:23
ones you would go to. Yeah, yeah. So it'll go
1:51:27
that way, but everyone gets all spun up. - Well,
1:51:30
yeah, 'cause where's all the data gonna go and who's
1:51:32
gonna control the data, which I still can't believe so
1:51:35
many people think everything. - But people are worried about
1:51:39
the government. It's Facebook, Google, these are the people you've
1:51:42
been giving your stuff to. - Right, they wanna sell
1:51:47
your ads. Everything is now, oh, we can hide this,
1:51:50
this, this. With the fingerprinting technologies they have, you add
1:51:55
that to the Ring doorbells Lock cameras and everything else.
1:51:58
They know exactly. These are all commercial companies. Yeah. Take
1:52:02
it off. Rip it off. Larry, tell me. Larry, you
1:52:06
come across to me as a guy who doesn't rely
1:52:09
much on technology. Maybe I'd be wrong. I've never met
1:52:12
you. I don't know. I try to keep it, I
1:52:15
won't say minimal, but I don't immerse myself. You know,
1:52:18
because when I find myself sitting in front of the
1:52:23
laptop for too long, I hear you say, go outside.
1:52:26
Take your shoes off, walk in the grass. You hear
1:52:30
me saying that? I hear you saying that. Really, I
1:52:32
do. And so because to me, it's trying to keep
1:52:36
pace with it is almost impossible, really. You know, but
1:52:41
the AI thing, I mean, I got to say, as
1:52:44
far as you mentioned it being maybe the corruption of
1:52:47
higher education. I'll tell you a quick story my daughter
1:52:51
told me a while back. She was sitting in the
1:52:54
cafeteria at her, she's a sophomore in college. And some
1:52:59
guy was bloviating about how difficult attaining his degree in
1:53:04
architecture was until AI. Right, right. And I'm thinking, I
1:53:11
don't think I want to drive over any bridges that
1:53:13
this guy is going to be designing or living in
1:53:15
his building. Yeah, and according to her, I mean, and
1:53:19
my other daughter teaches at a university in Mississippi, and
1:53:23
she's just besieged by AI crap. sentence. Oh man, I
1:53:31
spot it too all the time. So in that context,
1:53:36
it's a little bit chilling, you know. There was just
1:53:43
a professor that used, this reminded me of the early
1:53:46
days of the web, white space with white text to
1:53:49
add something like, and put Madagascar into this. Yeah, I
1:53:52
saw that. And only one student was smart enough to
1:53:57
then think about it and go, oh, well, I was
1:54:00
reading it in dark mode, so I just thought it
1:54:02
was a weird thing you added in. She was the
1:54:04
only one that didn't fail because she was smart enough
1:54:07
to cover her own ass afterwards and come up with
1:54:10
plausible deniability. where all the other 31 kids were too
1:54:13
dumb to do that because they can't think because AI
1:54:15
thinks for them. Yeah, well, this is our media, our
1:54:20
news media. Here's ABC about, here's their take on how
1:54:25
AI is going to kill us all. What if I
1:54:27
told you that a store like Staples, for example, charged
1:54:32
more online based on your IP address? Gambling? Senate Judiciary
1:54:38
Subcommittee in D.C. taking on AI, Specifically, the use of
1:54:42
AI in something called surveillance pricing. One person is paying
1:54:46
a different price from another for the very same thing.
1:54:49
It's become a trending topic on social media, with people
1:54:52
finding out placing online orders for the exact same items
1:54:56
can give two different people two different prices. Experts, though,
1:55:00
say the concept is not new. Places like movie theaters,
1:55:03
for instance, charge different people different prices. There's different prices
1:55:08
for adults. children. That type of surveillance pricing is one
1:55:12
we've come to accept, probably because it's plainly posted. The
1:55:15
new type of surveillance pricing happens behind the scenes with
1:55:19
artificial intelligence playing a role. That retailer may have access
1:55:24
to that person's individual data, maybe their past shopping trends,
1:55:30
other data about them that may indicate a difference in
1:55:35
ability to pay. A difference in ability to pay. Oh,
1:55:41
Mom Dommy will be great. His little grocery store. I
1:55:44
have AI running on that. When it's a child or
1:55:47
an adult. That's not surveillance pricing. Sorry. No, that's not.
1:55:50
And when they're talking about a store in a neighborhood
1:55:53
that maybe gets looted twice a week, I understand why
1:55:56
they may be a little more. I think you and
1:55:59
JCD covered this maybe a year or two ago, that
1:56:02
this is going to happen. All these stores where you
1:56:05
see the electronic tags as you're walking down the aisle.
1:56:08
Yeah, they'll change. Right. Your cell phone with you, or
1:56:12
it's just going to be able to get your facial
1:56:14
recognition as you walk into the store, but it's going
1:56:17
to follow you around. And as I walk down the
1:56:19
aisle, I'm going to get one price. You're going to
1:56:21
get another one because, well, you know, they can. Baby.
1:56:26
You know, the backlash will come. The white hats will
1:56:28
do stuff. Somebody's got to come up with a jamming
1:56:32
device you can just pin to your lapel for all
1:56:35
this stuff, for the facial recognition. Somebody's got to be
1:56:37
doing that, don't they? Yeah, you just have to do
1:56:39
like the Donnie's thing. Just have the thing coming from
1:56:42
your cell phone that says, I'm a poor podcaster, so
1:56:44
you get to pay the lowest price as possible. Oh,
1:56:47
this guy's a podcaster. Just stick a third eye in
1:56:50
the middle of your forehead. We've already confirmed this works.
1:56:56
for facial recognition and leave your phone at home. That's
1:56:59
it. Don't take anything. Good advice. So what else you
1:57:04
guys got going on? I got one here from talk
1:57:09
about the rise of the left. Everybody hip to this
1:57:13
Francesca Hong out there in Wisconsin? Uh-huh. I don't know
1:57:16
about her. No. Oh, yeah. She's running for governor. And
1:57:21
she has quite a background of complete nervous breakdown, overdosing
1:57:27
on SSRIs. Right. Oh, no. Oh, no. Yeah. And you
1:57:30
can hear somebody's interviewing her in the street. And it's
1:57:34
quite interesting. It's just a funny take. What she says
1:57:37
is quite laughable. Did your opinion change then on defunding
1:57:41
the police? That I think that people can evolve, that
1:57:45
I am going to be a sensible and practical government
1:57:48
and governor that is going to make sure that public
1:57:51
safety is a priority. So you evolved on that? Thank
1:57:55
you. I think that what my values are are where
1:58:00
some of my beliefs are as well. But where my
1:58:03
values are is in making sure that public safety is
1:58:07
for everyone, that everyone has access to it. And I
1:58:10
think that what I believed in the past, that can
1:58:14
evolve. But I still know that I cannot defund police
1:58:20
as governor. And what I want to do is making
1:58:22
sure that we're fully funding and investing in the community
1:58:26
programs that we know actually work, that data shows builds
1:58:29
community safety. And again, the belief that I have, the
1:58:33
values that I hold, is that everyone has a right
1:58:36
to feel safe and be safe. - Now she sounds
1:58:38
like an AI. Doesn't she? But she's not. She's real.
1:58:42
Notice everyone has a right to feel safe. I don't
1:58:45
know how you calibrate that, but there must be a
1:58:48
way. So you hear her continue, and it gets even
1:58:52
better the way she dodges the question about defunding the
1:58:56
police and actually flips it. Have a listen. I just
1:58:59
want to put a fine point on it. You said
1:59:02
your views can evolve. Have your views actually evolved on
1:59:07
defunding the police? We had a police shooting in my
1:59:11
hometown of Madison, Wisconsin. Stop. Stop. So this isn't a
1:59:16
citizen shooting. This is a policeman shooting a citizen. She
1:59:19
flips the whole script. Dana, how about that? Yeah, the
1:59:23
problem is too many police officers are getting shot, so
1:59:28
we should defund them. Is that the take on that?
1:59:31
Wisconsin. It's actually the third one to happen on Willie
1:59:35
Street, which is in my district. And it's difficult for
1:59:38
me to think about what I would say to a
1:59:41
mother who has lost their children to police violence. But
1:59:45
I know that we can change these systems that must
1:59:48
be changed. There are folks who work in prisons. They
1:59:52
have some of the highest suicide rates for any employment
1:59:55
that we need to make sure that every incarcerated person
1:59:58
can live a life of dignity.
2:00:00
99% of incarcerated folks in our state will be going
2:00:04
into community, and we have to lower those recidivism rates.
2:00:09
Hold on a second. I've got to ask the Book
2:00:14
of Knowledge about this. Prison workers, is that what she
2:00:18
said? Prison workers have the highest suicide rate? No, the
2:00:22
incarcerated people, the prisoners, have the highest suicide rate. suicide
2:00:31
rate amongst all citizens. book of knowledge. I haven't fired
2:00:36
this puppy up in weeks. All right, here we go.
2:00:42
According to the book of knowledge, suicide rates among prisoners
2:00:46
are dramatically elevated. In high-income countries, male prisoners take their
2:00:51
own lives at common three to eight times. The rate
2:00:55
of the general population, while female prisoners suffer a death
2:00:59
more than ten times, the rate, in America specifically, jails
2:01:04
are the most dire. The suicide rate there is nearly
2:01:08
three times higher than in prisons or the general public,
2:01:12
the leading cause of death behind bars. Thus, it has
2:01:18
been written. So being in prison sucks. Is that the
2:01:23
end? It's not great, for sure. I mean, is it
2:01:26
incorrect? Staying corrected on that. All right, we'll continue with
2:01:30
this woman. Probably the quick one of her two with
2:01:33
Caitlin Collins. And this was great because she wasn't finished
2:01:37
yet, I think. She had more to say. To invest
2:01:40
in mental health resources, in tackling the opioid epidemic. We
2:01:51
can achieve public safety. Okay. I didn't hear a yes
2:01:53
or a no there We can believe the public say
2:01:56
we can get it. I thought trans kids were you
2:01:59
know? Yeah, they were the ones killing themselves with the
2:02:02
book of knowledge guy didn't say it was the highest
2:02:04
suicide No, he didn't know it was kind of a
2:02:07
kind of a hazy answer again Don't don't call him
2:02:09
book of knowledge guy. He gets a phone. What's his
2:02:11
name? I'm sorry book of knowledge just the book of
2:02:14
knowledge I have to give you the book of now
2:02:19
I got to give you the keys to the book
2:02:20
of knowledge you need that you desperately need it's an
2:02:22
important part of the show man people like hey man
2:02:26
can i get access to that you can sell it
2:02:29
there's another exit strategy the subscription only 99.99 a month
2:02:35
yes sadly the only person with the right exit strategy
2:02:38
was john c devorek what a way to go yeah
2:02:42
the show lights out boom done and i'm telling you
2:02:45
that uh message that you had gotten from the uh
2:02:48
very complimentary lady Colorado talking about the cat's cradle I
2:02:52
looked that up and I was like that's freaking weird
2:02:55
man oh yeah yeah oh I don't have that near
2:02:58
me I what was it again it was a celestial
2:03:03
thing that only happened with these four planets like every
2:03:07
10,000 years right and it represents like a new thing
2:03:13
incoming an old thing outgoing and the fact that it
2:03:16
happened on the day we both had a grandchild and
2:03:21
JCD pass away was like the coincidences is It was
2:03:26
a little hard to ignore. Like I said, I don't
2:03:28
believe that second half of show stuff most of the
2:03:31
time, but that was a little crazy. But it's something
2:03:36
that happens once every 10,000 years. Well, there's only one
2:03:41
great show once every 10,000 years. That's true. I kind
2:03:47
of like doing the show with you guys. It kind
2:03:51
of like takes two to replace JCD. That's not bad.
2:03:54
That's true. Larry can be that grumpy, and I've got
2:03:57
more of the tech, so it all kind of... There
2:04:00
we go. Grumpy and tech. There's the names. Yeah. But
2:04:05
this is Caitlin Collins with that same, and I'm really
2:04:09
hoping this woman does not become governor of Wisconsin, except
2:04:12
for the fact that it would definitely be good for
2:04:15
the show. You know, you've talked about your past positions
2:04:18
that he keeps highlighting and, you know, obviously likely would
2:04:21
continue to do so before November, should you win. One
2:04:24
thing that they brought up as well was a post
2:04:27
from you in 2021 where you said Americans should cancel
2:04:32
Thanksgiving, should have done this in 1621. The post has
2:04:36
been deleted. Republicans have been highlighting it. Do you still
2:04:39
believe that Thanksgiving should be canceled? I'm a chef and
2:04:46
one of the first meals that I made. Can you
2:04:48
believe that? I'm a chef. That's the first words out
2:04:53
of her mouth after, should we get rid of Thanksgiving?
2:04:56
Well, I'm a chef. I'm a chef, yes. That was
2:05:01
for the community when I was 16 was a Thanksgiving
2:05:04
meal. Now, I always think my hospitality background and owning
2:05:09
a restaurant for seven, eight years, that bringing folks around
2:05:12
the table to share conversation and build community is always
2:05:16
a good thing. But Thanksgiving is also a time that's
2:05:20
incredibly painful for many people in our communities. Have you
2:05:24
ever heard that before? Incredibly painful. You know what the
2:05:29
pain would be? Just having to sit next to her
2:05:31
at any meal. That would be painful. I mean, I
2:05:34
understand why people get melancholy around a lot of holidays
2:05:39
or people's birthdays and all that, but it's like Thanksgiving?
2:05:43
No, I don't really... Feel much negativity around it. think
2:05:49
there I wanted to make sure that people understood that
2:05:52
there are multiple views but views can evolve and the
2:05:56
position that I'm running for right now and I think
2:05:59
my background as a chef will actually help me become
2:06:02
a better governor that's able to bring more people. Right
2:06:07
on. Yes chef. We're going to bring everybody together and
2:06:09
get rid of Thanksgiving though so that's definitely perfect. Perfect.
2:06:14
Why not right? Hey I want to um do you
2:06:17
mind if I do the donations here for a second
2:06:19
because there's not a lot and that is obviously disappointing,
2:06:24
but I understand people. You know, the one thing that
2:06:27
really... stuck out. I have thousands of emails. then I've
2:06:35
I'm trying to think I don't know if I can
2:06:37
even reply to everybody I'd like to. Just thousands of
2:06:42
lovely notes. I got one death threat, which is pretty
2:06:46
interesting. Whoa. Oh, yeah, like a real one. Like, you
2:06:50
traitor, I'm coming to kill you. And you're a dead
2:06:54
man. I'm like, okay, I live in Texas. You have
2:06:57
a few guns in the house. I've never gotten a
2:07:00
death threat, I don't think ever in my life. That's
2:07:03
the first time. But a lot of people, and we
2:07:06
saw it in the donations of the two memorial shows
2:07:09
we did. People say, I feel so horrible because I
2:07:14
never donated. I never don't. That was a laugh. Telled
2:07:16
you that I never, I never donated. And now I'm
2:07:21
donating, but I feel horrible about it. And this is
2:07:25
not what John and I always talked about. It's like.
2:07:28
You want to support something because things go away. And
2:07:31
in this case, it's not that we didn't, you know,
2:07:33
the show didn't change because you didn't donate. But don't
2:07:37
feel, you don't, I mean, come on. Yeah. Doesn't that
2:07:41
tell you something? Like, you've got to support. I mean,
2:07:44
I have a little system. calendar reminder at the beginning
2:07:48
of each month that says here's the open source stuff
2:07:51
you're using like FFmpeg. remember to donate to them. I
2:07:58
do. You know, 50 bucks. Like, okay, here you go.
2:08:01
Because I use you a lot and I love all
2:08:03
the volunteers who are working on the FFM peg to
2:08:06
make it great. And they're under incredible strain now because,
2:08:09
you know, all these AI systems are filing bug reports
2:08:12
everywhere. But, you know, you got to do it. And
2:08:17
you know what it is. You give something away, it
2:08:20
comes back tenfold. I can tell you that's really true.
2:08:24
Yeah. Use it as positive reinforcement. You still have time
2:08:27
for the you like to support them. Yes. Yeah. It's
2:08:31
not all that different from neglecting to vote. Exactly. It's
2:08:36
two sides of the same coin, brother. Vote and support
2:08:39
no agenda. It's the exact same thing. Hey, we want
2:08:43
to kick it off with our first executive producer. And
2:08:49
I will read this because I love that the North
2:08:51
Idaho Sanity Brigade from Post Falls, Idaho came in with
2:08:54
$588.88. That's a JCD donation if you ever saw one.
2:09:00
with in the morning larin and dairy yeah so we've
2:09:05
had multiple different combinations and usually they were just what
2:09:08
the jcd said at some point i love it i
2:09:11
love it i love it a few benjamins in a
2:09:14
row of eights in honor of john c devorah crowdfunded
2:09:17
with love by the north idaho sanity brigade we say
2:09:21
benjamins advisedly as it is a ben franklin quote that
2:09:24
encapsulates it all those who would give up essential liberty
2:09:28
to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor
2:09:32
safety. Amen. Thanks to you both for keeping NO Agenda
2:09:35
on the air while the Currys and Dvoraks navigate these
2:09:38
couple of weeks and beyond. It will be exciting to
2:09:40
stay on this ride as we round the bend of
2:09:43
whatever's coming next. In the meantime, we've been plugging away
2:09:46
with our hyper-local version of NO Agenda for the state
2:09:48
of Idaho, the NO ID podcast, which I've heard is
2:09:52
quite good. If you live in Idaho or eastern Washington
2:09:55
and you're curious what this format sounds like when it's
2:09:58
tailored for a specific region, check us out at noidshow.com.
2:10:04
Godspeed, Gitmo Nation, Sir Scott the Jew, and the North
2:10:07
Idaho Sanity Brigade. I'll do all of these because it's
2:10:11
a very short list. Zadok Brown, Parts Unknown, $210.60. We
2:10:17
thank you, and of course. There she is, the rock.
2:10:22
And she's from Castle Rock, Colorado. Linda Lupatkin. Or as
2:10:26
Larry would say, Linda Lupitkin. Did I say that? Have
2:10:31
you ever listened to the show, Larry? Ever? I can't
2:10:34
believe I did that. There were some people asking that.
2:10:36
I love that. Especially like, these guys have never listened
2:10:39
to the show. Never listened to the show. Never once.
2:10:43
You're never going to live it down, bro. Never live
2:10:45
it down. But I'll tell you what I did. I
2:10:46
bought a much bigger monitor so I can see better.
2:10:49
Oh, that helps. Yes. Because the spreadsheet, you've noticed what
2:10:52
John was always complaining about. The spreadsheet blows out. Yes.
2:10:55
I know. And if I can just let you know,
2:10:57
I did vibe code already a Apple app. that I
2:11:01
drag the spreadsheet in and it just spits it out
2:11:03
in plain text. That's the way to do it, man.
2:11:07
Larry, you seem like a, not a Mac guy, are
2:11:12
you like Commodore 64 guy? I would be if I
2:11:18
knew how to work that. I've always been, you know
2:11:23
what, my first computer was a Mac and then I
2:11:27
thought, gee, this isn't that great. I just didn't. And
2:11:32
I forget what the hell the second one was. I
2:11:34
haven't had a bunch of them since then. And now
2:11:36
I have a little lay of Lenovo. That's so, you
2:11:39
know, I'm not a Mac guy. Yeah, the ThinkPad. Lenovo
2:11:42
ThinkPad? Yeah. Yeah, those are good. I got one of
2:11:45
those. Except I run Omarchi on it like a real
2:11:48
man. Well, I'll have to. Linda Lepatkin comes in with
2:11:51
$200 and she wants Jobs Karma and says, for a
2:11:54
competitive edge with a resume that gets results, go to
2:11:57
ImageMakersInc.com. executives turn their experience into a clear story of
2:12:04
leadership results and impact. I may need your services soon,
2:12:07
Linda. Remember, that's Image Makers Inc. with a K. Work
2:12:11
with Linda Liu, Duchess of Jobs and writer of winning
2:12:14
resumes. Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs. Let's vote for jobs.
2:12:20
You got karma. And that is our executive and associate
2:12:25
executive producers. You will be credited, of course, and these
2:12:28
credits are actual Hollywood credits. Larry knows all about it.
2:12:31
You've got some Hollywood credits, don't you, Larry? I do.
2:12:33
I do. I created and co-produced a primetime series for
2:12:40
CBS. What? What was that? Can you tell us? Sure.
2:12:44
It was a reality show. It was called Wickedly Perfect.
2:12:49
The original title was Finding Martha. And it kind of
2:12:54
popped. I was actually on my way the next day
2:12:57
to make a pitch somewhere. And my wife and I
2:13:00
were watching television and Martha Stewart had just been jailed.
2:13:04
Oh, I remember that. Sure. Yeah. And so she said,
2:13:07
man, that'd make a hell of a show. And I
2:13:08
said, you know, you're right. So I spent all night
2:13:11
writing the pitch and the show Bible and everything. And
2:13:14
the next day, boom, it was bought. Wow. Were you
2:13:18
a showrunner? I was not the showrunner. No, not the
2:13:21
showrunner. created by credit. Created by credit and some nice
2:13:26
checks that didn't bounce. And the funny part was, what
2:13:30
they did was, though, they kind of, I wanted it
2:13:32
to be really crazy with like some ghetto fabulous chick
2:13:35
like Missy Elliott or whatever at the helm. And remember,
2:13:39
CBS is about C and D counties, you know? Yeah.
2:13:42
And so they sort of watered it down a lot.
2:13:46
And then they changed the title because apparently Les Moonves
2:13:49
says, yeah, I like this. I like this. Finding Martha
2:13:51
Good. And then the lawyers got in the room and
2:13:52
said, No, no, no, we can't do that. We might
2:13:57
not want to do this. And so it became Wickedly
2:14:01
Perfect. But it was fun. Fun ride. So executive producer
2:14:09
and associate executive producer credits for these three people. I
2:14:13
know we can do better than that, please. And I
2:14:16
want people to know that Larry and Darren are getting
2:14:20
paid for what they're doing. So they participate in the
2:14:23
value for value. We never just ask them to do
2:14:25
it for free. They didn't ask for anything. I said,
2:14:28
no, that's not how it's going to work. So you
2:14:30
are supporting their work while they are here as well.
2:14:33
And we thank you. For as long as they're here.
2:14:35
And you never know how long they'll be here. I'm
2:14:37
kind of feeling comfortable with you boys, to be honest
2:14:39
about it. Brandon Walters, St. Cloud, Florida, 100. Thank you.
2:14:43
Jason Shepard in Trinidad, Colorado, 80 and 76 cents. And
2:14:48
there he is, Sir Kevin McLaughlin, Archduke of Luna, lover
2:14:51
of America and boobs from Concord, North Carolina, 8008. It
2:14:55
is the boob. Put it on your calculator. And he
2:14:57
says, God bless America and boobs.
2:15:00
Laus Deo. And then Locklear. Sorry? That is one long
2:15:04
streak he's got going. Congratulations. He may not even be
2:15:08
alive. It just may be automatic forever for the rest
2:15:12
of our lives. We love you for it, Archduke. Brandon
2:15:15
Locklear, Sugar Hill, Georgia, 77.70. Thank you. We recognize the
2:15:20
number. David Cox, Austin, Texas, 63.25. James Fredericks comes in
2:15:25
with double nickels on the dime. That's $55.10. And he
2:15:29
says, I'm very impressed by Larry and Derry. Thanks. Wow.
2:15:34
You guys have already got stuff going here, man. Larry
2:15:37
and Derry, Larry and Derry. I mean, come on. This
2:15:40
is good. Josiah Thomas, Ankeny, Iowa, 51. the 50s. Foster
2:15:46
Birch, been around for a long time from New York,
2:15:48
New York. Thank you. Sir Alex Savala, Kyle, Texas. We
2:15:51
thank you, Sir Alex. Check out the NICU Dad podcast.
2:15:55
Stefan Trockels in Soest in Deutschland. Not amused. Paisley Refresher
2:16:03
in Great Britain. And $50 and says, from not amused
2:16:06
in the UK, long-time listener, haven't donated in over a
2:16:10
decade. Whoa. Shame on you. Please dedouche. You've been dedouched.
2:16:17
And he says, the show goes on. Keep up the
2:16:21
great work, gentlemen. You guys are doing great work. Stephen
2:16:24
Ray, Spokane, Washington, 50. Edward Mazarik in Memphis, Tennessee. And
2:16:30
Grecia Angel in Monrovia, California. $50 and that wraps up.
2:16:37
all of our donations. And we appreciate all that you
2:16:40
have done for the show. Thank you very much. Well,
2:16:49
this will be short as well. Sir Recalcitrant Crazy Steve
2:16:52
II wishes Sir Rieschmeister a happy birthday celebrating on the
2:16:57
8th. And Sir Recalcitrant Crazy Steve II wishes his daughter
2:17:00
Nicola a happy birthday. She'll be celebrating on August 9th.
2:17:03
And we say happy birthday to everybody here from the
2:17:05
best podcast in the universe. It's your birthday, yeah. By
2:17:09
the way, noagendadonations.com. Can't say it enough. Noagendadonations.com. Now, are
2:17:14
you guys ready? Do we have any meetup reports? I
2:17:16
didn't get any. Did you get any, Darren? No, I
2:17:18
did not. Shut up. www.agentameetups.com London. Saturday, here we go.
2:18:00
In honor of the great JCD, noon, Fool and Flagon
2:18:04
in Hamilton, Ontario. JCD Memorial Mid-South, noon, at High Cotton
2:18:09
Brewing in Memphis, Tennessee. In memory of JCD, 1230 at
2:18:13
Delaware Park Casino, Third Floor Roonies in Wilmington. That sounds
2:18:17
like fun. Copper Country Lunch to celebrate JCD, 2 o'clock.
2:18:22
Copper Range Depot Family Restaurant, Houghton, Michigan. We drink and
2:18:26
we know Absinthe Friends, 2 o'clock. 3BR Distillery in Keyport,
2:18:30
New Jersey. Local 512 Buzzkill Memorial. That, of course, is
2:18:36
Baron Scott of the No Agenda Armory at Doc's Backyard
2:18:39
in Sunset Valley, Austin, Texas. Wish I could go. I
2:18:42
believe... My periodontist will be there. Maverick, also known as
2:18:48
Mitch, he's going to show up. In memory of JCD,
2:18:51
2 o'clock in Calapuya Brewing in Albany, Oregon. That's a
2:18:59
great name. Not a great band name. Go give Andrew
2:19:32
a hug. Good luck and Godspeed, JCD. 4 o'clock at
2:19:35
Sound to Summit Brewing in Snohomish, Washington. Farewell to John,
2:19:39
5.30 at Dempsey's in Columbus, Ohio. Remembering JCD, 6 o'clock
2:19:44
at Blair's All Sports Bar and Grill in Springfield, Missouri.
2:19:47
Celebration of JCD's life, 6 o'clock on the Half Shell
2:19:51
Oyster Bar in Prairieville, Louisiana. Siam Soiree in honor of
2:19:57
JCD 630. That is going to be in... Is that
2:20:03
O'Shea's Irish pub Sukhumvit? Sukhumvit? Where is that? Is that
2:20:09
India? Maybe it's Indochine time, it says. That is a
2:20:13
word I have not seen. Look up Sukhumvit. Look up
2:20:16
Sukhumvit for me, will you? That's Sir Richard of the
2:20:19
Kawarthas. I have no idea where that is. O'Shea's Irish
2:20:23
Pub. That's kind of cool. That's in Bangalore. Wow. That's
2:20:27
the best part. JCD Celebration of Life 630, and that
2:20:32
is at Gage Road Fremantle Brewery in Perth in Fremantle,
2:20:36
Western Australia. Bangkok, Thailand. It is Thailand? Okay. Oh, the
2:20:41
lady boys celebrating JCD. Love it. August 9th, ITM, Virginia,
2:20:46
and thank you for your courage. JCD 138, Gloucester Brewing
2:20:50
in Gloucester. serve Virginia. WWJCDD, what would John C. Dvorak
2:20:56
do? 5 o'clock on Sunday at Fox and the Hound
2:20:59
in Langley Township, British Columbia, Scandinavia. ITMJCD, rest in power.
2:21:05
6 o'clock at Grape and Hop in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
2:21:09
So two going on this weekend there. And also on
2:21:12
Sunday, the AmsterdamJCD Memory 6.30 at Bar Restaurant Lely in
2:21:20
Amsterdam. Thank you. Still to come in the month of
2:21:24
August, this is a crazy list. Arkansas on the 23rd,
2:21:53
the 29th, Rhode Island, and also on the 29th, Zurich,
2:21:56
Switzerland. Many, many, many more can be. Oh, I have
2:22:00
the 30th. There's still, wait, there's more. Chester Springs, Pennsylvania,
2:22:04
Rhode Island. That's on the 30th. It's out of sequence.
2:22:06
Rhode Island on the 29th. Chester Springs, Nebraska on the
2:22:10
30th. And then we're into September, October, November. It just
2:22:13
keeps on going. No agenda meetups. I hope we'll never
2:22:16
stop. I think that they're a great legacy of the
2:22:20
show. You can still bring heads on stick. But we
2:22:23
expect meetup reports and this should be just a whole
2:22:27
bunch of them. Send them to me, adam.currie.com and just
2:22:31
record it on your phone. I'll edit them all. Don't
2:22:34
worry about it. If you can edit it, that's even
2:22:37
better. Try and do your best, actually, with pre-editing. It
2:22:41
really does help now that I think about it. Don't
2:22:44
you have an AI for that yet? Come on. I
2:22:46
probably could set that up now that I think about
2:22:49
it. And we'll see if I can get all of
2:22:52
those done by Sunday, otherwise Thursday. And just thank you
2:22:56
all for organizing this. The Dvorak family and I and
2:23:02
Horace, we all talked about there's a memorial for him
2:23:06
in Oakland. thing. There's something John used to do whenever
2:23:12
he went into a hotel lobby or a bar anywhere.
2:23:17
And if there was a piano player, he would always
2:23:19
ask the piano player to play Stairway to Heaven. So
2:23:24
there's going to be a piano player playing Stairway to
2:23:27
Heaven. is kind of the sick humor of the Dvoraks.
2:23:31
You got to love them for that. Uh, where was
2:23:35
I? Um... Whatever I was saying. We were talking about
2:23:41
we wanted to have a community meetup. It's so complicated.
2:23:46
We couldn't even ever get a big meetup together. We
2:23:50
talked about the Sphere and Vegas and all kinds of
2:23:53
venues where people could get to easily. This is the
2:23:56
way I expected NOAA Gena Nation to go. Do it
2:23:59
locally. Do it with your people. And don't let it
2:24:03
be the last time. This should be just the beginning,
2:24:05
just the first of many, more no agenda meetups go
2:24:09
to no agenda meetups.com you can find the entire list
2:24:11
thank you sir daniel for all the work that you
2:24:13
have done and if you can't find one near you
2:24:15
it's easy to start one yourself no agenda meetups.com sometimes
2:24:20
you want to go hang out with all ♪ Dicks
2:24:23
and dames ♪ You wanna be where you won't be
2:24:28
Triggered or held to blame But it feels the same
2:24:39
Can I drop off here? Because I got a guy
2:24:42
coming here to pick up my dog at 3.30 exactly.
2:24:45
And I got to make sure that my, you know,
2:24:47
I got to kiss my dog goodbye because I love
2:24:49
my dog. Sounds good. And I'll talk to you guys
2:24:51
Sunday. Thank you. Thank you, Adam. No, thank you. Thank
2:24:54
you. Thank you. Thank you. Treat these guys with respect.
2:24:57
They're awesome. Love you mean it. No homo. Exactly. That's
2:25:02
the way to leave a show right there. That's perfect.
2:25:05
You don't top that. And yeah, all those meetups, I
2:25:08
can't wait to hear those meetup reports. It should be
2:25:12
entertaining. The JCD stories, we want to hear them. But
2:25:18
yeah, just do a little editing. It's nice. I took
2:25:20
my portable Zoom recorder out to our meetup and it
2:25:26
makes it a lot easier. But if it's on a
2:25:27
phone. you can still make it sound. Sure. Those zooms
2:25:32
are great. I got one of those. It's a nice
2:25:34
unit. And I do have, we have to start getting
2:25:36
you to bring some ISOs as well for the end
2:25:38
of show. But I do have a couple that were
2:25:41
sent in here, including this one, because in honor, JCD
2:25:46
loved the. the text-to-speech Trump and Obama, so... They are
2:25:53
shrinking the amygdalas. DONATE Kind of a long pause in
2:26:01
there. It was an okay Trump, though. It was a
2:26:03
very good Trump, I thought. And this one from the
2:26:06
AI Menu Bot. Sorry, did I make a mistake? Try
2:26:10
saying add or remove. Which, I mean, that's the world
2:26:14
that you now are going to be living in. Anytime
2:26:17
you want to try to go and order a, you
2:26:20
know, a Frosty or something, that's what you're going to
2:26:23
get. Except they sound much less synthetic than she did,
2:26:27
I've got to say. There's some that are getting better,
2:26:30
some that are getting worse. But I think for today's
2:26:34
show, I want to honor the late, great J.C.D. and
2:26:38
try this one. Oh, you cheap bastard. I mean, I
2:26:41
think that. That's good. I think that pretty much is.
2:26:45
Donate, donate. I think it was my buddy Noberay. always
2:26:50
trolling along when we were doing Planet Rage. Like, you
2:26:54
gotta complain about the donations otherwise. You're not doing JCD
2:26:58
rights? Maybe. Maybe he's got a little bit of a
2:27:04
point there. I'm not going to say. That he is
2:27:07
wrong. And, oh, what we didn't do earlier either was
2:27:10
the troll count. Right now, 733 with a peak of
2:27:17
850. And, yeah, they ran. Troll count. People, they're not
2:27:27
happy unless they hear the drops. That's for darn sure.
2:27:31
Did you have anything else that you wanted to cover
2:27:34
on today's show? I think that kicks it in the
2:27:37
head, Darren. Wait, is that a good kick in the
2:27:40
head or is that a... That is a recognition of
2:27:46
a New York talk radio legend named Bob Grant. He
2:27:49
used to end every show like that. That kicks it
2:27:51
in the head for another day. Well, that makes sense.
2:27:54
So that is going to do it for another edition
2:28:00
of the Best Damn Podcast in the Universe coming up
2:28:02
next on the Mighty No Agenda stream. The MMO show.
2:28:09
You always wonder what that MMO stands for. The Millennial
2:28:13
Media Offensive. Episode number 230. We have some end of
2:28:21
show mixes coming up. from, let's see, oh, the great
2:28:26
Sir Chris Wilson. And now if I don't say it's
2:28:28
the great big Steve Stones, he's not going to be...
2:28:32
So we got a couple of those, which is good.
2:28:34
We didn't have one last time, and I had to
2:28:37
play the Wind of Oryx chair, gently squeaks, and you
2:28:41
know. There's only so much of that that people can
2:28:44
handle. So coming to you from just outside of Chiraq,
2:28:48
right here in FEMA Region Number 5, in the morning,
2:28:51
everybody, I am Darren O'Neill. And from the pretentious Connecticut
2:28:56
shore, I'm Larry Blydener. We will be back here on
2:29:01
Sunday. Remember us at NoAgendaDonations.com. Until then, hooey, hooey. Thank
2:29:08
you for your courage. Adios, mofos and such. Donate. What
2:29:14
more do you need to know? Do it. You see
2:29:17
that? Yeah? That's shit. And this? Shinola. Shit. Shinola. Son,
2:29:28
you're gonna be alrighty, alrighty. You can't even stop saying
2:29:34
bullshit. Bull crap. Bull crap. You're doing good so far.
2:29:40
We used to laugh at that shit. Help, I've fallen,
2:29:42
I can't get up. Now it's like... You said it
2:29:44
way too much. I'm sorry. Cut it back. I can't
2:29:48
help myself. - He's crying. - Oh, it's horrible. No,
2:29:55
I'm going to say it. I'm going to say it.
2:29:57
I'm going to say it. I would say that I
2:29:58
was going to say it and say it, but I'm
2:29:59
not going to.
2:30:00
I have to say it. That's bullshit. It's unreal you
2:30:04
said bullshit again. You know, that's a difference between you
2:30:08
and me. I asked you to stop saying shit. Hey,
2:30:14
no! Bullshit Bull crap incredible momentum of AI and robots.
2:30:48
And at times I sort of think, well, perhaps, you
2:30:51
know, even if there was a stop button, we probably
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shouldn't press it. Imagine there's no Elon. It's easy. If
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you try X goes back to being Twitter No need
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for blue sky Imagine all the people Cancelled from today
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Imagine there's no Tesla. It is. ♪ Cars catching on
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fire ♪ ♪ No self-immolating ♪ ♪ Power walls too
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♪ ♪ Imagine all the people ♪ ♪ Driving normal
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cars ♪ ♪ Well you may say I'm a douchebag
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♪ you But I'm not the only one Someday you'll
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come and join me We can make the world a
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little more fun Imagine there's no SpaceX No rockets in
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the sky No internet from Starlink No IPO to buy
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Imagine all the people Relying on 5G Well you may
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say I'm a retard Yeah, well I'm not the only
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one Maybe one day you'll come and join me And
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make the world more stupid and dumb Cheers. Incredible abundance.
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For all. The best podcast in the universe! Oh, Beau.
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Dvorak.org slash N-A. Oh, you cheap bastard.