Episode 1586 · Thursday, 31 August 2023

Escaped Mutant

Military juntas topple French influence in Africa while global elites rebrand resource extraction as climate finance and domestic school boards face off against state gender mandates.

By The No Agenda Show | 3h 27m listen | 38 chapters
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A military coup in Gabon has ended the 56-year rule of the Bongo dynasty, marking the tenth such takeover in West and Central Africa in just three years. The military's dissolution of state institutions in Libreville follows a pattern of regional instability that critics label the Francophone Spring, specifically targeting French energy interests like Total Energies. This shift in African power dynamics coincides with a new global financial architecture being pushed by Joseph Nganga of the Rockefeller Foundation and Bill Gates at the upcoming Africa Climate Summit in Nairobi.

In the United States, President Biden has requested fresh funding for revamped COVID-19 vaccines as Dr. Deborah Birx promotes seasonal mRNA boosters for emerging variants. Simultaneously, an NIH study reveals that certain N95 masks may expose users to toxic volatile organic compounds linked to seizures. In the legal arena, a Northern California mother won a settlement against a school district for transitioning her daughter without parental consent, while Attorney General Rob Bonta sues the Chino Valley Unified School District to prevent parent notification policies. Meanwhile, London expands its Ultra Low Emission Zone, and the insurance industry reports $34 billion in weather-related losses, leading to 30% premium surcharges for homeowners.

Author Sam Harris recently proposed a hypothetical airborne Ebola scenario to justify forced vaccinations, a stance characterized as a desire for authoritarian control. On the cultural front, Sean Penn’s new documentary Superpower attempts to solidify the David and Goliath narrative for Volodymyr Zelensky, while the Streamy Awards crown Dylan Mulvaney as a breakout creator. The episode concludes with a look at the Oakland pirates stealing outboard motors and the Silicon Valley billionaires planning a private city called California Forever in Solano County.


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CHAPTER 01 / 38 Discussion

No Agenda Episode 1586 Introduction and Gabon Coup

Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak open episode 1586 of the No Agenda podcast from their respective locations in the Texas Hill Country and Northern Silicon Valley. The hosts briefly discuss local weather conditions and the privacy features of Firefox and Graphene OS. The primary news discussion begins with reports of a recent military coup in Gabon, noting the country's strategic importance regarding oil and uranium.

adam curry· john c. dvorak· gabon· africa· silicon valley· texas hill country· no agenda

00:00 Whoa! Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak. It's Thursday, August 31st, 2023. This is your award-winning GiveOnNation Media Assassination Episode 1586. This is no agenda. There's a war on Europe and we're broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region Number 6 in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley where next-level privacy is just a click away. I'm John C. Dvorak. It's Crackpot and Buzzkill! In the morning! Wait, wait, I want some of that next level privacy. Where can I get some? Is that on Graphene OS? Just a click away! Just a click away? Is it Graphene OS? Is that where you get next level privacy? No, that message actually came up on Firefox. Oh, ho, ho, ho, thanks Firefox. Yeah, that makes sense. Phew! Boo-da-boo-da-boo! Man, it's beautiful here. It's finally cooled down. We're in the mid-90s. We're good. We're good to go.

00:58 There's like 80 here yesterday, which is like horrible. Oh for you guys. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you have no air conditioning there So you're not used to that it's bad for you. It's bad for you people. It's bad. Oh, man There's so much fun stuff going on. I mean at least for the show I mean, you know not fun for a lot of people involved but man what oh, I mean Where do I even start? We have another coup in Africa. Oh, yeah, I've got some Gabon clips It's not a good idea to start with Africa and by the way that turns people off people Oh Africa. Oh, I don't want to listen to this podcast again again It's oil and uranium by coincidence well and France Yes, France. This is this is my did you know what should we do it? Do you have it? How many clips do you have?

CHAPTER 02 / 38 Discussion

African Coup Contagion, France 24 and Douchebag Doug Analysis

The discussion examines the recent string of military takeovers across Africa, specifically focusing on the coup in Gabon that ended the 56-year rule of the Bongo dynasty. Analysis of media coverage from France 24 features "Douchebag Doug," who attributes the regional instability to jihadist insurgencies and incompetent leadership. The hosts critique the media's framing of these events and the military's role in canceling "truncated" election results.

gabon· africa· france 24· bongo dynasty· military junta· coup d'etat· jihadist insurgency

01:49 I actually have two competing clips. Okay, but they're both rundowns. They're both rundowns. I think they're interesting. I'm so I am stunned that our listeners audience and producers Is that you? No. Oh no, it's me. Hold on a second. What do you have? What's going on? I got a... Oh no! Windows Update! Restart! Oh no! Oh no! So now it says, restart now. I'll try to not click on that by accident. No, no, don't do that. You can do restart now. Pick a time. Pick a time. And snooze. Snooze it! Snooze! Don't pick a time. Snooze. That's been snoozed. You know what? I'll actually lead us in. I'll lead into your clips.

02:28 with douchebag Doug on France 24. Oh you can't beat douchebag Doug. You can't beat douchebag Doug. You're right. He's countered him. He says there's eight or nine coups. I think it's actually ten but let's get a little overview. For someone tuning in, if they haven't gone to sleep with their map of Africa in front of them, they're like what is going on? Oh yeah, oh John did you go to sleep with your map of Africa in front of you like douchebag Doug tells you to do? I mean, they tell you to do that, which is actually not a bad idea, to be honest. For someone tuning in, if they haven't gone to sleep with their map of Africa in front of them, they're like, what is going on here? Everyone in the world is like, what is going on in Gabon? I'm so interested. This is the problem with media.

03:10 Nobody cares. Nobody. Nobody cares at all. There's not a single report on American television I could find of any substance about what's been happening in Africa. This is now coup number 10. This endemic is this some sort of coup contagion? A scourge of coups across Africa. I think it's important to sort of pick them apart because you know otherwise it becomes this tired old cliche, another African nation with beleaguered bad governance having a coup. We have seen several very recently, right? Burkina Faso, Mali, which were clearly military juntas taking over. Why? It had to do with the fight against insurgencies. Doug has got to be cashing checks from intelligence agencies left and right. They're just like, hey, tell them it's just some juntas because of ISIS or tell them something, Doug. Do whatever. Here's your check. Mainly sort of this grievance against what they saw as incompetent leadership not effective.

04:05 effectively battling the jihadist insurgents, saying we can do a better job, we're stepping in. Sudan was also a slightly separate case, right? How does that even work? How does it even work when you say people are dissatisfied with the leadership of African nations because they're not doing enough against ISIS? But wouldn't that be the military doing that already? And so the military's like, well you're not letting us kill enough of them? The first thing that comes to mind when he says that is the same thing you just said. Yeah, that's a... We could do a better job. You're supposed to be doing the job now!

04:45 We can do a better job where stepping in Sudan was a you know also a slightly separate case right there's a raging ongoing civil war if you will between two vine leaders there and that's more of an in no it's between two factions of military not leaders Doug military conflict Not so much about jihadist insurgency, but about vying clans and factions within the military. And Niger, we know once again, sort of cues to that jihadist insurgency, military hunters saying, we can do this fight better. We have the people's interests at heart. Gabon is a separate case in the sense that we've had, yes, a string of coups. In Gabon, it literally is

05:26 squarely aimed at what the coup leaders see as the absolute incompetence, the massive fraud, the allegations of corruption against what has become essentially a ruling dynasty, a clan in this country. He kind of skips over the entire election fraud that's being claimed and that once again it's the military who's stepping in. He kind of just skirts around that. the military breaks in during the celebration of this, you know, this son of the sun and says, hey, you know, this was a scam. This was you had what they call it,

06:02 shortened results, you know, like, oh we had preliminary results and you just said we won and no, no, we're stepping in. The country has been independent from France since 1960, right? But it has essentially been led for all but seven of those years by one family, the Banga dynasty. First by the father and since 2009 by the son who had been just until yesterday elected to a third term and it's against him. Okay, all right, so there you go. Thanks Doug. Thanks Doug. Thanks Doug. All right now we go to your clips. You know the funny thing is the funny thing is is that Doug works for France 24 and you'd think you think he'd know exactly why why this is going down because France is all up to their ears in this. Oh crap. Now let me play my second clip from from from Al Jazeera because this this will just strengthen it for you.

CHAPTER 03 / 38 Discussion

Francophone Spring, Al Jazeera and Democracy Now Coverage

Media reports from Al Jazeera and Democracy Now highlight the "Francophone Spring," noting that Gabon marks the tenth coup or attempted takeover in West and Central Africa in three years. The narrative focuses on the failure of the Bongo family to use oil wealth to alleviate poverty, with specific mention of French oil giant Total Energies. The military's dissolution of state institutions in Gabon is met with public cheers in the capital, Libreville.

al jazeera· democracy now· gabon· niger· mali· burkina faso· total energies· ali bongo

06:55 They have a term. They have a term. Well, the situation there in Gabon... This is Al Jazeera, by the way. It marks the 10th coup or attempted takeover in West and Central Africa in the last three years. Al Jazeera is the only one being honest about it. Regional leaders are still trying to negotiate a return to democracy in Niger after last month's coup there. Burkina Faso saw two coups last year. In the second instance, Captain Ibrahim Traore forced out his own military colleague last September. In 2021, Ghanaian soldiers took power from President Alpha Conde, who was seeking a controversial third term. And Mali has also seen two coups since 2020, both of them orchestrated by the current leader, Assimi Goita. What could be the common denominator amongst all these countries? Ahmed Idris joins us now live from Mali. That's the capital of Niger, where the last military coup took place just last month.

07:54 I mean, we're hearing some people already calling this a francophone spring. The francophone spring! Alright, over to your clips. Great term. Yes. Alright, well I've got two competing clips trying to say the same thing once from and this today is my twice, well no, once every two months, Democracy Now! Bonanza. You're gonna hit that one first? Well... Let's start with NTD, the competitor, hit that one first and then go to democracy now. This is NTD. Gabon's president Ali Bongo, whose family have ruled the country for 56 years, was named winner of a presidential election today, only for military officers to appear on television minutes later to announce that they had seized power. David Doyle reports.

08:50 Crowds cheered the military in Gabon on Wednesday after a group of senior officers claimed to have seized power. That television announcement came just minutes after incumbent President Ali Bongo had been announced the winner of a recent election. The officers, who said they represented all Gabonese security and defence forces, said they had decided to defend peace by putting an end to the current regime. The general elections of August 26th 2023 as well as the truncated results are cancelled. The borders are closed until... No one really explains this, the truncated... was the truncated alerts, was that because they just said oh we win without even counting all the votes? Was that the idea? What's the point? You know the results.

09:39 country does that sound like? I'm trying to think. I'm sorry. I think what other country do they, does the media call the elections? Oh yeah, that's right. The borders are closed until further notice. All institutions of the Republic are dissolved. And I love that they're dissolving the institutions. We need one of these! Mungo's family has ruled oil-producing but poor Gabon for more than half a century. His detractors say he has done little to channel the country's oil wealth towards the population, a third of whom live in poverty. There was no immediate comment from Gabon's government and no immediate reports on Bongo's whereabouts. He'd been announced the winner of a third term with nearly two-thirds of the vote. But there were concerns over the transparency of the electoral process amid a lack of international observers as well as an internet blackout and night-time curfew after the poll. The military takeover, if successful, will be West and Central Africa's eighth coup since 2020.

10:41 No one can make up their mind eight nine ten. We've lost count. It depends on when you're gonna start counting if they say since 2020. Oh, yeah, that's a good point. That's a good point. That's one number and if you go back just a few more years it goes up and it keeps going up. Hold on a second. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Amy Goodman, Clippin Bell. I mean, you telegraphed it, so. So here is the another. Now this one I think is a Since they come from a perspective, from the Middle Eastern perspective, because I believe it's Qatar that pays the bills of the democracy now or one of those places and Bahrain, one of them. And so this is almost exactly the same except there's some details they add.

11:27 Soldiers in Gabon declare they're seizing power and nullifying recent elections, as they took to national television earlier today. The general elections of August 26, 2023, as well as the truncated results, are canceled. The borders are closed until further notice. All institutions at the Republic are dissolved. Earlier in the day, Gabon's National Election Authority announced President Ali Bongo Ondimba has been re-elected for a third term in Saturday's election, which was marred by delays and decried by opposition leader Albert Ando-Ossa as a fraud. Bongo, who is reportedly being held under house arrest, has already served two seven-year terms. His family has been in power for over half a century.

12:15 accuse Bongo of not using the West African nation's oil and natural resource wealth to improve the lives of one-third of the population living in poverty. The French oil giant Total Energies is Gabon's main distributor of petroleum products. Gabon freed itself from French rule in 1960. As soldiers drove through the capital, Libreville, residents took to the streets to cheer them on. If successful, it would be the eighth coup in West Africa and Central Africa since 2020. Interesting that she used the same stat since yeah, I find that interesting since there's a disparate operation This is at least this is francophonie, but you have this totale is really running the country obviously well So this is this is the obvious conclusion regardless of of who is doing this how it's happening it certainly seems coordinated where we have the military of all these francophonie countries and

CHAPTER 04 / 38 Discussion

European Energy Crisis and US Oil Production Claims

The hosts theorize that the instability in Francophone Africa is a targeted attack on French energy resources, following the disruption of German energy via pipeline sabotage. They discuss claims that the United States is currently pumping more oil than during the Trump administration despite high gas prices at the pump. A prediction is made that gasoline prices will plummet following the Labor Day holiday to benefit the Biden administration's optics.

france· germany· oil production· biden administration· labor day· gas prices· energy resources

13:16 Rousting the French? Well no, but listen, we already blew up the pipelines, we've screwed Germany, we convinced them to shut down their nuclear plants. They're no longer a positive producing country. What's the only other country in Europe that we need to shut down with their energy with their resources is France. Europe is, this is an attack on Europe and it can only be us. That's what it would make some, well I'm still not unconvinced that it's us and the Russians together pulling this off. And of course, the funny, the interesting factoid that came up and I don't have a clip but I'm going to probably write it up, is that we're actually pumping more oil now

14:17 than we did during the Trump administration. I know, I know. I saw this as well. I was like, what? And where there's more licenses going? It's really interesting. Yeah, so it's a scam. I don't want to use the word. It's a scam. I didn't say nothing. You can say it. It's a scam. It's a scam. Yeah. So there's something phony baloney about the whole Biden policies. And they're pumping oil like it's no tomorrow. The gas prices are high. But by the way, I'm not even bothering to put in the red book, gas prices at the pump at the moment are ridiculously high and they're blaming it on one refinery, oh it went down and bad, it's bull crap. Climate change. They're storing the gas, they're just, they're gouging us, which they like to do when they can, and believe me, the day after, what's the next holiday, Labor Day?

15:06 Yeah, Labor Day is Monday. Yeah, when Labor Day comes and goes, the prices of gasoline will plummet and Biden will take credit for it. The day after Labor Day? Wouldn't it be good to do it just before the Labor Day holiday? Enjoy your holiday, everybody! No, I've said they're gonna plummet. I know. Why would you do it before the holiday? To look good. Oh, please. What am I saying? Wow! What am I saying? I need to go whip myself. I completely blew the scam. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. The jury will disregard that remark. That was very bad of me. Of course we keep it going through the Labor Day holiday.

CHAPTER 05 / 38 Discussion

Rockefeller Foundation and Africa Climate Summit Finance

Joseph Nganga of the Rockefeller Foundation is highlighted for his role in the upcoming Africa Climate Summit in Nairobi, Kenya. The discussion centers on "climate finance" and the creation of a new global financial architecture to unlock African resources for green minerals and renewable energy. The hosts characterize the summit as an effort by global elites, including Bill Gates and the Clinton Health Initiative, to control African development through climate narratives.

joseph nganga· rockefeller foundation· nairobi· africa climate summit· climate finance· bill gates

15:51 But we're still there, there's and we have to go into climate change because every right now anything government does that is that they mess up which is everything it's climate change. It's like it doesn't matter what happened climate change. Oh, oh, you know this what's happening in Africa climate change. Everything is climate change. I'm sorry Maui fire climate change, Greece fire climate change, gasoline prices climate change. white supremacists killing black people in America, climate change. Everything's climate change. And there is on deck for Labor Day, starting Labor Day, I think September 4th, and this is where we really shine. Hey, what's your birthday by the way? Sunday, Sunday, this Sunday, September 3rd. Is this Sunday? Yes. It was the 3rd of September. That day to always remember. Yes, I will. Right. Cause it's the day. All right.

16:49 So they're still running climate change bullcrap in Africa and they've got this guy Joseph Nganga, Joseph Nganga, and he's in Kenya. Listen to this guy. Joseph Nganga joined the Rockefeller Foundation in 2020 as executive director. Power and climate Africa. Before joining Rockefeller, Joseph co-founded and grew ResponsAbility Renewable Energy Holdings to a $121 million company that builds, owns, and operates renewable energy projects across sub-Saharan Africa. He graduated with a liberal arts degree from Queen's University of Charlotte.

17:32 Take an executive education program governing for non-profits at Harvard Business School. But no, no, he's just your typical African guy running the Climate Summit. The summit is looking and it's on September 4th to the 6th and it also partners with the Africa Climate Week also happening during the same week into the 9th of September. And the the mission of this summit is really to address climate finance in the context of a green approach for Africa. So, it's a climate positive narrative on how Africa will develop while addressing the challenges and the opportunities of climate change. And the emphasis is on a new global financial architecture that really emphasizes capital that unlocks the potential of the continent from renewable energy to green minerals and manufacturing to

18:27 to COP 27. Yes, the discussions on loss and damage need to go further. The amount of money required. And even before that, the 100 billion committed, while important, is hardly sufficient for the amount of money required to address the climate crisis. So what we are hoping to address in the Nairobi summit is a clear voice from the continent

19:06 offering solutions from what the continent has to offer, but requiring that the world engages in a fair agreement, sharing of technology to unlock these resources on the continent. Unlock the resources. Money. Just money. And this is Rockefeller, Bill Gates, Clinton Health Initiative. The elites are all over here doing climate finance. And meanwhile, some smart people are bringing down Europe. Get out of Europe while you can, people. It's the new California. So, climate change is to blame for everything. Climate change, climate change. Oh, oh, turbulence. Well, 11 people had to be hospitalized after severe turbulence on a Delta flight to Atlanta. The flight coming from Milan, Italy landed safely. 165 people were on board, but none of those injuries considered life-threatening. That turbulence, though, hit just as the plane approached Atlanta.

20:00 And, you know, this, so they're a little confused, like just as the plane approached Atlanta, it was on its approach, it was going in the new climate change regulated descent profile. Which means you do not go step by step and then you know to avoid turbulent areas or what they're calling Yeah, we should have a reference point for the show you explained this in great detail you had it was a great explanation and Just to summarize instead of going around the turbulence now You have to go through it whether you like it or not and we witnessed this on our way back from Italy coincidental Yeah on the KLM City Hopper

CHAPTER 06 / 38 Discussion

Delta Flight Turbulence and Climate Change Descent Profiles

Severe turbulence on a Delta Air Lines flight from Milan to Atlanta resulted in 11 hospitalizations, leading to a discussion on new aviation descent profiles. The hosts argue that "climate change regulated" descents force planes to glide through turbulent areas to save fuel rather than navigating around them. Media reports are critiqued for attributing a 55% increase in North Atlantic clear air turbulence to global warming.

delta air lines· atlanta· milan· turbulence· faa· climate change· aviation safety

19:06 offering solutions from what the continent has to offer, but requiring that the world engages in a fair agreement, sharing of technology to unlock these resources on the continent. Unlock the resources. Money. Just money. And this is Rockefeller, Bill Gates, Clinton Health Initiative. The elites are all over here doing climate finance. And meanwhile, some smart people are bringing down Europe. Get out of Europe while you can, people. It's the new California. So, climate change is to blame for everything. Climate change, climate change. Oh, oh, turbulence. Well, 11 people had to be hospitalized after severe turbulence on a Delta flight to Atlanta. The flight coming from Milan, Italy landed safely. 165 people were on board, but none of those injuries considered life-threatening. That turbulence, though, hit just as the plane approached Atlanta.

20:00 And, you know, this, so they're a little confused, like just as the plane approached Atlanta, it was on its approach, it was going in the new climate change regulated descent profile. Which means you do not go step by step and then you know to avoid turbulent areas or what they're calling Yeah, we should have a reference point for the show you explained this in great detail you had it was a great explanation and Just to summarize instead of going around the turbulence now You have to go through it whether you like it or not and we witnessed this on our way back from Italy coincidental Yeah on the KLM City Hopper

20:37 And even Tina noticed, and I don't think she was thinking of it the way we do, said, this is a very weird descent we're going through. We've been descending forever. I said, yeah, because normally you wouldn't notice it back in the old days before climate change. You know, they drop down a couple thousand feet, go at that level. Turbulence is behind us, drop down another couple thousand feet. Any more turbulence? No. Now they're just going, Because you know then they can retard the engines a perfect use of the word retard Retard the engines and then basically glide to save the earth and get some people in the hospital It's the latest case of severe turbulence for air travelers should be 14 people injured on this Delta flight to Atlanta from Milan, Italy

21:23 coming on board to handle any issues in the back. Passengers tossed through the cabin just minutes before landing. I honestly thought we were crashing. One passenger appeared to suffer a head injury, some taken off the plane on stretchers. The woman in the aisle next to me flew up and hit the overhead bin. Everyone's stuff kind of just flew out of the seats. FAA data shows an increase in turbulence-related injuries, and a recent British study found a 55% increase in recent decades of severe clear air turbulence on a North Atlantic route. Researchers citing climate change as a factor, attributing changes in wind speed to warmer air. Our aviation expert has this takeaway for travelers. Please keep your seatbelt fastened when you're in your seat and minimize walking around the cabin.

22:13 In response to the Delta incident, the airline thanked the first responders who met the plane and provided medical attention. Yeah, climate change, of course, climate change. Now, again, government servants, slaves of the people, who are screwing up royally are blaming everything on climate change and now the governor of Hawaii he's really taking it to the extreme. He's, he's, oh this is so horrible what happened has nothing to do with us being incompetent, um, certainly doesn't have anything to do with direct energy weapons, but nothing to do with us being incompetent

CHAPTER 07 / 38 Discussion

Maui Wildfires and Governor Josh Green's Fire Hurricane Label

Hawaii Governor Josh Green is criticized for using the term "fire hurricane" to describe the Lahaina wildfires, which the hosts view as an excuse for government incompetence. The discussion covers the failure of sirens, the lack of water for firefighters, and the role of land management. Green's appearances on MSNBC and CNN are analyzed as he attributes the disaster to a "climate affected world" while promising independent investigations.

josh green· maui· lahaina· fire hurricane· climate change· hawaii· natural disaster

22:51 It's climate change and we have new terms. Truth be told, this was a natural disaster. The fire occurred, God knows the specific details of the beginning and we'll try to find that out but in an era of extreme climate... Do you notice how he just kind of walks over that? The fire started... we'll figure that out. The specific details of the beginning and we'll try to find that out but... Don't worry about the specific details of the beginning. It's climate change. In an era of extreme climate... Oh, there you go, thank you. When you have a storm with 81 mile per hour winds that created a fire hurricane. Fire hurricane! There it is! New term. Fire hurricane. Fire hurricane. Ah, fire hurricane. Sorry. We have to acknowledge that. Sorry. No, I didn't do that. That was a mistake. I didn't mean that. It's not clip of the day, and I cut it off. No, it's not. And I cut it off. It was a mistake. It was a slip of the finger.

23:47 It seemed to be at the ready. I thought I thought it was actually hitting the climate change, but it was the wrong pad. I'm sorry. It's the same color. We have to acknowledge that we are in a different world now, and that is why you're seeing that kind of fire. Just so you know, we're in a different world right now. I'm not incompetent. We're not incompetent with, you know, turning the water off or blocking people's access roads to get out or let me see what else. Not turning the power off. Not letting the sirens go. We're in a different world now. You've got to understand this. The winds and I've heard this from the survivors. Actually all those things, not turning the water on, not turning the power off, not sounding the alarm, is all because of climate change. It's all climate change measures. Yes, of course. The winds and I've heard this from the survivors. Bob, I heard this from the survivors. I haven't heard a single survivor say this.

24:38 Josh roared that fire paints them faster than their cars could drive in some cases. It was a miracle that people got to safety. But like I said, we will never make an excuse. We will find better ways to protect people. We'll never make an excuse like fire hurricane. I hope it will be a global. He just is making excuse after excuse. There's a lot there's a lot of WJZ BJZ going on. I mean, it's crazy. Let's continue. What did you just say? There's a lot of WJBJZ going on. What does that mean? What you say, bang yourself. Oh. But like I said, we will never make an excuse. We will find better ways to protect people. But I hope it will be a global conversation about the reality on the ground because people can be saved if we're better. Oh, a global conversation. All right. So that was MSNBC. I want to shame this guy a little more because he is, he can't even say I'm sorry.

25:34 I mean, I haven't even heard him say it once. Even like, I'm sorry it happened. You don't have to... Do not let these people get away with this. They need to be fired and removed from their positions and people need to stand up and put new people in. You've got to get these failed servants out. So this is now CNN. What we are really uncovering is what the world needs to be aware of. Oh, be aware, be aware world. Which is in this case, in this case for the first time ever in Hawaii. First time ever? What are the chances? First time ever? We had essentially a fire hurricane. It's the first time ever we had a fire. I mean, did you know that this was this is this one for the record books? Fire hurricane. Let me see. Have we ever heard of a fire hurricane before? I did a little research while you're playing this idiot. Which is to say a hurricane that had just passed left us with 60 to 81 mile per hour winds.

26:33 Those winds fanned a very hot flame across a very dry planet, in this case part of Hawaii. Planet? So the fire itself moved... How did the fire start, Josh? Between 60 and 81 miles per hour across that part of the community, which meant that it overwhelmed the fire trucks that were there, it overwhelmed cars, it overwhelmed people. It destroyed the infrastructure, the pipes and the wires so quickly that the typical warnings, the warnings that we normally use on the internet and through cell phones, they became immobilized. Wow, this is the biggest lie ever. The biggest. The fire started way before any of this fire hurricane took place. Now he's saying, well, you know, it took out all the wires. It took out the water. The fire hurricane took out the water. You just heard him say that. He didn't have water because the fire hurricane burned the water.

27:26 And with fire that was upwards of 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit, it destroyed infrastructure so rapidly that nobody could get in. And I want to tell the world that- No one could get out either. I'm not making this political. There is a great challenge with a climate affected world. It is drier, it's hotter, we all know that. From 1953 to 2003 we had six fire emergencies. In this month we've had six fire emergencies in Hawaii. Must be climate change. So we just want people to be realistic and know that they're going to have to increase fire response. They're going to have to increase modalities of alert. These are the lessons we're learning. How about brush control?

28:11 And yes, I'll hold anyone accountable that made human error. I can't say at this point what the scope of that is. That's why we have independent investigators and people to review this. Mostly so we can learn to share with the world. Oh, we're going to get a Mueller report? We independent investigators? I will hold anybody responsible. Resign my friend. Resign. Resign because you will be driven out, tar and feathered when people really figure out the truth. Here's a closing statement from this jibmoke. And you make such a good point because at this hour... Oh, at this hour! John, how are you at this hour? What are you feeling at this hour? Is everything okay with you at this hour? A little indigestion maybe.

CHAPTER 08 / 38 Discussion

Satellite Technology and Global Wildfire Response

The conversation shifts to the broader global context of wildfires in Canada and Greece, with a focus on proposed technological solutions. Governor Josh Green suggests that satellite technology and satellite phones could have improved alerts in Lahaina. The hosts mock the idea that new energy-intensive water production technologies are the necessary response to isolated landmasses facing climate-related disasters.

wildfires· canada· greece· satellite phones· alert systems· water technology· infrastructure

28:57 And you make such a good point, because at this hour, there are wildfires raging everywhere from Canada to Greece and beyond. What does that firefighting prevention look like? As you know, there are so many jurisdictions that are understaffed in firefighting, but as you say, not prepared for the catastrophic events that have just never happened before. They're just papering over the whole catalyst for this, the whole issue of land management, brush management, poor electrical infrastructure because they put money into the future of DC grid or whatever they were planning on doing. We're just moving beyond that into fires happen, hurricane fires make it worse. These fires

29:38 Climate change combined with not enough resources in almost every corner of the world will mean that we will have to prepare ourselves to deal with the impact of these super storms and the potential risks to our people. Super storms! Oh no! An industry will grow that will revolve around new technologies to alert people, New technologies to alert people. You mean like pushing a button to honk at a horn? Exactly. Here, we've got a new technology for you. satellite technology because if we had satellite phones all if we had satellite phone oh if only we had satellite phones everybody needs a satellite phone Maui everyone's gonna get an iPhone with satellite technology if only we had that we would have saved everybody at least satellite technology because if we had satellite phones all over ham radio people

30:33 There you go. I'd like technology because if we had had satellite phones all over Lahaina, we would have been able to get the alert and people would have shared it amongst their neighbors. No, the guy didn't send the alert out. We didn't forget. He said no, no, no, no. Because if I sent that alert out, people would have walked into the fire. Because you know, you're Hawaiian. You're a Hawaiians, you're stupid. You know, like, oh no, I hear a siren. Let me think, is it North Korea shooting a missile? Is it a tsunami? I think I'll walk toward the fire. That's one of many, many things that could be done. And then there'll have to be a better approach to water. Oh yes, like not turning it off. Here's an approach we suggest that the NOAA gender show. Coastal areas, island states, we're the most isolated landmass in the world. We're going to have to... You're surrounded by water. Probably have to really lean heavily into technologies that produce extra water. That requires energy and energy research.

CHAPTER 09 / 38 Discussion

Greece Arson Arrests and EU Wildfire Records

Greece reports the largest wildfire in recorded EU history in the Alexandropolis region, leading to the arrest of 79 individuals for arson. The hosts contrast the official climate change narrative with the reality of organized arson and local skepticism. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis faces criticism for lack of preparation while vowing to reforest burned areas, as investigators look into who benefits from the land clearing.

greece· alexandropolis· arson· european union· kyriakos mitsotakis· forestation

31:28 Climate change money! The whole world is going to have changed its approach if it wants to prevent these incidents from happening. Okay, well we already brought it up this is happening everywhere and of course Greece now has the largest fire ever in recorded EU history ever ever it's amazing the EU spokeshole had to come out and talk about it but then listen to France 24's on the spot Greek lady reporter. So most notably in Greece's Alexandropolis region we are facing the largest wildfire ever recorded in the EU. In this context we have mobilized 12 aircraft from our rescue fleet together with over 500, actually 400 firefighters and 60 vehicles.

32:15 For more, let's go to Greece and correspondent Natalie Savarakis. Greece is a country that takes fire prevention seriously, yet there are arrests and accusations of arson. Yes, and this has been since all right, so he's saying he's actually he's asking a very good question He's saying wait a minute. You know I mean these fires There's a lot of talk about arson in fact wasn't it 79 people they arrested That's the news. I think 78 or 79 people I didn't know it's that many let me just check for a second Greece fires rest if you have

32:52 bunch of arsonists in your in your population setting a place on fire every which way. Greece wildfires 79 people arrested for arson BBC News so it's probably sounds like a sounds like a like a like arsonists. Well arsonists but it sounds like they're organized. Now you're talking let's see how we can talk around that. Yet there are arrests and accusations of arson Yes, and this has been since 2007, this has been the largest recorded fire in Greece. Ah, talking point. And traditionally Greeks have been treating these massive fires with a lot of skepticism as to how much of it is actually climate change. Well, what are we going to do? People are... Wait a minute. Wait a minute. People are skeptical about the climate change message?

33:46 Let me think, so you've got almost 80 arsonists lighting your whole area on fire and then you're blaming it on climate change instead of blaming it on the arsonists? And they're skeptical? Let's hear how this lady weasels her way out. The tinderbox conditions of dryness as well or actually arson because sometimes what we see following these big blazes are constructions or who else could there be to blame? And that is the big question. And of course, in the criticism level against Prime Minister Mito Daiki, he's been criticized of lack of coordination, lack of preparation, lack of personnel, lack of equipment, you know. He's responding, yes, on the one hand, there is climate change, which has been extreme this year, and we've been unable to deal with it. But he's actually vowed to reforest all burned areas, which is a

34:41 pretty grand statement there coming from a Greek leader, because we haven't really seen such a massive scale of forestation in Greece. But also he's pointed the finger to arsonists and there has been a Supreme Court judge that's ordered an investigation to look into this. Now we're- Wait a minute! 79 people have been arrested and all the France lady, Greece lady has to say is there's going to be an investigation into this? She mentioned earlier in her little tirade there where she's humming a humming a

35:17 that it's funny how after there's this big fire, construction takes place and they build a big building or something. This is a cheap way to clear areas. But also he's pointed the finger to arsonists and there has been a Supreme Court judge that's ordered an investigation to look into this. Now we're very curious of course Greece to see what results will come back because the big question mark of course is Who can benefit from such an arson? Because this cannot only be just a pyromaniac's to just set some fires. So big question marks there, then an investigation will seek to answer. Big question marks there. Oh, big question marks. We're not sure. It's climate change, but big question marks about some arson. I don't really know. I don't know. Let's talk about a non-fire event in the United States.

CHAPTER 10 / 38 Discussion

Insurance Industry Losses and Climate Change Surcharges

Major Garrett of CBS News reports that insured losses from extreme weather exceeded $34 billion in the first half of 2023. The hosts discuss the "climate change surcharge" appearing on homeowner insurance policies across 31 states, with some seeing 30% rate increases. Financial data for Progressive Insurance is reviewed, showing significant increases in net income and profit margins despite the industry's claims of being overwhelmed by weather events.

major garrett· cbs news· progressive insurance· property insurance· climate change· louisiana

36:10 CBS's Major Garrett brings it. Extreme weather events are more frequent and more costly than ever. Well, it must be climate change. That is not a political statement. It's a researchable fact. It's not a political... Did you hear that lady? Who was it said... No, that was Josh Green also said, I'm not saying this to be political. This is all the same talking point. This is the new talking point. This is not politics, people. Do you remember the governor saying that? Yeah, everybody says it. It's like... I have a clue. There was a fire in the United States which has a funny remark. Play this clip. This is Louisiana's fire.

36:52 Here in the United States, wildfires in southwestern Louisiana killed two people and scorched roughly 60,000 acres as of Tuesday. Governor John Bel Edwards said the fires are the worst Louisiana has experienced since at least the Second World War amidst a record-breaking drought. But was there a record-breaking drought after the Second World War? She makes it very unclear. But if it happened after the Second World War, And now it happened again. It's not climate change. It's not climate change. It's climate return to World War II times. Let's get back to Major Garrett. Extreme weather events are more frequent and more costly than ever. That is not a political statement. It's a researchable fact. Researchable fact? No! It's not true. We just heard a researchable fact that Louisiana fire was the worst since 1946.

37:48 So it's not the worst ever. It's for a while. So the first six months of this year, insured losses to extreme weather events exceeded $34 billion. This is so state of fear, Michael Crichton state of fear. Now in Michael Crichton state of fear, and he died a few years after he wrote that book, and he was a staunch climate denialist. The whole it was so such a parallel to what we're living in now where the elites would fly around in there in their jets And they would say oh, we've all got to do things to stop climate change and meanwhile They had a group up in the North Pole or the or the Arctic can't remember where it was and they were placing explosive charges to blow off this huge chunk of ice and that would be the proof that climate change was real and

38:38 This is a much easier way of doing it. Just, pfft, it's a hot warm summer, it's called summer, let's torch the place and then, you know, pretend like we'll have an investigation into the arsonists. It seems logical to me. That is the highest amount ever recorded in a six-month period in America. In a six-month period? Now, the amount I just gave you, $34 billion, does not account for damages in Maui from a wildfire fueled in part by drought and winds from Hurricane Dora. It does not account for Hurricane Idalia that is now churning through Georgia, but has already brought historic storm surge and attended damage to parts of Big Bend, Florida. If you thought this was a matter of concern only for those in the path of extreme weather events, think again.

39:28 Across the country, insurance companies are raising property insurance rates to compensate for losses suffered to weather events and losses that are sure to come. The economics of extreme weather insurance are, in a word, ugly. Since January of 2022, 31 states have seen double-digit rate increases on property insurance. In six states, those increases were between 20% and 30%. This is called the climate change surcharge. It's starting to show up on people's insurance policies, on their homeowners' policies. Yeah, it's a gouge. Yeah, it's a scam, exactly. Scam. It's not as though... What are the insurers... While you're doing this, I'm going to take a quick look and see what... We'll take... Give me the name of one insurance company. Progressive. Progressive, okay.

CHAPTER 11 / 38 Discussion

John Kerry's Climate Cult Speech in Scotland

Climate Czar John Kerry delivered a speech in Scotland accusing climate change deniers of belonging to a "cult" that dismisses facts in devotion to a lie. The hosts respond to Kerry's claims that humanity is inexorably threatened by itself and his labeling of skeptics as "truth sellers" of a fictitious reality. The segment concludes with a look at the record profits of insurance companies during the purported climate crisis.

john kerry· scotland· climate czar· climate denialists· facts· economics

40:20 I mean, it's LibTard right in the title. Progressive, come on. It's gotta be the guys. Do they have climate change surcharges? No, I'm not looking at that. Oh, okay. I want to see how much money they made. Are they all losing their ass? Oh, okay. Well, you look at that and then I will play my WJZ BJZ clip of the day. So this is the Dutch saying, wat je zegt ben jezelf. What you say of others, you are yourself. What you say of others, you are yourself. It's only a minute, but this is John Kerry. He is our current climate czar.

41:00 this is him speaking in Scotland about the climate denialists. That would be you and I, John. No, I'm not a climate denialist. I believe there is a climate. Man-made climate change deniers and who see through this obvious scam and criminal scam, I dare say, because it looks like fires are being set and purposely not being put out and then all of a sudden there's construction. So, here he is going to accuse us of what he is guilty of himself and it's a doozy. Without facts or economics on their side.

41:41 They flatly deny what is happening to our planet and what we must do to save it. They incite a movement against what they falsely label climate change fanaticism, as they conveniently forget that the dictionary definition of a cult is the dismissal of facts in devotion to a lie. Wow, maybe you carry and while they refuse to accept the facts behind increasingly obvious damages which the first minister listed They lash out at the truth sellers instead and label indisputable evidence as hysteria

42:21 They compound the already difficult challenge of the climate crisis by promising to do more of exactly what created this crisis in the first place. Exactly what you're doing! Crisis! So now, humanity is inexorably threatened by humanity itself. Be afraid of your own selves, people! You are the problem! By those seducing people into buying into a completely fictitious alternative reality where we don't need to act and we don't even need to care. Exactly. Thank you. Alright, here we go. Just explained himself. Progressive. Stock price $133.

43:04 Revenue yeah 15 billion up 33% get that number by the way 33 33 but 33.3% up here. Yeah All right, 33. Yes, a lot of 33. Net income is up 163 percent. Diluted EPS is up, earnings per share is up 160 percent. Net profit margins up 147 percent. Operating incomes up 244 percent. This is bull crap. Time to raise the prices because we can't afford to insure everybody anymore. Yeah, it's a lie. That's just a lie. It's a lie.

CHAPTER 12 / 38 Discussion

London Ultra Low Emission Zone Expansion

London has expanded its Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) to encompass the entire capital, charging motorists £12.50 per day for non-compliant vehicles. The discussion touches on the "Blade Runners" who vandalize enforcement cameras and the resulting scramble in the secondhand car market. The hosts note the lack of a viable secondhand market for electric vehicles (EVs) due to high battery replacement costs and the strain on the electrical grid.

ulez· london· sadiq khan· electric vehicles· pollution charge· secondhand cars

43:52 The big lie, and I got some Holland news that ties into this, this is where the rubber meets the road or doesn't meet the road as the ULEZ in London, the ultra low emission zone, which were these little pockets of London, ULEZ. Where they have the cameras and we've got the Blade runners out there trying to bring the cameras down. Well, forget about it. instead of trying to maintain little pockets of London where you get, we have to, I think it's 12 pounds or something if you want to drive in that area during the day. You know what? Screw you people! London has a new title under its belt. The city is now the largest area in the world with a price on pollution. In a bid to clean up London's air, the ultra-low emission zone scheme has expanded to encompass the entire capital. Motorists driving anywhere

44:48 Anywhere within it with vehicles that do not meet the standards will face a charge of £12.50 taking road rage to a whole new level. The plan was given the green light nine months ago, yet up to 780,000 motorists in London are still scrambling to sell cars which do not meet minimum emission standards. In the last six months almost two million vehicles have changed hands and that's up by over 70,000 in the same period in 2022. We need to start looking at the second-hand vehicle market. So you hear now that people like oh crap

45:24 I have the wrong car. It's a polluting car. It's a dirty, dirty, dirty car. I need to get a new car. I should probably get an electric vehicle because that's what they're telling me to buy, an electric vehicle. Do you know the biggest problem with the electric vehicle market? There's no secondhand market. Nobody in their right mind will buy a secondhand EV. No, it costs more to replace the battery. Exactly. Than the car's worth. So there's no second-hand market. And now, remember the Netherlands, I was talking to Taxi Eric about the problem with the electrical grid can't handle the amount of EVs that are now charging at night. And boom, right on cue, the news is now

CHAPTER 13 / 38 Discussion

Columbia Journalism School Climate Media Transformation Event

The Columbia Journalism School is hosting an event titled "Climate Change is Everything" to create a blueprint for media transformation. The hosts critique the event's goals, which include treating climate change as a story for every beat and debating whether news outlets should accept fossil fuel advertising. They characterize the initiative as a move toward coordinated propaganda involving major outlets like the AP, CBS News, and The Guardian.

columbia journalism school· climate change· media transformation· fossil fuel advertising· propaganda

46:13 Having your own car, your own car in the near future is not guaranteed because not everybody can have an electric vehicle. You certainly can't have an internal combustion engine vehicle. But we can't, so you're gonna have to share. You have to share your car now. Oh yeah, share your car. And all of this is being fueled by the media and the Columbia School, Journalism School, has an event. Climate Change is Everything, Creating a Blueprint for Media Transformation. This is coming up on September 21st and 22nd. It's called Creating a Blueprint for Media Transformation at the Columbia Journalism School and I will tell you a little bit about the event.

47:02 Reporters, editors and news executives from Agence France-Presse, the Associated Press, CBS News, Puerto Rico's Center for Investigative Journalism, France Televisions, The Guardian, South Florida's NBC6, Now This, Telemundo Time, Times of India and The Weather Channel, among many other outlets, large and small. We'll join with hundreds of colleagues to chart a course for tackling the climate story in ways that drive attention and impact while highlighting solutions and justice. They have a couple of bullet points. Would you like to hear the bullet points? Of course. Bullet point one. Hear from news... So if you go to this, and I think every newsroom that respects itself will send at least one representative to learn what the new blueprint is for news. Point one. Hear from newsrooms innovating to meet the moment. How can news outlets everywhere treat climate change as a story for every beat, not just silo it on the weather desk?

48:06 Oh, that sounds good. Two, discuss whether news outlets should still take fossil fuel advertising and how journalists can grapple with climate disinformation. We have a great news future. They're like shooting fish in a barrel coming up for us. Look ahead to the 2024 elections that will have profound implications. Hold on a second. You got to stop. Because you're a journalist. Well, I don't know about that, but I'm not not a journalist. Right on. There's supposed to be a separation between journalists, the whole process on that side of the aisle and a Chinese wall, as some people like to call it, between that and advertising. So now why are they talking to journalists about who can advertise at all?

49:03 Isn't this a complete violation of journalistic principles? They're not supposed to be in there with us. Are they going to go out on a sales call? You better take that up with the Columbia Journalism School, my friend. Do you dare go against them? Yeah. We will also look ahead to 2024 elections that will have profound implications for global climate action. How can journalists make those implications clear to voters, refute misinformation, and hold candidates accountable? This is a thing is we come in and say if this is not political. Hold what? Accountable? Candidates. Oh, candidates for office. Okay. Yeah. Next point. Learn from journalists covering and living in frontline communities how to highlight climate justice in our reporting. This doesn't sound like reporting. Sounds like propaganda.

50:01 Next point. Recognize that telling the entire climate story means not just including solutions, but interrogating those solutions so the public and policy makers know which ones actually work. Whoa! This is the news, man. The news is going to be doing this. Here we go. Plus, get a front row seat to interviews with special guests and global climate luminaries. I'm a global climate luminary. Climate Changes Everything will be a participatory event with networking breaks, a town hall, and working sessions on key conference themes. We are at a moment of historic opportunity for journalism. Climate coverage around the world is better than ever, but so much more is needed. More energy, more creativity, more commitment. Let's forge a path forward together. Yes, send me a link to that thing. Together.

51:01 Yeah. You have to send me a link. Yeah, well, I'll send you a link. Maybe I'll go to it. You're not going to get on a plane. Please. Hosted by the Columbia Journalism Review, The Nation, The Guardian, and Solutions Journalism Network. Wait, you have to go to it, you're not going to do it online? Click here to attend. You're going to make people go to it and waste energy? Well we have to be together. Let me see, can you, let me see if you can join online. Let me see, is there a, I'm looking now, no I don't, it's in person, it's in person only, it's free! It's free? It's free! But wait, there's a little information button.

51:37 This event is intended to assist working journalists in their climate coverage to give journalists priority when registering for the event. When you reserve a spot, your registration will be added to our list. Journalists will receive a registration confirmation. Acceptance will be based on the order of the registration request received. Oh, we're too late for this. Everyone signed up for this one. I definitely I should go send me this stuff. I may you're not gonna violate my current you're not gonna get on a plane You know if you go there, they're gonna they're gonna out you like kind of like the invasion of the body snatches He's a podcaster get him out of here roust him roust him yeah, this is the stuff we're dealing with yeah well

CHAPTER 14 / 38 Discussion

UN Children's Rights and Global Air Pollution Study

The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child issued an opinion that governments must address the climate crisis to protect children's lives. Simultaneously, a University of Chicago study claims air pollution reduces global life expectancy by 2.3 years, particularly in South Asia. The hosts compare current air quality to the "photochemical smog" of 1970s Los Angeles, arguing that Western air has become significantly cleaner over decades.

united nations· air pollution· life expectancy· amy goodman· south asia· smog

52:23 It's good for the show. I have a couple of follow-up clips to this climate thing. Let's start with Kids and Climate from Democracy Now. And the Committee on the Rights of the Child said Monday governments must address the climate crisis and other environmental emergencies to quote ensure that children are protected from foreseeable premature or unnatural death and threats to their lives and enjoy their right to life with dignity. The formal opinion issued by the U.N. body could be a boon to multiple lawsuits brought by youth around the world over their government's inaction and contribution to climate change. Next month, the European Court of Human Rights will hear a climate case from a group of young people in Portugal against 32 countries.

53:13 It's for the children, man. It's for the children. It's for the children. It's a scare something. So let's go to the air. Now, here's the thing that always gets me and I think that I don't know if they're going to teach this or if it's this is something it takes a while to develop. Air pollution air pollution. Carbon pollution is not even pollution technically but it's just you know... But when they say carbon, do they mean carbon dioxide or just carbon? Well nowadays they mean carbon dioxide but they say carbon... they're misusing all these phrases. Yes, that's not... carbon pollution means humans.

53:52 We are carbon, so you are pollution as a human being. So Amy has gone down the road of trying to equate air pollution, which is a technical term. And you know, let's just frame this. Yes, I was an air pollution inspector. Just above rat poop inspector. I had worked for the administrative state for nearly a decade. Yes, you were deep state. No, well, the administrative state, yes. You were deep state. If you want to call it the entire administrative state, which is huge, and the fact that people keep saying, well, we've got to get rid of it. Good luck. And so as a representative of that group, and I would say an expert on air pollution, it's getting pretty bad what they're trying to do here. And here's Amy's air pollution

54:46 A new report finds air pollution reduces global life expectancy by 2.3 years, slightly more than being a smoker. The study by the Energy Policy Institute at University of Chicago concludes fine particulate air pollution from vehicles, industrial emissions, wildfires and other sources are quote, the greatest external threat to public health, unquote. In South Asia, air pollution cuts life expectancy by an average of five years, with the air quality in New Delhi, India, leading to a loss of life of more than 10 years on average. I thought, you know, I'm now a former smoker since November last year. I thought it was like 15 years. What was this 2.2 years business? That's not worth quitting over.

55:37 Go back! Start smoking again! I might have to start again! This is two years! Who's counting? I think it's a lie. Oh, pfft. I think so too. But why? Why this number all of a sudden? Well, it's a weird number. It's weird. I'm just throwing this this clip in there as like this is not about climate change Technically it's about air pollution. Why is it an air and air pollution is not good And would you say that would you say that our our air has gotten a lot cleaner since the 70s when super clean when President Obama to the 50s sucking on soot

56:15 You just have to go visit Beijing and see what the bad air looks like. Whatever, remember this? Here's an example of how much it's improved. Suckin' and suckin'. There used to be a running gag about the smog. Smog in Los Angeles. Well, dude, now you're asking me to play the whole thing. Obama that better know it went for one thing the smog in Los Angeles was photochemical. Oh, yeah, it was It was not shit Is what happened in London maybe in this in this London fire? Yeah, the London's fog London fog the London fog There used to be running gags about the smog smog smog because they did the LA Basin was a was a bowl that was very susceptible to

57:07 Smog. Hang in there. Just hang in. And nobody talks about smog in LA anymore. I haven't heard the word smog forever. Because we've got homeless now. It's much more fun to talk about then. Alright, alright. I'm just making a point here you're trying to submarine me. No I'm not. I'm just being the funny man. So the smog situation is completely lost to history it seems like nobody even knows what it's about and now they're bitching and moaning about everything else. But Beijing still has smog and I'm sure New Delhi does and it's not healthy everyone knows this.

CHAPTER 15 / 38 Discussion

Biden Administration Funding for Revamped COVID-19 Vaccines

President Biden has requested new funding for a revamped COVID-19 vaccine, drawing criticism from Senator Rand Paul who questions why previous mandates were for vaccines that supposedly didn't work. The discussion also covers a National Institutes of Health (NIH) study revealing that some N95 masks may expose users to toxic volatile organic compounds (TVOCs) linked to seizures and cancer.

joe biden· covid-19· rand paul· n95 masks· nih· toxic chemicals

57:47 Okay, um, we can move away from climate change. I think we're done there. I'm done. Um, let's move to the COVID comeback because you know, there's just a number of people who are still out there trying to make it come back. You love the COVID comeback. I love the COVID comeback. President Biden has signed off on a new funding request for a revamped COVID-19 vaccine that quote works. Let's watch. This is my favorite. This is like just putting it in our face. Hey, We're gonna take some more money, like we already, like Gail already told us there CBS mornings, like oh it's gonna be free just in time for Halloween. We're gonna take more money, your money, your money people, your money, and we're gonna, we're gonna get a vaccine. This time it's gonna work!

58:31 I mean, they're putting it in our face. not decided finally yet. Tentatively, it is recommended that, would like to be recommended that everybody get it, no matter what they got before them. Biden's announcement comes amid a spike in COVID cases and hospitalizations around the country. However, the president's ask will likely face an uphill battle in the upper chamber. Kentucky Senator Rand Paul already signaled his opposition, posting on X, quote, so to recap, one, POTUS is saying the vaccine they're currently promoting and they mandated does not work,

59:27 Two, he wants more funding for another one. That's a no from me. The rise in COVID cases also prompted the reemergence of mask mandates in some places, but people might want to slow down before going that route. A new study reshared by the National Institutes of Health reveals that N95 masks may expose users to dangerous levels of toxic chemicals that have been linked to seizures and even cancer. This study was led by researchers from Jeonbuk National University in South Korea. And it found that some disposable masks contain more than eight times the US recommended limit of toxic volatile organic compounds or TBCS. They also noted that the level of toxicity can be decreased by simply letting the mask air out for 30 minutes before use.

CHAPTER 16 / 38 Discussion

Deborah Birx on COVID-19 Summer Waves and Boosters

Dr. Deborah Birx appeared on ABC to discuss the predictable nature of COVID-19 summer waves and the need for seasonal boosters. Birx suggests that mRNA technology should be used to tailor vaccines for specific variants like BA.2.86 by January. The hosts critique her claims regarding the severity of COVID-19 compared to the flu and her dismissal of monoclonal antibodies in favor of antivirals like Remdesivir.

deborah birx· covid-19· mrna technology· long covid· monoclonal antibodies· remdesivir

1:00:12 They're just making fools of people. Just wave your mask for 30 minutes, people. Wave your mask in the air and party like you just don't care. Then put it on your face with your TBCS chemicals. And when you're bringing back COVID, you gotta bring back Scarf Lady Deborah Birx back on ABC. Hey, so I mean, let's get right into it. How serious is this COVID surge that we're seeing right now in your eyes? Well, I loved your introduction cuz you laid it out perfectly. So what does it mean when someone recommends a fall vaccination? It means that you're ignoring the summer wave. And we've had the summer wave in 2020, 2021, 2022, and now 2023. It is predictable. It's what COVID does.

1:00:59 It's called the summer cold. It's called the summer cold is what the summer cold does. It's what the flu does, but no, it's what COVID does. It has been persistent, but we've had these waves and so we've never gotten to zero. The hospital admissions have never gone to zero. Now we're living in this a bit of a fantasy world where we're pretending that COVID is not relevant, but I can tell you if you can hear my voice and you know two or three people who have COVID, That means that 5-10% of your friends already have COVID. Why is she laughing about that? Why is she laughing that 5% of your friends, which means, I mean I don't have that many friends John, so you probably have it.

1:01:42 5% of my friends have COVID. You can hear my voice and you know two or three people who have COVID. That means that 5 to 10% of your friends already have COVID. Why? Why, Debra? Why? That means that there is a lot of COVID out there. A lot of COVID. Well, as far as the boosters then, this booster shot, are these boosters coming too late? Well, the important thing is this is the booster that would have been appropriate for the summer wave. This booster is most likely not going to work with the winter wave. Oh, no. I take it. Oh, what? Then why take it?

1:02:32 Because President Biden's gonna get you one that works. Because we already have a pretty significant escape mutant or escape variant out there. She left again. Yes, yes, she's... This is a horrible, horrible, horrible woman. That's beginning. Oh, you loved her. I did for about 10 days until I saw the lies she was espousing. You know, you sound like my wife. She says, but you love Deborah Birx in the beginning. I said, yeah, until she started rolling out some data. Okay, well, let's stop you right there. Your wife and I noticed the same thing. You fell for Deborah Birx because she had a nice scarf on her. I did. I did. I can't figure it out. And it wasn't for 10 days. It was months. Bull crap. Oh, do you want me to grab bingit.io, bro?

1:03:15 No. Okay. Because we already have. It's a waste of time. We know it was months. It's not. No, it was not. It was 10 days and when she started showing charts, immediately I went, no, this is not, this is bull crap. And I can prove it and I will do that on the next show to show you and her. You turning on me, you turncoats. Where's the love, John? Where's the love? Because we already have a pretty significant escape mutant or escape variant out there. She laughed again. Escape mutants because she said escape mutants. She thought it was cute. We've got escaped mutants. Escaped from what? From her. From another lab? Just like the current variant began like eight weeks ago.

1:04:02 We're already beginning to see some evidence of a new variant. Some evidence. For which the vaccine probably is not well matched. Probably. So the whole- How does she know? Because she's Deborah Birx. She's full of crap. She can't say what she just said can't be said by any scientist. You don't- Probably, she said probably, you know, she's just making it up. That's her job. She never was any good. No, no. As I recognized right away. We're already beginning to see some evidence. That's why there's two of us, John. Evidence of a new variant for which the vaccine probably is not well matched. So the whole point of doing mRNA technology. You know, I just, we're never going to get through this clip.

1:04:48 I like what they did here when she says probably not well matched and they throw a random sound effect in. For which the vaccine probably is not well matched. So the whole point of... What was that? A hospital office or something? It's like a sound effect hit. It sounded like somebody wheeling a dead patient by you in a hospital. For which the vaccine probably is not well matched. So the whole point of doing mRNA technology. Now we're getting to what was the whole point of doing mRNA technology is to give you human software upgrades. Was to be able to switch out. These the mRNA vaccines that you can tailor make. Yes. So right now. Yes. Again, you're right. We're never going to get through this clip. But she don't run clips of her anymore.

1:05:42 I got one more. She says technology, she never says vaccine. He has to say vaccine. So the dumb audience that listens to this crap understands what she's talking about. Yes. For which the vaccine probably is not well matched. So the whole point of doing mRNA technology was to be able to switch out. These are the mRNA vaccines that you can tailor make. Yes, so right now we should be making the vaccine against this very new variant, the B2.86, so that it is ready in January to

1:06:20 to really combat what we know will be the winter wave. Now what's interesting is this summer wave and each summer wave seems to be coming about two weeks later. And that resulted in our winter wave last year being in January rather than primarily December. And so we should expect that late December, early January wave. And so we should be making vaccines right now for that wave. It's a lot of waves. They're planning on having two shots a year. Yep, yep, yep. Well there's one more clip. I hate to do it to you but there's one more. We'll finish this one with Deborah Birx. I guess my question still remains why? Like why aren't more boosters being cranked out? Yeah we need more boosters! More boosters! We need

1:07:05 because we need money. The president just gave money, let's crank out some boosters. If it's a political concern where maybe the administration is thinking like, no one wants to take more shots. COVID is a political liability for us, let's just do once a year like the flu, is that the reason? I think we wanted to make it like flu. Yeah, because it is flu. Easier, but it's never gonna be like flu. No. It stays with us in between the waves. We have a summer wave, we have a winter wave. It makes people much sicker than flu, many more people die from it than flu. No, exactly the same amount of people died from it that's died from flu, lie. And by the way, flu does not have this level of long COVID and these long side effects. Wow, wow, long side effects.

1:07:53 Long side effects! She's evil. She knows it's the vaccine. And by the way, flu does not have this level of long COVID and these long side effects. Why is that funny? There are people who are in dire, dire condition and you're laughing. That we see with COVID. So let's just all agree it's not flu, it will never be flu, following it and surveying for it like- Okay, okay, all right, I'll agree. I agree it's not flu, it will never be flu, I hear you Dr. Birx. Do for flu will never be adequate in this country. I believe if the federal government said to the private sector we need better monoclonal antibodies, we need more antivirals, and we need a vaccine.

1:08:42 against the new variant that's coming, the private sector would do it like they did four years ago. Well yeah, that's exactly what's happening. Now we got some money, they're gonna do it. But it won't be antivirals, it won't be ivermectin and monoclonal antibodies off the table. Remdesivir, that's what we want. It's not that they need guarantees from the government that they would pay for it because now insurance is paying for it. Oh, insurance pays for it, the magical insurance company. This is magic. The insurance is paying for it, not the people who pay premiums, just insurance. So what the federal government needs to do is lay out the plan that says we're not done with COVID, COVID's not done with us. 250,000 Americans died in 2022. We've got to do a better job in 2023 and this is part of our better job. Wow, okay. So this lady is insane.

CHAPTER 17 / 38 Discussion

Sam Harris and the Ethics of Vaccine Mandates

Author Sam Harris discussed the ethics of vaccine mandates on the Impact Theory podcast, using a hypothetical scenario involving a highly lethal "airborne Ebola" that kills children. Harris argues that in such an extreme case, public health stakes would override a diversity of opinion, necessitating forced vaccinations. The hosts interpret Harris's comments as a mental meltdown and a desire for a more catastrophic pandemic to justify authoritarian measures.

sam harris· vaccine mandates· rfk jr· ebola· public health· impact theory

1:09:37 But the insanity is rife and I am thinking that there's a big part of American culture, particularly the culture Drivers are just, they want it so bad. They want COVID to come back because they want to be able to identify each other with masks. They want it. If only it could be the way it was supposed to be. If only COVID was really killing, if only COVID was killing kids. And then if only we had a vaccine that really, really worked, the president is now promising that. If there was a vaccine that really, really, really worked, then

1:10:17 people who are anti-vaxxers, who weren't taking the shot, then we could really call them out as being baby killers. Baby killers. And some people want this so much that they are willing to say it out loud. This is Sam Harris being interviewed on the impact theory podcast on vaccine mandates He is having a mental health event before our very eyes So you felt that it was it was obviously wrong to force people to get the the mRNA vaccine for Kovat right now I would grant you certainly in retrospect that seems true and

1:10:58 But, if we change a few of the variables, I think your ethical intuitions and certainly political intuitions would totally change. So, you make it a much more obviously effective vaccine that really does block transmission, like a sterilizing vaccine. You make it a much more dangerous virus. You make it a virus that's actually preferentially killing kids rather than old people, right? So now we're in an environment where you're deciding not to get vaccinated is putting my kids at risk, right? Do you get to make that choice? And you might say, oh yes, I should be able to make that choice. It's my body. But

1:11:40 Dial up the the deadliness of the pathogen dial it up. Give us something like, you know airborne Ebola That incubates for a month, you know You don't know you have it and you're what you walk around spreading it and it's got you know A 75% fatality rate and it's mostly killing kids. No one gets to make that choice anymore I mean then literally the the cops come in and vaccinate you and I would say that all of us would agree to that and Again, you turn up the lethality on the pathogen, you turn up the effectiveness of the vaccine, you turn down the risk of the vaccine. Give me a truly safe vaccine where there's not even one documented case of vaccine injury. Then you just have to be completely crazy

1:12:32 to be worried about being vaccinated in that kind of environment, then it's just a no-brainer. Then we just don't tolerate a diversity of opinion because the stakes are too high. It's a full-on emergency. Bodies of kids are being stacked up in parks, right? There's so many of them, we don't know what to do with them. We've got these mobile morgues and we have a vaccine that actually works. And then we've got RFK Jr. saying, you know, maybe you don't want to get the jab on Rogan's podcast, right? That's the world I've been worried about ever since COVID.

1:13:10 What the hell is he talking about? He is wishing, he is wishing for everything that is not true. So in his mind what he really wanted COVID to be and maybe it can come back again is it's killing babies. We have mobile morgues, we have babies stacked up in parks. I mean I think he had an erection when he said that. We have a vaccine that actually works, doesn't harm a single person. Then RFK Jr. would be such a horrible person. Rfkjr under those circumstances of everything he described all those variables would it be all in for the vaccine? He's not an idiot. But this is my point the guy is having a mental meltdown because none of this is true. That's what they all thought was happening and what I think he secretly wishes would happen. Like give me viral

1:13:57 Ebola, airborne Ebola, please. Yeah, that would sit around for 30 days, which is like, no vector does that. He's saying dial it up. But let's assume if you invented one that did, that'd be great. Dial it up, dial it up. That's literally what he's saying. Dial up, dial up the lethality, dial up the effectiveness. Well, we had none of that, Sam Harris. Well Sam Harris should be hired by the NIH to coordinate with the next development of the next vaccine combo disease. Who says he's not already cashing their checks with this kind of talk? And this brings me just to a general observation.

CHAPTER 18 / 38 Discussion

Big Pharma Whitewashing and the Sackler Family Series

The hosts discuss the Netflix series "Painkiller" and the previous show "Dopesick," characterizing them as efforts to whitewash the broader pharmaceutical industry by focusing all blame on the Sackler family. They argue that while the Sacklers were responsible for the opioid crisis, other major companies like Johnson & Johnson have paid significantly larger fines for similar malfeasance that receives less media dramatization.

sackler family· big pharma· opioid epidemic· painkiller· dopesick· netflix

1:14:36 So after Dope Sick, which was produced by Michael Keaton, didn't quite get the amount of attention that I think it was intended to get and was about the Sackler family and the... Yeah, it was too... Can I... I'll give my opinion. It was too ponderous. It was ponderous. And I was like, you could watch the... I watched the first episode and I tried to watch more and I said, you know what? It's too fun. There's not enough hours in the day for me. No, no, I'm not watching anymore. So they so now they're back to do another series because that now if I were a network executive or I work for Netflix, let's just say and I see that, you know,

1:15:21 That show, Michael Keaton, it had all the right elements, okay, you know, one of our experts said it was too ponderous, but it really should have done, it was critically acclaimed, it really should have done much better. You know, let's do another, let's green light another one, because why not? Everyone loves the Sackler family, so now we have Painkiller. which is another series about the Sackler family creating the opioid epidemic. And I'm going to call whitewashing on all of it. What this is doing is focusing all attention of evil pharma, evil pharmaceutical companies, the people that run them, the funding they get, and that is to vaccine companies, to... I mean, Johnson & Johnson paid a bigger fine

1:16:06 then by a factor of four, than the Sackler family did. This is whitewashing the entire evilness of Big Pharma and putting it all onto one family. Yeah, that's what you do, you focus. But I want everyone to know that because the focus is, oh, evil Sacklers, evil. Meanwhile, I got 100,000 people a year dying and it's still the evil Sacklers? No, no, no, no, no. It's not even in the picture anymore. Bring back lobotomies, people. We need to do something about this. It's crazy. Yeah. And now we have Vivek. Vivek. Vivek. Ramaswamy. Vivek, man. Vivek is the... He's being called out as the pharma boy. Oh, yeah. They're really going... I don't know why they're so freaked about this guy because he's not

CHAPTER 19 / 38 Discussion

Vivek Ramaswamy Pharma Background and Media Appearances

Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy faces scrutiny over his past in the pharmaceutical industry, with allegations that he profited from rebranding failed drugs. Ramaswamy's appearance on "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd is analyzed, specifically his comments on the Nashville shooter's manifesto and the politicization of hate crimes. The hosts describe Ramaswamy as a "parrot" for MAGA talking points who effectively challenges mainstream media narratives.

vivek ramaswamy· chuck todd· meet the press· nashville shooting· pharma bro· maga

1:17:02 a genuine threat, but okay, I think they jumped the gun. Well, that's interesting you say that because he is kind of doing, whenever something comes out, he has exactly the right thing to say. Hold on, this is a It's a short clip from the Hills. There is an allegation now that Vivek Ramaswamy made his money by buying a drug that had already failed multiple clinical trials, changing the name of it, having his mother who's a doctor writing a new survey, not like a new research, but basically a new survey that indicated the drug could be more promising, having the stock go up on the drug, profiting from that, and then the drug ultimately fails anyway. So there's definitely scams and it's incumbent on the people who approve these things to

1:17:49 who have scientific knowledge to actually assess the possibility of these interventions being successful. So they're going after him and he... Hold on a second. So this guy, I didn't know this. So this guy did the following. He spotted a drug that if it was rebranded and a little research was done, it would benefit the company that had, that was manufacturing this drug and the stock would go up. And he pulled that off? Yes, yes, he pulled that off. Wow! Okay, so, but Vivek Ramaswamy comes in. Did you see that video of him? But I want to start, I'm gonna interrupt you again. Sure. Because I'm still thinking about what a genius move this is in terms of just making some quick money in the stock market. Have that guy run our country!

1:18:38 What they're trying to do is tarnish him by saying, because of the rebranding thing, as one of the pharma bros. Yes, exactly. You know that creepy guy that was testifying in Congress? Skirelli. Skirelli. Skirelli. Skirelli. That guy, who I still think is something of a plant for something or other. I don't know. I've never been totally bought into that guy. But, so they're trying to make him look like a Skirelli. Oh, nice try. It's cute. I have to say, now you don't like him. You said yourself, you don't like him. I don't like him. Who, Ramaswamy? Yeah, you don't like him. No, I don't like him. Okay, well you'll like him even less because he comes in... But I don't like him as a candidate. I think as a person he'd be a great guy to go have a beer with.

1:19:25 No, and did you see him on MSNBC like early talk show? He's always a little bit of a kiss-ass. That's true a little bit a little bit no, it's a kind of Silicon Valley guy that I would wouldn't mind having a beer he says exactly what MAGA country wants to hear. Why do you think? Oh, yeah, absolutely He's a parrot listen Donald Trump parrot. Yeah, listen to this Why do you think there are more race based but when is Chuck gonna leave meet the press? Oh Didn't he already retired a year ago? What is the deal with this guy? He's still here. Why do you think there are more race-based violent crimes on the right than on the left? Why is this a little more pervasive, a lot more pervasive on the right?

1:20:04 Well, the fact of the matter is I think that there's a lot more violence that's also pervasive in parts of the country that supposedly are left-wing voter bases. So I don't think this is a left versus right issue. And I don't think we should try to politicize this through partisan goggles either, Chuck, especially in the wake of a tragedy like this one. The fact is there are- Do you ignore the manifesto? A lot of men dying on the south side of Chicago. Do you ignore the elements that allowed this manifesto to spread online and that what we're- So it does feel as if social media connects some of these hateful ideologies. Well, the fact of the matter is I do think we have two standards that we're even applying if we're having a conversation about manifestos. We still have not yet even seen the manifesto of that transgender shooter in Nashville of a Christian school. And yet here we're focusing on the motive. So if we want to look at this through a politicized lens, let's look at what political media and the political establishment is doing differentially in how they analyze different crimes and then create a new narrative around it. The fact is what I said in the Nashville shooter case, I will say here.

1:21:13 Any killing, any mass killing is heinous. We need to get to the root cause of the mental health epidemic. I don't remember him saying anything about the Nashville shooting and I don't even was he even on the scene at the time? I don't remember. Address that. We need leadership. So isn't he talking about the new shooting that just took place a couple days ago? Yeah but what he's saying, he just said what I said about the Nashville shooting when it happened. Yes, he's doing what exactly what MAGA country is doing, is saying, hey, you're calling this a hate crime and there's evidence that they are totally doing that for political reasons.

1:21:50 But and you're talking about the guy's manifesto, but you didn't allow the manifesto to be released of the Nashville shooter This is a MAGA country trope. Why do I know because I live here any killing any mass killing is heinous We need to get to the root cause of the mental health epidemic address that we need leadership that sets a tone in this country But if we are going to talk about manifestos and politicization Chuck I think it is incomplete not to look at the actual absence of releasing that Nashville shooter manifesto even as of today. So I personally traveled to Nashville to call for it and that I think is the best evidence of real politicization. I don't even remember that either. When did he travel to Nashville to call for it? Well, we're not keeping that conclusive. I am, I am, I am.

1:22:30 In terms of what the public sees and what the public doesn't I want to apply one standard for everybody I don't want to look at this through partisan goggles I want to look at this through one standard of the rule of law for everybody All right, we have he's definitely smarter than Chuck Hello Anyone smarter would is smarter than Chuck all right so now so this even though there were there's there's a lot of shootings around our country and And there's all kinds of shootings of all kinds of people. We got a Chinese guy shooting people in Carolina. Let's not talk about that. He was from Wuhan, even to make it funnier.

CHAPTER 20 / 38 Discussion

Jacksonville Shooting and White Supremacy Rhetoric

Following a racially motivated shooting in Jacksonville, Florida, President Biden and media outlets emphasized white supremacy as the "greatest terrorist threat" to the homeland. The discussion covers the shooter's manifesto and the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington. The hosts suggest the focus on "white poison" is a political strategy to maintain support among Black voters as Donald Trump's popularity reportedly grows in that demographic.

jacksonville· joe biden· white supremacy· domestic terrorism· martin luther king iii· hate crime

1:23:10 We've got to talk about the white guy who shot the black people. That's all that matters. Americans don't matter. Just if it's white against black, that's the only thing that matters because, you know, Trump's kind of got black Americans on his side. So let's hype this up. And Alex, police were pretty quick and emphatic in saying they believe this was a race motivated attack. Very quick and emphatic. Very quick and emphatic. What do we know about the shooter's background or motivations here? So a couple of things here. They say that based off of his writings, which they described as hate field ideology, they were able to determine pretty quickly that this was a crime motivated by race. Even though his parents called the cops and said he didn't take his meds, he is having a psychiatric event. This is a, there's an issue with him.

1:23:59 No, no, he just hates black people. This is white supremacy. The Clay County Sheriff's Office who has been assisting our agency with this investigation received information after the shooting that the shooter had authored several manifestos, one to his parents, one to the media, and one to federal agents. At one point after the shooter starting his heinous acts, he texts his dad at 1.18 PM on Saturday telling him to check the computer at home. At 1.53 p.m., the shooter's family members called the Clay County Sheriff's Office. By that time he had already began shooting in Jacksonville. And based off of the writings that are detailed there where they're filled with racial epithets and also notes that were found on his person after he shot himself, police were able to determine pretty quickly what the motivating factor was. And that was that this person was driven by race-based hate. The manifesto is quite frankly the diary of a madman.

1:25:00 Okay, but either he is a racist and he hates people or he's a madman. Okay? And he's clinically insane and he's having a mental event and he has access to guns, none of which should happen, of course. But it's, you know, you can't have it all, but I guess you can. And this is exactly what the Democrat Party wants, because we got to roll out Joe. Kick that mofo in the back. Okay, speak! On Saturday morning, the nation observed the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington. By the evening, a white gunman in Jacksonville, Florida, reportedly driven by racial animus, went on a shootings rampage at a store near Edward Waters University, a historical black university.

1:25:43 Three black Americans were murdered in cold blood. But we know this, as I made clear in my inaugural address, white supremacy is a poison. It's a poison. It's been allowed to grow faster and fester in our communities. Said the white supreme leader of the free world. The point where the intelligence community is determined, the U.S. intelligence community is determined that domestic terrorism rooted in white supremacy is the greatest terrorist threat we face in the homeland. The greatest threat. We have to act. We have to act. Yes, and act we do. Never let a crisis go to waste. 60 years ago, Dr. King urged us to struggle against the triple evils of racism, poverty, and bigotry.

1:26:30 Today, racism is still with us. Poverty is still with us. And now gun violence has come for our places of worship, our schools and our shopping centers. What prescient words by the granddaughter of Martin Luther King just a few hours before that shooting, talking about racially animated shootings taking place across the country. Nicole, you know, here we are 60 years later. and

1:27:14 yesterday, 60 years later, it was palpable the amount of frustration and concern there is 60 years later. We talk about how far we have come as a country and yet for many, particularly in the African American community, there's a sense that we're still fighting the same battles. Whether that's issues of hate crimes and racial violence, whether that's the issue of the rollback of affirmative action, voting rights. So those were some of the concerns articulated. at the march yesterday and also a call to action to continue to keep fighting some of these issues so that one day Dr. King's dream can be realized. That certainly was the message expressed. It's so bad that the media will do anything to work in.

1:27:55 White. White gun, white gun, white poison, white supremacy, white, white, white, white, white. A shooting during the Chicago White Sox game Friday was reportedly accidental. Two women were wounded. ESPN Chicago reports one of the women snuck the gun into the ballpark after quote, hiding it in her belly fat. Yes, white fat people. That's what's good at the White Sox game. Now, the real reason for this is because the Democrat Party is very worried about Trump's popularity with a DOS, American Descendants of Slavery, black men. And we've, there's evidence everywhere. He's the gangster. Now he's on par with Martha Stewart. Bring, roll out Snoop Dogg. Everybody, the hood is with Trump. Can't have that. We begin tonight with a weird trend that we've noticed coming out of MAGA Republican world.

CHAPTER 21 / 38 Discussion

Trump's Popularity and the Gangster Cred Narrative

Media figures like Joy-Ann Reid discuss a "weird trend" of Donald Trump gaining appeal among Black men, with some voters reportedly viewing his mugshot as a sign of "gangster cred." The Trump campaign reportedly raised $7 million through mugshot-themed merchandise. The hosts critique the media's portrayal of Black voters and the dismissal of the "ADOS" (American Descendants of Slavery) community's actual concerns.

donald trump· joy-ann reid· mugshot· black voters· gangster· merchandise

1:28:46 This is a party after all whose base is overwhelmingly the same demographic that gets its news from Fox. So let's just say not super diverse. But since Trump came along in 2016, they keep insisting that because of him, republicanism is booming among black people, despite there being no evidence of that. And as Donald Trump's troubles have gotten more intense, Republicans are leaning into a new twist on this narrative. Namely, that Trump being an accused felon has broadened his appeal with black voters. I think this is endearing, especially many black men, to President Trump. As one black lady I spoke with earlier today here in New Orleans said, Trump's a gangster. And that means he has cred among a new block of voters that perhaps have never given him a serious look and now they're looking again. Black Americans throughout our history have felt unfairly victimized by the system. Historically, there's some truth to that.

1:29:42 The mugshot unintentionally created a bond between Donald Trump and black Americans over the weekend. With the help of mugshot merchandise, the Trump campaign raked in over $7 million. Today, my garbage man told me he's buying mugshot t-shirts for everyone he knows this Christmas. Oh, bless your heart. Good to know, Jesse Waters, that some of your best garbage men are black. I mean, come on y'all. Y'all don't really know any black people, do you? None, right? None. I figured. Well, I do know one, but you're not one of them Joy Ann Lomina, born in Brooklyn, father from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and mother from Guyana. Give me a break. You're not Ados. These are horrible people. Horrible. They'll do anything. She gets paid good money, that woman. She does.

CHAPTER 22 / 38 Discussion

Tucker Carlson Interview with Donald Trump and Epstein

In a counter-programmed interview during the Republican debate, Tucker Carlson asked Donald Trump about the possibility of his assassination and the death of Jeffrey Epstein. The hosts discuss the escalation from protests to impeachments and indictments, questioning if physical threats are the next step. They also note a Wall Street Journal article linking Epstein to Trump's circle, suggesting these topics are being coordinated as "code warnings."

tucker carlson· donald trump· jeffrey epstein· mar-a-lago· indictment· assassination

1:30:32 There's you brought in a Tucker Trump clip which now has me worried from the interview that Tucker did with Trump. Well before you get to that I still want to stay in the civil rights thing because I do have the Biden clip. Oh okay. Yeah and play that play this. And this, I think, wraps up a civil rights coverage. Wait a minute. How old is Biden?

1:31:20 He told Strom Thurmond to write for the Civil Rights Act? To vote for it. And this was, so people have done the analysis of this, and there's two stages to the analysis. First of all, the act was passed when Biden was 21 years old, eight years before he became a senator. So he didn't know Strom Thurmond from anyone. And so that's just an out and out lie. He has said this before. And at least one guy, and I was going to look up the voting record. I have to assume this is probably true. Strom Thurmond voted no. But this is just kind of bull crap. And by the way, this was provided to us by our Grand Duke, this clip, even though I ran it through Adobe. Which Grand Duke? The one that's in San Jose. Oh, OK.

1:32:14 David. Ah, yes, Foley. I just want to give him credit for this so he will continue to provide. Well, eventually one of the 18,000 clips he sends us will hit. I mean, you know, actually, I use a lot of his clips. So you he just seems to be sitting on TikTok. Oh yeah, and honestly I would appreciate more if you just sent me the TikTok link because he sends me the... does he send that to you as well? He sends you the actual file? He sends an mp3 file. Well what's cool about the mp3 files is you can post them on directly on No Agenda Social. Isn't he Archduke? Is he Grand Duke or Archduke? No, he's a Grand Duke. Grand Duke, okay. Alright, so now I'm worried about Trump and Tucker.

1:32:59 And so you had this from the interview that ran as counter-program to the Republican debate. Well, it makes it look even more ridiculous. Hold on, let me go back here. The protest didn't work. You got elected anyway. Impeachment didn't work twice, obviously. Indictment is not working. Your poll numbers go up. When they raided Mar-a-Lago in August of last year, your numbers went up. They can indict you 20 times and you're not going to lose the Republican primary because of that. Well, it makes it look even more ridiculous. I mean, the four indictments and maybe there'll be more. I don't know. These people are crazy. But they're counterproductive. So if you chart it out, it's an escalation is what I'm saying. So what's next after trying to put you in prison for the rest of your life? That's not working. So like, don't they have to kill you now? I think the people of our country don't get enough credit for smart. And I'm not sure I would have said this 10 years ago.

1:33:56 But they get it, you know? They really get it. When somebody gets indicted, your poll numbers go down. When somebody gets... Alright, so that was the why don't they have to kill you now. Also part of that interview, he, out of the blue, started asking, well, don't you think Jeffrey Epstein was killed? Am I right? Yeah, I think so. So now Walls, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, I'm sorry, comes out with an article how Jeffrey Epstein tried to tap into Trump's circle. Yeah, I saw that article. I'm now thinking there is... it was so out of the blue for Tucker to ask about, to ask Trump about do you think Epstein was killed and now we have this Jeffrey Epstein tried to tap into Trump's circle. Do you think these are just like code warnings?

1:34:50 Code warnings or they're setting something up. Here, subhead. Before 2016 election, the convicted sex offender invited Trump campaign backers Peter Thiel and Thomas Barak to meetings with Russian diplomat. They're connecting Epstein to Trump and you know, hey why don't they just kill you? I don't like any of this talk. I don't either. That's why I put that clip together. I don't like any of it. Yeah, I don't like it at all. It's too nonchalant. It really, it really is not good. The whole world has gone crazy, John. The whole world has gone nuts. We're good to go. Oh, it's great for us. Do you want, have you ever heard of Clio Dynamics?

CHAPTER 23 / 38 Discussion

Peter Turchin and the Science of Cliodynamics

Scientist Peter Turchin's book "End Times" and the science of "cliodynamics" are discussed, which uses mathematical models to predict historical cycles of crisis. Turchin identifies "popular immiseration" and "elite overproduction" as primary drivers of societal collapse. The hosts focus on Turchin's prediction that AI will eliminate many "elite wannabe" jobs, specifically in the legal profession, and compare Donald Trump to the Gracchi brothers of Rome.

peter turchin· cliodynamics· elite overproduction· ai· lawyers· end times

1:35:40 Cleo yeah, Cleo diner is that the is that the woman who does the readings? Cleo dynamics is Treats history as science its practitioners develop theories that explain such dynamical processes as the rise and fall of empires Population booms and busts and the spread and disappearance of religions These theories are translated into mathematical models and then finally model predictions are tested against historical data So the idea is you take a period of time that already was, you build a model around it to then predict what will come. And this has been done by a dude named Peter Turchin. Yeah, this is not new. It's new to me. In fact, there was a kind of statistical system that was developed. I forgot the name. It was SS.

1:36:36 statistical package for the social sciences SPSS. I can't remember, I know a friend that developed one of these systems. This was, the academics don't warm up to this, even though it seems to have some interest. Well, this Peter Turchin guy wrote a book called End Times, although he himself said that... His name rings a bell. Turchin? I think I have, he's been around I guess. I mean do you put any, let me see, do you put any credence to this? No. No? Okay good then I'll play some clips. Here's an explanation of Clio Dynamics. Well this is part of the new science that we call Clio Dynamics, the science of history, and it's based on the

1:37:23 good old scientific approach, which means that we start with many different theories trying to explain a particular aspects of reality. In this case, the dynamics of the science. Can you stop for a second so I can get one more little jab in here before it continues? Yeah, of course. Yeah, please. The reason this is If these guys could do this with any degree of accuracy, this is like climate science. There's too many variables and until they come up with a package that predicts the stock market with accuracy. I'm not buying any of this, especially predicting history, I mean in the future, no. It can't be done. Too many variables. What's beautiful about this is that... And too much noise, that's the other problem. Too much noise. I asked a superstar statistician once years ago, I forget who this was, he's a professor, and I said, why can't you just come up with a stock market? I'm thinking, he says the real problem is too much noise.

1:38:23 And I'm not I'm like I can I'm not going to disagree with you But I loved his conclusions because they agree with my biases. So That's why these guys are popular. Yes, we translate theories into mathematical models because we want to study the dynamics and you cannot study dynamics without such, you know formal apparatus and And then we collect large amounts of data to test predictions from different theories to find out which of them feed the data better and which therefore are closer to the real drivers. So he took a data set from 2010 to now in the United States.

1:39:04 has my interest. So the United States, since 2010, it's been a very interesting experience because remember that this prediction was a scientific prediction. It was not a prophecy about what is going to happen in the future because that's really not possible to do. The idea was to derive a prediction from a theory and then see how well it corresponds to the reality that was to unfold in the next 10 years. And over those 10 years, it was a very strange experience because it was like on the train, heading for a train wreck.

1:39:46 and seeing everything unfolding pretty much as the theory has predicted. So all the trends that I noted in 2010, they continue developing in the same unfavorable directions during the next 10 years and in fact now. Okay, so now here he starts to talk about some of the issues and what really went wrong with America. And so these are really He's going back and saying things I think you and I will agree with only he's using not prophecy but science to come to this answer. We could have told him this, but I love when he says this. Several factors that drive societies to crisis.

1:40:28 The most important ones are first of all what we call popular immiseration, that's declining living standards for the majority of the population. And secondly, even more importantly, elite overproduction. Essentially when a society produces too many elite wannabes. Elite want too many elite wannabes. This is exactly That's us, by the way.

1:41:16 Elite wannabes? You know, I can't... You can't understand him? I can't understand a word he's saying. Not a single word? Pretty much. Oh, that kind of ruins everything, doesn't it? Well, it would be nice if he spoke... if he wasn't... had such a thick accent. Well, you're just being racist now. I can't help that. He's a scientist, man. He sounds like some... he sounds like a... like a cartoon scientist. So I don't know what he's saying. I seriously can't understand it. Well then I'll just tell you what he said. Yeah, why don't you just wrap it? So there are too many elites and elite wannabes

1:41:56 And the number one group of elite wannabes who will be at a number of, factor of six to one more elite wannabes than jobs for them, which will be eliminated and created by AI. Can you guess the group of elites that one particular vocation that will be eliminated by AI? And there's a lot of them. A lot of one group. There's one elite group. Teachers. Nope. Professors. Nope. It's the same thing. Doctors, physicians. Nope. Electricians. Lawyers. Oh, lawyers. And when you think about it,

1:42:42 That's actually what AI could be reasonable at, is taking language, large language model, taking historical cases and creating arguments for and against case law. And now I'm thinking that one story about the lawyer who was embarrassed in court because he had run everything through AI and had made up all these cases, I'm thinking that's bullcrap. I'm thinking that's a bullcrap story now. That was something he was just done to do to kind of defuse. Yes push back on yes. Yes, absolutely. Absolutely.

1:43:20 The other thing he said is that Trump is a bit like the brothers Gracci of Rome, which I thought was an interesting comparison. The Gracci brothers who, you have elites who become counter elites and you have the elites who are credentialed elites, which would be lawyers, and you have elites who are financial elites, that would be Trump. And it's the financial elites who become counter elites. You get this from a statistical analysis of 2010 is beyond me. Anyway, the things that would help steer America straight, steer America straight again, besides a minimum wage, okay, the number one thing would be stop giving government-backed loans for higher education. That would be one of the top things you could do. I think that's true.

CHAPTER 24 / 38 Discussion

Student Loan Repayment Resumption and Boycott Movements

As student loan payments are set to resume in October, a movement to boycott repayments has gained traction on social media. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona warns of consequences like wage garnishment, though the administration has promised a one-year "on-ramp" where missed payments won't be reported to credit agencies. The hosts characterize the administration's shifting policies as a strategy to secure votes ahead of the 2024 election.

student loans· biden administration· supreme court· miguel cardona· debt forgiveness· save program

1:44:20 Are you, are you just, did you just fall down? No, I mean the thing fell down and I'm thinking, what happened to you? What happened to you? I don't know if that would do anything. Well, we do have news on that. Back now with a ticking clock for student loan borrowers. Payments are set to resume in October, but as Brian Chung reports, some say they can't afford to pay and others say they won't. Josie Bridges is a single mom living paycheck to paycheck. It's hard enough dealing with rising prices at the store. My student payments are sitting right now at about $400 is what they're expecting each month. So I mean, that's my food budget right there. The pandemic freeze on student loan payments allowed Josie to open up her own salon in Portland, Oregon. But with $4,000 in outstanding debt from her community college degree, she says she simply won't be able to make the monthly payments once they resume in October. Now I realize that it's kind of out of my hands at this point. If I can't make it, I can't make it. It's a game changer.

1:45:16 The Biden administration's plan to forgive up to $20,000 in student debt would have wiped Josie's slate clean. Instead, a challenge from six Republican states resulted in a Supreme Court decision in June striking down the plan after Josie had already put thousands of dollars in investments into her salon. I'm disappointed and I'm confused. It's too inconsistent. I don't know what's going to happen in the future. And that's kind of scary. If the administration was able to cancel all the debt, what would that have done for you? giving me financial freedom. The median student borrower has between 20 to $25,000 in outstanding debt. And for those over 40 million borrowers, they're going to be facing interest accrual beginning in September, with the first payments in over three years due in October.

1:45:57 And unsurprisingly, there's now movement, as you heard the lady say, to not pay. We're just not going to pay. It is officially time for a student loan repayment boycott. Some taking to social media, calling on borrowers not to pay. Does the U.S. government just think we're going to go back to paying student loan payments? Like what? It's going to ruin my credit score? Education Secretary Miguel Cardona says it's a risk people shouldn't take. The loans are still there and the repayment is still needed. Failing to pay comes with serious consequences. Those in default face wage garnishing and big credit score hits. But for now, the government says borrowers won't face those penalties if they miss payments.

1:46:35 We know many of our borrowers are going to struggle to make payments, but we want to make sure that we're not sending their name to credit agencies. So we're going to hold them harmless for a year as they're getting back up. Really? Among longer term options for relief, see if your employer... Did you just hear what they said? Yeah. Basically the Biden administration just said, don't worry about it. We're not... This is how they get votes. Yeah, exactly. Offers repayment assistance programs and consider the SAVE program, which adjusts monthly bills based on borrower's income. Josie's weighing her options, but says it's going to be tough either way. At this moment, it's either come up with money to pay for these now student loans that I'm having to pay or make it to where my business doesn't function as it needs to. One of millions bracing for the debt cliff this fall. Yeah, okay, so just don't pay. Don't pay until after the elections, people. It's gonna be great. This is not good.

CHAPTER 25 / 38 Discussion

Oakland Pirates and Waterborne Property Crime

Residents of the Jack London Square Marina in Oakland, California, report an increase in "piracy," where thieves use small boats to steal outboard motors and equipment from vessels at night. The discussion highlights the high value of outboard motors, which can cost up to $15,000, and the lack of police resources to combat waterborne crime. The hosts critique the "soft" policies of the Alameda County District Attorney regarding rising burglaries.

oakland· pirates· property crime· outboard motors· jack london square· district attorney

1:47:34 This is kind of a version of anarchy. We could use a little bit of anarchy. That would be fun. We need some anarchy. And I got too much we don't have any there's no what what anarchy are you seeing? I'm seeing anarchy when you're gonna gang of 45 thieves or but rushes into a Neiman Marcus and steals everything And it rushes out and then one of them gets caught and they get put back on the street Anarchistic if you ask me have you have you heard about the the Oakland Pirates the Oakland Pirates yeah, I Okay, tell me. I probably have heard about it. This was new to me. Here's a little intro to the story. Property crime in Oakland has been on the rise this year. We all know that. That's not new information, but what is unusual is where it's being reported.

1:48:23 Year after year, robberies are up by 28% for burglaries. That number skyrockets to 44%. Most of the focus is on carjackings and business break-ins. But now those who live aboard boats at the port say they're facing a threat of their own, an increase in attacks from pirates. John Ramis explains. Are you interested? The Oakland Pirates people! We often have a romantic... There's one interesting story that I want to relate after this but yeah play it. We often have a romantic notion about pirates but when it comes to theft in Oakland it's not really even that unusual. The same things that are happening on the land are also happening on the water.

1:49:04 Considering all the problems Oakland is facing, now there's one more. Pirates. No kidding, those who live along the estuary say there's nothing safe about living on the water. It's every week. It's every week somebody's missing something from their boats or either their dinghies, their outboard motors or from their cars. The twist is that the thieves are actually coming by way of the water, operating small boats, usually at night, to steal from the large vessels tied up at the docks. John Fordham's apartment overlooks the Jack London Square Marina. A couple weeks ago I saw for the first time a high-speed chase on the water with a police boat.

1:49:43 pulling over another boat that was speeding away. People will steal anything these days, but Damon Taylor, who maintains a sailboat near the Jack London Aquatic Center, says outboard motors seem to be the real prize. Yeah, the motors are the thing. You've got to figure even a brand new small, you know, horsepower engine is $10,000-$15,000 brand new. What? So even in the black market, they'll probably be able to get at least a couple thousand for that. And while some are calling for more police response to the area, Taylor takes a pragmatic view. They can't handle what they can't handle on land.

1:50:19 financially and resource wise. They can't. So they can't. There's no Oakland Navy, you know? But the problem is a serious one. Some call these boats home. And the idea of thieves trying to enter them in the dead of night has a lot of people living in fear. Yeah, baby. That's your anarchy right there ten to fifteen thousand dollars for a ten horsepower outboard motor those outboard motors I went over this with the horror. Oh, yeah, he's based on some story. Yeah, he's a boating guy Yeah, and yeah, they're really expensive some of these these mercuries that especially the bigger ones I mean it's caused a foot as much as a car So I'm watching the local news and they're showing so they had a good camera shot from somebody's

1:51:02 somebody's camera, I think it was a ring or I'm not sure, but there's some guy breaking into somebody's car. Around here you have to just, if you're gonna go into Oakland or San Francisco, and Oakland's got the same problem as San Francisco had, still does kind of, which is the soft district attorney that doesn't think they have anything to do with crime. I'm just a district attorney, it's just my name, it's like one hour cleaners. And so, They show a car pulling up, guy running out looking inside this other car, bust in the back window opening and taking something off the back and then jumping back in the car and taken off. What was remarkable was the car that they drove up in was a Lexus that they bought legally with all their money.

1:51:51 And they drove off in this Lexus. I'm thinking, oh, what the hell? What's going on here? This is not something that needs extra food. But OK, whatever. But they're not going to do anything about it because the DA there is in Oakland. Yeah, there's another Soros lady. And the Alameda County is just a bunch of slouches. Yeah. You know, this brings me to a question I have for you because you'll be the one to answer it properly. It appears that a number of Silicon Valley elites are building their own private city or a new city Yeah in California. There was a line of land and everything and of course the immediate is oh, it's gonna be a 15-minute city I doubt if Laurene Powell jobs is gonna live there. It's not gonna be a 15-minute city. Do you know anything about this? Yeah, well I did in fact I did a little research on this that I called up a friend of mine who does this type of development and

CHAPTER 26 / 38 Discussion

Silicon Valley Elites and the California Forever City

A group of Silicon Valley billionaires, including Michael Moritz, Reid Hoffman, and Marc Andreessen, has been revealed as the backers of "California Forever," a project to build a new city in Solano County. The group has purchased $800 million worth of land near Travis Air Force Base. The hosts discuss whether this is a "15-minute city" project or a "company town" intended to provide safe housing for tech workers away from San Francisco.

michael moritz· reid hoffman· marc andreessen· travis air force base· solano county· private city

1:52:43 He developed Telluride and some other places and he knows, you know, all the guys that are involved in all this stuff. And I said, you know anything about this? It's the same thing you did to me. Yeah. And there is some good reporting on it around here, and the names are all on, there's a list of them. Yeah, Reid Hoffman and... Hoffman is one of them. He thinks there's a fool's errand. He says these rich guys, they every once in a while get their hair up their ass about development, developing a city, and they're too dumb to do it right. The people that can do that are few and far between, and nobody on that list can do it.

1:53:21 So it's just somebody and I think it was Moritz. Oh from Sequoia Capital, of course Everybody's buddy Michael Michael Moritz. Yeah the guy who in 2017 seems to be the guy whose idea this is and And then he got Marc Andres and his you know, whatever boy. Oh, you think good? You know he's Elon's man to is Elon should be in on it I think Mila might be but I'm not sure so this is but it's like they decided because this land outside of Travis I think that they were hoping that Travis gets shuttered this if Morris Morris thinks like this Travis Air Force Base. Oh

1:54:01 Yeah, so Moritz thinks like this. I don't think it's for one thing. I don't think it's going to be shuttered. We already shuttered too many places in the in the in the California already. But if they shuttered it, they could turn it into a private airport that was like that thing Ross Perot owns down in Texas. That operation, and then you'd have a nice setup, is probably not gonna get shuttered, and these guys are just a bunch of boneheads. They're just buying all this property up. It should accrue in value anyway, so they're not gonna lose their ass, which is, you know, it's not a money loser. But I don't think anything's gonna come of it. It just seems like a bunch of douchebags who went like San Francisco sucks. It's no good man. It's no good. We don't like it anymore. We're gonna make our own city. We'll show them. Look, I know how to make LinkedIn. I can do LinkedIn. I can do a city.

1:54:50 Ah, I was married to the Apple guy. Most of the douchebags you're talking about have already long since moved to Palo Alto. Okay, Palo Alto sucks. It all sucks. It all sucks. We need a place where there's affordable housing for our slaves, I mean workers. Don't you think it's something like that? I think there was an element of that. Has that ever worked? Isn't it just like the company city? It worked in the 1900s, like in 1910. Yeah, then you'd have to buy from the company store and you'd have to shop there. Yeah, get your slaves in there. That doesn't work anymore. Our slaves can't live in San Francisco anymore. It's dangerous. We need to give them safe places, safe spaces. Yeah, well, I think you're exaggerating, but yeah.

1:55:31 Well, with that... I know how much you love this type of person. With that and my exaggeration, I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, the man who put the sea in the coup contagion, ladies and gentlemen, say hello to my friend on the other end, the one and only Mr. John C. Morgan! Good morning to you Mr. Adam Curry, good morning all ships, sea blues on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, the dames and knights out there. In the morning to the trolls in the troll room, hello there trolls, can you stop for a second while I count you? Hold on, 1876, hmmm. Is that bad for, is that good for Thursday, is that bad for Thursday? I don't remember anymore. No it's average. It's average, you're average! A bunch of average trolls doing average trolling.

CHAPTER 27 / 38 Discussion

Strike Force Five Podcast and Late Night Hosts

Late-night hosts Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, and John Oliver have launched a limited-run podcast titled "Strike Force Five" on Spotify to support their striking staff. The hosts critique the podcast as "bland" and "pathetic," arguing that the late-night stars are uninteresting without their writers. The segment also mentions actress Drea de Matteo joining OnlyFans due to the lack of work in Hollywood.

strike force five· stephen colbert· jimmy fallon· jimmy kimmel· seth meyers· john oliver· spotify

1:54:50 Ah, I was married to the Apple guy. Most of the douchebags you're talking about have already long since moved to Palo Alto. Okay, Palo Alto sucks. It all sucks. It all sucks. We need a place where there's affordable housing for our slaves, I mean workers. Don't you think it's something like that? I think there was an element of that. Has that ever worked? Isn't it just like the company city? It worked in the 1900s, like in 1910. Yeah, then you'd have to buy from the company store and you'd have to shop there. Yeah, get your slaves in there. That doesn't work anymore. Our slaves can't live in San Francisco anymore. It's dangerous. We need to give them safe places, safe spaces. Yeah, well, I think you're exaggerating, but yeah.

1:55:31 Well, with that... I know how much you love this type of person. With that and my exaggeration, I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, the man who put the sea in the coup contagion, ladies and gentlemen, say hello to my friend on the other end, the one and only Mr. John C. Morgan! Good morning to you Mr. Adam Curry, good morning all ships, sea blues on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, the dames and knights out there. In the morning to the trolls in the troll room, hello there trolls, can you stop for a second while I count you? Hold on, 1876, hmmm. Is that bad for, is that good for Thursday, is that bad for Thursday? I don't remember anymore. No it's average. It's average, you're average! A bunch of average trolls doing average trolling.

1:56:19 Congratulations, you did not excel. I'm surprised it's that high. Four stars. Why are you surprised it's that high? Because that clip you played to that guy who nobody could understand. Oh, thank you very much. I can't understand. I'm leaving. I'm leaving now. All right. The trolls are hanging out in the troll room. You can too. You can be a troll. It's very easy. It's free. It's free of charge. Go to trollroom.io, log in, listen live to the stream. You can listen to that stream 24 hours a day and troll with all kinds of great podcasts on noagendastream.com or get a modern podcast app. Drop the legacy. Please drop it already before it drops you. Before

1:56:56 Before it drops your favorite podcast, go to podcastapps.com, grab one of those apps that have the troll room and the live streams all right there. You can import your podcasts from your old legacy systems. Speaking of podcasts, I mean, hell has finally frozen over. Did you hear of the new podcast, which is not really a podcast because it's only on Spotify? Did you hear of the new hot new podcast that Spotify has launched for a 12-week limited run? 12. What kind of a podcast is that? Strike Force 5! I'm sorry. Strike Force 5! What is it? It's all the late night talk show hosts now are doing a podcast together. Oh yeah, I saw some videos of it. It's like, I didn't see the podcast or want, even want to, but it's so, it couldn't be more lame. And I tried to get through the first episode, which dropped.

1:57:53 It dropped. They should have picked it up and I got 11 minutes until I just had to stop These guys I'm gonna make a prediction there will be no audience for them to come back to Three three of these five shows will be canceled will be preempted for something else Maybe even old Letterman episodes would be better than this There will be no audience, the audience is moved on, this is a pathetic attempt under the guise of, we're raising money for the people who work on our show who don't have any money because of the strike. Which your companies themselves are responsible for. Which is just bull crap. Yeah, you know that is true. I mean, most of these shows are produced by the host. Yes.

1:58:43 And like Letterman show used to be produced, I remember there was Pants or something, the international Pants. Worldwide Pants. Worldwide Pants, that's a very memorable. But the other ones are all produced by these same guys. So they're the executive producers and producers. So they're going to convince me that this limited 12-week run, which is sponsored by, what's the, George Clooney's, Tequila. Tequila. Tequila. Oh, the tequila from George Clooney. Clooney's tequila and the other guy... Because God knows we need more tequilas. Who's the guy Ryan Reynolds isn't he? Who has alcohol, he has gin or something. Casa Amigos is the one, that's the right... What is the... It's Ryan Reynolds, isn't it? Who also has a... I don't know, I don't keep track of celebrity booboos. I'm not talking to you, I'm talking to the troll room. Somehow there's going to be enough money for hundreds of people. Hundreds of people!

1:59:38 Oh, yeah, Mint Mobile. That's right. Mint Mobile. He is Mint Mobile. Okay. Aviation Gin. There you go. So that's going to save these people. No, it's a pathetic attempt by these five. Sorry that I have to say it now. They are total losers because this is not... This is a one out of five star product. It is bad. It's a bunch of guys. You know when comedians... Hold on a second. Let me stop for you for a second. Let me stop you dead cold. Okay. Since you're like the guy who invented the whole model of podcasting and you're probably the greatest expert there is, have you ever even consulted for this idea? Which as I heard on Dvorak Horowitz Unplugged, the only reason you're working with me is because you figured, you know, I'm going to be in the industry, why not go to the guy and work with the guy who invented the industry? Not because I'm talented, not because, no, it's just because, oh, he invented it, might as well hang out with him.

2:00:36 I heard you. I heard you. I heard you. I keep tabs on you. Fact. Fact. So, okay, now I'm gonna have to do it to it. I'm gonna have to, unfortunately, I have to play a little bit. Oh no! Yes, I have to play some of Strike 4. This is our bonus clip for the segment. Let me see. Oh, there's a new, oh, episode one. Let's see. Let's do it. And John's been on. Let's go to the opening. What would happen if five of America's top 11 most beloved talk show hosts all talked on top of each other for an hour? We're about to find out on the first ever edition of Strike Force 5.

2:01:18 Let's meet the strike force starting with the former host of the late show at Stephen Colbert from his headquarters in South Carolina Stephen Colbert Hello, Jimmy. It's an honor to be here. This is where we should all applaud each other It is an honor to be with you here Stephen next from his home studio In Long Island where he stays up late every night recording himself singing along with the Bee Gees karaoke the former host of the tonight show Jimmy Fallon hello Jimmy Fallon Thank you so much. Happy to be here. This is exciting. Good morning. Mentioned to the listeners for the purposes of this podcast, Jimmy will be known as Tammy from here on. And then Jimmy's upstairs. Are you getting the comedy, John? Are you getting the humor?

2:01:59 Who are the other people? Neighbor, fans of this show know him as the cute one, the Nick Carter to our Backstreet Boys, Unemployment Zone's Seth Meyers. Seth? Just so excited to be talking before 12.37 at night. Say hello to the lady, Seth. Tell us, what color are your eyes? I looked at pictures of you for a lot of the night last night. I can't figure it out. I've been told ocean blue. I mean, if anything, the writers of these shows who were gainfully employed and some of them wrote some funny jokes, they're probably sitting at home going like, I should be hosting The Tonight Show. These guys are nothing without me. Because they're not. They have nothing to say, they're completely uninteresting, they're bland. They're very bland. The blandness comes through. And who is the last one?

2:02:50 And for those who will criticize us, who say we don't need a show hosted by a group of four middle-aged straight white men, we bring you a fifth middle-aged straight white man. But this one is from England, which is an entirely different country. He is the currently force majeured former host of Last Week Tonight, John Oliver. Hello, John. Hello, Kimmel. At first I'd say Seth's eyes are Gatorade blue, but you know, reasonable people can disagree. Also, I cannot believe you're the only one who gets to have a soundboard. I didn't know we were doing soundboards. That changes everything. This is the level that these guys can actually deliver. And what is Oliver doing? He's not a late night guy. He does a weekly show on HBO. But he has writers.

2:03:35 Probably non-union writers that could sneak in. Anyway, no, that doesn't sound like a good, like anything. It just sounds like a bunch of, it sounds like a classic podcast. It's a circle jerk. It's a bad podcast. It's a bad, bad podcast. That's what I meant. Most podcasts are like that. Yes, many are like that. Not all. There are some outstanding products, but this is just... The sum is way down a number. If there's a hundred really good podcasts, I'd have to think about it. It's just so pathetic. Really, it's sad. And the sound sucks. Of course. Sophia with an F has better sound than these guys who are all professionals. And is more entertaining.

2:04:21 Oh yeah, she's much more entertaining. That's for sure. But you know, this is what's happening to the M5M. You know that Drea Matteo, she was on The Sopranos. She was, I think, one of the... She was the girlfriend to one of the mobsters. Yeah, I don't recall. Yeah, she's now doing an OnlyFans. There's no work. Only only? Only fans. Oh, only fans. Yeah. Taking her clothes off. She's taking her clothes off? Yes, you can join. You don't have to take your clothes off to do an only fans. Uh, okay. Yes. You do? Yeah, of course if you want to make any money. What if they just want to chat with a celebrity? Well, if you look at the story in the New York Post, she doesn't have any clothes on.

CHAPTER 28 / 38 Discussion

GrapheneOS Conflict and Neurodivergent Communities

The hosts discuss a conflict with the GrapheneOS community following critical remarks made on a previous episode. They address accusations of "attempted murder" and harassment related to the developer being doxxed or swatted. The conversation shifts to a broader critique of "neurodivergent" online communities, with the hosts suggesting that a lack of ability to handle criticism is a growing cultural trend.

grapheneos· privacy· social media· neurodivergent· autism· vaccine injury

2:05:16 Oh, she... okay. That's interesting. She does have her boots on, however. She's got boots on the ground. All right, so much for the bonus content, everybody. This is a Value for Value podcast and that means... oh my goodness, I forgot to tell you that you can also follow us on noagendasocial.com. And I do have a follow-up of our last conversation. It's gotten pretty bad. It's gotten pretty bad. Now what? Yeah, I'm now being accused of attempted murder. What did you... who did you kill? Well, nobody. It's attempted murder. So no one's been killed yet. Oh, well, who is your almost attempt? Well, I'll just read it to you. Tell me if you know what's going on. You are sending your community to bother us because of some completely justified block by completely misrepresenting the situation.

2:06:10 It's the GrapheneOS people. They're mad at me now for talking about this nonsense. Oh, about them being a bunch of douchebags? Yes, and because, you know, I guess that the developer is being swatted or doxxed. No, but he was supposed to be swatted or doxxed or something before that. Yeah, but now I'm complicit! Well, see, this is the problem. Like, I can say that they're douchebags, but I've never been a member of the cult. So I can kind of say whatever I want. This is like being in Scientology. You can say what you want about Scientology one way or the other, but if you're a member of Scientology, they'll go after you for being even slightly critical. Just as if, for example, you were a member of the Democrat Party. Yes, well you were. If you quit the Democrat Party, I did, but I did it in 1980.

2:07:03 And it's been so long that no one's ever associated me as a Democrat. So I can say what I want and nobody goes after me as a former Democrat, a quitter of the cult. I haven't left the cult. I was, for all practical purposes, never in the cult. And so I can say what I want. But somebody who knew, or say, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is still in the cult and critical of it, they go after him. You go after them. The problem is, is that We have, um, vaccine... My opinion, only my opinion. I'm not a scientist. It's just my opinion from doing a podcast. So I'm no better than those douchebags from the Strike Force Five. My opinion is we have a lot of young men who basically were vaccine injured as children, received too many whatever, whatever was in it, and just too much. More than I had, and I didn't have anyone with autism around me growing up. Now everyone's autistic.

2:08:01 and or has Asperger's or whatever. Neurodivergent, I think is the term that's being used in the case of this group. And they go nuts. They can't handle criticism, then they've been trained that you have to be a victim of your autism and you're a bad person if you say anything about them. Like, you know, my advice, I gave it a say. Here's some advice. Why don't you just stop interacting with people? Just don't reply. Shut your social media off. Who cares? We want the operating system. We don't know what... Easier said than done. It's not that hard.

2:08:39 It is for some people. Right, but it's sad because it's just a bunch of vaccine damaged individuals who now just call that autism and they're on the spectrum and all they can do all day is talk about how they've been victimized because they're on the spectrum. I am neurodivergent. Have you seen my Tourette's? Yeah, you gotta, people have to realize how shaky this guy is I'm talking to. Thank you. Hey! That's not nice! You're being mean to me! Value for value when we... Present this program. We give it to you completely free open everyone the internet. There's no behind paywalls. There's no patreon levels There's no premium content you have to subscribe to you don't have to go only to Spotify or or Google or Amazon to get it or only on YouTube No, no, it's everywhere that we can put it for you except on Spotify because they want us to sign a contract We have no contracts with anybody you can get it on open free good podcast apps

CHAPTER 29 / 38 Discussion

AI Art and the Future of Creative Content

The hosts discuss the influx of AI-generated art and text in the creative industry. They highlight the work of Darren O'Neill, who created the "hot dog wiener plane" art for the episode, while noting that much AI art is a "wall of meh." Adam Curry shares an anecdote about using ChatGPT to draft an article for Bitcoin Magazine, which was immediately identified by his wife as lacking a human touch.

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2:09:42 And when you receive that, you accept no agenda into your life if you're thinking, I feel good about this. I want to give some value back. You can do it. You can do it anytime you want. Time, talent or treasure. One of the ways that people like to return value to us is by creating art for Every single episode why are you laughing? Yes, I was wondering how you were gonna worm your way over to the to the art Hey, cuz I'm listening you go on and on with you no no no and all that you hold the whole you have a patter And you're like you're like a really good at it, baby, and then you're gonna move

2:10:18 You're going to move to the art. Sometimes you forget, but most of the time you don't. And here I am. I remember. And I'm waiting to see how you're going to make the segue and then boom, there it is. I made me chuckle. I don't know why. I'm glad that after 16 years, I can still make you chuckle. Yeah, you make me chuckle. I've been with you twice as long as I've been with my wife. Can you believe this? And I made him giggle. Oh, there you go, ladies and gentlemen. So we want to thank the one and only the incredible value bringing Darren O'Neill who not only does the rock and roll pre-show every single two hours of

2:10:54 top-notch quality programming on the stream before we start on Thursdays and Sundays. But he also, he's, in fact, I think you said when we were looking at this at art and choosing this, first you said there's only one because I sometimes I'm like I got to go pee. So I'll, you'll start looking at the art and I come, which is my code for I'm gonna get a glass of wine but I tell you I'm gonna go pee. And then I come back and then you say, Darren O'Neill is talented. I think that's your exact words. You said Darren O'Neill is a talented guy. Yeah. And he created the hot dog wiener plane. With Hot Dog Boy at the controls, with all kinds of surface-to-air missiles, Wagner 33, I mean it had everything in there. It was just so good. And we love Darren, he just nailed it. He just nailed it with this, there's no two ways about it. Now what I am seeing is a lot of people dumping AI art on us now. We have way...

2:11:54 We're just gonna have I've said this already. Mm-hmm. We just have to we're stuck because this is and we're a forward Kind of forward-leaning Podcast yes, we there's nothing we can do about we lean in what do you mean by a forward-leaning podcast? What does that mean? That means that we're everything that we do. We're ahead of the game. We Make predictions that are sometimes years ahead of what happens. This is true. I And so recognizing the AI thing which was foisted on us by a comic strip blogger which which ended up with you banning his are his submissions yes Including the one we picked which I was convinced was was probably a which he then said wasn't He said was I still don't believe it because he has a certain style. It's very recognizable like most people that do drawing yeah, and

2:12:51 It's just a fact of life that we have to, at least I've come to grips with immediately, not immediately, but within a couple of months of it showing up a lot. It shows up constantly. And sometimes there's too much of it, I can't argue with that. Well, there really wasn't that much that was any good. There was a couple of pregozians that was no good. Trump. No, there wasn't. No, Trump's stuff was no good. Darren's thing was head and shoulders. Head and shoulders. Above all the other submissions. And I think when an artist comes in and looks at the stuff that's available, he has to compete with it because he's going to submit something. And he sees something that's just, oh, fuck, they're going to pick that. I can tell. Wow, dropping the F-bomb. You know, so that may be part of the problem, but I

2:13:38 I think that what we're seeing now is the future, the future of AI. You get, you know, you can easily pick out the good stuff because it's, you just look at it and it's like a wall of meh. You know what I mean? We've always had a wall of meh. No, no, it's not like this. It's a bigger wall of meh. Well that could be. I mean I'm just looking at it. It's like oh yeah there's so much stuff that's very meh. But so much is AI. It's like okay you know I wrote an article for Bitcoin magazine, for the paper magazine, for the printed edition.

2:14:20 And they want me to write about Podcasting 2.0. And I'm excited because I'm going to put in, you know, we're now doing with music and artists are getting paid. And so, you know, we're basically revitalizing the music industry and bypassing all of the gatekeepers. And so I have an outline in my head. I'm not a writer. You know that you're the between the two of us. You're the writer. I'm a lover, not a fighter. You're the writer. And so I take my outline and throw it into chat GPT. And it writes, you know, 700 words. And I say, I say, Tina, could you please, could you please, you know, she calls it the Tina wash because she's a professional communications expert. She's mad. Right away, she says, this is Chad G.B.T. How do you know? Well, when it starts off with in the ever changing world of podcasting and, you know, professionals can see right through this.

2:15:20 Whether it's words, whether it's art, and we're pretty good at picking art. It's crap. It's meh. It's just a wall of meh. You gave her a chat GPT script? Yes. That you tried to pass off as your own? I didn't... I just said, could you please read... I didn't say like, I wrote this. She said... She called her right away. She said, this is chat GPT. She actually didn't even want to look at it. She's like, I don't even want to write... I don't want to do anything for this. I don't blame her. Yeah, but I'm... so, but is my point clear? It's not that for one thing let's start off with this little premise people should all know this it's not that hard to write. But well I did write it's just I wanted to be... it's writing for with a budget of words for a magazine it's not easy that's take skill that's not what I do can we agree on that?

2:16:18 Yeah, no, well most, yeah, no. Most people can't do simple writing chores. Because it's like, there's some daunting aspect to the length and they can't stop themselves from jabbering. Yes, yes, yes. Because if you're writing for a publication and you're, say 700 words, which is very short. But say you're doing 700 words and you do it and you do it and you do it and you do it and you do it and you do it and you keep doing it and you've done maybe 100 of them. Well, it's like falling off a log. You start here and you end there and you go run the word count, it's 700 words. It's very common that writers can do that. But if you haven't written 700 words, then you have to like, oh, I gotta write a 700 word essay, never done it before. 700 word essay. And you know, you're never gonna make it. You get to about 300 words, you think you're done. Oh no, oh jeez, I'm short, no, what am I gonna do now?

CHAPTER 30 / 38 Discussion

Executive Producer Donations and Knighting Ceremony

The show acknowledges significant donations from producers, including Dustin Sonderreger, Adam Urbano, and Hollywood producer Dana Brunetti, who promoted his film "Gran Turismo." A knighthood ceremony is held for Dame Emma, Sir Sonderreger, and Sir Alan. Listener notes cover topics such as the decline of the ATM business, weight loss success, and local meetups in Indiana and Georgia.

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2:17:13 Why don't you throw that Vinegar book in the chat, GPC? See if it can finish it. I'm kind of serious. I'm interested to see what would happen. The book is almost done. Okay. All right, let's look at the treasure part of the value that we receive. This is people who come in and would love the title of executive or associate executive producer of an episode. And of course, I mean, you can send us $1 and you're a producer. No one's a listener. If you're doing Value for Value, if you're providing time, talent, or treasure, you are producer of the NOAH Agenda Show and you should be very proud of it. And we're going to start now.

2:17:57 With by the way, thank you artists. Thank you to all the artists no matter how you're trying no matter what you're doing whether it's hand-drawn or or a it doesn't matter we appreciate the effort all of it is highly appreciated you're all loved and we certainly love Dustin Sonderer Sonderager? I don't... that's a new name to me. St. Joseph, Missouri. Wow! 1888.33. He's got some numbers to communicate to us. Here's some numerology. In the morning, Adam and John... I was hit in the mouth by a buddy of mine, Sir Blowback, B-L-O-E, Blowback, in December of 2020. I figured I have listened long enough, I should share some treasure. Please accept my humble apology and this small donation for you. Can't wait to see this guy's big donation.

2:18:46 Please knight me, Sir Sonderreger of Bluff Woods. I request some cold bush light and salty pretzels at the round table. No jingles, but you could give out some double up karma for all the listeners. Happy to do that. Thank you, Dustin. We appreciate it. You've got... karma. Very nice. Good start. Good start. We appreciate that. Well, that's followed up by another nice donation from Adam Urbano from Apex, North Carolina. Apex. Apex. 116669. This is the guy who donated last show. I think it was last show. Yeah, twice. With the two nights for his boys and the whole thing. We're waiting for a note from him.

2:19:30 Telling us what the night names are and all the rest of it, but meanwhile he keeps sending us money Which is fine with me. Let's give him a double up karma for that. Yes, definitely you've got Karma now The double of karma is appropriate because I believe he's going through some custody issues And he'd love to at least have partial custody of his two sons Because he pinged me on X I guess, so are we going to just say X now instead of Twitter or the website formerly known as Twitter? What do we say? Are we just going to call it X? I say Twitter. I don't care. All right. So he DM'd me on Twitter and then I said, hey man, you know, it's like, that sucks. Praying for your boys and for you. So we appreciate that, Adam. Thank you. Yeah, we do appreciate it. Alan is in Cumming, Georgia and sent us a note. And this note is accompanied with 900. Man, what a day.

2:20:26 Dear Mr. Curry, Mr. Dvorak, time to contribute to the greatest podcast is a handwritten cursive. Time to contribute to the greatest podcast in the universe, please find the enclosed check for 900 for the value provided. This should qualify me for knighthood accounting below. Should it please the peerage committee, may I be known as Just Sir Alan. What does it say? Just Sir Alan. At the round table may I have, oh, I can't, five-way Cincinnati Chitty Cincinnati chili. Oh chili. It doesn't say it looks like Chitty doesn't look like chili. Yeah, it's chili Say well Cincinnati chili is famous. Hold on. I gotta write this down now because I didn't have that on the Five way what is five ways since since I think it includes beans and cheese You buy a bunch of stuff on there. So it's basically Cincinnati chili is is basically

2:21:22 It's like ground beef. It's like, let's say Texas, you get Texas style chili. Yeah. But let's add a bunch of clove and cinnamon. And it's just really got the weirdest back flavor that they... And it's very specific to Cincinnati. Well, I'm excited because it's at the round table. It will be here in just a moment. In fact, five ways Cincinnati chili and sweet tea. Please keep up the fantastic work. Short notes, save lives. That's for you, Mr. Dvorak. Be well. Alan Cumming from Georgia. Thank you very much, Alan. And we'll be doing the nightings and it's all one break, people, so it's going to be great. It's going to be very fun. Okay, onward with, what do we have here? Gareth.

2:22:08 Gareth White in St. Kilda, Victoria, Australia. And this is actually $1,000 in Australian dollars, which comes to $6.46, which is still a good amount. Yeah, and we honor that. We honor it. We honor it. So he says, ITM gentlemen, birthday donation for my SHW spoken hot wife, Emma, for her 40th. It's the ninth time on the 23rd of August. We don't talk about that. So she's been 49 times. Yeah. On the 20th, she'll be 39. I agree. I agree. I agree. Yes. Jack Benny's age. On the 23rd of August. I know I know a belated gift, but we just came back from a birthday vacation at her favorite spot in Noosa, Queensland. I love to you. Love you to the moon and my love you to the moon and back. My queen can

2:23:06 Can she be named Dame Emma Huntress of the Unicorns? Sure. Adam and John, thank you for all that you do. Truly the best podcast in the universe. Jingle request, John fisting nuts. Always brings tears of joy to our eyes. Cheers, Gareth. Location St. Kilda. Victoria Australia just go for John tell us your peeve about the fisting method of eating snacks on an airplane I see this on the airplane and it's very annoying and I think it will result in fights breaking out because it's just so annoying to watch Guy takes his bag of peanuts and throws a pile of them into his palm of his hand and then he makes a fist

2:23:51 around the nuts. And then he shakes his fist to try to bring a nut to the little hole. And then he throws a nut in his mouth from his fist. Then he does it again. He shakes and throws and shakes and throws. It is annoying as hell to watch. It brings tears to everyone's eyes, tears of joy. Thank you, Gareth. Yeah, whoever produced it. I produced it. You did with the moaning woman? Where'd you get that? Dude, I produced this- You watched porn, never mind. Why am I asking? No. Tina and I were just together maybe a year or so.

2:24:35 And I'm in bed with a laptop. I said, oh man, this predates Tina. This does not predate Tina. She was there when I made it and I was showing off like, look what I'm going to do. And put all these sound effects and echo. And she was like, wow, that's so cool. Marry me. Yeah, that's what happened. Oh God. Martin's enough. Martin Schels from Laber in Deutschland says danke für eure Mut. With $500. Thank you for your courage is what that means. Since it was so short. Can I read this next one? Because I'm very proud of this one. Go for it. This is, ladies and gentlemen, the one and only, the famous Dana Brunetti! Dana Brunetti! Yeah. And he sends in $333.99 and he says Gran Turismo, that's his movie, is currently number one. So you know what this is for you. You guys have done just a good job at promoting the film as the studio.

2:25:36 Thank you! It's because of the No Agenda show that it made 17 plus million dollars last week domestically. And since Adam has been nice to me on the show lately, here's your cut! It's more than mine! That part I actually believe. Yeah, it could be. I believe it. This combined with my previous donations and dinners and wine with John probably puts me at Grand Duke or something. But I'm happy with my title of Governor of the State of El Dorado, a safe state, unlike California. Even though John's daughter and son-in-law don't trust that, John can explain.

2:26:13 In Hollywood you're only as good as your last at-bat, so I'm out on top bitches Dana he claims to be quitting all the time so Yeah, what's he referring to here his references that Brennan and Jay were up camping just north of the north of where this theater was and I said and I said can I because I was talking to Dana and I said can I invite them to the movie oh yeah there's enough seats and so I told him you know come down and watch the movie because it's on the way back because they were passing right by it

2:26:49 And they never showed up. And so I asked them about it. They said, oh, we were we were afraid because we had all our camping gear in the in the car that someone was going to rob us when we were watching the movie. And so I relayed this little information to Dana, who said who just thought it was Rather funny because if anyone had been you know, they don't break into cars and that up there in the in the in the sticks They they kill people for breaking into cars, you know And there's actual cops that get arrested and you get thrown in the slammer. It's different. I had a very you know Jake Leiden, I know his mom and We both know him and he was on his way to college in Arizona and he stayed, you know, he's on his way So he's from Chicago

2:27:35 He stays in a Hilton hotel, like, you know, on the road, on the way, puts his car in the garage. Next morning, his car is gone with all his stuff. The whole car? Yes! From the Hilton garage. Everything. That's crazy. The world has gone insane. Now about this movie, Dan Brunetti of course is a super famous Hollywood producer who left Hollywood and he'll never return. This is his last movie ever. I understand Gran Turismo is now battling for top box office with Barbie. Well now, yeah, Barbie's is lagging because it's just over the hill. Grant Turismo, let's just put it this way, Brunetti's not quitting, he's just like, he's full of shit. John, F-bombs, S-bombs, what is wrong with you? Who are you? He is, uh...

2:28:28 This movie is terrific. If anyone, especially for you, I'd say it's a good family film because it shows you, it's got a lot of good messages. This is a positive film. It's a film. And I'm sure he got screwed out of something or other because he wasn't there at the end. So first of all, I think it's a great date movie. I haven't seen it, but I know enough about it. Great date night movie. And if you had to choose between Barbie and Gran Turismo, hands down Gran Turismo. Because it's real boys, real girls, real men, real women, real relationships, real life. And it's a true story.

2:29:08 It's really an outstanding product. I don't even watch many movies. I watch them at home and it's like half the time I can't get through the whole film. This is a no-brainer for attendance. Now is it as good as Snowpiercer? And it's on IMAX. Is it as good as Snowpiercer? Snowpiercer is a terrific movie, not a date night movie. Thank you Dana, we appreciate you brother. Daniel Mariano's next on the list and he's in Flugerville. We like to point out the fact that we hang out or hang out. We at least associate with people that are above our ranks. Successful. Daniel Mariano in Flugerville, Texas. He's in Flugerville. He came in with 333.69 and he has a note again, another one that's written out.

2:30:05 And it's actually on a piece of paper. And you can tell because it makes a noise. Yeah, it sounds like it. Yeah, sounds real. This donation brings me to Baron status. Nice. My accounting is attached. I'd like to be known as Baron Daniel. I will... Choose a better title and territory once I escape from the greater Austin area No jingles, but I'd like some karma for my fellow Catholic producers. Oh keep the Latin mass alive people It's a message for you in there John Nah. You've got karma. This is a message for the radical Catholics that are being watched by the FBI because they're doing Latin Mass. Well that's that's Void Zero. He's all into Latin Mass. Yeah, I've talked to Void Zero about it and as far as I'm concerned it's the way to go.

2:30:59 Then we have Stephen Draper in Stafford, Virginia. No note, 333.33, that gives him a double up karma. You've got... karma. Hey, look who's here, Sir Kevin Dills. We haven't heard from him for a while in Huntsville, North Carolina, 333.33. Heave ho boys, he writes. There's work to be done, Mr. Dvorak, more harmonica. Don't encourage him. Oh no, don't encourage it. No jingles, no jiggles, just karma, Sir Kevin Dills. Just jiggles. Duke of North Carolina. You've got karma. Evan Andrew Norton, 333 in Austin, Indiana. That's a different Austin. Evan here, not your typical swamp creature from little old Scott County, Indiana. Been a huge douchebag. Please dedouche me. You've been dedouched.

2:31:55 I've been a listener since around episode 10, but I've been a mouth hitter my whole life, the non-violent kind. Thank you for your amazing program, fellas. I just got back from my first Noah Jenna meetup in Greenwood, Indiana today. Everybody was so friendly, unique, and patient. I love the conversation, the people, and the food. I will be back for sure. No jingles, but I'll take general karma, please. Check me out on Instagram. At 5ks underscore six days where I promote health fitness culture and food. I've lost check this out 175 pounds in 11 months 200 pounds overall since 2021 depression and Biden flight of bite inflation be damned

2:32:37 In the morning, sincerely, Sir Andrew Newton. 17 pounds a month is a lot. Yeah, well it must be the Ozempic. Future night of the Scott County Swamp. My future video game releases at Evans Interactive Graphic Carts dot com. Alright brother, thank you. You've got karma. Richie Di Paoli. Paoli or Paoli. Paoli. He's in White Plains near Armonk. He's in White Plains near our mom used to go shopping in White Plains at the there all the time at the Zayers in White Plains Yeah, this is IBM and the CIA in that area. You're correct correct I Have been on board from about shore 1400 he writes and have never missed one because

2:33:23 I'm happy to offer this first of many donations to the best podcast in the universe. Obviously, I need a de-douching. You've been de-douched. And maybe some shame for waiting too long. Shame, shame. Please send me some new business karma in the form of a goat scream. I recently took over Cameo Autobike. Cameo auto body in Brooklyn and I'm now off to a slow start. It was my attempt as an exit strategy from the ATM business, which I can tell you firsthand with almost 20 years of experience is dead. It's dead. No one uses cash anymore. He writes. ATM business is dead.

2:34:08 That's interesting. But even with electric and self-driving car accidents, they do happen. I would like to put an offer out to No Agenda Nation. If anyone needs a dent popped or a bumper painted in a New York City area, come to Cameo Auto Body, 2002 Utica Avenue in Brooklyn, and ask for Richie. If anyone does Does ill kick back if anyone does I'll kick back a portion to the show love and okay, that sounds good Richard D D Polly D Polly D Polly all right Richie Goat you've got

2:34:54 These are fun. These are fun notes actually I'm having a good time Jim Donaldson kicks off as our first associate executive producer from El Paso, Texas with a short row of ducks to 22 dot 22 Hello Adam and John plus get my nation. That's you folks listening top of the morning. I've been a royal douchebag So send so I'm sending a row of ducks for the lads, please hit my friends I can't read this. Please hit my friends Becca. Oh, is this the one that's hard to hand? Yes, let me see what it says. Please hit my friends.

2:35:34 My friend Becca and Judy in the mouth. So I guess they're douchebags? Douchebag! And Judy? Douchebag! Uh, please de-douche me! You've been de-douched. And then I think he's asking for, uh... We all need, who need it, especially Becca and Judy. They need a de-douching job. It's karma, but he's not getting one. Jobs karma for all resist we much reverend al oh well I can do that resist we much we must and we will much about that

2:36:16 be committed. Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs. Let's vote for jobs! He's also known as Tuna X12 on all platforms. All platforms, all platforms. All platforms. That brings us to another Brooklyner, Scott the Welder. Alright. Guess you get together with Richie. Yeah, maybe he could weld some bumpers. Scott the Welder here. Man, it was pretty cool when ComicStrip... Okay. When ComicStripBlogger followed me on Twitter. Oh, that's cool, man, when ComicStripBlogger follows you on Twitter. He's a No Agenda celeb, baby. At the magic number of 222, Jobs Karma keeps on working. My wifey hates your show of opinions.

2:37:09 But that last round of karma went right to her as well as as well So she's she's benefiting, but she hates the two of us for some reason by that's a show of opinions It's a show of opinions. Well, we have an opinion about her. Shout out to all these Georgia listeners. I love you all. It's not my birthday, but give someone a biscuit anyway. They always give me a biscuit on my birthday. Adam Cover is in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. 201. First time donation. Can you de-douche me? You've been de-douched. D-E-U-C-E, deduce me. Can I get a shout out to my smoking hot wife Danielle as we celebrate our 10 years of marriage on Thursday the 31st? Of course! And they never had a fight! We are on our way to the northern border. Have you noticed this, John? I have noticed.

2:38:01 over the past several months that people spell border, which should be B-O-R-D-E-R, as border, B-O-A-R-D-R. I've seen a lot of this popping up. I think it's the right spelling because that's what they all end up becoming. Ladies and gentlemen, John C. Dvorak, he's here all week. We're on our way to the northern border with our six-year-old to see the big waterfall. Wish us luck crossing the border and continue the great work. And please give me some goat karma. You bet. Have a good time at the border. You've got karma. Well, here we go again. Liz Popple in Pinshurst, New South Wales, Australia.

2:38:45 A lot of Aussies today. Yeah. D-Douche David from the Hunter Valley. You've been D-Douched. He is my amazing husband, provider and protector of me and our two human resources. Thanks John and Adam. We love you guys. Never have an exit strategy. Keep deconstructing. We will. Love and kisses. Christopher Adamson is in Woodbury, Tennessee 200 switcheroo switcheroo this goes to his smoking hot wife Britain Adamson all right let me make that switcheroo Oh Adamson here we go switcheroo

2:39:24 So, Britton Adamson. Alright, good. Make sure we put that bold so we don't mess it up. Please deduce her! You've been deduced. Oh, here we go. I would like to add Sir TJ the Wrathful to the birthday list. His birthday is on the 2nd, that's Saturday, right before mine. Means he's a Virgo, ladies, he's a Virgo. Please check out his podcast, Into the Dorflverse, which I can recommend. This is a family of 10 brothers. and they make music. It's like the Value for Value Von Trapp singers. And they do good music. The Door Falls is a great band. Call Out My Cousin Mike is a douchebag! In fact, I'm gonna play TJ the Raffle and his Human Resources Everything's a Scam on the end of show mixes, which is... Excellent. It's an excellent show. Now for the last part. On the last episode I learned that Adam does not like for us to call it a pod.

2:40:18 He is known as the Podfather. Is he going to change it to the Podcastfather? Thank you for your courage. Keep the lid down. It's a warm day. Yes, everyone should keep the lid down. He's got you by the balls on that one. He does. What are you gonna do? Well, first of all, I've never called myself the Podfather. Other people have called me that and it's cringeworthy. Stop calling me the Podfather. Call me the Podcastfather. It doesn't quite have the same ring to it, does it? No, it doesn't work. Hey, stop doing that, smarty! Alright, there you go. Anonymous is up in Rutland, Massachusetts. $200, no nothing here. So we're gonna give them a double up karma. You've got

2:41:01 Karma. Alright, alright, I'm gonna do this one because it happens to be my turn and it's from Linda Lou Patkin in Lakewood, Colorado. $200. Thinking of rage quitting? For a resume that gets results, go to imagemakersinc.com for all of your executive resume and job search needs. That's imagemakersinc.com. Or find Linda Lou Patkin under the show's producers list. I'd like jobs karma. Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs. Let's vote for jobs. Someone on No Agenda Social said, yeah I saw this. Seeing as Linda Lou Patkin gets an advertisement every single time, would you be okay if someone came in and made an advertisement for glob homo?

2:41:52 I'm like, yeah, glob homo sounds like an outstanding product. Glob homo. Glob homo. Get yourself some glob homo. Code no agenda. Paul Hearn in Chesterfield, Virginia. 200 bucks. No jingles, no karma. That's the way to go. Grew up with Adam in Headbangers Ball, enjoyed John on Tech TV and Twit. I've been listening to No Agenda on and off for years, but I just recently got hooked and started to see the value. Whatever it takes. Therefore you should see my $200 producer donation as well as my monthly 3-3.33 to work towards my knighthood. Thanks for your courage. Thank you for your courage. And then finally from our associate executive list, and we are just going to go blow right through it, Dame Patricia from Miami, Florida, and she sent in a handwritten note which I have a copy of here. In the morning guys, my son's job was terminated.

2:42:54 So I'm requesting Jobs Karma for him. Thanks for all you do Dame Patricia. Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs. Let's vote for Jobs. That's right, OG Karma. Thank you to all these executive and associate executive producers. You lighten our life. This was a Good notes, by the way. Not too long, not too many crazy jingle requests. Fun, interesting, entertaining. Five stars. Thank you so much. We really appreciate all you do, as we do for all of our producers. And John's going to read us through to the 50s and then we'll get into some meetups and we got some nightings in a dame here, along with a title change.

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Associate Executive Producers and Birthday Shoutouts

The hosts read through the list of associate executive producers and $50 donors, providing birthday shoutouts for listeners and their families. They discuss a "make good" note from Dame Sarah in Houston and a gift box from a listener in Canada. The segment concludes with the official knighting of new royalty and the distribution of "karma" to various producers.

birthday· donations· meetups· canary melons· canada· houston

2:43:34 We sure do. Let's start with the tribal. Back to you, Bob. Yeah, we sure do. Boy, that was one of the worst handoffs. Yeah. Yeah. OK, whatever. Whatever. Tribal meetup in Greenwood, Indiana, which is credited to the raffle winner Bruce Blesinger. Oh, nice. One hundred eighty bucks. Emily's Emily Adams favorite spook. shufflecrat Michael Hamilton in Lakeland Pennsylvania $150 to Kyle Jacob in Spring Texas 1 2 3 4 5 needs a de-douching. Oops sorry I don't know how that happened

2:44:15 You've been D-douched. I told you the story about Joe Cool already. Yeah. 8031. He did own a 1983 Pontiac J2000. That's always kind of a funny car. Yeah. He's on the birthday list for Olivia. Mark Gill in 8008 at Dena, Minnesota. He's a de-douching. You've been de-douched.

2:45:03 I've got the boob donation and he is on the birthday list. Kevin McLaughlin in Concord, North Carolina 8008. Today's words are canary melons. And by the way, a canary melon is a... I have had that melon a number of times. It's one of the finest melons you can buy. Kevin McLaughlin's in Concord, North Carolina. Edward Owens in Alameda, California, 8008. Steven Rivas in City of Industry, California, 6969. Oh John, hold on, hold on. I got an air quality alert. Killed me, you did. Reported air quality in your area is unhealthy for sensitive groups. I'm so sensitive.

2:45:57 Kevin McLaughlin comes in with his second melon donations from Concord, North Carolina. Small Boobs 6006. New Century Melons. New Century Melons. Let's see how long this goes on. And now finally we've gotten to the $50 donors right off the bat here. And it's really pooped out quickly here on today's donation. Let's start with, and just name a location, Zev Green starts us off and he's in Teaneck. New Jersey, Sage Distribution in Chicago, Illinois, Valerie Ray in Plano, Texas, Towers Comics in Edmonton, Alberta, Buddha Towers Comics, Ray Howard in Kremling, Colorado, Justin Kaler in Blifton, Indiana, David Steele in Mobile, Alabama,

2:46:47 Julie Mindanayo, Minadio, Minadio, Minadio, Minadio in Costa Mesa. Ryan Sharp in Huntsville, Alabama. Kyle Mann in Cincinnati. Jill Woods in Ocean Grove, New Jersey. Tristan Henderson in Stritzville, Ontario, Canada. Brandon Locklear in Sugar Hill, Georgia. Justin Heiner in Vine Grove, Kentucky. Dotted Mind in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, UK. And last on our list,

2:47:24 Right there in Castle Pines, Colorado is Tony Lang. Thank everybody that's on this list profusely for making this a very well-received show. Thank you. An outstanding show actually. I really appreciate this. Let me see, do I have everything all set up here? Yes I do. Jobs Karma as requested. You've got karma. And thank you to all these executive and associate executive producers, to all the producers who came in over $50, and of course those who come in under 50, typically for reasons of anonymity. Also, you may be on one of the many different sustaining donation programs. We really appreciate you doing that, even if you're coming in as an exec.

2:48:10 just being on the end with a lot of people you see him 33 33 a month that really does help if you'd like to become a producer of the no agenda show be a part of the value for value revolution go here vorac.org slash and again thank you for producing episode 1586 our formula is this we go out we hit people in the mouth Order! Shut up, slave! Shut up, slave! Two things I want to mention. One is a make good note for Dame Sarah from the previous episode, 345.90. My note got missed on Sunday. Show was okay because it was read at exactly 3.33, but since it's a birthday note, I had to send a make good. The 345.90 was to celebrate the birthday of my smoking hot love of my life, Sir Zon's, better known as Rolando Gonzalez! End of show makes her extraordinary.

2:49:08 It celebrates its 45th trip around the sun on Wednesday and the 90 cents is for 45 more. Without a fight. I was happy to hear that you accurately stated we live in Houston, Texas because all of Rolando's end of show mixes have him living in Dallas, Texas. Although I almost hate to correct the record because this always gets a huge laugh from all of us Houston listeners. Rolando is the best guy a gal could ever hope for. He works his tail off for a family we truly appreciated and couldn't do it without him. I hope this fall brings some relaxation so that you can do the things you enjoy, including making some more end of show mixes so that the girls have something to dance to. And as always, thanks to you, Adam and John, for all the sanity and stability your show has brought to our family. We couldn't do it without you either. And then she does ask for a biscuit for his birthday, which of course we always love handing out. They always give me a biscuit on my birthday. And I want to thank Cassandra from Candanavia, or former Candanavian. She, remember, I think she sent you a whole bunch of Canadian pennies and stuff?

2:50:09 Remember, did you get pennies in the Canadian? I never got any pennies. Well, she sent me a whole Canada box, which is like they got stickers. I've got beer koozies. I've got Canadian pennies. Okay. And she sends me this. She's the one that she and her husband collect a classic muscle cars. Holy crap. They collect. They have a Hemi Cuda. Hellcat. Oh, that's a good car. Hellcat. And What else is it here? Hmm. I don't know what this other one is beautiful cars though send one of those to the P.O. Box Just just an idea Thank y'all very much I'm gonna give out a Carmen just for everybody who needs us to get out of this segment here

2:51:03 Andre Mackey turns 16 on the 29th. Wow, how about that? Dame Sarah wishes Sir Zonc, aka Rolando Gandalas a happy birthday 45 yesterday and Aunt Janet wishes her nephew Master Theodore Constantine Bell a happy birthday, turns one today. And she also wishes her sister Constance a happy birthday, she's turning 40. Christopher Adamson wishes Sir TJ the Raffle a happy birthday for the second. Curtis Cool, his daughter Olivia, happy Happy birthday, she turns 12. Happy birthday to our new human resource on the 29th, Emmett Michael Schultz. Welcome to Get Mo Nation, Emmett Michael Schultz. Mark Gill is celebrating and Ray Jacobson wishes Christina a happy birthday. We say happy birthday on behalf of everybody here, the staff and management of the best podcast in the universe.

2:51:57 Title changes, turning facelessly. Title changes, don't want to be a douchebag. No douchebaggery here, uh-uh, because we have an upgrade for Sir Daniel. He becomes a Baron thanks to an additional $1,000 marked up in support and value to the best podcast in the universe. We appreciate that. Two knights are on deck and we have one dame, so let's grab our blades for this ceremony. Here you go. Woo, nice one. Emma, Emma, Emma, Emma, come on up on stage. Justin Sondraeger and Alan, all of you are about to become royalty here at the Noah Jenner Round Table of the Knights and the Dames and I'm very proud to pronounce the Kate thee as Dame Emma Huntress of Unicorns, Sir Sondraeger of Bluffwoods and just Sir Alan for you we've got hookers and blow, we've got red boys and chardonnay, cold bush light and some salty pretzels, a five

2:52:49 Cincinnati, Chile and sweet tea, but that's not all. We got beer and blunts, Brazilian hotties and cha-cha-cha-cha-cha, Rubinous women and rosé, geishas and sake, baklava, minute-long hits and bourbon, sparkling cider and escort, ginger ale and gerbils, breast milk and pablum, and of course, the ever effervescent, the kind we love. We all love to feast out on the mutton and the mead while we're doing that. head over to noagendarings.com that's where you can see these handsome dame and knight rings anybody can gawk at them but only officially pronunciated knights and dames can have them and there's a handy sizing guide over there please take a look at that and send your address where we can send this off it comes with wax to seal your important correspondence and of course with a certificate of authenticity thank you for becoming knights and dames of the no agenda roundtable

CHAPTER 32 / 38 Discussion

No Agenda Meetups and Community Connection

Upcoming No Agenda meetups are announced for Denver, Mexico City, and various locations across the US and UK. The hosts clarify that a "meetup" must be organized specifically for the community and decline listings for events like movie screenings or gatherings within Burning Man. They emphasize that "connection is protection" and encourage producers to start their own local events.

meetups· denver· mexico city· burning man· community· connection

2:53:36 We are winding out the month, so really only one meetup today. The Mile High Five Eyes Burgers and Fries Meetup, which kicks off at 6.30 at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science in Denver, Colorado. And on Sunday, which will be my birthday, September 3rd, the annual Pig Roast in South Jersey, fitting, 4.30. That'll be in Medford Lakes, New Jersey. Contact the host. I believe it is at her house. Day one of the lengths. And in Mexico City, the meetup will take place at five o'clock at La Cerveceria del Barrio. In Mexico City, I would love to receive a report from those guys. And a programming note from the back office. We've had several proposed meetups that like go to a movie, for instance, They Live, although cool for the 30th anniversary, it's released on September 3rd, but these aren't really meetups. So the back office is declining those.

2:54:30 Really a meetup is a meetup. It's not a meetup. It's a meetup. It's not a movie and it's not definitely not a meetup within Burning Man. No, that is the opposite of a meetup actually. That is, this is not going to be done. So meetups are... According to Mimi, there's at least five of these Burning Man meetups. These people keep trying to put on the thing. Yeah. Really? No, a meetup is organized specifically for the meetup. If there's a meetup and the meetup like Indiana and all of a sudden a Burning Man starts surrounding that meetup, that's understandable. Breaks out. Burning Man breaks out at the No Agenda meetup. That can happen, but otherwise no.

2:55:11 Coming up in the next couple of weeks, Fort Dodge, Iowa, Rice-Friesland, Philadelphia, Fort Wayne, Anchorage, La Harpe, Kansas, we got Cincinnati, Ripon, Wyoming, Higginam, Connecticut, San Diego, Green Bay, it's all over the map. If you'd like to really experience no agendization, really understand, that there's people just like you. They won't look like you, they may not sound like you, they may not believe in all the things you believe in, but they are just like you because No Agenda Nation is bigger than anything you can imagine. These are producer-organized, it gives you a true connection to the community, it is a part, it is an essential part of being a part of the nation.

2:55:55 And as you know, connection is protection. NoagendaMeetups.com If you can't find one near you, start one yourself. It's easy, always guaranteed a party! Sometimes you wanna go hang out with all the nights and days. You wanna be where you won't be, triggered on health or lame. You wanna be where everybody feels the same. Like a party. All right, let's talk a little bit about Ukraine before we... Hey, how about ISOs? Now, you are... are you forgetting the ISOs? I got one. I got one too. Oh, this doesn't... this does not bode well. Where's your ISO? I went through a lot of trouble to try to remember to do ISOs today and I... I don't even see your ISO. Oh no, I didn't do one!

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Ukrainian Drone Strikes and AI Defense Scams

Ukrainian drones recently struck targets in six Russian regions, including a military airfield. The hosts discuss the "Replicator" initiative unveiled by Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks, which aims to build thousands of autonomous drones to counter China. They characterize the push for AI-driven drone warfare as a "money scam" designed to secure government contracts for tech companies like those associated with Eric Schmidt.

ukraine· russia· drones· kathleen hicks· eric schmidt· ai· defense contracts

2:56:50 Oh, this is a problem. Oh, I know what happened. I have the lamest ISO in the universe. I was counting on you, bruh. Well, you... I was counting on you. Here's my ISO. LOL. That's all I got. LOL. That's all I got. LOL. LOL. That's all I have. Okay, that's what we have to use. Wow, bad. This is very bad. I can't believe we're this bad. All right, let's talk about Ukraine. Ukraine is important. I only got one clip. It's about these drones. Now the drone story has been changing and in a newsletter I constantly, when there's an update on drone technology, I put as much information and photos as I can into the newsletter. And so now there's these new drones and they don't talk about the details here. We'll play this drones clip so we know what the base of this is.

2:57:41 On Wednesday, Ukrainian drones struck targets in at least six regions, including Moscow, deep into Russian territory. This was reportedly the biggest drone strike in Russia since Russia invaded Ukraine. One of the targets hit was a Russian airfield hundreds of miles from the Ukrainian border. And at least four military transport planes were destroyed, confirmed by Russia's own state media. The Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said according to preliminary information, there were no casualties due to the drone strikes. Nevertheless, Ukrainian drone attacks on civilian objects confirmed the terrorist essence of the Kiev regime once again.

2:58:22 It's clear that Ukrainian drones weren't able to fly those distances without assistance from Western satellite information. The Ukrainian drone strikes happened around the same time Russia sent its own devastating attack. Moscow said it hit command and intelligence targets. But Kiev residents don't seem to agree. Humans do no such things. There are no military objects here, nothing, just an apartment block, rest area. The missiles fell in the park. Ukraine's military said they shot down all 28 Russian missiles and 15 out of 16 drones launched overnight. But Ukrainian authorities said at least two people were still killed as debris from the intercepted missiles fell in four locations.

2:59:10 This is interesting. I know you might not think it's that interesting, but it is. Well, it is interesting for a lot of different reasons. One, the fact that these reports just don't make sense. No. But the other interesting thing to me is there's a drone that the Ukrainians have that goes 700 kilometers and it's made out of cardboard. Here's what's going on with this story. We have the, what is she? She is Hicks. Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks unveiled the Defense Department's initiative aimed directly at countering the People's Republic of China's rapid buildup of its armed forces.

2:59:53 The United States Department of Defense is going to be pumping in billions of dollars in the next 18 to 24 months to build drones. They see drone warfare, particularly water drones, where have we seen those before? Drone warfare is the future. And you know, we had douchebag Schmidt, Eric Schmidt, We had him talking about it and you know with all these drones what they have in them as a special secret sauce? Come on, you can guess it. What is driving the stock market already? What do we need? What do we desperately need? AI! We desperately need an outlet for AI so all these bogative companies are now going to be getting government contracts for the biggest money sinkhole that we have, defense, to save all their butts.

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Sean Penn's Zelensky Documentary Superpower

Sean Penn's documentary "Superpower," which profiles Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, is set to premiere on Paramount+. The hosts critique the film's "David and Goliath" narrative and Penn's involvement. They recommend alternative documentaries by Scott Ritter that investigate Zelensky's personal wealth and properties as a counter-narrative to the mainstream portrayal.

sean penn· volodymyr zelensky· superpower· paramount plus· ukraine· scott ritter

3:00:48 That's what this is. Oh yes, drones. Look how effective it is. Even a cardboard drone can go to Russia 700 miles. Imagine if we Americans put some AI into them. This is a money scam. Surprise. It's a good one too. Surprise. Well, speaking of scams, I gotta read this to you. I'm gonna play a little bit of a trailer of a movie documentary coming out on Paramount+. Sometimes in pursuing a curiosity about something going on in the world, maybe part of it is because you're looking to believe in something. There are people that you meet who are the embodiment of that hope that you want to have. The film we set out to make was not meant to encounter an existential threat to democracy. Just a spirited story of a comedy superstar turned president. Do you already know what this is about?

3:01:48 What other comedy quote-unquote superstar has turned president? The Paramount Plus original documentary Superpower tells the story of how Sean Penn heads to Ukraine to learn more about comedic actors. He's been working on this documentary forever. Yes. To learn more about comedic actor turned... let me read the blurb. To learn more about comedic actor turned president Volodymyr Zelensky. It was meant to be an amusing film. It is turned into a document of history. When Penn was brought in an undisclosed bunker in the presidential palace.

3:02:30 It's actually disclosed. It's in the presidential palace. The Russian invasion had begun. Penn talked to President Zelensky as explosions rocked the city. He became an inadvertent front row witness to this historic David and Goliath struggle. Through moments of levity, inspiration, and on-the-ground storytelling, it becomes clear that Ukraine's superpower lies in the strength of its leader, its people, and ultimately, its heart. Stream the new documentary on September 18th exclusively on Paramount+. Well, at least nobody will see it. Um... No? Paramount+.

3:03:10 Well, me, since that's inception of that product, my wife has gone, I don't know how to even get this thing to work. And nobody that I know of gets it. I mean, the worst one is Peacock or whatever the hell that thing is. I actually have Paramount Plus. Good, well you'll get to see it. Do you know why? If you're going to watch that, I would recommend, you've already seen these, but people out there should go to YouTube and track down the the Scott Ritter documentaries. Oh, about Zelensky? Yeah, about Zelensky. Very good. They document all the houses he has around the world and all the rest of it. It is, I would say, one of the top documentaries and it's in parts. So there's part one and part two have been released. I don't know if the part three has ever come out. But

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Streamy Awards and Dylan Mulvaney's Breakout Win

Dylan Mulvaney won the "Breakout Creator" award at the Streamy Awards, an event recognizing excellence in the creator community. The hosts argue that Mulvaney is being used by Silicon Valley to sell products like $22 smoothies and makeup to children. They view the awards as an attempt to legitimize the influencer industry for advertising purposes rather than honoring genuine content creation.

streamy awards· dylan mulvaney· breakout creator· youtube· tiktok· transness

3:03:59 They're definitely, part one in particular is just a mind boggler. Very good. Scott Ritter on a Zelensky documentary. Now it's time for our Trans Maoist Gender Update. Yes, we have some interesting things going on in the Trans Maoist Update, which goes beyond trans, but we like to talk about trans. just to see what crazy stuff is going on now. The first thing would be this fabulous award. Did you hear about the— Have we ever been nominated for a Streamy? I've heard of the Streamys. We should be. Well, we're not. I would assume that we, because of the quality of the product that we deliver for the last 15 years going on 16, I would assume that they would be recognized for a Streamy. It's not that this is a slouch of an operation. No, the Streamy seems to be only

3:04:56 YouTube, TikTok or the Streamy Awards is the... Let's just call them the YouTube Awards. No, no, no, because it's much broader than that. The Streamy Awards is the foremost recognition within the creator community. It is? Yes. Honoring excellence in a variety of content verticals and areas of... Content verticals? Who talks like that? Ron Bloom. Content verticals and areas of expertise. I think what this is, now the Streamys is produced by Dick Clark Productions and Tube Filter. I think this is an outfit that tries to legitimize this type of content, that's trying to build a advertising-based industry around it. Oh yeah, I can see that being an issue.

3:05:46 Yeah, it's probably a good idea. Yeah. I mean you and I it discussed us too much But I mean in a world where we would want to make money. This would be a moneymaker I'm convinced of it and the breakout creator this year breakout breakout breakout breakout creator Can you guess who the breakout creator is this year? Kara Swisher Dylan Mulvaney You know, I'm really shocked because I thought the only award I would ever maybe win was maybe a Tony Award But now I'm a musical theater gal with a streamy We made it to

3:06:35 made it to the mainstream. 532 days ago I made a coming-out video that turned into my days of girlhood series and my life has been changed for the better but on the flip side there's also been an extreme amount of transphobia and hate and I know that my community is feeling it. And I now know that even our allies are feeling it. And I look around this room and I just see so many amazing allies that have platforms. And I think allyship right now needs to look differently and you need to support trans people publicly and-

3:07:18 proudly. I think the trans community and the creator community actually have something in common and it's that people often underestimate us but I know that we can stay optimistic about just the future of transness in general because if we can influence people to buy $22 Air One smoothies we can also do this I just love you so much. Thank you. Thank you. That's that I played this clip for that thing and that thing only Because what is happening here Dylan Mulvaney you are being abused by the but by the people who run the creator community Which is Silicon Valley to sell crap to sell junk to sell smoothies to sell makeup to sell wigs to sell all kinds of crap this has nothing to do with your transness and

3:08:11 This is just to sell stuff to children. Just the future of transness in general, because if we can influence people to buy $22 Air One smoothies, we can also do this. I just, I love you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I'm going to go have a beer and I love ya. I love ya. Well, I'll tell you this. Yeah, please. Mulvaney knows how to, uh, he knows how to do it. Just Mulvaney. Mulvaney. Mulvaney. Knows how to do it. It's hard. I know it's hard. It should be just Milvaney. It's like a NASCAR winner. They plug every, you look at their patches when they come out, they put the mic in front of them and look at all the patches and they're gonna mention every one of them. That's because they're trained, media trained to promote, promote and promote. And is this talk exactly, John? I do have some, yeah. Wait, it's this talk exactly that you and I are having right now that is putting our country at a disadvantage

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Canada's LGBTQ Travel Advisory for the United States

The Canadian government, led by Global Affairs Canada, issued a travel advisory warning LGBTQ citizens about potential risks in certain US states due to new laws. Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland defended the advisory as a professional assessment of dangers to specific groups. The hosts characterize the move as "lame" and an "act of war," suggesting it is a political stunt by the Canadian government.

canada· chrystia freeland· lgbtq· travel advisory· united states· global affairs canada

3:09:15 for an actual financial disadvantage. Because if you and I, my friend, this has happened. Canada has updated its travel advisory to the United States warning LGBTQ people that new state laws and policies may affect them. The risk level is still green, listed as take normal security precautions. And the advice doesn't call out specific locations, but when asked for details, Global Affairs Canada pointed to laws banning drag shows and restricting access to gender-affirming care for transgender people. An actual travel advisory. Canada's turned into the weenie country. Who are they kidding? Well, they asked Christina Freeland. She's the, she's the, she's in charge of this now, isn't she?

3:10:05 She's the homeland lady or something? They asked her. Rebel News asked her about it. She couldn't answer the question, but I'll give you a little bit. It's kind of funny. Why has your government issued the travel advisory for LGBTQ plus people to the United States? And was this something you discussed with President Biden or your government discussed with President Biden first? So, you know, as someone who has had the real privilege of serving as Canada's foreign minister, I know that our travel advisories are done very professionally. We have professionals in the government. Professional professionals! This is proof that these people are dumb! We have professional professionals in the government.

3:10:56 to look carefully around the world and monitor whether there are particular dangers to particular groups of Canadians. That's their job and it's the right thing to do. When it comes to the United States specifically, I have personal experience of dealing with a diversity of US administrations and of dealing with American leaders at all levels of government, in all branches of government, and with Americans from... Alright, I can't take it. If you're in Canada and you want refuge, you can stay at my house for a while. Please, leave. I'll tell you this, here's the deal. Leave. Here's what they should do because of this tribal advisory. When a Canadian comes in, the customs and immigration should punch him in the nose. And then they would have something to bitch about. And if you're gay or lesbian, you're welcome here. Come on over. If you're trans, fine. This is lame.

3:11:56 This is really, this is actually, I think this is an act of war. I think it's something that we should be complaining about, but let's go to California. Oh yeah, well, yes, send all your LGBT, two-spirit by the way, it's not just LGBTQ, it's 2SLGBTI plus in Canada. All right, California. They got that straightened out. Yes, well, I've got to be official about it. This is action in California, trans in California. This is from NTD. A mother in Northern California won a lawsuit against a school district. She claims her daughter was, quote, transitioned without her consent. This comes a day after the state sued a Southern California school district for requiring schools to notify parents if their child identifies as a different gender.

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California Parental Rights Lawsuits and School Transitions

A mother in Northern California won a settlement against a school district for transitioning her daughter without consent. Meanwhile, California Attorney General Rob Bonta is suing the Chino Valley Unified School District for its policy requiring parents to be notified if a child changes their gender identity. The hosts discuss the growing conflict between state officials and school boards over parental rights and student privacy.

california· rob bonta· gavin newsom· parental rights· chino valley· gender transition

3:10:56 to look carefully around the world and monitor whether there are particular dangers to particular groups of Canadians. That's their job and it's the right thing to do. When it comes to the United States specifically, I have personal experience of dealing with a diversity of US administrations and of dealing with American leaders at all levels of government, in all branches of government, and with Americans from... Alright, I can't take it. If you're in Canada and you want refuge, you can stay at my house for a while. Please, leave. I'll tell you this, here's the deal. Leave. Here's what they should do because of this tribal advisory. When a Canadian comes in, the customs and immigration should punch him in the nose. And then they would have something to bitch about. And if you're gay or lesbian, you're welcome here. Come on over. If you're trans, fine. This is lame.

3:11:56 This is really, this is actually, I think this is an act of war. I think it's something that we should be complaining about, but let's go to California. Oh yeah, well, yes, send all your LGBT, two-spirit by the way, it's not just LGBTQ, it's 2SLGBTI plus in Canada. All right, California. They got that straightened out. Yes, well, I've got to be official about it. This is action in California, trans in California. This is from NTD. A mother in Northern California won a lawsuit against a school district. She claims her daughter was, quote, transitioned without her consent. This comes a day after the state sued a Southern California school district for requiring schools to notify parents if their child identifies as a different gender.

3:12:47 And today's Aileen Ng has the story. Eh, lousy lawyer. That seems like it would be worth a bit more. And you know they could pay it. We are now receiving justice from the school that decided to try to transition my daughter behind my back. This is so wrong and this settlement right here proves in the public eye. According to Fox News, Conan alleges that the school district told Alicia she may be unhappy because she didn't know who she quote truly was inside.

3:13:32 and then she was allowed to use the boys' bathroom and male pronouns. NTD reached out to the board members of the Spreckles Union School District but didn't hear back by airtime. This comes after Attorney General Rob Bonta sued the Chino Valley Unified School District on Monday for requiring schools to notify parents that their children identify as a different gender. Chino Valley Unified School District Board President Sonia Shah has been vocal about supporting parental rights over their own children. The board voted to notify parents within three days if their child wants to change their gender. All it's saying is we're going to bring the parent in the picture because we do know, you know, from parents coming forward that there is these inappropriate conversations between teachers and students. There is inappropriate things that are happening. So to me, this policy made sense to put those safeguards in place to let them know.

3:14:22 You know a friend of mine who has a 13 year old daughter in in school, which of course is filled with liberal teachers He's he's genuinely afraid and you know, he he monitors her social. She's not even allowed really I don't think she's allowed to take a phone to school He is so worried and he said he says to me Adam when is this going to end and I give him the answer that you have given us and is when these children who have been transitioned come back to shoot their doctors and parents. That's when it will end. Yeah, yeah, that'll do it. But now we have people who are just afraid that this is happening at school to their children. It is happening at school. They should be afraid. And we have... John, I don't care about... You be whatever you want to be, but this is the problem. This is the problem with the trans talk in America. This. And it's still in the UK, and it's still in the Netherlands. It has not gone away. It just has... There's too much money in it for the medical community. Too much money.

3:15:24 Part two is a second part of this clip. I like it Shaw says she has received many death threats targeting her and her family and one person has even been arrested But she still pushes on because she has people who support her and are in the same boat. Hold on stop This is the school administrator who said no if your kids are transit or turning trans We're gonna tell the parents So she's getting death threats. But she still pushes on because she has people who support her and are in the same boat who want to expose those targeting their children. She believes that it's important to let the parents talk to their children when they feel upset.

3:16:01 But it can also be a very good thing if the parents are involved and they're part of the process, right? Because they're now knowing that their child's talking to this person. And I think that's very important to respect those different households' traditions or their values or their morals. And if we try to be the ones as a school district to determine the morals and the values, that's going to only hurt the child. Chino Valley assured that the parent notification policy does protect students. If they believe a student could be in danger, abused or hurt by their parent or guardian, the district would not notify them.

3:16:37 So, meanwhile, the Attorney General of the State of California sues that school for this policy. Can you believe that? Unfortunately, yes. Yes, I can believe it. And Gavin Newsom has to realize that this is not helping his chances of becoming president, no matter what he thinks. This is just hands-off, good to go. No, I'm not done, but welcome. Thank you for listening. Tina comes in with my wine. Are you done? I'm still doing the show. What's she rushing you to drink for? She wants me to drink. She knows who I work with. Thank you, baby. It's happy hour, baby. Get her out of there. Did you hear that? Get her out of there. Thank you, darling. You know what? It is wine o'clock. What do you got going on? Wine o'clock? You have a basset hound who needs to pee.

CHAPTER 38 / 38 Discussion

Spanish Football Federation Kiss Controversy and Outro

The head of the Spanish Football Federation, Luis Rubiales, faces calls to resign after kissing player Jenni Hermoso during the World Cup celebration. FIFA has suspended Rubiales for 90 days as prosecutors open a criminal investigation. The hosts debate whether the kiss was a "celebratory norm" or sexual assault, concluding the segment with end-of-show mixes and a sign-off for the next episode.

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3:17:35 I've got a wife. I don't now, none of the bad stuff. I'm back where she belongs. I have one last clip which I just thought kind of fits in with all this madness and this is the kiss, the illegal kiss in Spain. Have you been following this illegal kiss? Oh, okay, yes I have. Another one of those topics I was hoping wasn't going to crop up on the show. This is a great topic. I wasn't going to introduce it but it's the funniest thing ever. Tonight, outrage growing inside Spain. We cannot express our joy as women without having some man interrupted and spoiling. As pressure intensifies for the head of the Spanish Football Federation, Luis Rubiales, to resign. It comes more than a week after he grabbed the head of star player Jenny Hermosa. Grabbed the head. Teasing her on the lips as the team celebrated their World Cup win. Prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into whether it was sexual assault.

3:18:30 FIFA suspended Rubiales for 90 days and in the last 24 hours, leading officials from the Spanish Football Federation held an urgent meeting demanding Rubiales resign immediately. It was an about-face for the Federation. Days earlier, members applauded Rubiales when he repeatedly said, I will not resign. Rubiales saying he was the victim of false feminism and the kiss was consensual. Hermoso firing back in a statement saying, at no time did I consent to the kiss he gave me. This has now really turned into a me too moment for us here in Spain and not just as it relates to Spanish football and the women.

3:19:11 that are playing the sport, but also just in a wider scope of society altogether. Meanwhile, the Spanish government has begun the process to try and force Ruby Alice out. An unbelievable story. This is a sports kiss. You know what's funny is that the big question that is on everyone's mind is all these journalists, a lot of sports journalists, you know, the question has never been asked. And that question is... Was tongue involved? Oh, this is a celebratory, like men in soccer kiss. The women want everything the men want, including pay, equal pay. But oh my goodness, there's butt slapping going on with the man. This isn't, this is a norm. And it'd be just, it was a big like, I love you. You won, you did it. And she didn't even look like she misunderstood that. The whole thing is the world. She was, I think there's a little peer pressure that got her all jacked up. Oh, you think?

3:20:14 And it's Spain for God's sake. I don't know if you're familiar with the culture there. They're always kissing each other. They're kissing each other a lot. It's all over. But I'm not gonna downplay it. The guy is kind of a creep, so I'll take the lady side on this one. They got those great shots of him looking with side eye like... He's a creep. He doesn't help. He's a creep. He's a creep. Alright. He's a creep. Let's go with that. He's a creep. Alrighty then. And who knows about what, you know, yeah. Yeah, yeah, please. We got to end the show mixes from Phantomville, Toby and TJ the Rathal and his human resources on the way. And after this episode 93 of Mo Facts with Adam Curry on noagendastream.com, the history of hip hop as it pertains to today's world, part one, there's a part two coming. It is a dynamite product. I really enjoyed doing that with Mo yesterday.

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