Potty Mouth Parrots

00:00 Give us your lugs. Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak. It's Thursday, February 1st, 2024. This is your award-winning Kivo Nation Media Assassination Episode 1630. This is no agenda. Stopping all the ups and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region Number 6 in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley where we all have our go bags waiting, I'm John C. Dvorak. It's Crackpot and Buzzkill! In the morning! Why? What's going on? I don't know, I was watching the news this morning, there's a guy, Santa Rafa, not Santa Rafael, it's Santa Rosa, police chief. He's talking about, well, we're gonna have some floodings, I hope people should make sure to have their go bags ready. And he says that we're gonna have a big rainfall and they should make sure everyone has their go bags ready. He said go bags about 10 times, and the funny thing is, if you have a go bag, you don't even know what that is,

01:02 You end up going to Santa Rosa, you don't end up leaving Santa Rosa, but so, okay. So, do you have a go bag? Santa Rosa is a place you go to. Do you have a go bag? No, I don't have a go bag. I've never had a go bag. I don't see the point. Oh man, I mean, in case you need to go... I got all irked about this obviously. Yes, well if you... They keep talking about go bags. They've had specials on KTVU and other stations. What should be in your go bag? Well if you had, just hypothetically speaking, if you had a go bag, what would be in your go bag? Let me guess. A radio with a hand crank? That would be ideal.

01:43 Uh-huh and hopefully one of your bail fang handhelds, your handy, got your handy? I have a handy in the glove box of the car so it's already there. And is the battery all charged up? You know those batteries last forever. I know that's so true. I turned mine on the other day. How does that work? I don't know for some reason. Those handy batteries from Baofeng, they just... I have a Kenwood, you pick up the Kenwood, empty. That's always empty. Even though it's off all the time. That's always empty. The Baofeng click on for I think three years now.

02:20 Yeah, I think so. I think it's about three years. I don't understand it. So, yeah, the other things that go in the go bag, I think should be one change of underwear and a toothbrush. How about blood clotting gauze? That's in my go bag. Oh, that's a great idea. Yeah, it's handy. Next to the handy, you got some blood clotting gauze. Now, my go bag actually has my KX3. What's that? Oh, that's a that's an HF transceiver. Very small. Very, very small from Elecraft. Oh, I thought you'd just be going all CW. Oh, yeah. And I can do I could do the CWs on that. I got a little a little mini laptop. I got a little mini laptop to connect so I can do the digital modes. I got the blood clotting gauze. You have a you have a you would have a you don't have a go bag. So we're just doing a hypothetical. Oh, do I need to send a picture of my go bag right this very minute?

03:14 Yeah? Well, I'm doing a show, but I'll send it right after the show. Okay, sure. I have a camera bag that is my go-bag. I got some aspirin in there, a little first aid kit. Funny enough, I should add underwear and a toothbrush. I think that's a very good idea. I'd not thought of that. And a pistol. A pistol for sure. You want something that goes pew pew. A .45 would be nice. You want something that goes pew pew. Anyway, so are there floods expected? Is that what's going on? Oh, you know, this is the same old, same old. Yeah, there's some, the rivers are rising a little bit up in northern counties and Niles Creek will probably flood.

04:05 And you know, this is bullcrap. It's just we don't have that kind of, we're not in the Midwest, we don't have a lot of flood plains. It's no big deal. We all know what you really need. Except Guerneville. Guerneville will flood because it's designed to flood. It's an insurance scam. People buy houses there just so... because they know every three years they get to collect something. Free money. They're saying that all hell is gonna break loose and you're gonna need a Bitcoin. That's right. Yeah, put a Bitcoin in the... Put a Bitcoin in. Get a Bitcoin. Get a Bitcoin in there.

04:41 Anyway, a very interesting day yesterday in Washington DC. A number of competing events. The one that got most of the attention was what I'm just calling the threat of removal of Section 230 unless you do what we tell you to do during this election season. Because that's what it always is when they bring the social media companies to Washington DC. We're gonna take away your section 230. We're gonna let everybody sue you if you don't do what we say. And man, it was the best ever. Telling people, they're killing people. They had the whole gallery filled with... I thought it was a... I have a clip of it. My clip is a general clip. Yeah, why don't you do your general clip and then I've got a couple of specific clips.

05:29 Okay, well I have to find the clip. Well, I mean, then I can, I have my clip ready. Well, yeah, because you do want to introduce the topic. Yeah, so I'll play my clip then, because you got blood on your hands, Zuckerberg! The CEOs of Discord, Snap, TikTok, X, and Meta met by a sea of parents holding photos of children they say were victimized on the social media companies' platforms. Mr. Zuckerberg, you and the companies before us, I know you don't mean it to be so, but you have blood on your hands. You have a product. that's killing people. The topic today, sexual predators targeting young people through social media and the blackmailing of teens tricked into sharing explicit photos. You're on national television. Would you like now to apologize to the victims who have been harmed by your product? Show them the pictures. In a dramatic moment during questioning from Republican Senator Josh Hawley, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg stood to address the parents packing today's hearing.

06:31 And this is why we invested so much and are going to continue doing these streaming efforts to make sure that the people who are in the room with us are not affected by this. No one has to go through to actually think that your family's the bad person. When he stood up, he said, I'm sorry for your pain, but I don't really think he's sorry for my pain. A lot of signs of tech CEOs today choosing to keep their remarks to their testimony, not stopping for any questions about the surge in child sexual abuse material online. At today's hearing, Snap's CEO was apologetic over how the platform he helped create has been misused.

07:08 Words cannot begin to express the profound sorrow I feel that a service we designed to bring people happiness and joy has been abused to cause harm. So, Kate, let's talk about those bills. What are these senators trying to pass and where does the legislation stand right now? Lester, there are at least half a dozen proposed bills ranging from requiring social media platforms to do more to protect kids, creating a new criminal offense for distributing sexual imagery, and even ensuring that these companies can be held liable in a civil court. Tonight, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer tells NBC News this issue will be a legislative priority. Lester. So this whole

07:44 The circus was, I think you were going to say it, shameful. It was disgusting. It was one big media circus. It was, you know, they brought these Jamoaks in pretty much under, I mean, the way they went after Zuckerberg, I mean, I have a little bit more of the exchange. with Hawley. Hawley is a ridiculous showboater and it's getting on my nerves. It was really douchey. I mean, you know, so everything is now the fault of the social media companies. As if, by the way, child trafficking never existed before, exploitation never existed before, people didn't use classified ads in the newspapers, they were never brought, the publishers were never brought to Congress. I mean, this is...

08:34 It's shameful. It's shameful. Listen to Hawley. Yeah, but the reason it's so obvious is they're trying to get more money from these guys. The newspapers are spread. They want influence. They want influence. They want them. They want to have the back doors open again to take people down when they want to. Yeah, they want all that, but don't kid yourself about the money. Okay. Hey, It's not as big as pharma and military. It's penis. No, but it's not bad. 37% of... What? I just said my clip is Congress showboating is the clip when you want to play it. No, I'll play yours now. Let's have a listen. Concerns are mounting that social media platforms aren't doing enough to keep kids safe online. The bipartisan nature of this topic was on full display today. Usually at hearings we see a lot of friction between... I love this keeping kids safe. Please note.

09:27 parents have no responsibility in this parents are not at all to blame for giving the kids phones for not looking at out what they're doing of course you know kids will be kids but it's all like oh you're not keeping kids safe the internet is not safe people Republicans and Democrats but today all of of On multiple occasions, senators pointed to the unique challenges with TikTok, which is owned by a Chinese company under the direct influence of the Chinese Communist Party. I thought actually they went pretty easy on the TikTok guy.

08:34 It's shameful. It's shameful. Listen to Hawley. Yeah, but the reason it's so obvious is they're trying to get more money from these guys. The newspapers are spread. They want influence. They want influence. They want them. They want to have the back doors open again to take people down when they want to. Yeah, they want all that, but don't kid yourself about the money. Okay. Hey, It's not as big as pharma and military. It's penis. No, but it's not bad. 37% of... What? I just said my clip is Congress showboating is the clip when you want to play it. No, I'll play yours now. Let's have a listen. Concerns are mounting that social media platforms aren't doing enough to keep kids safe online. The bipartisan nature of this topic was on full display today. Usually at hearings we see a lot of friction between... I love this keeping kids safe. Please note.

09:27 parents have no responsibility in this parents are not at all to blame for giving the kids phones for not looking at out what they're doing of course you know kids will be kids but it's all like oh you're not keeping kids safe the internet is not safe people Republicans and Democrats but today all of of On multiple occasions, senators pointed to the unique challenges with TikTok, which is owned by a Chinese company under the direct influence of the Chinese Communist Party. I thought actually they went pretty easy on the TikTok guy.

10:17 I mean compared to what they did to Zuckerberg. Well, they didn't humiliate him. They went out of their way to humiliate Zuckerberg. But they went after this guy. There's some good clips here. I'm just saying that you know, they were racist. You know, I think that if anybody needs the Curry-DeVore consulting, It's the guy who runs tick-tock. He could have submarine them so easily He was almost set up for it because there were badgering him. Yeah, he has some other issues though That's that he got lots of problems Tick-tock has become a quote platform of choice for predators

10:57 to access, engage, and groom children through abuse. China-based employees of your company have repeatedly accessed non-public data of United States citizens. Why should you not be banned in the United States of America? Senator, I disagree with your characterization. Many of what you have said we have explained in a lot of detail. I am deeply concerned about the collection of data information. And here in the US, you look at what it is spreading, the challenges, the children that have lost their lives. It's completely unacceptable. Dumbed down our children or in some way launch up psychological warfare against America. Absolutely. We know these platforms are also used for propaganda. And on that note of propaganda, Senator Tom Cotton made a fierce display of this when he asked TikTok CEO over

11:43 and over again to acknowledge and honor... Stop it, stop it and back it up a little bit. Tom Cotton has very slowly turned into a Josh Hawley light. Oh yes, oh yes. He sounds like him, he's trying to be the big shot and trying to you know... Asked to probing questions that are you know this is all the same It's like oh you only tick-tock collects all this data, please I know give me a break or China, please Absolutely, we know these platforms are also used for propaganda and all that note of propaganda, Senator Tom Cotton made a fierce display of this when he asked TikTok CEO over and over again to acknowledge an ongoing genocide in China. Listen to this. Is the Chinese government committing genocide against the Uyghur people? Actually, Senator, I talk amazingly about my company and I'm here to talk about what TikTok does. Yes or no? Yes or no? Yes or no? Yes or no? Yes or no? You're here to give testimony that's truthful and honest and complete. Are you scared that you'll lose your job if you say anything about negative about the Chinese Communist Party?

12:45 What a douche! Did he get any air? I guess he got a little bit of air time. That's all this is about. What can I do to get some air time? What sound? Will they pull my soundbite? I gotta do better than Hawley. I gotta get the soundbite. Exactly. So here's Hawley. This really was... I watched most of it on C-SPAN. This wasn't... I don't think they pulled this clip. It was a little too long. A minute thirty, but... This is how it started. Way too long. Way too long. 37% of teenage girls between 13 and 15 were exposed to unwanted nudity in a week on Instagram. You knew about it. No! As opposed to the clothed nudity with filters that psy up young girls into thinking they have to look a certain way.

13:33 Please, Hawley. Or opposed to the nudity and the gay day parade in San Francisco. Who did you fire? Senator, this is where we're building all the... Who did you fire? Who did you fire? Senator, that's... I don't think that that's... Who did you fire? I'm not going to answer that. You didn't fire anybody, right? You didn't take any significant action. It's appropriate to talk about... It's not appropriate. Do you know who's sitting behind you? This, and they'd stack the whole room with parents whose kids had committed, you're bumping your mic like a crazy man. Oh I'm sorry, I am actually bumping it. Yeah stop that. I'm trying to do justice, sorry. They had stacked the room with parents whose kids had committed suicide, who had ordered a pill online and got fentanyl. This is all somehow the social media's company's fault. I mean it makes no sense

14:28 It was really a shameful, and they abused these parents. Abuse them to come in and sit here, hold up the photo of your dead kid. This whole thing is rottenly disgusting. We'll pay for your flight. I bet you they paid for their flights. Of course they did. You know who's sitting behind you? You've got families from across the nation whose children are either severely harmed or gone. You know, it would have been even better if you'd said, They threw babies out of incubators, Mr. Zuckerberg. Who are you going to fire for that? And you don't think it's appropriate to talk about steps that you took? The fact that you didn't fire a single person? Let me ask you this, let me ask you this. Have you compensated any of the victims? This is unbelievable. Have you compensated any of the victims?

15:11 These girls have you compensated them. I don't believe so Don't you think they deserve some compensation for what your platform has done I deserve some compensation for having to watch this Holly I want some money and by the way Zuckerberg is never going to get any better than this in terms of his ability. Have you noticed that he looks a little older and ragged than the last time he was on? Well, it's because his hair has grown out, I think. You're right! It doesn't look good. Counseling services help with dealing with the issues that your services cause? Our job is to make sure that we build tools to help keep people safe. Are you going to compensate them?

15:56 Senator, our job and what we take seriously is making sure that we... See, this is where he screws up. He says, Senator, no one's ever asked for compensation. Yeah. I don't know these people. I don't know where they came from. That actually would come up later. As far as I'm concerned, they're shills for you. Maybe you just put them up to this. I have no idea. Oh yeah, oh yeah, that'll go over. Is that your recommendation? That's your advice? I think that's bad advice. That won't go over very well. I would love to hear that. These are your shills, Holly. ...to help keep people safe. Are you going to compensate them? Senator our job and what we take seriously is making sure that we build Industry-leading tools to find harmful to make money take it off the services and to make money and to build tools that empower parents So you didn't take any action you didn't take any action. You didn't fire anybody you haven't compensated a single victim Let me ask you this let me ask you this there's families of victims here today Have you apologized to the victims and then he would go to that hole up I mean if you want to have the apology clip as well, which was I mean it it really was a

16:53 I have no empathy for a guy like Zuckerberg, but I kind of had some empathy. He's like deer in the headlights. He choked. Of course he did. I think the topper would have been, if you were again consulting on the Hawley side would be, okay, before you do so, can somebody mic him up please? Really? Yes. Mic him up. Okay, now we'll hear the apology. You know, and Zuckerberg would have put up with it. He should have said... They would have miked him up. Can you give us a ten count, Mr. Zuckerberg? Check, check, one, two, check, check. Hey parents, I'm so sorry your kid is dead. Thanks for coming. We have your per diem on the way out. Mr. Zuckerberg... Oops, hold on. Would you like to do so now? Well, they're here. You're on national television. This is, okay, this is where he shows his hand. You're on national television.

17:50 Oh, I'm on national television. Oh no, C-SPAN! Would you like now to... Well, I was on CNN too. ...to apologize to the victims who have been harmed by your products? No, no, I wouldn't like to. What is he gonna say to that? Show the pictures. Show the pictures! Would you like to apologize for what you've done to these good people? You know, the more I... every time I hear that, I really have lost all respect for Holly. Yes! He is full of shit, a showboater, he's pathetic. You know, and this is what gives the Republicans a bad name. Guys like this doing this. Oh, hold on a second. No, no. Wait until I get you the Lindy Hop clip. Let's continue with this whole Hawley business. Yeah, but we already passed on him. Okay. I'm sorry. I think he's going to be involved in a terrible moment that we get through. I'll skip through that.

18:43 You know Why mr. Zuckerberg so I just skip past the apology why should your company not be sued for this? Why is it that you can claim you hide behind? We know because it's section 230 This is this is this is threatening what he's doing Why is it that you can claim you hide behind a liability shield you can't be held accountable shouldn't you be held accountable personally? Will you take personal responsibility? Senator, I think I've already answered this. I mean, this is... Well, try it again. Will you take personal responsibility? Senator, I view my job and the job of our company as building the best tools that we can to keep our community safe. Well, you're failing at that. Well, Senator, we're doing an industry-leading effort. We build AI tools that... Oh, nonsense. Your product is killing people. Will you personally commit to your product? I think that's liable. That's liable right there. Your product is killing people.

19:36 How does the product jump out and- You can't libel- Oh, in Congress you can't do that. In Congress you can't libel. You're right. We're doing an industry leading effort. We build AI tools- All this nonsense. Your product is killing people. Will you personally commit to compensating the victims? You're a billionaire. Will you commit to compensating the victims? Will you set up a compensation fund? With your money. Senator, I think these are- With your money. Senator, these are complicated issues. No, that's not a complicated question. That's a yes or no. Will you set up a victim's compensation fund with your money? The money you made on these families sitting behind you. Yes or no? Senator, I don't think that that's... My job is to make sure we've got good tools. My job is to make sure that... Your job is to be responsible for what your company has done. You've made billions of dollars on the people sitting behind them. Are you here? You've done nothing to help them. You've done nothing to compensate them. You've done nothing to put it right. You could do so here today, and you should.

20:28 Yeah, how about all the money you're sending to Ukraine, Hawley? How about all the people we're killing everywhere? Whoa, this is such a big deal. Literally killing. Yes, this is such a big deal. With a bullet as opposed to some... Such a big deal. And this is his VP audition tape. That's what this is. Paulie? Oh yeah, oh yeah. Oh no, yeah, well he's an idiot if you think he's gonna be VP. Let's go to Lindy Hop, very short. Mr. Zuckerberg, you and the companies before us, I know you don't mean it to be so, but you have blood on your hands. You have a product. You have a product that's killing people.

21:10 Killing people. When we had cigarettes killing people, we did some about it, maybe not enough. You're going to talk about guns, we have the ATF. Nothing here. There's not a damn thing anybody can do about it. You can't be sued. And then we have, I think I might have this one last clip. It was like, when Boeing had, when the door popped out of Boeing, we grounded the whole fleet. You know, all these false equivalencies are just amazing. Sitting behind the tech CEOs are parents holding photos of their children who they say took their own lives because of abuse on social media. Lawmakers slamming the companies for blocking regulation that may have prevented the tragedies. We've been working on this stuff for a decade. You have an army of lawyers and lobbyists that have fought us on this every step of the way. Senator Amy Klobuchar visibly upset

22:02 visibly upset leaders of Congress. I'm so tired of this. It's been 28 years. What? Since the Internet, we haven't passed any of these bills. Zuckerberg, whose company meta-owns Facebook and Instagram, taking the most heat from senators, claiming there's no direct link between social media and mental health. I take this very seriously. Mental health is a complex issue and the existing body of scientific work Has not shown a causal link between using social media and young people having worse mental health outcomes Every here screen-induced autism suck pressed if his platform is safe for children is your platform safe for kids

22:41 I believe it is. Isn't the internet a dangerous place for children? I think it can be. Yeah, there's both great things that people can do and there are harms that we need to work to. Yeah, it's a dangerous place for children. But Brandon Guffey, who is in the hearing room, says the companies aren't doing enough. He blames Instagram. This is ABC, by the way. What kind of horrible package is ABC putting together with this voiceover that was done apparently in the edit room through the mic in the desk? Like for his son Gavin's suicide after he was sexually exploited by scammers. Telling me he's not buying Zuckerberg's apology. He is a damn liar.

23:18 is what he is. Where I'm from, we have a saying, don't talk about it, be about it. And your actions speak louder than words. So there's nothing that you can say until you start implementing your... What did he lie about? These people are... This is like Trump's lies. Yeah, showboating. So it's an election season, so they want control. I'll take your money thing on the side. Okay, sure, they want some money. Actually, I feel that TikTok is kind of the best of all of these. Strangely enough, they have, you know, according to the CEO who lives in Singapore, most of their users are 30 years and older. I believe that.

23:56 I believe it. Nobody wants that gone. I know grown men who sit on TikTok all day. Oh, send me a link. Look at this. I don't think there's a lot of kids on TikTok. And TikTok actually, I like their algorithms. We talked about this before. You know, social media in general creates an opportunity for disunity. And TikTok just puts everyone who agrees with each other in the same bucket. I think that's much better. But ultimately, this has to come to a head. Just for society, there's only two ways to solve this.

24:36 One way dissolves these companies overnight and that is removing the protections under Section 230. And Section 230, broadly speaking, means that whatever people... it goes back to the days of UGC, if you can remember that, user-generated content. So when someone puts up some UGC onto your platform, the platform cannot be sued. You can get a copyright takedown, a DMCA takedown, you can get law enforcement to request a takedown. You can sue the poster. Ah, well this comes to part two. So number one,

25:19 Which is probably the best, is just remove section 230, it would get rid of Mastodon at the same time. Everybody go back to your own RSS feed and your blog. Okay? Host a blog. Host a blog. That would work. You can just host a blog. You can host your own Mastodon site. Everybody has their own Mastodon. You can block everybody. That's the way to go. That probably won't happen because as you pointed out, there's too much money in lobbying from these companies. The other one, which I think is very likely, is complete removal of anonymity. You want to be on the platform, your government ID has to be on record with us. That's where they're going. I guarantee it. That's the only way they can go so that they can then find out who posted that ad for appeal. Then you can go after the poster. Yes.

26:09 Now, the problem is that's not going to happen because it's not the American way. Oh no, it's like the secret ballot. I will bet with you right now. Yeah, you can say all you want. I'm telling you. You can say all you want. It's not going to happen. It can't happen. It can't happen here. Oh, you mean we can't get locked down and our economy closed down? It can't happen here. Anything can happen after COVID. Anything. People are idiots. Anything can happen. And now we understand the Taylor Swift op makes nothing but sense.

26:46 It's completely clear why this happened just happened that just just two days before this big thing happened. We get the Taylor Swift op. Now a bipartisan group of senators in the United States have introduced a bill which would criminalize the spread of non-consensual sexualized images generated through artificial intelligence. It comes after AI generated images of pop star Taylor Swift circulated on X formerly known as Twitter. For more on this story, we can bring in Julia Seager. Julia, great to see you. Hi, Delano. Tell us about these pornographic images that circulated on X.

27:22 Well they circulated for more than 17 hours on X before anything was done. Some of them reached 47 million views, 24,000 shares and eventually her fan community, so they're called Swifties, we all know them, they took over and they started massively posting real videos of her to try to drown those fake news. Now, X attempted in the first place to moderate that, but then they decided to make Swift's name unsearchable on the platform. And that can seem like quite of a, let's say, a desperate action that could show that perhaps the platform just don't know how to moderate this content. because we know that these deepfakes are just going to become more and more common. It's happening now with a superstar, a pop star, but it can happen with any one of us because all of these AI generative tools are now becoming open source and are available to anyone. Nothing new and there's going to be legislation against this now? Please. I thought there was already legislation against putting up nude images of somebody without their permission. It's none of this is... Look,

28:27 Here's the question I missed yesterday. I don't understand. Maybe I actually missed it, but nowhere did anyone say AI is so good, so dangerous that we have to have special executive orders. Can your AI not find this and keep it off your platform? Don't worry answering because the answer is no, because it's all bullcrap. Silicon Valley is full of bullcrap. Always have been, always will be. But now we get the second part of the swift op, which is, funny enough, launched by Republicans who are... and none of this is true.

29:04 There's no evidence that any pop star, any celebrity can get anybody elected. Witness Jay-Z and Beyonce, the height of Beyonce's career, came out for Hillary Clinton, was everywhere in everybody's face, oh Hillary, oh Hillary, and she lost. And so now somehow magically Taylor Swift is going to activate her army of non-eligible voters? Non-eligible voters and it's gonna get Biden elected? Now Julia Taylor Swift is also at the center of an electoral interference theory. Tell us more. Well I have to get into her personal life. She's been dating American football player Travis Kelsey.

28:27 Here's the question I missed yesterday. I don't understand. Maybe I actually missed it, but nowhere did anyone say AI is so good, so dangerous that we have to have special executive orders. Can your AI not find this and keep it off your platform? Don't worry answering because the answer is no, because it's all bullcrap. Silicon Valley is full of bullcrap. Always have been, always will be. But now we get the second part of the swift op, which is, funny enough, launched by Republicans who are... and none of this is true.

29:04 There's no evidence that any pop star, any celebrity can get anybody elected. Witness Jay-Z and Beyonce, the height of Beyonce's career, came out for Hillary Clinton, was everywhere in everybody's face, oh Hillary, oh Hillary, and she lost. And so now somehow magically Taylor Swift is going to activate her army of non-eligible voters? Non-eligible voters and it's gonna get Biden elected? Now Julia Taylor Swift is also at the center of an electoral interference theory. Tell us more. Well I have to get into her personal life. She's been dating American football player Travis Kelsey.

29:50 who's set to participate in the Super Bowl on February 11th. What was his name? Kels. It's Kels! This is France 24. Kels. France 24. So give him a break, they're French. He's very much in the spotlight, highly publicized, and the theory that's been circulating and that's supported by some Republicans is that the couple's relationship is a fake. The romance was set up to create a buzz around her so that she could then announce her support for Democratic candidate Joe Biden. Now, the idea here is not to know whether it's true or false, but rather to ask the question of the type of role celebrities can have in elections. And we know that Taylor Swift has quite a support. We talked about the Swifties, 270 million followers on Instagram. And recently, she actually put out a tweet asking her followers to register on vote.org. And right after that tweet, there was a huge surge in the number of registered voters. And it's somewhat similar to the Elon Musk effect. Every time he speaks about or tweets about a company, there's going to be an impact on the stock market. When it comes to the influence she could have in politics,

30:53 We know that it's real. We know that she also has... We know that it's real? No we don't! In fact on the economy, the US Fed for instance spoke about how much she boosted the economy after her tour of the United States. Says more about the US economy than about Taylor Swift. And the European Commission also knows this because they recently tweeted Margarita Eschinas, the vice president of the European Commission, he asked her directly if she could help, you know, rally the European youth and help them vote as well. So in any case, this story really makes us reflect on the influence that those influencers have. And it seems like they're really starting to have it in all domain, including in politics. No, no. In fact, this is very bad for her career. She should immediately withdraw from the public eye. She should stop appearing. It's too late. She's in too deep.

31:41 I mean, if the Curator of War Consulting Group were on the case, we'd be like, withdraw immediately from the public eye. A backlash is coming and it's going to be very severe because people are getting sick of her. Sick, so absolutely I agree and then I don't believe half these numbers. I think these numbers are planted. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah the whole 270 plus million followers on Instagram you don't get to that without somebody coming in the back door and hey Can you change this number? Meanwhile, so we're gonna take 230 away. I mean Well, we're still waiting to see what AI other shoe drops something's coming

32:24 We're still waiting for it to be about Kamala Harris. Well, I have a Kamala Harris clip I want you to comment on us and ask Adam. Oh, I was unprepared. Hold on a second. I should have asked Adam Jingle. Now let's do this here. Alright! I'm ready! I'm ready. It's not the best. Tell me what's wrong with this clip. And I really don't like to admit this. And then by your grace, I am here as your guest. And I get to hear Joe Biden speak. And I get to witness the HRC in the full glory of itself. And you know what? I'm not afraid anymore. What's wrong with this clip?

33:08 Yeah. I don't know. What's wrong with it? Besides that it's 15 seconds of my life, he'll never get back again. What's wrong with the clip? It's Anne Hathaway. And I really don't like to admit this. And then by your grace, I am here as your guest. I get to hear Joe Biden speak. And I get to witness the HRC in the full glory of itself. And you know what? I'm not afraid anymore. The HRC should have been the tip off. She would never talk about HRC. The real car CDU Hillary Rodham Clinton no HRC is the Human Rights Council? operation HRO No, it's HRC is human rights campaign it's the it's the one with the with the square and the the Kind of the bluish square and the two equals the equal sign in the middle the yellow

34:03 That's some sort of a front for the Communist Party, I think. Now the reason I bring this up, just again, even though it's 15 seconds out of your life, you'll never get back, I just want to point out the milieu is out there. She's in it, along with some other people, and it's the Kamala. She's in a milieu of some sort. I don't know where it is, but I think it comes out of Hollywood. Well, I'm sure you saw after a lengthy manifesto about how he was not suicidal... lengthy. I am not going to kill myself this next video will be unbelievable and James O'Keefe's sigh up some poor gay guy. I know it was I couldn't watch the whole thing because we watched it I watched the whole thing. Oh cuz I when he turns himself he says well if you're so smart how do you why are you talking to me? I mean at that point was I said this is kind of cruel more than anything. I actually felt bad for the guy. I felt bad for him too because the guy's trying to

35:08 You know, the guy, if he was sharp, would have said, well, I knew you were James O'Keefe all along. I didn't know you were gay. Exactly. That's what I always think. That's the only... I thought, wow, I didn't know you were gay. And there's like, oh, this, you know, I might be suicided because this guy who doesn't seem like a very high-level guy but okay he runs security like it he says like a bureaucrat a young bureaucrat in the system now and then it's like he said well everybody knows Joe is on the verge of dementia and Kamala nobody likes her what Wow Oh my god, what a reveal! Breakthrough information! Breaking, breaking! Former Chicago Gold. Anyway, so while we're just sticking with this for a second, because very interesting this morning, we got the balcony wave from Lloyd Austin. I am pretty convinced it's Lloyd Austin. He returned and did a press conference. He walked up on stage limping along. He's lost at least 75 pounds.

36:05 Looks like... And two inches. And two, okay, and two inches and his right earlobe is bent the same way so it could be a very devious mask. The voice sounds the same. Looks like him but it was more what he said that I was interested in. Good morning. It's been a difficult few days for the Department of Defense. And the entire department is united in our outrage and sorrow over the death of three U.S. service members on Sunday in Jordan. We all mourn the loss of three Army Reserve soldiers serving at Tower 22. Army Reserves, mind you. Sergeant William J. Rivers, age 46. Sergeant Kennedy L. Sanders, age 24. And Sergeant Breonna A. Moffitt, age 23.

36:56 Our thoughts and prayers are with their families and their loved ones. Very insincere with the prayers bit, bro. And we know that this grief will never leave them. And we hope that they know that the department's love and support will never leave them either. We're also praying for the other American troops who were wounded. I'm just gonna be a stickler about this. At no point did he do any prayers. If he had actually done that I would have been impressed, but now it's just lame. He's an atheist. He is an atheist of course he is. When a one-way attack drone struck their living quarters. And we continue to gather the facts about this deadly attack.

37:39 Our fallen soldiers had a vital mission to support Operation Inherent Resolve. There's your answer. Operation Inherent Resolve. You're always asking, what are we doing there? But we're still there from the 2015 Operation Resolve against the Islamic State in Iraq and a campaign in Syria. What is this? Isn't this over? No, it's never over. Of course not. And this is all meant to jizz everybody up for more military action and money spending in the what? What did you say? To jizz everybody up. Yeah, isn't that... Okay, why'd you say gin up? No, I like... I thought it was gin and spin and it came out as jizz. I'm sorry.

38:35 The gin everybody up for more spending of money in the region. Our teammates were killed by red. By the way, what's this teammates bull? What's this teammates? That's not the word I want to hear from a military guy. Do you say your team? Military trolls. Don't you say my brothers? Comrades, maybe even? My brothers, my sisters? Brothers? I don't know about... Brothers in arms? I don't know about... Teammates? Teammates. Our teammates were killed by radical militias backed by Iran and operating inside Syria and Iraq. In the aftermath of the vile Hamas terrorist assault on Israel on October 7th,

39:16 Terrorist groups backed by Iran and funded by Iran have tried to create even more turmoil. You know, at no point has anyone really showed this. I mean, he says it was militant and they're always saying, oh, backed by Iran, funded by Iran. Do they have receipts? Do they have a bank transfer or a Bitcoin transfer? I mean, anything besides just saying it, because that's just, it's not credible. including the Houthis. No, the Houthis. Attacking commercial shipping in the Red Sea. In the region. So this is a dangerous moment in the Middle East. We will continue to work to avoid a wider conflict in the region. However... But we will take all necessary actions to defend the United States, our interests, and our people. And we will respond when we choose

40:10 where we choose and how we choose. Okay, so we're gonna do everything we can. Let me just back that up for a second, because he says we're going to do everything to keep it calm. Attacking commercial shipping. So this is a dangerous moment in the Middle East. Okay, good, we got it. So it's dangerous. Let's calm everybody down. We will continue to work to avoid a wider conflict in the region. Okay, and how are we going to do that? And we will respond when we choose, where we choose, and how we choose. You know this is going to be a shock and awe type deal. They want it. They want it. They want it. Austin wants it. He wants it. Anyway, the final clip... Chalk and all what though? Tehran for all I care. They want to bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran. I know they would love to bomb Tehran, but I don't think they're... Did you see all those senators? Lindy Hop, time to bomb Iran. Time to take out the leaders in Iran. Bunch of warmongers. Stop it.

41:11 These guys shouldn't even be in office, they're irresponsible. So then Austin addresses his absence, he goes through a whole thing like we were wrong, I was wrong, should have told the president, I didn't do it right, we're going to change it all, everyone will know including the Situation Room and then he says something about the transparency, the new transparency that I liked and I think we should hold all of our leaders to it. I want you all to know why this happened. I was being treated for prostate cancer, the news shook me, and I know that it shakes so many others, especially in the black community. What?

41:54 What is this? Does it shake people in the black community more than in any other community? I thought that was an unnecessary comment. I think it was put in purposefully. Yeah, of course. To drive sentiment. Yes. And so, oh, poor black man. Yeah, that's exactly what it was for. It was a gut punch. A gut punch. And frankly, my first instinct was to keep it private. I don't think it's news that I'm a pretty private guy. I never liked burdening others with my problems. It's just not my way. But I've learned from this experience. So taking this kind of job means losing some of the privacy that most of us expect.

42:41 The American people have a right to know if their leaders are facing health challenges that might affect their ability to perform their duties, even temporarily. How about Joe Biden? I'm thinking the same thing. I think we have, I think I'm agreeing with you Lloyd Austin. So a wider circle should have been notified, especially the president. Yes, yeah, especially the president. We should know, we should know. Is there an issue with our president? Is there an issue? I think it's him, John. I wish it was a body double, but do you have any thinking to the contrary? Seems like it's him.

43:19 I will have some stuff in the newsletter. Okay, all right To show that I don't think it's him. I said they don't do these these aren't done these body doubles aren't done lightly no But usually they don't talk. They don't don't usually talk. They just walk and they go they do it. Yeah, they do Yeah, emergency shitty ones. Yeah, like that Hillary from a couple years ago. I who was obviously not Hillary, but who had her handbag on the wrong shoulder, on the wrong side. She was shorter and dumber looking. And that one. Yeah. And then the number of Trumps that could be out there. We don't know. This is well, yes, we do. I mean, lots of people have seen other Trumps, lots of them, lots of people. So Trump is in play. And then Biden is Biden. Yeah, for sure. Biden. So, you know, yeah. Getting one to talk.

44:10 and sounding the same. That is a challenge, but I'm sure there'll be some voice print guys out there that'll be doing this stuff. Let's check in on the war in the region. with the Morning Joe folks. I brought up a very simple metaphor about a guy who sends people from that house across the street coming over and constantly, you know, stealing things from your house or breaking windows in your house. And we said, well, what do you do? You go take you go take out the house across the street, tell them you're going to call the cops or something. In this case, I just, I wonder how much longer is the United States going to allow its troops to be shot at by people who are being funded by Iran? At what point do we not just go to the source of the problem, which has been the source of the problem since 1979?

44:58 And go to Iran. If Iran wants to continue killing Americans or trying to kill Americans, should we not at least sink one of their ships? Should we not at least blow up their air force? Should we not at least blow up their oil fields? Pick one of the three. I don't care. In fact, I would say bomb them, bomb them, and then bomb them again. Just so you know, the whole media is in on this, people. All of the media is all in. I'm going to ask the same old questions and add a new one, which is there's an Iranian destroyer or something floating around the Red Sea that is doing the targeting for the missiles. And they don't do anything about that thing. But the other one is you got, they captured an oil tanker or a ship container tanker, the Houthis did, and they're using it as a,

45:48 vacation land tourist attraction Disneyland yes and so and we're just letting that happen we don't go grab go in there with a force and then go on that ship and retake the ship and send it to the Suez Canal where it was headed why hasn't that happened before we're gonna decide to bomb Tehran I mean the simplest of things we haven't done and that one is right the top of the list I can answer the question there's no money in that We need to be shooting something. Every missile, every 50 millimeter. We need to be spending money. Money, money, money. Come on, you know the answer. Who cares? I'm a shipman, I ain't gonna get no ship. That's only bad. Everyone knows I'm right.

46:35 If we were serious about any of this, they should have taken that ship back. And instead they're making a mockery of us by turning it into a vacation land. Well morally, yes you're right. That's okay because we have another front opening up. Israel is not at war with Lebanon, but everyday explosions echo along this border. Israeli troops trading fire with Hezbollah fighters. The Iranian-backed Hezbollah has amassed an arsenal of weapons and now Israel's defense minister has deployed more troops along that border in preparation, he says, for what comes next.

47:16 And tonight, Nora, a lot of the focus is also on the terms of a hostage deal which are coming into view on offer a 45-day ceasefire in exchange for a staggered release of the more than 130 hostages. So now I want to switch to the other war which is falling apart and by the way the the dog tags that Kirby was wearing I've gotten lots of people say that these are They are dog tags, but they're commemorative. Commemorative dog tags. Yes. Bring our hostages home. Virtue signaling from the press room. Very good, Kirby.

46:35 If we were serious about any of this, they should have taken that ship back. And instead they're making a mockery of us by turning it into a vacation land. Well morally, yes you're right. That's okay because we have another front opening up. Israel is not at war with Lebanon, but everyday explosions echo along this border. Israeli troops trading fire with Hezbollah fighters. The Iranian-backed Hezbollah has amassed an arsenal of weapons and now Israel's defense minister has deployed more troops along that border in preparation, he says, for what comes next.

47:16 And tonight, Nora, a lot of the focus is also on the terms of a hostage deal which are coming into view on offer a 45-day ceasefire in exchange for a staggered release of the more than 130 hostages. So now I want to switch to the other war which is falling apart and by the way the the dog tags that Kirby was wearing I've gotten lots of people say that these are They are dog tags, but they're commemorative. Commemorative dog tags. Yes. Bring our hostages home. Virtue signaling from the press room. Very good, Kirby.

47:52 So, we go to Ukraine. This thing is not going as expected on many different fronts. First of all, we have a real problem between the dude running the military and our actor slash president Zelensky. Well, in Ukraine, tensions appear to be deepening between President Volodymyr Zelensky and the commander-in-chief of the armed forces. Media reports say the president tried to fire General Valery Zelensky as Zaluzhny, but he refused to stand down and there's no immediate obvious replacement. Yes, and so we had to go to the well to get a little more information on what's going on and we always get that from our Palki Shwarma lady. Looks like all is not well between Zelensky and the army and this has peaked with a weapons procurement scam. It happened recently four

48:39 $400 million was stolen, money that was meant for purchasing mortar shells. The money was spent but the shells never came. 400 million dollars went into offshore accounts somewhere in the Balkans. When the scam came to light, Ukraine's Secret Service arrested five people but the bigger damage was done. He chose Zelensky in poor light and made international donors think twice or will make them think twice before shelling out aid. Whichever way you look at it, it's bad news for Ukraine. Their war with Russia will complete two years in less than a month and their from winning it. In fact, Kiev's counter-offensive has failed. Yes, some gains were made, but the objective is far from being achieved. Russian troops still occupy large areas in Ukraine and Zelensky now wants answers from his generals.

49:26 And there's more bad news. You remember Klitsch? Victoria Nuland's boy, Klitsch? Klitschko? Yeah, Klitschko. I think he was the fighter. Was he the fighter? Klitschko? Yeah, he was one of the two brothers were fighters and he was the older brother. And he became the mayor of Kiev. And everyone's up in arms because he looks like he got a five million dollar house, a nice apartment, luxury real estate in Germany. Which he said he didn't pay for, was part of a settlement with some other company. But it's a very bad look for him. So quickly his ex-wife took, this is in Hamburg, took ownership of the property. So even the Ukrainians are like, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hold on a second. This is not the way it should be going. How come everybody's making out and our men are dying?

50:18 Dying, dying, dying. Well, this goes a multimillionaire from boxing to the extreme, you know, in some many ways. Five million is nothing. Nobody likes the look. I'm sure it's not a good look. And then, of course, Victoria Kagan-Noodleman. She's back, everybody. Victoria Kagan-Noodleman. She's back, of course, ever since her putsch. In 2014, we have really run the country. We even auditioned a guy and we got Zelensky to be the president. We know that, and I'm not going to replay the clip, but this was all orchestrated. Nobody is in there that we don't have control of. So with all this kerfuffle going on with 400 million missing and there's all kinds of corruption, the army guy won't leave, Vicky Newland has to show up.

51:13 She did, I'm pretty sure she's there to try and kick people into shape. She's got a long, a full length puffer coat on, which is a very bad look for her. Just, you know, on the, on the Instagram tip, very bad look. She just, she was so cute back in the day. In her, like her thirties. She had a cute look. No, she was dynamite looking and it was the evilness of her being. It was like she just came out. It's like the Sith. You know, as you got older, you just started showing your evilness and that's what she's done. She looks terrible. She oozes evil. She oozes evil. She's evil. I have to say that I leave Heath tonight

52:00 more encouraged about the unity and the resolve about 2024. Unity and resolve. Okay, there's unity. Okay. It's absolute strategic importance for Ukraine. I also leave more confident that even as Ukraine strengthens its defenses, Mr. Putin's going to get some nice surprises on the battlefield. Oh, what does that mean? Mr. Putin's going to get some nice surprises on the battlefield? Nukes? Vicky? What are you bringing? What are you bringing?

52:39 What are you bringing over? Long-range ballistic missiles? It sounds like you're really all jacked about some nice little things you're gonna send to Mr. Putin. Remember her, people. Remember who does this. And that Ukraine will make some very strong success this year. That woman is... Strong successes. Yeah, yeah. Which means more killing, more killing. Meanwhile, everyone back in Washington... You know, we're gonna fight those Russians till every Ukrainian's dead. Meanwhile, back in Washington, everyone's like, Zuckerberg, you've got blood on your hands. This lady has blood on her hands. And things are not going well on the legal front for Ukraine. Ukraine sued Russia in the

53:26 international court and the results are not good. Well this is clearly a victory for Russia, Nadia, because almost all of Ukraine's allegations here were thrown out. Now they had brought this case under two different treaties. One is that Financing of Terrorism Act and they were hoping to pin Russia's support for militias in eastern Ukraine under this act. However this court ruled that the provision of weapons, provision of training, that did not violate this act. It is only about providing money. Now that also destroyed any hopes from Ukraine to pin, for example, the downing of flight MH17, which it has been proven by another court here in The Hague that the weapons were produced by Russia. Wow. This just got slipped in. So Russia not responsible for the downing of MH17 because

52:39 What are you bringing over? Long-range ballistic missiles? It sounds like you're really all jacked about some nice little things you're gonna send to Mr. Putin. Remember her, people. Remember who does this. And that Ukraine will make some very strong success this year. That woman is... Strong successes. Yeah, yeah. Which means more killing, more killing. Meanwhile, everyone back in Washington... You know, we're gonna fight those Russians till every Ukrainian's dead. Meanwhile, back in Washington, everyone's like, Zuckerberg, you've got blood on your hands. This lady has blood on her hands. And things are not going well on the legal front for Ukraine. Ukraine sued Russia in the

53:26 international court and the results are not good. Well this is clearly a victory for Russia, Nadia, because almost all of Ukraine's allegations here were thrown out. Now they had brought this case under two different treaties. One is that Financing of Terrorism Act and they were hoping to pin Russia's support for militias in eastern Ukraine under this act. However this court ruled that the provision of weapons, provision of training, that did not violate this act. It is only about providing money. Now that also destroyed any hopes from Ukraine to pin, for example, the downing of flight MH17, which it has been proven by another court here in The Hague that the weapons were produced by Russia. Wow. This just got slipped in. So Russia not responsible for the downing of MH17 because

54:19 It was only weapons they manufactured, they didn't fund it, they probably didn't even do it. That just got slipped in. That basically disappeared with that ruling. The only thing that this court found is under that financing of terrorism act that Russia failed to comply because they failed to investigate certain individuals who were told, who Ukraine told them could be financing terrorism. So that was a violation of that small beef if you look at the bigger picture. The other treaty here was about the elimination of all forms of racial violence, discrimination, sorry. And that again, the court did not go along with Ukraine's arguments. They said the fact that the Crimea, the Tatar minority in Crimea was being targeted. That was not because of their ethnicity, but because of their political opposition to Russia. And that included the closure of the Majlis, the Tatar

55:12 representative body in Crimea. Now the only win, as you said, was on that Ukrainian language education. 90% decrease in Ukrainian language education in Crimea since 2014. And the court did say that Russia should reinstate Ukrainian language. Oh yeah, okay. So that's the win. You got to teach the kids Ukrainian language. Wow. Okay. In Crimea. In Crimea. In Crimea. The only thing that is happening now is we've taken our hands off of it. When I say we, America, because you know we're all beaten up on Zuckerberg this week. We haven't got to do anything with Ukraine. Everyone's sick of it. So the EU steps in with 50 billion. Interestingly enough, they

55:56 They couldn't do any money because Viktor Orban was the sole holdout of the 27 member states. They have to have agreement from all, otherwise they couldn't do it. And it looks like they got to him. The EU has agreed on a new 50 billion euro support package for Ukraine at a leaders summit in Brussels. European Council President Charles Michel said the deal would ensure, quote, long-term to Well, according to diplomatic sources and officials that we've been speaking with, it was the run-up to this meeting today with all the phone calls that Viktor Orban has been receiving from European leaders with

55:12 representative body in Crimea. Now the only win, as you said, was on that Ukrainian language education. 90% decrease in Ukrainian language education in Crimea since 2014. And the court did say that Russia should reinstate Ukrainian language. Oh yeah, okay. So that's the win. You got to teach the kids Ukrainian language. Wow. Okay. In Crimea. In Crimea. In Crimea. The only thing that is happening now is we've taken our hands off of it. When I say we, America, because you know we're all beaten up on Zuckerberg this week. We haven't got to do anything with Ukraine. Everyone's sick of it. So the EU steps in with 50 billion. Interestingly enough, they

55:56 They couldn't do any money because Viktor Orban was the sole holdout of the 27 member states. They have to have agreement from all, otherwise they couldn't do it. And it looks like they got to him. The EU has agreed on a new 50 billion euro support package for Ukraine at a leaders summit in Brussels. European Council President Charles Michel said the deal would ensure, quote, long-term to Well, according to diplomatic sources and officials that we've been speaking with, it was the run-up to this meeting today with all the phone calls that Viktor Orban has been receiving from European leaders with

56:58 bilateral meetings with this breakfast meeting this morning with the French, Italian and German leaders. And all of them made it clear that Hungary was standing there alone with their blockade, that all the other members of the European Union wanted to have this agreement and were ready to move ahead without Hungary. So for Viktor Orban it was pretty clear that he was... They must have threatened this guy with something because if you in the next 30 seconds you'll hear what he got. It's like this doesn't make sense. Isolated in this question we have to state this fact conclusion in the final communique that the European Commission will be issuing a report every year about the implementation of this aid package to Ukraine

57:49 There will be, if needed, could be a review of the whole package every two years. But the diplomats we've been speaking here with told us that this is a lot of fluff and it doesn't mean that Hungary would have a right to veto it. So it was basically, I think, the clear fact that Hungary was standing alone here. Something happened there that we're not being told it could go either way. It could be something he insisted on I mean he already caved to Sweden Yeah, that he was the last holdout for letting them join NATO. He gave in on that Yeah, I think it's possible that he had the upper hand here, and he got something he got his liver something really big like layoff How about this no Ukrainian refugees in Hungary

58:43 That would be part of it. That would work. I'm telling you. That's one of the things. I also think that he'd tell him to get off his case because he's been condemned as some sort of a Hitler within the EU. Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump is worse than Hitler. Trump! And so he could bitch about that. I mean, yeah, I like the idea of the Ukraine. No Ukraine. You're going to stay pure. So that thing's over. I mean, they'll just keep it going, I guess. You know, they're scaring everybody. I really wish I could have played a clip because there was this 12-minute YouTube super clip of British girls saying why they couldn't be drafted into the army.

59:33 It was all TikTok videos. But you can't understand them. I mean, I can because I live there and if you're looking at their mouths and everything and some of them have subtitles. But I mean, the whole country is like, what? No. You're just talking only to Cockneys or what? Pretty much. Yeah. It's like, I can't go. I'll be useless. I'll be useless. It's just the whole thing. People don't even believe in war anymore. It's just something that happens over there. I've got nothing to do with it. Nothing to do with it. Meanwhile, some poor woman and her child were doused with acid in, get this, Clapham Commons, where I lived by some dude named Abdul, go figure. I lived in Clapham Commons. It's like a nice little South London kind of suburb on the other side of the river.

1:00:29 Everything's falling apart, including the news. And I think we should probably just play this one little nugget since it's happening everywhere. We're seeing newspapers The only one that's surviving is the New York Times because their money comes from games. But the Chicago Tribune and all of the affiliated companies, no. Former Chicago Tribune Guild President and current Chicago Tribune investigative reporter Greg Pratt says the Tribune's editors, reporters, photographers and designers will all go on strike, staging a 24-hour walkout on Thursday. Alden Global Capital, called a hedge fund vampire by Vanity Fair, has been roundly criticized for gutting newspapers in the name of expanding profits. The company was cited in a University of North Carolina report for, quote, siphoning profits to prop up its failed investments in Greek debt

1:01:27 and a Canadian pharmacy. We often say that newspapers are not dying, they're being killed. They're being killed by owners that are taking the money out and just sucking it out and putting it elsewhere. Alden has not responded to questions or issued a statement, but the Tribune Guild, the union representing the papers workers, says Alden's proposal would eliminate the company's 401k match, refuse pay increases, and offer only two years of $1,500 bonuses. We're not looking for a million dollars. We're trying to get a good, good, solid base salary that allows our journalists to have a sustainable lifestyle here so that they can focus on the work and not have to worry about driving an Uber on the weekends. The Tribune staff walkout is part of a larger strike across the country at other papers owned by Alden from Florida to Pennsylvania.

1:02:16 It's going to be about 240 journalists all across America going on strike to tell our corporate owner, Alden Global Capital, that we will not allow them to continue to gut our newspapers and refuse to come to the table for a fair contract. Tribune workers say they plan to picket here at the Freedom Center, where the paper's offices are located, starting on Thursday at 9 in the morning. They're asking people not to read the Chicago Tribune on Thursday. Yeah, no worries. I'm with them. I'm not going to read the Chicago Tribune today. I'm with them. I won't read it at all. News business, they haven't figured it out. They still haven't figured it out. There's no money in news. Why do these billionaires keep falling for this farce? I mean, buy a football team. It's more fun.

1:03:09 And you sell it with profit. Well, the newspapers were always owned by the rich to promote their political agendas. And it was the Republicans and Democrats. I've talked about this a million times. I don't mind hearing a little bit more of it. I'd always enjoy it. And they have... and there used to be papers, used to be called the Republican and in fact we still have one over here, the Press Democrat, which were biased, they were very biased papers. And of course, they tried, the Democrat side tried to promote the idea that people should be more, the paper should be objective. You should have both sides of the story. Are they dumb? Why do they want that? Well, they wanted to get the Republican papers out of the way. They wanted everybody to promote the Democrat side, which is I think they've managed to mostly do. And so the papers are always very liberal. They don't pay well at all.

1:04:00 except some of the big papers pay better. Their model is shot and it started to fade in the 60s. It's not an internet thing. It started to fade in the 60s with the advent of local TV journalism, which really was mostly stealing from the newspapers and then repurposing it as local news. But now they have their own reporters, they have their own investigative guy who is looking into things. You know what's happening everywhere is online certainly people are copying you know like they'll copy a New York Times article, they'll run it through chat GPT and just publish it with you know different adjectives and just republish it and it's the same news but they just use a few different words.

1:04:49 That's been going on, that started with the radio and TV people. They're the ones who stole the articles and then they started repurposing them and the newspapers started to fade. But the newspapers had the advantage of local advertising, Macy's and some of these big box places which are now all out of business. So those guys, that didn't work. And then they had their classifies to fall back on them, but we know that that was a fail because they missed, that's where the internet came in and wiped them out. So it was one thing after another, after another. These things have not been viable probably for 50 years. It's just a miracle that we have newspapers at all. Well, it's going away. And I think AI will be reporting your news. I mean, news is just news.

1:05:35 And I was like, this happened here. This came from this source. It's easy. You know, a guy on the, like us, boots on the ground. This just happened. You throw it in there. Boom. It writes a story. It gets distributed. And then maybe they'll be able to make money off of analysis and opinion and stuff like that. But news is just news. Oh, what happened? Oh, something happened. I don't see any need for these newspapers. We see the network TV as we point out by our three by threes It's just basically the same story Filtered through three lenses. It's no there's no real difference between one and the other I want to ask you a question about Propaganda I saw this lady was on I think she was France 24

1:06:22 And she wrote a book called The Big Myth. And she's clearly a communist, but France 24. But this book and the lead in, I took all the lead enough to make the clip short, is Ronald Reagan. I think it was Ronald Reagan who said the most scariest words, eight words or whatever, I'm from the government, I'm here to help. And her book, The Big Myth, goes to say that it was the media that psyoped everybody into believing that capitalism did not die and that capitalism had not failed during the Great Depression.

1:07:01 And I just think it's interesting because we're possibly on a cusp like that again, which would be perfect. It's a cycle. It's a cycle, exactly. It would be perfect to have Trump in there to, you know, because you can, I think you can talk the economy better. You can talk it up and people just sentiment. But I want some historical perspective from you because this goes back to the third. I think you were alive then. Let's just listen to what she said. Yeah, I remember Rochelle. I met him. This is exactly what it's about. The book is a long history of propaganda, of free market propaganda that helps to try to explain how Ronald Reagan could say those words and have them seem credible when we all know that we need government for all kinds of things.

1:07:44 So what we show in the book is that in the late 19th and early 20th century, the failures of capitalism were obvious. Widespread child labor, widespread death and injury in factories across the United States and Europe, and then the Great Depression. So capitalism had failed spectacularly. Roosevelt gets elected on a platform to use the visible hand of government to address these market failures, these failures of capitalism. But in response, the business community begins to mobilize against that. And they do so with a series of propaganda campaigns. First one in the 1920s by the National Electric Light Association, the electricity producers. And then a second one by the National Association of Manufacturers, the big corporations with factories across the United States.

1:08:30 And they realize that they can't defend capitalism by saying that it's all working fine, because it obviously isn't. So instead they say, government threatens your freedom. Business, big business, the free market protects your freedom. And so therefore, even though minimum wages or workman's compensation might seem superficially attractive, you should not support those things because if you do, you'll lose your freedom. And this is the argument they have been making ever since. Your thoughts? Well, you know, nobody back in the day was thinking in terms of capitalism. I mean, that's a term that the communists like to use as a system. Free market enterprise is more closer to it. And

1:09:18 I don't know. I don't think anything she says is true. The people who have done recent analysis using some of the more modern techniques and statistical analysis indicate that what Roosevelt did was delay the recovery. Oh really? There's a lot of thought that he delayed the recovery that all these things and a major depression starts it started in 29 and it really ended ended completely in 33 and which is very similar to what happened in the 70s. You had the crash of 69, if people in the market knew that, and then it bottomed out in 73, and it kind of dragged on with price fixing and some of the other high interest rates and all the other stuff they couldn't really get, snap out of it, and Jimmy Carter didn't help, he made it drag on further. They had to get rid of him. Reagan came in in 1980, and that was the end of it.

1:10:15 Same thing was this almost identical except the overall effects weren't the same because it was worsened by Roosevelt according to these guys. Now, I haven't done this research, but it is Roosevelt and these government programs had taken so much impetus away from the free market and the capitalist structure or the free enterprise structure. that it made it worse and he actually had to have World War II to get out of it. It wasn't just a new guy getting in office like Reagan and straightening things out, putting things back in place. It was a world war that put us in a war footing and we had rations and all these things. You could only get gasoline once in a while and all the rest of it, which was the hardest way to come out of one of these things.

1:11:04 And so yeah, I'm sure that her analysis of the way she's seeing it through her lens, I'm sure is probably, if you're a Marxist, you'd probably say, yeah, yeah. But I don't see what she's talking about insofar as these sorts of things in non-capitalist systems are much worse when a when a collapse happens like that. Yeah, but that doesn't sell a book on France 24. But then she brings in the propaganda and this was heart-wrenching, this example. As an honorary member of the LHOTP community, I was just heartbroken to hear

1:11:42 That Little House on the Prairie is a scam. A lot of people, particularly a generation, will be well aware of Little House on the Prairie. The book series turned into TV homes across Europe and America too. But how you saw the distortion from the book and the original purpose of its author to the idea that the settlement life, the homesteads were the way forward, and that wasn't the intention of the book which became the TV series. Yes, well it's a very shocking story. Shocking! Hundreds of millions of people around the world, not just in the United States, but in Europe and Japan, read these books which were marketed as the true life stories of a young girl, Laura Ingalls Wilder, growing up on the American frontier. But it turns out they weren't true stories at all. They were actually written by her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, who was an extreme libertarian, almost anarchist.

1:12:30 writer who was friends with J. Howard Pugh, who we just mentioned, friends with Herbert Hoover, the discredited president, and used these stories to construct a libertarian parable about success through individual hard work and patriarchal love, and we don't need the government, the government just gets in the way. And of course that's completely a myth, because those settlers would never have even been on the frontier without the actions of the US federal government. Little House on the Prairie was an op. You know what's annoying about this is that I keep hearing this over and over and I never clip it but I should start to look for it and clip it more. The notion that hard work is bull crap doesn't get you anywhere. Isn't that great? Is in play. Yes. And it's in play with the youth. Right now, yes. I have, you've seen them, but I have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten

1:13:29 Boots on the ground reports from Gen Z slash Millennials. They're lengthy, they're all in the show notes, they've been anonymized just to make sure everyone's okay. And you saw a few of these. Yeah. And the main thing is, I'd say the general consensus is we were tricked into believing that you go to school and you'll make $100,000. Yeah, that's where that hundred we had this meme was in a couple of shows last show the show before where I played all the clips to tick tock clip. Yeah, the other one was work sucks

1:14:07 We didn't know it would be this hard. We didn't know it would be unfair. The name work might be a giveaway. The word itself, work. Well, this is another one. I'll just read a little bit from this. I'm almost 42. I've watched over and over as co-workers have been put in the time with the grind going over and above without compensation. The payoff is they're passed over for promotions, raises and advancement in favor of DEI hires or due to favoritism, politics or nepotism. And this particular producer said, the women who come in and run the HR departments usually hire their friends who are women. And I totally believe that. I'm like, oh yeah. No, we've done, this is a known fact. You've been in business long enough to know that people, you bring one weirdo in and the next thing you know, the company's all weirdos. Yeah, weirdos. Or you breed.

1:14:57 You bring in like one gay woman, next thing you know there's a million gay women. Remember the Napolitano when she was running the Homeland Security? Yeah, they had a bunch of obnoxious dykes in Homeland Security that they had to get rid of. And you end up with this sort of situation where they, and that's what happened with the pre-TSA if you recall, You go to the San Francisco International Airport, everybody that's doing the baggage check and everything else, all Filipinos. All of them. One Filipino supervisor gets in, all he does is hire his family. And so that causes rousing when he has said this. These are the realities of our world. And I also hear a lot saying, you know, I want,

1:15:44 I wanted, I went to school, I was excited about going to school. There was no shop, there was none of these cool trades that I could do. They were all taken away. Instead, gender studies that are required. So if you want to be a lawyer, you have to go through gender studies. You want to be a lawyer, they're telling you, oh no, you're going to make $150,000. Well, the starting salary is like 50, you know, 50. which is not a lot anymore. By the way, so the latest scandal, so at Harvard is of course the DEI, head of the DEI, a black woman was caught plagiarizing, her history, her PhD was plagiarized and it turns out she's the one who pushed for the hiring of the black

1:16:30 President of Harvard who is also a plagiarist. So again you hire your like so if you're a black plagiarist you'll hire a bunch of black plagiarists. We did get one negative comment which I would like to share from n-word scissorhands. This episode was a stinker. Must be nice being a boomer. Nobody wants to hear this crap from someone who grew up during a period of unprecedented economic prosperity. Oh yeah, the 70s, that was awesome. I understand the youths are retarded, but so are you for playing their TikToks for an hour-long boomer session.

1:17:09 It wasn't an hour. There was, I think, five of them and each one was under two minutes. So that's not really an hour. So again, math doesn't apply to you. They never took enough math. But my overall point is. We we actually see it. We see all the problems. We're not and I'm Gen X. I'm sorry I'm the voice and the hair of Gen X. So go I'll go away with your boomer. That's just not true and John your rumor You're not you're an honorary Gen X or you you you can you can hang with the best of I can be honorary Gen Z if I keep it up keep going keep going, but it's I mean, I guess his story we're sympathetic we are Hosts we're sympathetic

1:17:50 Yeah, and we're playing this as a moments of warning and if you're not seeing that I don't know why you're even listening to the show if you if you because we haven't done anything out of the ordinary for the last five years ten maybe ever since Kovat at least Everything's been pretty straightforward deconstruction and analysis and sympathy I don't like the idea of having a bunch of boneheads moving up the ladder and taking over situations that they shouldn't be in. DEI sucks. Totally. It's un-American. And it's basically communist. Yeah. And and then also, you know, we feel like you cars, you don't know about cars. Yes. That's the whole point. We understand that you know that guy who bitched about the cars didn't even listen because I always I talked about how I used to tune my own car and sixty five Mustang. I tuned it. I had a car before that. I had a car after that.

1:18:50 And I had a strobe light, a gun to tune the car. Yeah, for the timing, to set the timing. You twist the... The cap of the of the distributor a little bit at the timing right of course you can't do any of that anymore because the cars are computerized and unless you're a hacker you can't do anything and Even if you're a hacker you can't do anything although You know you could take most of these cars if you were any good at the computer in a car you could jack up the horsepower by a ton Pretty soon you just open the hood these things are gonna kill you. Yes, don't do it stuff They're spying on you all kinds of this is all wrong. It's all yeah, they're tracking you. Yeah, yeah, but okay if you know there's some people that just don't like the show and I Know that's it in the we had a guy in the new no authority Social you know these guys it's just the same thing again

1:19:43 The guy says, you know, ever since they started talking about guys and they don't know what they're doing, they're the op. Yeah. How are we the op? Curry with his CIA connections. He played the long game. Where's my check? Where's my check? That's what I like to hear. You know, we had checks that were coming from the government. Oh my goodness. Anyway, we need more checks from the government. But this is a cycle and it's bound to end. I think we have not reached the bottom yet, but it's coming.

1:20:22 Part of it is just the season of reveal. All that is hidden will be revealed. All that is unknown will be known. I have a guy boots on the ground who was yesterday he was in Dripping Springs with the the truckers going to Eagle Pass. This thing has fallen apart. Everyone, there's videos everywhere of not just, you know, this one park where they have a fence up and then half a mile down the road the fence is open. Three miles down the road there's no fence. The whole thing is ridiculous. It's all political. And I have to say it stems from the globalist Greg Abbott. He's lost me.

1:21:07 That guy is no good. Got a boots on the ground from McAllen, Texas from the airport. Which, let's not go to the airport everybody where it's actually happening. Boots on the ground after hearing mention of McAllen, Texas a couple times in the show recently I had to break my douchebag status and donate. I think this person, I don't know if this person is in the list or not. I was blessed with a new job last year along with some work travel opportunities. One recent trip included McAllen, Texas. This is not somewhere I had heard of but saw right away it is a border town when planning my travels with the recent news about the border drama, I was very curious what this place would be like. As soon as I began walking off the plane in Macau, I started to notice some interesting things. I noticed many, many people with small children who are with someone who appeared to be paired with them, carrying a colorful transparent envelope stuffed with papers.

1:21:57 Seems like this was a social worker type. Yes, they are from the NGOs. Guiding migrants to their destination. I also noticed many people walking alone with a colorful envelope that they had a paper on the backside for them to display that reads, please help me, I do not speak English, along with some other writing. This is where it's really happening. They're sending people to these fences, but it's all through the airports. And now we need more money to pay for it. $7.9 billion so we can send that off to, let's see, what are these non-profits? I have them here. We have the Regional Refugee and Migrant Response Plan, non-governmental organizations, 200 of them. $1.6 billion in cash, debit card, food, clothing, medical treatment, shelter, and humanitarian transportation.

1:22:55 That's just for 2024. That's what's coming up. More than 30 faith-based nonprofits. representing Jewish, Lutheran, Seventh-day Adventist, Catholic and non-denominational evangelical organizations, all coming from the U.S. State Department and from the IOM, the International Office of Migration at the United Nations, which we pay for, which is now run by Amy Pope, former State Department official. Here she is with her global appeal for $7.9 billion. Complex situations are driving higher levels of migration.

1:23:30 all over the world. Complex situations. They are delivering new challenges that test our existing ways of working and require a much more strategic approach in both the short term and the long term. It brings us to a critical moment, not just for IOM or our member states, but for the people that we serve. For those who have moved, for those who are going to move, or those who will be on the move in the future. The world is increasingly relying on IOM and our it has grown, but the need for our help has grown even faster. That's why IOM is launching its first ever global appeal along the three key priorities of our new strategic plan. Number one, saving and protecting people on the move.

1:24:21 Number two, saving and protecting people on the move. Driving solutions to displacement. Driving solutions to displacement. What is this gobbledygook? Number three, facilitating pathways for more regular migration. Ah, there's your AOC. Facilitating pathways for more regular migration. This is the code. The code regular migration means that you become legal. That the pathway that you take is now legalized versus irregular migration, which is what everybody's doing. The consequences of underfunded or partial assistance are dire. Protracted displacement, heightened tension, conflict, increased incentives for irregular migration, and greater risks to the lives of those on the move. Much worse, we lose the tremendous human capacity of millions of people.

1:25:17 You lose the tremendous human capacity, which I think means slavery. Yes, slave labor. Slave labor. That's what this is about. Bring them in because these kids, they want too much money. Their expectations are too high. They want $100,000 a year and they're stooges. We psyoped them. They just got out of school. We psyoped them into believing life would be groovy. Life is never groovy. It's never been groovy. It wasn't groovy in the 70s. It wasn't groovy in the 80s. It wasn't bad for me personally. But... Play this. New York was in shambles. New York City hiring illegals. There it is. New York is considering a plan to relax hiring qualifications for 4,000 jobs so they can be filled by illegal immigrants with work permits. The plan would allow bypassing proof of education, previous employment and English proficiency.

1:26:14 The state's Department of Civil Service says 4,000 vacant positions have already been found so they can enter the workforce. The agency's memo stated most of the jobs are entry-level positions in health care, hospitality, auto repair and building or ground maintenance. Auto repair? Auto repair? Is that a thing? Auto repair? There's no auto repair. Anyway, here's a news story from ABC about five of these brand new workers. Tonight in New York City, the alarming video authorities say showing two NYPD officers being attacked by asylum seekers. The officers have been trying to break up a disorderly crowd in Times Square. Authorities say they were jumped by the asylum seekers in front of a building on 42nd Street. The officers were knocked to the ground, kicked in the head and body, at least five people arrested. Police tonight searching for several other suspects. The officers

1:27:04 are going to be okay. Okay, so that's ABC World News. Wow, that's terrible! Well, listen to the real report. That was ABC World News tonight obfuscating a lot of important facts. You saw the video. Reprehensible. Cowards. The NYPD reacting to surveillance video taken from West 42nd Street in Times Square around 8.30 Saturday night. Police say a group of up to 12 men was being disorderly. Two officers told them to move along. The gang looks like they're going to comply, but when the officers try to take one uncooperative man in a yellow shirt into custody, around seven others surround them, punching and kicking the officers in the head and in the body while they are on the ground. For us, we're our cops. I'm proud of what they try to do. They stayed in the fight, but eight on two is hard to combat.

1:27:56 bumps, bruises and scratches and pain. Eventually officers were able to find and arrest four of the gang. A fifth was arrested Monday but once cops brought them in, bail reform laws allowed them to go free. Something that most likely wouldn't have happened in their home countries according to the NYPD. Again, consequences for your actions. They should be sitting in Rikers, they should have been indicted this week and have their thing caught and go to jail. Police sources add that it's the gang of 19 to 24 year olds who barely just arrived in the city and may have been staying at the nearby migrant shelters in Times Square. Some have reportedly already racked up charges for assault and robbery but were released then too. If those arrested for this assault on police do come back on their own recognizance, they face felony charges that carry a penalty of up to seven years.

1:28:46 Yeah, just they were let out. Well here is the NTD version of the same story which I think is shorter. And more succinct, and I think this is why I take clips from NTD. This is the NYC cop story. In New York, two police officers were attacked by a group of people believed to be illegal immigrants. The officers reportedly asked the group to move along when a fight erupted. The suspects punched the officers and kicked their heads while they were on the ground. The NYPD confirmed to NTD that they have arrested five of the suspects and that they are now facing multiple charges. Now reports say that the suspects are illegal immigrants and that they have been released without bail and that one of the suspects already has open cases against him because of violent attacks he allegedly committed just a few weeks ago. However NTD could not independently confirm that. Joseph Imperatris tells me the incident could have ended much worse. He's an NYPD officer and founder of Blue Lives Matter NYC.

1:29:45 If police officers can't defend themselves, if they're wrestling with people on the floor and they're getting kicked in the head, they can have their firearms taken away, they can be shot and killed. Something has to be done. Have some kind of fear for people so that they do not try to attempt to attack any officer ever in uniform. He added that being a sanctuary city has backfired for New York in recent years. When I'm mayor of Fredericksburg, I'm gonna have a cop with a Billy club on every corner. The other thing is why didn't these kids, I guess they don't have billy clubs anymore because I saw that video there was no billy clubs being used. No, I want little kids to go up and say excuse me officer I'm lost. Yeah, no kid does that anymore. Remember when you were a kid like your mom said if you ever get lost just go up to a cop now I'm sure the cop will say move along kid.

1:30:29 So that one guy who was arrested before, the details of that arrest, I don't have the clip, but it was brought out on Gutfeld of all places. And that guy was a really bad actor. He's been beating people up. He went into a Nordstrom's and punched out a clerk and then bit her. And then stole something and left. Nobody cares. And these guys, this New York is completely out of control if this is going on. And the mayor Is a cop! What is going on in New York with a cop mayor lets this happen? We haven't heard from him, have we? No, I'm sure they're bringing out a body double, John. I think not. You don't think so, huh? Hey, I got some podcast ads. Oh, you know, I do have a little bit of podcast news before you get into the podcast ads. Spotify has capitulated on their exclusives

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1:33:09 Is that Heather Hying? Is that Heather? I love the caramelized... It sounded like Heather from Dark Horse. I don't know who that is, but I'll tell you this, that is not one of the great days of the day. It's not the great moment of the day. I don't think so. I think you're right. Smelling onions burning. So that's a podcast I'm not gonna listen to now. Here's another one all right this is this our prelude to the podcast awards We're setting up a podcast that will never be considered for an award. That's funny You'd say that but no well this podcast had more bit to more bitch your worries cited to announce season four of my podcast Mobituaries I've got a whole new bunch of stories to share with you about the most fascinating people and things who are no longer with us. From famous figures who died on the very same day, to the things I wish would die, like buffets. All that and much more. Listen to Mobituaries with Mo Rocca wherever you get your podcasts. So this is from the iHeart podcast stable, I guess?

1:34:12 I believe so, but Mo Rocca is a weird character. I've never met him or seen him, but he's always doing tech stuff. He's melodramatic and I don't know if he's somewhat annoying. Who listens to these shows? Trolls? Has anyone heard of these podcasts? I'm just curious. Now you notice those are two 30-second ads. Yes. So it takes a lot for, especially for iHeartRadio, to give somebody a minute, a minute ad. Now hold on, hold on, hold on. Are these ads that run on the radio? No, they run on mostly on other podcasts. It's house ads, house ads, okay. They're basically house ads. And now we're promoting this dreck. All right, this is a fine segment you're doing here. Yeah, I think so. Okay. And so who would get a minute? I mean, who would get a minute? Well, there's a podcast that would get a minute and it's the You and Me podcast. Have you heard of the You and Me podcast? No, I can't say as I have, no. Well, then you might recognize this person.

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1:36:00 getting it into the end zone on behalf of the American people. So join me for this conversation and more. Listen to you and me both on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Okay, now I have to play a couple of ads. All right. I can't, I can't believe I have to say that by the way, that that's a podcast. Hillary Clinton. I did not know how to podcast. Yes. I think she was on Spotify and they, and they didn't, they chose not to part ways. I think they chose the smart ways. She can barely do a read. That read is lame. And then the clip that she uses to punch it up is that Hakeem Jeffries talking about throwing the ball to score a touchdown for the American people. I mean, come on. Is this Hanging with Hillary? What was the name of this podcast? This was You and Me Both. Oh, You and Me Both. All right, I have a 46-second ad. This is President Obama

1:36:57 shilling for President Biden for people to pitch in. How do you think he starts? Hi, it would be, what's it? Hello. He's got that opening he always does. It's going to be the same one. Yeah, here it is. Hi, I'm, hi, I'm. No, here, no, no, here it is. Hey. Hey. Hey, it really gets you. Hey, it's not rude at all. Hey, you know, this time of year, we all keep getting pinged with political fundraising asks. But here's the thing. Giving five or 10 bucks, whatever you can to Joe Biden's campaign makes a real difference. Let me tell you why. From a guy who's won a couple of these. Donations from grassroots supporters like you made up the majority of Joe's campaign revenue last time. And those five, 10, $20 donations are what helped him win the election, pull us out of the pandemic, build on the ACA, and pass the biggest climate change investment in history.

1:37:58 Those wins were your wins too. Can you pitch in and get $5 right now? I know Joe will appreciate it. Thanks Obama. And Joe's behind the camera. Thanks Obama. He didn't used to say Heil. Hi everybody. Yeah, Heil everybody. Yeah. Yeah, hi everybody. That's what he used to say. Heil everybody. Now he's someone advised him to turn that to hey. Hey! Um... Now this wasn't look. No, it wasn't look. So, E. Jean Carroll, E. Jean Carroll, the woman who was awarded in appeal, no doubt, 83, 88, like a lot of million dollars from former President Trump, was on the Rachel Maddow Show. And Rachel, of course, you know, as a woman who fights for women, fights for women's rights, was very curious what E. Jean Carroll would do with this money.

1:39:02 Because if you had all that money and you're on with Rachel Maddow, you're going to say, well, I want it for... If I was E. Jean Carroll, and I'm not, I'm going to make sure that I can transport girls for abortions. I'm going to do all kinds of good stuff with this money. Let's listen in and see how embarrassed Rachel got. the good I'm gonna do with this money. First thing Rachel, you and I are gonna go shopping. We're gonna get completely new wardrobes, new shoes, motorcycle for Crowley, new fishing rod for Robbie. Rachel what do you want? Penthouse? It's yours Rachel! Penthouse and France? You want France? You want to go fishing in France? No?

1:39:58 That's a joke. That's a joke. Although if me fishing in France could do something for women's rights, I would take the hint. I would obviously take one for the team. As if you need persuasion in that regard. There it is We're gonna anybody wants to get a good look at this find the latest edition of mr. Reagan on YouTube I posted it on no authority dot social and it has a Part of a documentary about this woman who lives out in the woods in a in a house And she has pink hair during where she's doing this and

1:40:48 It's called the Mouse House, she has it written on the side because she has a bunch of mice living in the house. E.G. and Carol? Yeah. Really? Yeah, and so she has mice living in the house and a bunch of them in the kitchen and elsewhere because and she since you can't guess poison. Oh, that's right. She has a cat named vagina literally this woman is nuts. No, she's a complete nut. But when you see the parts of this documentary at the beginning of this, mr. Reagan episode it's just like oh, this is just bullcrap and

1:41:24 It he claims that she should go to prison for a false accusation and then the course is lawsuits of phony and won't go anywhere Because they wouldn't allow him to actually put on a defense. Yeah, this is a pathetic It's just pathetic That this is allowed to happen. It's all again, New York. Yes. Yeah, New York true. What happened in New York overnight? These things don't happen overnight. It went downhill. I mean, New York will come back. They just need a new guy in there, like a Giuliani-Bratton combo. I mean, it'll happen. It'll be a while. It's not going to happen quickly. I think we can almost see the bottom of everything that's happened. I'm optimistic. I'm not. So far as seeing the bottom, I don't think so. I think the bottom's got to... It's deeper than you like.

1:42:21 You know, for years I followed the vape wars, which I think we conclusively analyzed as these are not tobacco products. The master states agreement calls for taxes on tobacco products to be given to the states who wrote bonds, big bonds based upon this. Tobacco companies giving them really billions of dollars a year and kids were stopping smoking tobacco products. This was a huge problem because that stops the money train.

1:42:59 And so then the big tobacco went so far as to buy up Juul and ruin it and quash it. And Trump almost got psyoped into some legislation. He figured, I think it was Melania actually, he figured it out at the last moment. Hold on a second, this is a scam. But there's still one more annoying little thing that's out there and we have to get rid of it. And we'll do that, of course, with Chuck Schumer. At local smoke shops in New Rochelle, you can't miss the brightly colored packages on the wall. Each pouch boasting an enticing flavor. Wintergreen, citrus, cinnamon. But there is one top lawmaker calling for federal action on the tobacco and electronic cigarette alternative called Zin. It's a pouch packed with problems.

1:43:44 Over the weekend, Senator Chuck Schumer... How about that? That didn't come from a PR company, did it? It's a pouch packed with problems. Here an alternative called Zin. It's a pouch packed with problems. Over the weekend, Senator Chuck Schumer urging the FDA to investigate Zin over its marketing and health effects, citing high levels of nicotine marketed to teens and sometimes those even younger. I'm delivering a warning to parents because these nicotine pouches seem to lock their sights on young kids, teenagers and even lower. Whether he's talking about Facebook or whether he's talking about non-tobacco products, these guys are corrupt. And use the social media to hook them. There it is, hook them! The outcry from Senator Schumer sent the social media world buzzing with some Republicans rallying behind the nicotine pouch, claiming Schumer was inciting a quote, zinsurrection.

1:44:36 A term coined by Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene. Then Congressman Richard Hudson posted this picture holding a pack of Zin, claiming Schumer is against an alternative that has helped many people quit. They're all in on it. If they're not being paid by tobacco, they're being paid by Big Nick. But doctors say this product is dangerous when purchased by a teenager because of the concerns over nicotine. It can potentiate other types of addiction, not to mention it has long-term impacts on cognition and anxiety. Psychologist and addiction specialist Dr. Alexandra Streitner warns this can be harmful to a child's brain when used long-term. When they see things that catch their eye,

1:45:18 We're setting them up to be curious and use those things. And we're setting them up for what could become a lifelong problem that can adversely affect their health. In a statement, Philip Morris International says it's setting a benchmark for the industry when it comes to not marketing Zin towards those who are underage. The company cites CDC data from last year that shows the use of oral nicotine pouches by those under the legal age is exceptionally low. It's so transparently corrupt. Let's call it a pouch packed with problems.

1:45:55 Is there any evidence that nicotine gets you hooked on to other substances, you know, through Facebook? And then all of a sudden you're on fentanyl? They threw that in there. It says that it... He didn't use the word exacerbate, but he used a synonym that if you get hooked on nicotine, you'll be hooked on other stuff. Yes, yes, you'll be hooked on porn. I don't know that there's any evidence for that. No, I don't think there is. You're just hooked on nicotine. And, you know, I've been... It's not like a gateway product to heroin. No, no. But this is so obvious. These people don't represent us. Surprise. They represent the people that give them the money to get into the office in which they inhabit. Yes, yes, yes. And that's not us. It's bad. It's bad. Well, let's say this has changed topic. Oh, OK.

1:46:50 I'm going to do the swearing parrots I mentioned in the newsletter. Officials at a British zoo said a group of infamously foul-mouthed parrots that were isolated from the rest of the flock are being moved in with the rest of the chatty birds in the hopes of cleaning up their language. The Lincolnshire Wildlife Park famously received the five African grey parrots from different owners in 2020 and the new arrivals spent their time in quarantine teaching each other a variety of profanities. The birds were removed from the rest of the zoo's flock to keep them from teaching their bad habits to dozens of other parrots. Officials said the recent arrival of three more potty-mouthed parrots led them to make the decision to put all eight of the cussing birds in with the rest of the parrots.

1:47:34 Steve Nichols, the chief executive of the park, told CNN, we've put eight really, really offensive swearing parrots with 92 non-swearing ones. When we came to move them, the language that came out of their carrying boxes was phenomenal. Really bad. Not normal swear words, but these were proper expletives. Nichols said keepers are hoping the swearing parrots will learn new sounds from the rest of the flock instead of the other way around. He told the BBC, we could end up with 100 swearing parrots on our hands. Only time will tell. The zoo posted signs warning visitors about the potential for foul language. But Mr. Nichols said the swearing parrots have actually proven to be popular with the public. He said, we did hear a lot more customers swearing at parrots than we did parrots swearing at customers. Okay, so this is just proof. This is proof that the birds aren't real.

1:48:26 You know, the funny thing about this story is this is a parallel story. There's almost an identical story in Canada and I believe there's one in the United States somewhere, even though I haven't tracked that one down, but it's all at once a bunch of swearing parrots, African greys who are very... So I'd like to know what I mean, it's funny the bit about the birds aren't real, but there's something going on here. Why are they giving us this story at all? This is not new. Well, because the African greys are notorious for cussing. I don't know. I don't know.

1:49:07 And somehow they sense that you delight from it. So the bird itself, which is not really the smartest of all the birds, they're drones. It cusses, it says something horrible and then you react to it and it says, oh, that's cool. I got some attention. And so then it develops a language of cussing. Well, I'm glad you're so entertained by this. I am. Let's talk about something horrible. We have a couple of very bad situations medically, at least what I'm tracking in the United States. One is the increase in cancer, turbo cancers. In particular, there's a lot of prostate cancer and now we're seeing a lot of dementia and

1:50:08 Alzheimer's and and what's-his-face who's that guy what's-his-face what's-his-face yeah Lloyd Austin has the prostate cancer. Here's a story for the New York Post my daughter was diagnosed with dementia she's only 19 so the dementia is running rampant and I think I had so this this story kind of put me on let me see This one, this story put me on a little bit of a scroll hole rabbit hole. When it comes to keeping the mind healthy, a new study suggests a blood test could screen for Alzheimer's disease. It's the most common type of dementia according to the National Institutes of Health.

1:50:51 Doctors say the earlier they can detect the disease, the better. In a new study, researchers say a blood test for a protein known as P-Tau had a high accuracy of detecting Alzheimer's before symptoms began to show up in a patient. It shows that very prominently, that correlates how likely somebody has this abnormal high level of P-Tau in the blood may have those amyloid plaques in the brain. The test is used in the new study and a commercially available tool, but it's currently available just for research only. Doctors are hoping to make the tool available for clinical use soon. So P-Tau or Tau, T-A-U, is a protein. And gee, would you wager where this protein has also been found? I have some studies here. I have some medical, what is it, PubMed stuff.

1:51:47 And the vaccine? Yes sir, that's exactly right. Tau protein. And Steve Kirsch, who of course, you know, take him with a grain of salt as you will, but he has a correlation study. I like the guy because he was a pro-vax nut. Yeah, well, he has a correlation study from MedAlerts. And the correlation is how many people who had different vaccinations now have dementia. And it's not even funny. The COVID-19 vaccine is literally off the chart. This is a problem. And you know, this thing. Yeah. This and a lot of other things. And it's just that it's depressing for people who got the shot, you know, taking it sincerely. You know, Kirsch got it.

1:52:41 Yeah, that's probably why he's so insane about publishing all this stuff. Yeah. And then this one crossed my desk from our buddy there in Chicago. Class action. Are you convinced Gardasil made you or a loved one seriously ill? Oh man, can you believe this? That Gardasil thing, which we were on 14 years ago, we're like, this doesn't sound right. 15 years, 15 years. Yeah, it's been since the beginning of the show. So they're mounting a Stek, Stek sent this to me. So they're mounting a class action suit. Well, good luck. They're going to have to do, the government, somebody's going to have to come in.

1:53:23 and get rid of this liability thing where they don't have, there's no liability whatsoever. You can make a, you could call something a vaccine and have it filled with arsenic and it's fine. It's good to go. Although not the, not the Ozempic. I think we talked about that. I looked, Ozempic is not considered a biologic. So even though it's administered through a needle, it does not fall under the, under the same protections the so-called vaccinations. That should give some people some some pause. Yeah well it's not a vaccination. No, well it's just a treatment. Yeah I understand. Maybe they should have called it a vaccination. No, they need no, it needs to be a biologic. Has to be a biologic.

1:54:14 Let's see, big tech for a second. You know all you have to do is change the definition. It doesn't have to be a biologic. I know, just have to change the dictionaries. It's fine. Change the dictionary. You've done it already. Quick note, John Kerry is out, as we know, of the US Climate Envoy. Yeah, he quit. And who's coming in? Your buddy. John Podesta. Yeah. Not my buddy. Not my buddy. Can you believe that they're bringing that dude in? That's just... What is his climatology... what is his creds? He has some creepy art, no doubt. Some creepy art about climatology. What are you drinking?

1:54:59 I'm having another version of this product called Dram and this is a sparkling water, it's a herbal sparkling water and this one is citrus and blossom which I have not had yet but I will taste a little bit of it. That's wonderful with blossom. Again, if it was a boots on the ground report. It's okay, it's not as good as the lavender. Transhumanism is coming closer every day from the guy that so many people love. Tonight, a sign of hope for millions of Americans living with paralysis. Billionaire Elon Musk announcing that his company Neuralink has surgically implanted its first brain chip in a human. He says the patient is recovering well and called the initial results promising. The device is designed to interpret your neural activity so you can operate a computer or smartphone by simply thinking.

1:55:54 The goal is to help patients with debilitating conditions control external devices with their thoughts. Experts say the technology could one day benefit people paralyzed by stroke, brain and spinal cord injury or ALS. This would be a major game changer if it were to be proven to be safe and effective. Neuralink's device is now in clinical trials, joining a handful of other groups testing brain-computer interface technology. This woman who had lost her voice was able to have a conversation with her husband through a mind-controlled avatar. I was thinking about running to the store. What time will you be home? And Swiss researchers used artificial intelligence and brain and spine implants to help this man, paralyzed in a motorcycle accident, to walk again. Experts say it's still a long road to prove the success and safety of Neuralink's device and others like it before it would be approved.

1:56:45 for consumers, but David, this is a beacon of hope for people living with paralysis from things like stroke or ALS or brain or spinal cord injury. Well, that sounds great. That story seems to be an exaggeration of its potential and an exaggeration of what it actually does. And I doubt that woman is speaking through that system like that. It doesn't make sense. I don't believe she can even get that. No, this is not, no. This is a one of those, that's a demo. It's called Silicon Valley demo. The giveaway is, I mean, we have AI voices that are pretty good these days. Why does it go, why, what time will you be home?

1:57:28 I mean, it could have done better than that. Should we do a three by three just so we can get it a little, you know, sharpen up our analysis skills on the bull crap that is the big three plus one networks of M5M? Yeah, we have to go back to the Middle East, but I think we can do it. And now it's time for 3x3. Experiment by JCD. Comparing stories from ABC, CBS and NBC. The never-ending 3x3. Yeah, 3x3. Very good, everybody. We love the 3x3. John takes a look at the same story from all the different news networks, which apparently they usually get from the same place, so that you have your daily programming.

1:58:12 And we also add the CBC to today's list. To the plus, yes. This is the story, well the story explains itself. We're going to start with ABC and Martha Raddatz. Tonight final preparations underway for retaliatory strikes against Iran-backed militants which could come at any time now. A response to the brazen drone attack that left three American soldiers dead, 40 wounded at a remote desert base here in Jordan. President Biden today making clear his mind is made up. Yes. A response that will strike multiple targets over several days, according to a US official targeting the facilities that enabled the drone attack. But another senior US official acknowledging that the strikes will not likely hit Iran itself, given the President's deep concerns over the war escalating.

1:59:12 I do hold them responsible in the sense of supplying the weapons to the people of Libya. I don't think we need a wider war in the Middle East. That's not what I'm looking for. One of the Iranian-backed groups under suspicion tonight, Qatob Hezbollah, claims it's suspending attacks on U.S. forces in the region, but the Pentagon saying actions speak louder than words. I don't think we could be any more clear that we have called on the Iranian proxy groups to stop their attacks. They have not. And so we will respond in a time and manner of our choosing. With us live from Amman, Jordan and Martha, I know we've learned that President Biden will attend the dignified transfer of those soldiers on Friday back to Dover. And Martha, in the meantime, what more are you learning tonight about the coming American response to this deadly attack?

1:59:59 David, even though the president is hesitant to strike Iran itself during this planned multi-day bombing barrage, a U.S. official tells me tonight that Iranian assets outside of Iran could be targets, and most of the strikes, said the official, will be inside Syria. I'm very disappointed in the miking or lack of miking of the president. I mean this is just bad. That was one of those lawn things. Yeah, but even just they said that the president is made up. Yes, my mind made up. Yes. The whole thing is just they never get him and even just no they don't get good audio of the president anymore. But they never have if you recall when he was running for president that's all we complained about. We had those guys who were sabotaging him with the sound yes.

2:00:52 So this is not like a new revelation that he sounds sucks on the president. Before we play the second part of this, I'm going to play the Biden screaming clip because he's kind of well-miked here. Donald Trump, think about this, especially here in South Carolina, a proud military state. Donald Trump, when he was commander in chief, refused to visit a US cemetery outside of Paris. for fallen American soldiers and referred to those heroes and I quote as suckers and losers. He actually said that he said that how dare he say that how dare he talk about my son and all of us like that. Look I call them patriots and heroes the only loser I see is Donald Trump. Wow ad hominem attacks president

2:01:47 No kidding. Somehow it was attacked, even though it was a, I don't know, it was some World War I cemetery. His son is somehow involved. Yes, from World War I. Yes. World War I. And by the way, that was never verified and even Snopes won't call it true, but they won't call it false either. He never said that. Snopes is still in business? Yeah, believe it or not. Okay, here we go. We're gonna move to NBC in the same report. Tonight, President Biden says he's decided how he'll respond to that deadly drone attack on US troops by an Iranian-backed militia. The president today pressed by NBC's Gabe Gutierrez if he holds Iran responsible for the attack. I do hold them responsible in the sense of supplying the weapons to the people who did it. The commander-in-chief's decision comes shortly after a U.S. official says that... Hold on a second. So they both have the same yes and then the clip. I held them responsible for the weapons. I mean, by that, I mean, you know that

2:02:48 Our weapons are everywhere. Are we responsible for everyone who uses our weapons? We should be responsible for everything. Okay. The commander-in-chief's decision comes shortly after a U.S. official says the president spoke with members of his national security team this morning following this Situation Room meeting Monday where the president and his top aides analyzed several retaliatory options The Pentagon had presented to him. President Biden's under pressure to respond after US troops were killed by Iranian backed militant groups for the first time since the Israel Hamas war began in October. The latest in more than 160 attacks by militias against bases with Americans during that time. The president has ordered limited strikes in response, but they have not deterred the Iranian backed groups.

2:03:38 We'll see. We'll see. Sunday's attack at a remote outpost in Jordan, Tower 22, while US troops were sleeping. The Pentagon is examining whether the explosive enemy drone got past air defenses in a moment of confusion when a US drone was also landing. Tonight, Republican critics say President Biden has not done enough to confront Iran.

2:04:22 and to deter the attacks. They're doing nothing that is meaningful and now we have more gold star families because of it and it's infuriating. And so Peter, the president has not revealed what his response will be including whether he'll take action inside Iran but giving a clue about what he hopes will not happen. Lester, the president today said, I don't think we need a wider war in the Middle East. That is not what I'm looking for. His words there. Meanwhile, the White House says President Biden will be there at Dover Air Force Base when the bodies of those three U.S. service members return home this Friday. Yeah, I'll be looking at his watch. Why did he didn't actually say, I'm not looking for a wider war in the region?

2:05:05 Because they didn't have that audio. They have audio of everything except the thing they said at the end. This is the military-industrial complex setting us up, setting everybody up. It's disturbing at this point. The president has no control. Obama has no control. This is the military. They're just running everything. I mean, I don't think you can... What are our representatives, our loyal servants doing? They're yelling at Zuckerberg. This is, this is, this is wrong. Ah! Ah! Grrr! Onward with our friends at CBS. President Biden told reporters he has made up his mind how to retaliate for the drone attack which killed three American soldiers in Jordan. Wow, exactly the same. Grrr!

2:06:08 I do hold them responsible in the sense that they're supplying the weapons to the people who didn't. In an apparent attempt to head off US airstrikes, the Iranian-backed militia the US blames for Sunday's deadly attack announced it was suspending military operations against American forces. The Pentagon spokesman responded by noting there have been three more attacks on US troops since the drone strike in Jordan. I don't think we could be any more clear that we have called on the Iranian proxy groups to stop their attacks. They have not. And so we will respond in a time and manner of our choosing.

2:06:50 The US military is rushing additional air defenses to that base in Jordan, which officials acknowledge had not been as well protected against drone attack as American troop locations across the border in Iraq and Syria. Sunday was the first time the outpost known as Tower 22 had been attacked. The drone came in low and slow shortly after parts of the air defense system had been taken offline to allow a returning American drone to land safely. It was not detected in time and hit the sleeping quarters while troops were still in their beds. I have a question before we finish this report. So we had a drone coming into land, which I mean, none of this makes sense, but we'll just have to believe the report. It's following it. So but do the Iranians or do Iranians make Reaper level drones? I thought they only had these things with a lawnmower on the back. The lawnmower. Yeah, the one way drones.

2:07:49 And I don't know how it could get to the point or have the technology to find it. Oh, I do. I do. It's called a false flag. Officials say plans call for the US to launch a real bombing campaign, not just another round of one and done retaliatory strikes of the kind it has conducted so far. Once it begins, the bombing is likely to continue for days. Shocking on days. Okay, well that's that's that's what I said. That's our report from CBS and that is the guy David Martin most credible most credible and so what he says goes that means they're gonna have a bombing thing that's gonna last for days. Shock and awe? Yeah, but they're not gonna shock. It's not gonna be shock and awe. I will bet you the term shock and awe comes up.

2:08:44 I'll... In the media. And now, here's one other thing. I'm not taking that bet. Okay. Just listening to these reports and how, you know, this zombie of a president, I don't think I'm insulting anybody by saying that, is just being whatever. This sounds like the real guy. I mean, he's got his body doubles, he was a little more coherent. People complain about the number one country that we send particularly military aid to being Israel. and therefore say, oh Israel, they're the horrible people, they're behind everything. I was open to some of that thinking, but no, I'm going to turn that around. They're just the stooges that we use to kill everybody and make all kinds of money in the only industry we have, apparently, which is the military. We have two industries.

2:09:38 Military industrial complex, which is the biggest one, any chips we make here, everything is all military, military, military. And we have Silicon Valley. And we're controlling them now because we're yelling at Zuckerberg and telling him he's the murderer. But we're just, I think we're just using our Pentagon, our military system is using Israel to go after Hezbollah, to get everyone all riled up in Iran, to get all the militants everywhere. I mean, bring back the JV team. We've got Tower 22 with the inherent resolve which continues, which is now going on for almost 10 years. This has to stop. Oh yeah.

2:10:20 So let's go to the CBC, which is Canada, which will not get the same feeds, but they maybe or maybe not do the same story. Let me start with my outrage and sorrow. Sitting inside a secure Pentagon meeting room, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin declared attacks on American soldiers abroad will not be tolerated, repeating a pledge made by the president to retaliate. We will take all necessary actions to defend the U.S. and our troops. Most of the soldiers were sleeping at the time of the pre-dawn strike Sunday, which hit a remote base in northeastern Jordan, housing US soldiers on a mission to counter ISIS. Multiple American news agencies are reporting the enemy drone

2:11:04 ISIS? When did those guys come back? ISIS? It was one of her earlier clips, she also had an ISIS reference. ISIS? The pre-dawn strike Sunday, which hit a remote base in northeastern Jordan, housing US soldiers on a mission to counter ISIS. Multiple American news agencies are reporting the enemy drone evaded US defenses because it was mistaken for an American drone. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby says Joe Biden is meeting with his advisers to decide on a response. We'll do that on our schedule and we'll do it in the manner of the president's choosing as commander-in-chief. The White House is blaming Iranian-backed militias operating in Iraq and Syria for this attack and others targeting U.S. troops since the Hamas-Israel conflict began in October.

2:11:55 And it's sparking intense debate over the appropriate scale and scope of U.S. retaliation. One option that should be considered, according to Mark Esper, who served as Donald Trump's defense secretary, is to specifically target Iranian intelligence leaders outside of the country's borders. We target their personnel and their sites in Iraq and Syria. I hit him fairly hard and I'd see how that works. Esper says if that doesn't deter them, escalation would be necessary. If the attacks continue, then I'd work my way up those options and eventually work your way into striking targets within Iran. In Tehran, an effort is underway to distance Iran from this attack.

2:12:38 A senior foreign ministry spokesman held a news conference calling allegations of Iran's direct involvement baseless. The claims are being dismissed outright by the U.S. So I want to play, we played the three by three, but I want to play a couple more on the topic from NTD, which will give us a slightly different look at things. Yeah, a very non-energetic look, but yeah, they usually have good information. So we're going to go to IDF, which is Israel's report on what's going on in Gaza, which might have something to do with something.

2:13:27 Israel defense forces continue to battle their way through the Gaza Strip. On Wednesday, the IDF reported killing 15 terrorists in the northern Gaza Strip in just 24 hours. And in central Gaza, the IDF killed 10 armed terrorists in less than an hour. And in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, the Hamas-run health ministry said over 150 people have been killed in the last 24 hours. Palestinian medics are now risking their lives as they move their ambulances to the front lines to be ready to care for the wounded. We now function as an ambulance field point in central Khan Yunis. Since we left six days ago, we have been working. There's a lot of injuries among the displaced who are in the industrial quarter in some schools.

2:14:17 South Africa's foreign minister has taken note of the recent death toll and called for states to stop funding Israel's military. Her comments come just days after the world court ordered Israel to take steps to prevent genocide in its war against Hamas terrorists. I can't be dishonest. I believe that the of the court have been ignored by Israel. Hundreds of people have been killed in the last three, four days. And clearly Israel believes it has license to do as it wishes. The world court also ordered Israel to take steps to improve the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip. Hey, I'm missing a death count from the Hamas run medical. No, it's in there.

2:15:05 Did they say it wasn't a total? It wasn't a total. No, no, we know what's the total. What's the total? The big total. Oh, God, it was a big, we need the big, we need the, where's huge. The big number. I need the big number on the screen. The big Hamas number. Yes. Did you get the note from the producer that has boots on the ground in South Africa? Oh yeah. Yeah. But this is exactly what I said was happening. You mean, you mean the, the international justice court note? Yeah, it was about, you know, it was a thing. Well, I can read it if you want. Yeah, I think it's worth reading. Because it fills in all the blanks of what I had said about why all of a sudden South Africa brought an ICJ case against Israel.

2:15:49 And our producer, Boots on the Ground says, John asks why South Africa of all countries brought the genocide case against Israel at the ICJ. Well, Adam is correct that the African National Congress, ANC ruling party is no longer bankrupt all of a sudden. This can only be explained by an injection of cash from Qatar or Iran. Another important detail is that there's a national election coming up in April and May and the ANC desperately needs this money for election campaign as this could be the first one they lose since coming to power in 1994 and the end of the white minority rule. The ANC have historically been aligned with the Palestinian Liberation Organization.

2:16:26 Is that a terrorist organization, John? I'm just asking for a friend. Well, it was the pre-Hamas operation. And it wasn't... it was... yeah, because that's when Arafat and that's when they had the bus bombings. They were famous for bus bombings and then martyring the bomber. who wear a vest and blow up the bus, and then he go to heaven.

2:17:01 Why do they waste their time on the court? Why don't they just send more drones or send more weapons? Because that's what they're doing. Nothing gets South African Muslims going like a flare-up in Israel-Palestine. Oh, interesting. Some think the ANC is trying to court the Muslim vote, but this is only 2% of the country's population. There's a real risk this could backfire if South Africa has its own Christian Zionists. That's a good combo. Who make up a much larger proportion of the country's black African majority. Adam mentioned the guy who said kill the white people. He's in opposition at the moment but his political party is an extreme left breakaway from the ANC and so must be seen as more ANC than the ANC in order to gain electorally. Incidentally South Africa despite pretending to be neutral in the Ukraine conflict is also aligned with Russia for similar reasons.

2:17:49 What you need to understand about the ANC is that in ideological terms it is a Marxist movement stuck in the 1980s when the Soviet Union still existed and was backing the party's efforts to overthrow the apartheid government. It's as though they haven't noticed that Russia is no longer communist and in their eyes the Palestinians, being a fellow oppressed group, can do no wrong. This is, and of course I was more interested in the ANC, but what is Iran wasting their money on? I mean, why do they waste it? I mean, aren't they just blowing us up? I'm telling you, this is a false flag. I don't even think Iran did that. I don't think Iran is, they didn't back no group to do this. It makes no sense. Why would they be going to court trying to solve things that way with billions of, billions of rand, whatever they're called, shekels.

2:18:42 Rand ran South Africa, but then oh no, I will you know what I got a great idea Let's give these a-holes some drones and let them blow up some Americans. That'll go over well I can see cutter doing it. Yeah, okay. Yeah, I'll give you that More troublemakers troublemakers. I don't hold troublemakers. I'll make yes trouble maker part everybody knows it part two of this report Yeah, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday addressed these concerns South Africa had the temerity to bring this to the ICJ Charging us with genocide against really in the service of a genocidal organization now the worst thing that I can say is this that many

2:19:29 of the charges, false and unfounded, that were leveled against us in The Hague were brought by UNRWA officials. And we have discovered, in the last few weeks, that UNRWA officials were complicit in the massacre. Netanyahu then called for other United Nations agencies to replace UNRWA to help solve the humanitarian aid situation in the Gaza Strip. And regarding the 136 hostages still being held captive in the Gaza Strip, National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said the discussions to release the hostages have been productive. Kirby also said that Secretary of State Antony Blinken will be heading back to the Middle East at the end of this week to continue the negotiations to release the hostages. This UNRWA operation needs more looking into. It's all part of the false flag.

2:20:27 It's just like those white helmets that got us into Syria. Oh, Syria. They're dropping gas canisters. What's the end game? There's no end game. It's just keep blowing some... Just spend money. Yeah. No, well, keep making money. Soak the taxpayer for more stuff. Yes, keep making money. Okay, I've got to balance all of this. I have to balance this out. Because it's been too much war and people get very annoyed by just war talk and we need to lighten everybody's load. I thought the swearing parrots did that. It was a good start. I'll give you a B- for the swearing parrots. So there was one other event that took place yesterday.

2:21:14 in Washington DC while everybody was of course focused on Zuckerberg who as you know has blood on his hands. Blood! They brought back after several years the National Gathering for Prayer and Repentance. which used to be a really big deal. And they did a very low-key version of it, but I did want to play the opening because the opening includes, it was bombastic, the opening includes a long quote from Abraham Lincoln, our 16th president.

2:21:50 One glance at the headlines on any given day reveals to the spiritually perceptive that America is in trouble. Understanding the significance of these troubles should propel us to pray for our nation, just as so many Americans have done in the past. division and devastation of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln saw only one hope, and that was to cry out to God in humble repentance. Here are President Lincoln's words. We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven. We have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown.

2:22:37 But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us. And we have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our hearts that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace.

2:23:12 Too proud to pray to the God that made us. It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness. Then it was five hours after that. Everyone's five hours of prayer people come up for like 30 seconds and pray and then the next person will go just one after the other after the other I think I think it's interesting that at an 1860 or 59 whatever that we gave that speech

2:23:52 The theme was the country's in trouble. Now this is like, and the praying and the rest of it, this is the country. And once people kind of relax to that, everyone's, well, me or somebody freaks out, oh, what is gonna happen? The country, it reminds me of a saying about Brazil, but I'll rewrite it. The saying about Brazil is Brazil is the country of the future and always will be. and the saying here's America's in trouble and always will be. We're in trouble I tell you. It's just we're perpetually in trouble and it always will be. Yeah, that seems like it.

2:24:39 You can go back to some of these super corrupt presidents back in the day, and they're just horrible. Martin Van Buren stands out amongst a lot, but all of them. And you know, you got Trump. He's just like, just a different version of the same kind of guy. I was trying to lift everybody up, John. You've just brought us back down to ground zero. And with that I'd like to thank you for your courage. Say in the morning to you the man who put the sea in the big nick. Say hello to my friend on the other end, the one and only Mr. John C. DeVore. Well in the morning to you Mr. Adam Curry. In the morning all the ships and sea boots on the ground, feet in the air.

2:25:19 Subs in the water and all the games of knights out there. Yeah, and in the morning to the trolls in the troll room who are, they're clearly jizzed up. Choke out. That word has been posted a hundred times since I said it. We have sixteen hundred and forty-eight trolls left. I'm sure that's after that South Africa, we had you know South Africa, Africa, when you just mention Africa people just bolt. They don't want to know. They don't want to know about Africa. I find it peculiar. Read by a Chinese person. They don't want to know. What do you find? It's like two strikes, man. We've got a Chinese guy reading the news about Africa. What more could you ask for in a podcast? Two strikes, I'm telling you. Two strikes.

2:26:04 The trolls are in the troll room. You can join them by going to troll room dot io or no agenda stream comm it's 24 hours a day You can join them from lots of different podcasts that are done live It's a very vibrant community and there's always someone in there you can go in and just chat and you know Do whatever you want, you know, troll around, troll the live show, which is always quite fun to do because you can't get in any real trouble. I mean, just scrolls off and there's no record of you doing that except for that enormous multi gigabytes of log file that void zero is keeping of everybody. That's just another matter.

2:26:40 You can also listen to it on a modern podcast. Well, you know the government may need that. Yeah, in the future with some IP addresses. But you know the good news is that he's actually in Europe. Yes, where it's still kind of legal? I don't even know. No, I think it's illegal. I mean it's legal to make the logs but I don't think you can give them to the government. Oh, don't worry. We'll change that. There's more privacy laws in Europe because obviously they're violating it. The reason there's laws is because people want to violate them all the time. And so, um, we want to violate you. We want to violate the law. Give us your logs. Yes. Give us your logs indeed.

2:27:20 You can also listen to Modern Podcast App. Today I would like to recommend Podverse. Wherever podcasts are found. Yes, wherever podcasts are found. You can find a whole bunch of cool podcasts at modernpodcastapps.com. New podcast apps. And I stepped on the name of the one you were plugging. Podverse. Podverse. Oh, you've plugged it before. Yeah, I plug, I try to plug them all. Yeah, well you've plugged Podverse a lot. No, because Podverse has been around for 10 years. It's two guys... Money under the table. Oh yeah, oh yeah. There's so much money in that 99 cent subscription for premium features, of which Apple takes 30 cents. Yeah, oh yeah, that's where I'm getting all the dough, John. You know what? I'm exiting... You're getting it from Apple. I'm exiting this podcast... You just plugged them right there. I'm exiting this podcast with my sneaky commercials for Podverse. That's right.

2:28:10 That's right. Yeah, also Apple. And Apple. Oh, that's right. They're giving me a free Apple Vision Pro so I can float off into the sunset. That's, that's actually... A what? One of those things? Oh God. And in second place is two of them. I know. I think there's going to, I think that thing's going places. Not this version. The second version. It's going places. All right. It's going places. Get a modern podcast app, people. Stop, stop helping Silicon Valley. Help these are one-man shops. They have jobs They have day jobs and they want to build a better podcast experience for you use them and they put effort into it They put a lot of effort into it Like hours and hours and hours a day that they're not with their families. They're burning out Some of them are burning out may be doing the family a favor a lot of these. Well, this is true. This is true we don't burn out because

2:29:08 Why don't we burn out? How come we've never burned out on this? Because we only work twice a week. Oh, is that it? There's nothing else in between. It's only the three hours of show and then we're just partying the rest of the time. Is that what it is? Well, I am. And I'll be partying in Albany at the Mallard Club this Saturday. I counted... You know how many clips we have combined? We didn't play them all. You know how many clips we have combined? 50. No, more than that. I know I had 67. And you had, how many did you have? I think we're at 80, 83 or 84 clips. And we don't even use them all, but we got them all. We had about 30 clips. Yeah, well there you go. So almost 100 clips. Every single show. We're ready for bear on this show. And I read every single one of those millennial Gen Z emails. I went to the PO box.

2:30:03 Oh no. Yeah, because you know we get time, talents and treasure. Yeah, I got some. Did you get a very nice signed picture from Ashlyn Speed? I did. I'm going to frame it. Me too. You know, this is going to be, this is the no agenda car in case you haven't seen it. She's the 2023 SCCA FX Southern Conference champion. She couldn't even. She's a killer driver. She's so young she couldn't even drink the champagne. When she when she look up Ashland speed on YouTube and watch the video that her dad made it's a great video He didn't make it some some pro made well some pros made it but whatever the case is I think he is behind it But you know what's gonna happen. She's gonna be in formula. She could be IndyCar first She'll be IndyCar and you know what we're gonna have pits passes John. Oh, yeah. No we get pit I already got that down We're gonna live in it up

2:30:51 We're gonna be lit. Where'd you guys do? We went to the pits. Yeah, hung out with the speed. And what a great... it's her real last name, Speed. Does it get any better than that? Speed Racer. It's a great name. And we can say, we knew her back then. And we'll see if that no agenda logo stays on the car when she's in Indy. Well, that's the first thing to go. You can be sure when it gets to the next level it will be gone. That's the first thing to go. So how many, how much money are these guys giving you? Well, this is a courtesy thing we're doing. Oh, man. I don't think so. We got to buy mobile. Mobile will go right there. You'll have 10 grand. Here you go. Verizon.

2:31:28 Verizon right there. Boom. I want to thank Derek Birch for the lovely card he sent me. I want to thank the guys from the V4V roundtable for the t-shirt and I got something this is I hope you got this from Sir3D did you get the Bauhaus no agenda art which was framed? No. Oh yeah, I did. One of my favorite pieces. He says, here's a print of show art piece I made back in 2021, the Bauhaus piece was discussed in show 1328. John gave me very positive feedback. Yeah, it's one of my favorite pieces of all the art we've ever made. Yeah, so he framed it and sent it to us. It's just hot looking. Looks museum quality. It is. It looks, it's extremely artistic.

2:32:13 Other art is the album art that's part of our value for value proposition. We give you the show, we do all the work. As John said, it's only, it's just three hours twice a week. It's not much more than that. I mean, it's easy. Anybody could do it. In fact, I'm surprised. Anyone can do it. I don't understand why we don't have more podcasts that we have. Just like this. There's only four million podcasts. We need more. Hillary Clinton's doing one. I bet she works really hard on her podcast. Oh, she's just a workaholic, that woman. You know who works hard on his podcast? Darren. Darren. Darren does a podcast a day. Darren, yes. I have no comment to make. Come on, make a comment so we can use it in a show. He's trying to get the attention of Taylor. I think he's just shilling for Joe Biden. Oh, that could be. He's part of the op. He's definitely not a Republican. Well, he lives in Chicago.

2:33:09 He's too poor to be part of an op. I thought he was in the suburbs, South of, or South of... Eh, this is close enough. He's Democrat adjacent, don't you think? Oh yeah, absolutely. He probably only hate listens to the show. He just likes doing the pre-show. There you go. So all we ask is that you return some value somehow. We love our treasure, but we love our time and talent because there's no way we could afford to have a guy like Darren do two-hour pre-show before every single show that we do. I mean, we couldn't afford it. There's no way. I mean, there's just no way. There's not enough. It's not enough. This is the big mistake, everybody. This is why Call Me Daddy is now no longer exclusive because it doesn't work.

2:33:53 You can't pay people 60 million dollars. It's just over. It's not gonna happen. And we can't get ads even if we wanted them. They'd be done. They'd be done. Just like Verizon is gonna be in place of our No Agenda logo, we'd never get an ad. People like these guys are crazy. We can't be... These... They're controversial. It's... They're not brand safe or brand friendly. We're not brand safe. That's a fact. Big fact. So we want to thank, oh there he is, the very same Darren O'Neill for bringing us the artwork for episode 1629. We titled that Sunflower Kids. By the way, there's a sunflower seems to be the flower du jour. There's a lot of... Sunflower shows up in a lot of places, which I was not aware of, but one of our producers, he says, dude, he literally says dude, sunflowers, Ukraine, sunflower symbols.

2:34:48 George Floyd stumbled onto something accidentally. George Floyd, Sunflower. Everywhere, everywhere George Floyd, Sunflower. BLM, Sunflowers. Sunflowers is a thing. And of course I got a code. Yeah, it is code. I got some hate email. You don't know what it's like to have a child with autism. Okay, I think we're talking about the douchebags who take advantage of this, like the fake emotional support animals. I feel like it's really nice to have TSA notice a lanyard and not be mean to my child. Hey, how about this? Why don't we make TSA be nice to everybody? Yeah, why do they be mean to anybody? There's the thought. So you have to wear a lanyard for TSA to do its job? I guess so. Which is a relationship with the public at large and it should be, you know, amenable. I don't get it. And you're defending it? The complainer is defending this?

2:35:47 You're defending lousy TSA people? That's what you're doing. Well it comes down to people saying, someone with Tourette's should understand what it's like. Let me jump in. Yes, please. People with Tourette's don't understand anything. So don't go there. Say what? So I'm trying to look up all the other art pieces And the arts not coming up is it now? Well, not that not the new art. No the new art So all the new art that's been submitted for this show is not coming up I do I do see the old art for the 1629 so at least we can talk about the stuff that people submitted. Hopefully sir Paul couture can get on the stick and and help us out with with the art for Otherwise show art will have to start posting again. Let's see what we had

2:36:41 We had this piece from Darren which we liked a lot. There were numerous other Sunflower Kid pieces, most of it AI of course, which just... Are you alright? No, I need a lozenge. Get a lozenge already. I'm looking for one. I don't have any left. There were Sunflower NPCs by Matthew Dropko. We had Cometrip blog with a lot of Sunflower AI art. I should also mention that you didn't want to use any of those pieces because you wanted Sunflower Kids as the title. That's correct and we typically do not use the same artwork that reflects the title and I think it was you who said, it's fine.

2:37:23 I said it's fine because we've done it before. So once that was out of the way, we could pick art based on the sunflower and Darren's was the only one that was balanced. It was dynamite. Balance is the right word. I kind of liked Paulie Parker's broken dog tag, but I think there were just technical issues with it. You couldn't really see what was going on in the dog tag, you know, with the green background. You know what I'm talking about? Yeah, it's up near the top. Man, this site is a mess. What's going on? It's not coming up it right. No, no, no. It looks like we have some... It's got a glitch. Yeah. Oh, that one. Yeah, no, I don't think the dog tag one was that. It wasn't usable. No, it wasn't. Let's see what else do we have. Dame Kenny Ben did a frilly shirt with a sunflower. I mean, all good ideas, but really

2:38:21 And this just goes to show, and I'm sure, what do you think, this was AI that Darren used here? Or did he just take a picture of a stupid Cabbage Patch doll and just jacked a sign in his hand that said, work is hard? I have no idea. I like the font. I like the crayon font. That was kind of cool. No, this is a great good piece. I mean Darren has done He's on the leaderboard list he does as for a guy who works his ass off on the two-hour show there it is It's astonishing to me that he does art and it's all high-end. It's good stuff. He's number three If you look at the art from anytime he submits you can usually if you can't find anything you usually fall back He's a fallback artist

2:39:06 That's that's something you could put on your business card Darren the fallback are all back artists number three the best but He's number three on the on the on the all-time leaderboard the rolling annual. He's number six Rolling six months. What is he there? He's number five. The guy is, I mean, he's one of those guys. Number three, rolling 90 day. He's one of those guys that is just very highly functional. You know, someone should hire him. Put that in your card too. Someone should hire him. Highly functional fallback artist.

2:39:43 And we also want thank you to all the artists by the way. And thank you to you submitting for today. Yeah, but y'all got, y'all got slammed by the fallback artist. Yeah. Bring up your game people. Well, I hope the generator gets fixed so we can choose something. So, you know, well, it assumes that he's actually listening to the show. Well, he does. I hope the show works. He does the art. He does edit the art. He doesn't let everything go through. And I also want to thank Mort, Time and Talent, Void Zero, who is on a seven hour time difference with us.

2:40:22 He seems to always be awake and he's been upgrading the infrastructure, which I've noticed that things are coming in a lot faster, it's working well. And then some glitch took place this morning and I couldn't get on the stream and he jumped in and made it all happen. So we love VoidZero. We were saying like of all the high-end guys who do infrastructure stuff, he's the best. Yeah, he is the best. You can't get a better guy to do this. Because they all have problems. Yeah. And I'm not just talking about tech. All of them. All of them got problems. But he made it work. We're very appreciative. Now let's thank our executive and associate executive producers for episode 1630. These are the people who brought in the treasure and we kick it off right away with a beautiful donation. A show number donation hasn't happened in a while. 1630 from the Duke of Central Florida in Winter Park, Florida says show number donation from the Duke of Central Florida spot

2:39:43 And we also want thank you to all the artists by the way. And thank you to you submitting for today. Yeah, but y'all got, y'all got slammed by the fallback artist. Yeah. Bring up your game people. Well, I hope the generator gets fixed so we can choose something. So, you know, well, it assumes that he's actually listening to the show. Well, he does. I hope the show works. He does the art. He does edit the art. He doesn't let everything go through. And I also want to thank Mort, Time and Talent, Void Zero, who is on a seven hour time difference with us.

2:40:22 He seems to always be awake and he's been upgrading the infrastructure, which I've noticed that things are coming in a lot faster, it's working well. And then some glitch took place this morning and I couldn't get on the stream and he jumped in and made it all happen. So we love VoidZero. We were saying like of all the high-end guys who do infrastructure stuff, he's the best. Yeah, he is the best. You can't get a better guy to do this. Because they all have problems. Yeah. And I'm not just talking about tech. All of them. All of them got problems. But he made it work. We're very appreciative. Now let's thank our executive and associate executive producers for episode 1630. These are the people who brought in the treasure and we kick it off right away with a beautiful donation. A show number donation hasn't happened in a while. 1630 from the Duke of Central Florida in Winter Park, Florida says show number donation from the Duke of Central Florida spot

2:41:23 The Spook? No, he says Spot and Spook. He says Spot... No, he meant the... Yeah, I know what he meant. He says Spot the Spook and Victoria Noodleman. Which one do you think he wants? Victoria Noodleman. I think he wants the one with the deep voice. Uh, doomed... well, that's... I think that's this one. I think that's the one. Yeah, that one. Okay, alright. Uh... We would like more clips on Africa if you can find them. What are you, a comedian? Keep up the excellent analysis, he says. Uh, there was a two thousand... Oops, that's not the right one. Ah, crap. I can't believe I...

2:42:03 Can't believe I... I think it's the Spot the Spook song. Yes, yeah, I think you're right. Everybody wants to... I can sing it. No, it's okay, I got it. Spot the Spook. Spot the Spook. Everybody wants to Spot the Spook. Yes! In the world is Victoria Kagan-Noodleman. Yeah! We get it. We get the combo. We get it brother. She's not even so spooky. She's right up front. It's obvious. Yeah, it's not like she's trying to trick any. It's obvious, yes. Lynn Wells in Fort Worth, Texas.

2:42:42 500 bucks. Lynn Wells in Fort Worth, Texas, aka Nazareno Evangelista. I've been watching No Agenda for 10 years and we can't figure out what these guys look like. What has she been watching us on? I don't know. Bridey on? She's been watching us though. Or him. Could be a him. We have no evidence that it's a woman or a guy. And never don't it's like Pat and never donated no agenda is the best media deconstruction in the universe It has become entertaining in ways. I don't think were intended No, no, no, no, it's not true. It wasn't all intentional

2:43:25 I have invested 74 years in developing my douche, so I'm compelled to keep it. But I will take some spiritual growth karma. Keep up the good work. $500. Thank you. You've got karma. And we have 35058 from Anonymous. And the note is, Anonymous, grateful greetings from Spain. Hola. Thank you very much, Spain. We appreciate it. And then we have 35058. Now I believe this is 330-333 that has been added. Picked up the tab. Oh, thank you so much. Really? They take that much?

2:44:06 Wow. They all do. Credit card processing fees is like 4%. Bowman McMahon, parts unknown, 350.58, double up karma for him. Okay, could be Euro value too. You've got... karma. Well maybe, Spain? Well no. No, 333 in Euros is probably 350.58. I think it's more than that. as possible possible, I think is at least because I because I just did a transfer to pay void zero for the infrastructure work and It was like 20. It was like I don't want to give it the money million dollars We're 1 million dollars and it was turned out to be 2 million. They charged me It was 8 million in Australia

2:44:56 Mr. Admin of the Alternative Media Directory is in Greenville, South Carolina, 33333 in US Dollary Do's. Dear John and Adam, please refer to me as Mr. Admin of the Alternative Media Directory, accessible at altmediadirectory.com. I've been unable to donate until now due to being unemployed after getting fired from my previous job for refusing to wear a mask. Wow, so I'll need a de-douche. You've been de-douched. Good for you, brother. Getting fired was a blessing in disguise as it gave me the opportunity to start learning web design at YouTube University. You've mentioned on multiple occasions wanting to see a resurgence of blogs and personal websites. Yes, I am a fan of this. I'd say do away with social media. Do away with section 230. Bring back blogs.

2:45:44 And he continues, I'd like to see... I'm telling you, that's where we're headed. I'd like to see the same thing. Ah, I have a compatriot. But I was left wondering how these alternative media sources would be discovered. The same way podcasts are discovered. Word of mouth. So I set out to create a free resource, the Alternative Media Directory, to help facilitate the discovery of new and alternative media. I've added over 1,000 listings across various categories with an estimated 1,000 plus left to go. So far the list keeps growing. He's reinvented Yahoo! As well as RSS-driven news feeds.

2:46:21 Hey, I am going to check it out, bro. That's very cool. What is it again? It's altmediadirectory.com. The site is a work in progress and is by no means perfect, but I hope... And that cuts off. That's all I have is but I hope. I hope too. It just says but I hope on mine too, but I hope well we're gonna give you a karma for that Thank you, Altmedia directory.com. You've got karma. That's a great initiative That's that's cool. I like that anonymous comes in with $300 and anonymous wrote a handwritten note in longhand cursive John Sending anonymous love from Portland, Oregon. Actually, there's a combination. It's not longhand at all It's kind of a combo which is the modern look

2:47:10 From Portland, Oregon. Ag. To no agenda. Thank you so much for your insights, humor and translations of what is really happening in the... in the... in the world? In the world! Universe? World? With utmost appreciation. Judy. And she has an interesting way of doing her J. She makes it like a happy face. She puts two eyeballs in there. How could she be anonymous if you just gave her name? It's just Judy. Her name might be Nancy for all we really know. I don't know why it came in as anonymous because it doesn't say on here she'd be anonymous. Let me see if it goes on further. Well, if my name was Nancy, I'd call myself Judy too. Oh, yeah, sending anonymous. Oh, she's sending anonymous love. Oh, wow. But her name is Judy with a smiley face. Some of the good stuff, the anonymous love. Craig Cortese is in, well, this can't...

2:48:13 Good job there on the stripe. Oh my god. It's in Arabic. You don't have your Arabic turned on. Yes I do. I'm switching it on and it's Abu Dhabi. Oh it says Abu Dhabi when you switch it on? Yep. It also says it in his note. That makes it easy. $250 associate executive producer title for you, Craig Cortese fighting the good fight in Abu Dhabi. Boots on the ground man. Thank you. I don't know if I can switch it on in mine. I just have a... it looks like a Greek letter. I didn't switch it on. I just said Abu Dhabi because it read Abu Dhabi. I was just presuming that says Abu Dhabi. Oh, yeah, okay. I was lying. You were... I was lying. Aaron Hagstrom in Billings, Montana. $242. In the morning to you, gents, I'm a new listener. I thank you for the truth. I thank you for truth with no agenda. Anyone listening, please consider stacking precious metals with me.

2:49:12 Okay, I also offer an income to buyers Email me at ladyliberty at counter mail comm which I've never heard of no counter mail comm lady liberty Okay, brush bless you both Thank You Kenneth Casper 202 and he has a note which I have here and he says hey John Adam Oh, this is yeah 202. Thank you for all your hard work someone who understands that three hours twice a week is hard work and I'm never gonna let you live that down, John. I work hard over here. You're just goofing off. Go Niners! Go Niners! Your show is a godsend for those that actively care and are working to make things better.

2:49:54 I know that both of you are aware of the Texit effort. Here's an update on the progress. Ah, boots on the ground. This last year, the Texas Nationals movement collected more than enough petition signatures to get a non-binding question on the Texas Republican Party primary ballot. But in the end, the Republican leadership just ignored the effort and refused to follow the law. Big surprise, right? Hmm now we're fighting in court to make sure the wishes of over 130 text make it 131 130,001. 130,001. Yeah, add me to the list. Are honored by the party. Do I have to be a Republican? I'm not a party member. Well then you're no good. No, I'm no good. Call out to all Texas listeners. If you want to help or meet up with fellow Texans that are working on the issue, you can check us out on the web at TNM.me. Tango, November, Mike, dot me. It's web at.

2:50:49 No, check, no. I think. No. TNM.me. Oh, okay, that's the URL, sorry. Oh, God. Well, he's got an at sign there, it makes it look like an email address. You told me it doesn't look like an email address that somebody's trying to anonymize by keeping spaces in there. No, no. That's exactly what it looks like. It's a typewritten letter. How, why does he have to anonymize a piece of paper? Ah, you got me on that one. Okay. Kenneth R. Kasper, the Texas Nationalist Movement District Director, SD25. Maybe he's assuming the government's scanning his mail. Okay, John, okay. Well, he's a Texas nationalist, believe me. If anybody's gonna have their mail scanned, it's this guy. He wants some sharp talk.

2:51:35 We must they're all jitty about a shutdown the tortise in the race then co-author of who breathes you to lead singer Bono friend Russia siganoi weaver suspect Jahar Sonaev Rush Limbaugh Rush Limbaugh Rush Limbaugh the show Rush Lombard hosts Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor karma. I'll bring it up some other time. Okay. All right. Who are we? Where are we? We are at Linda Lou Pat. Wait, really? No. Yes. Yes. We're done. What about Aaron Hagstrom in Billings, Montana? You did. That's Lady Liberty. You'd made a whole big deal about the countermail.com. Where you been? I did. Okay. Linda Lou Patkin then. She's up and she's in Lakewood, Colorado at 200 bucks. And as usual, she's asking for jobs, Karma, which I think is nice.

2:52:41 And then she says for a remarkable resume that gets results go to imagemakersinc.com for all of your executive resume and job search needs. That's imagemakersinc.com or, and notice there's a space, or just find Linda Lou Patkin under the show's producer list. Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs. Let's vote for jobs. Good job! And we have one final associate executive producer, Soli Belt. Soli Belt from Fort Collins. What a great name. Yeah. What's your name, Soli? What's your last name, Belt? Great. Soli Belt. Fort Collins, Colorado, $200. Please de-douche my husband Rich for his birthday. He's a loyal listener. You've been de-douched. You bet. What a nice wife. You bet you said it. What a nice wife. Yep, yep.

2:53:30 What a beautiful wife for doing that. Thank you very much to our executive. And so you just want to get anything on me. You screw up all the time. I call you out on it. I do one little thing. I say you bet. And you're all happy. Oh, I can get out of you when I said it. I can get out of mine. This one. He said you bit. These are real titles. So, Soli Belt's husband, Rich, he can use the associate executive producer title anywhere that titles are recognized. I don't know that she did a switcheroo with him. I think she just mentioned him. I said her husband can use it. Oh, I see what you're saying. Well, but... If he donates... You're right. Rich, you're off the list.

2:54:13 Rich, get with it, rich belt. You're off the list. I had a rich belt once. Yeah, I had a million dollar bolo tie. Executive and associate executive producer credits are valid anywhere that credits are recognized. That would be LinkedIn, you can put it on your resume. Business cards. Business cards, yes. Along with a pre-show guy. All these wonderful names we had for Barry. IMDB. IMDB.com. If you don't have an IMDB, you can open one with this credit. We really appreciate our executive and associate executive producers. We appreciate everybody. We had a nice list of people under the $50 mark. A lot of people heard the call to come in with your amounts. $5 a month. If everybody did it, this segment will be very short.

2:55:01 But it never is. We have to do it. We figured this out after 16 years. So thank you. Thank you so much. John will take us through the 50s right now. Yeah, starting with Sir Harry Pilgrim, who has a long note. You might want to go over and see if there's anything in there. He's in Fredericksburg, Virginia. He came with 131 91 he's the Baron of Massaponox and the Rappahannock. Yes, this is in honor of his 33rd wedding anniversary to love of his life Jennifer aka the smoking hot redhead 33 years and they never had a fight and they were married during the shock and awe phase of the first Gulf War.

2:55:39 How about that? And you know, they set me up, he picked me up on the Hot Pockets Tour 2008. Yeah, he is a retiree. Yeah, yeah, Harry. Good to have you still on board, brother. And happy 33rd winning anniversary. Not that many. A lot of people bailed on us. No, a lot of people stayed with us. What are you talking about? Sir Harry is not one of them. He's not a guy who quit, he's not a quitter. Not a quitter. Kurt Binnie and Saint-Lazare Quebec 110. He cancelled. I'm gonna have to read this. Disney Plus wanted 150 Canadian dollars to renew. Disney Plus 150 dollars? Well it's Canadian so it's 12 bucks. Well still. So I cancelled I'm sending you the money instead. He's also on the birthday list.

2:56:30 Neil and Amanda, Amanda, Amanda, of St. Petersburg, Florida, 10535. Eric Wallace, Reno, California. He sent a note of some sort, but I don't have it. Never received note according to Jay. $100. CompleteNOOBS.com in London, Enfield, UK. 8195, want some karma, we'll give you that at the end. CompleteNOOBS is N-O-O-B-S dot com. I wonder what that is. Kevin McLaughlin's up. It's Concord, North Carolina. 8008, boobs are the symbol of freedom. Rozier in

2:57:14 O's in Mexico, 7770. And he's got some compliments for you, or for you to consider. Craig Kohler in Evansville, Indiana, 6502. James Buell in Vista, California, 6006, small boobs. A Dutchie in Sweden, in Haarland, Netherlands. Haarland. How do you pronounce it? Haarland. Haarland. Not very good. Haarland. Haarland. He's 5636. Srinivas Murthy, our Brahmin who's on the social network, 5558, he's always giving us grief. Mark, Gcoma, Gcoma, Jcoma, Gcoma, J-E-A-coma. Hewlett, New York, 5510, there's also a long note there. Well, he does the Walnut Grove cast.

2:58:13 A little house on the prairie show, man. No, you're getting some traction from this love of yours. I'm telling you, I am an honorary LTOHP, LHOTP. Remember, yeah, that's what a lot of people have said that over the years. Turns out it's a scam. The book everything was a government PSYOP. It's a PSYOP. Who knew? Confido Wellness LLC. Confido. Confido. I think it's Confido Wellness in North Kensington, Rhode Island. 55. He's got confidowellness.com.

2:58:51 PayPal. Thanks PayPal. 5432. PayPal, we love PayPal. PayPal, chipping in. Chipping in boys, thanks. Yeah, well it pays some of the overhead. Sir Chris in Williams, Arizona, 5430. Happy birthday, he's on the list. Baron Surfinam in Appleton, Wisconsin, 5204. You need some home selling karma, you get that at the end. We got karma coming. Michael Belcher in Yuba City, California, 5150. And now we finally get to the $50 donors, starting with David Steele in Mobile, Alabama. Justin Kaler in Bluffton, Indiana. Ray Howard in Kremling, Colorado.

2:59:38 Ryan Sharp in Huntsville, Alabama. Julio Minadeo in Costa Mesa. Kyle Mann in Cincinnati. Brandon Locklear in Sugar Hill, Georgia. Legacy Third LLC. Dallas. Dallas. Dallas. Sean Sweeney in Newton Square, Pennsylvania. Debbie Campbell in Elmira, Washington. Tony Lang in Castle Pines, Colorado. Dotted Mind in Lincoln, UK. Lincoln, Lincoln, sure. Justin Heiner in Vine Grove, Kentucky. Jordan Tierney in Oral, South Dakota. There's jokes all over the place there. I'm not gonna do any of them. Jordan Hojno in Salem, Oregon. Brett Morgan in West Point, Virginia.

3:00:33 Person of Merit Comics in Columbus, Ohio. Nancy Chartavoyne in Centennial, Colorado. Maya Richardson in Kenton, Georgia. Shout out to Seth Tandit. And Dan Weyrich in Corpus Christi. And that concludes our list of, it's not a big list, but it's a good list. people who helped us produce and get out the door. Show 1630 of the No Agenda Show. Yes, and we appreciate everybody who came in under $50 that will never read those. That is anonymous and of course we always will read the 200 and above notes and we cherry-pick the stuff that comes in down below just for time's sake. But we will give that big karma that everybody's been asking for. I'm going to give you a little bit of goat twist to go with it. You've got

3:01:31 And thank you very much for supporting the NO Agenda show episode 1630, especially our execs and our associate executive producers. Our formula is this. We go out, we hit people in the mouth. And remember us at noagendadonations.com It's your birthday, birthday, oh so much, yeah And only three birthdays on the list today. Remember, if you want to be on the list, you have to email us the day before the show. We don't actually have a calendar or a list, okay? Kurt and Vinny celebrated on the 30th a couple days ago Sir Chris of the Benevolent Order of the Choo-Choos says happy birthday to Max Flute of Squim.

3:02:26 Sequim? Sequim? Sequim? Sequim. Sequim. I guess it's the right way. Alright. Celebrated yesterday. And Soli Belt wishes her husband Rich a very happy birthday. We join in and say happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe. And we have one knight and I have a knight note here. My son Matthew Liebich. Picked up a no agenda PhD on show 1612 and graciously passed the knighthood on to me his father John Liebich I would like to be knighted as Sir John of the Glen PS Adam ever since I started listening in 2014. I always thought you'd make a good Christian. Welcome to the club

3:03:08 I prefer to call myself a Jesus freak. I think Christian is too light a word. Thanks for making sense of this world, John Liebich, and that means that we will have him on stage right now. John, I got my sword right here. I got a sword at the ready. That's a perfect sword. John Liebich! Come on over! Come on over! Thanks to your son, which is very, very nice of him, I am very proud to welcome you to the round table of the no agenda Knights and dames and I can pronounce the KDS sir John of the Glen. I hope your son doesn't mind we got hookers and blow he's probably missing out maybe the red boys and Chardonnay I don't know along with that we have pepperoni rolls

3:03:47 We got Redheads and Rise, we got Rubenes, Woman and Rosé, oh, big favorite. Geishas and Sake, Vodka, Vanilla, Bong hits and Bourbon, Sparkling Cider and Escorts. We have Ginger Ale and Gerbils, hello, Richard Gere. Breast Milk and Pablum, and of course, the one and only, the one and only, The always effervescent mutton and meat and you sir you get to go over to the same place where your son picked up his PhD Noah gender rings calm and by the way for those you Who who were awarded with a PhD you need to go there as well click on the PhD There's still we're like 30 people haven't picked up their PhDs John. Yeah, and it's good. You know and we're sitting waiting and

3:04:28 We just need to know a name and the address of the signature. And the same goes for you, Sir John of the Glen. Give us an address to send your night ring to. It's a Signet ring so you get wax to seal your important correspondence along with your certificate of authenticity. And we thank you and your son for supporting the NOAHgender show. So you know the no agenda meetups are really a great place to connect with a community. Remember, you can't spell community without unity.

3:05:11 And all you get on social media is disunity. So you need, and a house divided cannot stand people. You need to get together, get some unity, get some connection. It is protection. You will not be disappointed. Here's an example of a great meetup. This is from Tulsa. In the morning, this is Sonia at the meetup in Tulsa, Oklahoma, having a great time. Hey, this is Mark. ITM fellas, thank you so much for what you do. Special shout out to my buddy Sir Purr Spreader of Tennessee. You know who you are. This is David from Tulsa, Gitmo, Houma. All is more than okay in Oklahoma. That's true!

3:05:47 Hey John and Adam, this is Guillino. The meetup was cancelled but we came anyway. None of us are cowboys here but here's one big old... Yee-haw! Alright Tulsa, thank you very much. We love getting the meetup reports. Hopefully we'll get one from the Northern Wake airing of Conspiracies which is taking place today at 6 o'clock at Compass Rose Brewing in Raleigh, North Carolina. We have the Midwinter Denver Meetup. 6.30 today at Lincoln's Roadhouse in guess what Denver, Colorado on Saturday the meetup at Mimsy's that'll be at noon at Mimsy's coffee and curiosities in Rogersville, Alabama That Dame Stitchy Woman is hosting that also on Saturday the Northern Silicon Valley get John out of the house meet up to a 2.0. It's at 333 Club Mallard in Albany, California John will be there right

3:06:42 Indeed, I will be there. Yes, Club Mallard, which is a really nice bar. Yeah, it used to be a dive bar. Used to be a dive bar, now it's kind of a fern bar. It's light, it's bright, it's got, it's just a really nice place. I'm surprised how much it's been improved. Everybody get your picture. And they have the world's best coasters, so always grab a handful. And make sure you get a picture with John and post it. on your master plan. Whatever you do, that is not one of the things that's going on your list. Yes, that's definitely something you need to do. Also on Saturday, the Thank You For Your Courage meetup at 4 o'clock at Peaks and Pines Brewing Company in Fountain, Colorado. And on Saturday, the final one we have is the 8th Northwest Houston, Texas meetup, 5.30 at Wakefield Crow Bar in Houston, Texas. And I'd like to remind everybody that on the 10th, we have another meetup in Austin. I don't think I'll be able to make it this time.

3:07:37 But it's always a great crowd. There's always 60 or 70 people there. That's a Doc's backyard in Sunset Valley, Texas. Many more meetups on the list including Kuala Lumpur, Fort Wayne, Indiana as always, Tom's River, New Jersey. We've got Kilkenny, Ireland. We've got Middelburg, the Netherlands. Wow, and Zeeland, Middelburg. We used to go on vacation there. I wonder if the Butt Motel is still in business. Those are the No Agenda Meetups. You know the deal. You can find your meetup at noagendameetups.com. Go there to connect with your tribe. If you can't find one there, why don't you start one yourself? It's easy. You can list it. Noagendameetups.com. Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days.

3:08:25 You wanna be where you won't be Triggered or held to blame You wanna be where everybody feels the same Bum bum is like a party Oh man, we're late today. We're late, we're late! Alert the affiliates, we're late. Well you're late because we started 20 minutes late. Yeah but the show is running late. I got a timer. I time these things. You know, it's part of my three hours twice a week. That's all the work I do. Just three hours twice a week, nothing else. I do a lot of other work but I use time dilation to compress it until it's just a few minutes. You're a time traveler, aren't you? Time dilation. Yeah. Uh, should I do my eye sauce first? Sure. Okay. Chefs kiss amazing.

3:09:07 What are you stealing all my Sophia with an F clips for? That was given to me. I didn't steal anything. Somebody's listening to her too much. And here's my other one. Do you know what he doesn't have? An agenda! I kind of like that one. I like that one too. Alright, I got two. Alright, let me see. Where's your... Yes. I got having me. Thanks for having me. Okay. No, no, no, no. It's no good. No. Layers. There are so many layers. I think... You know what he doesn't have? An agenda. I think that one beats it. Well, I have to say yes. It's long. If I had submitted it, you would have said one thing. It's too long! It's two seconds. But I'm gonna say yes. I like that one. It's two seconds exact. It's actually 2.8 seconds. Three is the max.

3:09:58 That's 2.8 seconds, really? Yeah. Ready to time it? Ready? Ready, ready, ready, ready? Go. 1, 2, 3. Do you know what he doesn't have? An agenda! Wow. Okay. 2.8 seconds, baby. On the nose. And now it's time for... Good News, everybody! Not only did you get a little bit of Abe Lincoln today, you're gonna get some good news after it was missing from last week's show. What do you have for us? I was gonna do two today to make up for it. I'm down one. Yeah, we only want one. But I got to 50. I got a good short under one minute. Great. Good news story about a birthday girl, nine year old girl.

3:10:37 gets her surprised from the fire department. Well, firefighters in Eddy County making a little girl's birthday a little sweeter. When the Eddy County search and rescue crews were called to a fire, they got to the home and figured out there were no flames or smoke. The family saying a fire happened earlier in the oven when a family member tried to make a cake for the nine year old girl's birthday. So crew members were determined to turn the day around. So they headed out to find the birthday girl a Hello Kitty themed cake to celebrate. I think The birthday girl was a little embarrassed, especially when we sang happy birthday to her. We did get her a little tiara and a little ribbon that said happy birthday on it. I hope she remembers this for the rest of her life as there are good people out there and police, fire, first responders do really care. Well Battalion Chief Dawson reminding us members of the fire department are here to serve their community whether it's fighting fires, providing medical care or helping out during a young girl's

3:11:31 Always nice to have a young birthday girl from the pictures or she's wearing this tiara Looking for more good news jingles will take them I have no idea what's coming up next on no agenda stream calm because the whole back channel is just back filled with void zero Very worried about things not working which which makes nothing but sense. But stay tuned because there is always something good on No Agenda Stream. We also have IDpop and SirJoho with some end of show mixes and a classic face bag. I'm not quite sure who did that one. And we will be back on Sunday, the second day that we only work three hours.

3:12:29 Three hours three hours a week. Oh, I'm sorry twice a week. That's all it is. It's easy It's yeah, I'm surprised there aren't more podcasts. I'm surprised Hillary's podcast isn't better Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill country soon to be overrun in April by full-on eclipse nutjobs in the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry and from Northern Silicon Valley where we don't have an eclipse well We'll have a crappy one But we have rain. I'm John C. Dvorak. Until Sunday, remember us at noagendadonations.com. Until then, adios mofos, a-hooey-hooey, and such. Okay, yes, go on. I want to get this out there because I am a proud nutfister. You know what I do? I just take the bag, the whole bag, as much as I can in my mouth.

3:13:21 You're grabbing the nuts like this with your fingers and you're trying to get more than one at a time, which of course is normal. And you're going to put them in your mouth. I mean, they're pushing together, they're spraying out, they're dropping everywhere. I mean, the most logical way is you take them, you let them sit in your fist and then you shake them into your mouth. Now you take the nut bag, take the whole bag of nuts, the whole whole bag into your fist and then shake them. It looks like you're jacking off. Oh my god, I'm one of those guys that you would be fucking losing your mind over. Take how many nuts you want in your palm, like just take the nuts in your mouth that way and you get some salt in your palm, that's about it. That's the way you eat the nuts. Yeah, okay, that's good. Just take as much as I can in my mouth and have maybe penis in my mouth. Yeah, that's fine, that's fine. I like those two ways.

3:14:10 It's like right to your balls, big swollen balls, big giant basketball-sized balls. You're too thick. No, no good, no good. Both sides. Mr. Prince said a lot of things. Made a bunch of babies wanna scream You know it's cause they couldn't disagree That's why they say the truth will set you free

3:14:46 But there's one that really made him feel That it's the thing he said in Charlotte's Hill There's good people on both sides Ain't nothing just black and white Just in case you didn't know Well exceptin' Uncle Joe There's good people on both sides Well, he calls himself a businessman A billionaire with presidential plans Pushing back the Dukes' establishment And all the cronies in the government Spinning up the bastards on the Hill With that thing he said in Charlottesville There's good people on both sides Ain't nothing just black and white

3:15:50 Just in case you didn't know, well except in Uncle Joe there's good people on both sides. Everybody's talking about the sweaty pale monkey, swinging from a tree and he's moving like a donkey. Got places to go, got people to see Got deals to hustle, so get the dough, Rayme I ain't ever seen nothing like he done before He's a moving violation, breaking in your back door What you don't know, what you don't see He got mouths to feed, he got bills to pay Looking real hot and he's trying to sell the product Face bags on the bird, kinda like a robot Face bags on, face bags on, face bags on the bird, on the bird, on the bird

3:16:46 He knows where you're going and he knows where you've been Tracking how you got by, how you got thin Never too close, never too far To open up your webcam, there you are Knowing how you vote, watching every kiss Saying happy birthday, that he'll never miss You never miss He's a Zuckerberg Face back, oh, face back, oh, face back, oh

3:17:33 I started Facebook, I run it, and I'm responsible for what happens here. It's not enough to just connect people, we have to make sure that those connections are positive. It's not enough to just give people a voice. We need to make sure that people aren't using it to harm other people or to spread misinformation. It's not enough to just give people control over their information. We need to make sure that the developers they share it with protect their information too. It will take some time to work through all the changes we need to make across the company, but I'm committed to getting this right.

3:18:23 The best podcast in the universe! Opo. Dvorak.org slash N-A. Do you know what he doesn't have? An agenda!