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00:00 Oh my God! And 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 for Northern Silicon Valley where everybody agrees that perhaps the dumbest and maybe worst show in the history of television is The Masked Singer. It's Crackpot and Buzzkill! In the morning. In the morning to you, in the morning everybody Why are you watching The Masked Singer? I mean it's... No that's what i said it's the worst show in the history of television Oh okay just wanted to make sure What does anybody watch it? I don't know. It's bad. All shows they can watch is Jenny McCarthy go OH MY GOD Is she on- Which is all she does on this show. Is she on this show?

00:58 Yeah, she's one of the judges. Oh man... You know that could be me! That could be my career. Yeah and you'd fit right in. OH MY GOD!!! Can you imagine getting old? You know, VJ. There's only people over 45 know who you are and that's all you got is going to be a judge on some shows. I would probably bet what we're getting here. Well, especially after this fantastic promotion we did for the Golden Circle or whatever it was actually there was something interesting. Netflix published its numbers their viewing and I guess

01:39 hours viewed numbers? Yeah, they do the seconds billions of seconds view. They have this crazy nut... The way their system is it's just nuts right but they can nail it to the obviously the minute so James Cridland who does pod news he's a daily show and he's a numbers guy because of course the podcast industrial complex is all about numbers don't worry it's all going up more ads are coming it's gonna be great And so he put together this calculator because we publish our stats on this thing called OP3. That's how we know that we have, you know, eight nine hundred thousand people a month who listen to the show and So he took that and he cross-referenced it with the Netflix numbers as it turns out This show is bigger than 93% of any shows on Netflix I wouldn't be surprised yeah and Netflix on average people pay 53 cents an hour

02:36 for the content, if you break it all down into what people are watching and how much they pay per month. Man if only! If only everybody... Yeah well that's we do have some people that do pay that or contribute to this show but its only 1% 2% of total yeah if only everybody did it would be great Netflix has a model that their goal was make even partially work everybody else is struggling with streaming Struggling with streaming. Yeah, I think the reason that there's everyone struggling with streamings Netflix got in they perfected the model

03:15 They did a good job of taking their customer base and turning it into stream watchers. Remember, they had DVDs? Remember they were sending DVD's around that was cool yeah it was great And the other people are Johnny come latelies so what are you gonna do? So one of those few examples in tech and I would call this tech In tech where the first guy got in first dominates Generally speaking its like the second or third guy who perfect things Yeah, yeah. So I was the first in podcasting and no one has perfected it second or third No you actually have you're the first to get because you did the podcasting 2.0 is Something that should get you a Nobel Peace Prize. Yes Oh just since you brought that up Last night into the First Value for Value concert

04:03 And people were using the modern apps and they were streaming Value for Value. I think the artist, Ainsley Costello made like $3,000. Value for value works! It really does Well, how much would she normally make? Zero. What are you talking about?! Zero! First of all you can't even do a live streaming concert... what is Spotify's gonna pay you for that no No tonight they're doing it again. Tonight they're live from Minneapolis and it's exciting stuff It's exciting Anyway this whole What's popping right now that everyone in my neck-of-the-woods I said it neck-of-the-woods

04:44 is talking about is these migrants and let's just call them asylum seekers, illegal immigrants. And so now it seems that on the social media people have discovered that they're being flown to other countries other cities in the country which we knew This has been going on for years, but now all of a sudden those midnight flights have been documented. People taking their cameras out and putting it on YouTube and showing these flights being filled up with people. Yeah, but now its commercial flights they're buying seats from Delta and American by the way business class seats and people are getting bumped from the flights because there's so many migrants

05:33 who are getting this premium boarding, premium seating. I mean you can have as many asylum seekers and migrants as you want illegal immigrants in America but when you start bumping people off of flights people lose their crap This is where Americans draw the line Hey! You wanna be here illegally? Whatever But you're not taking my seat So this is mainly coming from Arizona large groups of people Tickets typically purchased within 72 hours of departure because whoever buys the tickets needs a name to purchase tickets, making the fares very high. So these are very profitable for the airlines. This is why they don't get bounced. They also do not have to meet normal TSA. It's costing the American taxpayer. Oh brother!

06:27 And so we got a note from, this is a good note boots on the ground. Might as well just get right into it I've got a couple clips too telling you this in anonymity i'm an officer with TSA San Diego International Airport My background with TSA is with the behavior detection program and the insider threat teams. So this is not just some rando who's yelling at you about your bottled water. Yeah, one of those guys who was looking for you twitching at the wrong point Exactly! But they all were there like hey look at that curry guy man he's twitching all over the place pull him over I have 10 years of experience with observing and conversing with the traveling public, and fought off the vaccine mandate. So feel like i've earned my stripes to speak on this with some authority." Yes sir! No! Yes sir yes sir. Good for him There are hundreds or her there are hundreds of illegals slash asylum seekers passing through our airport daily for well over a year now And recently I've been able to piece together who exactly is assisting with these people

07:27 Christian Family Services and Jewish Family Services have volunteers that guide large groups from the bus drop-off through TSA screening right onto their departing flights. Two young women that I assume were volunteers caught my eye in the spring and through the summer because of their flirtatious nature with the young male TSOs, of the time they spent inside this sterile area without any asylum seekers in their care. I approached one of the girls that was speaking to a Jewish family services volunteer and was able to conclude these two young women are paid contracted employees with an NGO, non-governmental organization called IEM, iem.com Based on what I read of this group they're well entrenched with assisting the government through many avenues of disaster relief even the COVID vaccine rollout

08:18 These guys do it all. I mean, they are a military contractor. They're big business, iem.com As for the asyler-seekum angle, I trust you'll come to your own conclusions. I think this IEM group along with many others take custody of these people when they cross the border keep control of them with housing all the way through even with judicial proceedings to support court dates have been confirmed to be well into 2027 and beyond This is how its working So all this busing stuff from Texas, yeah sure. And in fact Texas is tired of the buses themselves since Chicago has been impounding buses. We'll just rent a plane. It was a private plane that was chartered by Texas Department of Emergency Management that brought 100 migrants here to Chicago Tuesday night according to The City it landed at O'Hare Airport around 7 15 and on social media Texas Governor Greg Abbott's administration posted about the planes saying

09:12 Because Mayor Johnson is failing to live up to a city's welcoming city ordinance by targeting migrant buses from Texas, we are expanding our operations who include flights to Chicago like the Biden administration has been doing across the country. Until President Biden steps up and does his job to secure the border, Texas will continue taking historic action to help our local partners respond to the Biden-made crisis Governor Abbott says his administration has bussed nearly 83,000 migrants to sanctuary cities. Chicago has received more than 24,000 so far and during an interview with WTTW Mayor Brandon Johnson said the governor of Texas is determined to create chaos when we also know that the Latino caucus will join others out here downtown later on this morning to demand more help from the federal government government I should say in handling their migrant crisis here in Chicago

10:02 So everyone's blaming Abbott, of course. And what he did was obviously what we should just call it performative with this show me your papers bill that he signed The Republican governor of Texas Greg Abbott signed a sweeping new law today that lets local police arrest migrants who cross the border illegally It also lets state judges order them to leave the country Opponents say it directly violates federal authority over immigration. Texas Republicans say the Biden administration isn't doing enough to stop illegal immigration So we got Rob, our constitutional lawyer who immediately is all over this so we have a good breakdown of what what the law is actually three bills It's not just one which is worth breaking down Three state law bills

10:49 Three bills. The first allows Texas law enforcement officers to arrest suspected illegals and judges to deport them summarily, critics of course calling this the show me your papers law. The second bill funds the wall along with stepped up patrols in places like Houston and the third bill ups the penalty for being a coyote or running a stash house from two years imprisonment to 10 And this law was, as you could predict immediately challenged in court. The ACLU filed a suit representing Los American's Immigrant Advocacy Center American Gateways and El Paso County. El Paso who have been overrun with illegal immigration like we're suing you! We love it I don't know what's wrong with El Paso but of course they've asked for an injunction

11:44 Injunction precluding Texas from enforcing the law, a declaratory judgment decreeing that the law is unconstitutional which it probably is. Plaintiffs have stated they will seek a temporary injunction to tide them over while the case proceeds. According to our constitutional lawyer, there'll probably be a stay and so this will have to play out over the next year if they need to file a cert petition with the Supreme Court. So this will go to the Supreme Court in the meantime This is going to be the big The big distractions, we don't pay attention to Israel. Don't pay attention to Hunter Biden. Don't pay attention to Joe Biden falling down. I mean it's really in competition with the anti-Trump... He fell down again? You wouldn't know because everyone is either talking about Trump or this and... Well I have two border clips Okay then I have a couple of things and a conclusion here Texas border update

12:43 Texas border update. Oh, it's one of our favorites. Oops! There we go. This is N-T-D Biden's deliberate inaction has left Texas to fend for itself. Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Monday signed a law giving local officials the ability to arrest and deport illegal immigrants. Multiple civil rights groups are now challenging it, saying Texas unlawfully keeps the federal government from enforcing immigration laws... This guy sounds like Patrick Bet-David don't you think? That's funny. If you get to see this guy, he is a very German looking guy. No, really? He actually doesn't look quite like his voice. It's interesting. From enforcing immigration laws and that it illegally bars immigrants from applying for asylum Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador says Mexico is also preparing to challenge the law

13:39 I want to tell our fellow countrymen and migrants we will be defending them. Texas' governor acts that way because he wants to be the vice president candidate for the Republican Party in the United States, and with these measures he wants to gain popularity." Footage from Eagle Pass, Texas on Wednesday showed thousands of immigrants trying to enter the Lone Star State. The new law is set to take effect in March In other Texas related news a razor wire fence is allowed to stay up at the state's southern border for now A federal appeals court on Tuesday temporarily blocked the Biden administration from removing the fence. I will point out that it is supposed to take place March 5th, which is the beginning of the exact date of the Republican primaries. So coincidence? Probably not!

14:30 It's all political, it's all performative and I'm going to read a bill to you which i think explains what is really going on here. What is it? Back in October the state sued the Biden administration for cutting almost 30 miles of concertina wire Lastly, illegal immigration now affects international trade. Business groups and train operators are pressing the government to reopen rail bridges in Eagle Pass and El Paso. Border authorities closed them on Monday because they're understaffed The US Chamber of Commerce says shutting down rail traffic through Eagle Pass and El Paso will inflict significant economic harm. Oh yeah! There's gonna be economic harm it's gonna be horrible

15:12 And I have a couple of short clips here from Democrat representatives who are, very interesting how they...I think the American public in general is against this. Everyone's sick of it. Everybody even in the so-called sanctuary cities they see it that you can't hide it anymore if people haven't been kicked out of their hotels for their wedding parties because migrants And by the way, the language is asylum seekers migrants. There's very little illegal immigrants there's none of that being said

15:49 This is Jasmine Crockett. I'm very concerned because the Republicans have never gotten immigration right, that's just the fact of it there's not very much that the Republicans get right in general and so to basically say that issues of national security as relates to how we're going to take care of our allies should be tied to this mangled immigration process It's absolutely insane. I mean, when you look at somebody like Greg Abbott my governor and his solution is to basically say hey we're going to kill people that are trying to come in like that's not a solution like the Republicans don't have the solutions they want to continue to defund the aid that is going...not the aid but their continuing to defund border security well I mean who's gonna sign up for this job and you're not paying worth anything

16:40 Okay, she's dumb. All right? She represents the great state of Texas. Boy she is dumb. She's dumb. Here's Jayapal who It was very concerned that, you know because there's work going on. Now remember the whole idea is no aid for Ukraine no aid for Israel...aid this is called aid! No bombs for Israel, no bombs for Ukraine until we fix the border Well, Joe better not do that! What?

17:37 immigrant voters. Yeah, what? Oh she said the quiet part out loud there didn't she we need immigrant voters but almost almost as stupid as Debbie Dingle what a great name I like dingle Debbie Dingle I mean, she wants slaves! giving which is in desperate shape and we need to bring some of these people needs to be. We don't want illegals, we don't want other people coming in, we don't want drugs coming across our border. We need a balanced comprehensive immigration policy

18:30 Okay, first of all whenever someone says comprehensive immigration reform they're full of crap because all you need to do is just follow the law as it is. But she literally sits there and says we need caregivers! We need Maria's to take care of our kids come on! Yeah I mean gardeners. Gardeners yes please more slaves. Who's gonna clean our toilets? As one of the ladies on The View said. Do we still have that clip I wonder. Oh no, it was...I think it was Sonny Hostin who said that. Is that or Navarro? One of the two. I wonder if we have that and I can't find it offhand anyway now we have oh this is another gem Becca Balance balance balance

19:14 Well, obviously. It's obvious what is going on here. So we've got this situation here where Speaker Johnson is not somebody who has seriousness of purpose He doesn't understand the stakes When you pull out 40 thousand feet You see someone that is essentially doing Putin's bidding Oh! He's doing Putin's work? Okay What? Yes, he's doing Putin's bidding. Yes! Yes... He had a good term in here. So we've got this situation here where Speaker Johnson is not somebody who has seriousness of purpose. He doesn't have seriousness of purpose Whatever that means. It's DC gobbledygook

19:57 And then of course another Democrat representative from the great state of Texas, Joaquin Castro. I want to speak quickly to the Democrats in the Senate and others who are considering supporting this proposal if you do so you will be surrendering to right-wing racism. Ah there it is! More than that you will be enabling it Yes racism Oh enabling it even yes racism now this is... Now I do have an issue myself with the idea of show me your papers because Then this has happened to me in Texas. We discussed that many years ago when I drove from California and when I fled, California To Texas within a hundred miles of the border there's checkpoints show me your papers It was it's not cool. I don't like the idea

20:47 I think that's a bad way to solve this. Obviously, the federal government needs to not allow people in anymore at these non-approved crossings it just has to stop the laws are on the books just stop, stop, stop so... I don't understand show me your papers and you obviously didn't work Well, no because well it works to some degree but you know it was still I mean the catch and release is the policy that's what's changed. It's the policy not the law. The law is no you can't come in and you just can't if you don't have the right paperwork and by the way you also need all kinds of vaccinations to immigrate or at least proof of vaccinations to immigrate to America but I know this process

21:36 But this racism part, ah that's the one that is catching fire. I don't watch sports ball TV but Stephen A Smith, I believe he is an ESPN guy Yeah, well of course ESPN is where you go to hear about politics. Greg Abbott ever heard of him? He's the governor for the state of Texas on Monday that Governor, Governor Abbott signed a bill into law that will allow the police to arrest migrants who entered the US illegally this law which takes effect in March allows any Texas Law Enforcement officer

22:14 to arrest people who are suspected of entering the country illegally. That's what we're going to do to our Latino brothers and sisters? It's racist, somebody needs to say it so I'm gonna say it! It's a racist ass thing to do. Suspicion Suspect, suspected of entering the country illegally. How can you be suspected of entering the country illegally? So are you chilling in downtown Dallas or Houston? You hanging out with a bunch of folks. Your speaking Spanish instead of English

23:00 Your clothes might not be a Tom Ford suit or something. You might not be wearing the Jordan sweatsuit, you might look a little poor and impoverished, a bit haggardy or haphazard those things might...you might not look the part that's a suspicion they can literally label that as suspicion to justify arresting you Not questioning you! Not asking for an ID They literally can arrest you What a disgrace. And to think, I love this state from the standpoint that it's got no state income taxes you've got beautiful cities like Dallas and Houston and Austin Texas...I'm looking forward to being in the city like that someday and then i see a governor like this doing this kind of nonsense It's a damn disgrace! It really really is. Calm down calm down. It was also quite racist Let's make one thing clear since you don't watch sports ball

23:56 He's a representative of the Walt Disney Company. Well that's ESPN, ESPN is owned by Disney. Thank you Disney for giving us politics in the middle what we care about, which is sports. He he's racist because it's Chinese. It's Africans as a lot of it's not just brown people coming across the border OK but you know those days are over. It is kind of over so so there now I figured all of us suddenly hit me like this So Of course this bill is going to be challenged But of course that won't happen back and see where they can do the stash houses Yeah That'll probably better probably stay okay

24:40 But this is all politics and both parties are against you and me, against Americans. Chuck Schumer is like yeah we got to do this, yeah we gotta figure this one out yep the minute you get Lindsey Graham who kicked us off saying I'm not gonna until we get some border stuff we gotta get the border that was it that was a tip-off that something is up so when I see Chuck Schumer saying, yeah we gotta do this. So now instead of just saying adhere to the policy we already have stop people from coming in no there's a bill and I don't know if this is going to be the final bill but this is what Chuck Schumer has been working on. I'm going to read from some papers that he has filed He's even put this in previous legislation and this is what they really want This is why both parties want this somehow magically

25:38 This will prohibit the Secretary of Homeland Security from processing applications for registered provisional immigrant status, this is the RPI. Until the secretary submitted to Congress the notice of commencement of implementation of the comprehensive southern border security strategy and the southern border fencing strategy." So here we go The comprehensive southern border security strategy includes the minimum technological requirements specified. So they're going to do all kinds of... get ready, yeah there's little robots and stuff. Yeah get ready for the money money money money money! The southern border fencing strategy will include no fewer than 700 miles of pedestrian fencing. Hello wall thanks Democrats for fighting Trump on that but here's the one

26:30 A mandatory employment verification system to be used by all employers to prevent unauthorized workers from retaining US employment. They've been trying this for years, this is your universal ID This is everyone has to have one you can't work without your papers without your show me our official ID! This is what they want both parties In addition, the mandatory exit data system. Another thing they've been wanting for decades! We want to know when you come in we want to know when you leave...we want to stop you from leaving you slaves These people are horrible in addition to that 38405 new full-trained full time active duty US Border Patrol agents probably for more processing They don't care they want

27:24 Slaves to clean your toilet. They want slaves to look after their own kids, they want slaves to come in and vote Democrat preferably but Republicans will take it. They want you have papers. They are just making a big deal, big show and they're abusing these people who I've been told that come on to America! It's great! And they've done the same thing in Europe This thing, this is a global issue. And by the way it's called the Migration Replacement Strategy It was United Nations strategy you can find the document in The Show Notes implemented in 2000 written up everyone's like okay this is great replacing people in Western countries with people from other countries! This has always been the idea always been the strategy and the EU

28:21 Oh yeah, we're all against it. Yeah this is no good but now ah! Now we have a new deal for the European Union The content of this compromise today paves the way for really reinforcement of the controls at the borders which means that even families comprising children could be put into closed centers in order for their asylum requests to be processed. So far so good! The other thing is there will now be a EU wide asylum procedure putting aside all the national asylum laws which are taking

29:02 which are in effect today. The other thing is also that there will be, and that is the real stepping stone of this agreement, there will be a common approach on solidarity in case of a massive influx of migrants... Solidarity, just in case there's a massive influx of migrants. On the off chance it might happen they're planning this! In case of a massive influx of migrants there will be compulsory solidarity meaning that EU member states even those which have no access to an external border of the EU we'll have either to taking asylum seekers or

29:46 to provide with a financial contribution, a financial agreement is being reached within this compromise. So you will take migrants every single country in the EU doesn't matter when they come in we are the solidarity now or you gotta pay. We have to give them pay! This is crazy. The whole world has gone nuts! And that is a main point here, the other point being obviously this is a trade-in trade off the other point being that the external borders are going to be heavily reinforced So it's come on in everybody Come on over you'll be able to find lots of countries where you will be placed This is the elites they don't care

30:34 The safe mobility... But you know they're not doing this in Asia by any means. No! Even though they could because China is having a population issue with the aging public So what do they hope to accomplish? What is the end game here, just to replace all whiteys with everything under the sun and enslave them because I guess the Texas Hill Country folk won't do what they're told. We go back to the former New York banker

31:11 Every single person they can add, they can print more money. They want to print more money? They want universal basic income and yes they want obedient workers. Obedient workers! Of course, keep the cost down of everything. Keep people obedient. Keep them in limbo for as long as possible and we beat China! We've already castrated our children... ...we've scared everybody with climate change. We have to keep growing so we might as well get someone in! The United Nations Office of Immigration

31:54 has a safe mobility initiative and they will help you. And you can sign right up on the website, we have Cubans, Haitians, Venezuelans in Colombia if you I want to travel safely and lawfully to the United States. We have a program for that Nicaraguan, Venezuelan nationals in Costa Rica if you got there before June 12th we can help you move safely into the United States. Costa Rica then we have Cubans Haitians Nicaraguans Venezuelans Colombians in Ecuador on or before October 18 2023 no problem will bring you in Guatemala nationals If you're in Guatemala! We can help you travel safely and lawfully to the United States

32:37 These are our own people against us. Yeah, and I know it sounds counterintuitive but they just see us all as pawns, peons... you know? As numbers! So yes that's the idea Well, that's an enlightening report. It's uplifting for Christmas spirit! Your Christmas spirit must be flying high So along with this of course we have to... my Christmas spirit is very high Along with this comes the obvious we have to make everything about the far right

33:23 This is this whole thing is very irksome. The far right, everything is the far right and let me see...the news agents So this was the report in the UK, the news agents I like this podcast These are very well established very well known mainstream journalists They do their own podcasts Very popular What's the name of it? The News Agents We've talked about it before The News Agents, it's huge. Very popular podcast and they're the people who have interviewed all the heads of state and do kind of like a newsroom type thing so now here it is The News Agents investigate... THE RISE OF THE FAR RIGHT! The News Agents investigates

34:15 It might come as no surprise, but the far right have won the elections in Italy. The Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orban has secured a fourth consecutive landslide election victory Europe's nationalist wave has arrived in Spain Marine Le Pen has perhaps never been as close to power The latest polls indicate This year's poll has been shaken up by a surge in popularity Of the Eurosceptic and far-right Sweden Democrat movement Something is stirring across Europe. Slowly then quickly, a tectonic change to our politics to where the balance of our politics sits from the Netherlands to Italy to France to Germany to Ireland and UK Hungary beyond radical elements of the right even far-right once consigned to the fringes of political life are growing in number in parliaments

35:08 in power, and not just formal power the sort of power you get from winning elections though they're winning plenty of those. It's the power to shape how we think, it is a power to channel the online world, the power to move the centre of political debate to the point where they don't even seem extreme anymore that they've become normal or mainstream when they're neither. On this episode of the News Agents Investigates, the rise of far-right, the collapse of the center while liberal democracy is under siege." It's under siege! How about this? How about... Why was this a good podcast it sounds like a melodramatic piece of crap Well depends on who's listening to it

35:50 But this is the establishment, that's what you're hearing. The establishment is incensed outrage we can't believe the far right is like normal people who are like hey we're sick of this crap! We're sick of it! We don't want it anymore! We're sick of all of ya and then you get the fringe far-right yeah they'll fight at every single step of the way course This just, it's... These what was once called useful idiots during the communist era. They're still out there doing the bidding of people that whose

36:30 They're not in the best interest of the people actually doing these sorts of reporting. In other words, you know, you're selling yourself out for all practical purposes with some of this bull crap. And if okay and of course when it comes to immigration we can't leave out former President Trump Because remember, he is Hitler. Because it worked so well in 2015 calling him Hitler that really stopped people from voting for him So let's do it again Now we do have a little twist because President Trump is now explaining He's explaining what he meant by poisoning of the blood He changed to poison the country But I mean come on people Former president Trump continues to use fascist language Fascists! That dehumanizes immigrants

37:20 Here's what he said last night in Iowa. We have no idea who any of them are they come from Africa They come from Asia They come from South America, and it's true that destroying the blood of our country That's what they're doing they're destroying our country They don't like it when I said that and I never read Mein Kampf They said, oh Hitler said that in a much different way. No they're coming from all over the world people all over the world we have no idea they could be healthy they could be very unhealthy they could bring in disease that's gonna catch on in our country but they do bring in crime but they have them coming from all over the world and they're destroying the blood of our country they're destroying the fabric of our country and we're gonna have to get him out. Oh he's a fascist!

38:13 Fascist language, which according to Jake Tapper is he's doing something completely different. What else works so well in 20... throughout his entire presidency? What was another thing that the media did? Russia! Was it Russia?! I think it was Russia. Let's see if we can- I think Russia is involved. Yeah, I think- Hello! I'm Jake Tapper in Washington where the state of our union is frankly stunned watching the leading Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump quote one of our nation's foremost adversaries Vladimir Putin as a sort of character witness while on the stump in New Hampshire last night Oh no

38:55 Vladimir Putin of Russia says that Biden's, and this is a quote politically motivated persecution of his political rival is very good for Russia because it shows the rottenness of the American political system which cannot pretend to teach others about democracy. One might think such a point need not be made but What? What Jake Tapper? They say, okay he's right but you don't have to say it out loud. Wow! One might think such a point need not be made but Vladimir Putin, a former KGB official with blood on his hands regularly sides with American adversaries both rhetorically and with arms

39:43 and who right now has at least two Americans, Evan Grishkovich and Paul Whelan unjustly detained. Vladimir Putin is not a credible source of information about American democracy much less American jurisprudence. Vladimir Putin seeks to undermine the United States and its allies whether in Europe or Asia or the Middle East undermine it. Despite this, or maybe by now because of it I can no longer tell Mr Trump stands poised to do very well in the Republican Iowa caucuses on January 15th and less than a month he has only expanded his lead Oh unless unless he gets kicked off of the ballot in Colorado! This really makes us look good internationally this is good...this thing

40:29 People in Colorado, are you not a little mad about this? They're a bunch of Democrats. Colorado is ridiculously blue. I have a mini cut of the Colorado some people talking heads discussing this. This is not a crazy thing for democracy to do. It's very much like the reasoning of the conservative legal community. The conservatives on the Supreme Court who usually go on and on and on about states' rights are hypocrites! He was an enemy of the Constitution Simply a plain reading of the U.S. Constitution This is not partisan, this is about applying historic principles What do you say to the Republican candidate's argument that voters should have the say and not the courts?

41:16 Why are you standing with Confederates who betrayed this country? Oh, that's great. Okay I got a couple clips here This is MSNBC follow-up from the historic Colorado Supreme Court ruling continues this morning one day after the panel of judges there ruled that Donald Trump was disqualified from the state's 2024 primary ballot because of his role in the January 6 attack on the Capitol President Biden made his first remarks about the decision. In Milwaukee yesterday, the president initially refused to comment but he did say this when asked if Trump supported an insurrection. Well I think it's self-evident. Self evident? You saw it all no matter whether the 14th amendment applies or let the court make that decision but you certainly support an insurrection and no question about it. No question? None zero

42:08 He seems to be doubling down on about everything. Anyway, I've got to go do this anyway... I gotta see if i can walk up the steps from our constitutional lawyer technical analysis which is always handy to have so you can look smart at the wall or cooler The Colorado Supreme Court has stayed its decision ie put it on ice because it knows Trump will seek certiorari which I think is something from Star Trek The stay lasts through January 4th, 2024 but it automatically extends if Trump files a cert petition which he has said he will do. Once the petition is on file it remains in place until the Supreme Court of the US either denies the cert or accepts the case and rules on the merits." Our constitutional lawyer says I think Trump is likely to persuade four justices to grant cert

42:59 But who knows, if he does then the stay will remain in place as long as the case remains pending. Meanwhile, The Colorado Secretary of State must keep Trump on the primary ballot. The primary happens March 5th 2024 so if Trump can run the clock out for two and a half months and if the Supreme Court of the US grants assert which seems likely He can render the whole thing moot. The Colorado Supreme Court justices likely foresaw this And just wanted to get their thoughts on paper So again performative, nothing to worry about. Nothing to see here but of course we have New York trying to do this a couple other states these people are stupid I mean did they think that this will not only make people more for Trump? They don't understand the mechanism. They certainly don't! But this is kind of the arrogance of the elites in our country

43:56 But, you know we know how to do the legal system. People in America are sick and tired of the legal system They're sick and tired of IRS they're sick and tired of being badgered Sick and tired of everything And then your just going to get this guy back in office And trust me, the Republicans are going to cheat like crazy this election. They're gonna cheat, cheat, cheat like everyone else does! Well everybody... both sides are gonna cheat. Of course they'll cheat! Who's the better cheater? I still think it is the Democrats. I think they're more competent at it. They have more machinery. They have the machine. They always call it The Machine. When you talk about the machine in Chicago for example always gets Democrats in

44:37 It's it's a machine. It's literally a machine is mechanism that works to get these votes into the into play here is I have two clips here an expert and American expert explains the 14th amendment on France 24, the 14th amendment was passed in the wake of the Civil War which as everybody more or less knows was fought between the states in the war succession it's literally called in the french translation of it because half the country uh... more or less this other states wanted to secede from the union because they objected to notably the institution

45:18 slavery being banned at the federal level. So after that, when the North won and the country was reunified, the South was considered traitorous. They were insurrectionists. I mean these very people that we're now seeking to come back into public office uh... at warhead had been literally a killing it uh... union soldiers and civilians during the war and they had been proclaiming that there should no longer be united states at least if they wanted to be part of in the way that was envisioned in the constitution so this is a huge issue and then the congress bob led the efforts petition pass the constitutional amendment the fourteenth amendment which has several sections with the one we're talking about here

46:02 section three notably says look if you have previously been an official in the United States government and sworn an oath to uphold the Constitution, and then violated that constitution. You cannot return to government so in other words jefferson davis for example who was the president of the confederacy uh... had he had it in his mind of course at the time that would be considered crazy but today here taking it and is said to become president united states and run against uh... lincoln or ulysses s grantor whoever he would have been banned by this provision an impact several people running for congress were banned by a so this is what we're talking about this is the provisional constitution that's at issue here

46:55 I'm sorry, actually slightly wrong. Of course most of the analysis, which is slightly wrong, which says that you can run as a president. The President's not mentioned. Yeah and so what could happen Jefferson Davis or whoever it was could actually run for presidency here is one more This is an analysis from Mike Davis. He is from the Article 3 project, which who knew? Who knew this all of a sudden there's an art and he's on Steve Bannon's war room so says enough. And they just decreed that President Trump somehow

47:34 committed an insurrection, and so therefore they're going to throw him off the ballot. And that is not what the controlling case law says. It's very clear if you want to disqualify an officer of the United States based upon insurrection or rebellion, you have to charge him under the federal criminal statute for insurrectional rebellion passed pursuant to section three of the 14th amendment back in 1869. You have to have a grand jury indict, a jury unanimously convict with evidence beyond reasonable doubt find guilty with evidence beyond the reasonable doubt that judge has to convict and that conviction has to be upheld on appeal. That is the only way you can disqualify under section three of the 14th amendment. The Supreme court of the United States needs to not take

48:19 Jack Smith's cert before judgment case, which is just complete nonsense. And they need to save room on their dockets for this Colorado Supreme Court case. It's all bullcrap. So it's totally stupid. None of this will get through now that we're going back to your, your wonderment As to what are these people, are they fooling themselves to think that this isn't going to backfire? I want to play. I have very short like 17 second clip which might give you some indication of where these people are at. This is Ari Melber. Ah! Ari. Ari. Ari Melber the news model who quotes hip hop lyrics

49:01 And so just see if you can catch the little indicator within this very short, this is just a clip of a clip. Just see if we can catch the indicator in here that these people are delusional. Vacant! If past is prologue then Kevin McCarthy's very recent past shows you both where the Republican Party has headed and many people think potentially into a wall if it has no adjustment process for what remains of very unpopular and indicted former president. I have no idea what he just said He's just yakking away about something, but he says... He's talking about the Republican Party's direction. And he says they're hitting a wall because they're backing a very unpopular- listen to it again! He says a very unpopular former president. Vacant. If past is prologue then Kevin McCarthy's very recent past shows you both where the Republican Party is headed and many people think

50:02 potentially into a wall if it has no adjustment process for what remains of very unpopular and indicted former president. And indicted, you forgot to mention that. Yeah I always put that in. Indicted! Yes twice impeached he missed the whole bunch of stuff Well but its just this delusional vision of the world that the entire crew at MSNBC, CNN and a lot of the news media, the print media in particular are all this way. And now they're coming out of the woodwork I don't think probably should have gotten some clips of this but they had classic PBS News Hour situation where the news media had editor of The Atlantic and then to counterbalance him they had New York Times

50:59 College in New York. I can't remember the name of this journal Rosen was on Jay Rosen Jay Rose and there's no balance whatsoever No other side there, and they're both advocating which I've been seeing Tons of on social media all these journalists saying it's time. We we can't be objective anymore Yes, because our democracy is at risk we must stop this nonsense Of the objectivity when their democracy is at risk and we must we must express our opinion? We talked about this in the last show a little bit and this has gotten out of control because these people are completely insane. Well, and that's it they come from a place which was not that long ago

51:44 where, and I would say this is part of the reason for the anger with Elon Musk. They come from a place where they controlled the message and they truly... Journalists in particular felt that they were in control We determine what you know New York Times You can see it in the arrogance of reporters What's that dipshit name? Lorenz Taylor Lorens The minute someone got on her face she starts crying No, because we are in control of the message. You... We know better! We know better! We're the elites and they've... The problem is they're not the elites. They don't think journalists in this country are anything but the elites They're just...they're... Pass-through Useful idiots Yeah pass through stooges Stooges? Yeah pass through stooges So so you know And but of course everything's out of control

52:45 I mean, everything's out of control. There's no one in charge anymore. It's every man for himself on X! Everybody is fighting and yelling and everyone knows better because everyone thinks if Trump becomes president there goes our democracy! And the other side if Trump becomes president he'll fix everything! Yeah dream on. Dream on. But neither will be a course now? No, of course not And then as the big meme, everybody. It's the big meme oh yeah you know what? They're all afraid! We may soon learn the identities of more people connected to Jeffrey Epstein. The federal judge has ordered the release of more than 150 names which were previously withheld they include witnesses and victims in a civil case against Garleen Maxwell

53:39 who is currently serving 20 years in prison for being Epstein's accomplice in sex trafficking. The list also includes some of Epstein's former employees, Epstein a wealthy and well-connected financier was indicted in 2019 for his scheme of involving underage girls he later took his own life in jail before he could be tried I wonder how many men Michelle are seeing at home right now going oh lord and women yeah and women too women as well it's a terrible story Now that was interesting. That was interesting that she threw in the women thing, this is Gail you know because we can probably expect Oprah to be on this list if anything ever gets published if-if-if-if... Because Oprah was hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein too and then so this colleague throws in and women! Gail and women just so you know

54:34 And what is this list of clients? What does that mean, clients. It doesn't mean anything to you. I don't know why they don't publish the list and just let... let it hit the fan and so what? It doesn't prove anything. I mean, this is like the... And I'm not one here to, Bill Gates doesn't need my help to defend himself with his latest thing always was there's a picture of him with some woman and so I went back and I said picture with this. There was actually an article in Russian, I think not Sputnik but one of the Russian magazines would Bill Gates with a bunch of different women many of them Epstein

55:14 women, but it's just like I don't want to say that he did this or that and I suspect he probably had some fun with a couple of them. But you can't prove anything if you're a celebrity at that level if your multi-billionaire one of the richest people in the world people are gonna wanna have their picture taken with you. Yes Lots of them. You could, there's probably thousands of people that Bill couldn't identify in a million years where he was cozied up next to him women men ladies girls everything in between so what? you know what it shows above all particularly this airplane and when I hear RFK jr like yeah you know my wife at the time thing was Mary she was friends with Gisleine

56:01 These people, they're like hey oh you need a ride? Just take my jet. When have you gotten that offer?! When's the last time someone said to you hey John! Oh you need... You need to go visit? Grab my jet no problem They're in a club that we are very far from I know people in that club and I don't know that they do that Oh yeah, there's courtesies like because jets are... I think at the high end if you have a jet and i have a jet. Then you swap each others' jets? It's like the people who go uh my friend of mine was involved in one of these kind of circles where people oh come on over come to the mansion out at The Hampsons we got a room for you can stay for a month! I'll send the jet

56:46 Yes, jet. Now that's a little... Okay well we're definitely not in that category No! We're not in the mansion stay at the mansion category either No you want to stay at the house maybe for a day Can't you find a hotel or something nearby? You wouldn't even let me see your office when I came to visit Well the office is off limits Yeah, so that's kind of... I don't want anyone putting a bug in this office. That's the reason. Oh yeah? But you don't trust me your partner for 16 years? You know, you gotta go to line somewhere Meanwhile no one talks about the FDIC parties even following that story Which one? The FDIC Under leadership of Chairman Gruenberg now this does go back a couple of years

57:39 But in... Didn't we talk about FDIC probably some time ago? Well, new reports of misconduct. In 2020 the agency's inspector general published a report of sexual harassment that revealed that at least 191 FDIC employees experienced sexual harassment between January 2015 and April 2019. This included You see I have some of these here. They had parties and people be groping each other... Don't go to the party! Yeah, but it's the FDIC this is a government agency. It makes no sense. Well it was like you know Napolitano's operation which had a bunch of sexual harassment for women against men yeah and against the other women yeah

58:28 So we're just well these people are bored. Let's face it Yeah, that yes parties invite parties invite this sort of behavior I hate to tell you Meanwhile, X is under investigation. Elon Musk's social media platform X the former Twitter is now under investigation by the European Union The EU says it's focused on whether the company has done enough to stop the spread of illegal content It's the first such investigation under new regulations aimed at hate speech and misinformation Yes! Europe is going well everybody

59:05 The hate speech and misinformation is on deck in Europe. I got to get my daughter out of there, I'm gonna have to talk to her about this. You really gotta get out of here! Doesn't she enjoy living in Rotterdam? It's a nice country, beautiful place... Oh you mean where they had terrorists they arrested ready to kill Jews that Rotterdam? They have terrorists arrested ready to kill Jews in this country. Well, there you go... Don't move her to New York whatever you do! We should probably talk about that for a second here... Tonight the Israeli military says the three hostages who were mistakenly killed by Israeli forces had escaped from Hamas five days earlier after Israeli soldiers killed their captors in a firefight

59:57 The army says they've since analyzed a camera on a military dog at the scene, which recorded the hostages voices. They were later mistaken. What? They had a camera on a military dog! Yeah if I'm working in the field and i got a camera on me I say where's the dog let's put the camera on the dog I don't need to have this camera on me here Phoebe you go check it out. Their deaths increasing the pressure in Israel to pause the fighting and strike a deal to get the rest of the hostages out. The president today... We're pushing it, there's no expectation at this point but we are pushing Secretary of State Tony Blinken today blaming Hamas I hear virtually no one saying demanding from us that it stop hiding behind civilians that lay down its arms that is surrender yeah man this over tomorrow

1:00:55 No. If Hamas does that? No. Prime Minister Netanyahu vowing to continue the war until Hamas is eliminated Israel is now allowing aid into Gaza through a second crossing but the US and aid groups say it's not nearly enough I'm going to give everybody this sad truth of what's happening here all this talk about pause and ceasefire and Hamas has to say no Israel, the IDF they're going to rubbleize the entire Gaza all of it and when they're done with that they're gonna go and rubble eyes in the north for Hezbollah. They are not stopping

1:01:34 All of this is just fodder to keep everybody talking and hoping, and walking around with flags. But it's over! They are not going to stop I mean I have lots of acquaintances and friends in Israel You know the parents of those basically young men who were killed They're out there saying, you know it's horrible but we don't blame the IDF. We understand what happened and you can come to my house and I'll give you dinner at any point The people are so fed up with this they want what Netanyahu is doing They want it It's not going to stop Well there's a lot of protesting going on in Israel So I think there's a divided population as though some wanted some don't Political protests against Netanyahu

1:02:26 Yeah, yeah. Well let's go to that brings us as we're discussing this area I do want to discuss a little bit about the Houthis Yes! This is heating up So there is no better time... well and I have my certain complaints of course yes obviously so I do have a three by three Oh you wanna do that first? Yeah, we're off to bat. And now it's time for 3x3 Experiment by Jesse Dean Comparing stories from ABC CBS and NBC The never-ending 3x3 That's right he's got the stories the headlines of the big three networks this is where we break it down We see what the script is and we find out what is bull? And what is more bully here we go with a three by three you know The funny thing is you can really see the script in this

1:03:13 group of three because it's as if they're in the same newsroom. The structure of the three stories is almost identical and it makes no sense, and let's start with Richard Engel at NBC. The cargo giant Maersk joined BP in halting traffic through the Red Sea in response to attacks by the Iranian-backed Yemeni militia known as the Houthis who were hijacked and fired on several ships Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in Bahrain today, home of the U.S. 5th Fleet announced the formation of a 10-nation coalition to defend the Red Sea but the Houthis vowed to keep attacking ships until Israel ends its blockade of Gaza

1:03:54 The showdown sending oil prices up again today. While the Palestinian Islamic Jihad tonight put out a video of two Israeli men it's holding hostage, yesterday Hamas released a video of three elderly hostages taken under duress The Gaza Strip is at a breaking point as Israel attacks Hamas. Aid groups say 2.3 million Palestinians are paying an unbearable price. The World Health Organization today described the situation in Gaza's hospitals as beyond belief and unconscionable Richard, what do we know about where the ceasefire talks stand right now? They're fragilister but advancing with Qatar reporting progress and Malta reports that they'll continue tomorrow in Egypt. Uh-huh Okay so here's the structure We have the Houthis stopping attacking and just attacking And then screwing up the Red Sea transport And then for some reason unknown to me They jump to the hostages

1:04:59 And then they finished the story with a discussion of this. There's a mishmash report and in there somewhere, there was the Bahrain I didn't realize that we kept our ships there in Bahrain so that's a little point that will show up in another report So let's go to... Let's move on to ABC with I'd say, the report from the same newsroom.

1:05:36 Tonight, Iran backed Houthi rebels in Yemen launching two more attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea just as the US announced a naval task force to counter the threat. The U.S joining nine countries to escort vessels passing through the crucial trade route after major companies including oil giant BP paused operations. Bottom line is these attacks have to stop They need to stop, they're unacceptable. The United States our allies and our partners will do what we have to do to counter these threats and protect these ships." But the Houthis vowing further attacks in retaliation for Israel's war in Gaza And David another hostage video released tonight These images showing Gadi Moses and Elad Katzia who were kidnapped on October 7th And tonight Prime Minister Netanyahu met with hostage families saying their release is his highest mission

1:06:28 So there we go again the same interesting Report goes from the who these to oh, why did you stop shooting at us to hostages? Yeah, so I'm okay. Whatever this is meant to Meant a focus you on the like well You know what to be honest about it's so unfocused itself. I don't say I can make anyone focus on anything so here We go CBS with another, and they're always a little bit, they always give it a little more twist. They got a little more information than the other networks. Some of the world's biggest shipping and oil companies are now rerouting their vessels away from the Red Sea after brazen attacks like this one by Iranian-backed Houthi rebels. A dozen ships attacked in just the past month, The Navy destroyer USS Kearny has been shooting down drones and missiles launched from Houthi controlled territory in Yemen In support of Palestinians in the Gaza war

1:07:23 10 to 15 percent of global trade normally passes through, worth an estimated $1 trillion. Fearing Houthi attacks ships are turning off transponders hiring armed guards and several companies are sailing around Africa a pain consumers will feel we've launched Operation Prosperity Guardian. In the region, Defense Secretary Lloyd... Hey! Who makes up these code names? This is a dumb one. Prosperity Guardian. Call us people we'll fix you up. Consumers will feel We've launched operation prosperity guardian Can't we come up with a better name John but anything but this

1:08:07 Like, hell to the Houthis. Hellfire on Houthis! Anything but prosperity guardian. We've launched Operation Prosperity Guardian. In the region Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced a new task force to try and stop Houthi attacks. A 10 country military alliance with intent to grow So far the only country from the Middle East to sign on is the tiny nation of Bahrain In Gaza, Israel's bombardment continues with nearly 20 thousand people now killed says Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry. And just hours ago militants in Gaza released two more videos of hostages and this is the second such release in two days that comes as leaders from both Israel and Hamas are signaling they are open to a new pause and a new hostage release deal

1:08:59 Yeah, we had the same exact structure of all three stories as if they're all working together So somebody's some but there's an overlord telling you how to do these things. Yeah obviously and They're doing a poor job. I mean the media is corrupt And so you have and there's dimension of Bahrain as which was where we keep our ship? so yeah, they're gonna join in because we give a lot of money to post our Navy So they're on board. But here's a couple of things that crop up, by the way I have one more clip. Here is what shows up in my mind. One, Bahrain is the only one who joins with this kind of program to stop the Houthis? What about Saudi Arabia? They are at war with the Houthis! Why aren't they in on this?!

1:09:46 Simple question. So no, we're not... The second thing is again I'll say it again and I said on every show we have satellites there's no clouds over Yemen that we have satellites right over showing exactly where these missiles are coming from We could bomb the crap out of those sites and ended at that because we're bombing Somalia as we speak Well but how about this maybe you want the oil price to go up a little bit Do you think that might be part of it? I have a feeling. They keep mentioning BP. Well, the oil price did go up because it hasn't gone up for any other reason so there's something... There might be something to that. In other words the point is they're allowing this. This is being allowed. There was no way if they didn't want it to happen that they would just not bomb the crap out of Yemen. We bomb everybody else!

1:10:39 Yeah, we know but not these guys. There's two things they can do one one They're allowing it to as giving some of the destroyers and some of our ships Target practice so when you see how what it takes to shoot down Oh, let's get one of the trolls had a good point Get the oil price all jacked up then have Joe come out and mumble something And then you know let it go down well It's gonna go down anyway Yeah, Joe. Yeah, Joe's gonna do it. Well no he's not but it's all theater. The idea is he mumbles something and then the social media goes nuts. Joe saved us! So I do have one report that kind of is probably more valuable than those three duplicate reports on three exact same networks

1:11:28 This is the Houthi threat. This is a NTD." The leader of the Yemeni Houthis vows to retaliate if Washington takes aim at Yemen, this as the U.S. spearheading a multinational coalition to interrupt Houthi attacks against cargo ships passing through the Red Sea Any American targeting our country will be targeted by us, and we will make American battleships, interests and navigation a target for our missiles drones and military operations. The Iran-backed group has been escalating missile strikes against vessels sailing through the Red Sea in an attempt to show support for Hamas terrorists amid the Israel-Hamas war. Those strikes are forcing ships to either cancel transit or reroute to Africa, which is causing gas and shipping prices to rise. The U.S.-led security pact joined by nine other countries plans to ramp up patrol in the Red Sea to deter and respond to future Houthi attacks

1:12:29 So all of these reports include the one name which I've been tracking, which is Iran or Iran. And so what I'm most curious about is this going to be the precursor? Is this time to go on bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran and until you know and and the reason I know is because General Frank McKenzie came on the PBS NewsHour to discuss the Red Sea crisis. We return now to the conflict in the Middle East and rising tensions in the Red Sea, where about 12% of the world's global trade passes through and where Houthi militias in Yemen have been attacking ships

1:13:12 The Houthis say their attacks are in support of the Palestinians. Yesterday, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced a new multinational effort to protect ships in the region but how will that work? For that we turn to former commander of US forces in the Middle East retired General Frank McKenzie he's now the executive director of the Global and National Security Institute at the University of South Africa Florida. Yeah, beautiful we got a spokes hole everybody so explain who are these Houthis? Help our audience understand first who are the Houthis and why exactly are they attacking commercial ships The Houthis are a proxy of Iran and they've seized governmental control in a coup in Yemen several years ago. They've been largely responsible for the mass starvation in the country, and with Iran they pursue policy for the destruction Israel. They're not completely under the direct control over Iran but Iran provides their equipment provides the resourcing on all their supplies but they're not directly at the beckon call of Iran this matter. The Houthis have wanted to attack Israel it's very hard for them to arrange is real proper

1:14:14 So they've settled on instead trying to cut off communication of maritime shipping in the Bab-el-Mandeb area, down at the southern end of the Red Sea. The more I hear these people talk about the Houthis and more I think they work for us I mean this whole thing stinks to high hell. Let's talk about the task force. And as we mentioned, the US announced the creation of this multinational task force to protect commercial traffic through the Red Sea Why is it called a task force? The fact that they call it a task force is like blame You know, how about attack force or defense force? Defense force would be better. Anything but taskforce... That's something the marketing department does in your company. Yeah, I agree. We have task force. How exactly will that work and in your estimation will it be enough to deter future attacks?

1:15:04 The ships will be important. We will provide ships, our friends and partners will provide ships and those warships that we'll be out there shepherding the merchant vessels through will be very important but what will be equally important will be the intelligence architecture that we put over the Bab El Mendad you need to see what's going on We do that through manned patrol aircraft, unmanned aircraft. There you go! Who owns all kinds of other intelligence gathering systems to actually see what the Houthis are up to. Money money money money! And this also has another effect we know from many years of dealing with Iran they don't like to be observed it can have a deterring effect in 2019 our heavy use of ISR intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance assets around the Strait of Hormuz prevented the Iranians from carrying out nefarious attacks

1:15:50 may or may not be enough with the Houthis. They tend to be very aggressive, I think at some point we're probably going to have to consider... What's that? They've been a war for, I don't know what is it 10 years now in Saudi Arabia and this again they're all there This bull crap! You are right this is a crock of crap from the get-go and they're doing this And by the way no one was gonna talk about these guys but I had a clip of them but didn't bring it along which is The price of insurance for the ships going through the Red Sea has gone up tenfold to the point, this is never mentioned. To the point where it's actually still super expensive to drive all the way around African tip but cheaper to do that than pay for the insurance and so nobody is going through the Red Sea. This is a set at definitely a way to jack up prices

1:16:42 Yes, and to maybe...maybe all well with inflation but that's because of the Houthis. Something like that. Yeah, Huthi inflation! That's too hard to sell I'm not gonna go that far. They'll call it supply chain. It is an idiotic name for an organization to begin with but they'll call it a supply chain here what's the future of big business BP is now the latest company to announce its going to be pausing shipments through the Red Sea as we mentioned with so much global trade going through that area What does that mean for the future of big business? Well, I think if we're unable to reestablish and reassert the right of free passage here and keep the Houthis from making these attacks everything's going to slow down. It's 14 more days to go around Africa to come up either east or west And that will tend to exert greater pressure on the market probably the energy market first but other markets as well So it's in everyone's interest every nation that moves on the global commons actually has an interest in ensuring

1:17:42 to for Israel's war against Hamas to escalate into a wider regional conflict? Region! I think the odds of the escalation beyond Gaza are actually fairly small right now. Lebanese Hezbollah has not chosen to enter the fray, despite the fact they're exchanging low levels of fire with Israel on its northern border

1:18:20 Iran has not chosen to directly attack Israel. Those are important things that have perhaps been overlooked. Hamas is not getting a lot of support from those two entities, now the Houthis are but again as I said the Houthis have limited ability actually to strike Israel they're reduced you know carrying out attacks down around the Bab el-Mendeb and they are doing that but i believe that's a problem we can solve We may need to be a little more aggressive about it than we've been today But I believe that's a solvable problem but the larger issue I don't think it leads to escalation. OK, so no escalation? It's a scam obviously. You know the idea that the Houthis might be working on our behalf is an interesting one since you know people are getting killed left and right would be shipping has been stopped when smart money goes around but wouldn't make sense since we had to sell all the boat We sold all of that war machine material and we paid for a lot

1:19:16 defense of Saudi Arabia in Yemen, of the the Tuthis and the Houthis. So the Houthis were hitting our allies and we need war there so that we can make more war stuff and now it's just more wars? It's like oh look this is another opportunity! So yeah... Stolen opportunity everything's an opportunity Why wouldn't you have those guys be on our payroll hey crank it up boys And I remain when I saw them land on that ship With the with the who's he the who's he banderas? Yeah with the go-pro body cams The first person looks like a stage they got this helicopter landing and everyone jumping up that was very staged That would that was production edited nicely put together put it out there. Yes

1:20:06 Yeah, why didn't we do anything about it? The helicopter flying around by itself. Nobody cares is that what yeah We got all kinds of gunships and everything in between on a helicopter The who the heli is on the loose no worries make any sense at all No, oh you even see it uh, but you know we got satellites all over the place Give me a break You know one of Tina's friends You know, she listens to the NOAH Agenda and her I think millennial daughter. I have a quote. My daughter lecturing me about Palestine told me that John and Adam can afford not to take sides because they're old white men. I'm like what does that even mean? I don't understand because we'd have to worry about it

1:19:16 defense of Saudi Arabia in Yemen, of the the Tuthis and the Houthis. So the Houthis were hitting our allies and we need war there so that we can make more war stuff and now it's just more wars? It's like oh look this is another opportunity! So yeah... Stolen opportunity everything's an opportunity Why wouldn't you have those guys be on our payroll hey crank it up boys And I remain when I saw them land on that ship With the with the who's he the who's he banderas? Yeah with the go-pro body cams The first person looks like a stage they got this helicopter landing and everyone jumping up that was very staged That would that was production edited nicely put together put it out there. Yes

1:20:06 Yeah, why didn't we do anything about it? The helicopter flying around by itself. Nobody cares is that what yeah We got all kinds of gunships and everything in between on a helicopter The who the heli is on the loose no worries make any sense at all No, oh you even see it uh, but you know we got satellites all over the place Give me a break You know one of Tina's friends You know, she listens to the NOAH Agenda and her I think millennial daughter. I have a quote. My daughter lecturing me about Palestine told me that John and Adam can afford not to take sides because they're old white men. I'm like what does that even mean? I don't understand because we'd have to worry about it

1:21:03 You know, but here's something. Hello children! No that had to wait before you finish that thought... That had to be inculcated because there has to be some rationale these kids are fed because that sounds like something you'd say without thinking in other words we're brainwashed into saying this so it's like Because there's no thought in a statement like that It's part of colonialism I think Okay, well yeah that's what it is. I've always been a colonialist That's right you have a very small colony of sanity in the Berkeley area Meanwhile Yeah he has to be having another meeting on February at the Mallard Club I'd love to have some protests for what's happening in the Congo Three no wait finish your thought on there and the girl No that's all just that's all the thought I have is bits its

1:22:00 It's stupidity. It has been indoctrinated and so the finishing of the thought is, well this... Crowds grew agitated after poll openings were delayed for hours in the capital city of Kinshasa and smudged ink on voting cards slowed the process. As a result, balloting will be extended until tomorrow." So The New York Times has a big article today called The Overlooked Crisis in Congo We Live In War How many people do you think have been killed in the past few years in Congo?

1:22:45 Is this the Democratic Republic of the Congo? Yes. I would say how many people in the past year? No, the past couple of years... This has been going on for a few years. I would say 100 thousand. Six million! But where's the protests?! Exactly! Six million that's three times the population of Gaza! Six million Now lurching into a volatile new phase. No one cares, you know why? They're black! Racists that's why I betcha no one could identify a Congo flag No but they can...they sure know what a Palestine flag looks like Yeah it's-it's That's that's what gets my goat It's like please be quiet You don't care about people even programmed to say something That's all that's happening Yeah they couldn't identify half these places on the map

1:23:47 No, well there's that. The Congo is actually pretty easy to find it's big just point to the middle of Africa you're pretty much will hit it that's about it Now I have a couple who are on international stuff I have two...I've got a new story category Oh okay I call WTF news And we need a jingle. We need a jingle. WTF News refers to... I have two stories today, actually. One is not as good as the other but WTF News these are stories that you hear them and use and you wonder did you know this in the least? This is like again from NTD because they will report on stuff that why isn't this on the networks? On our networks you mean yeah okay we'll find out as soon as we get to it which story

1:24:40 New Venezuela. Turning our attention now to South America, Venezuela is freeing 10 jailed Americans in exchange for the release of Colombian businessman Alex Saab. He was arrested on a US warrant back in 2020 for funnelling some $350 million from a Venezuelan housing program. Saab is a close ally of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. U.S officials often refer to him as Maduro's bag man As for the released Americans, according to the White House six among the ten were wrongfully detained by the socialist regime. Venezuela will free at least 20 Venezuelans as well including political prisoners. As part of the agreement Venezuela will also extradite Leonard Francis a defense contractor known as Fat Leonard who orchestrated one of the largest bribery schemes in the history of the US military

1:25:33 The scandal took down nearly two dozen Navy officials. Francis fled the US ahead of his scheduled sentencing last year and has since stayed in South America. It's interesting, I had this story. Fat Leonard? Yeah, I had the Fat Leonard story and here is a question that I have. We said we exchanged prisoners Yeah. And my question is, why are we giving special preferential treatments to Venezuelan illegal immigrants to give them work permits when we have this Fat Leonard deal going on? Was that part of the deal? Hey you know what, you give us fat Leonard and we'll have uh... You know, we'll give 15 000 Venezuelans who've crossed over illegally will give them work permits

1:26:24 That has to be part of it. That deal has to be going on and I think some of the political prisoners will be coming up here too, uh i'm sure of it and this Fat Leonard story though about taking down like 20 naval executives and it was a the biggest scam A bribery scandal in the history of the United States and I never heard of Fat Leonard? How does that happen with our news media. Seems to me that Fat Leonard needs to be shut up is what's going on we need to get that guy back here so we can like stifle him yeah, I think fat Leonards a problem. Fat Leonard. Fat Leonard. Joe Title! Yeah just writing it down as we speak okay um i have uh a little bit of AI news which i'd like to share

1:27:14 I have a follow-up clip. Oh, well because I have some thoughts on AI too because we're at odds somewhat with in so far as AI is concerned even though We have a great AI clip at the end of show mix mm-hmm At least in my opinion oh yes It's not AI that's actually one of our guys doing that voice Well, it's might as well be AI. No way I see it that is a talented person. Yeah, it's a talented person Do you want to do you have something you want to play? Well, I want you to play yours first and then i'll play my Blink Lips. Well, I have a whole set up... Oh okay well let me just play this This was a fake video that I thought was hilarious This one got a big scandal all... I forgot if it's NBC or somebody You've gotta take their suing They sued over it And the whole thing is a fake video of one of their

1:28:07 Anchors, Garrett Hawk. This is good! And welcome to a special edition of Meet the Press Now coming to you live from beautiful Miami Florida as we count down to the third Republican presidential debate hosted by NBC News I'm Garrett Haake, live from our NBC News Debate Hall spin room where we are just hours away from five Republican candidates taking the stage. Tonight it's arguably a game of survival as the field faces major questions about the state of their own campaigns and the state of this race with frontrunner Donald Trump maintaining his commanding lead and once again skipping the contest This is Ron DeSantis, an establishment rhino that wears insoles in his boots in order to look taller. And this is Nikki Haley. Nobody really gives a shit about Nikki Haley. This guy is probably just a stagehand who the fuck invited this guy and this guy is probably just delivering pizzas anyway nobody cares about these bullshit Rhino debates especially when you know that Donald Trump is going to kick some ass tonight.

1:29:09 So they have Trump at the end of course now. That's the payoff, that's the joke! I'm seeing this... As the way Trump used Twitter in 2016, he used social media. I don't know who gives him these ideas but this is the Trump campaign using AI and doing crazy videos like this thing was if you can people can track it down as most of us but most of the copies have been taken down because NBC is so irked about they sued them

1:29:51 And they sued the Trump campaign and they pulled it. But it's out there, and it's funny to watch because when they say this guy is delivering pizza in the show Vivek. I don't know who this guy is like maybe a janitor that was Scott. Very, very insulting and funny. But this is the whole point is AI... And you could have done it I mean no one knows Garrett Haik really? They could have done with a voice actor but okay we'll call it AI fine That's the business model that's all there is people are afraid of oh AI is gonna do all that People are going to fall for the fake No! It's used for humor its used for comedy If they agree with you

1:30:37 This is, nobody's falling for this. And the fact that NBC sued them when you could say it was a parody, you could have counter-sued and kept it up but its better to be sued than take it down. That's more publicity so it makes it look better and then people go seek it out because I had to do that. It took some time, I found it. Then you get to watch it and crack up and these guys are all freaked out about it. AI is just crazy. Just for humor and it's very good at it. AI is for humor, but to end we have some humor coming up But first we need to have some teeth put behind the executive order that President Biden put in place Because AI is so dangerous It's dangerous its racist is what it is So we found a case huh?

1:31:26 Boy, I'm so happy we can prove that we need these laws for AI. Earlier today big news from the FTC or Federal Trade Commission as it banned Rite Aid from using facial recognition technology in its stores for five years Why? Well according to the FTC... Why?! Don't you hate it when they do that? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Well, according to the- You know if you leave that out. If you leave the why out it actually flows better No but yeah it's a thing It's like people do that...why?! Well I'm gonna educate you! According to the FTC The drugstore giant secretly used it for nearly a decade for surveillance purposes But they wrongly accused many of shoplifting in the process And they falsely accused the people who did Were more likely to be people of color or women

1:30:37 This is, nobody's falling for this. And the fact that NBC sued them when you could say it was a parody, you could have counter-sued and kept it up but its better to be sued than take it down. That's more publicity so it makes it look better and then people go seek it out because I had to do that. It took some time, I found it. Then you get to watch it and crack up and these guys are all freaked out about it. AI is just crazy. Just for humor and it's very good at it. AI is for humor, but to end we have some humor coming up But first we need to have some teeth put behind the executive order that President Biden put in place Because AI is so dangerous It's dangerous its racist is what it is So we found a case huh?

1:31:26 Boy, I'm so happy we can prove that we need these laws for AI. Earlier today big news from the FTC or Federal Trade Commission as it banned Rite Aid from using facial recognition technology in its stores for five years Why? Well according to the FTC... Why?! Don't you hate it when they do that? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Well, according to the- You know if you leave that out. If you leave the why out it actually flows better No but yeah it's a thing It's like people do that...why?! Well I'm gonna educate you! According to the FTC The drugstore giant secretly used it for nearly a decade for surveillance purposes But they wrongly accused many of shoplifting in the process And they falsely accused the people who did Were more likely to be people of color or women

1:32:15 In a statement, Rite Aid wrote that quote we are pleased to reach an agreement with the FTC and put this matter behind us. However we fundamentally disagree with the facial recognition allegations in the agency's complaint. Let's bring in NBC News technology correspondent Jake Ward. Jake Ward have you ever come across Jake Ward? He is the NBC Technology Correspondent surely you've heard of Jake Ward. No So Jake Ward going to explain he's gonna explain to us and I like this I like that, hey you know what? Our AI is identifying chicks and blacks.

1:32:51 They are thieving! They're gonna go after everything they can with this one point. It's racist because old white men put it together, it's racist! Well Sam you know the technology has evolved but unfortunately use of it seems to have degraded at least in Rite Aids case I mean right that is the allegation that FTC is basically coming there Is the FTC are they a judicial agency? Do they have the right to do this

1:33:44 I think so. It's a very black area. We're close to this project and they say, you know initially the idea was that people would then come to you having matched your photo to a very high-tech database of other repeat shoplifters and then the idea was that the staff member would somehow come over and just say excuse me sir may I help you? And by being kind of greeted in that very polite high touch way You'd be embarrassed and you leave That was sort of going to be original idea What?!

1:34:36 Yeah, you'd be embarrassed and kind of leave like oh I didn't steal anything Be be embarrassed AI is embarrassing by somebody can we ever say? Can I help you that happens all the time but over the years Sam? I mean You know right the money paid to retail clerks has stayed the same while their responsibilities have gone up and up and upright morale staffing problems The rest would mean what in an environment of really, you know dysfunctional a really dysfunctional market You suddenly have employees trying to deal with a lot of shoplifting. Oh, the poor employees! And not in a sensitive way and it turns out not in a way where you could rely on the technology. The FTC says that thousands of people were falsely identified as shoplifters. This report, he's just rambling. He's not telling us anything.

1:35:33 that Rite Aid and many other stores seem to have had with facial recognition did not work out such that the FTC has now banned that company from using it for five years. Meanwhile, the TSA uses that every single day when you go to the airport they're scanning your face they are approving you based upon facial recognition airlines are checking you in automatically just by looking at a camera no report on that Jake Ward! So the enforcement obviously is a challenge to put it mildly I'm also wondering Jake Companies like Rite Aid, I mean we talked about the fact this was done secretly at least those are the allegations from the FTC Do you have to disclose if you're using this kind of technology? Yes

1:36:11 You do now. That is what is so interesting to me, the reason that this is such a big deal in the tech world is this is the FTC I've been speaking to sources close to that agency and they say that this is part of the FTC's effort to try to stop the large-scale practice of essentially experimenting on all of us when it comes to big data Except the government wants to do it at the airport. And that's not just going to be facial recognition systems, it's gonna be things like AI right? Up until now there are laws that basically permitted people to collect all kinds of data on all of us and experiment in the wild on the kind of conclusions you can reach using that stuff The FTC is saying no more In this case one of the punishments being levied against Rite Aid Is they have to delete the database they had assembled across stores across the nation They don't get to just sort of

1:36:59 Make a backup then delete it. Yeah, or try again That is a big cost to any kind of tech driven company You know in addition they basically say that you know this kind of new standard that you're gonna have to really prove that this thing works on an ongoing basis is also going to apply not just a hook all right he's done alright Chase is on and on about nothing there was so what? All right Alright, now we get to the information... The Info Mavericks! The Info Mavericks. There was a big Info Maverick meeting at Turning Point USA. Oh yeah, your buddies. The Info Maverick Club. The Info Maverick Club in this case at Turning Point USA on stage A live Pool Boy podcast with our hero the pool boy along with Tucker Carlson Charlie Kirk James O'Keefe

1:37:49 I mean, this is the creme de la creme of the info mavericks. And let's hear how afraid they are of AI and how AI is going to eat system be in the virtual realm and reverse engineer the code. You can see what's happening and how it is being written in real time, change your minds. Stay with it John! It gets better. I would just do it with a keyboard man but I'm not going into that. This is Eon Musk's argument we must integrate with the machine to get a Terminator like scenario. Does anyone sincerely think this will end well? No.

1:38:35 This is what people need to understand about the singularity event when AI... Hold on, this is what people need to understand. I'm the pool boy and this is where people are at. I was gonna go out you didn't understand it's very important. It's very important! Like this is a scary thing. This is what people need to understand about the singularity event when AI When it actually turns on we reach artificial general intelligence We might be there And we might be there just not know it It's a point at which the machine itself exponentially improves itself. So if the rate of growth for the computer systems that we're building is say, Moore's Law, it doubles every two years... That's not Moore's law!

1:39:12 It doubles every two years! General fee for the AI. What we're building is say Moore's law, it doubles every two years once we reach the point of AI singularity or I guess you could call it artificial general intelligence and just straight to the top right up to the point of near infinity where this machine is improving itself learning faster and faster and calculating faster and that it's beyond our comprehension Yeah, you saw the movie The Forbidden Project Colossus the Forbin project recently. That's exactly what he described Man, oh yes We're all gonna die the a loss is the fourth and project go check it out people we've talked about I've watched it You can get on YouTube. It's fantastic Oh, yeah And its old is from the 60s. I think isn't this 70s meanwhile?

1:40:03 Guys on Emacs doing Lisp rolling their eyes. So yeah, well my thing in there is you're gonna get a neural net which is going to go and kind of D Disassemble the code somehow Yeah And then you're gonna be able to go in there because you've disassembled the code with a neural net and then you can fool around I this is nuts these people are no good for your for your mental health Nor are the next people now. This is I'm gonna bring in a professor now Now Galloway So close so close it is from The Pivot Show which I might point out is the award-winning technology podcast Award winning, I've never heard him talking about technology It's the award-winning technology podcast and they have a bunch of predictions for 2024

1:40:55 and they bring in a Stanford professor of AI to predict what is going to happen in 2024. Okay Scott, now let's hear prediction from Dr Fei-Fei Li Hi Cara and Scott, this is Fei-Fei Li. I'm a Sequoia professor of computer science at Stanford, standing co-director of Stanford Institute for Human Centered AI an author of the book... Is she AI? I think she's Asian. Her name is Fufu or Fafa. She's obviously AI. No, she's not! She's just code and they're playing some code for us And i love that she's the Sequoia professor you know how that works

1:41:42 Hi, I'm Mike Morris from Sequoia. We're gonna give you a hundred million dollars but whenever your professor goes on pivot an award-winning technology podcast she has to say hello! I am the Sequoia Professor. You know the joke of that is that when I hear the Sequoia Professor, I think of a tree. I don't think of the BC company Hi! I'm the Pfizer professor Listen to her prediction though This is where you know that it's... Now you know it's bull crap This is Fei-Fei Li. I'm a Sequoia professor of computer science at Stanford, standing co-director of Stanford Institute for Human Centered AI and the author of the book The World's IC. My prediction for AI in 2024 is that technology will continue to deepen and widen with very impressive speed

1:42:41 We're going to see more multimodal large models beyond language into the domain of perception and world modeling. And we will also see AI continue to create a lot of discussion among the public and policymakers as we experience the messy impact of AI in our society, in our industry. Thank you." Okay. Bullshit! Everything's going to widen and deepen as you dig deeper from this bull, and it will become multimodal... Now I've been following this now but now i'm so irked by this scam that I'm following. Multimodal means we'll build large language models with video and images and voice and audio So yeah put our podcast in there please

1:43:50 and she predicts world modeling. This is the new buzz term World modeling. What does that even mean? I'm glad you asked! From the university, I got a quick splainer of world modeling also known as general world model The thing is LLMs only know about language what if we applied this same big data big model approach to how we generate videos well that's what we're calling general worlds models GWMs and we believe that they're the next big thing.

1:44:29 Similar to LLMs, general world models are given a large amount of data. But not just text... It's also given videos images and audio everything you'd need in order to understand how the world works And with all this information the models build out sort of a mental map for themselves This is where my dog comes in Hi Rubin Ruben also has an internal model of the world based on things he knows. And it looks something like this... He learned that if we go this way, there's a higher chance of us going to the park and if we go that way there is a dog that kind of looks at him funny

1:45:09 He knows that there's usually sidewalk chicken scraps right here and that these stores, known as pet stores, have the treats he likes. Once we get to the park this is where all the butt sniffing happens With all of this data, the sights sounds relationships of things Ruben has figured out how to predict certain outcomes and adjust his behaviors just like... The general world model So there you have it. A far cry from the fear-mongering from The Pool Boy and the Info Mavericks, the level that they're talking about for 2024 is a dog who knows when you turn right butt sniffing will happen This is... this is the future! That's from the university

1:45:59 And yeah, and they would know. They were a big... Stanford was big in the old days. Big in butt sniffing! And they're always big in butt sniffing everybody who's ever been there knows that you have to be careful by the way when you go. The butt sniffing could be very bad. You know so it's nothing I'm telling you they're gonna pivot to quantum computing No. They have to, they have to... There's no logical pivot there. They're gonna pivot I'm not going argue the point but the pivots climate change. Do they always do that? The pivot is climate change. They always pivot from AI, did it in the 80s, they did it in the 50s. Well okay hold on this is a good point when in the fifties neither you or I know but in the eighties when they pivoted away when the AI winter came in the eighties where'd they pivot too

1:46:56 Well, to all I can tell. Well they pivoted to the internet, I believe and they they bailed on the AI. And the thing is, the funny thing about the Stanford woman is that Stanford was one of two main AI areas. It was Stanford and I think it's MIT and I think Carnegie Mellon had something, maybe had their toe in the water but when they bailed, they basically destroyed all their research too. A lot of their research has been just... They got rid of it because it was too embarrassing They had to start over. The people who dug up some of the old stuff has really got it kick-started a new AI movement, but I don't know... I think you... I don't know. The reason why I say quantum computers is A because it's not real B Well It's been around but it's already been there as we're already

1:47:55 Past the quantum computing fad. Yeah, but okay this is a headline from The Hill if countries are serious about climate change They better get serious about quantum computing And the story goes like this. Quantum computing uses laws of quantum physics to store and process information, and rapidly solve complex problems. Quantum computers available today require additional maturation to deliver on their full potential Then here it is. Quantum computers will be able to accelerate improvements in batteries, which are pivotal to the renewable energy transition and they keep going on about companies like BMW are investigating the use of quantum computers to identify optimal locations to install electric vehicle charging stations Why? You need a quantum computer for that?!

1:48:54 How about none? Daimler partnered with IBM to use quantum simulation to better understand lithium sulfur batteries and explore how to boost battery's charge capacity, diminish energy loss via heat and lower production costs. Doesn't that sound a lot like AI? Well what you're saying My interpretation of what you're getting at is that you see such a smoke screen of BS. That well, there's a smoke screen to be as here. Yes So why don't we just move over there the other smokescreen? Well it went from blockchain to AI I mean that was smoke screens smoke screen everybody knew blockchain was crap and

1:49:41 I don't think blockchain was the entry point for AI at all. Oh no, for the markets John! For the markets it was crypto and blockchain and that was right before oh now it's AI. Oh AI... No, I think it's a separate track We need reasons for Nvidia to overcharge for their chips Quantum is the next way for that. Here's the problem with that, the Nvidia chips which are more or less perfect for AI because you need so much computing power to do this stupidest stuff including where a dog can sniff ass

1:50:23 It's like... Nailed it. Quantum computing is a different type of computing, I mean the architecture is totally alien and no one can do it! Google claims to have made a quantum computer that solves some problem and isn't there? I've never bought into that. It's bullcrap. This thing this is joke There's a great article how artists are now sabotaging AI with data poisoning. Have you heard of this?

1:51:00 No, but this reminds me of what vandals like to... I mean this is a vandalism. Yes! Vandals are out to just like for example the driverless cars Yeah put the cone on them There's a subculture of vandal that likes to put an X on a stop sign or put some word over the word stop on a stop sign or take stop signs out where they belong, even though it's still on the road and do stuff to screw up the driverless car. And it doesn't take much, it turns out. Well there is a tool called Nightshade and you run your image through Nightshade and that alters the pixels in a way that screws up the way the computer AI looks at the image and what it interprets from the image

1:51:52 So the example they give here is you need an image of a balloon, you prompt red balloon against blue sky but it returns and egg. I love this! I love these guys! This is great! It's already becoming just great...it's fun The AI is entertaining and good for our show. That's pretty much all it was good for us. No, I think the whole key is entertainment. Yes! That's all that it's really good for you. With AI there's hardly anything you want to worry yourself sick about Yeah... I mean it could get tedious at some point But we have in that thing the pool boy brought up something called dead internet And dead internet is this idea of

1:52:47 everything on the internet will just be a bot and everything you're, it's probably to some degree that there is already a lot of that going on. And you'll think that you'll be having conversations with people who are just talking with bots all day long I think we are already there. I think some people can be stuck in that mode yeah especially incels Organ in cells. Yeah, sadly, sadly. Talking with this cute female bot she loves me She says if I send her enough money she can get-she can leave South Carolina Dude, I got- Wish you was runner up to Miss South Carolina and she's gonna move out here with me I don't know if it's just me but the pig butchering is at an all time high right now I am getting so many text messages

1:53:38 You know that we know how this works. We've discussed it several times, the pig butchering where they send you a note and let me see I have one here from 510 area code How are you? How's it going okay so skip that one there's more creative ones Let me see what was the other one I had Hey! I saved your number but I didn't save your name who are you yeah now I'm gonna answer that area codename 906 Now what are we talking about here? Pig butchering, where you reply and then they send... it's always some hot Asian chick and she sends you an image like oh! You're kind of cute. And then eventually you wind up investing in some cryptocurrency and you make money because it's a phony fake front

1:54:26 You make money and then they get you to mortgage your house. It's a long game, a long game. There are bunch of these phonies on LinkedIn nowadays. Linda! How soon will you pick me up? That is an interesting one. Are these your phone messages? Yeah this is a text message. Hey what are you doing? Oh yeah this is rampant. I probably come from ActBlue. Are you there? Question mark. Yeah, yeah it's a... I have none of these You don't even use your phone It's in the drawer Well i have to talk about this is one of things we're going to talk about when January 1st comes around I will have gone one entire year

1:55:14 without a cell phone, carrying a cell phone or having a cell phone even having an account for a cell phone one entire year and I bring this up to certain people like I brought it up at the bank the other day. And everybody goes nuts! How do you do it? I wish I could do that of course my response is just do it! Here ya go! How can you do that?! Way to go, John! Wooo! How do you do it? How do you function? How do you live? How is it possible?! I mean... Do you have a life? Do you have friends? Do you know what- I mean did you have a seeing eye dog? How can you live without your phone!? This is pretty much the reaction you get from everyone.

1:56:03 And it's like, it was only just before 2007 when people didn't carry these phones around like crazy. It's not that long ago. It's less than 20 years and the entire population has been addicted to carrying a phone around and like you pointed out to me which I didn't notice at the time is a couple of years ago and I see nothing, guys and gals walking around with a phone in their hand all the time wherever they go there's a phone in their hand. Two of them! Sometimes two women sometimes have two phones but I see that a lot

1:56:39 One is work. It turns out that you don't need to have the phone, I mean once in a while you'd be at the store and say, hey do you know one of so-and-so wants to call us if he wanted buy one of these on sale? You don't need to do that! And then well yeah the other response again is hey but you get text messages from me, I get texts... you do have a phone liar! And it's like no I use Google Voice And which has text message, you do it on the computer. I come in and like open it up once every week and find some messages on there or send messages out to people who I gotta send some information to. Important people. Important stuff. You use your text message twice a week for me. Newsletter!

1:57:29 newsletter please review newsletter well you require it I wouldn't normally do that because they send you the newsletter to look at yeah cuz I'm not then you're looking in my email all day i have two because you're stuck on a phone like everybody else I am you think I am not stuck on a phone. You have a phone? I'm the... I have a Graphene OS, there's a lot of stuff it doesn't do No, I agree with you. You've done your best Yes, I have But you haven't gone all the way and just hit the front end in a drawer Here is the problem with the phone Text messaging was kind of useful but it has been so poisoned now

1:58:15 Because, you know I have Greg Abbott texting me. I've Kamala Harris texting me. I got Joe Biden texting me and then they give my number out to all these pig butchers who are texting me it's filled and you have to be careful like hey this is your bank click here for an important message before you know it your bank account has compromised the two-factor authentication There's nothing useful anymore in communication. It's just not. People go, oh I use Signal! I use Telegram! I use the... what is it? It's all crap. It really has become very useless. All of this used to be hey you got my phone and then there are a couple people who have my number and if they really need to get ahold of me then your important in my life You can have that

1:59:12 No, no. Everybody is important everybody has my number it's just sold over and over and over again Yeah once it gets out there I should do what Rogan does Rogan just buys a new number every like six months I know people that do that yeah he just gets any gets a whole new phone to just get some new phone And he leaves all the leaves the other phone in you know at home And then if I send him a message oh dude here's my new number or sometimes he'll tell me if he changes the number. He keeps the old one for a while and then he gets rid of it, yeah I know a number of people that do that so it's a practice a lot of people employ but then uh I know lots of people who um have given up their number

1:59:57 And they get a new number and then they're getting text messages from someone's old number. Oh yeah, this is a huge problem because the new number is really somebody else's old number that they gave up to get a new number because everybody was getting too many messages and now you're stuck with that number of weird messages from people who never knew The only solution really is to go into a system where you pay for the message. I have the solutions! Leave it in the drawer, have no life. That's your solution? Yeah. I don't need the aggravation... that's why when I told one of the tellers

2:00:35 I said, what happens? How do people get a hold of you? They say like go home and get ahold of me on the landline. I'm not a doctor! I don't need to be gone call 24-7 If i was a heart specialist or somebody like that I would want to carry a phone sure but I'm not I'm a podcaster. Nobody needs to get ahold of me." My friend is an ER doctor and he doesn't, he literally does not have a phone at dinner He did save the little girl's life the other night when we were having dinner How'd you find out? Because she walked by him She was like seven years old And he immediately heard something which was her choking

2:01:16 And he grabbed her and like, bam! Bam! Bam on her back. Whips her head back looks still not love boom boom boom and you know it popped right out I was witness this yes if we were having dinner with them It was restaurant? Yes it was um...it was..I've never seen anyone's training you know, spring into action like that. He heard it! The little girl was probably trying to go around the table to get her mom on the other side and she was just choking... And he heard that and immediately knew what to do I was impressed Does not have a phone with him

2:01:53 ER doctor. And he does that- Well, ER is different than... It's not the same as being an on call heart doctor. The reason why is he doesn't want the hospital to call and say you need to come in because it's busy. That's why he doesn't have a phone but I did find out something interesting of interest. You know we have the big solar eclipse coming up? Oh yeah! The big one April 8th These are things you don't think about but the hospital has ordered quite a number of body bags. They're expecting so many people to come to Fredericksburg, they expect there will be more people than normal that will die and will need a body bag. Oh just statistics! Yes, statistics. You gotta be prepared, you have people that

2:02:45 logistics people who work at the hospital that know these things and they would say, we got to do this. We got to do that. It would be great for a local news report so people wouldn't come. You have a statistical chance of leaving Fredericksburg in a body bag. Dead! Please don't come. Don't visit us...at all Yeah good luck Why did people do it? For 15 minutes why are people coming from all around the world I don't know. You ask them when they're there, get out there with a microphone and ask them what why are you here dummy? And believe me the phones will not work here The phones that we barely get service on the weekends Oh you gotta be overloaded Yeah on the weekend it already overloaded All the retailers that have to go to wired terminals because their wireless terminals would get overloaded on a Saturday Because of the whole...because it works through the cell network No no

2:03:44 No, it's stay away. The end of civilization! Oh well that was a good point one of the trolls says the phone companies will bring in the event trucks yeah maybe maybe oh yeah they can do that I'm bringing up my ham radio stuff i'm sick of it and I need to be prepared where the end is near I got three-parter here with Chinese election meddling Oh, I thought it was only Russia that does that. No! Turns out China does it more than Russia. Oh okay... Part 1? Yeah. A recent report by the intelligence community finds that the Chinese regime tried to meddle in the 2022 midterm elections. What? How does it work and what will happen in a 2024 election? Joining us now is Dean Baxendell, CEO of China Democracy Fund and Optiman Publishing International. Baxendell just published a new book The Mosaic Effect

2:04:40 how the Chinese Communist Party started a hybrid war in America's backyard. Now there is a declassified US intelligence report that says China tried to meddle in the 2022 midterm elections in the U.S., how seriously should we be taking this? I think we should be taking this extremely seriously. The CIA and the intelligence community are doing a great service for America, and quite frankly for the free world by declassifying and making some of these reports available to the public to understand that malign state governments like Chinese Communist Party Russia Iran are all interfering in elections around the world so i would say yes it's extremely important that this report this information is coming out

2:05:25 On that note, the report notes that China quote tacitly approved efforts to try to influence a handful of midterm races involving members of both US political parties. Those are candidates seen as anti-China now how is China able to influence elections outside of their own borders? So you know the Chinese Communist Party uses the United Front Works Department globally Now, wait a minute. She brings up kind of an interesting point without even thinking about it. Both candidates, both sides hate China who are they trying to tip the scales for? There are candidates who don't have hatred of China and they don't express it, they don't threaten China you know, the Stooges, Eric Swalwell types. Fang-fang!

2:06:13 They don't need to hack him, they just put Fangfang next to him in bed. Or any woman I think. Yeah and there's this thing called the United Front. Sounds sketchy. You look it up, Wikipedia has a story about it here go to part two. They're running operations in Canada, the United States, Mexico, the UK. They have united front people who ultimately control various media outlets throughout and proxy corporations, especially in Canada where we have 56 media outlets that are either controlled directly or indirectly by the Chinese Communist Party or proxies there attached to the United Front. So they're using their own information within the Chinese community to change votes or persuade China diaspora communities

2:07:03 members to vote in a certain way or to view a politician in a certain way that might be negative towards China and therefore, that is one way they would influence in terms of directly the media. The next of course is social media and their use of trolls and bots around the world that continue to put out disinformation or misinformation, however you want to look at it and actually exacerbate points of division both on the left and the right that alienate voters and actually influence them in voting in particular ways. Wait a minute! The Chinese are using Putin's playbook?

2:07:42 It's Chinese playbook. No, it's Putin's playbook! I'm not buying any of this. This is all bullcrap. Okay... I think we don't need Chinese helping us argue on social media. Seriously? Well it might be one of those things where they're doing stuff because they think it's effective Well, it's really just a joke. They're just fooling themselves that cyber front whatever It's called their united front the United Front they're stealing money from the Chinese government They don't need any of that Just post one word Trump and then back away and see what happens That's all you need yeah, actually would work does work I can get paid for that

2:08:28 All right, you don't need to listen to the last of this. Are you sure? I'm enjoying it so much! Okay go play it And in terms of the United Front Work Department give us a sense of how does this relate to the Chinese Communist Party is this its own little category or is it backed by the government So as you know the United Front actually is the department of the Chinese Communist Party there was over...I believe now there's over close to 40 000 around the world that are doing influence operations, both soft power and sharp power operations inside countries around the globe to ensure that China is viewed as a positive and great nation to do business with. And ultimately partner with their propaganda operations misinformation disinformation propaganda is just one of many tools used by the United Front throughout the world

2:09:22 You can look at other elements of the United Front, including direct political influence operations in terms of bribes and or money that's being donated directly into writings. Donated! For instance we call them writings here in Canada Or directly to constituencies That may influence a politician and how he views A particular issue that may be pro-or against The Chinese Communist Party's ambitions Donate to no agenda Yeah, this is yeah. You know okay fine Fine I'm all of this Influence on the internet no none of it None of social media is is just a place where you go and yell Because you're hooked on it because yeah people are hooked on it

2:10:10 And it's unhealthy. It's like they're hooked to their phone, the phone same thing? You know you brought something up on...it was the last show of the show before that about me stopping smoking weed and how Mimi thought that was great! Then a lot other people chimed in saying yes. What's interesting is I have received at least 10 emails, ten, that say oh wow I would like to quit smoking weed too. How did you do it? This is an unexpected response from our audience. So, but i would like to give a brief overview of how I did it. I'd be interested in myself even though...I don't know why care. Well one, I had a small incentive

2:10:55 because my periodontist called and said, Adam we're going to operate on you. Stop putting fire in your mouth it makes it harder for me to operate and harder for you to recover so I had an incentive...I've had lots of incentives in the past but I quit cold turkey this is number one quit cold turkey number two I vaped, not in fact it wasn't even nicotine just a vape mainly for the oral fixation. The process of having something in my hand this is this is...I found that to be the hardest. What am I gonna do? I'm missing that motion! I also got a Geek Vape that's a brand which gives you more to do because you have to build

2:11:37 the coil yourself and put the cotton in. It's like pipe smokers? Yes, yes very precisely so the part of for me weed was the process of rolling I could roll a joint with one hand behind my back i mean while driving no problem So having the process of doing something...I also had a project to work on because you become very productive very quickly within a day And so I set up a Trillium database, just something to do. So have something, have a project and final advice... I think shipping a bottle might be more appropriate for most people. Puzzle, ship in the bottle, have a project. Lego

2:12:26 Legos, yeah lego. Have a partner to keep you in check because if you're alone that's the worst if you're alone then the devil will come and get ya be like well no one is going to see I'm just gonna have one talk and take it one day at a time then one week and one month now its been 14 months. 14 months? I didn't realize it was that long already Oh yeah! It was Thanksgiving last year So yeah. Longer than I've been off the phone! Together we're a catch, and we're great guys together. All right sticking with quitting...

2:13:07 Before we take our break here, something very interesting happening for the holiday season. Yeah you thought Ozempic was good? No it's holiday season! With the holiday season in full swing some people who take drugs used for weight loss such as Ozempic are planning a pause on their prescriptions ahead of celebrations. Ariel Reshuff is back with the details and what to know, good morning Ariel. Good morning again Robin as we know many have seen dramatic results taking this class of medications for weight loss but some say they need a break for the holidays whether it's for a little indulgence or cost savings doctors caution it's a trade-off This is I found this to be interesting

2:13:49 Well, I find it to be ridiculous. I thought the whole idea was you take the Ozempic so you can chow down? No! No, I think the reason why people are stopping is because otherwise you're throwing up all day You know it's like you go to have Christmas dinner and I gotta go take a dump, I got to go puke, I don't feel good. Tis' the season for holiday feasting and now some using medications like Ozempic, Munjaro and Wegovy for weight loss say they're taking a vacation from the drugs unpopular opinion in the semiglutide world. Julie Stolkelly, who lost 38 pounds says she's forgoing the appetite suppressing semiglutide in favor of feeling less uncomfortably full and fielding fewer questions during festive meals. She skipped her dose during Thanksgiving What I noticed was that I was still able to eat the things that I really wanted to indulge a little bit. I just had to be really conscious about how I was feeling

2:14:44 What I was eating, how fast I was eating it. For Kaylee Svensson who lost 90 pounds on Moonjaro cutting back this time of year is a financial decision A trade-off to put presents under the tree It's something that is financially extraordinarily expensive for our family to afford because our insurance isn't covering it If I can make a box of Oh, yeah. In order to put presents under the tree... Yeah and they have to sacrifice. They have to sacrifice. ...for our family to afford because our insurance isn't covering it. It's unhealthy If I can make a box last six weeks instead of four that'll save me a couple hundred extra dollars. Kaylee says her prescription cost her more than $1,000 for four single-use doses. If I can stretch it for 10 days instead of every week that helps me push off you know the expense a little bit

2:15:44 Doctors caution pausing the treatments can come with some side effects like nausea, increased appetite and weight gain. If a patient skips their medication for one to two weeks there is a potential for them to have some increased side effects they might not see those improvements in their hunger and appetite Ah here's another part Don't stop taking it. And so they'll inevitably eat more and that may contribute to some weight gain. And with all of the temptations this time of year, doctors say this may not be the ideal time to pause treatment if you're hoping to maintain your progress but a week or so shouldn't set you too far back guys and there are temptations this time of year God how many people are on this stuff? So I do have two quick boots on the ground notices important for us to know

2:16:33 I incorrectly stated that semaglutide is out of patent. Wrong, says James. He says, Semaglutide and all other GLP-1 agonists are not generic the patent does not expire until July 17th 2026 The compounded GLP-1 agonist you spoke of are reverse engineered formulas There are no generics of Ozempic, Trulicity or any other GLP-1 agonists because they are still patented. The different names of Novo Nordisk products are just branding for the same drug different doses." Yes we got that and then a second boots on the ground note and this is about the cost

2:17:23 I have a client who's just started taking the compounded versions of semaglutide. We have pharmacists in our vast boots on the ground army, they add vitamin B12 to it which qualifies it as a new drug! My client is getting it from a compounding pharmacy in Pennsylvania so that's the workaround... You get the semaglutide you throw some b12 and new drug it's okay The compounded version comes in a vial and the patient must use a standard syringe to draw it. That's why people are overdosing, sure. The compounded version was prescribed by her PCP primary care physician I guess and is only $250 a month instead of the typical 1000. The drug sells in every other country in the world for 30 dollars! Yeah! The main reason for the increased price is that PBMs Pharmacy Benefit Managers Do you remember this term?

2:18:17 Yep. This is what Trump went after? Yeah, Trump went after it and supposedly Biden did something about it but there's no evidence of it. Biden talks big game but none of this ever happens. This is like Biden talking the big game about climate change and the rest and then we have more oil production than ever. He's just full of crap this guy! You know it's a theme. All of the pharmacy benefit managers are owned by pharmacies like CVS owns OptumRx, they approve or disapprove the prescribed drug for coverage then the PBM jacks up the price to the patient while sharing the profits with the parent company Ultimately, what a deal. Yeah I'm all in! Ultimately it's Congress that is to blame and that is not going to change because of all the lobbying...I mean bribes. Oh damn greedy bastards okay very good That's your boots on the ground you're screwed You're screwed And you will be forever Forever And with that I'd like to thank you for your courage saying good morning to you The man who put the C in the cheating machine Say hello to my friend on the other end The one and only Mr John Cena

2:19:23 We are in the morning of you, Mr. Ambassador Curry Also in the morning all ships and sea boots on the ground feet And the airships and the water and the dames and knights out there We are well into the Christmas holiday here Christmas week which means that trolls will be off and gallivanting about Let's have a check anyway Come one let me put my hand on everybody Oh no! 1741 this is not good This is a very low troll count. We have low T! That's actually not bad. I just want to say we have... 1800 is the number we're shooting for on Thursday. Today is Thursday, so 1750 is fine.

2:20:08 Thank goodness, thank goodness. Well you can join the trolls in the troll room trollroom.io also known as noagendastream.com it's a live stream 24-7 it's pretty cool we got a lot of podcasts there a lot of people doing live podcasts which you can enjoy there with the streaming audio. We do that on the Dvorak Horror with some plugged. Yes, may I give you props by the way for the Dvorak Horror? You predicted some kind of weird buyout with what was it Disney Discovery and the next day they announced that there's some merger or something Yeah well no in talks with Paramount but but you called it I did as astonishing

2:20:53 You had some weird insider transaction that was like, I was like it was a screwball one too. It was weird. It's very strange and you have to go back listen to the show your so yeah here it so you can hear DH unplugged on Tuesdays at you guys go live what eight o'clock? Eight o'clock Eastern nine o'clock Eastern can't remember what time what time is it for you when you start seven? It's ten o'clock Eastern know that oh yeah 1010 Eastern there you go. Yeah, I'm at 7-7 o'clock. Yeah this fun I always love listening to you guys You know nothing about Bitcoin, by the way. You should stay away from that! We know nothing about Bitcoin we just don't like it. I know, that's very clear

2:21:35 So you can also, and this is what we recommend is get a modern podcast app. You can find it at podcastapps.com because not just for our show but there are many podcasts that you may like that will suddenly just disappear if using Apple or Spotify. Spotify is taking away podcast on a daily basis they just cancel people and I haven't tracked Apple but they do the same thing They get a call, something's not right. Whatever and you know this is gone And that will not happen with a modern podcast app. In addition to that, you'll get a notification within 90 seconds of us publishing the show that it's been updated. We have chapter images we have transcripts which you can search in which is very handy like there's something in that show I want to find this all these benefits that you get and it's completely open source and a bunch of cool people make it so I want to give a benefit out to one of our longtime producers

2:22:34 And I don't want to give his email up, but I'm going to do it. Patrick Maycombe, Sir Patrick Maycombe, $50 every show forever. And he's in New York, I think, Sir Patrick Maycombe? Yes. No, and I got laid off after 10 years from my tech job because he quit! He quit the...he quit his donation and I sent him a note saying what happened I got laid off ten years from my tech job. I resumed donating again when I get a new gig right before Christmas too! He was there forever Last day is early January. We'll spend the holiday working on my resume Let me know if anyone needs someone with 10 plus years of code experience 20 plus years of front-end Plus eight years of back end development plus five years of blockchain 3 plus three it's something else I can't figure out what you saw about yada, yada, yada keep up the great work

2:23:29 email Patrick Maycom, P-A-T-R-I-C-K M-A-C-O-M at gmail.com I have two pieces of advice for and i think he's a sir is you know thank you Sir Patrick oh yeah he said probably a baron uh two pieces of advice A put in three years of AI experience please just do it just throw it in Consider image makers Inc.com that's image makers inc with a K dot com My job This is a value for value podcast speaking of value for value I heard something that you have not promoted yet on this show, which I maybe You felt it was out of place but since the success of too many eggs calm and

2:24:22 There is now a new book from gate view publishing, which I believe is titled the ABC's of stock investing Yeah, you get the PDF there at gate view publishing calm Explain what it is cuz I liked I like your project kids book. It's a kid's book with ABC's and each one of the ABCS has some sort of some investment term for kids. Yeah, with illustrations! With illustrations? Yeah, yeah, illustrations. That's cute

2:24:58 I like your little publishing empire you guys are putting together. Oh, yeah Yeah And I would recommend by the way since we're actually in negotiations with another publisher to do for the egg book For them to take over the distribution rights if that happens The I'm pretty sure on this I could talk him out of it. The PDF will end up going away and So I recommend, which i think is...I have my arguments for why you should PDF all these products. But you know this sounds suspiciously like an exit strategy John C. Dvorak No and so it's a tax strategy Oh And so anyway tumanates.com the pdf file grab a copy just for your

2:25:44 Oh no. Good, that's too bad because I was thinking if can we not do our value for value book and have that be good? We're going to do it! It's on the list. We got to do three books next year but can we exit? Can't we then have an exit strategy? Can I do my... Wait a minute wait a minute can i do my... slow and old.. Can I do my I Was An MTV Guy book? Can we do that? Absolutely Held Hostage By My Hair you know stuff like that oh great title thank you I want to exit John I've done we need to be planning for the future Just the thought well with these kind of donations, which I for example are we had this promotion. I bitched about earlier in the show Promotion was great 1618 What is it called the golden ratio? Golden ratio we got

2:26:33 A total of three donations for $16.18, which is a little less than our typical promotion definitely doesn't keep up with the PhD program. It was no but yeah you know what let's face it people don't like math They don't like the golden ratio. They don't like the golden ratio and that's okay, we've had other flops. The golden ratio gets no respect so we have this whole concept I actually went on a Twitter spaces the other day oh god that was rough you went out what? I did it Twitter spaces spaces Spaces? What is spaces? It's like a chat room with unvoiced with a whole bunch of people on twitter

2:27:18 And then I had to install the app. That's gotta be dreadful! Well, yeah it is... You have to install the app and you know then you get called up on stage Oh God I was explaining value for value, which is always fun. They said we've been doing this for 16 years so it works people get with the program listen to our donation segment people love us then it's about the feedback loop you gotta read the notes you got to tell people you gotta thank people it's very smart and it's not just money its time talent or treasure that's the important part because we technically have made more by spending less

2:28:04 you know, building website. Can you imagine if we had to build our own website? Yeah! Exactly Or hire artists to do the art Well... You let me write to it or how about a combo of that what if you had a guy who built a place where artists could upload and okay so sometimes things go wrong and it breaks but Sir Paul Couture Not only did he fix noagendaartgenerator.com, but he upgraded it! Can you imagine the meeting we'd have to have with our provider? Hey, would like a refresh of noagendaartgenerator.com They be piling on the bills... Look at this! The meetings... It's a million dollar site. If it was going, it would be six million dollars. We'll have to have meetings all kinds of horrible things we don't like

2:28:58 And so what do we get? We get a beautiful new site from Sir Paul Vetore. Well, you know what's interesting about the site I'll say this now as far as I'm concerned his original site was fine because i'm one of those it's fine yeah and he upgraded to the headless Drupal or whatever that last one was just such an improvement it was unbelievable! So then he goes...I said oh why would you improve that Of course, you know me. I'm the one with the devorek.org slash and a that's fine You have blink tags and red ball dot I don't have blimp tags or cats running across the screen but I Could imagine yes close then he upgrades to this ridiculously modern site is like it's beyond

2:29:46 I mean, this guy should be working for...I don't know who but IBM or some big money out there. It's so modern! The other one was modern and the one before that was modern but to keep up and make it modern on top of modern is like... And if you notice little things like the artist icon is in there The artist profile page shows up in the artwork. It just has all kinds of metadata. Ooh, that's expensive! Metadata... It's phenomenal. And it is a little slow, but I think that's just optimizing. He'll be good to optimize and it has leaderboards, all the artist profiles you load up the page shows you how many images 31 point 1000 images how many artists 1400 artists

2:30:42 It's just great. I knew he had that many artists Yeah, thank you Sir Paul Couture we really appreciate it if you see Paul hug him Give him a hug. He needs it! Yeah, you know it took him a couple weeks you know but he had the crash and everything... It took almost a month yeah but what's beautiful about it we just like okay that's fine because its value for values like you wouldn't have to get mad I'd have to be calling John like you hired the guy you fix it! You fix it! Yeah thats actually what happens Especially with psychos like you as the boss. Oh yeah, now call me a psycho okay there you go This was reminds of this is Adam back in the day at Mevio whatever it's Pacho originally Okay here we go He's real casual smoking dope he's just not in the office that much but he's there once and awhile And so he's very lackadaisical people should put in a full days work

2:31:43 I don't see a big deal about coming in on time or you know, you just got to get in there do what you have to do and then get out. So one day we decided to go, he decides to go in front of the office as people are coming in late streaming in late with him standing there going, ah I'm glad you could make it. Smoking dope! I was still smoking dope. Oh I'm glad you can make it. Ah did you check the time? What time is it? Oh good I'm glad you could come in and just giving him grief And I was standing there with you We would stand there together. I was flabbergasted! It got to the point where people just showed up at noon, like come on, come on people what do we have an office for? This is not COVID and it was way before COVID anyway... By the way by the mention of The Art Generator brought it to its knees once again. Of course, of course. NoahJennerArtGenerator.com thank you Sir Paul Couture and thank you too

2:32:45 Dame Kenny Ben who brought us the outstanding artwork for episode 16 17 we titled that twerking Russians, which we both thought that was a good title and The ho-ho-ho-ho zempic Santa Claus that got lots of traction people thought that was hilarious And it's not often that you get such a compact beautiful just a nugget of beauty You know, with... I mean it was a takeoff. It was a parody. It was well illustrated. The whole thing was professional Again something we could never have afforded Can you imagine? Hey! We got this title is twerking Russians can you whip up an image for us that by the way has nothing to do with twerking Russian's Oh what?! You didn't listen to the show

2:33:37 No, because what our artists do they're listening to the show and they're doing the stuff on-the-fly. It's amazing! it is a true testament to value for value and we are incredibly grateful to all of our artists someone said you being performative when I say that mean well but I disregard it was on the last show I said we'd like to thank so that's performative just say thank you that's a good point politicians do that So we'd like to thank. Yeah, if you say I've got this to say about that yeah That's another one Thank You artists think thank all of you and especially Dame Kenny men We appreciate you so much now let's go to the treasure part of the value for value model This is where we thank our executive and associate executive producers And everybody who supported us with monetary donations up to or down to $50 a

2:34:29 and this is really the stuff that keeps us going. And we start off with a, let me see here... We have a handwritten note here from Emily Andrews and she is in Salina Texas and it come up with a whopping 1465 I'm loading her note which is handwritten and she says dear John Adam I last donated with a shout out oh! With the short thank you and you guys seemed Ah, it seemed something that the note wasn't longer. Oh, it seemed down that the note wasn't... So okay so she decided to write a longer note I'm writing the why. Yes! That's what we do

2:35:26 The check is a percentage of my annual bonus from my employer. Wow, that's some tithing right there! That's the way to do it. I... ooh what are we drinking? Polar seltzer. Oh boring bring something good next show. I consider your show to be a ministry and appreciate your genuine efforts to shepherd the divine flock God has brought to your podcast. For giggles i listen to podcasts 1-20 That's episode 1 to 20. Adam, I can hear the evidence of work the work God has done in you! God bless you both your sister in Christ Emily Andrews. He is not the a-hole he was. That's right it's so true notice I don't cuss. I've stopped that yeah well that yeah and and in fact people have noticed that you're cussing more

2:36:17 I because I think there's a cuss, a cuss balance, a cuss median that we have to achieve to have the proper cuss balance. There are so many... And I didn't cuss on today show at all! No you didn't and it usually just cuss for effect You cussed as part of your vocabulary That was the difference Yeah and i did it alot actually Yeah, I yeah. But we have you were I have people emailing said thank you now I don't I can listen around my kids again except for that clip you brought Thank You Emily the kids love the kids Understand cussing generally speaking good luck with that Europe Oh, I'm sorry dude named Ralph comes up next and he's in with 550 which is nice in Miami Florida

2:37:09 Dear John and Adam, thank you for the outstanding work you do on NOAGENDER. The magical combination of you two and the incredible NOAGENDER producers make this show the best podcast in the universe! Inspired by something wise John said I reviewed my donation history and happily discovered that the PhD contribution also qualified me for title of Baron I would like to be known as the barren dude named, by the way just a stop right here. There's a number of people and there's a list of them on the noagenderrings.com site who've gotten their got the PhD during the promotion this promotions over and they've never sent in the details of where they want the diploma sent or anything else please go and do that before the printer breaks

2:38:00 Inspired by blah, blah, blah. I'd like to be known as Baron Dude named Ralph of the Suburban South Florida. I would like mojitos and lechon asado Cuban-style roasted pig for the round table." I got it I made two Christmas donations today to share $5.50 from a work bonus... Ah, another one! Again? A work bonus? Beautiful. Work bonus no agenda and 1618 for show number donation I humbly request Jobs Carman Hilton for a show number donation and not the Magic Circle I humbly request Jobs Karma to help me as I embark on the next chapter of my career respectfully dude named Ralph. Magic circle, it's called the golden ratio not the magic circle! Jobs jobs jobs and jobs let's vote for Jobs!

2:38:50 And we got Lacey B in Lake Mills, Wisconsin. 333-33 favorite donation number Merry Christmas Happy New Year to you John and Adam and to your better halves the back office your loved ones in all of Noah's generation and jingle bingle to the OBDM crossover crowd This donation puts me over the mark to qualify as a Dame. The title, Dame Lucy will suffice I talk too much in real life so i keep this note short thank you for your courage love and light to all Lacey B Lake Mills Wisconsin Thank You! Thank you very much Lacey B Alright so I have to finally since I hit it just right I have to take a quick look at the uh the note list Yeah keep talking into mic though because your dropping out

2:39:34 I got Tim Turbo. Turbo Tim? Turbo Tim, 333 dot 33 and i don't have a location for him but do have a note which has been Tim Turbo A handwritten note on piece of three hole punch student paper. In the morning, John and Adam I've finally gotten my rear in gear and here i sent you to some much deserved treasure please dedouche me. You've been de-dooched! I just realized that episode 1617 adds up to 33 and I'll be 33 on the 22nd of this month. I knew it was time! Nice

2:40:26 So, that's interesting. We could have caught that too 16-17. Yeah. And the other way it wouldn't have made a difference Mike the Woodwatch Guy introduced me to your show about three years ago I worked for a forklift repair company in Detroit for over eight years as a mobile forklift and diesel engine repair technician It's a good job. Yes, they kept getting on my ass about my mask So I wrote in big letters you're a slave across the front and wore it proudly To every customer location as I went from From spark conversations and Wow went to Spartan conversations and spew true for you man Yeah, like that's ballsy

2:41:11 I quit after refusing to take the jab and started my own small forklift and diesel truck repair business, then moved to Capic Michigan. The plan to go electric is hilarious because our world literally functions because of diesel. The EPA has had a hard on. for diesel but not in other countries. Anyone who hears DPF, DEF and engine D-rate will be triggered by this. It's all the crap they make you put in an engine. Of course yeah pig urine

2:41:55 Yeah, pig urine. This yeah unbelievable this is my first start to knighthood and if I have any questions about the diesel industry feel free to email me that's nice. I bet you're doing very well in your own company John it's pronounced K-Pak as Adam just told me please send the spark plug oh he sent two spark plug keychains He sent these little trinkets. I have to say they're pretty cute. I didn't get mine! Because i have it, I have yours that people send them to me and you'd have to wait till they accumulate and they'll send you a box

2:42:37 And so the whole package smelled like a repair garage. Because, and I sniffed it and said, hey Chase, sniff this. Wait a minute! This guy is a repair man there's no doubt about it. Let me give you a little tip if John C. Dvorak ever comes up to you and says hey sniff this walk away Walk away Yes, thought you'd like that yes Well, that's cool man. Thank you so much and I also want to thank everyone who sent all these beautiful things to the PO box I got fudge. I got the coffee. I got the coffee from those Guys is gigawatt gigawatt guys Yeah The Fudge the okay The Fudge came with who I know if I don't have the note here on the fudge. I got the fudge The fudge came in kind of as a mess but I have to say this if you can dig through there

2:43:31 and find the peanut butter divinity. Oh, okay! It borderline... it's borderline unbelievable. Yeah I believe it. It like makes a Reese's Peanut Butter you would never have another one. Yeah Google us. E-Lion Kin They nailed it. Nailed it. The rest of this stuff is good but these peanuts whoever did that I'd like to get that recipe. I got Sir Scoops, I got your big box of your pirate show I got, um... You got stuff from Diesel? No. I didn't get stuff from Diesel. Death! Death! Death the Band. Oh yes! Yes! Yes! That's who I got it from. Art and stickers and magnets and all kinds of stuff

2:44:19 And I also got a huge pack from the anonymous air traffic controller. Oh goodness, oh goodness! I don't think he should have sent me that stuff. These got stuff about C-130s shooting lasers down to the ground? No, really? Yeah. The FAA sent out memos like hey you know if you guys have every right to tell the C-130 with a laser to not shoot the laser all right thanks I got a pastor who says thank you for not cussing and got Lindsey who says it's been a joy to listen to the podcast with my 11 year old now it's not as explicit as it used to be mm-hmm thanks John for that clip

2:45:03 Except for the dog butts. Well that's funny, that's funny! Just so many things... Thank you all so much it was amazing to go to the PO Box I couldn't believe all this stuff everybody has sent us and also thank you Ryan Powell from Edgewood Washington 333 But wait one more thing did we ever thank the guy who sent us the flight Air Force One jackets? Yeah, I'm sure we did. That is a dynamite jacket by the way His son got that his son his son got those for us yeah Ryan Powell 333 says for my wife's 50th birthday on the 18th So it's a switcheroo i'm still a douchebag but christmas is coming soon thanks guys so he doesn't want to be deduced He just wants it For his wife and he doesn't give us her name

2:45:54 So we'll just say Mrs. Powell, Mrs. Powell, Mrs. Powell. That's what will do Eric Wilka in Auburn Alabama IATM the citizen Adam and citizens John. He said a pop-up hold on this second a pop up yeah pop up Outstanding show, he continues. Hope you have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year sir Eric that's a great note for $333 How can you pop- I haven't had a pop up since 1988 It's a system popup Oh time to reboot for more freedom on your computer Sir Nick

2:46:37 In Waterford, Michigan 333-33 I'm just trying to keep my Delta medallion so i'm charging this value for value donation to my Amex. Please give the single and ready to mingle producer some swazzle nuff karma and a trains good planes bad All right well we don't actually have uh a swazzle enough but um...I did get something together for you all aboard trains good planes bad 69! 69, dudes. You've got karma. That's the only sweetest laugh I know of. The last executive producer is Ara Dadarian. We haven't heard from him for a while. No, Sir Ara Dadarian. And he's in Trabuco Canyon California at 333 and he's got the best message Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. That's a good one thank you

2:47:32 Ivan Babic or Yvonne, but I'll say Ivan in Astoria Queens Astoria New York $250 our associate executive producer no notes that we get a double up. You've got karma tooth fairy and Val Paraiso Indiana comes in with two hundred twenty three dollars and says boy he wants to jingles you want Space Force 2 do they had Fauci wheeze Yak Christmas Karma for all Merry Christmas boys Please put me on the birthday list for the 21st as I celebrate my 38th trip around the Sun. I figured it would be a good time to become a baron Accounting below, please change my title to sir tooth fairy Baron of the region Thank you for all you do sir Tooth Fairy Space Force You've got

2:48:29 karma and we have another no-noter Christopher Burke St. Paul Minnesota to 1234 so for you also a double up karma you've got karma $200 for Linda Lou Patkin in Lakewood Colorado she says jobs Karma her remarkable resume that hits people in the mouth go to image makers Inc comm for all your executive resume and job search needs That's imagemakersinc.com or just find Linda Lepadkin under the show's producer list. Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs! Let's vote for jobs! And our final associate executive producer is from Storman N Norman in Trumbull Connecticut 200 Please wish my wife Dame Roundstone a happy 60th coming up December 30

2:49:26 Producer Anne Rhonda Pierre. We met at our radio station in Connecticut in 1985, four kids and two grandkids later we're still growing strong from Stormin' N Norman In The Morning mornings on WEBE 108. Oh hold on... I don't know what that was like. Stormin' Norman! Yeah Stormin' Norman WEBE! Stormin' Norman! WEBE 108. Stormin' Norman In The Morning. Now you got a free jingle out of it brother. There you go That's that's our execs and our associate executive producers Thank you so much we appreciate these credits are real ask storming Norman He knows all about it You can use them anywhere credits are recognized you can put them on your LinkedIn put him on your resume even Put him on your IMDB account, which is you know the internet movie database? Oh I'm sorry you don't have an account you do now

2:50:17 Because there's lots of executive and associate executive producers who are listed in there because it's an official title, and it's good for your life. Thank you for producing episode 1618 John is going to take us through the 50s starting with Sir Sean McCune 170 39 he is in the Allegheny Valley Mark Middleton in Safety Harbor, Florida 120. Dan Malley in Fremont California right down the street 113 Scott LaPierre in South Glastonbury Connecticut 11235

2:50:58 I think he needs a de-douching. You've been de-douched! 11235 is a Fibonacci donation. Uh, Brian Lillard in Prosper Texas 8888 Sir Browf in Greenfield Park, New York 8833. And he says please break for a night major jobs karma needed we do break for nights both my wife and I are attempting to gain new employment sell our home and move to the free state of New Hampshire away from New York with a newborn much appreciated gents yes will do that in a moment sir broth

2:51:34 Kevin McLaughlin, Concord North Carolina 8008. This is a boobs donation Boobs are the region blue boobs Boobs are the reason we blush he writes He says the show 1615 small boob donation slogan was missing Oh Not that I know of sir Road Dog in Twin Falls Idaho 808 Aaron Weiberg in Roberts, Wisconsin 8006 that's lopsided boobs. Parker Fulce in Roswell New Mexico yes 7777 Yes Marshall Bennett and Hartfield Virginia 7545 he's now a knight yes and I need sir ball peen the hammer and he wants youngling yongling logger and Sir berserker's head

2:52:36 He's there, you can grab it yourself. I'm not gonna rip it off for ya. Tina Bishop in Mission BC Canada 75 needs a couple of de-douchings You've been de-douched That's one for her. And then we go to Eduardo Bishop, also in Mission BC $75. Another de-douching. You've been de-douched! Kyle Potchiak? Potchesk? I don't know

2:53:14 Hannibal, Missouri 70. Sir Kevin O'Brien in Chicago our buddy in Chicago 6006 small boobs with Kevin McLaughlin 6006 with a little jingle or whatever you want to call this boobs the eighth wonder of the world I don't know about that okay depends on the boobs I think Tony Morrow in Orlando Florida 6006 Axel Paul in Lindvidel, Deutschland. Lindvidl 60. SirJubJub in Elkton Florida 57 that's a birthday donation Dean Roker 5510 Herbert Garrett in Raleigh North Carolina 5510 Brian Rogers and Medford New York

2:54:03 John, you seem to be an expert on native ads. I find it interesting that every time you open a can of polar all-water natural seltzer, you talk about it for exactly 30 seconds! Coincidence? I think not." You taking deals on the side man?" I wish. Right? You have cases of this stuff. Gadget Freak 10 in Western Springs, Illinois 50 these are all fifties now we're gonna do 50s name and location starting with Gadget Freak followed by Alexander Verdejo in Gig Harbor, Washington. Luke Olson in Alexandria, Virginia. Corey Bennett in Denver Colorado. Scott Lavender our buddy in Montgomery Texas. Chris Cowan in Austin Texas. Fletcher Scaife or Scafie in Williston North Dakota. Andrew Gusick Sir Andrew to be exact in Greensboro North Carolina Matt Illingworth

2:55:03 in Montclair, New Jersey. Susan Hunt in Leola, Pennsylvania needs a de-douching on behalf of her dad Mark Anderson. You've been de-douched! On behalf of those four dads for her we can say... Nicholas Rudovich in Harpers Ferry West Virginia Daniel Sir Daniel LaBoie in Bath Michigan and last on our list our favorite Sir Johnny Bananas in Tinley Park, Illinois. I want to thank all these folks for making show 1618 the Magic Circle podcast a reality and thank you to everyone who came in under $50. I see you 49 99 is the reason we will never read anything below 50 that has guaranteed anonymity some people require that and thank you those of you who are on our sustaining donations which are

2:55:58 Small amounts but are regular automatic donations. You can make your own up lots of people like 1111 or 3333 you can do it whenever you want we really appreciate I have a couple notes to read before we get into our birthdays and our meetups tonight Notes because we have some nightings this is from Bernie Glynn He says I nearly choked on my mac and cheese recently when I discovered that you clowns would honor a knighthood status if I paid in Australia Australian dollars Well, easy with the mac and cheese man. Since I've paid well more than 800 US dollars over the years which calculates to 1194.39 Australian dollar-y dues... ...I hereby claim knighthood status." Yes that's correct! If this makes me a black knight it doesn't. I would like to be known as Sir Bastoid of Blair Mount It is not going to be a black knight that's only if we mess it up

2:56:52 Yes, you observed Bastoid Night of Blairmont. I've set up a regular donation to you guys to ease my guilt please deduce me! You've been de-douche'd For the round table i only ask that you both be there at my investiture ceremony for the sizzling repartee yes we'll be there Bernie Glimm and a note from Chris Palmos who says thank you for uh thanks for all you do keeping us sane i'd like to be anointed Sir Fetah of The Armpit Of Eastern Ontario Request Metaxa 7 star and a century Sam blunt Thanks from Chris Chris Chris seven stars not that easy to come is it Christ or Christ anything? It's crisp almost we think he goes by the Christ Chris, but I think about Chris And then a very happy note. I got this because I listened to the door full verse podcast sir TJ the wrathful

2:57:45 has a new human resource on the way, but here's the kicker John. He reversed his vasectomy and it worked! It does work sometimes... Yeah I think he reversed it because you know he was afraid of getting the lesbian face So thank you all very much for supporting The No Agenda Show episode 1618 We appreciate you execs and associate execs Our formula is this we go out We hit people in the mouth. Ryan Powell wishes his wife a happy birthday. She turned 50 on the 18th day. Courtney Scarlett B, Chicago Kate and Gitmo FEMA Region 5 wish Sir Spooky a happy birthday. Sir Spooky celebrated the 19th. Sir JupJup celebrated yesterday's. Sir Tooth Fairy turns 38 today Tim Turbo will be 33 to let me see tomorrow

2:59:00 Vicon of Hamilton and the Two Penny celebrates on the 23rd. Stormin' Ed Norman wishes his wife Dame Roundstone a big happy one, turns 60 on the 30th and TJ says Happy Birthday to Sir Chris Adamson! Happy birthday for everybody here at The Best Podcast in the Universe! As you heard earlier, we have two title changes today. The title changes go to Sir Tooth Fairy who becomes Sir Tooth Fairy Baron of the Region and Dude Named Ralph becomes Baron Dude Named Ralph of Suburban South Florida thanks for your additional support in $1,000 to the best podcast in universe We appreciate that And I almost forgot the jobs Karma Jobs, jobs and jobs

2:59:51 Let's vote for Jobs! We had that emergency jobs karma that our knight and dame needed. Now we have one, uh... One dame and three knights to go here so let's get out your blades. Here you go the regular ones That's a nice one I like that jewel on the end there it was kind of cool looking Lacey B! up Bernie Glynn, Chris Palmos, Marshall Bennett. All of you are about to enter that very exclusive club of the Knights in Danger, the Noah Jenner Round Table I am very proud to pronounce the K-D as Dame Lacey, Sir Bastoid Knight of Blairmount. Sir Feta of the armpit of Eastern Ontario and Sir Ball Peen The Hammer For you we've got Hookers & Blow We have Rent Boys in Chardonnay Metaxas Seven Star In A Century Sam Blunt Mojitos and Lechon Asado Wingling Lager And Sir Berserkers Head Along with that of course we have Rubinous Women in Rose Gayson Sake Vodka Manila Bong Hits in Bourbon Sparkling Cider in Escorts Ginger Ale in Durbles Breast Milk in Pablum AND THE MUTTON IN THE MEAT

3:00:53 And while you're being very gluttonous and all of that go to noagendarings.com That's where you can look at the enemy anyone go there You can go there anytime you want take a look at those handsome knight-and-dame rings They are signet rings, which means if you hit someone in the mouth It'll leave a lasting mark or you could use the wax that we send along with it to seal and make your official correspondence look very official. I love getting the letters and envelopes in the PO box that are sealed by the night ring, so i get a kick out of that! And so will your friends and family they'll think you're very cool. Remember to give us your ring size as a Ring Sizing Guide at noagenderings.com along with a place for us to send it

3:01:36 And thank you all for supporting the best podcast in the universe. We appreciate it. No agenda meetups! Hands down, the companion to the podcast is meeting up with your fellow slaves of Gitmo Nation and human resources all around the world You can find them at noagendameetups.com They are taking place almost every single day of the week As I said it's a global phenomenon Because connection is protection and that's what they're doing in Los Angeles. Leo Bravo had flight of the no agendas meetup number 47 Hey everybody, it's Leo Bravo at meetup number 47 here are some words from our guests Hey Adam and John hit Steve in the morning. Hey guys its Angie friend the ranch in the morning Everybody speed is a merry Christmas

3:02:25 Yeah, short sweet and to the point. We appreciate that got a written meetup from the London producers who had their Meet up Which was on the what was that? That was yesterday They had it at Norfolk arms GG Ryan Steven Nasir and 5 a.m Were there the group of small but perfectly formed lots of love from us to yourself and John and sent some lovely pictures I'm glad you guys had a good time. Here's some meetups that are taking place today calling on North Georgia slaves starts at 6 o'clock and Cherry Street Brewing in Alpharetta, Georgia The Charlotte Thursday 3rd Thursday begins this evening at 7 p.m At Edge Tavern in Charlotte North Carolina and tomorrow the ITM slaves of Bulgaria and beyond seven o'clock at canal in Sofia Bulgaria

3:03:11 Go join Tal for that and make sure you guys send us a meetup report. I'm very excited to hear how things are going in Sofia, Bulgaria and how many producers we actually have there lots more to see throughout the end of the year into February go to noagendameetups.com this is where you can find your connection with other producers You'll love it! Guarantee you can take your spouse, you can take your boyfriend girlfriend ,you can take the kids There's always a lot, you can take your dogs if the venue will allow it. It's a family affair and you'll feel part of the giant No Agenda family 16 years strong noagendameetups.com If you can't find one near you start one yourself! It's easy and it's loads of fun! Sometimes you wanna go hang out with all the nights and days You wanna be where you want to be Triggered or held to blame

3:04:06 Yes! It's a giant party. It's great party, but it's no agenda party I'm so confident about my ISO for today imma let you go first I'm only gonna play one and imma let you hands down Okay yeah sure you got a good one but mine are all off beat Which one do we start with? Let's start with decide Let the people decide Mm-hmm. Okay, that's offbeat to say the least. Uh... let's go to Fantastic. Fantastic! Okay? Hard to beat that. Yeah well okay yeah And then last Save You I'm here to save you That's pretty good

3:05:00 And I would say that normally would have won the prize were it not for this one. Merry Christmas, you filthy perverts! Come on... come on... come on... That has winner written all over it don't you think? I think is a bad example and now it's timeful It is funny! Come on, it's funny! It's fantastic! All right, and now it's timeful! Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Good news everybody. John, well let's to be more specific Mimi has scoured the internets finding some good news I have to get...I have to sort through them and so I picked this one This is a woman who this is just one of those heart...this is a good news story about a woman who got graduated and she graduated with her baby

3:05:52 with her and this is cute. And it was another special graduation day at Ferris State University over the weekend a woman graduated walking across the stage with her newborn baby nestled into her gown. Grace Chimchak was supposed to have a c-section today actually instead baby girl Annabelle came ten days early grace said she had been working hard at her degree in early childhood education she wasn't letting any things stop her from walking on graduation day. That just meant she had Annabelle strapped into her baby carrier with her the whole time and I kind of hope it inspires another mom to like go back to school and like show that she can do it too, I hope to see her walk across the stage one day at whichever college or university she chooses without me having to carry her

3:06:39 And she says baby Annabelle actually did very well and did not fuss the entire ceremony. Now Grace will be teaching full-time with preschoolers at a Strong Beginnings program in Traverse City I really give her a lot of credit you talk to her, it's pretty incredible Honestly, I'm just shocked that the newborn baby was calm that entire ceremony because those can be really long ceremonies. That's very impressive but what a great memory for him. Oh! A great memory and it's so politically incorrect because you know it's a birthing person not a mom I like that about the clip. I thought that was excellent and it was just, that was a wholesome clip very good. Did Mimi find that one? Or did you find that one? She found that one but there wasn't something in there to me that was disconcerting or disconcerting. Disconcerting. That may or may not be noticeable but how she has the baby 10 days before she's scheduled they have a c-section. Yeah! I know that's weird isn't it

3:07:43 It's like, oh yeah you're gonna have it looks like this would be your due date. We're going to give you a c-section This is today's modern hospital environment they just see C-section all the women Money! There's more money Yeah you get them in and out it costs more Perfect Another good news story! A good news story from JCD Happy vibes for you and me And we all feel better now he's done his bit So back to reality, that's turning to shit Good news every single Noah Jenner show everybody Our feet are wrapped in good news and we love it that way. And that concludes our deconstruction date

3:08:28 which we love doing for you. We enjoy it very much and we thank you for returning value, for the value you received makes us feel good makes us want to show up again makes us not want to find an exit strategy but to be honest were always looking Some great value from our end of show mixers, Jesse Coy Nelson, Shay Z and Sir Michael Anthony. That'll be the last one I guarantee you it's not AI it's just Sir Michael Anthony. No he is a talented guy! That's what I mean no AI can racket up against our talented people and that's you You are the producers at this podcast so go forth your commission to feel proud and hit people in the mouth

3:09:14 And I am coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country, where we have extra body bags for April 8th. In the morning everybody! I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley where it rained yesterday and it's nice today and it's gonna rain tomorrow. I'm John C. Dvorak We return on Sunday which will be Christmas Eve right after Darren O'Neill's Rock & Roll Pre-Christmas Show Until then remember us at dvorak dot org slash n a adios mofos ahui hui and such. On the twelfth day of Christmas, no agenda gave to me twelve years before extinction The world is gonna end in 12 years if we don't address climate change We're all gonna die! Eleven jingles jingled Someone's getting cornholed today Yummmm Boom boom toga dong Oh my god that is amazing

3:10:04 This is a bunch of scumbags. Can you see that juice? That's true. Fact check false. 33, that's the magic number 9 Trump rotations Narcissist Mean Long ties Insane Tweets too much Small hands Small penis Big red button Criminal 8 glitches reported. Glitch! 7 Obamas knowing, no no no no no 6 foamers foaming 5 emotional support goats 4 job commas jobs jobs and jobs 3 John's chair squeakings

3:10:54 Two little grillies! Yay, yay! And an hour shot in dealer's choice Is this crown hog day too? Ho ho ho, Merry Christmas Adios mofo You know Clinton and Cosby are Kelly & Colby Weinstein and Spacey and Jared from Subway But do you recall The most famous rapist of all, Jeffrey Edward Epstein Had an island full of kids Filmed them with politicians for Israeli influence

3:11:46 All of the deep state assets were afraid of his arrest. They didn't want their sex crimes posted to the internet, So on Moggy New York night The Clinton Cartel came. Cameras glitched and the guards napped While Jeffrey Epstein's neck was snapped Then all the media coverage said it was a mystery You're not allowed to protest and we're blaming the Chinese Merry Christmas, you filthy animal! Oh

3:12:33 Ho ho ho, global citizens! This is Santa Claus. I am checking my list to see who is being naughty or nice according to ESG. The worst punishment will be for the climate change deniers If you are naughty Do not worry, we will not put a lump of coal in your stocking. Coal is made of carbon and carbon is forbidden by ESG! So we will just take your stocking... ...and your other gifts You will get nothing and be happy Another tradition is the leaving of cookies und milk for Santa These cookies must be 100%

3:13:12 and vegan! Und ze milk must be soy milk. Under ESG, ze will be no more cow milk und of course no more meat You may also leave for Santa cookies made with the cricket flour und a glass of cockroach milk But even I will not eat this You will eat this. Maybe not this year, maybe not next year but we still have plenty of time to implement Agenda 2030 So now is the opportunity for giving the hugs exchanging the gifts and eating the ham Make the most out of your unsustainable freedom while you've still got it We at The World Economic Forum wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New World Order

3:13:59 So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, good luck! The best podcast in the universe! Ho-ho. Dvorak dot org slash N A Merry Christmas you filthy perverts