No Agenda - 1693 - "Freedom Force"

Episode Date: September 8, 2024

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Wow, pre-crime. Puerto Vallarta in the morning everybody. I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley where the NFL season has begun and is more gay than ever. I'm John C. Dvorak. Wait a minute. Wasn't the first game in Brazil? That was on Friday. Yeah. Oh, was that the first game of the season? And why was the first game was the night before was Thursday. It was the Chiefs and yous beating up on the Ravens. You said it was more gay than ever?
Starting point is 00:00:50 Yeah, one of the quarterbacks, one of the teams that they talk a lot about is wearing a red fingernail polish. I don't know what that means, but it just seems a little unusual. Well, I can tell they're alienating their core audience. No, I don't think so. Everyone's got to be open. Yeah, especially the opening of the show. All right.
Starting point is 00:01:14 Hey, we are a value for value podcast. That means that we give you this show completely free, open, no pay walls, no hurdles, no levels, no mandatory subscription, no premium content behind the firewall. It's all premium content. No mugs for sale. Although I have started calling what we're doing Mug Club Media. It's Mug Club Media, everybody. I'm looking for a word that's the opposite of mass media
Starting point is 00:01:45 and is value for value based. And the best I could come up with is mug club media. I don't think it works. No, it's no good. It's no good. Well, unlike Lex Friedman, you know, the start of his interview with Trump, he had nine minutes of ads
Starting point is 00:02:07 At the top of the show You know if I was him I would do the same thing, but if you were an advertiser you'd probably be upset No one listens. Oh, they jammed them all together, and it was just big They got weaker and weaker in terms of their impact is that what you're saying no I'm saying that that's what the fast-forward button is for no one's gonna listen to those ads everyone goes Chup chup chup chup chup chup. Yeah, there's that that's a fact. Yeah so Yeah, I know and we also are not getting any tenant media money, which by the way, I've done a little bit of what?
Starting point is 00:02:43 tenant media Don't know it. Yes, you do. That's the whole pool boy and Ruben and that whole outfit. Oh, the Russian money. Yeah, well, I'm calling it tenet media money. Oh, okay. I'm going to be confused.
Starting point is 00:03:01 I've delved into this now. This is irritating me. Oh, yeah. Looking at our numbers, you say, this is irritating me. Oh, yeah. We're looking at our numbers. You say, you know, maybe, maybe, maybe. If we just said a little more things pro-Russian, it might pay off.
Starting point is 00:03:11 Hello, comrade, hello, comrade Dvorak. How are you doing this morning? I'm too, or I'm sorry, yet. So I figured out what was happening. What a canar this was. And I say canar with a reason. So what happened here is this Tenant Media, it's Lauren Chen or whatever her name is and her husband,
Starting point is 00:03:33 their plan, I figured out their plan, their plan was to build their own YouTube channel into a powerhouse. But, exactly. Sorry. Yeah, building a powerhouse. And of course they did this with the Russian money. They knew exactly what they were doing. And so they figured, well, we'll give, we'll give these guys, you know, this team over here, as far as we know, only.
Starting point is 00:03:58 I should stop you and mention that for people to get a background on this, which we're not obviously giving you at this point, go to the last show and listen to it because we have a rather elaborate discussion of this particular thing. So you may have to listen to that. I think most people kind of know what's going on. Maybe.
Starting point is 00:04:17 Geez. I'm just mentioning that. Okay, well stop now and go back and listen to the last episode and how come you missed it? Anyway, so the plan, the plan was to, because, you know, there's a lot of people out there saying, oh, pool boy taking it. There's some great memes. They've got they've got Tim Pool instead of a beanie on his head.
Starting point is 00:04:39 He's got one of those Russian hats, the furry hats. They've got a Cossack hat. Yeah, they've got him on, you know, Putin with a bear chest on the horse. They've got little Tim there in front of him, bare chested on the horse. This is really funny memes. Yeah, you're asking for trouble. But it's who, me? No, him.
Starting point is 00:04:59 Oh yeah, well. Or anybody who take a bunch of Russian money, do some promotional Russian material, even though you might not know it, you're asking for trouble. It's just the way it is. I don't think he really knew. I mean, of course, all right, I guess it was some Belgian guy. But the plan, this is where I'm getting to, the plan was for them to license some hot content by the way, no agenda show anybody. to the plan was for them to license some hot content,
Starting point is 00:05:25 by the way, no agenda show anybody, they could have licensed it from us. And with that to build up this channel, which really only had a couple thousand subscribers because little do they understand of how YouTube works. So it was- Yeah, you have to fake it. Yeah, it was really this channel.
Starting point is 00:05:43 You have to get some kid in there who knows what he's doing to jack up the numbers. Exactly. I remember what's a Coney 12, 20, 2012 or whatever it is. Yeah. Coney 2012. Exactly. Yeah. Those numbers are fake. So, so that failed.
Starting point is 00:05:59 But, but, you know, as I, as I look a little bit further into the story, this whole thing, it's Canadians who are doing this. This is Canadian disinformation. This is not from Russia. We should be putting sanctions in place against Canada. The Canadian-owned social media channel that the US Justice Department alleges is a key part of a Russian influence scheme is now off YouTube. YouTube said Tenet Media violated its community guidelines. Tenet Media was founded by Canadian Lauren Chen and her husband Liam Donovan last year. YouTube is also taking down four separate media channels owned by
Starting point is 00:06:36 Chen. Chen is a right wing commentator with posts supporting Donald Trump and siding with Russia over the war in Ukraine. The US Department of Justice indictment doesn't name Chen or her husband and they don't face charges, but as the CBC's Evan Dyer tells us, Tenet is allegedly central to a Kremlin scheme to use millions of dollars to influence American public opinion and the U.S. presidential election. A U.S. federal indictment says those opinions were bought and paid for by the Kremlin, which funneled $10 million, in part through Romain Millennial, a Quebec company belonging to Canadian influencer Lauren Chen and her husband Liam Donovan, who then used her Tennessee company Tenant Media to pay MAGA influencers like Dave Rubin, Benny Johnson, Tim Poole and Canadian Lauren Southern to spread the Kremlin's pro-Trump anti-Ukraine messages. We have not seen an adversary attempt to influence an American election to this degree ever before.
Starting point is 00:07:34 This former FBI director of counterintelligence says the Russian president will be infuriated to see this operation rolled up. The message the US government is sending with these indictments is we see you We're on to you and we're gonna call this out The charging documents make it quite clear that they knew who they were dealing with so far though The FBI is charged only Russians not the Canadians and Americans charge the Canadians This is horse crap What Russians did they charge and how would they know?
Starting point is 00:08:05 Well, that's the, it's the... This is a very dubious situation. Well, the Russians they charged are the ones who were sending the money to the Canadians. This is Russia and Canada colluding to interfere with our elections and I want a wall. Stop these Canadians. This... Canadians. Well, I think you're correct in your being irked by the fact that the Canadians are seemingly getting off scot-free when it comes to who's really behind this. Whose idea was it?
Starting point is 00:08:36 Was it the Canadians to begin with? It sounds like it. It sounds like it to me. And I think there should be sanctions. Throw them off swift. Let's get rid of them. Let's throw the cannon off swift. Yeah, I thought I'd do it. So, off Swift. Let's get rid of them. Let's throw a cannon off Swift.
Starting point is 00:08:49 So Tucker is on the road with his show, which is quite entertaining, I might say. It's basically the Vote for Donald Trump show, but with interesting guests. And he had Vivek, whoever he was, he's, man, I wish we could do it. He's got like thousands of people in these arenas and he just sits down with a guest and like, boom, done, buy some merch, see you later. What a gig, what a gig. It's good. It's good. I'm happy for him. So this comes up on this, I guess you call it a show with Vivek. But this idea of Russian election interference in particular, let's trace the history of that in each of the last two elections.
Starting point is 00:09:29 Let's go to 2016. The allegation of Russian election interference to support Donald Trump, when you double click on that and look at what was the actual foreign election interference there, it was actually US election interference in the US election through the Steele dossier, but laundered through the narrative of actual Russian interference. And actually there was a Russian intermediary to perpetuate that attempt at election interference about Trump's Russia collusion hopes. That's in 2016. Now we get to 2020. Again, domestic election
Starting point is 00:10:03 interference is the systematic suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story. That didn't happen by Russian companies, it didn't happen by the Russian government, it happened by US social media companies acting at the direction of deep state actors in the US government that suppressed, probably a story whose suppression changed the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. But again, what did they say? They said, no, no, no, this was Russian disinformation. So now you're seeing a pattern. In 2016, there's domestic... Hold on a second.
Starting point is 00:10:32 Yes. Are you telling me people actually paid money to go into a big auditorium to listen to this? Oh, yeah. They love it. But I can hear it on TV for free. People like live entertainment. People think... Oh, I'm sorry.
Starting point is 00:10:49 You're categorizing this lecture as entertainment. Okay. So now you're seeing a pattern. In 2016, there's domestic attempts at election interference, but they run it through a Russian smoke screen. In 2020, there's domestic election interference, but they run it through a Russian smoke screen. In 2020, there's domestic election interference, but they run it through a Russian smoke screen. So this time around, when I see Merrick Garland in the Department of Justice sitting under the Biden administration, suddenly alleging election interference by the Russians, I don't
Starting point is 00:11:18 have any facts other than to say my radar goes off and says, I want to know where that election interference is actually beginning. Canada. So's the big laughs? I'm not hearing anything funny. You know I've watched a couple of these and here's the mistake he's making. They do not have good crowd microphones. The crowd is not well mic'd. Not mic'd, yeah. This is common. It's a shame. It's amateurish. I've seen it. I was in a situation once where the crowd wasn't mic'd properly. Yeah. And I was hilarious, by the way. And then you watch the video. And I went and watched the thing as they streamed it and there was no reaction. I looked like an idiot up there
Starting point is 00:11:59 making jokes with no response whatsoever. I know, you look like a dud. I know it's so typical for these, because I used to do concerts that were for, you know, concerts with big audience, and then it would also be broadcast on television back in Holland, and we would always focus the crew. It's not, you know, you're doing stuff, yes, make the house sound good, but the lights are also TV lights and the sound is also TV sound
Starting point is 00:12:25 you have to focus on that and they missed it on this anyway what I want to mention we did have a producer that went to one of these events RFK jr. showed up as a special guest and he thought it was entertaining but it was only filled of a 14,000 seat arena with 12 by 12 12, 10 to 12,000. So. Only 12,000. Well only 12,000. Yeah. What did they think? The 10 bucks they had. That's what it's good money. Yeah. And then you get drinks, you get merch,
Starting point is 00:13:01 parking. Well, merch is probably where they make the, you get a piece of parking, you get a piece of the parking, you get a VIP parking. So unfortunately, and there's a second follow-up clip here, they miss what we saw as obvious. A lot of those allegations that they were somehow helping Trump, I actually got curious. Actually, you could make strong arguments that a lot of these posts or whatever actually weren't helping Trump at all. But the fact that they called that Russian election interference again, just suggests to me that this may be part of a pattern of what we saw in 2016 and 2020. So I don't really buy what they're
Starting point is 00:13:34 selling on this. Wow. I think this is not a super clever group, right? I think the problem is they are actually a super clever group. I think that this is just the beginning of a volley So this one's not gonna land. I think the public fool me once fool me twice The reality is I think there's some gonna be some weird things that happen here in the next two months I think they're gonna be some depending what happens in the debate. So I'm going to the debate next week in Philadelphia It's gonna be Tuesday. Oh, I think it's gonna be Probably a Donald Trump demolition demolition destruction of the other side.
Starting point is 00:14:08 But don't cheer too much, right? Because I was at the last one and that's actually in some ways was a trap. It was obviously a trap, right? They scheduled the earliest ever presidential debate in US history. Why did they do that? It was obvious. It was that they wanted to test Biden as a final trial balloon and they got a free option because if he did great, great.
Starting point is 00:14:28 They turned the race upside down. But if Biden did as poorly as he did, they swapped him out. It was something unthinkable that became the obvious. So I think if we have another debate smack down on Tuesday, if I was a betting man, I'd predict that's what we're about to have. I also would predict we're going to have some very strange things that happen on the back of that as well. See, I think they missed it.
Starting point is 00:14:50 Our analysis was, it was so clear to us. This is about Ukraine or as we say, Ukraine. You know, it's like, no, I don't think you're getting this right. No, I would listen to all the analysis of this Russian stuff. And it was all, and they left out, they left out a lot. They always left something out. We caught it all. No, it was about Ukraine.
Starting point is 00:15:15 It had nothing to do with Trump at all. We can't be saying Ukraine. We have to say Ukraine. Well, you just said it. No, but no, that's like saying Rada. This is for some reason all the in-crowd which is not us is saying Ukraine. Well you just said it. I said Ukraine or Ukraine. And I said Ukraine. Yeah but you got but we I was accentuating a point that we don't say these things. Oh, okay. Well, yuck crane. Yuck crane.
Starting point is 00:15:47 Yuck crane. Yeah. Yes, that's exactly right. But that's not going to be picked up because that's not where the narrative is going to head. And while all this is taking place. And by the way, I think we should start, stop right here. And, and I think it's time to create a pool, a betting pool on where is, cause Vivek is obviously an operative,
Starting point is 00:16:07 where is he going to end up in the Trump administration? Ambassador. He's going to get a job. Ambassador. He's getting an ambassadorship. To India, you think? Just ship him off. That's probably the best thing to do is to ship him off. Vivek, great job. Yeah, you need to ship him off to one of the BRICS countries so India would be perfect.
Starting point is 00:16:28 Let him go sit there. I think that'd be good. Yeah, I think that's where I put my money in the pool. India, ambassadorship, good to go. So meanwhile, while everyone is running around talking about Russian disinformation that came from Canada, all the military industrial complex came together in Rammstein, the Rammstein Air Base. Rammstein. It's a rock group, isn't it? Yeah, it's also an army base in Germany and everybody was there and all the money was there, everyone
Starting point is 00:17:05 was good to go and we brought a big check. The arrival appeared awkward even if it was among friends. Vladimir Zelinsky arriving at a meeting of defence ministers from allied countries including the US, UK and hosts Germany. He like his country soldiers once more on a mission to ensure Ukraine's partners were following through on promises to help it win its war with Russia. The shortage of missiles and cooperation, this applies even to our territory, which is occupied by Russia, including Crimea. We think it is wrong that there are such steps. We need to have this long-range capability,
Starting point is 00:17:42 not only on the occupied territory of Ukraine but also on the Russian territory. Zelensky is frustrated that allies still haven't permitted Kiev to hit Russia inside its own borders using Western long-range missiles. He believes this is a key way to put pressure on Moscow to end its two and a half year war on Ukraine. But speaking after the meeting, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin appeared to indicate that Washington did not believe long-range capabilities would turn the tide of the war. We had this discussion about other capabilities and each time we point out that it's not just
Starting point is 00:18:18 one thing, it's a combination of capabilities and how you integrate those capabilities to achieve objectives. Earlier on Friday, the US said it would be providing an additional $250 million in assistance, while the UK and Germany also said they were providing equipment including short-range missiles and howitzers. Ukraine says it desperately needs to bolster its defenses. So of course we're not going to give him long-range weapons because that could potentially could do one of two things Could start World War three minor issue, but it would possibly end something and then I want that
Starting point is 00:18:53 Keep burning stuff on that border. Keep blowing stuff up. You're doing a good job and who else was there? Who else was in in Rammstein? Doing I swear to God doing Instagram reels with Zelensky, Lindsey Graham. I'm here with President Zelensky. I'm such an admirer of what you and your country have done. We're trying to stop the Russians so we don't have to fight them. They don't want any American troops. You're gonna stop the Russians so we don't have to fight them, you dope. Trying to stop the Russians so we don't have to fight them. They don't want any American troops. Oh, you're going to stop the Russians so we don't have to fight them, you dope. Trying to stop the Russians so we don't have to fight them. They don't want any American troops.
Starting point is 00:19:30 They just need the weapons to free their country. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We don't want American troops on the ground. Kill your own people. Of a terrible invasion that they're sitting on... I know that's what's so funny. Oh, it gets better. It gets better.
Starting point is 00:19:42 He does a classic here. It gets better. Of a terrible invasion that they're sitting on trillion dollars worth of minerals that could be good to our economy. So we're helping our friends in Ukraine. We can win this. They need our help. Yes, we need and we have already... the biggest help is the support of American people and support of our friends. Thanks to Lindsay and his colleagues, to congressmen and senators from the United States. Thanks for the support, bipartisan support. Thank you so much. Peace is coming.
Starting point is 00:20:15 Yes. Soon. Peace is coming. Right after we... So, I don't know if Zelensky is... He must be in on the game because no way is he gonna get any of the $26 trillion worth of minerals that are in Ukraine's land. No way you said it again. I'm doing on purpose now and This is this Lindsey Graham has been saying this
Starting point is 00:20:40 You know, but no one ever calls him out on it or says this is the real reason for this war. They're sitting on 10 to 12 trillion dollars of critical minerals in Ukraine. They could be the richest country in all of Europe. I don't want to give that money and those assets to Putin to share with China. Or to Ukraine. If we help Ukraine now, they can become the best business partner we ever dreamed of. Sign here. That 10 to 12 trillion dollars of critical mineral assets could be used by Ukraine and the West, not given to Putin and China.
Starting point is 00:21:14 This is a very big deal how Ukraine ends. Let's help them win a war we can't afford to lose. Let's find a solution to this war. But they're sitting on a gold mine. Yeah. And this was months ago that he said this. So it's like, it's so obvious what is going on. They've already given away all of the breadbasket of Europe to the big, you know, Monsanto and Cargill and not Monsanto, Cargill. And who are the other guys who did the big big ag? Tyson, Tyson probably think Tyson.
Starting point is 00:21:48 So I don't think Tyson's on this deal. Well, but yeah, I'd rather have the Russians. I hate that, you know, we're not getting paid Russian money, but I'm going to say it. Not yet. You're working on it. I can hear you. I see what you're doing. Russians should have them. Let them do it, because the one thing I've noticed about them is they're not gougers. When they're given all the gas and they're pumping it all into Europe and everyone's saying, oh, we're going to get dependent on it. They're not,
Starting point is 00:22:13 they're never gouged anybody. They just let, they just let it, they take a look at it, take a small profit, and then they dump it out there. And you know, the gougers are, are, are looking for that, uh, that the wheat fields and the gougers are looking for that wheat fields and the gougers are looking for the minerals. The gougers are starving Africans with the wheat and the grain. Yeah. It's like, hey, tough crap. That is the negative side of capitalism. So this brings me to a boots on the ground from one of our producers in Russia,
Starting point is 00:22:46 who says, I love your show. I'm an American currently studying. He's an American in Russia. Yes. We need to get Russians to listen. You know, I want to stop right here and mention that people that are listening to the show that are in, I know in Spain, they listen to the show
Starting point is 00:23:03 and I visited with a few of them once and they said, said well the great thing about the show is you guys speak clearly and it's good for us to practice our English. All world listeners out there should pass it along to other people that are in the community, Russia and elsewhere. Listen to the show so you can practice your English. And we have transcripts in the modern podcast app so you can read along and learn how to spell Dvorak. John C. John C. Love your show on American Currently Studying in Russia because it's cheap. Just wanted to tell you that what I've observed here in Russia regarding the Russo-Ukrainian
Starting point is 00:23:44 war, I think and do believe that there will never be a demilitarized zone in Russia, at least maybe inside of Ukraine. The Kursk region will not be part of a demilitarized zone. John touched on something I think is true. In 1943, the Germans attacked the Kursk salient and to set up a trap, I think the Russians set the same trap in the Kursk region this time as well as there,000 out of a total of 12,000 initial troop count. But of course, that's not reported.
Starting point is 00:24:35 Also the Ukrainians gambled and lost- Why would anybody report facts? Also the Ukrainians gambled and lost that Russia would pull the troops from the entire Eastern Front to stop this incursion, which they didn't. Ukrainians had to redeploy some of their forces from Kursk to Prokursk just to slow down the Russian advance. John, you got a clip from YouTube channel, military summary channel. I know you too are busy and blah, blah, blah.
Starting point is 00:25:00 Finally, just let the Dames, Knights and fellow producers know that Russians are really friendly, caring, and they have a great sense of dark humor. They hold hands and hug while drinking overpriced coffee, talking about how crappy their pop music is. And did you see that latest internet meme? They could be Americans of the Eastern hemisphere, which is maybe why our governments are at each other's throats sometimes. Also, I can still get Coke and Pepsi here, McDonald's and KFC just renamed themselves to Tasty Period and Rustics. Well, Tasty Period. Tasty Period.
Starting point is 00:25:33 Wow. What kind of franchise marketing is that? I don't know, but it doesn't sound right. While Burger King hasn't even taken down their signs and are still open for business. In my city's biggest mall, I even found a can of A&W root beer from America. How do I know it's from America? Ingredients in English.
Starting point is 00:25:54 And second ingredient was high fructose corn syrup. Well, how about that? Yeah, what's... That should be, isn't that illegal? Aren't they breaking sanctions by still operating in Russia? Well, they use middlemen in some sort of a legal way. Let's face it. It doesn't work.
Starting point is 00:26:11 It's called a workaround. And one of the things Americans are good at is workarounds. We're good at that. We can find them, we work them out. Reach around. Well, that's different. We're good at all. You're always mixing these things up.
Starting point is 00:26:24 I'm sorry. I'm sorry. No wonder you keep screwing up into the other. So now we have a report, I think France 24, it was maybe Deutsche Villa, and they bring in a military industrial complex shield, which the whole thing was all MIC. Ukraine says it is concerned by foreign media reports that Iran has delivered short-range ballistic missiles to Russia. Moscow. They hear the Iran meme coming in now. Steps up missile and drone attacks in recent days, stretching Ukraine's air defenses. Kyiv and its allies have previously accused Iran of supplying Shahed drones to Russia, but Tehran denies supplying any weapons used to attack Ukraine.
Starting point is 00:27:08 Let's bring in the shield. Well, so the story is... What? What? What? What? Why are they making this disassertion? What difference does it make? Well, here comes the the shield. Tell us why. And we are now joined by Mark Kansian, a former colonel in the US military and now the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. Colonel, why would Russia need Iranian missiles? Does it not have enough of its own? Well, it does not have enough on its own. It has been producing missiles all along, often with parts smuggled in from global sources. But those haven't been enough to accomplish the ends that they're trying to accomplish, for example, attacking Ukrainian infrastructure, electricity, for example.
Starting point is 00:27:57 So they brought in ballistic missiles from North Korea, and now they're proposing to bring in ballistic missiles from Iran. It's important to keep in mind that Iran has been supplying Russia with missiles all along. These Shaheed-136s that we just heard about, Iran has been sending for about a year. And in fact, they've set up a plant in Russia to produce these missiles, these kamikaze drones. these missiles, these kamikaze drones, the ballistic missiles is a step up in support, but not fundamentally a change in policy. Okay, so they're just bringing Iran into it for whatever reason, we can kind of guess
Starting point is 00:28:36 why. And if you heard at the beginning of the... You can. Well, of course, they want war with Iran, anything, more military industrial complex finance. Well, I just think, yeah, there's a bit of that, but it does. The whole story that makes no logical sense. For one thing, the claim is basically the Russians are losers. They can't even make their own damn missiles.
Starting point is 00:28:59 Well, where does it come from? At the beginning of the report, you heard, according to reports. Well, where did it come from? At the beginning of the report you heard, according to reports, well, where did it come from? It came from the chiefs of MI6 and CIA themselves, who appeared at a Financial Times conference just before the Romstein conference. Stepping out from the shadows for the first time together, a united front in an era of division and danger, such as claims that Iran has supplied Russia with ballistic missiles for its war in Ukraine. Should Iran ship ballistic missiles of whatever kind, close range or other kinds, it would be a dramatic
Starting point is 00:29:42 escalation of the nature that defends partnership. No confirmation, but Russia's invasion of Ukraine is a key… Hold on a second, wait. So these are good clips by the way. Thank you. The assertion, there's interesting cross purposes of assertions. The first one was that, oh no, they're not doing anything, but they're going to start doing it. Yeah. Oh yeah.
Starting point is 00:30:05 Which we've known since day one that they've been, and we've seen pictures of the missiles. I've shown pictures of the factories, and the newsletter six months ago, longer maybe, of the factory in Iran, exactly the model numbers and everything for all these drones. We have all the data, all the model numbers and everything that were for all these drones. We have all the data, all the information that missile lands and it doesn't blow up and they can see, they take pictures of it and put those in the newsletter.
Starting point is 00:30:33 It's all been documented, but now all of a sudden they haven't really been doing any of that, but they're going to start to. Are you kidding me? They think that we're that stupid? Well, please bear in mind for the first time ever in public together it's the chief of the CIA, Burns and the chief of MI6, Moore who are telling us this, so now we can believe it. ...of the nature of that defense partnership.
Starting point is 00:30:58 No confirmation, but Russia's invasion of Ukraine is a key focus for the spy chiefs. They applaud a recent incursion by Kyiv in the opposite direction with Ukrainian troops snatching parts of Russian land. It's typically audacious and bold on the part of the Ukrainians. Oh, so bold on the part of the Ukrainians. Audacious. To try and change the game in a way. And I think they have. Yes. Yes?
Starting point is 00:31:31 You want to say something? No, I was just saying, I was just listening to the man talk. He's the head of MI6. To try and change the game in a way. And I think they have to a degree changed the narrative around it. The Kursk offensive is a significant tactical achievement. It's not only been a boost in Ukrainian morale. It has exposed some of the vulnerabilities of Putin's Russia and of his military.
Starting point is 00:31:56 Despite the blow, Vladimir Putin is still deemed to be looking strong for now. I don't see any evidence today that Putin's grip on power is weakening. He does one thing really well and that's repress people at home. Yeah, I mean, just don't ever confuse a tight grip with a stable grip. So all he does is oppress people at home with, I don't know, Burger King, KFC, McDonald's, A&W root beer, Pepsi's. And then what does he actually come out and say? An endorsement made in jest. Speaking as a guest at a forum in East Russia, Vladimir Putin candidly suggested that Kamala Harris was his preferred candidate for November's US presidential election.
Starting point is 00:32:44 suggested that Kamala Harris was his preferred candidate for November's US presidential election. She has such an expressive and infectious laugh. It shows she's doing well. I mean Trump. He's imposed more restrictions and sanctions on Russia than any president has ever imposed before. And if Mrs Harris is doing well, maybe she'll refrain from doing something like that. The comments were met with laughter by the audience, adding to the mocking theme of the remarks, a common trend whenever Putin has talked on social issues in the United States.
Starting point is 00:33:16 The Russian president had earlier this year backed outgoing President Joe Biden over Trump, claiming he was more predictable. But Trump, for his part, said he was left feeling split over Putin's latest comments. I don't know exactly what to say about that. I don't know if I'm insulted or he did me a favor. The U.S. National Security Council, meanwhile, called on Putin to stop talking about American elections and to stop interfering with them. Stop talking about us!
Starting point is 00:33:44 This is great. It's like he's trolling. This is great. It's like he's trolling. While he's... Totally. He's picked up a clue. Yeah. He is trolling. In fact, I'd like to have somebody else translate what he said cause I've been skeptical. I've had this clip came out some time back and I'm skeptical about it's a translation. Although this translation, the one I heard was a woman translator and this one was a male. So it's a translation. Well, that's a good point. Although this translation,
Starting point is 00:34:05 the one I heard was a woman translator and this one was a male, so it's slightly different. Well, the reason I picked this one is, it's France 24 and they had a much more coherent translate. The translation was the same as the Russian translator, the clip that we all saw. And the thing that made me suspicious about the clip was that when he talked about Kamala's infectious laugh or basically,
Starting point is 00:34:28 or cackling, the audience cracked up as if they'd heard it. And I don't know why they would. Well, they've heard her. Why would they have heard Kamala cackling? Why would they have heard any of it? It's really, it's, it's, it's, it's like some minor, picadillo that say some politician in Portugal might have. And if you mention it to an American audience, they'd all laugh about it when we would have no clue. It didn't make any sense to me that they'd heard her laughing like that.
Starting point is 00:34:59 Oh, come on. They've got McDonald's. I'm serious. I don't see any reason that a Russian national would have ever heard anything Kamala Harris ever said. I dispute that. I think that the Russians are all over listening to what's going on with us. Why not? Look, I just don't see it. I don't see... For one thing, she's never said anything important. I mean, that's the only thing she's known for is that laugh.
Starting point is 00:35:28 Yeah, to us. The world over. The Dutch are talking about it. I see it in the Dutch press. So, I mean, not quite Russia, but not far off. So, I don't know. We'll look for a... I just said it made me skeptical. I mean, I didn't know that the'll look for a... I just said it made me skeptical. I mean, I didn't know that the Dutch were all aware of this stupid laugh, but...
Starting point is 00:35:50 Everyone's aware of the stupid laugh. See, I dispute that. Now you use the word dispute, so I used it back. You can dispute it all you want. Now, will they know that she all of a sudden starts talking Southern and Black? No. No, that I think they wouldn't know. Until now.
Starting point is 00:36:10 Without voter suppression, Stacey Abrams would be the governor of Georgia. Andrew Gillum is the governor of Florida. I'm beginning to do some business now. You all helped us win in 2020 and we're gonna do it again in 2024. Well, what are you gonna do about it? He does not walk it like he talks it. When we get this done together, my friend. Well, I see he's testifying.
Starting point is 00:36:36 Can I get a witness? You think you just fell out of a coconut tree? Best rapper alive? Chupac. He's not a rapper. Are you kidding me? I'm totally part of that whole listening generation of music. Young men of color, black men, it's not just a barbershop. We got these brothers out there.
Starting point is 00:36:57 This one brother who's doing a lot of work out in space. We have to stay woke. Let's get a ceasefire. There must be an immediate ceasefire. Like everybody needs to be woke. Just stay more woke than less woke. Let's get a ceasefire. There must be an immediate ceasefire. Like everybody needs to be woke. Just stay more woke than less woke. Leave grandma's medical marijuana alone. I didn't know he could preach like that. You better thank a union member. You better thank a union member for sick leave. You better thank a union member for paid leave. You better thank a union member for vacation time. You better thank a union member for vacation time.
Starting point is 00:37:25 We don't. I also worked at McDonald's. There you go. See, the Russians didn't know about that. They do now. Hello, Russia. The one or two Russians that listen to this show, they got to get more people listening. Yes, I agree. Hit some Russians in the mouth. Not a call for violence.
Starting point is 00:37:51 Okay, well, I've opened the show. Well, I do have my, my totality of Ukraine clips is from PBS. It's a 22 second clip, which summarized what was, you didn't even touch upon, but it did summarize the Ukraine war for the last week, and you might as well play it. In Ukraine, Russian drone attacks are getting dangerously close to the country's capital. Ukraine's Air Force said that across the country overnight, it shot down nearly 60 long range drones. Debris and shrapnel fell onto streets in Ky and keep some of it narrowly missing the country's Parliament building President Volodymyr Zelensky is in Italy today
Starting point is 00:38:29 He's meeting with European leaders to try to shore up support and ask for more aid money Look for money money money. Come on man. Give me some money Yeah, I guys gotta go. No, he's perfect. He's perfect for the whole system. I'm sick of the system being exploited. That's our money. It's your money, my money. Everyone that listens to this show, it's their money.
Starting point is 00:38:59 They're just stealing money. No, I feel your dismay. I'm just pointing out the obvious. The guy's not going to go. He's fantastic. Look, when we send another $250 million or if we make decisions about long range missiles, why is it only Lloyd Austin that talks about, where's our president? Isn't he the one?
Starting point is 00:39:24 He can't get it out. Isn't he the one that should be telling us what we're doing no they just send over generals and the end contractors and they all sit in at a long desk and Zelensky's then oh yeah good man yeah keep it going brother yeah we want more stuff oh you did another clip will play I have another clip we'll play. This is the drone. It says Dones. Dones. This is the counter clip.
Starting point is 00:39:51 This is a longer clip. NPR does a better job on the weekends. Oh, they did 33 seconds. Oh, nice. Here we go. Russia continued to bomb Ukraine today, striking near the parliament in the country's capital, Kiev, during the early hours. The country's air force said nearly 70 drones were used and most were shot down with air
Starting point is 00:40:09 defenses. No deaths were reported in the capital, but elsewhere in Sumy, Kharkiv, Khursan, and Dnipro, local officials say Russian attacks injured or killed at least four people. This as funeral services were held for victims of an earlier Russian attack on Poltava That killed more than 50 people and injured hundreds You see that no mention of money there No, but the horrible the reason why it's a 33 second report is because even NPR knows no one can America cares anymore about this We've we're immune. We're like, all right
Starting point is 00:40:43 I agree. I agree with that so they're trying to keep their audience so right PBS so they gotta do more anti-Trump stuff and stuff about these wars yes that's what you need do more you know the I didn't clip any of it but the latest trend in and I heard this in on on the media from NPR. The trend is to say, we're not reporting right on Trump. We're translating his incoherent blather because he's old. He's old and he can't speak.
Starting point is 00:41:16 He's old and senile. And senile. And so we're translating it. We should be playing and saying exactly what he said because no one understands it. This's, I mean, it's all, this is the new move is to make, you got to make Trump sound stupid. Well, the problem is that they don't have enough air time because his, what he calls the weave, it takes too long. It takes way too long for him to get to a point. Oh, it takes forever. That's his whole thing.
Starting point is 00:41:49 He's just an audience hog. That's the only way to describe it. He goes up there and yaks, yaks, yaks. And he tries to do material. I had a clip here that actually discusses this. Well, this is the trend, so I'm glad that you're on it, because I didn't get anything. This says MPR, you put M instead of an N. Randomly ripping Trump on his tariffs and some others. This is just a random NPR rip. Man, I wish I could find it.
Starting point is 00:42:24 You confuse me well. M-P-R-M as in Mary. I'm looking at M and at, oh, M-P-R. Yes, I gotcha. Former President Donald Trump spoke at a rally in Mosony, Wisconsin this afternoon, a speech that went on for more than an hour and a half. Oh no! The rally was part of the swing state push both campaigns are doing with less than two months until election day. NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben reports. Trump made many of his usual arguments like railing against the quote fake news and casting undocumented immigrants as
Starting point is 00:42:52 dangerous. See this is what they want they want hey hey you can't do that anymore you have to verbatim report what he said because he's he has cognitive issues. He also repeated... Well he he would stop before he finished that thought. The way they begin the report as though he went on for an hour and a half like he's a rambling old man, as if he's never... He does 145 once in a while. An hour and a half in the modern era is short. And you wonder why people pay money to go see Tucker and Vivek.
Starting point is 00:43:25 They love the live show. Can't afford Oasis tickets. So you might as well go to either the free Trump show, which is... Oh yeah, now that you mention it, what does a Taylor Swift ticket cost? Oh, if you can get one. Yeah, it's like 500 bucks and up. I've been hitting refresh for hours. Also repeatedly promoted tariffs.
Starting point is 00:43:48 We will charge other countries when their product is sent into our country. And why shouldn't we? That's exactly what they do. That's what, that's what made China strong. Foreign countries do not pay tariffs. Businesses importing goods to the U S do. Tariffs can be attempts to protect domestic industry, but economists say many of tariffs costs are passed on to US consumers.
Starting point is 00:44:10 As president, Trump imposed tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars of Chinese goods. President Joe Biden kept tariffs on Chinese goods in place. Danielle Kerslade in NPR News. Now, okay, this is an interesting report because they go on to condemn him for tariffs. Yeah, but Biden did it too. Casually, just kind of mentioned just to balance the report. I'm not sure why they even did it. Well, go ahead.
Starting point is 00:44:35 Well, I thought you had something to say there. No, go ahead. So what they did was they set it up with, oh, this guy's terrible. Oh, by the way, Biden did the same thing. They only did that because they would be condemned by the media watchers for not saying, hey, wait a minute, why is it so bad when Trump does it, but it's okay when Biden does it, which is really what the comeback. So they slip it in at the end as though you won't notice.
Starting point is 00:45:02 It's very poor. So I've seen a couple things that make me question. Well, I mean, if you look at the headlines today, neck and neck, it's very close within the margin of error. It's a horse race everybody. Oh, it's crazy. It's so close. So close. I don't know if they're trying to pull Trump's numbers up a little bit or I don't know.
Starting point is 00:45:27 Yes. I don't know what PBS was thinking with this. So instead of playing crazy Trump, let's play something from the crazy Trump voters. And are they crazy? I spoke to another Trump supporter woman who really spouted. Why don't they say voters? They always say supporters. You ever notice that?
Starting point is 00:45:44 Well, that's a good, I'll have to start looking for that. who really spouted. Why don't they say voters? They always say supporters. You ever notice that? Well, that's a good, I'll have to start looking for that. They say fans or supporters or anyway. I spoke to another Trump supporter woman who really spouted a series of conspiracy theories. She was someone being trained for this Trump Force 47 potentially. She was in that meeting. She's going to be one of those people trying to persuade others. She was in that meeting.
Starting point is 00:46:06 I didn't stay for the actual training, but she was there for that event. And she told me. Hold on. Trump Force 47. I didn't stay for the actual, wait, why didn't she stay? Because it would rot her brain and she'd become a Trump supporter. She didn't want the programming. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:46:24 This is Trump Force 47. If you're reporting on something, even if you didn't stay, why would you say that? It seems to me that you, especially if you're NPR or PBS, whatever this is, same thing. I think this was, these are on YouTube. These are like Zoom calls. You can sign up to become part of Trump Force 47. Okay, okay. Yes. I like it a lot, actually. I like the whole part of Trump Force 47. Oh, okay, okay. Yes. I like it a lot, actually. I like the whole idea of Trump Force 47.
Starting point is 00:46:49 Yeah, okay. Well, you can just keep playing. I'm sorry. Trump Force 47. I didn't stay for the actual training, but she was there for that event. And she told me, you know, I believe Joe Biden died three years ago. You know, I told her, you know, that sounds like a conspiracy theory. You know, that's a stereotype.
Starting point is 00:47:08 Well, boy, she countered it. She said, oh no, that's a conspiracy theory. You know that, right? And I told her, you know, that sounds like a conspiracy theory. You know, that's a stereotype against Trump voters. And she said, I know that, but this is true. So I talked to the first woman, suburban woman, Trump voters. I said, you know, these are the other supporters of Donald Trump.
Starting point is 00:47:25 These are the same people in your party supporting him. I just said, you know, I think that's just crazy. So they're really on different pages. They're both behind Donald Trump, but neither one are quite seeing the full picture of his support and what he stands for to everyone who supports him. So what I support him, what I like about this is they're saying, there's such a wide array of people who are all in on Trump. They're baffled by it.
Starting point is 00:47:52 Yes, they're baffled. Exactly. Like the crazy ones and the other ones say, okay, well, she's crazy, but it's all right. They cannot fathom that people just want an agenda or they want a platform or they want something, anything, but what we have. They can't. Lockstep is what this is the way they are. And the thing that's still fascinates me to go back to it, this was agenda with Trump 47, I guess, force, whatever it's called.
Starting point is 00:48:20 Trump force 47. Trump force 47 training. And you had the opportunity to the opportunity to get in on it as a reporter? And you could report on exactly what the training was and how it works? What kind of a reporter are you? I'm seeing all kinds. I'm asking you. I mean just gently ask. Yeah, I hear you.
Starting point is 00:48:42 I hear you. It's PBS reporters, what she is. Would you like to come to our conspiracy theory meeting? I know we don't usually let the press in, but if you come in, it's okay. It'll be okay for you to come in and spy on us. No problem. And you don't do it? I hereby invite-
Starting point is 00:48:59 Are you nuts? I hereby invite any PBS reporter to come to my vape shop meetings because you'd love them. You'd love to hear the answers. Unbelievable. I know. So now it's interesting how we kind of switched up beats. I was just looking at the titles of your clips. So you brought in the Christian nationalism last time and CBS, and that was, I think, NPR. CBS did a series, a little report, and it sounded to me like they're actually trying
Starting point is 00:49:30 to get the non-voting evangelicals out to vote, which makes no sense. Because that's the whole, as we've discussed, the whole problem is that the evangelicals, the Christians, the Christian nationalists, they don't vote. So they do a story where they say, hey, these guys don't vote. Under a massive circus tent in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Lance Wall now is the ringleader, preaching Christian nationalism and political activism to a rapturous following. Rapturous, a rapturous. Rapturous. I had missed that the first time I heard it. A rapturous following. Rapturous, a rapturous. Rapturous. I'd missed that the first time I heard it.
Starting point is 00:50:07 A rapturous following. Unless you learn how to mobilize and how to move in at a local level, then you're letting the devil dominate your culture. While now 68 is a business consultant, self-proclaimed prophet and firebrand influencer in the growing charismatic Christian movement. Oh, wow. What? I want that on my business card. Firebrand. You just put it on, Firebrand.
Starting point is 00:50:31 Firebrand. He views Trump as a once in a thousand years figure, flawed yet divinely chosen to navigate chaotic times. I caught that idea in 2015 when I first met Trump. And I got a lot of pushback after he got elected because they were searching around for how could the evangelicals justify voting for some, you know, barbaric character like Trump and they're hypocrites that they are. Wall now admits that Trump, twice divorced and roundly accused of other moral failings,
Starting point is 00:51:03 does not align with traditional evangelical expectations. I said, listen, give the guy some time. He doesn't know who we are, but his values resonate with our community. God's raising up an outsider. Wall Now headlines the so-called Courage Tour, a religious roadshow that aims to mobilize religious conservatives to vote and serve as election workers in key counties. So that's just the setup. But then we get closer into it.
Starting point is 00:51:27 And I really think CBS. So the reporter is Major Garrett. Yes. That's who that is. And he is kind of on the fence. He used to be with Fox and he's always been on the fence with Trump because Trump has called him out as a douchebag more than once. Good point. good point.
Starting point is 00:51:46 So we should keep that in mind. Well, it doesn't matter. It still has to go through the CIA Broadcast Systems Board. That's true, the editors. Yeah. In Trump, evangelicals don't see an abrasive, thrice-married billionaire. They do see an anti-establishment leader strong on abortion, gender issues, and Israel. I want people to vote because he stands for something. anti-establishment leader strong on abortion, gender issues and Israel.
Starting point is 00:52:05 I want people to vote because he stands for something. Jackie Brokaw lives in Wisconsin and attended the Courage Tour with her brother. The number of Christians that are in this area, if they would vote, they could swing this county which would probably swing the rest of the state. We are seeing here today is the most targeted and tactical voter mobilization effort done by Christian nationalists ever. Matthew Taylor has written extensively about this new form of religious activism that fuses political outcomes with divine intervention.
Starting point is 00:52:38 What is the political import possibly in the 2024 election of events like this? Well, if Trump wins, then that becomes a part of the impetus that Donald Trump can say, I don't just have a democratic mandate, I have a divine mandate to change the country in accordance with the biblical values that these folks claim to have. Yeah, Trump's going to be, yeah, that's right, God did it for me. And here comes the final pitch, I think, from Major Garrett. January 6th was not an insurrection. It was an election fraud intervention.
Starting point is 00:53:12 2020 election denialism is core to Walnau's worldview. And the terminology at his revivals is apocalyptic. It's not us that's dangerous, it's them. Describing a spiritual battle between pious believers and demons who speak through Democrats or liberals. Yes! It's not just a person. It's a spiritual force.
Starting point is 00:53:32 Demonic? Demonic, yeah. They can influence people with bodies. He believes hyper-focused Christian political energy can overcome those perceived obstacles. The tendency to just look at elections, pray about them, eat popcorn, watch the result, and then go to bed is over. Christians as believers probably should be engaged in this process of shaping culture far more aggressively
Starting point is 00:53:56 and intentionally from now on. As for their impact on the election, God only knows. No! For CBS Morning's, I'm Major Garrett in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. So, that is, he literally is helping the message. It's better than Trump's message. Well, maybe, again, the CIA, we have talked about this on and off and on and off, which is is it possible they really want Trump to win?
Starting point is 00:54:21 And the whole thing is just a smoke screen for like, trying to get Trump to win somehow. Well, this report felt like it. And I can tell you that churches around America are speaking like this. I don't know if you want to call them Christian nationalism, nationalists or extremists, but there's a big movement out there trying to do exactly this and CBS just helped. Very interesting. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Anderson Cooper brought out a whopper of lies. We begin tonight with the former president, campaign politics, his legal troubles and lies. He finished his day in Charlotte, North Carolina, where the Fraternal Order of Police endorsed him. And he had this to say about a violent attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband.
Starting point is 00:55:04 You know that? Nancy Pelosi has a big wall wrapped around her house. Of course it didn't help too much with the problem she had did it? That's the former president speaking to members of law enforcement making light. Now the first time I should point out of the violent attack against Paul Pelosi. A home invader beat Mr. Pelosi with a sledgehammer and fractured his skull. Uh, a sledgehammer? What? A sledgehammer.
Starting point is 00:55:30 A sledgehammer? We saw the video. He's holding a regular claw hammer. A sledgehammer. I love that. We all saw it. It's like, okay, pooper. A sledgehammer, no less. Gotcha. Hey, by the way, the Fraternal Order of Police, are those the guys that always call me asking for money? Sometimes they call.
Starting point is 00:55:56 I mean, nowadays they have this new guy. They have a new- With the big heavy voice? Hey, hi there. The guy with the big voice, which is an AI voice, and he's, it's an AI character, which is easy to hang up on because you don't have to make an excuse. Yeah, you're right. And yes, you're right.
Starting point is 00:56:13 It is an AI. It's an AI guy says, hi, how you doing? You know, this is a nightclub. Don't hang up because he laughs about something and he goes. But he has that voice. He has that. Oh, he's got a beautiful voice. Hi, this is Sergeant Pete from the Fraternal Order of Police.
Starting point is 00:56:25 Are you interested in protecting police? It's a big voice. This guy's got a great voice. I get that call about once every couple months. Yeah, a couple of months. I get it too. And it's the same guy, it's the same voice. And now it's an AI. And it interacts. It it's an AI. So it's not, it's, and it interacts,
Starting point is 00:56:45 it's an interactive AI. So you can say something to it, except are you an AI voice? And then you hear the thing going to a stall as it tries to dredge up an answer to that. Er, er, er, er, er, er, er, er, er, er, er, er, er, er, er, I don't know what to say. Er, er, er, er, er, er, er, er, er, er, er, er,
Starting point is 00:57:00 They gotta fix this because if you're gonna do that, they gotta come up with a quicker response. Because every time you call it out as a robot or AI, it goes into a long loop and then it comes back with, oh no, I'm not AI, I'm a real person. It's terrible. It is terrible. And it's so easy to spot and very easy to hang out. I'm not AI
Starting point is 00:57:27 Yeah So I want to call out the the press on all sides About this bull crap dick Cheney endorsement You'd think that dick Cheney was out there with his heart in his in his shoulder bag, which he has He has that battery powered thing that keeps his heart going if he's still alive. Yeah, he has a heart. It's amazing how long this guy can live. But it wasn't Dick Cheney.
Starting point is 00:57:53 He didn't come out and say that. No, this happened in Texas at the, what was this, the Texas Tribune interview of his daughter. Dick Cheney, your father, a beloved figure among Democrats for many, many years. If you know who he will be supporting or who he'll be voting for, do you care to share with us who he might be voting for? Dick Cheney will be voting for Kamala Harris. That's the extent of the so-called Dick Cheney endorsement. I thought there was a press release that came out from Dick Cheney saying he would support Kamala. Well I
Starting point is 00:58:34 haven't seen it. I've only seen headlines. It was a tweet maybe. People are calling for an intervention of your ex usage. They're very concerned about you. As long as my numbers go up and they have been going up, I'm keeping it up. This is good for the show. So, you know, we already- Come on, there's funny stuff in there.
Starting point is 00:59:01 Yeah, there is funny stuff. We're just worried that you're too caught up in it. People love you, John, that's why. Just want to make sure you're okay. Blink twice. So we- I can handle it. So we finished the whole series of Veep
Starting point is 00:59:17 with Julia Louis-Dreyfus. And I've been looking at all these parallels with Kamala Harris. And there was near the end, she's doing this negotiation with the Chinese and it turns out the campaign manager she hired is working for the Chinese and they kill her ex-husband. So throughout the thread of the entire back end of the series, her PR guy, Stupid Mike, who is stupid, he's trying to adopt a kid from China.
Starting point is 00:59:48 And there at Camp David when she becomes, she's temporarily president and she pisses off the Chinese. And then all of a sudden, you know, the Chinese say, oh, we've now stopped all adoptions of children from China. And then this story pops up today. China says it is ending most foreign adoptions of Chinese children. The announcement puts hundreds of American and other foreign families with pending application their adoptions in limbo. The only exception would be for foreigners adopting the children or stepchildren of blood relatives in China.
Starting point is 01:00:22 Since the early 90s, the country has sent tens of thousands of adoptees overseas. With about half arriving in the U.S., for decades, China only allowed couples to have one child, forcing many families to put their children up for adoption. But to slow down a falling birth rate, the government reversed the policy. No, I don't think so. I think that this is a couple of days ago, by the way. Yeah, I know. It's retaliation. Wait, so today. Huh?
Starting point is 01:00:48 Yeah. Okay. I'm just getting the timeline. Okay, thank you. It's retaliation. They don't want whatever Carmel is doing with China. They don't like it. Which could be... By the way, you kind of, I think you may be lighthearted when you say that, but I, to people who are trying to adopt kids, you might be right.
Starting point is 01:01:09 Well, it really upsets, I mean, people who are into adopting kids, because for one reason or another, sometimes they can't have kids that they have to adopt. They like kids. No, seriously. Yeah. They will, this is cutting off one, a stream of possible kids that they can raise. A stream of kids.
Starting point is 01:01:27 Well, it could be because of the export controls that were announced. You heard about this? I'm not sure. Well, it's from NTD, so you know when it's about China. It must be true. Must be true. And it also hits on another one of my favorite topics. Washington has a new plan for stemming the flow of advanced microchips to Beijing.
Starting point is 01:01:49 The Commerce Department came out with new rules Thursday. From now on, companies looking to export technology and tools related to quantum computing have to apply for export licenses. Oh, quantum computing, you don't say? Are we pivoting? The new restrictions are meant to prevent Beijing from using that technology to advance its own military. Seven conductors are critical to military power as they're required for the most advanced weapons and equipment. The guidelines didn't name China, but they expand similar restrictions that the U.S. previously put in place. The rules are effective immediately. The expert controls cover a number of things, quantum computing items, advanced tools for
Starting point is 01:02:31 making microchips, and a piece of key technology used in chips for supercomputers. Samsung has started using this technology to make one of the globe's most advanced chips. Though there are exemptions, friendly countries like Japan already have their own export controls. So entities in those countries are not subject to the new US export controls. Washington's new action comes after China found new ways to get around restrictions. So quantum computing, no longer AI, which I found interesting. Now that Nvidia is crashing. I know it's up 100% over year over year,
Starting point is 01:03:08 but still it's bringing down the whole market. And they've coerced the Dutch into this. Like, hey, you ASML Dutch guys, you're not going to export, right? Because quantum computing is important for advanced weaponry. The US previously banned Chinese companies from getting their hands on certain powerful AI chips, but some Chinese firms have been able to utilize computing power generated from these chips with a
Starting point is 01:03:35 workaround by using US cloud computing companies like Amazon Web Services. The Commerce Department said it expects to see similar export restrictions from friendly countries. The Netherlands is following Washington's footsteps. The country is home to the world's leading supplier of microchip producing equipment, ASML. The gear allows companies to mass produce advanced chips. On Friday, the Dutch government said it would expand export licensing requirements for some of ASML's chip making equipment. Yeah, that's right. Shut up duchies. Do what we say. I just thought it was interesting that you banned the supply of kids from China right around the same time that you put export restrictions on quantum computing chips. Is quantum computing really one chip? All I see is like... Nobody knows what it is.
Starting point is 01:04:25 I see these spaceship things that you see. Google quantum computing. They wish it was one chip that worked. Yeah, of course it's not. Yeah, that worked. Exactly. The word worked is the key here. Even though we've been bullshitted into thinking it does.
Starting point is 01:04:44 Well... I'm extremely sceptical. I mean, you Even though we've been bullshitted into thinking it does. Well, I'm extremely scared. I mean, you may be skeptical about AI. I totally believe quantum computing is a non-starter. I'm just as skeptical of quantum as I am of AI. My question is, who is our first? Who is making these so-called quantum chips? What company? I have no idea. is our first. Who is making these so-called quantum chips? What company?
Starting point is 01:05:08 I have no idea. They kind of hinted Samsung's got something to do with this. Although that same assertion about Samsung could apply to AI chips. The way they said it was vague. It's vague. I'm just going to stick with the technology for a moment. We have a lot of dudes named Ben out there and dudettes named Bernadette who maintain many systems of the Windows variety. This goes back to the CrowdStrike bug that brought down the entire world for a little bit, stopped hospitals from operating, stopped airlines from flying, except for Southwest.
Starting point is 01:05:45 The team over at the Pirate Software podcast had an interesting deconstruction, which I'd like to know if you saw this happen, and you can probably go back in the logs and check, within your own IT infrastructure. So the interesting thing that I'm kind of waiting on right now is you have Windows and you have CrowdStrike, right?
Starting point is 01:06:04 Initially, I believe that CrowdStrike is at fault for this. And the reason why is because CrowdStrike pushed an update and then everything broke in Windows because this update was in place only for CrowdStrike related machines. But it's not that simple. Windows pushed an update and CrowdStrike pushed an update and everything was fine. And apparently Windows has then pushed another update and then everything broke. Now, the interesting part about this is that the machines were fine initially
Starting point is 01:06:32 under this configuration and Windows changing that configuration caused this problem to occur, which then leads into a really weird legal territory, which is whose fault is this? Is it Windows fault because they changed that configuration? Should they have changed that configuration? Or is it CrowdStrike's fault because it caused the systems to die under that configuration that wasn't the initial one that they pushed that
Starting point is 01:06:52 update on? Usually inside of the tech space, we would blame the individualized program, not the operating system. The operating system would not be at fault here. But legally speaking, we don't know. So I thought this was fascinating. It happened on a Friday, which is not typical for a Windows update. No, they always have it on Tuesdays. And the thing is, I find it peculiar that he keeps saying Windows instead of Microsoft. Yeah, I didn't like that either. Windows is not a company. But that could just be semantics. So what he's saying is that Windows pushed an update,
Starting point is 01:07:32 CrowdStrike pushed an update, and everything was fine, but then Windows pushed an update. And remember we had that Azure outage, which was really odd. We don't quite understand the timing of that, which you would think is Windows machines. Who knows? It's probably all running Linux. Remember Hotmail was running on Linux. Remember that? Microsoft bought it and said, Oh my God, we got to recode the whole thing.
Starting point is 01:07:56 Got to put it on NT. So I'd like to know our dude's name, Ben out there. Let me know if you have any evidence that that happens because that would change some potential liability Or not. It's you lose, you know or not Hmm I haven't heard that particular I like the idea about it. So what did the else of these guys talk about? I go should listen to this podcast It's a little it's a little tedious. Um, you know,
Starting point is 01:08:26 cause it's four guys and they're yucking it up and they're all talking together and they're drawn on whiteboards and, um, it's the, uh, pirate software podcast. They're good guys. I like them. I like them. I like what they did there. All right. Let's, uh, see what we got here. Let's go with you just brought this up. You brought up the issue of the Chinese adoption. So we might as well go to a series that was done on PBS, actually an exposition on family
Starting point is 01:08:57 planning that I thought was kind of interesting with it because it has a kicker. Last year, the US birthrate hit a record low. But data suggests that over the past 30 years, the number of adults who want or wish they had children has remained relatively stable. So why aren't they having children or expanding their families? Allie Rogan explores some of the complexities of today's family planning. Over the past few weeks, we've been speaking with Americans who say they want to have a child or grow their families about why they're hesitant to do so.
Starting point is 01:09:28 Their answers were varied and complex, just like the solutions they said would help them change their minds. Grow your family reminds me of- I stopped it here thinking, well, this might be an interesting report. Then it turns out that as you listen and listen and listen, it is just a pro, it's a Kamala Harris promotional piece. Of course. I always wanted kids.
Starting point is 01:09:50 I love kids. Before we play this second part, it cuts into interviews with just a random, they have a person then they say, boy, they're not having kids. And then another person, there's one after the other, after the other, after the other. And you can start to hear the Kamala Harris promotion within what these people are complaining about. And none of them, by the way, look like they ever, well, I'm sorry, none of them look like
Starting point is 01:10:16 they wanna have kids anyway, but okay. I always wanted kids. I love kids. But economically, I don't really know of anyone who can swing it anymore. Even parents that are working full-time, they can't afford child care. They don't have a village to help them raise them. I'm grateful that we are in like a stable financial situation. Still, it's difficult to raise a child. We don't have any family close by. We have friends who
Starting point is 01:10:42 also have kids. Is she Chinese? Is this a Chinese lady? Yeah, she was Spanish. Oh. So they are also busy taking care of their families. It's difficult. We don't have anyone. Every year there comes out a new statistic of whether or not we've hit the turning point for climate change. And that's something that I take into consideration when it comes to starting a family. Because I don't want to raise a child in a world that every year gets closer and closer to becoming uninhabitable. So Kamala Harris, climate change. Okay.
Starting point is 01:11:16 You better bring it home in the kicker. Well, let's bring it home in the kicker. If universal childcare was an option and we didn't have to worry about that. If universal health care was an option and you know I wouldn't have to wonder if I can anticipate you know regular maternal care, high quality maternal care while I was pregnant then yeah we absolutely would have made an effort to expand our family for sure. Yes, because of course that's the $6,000. That's exactly two main things is you know having universal child care because you can't keep your own child. You have to have somebody else. You want the government to take care of your child and you want the government to take over the medical system. So there you go. There's that's the Camelot. It went on and if I played the whole thing, you start to hear it.
Starting point is 01:12:05 No, I heard it. It's all about camel. Yeah, it makes sense. And, and you know, Sir Brian Barron of the Connecticut River Valley, he went searching for the 19 million new business applications, which I love because, you know, that's what Time Talent Treasure is all about. Yeah, totally.
Starting point is 01:12:26 We have the best producers in the universe. He says, ah, I found it. The so-called new business application in the 19 million claim is filing a form SS4 to obtain an employer identification number from the IRS, of which of course 10 million will probably never do anything with it. So it's a little specious. That's a good catch. Yeah. Congratulations on that. Yeah. Which I thought was a very good catch. Yeah, more BS. Yeah, that's not exactly a new business filing, but okay. We'll take it. We'll take it.
Starting point is 01:13:08 Brought up climate change. Do you mind if I... Good, I got some climate change clips. I'll start it off with the latest climate change. This is what Asia's most powerful storm so far this year looks like. Maximum sustained winds in excess of 230 km per hour battered southern China, damaging everything in its path, from buildings to trees. At least two people were killed and dozens injured in Hainan province. Hundreds of thousands of homes were left without power, transport links were suspended, schools closed and millions of people were told to avoid going out.
Starting point is 01:13:43 Yagi has doubled in strength from tropical storm to super typhoon since it hit the Philippines earlier this week, killing more than a dozen people there. A super typhoon has the same damaging effects as a category 5 hurricane. China, Vietnam and Laos are all in its path. Scientists say typhoons are becoming stronger and more frequent as a result of warmer ocean temperatures due to climate change. Due to climate change. There it is, due to climate change. It's all climate change. Everything is climate change. It's all climate change.
Starting point is 01:14:17 Of course, we have some kind of... They've never had a super typhoon before. I was in Taiwan once during a typhoon. Oh, there you go. Okay, John's story time. So I went to a department store to do some shopping and this thing was coming in before I get back to the hotel. I've never had quite this experience before, but it started raining so So you couldn't, it was like the rain was like, it was like a, like a deep fog.
Starting point is 01:14:48 You couldn't see five feet in front of you. And you, but you had to make a run for it to get to a taxi to get out of there. And one step, I can still remember this one step into it to get out of the store. Soaked from head to foot in like one second, shoes ruined just instantly. And it's just quite fascinating to get that wet that fast. It's like jumping into a pool. And did people point at you and say, do to climate change?
Starting point is 01:15:17 No, everybody. Yes. They all say climate change. A lot of broken umbrellas, let's put it that way. Oh, yeah. Well, that'll happen. A lot of broken umbrellas, let's put it that way. Oh, yeah, that'll happen. So I guess the western part of the,
Starting point is 01:15:29 southwestern part of the United States, we've got Arizona, we have Los Angeles, the heat dome moved over there, also known as summer. In Texas, it's been, how about that? We were, we've been in Mexico, it's been, it's very humid, but it's been 84 degrees, you know, it's nice, it's beautiful weather. So why weather? Yeah. And at Texas, 72, 74 rain.
Starting point is 01:15:53 It's cold. For Texas, for the hill country, the heart of Texas. So I don't know how the averages work, but you've obviously got to know it's the hottest year on record. The average is for the high. The hottest year on record. It's likely to hit 108 degrees today in Phoenix, Arizona and tomorrow and the next day. That's nothing. That's low for Phoenix, Arizona.
Starting point is 01:16:19 I have been to Phoenix, Arizona in the summer like like now, and it's, it's unbelievably hot. And it would, you can't even get back into your car if you have to leave it outside. You can't get back into it. You have to take your key, you have to try to open the door with like a napkin or so. You have to need something because you burn your hand on the door handle.
Starting point is 01:16:40 You get the door open, you reach in, turn your, put the key into the ignition, anyone in, turn your, put the key into the ignition, anyone in Arizona knows this, put the key in the ignition, start up the car and turn on the air conditioner and wait five to ten minutes before getting in. And this is where us being somewhat older or as they say in Mexico, Añejo. It's also the name of an aged tequila. Well, that's why I brought it up, Añejo. We like aged, fine aged tequila. We know that this is nothing new.
Starting point is 01:17:16 I've been to Arizona as a kid. It was hot. I've been to Nevada. It's really hot. We, as kids, we went to, I remember our parents took, oh, you're in Vegas. I don't remember why, but I must have to Nevada. It's really odd. As kids, we went to, I remember our parents took, oh, we were in Vegas, I don't remember why, but it must've been nine. So a good 51 years ago.
Starting point is 01:17:31 And we literally did the old, oh, let's boil an egg, let's fry an egg on the pavement. And it worked. You know, it's, so anyway, it's horrible. It's 108 in Phoenix, Arizona. This past Tuesday, Phoenix officially recorded a record breaking 100 straight days of heat at or above 100 degrees Fahrenheit. And since the heat dome over the southwest has not budged, that record is likely to continue to go up. Today will be 104 of days of 100 degree weather and more than half of those days have been higher than one hundred and ten degrees
Starting point is 01:18:08 record-breaking heat in recent years is also caused a record number of heat related injuries illnesses and deaths across the globe world health organization estimates that half a million people worldwide die from heat related causes each year here in the united states hospitals have seen the cut in the country have seen dramatic increases in heat injuries like severe burns from sun-baked pavement and metal, heat-related delirium and heat stroke. So obviously dramatic increase is the same as saying 50% increase over what?
Starting point is 01:18:39 We don't know. We don't know what the baseline is. And we know that people who burn themselves on the pavement are usually drug addicts who are passing out and burning on the pavement, but it doesn't matter. You know, you're just walking around and you burn yourself on the pavement. That's the impression they give us.
Starting point is 01:18:57 But you should know what happens to your body when it exposes itself to extreme heat. What does your body do when it exposes itself to extreme heat, John? Well, usually my body doesn't expose itself. I have some control over it. And it usually sweats, maybe, or it decides to go inside or find some shade. Does your body decide to do that?
Starting point is 01:19:29 On its own. You've got a great body. The human body has evolved to maintain a core temperature of about 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit or 37 degrees Celsius. Our bodies are built with complex, effective temperature regulation systems to try to help us handle variable weather In extreme heat those temperature regulation systems are hard at work Oh first your body attempts thermoregulation by moving blood flow outward toward the surface of the skin The heart rate quickens blood vessels dilate to release heat the skin becomes flush
Starting point is 01:20:03 Well, then your body begins to sweat. Oh wow, he's explaining sweating. This is great. What is this? What kind of morons listen to this? MSNBC viewers who think everything is due to climate change. By the way, the same thing happens when you're in the sauna. Flush. Then your body begins to sweat. As sweat evaporates, it carries heat off the body in an attempt to cool it. But if it's really hot, especially if it's hot and humid, these thermoregulation
Starting point is 01:20:33 systems that we've developed won't be enough. Oh no! Go inside! Go inside quick! The heart will continue to beat fast, putting strain on cardiovascular systems. the skin will continue to sweat depleting your body of water and essential electrolytes I need electrolytes! electrolytes quick dehydration will set in go have a drink of water maybe excessive sweating will cause an imbalance of fluids and salts in the human system
Starting point is 01:21:02 muscles will cramp they'll feel. Your heart will keep working harder. The kidneys, which help filter waste and manage fluid in your body, become strained. Wow. This is so good. I feel weak. My kidneys. I don't. What should I do? As your body loses water, the volume of body in your water decreases. So does your blood pressure. Oh no. The blood thickens as it loses moisture the heart that has to work my blood is thickening I'm slowing down I don't think I can make it inside for a
Starting point is 01:21:33 drink of water been harder to pump blood to the brain because less brain to the less blood to the brain means less oxygen to the brain which causes lightheadedness confusion dizziness even fainting like our president! Uh oh. My organs are failing. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that.
Starting point is 01:21:50 I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that.
Starting point is 01:21:58 I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. on the kidneys and the liver all that's happening now is that your risk of organ failure has increased my organs are failing if your body hits a core
Starting point is 01:22:12 temperature of 107 degrees Wow your body's proteins begin to break down there is irreversible damage to vital organs and usually comes death. Death, death, death, death is next. So this is a very long lead into the Copernicus Institute, which is this European, you know, they've now become the official word on climate change and temperatures, they're in the EU, funded by the EU. But everyone believes in the Copernicus Institute. Extreme heat is even deadlier than hurricanes, tornadoes and floods combined.
Starting point is 01:22:53 Really? I don't think that's entirely true. I think a lot more... Everything combined, you would drop in from heat. Yeah, I have a feeling that more people die in hurricanes and stuff. But okay. There's a statistician out there listening to the show. We can get some numbers. Last year was the hottest year on record globally, and this summer broke last year's record. Just yesterday, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service reported that summer
Starting point is 01:23:21 2024 was the hottest, most humid summer ever recorded on Earth. Ever! Ever on Earth! This summer, the Biden administration announced a heat plan, an initiative to help protect workers from excessive heat, as well as to fortify communities across the country to handle extreme heat as it becomes more common. Their plan includes cooling infrastructure, as well as heat information systems to help prepare and protect people from the growing threat of extreme heat all Supported by the National Weather Service the EPA and Noah the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration supported by them Meanwhile as Trump and some Republicans in Congress continue to deny the existence of human-caused climate change the project 2025
Starting point is 01:24:04 He all of a sudden changes from climate change to Trump. At the very end when condemning Trump to human caused climate change. Why yes. Nowhere in the report so far has it been brought up that they believe it's human caused. It's just climate change.
Starting point is 01:24:22 It could be a natural phenomenon. It could be because of the sun. It could be because of the 22 year sun cycle. It could be a natural phenomenon. It could be because of the Sun. It could be because of the 22-year Sun cycle. It could be sun spots. It could be a lot of things. But now because you're gonna condemn Trump, you slip it in as though that was the factor all along. Very tricky. I would say climate change is caused by Project 2025. That's what's going on here. Meanwhile, as Trump and some Republicans in Congress continue to deny the existence of human-caused climate change,
Starting point is 01:24:51 the project 2025 blueprint for the next conservative administration wants to gut the EPA. It wants to completely dismantle the Weather Service and NOAA. Oh, no. We won't know if there's climate change then. They want to gut it. They want to eliminate, they want to shut down the EPA. I don't, I never heard this. I didn't know that was. Hello, it's in project 2025. Oh, it's in that stupid project 2025 thing that they,
Starting point is 01:25:19 that Trump never read. Yes, exactly. That's what's going on. Oh, well I got a couple of things here I want to play. One is the course we had to play this. This is a even NTD, which seems to be your favorite channel now that you're stealing my material. You're stealing my material. I just have to just a little bitty climate clip from NTD and this is the feels like temperature. They're even doing it. This week, the nation is bracing for a severe heat wave with extreme temperatures anticipated
Starting point is 01:25:56 to affect 32 major cities. Some areas are expected to exceed 105 degrees starting Wednesday. A heat advisory has been issued for South Florida, including Miami-Dade. Broward and the Florida Keys, where feels like temperatures could soar to 110 degrees Wednesday afternoon. Feels like temperatures.
Starting point is 01:26:16 Feels like temperatures. You know, I've been working with Horowitz for over a decade, and he lives in Florida. And I don't care, any Floridian will tell you the same thing the summers in Florida are miserable. Yes. So what else is new? Yeah. And anyway and CNN report feels like temperature. CNN reports it's early September what should be the busiest stretch of hurricane season. Forecasters predicted this was gonna be a bad one, storm after storm, the most bullish forecast on record.
Starting point is 01:26:51 Instead, the Atlantic Ocean is enveloped in a rare and strange calm that has flummoxed forecasters. And recently- Here's the, yeah, I'm finished, I know if you're reading that, but this is fascinating because what's happened, and this was reported, I didn't get any clips of it, but about two weeks ago, they were wondering where's all these damned hurricanes they're supposed to have. And the water is warmer than usual.
Starting point is 01:27:20 And now they come up with this bogus theory. They keep theorizing everything's done in the past, you know, it's all armchair quarterbacking where, well, it must be this. It's the temperatures have gotten so hot in the oceans that it's confusing. The oceans confusing. It's confusing the storms.
Starting point is 01:27:36 They can't form. I don't know what to do. I'm confused. I think we actually predicted this was going to happen. I think that maybe a few months back, oh, it's going to be the worst September ever. You watch climate change, it's going to kill so many people. Florida, be on watch, horrible. I think we even just out of principle said, no, it's not going to happen.
Starting point is 01:28:01 You got it right. Just out of principle. Out of principle, exactly. They're so full of it that it doesn't take a genius to say, oh, that's not going to happen. As an aviator, I can tell you that you can predict what's going to happen in a certain area like an airport weather-wise. You can do 24 hours, but really 12 hours. You can predict that.
Starting point is 01:28:26 You can't predict anything further out than that. So it's all horse crap. It really is. But this is the one, man. This is what they're gonna use to talk about, this will be the reason for all these mosquitoes and, you know, all the horrible, you know, we're all dying from all of these horrible, triple E equino, was it Eastern equine encephalitis? Yeah. I think I actually have a, yeah, I have a clip actually of this.
Starting point is 01:29:08 West Nile virus spread by mosquitoes is now deadly in New Jersey. The state health department says the deaths were older adults in Cumberland and Mercer counties. Well, of course, old people die all the time from disease. They die. Please. New infections. Well, I get the bird. I could
Starting point is 01:29:25 call you sister. No it's okay. No it's okay. You could. Oh you have another clip. Play my bird. Here's another one. Same thing. Bird flu this time. Bird flu. You left bird flu out. Oh I'm sorry. Health officials have identified a person in Missouri sick with bird flu despite having no known contact with animals. A person. She marks the first case of the virus in the United States this year, not linked to farm work, and appears Julianna Kim reports. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that a person in Missouri was hospitalized and treated for bird flu. Unlike other human cases, this patient has no known exposure to a sick animal.
Starting point is 01:30:02 Bird flu has been spreading across farms in the United States since the spring. So far, there have been 14 human cases of the virus and nearly all the patients had been linked to sick dairy cows or poultry. The CDC says the Missouri patient has recovered and the virus did not appear to have spread to close contacts, adding that the risk of bird flu to the general public remains low. Aside from Missouri, human cases have been reported in Texas, Michigan, and Colorado. So where do you get it from? Did you get it from another person or a monkey? Well, the way I see it, who cares? It's one guy out of the blue who got bird flu.
Starting point is 01:30:41 There are people getting sick or getting shot, or there's all kinds of news around. This is a non story. I'm going to make a prediction. They're trying to make it a story. Well, of course I'm going to make a prediction. The on deck for the next solution for climate change will be roundabouts. Roundabouts? Yes.
Starting point is 01:31:04 Okay, you better explain that one. Roundabouts instead. Oh, wait a minute. Let me guess. Can I guess? Yeah, go for it. You go roundabout. You know, roundabout is the thing in the middle. They have these in Berkeley. They put them in for no good reason. Because a four-way stop is too confusing. Climate change.
Starting point is 01:31:21 What are we going to do? We got four- way stops. I don't know what to do. So then they have the roundabouts which are more dangerous and very few people know how to use them correctly. But they have them anyway so they put one in. That's because you go round and round and round. It creates a vortex which will then change the weather patterns and cause hurricanes and tornadoes in areas where they no longer exist or they never have existed thus far. Well yeah. No. First of all it doesn't surprise me that Berkeley has them and I bet if you look into it Berkeley probably had a study done that
Starting point is 01:31:53 said people don't idle at roundabouts. You see you're not sitting there with your car idling, idling, throwing greenhouse gases into the air, waiting for either a four-way stop, which is confusing, or for a traffic light. Roundabouts will be the, I'm telling you, you can write it down on the book, roundabouts are going to be the next climate change solution. Roundabouts. are going to be the next climate change solution. Roundabouts. I find them incredibly annoying. With that, I'd like to thank you for your courage.
Starting point is 01:32:31 Say in the morning to you, the man who put the sea in the kids from China. Say hello to my friend on the other end, the one and only Mr. John C. DeMora. Well, and the morning to you, Mr. Adam Curry. In the morning, all ships, the sea boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there.
Starting point is 01:32:49 Hello, hello there, trolls. We have 21, let me count the trolls for a second. Where's my, there we go. Troll count. 20, 20, 20, 20, 20. That's what I was looking for. 2101. This seems on par.
Starting point is 01:33:02 It seems pretty good, particularly for- Low. Low, for- Low. Low, for vacation week. What was the cotton gin? What was the peak? What was the peak? I wonder what the peak was. We have one of our producers that's into it.
Starting point is 01:33:18 Cotton gin does that. Yeah, he hasn't posted it. Is it cotton gin? Yeah, cotton gin hasn't posted it yet. He's probably looking right now. He's doing a statistical analysis of the flow. Of the flow of roundabouts. He is.
Starting point is 01:33:29 He's got all these numbers. It's like he sent me an email condemning me for questioning his abilities. Well, Cotton Gin is the man. 2215, he says, was the hot. No, it's low. The whole thing is low. It's low.
Starting point is 01:33:41 It's low. And we had a newsletter fail. What happened? I don't know. But I'm looking at alternative newsletter. You blamed Linux. You said Linux did it. There is, I got a long note for, we have a bunch of guys out there that know what they're
Starting point is 01:33:59 doing. And he claims that the Linux, there's a couple of products that Linux Servers use consistently that are spam blockers and we get that burn our sites keep coming up in them That's because people report us. That's what happens. That's how it happens Douchebags you can get off for what being night before telling the truth for getting to the bottom of things, or for condemning Democrats. Yeah, there you go. I think that must be it. Go look at who maintains Linux and you'll understand. These trolls are listening in the troll room, which you can join at trollroom.io,
Starting point is 01:34:36 or you can use a modern podcast app. You know, the one that has transcriptions so you can read along if you're in a foreign country and want to learn some English and like, oh, what is this word? Oh, it's good. Ah, I get it. Because we speak clearly as John pointed out earlier. By the way, there was some incompatibility with something with the modern podcast app Fountain for the live show.
Starting point is 01:35:00 Because the way it works is when we send out the bat signal, all these modern podcast apps give you an alert. You tap on the same place you get your podcast and then you can listen right away. And so it was crashing the app somehow. We fixed that. So if you were using that before and you bailed out on us on the last episode, just come back, it works again. Podcastapps.com. So it's a moving target. It is. It is. It's a moving target. but that's why it's worth a Nobel Peace Prize. I heard that this past week, Spotify deplatformed an inordinate amount of episodes and podcasts,
Starting point is 01:35:36 and I'm getting a list. What's an inordinate mean to you? 10? 100? 100? 100. I'd say 100. 100 podcasts. That's a lot. And from what I understand, most of it were, most of these podcasts were political podcasts.
Starting point is 01:35:53 Oh, we'd be toast on that platform. You know, we used to have a couple of them. We're not even really political. We're basically apolitical. It just so turns out. Yeah. Yes. Basically apolitical it just so turns out. Yeah Yes That we condemn one side more than the other although we condemn both sides in this election. We certainly do I mean The demons yeah when you got some dipshit like Kamala Harris running for president people are voting for you You gotta be honest. What can you do? It's ridiculous. It's borderline nuts
Starting point is 01:36:24 You have to be honest with the people. That's just the fact. We used to have a couple of guys would upload the podcast to YouTube. You remember that? And they'd put just an image in it. Some of them, I think, even would put in extra images. And they stopped doing it. They said, I'm getting strikes on my account. Because someone would report or whatever reason they take down that episode.
Starting point is 01:36:50 And then whoever was doing that, their account would get a strike. Yeah, I can see that. So that shows that this is the only place we are, the only place we can be. And we don't have video. So we're struggling over here, people. We can't, you know, Linux is against our newsletter. I mean, you got to help us out here. It doesn't hurt.
Starting point is 01:37:11 And, you know, what was I reading here? I was, so I already told you about the nine minutes of ads in front of the Lex Friedman in, oh, so would you consider Only only fans to be kind of like value for value? Yeah, I would Did you hear their numbers? Oh There I can't you're gonna make me nauseous if you tell me their numbers. I know I mean I had Dana Brunetti's wife He's on only fans. No, she's a she's a
Starting point is 01:37:46 Entertainment lawyer. Oh, no, and she The inherit the she's an heiress to the Bijan Fashion fortune. Oh Can she can she get me a bag? She you know, she can't even get me a sweater She, you know, she can't even get me a sweater. Anyway, Alex, Alex is her name. I can just see you in a bijou sweater. So she's, it's bijon I think.
Starting point is 01:38:16 Whatever. And she's an entertainment lawyer and she just in passing mentioned to me about one of her clients who was having, you know, an OnlyFans person. About their, it never mentioned who it was, but it's one of her clients. And she said she'd made $10 million last year. OnlyFans revenue this past year, $7 billion. It's unbelievable. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:38:46 Maybe we should- Meanwhile, people bitch about sending us five bucks. Maybe we should, maybe we should turn on some cameras, take off our shirts. You know, about- Might pay off. You never know. You can be in the troll room like, flip your hair, Adam. Okay.
Starting point is 01:38:58 No problem. Yeah. I'll do anything at this point. No, and- So, yeah. And I'm sure that the $10 million girl, I'm assuming it's a girl, is not the top earner. Oh, no.
Starting point is 01:39:13 I'm sure there's, I didn't, I should ask Alex about this, but she probably, cause she's into it enough. She probably knows the top earners probably 50, 60 million bucks. Who knows? Well, maybe this is a year. Maybe we can get some tips on what to do because we're doing something wrong. No, we're not doing anything wrong.
Starting point is 01:39:32 And we're not, it's just a different type, but there are some people that have an allure that we lack. Yes, yes. I think we lack several pieces of allure. Well, there's two in particular. Yes, yes. I think we lack several pieces of allure. Well, there's two in particular. Yes, exactly. Two allures that a lot of these girls have. Yes.
Starting point is 01:39:51 And I think that accounts for a lot of it. Well, we know where the donations are going. They're going to OnlyFans. Stop spending your money there. Send something to the best podcast in the universe. Yeah, you're not getting a date with those women. Hello. John and Adam however, will come to clean your house. No problem whatsoever.
Starting point is 01:40:13 Instead we have opted for a true value for value, Mug Club Media. The future of media is small people. That's how, you know, I really believe that. I think that, you know, you'll have these just pockets, little pockets of entertainment and people will support them. And I'm happy with, in general, happy with the support we get. I know you're never happy, but I'm happy with the support we get.
Starting point is 01:40:36 No, you can't be. I'm amazed that people support us at all. Yeah, you're shocked. Sometimes I am like, what? What? What? This is actually still, hey, it'll be, when is, um, October, right? Isn't it coming up? The end of October is our anniversary, but we have before, at the end of this month, we're having our show 1700. Wow. And that'll be, oh, that's right. It's seven episodes away. Oh, that is the anniversary month. Yeah, it's coming right up.
Starting point is 01:41:06 So we have 1700 and our 17-year anniversary. What kind of stone? One, two punch. We usually get some money during this period. Not today necessarily, but we get some money here and there. Is 17 a particular stone or is it a... A stone? Yeah, like a diamond ruby or is it a...
Starting point is 01:41:14 Well, you know, the Book of Knowledge answers that question. It's a stone. It's a stone. It's a stone. It's a stone. It's a stone. It's a stone. It's a stone.
Starting point is 01:41:22 It's a stone. It's a stone. It's a stone. It's a stone. It's a stone. It's a stone or is it a stone? Yeah, like a diamond ruby or is it a... Well, you know, the book of knowledge who answered this question. I don't have it with me. But somebody in the troll room, the few people that are there, one of them should know what the 17th anniversary stone is.
Starting point is 01:41:40 I'd like to know. I am indeed quite interested. The 17th... Coal would be my guess. Kidney. No, that doesn't sound right. Kidney stone is not... That'd be an interesting ring though. I like it. It is a prime number though. 17 is a prime number. So that's, that's, that's, there's something there. That's a big deal. Yeah. Carolene? What?
Starting point is 01:42:01 Yeah. Caroline? What? A car- Caroline? Carnelian. Carnelian? Or car- carnelian. Carnelian.
Starting point is 01:42:09 Yeah, carnelian. Those are the little red stones. They actually have met the beaches over here in San Francisco and off the peninsula. Not the peninsula, but Marin County beaches have carnelians in the sand that you can pick up as you walk along. So it's not a very valuable stone is what you're telling me. Not really, not if it's just sitting there. It's pretty though.
Starting point is 01:42:32 So the way it works, and you've already heard some boots on the ground, and we have people we can call upon who help us, is if there's one thing about the best podcast in the universe, we have more and better producers than any other media outlet known to man. That's why we can say in the universe. We have more and better producers than any other media outlet known to man. That's why we can say in the universe and everywhere somebody has some special knowledge about that one thing. And I think we've successfully trained people that they are producers, not listeners, and they need to support us with their time, with their talent, or with their treasure. And part of that is of course our Dutch masters who create artwork for every single new show.
Starting point is 01:43:09 There was a guy who was looking for some logo work on the podcasting 2.0 development group and he says, Adam, I really love the artwork you guys do. Who do you use? Like, who do we use? Try listening to the show, you'll figure it out. Yeah, really. Who do you use? Like, who do we use? Try listening to the show, you'll figure it out. It really is. I sent him a link to NoAgendaArtGenerator.com,
Starting point is 01:43:31 which is where anyone who has talent or not at all can upload art. And sometimes the no talents or just the prompt jockeys win and quite big, actually. Although I was looking at the, Natina actually asked me, do you still have the stats? I said, yeah, it's still Nick the Rat, Martin JJ, and then comes Darren O'Neill. And those guys are still at the top for all the episodes they did. And Nick uploads something from time to time. Rarely. He hasn't really hit it. And Martin JJ, is he still alive? Is he still around? I don't see him anymore.
Starting point is 01:44:02 Yeah, he posts on Mastodon. Oh, he does? Yeah, he is the radical. You're not on Mastodon. How do you know? No, this is... I'm referring back to the last time I was on Mastodon, which was about a year ago, and he was posting quite a bit. Mm. OK. Unless I have him confused with someone else, but I don't think so.
Starting point is 01:44:20 I did hear from my birthday. I did hear from Pelsmacher, so he's still around. Oh, good. I wonder if he listens to the show. I think so. Well, maybe not. I don't think so. I did hear from my birthday. I did hear from Pelsmacher. So he's still around. Oh good I wonder if he listens to the show. I think so. Well, maybe not. I don't know. I don't know anyway, um You found a new lady and she told him to stop listening as you think that was it. That's possible. That's possible Yeah, it's very common. Yeah guys are do anything that women tell him to yes see true fans seven billion dollars Perfect example
Starting point is 01:44:49 Only fans not true fans Man, there's no like true fans though. It'd be good. We can start that. No, it's already a new podcast app true fans true fans dot FM That's why it was on my brain You saw it go past through the system. Yeah, past my brain. Yeah. We want to thank Correct the Record, who has been around for a long time, who brought us
Starting point is 01:45:11 the artwork for episode 1692. We titled that one Salted Ducks. And we just laughed at this one. It was Putin holding up some cash. And we normally don't like putting politicians into the art. We don't. We don't. We want to make that clear so we don't have a bunch of it art. We don't. We don't. We want to make that clear so we don't have a bunch of it happening.
Starting point is 01:45:26 We don't. But this was funny. It made sense in context of the Tenet media scandal and even had plastered over there value for value. We like the use of the Russian, you know, the Cyrillic kind of font. So we chose it. Yes. I think that made it.
Starting point is 01:45:44 The faux Cyrillic font worked at the top. There were a couple of other decent tries. There was Data did Niet Agenda, which had kind of an Uncle Sam puppet, also with the faux Cyrillic font. Darren O'Neill, he tried a good job there with the podcaster vending machine, buy a podcaster, but it didn't quite hit home. Um, let me see. Darren also did a free speech troll. No, no Russian money here.
Starting point is 01:46:19 Another corrector record. A couple of Manospheres, which were, which were nice, but there was really nothing. It was just, there was a commercial blogger did a butt insert Russian money here. And again, he doesn't have the prompt skills that Darren O'Neill has because the lettering just doesn't look like it's actually on the jeans. Yeah. You know, and somehow Darren has figured that out. I don't know what he's using. By the way, we looked at his prompts and it's like he's really
Starting point is 01:46:50 good. I mean I think I don't know where I get the sense that Darren first got a clue from comic strip blogger possibly and then took it took it in a new direction. It's like having the, it's a knack thing. You kind of get a feeling for it and you can just start throwing requests at the AI and it responds correctly. OpenAI has- It may also be, I don't know what he's using for a system.
Starting point is 01:47:21 There's so many of these now. Yeah, there are. Well, OpenAI is now discussing their new pricing model for their next. This is going to be the, the large language model that really works. The really, really good one. This time it'll really, really, really, really work. You know, do you know what they're going to charge per month? $100.
Starting point is 01:47:40 $2,000. What? Yep. Yeah. I think it's called Strawberry is their next release. That's not going to work. It'll finally make sense with the amount of investment that's gone into it. Yes. The new reasoning-focused LLM dubbed Strawberry and a new flagship LLM called Orion. It's finally going to work.
Starting point is 01:48:08 You can alert Andrew Horowitz. He loves this stuff. It tells him exactly what to do in the market. I'll bet it's so accurate at picking stocks. Yes, he won't have to go to work anymore. It's beautiful. Yes, he won't have to go to work anymore. It's beautiful. Anyway, thank you very much, Corrector Record.
Starting point is 01:48:30 But thank you to all of our artists, all of them just like Corrector Record, art masters, Dutch, fine, and masters of fine art. And you can join that Legion by going to noagendaartgenerator.com, create an account if you don't have one, upload it. We look at everything and we appreciate it. And we'll be honest, we're going to help you with your skills. So people have gone. Roundy went on to have an actual career with
Starting point is 01:48:55 his artistic skills. And he, at least when he left, he attributed some of that to our critique of his work. And now he works for Daily Wire. I think he started doing political illustrations. And now he's doing video stuff. He's got quite a career over there. Spook. Good for him. He's a talented guy. I actually prefer his fine art.
Starting point is 01:49:23 I miss him. I miss him. As long as he's, you know, once he went over there. Yeah, he wasn't, he, he wasn't, he, he, when he was doing stuff for the show, it was like, let me get a couple of wins here and I'm out. See ya. See ya later boys. Yeah. You know, the exact, see ya boys. Done. I'm out. We also like to thank all of the producers who sent us treasure. It can be any amount. In fact, we encourage you to return value in monetary amounts that equal the value you
Starting point is 01:49:54 got out of it. Since we can't look at anybody's personal circumstances, it's entirely up to you, which is the fairest way of doing it. That's how it works here at Mug Club Media. I hope you get off that. I'm going to stop. I'm going to stop it. I was the last time. It just flows so nicely, but it'll get off. No, it doesn't. Okay. All right. I'm stopping. Put it in the meeting notes. We thank anybody over $50. Under 50, we don't mention for reasons of anonymity. Actually had a number of people come in under $50 today, $49.99.
Starting point is 01:50:30 What else did I see here? I saw a lot of $49.99, $49.49. And you can also, and this is something we encourage everybody to do regardless of the value sent back for a particular show or particular topic, is do a sustaining donation, which can be any frequency, any amount, anything you like. Go to NoAgendaDonations.com. Tony Fitzpatrick went to NoAgendaDonations.com. He is from Switzerland, from Feinbach, which I have no idea where Feinbach, Freinbach,
Starting point is 01:51:01 I'm sorry, I have no idea where it is. And as always, we will give you a title, a credit, $200 and above, is associate executive producer. It's a real credit. You can use it anywhere. Credits are recognized, including imdb.com. If you don't have an account, you can open one because you are a real producer, just like Hollywood. And we'll read your note. And $300 and above, you get executive producer credit and'll read your note and $300 and above. You get executive producer credit and we read your note. And Tony Fitzpatrick, who sounds anything but Swiss, came in with-
Starting point is 01:51:32 Yes, exactly. Yeah. Sounds like an alias to me. Tony Fitzpatrick from, hey, Tony from Freienbach. $1,000, but no note. Yeah, it's Swiss intelligence, I hope. Well, for that, Swiss intelligence, you get a double up karma. Thank you very much. You've got...
Starting point is 01:51:51 Double up! Karma. We roll up on Susan, Dame Susan of the Saldner, S-O-L-D-N-E-R, Wheel. I don't know quite what that means. I don't know either. But she is Dame Susan from McKinney, Texas. For $100.04. And she wrote a note in with a check. Love the show.
Starting point is 01:52:20 How about some karma for the family? Thanks for all the best. Thanks and all the best. Dame Susan of the Saldner Wheel. Yes, here you go. Thank you very much. You've got karma. We move to Sir J.K. in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Starting point is 01:52:36 He's in DePere, Wisconsin. 333.33, one of our favorite amounts. We love all the threes. Thank you, John. And by the way, did you notice all of a sudden there's a video going around of all the 33s, 33 cases from the pandemic? Did you get tagged on that?
Starting point is 01:52:55 I'm like, we were on this when it actually happened. Now people are like, wow, have you seen this? Like, yeah. I don't get it. We've been talking about 33s for 15, 15 years minimum. You used to do a section on this show called the magic number. Yeah. And you would read the 33 references for about 10 minutes and then it got such a,
Starting point is 01:53:19 to be such a long segment. You just stopped doing it. But also we had, we had super cuts and everything during the pandemic. I don't know, it's just interesting. I'm saying pre-pandemic with this 33 thing was- Yeah, oh yeah, we've been doing it forever. We're all over it. But no, of course we set the stage for other people to take advantage of the situation.
Starting point is 01:53:38 So what are you gonna do? Yeah, it's all right. That's why we are the best podcast in the universe, I think, for some reason. Well, that among other things. Sir JK says, thank you, John and Adam. I stepped away for a bit, but I know it is time to come back. Too many 33s telling me a donation was in order.
Starting point is 01:53:56 Prosperity and abundance karma will be greatly appreciated. I'm a casualty of the recent economic downturn as I was downsized back in July. So I'd like a Jingle Rubber Lizer plus an R2-D2 Karma. Thank you again, John Adam, for your dedication to media deconstruction. Love and let Sir J.K. and Green Bay night of the entertaining kerfuffle. India, Sangal, Mike, standby. 33, 33, 33.33, verbalizer out. You've got Karma.
Starting point is 01:54:38 Sir Harry Pilgrim, our buddy in Fredericksburg, Virginia. He has been around with this show for, since the original Hot Pockets Tour. Harry Pilgrim. Good to hear from you, brother. 33333. You met him, didn't you? Sure did. At the Hot Pockets Tour?
Starting point is 01:54:53 Yes, sure did. The sad puppy would make all knights and dames step up and support the best podcast in the universe. Without donations, the exit strategy is a no-show. NJNK, Sir Harry Pilgrim, Baron of Massaponics and the Rappahannock. That's right. Sir Corby is in Hamilton, Ohio, 333-33. Weird, he says. Things are getting weird, really weird. This does not count, by the way, towards our weird count.
Starting point is 01:55:23 Love the show, Sir Corby. Thank you Thank you very much brother still stuck at six and four now. It's actually seven and five the latest count Seven for me five for you Hmm game wind chimes partridge in San Rafael, California 333 33 we got a good goodly number of 333s today. Nice, nice to see. In the morning to you from the other side of the San Francisco Bay boots on the ground,
Starting point is 01:55:51 Big Pharma is at it again in California trying to shut down compounding pharmacies. I always thought they were already shut down in California. In a public hearing this Thursday, the California State Board of Pharmacy, the BUP, is proposing regulations to block patient access to safe treatments like gluteothione, vitamin B12, vitamin B12? You just buy that over the counter, what's the deal? And other infusions, I guess it's because somebody wants to blend it together in a mortar and pestle, heaven forbid. Nationwide, cancer is the leading cause of death among firefighters. A gluteothione is a natural antioxidant that prevents cancer by repairing cells damaged by
Starting point is 01:56:36 pollution, stress, and harmful chemicals. I've heard about this from firefighters. They take it. This is another thing. Yeah, well, you get to your fire. You're going to get that, that smoke has got to be nasty. You just breathe any at any time, let alone over and over. This is another facet of our war on compounding pharmacies. And that's who makes these life-saving treatments. I encouraged the No Agenda Nation to learn more at stop the bop.com that's S T O P the more at stopthebop.com.
Starting point is 01:57:05 That's S-T-O-P-thebop.com. Sign the petition. Show up at the hearing virtually or whatever you can do to help us fight back. Demand better for our courageous firefighters. Let's stop the BOP. Okay. Well, that was a good point.
Starting point is 01:57:25 I'm all in. Up next we have, what do we have here? We have Kenny Stevens who sent in a note. Hi, $300. Hi. Hi. Just hi. My daughter Allison who listens to your show asked me to listen I am a loyal listener and sometimes listen to your show multiple times Is that each episode? Yeah, I think that's what he means some people listen to this show more than once the same show Living in the blue state of Rhode Island my vote never really means anything
Starting point is 01:58:02 But I do donate to various races outside my state. Enclosed, find my check for $300. We appreciate the checks, by the way. This underappreciated form of, uh, yeah, you know, people in other countries laugh at our check system. No, these stupid Americans, they still use paper checks. I know. Let's go digital. Yeah, I think paper checks are fantastic. I know. Let's go digital.
Starting point is 01:58:25 Yeah. I think paper checks are fantastic. I love them. It's a small document that, that promises a bunch of money to you via bank. And the check is a middle man. It's a great way to go do business. It's like, it's like printing your own money. It's, it's a very powerful feeling.
Starting point is 01:58:43 I like it when, when you sign a check. Here you go. I promise you this money. In close, find my check, it's $300. Regards, Kenny Stevens, an alias. All right, Kenny, thank you very much. Appreciate it. Appreciate the check.
Starting point is 01:58:55 Appreciate the support. Living in Rhode Island, he has to be an alias. Yeah, of course. He has to come and burn down his house. Come and kill him. What, you're not a Democrat? You're Dan. Sir Toothfairy in Valparaiso, Indiana.
Starting point is 01:59:09 Happy 8th birthday to my wonderful human resource, Leila. Please add her to the list she's added and give her a biscuit. They always give me a biscuit on my birthday. And he came in with $223 Sir Tooth Fairy. $200.02 a palindrome Austin McCullough from Hudson Wisconsin referred to email hashtag rates 101. I looked I'm sure you looked. Did you receive an email? no. I hate it when that happens. Well, let me take one more look. Cause I never looked under rates.
Starting point is 01:59:48 You want it so you can send that to note N O T E S notes at no agenda show.net. By the way, while you're at it, go to no agenda show.net if you just, and you can send people to that, if you just want them to learn about the show, there's a lot of good stuff there that takes a lot of the podcasting 2.0 elements, chapters, transcripts. It's all there. You'll see anything under that title. No. I'd look to. So resend it to us. We'll make good if we need to, Austin. Thank you very much. And we might as well give them a double up karma then for the lost note. You've got
Starting point is 02:00:27 Karma And there we go Linda Lou Patkin from Lakewood, Colorado Jobs karma is what she wants and she says for a competitive edge go to image makers inc.com For all your executive resume and job search needs that's image makers inc. With a K.com or just find Linda Lou Duchess of jobs and writer of resumes on the producer list. There you go, 200 bucks. Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs. Let's vote for jobs. You've got karma. And that wraps up our executive and associate executive producers for episode 1693 on our way to 1700.
Starting point is 02:01:02 That'll be exciting to celebrate 1700 episodes with you, John. 1700. Woo! We were talking about relationships the other day. And I'm like, that's funny, John, I don't really have a relationship. We just, I guess we have a working relationship. What do you call it?
Starting point is 02:01:22 We talk professionally. Yes. Yeah, but after, I mean, I've been with you in three years and remember four more to go. I will have been with you longer than any of my marriages. Well, that's to be expected. Okay. And we never had a fight.
Starting point is 02:01:40 It's beautiful. Thank you to these executive and associate executive producers. Anybody can become a producer of the No Agenda show. Go to NoAgendaDonations.com. We will be reading $50 and above as usual in our next segment, but please consider taking out a sustaining donation. Any frequency, any amount, we appreciate you all so much. And thank you for being producers of episode 1693 our formula is this we go out we hit people in the mouth
Starting point is 02:02:25 Shut up Shut up, slave. Shut up, slave. Just shut up. All right. Can you get one international clip out of the way? Oh, boy, an international clip. Right, it's in France. France, the new prime minister. Everyone's bent out of shape about this guy. Yes. Is it France New PM protests? Is that the...
Starting point is 02:02:44 That would be it. Angry demonstrators from the left turned out across France to protest President Emmanuel Is it France New PM protests? Angry demonstrators from the left turned out across France to protest President Emmanuel Macron's decision to appoint a conservative prime minister rather than a candidate from among their ranks. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports while no party got a majority, the leftist coalition got the most votes in a snap legislative elections this summer. Voters on the left say they're the ones who kept the far right from taking power, yet their votes are not being respected in the choice of the new prime minister.
Starting point is 02:03:16 They accuse Macron of stealing the election. Macron's choice was 70-year-old Michel Barnier, a veteran politician who he sees as a steady hand for the country after divisive elections. But protesters are demanding a prime minister from the left and a political program that will begin with bringing the retirement age back down to 62. They say their protests will continue. Well, this is, and actually I have a follow on clip to this because I've been following this as well. This is bullcrap
Starting point is 02:03:46 Because it was really the far right who got most of the votes But the the left the entire left and center said oh no We're not gonna let you into govern We're going to all be together and even though we hate each other and can't decide on anything we just don't want you far right to run the country. And so then, and then they go out and, I think this is actually a kind of a good choice for France. Yeah, the guy's pretty even keeled.
Starting point is 02:04:16 I think it's a good choice too. Yeah, I mean, he, by the way, far right is bull crap because this guy, actually I have a who is Michel Barnier clip. Who is Michel Barnier, France's new prime minister? Michel Barnier is a member of the Republicans, a right-wing political party. The 73-year-old is set to be the oldest prime minister in modern France's fifth republic history, replacing 34-year-old Gabriel Attal, who was the youngest. Barnier is a seasoned politician with a diverse background as a foreign, agriculture and environment minister in numerous governments.
Starting point is 02:04:49 In the world of European politics, however, he is better known for his former role as the EU's Brexit negotiator, which earned him the nickname Monsur Brexit. As Brussels' top negotiator, Barnier made a name for himself as a strong defender of EU institutions against the UK's nationalist Brexit politicians like Boris Johnson. In 2021, however, there came a shift when Barnier ran for the presidency against Macron, transitioning from a pro-EU politician to embracing a French nationalist stance. He advocated for the superiority of French sovereignty over the EU, offering to develop a non-EU immigration policy.
Starting point is 02:05:25 He also opposed the powers of the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights over the French states. Barnea's Republican Party only has 39 deputies out of 577 seats in the National Assembly, and will need the support of far-right leader Marine Le Pen's National Rallye Party. Le Pen has said she would wait for Barnea's first policy speech in front of parliament to decide whether to back him. If she does, it would be a far-right backed government under Macron. Far-right! He has long portrayed himself as the last defense against the rise of Le Pen. The question is, has Macron handed the far-right a major win? Far-right! You know, the French should be delighted with this guy. The guy is a French guy. He's French. He's for France. He's a you know the
Starting point is 02:06:08 Yeah. He's basically a French guy. They should be delighted. They should be delighted with him. No. Globalists aren't. They hate the French. They hate all these countries. They want to be one giant, you know, Reich. Exactly. And, and if Trump wins, you're going to see the same thing happen in the United States.
Starting point is 02:06:32 You are going to see the left nut jobs, the globalists come out and go insane. I can guarantee it. There was always, Trump doesn't win, it's going to be civil war. Now, if Trump wins, they're all going to gonna go ape crap or I should say ape shit really Heap a crap show title. I'm so used to saying crap instead of shit that I said ape crap doesn't sound right Don't you think? Absolutely, there's no doubt about it that they're going to, kind of a replay of 2016. I'll just going to have to change some of their strategies cause we're getting
Starting point is 02:07:10 sick of the old arguments. And the people that are coming out are the ones that I always retweeting are they, you know, crazy looking people that are look like women or guys. You don't even know what sex they are. And they got the big nose rings right in the nostril, right in the middle. Look like a cow. How many of those people do you really think there are?
Starting point is 02:07:34 I don't think there's that many. No. But they have, there's not a lot, but they have a high profile and they're fun to mock. And there's a lot of teachers that fall into that category, which is really the scary part. It's a, that's distressing. Okay, I'm going to walk into your beat.
Starting point is 02:07:54 I can't help it, but this is, it is your beat. And I'm taking it down to the depths. You have not been able to go before because Kristen Welker, who doesn't know her from Eat The Press. I was watching her this morning and those hands of hers, they're like an old black laborer. They're huge and they're not made up at all. You're supposed to do hand makeup to lighten them up or something. Yeah, it doesn't match.
Starting point is 02:08:20 They yellow her up and they don't do anything with her hands. We're looking at this purely from a television production standpoint. Yeah, obviously. I don't care. Well, I'm just making sure everybody understands. But it is distressing to watch it. It's either don't use your hands or yellow her up was what John just said. Okay. Well, they yellow her up, but they don't do anything with their hands. No, I know. Well, they yellow her up, but they don't do anything with their hands.
Starting point is 02:08:45 No, I know. Which, you know, I'm very pale, so when I was doing TV, they would make me up. Yeah, they'd make up your hands. They'd do the same with me. You always tell the makeup, you have to tell the makeup artist to do it, because they'd rather not, but you tell them, you've got to do some with my hands, because if you're made up and you're darkened up a little bit, and then you lift your hand, it looks like a skeletal hand, it's super white,
Starting point is 02:09:09 you know, it doesn't work. And so, makeup artists always say, oh yes, yes, yes, that's a good idea, you know. And by the way, these days, I mean, a lot has changed since we were in television, John. In fact, the biggest change is we used to have blue screen, now it's green screen. That's how old we are.
Starting point is 02:09:27 I remember when it was blue screen. But also- Yes, blue screen was the original key. Yeah, the original key color. But nowadays they don't have pancake makeup. They have spray. It's a spray on. And you just go and spray right on.
Starting point is 02:09:48 So they could easily spray the hands. It'll take 30 seconds, 30 seconds to spray the hands. Anyway. Yeah. So I am diving into a trend which you identified months and months ago as something new, something that is probably, well, that has always been the question. Is it even constitutional? And here's the opening salvo.
Starting point is 02:10:09 54-year-old father Colin Gray faces 14 charges, including four counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second-degree murder, and eight counts of cruelty to children. The director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation saying the father quote, knowingly allowed his son to possess a weapon. Law enforcement sources telling NBC News he gifted his son an AR-15 style rifle after both of them were interviewed in May of 2023 by the FBI in connection with threats to carry out a school shooting. Colin Gray's arrest comes just months after James and Jennifer Crumbly became the first
Starting point is 02:10:45 parents to be convicted for a school shooting committed by their child. Their son killed four students in Oxford, Michigan in 2021. So you identified this right away as a new trend, which is lock the parents up for the things that the kids have done. And we've seen... Right. And I, to go further, I, I believe it to be a racist trend because I think the long-term target is the black family. That's right. I'd forgotten about that. Yes, I'd forgotten about that.
Starting point is 02:11:15 Yes. And I believe this is just opening salvos so you can say, well, we did it to whites, now we can do it to blacks. And they're going to go, when they go after the black family, especially those single moms who raise a bunch of kids that aren't, are not well, well behaved, let's put it that way. There, it's going to cause issues, but they've got, they're going to, they're going to back it up with it, doing it to the white families,
Starting point is 02:11:36 at least one or two more. Then, then you're going to see it happen and it's going to cause nothing but trouble. So of course this was politicized. I'm actually going to skip that. Joe Biden, you know, like, oh, it's guns in America. J.D. Vance, fact of life. Got to arm this teacher. We got to make sure no one comes in. But more important and more interesting to myself, you and the show,
Starting point is 02:12:01 is how does this work? How does this work legally? Danny, let me turn to you. The charges against the suspects, father, are unusual but not unprecedented. What do you make of them and put them into context for? What say you? For us, if you can. We're in a moment in American history where it seems like there is a sea change. For all of American history, we have not held parents criminally responsible for the crimes of their children, unless they participate or facilitate the crime. This is a major change in that we are charging parents with murder.
Starting point is 02:12:35 In this case, not intentional murder. This is a version of reckless murder. Not all murder statutes or crimes are intentional murder. Sometimes, if you are reckless, you can be charged with depraved heart-style murder, reckless murder, criminal negligence, and that's exactly what's going on here. The father is being charged. What?
Starting point is 02:12:56 Is this reckless murder, like when they killed Gary Weavers up there in this compound, killed his wife with a sniper, FBI sniper just shot his wife who had nothing to do with anything, killed her dead, the dog. That was law enforcement. But stand by, it's different. It's different. They can do whatever they want.
Starting point is 02:13:16 It's law fair to the highest degree. It's coming up. That's exactly what's going on here. The father is being charged with, under Georgia law, you can be charged with second degree murder as a result of cruelty to children. That's a separate criminal statute. That requires criminal negligence and some kind of harm to a child. And that criminal negligence is defined as essentially recklessness, consciously disregarding a known risk. And that's where the FBI tape comes in because the
Starting point is 02:13:45 government's going to use that to show that he was aware of the risk well in advance and failed to act properly. So I love this because the FBI did nothing. They failed to act properly but the parent is now to blame because they failed to act properly even though law enforcement was called in and this morning I even read that the mother had sent had called the school and said you you like imminent threat So Danny help us just break down some of these charges. There are second-degree murder charges They're apparently based on the cruelty to children Charges break that down with how they differ from the eight counts the cruelty to children charges.
Starting point is 02:14:25 Break that down with how they differ from the eight counts of cruelty to children charges. He's being separately charged with cruelty to children, but that particular section of the murder statute, second degree murder, requires a predicate of cruelty to children. So while it's a freestanding charge by itself, it is also the predicate to second degree murder. It works like this. Second degree murder is defined as, in this case, cruelty to children plus a death resulting from that cruelty to children. Then you go to the cruelty statute and that requires some harm to a child as a result of criminal negligence or recklessness. And then you go to the definition of recklessness
Starting point is 02:15:05 and that's what it is. It's consciously disregarding a known risk. You're also going to need what's called proximate cause. In other words, foreseeability. Was the criminal negligence here not only the actual cause of the death, but was it foreseeable? And that's a very interesting concept in the modern era
Starting point is 02:15:23 because it now appears that unlike most of American history Modern juries may be willing to accept that it is foreseeable If you have a troubled child and that child has access to a gun that a horrific school shooting may result We may be in a new era of criminal foreseeability criminal foreseeability Wow pre-crime. Totally. Let's talk about this new era because of course the Crumblies in Michigan, again their son
Starting point is 02:15:52 charged with a school shooting as well, put all of this into context and that sea change that we witnessed when the Crumblies were convicted. Yes, exactly. Even though it's not precedential in the sense that it's only a trial court in Michigan, and of course this case is in Georgia, it doesn't have legal precedent, but it certainly is a spiritual precedent in the sense that prosecutors now watch the Crumbly case. They know they may have to deal with a horrific school shooting in their
Starting point is 02:16:22 jurisdiction, and it is likely a form of inspiration. It is proof that you can use a recklessness theory against a parent and convict them and it's important to note that not all states have the same laws when it comes to securing firearms or locking them up and keeping them away from children. That isn't necessary. This is a straight criminal recklessness statute. You could apply it to driving a car, you could apply it to owning a firearm. So prosecutors will not be limited so much by all these different statutes
Starting point is 02:16:52 about keeping firearms locked up. If they can show that there was recklessness, that a risk was disregarded and it resulted in the death, they've got enough to go forward. Can this also apply to your spouse? You know, it's like, well, Adam always had a lot of guns around the house. Yeah.
Starting point is 02:17:13 You could, you could go with this. I think this is a trend and it's going to happen. And I'm actually, I'm surprised the mom has, who's a fentanyl or crackhead. I don't know what something's wrong with her. They should have been brought into the, they're separated, so I guess it's gonna be harder to prove. But the mom should have been arrested too,
Starting point is 02:17:30 it seems to me. This is, how about, how- My thoughts on this began with a number of years ago when it was announced that somebody who did a shooting, a similar kind of shooting in Latvia or Lithuania or someplace like that, they immediately arrested the parents. It wasn't even a second thought about it. I remember. And as soon as I heard all that, this is obvious is what you do. It's an anti-crime idea.
Starting point is 02:18:01 How will that also apply to podcast partners? I don't know if you just go, eventually, eventually, eventually, but it's years away. That's the, I wouldn't worry about it. We're getting there. Shooting any place that you're the one that'd be shooting some place up of your arm to the teeth in Texas. You shouldn't worry about it is what you meant to say. Don't worry about it for now. I shouldn't worry about it yet what you meant to say. Don't worry about it for now. Yeah I shouldn't worry about it yet. Four more years. Yet. Hang in there four more years. Boeing continues to be in the news this time with the Starliner. It was just about midnight Eastern time when Starliner's three main shoots lit
Starting point is 02:18:41 up in the night sky over New Mexico. Touchdown. Starliner is back on Earth. A 10-day mission that turned into a three-month stay at the International Space Station, coming to a partial conclusion. It's great to have the Starliner home. A safe and successful landing was exactly what we wanted. Staying behind on the station, astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sonny Williams who this week prepped their spaceship to return home empty. Of course it's bittersweet to be packing up Starliner. We want to do the best we can to make sure she's in good shape so we want her to have a nice off landing in the desert. Starliner launched June 5th on a 10-day test flight but helium leaks and engine thruster problems have kept Williams and Wilmore on the space
Starting point is 02:19:28 station for 93 days. Haunted by the Columbia disaster that killed seven astronauts, NASA decided not to risk putting the crew back on Starliner. NASA has decided that Butch and Sunny will return with Crew-9 next February. That SpaceX Crew-9 mission will launch later this month with two astronauts rather than four. Williams and Wilmore will take the empty seats on return. Until then, running science experiments
Starting point is 02:19:57 and doing cardio and strength exercises during their extended stay on station. Their 10-day mission now extended to eight months. There's a lot of great theories out there in the conspiracy circles about this event. My favorite has to be- I would like to hear a few. Oh, they're dead. I think that's a bit much. Yeah, from their dead to they actually didn't go to space. They were down in the oceans working on a different project and they're trapped and they can't get out.
Starting point is 02:20:34 There's a lot of great theories out there. That sounds like nothing but fun. Yeah, I like it. I would like to know if they're, let's assume that these are all bullcrap and they're not dead, They're stuck up there. And they're going to come back with the, uh, with the Elon Musk, uh, device. The question that nobody's, if I'm a journalist, I'm asking this question, how much are they getting paid?
Starting point is 02:20:56 Are they getting overtime for being stuck in this? Cause they're supposed to go out and come back and their test pilots working for Boeing. How is Boeing paying them like a bonus or? Cause they don't seem to be complaining about it if they're up in the space station. They seem to be running, you know, her hair is sticking out every which way and they seem to be having a good time up there.
Starting point is 02:21:19 That's what you do in the fake space station. You make your hair look static. If you were in the station and you were making hundreds of thousands of dollars in overtime because they'd now have to pay you 24-7, which means there's time and a half, double time, triple time, who knows what, I'd be happy too. They don't complain. But does anyone ask this question? And why don't they ask this question?
Starting point is 02:21:46 What compensation are they getting financially for being stuck up there? For the same reason you're getting compensated as a podcaster instead of a journalist with the mainstream. They probably make more money as a podcaster than they do as a journalist. Journalists don't make anything. Yeah. It's a pathetic industry. It's a pathetic business. And most of the journalists, unless you're on network TV and you're making millions, which is a rare group,
Starting point is 02:22:13 most of the writers are just starving to death. Or they get side hustles as a sub-stack writers. And just another thing, the word side hustle bothers me to no end. I brought it up for you just to get you riled up. I know that you hate that. It's like a hustle means you're scamming. To me, a hustle, I'm a hustler. I'm scamming. So in other words, you're working for a living and you've got a side hustle, which means to me, it means you're a criminal. If someone says, I got a side hustle, I'm doing it as a side hustle. I would say then this is a criminal activity. That's the only thing, that's my definition of it, a hustle.
Starting point is 02:22:51 All right. I mean, you don't have any pushback on me saying, no, you're foolish crap? No, I'm with you. I think you're absolutely right. Side hustle is a bad term. I think so. Yeah. Do you, okay. What would you prefer it to be called so we can address this appropriate?
Starting point is 02:23:12 Second job. Second job. What it is. Weekend gig. There you go. Now Boeing has finally caught a break and not widely reported, so they've got to step up the PR, boys. The world's biggest airlines is canceling dozens of flights over concerns about possible engine problems. Cathay Pacific is inspecting its entire fleet of Airbus A350s.
Starting point is 02:23:43 After part of an engine failed on a flight from Hong Kong to Zurich. The plane was forced to return to Hong Kong and landed safely. Cathay Pacific says repair work is now underway across its entire fleet of A350s. CNN's Hannah Ziotti is on the story for us and Hannah Cathay Pacific now making repairs as it inspects these models. How concerned should consumers and other airlines be at this point that this could be a wider issue? Becky it's unclear at this stage I think the answer to that is that there are some concerns and clearly several other airlines fly a 350s and have engines that could have this issue. Qatar is among them, Etihad, British Airways, Virgin Atlantic. Rolls-Royce, which is the engine maker that
Starting point is 02:24:31 makes the engines on these planes, has said that it's keeping airlines fully informed of developments but hasn't yet told airlines to stop flying the planes, as far as we understand. Rolls-Royce hasn't commented on exactly what the issue is. With the engine, Reuters citing people familiar with the matter said it relates to a fuel nozzle, which experts say is generally less serious of a problem than the failure of a major rotating part of the plane, such as a turbine blade. But clearly, this could be very disruptive for airlines. And certainly, as you alluded to in the beginning, it has been very disruptive for Cathay Pacific, which has had to cancel some 34 flights between Monday and Wednesday as it attends to this problem. So not exactly an Airbus issue, but if I was Boeing, I'd be out there saying, see, Airbus
Starting point is 02:25:21 no good. At least for the public, at least for the public, the public, you know, there's no website. They don't want to draw attention to themselves. Well, there's maybe, they got enough problems with the dead astronauts. I hear you. It's a real problem. And then this news, which is just not getting, not really getting the attention it deserves. Here's the teaser. The FBI raided the homes of several New York City Mayor Eric Adams' top deputies, federal
Starting point is 02:25:51 agencies, electronic devices from the police commissioner, the school's chancellor, and two deputy mayors. None of the officials have been charged with a crime. The raids come nearly a year after federal agencies, the mayor's electronic devices and a federal corruption investigation involving alleged donations made by Turkish officials to his campaign. So when I first saw this report come through, I thought it was old and like, didn't that already happen? But this is a continuation. And ABC this morning had had more details, which kind of helps us a little bit in understanding
Starting point is 02:26:26 what's happening. It seems like a lot of nepotism and all kinds of stuff going on here. The Queen's home of the city's Deputy Mayor of Public Safety, Philip Banks, sits quiet Thursday afternoon, shutters drawn, after the FBI conducted a search early Wednesday morning. And the Hamilton Heights home of the first deputy mayor, Sheena Wright, another one of New York City Mayor Eric Adams' closest aides and friends, also raided by the FBI. Wright shares a home with her partner, New York City Schools Chancellor David Banks. Deputy Mayor Banks' brother. Sources say the FBI seized evidence, including electronics, as part of an ongoing investigation.
Starting point is 02:27:05 Federal agents have previously raided the homes of several other associates of Mayor Adams, who even turned over his own electronic devices to the FBI last fall and received his own subpoena last month. The fact that these subpoenas and documents have been seized, the homes raided of people very close to the mayor, should give everyone pause. But it's a long stretch between people around the mayor being subpoenaed and the mayor being in trouble. In a statement, the mayor's chief counsel said, quote, investigators have not indicated
Starting point is 02:27:34 to us the mayor or his staff are targets of any investigation. As a former member of law enforcement, the mayor has repeatedly made clear that all members of the team need to follow the law. A source says the searches do not appear to be related to the long-running corruption investigation into whether Mayor Adams' campaign accepted donations from Turkey in exchange for favors. So this Turkey thing is, it keeps popping up, it's only really been the most recent reports that are talking about it. Um, I don't know what's going on. What I, what is not mentioned, and I think your, your No Agenda Show should mention, because it's unavoidable, is that all of those implicated are so-called black people,
Starting point is 02:28:17 as Moe would say, or people of color. Oh, that's what he wouldn't say. No, he would say so-called black people. Yeah, he hates the term. Yeah, of course he does. But there's something to be said about that in this case. There seems like a lot of nepotism going on in New York. And I know from the New York...
Starting point is 02:28:38 Gee, wait a minute. Let's stop for a second. Let me step back and try to comprehend the notion that corruption exists in New York City. I know what's going on. I don't know what to make of it. Yeah, but with Turkey, I mean is that an Erdogan thing? I mean there's a lot of... I don't know, this is like, this me of that. I don't have a clip but Kamala they were talking about how She had collected 350 million dollars in small donations The last month as opposed to Trump's 140 million all seems like a lot of money No matter who gets it and how but this small donations thing, which they then said was
Starting point is 02:29:24 Perfected by Obama. Yeah. With Chinese credit cards. This is bull crap. This is, yes, this is a scam of some sort and it's a major one, but it's for, it's like Saudi money or something that's being laundered and comes in, filters in as small donations. And I can't say it's Saudi money in particular, it could be Chinese money, which I would be more, probably more likely. Uh, or it's just, it's slick though.
Starting point is 02:29:50 It's a very slick operation. There is no way that you're getting that kind of money for Kamala Harris out of the blue, uh, because they love her so much. I mean, just too much money. It's too much money. Speaking of too much money, Elon Musk, I'm staying on the beat. The reason why I am staying on the Elon beat with his freedom of speech is for this very simple, and again, you disagree with me and that's the way it should be I just want to be the guy looking the other direction. You never know everyone's very enamored with X loves it It's great. You you are you are
Starting point is 02:30:35 Totally a lot of people hate it you You are most journalists in the Bay Area for example who are all part of Bay in the Bay area, for example, who are all part of Bay H or does something or other dot Macedon dot whatever. Yeah. Yeah. Social dot. Yes. Dot Macedon dot Macedon. Yeah. Um, it's I go there and I have an account on Macedon social and I use it to follow the journalists in the Bay area and elsewhere. Yes. And they are the biggest haters of the dead bird,
Starting point is 02:31:06 as they like to call it. Yes, the dead bird site. And it's just like, go on and on and on. They're psychopaths. It's just like an embarrassment. Right, but they're not doing the work. And I'm doing the work here. And here's the reason.
Starting point is 02:31:19 You're doing what work? I'm doing the work. If a guy had 40,000 satellites circling the earth, had a brain chip company, was responsible for ushering in carbon credits and electric vehicles and his name was Bill Gates, everybody would hate him. But now it's Elon, oh, it's great. And I'm not all in on the brain chip. I love Starlink, but I question. You have a Starlink account, if I'm not mistaken. I do, as I said, I love Starlink.
Starting point is 02:31:55 Well, I need it as a backup for the show. But I question, what can you do with it? What is it? You have to, you can use 5G. Yeah, I have that as a backup as well. I have two backups. Hello. This is an important show. I don't want to be taken off. I got a generator, got a Jenny and it got me a star link and I got me a 5G. So if there's ever a problem, the show will continue.
Starting point is 02:32:19 No, but I would like us to use the 5G, not the 5G, but they start. I don't want to use it for the show, but I want to test it for the show to see that we see what the latency seems like. Todd, if it, and if it's reasonable, I'll get, get that as a second backup for myself. Well, I can tell you right away. You should Todd from blueberry. He does the new media show. He does video, uh, with, uh, with Rob.
Starting point is 02:32:43 Now they always argue about his video podcasting, his YouTube podcast. So they argue about the same stuff over and over again. But Todd runs Blueberry. Todd's a good guy. I'd like he's been around. He's a knight. He's been around for a long time. He's part of the decentralized hosting infrastructure that is podcasting. He has been using Starlink for his podcast to communicate with video through zoom. I think they use, um, for the past couple of weeks. And it's the latency is almost undetectable. Well, the guys up at the Canadian said we've both done their podcast.
Starting point is 02:33:19 Uh, yeah, the, um, what's the name of their podcast? I've done it twice. Oh boy, we are horrible now. Yeah, they're going to be mad at us. Grymerica, Grymerica, Grymerica. Grymerica, Grymerica uses... One of the guys uses... Thank you. Thank you, Sir.
Starting point is 02:33:38 One of the guys uses the Starlink and it's like transparent. You couldn't tell the difference. Now, I don't know how it would work with Starlink on both ends, because that would have to introduce. I would like to test it. That has to introduce some latency. But anyway, if it was Bill Gates, we'd all be suspicious.
Starting point is 02:33:58 But now it's Elon Musk, and we're like, oh, it's Tony Stark. Okay. So I noticed that during yesterday's, what's it yesterday? Yes. Yesterday's Independence Day rally for Brazil, there was a call from Bolsonaro and from other people on the ground to protest the lack of free speech in Brazil. And so, you know, there's a lot of videos out there. They may be from previous demonstrations. I don't know if I saw that one.
Starting point is 02:34:31 It looked like Mardi Gras to me. Yeah, I don't know if it was tens of thousands or hundreds. I don't know. What I did see is I saw a lot of free speech t-shirts with X pre printed on it, which means someone has boots on the ground doing that. And I just have a couple of clips. I couldn't get anything from the mainstream US media. So I had to go to an old favorite, WION. Thank you for defending our freedom. Read banners in praise of X as hundreds of supporters of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro hit streets.
Starting point is 02:35:06 They demanded the dismissal of Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who last week ordered XP banned in Brazil after the platform failed to comply with orders to block some accounts accused of spreading fake news. This after Bolsonaro urged Brazilians to avoid official Independence Day parades and instead join him in São Paulo. Alright, so that doesn't really tell us anything, but what was interesting is that Michael Schellenberger went to Brazil to specifically to make sure he protested the freedom of speech in Brazil.
Starting point is 02:35:42 Now, Schellenberger… What? Oh yeah. Oh please. Well, you remember Schellenberger was part of the Westminster Declaration. You remember this? Oh yeah. That was that whole long list of Taibbi, Schellenberger, Jonathan Haidt, Steven Pinker.
Starting point is 02:35:59 The usual suspects. All the usual suspects. And we found this to be very sketchy by itself In fact as I'm reading through it at least as I'm reading through it again the Westminster Declaration says the legislature in Germany and the Supreme Court in Brazil are criminalizing political speech so I'm still thinking that there's something going on with Brazil that that a group of people wants to change and Schellenberger actually gave me some information and then one of our outstanding producers
Starting point is 02:36:29 came back with something that fits in with it. So there's a huge population in Brazil. I imagine there's a lot of strong feelings. Tell me about the protest tomorrow, what to expect. Well, so it's independent. This is Brazil's Independence Day tomorrow. There's gonna be a huge protest demanding the impeachment of this Supreme Court justice named Alexandre de Morais, demanding that the president of the Brazilian Senate, Rodrigo
Starting point is 02:36:53 Pacheco, start impeachment proceedings. The number of senators supporting impeachment has been growing by the day. And you're starting to now see newspapers that have been advocating for for more censorship online say, hey, this is too much. This is really outrageous. This is the kind of censorship that they saw during the dictatorship in Brazil. So we're expecting to see hundreds of thousands of people on the streets tomorrow demanding free speech, which is guaranteed in the Brazilian constitution. Ah, it's guaranteed in the Brazilian constitution.
Starting point is 02:37:24 Yes. And one of our producers Jose Checked in and said yes Brazil article 5 part 4 the expression of thought is free but there's a little extra part there and Anonymity is forbidden Wouldn't that be interesting if Elon Musk could have everybody say whatever they wanted on X, but you couldn't do it anonymously. This is something I've been tracking with him for a long time. How many people have paid for their check mark?
Starting point is 02:37:55 Once you pay, you're no longer anonymous. I think that this could come here as well. I've been saying this for a long time. Well, a lot of people have been advocating for it. Yeah, of course they are. They want it. But, and this is just the final thought. Well, that's just so you can identify your enemy.
Starting point is 02:38:13 Well, yes. The, what came to mind is what, what group is probably the greatest risk to the US dollar? What group? Is the greatest threat? What group poses the greatest threat to the US dollar? Well, I would say the BRICS for one, would be the one I put at the top of the list. Exactly, the BRICS. Brazil, India, Russia, China.
Starting point is 02:38:56 We already have- South Africa. Well, yes, and then Saudi Arabia is in there, and Egypt is in there. Yeah, but part of the BRICS' domicleture, the S stands for South Africa. Yes, but they're part of the bricks nomenclature. The S stands for South Africa. Yes. But Brazil is right at the front. I think I think there's groups maybe within our U.S.
Starting point is 02:39:11 government and and typical to use Elon because they use them for everything else. Who want to bring the bricks to heel? Well, that's I think we've come to that conclusion some time back. Right. But you can use this. You can have these guys out there doing what they're trying to do. It's like ridiculous. We can't put up with this.
Starting point is 02:39:33 You can use this as a wedge issue. Bring in the Republican from Florida. Let's get right to Congresswoman Maria Salazar, the Congresswoman serves on House Foreign Affairs. House Foreign Affairs. Congresswoman Salazar fled communism in Cuba with her family. It's great to have you on. Wonderful to see you again, Congresswoman. Your reaction to Brazil banning Twitter. Oh, very worrisome. And you know, I'll just tell you where else Twitter or Twitter has been banned. Very worrisome. In Iran, in North Korea, in China, in Russia, in Venezuela, and now in Brazil.
Starting point is 02:40:07 The most important economy in the Western Hemisphere after the United States. How embarrassing and how worrisome. And why? Because Elon Musk is a freedom force that they don't need at this hour because they want to become socialist more and more. You have to remember that the president of Brazil, Lula, was in jail for two years. He was convicted to 12 years for corruption and money laundering. Freedom force. Yep. I have no conclusion to this, but I'm just saying there's forces and it's not a freedom force is at work to do something with Brazil.
Starting point is 02:40:46 Just keeping my eye on it. Well, I'm not going to dissuade you from continuing this thread. Yes. But I, yes, BRICS is an issue that has to be dealt with because we cannot afford to lose our reserve currency status. Otherwise, the country would be bankrupt. We'd be done. Yeah. So, you know, it's one thing to have the NFL there. It's another thing to have them messing with our currency. And this guy's no good. Lula's no good. No, Lula is no good.
Starting point is 02:41:18 Yeah. So, you know. Now he's a socialist. The Brazilians bring these guys back and forth. It's ridiculous. Every country, modern country, has been doing this. We see it in France with the left wanting to take over the place and turn it into an international operation. And Spain is always voting communists in left and right. Also no good. They have issues. Also no good. They have issues. Yeah.
Starting point is 02:41:44 And this is a, I forget, it was Kennedy or somebody who says, you know, why don't we just let the communists have their own party here in this country so we can at least identify them. Did Kennedy say that? RFK Jr.? I think it was Kennedy. Yeah, RFK Jr. That's funny. It may have not been him, but my voice is going because I'm talking about him. It was somebody who was an important person that had this logical conclusion.
Starting point is 02:42:13 I kind of agree with that. You should have a communist, you have a communist on the ticket, you know? Yeah. He's a communist and if you vote for him, you're an idiot. But at least you can identify that they're there and you can see who voted for him. Not that it used to be spying on the public, but. Oh no. I have a funny, it says my voice is great.
Starting point is 02:42:32 I have, I do have to play this Alex Jones clip just as kind of an aside. Goodness. Okay. So Alex. Oh, sorry. Yeah. Yeah. Don't play it yet.
Starting point is 02:42:42 Alex Jones was talking about this latest thing going on. Friend of the show. Friend of the show. Yeah, he's a friend of the show. I like Alex Jones material generally, but he, you know, he does, and he is very good about the last election and calling people out who thought there was a micro dots on the ballots. Thanks pal. Remember, remember.
Starting point is 02:43:06 It was Paciennik that was on his show that was making the assertion that he was laughing at him. That's where it all started. Literally laughing at him on the show. So Alex has been picked up on Eric Weinstein's latest thing, and then he's got some background information about the self replicating nanobots that are in the shot and killing your immune system. It went on and on.
Starting point is 02:43:29 I have no clips of that because it was like this such a sketchy assertion. Well, it came from a paper which was written by someone who was not schooled in this particular area. And so I think it's been debunked by now. Well, it's a good topic of conversation for Alex and his show. But meanwhile, he does a segment where he takes letters to the editor, and he just reads them and then he follows up. And so somebody wrote into him about his scream
Starting point is 02:44:00 and how come he's not using it much anymore, where he screams. And so he does scream for the guy. But there was a lot of background information, which I think we can all anticipate, before he does his scream. And this is nothing more than Alex explaining his lousy, his crazy sounding voice, and then to make matters worse, he does his scream into the microphone. Of course, I never took acting lessons or voice lessons. I've screamed and yelled a lot, even without a bullhorn.
Starting point is 02:44:29 And so I've got stuff on my larynx polyps. I've been to an ear, nose and eye doctor a couple of times. And they said, well, it'll take six weeks. Is it ear, nose and throat doctor? Yeah, yes, it is. Yes, it's not like, yes, you're right. Doctor. Yes, it is. Yes, it's not even. I'd like to be an ear, nose and eye doctor. Oh, poor Alex. I've been to an ear, nose and eye doctor a couple of times and they said, well, it'll
Starting point is 02:44:52 take six weeks. You can't really talk. You can take those polyps off and you won't sound like you're an 80 year old man that smokes cigarettes and drinks whiskey. But I just haven't done it. It's kind of signature. So I'm leaving it there. I may have to do it at some point if I keep screaming, because it's getting worse.
Starting point is 02:45:05 But I used to scream so loud on demonstrations and stuff that I'd cough up blood. No. A few times. So I like to do it. I usually do it when I actually feel like doing it, but I'm excited about it. You know, the country and the world waking up,
Starting point is 02:45:17 so let me fire it up and do it. Ah! There, that's a little one for you. Ha ha ha ha ha. you got great pleasure from this. I did. It's like he makes that scream and I realized it's just a shtick with him. But he is blowing out his vocal cords, there's no doubt about it. And then he does the scream again, he should stop.
Starting point is 02:45:42 I have two quick clips. That'll be it for me for our broadcast day but of course we have a great end of show mixes and we have the tip of the day coming up so you want to wait for that. This is the M5M the legacy media catching up to your no agenda show which has been on this beat for I think at least six months. Rob a West suburban woman is talking to the I-Team about how she sent almost one million dollars to a scammer and she's not alone. The FBI estimates the scam known as pig butchering cost Americans nearly four billion dollars last year alone. Think of all the money people could have saved if they were listening to the No Agenda show.
Starting point is 02:46:23 We have warned people for this, we have explained how it works. Even the name Pig Butchering and yet four billion dollars is gone. It's unbelievable. Yeah. And the thing is the FBI, where is it? Elizabeth Warren. Elizabeth Warren and Rachel complain about Rachel. And I still get calls. I get them once I'm getting now mostly. It was one Elizabeth Warren and a Rachel complain about Rachel. And I still get calls. I get them once I'm getting now, mostly, almost one after another is the, Oh, you've been paying too much for your utility bill. You, you've overpaid. You, we want to give you a bunch of money and, and discount your utility bill by 35% press one to,
Starting point is 02:47:02 to for this offer. And of course, I take it literally and press one and hang up because they're only asking me to press one, they're not asking me to hang on the line. I've hung on the line a couple of times. There's some guy with a very thick Bombay accent trying to convince me that the local utility bill, I just had to give him my bank account information and he'll give me money.
Starting point is 02:47:24 Clear it right up. Actually, I got a call yesterday while here from a 512 area code, which is Texas Austin. And the minute I heard it, I was like, oh, because yes, this is a sheriff's office. Like, oh, okay. And I hung up. And it was, you remember that scam that they pulled me into, tried to pull me into the sheriff's office and then
Starting point is 02:47:47 I told you about this You know, yeah Well, I don't remember it was it was very convincing They had police radio gone in the background or transferring you and then well there's a warrant out for your arrest because you didn't show up as a Was the for your arrest because you didn't show up as a, what's the, as a, the stuff you've, as a witness, a specialist witness, what do you call it? You've been expert witness, expert witness,
Starting point is 02:48:14 thank you, expert witness. And because you had signed that you would appear, now you have to come down to the station and you have to pay a fine, it's three and a half thousand dollars and it was, it was sophisticated. It's three and a half thousand dollars. And it was sophisticated. They had me going for a bit. I've not heard this one.
Starting point is 02:48:30 Yeah, they had me going for a bit. And I'm like, you know, I think I'm going to call my lawyer. No, you can't hang up. We had another term, like a state. There's your giveaway. Well, they wanted me to go to a kiosk and deposit the money. I was like, okay gotcha Oh, yeah, that's that's that makes sense
Starting point is 02:48:48 But what I'm gonna gifts or get a gift card for what but what I'm gonna do is when I when we get home Tomorrow, I'm going to call them back and then pretend that I fell for it. I'm gonna record it See if I can get them to go all the way through they will not pick up the phone the first time they actually left a message at see if I can get them to go all the way through. They will not pick up the phone. The first time they actually left a message at 7.59 AM and I didn't take it because I was walking the dog and I called them back and they picked up. So I might get lucky.
Starting point is 02:49:15 Might get lucky. You might get lucky, but I've had very little luck with this. Yeah. The most recent one, I did have one of these, the second time, this is the second time it happened. I pick up the phone and the voice on the other end goes, grandpa. Yeah. The grandpa. Yeah. And I didn't, well, I've had this call before and this guy, I told, I just told this guy off.
Starting point is 02:49:43 I said, who, what, what dummies believe anything you have to say and hung up on him. I didn't have time for the call cause I was doing clips. Oh man. You had the call before. I, I, I don't have the, yes, I have to record these. If I ever get one of these, uh, again, I I'll try to record it. But the, I did go through it with what the first guy and the guy says hey grandpa and I said yeah who is this? It's Theodore. No they never get they don't have a name they don't have that tiny D it could be Theodore yeah
Starting point is 02:50:14 well Theodore's like nine or eight yeah and you're like you're like 50 oh okay and so it does the voices are no good. They don't they aren't using kids voices Well, they do they're not using I mean voice augmentation. Well, it just doesn't work I don't see how anyone can fall for this crap. You know these days of all the Tina and the girls they have they have special code words in case Someone calls with a hey mom I'm in trouble and they use AI to simulate the voice, which has happened, or at least has been warnings about it.
Starting point is 02:50:48 Supposedly. Yeah, supposedly. You know, there's this one, this is my last clip. There's one other trend, which has been going on for a while, but I never really paid much attention to it, mainly because I don't have an iPhone. I haven't had an iPhone since Apple screwed up USB on the Max and I got rid of all my Apple products.
Starting point is 02:51:05 You've never had an iPhone as far as I know. You don't have a phone. You have some kind of Chinese. I have a phone? Yeah, in the desk drawer. An Android. It's an Android. You don't have an iPhone.
Starting point is 02:51:15 Yeah, of course it is. So one of the features. By the way, stop. I'm not dead set against these phones. I will say the foldable Samsung phone is very appealing. It's pretty and small. It's dynamite, but I would continue. But it's $1,800 for that phone.
Starting point is 02:51:35 Yeah, no, forget it. It's not gonna happen. And we had the Zoomer at the house for 12 weeks. She's back now. She's back in New York. She's healed. Everything went well. Thank you for asking.
Starting point is 02:51:48 And I noticed there is, there's a trend that's been going on for a long time. I just never really noticed it of location sharing. And I found a clip, actually someone sent me this clip from TikTok. It's obviously a setup. So it's not like, oh, this is a real zoomer. You know, this is pretend. But it does show you just that I find it to be a very disturbing, lonely trend.
Starting point is 02:52:19 Sorry I'm late. There's literally so much traffic. Oh, that's interesting, because I was tracking your location, and you only left your house 10 minutes ago. Wait, you have my location? Yeah, remember you shared it with me six months ago when we were at that concert? No. Yeah. Oh my god, do you know if Kelly's back with her ex?
Starting point is 02:52:33 Because I was tracking her on Find My Friends last night, and she was in Brentwood, which is where her ex lives. And also, I have her ex's location too, and they were together. What are you watching? I'm watching Find My Friends. People are being crazy today. They're like bobbing all around the city.
Starting point is 02:52:46 Sabrina flaked on dinner last week. She said she didn't feel well, and I was like, well, that's odd because your location says you're at a different house. Find My Friends, more like find the people who betrayed me. Do you just watch that all day? I just like love Find My Friends because it makes me feel close to my friends.
Starting point is 02:53:01 You know what I mean? Like I find my friends in their locations where they currently are. Kelly, where are you going, girl? You're being insane today. This is disturbing. Yeah, yeah. I turned it on when I was on his phone. Does he know that? He doesn't, he might not not know that. This is disturbing. This find my friends track their location and it's random. Yes, I thought that this was a, uh, an idea that I've cropped up. I remember writing about it. And I think it was in PC magazine may have been before that when I was at info
Starting point is 02:53:43 world even where this idea had cropped up in Europe. It was called something else, but you could track your friends and it was so, oh yeah, this is great because you can meet at the bar and you know, oh look at they're at the same area, you know, here in Amsterdam. This is a European product originally. And I always thought it was just a stalker's delight and I never thought it would ever become legal, because I think it should be illegal. But yeah, this does not surprise me. Yeah, it's like, what is that about?
Starting point is 02:54:14 What is happening to people they find it's so necessary to share location with each other so you can see where you're... Is that like the most intimate type of friendship we have these days I'm really good friends with her I'm sharing my location well if anybody follows my location they'd find that I live in a drawer in my kitchen area I'm gonna show my school by donating to no agenda imagine all the people who could do that Oh yeah that'd be fab. Yeah, on No Agenda.
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Starting point is 02:55:21 $150 thank you. I don't know Francis and Chandler, Arizona, one, two, three, four, five. DaVan Newman in Bernalillo, New Mexico, $105.35. Matthew Bell in Hewitt, Wisconsin, $100. The first human resource coming in. Okay. There's a karma request there. You can put that at the end. Brian S. in New York, New York. Now, he's had boots on the ground. He came up with 100. He has a boots on the ground report.
Starting point is 02:55:59 Counterfeit knockoff street in Canal Street, episode 1690. My wife and I happened to find ourselves there earlier this week and I can report the counterfeit trade is alive and well. Oh, good to know. Canal Street. Yeah. The sellers used to be mainly Chinese. That's right. Who would entice you into their store. Nah, not necessarily, but if you go back far enough, they were on the street selling this stuff. There were some guys that take it in the back rooms and you had to go into the back rooms to get the high-end Rolex clones. That's true.
Starting point is 02:56:30 They've been supplanted by hordes of newcomers from Africa. Oh yes, the newcomers bringing gifts. So there you have it. Omega Man in Las Vegas, Nevada comes in also with a hundred bucks and he has a note that I believe... He's in Bali. He's in Bali right now. Yeah, he says, your work... this is a note I'm reading because it's self-promotional. Your work has been... I'm being honest, transparent. Your work has been a great inspiration to me. Now in my 14th year of podcasting, 8 from the island of Bali
Starting point is 02:57:06 in Indonesia, following you gentlemen for many years, you have the greatest real news show on the planet. I encourage everyone to support No Agenda as there is no show like it. I think he has the most podcast episodes published of any podcast. It's something in the 18,000 or something and he has a substack omega man sub stack comm 11,000 there's 11,000 11,000 podcast. Yes. Thank you. Omega man. Good work, brother Sirhan sure hand in Trinidad, Colorado 8438 Now I think that's the boobs donation with plus. Yeah,, it's a boob. So here's another boob donation
Starting point is 02:57:47 that would be Aaron Grone in Grone G-O-O-E-N-E in Meade, Nebraska 3438. Sir Dan the man 3438 another boob donation. There he is Kevin McLaughlin conquered North Carolina does it right? 8008 He's the Archduke of Luna lover of America and boobs Charles Wheeler in Eldridge, Iowa 8008. He's the Archduke of Luna, lover of America and boobs. Charles Wheeler in Eldridge, Iowa. 8008. Well, out of today. Aaron Weberg in Roberts, Wisconsin. 8008.
Starting point is 02:58:13 What's going on? Boobs. Robert Umberger in Langhorn, Pennsylvania. 8008. And a related birthday for Katie Yu. She's on the list. And here we go. Robert Vincent in Mars, Pennsylvania with eight Oh eight. That is a very strange phenomenon.
Starting point is 02:58:33 People love Brian, Brian, Brian, Keith, Keith, Keith, K E E F E and Sierra Vista, Arizona, 79 Oh three little lot of sir latte in Bremerton, Washington, 7777. Douglas Mook in Conkranton, Pennsylvania, 75. Sir Becoming Heroic in Shererville, Indiana, 6886. Jiggly Boobs. Nice. Sir Mainframe, we got a lot of boob guys today. Sir Mainframe, Ventura, California, 64.
Starting point is 02:59:11 Bruce Barrett with a birthday, New Stanton, Pennsylvania, 63, 48. That's his happy 22nd birthday to his douchebag son. Oh. Should we call him out as a douchebag? Yeah, I just did it. David Cock. There we go. a douchebag? Yeah, I guess we did. David Cock. Yeah. Double douchebag. Yeah. David Cox in Austin, Texas, 6225. 6325.
Starting point is 02:59:31 JJ in Ennis, Texas. 6325. Oh, these are birthdays for me. It's a belated birthday to you. Yes. Thank you. Appreciate it. Sir Ron, uh, 6229. Dame Elizabeth Gardner, Kansas, 62. And that's a birthday call to her husband. Fluff Comet in Ladysmith, BC, Canada, 60, 45. Another birthday wish for Adam and her husband, Mark. Yes, 45.
Starting point is 02:59:59 Kyle Baron of North Valley of Foxes in Wisconsin, 60 11 Grayson insurance Aurora, Cal of Colorado, 60 Oh six small boobs, Gregory Kierdach in Hadova, Italy, Padawa, I think is what we call it. But over Padova 60 Oh one, we need more Italian donors. Ryan, a literacy, 60, 01, we need more Italian donors. Ryan, Lovise, Lovise, Livesee, Sacramento, 60. Sir, Tigger Max, Viradale, Washington, 60.
Starting point is 03:00:42 Jennifer, five, uh, fivey, I think it's fivey in Alberta, Canada, 60. Philip Colburn in Warramu, New South Wales, Australia. 60. And he's got a bunch of eyes there. He's missing something. Eee, eee, eee, eee, eee. Sabod Peth, our buddy in Metairie, Louisiana. 60, 58, 09. Les Tarkowski in Kingman, Arizona, 58.
Starting point is 03:01:06 Susan Claycamp in Dackula, Georgia, 57.98. Sir Lineman in Anna, Illinois, 56.78. Sir Not Jake in Thompson, Connecticut, 56.78. Sir Glenn in Raleigh, North Carolina, 55.10. Double nickels on the dime. Sir Stardy Bartfast in Hope, Rhode Island, 54. I think it's Slardy Bartfast. Slardy Bartfast, 5432.
Starting point is 03:01:36 Oh, that's the memoriam of Francine the rat who passed today. Yes, our literal pet. I'm sorry to hear that. Rats can be nice pets. I had a pet rat once. No, really? Yeah, his name was Fred. David Byrne is 5333.
Starting point is 03:01:53 Mark Hardwick, I let that slide by the way. Mark Hardwick in Aledo, Texas, 5333. Interesting. Uh, Rolien van der Haar in Hollensveld. I like that. It's Rolien van der Haar in Hollensveld, 5272. My husband and I recently discovered your podcast. We like it a lot. Well, hello Dutchies.
Starting point is 03:02:20 Thanks for bringing some common sense and humor into our lives. Much appreciated. Take good care. We hope to listen for many more episodes. Four more years. Perpetually, Brittany Miller in Trinidad, Colorado, 5272. Todd Lehigh in Riverton, Utah. These are all 5272s. I won't say the number anymore. This is actually $50 donors plus the numbers that they add to it. Manuel Maderos and Tracy, Ernest Parten in Westchester, Ohio. Paul Dubois in Kerhounkson, New York.
Starting point is 03:02:56 You guys, is it me or you guys start leaning away from me? No agenda agenda. Be that as it may, like I've listened before, I don't always agree with your analysis, but it's always food for the people. He must be a Democrat. Totally. Kerry Barthel, 5272, Sains Sains, S-A-E-N-Z, Cello Studios. If you're a cellist, go to Houston, Texas, S-A-E-N-Z, cello studios.
Starting point is 03:03:27 It's going to be a rush. There's going to be a rush at the door, all the cellists. If it's indeed a cello studio, I don't know. Could be an art guy, who knows. Austin Ward in Millington, Connecticut. Tennessee, 5272. Baroness Amy, Baroness Amy in Jefferson, Wisconsin. And this is a switcheroo to Baron John the Fabulous.
Starting point is 03:03:48 Yeah, it's his birthday. And he's got a birthday. Yeah, today. Love you, babe. Josiah Thomas, Ankeny, Iowa, 51. And then we go to the 50s. Actually, we start with Cole Dial, who's in Farina, Illinois. He does 50-50, which is good. Steven Ray in Spokane, Washington, 50. These are all 50s. Edward, Missouri, in Memphis, Tennessee. Robertson Holm in Flint, Michigan.
Starting point is 03:04:13 Ray Howard in Kremlin, Colorado. James Walker Cole in Harmony, Rhode Island. A lot of Rhode Islanders today. Hold on, James says, hi John and Adam, this is James Cole using my mom's computer. I'd like to call my mom out as a douchebag. Douchebag. That's not very nice.
Starting point is 03:04:29 Cute though. Yeah, it's cute. I love these kids. William Kidwell in Dover, Delaware. George Wuschet. Sir George, he's been around forever in Lavernia, Texas. Eric Hoff in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. McDermott Connor in Salisnia, Texas. Eric Hoff in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. McDermott, Connor
Starting point is 03:04:46 in Salisbury, North Carolina. Megan Duckworth in Jeffersonville, Georgia. Alex Salazar. Yes. Salazar, I think that's right. Shaker Heights, Ohio. Carrie Jackson in Waterton, Tennessee, Dame Rita in Sparks, Nevada. And last on our list is Alex Wenta in Manchester, cute town, New Hampshire. That's our group of supporters for show 1693. Thank you all for hearing the call of the sad puppy. Thank you for supporting the show.
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Starting point is 03:06:02 Today show day Dame Elizabeth happy birthday to her husband surreal protector of the hobby farm turned 62 tomorrow. Bruce Bear wishes his son James Blair a very happy one for the 11th. By the way September 11th is coming up we're all talking about the big debate on the 10th but man the September 11th he'll be 22. Sir Tooth Fairy wishes his human resource, Leila a very happy eighth birthday. Robert Umburger says happy birthday to Katie Yu and our very own clip custodian, the one and only Neil Jones turns 46 years old today. Happy birthday, brother. Happy birthday from everybody
Starting point is 03:06:36 here. The best podcast in the universe. And we have, speaking of the man himself cotton gin Eric as he's known a co-ocular sir cotton gin cotton gin will become a night today He's a layaway night and he says happy birthday. Adam. My last donation puts me over the threshold for knighthood I would like to be named sir cotton gin night of the button pushers and he is indeed a button pusher He helps out a lot with the stream does a lot of good things for us Sets up all the kinds of different IRC bots. He's a good man Thank you for your courage Here's to another 60 years Eric aka cotton gin and since he's the only one we might as well grab our blades right away
Starting point is 03:07:18 John if you can get your blade out for this a cotton gin blade looking good Thanks to your layaway nights Cotton gin blade looking good. Hello, Cotton gin, step on up. Thanks to your layaway night support, you actually reached night status today, which means I am very proud to pronounce the K-D as Sir Cotton Gin, Knight of the Button Pushers. For you, we have hookers and blow, rent boys and chardonnay, cookies and vodka, warm beer
Starting point is 03:07:41 and cold women, taquitos and tequila. We've got harlots and haldol redheads and Rye highs right rise. We've got organic macaroni and plasticizers That's a big favorite on the menu along with that beer and blunts. We've got Ruben s Ruben and Rose Gaysen sake vodka vanilla bungits and bourbon sparkling cider and escort ginger ale and gerbils breast milk and pavlova There it is the mutton and mead. Sir Cotton Gin, welcome to the round table. And while you're munching out there on the Mutton and Mead, go to noagendarings.com. Take a look at that beautiful ring.
Starting point is 03:08:14 It's a Cygnet ring. You will have one in the mail sent to you once you size it with the handy ring finger sizing guide on the website. And give us an address, we'll send it off to you, along with some wax to seal your important correspondence because it is a signet ring It's beautiful. Go take a look at everybody know what gender rings calm And of course as always it comes with a certificate of authenticity. Welcome to the roundtable, sir cotton gin
Starting point is 03:08:42 Meetup! It's not your problem anymore! Ah, let's see, I have no audio reports to play today, but we do have a meetup taking place. Of course, it is the monthly NA Tribal September Shindig. Of course, this is the September one, it happens once a month. It is underway at the Prodigy Burger Bar in Indianapolis, Indiana. That's Mark and Maria of the Greenwood who are hosting that
Starting point is 03:09:09 and they will have a great meetup report for us by the next show. Also the toomanyeggs.com meetup taking place today in Keene, New Hampshire at the Yasho Jamaican Grill in Keene, New Hampshire. Coming up on the calendar, Kernersville, North Carolina, Chattanooga, Tennessee. We've got Roanard Park, California, Garden City, Idaho, Fort Wayne, Indiana, St. Augustine, Florida, Tucson, Arizona, Charlotte, North Carolina, Bedford, Texas,
Starting point is 03:09:34 St. Petersburg, Florida, San Diego, California, Long Beach, California, Goose Creek, South Carolina, Alpharetta, Georgia, Richland, Washington, Tilburg, the Netherlands on the 28th, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Fredericksburg, Texas, October 18th, Korean The Keeper will be there, Okeechobee, Florida on the 20th, Ottawa in Scandinavia, Emeryville, Sacramento, and looking forward to December, West Palm Beach, Florida. These are the No Agenda Meetups that you can find at noagendameetups.com. It's a good website. You can check out, you know, search by location. Also, some meetup reports are put back up there. It is a great way to get to know the community and the producers known as No Agenda Nation.
Starting point is 03:10:19 Go to noagendameetups.com. If you can't find one near you, start one yourself. It's easy and always a party Well, this is disturbing. As far as I can tell, both of us have one ISO each. Which does not bode well. It bodes well to me. You got a killer, then I'll go first. I don't have a killer. No, I don't care.
Starting point is 03:11:01 What do you mean you don't care I mean it's both of these are probably usable yeah I don't like well here we go that's so freaking unsafe see it's what's that got to do with anything nothing let me try yours one day it all makes sense Wow they're both horrible well use one of the backups from one of the previous shows. Let me see. Last show, for example, had a bunch of good ones. How about this one?
Starting point is 03:11:31 Yeah, it is big. How about that? Okay, fine. You sound so mad, bro. Hey everybody, it's time for our end of show tip of the day. It's John's Corner. Greetings for you and me. Just a tip with JCB.
Starting point is 03:11:48 And sometimes at home. Yeah, tip of the day time. We're all excited to hear what you've got lined up for us, John. What is your tip of the day? All right, well these things cost about 12 bucks or so. And this is a recommended dog walk. People with dogs would... You have a dog that's medium size or a recommended dog walk. If people were dogs would you have a dog that's medium-sized or a big dog? We usually have a big dog in our family somewhere. I mean he's got a fila
Starting point is 03:12:14 Brasileo, which is a huge powerful dog. I got a big dog. I got a big dog Is that a big dog really Phoebe Phoebe's yeah, I don't know what she way She was 120 we got her down. Oh, that's a big dog really? Phoebe? Phoebe is a big dog. Yeah, I don't know, what's your weight? She was 120, we got her down to 99 right now. She was a little overweight. Big dog, then you need this. Okay, it's a tip, I'm excited. You want a, and you can look it up, they have them at Amazon, there's a couple brands there,
Starting point is 03:12:38 but you look it up, a bungee dog leash. Bungee dog leash, hmm. Bungie dog leash. The Bungie dog leash, if you have a big dog or even a medium-sized dog, if they lunge at something, it doesn't pull your arm out of your, you know, your shoulder out of your socket. Yeah. It absorbs the initial lurch that a dog will do and brings it back to normal. The Bungie dog leash is one of the greatest products. If you have a dog walking leash, get one of these things. You'll never regret it. It's a fabulous product.
Starting point is 03:13:15 Now, how far out does it extend? Well, they have a six foot, well, about a couple of feet. I mean, it's not like the dog can go to somebody's throat. I have one of those, um, it has a, like a reel in it. So yeah, those are no good. You want the bungee dog. Okay. All right. Well, you know, this might be for Tina because when she's walking the dog, our dog has some, uh, PTSD cause you know, she's a rescue from a tree line. Tina will thank
Starting point is 03:13:46 me profusely for this recommendation of the bungee dog leash. I like it. Well and I will have her send you a personal note if she is that happy with the product. Yeah and they're not expensive so. There it is everybody your tip of the day. Holy handy ideas. It's the tip of the day There you go. There's the guy there you go All right, everybody. Thank you very much for being with us once again Coming to you from the cruise ship capital of Mexico just north of Puerto Vallarta Are you are there cruise ships out there that you can see?
Starting point is 03:14:26 Nope. Nope. Well, some capital. Nope, it's on the other side, can't see it. Coming up next though, we do have random thoughts, random thoughts, the Clueless Collective, and we have two end of show mixes. David Keck check in as usual. The guy is always checking in.
Starting point is 03:14:48 I really appreciate that David. We could use more end of show mixes. So I rolled out a classic which is Sir Chris. Sir Chris Wilson with an Alessi Brothers spoof of O'Lori. It is O'Elon. So I'm sure you will enjoy that although john doesn't like key that it's on company over the last time here from mehiko i'll be back
Starting point is 03:15:13 thursday from home base in the morning everybody i'm adam curry and from northern silicon valley which is the home base i'm john c devorek we return on thursday please join us for another three hours of media deconstruction and remember us at noagendadonations.com. Until then, adios, mofos, a hooey hooey, and such. I certainly see a position where the world's going to have to come together and agree some rules around social media platforms. And I think that's quite what the answer is and
Starting point is 03:15:42 what the right system of regulation is, I'm not sure, but I'm sure there should be and there's got to be because, you know, hostility and hatred, but I think that we can't carry on as we are and I think the impact on young people, particularly when they've got access to mobile phones for a young and they're reading a whole lot of stuff and receiving a whole lot of stuff that I think is really messing with their minds in a big way. Brazilian government and Elon Musk have been in a feud. It began when a Brazilian judge, Alexandra de Morales, ordered regulators to ban access to the social media platform X
Starting point is 03:16:20 after Musk refused to appoint a legal representative in the country. Well, millions of people in Brazil no longer have access to X, after Musk refused to appoint a legal representative in the country. Well, millions of people in Brazil no longer have access to X, what used to be known as Twitter. Brazil's Supreme Court blocked the social media platform over the weekend after owner Elon Musk refused court orders, including one to name a representative in the country. People who do have access to X by VPN, they can face thousands of dollars in fines. Musk and a top justice on Brazil's high court have been feuding for months over disinformation
Starting point is 03:16:48 on the platform. I'd like to keep my blue check mark. It's Obama if after all those years of patriarchy, oh Obama Look, here's the thing Twitter shouldn't be just left-wing I like to hide my racist views from you With a handle that larps so I can remain anonymous and hound those snarky snarks posting peppy memes and playing both extremes
Starting point is 03:17:39 Wanna kill a live puppy on Twitter Spaces? AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Are we long? Your goal to troll is truly on. Ooh, and those finctas are reeling. Are we long? Illuminati Proto Champion of the future. Which horseman are you? Am I un in band now? After tweeting big massive dumps to Don Jr.
Starting point is 03:18:14 After all my old accounts are uncovered Oh, Elon, all you wanna do is authenticate the room You can tell it's real because it looks so fake, so fake, so fake Oh, Elon, so fake You go to troll, it's truly Leon Oh, and those finctas are reeling Oh, Elon So fake
Starting point is 03:18:46 Illuminati, world's so champion of the future Which horse but are you? When he has a vision for Mars, it's the right vision And I think he can articulate something really compelling And I don't understand half of what he's saying Like, this guy knows what he's talking about When he talks about moving equipment into the atmosphere for less money using reusable rockets when he
Starting point is 03:19:09 talks about electric vehicles he has absolutely no vision here other than First Amendment blather. None of it makes any sense. What does he want to kill a live puppy on Twitter Spaces? What is he talking about? Oh, Whelan Your go to troll is truly on Ooh, and those finctas are reeling Oh, Whelan You wanna kill a live puppy? Illuminati, proto champion of the future
Starting point is 03:19:41 Which horseman are you? Oh, Whelan You can tell it's real The future which horsemen are you? You can tell it's real Fink desire really Dvorak org slash in a The best podcast in the universe! MoPo Dvorak.org slash N.A. Yeah, it is big.

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