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00:00 Why are these women behind a chain? Adam Curry, John C. DeVorak This is no agenda And this is important for prepping for the apocalypse. It's just tasty.

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01:38 Hey, my beat is back. It happens every once in a while I think it's the World Economic Forum Is that every year in Davos? Yeah, so with my beat...I'm back on the beat. I thought you were referring to Rachel Maddow. It has been great this year! Oh yeah because well like I can tell you I don't want to spoil it but The title of the, you know the theme of this year is it's kind of apparent. The theme of Davos or as these Swiss say Davo but no one says Davo anymore. No one says Davo It's Davos with Davos. Tons of world leaders bankers business people flags and banners everywhere for Intel AMD Celebrities I don't know...I have not seen that many celebrities this year

02:33 Although the other typical article comes out escort businesses are skyrocketing. Hello. Yeah, twenty five hundred bucks a night Oh is that that's all well? It says in the news well that seems cheap what happened to inflation for another you know they make it up in volume I'd like to deconstruct a little bit with some short clips just to get us all into the mood the theme for this year is is restoring trust. World leaders, corporate giants, top academics they're all coming together in Davos Switzerland today it's the start of the 54th world economic forum. Hold on stop stopping you have to give us a little premise where did this clip come from? Oh this is CB...it's just an intro clip from the CBC

03:21 CBC. I mean, I could have gotten it from anywhere just a minute intro just to get you into the vibe just to let you know what's happening. Economic forum and security is very tight at the Swiss ski resort as those international elites begin to arrive number of key politicians are going to be there U.S Secretary of State Antony Blinken Emmanuel Macron the French president key Middle East leaders as well But it's the economics of things front and center, the daunting global economic forecast. That will certainly be of interest to central bankers Mark Carney, former Bank of Canada head one of those who is scheduled to talk today but no real official Canadian representation in all this I think the biggest risk we face is that we lose hope

04:12 And that we lose trust, trust into our institutions and particularly trust in our capability to shape a better future. Yes! Trust! We are losing the trust... The funny thing about that clip he was saying that too who is that guy that Richard? The guy from CNN who got caught with meth in his pocket and a dildo on his boot remember that guy The guy who had his dick tied to a steering wheel? That guy. I don't remember if it was exactly that, Richard Quest. Yeah that's the guy! So he's there interviewing Klaus Schwab and Klaus Schwab says, Trost we lose the trust... And i can't take that guy seriously anymore You could take him seriously before?!

05:04 No, I guess not. All right now into a couple of the first one is a little longer It's a minute of the rest are relatively short just to get our blood pumping what is the most important thing? What is this all about we had a global risk report This is what the theme is everyone's talking about it enter stage left Queen Ursula of the European Union's close Let me go back to the number one concern of the Global Risk Report disinformation and misinformation. Tackling this has been our focus since the very beginning of my mandate. This is the most important thing, disinformation! With our Digital Services Act we defined the responsibilities of large internet platforms on the content they promote and propagate

06:00 A responsible to children and vulnerable groups targeted by hate speech. But also a responsibility to our societies as a whole, because the boundary between online and offline is getting thinner and thinner And the values we cherish offline should also be protected online. But that's not all! And this is even more important in this new era of generative AI. Now, the World Economic Forum Global Risk Report puts artificial intelligence

06:42 as one of the top potential risks for the next decade. All right, so that's artificial intelligence one of the top potential risks of the next... especially that generative? Generative! I like the generative. Generative. I love it. Now a couple of quickies this is John Evans from Alibaba former Goldman Sachs We're developing through technology an ability for consumers to measure their own carbon footprint Oh yeah That's where are they traveling? How are they traveling what are they eating? They're consuming on the platform so individual carbon footprint tracker Stay tuned. We don't have it operational yet, but this is something that we're working on yes It'll be just oh oh they're working on a carbon foot print tracker that is

07:35 Great. It'll be great because you can use it for yourself first, but then I'm sure they're going to use it against you what you eat. We tracking your carbon footprint based on what you eat So all of this has a very kind of Nazi vibe, you know. The uber-mention of Davo and this next clip I love two guys trying desperately to avoid saying New World Order This is in fact the world economic forum president Borger Brende so Klaus is the chairman I guess or founder or cofounder and this is the president Borger Brende

08:17 And he's sitting there with Jake Sullivan, another fine specimen. Listen how they attempt to avoid sounding like douchebags. That order seems to no not be the order anymore we are on the way to a new orders so we are between orders Do you agree with that or are there ways of what are we able to keep on the positive side from the old order, world order and how can we avoid that new world order becomes like jungle growing back and we rather have a order based on international law. Do you remember when New World Order was just a conspiracy theory? This is stupid! There's no New World Order, it's Alex Jones. Principles that have brought us prosperity and freedom for decades Come on Jake

09:12 I guess, and maybe this is the old teacher me coming out. I think of this a little bit more about a transition of eras rather than a transition of orders but the two are kind of cousins of one another The reason that I draw the distinction is because I don't think the international order built after 1945 is getting replaced wholesale with some new order. It will obviously evolve as it has evolved multiple times over the decades since 1945, but I do think in a more sharp and distinctive way we are moving into a new era and that's what I talked about in my remarks that we are you know the post-Cold War era has come to a close where at the start of something new

09:59 have the capacity to shape what that looks like and at the heart of it will be many of the core principles and core institutions Of the existing order adapted for the challenges that we face today. You imagine spending thousands of dollars going to Davo Thousands of dollars in hotel and food expenses And you still have to stand in line and listen to these two Jamuks sit there a new world order each other It's just sad. And then, yes? Yeah you do still have to stand in line. Oh yeah! Now we know the old war is peace... You know the the old 1984... Yes Newspeak War Is Peace Well Jens Stoltenberg of course, the still-to-be replaced NATO warmonger he was there and

10:54 And he laid it out perfectly. I love it. So there was a lot of coffee clutch about social media and X, X is very bad xx. I guess the elite messaging system is so broken although

09:59 have the capacity to shape what that looks like and at the heart of it will be many of the core principles and core institutions Of the existing order adapted for the challenges that we face today. You imagine spending thousands of dollars going to Davo Thousands of dollars in hotel and food expenses And you still have to stand in line and listen to these two Jamuks sit there a new world order each other It's just sad. And then, yes? Yeah you do still have to stand in line. Oh yeah! Now we know the old war is peace... You know the the old 1984... Yes Newspeak War Is Peace Well Jens Stoltenberg of course, the still-to-be replaced NATO warmonger he was there and

10:54 And he laid it out perfectly. I love it. So there was a lot of coffee clutch about social media and X, X is very bad xx. I guess the elite messaging system is so broken although

11:31 I disagree, i think you and I both disagree that it's never been a better time to spread disinformation but these elites oh they're complaining about us no good. For a long time I was on Twitter um and now its become such a toxic place that I've concluded its not worth while for me to spend time in as you said it is exhausting so you do have to pick and choose Wait wait stop who is this? Is that Maria Noo these are two undefined women in a coffee clutch about X Okay. It's just a coffee clutch, you know? You have all these little panels... Yeah it's a nude nick. Nude nick panels yeah like breakout sessions. Including it is not worthwhile place to spend time and as you said it is exhausting so you do have to pick and choose and you have to think about where the places where you can get your message across but I am trying to figure out I mean I haven't given up on X what a scary name that even is. Scary!

12:25 I don't know what the alternative is right now. So, with the question of the social media, I must say that I have up and on Twitter too so X because yeah it's a toxic environment and we talk about I have no solution around that but I think one day to come the moment of the code of conduct in this case because journalists If you spread crazy news and insults, if a journalist says racist things he can be amended. Why social media that have such big power?

13:07 but I think there will be a societal reflection on how information is brought there. Of course, now there is also the policy of the owner that this problematic, but this is a problem of society and future. It's the problem of the society, it must change. They had a lot of sessions about changing EECS and social conduct and we can't have this and this is no good... And of course, Bill Gates was there. Although he doesn't do a lot of sessions? He seems to go on a lot of interview programs now which is always outside so it's on CNBC and Yahoo Financial News and this was I think some Indian outfit and surprise surprise Bill is selling more vaccines! We make sure that for all these vaccines

14:07 that there's enough capacity, that there is competition so the prices keep going down. And we will have new vaccines. We'll have a TB vaccine, malaria vaccine, HIV vaccine and even things like COVID vaccines we need to make them longer duration more coverage. More coverage! And were gonna change instead of using needles to use little patch So the pandemic really highlighted that we've been under invested in those innovations and our partners in India are part of how we're gonna get these breakthrough products done.

14:44 So what I hear in this clip is the long-rumored vaccine patch which has little needles and And gives you the vaccine through a little bandaid, and I also heard that he's gonna test it on Indians Oh, but they want to get the Indian populations surpassed China so they gotta do something about it. They gotta give him the patch. They gotta push it down Get it back to normal Get that patch out there people. And India's gonna help us, yeah gonna help us do this thanks alright India stay stand by then of course we have to talk about genocide genocide genocide genocide genocide

15:26 And do you know how you commit genocide? You commit genocide by fishing and farming. I mean, ecocide as a word is becoming more... it's becoming better known around the world and the concept is generally mass damage and destruction of nature but legally speaking what our organization and other collaborators aim to do is to have this recognized legally as a serious crime because one of the issues that sort of pervades all of this discussion is that we have a kind of cultural very ingrained habit of not taking damage to nature as seriously as we take damage to people and property. And that's, I mean if you're campaigning for human rights at least you know mass murder torture all these things are serious crimes but there is no equivalent in the environmental space.

16:12 unlike an international crime like genocide that involves a specific intent. With ecocide what we see is actually what people are trying to do, what businesses are trying to do is make money, is farm, is fish, is doing all of these things that are producing energy and so on as well but What's missing is the awareness and the conscience around the side effects, around the collateral damage that happens with that. Ecoside! Ecocide you're killing fish and your farming is killing nature. Ecocide we need international rules against ecocide

16:53 Of course. We're almost there Tedros, of course Tedros is there Everybody's buddy from the World Health Organization And he just couldn't help himself, had to talk about DizizzX. DizizzX! DizizzX! So DizizzX is a placeholder for unknown disease I just wanted to start by clarifying that because there is already a lot of attention If I may Although COVID came immediately, we were preparing for COVID-like.

17:34 You may even call COVID as the first disease X. And it may happen again. Yes, it may happen again! It happens every 100 years but somehow the cycle is going to be sped up How does that work? Well Elon Musk is disease x but he's just not saying it What is really going on here? There's everyone in Davos is afraid and they're afraid of one thing. And this is really what all the discussions about it's what it all comes down to, and we're just gonna come full circle bring it back to Queen Ursula This is what they're really afraid of business have the innovation

18:21 the technology, the talents to deliver the solutions we need. To fight threats like climate change or industrial scale disinformation and this is more important than ever as we start 2024 The biggest electoral year in history democracies across the world will head to the polls And half of the global population will be affected. This includes over 450 million people in the European Union, a union of 27 democracies

18:58 Where all of us have the right to speak our mind, to be ourselves even if we are different from the majority. This is what they're worried about! They're worried about the rise of...the people although they classify that as far-right! Far-right and they also like to use the word populism though it's bad thing Yes That's what they're worried about. They're seeing it everywhere, in every country in the world- Yes because of them! Yes exactly so they have to figure out how to disinfo better they have to figure out how to use generative AI to disinfo better. They have to figure out how to disinfo about climate change that's what every single session is about. They are deathly afraid of the people

19:50 rising up and doing this one thing called voting. So of course, you know they're probably swapping out secrets hey if you stuff the ballot box you can win is great now there was one interview that was just mind-boggling at Davo on CNBC JP Morgan chairman CEO Jamie Dimon always goes on The Morning Show always you know spouts off And he confirmed, now Jamie Dimon is a Trump hater. He's been a Trump hater. He hates everything about Trump. He just is a hater. But as a hater, butters got to hate and I would say he's you know he was he's Jeffrey Epstein's banker this proven fact yeah mean even they didn't have a trial because he paid everybody off wasn't 15 billion or something paid it all off yeah that's how you do it

20:47 But he now messages what we were theorizing about, that the whole plan is here to have Trump win this election. for Trump to take all the collapse, because there will be another financial... and if there isn't one already underway they'll make one. Because it's great! It is easy to do? Yeah when you have a crisis you can print more money, do all the things you need to do We need a financial reset we need to blame it all on Trump and Republicans so that in four years everybody will be saying please give us Joe back anything but this this is horrible our lives are not worthy

21:30 And he did it in the following manner. We got so much money. It was great! quantitative tightening, which I still question if we understand exactly how that works. I don't think we do. How QE actually worked? What the effect of negative rates was for all this time and obviously the politics

22:19 And then the Ukrainian war is affecting oil, gas, food migration. So you have all these very powerful forces that are going to be affecting us in 2024 and 2025. So if I was the government, I would be preparing for what I'm gonna do about that assuming things aren't good. Now I just also want to point out...I wish the Democrats would think a little more carefully when they talk about MAGA You know, and if you travel this country. And the country's unbelievable we took a bus trip this year and Leslie Picker was on Spokane and Boise and people are growing they're hungry to grow their innovating it's everywhere It's not just Silicon Valley So we've got this great hand but when people say MAGA They're actually looking at people voting for Trump and they think they're going and there basically scapegoating them that you are like him

23:07 But I don't think they're voting for Trump because of his family values. Just take a step back, be honest. He's kind of right about NATO Kind of right about immigration. He grew the economy quite well, tax reform worked he was right about some of China I don't like what he did... Oh I said China virus! Yeah and I don't like how he said things about Mexico but he wasn't wrong about these critical issues and that's why they voted for him And i think people should be more respectful to our fellow citizens when you guys have people up here you should always ask the why Not like it's a binary thing, you support Trump or not. Why are you supporting him? It is hard to hate 75 million of your fellow Americans and it has done criminal... I agree! And the Democrats have done pretty good job with the deplorables hugging on their Bibles and beer in their guns. Really could we just stop that stuff and actually grow up and see other people respect them listen to a little bit. I do think the economy will affect this negative talk about MAGA is going to hurt Biden's election campaign

24:09 Let Trump have it all. Let him have it, stop it! Let MAGA win give it to them and they'll be great because this is not going to be good what's happening? That's what I heard and that's an interesting interpretation I think you could've heard that well I feel that and I have a short NPR clip here I feel the word is out the message in its like the Iowa caucus 1% of the vote was in and the media who always determines our elections called it for Trump This this was surprising to me. The New York Times Called it for Trump within one minute NPR was surprised too

24:53 What I mean for that we turn to NPR senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro. Hey there, Domenico. Hey Mary Louise Press made a swift call made quite an early call last night And the call was that Trump had an insurmountable lead What stood out to you about last night? overwhelming lead that Trump had in the entrance polls that were taken throughout the state and then that matched some key precincts and that's all that was really needed for them to have that kind of confidence level. In the end it was Trump with more than 50% of the vote exactly what polling had shown for months and months I thought it was very suspicious calling it for Trump with 1 percent of the vote, that also skews people who still hadn't voted No this is caucuses there's no voting

25:56 Well, okay it's caucusing. Yes I don't know to me it was very suspicious that all of a sudden they're like oh it's Trump didn't you think so? Well I didn't see it that way personally It was obvious he was gonna do that and they just wanted to get out of there and go home because it was too damn cold to be out By the way There was this open letter to the Davos here proud to pay more Our message at Davos is simple. Elected leaders must tax us, the super rich! We'd be proud to pay more!" And so a whole bunch of rich douchebags signed this open letter and I would just like to remind them if you go to treasurydirect.gov

26:44 The Bureau of the Fiscal Service is happy to accept gifts donated to the United States government, to reduce the debt held by the public. This is true? So they've all joined in I guess, they've all sent their money in... No! You think it's just performative?! In 2022 a whopping $180,310.32 was donated voluntarily. There should be billions this year You think? Listening to these blowhards. Proud to pay more, yeah! Oh yes please we're proud to pay more to tackle extreme inequality. Proud to pay more to help reduce the cost of living for working people Are there any names on there that you can tell us Yes We The Undersigned The funniest one is Brian Cox who plays a billionaire on television in Billions or no Secession

27:40 Eh, it's a whole bunch of people. There are hundreds of people here I presume they're all billionaires? I don't know Maybe they were done in jest Nah Because you're right They should be donating their excess funds to the treasury Todd Oppenheimer That sounds like a rich dude There is no Jamie Dimon on here He is not stupid But yeah, I just want to remind everybody you can definitely help us out. Just donate your money right now and I will thank you! So uh... To change topics a bit, I wanted do a mea culpa for myself since i got two or three notes nasty notes Yeah? Are you gonna read them? No, I don't need to read them. I can summarize

28:33 And the nasty notes revolved around the Zoomer who quit her job or who got fired from Cloudflare. And what's of importance, I'll just summarize... Well and also got a nasty note for some woman who just called me a douchebag for even supporting this. No she said but think she actually said that's 30 minutes of my life! I never get back again! It was a nine minute clip, so I don't know how she does her calculations. She's lucky to have a job herself. So one guy pointed out one of our producers who seemed extremely knowledgeable about sales and he pointed out that this bull crap because all his sale most of the sales close during that holiday period between Thanksgiving and New Year's

29:27 So she was full of shit that she couldn't close these deals during the most profitable time of the year. And I was thinking about when he said that, you read that note? Mm-hmm. You know what's funny is that I didn't recognize that fact because all our income for this show pretty much shows up in that same period. Yes and so yeah... Yeah! So that's the closing time of the year, so this woman had no legs to stand on regarding this complaint when that's when she should have closed not things falling apart. And then he had a number of breakdowns in the way she didn't close and some of the details of her incompetence and he went on about it. I took that one to heart, that was a good note

30:11 And then somebody else pointed out, which I thought was oh yeah there's that. Because I had made such a fuss about this is the new new, this is gonna happen a lot because we were gonna record these calls and then he reminded me because I know this from my experience that when you get fired or get laid off you get a bonus usually of cash money if you sign in non-disclosure as you walk out the door. So in other words, you hate the company now because they just fired you or there and your gone but here's five grand to sign this thing, you can take this check home but you have to shut up because of their bitching and moaning about the company

30:51 So that precludes the idea that everyone's gonna be doing this because in fact especially in tech Everyone is bought off with NDAs and they can't do it. In fact, she obviously refused to do that And she just left in a huff so I was my interpretation of the entire scene I consider to be completely erroneous if that helps anyone I also received an interesting note from one of our Knights He says, I fired over 1,000 people in my career. I was doing exactly what Clooney was doing in the movie including living in Dallas and flying American Airlines

31:28 If they wanted to avoid paying more for unemployment insurance and were firing for cause, they should have been better organized," he says. But what I've done the way i did it we usually start by saying you're being let go with no cause and will be eligible for unemployment there's no point in telling someone why they are being let go unless you are doing for cause and will fight unemployment benefits He says the single biggest layoff I've ever done five years ago I fired 76 people on the same zoom call Man, that's cold. That was five years ago. One other point of note because we questioned whether the stacked ranking was a part of Salesforce and we also brought up SAP one of our producers who works for SAP says I know for a fact our software is not able to do stacked ranking because we do ranking ourselves on a spreadsheet

32:22 I've never had to stack rank fire anyone, but when we're talking about who's getting bonuses and salary increases. We do it every year we have a spreadsheet sort out the team and update the software from the spreadsheet so apparently you know that you know i would start i would i would uh start looking for a job at salesforce if i were you sap seems to be behind behind and it was bamby bamby is the company that you call for to for HR to fire people Oh Bambi BAMBI is cute yeah Bambi bamboo anyway so now that's right I think that straightens out the we're incredibly sorry for the loss of life

33:05 So sorry. We learned something that your stuff is no good, no good in my clip suck hurting people that I want to remind people because we've been doing our value for value segments at the end which looking at the minute by minute, we can track some of that with podcasting 2.0 not person but we can see You know, it's not really such a drop-off other than there is a drop off. But I was surprised by this note from one of our producers who says... First of all, I must express my appreciation and affection for the show. It has hit many people in the mouth including my wife and two daughters aged 14 to 27. I've made anonymous donations and attended several No Agenda meetups. I must point out something that you may not have considered as concerns with donation section. It may be hard to believe most women don't want to hear about boob donations

34:02 My wife and daughters no longer listen to the show with me because of the awkwardness. And he goes on to say, you just understand that they don't want to listen to locker room talk about objectifying body parts of women. I had to pause there for a second and say they have no problem with clips about babies being beheaded and ripped out of wombs and all the other stuff that's going on in the world but the word boob—and I would say Sir Kevin McLaughlin honors this part of the female anatomy—that somehow is enough for them to say, I can't listen to this show anymore Well, I find that to be very specious. What my argument or his? And somewhat juvenile in that regard. My argument or his? No the women's argument yes! I think that they are being silly...to put it mildly.

34:59 You know, in all the years that Kevin McLaughlin has been doing this. This is the first complaint I've ever received Well, I'm sure there's other people that don't like it But...I think your daughters and your wife just hate the show What state are they in? I'd like to know what state I do not know Or country? I think America But I think it's just they're sick and tired of listening to your podcast, and they use that as a excuse. I believe that to be correct. You can listen for two hours before you hear the word boob! People are looking for excuses not to donate, people are looking for excuses to donate. Yes. You have to give them excuses to donate. Now everything becomes an excuse not to donate in the show itself if you don't like this show

35:52 Yeah, you can point a finger at the boob donation and which is it which is playful. You don't enjoy playfulness You're taking things a little too serious ease this show is not for you know cuz we were playful was a playful show in fact I have No agenda, it's a playful show It is a place where a very playful show unlike that We're a playful show So I listened to, just got caught up in one of Trump's speeches. And listened to most of it and didn't get to hear the whole thing but...I do have...do i have them here or not? Visiting DC I have, oh here is Trump yeah so I got a couple of his bits

36:42 This is Shtick, they use some of his new material that he's using in this set. That was a great set man! So I just want to play these two because one of them is the new standby But the first one I just thought was kind of cute. It's a very short clip, he just throws it in and this is Trump on visiting Washington D.C.. There's not going to be people shot. People come in from your state they want to go see Washington so they come in from New Hampshire they walk down there where they end up getting shot! They get shot in the nation's capital. You go to Washington, you get shot now! The funny thing is about that particular bit is that he knows it isn't...you know he knows he's doing jokes and so he kind of blew that one up because they used the word shot and pulled it back as fast as they could see couldn't hear at the very beginning

37:42 If you listen to the very beginning he says, he uses the word shot go to Washington DC to get shot and then he kind of chokes over it. So he knows what is doing up there Oh, of course he knows what he's doing. Now here is the bit that he did... He has done this one all throughout Iowa and used to do it.. He did it the first time he got a big reaction from MSNBC and others. So he wants people to die to vote for him! So even if you think.... And I joked, I said If your husband sick as a dog get him out of bed darling Jack Yes, yes. I'm so sick down Jack get your ass out of bed you're voting for our president. Yes, it doesn't matter as long as he gets that vote if he kicks the bucket after that is okay He served his country all right on my letter jack thank you for your service Jack Thank You for this well write him a letter Jack thank you for your service

38:43 He's deplorable, I can't believe it! This is what's interesting because he does this type of schtick. Let me see how it here and I'm sure you saw some of this. I've just a short couple of short ones but the MSNBC folks just went off the rails about well... he's playing to the white Christians Yeah, that's exactly what the white Christians want to hear. We want to hear about getting shot! That's exactly right Joy Reid But you know I feel like the important sort of data point... Steve talks about it a lot he's gonna probably talk about it little more tonight is that these are white Christians

39:25 that this is a state that is over represented by white Christians. They're going to participate in these caucuses, especially tonight. I today earlier today reached out to Robert Jones Robbie Jones from the Religion Research Institute knowing that we were gonna talk about And this is a hyper-evangelical white state. And he said the following to me, Iowa is about 61% white Christian. The country as a whole is approximately 41% white Christian and in Iowa we're talking about evangelical white Christians and he said the following because I asked him what do they get out of supporting Donald Trump? Because he keeps losing, he keeps delivering losses and losses and losses and he said

40:04 They see themselves as the rightful inheritors of this country and Trump has promised to give it back to them. All the things that we think about, about electability, about what are people gaming out or none of that matters when you believe that God has given you this country, that it is yours and then everyone who is not a white conservative Christian is a fraudulent American, a less real American, then you don't care about electability. I gotta find a better church when we're not talking about that in our church but i want to hear that God gave this country to us the white Christians

40:43 Wow, does she just dream the stuff out of the thin air? Oh no this is amazing. This was an ongoing topic! Yeah I heard some super cuts of this claim that Trump... There's another...I should have gotten these clips there was a series of clips all taken from MSNBC saying that even though he broke pretty much every record for Iowa caucuses He lost! Oh I didn't hear that one Yeah, he lost because nobody showed there wasn't enough people to vote. It was really a loser's it's a surprise that the numbers were so low He did 51% was it's amazing even got that much because he lost he was a loser

41:28 Alex, these people are clinically insane over at MSNBC. I don't even know...I'm sure the ratings are doing better because that you know people need this they need to get their fix of yeah yeah that's right yeah yeah that's right man it's the Christians only the white Christians by the way the black Christians pretty radical in this country They're much more radical than white Christians. Yes, of course! Listen to Alex Wagner who was supposed to be more serious than... Oh man there were so many cool memes of Joy Reid With that white hairdo that she's got, the white wig. The Trump hair? Yeah the Trump haircut! There was a lot of that. A lot of generative AI stuff I loved it Steve is pointing out the evangelical vote which i've been fascinated by in recent... What exactly is the evangelical vote John just so I understand because they throw this term out there all the time but is that a certain type of religion? Well there is a voting bloc as considered the evangelical

42:28 Vote yeah that stems from mostly the south and It's supposed to be it's like the black vote. It's enough to prop up, but what is an evangelical? An evangelical help me okay, evangelical in my mind is a Christian fundamentalist that comes out of the Pentecostal and mostly the Pentecostal Church Okay, oh all right. We don't have one of those here I got to find one weeks cuz there's gotta be there's no I don't think there's a Pentecostal we have a lot of churches. I'd be stunned know a lot of Lutheran churches around here Lutheran Really esteemed reporters have been talking about the way in which the Trump coalition the MAGA Coalition has absolutely Devoured the evangelical coalition and Iowa kind of a case study

43:21 in that. Michelle Goldberg talks about it, Tim Alberta's new book talks about it David French has talked about this phenomenon and if you look at those entry polls you know as Steve points out 55% of white born-again or evangelicals are going from Trump that is an exponential increase from 2016 do you consider yourself part of the MAGA movement 78 percent going for Trump? That's not hugely surprising but the only overlap there I think is what, i mean, is what is so remarkable about this moment in American politics right? Bob Vander Plaats who is a kingmaker in Iowa politics an evangelical and very much just mouthpiece for the evangelical vote. I want to be an evangelical King maker! Let's make you one! I wanna be on this sounds like fun! In Iowa endorses Don DeSantis it clearly does not matter

44:15 Evangelical America is behind Donald Trump. Wait a minute, hold on a second! Is she listening to herself? Clearly not she's reading the prompter She's got this guy who is the evangelical, you know, Pied Piper. Kingmaker! And he's all in for DeSantis and DeSantis just pretty much bit the dust in that election so what she talking about? They're just a leaderless cult? What she saying?! I should just fill in airtime maybe. Do you want to hear more? She's filling it out, back it up a little bit. It clearly does not matter

45:00 Evangelical America is behind Donald Trump and that sort of gets to the roots of like what Trumpism is now. You know we were told in 2016 that evangelicals made their beds with Trump because they wanted to have a Supreme Court that was modeled and an evangelically conservative model well they got that but it's... Evangelically conservative model? Is that a new Tesla? I mean, I need some of this. It seems like their affiliation with Trump and Maggie is... Let's take a look at this court they're talking about except for Amy Comey Barrett or whatever her name is The only one She's the only one! The rest are more Catholic or Jewish

45:38 And Amy Coney Barrett, as I have to shove her on deference clips coming up. Yeah yeah i'm excited about that. Cause that's coming up. She is like you know she pretty much of a wonk. She one of those people who overstudies stuff and she has not fallen in line with anything. It was modeled an evangelical conservative model well they got that but it seems like their affiliation with Trump and MAGA runs deeper than that And David French has articulated this quite beautifully. Trump has in some ways become religion for a certain section of the American electorate. Oh yeah. We're singing songs in church about him! And especially for evangelicals, that it's not about the virtue anymore It's about the vice that Trump expresses and I think you see that playing out in Iowa where the evangelical vote is key. It is central to what is going to unfold tonight and it is very much a group of people

46:33 that find that Trump is in some ways a second coming. It's why Trump- Oh yes! Holy, holy, holy is the Trump upon the cross. Is taking out ads like the one that came out I think a week ago called God Made Trump there is a distinctly religious undertone to his campaigning nationally and I think you see that playing out in Iowa, right? The numbers do not lie Rachel. And I find it really a spectacularly interesting thing if not downright curious things Now this is interesting because i don't think this was an ad created for television she just kind of said that like oh alright made this ad where God made Trump have you seen this video god made trump

47:20 No, I've never seen it. Okay now it is a takeoff It's Paul Harvey and then...I don't know..I was not around for the original I'll play you stop whispering. The original what? Well this it's a it's a take off on an original...I don't know there was an original Paul Harvey, God made something. Listen to it and we can stop because you'll probably recognize the cadence and everything. And this is something that I think someone else made maybe the white Christians for Trump movement? Some meme guy anybody. So generative AI it's good! Generic...

48:06 And on June 14th 1946 God looked down on his planned paradise and said I need a caretaker So God gave us Trump. God said, I need somebody willing to get up before dawn." I think it originally was god made the farmer? I think that's what the original was god made the farmer Fix this country, work all day, fight the Marxists, eat supper then go to the Oval Office and stay past midnight at a meeting of the heads of state. So God made Trump I need somebody with arms strong Strong enough to rustle the deep state, and yet gentle enough to deliver his own grandchild. Somebody to ruffle the feathers. Tame Cantankerous World Economic Forum. Come home hungry? Have to wait until the First Lady is done with lunch with friends... Then tell the ladies to be sure and come back real soon."

48:58 and mean it. So God gave us Trump I need somebody who can shape an axe but wield a sword You got it right? Here, this is... Yeah if you go to Paul Harvey God made you get there God Made A Farmer This is it! I'll just play little bit yeah And on the 8th god looked down on his planned paradise and said I needed caretaker so god made a farmer there it is God made a farmer Okay, so there's a mediocre copy of that and now that I hear the voice is not even that great No, Paul Harvey's had a tremendous. Yeah set of pipes They put Paul Harvey power Harvey what had been doing these little radio snippets forever And he had a Christian nationalist MAGA guy. I don't know that He was with anything but I didn't look it up But but I remember the moment he was definitely a conservative character

50:00 And I remember the moment where Hewitt at 60 Minutes decided to put him on the show to add a little balance. That lasted all of like two shows because the regulars on that show are a bunch of, you know lefties that do CBS people and they just wouldn't have it. They did...I think they made his life miserable and he quit. Poor Paul! And here's the rest of the story Paul Harvey. I'm sure he got a pay or play deal which netted him some cash? Well, when it comes to Democrats and i can just say it now in America the division has become so... And these are political people! I mean, I'm not talking about people who just vote left but they're political people

50:50 Washoe County, Nevada. I think it's Nevada isn't it? Yep. That's Democrat country right? I don't know. I think so, don't they vote blue or they vote blue? They're mixed area the Nevada's mixed it's pretty much down in the middle So they had the County Commission meeting and they opened it with a consecration Thank you for letting us here my name is Jason I am an organizer and founder of Reno Satanic And I'm here to give the invocation today Invocation sorry Let us begin In nomine dei nostris, Satanus Luciferii excellis. In the name of the eternal rebel against tyrannical authority in the spirit of your nature of the natural world, the freedoms of thought and expression, unprejudiced intellectual inquiry economics and social progress to bring influence in guiding actions of nobility and justice to decisions made in this chamber today

51:51 to act with might in the undertaking of responsibility that may lay ahead of this body before us today. The new age is dawning, that these decisions will play a role in it for our liberation for here and now is our day of joy here and now with our opportunity may we seize this glorious day and its enchanting nights to celebrate the wonders of the natural world as we are all part of its boundless mysteries and the spirit of the unconquerable sun, the bringer of light and knowledge we say Shem-ham-phorash! Hail Satan! Alright. Okay you win this show

52:34 We have a satanic ritual in front of the Washoe County whatever group this was planning commission or their mission yes And so this guy comes out and they let it they let him do it. Of course what is wrong with these? Idiots, oh there's Satanists not today Satan we mock you if we mock you Oh my goodness But they should do a, hey where's my generative AI doing? And Satan created Biden. That would be good! Ooh that I'm just saying... That'd be a topper. That'd be a great topper yeah all of this all of this of course was really to detract from what i thought was an outstanding rant from Vivek. Gotta say it right because you know he's going for that VP slot Vivek

53:23 I think a lot of people would like Vivek as VP. I doubt he's going to be vice president, but this with Trump behind him smirking and laughing and smiling was great rant! And then they tried to hug and they couldn't do it. It was ludicrous. Well by the way just before we get that clip because I played those two Trump clips about... He's also doing it well unfortunately there is no real clip for it but But he's also now part of his act. He does Biden up on the stage, can't get off the stage and shaking hands with nobody and then bumbling around and walking into a set. It's great! He does a whole shtick on Biden trying to get off this stage. We believe those ideals still exists This man is going to be your next president to revive them E Pluribus Unum

54:15 From many, one. And you know how we're doing it? We're doing it by speaking the truth at every step of the way There are two genders in this country Period! That is the truth Fossil fuels are a requirement for human prosperity. Drill, frack, burn coal embrace nuclear energy. Reverse racism is racism and open border is not a border. Parents determine the education of their children. The nuclear family is the greatest form of governance known to mankind

54:54 Capitalism lifts us up from poverty. There are three branches of government in the United States, not four and the US Constitution is the strongest and greatest guarantor of freedom in human history that is the truth we fight for the truth Fantastic! And more people are starting to do this this boldness were seeing it everywhere You know, people are no longer afraid of speaking against the woke stuff. I mean it's everywhere now! It's everywhere so all this satanic trans Maoist stuff is gonna fall apart it's not working DEI corporations everywhere quietly changing their policy mmmm... This is not the way to go anymore but we'll stop that No one wants to fly United anymore

55:47 You know, the CEO dresses up in drag. Tina's like I'm going to fly she's flying to front and floor. I'm not flying United, just am I flying it? People are nuts so interesting Oh yeah could be that but light effect it was definitely part of it Definitely. And I won't play a clip because it's just full of expletives, but the UFC fighter who got asked by some Canadian woke journalist... Well how do you feel about the trans community and Bud Light sponsoring the UFC? ...and he just went off!

56:24 It just went off. It's crazy, and you know what? In America this is for all of you foreigners listening, there are a lot of you listening in America we still it was gone for a long time and for awhile there seemed like only the Russians had humor but you know the Russians would do funny stuff this is before Ukraine And they had humor. It was the humor that we used to have as Americans, we'd make fun of ourselves We love a good joke, we love a double entendre This is why the boobs thing is very... you know, we love boobs it's an American thing I guess

57:00 Although I think other countries love boobs too. Fort Wayne, Indiana they have a building and they had a poll amongst the citizens what are we going to name this thing? And they want to name it after a famous Fort Wayne politician I think Harry Biles b-a-l-e-s and they held the poll, and the results are in. A former Fort Wayne mayor is getting some national attention thousands of people voted online to name the new city county building in his honor but that probably won't happen because of his name News Channel 15's Don Austin is here to explain

57:37 Well, Heather Mark the people voted and the top pick so far with more than 10 thousand votes is the Harry Balls Government Center named after one of the city's longest serving mayors but not everyone on board with that name. Harry Bales apparently was a great mayor if you read the comments actually people are very serious about what he did as mayor The family was you know as part of our history I think it's part of the history we're proud of to pick the new name for the building people went over To feedback Fort Wayne org they made suggestions and voted. The overwhelming front-runner was the Harry Balls government center, of course This is who we are We're simple people but we'd like a good joke we want it what we wanted guys name was Harry balls What do you supposed?

58:23 We want it to be called the Harry Balls building. Everybody wants that! This is who we are, this is who we are! I like the way you giggle with glee. Glee yes, glee, absolutely. You're all in on a Harry Balls stuff. Amidst all of the horrible things in the world... we got Satanists before meetings. That Satanist thing is too much Give us some hairy balls to make us feel better, please. Please! Or you want to feel bad? Live in Chicago play this frozen Tesla clip Oh my god This this frozen tesla clip was all I mean there were at least 15 different versions of this Buncha dead robots out here Dead robots

59:13 Dead Teslas packed the parking lot at this Tesla supercharging station in Oak Brook, a scene mirrored at other supercharging stations around the Chicago area. Man it's just crazy! It is...it is a disaster seriously With temperatures falling into negative double digits these charging ports have stopped charging leaving many Tesla owners stranded here in long lines since Sunday No juice is from 0%. And this was like three hours this morning being out here after they got to eight hours yesterday. Has it been charging? No, not at all. It just isn't working and it's just frozen and so I'm now getting told to the Tesla Service Center because that's not really option

59:53 Oh man, I got better clips than that. Come on! Come on... I'd like to know why every black guy in Chicago owns a Tesla? How does that happen?! Well there was one of these guys who was an Uber driver he's like nope not anymore another guy is like the handles you know how they recess into Tesla they weren't yeah they were frozen shut they weren't popping open Yeah that comes out when you come near it. I couldn't open my car with the app Electric vehicles may save drivers on the cost of filling up, but this winter growing frustrations for drivers stuck waiting at charging stations. But you still have to wait for those other cars to get through charging and even get to the charger Uber driver Marcus Campbell says he spent hours this week charging his car after freezing temperatures swept across Chicago

1:00:41 I'm not making no money and time is money. The problem? The cars run on lithium batteries which can take longer to charge in cold temperatures you may even need to charge more often according to AAA the average electric vehicles driving range decreases by 41% when the temperature outside dips to 20 degrees and when the car's heater or AC is on For each electric vehicle model, the EPA lists the mileage. But experts say that number can be misleading We've seen that is wrong on day one and doesn't account for weather variance. So EVs get less range in the extreme cold, and they get a little bit less range in the extreme heat. Experts say especially when it's cold drivers should keep their vehicles charged overnight ideally in a garage. And don't let your cars charge far below 20%. If the battery drops to zero, the car will have to be towed and possibly repaired

1:01:39 In Chicago, some tow truck businesses getting a boost. David Burks says he's been busy in the cold We have seen an increase in calls from a lot of different owners that have electric vehicles While some learn to weather the inconvenience for others the challenges are too much I'll be getting gas vehicle ASAP Is this not it for you? It is not it for me! I love this little guy No response from Tesla No response from Tesla. So here, now Tesla of course in if you read the user guide which is right near the EULA and the terms of service

1:02:21 If you're if you're these people went to a supercharging station because of course, hey You can charge it in 40 minutes. It's almost as fast as filling up with gas Yeah, if you're spilling up the gas at the lowest rate possible The supercharger will not work if your battery is under 30% Because of the supercharge the battery has to be preconditioned and warmed up so people were gone They just don't know what they're doing They don't, you have to have and so people say oh you have to pre-condition your battery and set your GPS. And like the Watergate secretary click on the left button and then this is not a good idea these cars are no good then I'm not picking on Tesla all of it. All the same. The whole idea is falling apart

1:03:13 This is very bad. I want to remind, I wish they had the clip reminding you of you oohing and aahing and what's wounding over the bought... You borrowed the bankers test No! It was horrible What are you talking about? Oh do you want me to get the clip right now because i'll tell you what happened I did..I had to... I couldn't charge it at the hotel so I had to drive to the universe that A&E A&M to park in the garage and take an uber back to the hotel. I'm quite sure i was not oohing and aahing about how cool it was You were oohing and aahing about how you could use automatic control, you could drive down the freeway It almost killed me! Hey producers out there get me these clips Bingit.io everybody John will be very... he'll have red cheeks I said is horrible... I won't have red cheeks It almost drove me off the road

1:04:04 Oh man! Yes, yes. Wow. Okay. Yes I remember. I do too No you don't...you remember... You don't... Don't get me started Do not bing it dot IO You will see You're in Dementia B right now Come back What did you do with John? I said what was definitely cool was that, how in traffic it would automatically drive but all the downsides and the white knuckle of coming back the next day worrying that we didn't have enough juice. I remember it very well! Yes. I think the time he turned on the machine is when the banker sold a car saying they couldn't take anymore. Oh man...

1:04:51 Oh man, alright. I have work to do. Producers don't even bother. I'll find it. Producers! Don't listen to him. Because he's right as usual No, he is not. Aww man...I can't believe that you're turning on me like this. This is not true. I'm just reminding you I am NOT turning It's not true. Let's go to Chevron Deference talking about gasoline The Chevron deference, does this explain what Chevron deference is? Yes. In fact this is a very complete report except for the fact it comes from PBS and its slanted very subtly though. It's not slanted in any strong manner but it's slanted enough that I could tell and I think I have one clip thats really short which points out part of the problem but... Do we need to set up or is there no setup? Yeah I'm going to set it up. This case is fine. This is about a boat

1:05:47 crew of herring, herring fishermen that took this case to the Supreme Court because they weren't going to put up with what requirements. $700 a day for the EPA to have some hire some douchebag to be on their ship and they had they had to pay for it in other words They're paying for their own inspection right? It's like it's like you say can the cops come by my house once in awhile Yeah You have to pay well break it down The Chevron deference is The idea that Congress writes very broad and, you know laws that can be interpreted and they say you know what the agencies can interpret it. The agencies can do whatever they want And when I say the agency... Well no is goes beyond that. The agencies can make their own rules Yes rules correct! That's what we're dealing with which is the administrative state. I'd work for the administrative state myself have a lot of experience with this You were part of this machine? I was yeah

1:06:45 Curious I was a Democrat during that era. Did it ever change? Let's go with, this is a good breakdown. This is a five-six parter it's very short though let's go with Chevron difference the Supreme Court today heard arguments about whether a group of Atlanta Atlantic herring fishermen should be required to pay for a costly monitoring system on their boats or whether that requirement is governmental overreach but as William Brangham reports the outcome of this case could have enormous impacts far beyond the fishing industry At issue here is what's called the Chevron deference. It's named after the oil and gas company whose case created this legal precedent, it says if there is a dispute over some ambiguous regulation that deference should go to the government agency whose experts wrote the rule. That's what those fishermen are arguing against and they're being supported by industry groups who also want to curtail regulation

1:07:45 If Chevron is knocked down, it could upend rules governing nearly every slice of American society. Healthcare, environmental and workplace protections public education banking and more. And the IRS All of it, every agency. A lot of agencies but the way they're presenting it is as though It's the end of the world and there's also a very subtext here that doesn't allow people to understand where this Chevron deference came from which was which was during the Reagan administration, they lowered... Reagan wanted less and less regulations so they lowered. They told the EPA to push back no you're not gonna do that you're gonna do this you're gonna lower the rate you're going make their regulations more lax you're gonna make things easier. This lawsuits came from environmental groups saying oh no you can't do that because you know this is not good

1:08:46 And so they, and it would involve Chevron because Chevron I don't know what part of Chevron was involved but whatever the case was this was about the relaxing of rules not the increase or craziness that's going on now. It had good intent. Good intent yeah irony is just at the max with this And it's never discussed. Let's go with part two to understand what's at stake. We are joined again by NPRs Kerry Johnson, who is at the court for today's arguments. Kerry, thank you so much for being back again sticking with this fisherman's case. Can you explain what the arguments were in their case and how Chevron was applied there? These plaintiffs are a small group of fishermen based in the northeastern United States

1:09:33 And a few years ago, the Fisheries Service put forward a regulation basically requiring them to have professional observers or monitors on their boats sometimes on an overnight basis to make sure they were following the rules and decreed that they should have to pay for the monitors. to the tune of about $700 a day, which they say is just too much money. They say it was never clear that Congress intended for them to have to pay and so they took this case all the way to the Supreme Court arguing that the federal agency here had overreached against them. Good for those genociders, those eco-ciders! Good for them

1:10:11 Yes, this case has been bubbling in the background for a while and I believe that this is the reason that for one thing If you recall six months to a year ago they started going after Clarence Thomas Yeah We do. I think we even discussed it in the context of Chevron difference And so what I uncovered is the fact that This all began when Clarence Thomas Decide he was all-in on Chevron deference And he flipped. He's a flip-flopper! And he decided, well maybe it is not such a great thing this Chevron deference precedent and so once he...and that changed everything. He's MAGA

1:10:53 He's a white Christian. So once he is a white Christian nut, so once he's it almost is a poem was the perfect coincidence that when he made it clear that you might be going the other way and share on deference. That's when they start going after us. This is the administrative state at its worst. It is nasty. It doesn't like anybody interfering into what it's doing. It likes to run the show Indeed. Part three, I see it in that case Chevron the ruling was that the government agency wrote this rule Yes It might be onerous on the fishermen but that's the rule and the agency gets to determine that That's right In this case The lower courts determined that it was either a reasonable or a clear mandate under the law that these fishermen would have to pay they firmly resisted that and took this case all the way up to the Supreme Court where it ended up today

1:11:48 So you can see why business interests don't like this idea of some agency basically winning every toss-up ball over a fight over regulation. What is their broader argument about this deference principle? Ultimately, they say that this is a matter of the executive branch of the government unelected federal bureaucrats taking power that should belong to the United States Congress and some extent to federal judges who all along have interpreted the law and who can interpret these laws and these regulations just fine on their own without any input from federal agencies. And they say

1:12:28 many years now, almost 40 of them since this case was decided back in 1984. It's really upended the balance of power between the branches and it's put a lot of onus on small businesses like these fishermen and others to defend themselves against federal agencies when they have a hard time winning there. This case was supported not just by these small fishing industries, but a number of very large conservative legal foundations groups like the Gun Owners of America, trade group for e-cigarette manufacturers and others just showing how sweeping this case could be if the Supreme Court ultimately decides to overrule that precedent from all those years ago

1:13:12 OK, I have a question. So when you were in the government and a Democrat did you feel like you were powerful as a member of the deep state? that you had this power to mess around with the little guy and boss him around, tell him what to do because you're with the EPA? I mean seriously. There were definite... well we were like regional pollution operation That's even better! So you are the little regional guy but still have the chevron deference behind you The regional guys are always considered more powerful of groups Right

1:13:53 I was not...I was kind of amenable. I worked in the refinery business and I knew how these things work there were guys that worked in the agency absolutely were little Hitlers. They would make people's life miserable because they could tell us again just quickly just because it's so nice tell us a story about Dianne Feinstein Come on. Dianne Feinstein was a member of the, one of the boards that oversaw the air pollution district. Little Hitlerina And so she was and she was a dingbat and everybody knew it right to the end So we had this situation in the file room there was I already love it! I forgot the file room part

1:14:47 So there's this file room which is also connected to the dispatchers and the dispatchers were in this like kind of a closed room so they liked to keep the door open because it was like a pain in the ass if they felt like they were like you know claustrophobic. And the door would also led to the fire file room and when you went to get some files for some case or other, you're supposed to sign out on some little sheet and the dispatchers had really nothing to do with it. But they oversee, you're supposed to sign these sheets and take the files." Well people started just grabbing files and not taking the sheets and so they had to go okay we're gonna have to do something about that. So the open door that the dispatchers definitely wanted to have because there was claustrophobic

1:15:35 They put a chain across the open door to keep people from going in and out of the file room and just grabbing files so they had to now go through process to get the files. Wait, this wasn't Feinstein? This was Boxer! Wasn't it Boxer?! No no this is Feinstein. Boxers got another story. Oh... Boxers is always trying to have that's a different story. Yeah yeah that one So Feinstein So now we have the situation, you got the dispatchers in there and you have the chain across the door. And so Feinstein walks past without even doing any research or giving a chance she looks at it and sees two women in there that are the dispatchers and sees the chain and she makes up big fuss why are these women behind this chain? This is terrible! This is an insult to womanhood

1:16:26 And so she makes a big fuss and so they have to take the chain down but now the problem with the file room is still at issue. So they have to close the door, so now they're locked in this claustrophobic area ruining their lives basically thanks for nothing Dianne Feinstein. That's the kind of person she is. She just jumped to conclusions. Now Boxer was the one who wanted get into your boxer shorts? Boxer was notorious. Everybody who was an inspector, who's in the field and had cars she would always find someone of the guys happen to be working Marin County or something try to I Was told try to not only get them to drive her home She didn't invite him in Didn't she want you to drive her a hanky-panky? What?

1:17:13 Frankie Panky, didn't she want you to drive her home one day? No I've never got off. I never had that area. I couldn't have driven her home Oh okay...I never worked in Marin County Wow this was good thanks thanks for the Feinstein reminder so basically though yes The story seems to be getting longer than it should That's good the answer is especially at the local level with the smaller regional offices there's a lot of power power gnomes, you know? Yeah. Absolutely like Louis from taxi, you know, and you got power is exactly true. And there's no way that they have to assume that let's go to clip for this a very short clip because I gotta make a comment on it. Let's talk a little bit about that because the opponents of overturning Chevron many environmental groups consumer protection groups and others like that. Okay

1:18:06 consumer protection. Is that what you meant? I forgot what i was gonna say. Bobby, it has something to do with the environmental groups because there's the... That's where I should have brought in the irony part of the story they're the ones who caused this to happen Chevron deference is you know, it was caused against the environmental groups. Hey, didn't want to deregulation to take place but now they're all in on it so indirectly do think Bobby the op was actually a problem with in Chevron deference because he was one of these environmental groups I have my you know after seeing David people should go read this article about Cheryl Hines and the latest copy of The Hollywood Reporter would report HR calm go to THR come and read

1:18:50 It really brings out a lot of the op. I mean, when she says well you know she makes this comment you have to assume something's up when she says that or that Republicans are running a rapist. She says that in the interview? Yeah more or less it is worded its couch funny but thats basically what she said and on trial for rapes as I think is where she put But this is like, okay. Bobby the op... I'm now convinced after reading that article in The Hollywood Reporter that probably the op is designed to run Kennedy as an independent to take votes away from Trump as a last-ditch effort by the Democrats to get Biden back in. That's the only thing I can have to conclude after reading that article so I am very skeptical of him

1:19:45 All right, onward with clip five. They basically argue that there's a hidden agenda in this case beyond the herring fishermen who are the plaintiffs here, and that it's they want to paralyze or cripple the bureaucracy so that federal agencies cannot make rules on major problems in American life, things from air pollution and maybe eventually even artificial intelligence as Justice Elena Kagan raised today to health care. And let's say if you return these decisions to the hands of unelected federal judges—there are something like 800 of them around the country—it risks people's Medicare and Medicaid programs very complex programs

1:20:40 that mean a lot to people's lives being decided one way in one state and one way in another state. And that could really sow chaos for people's lives just in their personal pocketbooks, as well as for environmental regulations and workplace protections. You just can't have a system where the regs means something in one state it means something else halfway around the country Hmm. Okay, so let's this one thing they never do is stop and say wait a minute Yeah Chevron deference showed up in 1984 How did we even get by as the people without it for? 1984 what were we doing it didn't nothing where how did it work couldn't have possibly worked So this is bullcrap They're just trying to do the same old scary all scare everybody to death easy be

1:21:33 So anyway, so this is the last time. This brings in Comey Barrett. I know that in his confirmation hearings now Justice Gorsuch expressed a great deal of skepticism and I know some other conservative justices similarly have shown some antipathy to regulation from your reading of the arguments today What is your sense? Do you think the majority, the conservative majority is going to strike it down. We did hear deep skepticism from Justice Neil Gorsuch today he raised a lot of very very tough questions for the Solicitor General and Justice Brett Kavanaugh was also pretty skeptical

1:22:09 Justice Samuel Alito along the same lines. And Clarence Thomas asked a few questions too, but those William are four votes and I didn't hear a clear fifth vote for getting rid of this precedent altogether in fact one of the Trump appointees justice Amy Coney Barrett raised the specter of getting rid of this precedent might mean inviting floodgates of litigation from thousands of litigants who've had their cases decided based on this principle over many years. And that really swamping the courts and potentially the Justice Department too, so it's not clear to me there are five votes to overturn this precedent altogether. It may be that the court compromises and chips away further at the precedent though

1:22:51 Well, that aligns very closely with what Rob the constitutional lawyer sent me because I asked him of course and he said Of course. I'm gonna I'm gonna pay attention to this for you guys I'll read and he also gave me something from law 360 that is highlighted some stuff Here's what? He said This is Boots on the Ground. I went back and looked at some of the commentary on the two Chevron deference cases argued before SCOTUS yesterday, The Loper Bright Enterprise versus Raimundo & Relentless Inc versus Department Of Commerce. As you know, the question du jour is just how much deference the court should give to regulatory agencies? Interpretations of the legislation they're in charge of enforcing since 1984, the answer has been a lot as long as the agency's interpretation is permissible courts will adopt it as law

1:23:39 This creates a tension. The Constitution charges Congress with making the laws and the judiciary with interpreting them, it does not charge the executive branch with either function still the agencies who presumably have the expertise usually need to fill in lots of details do their jobs but how deeply should the courts bowed to their interpretations? He said, depending on who you talk to the word is that most of the justices seem reluctantly amenable to diluting Chevron deference. But how much? Many including Justice Barrett worry that SCOTUS' decision might gut the existing agency interpretations unleashing a flood of litigation over now reopened questions others say

1:24:20 This concern is overblown since one, most of the agency interpretations are probably right and two if not they need to be challenged. And he says he attached a highlighted law 360 with five takeaways from Paul Clement and I've put that in the show notes in a nutshell. Clement says that congressmen can use friends in the executive branch to get things done instead of slogging through the presentment compromise excuse me and by camera-lism, hurdles that make statutes comparatively hard to enact. To paraphrase Obama regulatory action requires nothing more than a phone and a pen." So actually it sounded like that report was pretty spot on I think they'll dilute it but they'll do something so somehow they can't get all these lawsuits reopened again. I don't know how they'd do that

1:25:22 Well, we'll find out soon enough but this thing should go. Oh and what a joy it would be for the world... For us! By the way when I worked at this administrative state and they already were lording it over everybody else that was before Chevron deference Oh, is that long ago? So you were already little Hitlers before it happened. Imagine what happened afterwards! Yeah, the Chevron deference was all... The way I see it, Chevron deference once the Republicans got out of office because when the Republicans are in office don't forget to Chevron deference began as a way to deregulate That's the funny part That's the irony

1:26:01 And then once they got out, this is the problem with everything. You switch parties and the next thing you know they go nuts the other way and they start abusing power which is what's been going on. This is why gun shops get closed because of ATF and others create new rules under stories about some gun shop owner that forget forgot to put a... Yeah, and they closed the shop. Forgot to sign his name properly or print his name under his signature and so they closed this shop all this is all a result of Chevron deference everything bad that's happening in the administrative state is the fault of Chevron deference again 1984 it's when it began and it's just gotten to the point where it's gotta go

1:26:49 And if a bunch of cases show up because Comey Barrett doesn't want to do any work? Or she's just, you know still thinking like a judge that is out there. I can't believe it! She she's the only true white Christian there. She should be all MAGA What's wrong with her? That is always the irony of these things. I would like to take us back to episode 1337 of this very podcast, have a listen two minutes... This funny do that okay great so i get in the car and I've driven it before but I'm sitting there now and he drives off from the truck I'm like shit I forgot how to start this thing

1:27:26 That's how stupid it was. Like, I already starts off the car is stupid you don't have to start it and you just got to put into drive like I was looking for a button You know like my truck has a button you press the button the car starts so that's how disoriented I was but anyway I Remember how it works? I started driving and he left me with about it said 200 miles on on the range, the range meter. So I started driving now this is a multiple road... Hold on you can stop this clip You referenced in that clip that you're just starting to play I've driven it before That's the report where you went on and about how great it was not the second report or third report of what you say today so this is nonsense what your doing! I never did a report other than this one No

1:28:18 When you first drove it, you gave a report. Alright I'll just put it in the show notes people can listen for themselves You're right yeah probably shouldn't embarrass you any further It's not an embarrassment. You're just proving my point No, there is no report in that report you yourself said I've driven it before and I'd blah blah blah That's when that's when the first reports came out because you talked about driving at the first time you are meter noker This is not true this is the report where I said the thing is dangerous I said it almost ran me off the road, it was horrible. Yeah that's right and I'm not arguing about this report. This is no other report! This is not the report I am talking about. Alright people find...find the previous report because it doesn't exist They will It's the only report Israeli moon bases they'll find it Oh boy you really hurt me with that one oof boy Israeli moon bases Well you were in denial about that for God at least a year

1:29:18 I've never said that, I've never gone back on that. I've always said there was Israeli moon bases. I've never recanted. There you go, everyone knows what you're doing. Nice try! How about we talk about the latest scare that has everybody all up in arms because it's back It's back, disease X. Disease X is back and the Chinese are doing it! Disease x is a term for hypothetical illness one that has not happened and is currently unknown in this scenario experts from around the globe are evaluating what would happen and what we need to do in order to prepare for a virus that could claim up to 20 times more lives than the COVID-19 pandemic

1:30:02 In Davos, the disease X scenario took center stage Wednesday. You may even call COVID as the first disease x and it may happen again The WHO director general acknowledges tough lessons were learned during COVID-19 We lost many people because we couldn't marry them. They could have been saved, but there was no space. There was not enough oxygen so how can you have a system that can expand when the need comes? This bioethics professor says the pandemic showed us how one disease absorbing all available resources can lead to other health issues falling through the cracks

1:30:42 A cancer diagnosis did not take place with very severe consequences for the people that were affected. Schicklin says there are also ethical questions to consider when preparing for the next big health emergency Do we try to limit the number of lives that we lose? Or do we limit the number of life years that we lose? To what extent should you be concerned about equity considerations, are we just concerned about health outcomes. He cautions Canada is not ready We will be wholly unprepared for this because we're under-resourced, we don't have the staff and we don't have the beds available so it will be major problem obviously Anything happening is a matter of when not if

1:31:19 So this is picked up by outfits around the world because now we have a report, there's an actual report. Someone has a report and Gravitas India... This is where Palki Sharma used to work They've got the crux of it. When I heard that, I'm like what? People have been infected and they died. That none of the people who were infected with this new disease X, this new virus from China have survived? What?! Have a look at this report published in BioRxiv. Doctors trained by Chinese Peoples Liberation Army are conducting these experiments They have made their own version of coronavirus found in pangolins

1:32:15 The scientists administered this lab-made virus in mice. And guess what they discovered? The mice started losing weight, they were sluggish their eyes went white all of this happened after five days of being infected the virus spread to their eyes their lungs and even the brain. All four mice infected with the new COVID-19 strain died in eight days In the last two days of their lives, the virus increased in the brain significantly What caused that death? Researchers suggest it was severe brain infection

1:32:52 The intensity of this new strain is astounding. And it has set alarm bells ringing, by the way. Chinese scientists have issued warnings they fear the virus strain can spill over to human beings and what would happen then? Would it lead to a pandemic all over again?" So this type of reporting where he goes oh no one survived! It turns out it was mice and they turned into... First they lost weight which is groovy And then the eyes went white and a brain disease, and they all died. It's gotten so crazy that we got Fox News! Oh everyone is talking about it on Twitter X let's bring in Redfield. Redfield you recall was the CDC director who left during the pandemic

1:33:39 And he's back. This morning, growing concerns as we learn Chinese scientists are experimenting with a mutant COVID strain. Mutant? A mutant COVID strain! Oh who writes this stuff? These scientists are experimenting with a mutant COVID strain 100% lethal in mice despite critics warning this research could spark another pandemic former CDC director Dr Robert Redfield is here to react good morning dr redfield Good morning. I'm here to react. What are you here for? I am here to react. Why would they do this again? Well, you know Angela, I am very much against the wisdom of doing this gain-of-function research. You know what I mean? I love the view that the original COVID pandemic was a direct consequence

1:34:25 laboratory research that helped educate the virus to become more transmissible human-to-human, not more pathogenic. And the work you talk about today is work that they're doing that actually is changing the pathogenicity of these viruses I think until we We really have a better debate about whether there's any value in this gain-of-function research. We ought to have a moratorium on it. Clearly, we don't have the biocontainment up to par to do this kind of research. I think it is very dangerous But what's really dangerous is the reporting on all this and how this swirls around on social media. And before you know it, disease X is a thing and it's happening but there's something he said in this second clip

1:35:11 that made me connect a few dots. But he downplayed it when he was interviewed with Brett Baer back in 2021. Listen to this, I'm really sorry that the lab leak has become such a distraction for so many people because frankly we still don't know there is no evidence really to say most of the scientific community myself included think that is a possibility but far more likely this was a natural way in which a virus left a bat maybe traveled through some other species and got the humans

1:35:57 But now he's saying it is credible. He told Congress that, how can we trust the NIH? And why is he changing his story now? Well you know I'm very disappointed in both him and Fauci that they didn't provide the scientific leadership in January February of 2020 to aggressively investigate both hypotheses, the spillover and the lab leak That's normally what the scientific community would do Instead they very rapidly sort of rallied the troops around one idea that this had to come from a spillover, even though I will say over the last three to four years all the evidence that's been gathered points more towards lab leak and obviously we haven't found any evidence to support the spillover. They did this largely because they thought they were protecting science

1:36:44 And the science that they were protecting is this gain of function research that they want to do. But in fact, they did the opposite. I think we've lost a lot of credibility in both NIH and unfortunately CDC because of their lack of transparency. So here's what some dots I connect because you know, I'm a no virus guy. You definitely say there's a bio weapon. We had dinner earlier this week with the ER doctor And I said, you know tell me what is it? This seems like it was just the flu. People were dying from the flu from fear he says then this is...I just connected this morning He says yes but He says I saw people with this white lung stuff. He says that was some kind of bioweapon Is it perhaps possible

1:37:36 that a bioweapon, an actual bio weapon was accidentally released. And I'm just going to say it was us whether it was the labs we had in Ukraine which would make total sense got to clean that up or whether it was for Dietrich but some bioweapon got out And maybe that was the early, or maybe I was wrong about those early cartridges. You know the vape cartridges that people gave them white lung and they died? Maybe that was an actual bioweapon! And to cover it up they came up with this whole COVID thing. This seems too elaborate to me... Okay all right for sure

1:38:18 No one seems to be able to come to terms with what is happening. We have a excess debt in the UK, which is being actively discussed in Parliament there 10%, 7% year on year it should in fact be going down It should be a deficit but it's not its going up and now we are seeing this here in the United States cancers in younger people and what could it come from? An alarming trend. Colorectal cancer is now the leading cause of cancer deaths in men under the age of 50, and the second among women of the same age

1:38:59 We do suspect it's something in the environment, but what that is we don't know. Likely it's a combination of things that are affecting our microbiomes or our immune systems that may be leading to why this is happening younger and younger." Dr Kimmy Ng is an oncologist at Boston's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and has seen a dramatic increase in patients in their 20s and 30s. Younger people tend to have more advanced cancers correct? Yes, the majority of our young patients who are diagnosed unfortunately are diagnosed with either stage 3 or 4 colorectal cancer. That was NBC. CBS has a similar report I do want to ask you about the American Cancer Society today reporting colon cancer is killing more young men and women than ever before You are a gastroenterologist, what is going on? Yeah we've been concerned about this We've seen that younger people are increasingly affected which is why the guidelines for initial screening for people at average risk has fallen from 50 to 45 Why has it done that? Well maybe there's something in the environment Something we're eating

1:40:02 increasing obesity which is linked to an increased risk for colon cancer? Is it our inactivity or is something in the microbiome, the trillions of bacteria and somehow the environment's something we're eating or antibiotics are changing that. We don't know but we're gonna end with good news which is that every year for the last 30 years the total deaths from colon cancer have dropped which is a terrific achievement but today's report shows us we can be complacent and we really have to screen screening works you need to talk to your health care provider These people, Occam's razor for a moment people. That's really what a disservice they're doing What a disservice Unbelievable They just don't want to come to grips with the thesis that it is the vaccine that is causing these issues

1:40:55 We had a guy just dropped another judge suddenly drop dead to some heart attack 45 years old on one of the executives into warriors You know it's just like okay. Yeah, exactly huh? It's unbelievable it really is I Don't know and it's not everybody by the way don't don't all get freaked out oh But it seems so obvious and it's never discussed. Never they just can't touch it No, of course not because who is the leading advertiser on television in the news media? They've captured It's a captured it's a captured situation captured captured his word Yes That's the word of the day Let's go to this we had NATO guy on earlier because you were doing that thing on the double bags Yeah

1:41:56 Here's another one of these guys. This is discussing the Ukraine war with an ex-NATO hotshot on PBS, this is quite entertaining. We reported earlier negotiations over funding for border security Earlier today I spoke with former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen about what this means as Russia's war in Ukraine enters its third year Anders Fogh Rasmussen thank you so much for being here welcome to the news hour Thank you for having me. So I want to ask you about U.S. lawmakers' inability so far, to reach a deal on immigration that would allow Ukraine aid to move forward? You've said previously you would advise Democrats to accommodate Republicans on the border cut a deal get the aid flowing and your meeting with House Freedom Caucus members tomorrow what's your advice to them my advice it would be to do what it takes to ensure that Ukraine

1:42:53 wins the war against Russia. Because it is detrimental for the US national security interest if Russia win this war, we cannot allow Putin any success in Ukraine There's a very real chance that former President Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee, that he could win in November. If aid for Ukraine does not move forward under the Biden administration do you believe it could move forward under President Trump? Yet, we don't know. As point of departure I'm skeptical When you look forward though into the months ahead and what could happen here in the US You've said that even if Mr Trump doesn't win you said his nomination alone could be a geopolitical catastrophe Why? I didn't get any clips but Zelensky was in Davo Davo And he was talking about the peace formula

1:43:51 peace formula, which is unclear. And he was meeting with the bankers. They're meeting about the reconstruction already they gotta end this thing but this guy's a military guy just wants to sell more things that go boom! Well I'd like to know...I'm watching PBS isn't America? I think PBS in United States right it's not I'm not getting a feed from Mexico Are you sure? Yeah I don't know who's sponsoring So why is this guy even being interviewed At all, and why is he up on Capitol Hill chatting it up with the Peace Coalition and whoever else is there? What has he got to do with the slice of bread or the price of bread. Or the slice for that matter. He's a sales guy! What does this guy have got to do with anything let alone being... This is beyond me. He's a sales guy. He's selling for the military industrial complex

1:44:45 It goes on as part two. Because I have seen that the fact that he is around, the fact that he probably will be nominated as a Republican presidential candidate already has changed the way international actors take decisions they try to hit their bets And in Europe, for instance there is a great concern that a new administration might be more inward looking. More isolationist that they will leave Europe behind I don't think that would be in the interest of the United States to weaken its alliance across the Atlantic On the contrary we should strengthen the transatlantic alliance

1:45:37 Can I ask you about what we've seen in the U.S. public, though? Which is some decline in support for continuing the same level of U.S. funding for Ukraine and specifically this idea that European nations should be doing more. Should Europe be bearing more of the security burden especially when it comes to Ukraine? Yes and we are doing so Latest figures demonstrate that Europe has now overtaken the US when it comes both to military assistance and direct financial assistance. That was late last year, right? Yes we're not speaking about pledges we are speaking about real money when it comes through the military according to those figures Europe has contributed

1:46:24 54 billion euros, the US 44 billion euros. I question those numbers! I do too! I thought we were well over a hundred billion? I think this guy's full of crap! Well you gotta catch up people that can't have the European spending more on military stuff we need to spend and then he can kind of tell when you listen to his last clip which is that what they want us to do which is give them everything, including the most high-tech of high tech products so the Russians can get a hold of them and copy em or the Chinese because that's what they're going to end up happening if you do that. I just thought this was disgusting

1:47:09 example of PBS bringing in some this guy this guy annoys me let's play I appreciate that the Europeans contribute more they we should do so but It cannot replace a continued US assistance. We need both, we need sophisticated weapons delivered by the United States and we need more weapons, we need to lift all self-imposed restrictions on weapon deliveries to Ukraine so the mantra that we will help Ukraine for as long it takes should be replaced with we will give to Ukraine

1:47:52 all it takes to win the war. There's been a lot of criticism that had the US and NATO allies done that sooner, the war might have been over by now Ukraine would be in a different position It took 300 days into the war for the U.S., for example, to provide long-range missiles President Zelensky had been asking for Was that a mistake? Yes! It really... I mean it is sad story To see our hesitation And the reason why the Ukrainian counter-offensive has been so difficult and so modest is that we took much too long time to take necessary decisions. You cannot win a war by an incremental step-by-step approach, you have to overwhelm and surprise your adversary. We failed to do that." Oh man well there's a plan they got a plan

1:48:49 Because Jens is no longer pulling his weight. Jens Stoltenberg, he's not doing it. He sits in Davos. He's living it up doing caviar bumps like we need more war to make peace. It's like I'm here but he's been there for 10 years. His contract has been extended over and over again And now they're looking for a new leader. It's been one of the most popular guessing games in Brussels for years, who will replace Jens Stoltenberg? The Norwegian NATO chief has been asked to stay on as head of the Western Military Alliance four times once even after he'd already accepted another job. It is time for NATO leaders to find a good candidate

1:49:39 It's really important that a choice is made early enough and that it is de-linked from both the European Union elections and the campaign for the United States election. Just why the alliance has been unable to find a suitable replacement, is not exactly clear in part because there's no official procedure for doing so been an unofficial list of desired qualities. Experience as a head of state or government, of a country with robust defense spending from a southern or eastern ally and preferably finally a woman many names have come up and gone down

1:50:21 Currently, Latvian Foreign Minister Kristjanis Karinc, Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kalis and outgoing Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte all want the job. Rutte has gradually emerged as the clear favourite – a safer choice with Moscow's war on Ukraine dominating the alliance agenda So I've been following this for a while because Mark Rutte of course is Dutch Prime Minister, was prime minister for 12 years or something. If they want a woman that's the guy you want get him. Rutte? Yeah if they want a woman put him in charge he's uh... He was in HR at Unilever before became prime minister. He is as we say in the old country a silk sock. He's just a wuss

1:51:08 Silk sock. Yes, that's what they call it. The old country. A zijdezokk. Silk sock. While we're on the topic of the old country... We might as well play this clip. Oh boy! This is Claire Daly going off on Biden. ends that doesn't leave Israel a pariah state with occupation and apartheid on borrowed time, and they know it. So they're doing everything they can desperate acts of aggression to provoke a wider conflict with Lebanon with Iran with anybody to draw in the US to save them from the consequences of their own actions And as Yemen shows Butcher Biden is reporting for duty so take notes

1:52:07 Butcher Biden, the ancestors of the Ireland that you claim to be from disown you. Keep our country out of your mouth! They need a chant. They need to chant I need a chance to incorporate that I just want to go back to the military-industrial complex for a moment because they're having such a hard time Just keeping with the show theme here having such a hard time finding a body double for Lloyd Austin There's it can't be this can't be done there fine. You have to find an ex NFL guy Probably alignment yeah

1:52:43 And he's got to be a lot us is like six four or something. That's the problem because you can get the fridge You gotta carry cannot you have to be careful about who your hire nowadays if you need it He's gonna need a body double cuz some guys are just gonna be hard to replace I mean Trump, i'm sure there's two of them. So they're distracting us with the 911 call! Tonight ABC News obtaining a 911 call requesting an ambulance at the home of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin after complications from the surgery he kept secret at first. Hold on it's Tom. It took him this long to create a phony 9-1-1 call for them for the media? Have you heard the call is great oh the call is fantastic

1:53:25 Listen to the call. I got some of the call here. 911, where is your emergency? Tonight the 911 call just obtained by CBS News reveals an aide to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin asked the dispatcher to keep the emergency discreet Can I ask, can the ambulance not show up with lights and sirens? We're trying to remain a little subtle. Yeah, usually when they turn into residential neighborhoods they'll turn them off but they are required by law to run with them on main street. The operator then asks for details about Austin's con... What is your question?

1:54:02 What is this nonsense about turning lights on and off? Well, they didn't want to keep it subtle. You know, shh! Because we don't want Butcher Biden to know I guess...I don't know This is some helper at his residence No, no, not that. Not you mention it It's so that when they canvas anyone in his neighborhood about the ambulance, I don't remember what it was because there were no lights and sirens. Oh, you mean so... oh that's a good point. Well it was done on the QT on the DL so no one know witnesses. No it was a policy if you listen to her is a policy that you keep the license siren on in the main drag but when you go into the residential areas you turn them off

1:54:51 Austin was taken to the hospital on New Year's Day with an infection that stemmed from complications after surgery to treat prostate cancer just over two weeks earlier. In a statement, Austin's doctor said he had severe pain in his leg hip and abdomen. From the shrapnel I'm just The 911 call adds to questions about why President Biden did not find out about Austin's hospitalization for three days.

1:55:31 Neither did his deputy who had taken over Austin's duties while she was on vacation in Puerto Rico. Despite calls for Austin's resignation, the president says he is not considering firing him. Do you have confidence in Secretary Austin? I do. I'm sorry, sorry. What's the last thing that I've been told to tell you earlier? Yes But tonight the Pentagon has not responded to our request for a comment about that 911 call. The Inspector General though continues to investigate why it took Austin so long to disclose his hospitalization All distraction and then of course he's now released we still don't have him waving from the balcony Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was released from Walter Reed Medical Center today after being treated for complications that follow prostate cancer surgery

1:56:21 His treatment and complications had been kept secret for days, prompting widespread criticism. The Pentagon said Austin will continue to recuperate and perform his duties from home." And now they're saying they think he may need additional care. This is not good! Yeah, where's he waving from the balcony? I don't know if maybe some new listeners just showed up for this show should know what the thesis is which we're kind of skirting. Which is that he was killed in a Ukraine attack. He was in Ukraine on the first or second of January and he got killed in an attack. And so now they're trying to

1:57:05 They haven't come up with a good story yet for why he's missing. I mean, they're working on it. Yeah, they're working on it as we can tell. Meanwhile, we have... We've got kerfuffle down here in Texas You know, we're... Texas is fighting the federal government. Yes this is actually a good story do you have any clips? I have two clips indeed! Tonight tragedy on the Rio Grande escalating a border battle between the Biden administration and Texas centered around federal authorities access to the border The Department of Homeland Security issuing a letter to the state's Attorney General demanding Texas immediately cease and desist any actions that block Border Patrols full access to the US-Mexico border in and around the Shelby Park area. That Eagle Pass park

1:57:55 near where a migrant woman and two children drowned late Friday. The rescue response highly disputed, the White House stating Texas officials blocked US Border Patrol from attempting to save the migrants. Texas authorities calling that wholly inaccurate sharing by the time Border Patrol requested access Mexican authorities were already recovering the bodies. It's devastating to imagine that state officials would know that people were drowning in the river, particularly children and block border patrol from going and saving them. Just hours before the drownings the state's governor defending its border presence Texas has the legal authority to control ingress and egress into any geographic location in the state of Texas

1:58:42 Back in Eagle Pass, 700 white crosses marking the estimated migrant deaths over the last year. And tonight DHS is giving Texas a deadline of this Wednesday to stop blocking Border Patrol or they will refer the matter to the Department of Justice. Yes! Civil War baby! Civil war! Ask Tim Poole. It's gonna be civil war. What does Tim Poole have to say? Civil war? It's gonna be civil war. Yep CBS had a report too. A woman and her two children drowned. In a cease-and-desist letter to the Texas Attorney General, the top lawyer for DHS said Texas's failure to provide access to the border persists even in instances of imminent danger to life and safety calling the state's actions clearly unconstitutional.

1:59:53 politics, visual politics. Texas Congressman Henry Cuellar says the state prevented federal agents from using specialized equipment to save the migrants who died a scope truck is a truck that has this camera that can see what's happening in the river that could have had an impact of what happened here. What is your message to Governor Abbott? You cannot do this, this type of standoff it's not helpful The Texas military department says two of the migrants had already drowned by the time border patrol asked to enter the area

2:00:29 Governor Greg Abbott says he has the legal authority to control areas of the southern border within state boundaries. That authority is being asserted with regard to that park in Eagle Pass, Texas uh to maintain operational control of it. Texas blames the Biden administration for not doing enough it has also installed controversial razor wire and changed the law to allow state police officers to apprehend migrants Texas has until Wednesday to comply with the cease and desist letter to stop blocking access to the border. If it fails, DHS says it will refer the matter to the Department of Justice to take appropriate action. Cease and desist? Letter? That's a suggestion!

2:01:16 The whole thing is so strange because we've got the governor of Illinois, Pritzker taking out ads in our papers here saying please, please Governor Abbott stop sending them to Chicago. New York is overrun they now have to have a curfew for migrants They should be happy. And we should mention, we should mention that Abbott's total number of people sent to New York for example is 10%. Yeah oh yeah. Of the total migrants that are there 90% sent by our government Yes yes I know

2:01:55 But you know, then they just bring in the oh a mom and two kids died which of course is horrible. This whole thing is horrible It's a human catastrophe but if you say no mas No That's Spanish for no If you say no You can't come in anymore people will stop coming but that's not the plan They wanted open border And this is happening everywhere in the world The UK, I have a... It's an international conspiracy. It truly is an international conspiracy this is the UK you recall the plan there by the Conservative Party Rishi Srinak

2:02:40 was to send them to Rwanda. Which I still love! Well, they passed it and can send them to Rwanda but nobody likes it. The ayes to the right 320, the noes to left 276 In the end only handful of Conservative MPs voted against the government The promised rebellion against a new version of the Rwanda plan melted away and Rishi Sunak avoided a serious political defeat. Dozens of his own MPs still don't think that his new law is tough enough, that migrants will be able to appeal their deportation too easily and the judges in the European Court of Human Rights will still be able to block flights to Rwanda. Sunak insisted making it tougher would put the UK in breach of international agreements

2:03:29 and that the law will work as a deterrent. It is important that we stop the boats because illegal migration is simply not fair, Mr Speaker. It's not right that some people jump the queue... That by the way is a good line in the UK all you gotta do is hey these people tried to jump the queue oh Now the pitchforks come out. That they take away our resources to help those who are the most compassionate, that need our most help and by the way Mr Speaker are exploited by gangs and many of them lose their lives making these dangerous crossings Last year the UK Supreme Court ruled the original Rwanda plan was illegal because the judges said Rwanda was not a safe third country

2:04:09 This new law aims to address those concerns, strengthen its legal status and allow flights to Rwanda to start in a few months. The rebel said it was still too vulnerable to legal delay We have to get people out of the country within days not months and the operational plan behind this bill foresees that people will take months to be removed from the country. The Labour opposition said no version of the plan will ever work. Immigration here and across Europe is a key election issue, governments everywhere are under pressure to control their borders. Everywhere! Everywhere everywhere everywhere

2:04:51 So international conspiracy is right. And everyone loves it because China's, more reports, China's population is dwindling and as the former New York banker said we win because we have more people and I hear more and more people saying you know we need You know people that take care of our children to polish our shoes To clean our toilets We need this! We're very rich here. We need that whereas Anyway, stupid. I got a boots on the ground from the region from the region's region The region would be the Red Sea Region Regarding the boat the museum the tourist attraction Oh yes Yes We need a boot on the ground report on that thing boots on the ground reports secondhand boots on the ground here doing some significant tile work for a higher up at travelers insurance

2:05:49 I started talking to him about supply chain, he filled me in about the first boat that was taken and turned into a tourist attraction. See this is good. This is hilarious already. Travelers insures that ship! He says that the ransom for the crew was $5 million dollars and they are about to cut a check for it The owner of the boat company, Maersk doesn't want the check to be cut but instead wants travelers to send in a squad to extract the crew. Traveler says no way! He's trying to get the crew released via the ransom payment instead So ransom, no one mentions that part. No I haven't heard anything about a ransom. No of course not! All i heard was about the tourist attraction which is still think it's probably bull crap but its great story and then overnight we had a little kerfuffle between Iran and Pakistan and the minute I heard the report

2:06:44 I remembered this region. What do we know about the Pakistan strikes? They say that they've targeted Baloch militants, that's a separatist group that actually operates within Pakistan but they're saying they targeted them on Iranian territory But of course, this is widely being seen as retaliation or a show of strength after Iran actually conducted missile and air strikes on Pakistan's territory on the militant group. A few days ago. So now both Pakistan and Iran have now attacked militants on each other soil could this escalate further? It's quite unclear what's going to happen next but there are real concerns and fears

2:07:26 particularly here in Islamabad, that things could escalate. Pakistan's caretaker Prime Minister was in Davos for the World Economic Forum and he has actually said he is cutting short his trip and coming back to Pakistan in the wake of these strikes However, analysts we've spoken to have said that Pakistan probably wouldn't want an escalation and that players such as China which has ties with both Iran and Pakistan could well step in to try and help temper down the tensions. And how do these exchanges fit into the wider conflict in the Middle East?

2:08:02 It is quite difficult to say. Iran's motivations actually remain quite opaque for the initial strikes, however Iran has also carried out strikes on Iraq and Syria in recent days and Iran's foreign minister has indicated that it did target militants that it said were linked to Israel within Pakistan though we don't have a lot more information on that and Pakistan and the militant group involved have not said anything on that. But obviously there are concerns that it could be part of these broader regional escalations."

2:08:44 That is right by the Afghan border. We had drones flying around all the time, this was a huge problem because of pipelines and some other things and if we go back to episode 1273 from 2020 this was one of your clips This is about Belt and Road In June the CCP launched its plans for transportation corridor to Uzbekistan that goes through Kyrgyzstan As Business News website and Telenews reports, however the program to build a railway has met with quote unending construction delays. The program now relies on freight shipping through Kyrgyzstan where anti-CCP sentiments are growing. And the issues the CCP faces in Kyrgyzstan are similar to what the Chinese regime is facing in similar projects including Tajikistan and Balochistan In all of these areas, China is becoming a target for terrorist and nationalist movements that increasingly view the regime as their main enemy

2:09:43 To counter this, the CCP has been giving training to local government forces and also encouraging them to defend China's shipping lines on its behalf. But it is now becoming clear that this may not be enough Now where is this all heading? When it comes to the way the Chinese Communist Party is trying to protect its supply chains, when it comes to shipping along this One Belt One Road initiative. Its current method when dealing with terrorist organizations and others Is to get the local countries to defend their own supply chain These countries a lot of times however do not want to get involved with terrorist organizations in fighting against them on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party

2:10:20 And so the CCP is now being left with that effort. And what's it going to do? Well, it has two options One is send the Chinese military in To protect its supply chains But doing that is sensitive as well Because for example imagine if the Chinese military gets into a shootout With different radical groups of one kind or another In these countries Well, it's gonna look like what happened in India Along this border dispute where The Chinese military killed around 20 Indian soldiers and turned pretty much all of India against the CCP This is belt and robe, this is someone messing with the Chinese. And it may be us for all I know. I'm convinced its us. Yeah then probably incoherence with Iran. Keep coming back to what... We don't want to go directly at Iran but you know what nation has nukes?

2:11:06 Yeah, Pakistan India Pakistan the bogus Don Pakistan has nukes. Yeah now you want to get their phony baloney? conflagration with Iran and Pakistan And then a nuke goes flying and hits some I don't know the enclaver all the mullahs live You know the housing development boom blow that up affordable housing for them or affordable housing for the movers and And, oh Pakistan. Oh then you create all kinds of issues because now you gotta do a more bigger look at disarmament and all these other things because it was careless or it was an accident. We got nothing to do with it we're over here trying to shoot a few hootie bases I do have a three by three for the Hootie Base shoot down.

2:11:59 Here we go everyone, comparing stories from ABC's CBS and NBC! The never-ending 3x3 My buddy Michael, actually the whole band Mercy Me They always say that whenever they get happy when they hear the jingle The 3x3 jingle. They get happy It's a happy jingle. And they're just happy because they know something good is coming, we're going to see how the media gets all of its information from one source and including the sound effects everything what do we have in todays 3x3? First of all we have the same big three but I do have the bonus again this show. BBC Bonus?

2:12:42 No, it's always different. It's gonna be CBC the Canadian bonus nice yeah So let's start with ABC ABC everybody here we go Desperate search for two Navy SEALs missing at sea in the Gulf of Aden during that daring nighttime mission these new images tonight showing the US efforts to disrupt the flow of weapons to Iranian-backed Houthi rebels While boarding a suspected Yemeni weapons smuggling boat, one Navy SEAL fell into the sea. Following protocol another senior NCO jumping in after him. The operation continuing with the seals seizing these weapons revealed in new images tonight

2:13:18 materials used to build missiles. The same weapons deployed by the Houthis in at least 30 attacks on commercial shipping vessels. That's a significant operation that they haven't historically done, so this shows that they are escalating their interdiction operations and they're also approving things that they typically do not Tonight, the Pentagon saying it launched another round of air strikes inside Yemen destroying four Houthi anti-ship ballistic missiles prepared to launch. The operation marks the third round of retaliatory strikes against the Houthis since Thursday amid the ongoing attack on vessels in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden since mid November disrupting one of the world's busiest shipping routes

2:14:00 And National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan warning there could be additional strikes. We anticipated the Houthis would continue to try to hold this critical artery at risk and we continue to reserve the right to take further action but this needs to be an all hands on deck effort And David, an official tells us the White House intends to put the Houthis back on the list of foreign terrorist organizations after President Biden removed the group back in 2021 over concerns that designation would cripple the Yemeni economy and send it into a famine. The enemy... Oh! Send them into a... So this Navy SEAL thing that got all the play I think What's Trump going to do?

2:14:42 Well, first of all I want to point something out in that report. If his Navy SEALs are all gone he can't use them to kill his opponents? There's plenty of SEAL groups but the... yeah right you can't kill the First Lady. Yeah so uh... First lady yes! Yeah gonna kill a first lady right there in the White House He specifically said 30 Puthi attacks on on the shipping. I thought it was 150 Well, this is the Gulf of Aden all of a sudden. This is no longer the Red Sea... Yeah but it's still Houthi attacks on commercial shipping I thought was 150 attacks 150 missiles 150 something or other and he specifically said 30 not 31 33 29 30

2:15:31 When did that number change? I don't know but it's it's a number chain. Let me guess did everybody mention 30 I don't know if they do let's find out by listening to the NBC report tonight the US striking back against Houthi rebels in Yemen again Destroying an anti-ship ballistic missile launcher that the u.s.. Says was preparing to attack ships in the Red Sea we anticipated these would continue to try To hold this critical artery at risk and we continue to reserve the right to take further action. It comes after the Houthis hit a commercial ship with a missile today, according to the U S military. The Biden administration now re designating the group as a foreign terrorist organization, according to three US officials. The goal to cut off who the financing Secretary of State Antony Blinken told CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin. The threat is impacting commercial traffic 15% of commercial traffic

2:16:22 is going through that strait every single day. 30% of the world's container ships, we're seeing international repercussions for these attacks." U.S officials say Iran continues to supply Houthi rebels with weapons and intelligence releasing photos of these Iranian missile parts headed to the rebels in Yemen The weapons intercepted when the US Navy spotted a suspicious boat in the Gulf of Aden and sent in a team of US Navy SEALs They confiscated the missile parts, but not before two U.S. Navy SEALs ended up in the rough waters. They are both still missing tonight. The tension with Iran also playing out on land. US officials say Iran launched multiple ballistic missiles into northern Iraq overnight

2:17:02 The Iranian Revolutionary Guard claiming they targeted a spy base for Israel's intelligence agency Mossad in the region. U.S. officials not confirming that, saying US military and diplomatic facilities were not impacted and that civilians including children were killed in the missile attack. Sparking protests in the streets of Erbil, the White House condemning the attacks as reckless and imprecise. They have very different reports! Yeah, I know it's different very good. They have the same elements of the seals and then they have the there were no 30 They didn't had the number 30 in there You haven't a 30 and they didn't have and they added this new thing about to attack into Iraq Yeah through the kids you know what? They're gonna lose viewers with this people by zoning out deal first of all, you know Windows Security Defender Okay, so you have a problem yeah, I guess everything reboots

2:17:59 I think this is bad for ratings. People don't know where the Gulf of Aden is, they don't know anything. We know where it is because that's where the portal is. Yeah there's a Stargate there and you know what comes in and out of that thing? Tell me! Fish Exactly CBS next? CBS? The regular CBS Alright CBS come on turn me on Deadman The assault of Gaza continued today. I liked the others, they're connecting it to Gaza right away good but Israel's fight against Hamas has triggered a dramatic escalation in attacks across the region. Off the coast of Yemen new video shows Iranian backed Houthis and a song and dance with new recruits aboard the galaxy leader cargo ship seized back in November now turned into part trophy part

2:19:00 floating amusement park off the coast of Yemen and a propaganda tool used to make a mockery of the American-led threats. But following last week's US-UK bombardment, those threats turned to action again. The U.S. military says fighter jets struck four anti-ship ballistic missiles preparing to launch from Houthi territory in Yemen barely 24 hours after an attack on a us operated cargo ship A greek owned ship was struck today by a houthi missile in the red sea Near the coast of Somalia, the US military released these new images. Iranian supplied warheads and missile parts confiscated from this ship headed to Houthi militants in Yemen in an operation in which two Navy SEALs were lost at sea

2:19:50 At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said this goes beyond a regional problem. This is a global challenge we're talking about a vital artery of global commerce critical maritime choke point that's being held hostage. Despite US led attempts, the Houthis say they'll keep hitting that choke point as long as Israel keeps hitting Gaza and there is no sign tonight of either those battles coming to an end anytime soon Okay so we have three distinct different reports in this 3x3 I think this 3x3 is having an effect

2:20:30 Yes, damn man those new agenda guys are on to us. Mix it up people put the amusement park in there which was a nice touch now I think this something was a surprise The news media has no idea There's not...the only sources say they have in their is putting back on the terrorist list They don't know what to do There is no central information source that is giving them details. This was not planned, something went awry and especially if we lose some seals you know this is not good That's the only human interest we have is the seal part of the story So what do Canadians have to say about this on CBC?

2:21:24 Even as the US and UK launched those first strikes against Houthi militants last week, the U.S. suggested more would likely follow. Now they have. Today more Houthi military targets in this case anti-ship missiles have been hit by American forces unto itself underlining that Houthi forces, while degraded by the earlier attacks are still able to carry out strikes themselves. Indeed word a Maltese flagged cargo ship was hit today and yesterday for the first time a US owned cargo ship damage was minor in both cases and there were no injuries In the face of naked aggression we're not turning inward

2:22:05 U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan today in Davos, Switzerland. We did not say when we launched our attacks they're going to end once and for all the Houthis will be fully deterred we continue to reserve the right to take further action The US said today it's not looking for war And while the Houthis link their attacks to supporting Palestinians in the Israeli war against Hamas in Gaza, the U.S., said again its response to the Houthi attacks is based solely on the threat to the global economy Countries and companies that have nothing to do with Middle East whatsoever are being affected more than 50 nations and nearly 30 attacks So it's a crisis that the whole world needs to respond too

2:22:47 But it's ratcheted tensions in the region broadly. Today reports the US is set to officially label Houthi rebels as specially designated global terrorists, which means the U.S will be able to block their assets among other punishments Last week the US seized Iranian made missile components bound for Yemen from an unflagged ship in the Arabian Sea Iran backs both the Houthis and Hamas Yeah, they got Bitcoin. Yeah, that's their nose good Decent analysis from the troll room Navy SEALs lost at sea no IR beacons on helmets No drones in sky the seals were killed in action and reported as missing to avoid having to escalate That's a good point. That would make sense that with that would make sense

2:23:39 So they're lying to us. Oh, surprise! Wait... What? What am I saying?! Lies in the media!? And with that i'd like to thank you for your courage today In the morning to you The man who put the sea in Colonel Dvorak Ladies and gentlemen say hello to my friend in the other room John Cena! Well good morning to you Mr Adam Curry in the morning ship of Steve Woods and Rafi in the airships of the water in the day and the nights out there In the morning to the trolls in the troll room let's count them At $2.24 we've got 1817 trolls listening in on the troll room there That's that's actually right on the money. You're on the money trolls you're on the money very good Yes, I heard and was reminded the other day that you are actually a colonel. I'm a Kentucky Colonel This is a fact Kentucky Coon it's not little known as but is lightly knowned

2:24:35 Yeah, I'm very proud of you. I'm very proud to tell the story on Horowitz. I could tell it again Yeah You can be concerned was higher a hired to give a speech in Kentucky some Kentucky users We were something there was something and the guy who gave the speech before was one of the editors at info world Became a venture capitalist Stuart else up yes famous guy And I heard that he had been there the year before to give this same talk And he had been granted a Kentucky colonel ship. The guy just mentioned it in passing. Now is that an actual military rank? It's a Kentucky thing, yeah I guess it's military, it's the colonel and so I said wait a minute if he got this

2:25:18 I'm getting one. So get me a Kentucky car, so yeah, I got one signed by the governor the whole thing again it's framed on the wall you should put it on your QRZ profile What's that QRZ? Yeah, the qrz.com where all the hams have their profile Oh yeah I should Hey i've been getting some good QSOs from people on the VAR AC it's working is pretty cool oh you got this thing up and running yeah got up and running yeah then be doing lots of you do it on a computer how does it work It's on the computer yeah it's like a big chat program on the computer Chat press so well that's gotta be exciting!

2:25:57 It's riveting in the region. That is great! I was talking to Switzerland the other day on 12 watts, that's pretty impressive. Yeah and you can do it when all hell breaks loose you can still do it. That's right. So a friend of mine Chris Rutkowski just wrote a book called the CW life or something like Wow The CW a life is it this I think it's called CW life and as all of this is about code in their euthanasia book What is this? He didn't autograph he sent me a copy, but I don't think you autographed it I wanted to send it to you because that figure you'd be yeah What about it was did you read it and you know read it. It's hard to read oh

2:26:47 You know, it's talking about Morse code and how great it is. Yeah! It is. And CW is terrific That's the same as Morse Code Carrier Wave CW that's the morse code At a certain point I could do 12 words a minute and I was up there you were all in on CW for a long time I thought yeah I was I was and then... and you're getting all jacked up about having some of your 100 foot long antenna You can do some long wave stuff, you can send out a boop, you know some CW. The wire antenna... I like wire antennas the best actually. I do like wire antennas. These guys with these big beams and rotators. After this little chat we've just had check the chat room now to see how many people left

2:27:35 Okay, let's see. I'm guessing it's down to 1600 after talking about ham radio stuff. 1676 baby! There you go. 200 people. You want to talk a little more about we'll get rid of all of them. They keeled over dead like ugh can't listen to the CW talk hey man i'm just trying to spice it up a little bit spice it up We got a lot of hams. We've got a lot of hams. We do they're the core group um Trollroom.io is where you can listen live to the show, noagendastream.com It's 24 hours a day seven days a week all kinds of great podcasts lots of live podcasts just like this one we do it on Thursdays and Sundays and people could check in it's like having a live studio audience of trolls but and ma there are some that are trolling so hard today they even been been They figured out how to do instant messaging all those bleeps and bloops on my computer I had shut off my sound cards crazy

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2:45:43 So people have it on their phone, so they'll be reminded. Oh that's right I'm looking for an executive producer or IMDB.com there are hundreds literally hundreds of executive associate executive producers there don't let the douches in Hollywood be the only ones you can be that as well thank you so much for supporting us here at The Best Podcast In The Universe John is going to take us through to the 50s right now yeah i want also think uh Sarah for sending me some some nuts You got some nuts? Nuts, I got a bunch of nuts. Also got a flute! I didn't get nuts or a flute... Oh the flute is impossible to play The nuts and the flute kind of go together though that's interesting Grayson Insurance is at the top of the list with one two three four five in Aurora Colorado there's a note floating around from them but uh Grayson insurance is probably somebody you should check out if you live there Matt Hooker in San Pedro California one two three four five

2:46:36 Need some baby-making karma. We'll put that at the end with Rita Harrington, Sparks Nevada donation 118.33 Aaron Wyberg in Roberts Wisconsin 1111 Sir Lainhart in Buford Georgia 111 and donating for the birthday list it'll be on your human resource will be on there Lucas Williams in Roswell, New Mexico our favorite place $100 I still get a big lie. I think it was Lucas or somebody else from Roswell It sent me a souvenir from Roswell that it was the little alien. It's driver's license Oh yes, and the spinning top

2:47:20 Just pinning to, yeah I got the same. And the little driver's license always gets it you give it to people when they ask for ID and its always gets a lot of money. Really? You do that? I have done it more than once Is that when you get carded at the club? Those days are over Ryan Ned Doe...I would! Ha ha ha yeah Ryan, you know you get this carding thing where Somebody said, I gotta look at your license. I said why? Look at my face! Yeah look at me do i look like I'm you know border 21? Look at me. Geez no I just told because the boss says I have to just look at everybody's no matter what

2:48:07 Ryan Nadeau in Bozeman, Montana 100 Dame black Luka in Smithville Texas a hundred just to send a note and that Was kind of interesting because it was a piece on the piece of burnt paper. That was a cool note I like that. I like the whole presentation Well, she's the one who sent the flute And it's a glass flute. Dynamite, I'm surprised it didn't get broken Wait a minute are you sure this isn't a crack pipe and you're just mistaking for a flute? No believe me Oh okay It's got the holes all over the place Uh huh It doesn't look anything like a pipe at all Well have you seen it? Okay It's just almost...I mean if I knew a flautist I could probably have somebody play it but Yeah yeah that's...yeah You need to pucker your lips

2:49:06 Okay, okay. Listen you want me to check the troll room now? Anyway she... We lost 300 thanks to your fluting Yeah well I'm trying to get rid of all of them She says she likes the... that's an instruction sheet I guarantee it was a crack pipe I guarantee it is not Tracy Sullivan and Johnny Bananas is in at 8314. They also sent a little sweet card. That was from Texas Hot Glass, I think that's Black Dame Loca she's from Texas Hot Glass that who makes those. The glass work is dynamite! No no she's really good She sent us...think back when I was still smoking the holy herb man she sent me a bong it was beautiful

2:50:02 Kevin McLaughlin in Concord, North Carolina 8008 double trouble double the fun. You gotta love the magic of boobs There goes another list. Oh there we go. We're losing them Zachary Hannah 6033 from Cyprus Texas um Sir Kevin O'Brien is Chicago 606 which small boobs Zachary Maywood in Los Angeles, 58-56. James Edmondson in South Plainfield New Jersey 55-10. Dean Roker 55-10. Sir Tjunta in Dayton Ohio 55 he's of the ditch people Todd Zitt the unvaccinated in Chicago 55

2:50:48 Uh, he's been a douchebag. He wants a de-douching. You've been de-douched! Dave Sorensen and Winter of Washington? Oh, he's been the douche bag sorry Oh, Tom Woods. Give him the deduction. Tom Woods donation! There it is. Tom Woods donation. Hello? You've been de-douche'd Yeah its Tom Wood's a donation about that Michael Thompson in New Brownfells Texas is 50 and the following people are all fifties name and location starting with Chris well starting with Michael Thompson but then Chris Lewinsky in Sherwood Park Philip Ballew in Louisville

2:51:27 Michael Perot, Parrott in Salem Oregon. Kelly McDill in Mission Hills Kansas Joshua Barlow and Brighton Colorado Peter Odo in Ridge New York Tatiana Prince in Hollywood Florida Nathan Cochran in Franklin Tennessee I see you Nathan hey brother Joan Poles, poles in Hernando Beach. Person of Merit Comics in Columbus Ohio. Scott Lavender our buddy in Montgomery Texas Gadget Freak 10 in Western Springs Illinois Corey Bennett Denver Colorado Alexander Verdejo in Gig Harbor Washington Luke Olson in Alexandria Virginia Cameron Collier and Justin Texas

2:52:22 James Powers in Carnegie, Oklahoma. Sir Spud the Mighty in Marietta Georgia. Sir Jerry Wingenroth and Saugus is a long list Jason Ron and Ship Bottom New Jersey Baron Allen Bean in Beaverton Oregon and C V Hawk is last on the list and CV Hawkins in Wellington New Zealand And I that may be the donation that came to his stripe Oh there it is It worked And I just want to thank all these people for making the show 1626. 1626, the great reality that it is! And thank you to all of the people... Oof what are you drinking? Oh yes. So today, I've got... Get my glasses on so we can read the label. Yeah talk into the mic. Dram a lavender and lemon balm herbal sparkling water. Brother your gonna die. Tastes like poop

2:53:21 Thank you to these executive, associate executive producers and the producers up to $50. We appreciate you so much You are the ones that keep it going once again And of course everyone who came in under $50 all of that is just as appreciated In many ways more because people aren't sustaining donations which often add up to knighthoods It's really...it's not an uncommon occurrence Of course, under 50 we don't read the notes. And I will now deliver the jobs karma and baby-making karma as requested. Jobs! Jobs! Jobs and jobs! Let's vote for jobs! You've got karma. And we have to add a goat for the baby making karma it helps.

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2:56:59 who said, uh... I'm sending this donation because my dad Brian who hit me in the mouth years ago has been an avid listener of the show since episode 182. He's a douchebag he liked your show so much that he went back and listened to all the prior episodes that he would get all the jokes I would like to make this donation a switcheroo because i cannot bear the shame of having a douchebag father any longer. Please de-douche him, I will remain a douche bag until I can collect more treasure Merry Christmas! You've been de-douched Part of the joy in being a no agenda nation, Gitmo Nation is a No Agenda Meetup

2:57:42 and they take place all over the world often one every single day of the week you can find them at noagenda meetups.com And to prove that they are like a party we have uh... the report from the Indy Meetup this is This is I think their first one of the new year and Daymonette put together an excellent report for us. This is Daymaria, and Sir Mark Happy New Year and my tribe! We are having our first meetup here in Indy and it's wonderful Live from the northern coast of Indianapolis where its sub-zero fun In the morning John Adam this is Bruce

2:58:23 Hey, this is Typhoid Emily calling out to Obama. Can you turn up the heat over here? We're supposed to get some global warming Hello. Hi, this is Dame Cindy of the Tito's from Carmel Thank you for your courage Sir Craig in The Dark Moon here boiler up. It's Tom not from Carmel fisting my nest because it's below zero This is Nia El-Arouqo of Arquitita where no agenda is Hamas number one favorite podcast Fisher's in the morning. This is syrup over the maple I really like this I really like to meet ups in the morning tool hi, this is Gary from Greenwood and Lloyd Austin isn't dead He's sitting here at the bar having one of our great craft beers. This is Shannon from Fort Wayne visiting Indy We're reading little house on the prairie books and having a reindeer meat sandwiches in the morning John and Adam. This is Nick It's bitterly cold in January hello

2:59:10 Ryan from Fishers, Indiana. In the morning! John and Adam, Sir PBR Street Gang living the cold life here in Indiana. In the morning Dame Trinity from Fort Wayne trying not to freeze thank you for your courage Hi this is Sydney from Grand Junction Brewing Company we had no agenda in here with us today We had a great time, had great food enjoyed the community and we were happy to have them here. Really great people, yeah! Thanks for coming! The Boyer family here from Indianapolis Indiana In the morning! In the morning! In the morning! The rain's good, the rain is bad! Woo-hoo! Okay that's a meetup report right there what a great crowd and they're pretty too all of them just beautiful

2:59:58 Beautiful group. And you hear how well it is for your establishment? Yeah, Grand Junction Brewing they got like a whole plug there Fantastic often the waitstaff gets into it They love being a part of the NOAA gender community as well and you can check out the following meetups Actually one is taking place today at 630 Lincoln's Roadhouse Pearl Street That's in Denver Colorado The Charlotte Thursday 3rd Thursday Meetup starts tonight at 7 o'clock at Ed's Tavern in Charlotte North Carolina On Saturday, the New Hampshire Meetup 1230 at Revolution Taproom and Grill Rochester, NH. Fort Worth's first meet up of 2024 1 o'clock that is in Texas. Flipz Patio Grill Fort Worth. And we have the Fort Wayne Busco Northeast Indiana Club 33 Meet Up

3:00:45 at the Arena Bar and Grill, that'll be Fort Wayne Indiana. The North, that's all on Saturday. North Carolina Triad no agenda meet up two o'clock at Little Brothers Brewing formerly known as Kernersville Brewing Company in Kernersville, North Carolina. The Shrunken Amigdala... Support group, 2 o'clock. Taft's Grouporium Cincinnati Ohio the Insane Diego meetup on Saturday 333 at Roundtable Pizza and Rancho Bernardo San Diego California The Tiny Amigdala of Anchorage 2023 year in review Oh gonna do a year in review 4 o'clock at Bear Paw Bar & Grill in Anchora- I've been there

3:01:23 That's the one place I've been in Anchorage. Bear Paw Bar and Grill, yeah! What were you doing in Anchorage? Back in my MTV days, I did an appearance at the...I think it was at the Bear Paw Bar & Grill or maybe some club right next to it I was there for 24 hours. It was that and I have to go back, I have to go back to Anchorage We want the only state I have not visited it people are really cool That's what I remember of course. I was MTV guy so maybe like who are you now? Yeah they liked your hair yeah exactly Does that keep you warm that here finally the Zenful kitchen collective in Kilgore mid monthly monthly meetup

3:02:05 In Zen at Zen Kitchen in Kilgore, Texas and Dirty Jersey Whore will be your host there. These are just a couple of the knowage and the meetups we have one coming up in February in Singapore Kill Kenny in March that's Ireland We have many more in Texas Candinavia all over the United States and the world, the No Agenda Meetups. Go to noagendameetups.com Find a place where there's a meet up near you If you can't find one start one yourself It's easy and always guaranteed a party! Sometimes you wanna go, go hang out with all the nights and days Be where you won't be triggered or held to blame

3:02:47 Where everybody feels the same It's like a party Yeah, we went from watching Frazier reruns to Cheers reruns. I mean, I realize that's the Cheers theme! It was like hey man they stole our Noah- They stole our No Agenda meetup theme... Oh wait a minute. Yeah yeah it was the joke although i like our short version but so long at the beginning of cheers back in the day they thought there was cool to have the long opening music It's great. Those days are over those days are over those days are over Oh, yeah what by the way just a quickie before I get to the ISOs? Yeah, I watched the horrible Emmys oh I have a clip I wrote it up in the newsletter for people who want to kind of get some type of list You wanna hear that a short clip? I'd love to hear a short clip everybody having fun at the chocolate Emmys tonight We killing it tonight Tyler

3:03:51 We are killing it tonight, you see that? This is like MLK Day in Juneteenth all rolled into one. I mean if i was nominated this year hell I definitely would have won! Alright... The Chocolate Emmys Yeah That's pretty close to it What does he mean by that chocolate emmys Well the people of color quote-unquote Oh goodness You kind of walked away with everything You did not say people of color So people of color, this includes Chinese. Yes well you know what Moe says when he hears that... Yeah I know it sounds like colored people. He's right! That is what it sounds like to me too. I agree so Koreans a lot of Koreans want everybody here's the example What happened to the white Christians? I thought they were in charge everything

3:04:46 Well, they are and I think they decided to go this route. Okay the best example of is a best late-night talk show first of all they took They took, they had to give John Oliver an award because he's got a writing staff of about 50 people and they all needed money. So John Oliver got pushed into a category called Best Variety Show What is that? Variety show! Is there singing and dancing? No I mean yeah once as a gag dancer come on but That's ridiculous. So they gave him an award for that but so they had the best talk shows They left gut-filled out of this, of course and they had have they had Kimmel they had a late night with Stephen Colbert or they had Jimmy Fallon and then they had

3:05:36 Noah on the Comedy Central show. That show is over, it's canceled! And it's been canceled, he's not even working as far as I know it, he's not even there anymore... But he's chocolate so he gets an award Exactly and the staffs and the other guys are you know they're a bunch of liberals and they're politely clapping Bands and staffs they got a lot of people to feed and there politely. Oh, that's great that Noah won It was funny to watch oh Man, oh man. Oh ma'am, but it was I don't know what the ratings were but it was against Monday Night Football I mean let's get all the awards and we get Trump. I mean this is not fair. There you have it chocolates chocolate chocolate Emmys

3:06:29 It's degrading. Why do I say that, man? Whatever... Uhh..I only have one ISO. You wanna hear mine? Yeah sure! It-it's a doozy though be careful Yours may not stack up to it here we go Ah wow Wow, that's a good it's not just wow. It's ah wow I like it about you. I've always liked the wows. I usually contribute to wows mm-hmm Well let's go with us. I got three Start with lies. I don't want to hear anymore these lives That's from the archive that's a classic yeah, it's a classic classic Yeah, I got a mega mega

3:07:10 Mm-hmm. Yeah, okay. Okay well mega mega And then the last one is podcast structure this podcast has no structure I Think we have a winner There you go in a nutshell ladies and gentlemen we have an end of show eyes oh now it's time for I Need to read a note here which we got from Oh, wait. Where is it? Oh um... where was it? It's from one of our producers. Did I erase that what did I do with that he said oh goodness

3:07:53 What? I was a note that i wanted to read but now, i can't find it so i'll look for it okay what's your good news for today. Okay today's good news comes from Iowa. Iowa! And it snowed in in Iowa and there's doctors going around saving the day with his one of those Four wheelers those little bicycle thingies. It's like Doc Holloway on a four-wheeler is that? Everything he could to make sure last week's winter storm couldn't stop him from delivering a baby Yeah, he took this ATV to Shenandoah Medical Center to help baby Berkeley Gardner come into the world

3:08:32 KTVU News Watch 7 Sean McKinnon caught up with mom, dad and doctor about that snowy situation. Last Friday in Shenandoah Iowa time must have felt frozen as subzero temps kept people indoors the gardeners were on their way to the hospital Mom Crystal Gardner was due and Dr Chase Brown knew his four-wheeler was the only way he'd make it there He cleared snow drifts by hitting them at 20 miles per hour Snow went everywhere went flying in all directions but You just keep going through to the next one. And it wasn't just Dr Brown, the whole medical team braved the snow and cold to make sure this baby would be delivered. We knew he was gonna get there they all would get there for it The Gardners were blessed with a baby girl named Berkeley at Tuesday's checkup Brown says she's healthy as can be

3:09:18 She's a very good baby. We couldn't have asked for more perfection, so... Her siblings can't put her down. Does Leah share at all? I bet she doesn't share much. She tries not to. Despite Berkeley being born in a winter storm... She doesn't like to be out of her blanket, out of her swaddle, nothing and she hates the cold For Brown there was never question he'd make it In fact, he has gone to three deliveries now by four-wheeler Again no matter what is coming We're there to take care of people. And while time might move slowly in this small town, there's no snow day for a baby ready to meet the world. This is a dream come true for me to be here in a small town and provide the care we can In experiences like this it's just how I imagined that'd be a doctor one day Sean McKinnon KETV News Watch 7

3:10:06 Wow. There's no doctors like that except in little small towns, they don't have them around here It is beautiful! That was so nice I feel good. I found the note SLC sent a note through Fountain through podcasting 2.0 Good news this is going to be a nightmare when they need another show day off three hours of good news segments it's gonna need disclaimer for the side effects You nailed it brother you nailed it. Yeah, we're gonna accumulate a whole show for 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 That's right good news everybody We end every show with some good news so you can feel good going into the next few days without us But of course will be back on Sunday to deconstruct all

3:10:58 of the world's events for you. Maybe by then we will have a new Lloyd Austin, you never know, you never know, you never know. Cued up for you some end-of-show mixes thank You Steph Jacobson, Professor Jay Jones Producer X, I want to thank the Jones Brothers Neil and Steve and Marty Bent for some of those clips from The Douchebags of Davos. Lots of people help with their time talent and treasure why don't you do the same? Noagendadonations.com And if you're gonna stick around for the next show live on the stream or in your modern podcast app Grumpy Old Ben's up next on the stream

3:11:42 Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region No. 6, in the morning everybody I am Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley I'm John C. Dvorak We return on Sunday more deconstruction more news more info more clips more boots on the ground insight knowledge and of course the humor The comedic stylings. Remember us at Dvorak dot org slash and ain't no agenda donations dot com until Sunday adios mofos a hooey hooey and such! Speaking of things to eat, some days it is dog food because when you make your dog this happy what's not to be thrilled about? But its not even useful dry pug food Do you want to make your dog happy with her diet and keep her healthy feel good about what you are feeding her

3:12:30 Now of course you really want to make the advertiser feel happy. Dog food, but in some sort of mini-collapse scenario. If you ended up having to share your dog's food... You would be so glad it was on this! I speak from experience, not from the mini apocalypse experience And not also getting gunned down on the ground eating for burgers Oh also undignified kids It was a little badass at some level I might have repeated it You might've, on camera even Oh my god I have not tasted it but it looks edible It is. Yeah, it is edible. Oh jeez! That breaks my heart. Breaks my heart. Go value for value people stop right away Stop it. The Christian Lord died by hand

3:13:23 Ears and noses will be the trophies of the day. Israel, a pariah state with occupation and apartheid. When xenophobia, ruthlessness and intimidation... Israel is losing on the ground and in the courts of public opinion. Building an empire based on fear and intimidation desperate acts of aggression to provoke a wider conflict. Charismatic and vicious, immigrants were the destruction of the country with Lebanon, with Iran, with anybody to draw in the US about Bill the Butcher. Butcher Biden is reporting for duty. With Europe's proud genocide by his side, extinguishes life the continuation of Israeli terror. The son of a butcher and ruthless fighter. So take notes butcher Biden! It's frankly deplorable and wholly depressing. The ancestors disown you keep our conscience out of your mouth

3:14:20 It's important to remember who this man is. He's a xenophobic killer who has aligned himself with fellow scared bigots. Butcher Biden is reporting for duty! He is not a good man betrayed, they know this man is evil and never try to tell us otherwise. Ears and noses are the trophies of today And genocide or Germany with your words indeed supporting Israel The people of Europe stand with Palestine and with South Africa May the Christian Lord guide my hand! It's important to remember who this man is. Butcher Biden is reporting for duty He's a xenophobic killer who has aligned himself with fellow scared bigots Israel is losing on the ground and in the court of public opinion The people of Europe stand with Palestine and with South Africa What-what what is best in life? Life

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3:16:12 Lamentation. Lamentation. Lamentation. Lamentation. That is good, it's good. The best podcast in the universe! MoFoDvorak.org slash N-A This podcast has no structure