No Agenda - 1629 - "Sunflower Kids"

Episode Date: January 28, 2024

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Starting point is 00:00:00 going into the bin baby adam curry john c devora it's sunday january 28 2024 this is your award winning k-pop nation media assassination episode 1629 this is no agenda taking the p out of propaganda and broadcasting live from the heart of the texas hill country here in fema region number six in the morning everybody i'm I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley, where we call it Roppaganda, I'm John C. DeVore. It's Crackpot and Buzzkill. It's all Roppaganda. All of it.
Starting point is 00:00:35 All of it, all of it, all of it. My goodness. Texas is propaganda central right now. Oh, why? Oh, the convoy. Eagle eagle pass take back our borders i i really i must alert everyone this is abbott has been activated this is all politics there's nothing based in reality and everyone's getting all jacked up. Really.
Starting point is 00:01:09 Did you see the photo of all the tractors? Yeah, well. I consider it an AI photo because it's like, where is this thing where you have these tears, like a hillside with tears and tears and tears, all with thousands of tractors, supposedly at the Texas border. I'm telling you, of course people are going to show up at the border. Let me run through a couple of clips because this is, the battlefield is now between your ears. This is, and you'd think, oh, yeah, we're the good guys. No, you're being propagandist. We're talking about a two-mile stretch of border.
Starting point is 00:01:45 There's people walking across three miles down the road. But oh no, it's going to be take back our borders. Texas responded Friday to Washington's demands for border access with demands of its own for the federal government. Demands for proof, wrote Attorney General Ken Paxton, of the government's authority to turn a Texas park into a port of entry. Any time you might spend suing Texas should be redirected toward enforcing the immigration laws Congress already has on the books, Paxton wrote. A strong response came as Customs and Border
Starting point is 00:02:16 Protection officially reported more than 302,000 encounters at the southern border in December, the highest monthly number ever recorded. More people than the entire population of the city of Plano. Governor Greg Abbott said today he had asked the president eight times to help with no response, giving him constitutional authority to protect the state from an invasion. Dallas appellate lawyer David Cole thinks the invasion argument has some weaknesses, but he said Texas may be able to make an argument on exactly how much control over immigration the federal government actually has. Cole agreed it is very awkward right now having military and law enforcement both on opposite sides of all of this down at the border. The governor also noted today he believes all 25 states that are backing texas in its efforts would be willing to
Starting point is 00:03:05 send troops to help if they're needed all right time to load them up get it ready locked and loaded we're going to the border don't go oh my god i thought you were going well i was gonna go until first of all we have boots on the ground plenty of boots on the ground obviously people are sick of what's happening at the border. But this is nothing more than a Republican Party setup against Biden, of course. And I think I can reasonably prove this. I'm not quite sure what Tucker is doing, if he's really just a willing idiot in all of this. But he had Ken Paxton on, our state's attorney general. Isn't that the guy they tried to impeach oh yeah
Starting point is 00:03:45 oh yeah so how's he a guy what's the deal with him first let's get a little background on this guy first of all the republicans in texas tried to get this guy out but now he's like their spokesperson yes there was a battle for him and i don't know don't think it was all the Republicans, but there was definitely a faction that did not like him. And I have to say, at the time, it seems like a pretty reasonable guy. He's doing good things for the state. But now it's clear that Abbott is just the globalist shill. have to realize you've got uh from seriously from mccallan airport there's there's they're basically bringing in young aged men not to create a an army inside of america they're cheap labor and it's republican and democrat you know companies you know it's just companies
Starting point is 00:04:40 capitalists you know our children are too lazy to go and work in crappy ass jobs. And so we need to bring them in. And they're walking right through TSA. This is all the United Nations Office of International Migration and the faith-based organizations that are paid thousands of dollars for the immigrant resettlement program. It's all a scam and we're all being played. And when I heard this short exchange between Tucker and Kemp-Paxton, it has nothing to do with what's going on with the immigrants in America. It's about getting Biden out and the Democrats and blah, blah, blah. It's just propaganda. So what would happen if Biden decides to, quote, federalize the National Guard of Texas? Look, he can do that.
Starting point is 00:05:32 Any president can do that. I think that that pretty much ends his election possibilities. Not that they're that good now anyway, but this is becoming the number one issue. When you come into a state like Texas that I think people can clearly see, we're just trying to protect ourselves from crime and terrorism and a lot of bad consequences. I don't think, and now these liberal sanctuary cities know the same problem. They've got just a little bit of what we have and they know that this is real. So I think it's becoming more, Americans are becoming more aware. And I think if Joe Biden decides to force that onto us by taking over the National Guard, I think it's an automatic loss he's done. And so, you know, in some ways,
Starting point is 00:06:11 you know, we have to suffer with the consequences for a few months if he does that, which I still hope he doesn't. But in the end, he loses the election. Absolutely. If he does that. Oh, it seems like this is only about the election, Ken Paxton. Tucker, please lead the witness some more. Do you think it's possible that he will? I mean, I guess it's possible. No, but what would you rate the likelihood? You know, I don't know. I mean, I don't really think...
Starting point is 00:06:33 By the way, stop. Anybody who says, you know, first they get into the topic and then they milk it and then just to stretch it even more is a question you can't answer what do you think's the likelihood what's the percentage one to ten that'll be next or what is your you know just drag it out that's a good good catch yeah it's leading the witness it's obvious it's obvious
Starting point is 00:06:57 okay we'll continue do you think it's possible that he will i mean i guess it's possible no but what what would you rate the likelihood? 20. You know, I don't know. I mean, I don't really think Biden's thinking about this much. I think it's his handlers, whoever's behind the scenes making those decisions. If I knew who that was, I could probably better give you an answer. But, you know, I have no idea what he'll do because I don't think he knows what he's going to do. And after he's done, I'm not sure he even would recognize what he did. So if I knew he was making that decision, I could actually direct questions at him or somebody could. I think that would be helpful. But we don't know who's running the country right now. Yeah, no, I don't. I've never met someone who could answer conclusively who's
Starting point is 00:07:37 in charge of the United States. Obviously, it's not him. It's only about who's in charge and Biden's going to lose. It's a lose lose forose for him. I mean, that was kind of embarrassing. It's like, if you really want to talk about the problem, talk about the problem. And clearly, the busing was the setup. I'm not saying that that was wrong. I mean, I'm not saying that I don't agree with, hey, give it to the sanctuary cities. All of that is correct. But we are being played.
Starting point is 00:08:04 And we're being played. And we're being played, and you called it on the last show, with the TakeBackOurBorder.com website, which seemed very sketch. Sketch, I said it, sketch. Sketch! 700,000 trucks. And so this is Fox Business News. They bring on a Texas representative.
Starting point is 00:08:27 I don't even know who this guy is, but he's a Republican. And he goes too far and he shows his hand. But even the setup where first they show you the map. Look at all these Republican states, all the governors. They're backing Texas. You think it's political? They're backing Texas. Hmm.
Starting point is 00:08:43 Do you think it's political? Texas now receiving support from 25 Republican governors, all backing Governor Abbott's border actions, blaming the Biden administration for the crisis. I want to bring in Texas Congressman Lieutenant Colonel Keith Self. Congressman, good morning. Let's talk about this trucker convoy. You brought this up just a moment ago. So this is called Take Our Border Back. It kicks off Monday.
Starting point is 00:09:08 So you've got multiple starts. You've got trucks leaving from Virginia Beach that are going to go through Texas, Arizona, California. On the website, it describes the event as a peaceful assembly, encouraging all freedom-loving and law-abiding Americans to attend. I saw that you posted on X to raise awareness about that. You obviously just mentioned it a moment ago. I understand that you're going to be speaking once they get to Eagle Pass. I also see that it's going to go through Yuma. It's going to go to San Ysidro, California as well. 700,000 vehicles, that's the prediction here. How do you keep that, well, peaceful and on track? That's a lot of trucks well the people that
Starting point is 00:09:47 have organized this are the same people that went to california to dc with the truckers i understand we're going to be joined by canadian truckers so these people are committed to a peaceful demonstration now pay attention to what he's saying here he's saying all these the people who did the the trucker convoy to D.C. And then he says, and we're going to be joined by the Canadian truckers. What? Seriously now, the Canadian truckers? He is playing on visuals. Oh, yeah, the Canadian truckers.
Starting point is 00:10:17 Yeah, we're all for the Canadian truckers. And he'll even bring in the farmers. And on track. That's a lot of trucks. Well, the people that have organized this are the same people that went to California to D.C. with the truckers. I understand we're going to be joined by Canadian truckers. So these people are committed to a peaceful demonstration that we've had enough. The American people have had enough. We're demanding that the Biden
Starting point is 00:10:42 administration do its job, enforce the laws on the books and secure our border. Eight million people during the Biden administration. That's more than the population of Ohio. This is the time for us to rise up as the American people and demand that our president do his job. All right. So he I don't believe this for a second. I do not believe there's going to be 700 000 trucks they set that number out there the number is being propagated everywhere and then of course the fox business news model asked the obvious question his answer is quite interesting congressman i love the fact that people are standing up and using their voices peacefully. But we know that bad actors in the past have co-opted these types of events and done everything they can to make the peace loving Americans look bad.
Starting point is 00:11:34 Are you concerned that there might be some sort of co-opting of this convoy? That's always a probability. But you learn as you do these events. What? That may be a possibility, but why would you say that may be a probability? That's always a probability. I thought you said possibility. No, you said probability.
Starting point is 00:11:57 That's always a probability, but you learn. Probability. I don't like that. I don't like that. I don't like that. I don't like it. Always a probability. But you learn as you do these events. So they now know that that might have been in the past.
Starting point is 00:12:14 So they've got measures in place to make sure that does not happen. And I am hopeful that that will not happen because this should be a peaceful movement of the American people joined by other nations if they want to come. This is the Canadian farmer, trucker. This is the German farmers. This is the French farmers. Really? This is the Dutch farmers. This is a movement well beyond the United States that people are simply tired of the overreach of their federal governments.
Starting point is 00:12:42 And we're pushing back. Now is the time. Well, how many federal governments are there besides ours? How come they always say, I've noticed this before recently. I don't have any clips, but where they're referring to like the French federal government or the British and they say, well, the federal government. They don't have federal governments. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:13:03 So a couple of things here. government federal governments exactly so a couple things here um so you know the biden administration i don't know if i actually have a clip of that i think i actually do um said oh we're uh we're stopping all lpg export licenses and immediately that's oh they're trying to screw with texas i don't think so i think what what biden is trying to do is keep lots of gas in america and maybe do something about inflation lowering liquid lowering natural gas prices it doesn't seem like that was a punitive move all these messages everywhere and then of course what do you do on the other side i agree they should be putting that gas into play here yeah well and that's what they're doing it has
Starting point is 00:13:51 nothing to do with this doesn't they just stopping the export license doesn't mean they stop the pumping no and so immediately we get vice i want to remind everybody that Vice went bankrupt and was purchased by one of its major debt holders, Soros. Soros Investments, for $200 million. They wound up buying it for like $2. And here is their headline. Protest convoy headed to southern border is calling itself an army of God. protest convoy headed to southern border is calling itself an army of god experts say that the christian nationalist rhetoric adds a dangerous dimension to the
Starting point is 00:14:30 standoff between texas and the federal government and this is written by tess owen and let's look at some other vice news stories by tess owen hmm extremists call for civil war and succession over texas border ruling. Far right. Congressman explains there aren't enough white people joining the army. Republican wants schools to call animal control on furry students. Come on, people. That's a good one, actually. So this is a war for your mind. And well's get some joy read to uh to balance out the coverage here something called take our border back convoy um noted this online today and here
Starting point is 00:15:14 is a pullout just of the text in this invitation it says calling all truckers bikers law enforcement veterans military elected yeah bikers yeah we need some bikers calling all truckers we're podcasters podcasters podcasters bikers law enforcement veterans military elected officials business owners ranches and freedom loving americans it's supposed to start in virginia beach on monday it's separate rallies on february 3rd near eagle pass texas yuma arizona and sandy sidra california they're saying it's supposed to be a peaceful convoy and active activism. But the lineup of people sounds a lot like the lineup of people who were at January 6th. Right, listen, as long as it's peaceful, I agree. Really? He says, it sounds like the same people that were at January 6th.
Starting point is 00:16:02 It's a lot like the lineup of people who were at January 6th. It's a lot like the lineup of people who were at January 6th. Listen, as long as it's peaceful, I support people's right to protest. Yeah, you know who that is. Don't like what's happening on the border. As long as it's peaceful, right? As long as it's peaceful, right?
Starting point is 00:16:19 As long as it's peaceful, right? As long as it's peaceful, right? But this idea that trying to spark some sort of civil war, that's a real problem. That's not a small thing. And when you look at that map, you see a lot of places where there are very few people
Starting point is 00:16:36 and the places in between places are the places that are angry. They are the places where the power doesn't reside in the culture and therefore they want to be separate from the places power doesn't reside in the culture. And therefore, they want to be separate from the places where it does reside in the culture. The biggest universities are not there. The biggest
Starting point is 00:16:51 cities are not there. They feel overwhelmed. But you cannot plan to break away from the United States just because you feel overwhelmed. You have to win the argument. And that is where they are failing. Yeah, I think a lot of people forget what originally sparked on the note yes what argument is he talking about
Starting point is 00:17:13 he's just talking poop he has nothing to say nothing to say but you cannot you know plan to break away from the united states just because you feel overwhelmed you have to win the argument who wants to break away from the united states because they feel overwhelmed. You have to win the argument. Who wants to break away from the United States because they feel overwhelmed? But this is the propaganda. Oh, they want us to secede. Does he just throw that in? Yes, yes.
Starting point is 00:17:33 They want us to secede. Break away from the United States just because you feel overwhelmed. You have to win the argument. And that is where they are failing. Yeah, I think a lot of people forget that what originally sparked the notion of civil war was an election. It was the election of Abraham Lincoln, who the slave-holding South did not want to be the president of the United States.
Starting point is 00:17:54 They feared he'd take away their money-making human bondage industry. Yeah, human bondage industry. Okay, well, let's just throw a couple more on top of it. Let's bring in the ladies from The View. We need to do more of this. More! Tim Scott shocked a lot of people because he claims to be a man of faith, just like Mike Pence. Let's throw a couple more on top of it. Let's bring in the ladies from The View. We need to do more of this. More. Tim Scott shocked a lot of people because he claims to be a man of faith, just like Mike Pence claims to have been a man of faith. They have every religious person scared that they're coming for their religion while the devil takes their soul.
Starting point is 00:18:17 They are not even walking in the path of, as Tim Alberta said, you can either take up the sword with a strong man like Donald Trump or you can walk in the path of Jesus. They have all completely. They're quoting some kind of scripture here, John. You've got to pay attention. Yeah, they're butchering some sort of scripture and calling Donald Trump a strong man. A strong man. Devil takes their soul. They are not even walking in the path of, as Tim Alberta said, you can either take up the sword with a strong man like Donald Trump or you can walk in the path of Jesus.
Starting point is 00:18:48 They have all completely turned their cheek on their faith. I was thinking about it. Turn their cheek on their faith. This is a new one. These women on the viewer are a bunch of atheists. I love turning their cheek on faith. This is fantastic. They're a bunch of atheists
Starting point is 00:19:07 and then they go off every once in a while. I don't know what the point of going in the other direction is. It's baffling to me to listen to these people. Well, that's why it's fun. They have all completely turned their cheek to their faith. I was thinking
Starting point is 00:19:23 about all of this today and it's like, you know, Trump is in the way. I was thinking about all of this today. And it's like, you know, Trump is in the way. I was thinking the smoke was coming out of my ears. Cheek to their faith. I was thinking about all of this today. And it's like, you know, Trump is in the way as a man of the times. You know, like when Ronald Reagan was around and John Kennedy and the rest of them, there was a certain decorum in the atmosphere.
Starting point is 00:19:43 There is total chaos now because of social media and all of the things that any anonymous idiot can make a statement. He is what many people realize that they were. This is really up to us. It's not up to the media. It's not up to us at the table. It is strictly in your hands. What country do you want to be in? What country do you want to be in? What country do you want to be in? Do you want to be in a country where people can live up to their potential no matter what
Starting point is 00:20:11 their faith is, no matter what their visual is, no matter what their proclivities are? Is that the country you want where you can be who you are? Or do you want to be in a country where the man says day one i'm going to be a dictator oh misquote dictator dictator come on so they're just and you know again just go listen to c-span in the morning you'll hear democrat line he's going to be a dictator you'll hear from day one from day one you'll hear republican line biden's letting a man ruin the country. Pretty much the same story. Just to prove Gummy Nerd is 33 wrong, because he's such a douche in the troll room.
Starting point is 00:20:55 Gummy Nerd, 33? Yeah, he's a douche. He's a douche? Yeah. She's a guy or a girl? You may have misgendered him. Yeah, I hope I did. Good.
Starting point is 00:21:04 Adam isn't even aware that the canadian truckers are ruling on the field to help yeah i am douche a federal court has ruled the government's use of the emergencies act during the convoy protests back in 2022 was not justified the cbc's karina roman is live in ot And Karina, you've been reading over the decision, which runs nearly 200 pages. So we're just all kind of getting our heads into it. But so far, what have you been able to glean from it? Okay, so let's just go over the language that the judge used in terms of his conclusion. This was actually quite an interesting take that happened.
Starting point is 00:21:41 And I think it's worthy of two clips that you know trudeau going after the truckers taking their money blocking their money was completely illegal and they're humming a humming a humming about it um saying i have concluded that the decision to issue the proclamation that would be the invoking of the emergency act does not bear the hallmarks of reasonableness, justification, transparency and intelligibility and was not justified in relation to the relevant factual and legal constraints that were required to be taken into consideration. Now, obviously, that is news that he found very differently than the public inquiry, the Rouleau Commission, which found the government was justified in invoking the Emergencies Act, Andrew. And of course, you know, in this 190 plus
Starting point is 00:22:33 pages, there are many, many reasons. And he goes over the arguments of both sides, just to give people a sense of what parts of the Charter we're talking about. We're talking about Section 2B, which is the freedom of expression, Section 8, which is search and seizure. He did not find that there was any infringement on the right to assembly, because even though, of course, people were restricted in where they were allowed to go, that is allowed,'s a reasonable limits but in terms of freedom of expression and assertion seizure that's where he found there were infringements actually it might have been blue douche 33 i don't know it's someone named douche
Starting point is 00:23:14 so uh yeah i know about all this but so what what difference does it make what do you mean at this point what difference does it make they can't you know make At this point, what difference does it make? They can't make Trudeau bend over and take 20 lashes. Well, it was really the, it was Chrystia Freeland who was in charge of this operation. I do have a...
Starting point is 00:23:38 Yeah, she resigned, I think, didn't she? Well... She came out and apologized for some horrible thing. She's a horrible woman she's not apologizing here so we are aware of the court decision we have discussed you notice the cadence oh yeah this is the the same milieu of susan rice lisa monaco they all have the same exact they're all part of some sort of a some sort of a underlying milieu didn't she go there was something about her background that i recall let me look it up i would listen to the clip so we are aware of the court decision decision. We have discussed it with the Prime Minister, with cabinet colleagues, with senior
Starting point is 00:24:29 federal government officials and experts. We respect very much Canada's independent judiciary. However, we do not agree with this decision, and respectfully, we will be appealing it. I would just like to take a moment to remind Canadians of how serious the situation was in our country when we took that decision. The public safety of Canadians was under threat. Our national security, which includes our national economic security, was under threat. It was a hard decision to take. was under threat. It was a hard decision to take. We took it very seriously after a lot of hard work,
Starting point is 00:25:31 after a lot of careful deliberation. We were convinced at the time, I was convinced at the time, it was the right thing to do. It was the necessary thing to do it was the necessary thing to do i remain and we remain convinced of that uh so she says there was it was necessary there was a national emergency that's actually the the part that is most damning as there was there were issues in Ottawa, but no way was there a national emergency. And in terms of the justifiability, Andrew, you'll recall that there was a lot of talk about the CSIS definition of a national threat to security.
Starting point is 00:26:17 And what's interesting is the judge found it doesn't actually matter whether or not CSIS said that there was a national security threat or not. I mean, that should be given weight. You know, it's something to actually consider. But it's not the sole reason to invoke it. So you might say, well, then why did he say they were unjustified? And again, Andrew, I've only read parts of it. But from what I gather, it really comes down to this was not a national emergency, that he talks as well about some of the financial penalties they brought in in terms of seizing and freezing bank accounts
Starting point is 00:27:09 because that affected people beyond just the people they were trying to affect. That itself was an overstep. But he does say that the cabinet had the right and the power to invoke in terms of that is within their power, but they did not have the justification it was an unreasonable move based on all the evidence before him yeah i got it then again yes so what well you said you said yourself to our our friendly canadians
Starting point is 00:27:42 of grimerica is that they're good at complaining and maybe they'll complain enough. Yes, I did bring up that thesis. When they complain and they keep complaining, that's very offensive. They're complaining about me. Just for people, I was on Grimerica and I have a thesis about the American Revolution.
Starting point is 00:28:07 The difference between the canadians and the united states when they were both run by britain is that we had a we had an armed revolution we're a violent folk the canadians never did they never had an armed revolution they just complained and they complained and complain and they are and even they kind of know they're really good at complaining yeah it works and it does work yeah it does work it's different it's a different approach than our approach which is to shoot someone but so while we're in uh in this season of reveal now we know okay so that was bogus our trucker thing this 700 000 trucks is a boat i don't understand why any trucker would go down to texas you have to the vibe in texas is we're gonna get them i mean people are spun up seriously they're spun up yeah we're gonna we're not gonna stand for it i pray that everything goes okay down there it won't take much look at
Starting point is 00:29:14 just look at the videos on tiktok and youtube and everyone's racking up their guns and getting ready it's like oh god please it's not worth it. Not this. This is not the battleground. I think Abbott went too far. And it's not even him. It's just all the media. All these other organizations like this other sketchy operation. Sketchy?
Starting point is 00:29:41 Say the Borders Org or whatever it is. Yeah. You have to wonder what's going going on really going on i that's why i wouldn't go to the border in a million years some we have boots on the ground so but seriously three miles away from eagle pass people walking across the border hello i'm in so this is a there was a guy in fact there was there was a guy on one of the tv networks that was just walking back and forth across the border i'm in the united states i'm in mexico i'm in the united you go back and forth and back and forth exactly now this you brought up the point of the uh replacements you're bringing in yet because our people don't want to work. Migration replacement.
Starting point is 00:30:25 Yes, migration replacement. I have a series of TikTok videos. Oh. Alrighty then. About the Gen Z. The Gen Z's who don't want to work. Can I play the jingle first?
Starting point is 00:30:43 Can I play the jingle? Just so we feel good about it? Talk. Talk. TikTok. have uh can i play the jingle first and play the jingle just so we feel good about it talk talk now i have a different ways of looking at this and i i got one clip that'll kind of push it over to one side but there are rational reasons that and i've and i've seen these videos why these kids don't want to work because it's like they're being exploited, the minimum wage isn't what it should be, it's 40% below what it should be, on and on. You see a lot of it.
Starting point is 00:31:15 But I'm taking more of the critical side of this because I think that's always more beneficial if people can take criticism, even though these folks apparently can't. I want to play a few of these. I have quite a few, actually. But they're entertaining. I want to start with the Gen Z dude who's quitting. Here's why I'm quitting my first full-time job.
Starting point is 00:31:40 For one, we have to go into the office every day. I have to wake up at eight so i can get into the office by nine sometimes even earlier two people always are telling me what to do that's not how i roll you just because just because you're in a position above me doesn't mean you can tell me what to do okay and three i'm not getting paid over 100k yes this is my first full-time job but also i know my worth and it's well over 100k and i'm not getting that so i'm excited to announce that i am quitting and pursuing full-time social media influencer brands if you would like to work with me, please hit me up.
Starting point is 00:32:25 Thank you. Well, this is a loaded clip. Yes, of course. This is Noodle Boy Part 2, more or less. And this guy is just so full of himself and he's going to be an influencer.
Starting point is 00:32:44 Okay, sure. Which is the number one dream job of most young people. Yeah. Well, it is a dream job because if you were an influencer, you could actually pull it off, which is rare.
Starting point is 00:32:56 You can make a million dollars a year. Yeah. Easy. For a while. Yeah, it's not forever. As long as you feed the algos i do want to get to the classic though i should play this one first this is the one this woman uh the nine to five gals the clip she is the one that set a lot of this off articles were written
Starting point is 00:33:20 about her she's that there's at least 10 clips of her apologizing for one thing or another, and then she finally ended up quitting her job, and she's got a clip of that. But this is the original clip that got everything started insofar as the Gen Zs being condemned by other people. I know I'm probably just being so dramatic and annoying, but this is my first job, like my first 9-to-5 job after college, and I'm in person and I'm commuting in the city and it takes me fucking forever to get there. There's no way I'm going to be able to afford living in the city right now. So that's off the table. Like fucking duh. If I was able to walk to work and it would be fine, but I'm not.
Starting point is 00:33:57 So it literally takes me like I leave here like I get on the train at 730 and I don't get home till like 615 earliest. And then like I don't have time to do anything. I don't, I want to shower, eat my dinner and go to sleep. I don't have time or energy to cook my dinner either. Like I don't have energy to work out. Like that's out the window. Like I'm so upset. Oh my God.
Starting point is 00:34:19 Nothing to do with my job at all. But just like the nine to five schedule in general is crazy. Being the office nine to five like if it was remote you get off at five and you're home and everything's fine but like i'm not home it takes me long to get home and like like people that drive to the office like it doesn't you don't get off at five and i know it could be worse i know i could be working longer but like I literally get off. It's pitch black. Like I don't have energy. How do you have friends? Like how do you have time to like meet like a guy? I don't know.
Starting point is 00:34:52 Like how do you have time for like dating? Like I don't have time for anything. And I'm like so stressed out and I'm also getting my period. So that's why I'm all emotional. But like, am I so dramatic? It's fine. I think there's a couple of things to play here first and foremost without a doubt wages are too low for inflation and it is very difficult to make ends meet just for food for the basics which now now of course these children are being pushed towards, yeah, we save universal basic income. Note the basic word.
Starting point is 00:35:36 Two, you cannot discount several years of work at home, which is quite preferable to, I guess, everybody. How? Work at home. That's much better. Yeah, well, she said herself, you know, when you work at home, you get when it's five o'clock and by the way one of the I don't have any clips exemplifying this but all the Gen Z are supposedly literally stop maybe I do have one stop at five o'clock computers off they're out the door
Starting point is 00:35:57 John we saw that 15 years ago at Mevio five o'clock, everyone, pack up the bag, 505, everyone's gone. Yeah, poof. And that is just a general worth. We saw during this show, we have seen this take place.
Starting point is 00:36:17 We saw the pussification. We saw the pandering. We saw, and this is part of the, I know it sounds boomerish, even though I'm Gen X, the voice of Gen X and is part of the i know it sounds boomerish even though i'm gen x uh the voice of gen x and the face of the hair the hair of gen x i was the hair of gen x um well we saw the participation trophies and just to insert some quick clip into your clips now we have at airports multiple airports around the united States, the sunflower lane.
Starting point is 00:36:48 Have you heard of the sunflower lane? No. Already it sounds bad. If you display the sunflower symbol, which you can get at the airport, there's a special lane in case you're, you know, autistic or triggered. Some passengers at Gerald R. Ford International Airport may soon be sporting a bright yellow sunflower. It's part of a program to identify those who may need extra assistance. It's part of the Hidden Disabilities Sunflower Program. That means airport staff will be trained to recognize a sunflower symbol and provide assistance and accommodation as needed.
Starting point is 00:37:23 The sunflower item can be found at the airport's visitor information desk and security screening checkpoint. Hidden disabilities are physical or mental impairments that others may not be able to see, like learning disabilities, diabetes, or epilepsy. Ford Airport joins over 232 other airports around the world, aiming to make travel more inclusive and accessible for all 432 airports for if you have learning disabilities come on wow this cropped up overnight wonder who's
Starting point is 00:37:55 behind it that's worth looking into yeah it just popped up for me this morning and i saw an article and someone sent me now someone sent me a note about it. And, you know, that it was for people who have autism, hidden disabilities. Hey, when I was a kid, blind people went through the airport. Talk about a disability. They didn't get a special line. But now it's, oh, I have a learning disability. Oh, you can't learn to stand in line.
Starting point is 00:38:31 No, I can't deal with a line. I can't deal with people in the line. All right, back to your TikToks. That's interesting. Yeah, I can't deal with people. I can't stand in line. You can't stand in line. What is happening?
Starting point is 00:38:41 You know what it is? It is food starvation. They have no nutrition. they're eating bad food and their brain the idiocracy is nearby it's coming here we go to a british a british a black british girl who is gen z uh and here's her lament nz won't apply to jobs. Gen Z won't put up with this. And all I can think is, great, I am so glad that people born 1997 and on have some sense not to be exploited. There's never a reason that we shouldn't be offering salary ranges on jobs. I genuinely wonder what companies think jobs are for. I would never apply to something if I don't know that they're going to provide me with a wage that I deserve. And that's especially true as a black woman, where I know I
Starting point is 00:39:31 am much more likely to not be compensated at the same rate as my white co-workers. And Gen Z care about equity and diversity. It is a core principle for a majority of the generation. So when we're talking about Gen Z changing things up in the workplace, wanting work from home, wanting to know how much they will get paid, all I can think is, great, let's do more of this. And we have the get what I deserve yeah meme which is a hundred thousand dollars you know i understand the disappointment because i have children with this disappointment like i'm working at a restaurant but i went to college and i got a degree and and that was kind of the promise
Starting point is 00:40:22 is you know don't worry you know and that just did not happen so you know kind of the promise is, you know, don't worry, you know, and that just did not happen. So, you know, sold the bill of goods. I was promised. Who was promised? Who promised him? Society. Oh, society. Well, if it was a person promising you, I could see that you'd have a complaint, but society can't make promises.
Starting point is 00:40:42 I should mention. You don't have to convince me. but society can't make promises, I should mention. You don't have to convince me. By the way, back in my day at MTV, I think the 1987-88 interest rates were high. I would say they were in the 9-10%. 9, I think. 9 or 10%. New York was in shambles.
Starting point is 00:41:01 MTV paid, it was non-union. If you were an associate producer an ap which is kind of you know you run scripts around and you and you get coffee gopher no it's it's above gopher it's an actual title you get on the credit says but you know bernetti's not old enough to know what i'm talking about um And you had a path. There was a path to go from AP to P. You could become a producer. These kids lived in a house in Brooklyn, which at the time, Brooklyn was Brooklyn.
Starting point is 00:41:37 It was not cheap. It was not, yeah, it was not. And they had massive commutes to get into the city, and they were happy. I mean, yeah, and they got by, and they worked, and they were the first to be there and the last to leave because I can become a P. I can be a producer if I keep at it.
Starting point is 00:41:56 And then I've seen many of them go on to, I see Joey the Horse de Mayo. I see him on credit roll of big award shows as the director. Used to get coffee, but he grinded you know that's that's what's gone and i'm not quite sure i think you're right that that's definitely what's missing yeah uh and i think it has to do with the educational system and the so-called promise from the society and i do have that yes i do have a two-parter here that before we get to the one that's going to be the end it's going to be the hiring managers which is going to be some people actually talking about this um but this is a two-parter from a long clip uh it's an x-gen
Starting point is 00:42:39 lament and it is uh it's a bunch of x of gen i'm sorry gen z lament uh it's a bunch of, I'm sorry, Gen Z lament. It's a bunch of Gen Zers talking socialism and universal basic income. This was actually put aside for the universal basic income discussion. Yes. And it's a bunch of different people coming in and out. And it's got a music bed, I'm sorry. But it at least shows you some of the other the other element at play here because that last girl who was a black woman who's saying we're
Starting point is 00:43:13 into equity in other words we're into you know everyone should get a hundred thousand dollars a year uh just because they're good people so let's start with this this listen to this i don't know who needs to hear this but the majority of your struggles are because of capitalism having to spend the majority of your life in forced labor because getting your physiological needs met is gay kept behind a pay wall is not how humans should be living their lives. Humans really have to pay money to stay alive. We have to pay for food. We have to pay for water. We have to pay for shelter.
Starting point is 00:43:51 The universe put us on Earth, a planet that has everything humans need to survive. And yet we've evolved to the point where we have to pay money to stay alive. And we're working 40 to 60 hours a week, like on average. And we cannot afford to live like we just do not make enough to pay rent to pay for food everything is so expensive right now and wages are not keeping up with the cost of living and i think to myself is it depression or is it just the reality we're living in and accept oh yeah i've seen this is it depression well part of it is economic depression yes yeah a little bit yeah absolutely this is spotty but this is a the idea that you're a human
Starting point is 00:44:35 so you deserve free shelter free food well and remember andrew yang propagated this andrew yang the the uni ubi this has been propagated by many politicians this is out there and it's being dangled like yeah yeah yeah we need the basics we have rights we have human rights for food clothing shelter and we should get that for free that should be the basics and then when we work, we get to party. Basically, yes. Where Valerie Gale Clark Curry would say, Adam Clark Curry, life is unfair.
Starting point is 00:45:16 It was harsh, but it was said to me many, many times. Part two. There's just something very unnatural about being in this world. The fact that we have to pay to live, Part 2 Is it depression or is it the fact that our government is more aligned with corporate profit than human lives? Our government keeps us in a perpetual cycle of struggling and suffering that most people can't even pay attention to anything outside of their own communities, let alone what is happening in the world. Is it depression or is it the culture of our country that if you can't get ahead, you're just not working hard enough. There is no reward for hardworking people anymore. I don't want to work anymore. Look it, what is the point? You cannot get ahead. Is it depression or do I just need to work harder? I have three jobs and I'm still fucking struggling and I'm just getting myself farther and farther into credit card debt because I don't have enough to avoid using it.
Starting point is 00:46:28 I feel like I'm drowning. Is it depression or are we just being priced out of existence? Food, water, housing, healthcare. Everyone should have access to them. It shouldn't matter your social economic class. It shouldn't matter your sex, gender, racial identity. They are basic human necessities no one should go without so what is it is it depression or is it just living in america there's one thing that about the visual of this clip which i did see uh and i you can't really know for sure but looked like everyone in their car had a pretty nice car.
Starting point is 00:47:06 Yeah, I noticed. And I don't know. You see that a lot, by the way. My first car, I was on television. I was making 19,000 guilders a year on television, which at the time was $8,000, I think. Of course, it was Dutch socialist country. My first car was a Lancia, an old Lancia with the paint was all off.
Starting point is 00:47:30 It's scraped off it. And the wheel literally flew off while I was driving it to work one day. You know, it's like that. We had crap cars. We worked on them ourselves. As you can tell, that's where my wheel fell off because I didn't tighten it.
Starting point is 00:47:47 But, you know, it's like that. Yeah, we used to work on cars, too. Yeah, we used to work on our own cars. We used to tune them. Tune your own car. Well, you have a gun. We had the gun, the strobe light, and you would tune the car. Can I just insert a little anecdote?
Starting point is 00:48:02 Because this is certainly not. Well, before you do that, I just want to mention that last clip, when that woman was reading her laundry list, she said she used the term racial identity. Yes. So you can just, it's just like, it self-identifies anything you want. Well, of course you can. Including a victim. including a victim so i had not flown since we flew to nashville after the show and and part of the reason why this is first like taking flying lessons i'm going for my instrument rating is expensive but amy lynn who was my instructor 24 years old she put herself through American Airlines Academy, took out a loan for, I think, $15,000.
Starting point is 00:48:47 And the timing was perfect. She got hired immediately at a regional airline. So, boom, she was gone. So I really wanted to make this flight so we could be back for the show and have at least two nights with my buddy, Vico, I've known for 35 years in Dallasallas and i'm so the new instructor nick nick is 27 similar story took out loans because he wanted to be a pilot took out loans put himself through flight school 27 has a two week old baby his wife is now at home with the baby. He is going to work for one year.
Starting point is 00:49:26 Then I can move back up to Dallas, get his ATP, his air transport license. So we can fly on jets. He sees a future. Of course there is a future in it right now. And you know, and he's,
Starting point is 00:49:37 I, you know, I'm not on social. It doesn't know who I am. Of course. He's like, you're on MTV. I mean,
Starting point is 00:49:41 back when they played music, I said, yeah, back in those days, um, listens to maybe one podcast from time to time uh is not on social media he says i like reading books i'm just saying it's not this is not par for the course for everybody but i was delighted and very very pleased with my instructor the young future of America. It is here. That's probably true, but that's not what we do on this show.
Starting point is 00:50:11 But he's not on TikTok, so that doesn't count. So we're going to go to the last clip in the series, which is this is a radio talk, like a morning zoo show, one of the radio stations, and they're reading and discussing. Yeah. Yeah. Everything's. Yeah. You got everything right.
Starting point is 00:50:29 I'm ready. I'm ready. They're discussing what hiring managers have kind of uncovered about Gen Z. And I thought this was a good way to wrap up this series of complainers. A hundred hiring managers were part of this survey survey and they were asked about Gen Z employees. Well, more than half say recent college graduates are not prepared for the workforce. 53% said young applicants struggle to make eye contact during job interviews. 50% say they're asking for unreasonable compensation.
Starting point is 00:51:00 Nearly half say the interviewees showed up wearing inappropriate attire. 21% refused to turn their cameras on for virtual interviews. And one in five employers say a recent college graduate had actually brought their mom or dad to the job interview. People are bringing their parents to a job interview. That's embarrassing. I thought you were going to say when it came to the camera and the virtual interviews that they were using those filters, like with the dog ears and stuff like that. I could see that happening, too.
Starting point is 00:51:35 Now, those Gen Zers lucky enough to get the job are not starting off on the right foot. 63% of employers say young professionals can't manage their workload. 59% say they miss deadlines often. And 53% report they're frequently late to meetings. And Gen Z has a bad attitude, too. 58% of employers say the young job seekers get too easily offended. Imagine that. 55% find they don't respond well to constructive feedback.
Starting point is 00:52:00 And 52% claim they have poor communication skills so that girl better adjust her attitude and learn how to dress for work and not bring mom and dad to an interview when she has an opportunity for a better job i think we should just change their names from a gen to just sunflower kids they're the sunflower kids they're the ones that need to go through the special line at the airport they're the sunflower kids and and it's really yeah if we if we want to place blame on immigration it's their fault that's why we have to bring in yeah i have to assume that that's true young men who want to work the good news is that even though it's a minority a lot of reporting that came in because it's 52 58 63 if if somebody says 70% say this,
Starting point is 00:52:45 that means 30% are getting good people. I mean, it's not as though Gen Z is a bunch of bad apples from beginning to end because there's some that were brought up correctly and they somehow got jobs maybe in the family store or they worked during the summers. Because when I was a kid, I worked during the summers
Starting point is 00:53:04 when I was in high school and college. Yes. And when I was 16, Saturday job. You have a Saturday job. Yeah. I had two paper routes. Yeah. I had the paper route too. I had two paper routes. Okay. You're a bully for you. Yeah. I had a shopper route, is the money maker don't kid yourself once a week it was free money so anyway uh the thing is i have run into kids i who i give the same thing yeah maybe i did this and that when i was a kid and they say there's no opportunity for us because they've and i agree with these kids who say that because we moved all our manufacturing to China and Mexico. And there's a lot of areas that used to be rife with the industry or got nothing left, except some storage facilities or store more, your place where you could put your stuff because you got too much.
Starting point is 00:54:02 So the problem is systemic. but these kids have got to get a clue the sunflower kids that's what i'm going to call them from now on the sunflower kids so of course this comes from and i'm guilty of this too you know helping your kids out man tina's a hard ass she's like that's it you're not getting any more figure it out who uh which is what you need to do you know tough love hey you can't pay your rent you got to find the cheaper place or get another roommate i mean they get another roommate that's what we used to do so it is also parents but i will say though even if you listen to no agenda stream, we've got the MMO, the Millennial Media Offensive. We got good kids out there. I would say that most of our producers have great kids.
Starting point is 00:54:54 You meet them at meetups. They're go-getters. They're out there. They're doing stuff. So this is not our norm, to put it that way. Thank God. is this is not our norm let's put it that way thank god um no it's just i'm guessing it's just it's not a hundred percent but there's a majority of gen z kids that are like the ones that we don't sunflower kids sunflower kids well then there's this this is not helping much up the road from
Starting point is 00:55:24 you in Oakland. It's just kind of scary in general, not even just to go to work, but just kind of coming outside. Ariel Crenshaw works for Kaiser Permanente, Oakland's largest private employer. The health plan has directed workers in Oakland to stay in their offices for work and lunch because of concerns over crime. Workers are being told to bring their own food or have it delivered. I do agree. Why? Because just their safety for their employees. You know, if you can work at home, work at home. If you have to come in, just be safe about it. In a memo issued last month and obtained by KTVU, Kaiser also tells workers not based in Oakland don't have any meetings downtown,
Starting point is 00:56:02 move them elsewhere, or have them online. It also says the Claremont Hotel in the Hills is the only hotel approved for business lodging. In a statement, Kaiser said in part, those recommendations remain in place for now. Kaiser Permanente is committed to ensuring the safety and security of our employees and physicians across all of our locations. We continually monitor our environments for concerns, review our practices, and strengthen them whenever possible. Many downtown merchants and other people who live and work in the area are taking issue with these directives. And it is a little upsetting to hear that, you know, because, you know, everyone's trying to thrive. Everyone's trying to, you know,
Starting point is 00:56:36 make business, you know. It is pretty slow as it is. I don't think you want to discourage people from walking around and kind of give in to the bad elements that are running around i think i think quite the opposite i think if there are more people on the streets there will be less incidences yeah we need better examples than what's on tiktok you know we need better examples of people who who grind go grind that's how you that's that's what used to be the american dream i'm old now of course a lot of jobs a lot of cushy jobs by the way i thought foley sent me that clip exclusively oh i must have picked it up from somewhere else i didn't get it from foley i don't think so i don't remember um there was also and this really stems from the from the uh dot com bubble days as you know there
Starting point is 00:57:29 were some reboots and we got this enormous true bubble of quote-unquote journalism journalists journalism which you know somehow includes buzzfeed then here is millennial extraordinaire taylor lorenz lamenting the news business the entire journalism industry is basically in a free fall today the los angeles times laid off 115 employees they wiped out their entire dc bureau in an election year they laid off pretty much all their sports teams they killed their entire tech and business section they laid off breaking news writers, social media editors. The list goes on. But what's really dark is this is just the latest in months and months and months of layoffs in the media industry.
Starting point is 00:58:15 In fact, tens of thousands of journalists have been laid off in the past year. Major media companies like BuzzFeed News have completely shuttered their news operations. Time magazine also just laid off a ton of people. And oh, Sports Illustrated basically shut down last week. Pretty much the entire digital media ecosystem that myself and a lot of other millennial journalists came up in has been completely hollowed out. And it's not just digital media sites. Local news has been obliterated. The newspaper industry is cratering. Radio is essentially dead aside from NPR, which has been gutted. Meanwhile, hundreds of workers at Condé Nast, the parent company of pretty much every major
Starting point is 00:58:50 magazine from GQ to Vogue to The New Yorker to Vanity Fair are on strike because they're also facing impending layoffs. Even mainstream national media outlets owned by billionaires like The Washington Post, where I work, and The Atlantic, where i used to work have done layoffs if you're a young journalist say there's almost no on-ramp to traditional journalism even if you do get a job journalists salaries have been stagnant and even declined and by the way we don't make that much to begin with i don't think people understand how bad the world would be without journalists journalists just as a backup to that report from her, which was pretty concise, I have to say, here's the print media decline PBS report from the same, probably about the same time that she did
Starting point is 00:59:32 that. You know, Anne-Marie, as much as it pains me to say this, the story of print media is in so many ways a story of decline. Sports Illustrated, which was once considered the standard of sports journalism today, announced they're going to lay off most of their staff. You work in this space. Is there anything that is working? What's the story of reinvention for print media? Is it the non-profit model that Evan Smith is champion with the Texas Tribune? The Texas Tribune is a good example. It's had some financial challenges, but they've done incredible work on a different model. had some financial challenges, but they've done incredible work on a different model. We have seen in the past handful of months this initiative called Press Forward, which is $500 million being committed across, I think, 22 donors, foundations, and individuals to support
Starting point is 01:00:20 a local news initiative in markets across the country. We have a lot of people living in news deserts now in this country, and this is an effort to try to return local news to a lot of those communities, strengthen it in places where there are maybe fledgling efforts. You know, Baltimore is another good example of that. The Baltimore Banner, if the Baltimore Sun is disappointing you, you should be supporting this new effort, which is a startup, which is being run in part by a lot of alumni from the Baltimore Sun. Look, in my perfect world, they both thrive. But if one model isn't working, we have to be experimenting with some others. And a lot of those are not-for-profit models.
Starting point is 01:01:08 Blogger! News is worthless. News is news. News just is news. It's opinion that you're talking about. Opinion and insight. And yeah, that's right. It doesn't work with advertising and, you know, whatever.
Starting point is 01:01:26 I want to get back to that in a moment. I want to take a little sidestep because the young kids in the United Kingdom are freaking out. And I have three clips to show what this is really about. But they're freaking out because the army chief came out with a statement and said, oh, prepare for war. There will be conscription, which is a fancy English for the draft. And they're all I didn't get any tick tock clips, but they're all over. They're not going to draft me. I'm not going to the arm. I'm not going to fight anybody. I'm not going to. Oh, no, I'm not going to need the arm. I'm not going to fight anybody. I'm not going to. Oh, no, I'm not going to prepare for war. Now, sticking with the United States, actually, they're going to station
Starting point is 01:02:09 nuclear weapons in the UK for the first time in 15 years. And that's down to tensions escalating with Russia. Pentagon documents have revealed that RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk would host the warheads that are reportedly three times as powerful as the Hiroshima bomb. Well, this comes as Boris Johnson has vowed he would fight for his country if the UK goes to war. Now, let's listen to Boris Johnson, who is very gaunt looking these days, no doubt from the Ozempic that he tried. And he's really just promoting his column. Lance Corporal Johnson reporting for duty and responding to the appeal from General Sanders for a citizen army and encouraging young people across the country to think of the attractions, advantages of some kind of military training or service because at the moment they think it's
Starting point is 01:03:05 either uncool or unethical or perhaps they're not following general sanders they're following colonel sanders to find out what we need to do about it read my column in the daily mail so let's find out what this was really about as we have Sky News with a relatively serious sit-down interview with the former Minister of Defence in the UK. Lucky to have Tobias Elwood with us this morning. It's good to see you. Very serendipitous because somebody who you'll know well, General Sir Patrick Saunders, I'm not sure if you served with him, but certainly you did. I'm not sure if you served with him, but certainly you did. So he's suggesting, reading between the lines in the Telegraph today,
Starting point is 01:03:52 that if we go to war with Russia, we could find that our youth may have to be conscripted. That's a bit alarming. Yes. Head of the British Army, one of the most cerebral thinkers that we've got, a strategist. We need to listen and listen carefully. We've been too complacent. I think I've said this many times with you. What's coming over the horizon should shock us. It should worry us. And we are not prepared. We've had a couple of decades, three decades or so since the Cold War.
Starting point is 01:04:19 Life has gone well. It's now going to get more difficult as authoritarian states exploit our timidity, perhaps reluctance to really put fires out. And the best example of that is a democracy on the corner of Eastern Europe that in its third year is now in conflict and we've not resolved that. So Patrick Saunders is saying prepare for what's coming over the horizon. There is a 1939 feel to the world right now. These authoritarian states are rearming. There's a risk averseness about the West in wanting to deal with that. And global institutions such as the United Nations aren't able to hold these nations to account. In fact, the UN, I'll go further, is reaching its League of Nations moment
Starting point is 01:04:59 unless it's reformed. So that's where the world is heading. We need to wake up to that. There's a mindset now of this era of insecurity that we're heading towards, but we're still on a peacetime defence budget of just 2%. That does need to change. And the Red Sea is a great example that if you don't step forward, if you're not robust in dealing with those that are testing the envelope, our weakness will be envelope um it will be our weakness will be exploited and it will affect our economy more money we need more money for weapons that's what this is all about yeah more money to squander actually to put in people's pockets this half this money is not there's report after report coming out that if you know maybe 40 of the money is actually going to where it's supposed to go and the rest of it's just being squandered or pocketed or oh yeah this goes through corrupt channels i
Starting point is 01:05:48 mean can we do something about this before we start just throwing more money at stuff can we it's not impossible ukraine says it uncovered mass fraud in weapons procurement oh you don't say report from wow wow really, that's a surprise. Now back to the news business. I believe part of, first of all, way too much. There was just free money. All right? We just have to live with that.
Starting point is 01:06:16 There was free money for how many years? 15, 12 years. 0% interest. That's free money. Free money. That's free money. Free money. That's why everyone was investing. The only ones, in my opinion, who did it smart in the news business,
Starting point is 01:06:31 the New York Times, because they took that free money and bought games. And people... Brought non-news products. Yes, which is, you know, the Tiffany Network, CBS, they would always say,
Starting point is 01:06:42 oh, news is a lost leader. And we make it up. We invest in our news to bring you news so that's part of our service just to get you in the door yeah but you know news by itself has never been a profitable business you either buy a newspaper to propagandize for your own uh for your own means for your own business or whatever you want to use it for. That's why billionaires have always owned, rich men particularly have owned publications. It's just, it's not a business. But now we, oh, we had the internet and all these ideas, and so now that has to be thinned out, they've got to go away.
Starting point is 01:07:17 And luckily, we bring in something called AI, which, even though it's sad, that will be your news. Your news, actually, not your opinion and your insight and your analysis, but news will just be brought to you by AI. That's why they're getting rid of a whole bunch of people. And I think when it comes to AI, we had an event take place. Something is on the horizon. when it comes to ai we had an event take place something is on the horizon i have said that this ai stuff the way it's going to be used is something's going to come out and we need to flood the market with thinking like oh that's just ai yeah no that's not real that's just ai
Starting point is 01:08:00 and this is part of the swift op, a disturbing trend on social media struck one of the world's biggest stars this week when explicit AI generated images of Taylor Swift began to circulate on X, formerly known as Twitter. Taylor Swift's fans or Swifties rallied to flood the platform with posts and drown out the so-called deep fakes the incident has led to renewed calls by politicians in the u.s for legislation to clamp down on these ai generated fakes now so first of all it's x now elon musk is great at making money from the government so i wouldn't put it past him that somehow he's involved in this op. But all of a sudden,
Starting point is 01:08:47 oh, Taylor Swift, there's pornographic images of her head on porn bodies. And I did some research. This has been going on for a long time with Taylor Swift. Oh, by the way, yes. For a long time. You could do this with Photoshop. Anytime you want. I mean, it's maybe not as fast as the AI is a little quicker.
Starting point is 01:09:07 If it works, if it doesn't work, it's not. But this is just the invention of Photoshop, or even before that with guys who knew how to do photo editing by cutting the little head out of a photo itself and gluing it on something else. This is nothing new. This is nothing new at all. No, but what I think is happening,
Starting point is 01:09:26 and I have a piece of Jean-Claude Van Damme-Pierre with the question that was asked about this, oh, because the White House is concerned. Why is the White House concerned? Something's coming out. It's going to be some nasty images from somebody who needs to be able to say that's ai listen to the setup question listen to her answer it there were fake sexually explicit
Starting point is 01:09:52 images of taylor swift all over social media this week like generated by ai how concerned is the white house about the misuse of this kind of technology and does the white house want to see congress move forward on legislation that would make sharing posting images like that a federal crime so i'm glad you asked that question because it is a lot no first of all all these questions are approved before the press conference so for jean-pierre vaude van damme to say i'm glad you asked that question this was a setup question this was known she knew this question was coming it was probably could you please ask about uh about the images and she could have written a question for all we know and so all of a sudden now we need legislation against
Starting point is 01:10:40 this no no no no something's coming that is going to be highly embarrassing to somebody important legislation that would make sharing posting images like that a federal crime so i'm glad you asked that question because it is alarming we are alarmed by uh the reports of the circulation of images that you just laid out false images to be more exact, and it is alarming. So while social media companies make false images, there's images of me holding up an Israeli flag. Oh, it's alarming. Their own independent decisions about content management. We believe they have an important role to play in enforcing their own rules to prevent the spread of misinformation and non-consensual intimate imagery of real people. Sadly, sadly though, too often, we know that lax enforcement disproportionately impacts women,
Starting point is 01:11:32 and they also impact girls, sadly, who are the overwhelming targets of online harassment and also abuse. So the president is committed, as you know, to ensuring we reduce the risk of generative AI producing images like through his latest executive order that we announced just in the fall of last year. She's reading the script here. So this problem is not new. And it's one that the Biden-Harris administration has been prioritizing since day one. We have taken this very seriously. Again, this is alarming to us. As you know, he launched a task force to address online harassment and abuse, and he did that just this fall. The Department of Justice launched the first national 24-7 helpline for
Starting point is 01:12:15 survivors of image-based sexual abuse. And so our commitment, and that we will continue to do and continue to take action, and make sure that we continue to work on this. And again, this is very alarming. And we're going to do what we can to deal with this issue. This has been going on for decades. This is not new and alarming. Now, first, I'm thinking, who could it be? I'm thinking Kamala.
Starting point is 01:12:43 Well, there may be pictures of kamala oh yeah because she was notorious actually for having uh heels yeah i can even name the guy that should be seen with heels high harris we all know her nickname in washington dc so uh this i just want to point out that when she says if you notice in the past that you ever heard i I think when Kelly McEnany, whoever was running the Trump when she was a press secretary, she never said the Trump Pence presidency. No. I don't remember anyone saying the Obama Biden presidency except Biden when he was running. Yep. But this woman consistently says the biden
Starting point is 01:13:27 harris presidency and she did it in that clip that's what tipped me off and so she so yes that would be the lead uh so she so they got harris mentioned a lot maybe it could be some phony baloney pictures of harris harris would be the because you know they i think they still would like to run her maybe it's the way to get her off the track or this whole thing could well i mean there's a lot of possibilities here you could do i'll be honest with you the first thought was oh my god they've got pictures of big mike we need to say that's ai and that was my first thought but then because that would be where you need it um but then I got this clip of Larry Elder.
Starting point is 01:14:10 On the Pool Boys show, and he says no to Big Mike, he says Kamala all the way. Here's the deal. The reason Joe Biden is not going anywhere, if you can fog up a mirror, it's because the next person in line is not Gavin Newsom. It's not Michelle Obama. It's Kamala Harris. She wants to be president. I read a lot of black media and they feel she's being picked on for her so-called cackle. They feel that Joe Biden has given her thankless tasks like getting to the bottom of the root causes of illegal immigration. legal immigration. And black women are the most loyal part of the Democratic base. And they will be furious if she's dropkicked for anybody other than a Michelle Obama. And Michelle Obama does not want the job. She wants to be loved. She wants to be liked. There's nothing that suggests to me that she has the temperament, does not have the temperament to be a politician. She complained for eight years about what it was like to be in a fishbowl or being first lady. What makes you think she wants to be a politician? if uh michelle uh kamala harris a drop kick for some white dude like uh mayor pete or gavin newsom they will be livid they won't vote
Starting point is 01:15:10 republican they just won't vote at all thereby guaranteeing whoever we nominate will win they won't do that you live with the identity race card you die with it and that's why she's there she got picked because she's a black female she's still a black female by the way she wanted to run for president she did run yeah and and and tell her to step aside for Michelle Obama, even if Michelle Obama announced. Kamala ran for DA of San Francisco. She got elected. She ran for AG of California, got elected and reelected. She ran for U.S. Senator, got elected.
Starting point is 01:15:35 And she's on the card with Joe Biden, got elected. She's never lost an election when she's been on the ticket. And there's nothing at all that suggests to me that she's going to, oh, my God, I'm incompetent. I'll step aside for Michelle Obama. Oh, my God, I'm incompetent. I'll step aside for Michelle Obama. Oh my God, I'm incompetent. I'll step aside for Gavin Newman. Not going to happen. I like Larry Elder's theory there. Yep, I think he nailed it.
Starting point is 01:15:53 And then add to that this women, particularly women, girls, you know, I think there's a picture out there. There's more than one, probably. They've got to say this is AI. Because it's just for...
Starting point is 01:16:09 Willie Brown is the guy we're talking about. Why would Willie Brown sabotage? Does he have reason? I don't know that he would. Although maybe he would. I think it's out there. Because Willie Brown's a male. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:16:25 And he would probably think that Gavin Newsom would be a better president than Kamala. And he knew that he had a lot to do with Kamala's getting up to where she got. Is he still alive, Willie Brown? Oh, yeah. Yeah, he still floats around. Every once in a while, you hear from him. He may even have a podcast. But Willie Brown would be... I wouldn't put him past him.
Starting point is 01:16:49 He was probably one of the greatest politicians in the history of California. A black guy who just could make everything happen. Just one last story on AI. I'm a big George Carlin fan, such a big fan that you even made a compilation for me because you have it. You have almost everything George Carlin. It was neatly organized. You sent it on a thumb drive for me. I just have his discography.
Starting point is 01:17:21 You have all his stuff. It's great. It's hard to get. It's great. It's hard to get. It's great. It's hard to get. It's beautiful. It's a very, very nice collection. And so George Carlin's estate sued this dude
Starting point is 01:17:33 over a so-called comedy special that was AI generated. And people sent this to me like, oh, you think AI is no good? Look at it. It wrote the script. I don't think? Look at it. It wrote the script. I don't think it wrote the script. It did the voice.
Starting point is 01:17:50 And, oh, look at it. I was like, no, no. Comedy can only come from humans. It can't come from AI. And I want to play 50 seconds of this comedy special. Maybe if he had played it in front of a live audience and had real laughter, which there probably wouldn't have been much of.
Starting point is 01:18:12 I haven't seen this entire thing. Oh, good. I know about it, and I just have never followed up because I know what it's going to be. It's not going to be that interesting. 50 seconds. There's one line of work that is most threatened by AI one job that is most likely to be completely erased because of artificial intelligence.
Starting point is 01:18:32 Wow. I know it doesn't even. Well, they have a little bit of it, but no, it doesn't. I mean, I can hear a temp, but it sounds like somebody else that's just coincidentally sounds a little bit like Carlin. That's what it sounds like intelligence stand-up comedy i know what all the stand-up comics across the globe are saying right now i'm an artist and my art form is too creative too nuanced too subtle to be replicated by a machine
Starting point is 01:19:00 no computer program can tell a fart joke as good as me well let's see this is just off the top of my artificially intelligent head a fart was in the middle of a very nasty divorce so she went to her sister's house and she asked her sister do you think i'm doing the right thing by getting divorced and her sister said he's been holding you back for too long. You have to leave that asshole. Your votes, please. Holy moly, that's terrible. And by the way, Carlin wasn't a joke teller. No.
Starting point is 01:19:40 I mean, maybe early in his career he did some jokes, but so that's a joke, literally. I don't know how the AI came up with that idea. He was an observational comic, very much different. And also used to get into the weeds with vocabulary. And that doesn't sound
Starting point is 01:19:58 anything like him. I know. But when it first came out, people said, oh, this is great. I don't know how anyone could say that. I out, people said, oh, this is great. And I watched the whole thing. I mean, it had, within 20 minutes, you know, there's certain things. And that canned laughter
Starting point is 01:20:11 is not even close to being well done. That really kills it. That really kills it. It does. So, but I still say that the best is when AI is used by comedians.
Starting point is 01:20:28 And, you know, when we have funny stuff that they make, funny videos, funny memes, dare I say it. Ooh! I know. I know. Crazy. Go crazy. Well, when creative people get a hold of AI, they can do things.
Starting point is 01:20:44 Yeah. Yeah. It's a tool when creative people get a hold of AI, they can do things. Yeah. Yeah. It's a tool for creative people, sure. Yeah, that's why Comic Strip Blogger all of a sudden is a great artist. He's certainly trying. He's never quite, sometimes it hits the mark. But he's gone from his kind of interesting but very soulful material that he used to do to stuff that is extremely slick.
Starting point is 01:21:10 It's just this like a... Yeah, it's too slick. Well, a lot of stuff's too slick, but it's an interesting change of style that is noteworthy to me. I would like to remind people at this moment that this is a value for value podcast. I almost brought the executive associate, executive producer segment forward to this hour.
Starting point is 01:21:35 But then we had one donor come in to save the day. But I do want to remind you that while you're enjoying this and while you slowly tune out over time, at the end, we do thank everybody, give them their due credits. We bring knights and dames onto the stage and bring them to the roundtable. We talk about our meetups. There's a lot going on with the No Agenda Nation. And just a reminder that if you get any value out of this, if anything in this first hour and 22 minutes was of value to you, that we would like you to return that with your time, talent, or treasure. And a good example of time and talent, which boosts on the ground, and I was not aware of this, Tracy sent me a note says adam a number of my family members saw a show on
Starting point is 01:22:26 pbs called nazi town usa which i was unaware of it came out a couple days ago is the masterpiece oh this is the american experience show about the boons yes yes this show i would i i didn't take any clips from it but i could could have. I have a trailer. I have a trailer. Well, let me just say my piece and you can go do your thing. Sure. I'll be over here. Just call me when you're ready.
Starting point is 01:23:01 This thing had so much innuendo in it about Trump. The usage of the word insurrection. It was one thing after another. They were trying the best they could, the usage of the word insurrection, it was one thing after another. They were trying the best they could, the writers, I guarantee it, to associate the German Bund movement from the early 1930s and the fact that they wanted to take over the country and run it. Some of it's a little sketchy uh but they wanted to take it over and turn the country into a nazi you know uh stronghold uh fascist country um was so you could just you
Starting point is 01:23:35 could take i mean it's a good by the way it's excellent information it's very interesting and entertaining but the idea there was a it was pretty propagandistic and i was a little offended by that part of it so tracy says that my family his or her family members were saying this documentary is exactly what trump is planning it's all about the white christian right taking over the country turning it over to a new dictator and we should mention that there was a very quite a substantial nazi you know fascist nazi movement in the united states there was uh really when it comes to um what's the term i'm looking for? We had best-looking baby contests at fairs. Eugenics.
Starting point is 01:24:27 It was a eugenics movement. Yeah, eugenics. We were the eugenics kings. Hitler sent fan mail to the United States eugenicists. He said, wow, you guys have really got a good idea here. And he loved it until he started gassing Jews, and then the eugenicists in America went, oh, let's let's let's simmer down. Change our names to something else.
Starting point is 01:24:51 Planned Parenthood. Which Margaret Sanger, she was a part of the was it Eugenics Society of America? I know you don't like that. You don't think I'm not going to get into that. She was her main focus was birth control period yeah not breathing all right but there but so there was definitely a eugen so if anything for sure the eugen there was a big eugenicist movement in america and we backtracked on that when we saw what could happen with it what could be done with it
Starting point is 01:25:23 we sterilized black girls there's all kinds of horrible things that we did. This is not what Trump is doing. I'm going to play this. It's very cool. And by the way, what you just talked about, the idea that, oh, this is what Trump wants to do, that was the whole reason for this American Experience show was to twist the minds of the viewers. And I found a defense.
Starting point is 01:25:51 I thought the information was good, but I was familiar with it to begin with. But I found the way they presented it to be obvious propaganda, anti-Trump propaganda, anti-Trump, anti-Republican, anti-Christian propaganda. And I'm just waiting for the following question to pop up again, because we've heard it in the past. I tried to find a clip, but it hasn't occurred yet.
Starting point is 01:26:13 If you could get in a time machine and go back and kill baby Hitler, would you do it? This is the kind of stuff you're going to hear. I.e., hey, if you could kill trump before he becomes hitler would you do it you watch that's all coming ever increasing numbers the nation's youth has been in the 1930s there were these camps all across the country and they looked normal but it wasn't normal. It was Nazi camp. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. In the depths of the Depression, a great many Americans started to ask themselves whether the American experiment was failing. Lots of Americans thought that capitalism, democracy, they were done for and something else was going to have to take its place. The membership card and the Friends of the New Germany.
Starting point is 01:27:06 Note the American emblem and over it the Nazi swastika. As foreign as this might seem, fascist ideology tapped into some dark realities in America. I'd like to tell you a few words about our purpose and ease. Very hard to hear any of it. I know, I know. It gets a little better at the end. That comes straight from the PBS website. It's almost done.
Starting point is 01:27:31 He's going to build a distinctively American version of Nazism. They're after power. They're after influence. Within the very fabric of the United States. They were literally holding parades in front of Jewish people's homes. There's no such thing as foreign fascism. Fascism is always homegrown. And what we have now, funny enough, funny enough, in the United States,
Starting point is 01:28:00 what we have now is we have Jews very, very worried. the united states what we have now is we have jews very very worried uh i was talking to um the girl who stayed at our house to take care of phoebe american jew and she says i'm a little afraid warranted or not i'm a little afraid to uh wear my star of david in public. I'm worried when I get into an Uber and it might be a Muslim. Or it might be. What? But the funny thing is, that's coming from... This media spinning it up. Yes.
Starting point is 01:28:37 She got spun up. Yes. I definitely tried to spin her down a little bit. And so what they're bringing in now is, I'll make sure you know that it's Trump. It's Trump. It's Trump, it's Trump, it's Trump. With his Jewish daughter.
Starting point is 01:28:55 Yes. Jewish son-in-law. He may be Jewish. We don't know. Yeah. It was actually kind of funny. But okay, he hates Jews somehow. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:29:07 So the International Court of Justice by the... Oh yeah, I got a clip. I have a clip too. Why don't you play your clip? I have a clip of Kirby, which I think is pretty funny. I do not have Kirby. Okay, what do you have? Well, that's a good question.
Starting point is 01:29:24 Condemned Israel, would that be the one? That would sound like it, yeah. Qatar and Saudi Arabia have welcomed a ruling issued by the International Court of Justice on South Africa's genocide case against Israel, which orders Israel to prevent genocide acts in the Gaza Strip. The Qatari foreign ministry said the ruling serves as a stark acknowledgement of the grave threat of genocide looming over the Palestinian population in Gaza. The Saudi foreign ministry reaffirmed the rejection of Israel's illegal occupation of Palestinian territories
Starting point is 01:29:55 and its violations of the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Meanwhile, Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shdaya said he hopes the ruling against Israel would include an immediate ceasefire, given the severe suffering of Gaza residents. States now have clear legal obligations to stop Israel's genocidal war on the Palestinian people in Gaza and to make sure that they are not complicit. The ICJ order is an important reminder that no state is above the law. It should serve as a wake-up call for Israel and actors who enabled its entrenched impunity. All right, this is a problem because this justifies the Genocide Joe moniker.
Starting point is 01:30:42 And Kirby was sent out to defend Gen joe by the way that report i should mention came from china yeah it's okay this report comes from uh trt i think which is even more fun at kirby by the way have you noticed he's wearing dog tags but over over everything over his tie yeah over his tie break off is he afraid of getting shot down he needs to be identified if he's if he's killed what is the deal there what do you think so kind of the you know he has a chain i've not seen this he has a chain that um you know the one you'd have a you know your id on and he has dog tags. Identical. You break one half off, send that back to the next of kin. And he's wearing those dog tags.
Starting point is 01:31:30 I found that to be very bizarre. You know what it is? No. It's the dog tag of Lloyd Austin. It's a memorial. Maybe Kirby's just a dog. He's memorializing Lloyd Austin who is yet to be seen.
Starting point is 01:31:46 And he's back in the hospital. I'm sorry, but that's my interpretation. Well, we'll see what happens. Here is a question that came in regarding Genocide Joe. Thank you. genocide, Joe. Thank you. The fact of the matter is that IACJ has not dismissed the allegations against Israel with respect to genocide. They do believe that those allegations warrant further investigation and deliberation. So do you stand by the words that you used earlier this month to characterize those allegations that they're meritless, counterproductive, and completely
Starting point is 01:32:24 without any basis in fact whatsoever. And what are you basing that off of if the UN's top court believes that there is a plausible risk of genocide, they're specifically directing Israel to prevent and punish the direct and public incitement to commit genocide? We have no indication that that's going on, Sabrina. No evidence! We have no indication that they are deliberately trying to exterminate the people of Gaza.
Starting point is 01:32:47 Well, the ICJ specifically cited inflammatory statements that were made by Israel's defense minister referring to Gazans as human animals. The president of Israel saying the entire population of Gaza is responsible. Do you not see that as risking incitement? Comments like that are certainly also counterproductive and unhelpful. No question about that. But we haven't seen indications that the Israeli Defense Forces are getting up out of the rack
Starting point is 01:33:15 every day, putting their boots on the floor and saying that their design, their whole effort is to go exterminate the Palestinian people. They're trying to eliminate the threat that Hamas poses. I want to be very clear, and I know I've said this a million times, and you're all probably sick of me following up on this, but that doesn't mean that we excuse any single innocent life lost. The right number of civilian casualties is zero, but there's no indication that we've seen that validates a claim of genocidal intent or action by the israeli defense forces there's no evidence of genocide he says there's no evidence they don't get their boots on every day and say we're
Starting point is 01:33:52 going to kill us some palestinians that would be genocide this is not genocide what is the definition of genocide let's look it up okay let's uh Consult the Book of Knowledge! Of course, the Book of Knowledge is very varied these days. Yeah, you can't trust it. How about the Holocaust Memorial? Should we take it from them? No. No. Britannica?
Starting point is 01:34:21 Britannica, yeah. I think that's more objective. Okay, Britannica? Britannica, yeah. I think that's more objective. Okay, Britannica says, Genocide. The deliberate and systematic destruction of a group of people because of their ethnicity, nationality, religion, or race. Well, here's the basic. Here's the rub.
Starting point is 01:34:40 I think this is maybe from Oxford. This is from Oxford. Yeah. The deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group. Well, I guess pretty close. Well, they definitely want to destroy something. Yeah, they want to get rid of it. For sure.
Starting point is 01:34:58 Well, anyway. By the way, this is the way I have to read this. The original, the origin of the term genocide, the word genocide did not exist prior to 1944. Oh, really? It's a very specific term coined by a Polish Jewish lawyer named Raphael Lemkin. It's a new word. It's a relatively new word. Oh, that's interesting.
Starting point is 01:35:24 What is the root of the word is it from greek or something uh must be must be what's the etymology let me look and see etymology of said word lawyers say in here what the etymology is no well we've sent in our negotiator oh here wait wait wait wait, wait. Sorry. He formed the word genocide by combining geno from the Greek word for race or tribe with side from Latin word for killing. Wait, so eraser killing? Geno is eraser?
Starting point is 01:35:58 Is that what you said? No, it's race. Oh, race. Geno is Greek for race or tribe. Oh, race killing. Okay. Or tribe, tribe killing. He should have copyrighted that and he would be very rich right now.
Starting point is 01:36:13 It'd probably be beyond copyright. We sent in our negotiator. Who do you think we sent in? Sullivan. President Biden is sending the CIA director to help broker a deal in Gazaaza according to the washington post a gentleman there cia director william j burns will look to close the gaps between israel and hamas that deal is said to include the release of all remaining for one second yeah under normal circumstances they would have sent in lloyd austin or kissinger oh i'm Well, Kissinger they can still send in
Starting point is 01:36:45 but they'd have to roll in his corpse. Lloyd, would it have been Lloyd Austin? Is Lloyd Austin the guy to do the negotiation? Don't you typically send in a diplomat? Well, you could. See, that's the great thing about William Burns.
Starting point is 01:37:01 He's a historic diplomat. So as head of the CIA they can move him. Oh no, he's a historic diplomat so as head of the cia they can move him oh no he's just could be he's just a diplomat he's not there to collect any information about anyone by by the boys in the streets no not at all gaps between israel and hamas that deal is said to include the release of all remaining hostages held in g and a two-month ceasefire. Burns is expected to travel to Europe for talks with Israeli and Egyptian intelligence leaders. He's also slated to meet with Qatar's prime minister. Israel continued its defense today. Gaza's health ministry reports Israeli fire struck a crowd killing at least 20 people, wounding more than
Starting point is 01:37:41 150. That report was missing number of children wounded or killed. They're slipping. Well, it wasn't from Democracy Now, so. No, it was Chicago Newswire. Meanwhile, there's some new allegations about the United Nations. Pressure is growing on the United Nations and its operation in Gaza. Britain and Australia on Saturday joined other countries in suspending their contributions to UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works
Starting point is 01:38:11 Agency. Then later in the day, Germany announced it would follow suit and that one could really hurt, as it was UNRWA's second largest donor. This withdrawal of support follows allegations that 12 UNRWA staff members took part in the Hamas October 7th attacks on Israel. Israel, of course, has never been a fan of the UN, but it's now upped the ante by saying it's determined to permanently stop UNRWA from operating in Gaza. And Tel Aviv is also calling for the resignation of the UN agency's boss. But there are some who've moved to defend UNRWA. They point out it has 30,000 people working under its auspices and that the 12 who've been accused were all instantly sacked.
Starting point is 01:38:53 Chris Gunness is a former UNRWA spokesperson. He says Israel has a long history of making claims about the agency, which turn out not to be true. We had allegations that UNRWA was hiding rockets components in its schools and was colluding with Hamas terrorists in fact it was UNRWA that found the rocket parts in its schools immediately reported to all our major donors and the Israelis condemned it what did we get in reply we got further accusations in spite of having done all this that we were colluding with terrorists yeah very suspicious you know
Starting point is 01:39:27 the u.n the joke of it is that it's the united states taxpayer that's putting up most of the money that's all of it i think all of it all pretty much all i do have a three by three about all this time for three by three i'm so excited experiment by jc. We love the three by three. Preparing stories from ABC, CBS, and NBC. The never ending. That's right. I led you right into it. I led you right into it. Unbeknownst to me, we have a three by three.
Starting point is 01:39:54 This is where JCD takes the top news organizations, lays them out side by side. It seems we have a three by three plus once again today. Yeah, we have CBC also, but let's go with ABC's WNT Matt Gutman. Shocking new allegations tonight against the UN's largest aid provider in Gaza. Israel submitting what it says is evidence that 12 aid workers took part in Hamas's October 7th rampage. The United Nations Relief Agency for Palestinian Refugees, or UNRWA, immediately firing those workers, saying its investigation could lead to criminal charges. Tonight, the State Department temporarily pausing funding to the agency.
Starting point is 01:40:34 If the investigation proves that, in this case, I think it's about a dozen employees were assisting Hamas, and even to the point of maybe even involved in hostage-taking, then absolutely they need to be held to account. It comes after the International Court of Justice, in a sharp rebuke of Israel's conduct of the war, ordered it to, quote, take all measures to prevent genocide. The interim ruling stops short both of calling Israel's actions in Gaza genocide or demanding an immediate ceasefire. What does Israel say to the allegations of war crimes? War crimes, families being blown up in airstrikes, now genocide.
Starting point is 01:41:09 The problem is that Hamas is doing everything he can to use the population as a human shield. And tonight, Hamas releasing chilling new video showing three female Israeli hostages pleading for their release. The family's asking we only use a still from the video. pleading for their release. The family's asking we only use a still from the video. And David, back to those UN workers accused of involvement in Hamas's October 7th attack. The Biden administration is now calling for a full and transparent investigation, but they say that the actions of a few should not impugn the entire agency. David, still just extraordinary if true.
Starting point is 01:41:42 This if true. This is interesting. Now that contradict your clip yes it did but there was something in there that i found very interesting the family has asked that we only use a still why not why wouldn't you as a news organization show the hostages pleading for their lives you might be pandering okay might be you know sickening oh unlike everything else they show please they're designed to be sick it was not the state department didn't give them the go ahead it's designed to be sickening to show what israel is doing to pal to Palestinians. That part is okay. I'm just saying. NBC.
Starting point is 01:42:29 Tonight, the UN's highest court ordering Israel to prevent genocidal acts by its forces, but stopping short of calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. South Africa had accused Israel of committing genocide and asked the International Court of Justice to order an end to Israel's war against Hamas. Israel has an inherent right to defend itself. The vile attempt to deny Israel this fundamental right is blatant discrimination against the Jewish state, and it was justly rejected. Danny Danone is a member of Israel's parliament. And the International Court of Justice said there is enough evidence of potential genocide
Starting point is 01:43:06 that there is a case to hear. What's your response to that? It was a fake case against Israel about a fake genocide, blaming us for a genocide. That's an absurd. The judge is highlighting this quote from Israel's defense minister
Starting point is 01:43:20 as potential incitement. We are fighting human animals. But also calling on Hamas to immediately release its hostages. The court has no way to enforce its rulings, which come amid a devastating humanitarian crisis. Families waiting for hours for a single bowl of soup. Palestinians hope the ruling will add to international pressure for a ceasefire. It makes it very difficult for this Biden administration to continue to provide cover to Israel. This reaction from the White House.
Starting point is 01:43:51 We don't believe that right now a general ceasefire is the best approach. We just have no indication that they are deliberately trying to exterminate the people of Gaza. The White House saying, like the court, it's called on Israel to reduce civilian casualties. The U.S. also halting funding to the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees. Amid allegations, 12 of its staff took part in the Hamas terror attack. The employees have been fired, the U.N. says, and it's launched a full investigation. Okay. So they reversed the order on this in the report. They put the UN thing at the end, which NBC would be kind of globalist operation. I would see they want to minimize discussing that. So they put it at the end. I thought that was interesting. Another thing
Starting point is 01:44:39 that I find unique is why is it South Africa? Ah, the, the uh i know this because a lot of money came from qatar into the south that guy with the big mouth into the south african political system uh they had no money you know the guy who was saying we're gonna we're gonna shoot white people that guy right that guy that guy they had no money to run for their um for the election this is just what i've read i don't know who knows if it's true and uh so they they take israel to court the international criminal justice system and uh and then all of a sudden they have all this money so i think that's why south africa did it and then of course they
Starting point is 01:45:26 recognize the icj which you know because and i don't even i mean doesn't america blatantly say we don't recognize this court i don't know if that's the... I know we don't recognize the ICC. This is a different court. Okay. They're all, you know, whatever. Okay, let's go to CBS, which has, in my opinion, still has the best coverage of everything. I think they do the best job, even though ABC is supposed to be the top news network. Here we go with CBS. The war continues to close in on civilians inside Gaza.
Starting point is 01:46:09 While thousands of miles away in The Hague, the United Nations International Court of Justice delivered its interim ruling on South Africa's case against Israel. Presiding Judge Joan Donahue stressed that this was part of a wider court case to determine whether or not Israel was committing genocide. That, however, could take years. But she warned... The court considers that the catastrophic humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip
Starting point is 01:46:37 is at serious risk of deteriorating further before the court renders its final judgment. And so, while the court stopped short of ordering an immediate ceasefire, it has unequivocally ordered Israel to take all steps within its power to prevent genocide and punish those who incite it. It also demanded that Israel provide food and water. It also demanded that Israel provide food and water. The United Nations says 1.1 million are now facing starvation and access to humanitarian aid, which is still only trickling in. And for those who live there, like Hayem Haddad, who just want a ceasefire, this ruling was never going to be enough.
Starting point is 01:47:29 Why would the world court give them more time to continue genocide against us? This is unjust and unfair. Israel has to report back on its progress to the international court in a month. But for Palestinians trying to outrun this war, a month is a long way away. And today the UN relief agency in Gaza is under fire. 12 of its workers have been fired, suspected of taking part in the Hamas attack on Israel last year and prompting the United States, the agency's biggest donor, to temporarily halt its funding. Worth pointing out today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. It's funding.
Starting point is 01:48:03 Worth pointing out today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. I was waiting for that. Good one, CBS. CBS Day. This is from the Council on Foreign Relations website. The United States has long had an uneasy relationship with the International Court of Justice, which primarily arbitrates legal disputes amongst UN member nations that recognize its jurisdiction. The United States withdrew from the court's compulsory jurisdiction in 1986 after the court ruled it owed Nicaragua war reparations.
Starting point is 01:48:35 So... No, it was Reagan. So it withdrew from the compulsory jurisdiction. So Reagan pulled us out. Yeah. So we're out. Good for him. Of course the negro rock one was i mean really really really dudes i ran not too obvious yeah like no no no we don't recognize you when we were clearly at fault
Starting point is 01:48:59 all right so let's go the plus here is going to be CBC, which, of course, is a kind of a boring version of our networks. Do they have Nat Pops? They got Nat Pops? No, usually they don't. I mean, it's not as bad as some of them. They don't have anything like the BBC, but they don't have as much. It doesn't have as much pizzazz and triggering as our networks. OK. Oh, come on on what are you talking about trigger right off the bat well baby crying yeah it's a good one in the hague protesters and supporters of both israel and palestinians set the stage for the momentous ruling by the united nations top court lawyers for israel had wanted what they called the absurd genocide case dismissed,
Starting point is 01:49:47 while South Africa's legal team demanded what amounted to a ceasefire in Gaza. The court considers that... The 15 judges did neither. They ruled that while some of Israel's acts in Gaza could plausibly amount to genocide, the court did not order a halt to the war. Instead, Judge Jones... Hold on. Hello?
Starting point is 01:50:07 We are from the International Criminal Justice Court and we order a halt to this war. Stop this war. Can they do that? Is it that easy? They can do whatever they want. I mean, they can order a halt to the war. By edict, sure.
Starting point is 01:50:20 They think they should order a halt to this war. Doesn't mean anyone's going to follow it. They should order it. What's wrong with them? But if Israel and the other previous reports said that they have a month to comply with some sort of a report, you know, they do a little paperwork. It seems to me that they're signatories. And if they were ordered to stop, they'd have to stop.
Starting point is 01:50:43 But this is just insane to listen to. It's insane. It's completely insane. Plausibly amounted genocide. The court did not order a halt to the war. Instead, Judge Joan Donahue said Israel must take actions to prevent acts of genocide and to improve the humanitarian situation. The court further considers that Israel must ensure with immediate effect that its military forces do not commit any of the aforementioned acts.
Starting point is 01:51:11 Kill better! In Gaza, though, where the fighting is some of the heaviest of the war and where Palestinian officials say 26,000 people are now dead, half of them women and children, there was disappointment. Immediately, there should have been a ceasefire. Ayed Saeed told a videographer working for CBC News, then they can start investigating and see what's really happening here. Everyone's expecting that Israel won't follow through with the ruling, said Omar al-Saka.
Starting point is 01:51:45 Since when has Israel followed through with any ruling from the UN? Israeli officials, including UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan, meanwhile lashed out over the fact that the genocide accusation is still hanging over the country. Today the UN has become one of the weapons in the arsenal of modern-day Nazis against us. Every UN body has become weaponized against the Jewish state. You know, what's amazing about these reports, it has people so spun up where, you know, it's like walk down any street in your town and look at the homeless, the drug addicts, the thieving from stores, the total decay.
Starting point is 01:52:35 Look at the, I'll give it to you, the potholes. Look at the, look at children who are crying that they can't make ends meet. No one cares about that. No. Oh, no. Jews. The troll room is filled with them today. It's amazing.
Starting point is 01:52:51 You're getting spun up over this. This has been going on forever. Nothing new. Sadly. Yeah, this has been going on since I remember when I was a kid in college. I was a college kid. No, when I was young, the slingshots. And they were arguing with each other back in the day.
Starting point is 01:53:11 And this is, you know, 40, 50 years ago. And I went to hear a, I talked about this before. I went to Wheeler Auditorium to hear what turned out to be a three-hour lecture on the music industry by Phil Spector. Wow. That must have been cool. It was great. Did he have the crazy hair? Yeah, he had the crazy hair.
Starting point is 01:53:35 And he was wearing some sort of a blousey white shirt with the frilly at the end of the sleeves it was like a lace. Yeah, oh yeah. A frilly shirt. A frilly shirt. And he mentioned that and he was referring back to the he was talking about the jukebox
Starting point is 01:53:57 days of creating hit records and he made the mention and I always took this to heart when i was a became a column writer never have two two dogs in a row you can have hit dog hit dog hit but you can't you have two dogs dog you're done you're done you're done and they won't they won't play your stuff anymore it's just you're done yeah and so uh but he referred back to the the 40s and he's talked then he says you know the
Starting point is 01:54:28 situation he talked he referred specifically to the situation in the middle east with the jews and the arabs back then and it was just a it was a nightmare it's always been what you just said it's always been going on but now you so why do we get spun up about it because we're we'll be taught to choose a side because you know it's all everything all the problems in the world are the fault of one side of the other that's what it is and people fall for it every single time every single time oh red blue right left up down jew Muslim. It's always the same. Although I don't hear Chinese Uyghur. Don't hear that often.
Starting point is 01:55:09 That's ended, in fact, going to the Chinese news. Wait, wait, wait. Before you go to the Chinese news, I have one clip from your buddy, Kristen Welker, who tells us that the White House is very, very tired of the protests. They're very tired of being called Genocide Joe. Genocide Joe is making them upset. Very, very upset about it, yes.
Starting point is 01:55:35 What is the White House's plan to deal with protesters in the coming weeks, in the coming months, and the concern that it could overshadow his message? Yeah, this event today was certainly a smaller event, and we're told it was actually invite only. So perhaps that is why there were no protests happening today. But the White House is understanding that this is a problem when it interrupts the message of the president when he's on stage. So they've hired a guy named Doug Landry. He is an expert at campaigns. He's done campaigns over the past several years and he is somebody who they believe
Starting point is 01:56:07 can come in and come up with a creative solution. Our Mike Membley and our Monica Alba said he can come up with a creative solution to try to make sure these folks have a voice and their voice is heard, but it's not interrupting the president. Oh, ha! You can have a voice, but you can't interrupt the president.
Starting point is 01:56:29 Stop that. Stop that. this came out of that last uh particular event i guess where i think he was in milwaukee yeah where they called him genocide joe yeah genocide joe but it's the chanting it's and it's all it's all the socialist marxist influencers who were doing this been been doing it for decades. They occupy wall street, uh, black lives matter. Uh, oops. Oh crap.
Starting point is 01:56:50 Now they're doing it against us. Oh, well it was fun when they were doing it against Trump, but do it against Joe to be expected. But, but that's the point. It's like there's atrocities all over the world, but no one cares about them ask yourself why do
Starting point is 01:57:06 you care so much about this one be a gatekeeper of your own mind for two seconds even more concerned about the potholes i'm with you on that i'm with you on that china this is the does you ask what happened to what about the uyghurs well here's's China from this CCTV actually CGTN report from Beijing on China and their human rights they're obviously taking care of the problem a Chinese envoy has expressed the country's readiness to collaborate with the global community to advance and safeguard human rights China's permanent representative to the UN office at Geneva was speaking after recommendations made to China were adopted on Friday during a session of the UN Human Rights Council. Chen Xu also said Beijing aims to ensure that the benefits of achieving this ambitious goal, we will ensure the fruits of modernization will benefit people all over the country more fairly,
Starting point is 01:58:10 continuously improve the level of human rights protection, and promote free and overall development of the people. While promoting the high-quality development of the human rights cause, China will always uphold the spirit of establishing itself while bearing in mind others and advocate for equal and orderly multipolarity and an inclusive economic globalization that benefits everyone yeah but see i know that people are tuning out guys people are tuning out like oh china uh whatever i don't know it's not it's not in the programming it's not in the programming. It's not in the programming.
Starting point is 01:58:46 If it's not in the programming, people don't care. It's like Africa. I keep trying to play Africa. We're doomed when it comes to covering Africa. We play Africa clips. It's like you can see the drop-off right away. Oh, Africa. It's a big place.
Starting point is 01:58:58 Who cares? Nobody wants to deal with it. I do have a fun anti... I don't want to give it away. I want to give it away. A report came out a report somehow. We have big pharma and the medical industry has looked into the future and the future is dementia in Canada. A new landmark study is projecting a 187% increase in people living with dementia by 2050. The report also looks at a major shift in dementia demographics in this country. To discuss the findings is Dr. Roger Wong, Alzheimer's Society of Canada board member, clinical professor of geriatric medicine at UBC. I found this to be fascinating.
Starting point is 01:59:46 First of all, the number 187%. Not double, not triple, not quadruple, not 185. 187%. This must be a climate change model. I mean, isn't dementia something that we pretty much have licked? Why would it be increasing let's find out uh because people are living longer or maybe it's not this part of it's not increasing or now or maybe it's the the way it's being uh defined or the definition has changed uh there's a lot of reasons there's some of that but there's an agenda here so how do we
Starting point is 02:00:25 prepare doctor i think there are four different ways that we can think about it the first thing is in terms of our health care system we need to ensure that there are policies in place and implementation of these policies to allow for equitable access to dementia care including diagnosis and prevention equitable all Canadians in ways that are culturally sensitive. The second way is through research. We need to ensure that research on dementia in Canada would include participants from very diverse backgrounds because they make up the population in Canada. And the third way really is to think about policies, policies that will reduce differences in dementia risk across Canada. And that would include policies to allow for
Starting point is 02:01:12 national data collection and tracking. And fourth and last but not least is to make sure that there is education and support that is again done in culturally sensitive ways to support persons living with dementia and their care partners and loved ones. So I was about done with this. I'm like, this is not interesting. What kind of bogus report? And then all of a sudden, this guy uncloaks. It's about the Asians. The report highlighted the fact that the Asian population is really going to be impacted. Can you expand on that? Tell us why. Absolutely. So what this report does is to look at individuals from different cohorts and different groupings. And there's a discovery that for people with Asian,
Starting point is 02:01:59 including South and East Asian ancestry, that the number of individuals living with dementia is projected to increase by ninefold. So a nine-time increase from about 40,000 people plus living with dementia right now in Canada to over 400,000. So it's a significant jump. Again, multiple reasons. The population is aging, but there are also the presence of risk factors that lead to dementia that are seen especially in this population. The other thing to remember is there's also a lot of culturally sensitive values, attitudes, beliefs, or stigma that could become barriers in terms of these individuals accessing care. Those pesky Asians don't like our health care.
Starting point is 02:02:48 That's what this report is about. Oh, you're going to get dementia, you pesky Asians. What do you think, by eating healthy, that you're going to live longer? No, no, no, no, no. This is the pharmaceutical industry of Canada targeting the Asians. You got to come into the fold. Now, of course... It's a weird report.
Starting point is 02:03:13 But of course, what they'll do is just kill them. Well, they have that suicide lawyer. Yeah, got made. You got made. Yeah, got made. Yeah, absolutely. I'd be very worried if I was asian they're coming for you there is a uh uh kind of part of the clips earlier of the kids bitching about the country being crap
Starting point is 02:03:38 and united states is uh it's all america's fault and capitalism of course it's all it's all there's a this is i'm gonna play this is a clip i think it's gonna portend especially if trump gets elected because people want to leave the country but this is from a show called the bridge i played the whole i think i have the whole beginning so you get a feeling for it this is a uh podcast oh luckily out of Beijing. And I just want you to hear what they think of this new trend. Snappy music. I like it already. This is a great podcast.
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Starting point is 02:04:39 We love the bridge. Welcome to the bridge. The American dream is no longer to settle down in the States and have kids. According to CNN, quote, the American dream is to leave America, end quote. What does that bring to mind for you, baby? Wow, that's a huge statement, right? Is that true? Well, maybe to a certain extent.
Starting point is 02:05:02 But, you know, I was reading about this and the thought in my mind was there could be a silver lining to this dark cloud. I mean, it's, you know, dark for U.S. citizens. But then I think this will be a great opportunity for more Americans, especially the younger generation, to walk out of the country. younger generation to walk out of the country. I love this because yes, I would say a large contingent of young people in America think that you can just go to any country and go in and live and work because that's how it works here. Apparently answer.
Starting point is 02:05:39 No, you know, does Australia, don't they still require like a million dollars in the bank account or some, you have to be a literal rocket scientist? I think if you wanted to become an Australian citizen, that might be required. I think it's even for working there longer term. No, I don't think, well, maybe. Well, we have Australians.
Starting point is 02:05:57 I know New Zealand is pretty easy to get into. Yeah. Well, who would want to go? No one goes there. yeah well who would want to go no one goes there no i think you have to be a billionaire and uh and and build a bunker if you want to live in new zealand there's no problem i think this but you i think we're going to start hearing about this more it started with the cnn report the chinese loving it just that young americans especially like the ones complaining earlier, is just going to leave the country. They hate it here.
Starting point is 02:06:26 Yeah, well, good luck. That's what I think. Don't let the door hit you on the way out. I've lived in a couple countries. I still, to this day, will say, no. Man, Christina. Yeah, and you've lived in very, you lived in England for a long time,
Starting point is 02:06:42 but you were in the very liberal Holland, which is perceived as the great paradise by many liberals in the United States because you can bicycle everywhere. Yeah, I have a report. Remember now what I've said many times is that the Netherlands is the narco state of the European Union. Let's get a little rundown on what's going on from Deutsche Welle. Now, the European Union is teaming up with port operators to combat increasing illegal drug trafficking. There have been huge increases in the amount of cocaine entering the continent through ports in Belgium and the Netherlands in recent years, and that has prompted the EU to start a new project to fight back against the drug smugglers. Pressure has been steadily ramping up on European politicians to act to tackle the drug
Starting point is 02:07:31 gangs operating here. Criminals have reportedly been handing out hundreds of thousands of euros in bribes to port workers and threatening them and their families to gain access to shipments. The Dutch port of Rotterdam is another key focus of the project. Scores of people have been shot or bombed in drug gang violence in Belgium, the Netherlands and across the European Union in recent years, including the murders of famous investigators and lawyers, as well as innocent children caught in the crossfire. Customs officials here in Antwerp seized 116,000 kilos of cocaine last year, coming in on ships from all over the world. It was another new yearly record for the
Starting point is 02:08:14 port. And bear in mind, that's just what's being seized, not what's getting past the customs officials. The gangs are bringing the drugs in from latin america mainly ecuador and colombia the port alliance comprises of european politicians portmasters shipping companies and security firms it's so bad there the macro mafia killing each other over stolen dope. It's a mess. It's a mess. But, hey, they got wooden shoes.
Starting point is 02:08:57 I just need to play a couple clips. We're going to take our break in a moment. Because Rev Al had another classic Reverend Al moment. Not on his own show, but he was with Joy. Joy Reid, the readout. And, of course, bitching about Trump. Somewhere around a quarter of a billion dollars he's going to have to come up with. So Donald Trump will become more unhinged. He will become more desperate.
Starting point is 02:09:22 We're going to see him and his followers go into the twilight zone in terms of action now, because I do not believe he has the money. And if he defaults, he has judgments against him. His property start getting lean. thought and his brand has been totally demolished now because the big businessman will be exposed like the wizard of oz to have no clothes and no way out this is a new a gold mine the wizard of oz has no clothes joy reed what say you yeah there will be no uh owning beauty pageants and partnering with macy's and all of those things and on his state of mind what was the movie where they said you play with my money you play with my emotions his emotions are about to get played with oh yes now while we're on the he hasn't owned a beauty operation for like a decade years it's all right the wizard of oz has no clothes
Starting point is 02:10:34 uh let's just discuss this for a second this sexual harassment suit very interesting u.s department of justice says that former new york York Governor Andrew Cuomo did sexually harass more than a dozen state employees. The settlement was announced today. The DOJ concluded its investigation and provided ways New York can change how it handles complaints. Cuomo resigned, as you recall, as governor in 2021 after claims that he created a hostile work environment. The staffers were accused of not reporting the allegations. hostile work environment the staffers were accused of not reporting the allegations so just contrast that which no one heard about to what they're doing with trump this guy was an actual sleazy scuzz and he just gets a 25 second story it's quite it's quite ridiculous on I have a clip on this Trump thing. Oh, I have plenty of clips.
Starting point is 02:11:25 Here, why don't I do... No, the reason that my clip includes a little mention of the fact... Maybe I don't have it. But the fact that Reid Hoffman is the one who financed this whole deal. I think I have that. Hold on a second. I do have that. Oh, I know what it was.
Starting point is 02:11:47 It was, yeah, Trump's attorney came out. I didn't record it. He came out and just raved about the phony baloney nature of this entire trial where they couldn't put on a defense. They wouldn't let him do this or that or the other thing. They wouldn't let him do this or that or the other thing. And then she definitely, she said they quashed the fact that she wanted to mention to the jury that Reid Hoffman paid for the whole thing. It's just part of a smear campaign. But do you know what the, now she's claiming that, you know, she's getting death threats.
Starting point is 02:12:20 But the real... Trump's lawyer? No, no, no. This Carol woman. But the real, you know, the original suit where she claimed damages for was because she lost her job as a columnist at, I think, Vogue. At 76 years of age. Which kind of, you might have been lost that anyway. Yeah, I would think, yeah. But that's what it was really
Starting point is 02:12:45 originally about everyone sees this everyone sees what's going on it's no yeah you're right let's listen to joy read let's see if she sees what's going on the unanimous verdict donald trump is on the hook for just over 83 million dollars in damages 8383.3 million to be exact. It took just less than three hours of deliberation by the jury to come to that verdict. It's a huge increase from the $5 million verdict a separate jury awarded Carroll last year after finding Trump liable for sexually assaulting and defaming her. Now, this is the part where if you've got kiddos in the room, you might want to cover their little ears because kiddos, watch out for kiddos, kiddos, which is pedos talk. Ms. Carroll's case goes back to the 1990s, and she accused Trump of doing exactly what he said on that infamous Access Hollywood tape. Now, please, indeed, if you have kiddos in the room, you may want
Starting point is 02:13:43 them not to hear this because this is on television. He said, when you're a star, they let you grab women by the, you remember the rest. Ms. Carroll told a jury that he did exactly that to her, forcibly putting his tiny fingers into her against her will. She cannot resist. she cannot resist she cannot resist miss carol told a jury that he did exactly that to her forcibly putting his tiny fingers into her now that doesn't jive with what he said on the tape he said they let you do anything now it's forcibly i mean i'm just i'm i'm there's a big difference between forcibly and letting you. I'm ant effing here, obviously.
Starting point is 02:14:27 And the whole thing is, the whole thing is horrible. The whole thing, the discussion. This is just trying to bring back the old meme so we can get the list that I made. Yeah. We'll play that as end of show. We have a play out of it. Yes. Trump rotation.
Starting point is 02:14:42 Trump rotation. It's just the same. And plus the new stuff you know which is uh i've got to add to the list now let me see let me revisit the list hold on let me see if she adds anything to the list in the next 25 seconds against her will in the dressing room of a new york city department store i'm sorry to be so blunt but i think sometimes we forget what we're talking about here aka sexual assault and then he serially defamed her i like that serially defamed which of course is usually only used in the context of serial rape
Starting point is 02:15:13 but that's a good good job joey a previous new york jury ruled that yes he did both and then he defamed her again and again and again leading her to sue him again and leading us to where we stand today unfortunately i didn't really follow the suit i would like to know because you know where does freedom of speech end and where does uh defamation start you know can i sue some of the trolls in the troll room yeah yeah i think you should. Yeah. Now we're talking. What are they calling you? Oh, all kinds of things. Well, stop it, troll room. Let me see.
Starting point is 02:15:55 Is there anything else we need to do? Yeah, I got to play this one clip. Okay. All right. Since we talked about it earlier, this is a guy on another. This is a radio guy who has a a podcast and he brought this character on. Another podcast? You're going into the bin.
Starting point is 02:16:12 I'm loving the podcast. You're going into the bin, baby. That's not good. But this was an insane analysis of the missing Austin, the defense secretary. Ohin the oh yeah lloyd austin yes yes yes but this analysis i think takes us a little beyond what i'm thinking well let's review for a second uh austin was gone no one knew we're waiting for him to show up it takes two weeks then he shows up in something that was supposedly his home we're not sure you don't like the look you think you know yeah you know yeah you think he's you don't trust it and is that a
Starting point is 02:16:54 good enough backgrounder and then it comes back he's back in the hospital yeah what's problematic is this we have traitors within our government and And I want to just finish a statement. I do not believe what people saw was a real Defense Secretary Austin. I believe he disappeared for the length of time he did, which is an abrogation of his duty. And I believe what we saw was a computer-generated AI presentation. People said, and I'm not a sound engineer. Good night. I have two hearing aids, but sound engineers have said it's not the same voice. Some of these guys are sophisticated. So what am I saying? What is the real story? Was Austin in Ukraine when Russia basically blew the
Starting point is 02:17:42 hell out of a NATO bunker? Well, the rumor is, yes, and even the Russian defense ministry said he's dead. So how can people go on believing lies when there is zero credibility? So what I'm saying is the computer-generated imagery matched with AI, and I don't buy artificial intelligence. And I don't buy artificial intelligence. I buy this AI, and I think I'm the first guy that said it, as alien interference, alien intelligence. Alien meaning foreign to humanity. It can be demons. It can be fallen angels.
Starting point is 02:18:16 It can be, you know, the little whoo. What? What? It's alien interference? Yeah. AI, alien interference i now demons i know does that take alex jones would go for this this fallen angels i now have to go back and do a sound analysis of uh of homebound austin versus uh you could previous austin that's i believe it's so echoey, the homebound, that you can't
Starting point is 02:18:46 do the analysis would be not valid. It'd be invalid. I think because you played that clip, I think you get a theremin. It's been a long time, but you deserve it. You deserve a theremin. Alien interference. And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage, say in the morning to you,
Starting point is 02:19:02 the man who put the C in conscription, say hello to my friend on the other end, the one and only Mr. John C. DeVore. Well, in the morning to you, Mr. Adam Curry. In the morning, all ships and sea boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water. And all the dames and knights out there. In the morning to the trolls in the troll room. Hello, trolls. Stick your hands out.
Starting point is 02:19:19 Let me count you. What do we have? Pretty few. 1920 on the counter today listening to us 1920 how does that stack up this sucks it's because of your china clip one lone china clip that was one minute long i'm telling you the china clip does it man you can can follow along with all of the trolls. It's very feisty in there today. It's kind of interesting.
Starting point is 02:19:52 It's a very good indicator of the, I'll just call it the troll spun-up meter. You can see, oh boy, trolls are out of control today. Even Void Zero went in and said, hey, hey, hey, simmer down, people. Now, that's like you got Daddy Mad. You got Daddy Mad when Void Zero comes in. You can be a troll by going to trollroom.io. You can listen to the No Agenda stream there 24-7. There's all kinds of groovy podcasts on.
Starting point is 02:20:21 24 hours a day, many of them live, which is fun. You know, everyone trolls trolls along does other things it's good you know we have uh we start with the the blues and bluegrass i forget what it's called um show on sunday morning followed by uh darren o'neill i mean it's it's it's a great group we have that hang out there 24 7 you could also use a modern podcast app where you get alerted when uh when this show goes live when many shows go live also when the show posts let's say you can't listen live within 90 seconds you get an alert and you could tap right in and listen live that's some that's some newfangled stuff right there and i'm happy to announce john John, that Apple Podcasts, Apple, the big Silicon Valley company, has capitulated.
Starting point is 02:21:09 They have added a piece of functionality developed by the Podcasting 2.0 group. They've capitulated. This is just the beginning. They've cracked. I don't know if you want to use the word capitulated. I'd say that they wised up yeah wised up is a good it's probably friendlier yeah capitulated makes it you know it's like they were forced or something they weren't forced well they didn't have to do it no that's true
Starting point is 02:21:35 but i mean there's the podcast industrial complex what happens is we develop something and then spotify goes and does their own version and then it fails. So one of the first things we did in podcasting 2.0 is transcripts. And all these modern podcast apps have transcripts. You could follow along, you can search them. And Apple is now adding that functionality to the Apple podcast. So that's just the beginning. We're taking over them very slowly. Now, if you want to make sure that your podcast is always in your podcast app, because sometimes things disappear on some of those bigger apps, you will want to get a modern one at modernpodcastapps.com. We actually said we put them on the list at the bottom.
Starting point is 02:22:16 You have one feature. You get on the modern podcast apps list at the bottom. We're happy to have them for that. Value for value is... I got happy to have him for that. Value for value is, I got a note about value for value. I wanted to ask you about it. One of our producers, let me see. Joshua.
Starting point is 02:22:35 Okay, can I just read this to you for a second? Yeah, all ears. Yeah, he says, I've been running this email to you all week in my head, finally had a chance to type it up. I love the V for V model. Think you do an excellent job of promoting it. Thank well john and i pioneered it which brings me to the point of my email uh he's a sixth grade teacher he's email boots on the ground absolutely fed up
Starting point is 02:22:55 with the way education has done in the country he's been thinking a lot about some kind of education model based around v4v i'm very curious about what your thoughts might be on this if you think this is something that could work is value for value something you think only works in the podcasting entertainment industry or do you think it could be expanded beyond that john you are very familiar with scholastic systems your thoughts well it's already been expanded it's also the model used initially by public broadcasting public radio public tv and also you can't overlook the churches. Yes. And you can't actually overlook a lot of public institutions like museums that have used the value for value mechanism, but they're kind of skewed differently.
Starting point is 02:23:44 But it's still basically the same thing yes it could work i don't see why not it would have to be structured in a way that would be acceptable to the uh participants and i don't know how you did that i don't know how to do it well i think the main thing that people forget about value for value is you need to ask if you don't ask you're not going to get so it's isn't it really about asking well asking is a bit is a big part a big part of it if you haven't got the wherewithal to ask yes which is a lot of people have difficulty with they find it very hard to ask yeah i agree you gotta ask well and you have to be sincere when you ask. You can't just ask like a wimp. Exactly.
Starting point is 02:24:26 You have a tip jar. I feel interested. Yeah, you do teachers. Put it in a tip jar and you'll be good. And you have to take checks. Do not. That's an inside joke. That's a very inside joke.
Starting point is 02:24:40 Yes, you have to take checks. Checks are a big deal. They are a big deal. And we also have Stripe now, which is we're seeing people from all over the world starting to support us. Yeah, because Stripe allows you. PayPal, I don't know when this happened, but some countries like New Zealand. Oh, really? I think Australia to some extent.
Starting point is 02:25:01 India, for sure. India. Yeah, they just won't take paypal for whatever reason yeah so we have a stripe available i think that's pretty international and then the other one that's showing up now is people through their bank are using wise yes and that seems to come through wise really is how does that wise interesting just it's like pop money was i mean it's like what happened whatever happened to them by the way yeah i guess they dried up and blew away well value for value can come in many really in three forms time talent treasure time and talent is very big for us because
Starting point is 02:25:39 that directly goes to our bottom line that's things we don't have to do. Speaking of void zero, thank you, void zero. Look at the infrastructure that he's been running. He's upgrading and he's not doing it on show days, which is great. So we're happy. It's working. We've never built a website ourself, I don't think. Tim has built noagendashow.net we have um daniel does the meetup website of course sir paul couture who not only did the uh no agenda art generator but upgraded it and made it lickety split he probably put like a huge a huge piece of iron on it because we were complaining everybody's like it's slow he's like uh watch this. I'll fix you. And he did. And we appreciate that, as we do with the artists who upload art, whether you use AI or not. And it's really about the intent.
Starting point is 02:26:32 It's about the humor. And people, the artists often listen to the show and they guess what topics we're going to discuss. Yeah, that usually turns out to be a mistake. Yeah, they really miss it, usually, on that. But... It does that. When we get to the art later, after the show's over,
Starting point is 02:26:52 and we go over it, and we look, oh, there's an interesting topic that we didn't discuss. But, you know, it's like, come on. Well, we did discuss Texas. We did discuss Barbie and Francisco Scaramanga. He got it.
Starting point is 02:27:05 He nailed it with the Barbie, with her AR-15. It looks like an AR-15. It looks like a hybrid AR-15 shotgun somehow, with a big Texas flag, beautifully done. We did look at a couple other... Let me see. There was a lot of submissions. Let's take a look at what we had for the last show.
Starting point is 02:27:27 Yeah, the reason for this particular piece, it really stood out as slick, pretty, made the point, a little, you know, the Barbie contrasting with the shotgun and everything. It's just a great piece. Do you think this was AI? He does good work, generally speaking. Do you think this was AI? He does good work, generally speaking. Do you think this was AI? It looks like it might be part AI.
Starting point is 02:27:52 There may be some AI involved. I don't know. Certainly not our logo and all that stuff. There's no way that AI does that. No, it's just too much work for it. Yeah, when you use it as a tool, it's good. And, you know, Bell's just too much work for it. Yeah, when you use it as a tool, it's good. And, you know, Bell's head. Here's John.
Starting point is 02:28:10 I like the stars on her boobs. I didn't say that. Yes, you did. Lies. Okay. All right, lies. Then there was the Barbie snubbed. Barbie with her little uh her little um oscar
Starting point is 02:28:26 there was that from uh comics for blogger yeah that was ai uh darren o'neill had uh his super ai don't mess with texas with uh i guess uh it looks like a cowboy with some razor wire. Well, what else is there? I don't know if there's anything else that, yeah, there's some Obamas with a big mic pin. That didn't, it's too small, didn't really work. Who 33, I don't know, was there, and really, I guess that was, it was just the best one.
Starting point is 02:29:04 It just, it popped. popped pop was there anything else uh no not really i mean i did like the duck by uh mad merit made marriott yes yeah the duck in the barbed wire yeah yeah uh about it yeah well oh wait there's another bar oh I like the no agenda Barbie and I think we both thought that that was actionable the one down at the bottom N5PRE
Starting point is 02:29:35 an actual Barbie yeah that I think is actionable because it's using a the figure to do advertising for the show in the way with her holding the sign. Yeah, we got to be careful. I think it's probably sketchy. Yeah.
Starting point is 02:29:50 We were going to pick it. Well, Francisco Scaramanga, thank you so much for supporting us with your talent and with your time. It is highly appreciated. The work of all the artists is always appreciated. Noagendaartgenerator.com. You can follow along live during the show. You can go back and take a look at any time. These also show up.
Starting point is 02:30:11 I don't know if it has the Noagenda shop done anything new recently. They're probably just looking at like, well, this is all AI. I don't know if it's any good. I don't know. Noagenda shop. We need to hear from them. Yes. T-shirts, sweatshirts, hoodies, koozies, cozies, hats, everything.
Starting point is 02:30:28 You name it, they got it. They split the revenue with the artists, and from time to time, they give us a donation. We have no contractual agreement with them, which we love. No meetings either. It's fabulous. Love working that way. And if you use one of those modern podcast apps, Dreb Scott uses all of these images for the chapter art coming to apple podcast soon i'm sure thank you
Starting point is 02:30:52 for the treasure to the following people our executive producers and our associate executive producers anything above 300 you're an executive producer it's a real title uh you can use it on imdb as proof that it is a real title. It's accepted by Hollywood. You can put it on your LinkedIn profile, on your resume. And unlike the douchebags in Hollywood, we will vouch for you to say, yes, that person actually produced the show. 100%. Cody Smith would be our top executive producer from Tulsa, Oklahoma. He's listed in blue, which means his 105.2.62 brings him a knighthood. Hey, brothers,
Starting point is 02:31:27 he says, I'm technically a knight already, but I came across some good fortune and wanted to share my treasure with you. Well, thank you. That's very kind. Please name me Knight Smitty, lover of all and determined believer in the distributed ledger. Love you. I love you too, brother. Thank you. I'll see you on the podium in just a little bit. I love you too, brother. Thank you. I'll see you on the podium in just a little bit. I'll bet you that's Bitcoin money. I think it is.
Starting point is 02:31:52 Chris Hamilton's up. He's in Benbrook, Texas. 333.33. I happen to be one of your bakery worker listeners. Ah, yes. I have been meaning to donate for a while,
Starting point is 02:32:03 but kept putting it off. Well, now he's got some dough. Since you mentioned... Oh, hey-o! It took me a second. Yes, very good. Since you mentioned the bakery workers in the last show, I knew it was a sign to donate. Please de-douche me.
Starting point is 02:32:20 You've been de-douched. And please mention the bakery, Glitz Bakery in Fort Worth, Texas. So this will count as advertising. Well, to you. To you and your accountant. Thank you and God bless. No jingles, no karma. Chris Hamilton, Fort Worth, Texas.
Starting point is 02:32:36 The Glitz Bakery. Say hi. Hi. No, say hi when you go into the Glitz Bakery. No, say ITM. ITM. Say ITM. Yeah. hi and now say hi when you go into the glitz bakery now say itm itm say itm yeah or use code bongino where's chris we have where's chris that rat bastard there you go uh we dropped down to our associate executive producers uh 200 above d, Dame Roundstone from Turnbull, Connecticut. 2-3-4-5-6. We love that number.
Starting point is 02:33:08 And she's throwing a bone to the sad puppy. She says, please switch route to my husband, Storm N. Norman. All right. Let me make sure we have that. That's very sweet. I love it when spouses do that.
Starting point is 02:33:22 That's so kind. Put that towards his knighthood you do the accounting right off plug if you can oh need writing recording or editing check out rand content dot rand r content.com that's rand r content.com free editing for meetup drops please code bongino if you don't give us a code, it's going to be Bongino. Okay? Ryan D. Osseo in Fishers, Indiana.
Starting point is 02:33:53 2-2-2-2-2 Rove Ducks. ITM John and Adam living and loving the carnivore life. Therefore, I can... Can I get a brisket for my birthday? They always give me a brisket on my birthday. And add it to the birthday list for the 20th. Yeah, you're on it.
Starting point is 02:34:10 Thank you for your courage, Ryan Diazio. Diazio, Diazio in Fishers, Indiana. Sir Kaz, Brighton, England. Hello, Brighton. I've been to Brighton. I saw Joan Collins in Brighton for some reason 222.22 hey john and adam sent a donation of 222.22 via stripe today we got it thank you no jingles no big note just some restore older yacht karma would be appreciated yeah he's on the coast there in
Starting point is 02:34:39 brighton you've got karma send pictures i want see. Brighton's right on the coast. I'd love to see the pictures of your old yacht you're restoring. Eli, the coffee guy's up from Bensonville, Illinois. Maybe it's the sad puppy in the newsletter, or maybe it's the high-quality media deconstruction, but I felt the need to donate. Sad puppy didn't produce as much as we'd hope. No.
Starting point is 02:35:02 Thursday's breakdown of the Kerry Lake recordings provided an excellent perspective. Keep up the good work, gents. To producers in the Chicagoland area, check out Naperville Meetup, or Naperville, sorry, at Quigley's Irish Pub on Tuesday, February 6th. Thanks to Arthur, Arthur, Arthur,
Starting point is 02:35:20 for putting it together. And to all No Agenda producers, visit gigawattcoffeeroasters.com and use code ITM20 for 20% off your coffee order. N-J-N-K, stay caffeinated. Eli, the coffee guy. So here's some bonus content inserted into your donation segment.
Starting point is 02:35:41 I got an unedited version of the carrie lake uh recording in fact it also was accompanied by a a note from our producers who says damn jeff dewitt is one of the good guys he has helped a bunch of people i know get gigs in trump's wake Lake was bitter that Trump was coming in to raise money for DeWitt, that's the guy who resigned, and the Arizona GOP, and not her. She was not scheduled to be a speaker or get any money from Friday's event. First clue about Lake was running for senator while contesting 2022 governor race. She's been running for VP sincep since 2022 dewitt will have the last laugh lake just committed political harakiri so now i was not able to clip it because it's it's it's not good for audio clipping but the way it came out the way it was presented to us i would i have to say the context and nuance was edited out
Starting point is 02:36:48 it sounded much more like he was reporting to her what was coming down the pike and not necessarily there to bribe her so that would be that would make sense to me i i thought the whole thing was rigged yeah um so and i did put the link to this full recording, particularly the, the beginning is a lot of the beginning that was not in the released version. And there's some other bits that just taken out. That's taken out where he's kind of going, yeah,
Starting point is 02:37:16 you know, that's what these guys do, you know, that kind of stuff. So I would have to say that was, there was definitely this multiple sides of that story. Carrie Lake may not be the heroine that she appears to be. I love our producers.
Starting point is 02:37:34 Sir Mostly Nerd, $200, no jingles, no karma, and no note. That's right. We'll still give you a double up karma for that. Thank you so much. You've got karma. Right there at the bottom of the list is linda lupatkin you know where she is she's in lakewood colorado and she donates 200 bucks every show so i can read her note jobs karma for a remarkable resume that gets results go to imagemakersinc.com for all your executive resume and job search needs. That's what she wrote.
Starting point is 02:38:07 It's ImageMakersInc.com or just find Linda Lou Padkin under the show's producer list. Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs. Let's vote for jobs. Must be paying off for her. Yes. Now, I would like to say that although we're happy to read your code, Bongino, and all that, the concept of value for value is sometimes it gets a little distorted.
Starting point is 02:38:30 We give you the value six hours plus per week up front, no questions asked, until we get to the donation segment where we ask you to return some value if you got value from it. 898,000 people listened to this show in the month of December. The number of people donating of any amount really doesn't show. It's under 50 today. Yeah. So it's okay because if we're not doing the job, you're not getting the value, we're going to have to find something else to do eventually. But we appreciate our executive and associate executive producers who
Starting point is 02:39:08 always do make up the difference for us. That's been going well for 16 years. Just consider any value you receive, send it back. We appreciate everyone under $50. We appreciate the $5, people on sustaining donations. Just consider giving some treasure from time to time and of course time and talent is always appreciated john's going to take us through to those 50s and we'll come back with our meetups and with our two nights yeah let's start with i guess it's ducian palomato in oviedo florida all these are impossible to say. $110. He does say, or could be a she. No, I'd say he.
Starting point is 02:39:49 Great work. Andrew Gardner in Leonardtown, Maryland. $100. He's on the birthday list, and he wants to call out Sir Elliot Gardner and Joel Cox as D-Bags. Douchebag. Douchebag.
Starting point is 02:40:10 I'm not sure why Sir Elliot would be called out, but it's between him and Andrew. They got to figure that out. Line 13, I got no name. That's me neither. I got no name. Well, somebody sent us sent us 88.92 thank you very much kevin mclaughlin's next from conquering north carolina 8008 boobs the ultimate traffic stopper yep william alston 8008 um oh he's got... I have to read this little note there about the helium reserve.
Starting point is 02:40:49 Renegade 6 in Caldwell, Texas. 77-77. This is switcheroo to sparkles of chaos. Sparkles of chaos. Her birthday's coming up. Gary Blatt. 7-7-7-7. Jeremy in Jerome.
Starting point is 02:41:04 Oh, this is interesting. Your name is Jeremy and you live in Jerome, Idaho. 75. I was going to move to John, California. Sir Don in Chandler, Arizona, 6006. Spencer Pollock in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Switcheroo to Guantanamo Bay. B-A-E.
Starting point is 02:41:30 Jeremy, and that's 6006. Jeremy, another Jeremy in Amherst, Ohio. 6006 needs a de-douching. You've been de-douched. Steve Bandistra. Yeah, he's the Baron of BNA in Nashville, Tennessee, 5993. Sir Not Jake in Thompson, Connecticut, 5678. Credit sad puppy.
Starting point is 02:41:57 Haley Curtis coming again, by the way. Ooh, and the looks of things. Haley Curtis in Tulsa, Oklahoma, switcheroo to Spencer Pollack of Tulsa. Didn't we have Spencer? He's already donated. Oh, that's funny. The two of them donated to each other. For the switcheroo, for the alley-oop.
Starting point is 02:42:15 They never had a fight, he says. Peter Chong, 55, 10, surprise, surprise night of astonishment in Yukon, Oklahoma, 54-44. Sir Recalcitrant Crazy Steve II, 51-50. He's going to be at the meetup. No, he's not going to be at the meetup. Scott McCarty in Lodi, 50. And these are all 50.
Starting point is 02:42:41 By the way, Scott Nelson in Council Bluffs, Iowa, 50-01. Now, Scott McCarty and the rest of these are all $50 donors, name and location, starting with Scott. Then Brian Emenheiser in Lancaster, California. Forrest Scott Brinkley in Christianburg, Virginia. Shauna Norberg in Seattle, Washington. Jack Schofield in Yankee Town, Florida. Richard Gardner, I believe, in New York City. I could be wrong. Michael Elmore in Gastonia, North Carolina. Aaron Weisgerber in Bend, Oregon. John Taylor in
Starting point is 02:43:15 Florissant, Colorado. Zev Green in Teaneck, New Jersey. Titus Chow in Houston, Texas. chow in houston texas j alvarez in meridian connecticut byron p bellin in ashbury new jersey kenneth ryan kenneth ryan in bonita springs florida and last on the list is michael baker in quakertown pennsylvania these are all 50 donors and all of them contributed to making us get out of bed and actually do show 1629. And as always, under 50 appreciated. Many do that for anonymity, $49.99. But everybody else, consider $5 a month. Anything you've, any value you can spare. I think everybody can spare that at least once a month.
Starting point is 02:44:00 That would be very, very helpful. Sustaining donations. Find out more at noagendadonations.com. And thank you once again to our execs and associate executive producers of episode 1629. Our formula is this. We go out, we hit people in the mouth. And we always love celebrating birthdays with everybody. Email us with your birthday the evening before the show. We don't keep a calendar, but we do mention them. If you send it to us, Andrew Gardner celebrates tomorrow on the 29th, as does Ryan D'Azio. Renegade Six says happy birthday to his keeper, Sparkles of Chaos.
Starting point is 02:44:55 She'll be turning 30. And Haley Curtis, Curliss, wishes her smoking out husband, Spencer Pollock, a happy birthday. He is turning the big 33. Happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe. We have two nights with one layaway night, so we love reading those notes, which means he spent a long time
Starting point is 02:45:15 with small donations, which gets you to the finish line. This is Kyle Vargas. He says, I've been listening to the No Agenda show since hearing Adam on an episode of Twit. Twit, with John talking about the No Agenda show 2008 to 2010-ish. I stopped listening to Twit not too long after feeling guilty and appreciative of the COVID coverage. I started a night layaway plan of $33.33 per month in February of 2021. With the August 2023 donation, I achieved knighthood,
Starting point is 02:45:43 but life got in the way of claiming my title. Please, would you de-douche me? You've been de-douched. And I would like my knight name to be Sir Kyle of South Placer County. You got it. My birthday is on January 31st. Please add me to the birthday list. Did we put him on the birthday list?
Starting point is 02:46:03 We did not. Oh, maybe Jay's probably saving it for the actual birthday birthday list. Would that be the 30th? 31st? Happy birthday. Cheers, Kyle J. Vargas. So why don't you stand over here, Kyle and Cody. Could you come over here, John?
Starting point is 02:46:20 Get your blade out. I got it. Nice. There we go. The big boy is out. Kyle J. Vargas. Cody Smith. I got it. Nice. There we go. The big boy is out. Kyle G. Vargas. Cody Smith. Step up on the podium.
Starting point is 02:46:28 Both of you are now officially Knights of the NOAA General Roundtable. Thanks to your support and the amount of $1,000 or more, I'm very proud to pronounce to Kate V. as Sir Kyle of South Placer County and Knight Smitty, lover of all and determined believer in the distributed ledger. For you, we've got Hookers & Blow, Rent Boys, and Chardonnay. A little bit of Bitcoin on the side. Polish potato vodka.
Starting point is 02:46:50 We've got Harlots and Haldol, Redheads and Rise, Beers and Blunts, Geishas and Sake, Vodka Vanilla, Bong Hits and Bourbon, Sparkling Cider and Escorts, Ginger Ale and Gerbils, Breast Milk and Pavlo Man. I see you're already munching on the mutton. You're sipping on the mead. It's there for you. Head over to noagendarings.com I keep forgetting we have a whole website for it
Starting point is 02:47:09 noagendarings.com, take a look at them anybody can go there and take a look at these handsome rings, they're for knights and for dames we'll get your sizing, there's a handy tool there to send that in to us along with your address and each ring comes with a certificate of authenticity so you can clearly hit everybody in the mouth
Starting point is 02:47:26 or seal your important correspondence with the included wax, seeing as they are Cignet rings. And thank you for supporting the No Agenda show. No Agenda Meetups! Noagendameetups.com is the website where you can find all of the meetups we always like to highlight a couple of them as they're coming up we have some taking place actually one taking place today the ski in ski out uh meet up at salt lake city which let me see is probably underway
Starting point is 02:47:57 as we speak if you hurry you still get to viking yurt in park city utah and hang out with the guys and gals on thursday our next show day, the Northern Wake airing of Conspiracy, 6 o'clock at Compass Rose Brewing in Raleigh, North Carolina. And also on Thursday, the Midwinter Denver Meetup, 6.30 at Lincoln's Roadhouse in Denver, Colorado. Many more
Starting point is 02:48:18 all the way through May, which includes Richmond, Virginia. I still see Fredericksburg, Texas on April 8th. I really discourage that. This is the eclipse day. Bill Nye is doing a contest.
Starting point is 02:48:35 Witness the eclipse with Bill Nye, the science guy in Fredericksburg. It sounds like it's going to be a nightmare. It going to be a nightmare nightmare and that prize with bill nye by the way you're staying at the lodge trust me you don't want to win the second prize is two nights at the lodge i don't want to be there wow i didn't think you'd pull that joke yeah it's still a little structure we got to kuala Lumpur on the 17th. Oh, Tom's River, New Jersey on the 17th as well.
Starting point is 02:49:07 Old stomping grounds. Arlington, Virginia, some spooks on February 10th. And I want to pre-promote the Austin Sunset Valley, Texas meetup, which I think will be at Doc's backyard February 10th. Baron Scott and his lovely wife are always happy to welcome you to that. Snow Agenda meetups. What are you drinking? I heard it.
Starting point is 02:49:29 I heard it. I thought it was just... Oh, well, now that you mention it, hold on. Yes. Oh, I thought I heard a show beer opening. No, you were hearing me scratch out something on the list. Scratching your butt. Oh, there we go.
Starting point is 02:49:44 Yes. I do have something. Oh, there we go. Yes. I do have something. What are you drinking? This will be another dram, herbal sparkling water. Herbal? Herbal sparkling water and it's lavender and lemon balm. Oh, boy. I can't believe
Starting point is 02:50:00 you're drinking that. That can't be good. I will say that it was provided by some of our producers that sent me a box of these things. Oh, you got some good stuff there. You know, it's actually not that bad. Hmm. I mean, I got the Little House on the Prairie cookbook.
Starting point is 02:50:20 Oh, God. The Little House on the Prairie community is out of control. I'm a big fan. I'm surprised that you didn't have it already. Yeah, thank you very much. Go to noagendameetups.com if you want to participate in any of the meetups. They are available all around the world almost every single day of the week. If you can't find one there, you start one yourself.
Starting point is 02:50:37 It's easy, noagendameetups.com. Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days. You want to be where you won't be. Triggered or held to blame. You want to be where everybody feels the same. This is like a party. All right, I'm over ISO'd today, so I might as well go first. I figured you would be because last show you had nothing.
Starting point is 02:51:05 I am over Iso'd. Here we go. Okay, you can take your hands off your kiddos' ears. That's too long. Too long. It's like a digital fentanyl. Kind of like that one. Kind of like that one.
Starting point is 02:51:18 I think there's some... This is new. Ding, ding, ding. He did some new ding-dings. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Boom, bing, boom. Then I have this one. There is no evidence.
Starting point is 02:51:32 I thought that was pretty good. And then we go to the well for the final ones. A fantastic episode. Okay. So, wait. That will be the winner. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I have one more an incredible
Starting point is 02:51:46 episode fantastic or incredible which one this is a tough call i think the fantastic was better fantastic episode because i like the breathiness a little breath i have two okay which i i already concede the one that's going to be that one that you just played. Yeah. But let's go with promise. Promise made and a promise kept. It's funny. Yeah. All right. And then roll. That's not how I roll.
Starting point is 02:52:16 Yeah. I think the fantastic episode is appropriate. Yeah. That's just the one we got to do. And now it's time for... Goo Goo Goo with JCD. yeah that's just the one we got to do and now it's time for good i love it when people post good news stories that we've already played on the show i saw that mastodon you're like keep up will you well the good news today is i don't have a good news clip what you know what happened no this is i was talking to mimi and she posted a couple of clips and
Starting point is 02:52:45 there's some other clips there were a couple of good ones by the way really great clips this is an atrocity said the fisherman and then i forgot to put them on the on the uh on the uh on the countdown sheet and i never i never produced them and i don't even have a backup good news are you kidding me from a couple of shows ago i have a backup good news are you kidding me actually from a couple of shows ago i have a backup good news but if it's not current it can't really can't really you can't really have i feel bad now well you should this is your beat how can you how can you miss out on your beat i know it's pretty funny everyone well then i'll let you play one more clip before we go just just so we okay well then we'll call it the good news clip.
Starting point is 02:53:25 It's Biden. Always good news to play Biden. Okay, all right. What are we playing? This will be... I got two Biden clips. One of them is Biden talking about the Second Amendment gun rights.
Starting point is 02:53:39 And here he goes. Biden F-16 comment. Well, guess what, man? I didn't see a whole lot of patriots that are out there walking around making sure that we have these weapons. And if you really want to worry about the government, you need an F-16. Oh, is he on that tip again? He's done this before. This is old.
Starting point is 02:54:01 His old stick. Everything he says is old. Here he is biting on beer. Beer brewed here. It is used to make the beer. Oh, Earth Rider, thanks for the Great Lakes. I wonder why you said that.
Starting point is 02:54:16 Okay. All right. You know what? You better have a good news clip next show. I mean, it's one thing to throw in a China clip and then you have no good news.
Starting point is 02:54:30 This is an atrocity. An atrocity. I don't know where we're going to go. If you're on noagendastream.com, if you are listening through a modern podcast app,
Starting point is 02:54:42 if you stay tuned, we have, we have the Battle of the Douchebags Part 2 Live with Sir Seatsitter, Sir Spencer,
Starting point is 02:54:58 Dame DeLorean, and Mary Kate Ultra, also known as MK Ultra. Can't wait. End of show mix is that fabulous Trump rotation. We've got Brian Longenecker and Mary Kate Ultra, also known as MK Ultra. Can't wait. End of show mix is that fabulous Trump rotation. We've got Brian Longenecker, and we have our immigration clip. Who was that from?
Starting point is 02:55:15 I have to remember. Can't remember. Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country, FEMA Region No. 6. In the morning, everybody. I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley, where everybody's saying,
Starting point is 02:55:30 Go Niners, I'm John C. Dvorak. We return on... Go Niners. Go Niners. We return on Thursday right here on No Agenda. Remember us at noagendadonations.com. Until then, adios, mofos, a-hooey, hooey, and son! I have my list, and you might want to see if there's anything I left out.
Starting point is 02:55:44 This is the Trump rotation. There's two categories. There's the regular, and you might want to see if there's anything I left out. This is the Trump rotation. There's two categories. There's the regular, and then there's the criminal. But here we go. Ready? Yep. Liar. Incompetent.
Starting point is 02:55:52 Unhinged. Illegitimate president. White. Supremacist. Racist. Bully. Immature. Russian agent.
Starting point is 02:55:59 Narcissist. Mean. Long ties. Insane. Tweets too much. Small hands. Small penis. big red button, criminal. Mean, racist, immature, thin-skinned, runs the mob, has no money, unstable, fatter than 239 pounds, bankrupt. 25th Amendment should be instituted. He hates women, misogynist, holds grudges
Starting point is 02:56:26 forever, plays golf a lot, obstruction of justice, money laundering, and clown. John, no wonder we're making America white again. Bill on cyber law. Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Law, Law, Law. Diver Walk Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, ice in them, is that the kind of environment you would want your kid to be in? We don't need no immigration. We don't need no border patrol. No peanut butter enchilada Donald, leave the kids alone Hey, Donald, Leave the kids alone!
Starting point is 02:58:29 All in all, it's all, all for funding your wall All in all, it's all, all for funding the wall Kirsten Nielsen will not You think that we are ruining your dinner She is the secretary Of CHS I ripped children apart from their Families every day They lock them up in cages
Starting point is 02:58:58 They sleep under those silver blankets You guys get at marathons These kids will never be reunited with their parents because Kirsten Nielsen's staff doesn't think it's necessary to make a plan to reunite them with their parents. Have you ever been to a detention center? I've been to one in Nogales, Arizona. Those kids are alone there in cages. They're given peanut butter on tortillas. They're given frozen sandwiches that still have ice in them.
Starting point is 02:59:29 Is that the kind of environment you would want your kid to be in? That was a very interesting comment, I thought. That the idea of giving these children tortillas with peanut butter and some of them were out of the fridge, they still had ice on them. It's just despicable to this woman. It's just the whole idea. Meanwhile, I don't know if she has kids, but she's probably feeding them mac and cheese. If they see any weakness, they will come by the millions. They will come by the millions. If they see any weakness.
Starting point is 02:59:59 Zero tolerance for criminal aliens. Zero, zero. When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. Zero tolerance for criminal aliens. Zero. Zero. When Mexico sends a seatbelt, they're not sending their best. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And I will have Mexico pay.
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