Rousting Granny

00:00 Good news sucks. Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak. It's Thursday May 23rd 2024 this is your award-winning Kibonation Media Assassination Episode 1662 This is no agenda Tackling trends, Maoism and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas hill country here in FEMA region number six. In the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry And from northern Silicon Valley where we're all worried about the TSMC kill switch. I am John C Dvorak It's crackpot and buzzkill! The TSMC what? Kill Switch?!

00:39 Yeah, I was reading about this this morning actually. Is this the thing in cars? No no it's... This is a the Taiwan semiconductor manufacturing company who makes 90% Oh yes! How did this happen?! How did this happen!? 90 percent of all the high-end chips are made in Taiwan and that and the company that provides most of the gear is again how did this happen located in Holland yeah ASML AMA, ASML. Well they make the lithography don't they make the lithography? Yeah they make that ultra UV stuff nobody else seems to be able to do yeah I know go Dutch and so the Dutch a lot of people go Dutch uh so they have it was unknown to me but they have a kill switch

01:32 This I did not know. On all their gear? The Dutch have a kill switch?! Yeah, and so they if China takes over the island all that gear that's at TSMC will remotely be ruined just with... Really! It is just yeah isn't that interesting. Where'd you hear this from? It was in the trades. I read it in the trades. Billboard? Which trade? No, it was the industry trades. Manufacturing news. Hollywood Reporter? Huh! Well, I know that there's a big fracas because the Dutch government told ASML like hey you guys can't export if we say you can't export, then you can't export

02:16 to certain countries like China, Russia. Yeah exactly and the company was like well who's in charge here? And the government went yeah you! But so they have a kill switch on all the gear because they exported the actual gear right? The gears export the gear and Taiwan has probably the lion's share of it. And there's a back door I guess they can just remotely over the Internet, kill the gear. I think it's part of the contract that should then the Taiwan to disconnect their gear from the internet

02:55 Hello, I'm sure it's part of the contract they have the gear in the first place so you can be sure it's in there. I mean everything has a kill switch these days You know their cars have kill switches It's a kill-switch bonanza did you know they have a new president in Taiwan? Yeah, he's a pro-independence guy. Here is the guy. New president Lai Ching-te inherits not just the office but the intricate web of challenges that comes with it. At home, he faces a fractured parliament with no party holding a majority. Internationally, he faces significant challenges

03:36 Even though he has offered to meet Xi Jinping for talks, he's also pledged to defend the island saying it is only the people who can decide Taiwan's future. Beijing has repeatedly labeled him a dangerous separatist. The military threat from China remains ever-present even while Lai has been preparing for office Beijing has been ramping up drills in the region as both a reminder of their military might and political intentions. No, those guys are do it for real. Like bam! Knock you out sucka By the way where'd this guy go to school? This Taiwanese president? Harvard

04:37 He's a stooge. He is one of our stooges. Of course he is, he's one of our stooges. Who isn't? We're waiting for Georgia to implode I'm sure we've got stooges all over that place as in Georgia and the country. Well now today there's the big meeting between Biden and the guy who runs Kenya, Ruto And this is like ridiculous. It's like, this is the best we can do as Kenya or Kenya whatever how you want to pronounce it? Does Kenya have anything of value for us? Well, it must but I think its strategic more than anything right in the middle there. I went...I was in Kenya. Oh here we go everybody drink! This country is a nightmare and

05:29 And so we were headed to South Africa, the family. And we're going to South Africa for a meeting and we had a stopover... For a meeting of the ICC? What is the Dvorak family doing? It's just a Dvorak family meeting. So we stopped in Kenya and we're at the airport waiting and a couple things happened one is this was awhile ago so I had these cassettes to listen to and those were stolen which I made a fuss about it got them back Who stole them? Stop, stop. Now were these your disco cassettes who stole them and what happened? They disappeared from the overhead because we were out of the plane for a minute for some reason and it was in the airport and they got stolen and I made up huge fuss about this and I got him back And the guy says you shouldn't leave anything in the when you take these breaks into Africa because that's like a year salary for somebody one audio cassette

06:26 I said, okay. But the thing that part of this reason for the story is you go you're sitting we're sitting in the airport lounge waiting for to get back on the plane and the Kenyan army about four army guys are in there shaking down passengers and robbing them one after the other Wow. In the airport! And did they shake you down for your best of alibi? They never got to us before we were got back on the plane. You know my... Don't make eye contact with him is the word. Don't look, don't look kids. They were literally stealing people's money at the airport, the Kenyan army I said this is a terrible country. Wow and I was glad to get out of there but this was probably awhile ago it was 30 years ago yeah okay

07:16 Oh, it's changed. I think...I hear the place is great now! It's changed. It's really shaped up a lot. Is groovy now yes all right so that is Biden's big foreign policy Kenya Yes, that's it. Do I have a clip on this? I might. Kenya who has Kenya oh yes you do Oh let's let's chase away the audience right at the top of the show good one Well its taking place here in the US of A so lets see what happens The Biden administration is rolling out the red carpet for Kenya's president whose beginning a three-day state visit to Washington NPR's Michelle Kellerman reports. Relations with Kenya have gone from a regional partnership to a global one, according to National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan. This is the first state visit

08:02 by an African head of state in nearly 20 years. It is long overdue." He says President Biden and Kenyan president William Ruto will announce new partnerships in emerging technologies, and more on security cooperation that includes in Haiti where the U.S. will be offering logistical support to a Kenya Union-led international force. The long overdue mission is meant to stabilize Haiti now racked by gang violence." It's about barbecue, I see... By the way, I don't think that's true! There was first in 20 years there was a huge African contingent. I remember this maybe 10 years ago

08:38 Remember that? All kinds of African dudes. But no heads of state. Heads on sticks! The best you can do is 15 years ago somebody came over and said hello, so this is about Kenya it's going to be a bring an army over to take care of Haiti for us yeah we're great but the way they put oh yeah for a technology exchange high level talks who are they kidding? Yeah phone finger number one hello hello Haiti We're coming forward. Our elites have wanted Haiti so bad for so long, you know let's face it the Clinton Foundation messed it up they were supposed to have control of it and then somehow that slipped through their fingers after they got the gold contracts and took all the children

09:26 We haven't forgotten. Well, let's get to the big news of the day. This was without a doubt the big news. Big, big, big news! We are learning more about the severe turbulence on a passenger plane from London to Asia One man was killed and images show just how chaotic things got inside that cabin And we are now hearing from the airline CEO ABC's Christian Cordero has more on this. Christian good morning Brianne and good morning to you This kind of turbulence has been on the rise Experts say one factor may be climate change

10:11 Oh yeah! Climate change. Now I love these reports because... Yeah, because by the way turbulence has never happened before climate change. I'm going to give you a whole-I got a whole report. I got a whole rundown on this because iIm tired of this nonsense and by the way one man was killed he died of a heart attack it's sad but he died of a heart attack he wasn't killed It was not a pretty scene absolutely which is a reminder How many times do we have to see it? Just like we do up here in the cockpit. When you're in your seat, keep your seat belt buckled! Don't think that you've got a free ride here... Keep your seat belt buckled! It's that simple! A Singapore Airlines flight was hit with severe turbulence on Tuesday, flinging passengers and crew around the cabin and forcing the plane to make an emergency landing in Bangkok. Dozens were injured.

11:03 One died of a suspected heart attack. Suspected? What happened what happened it appears that the flight entered an air pocket There are also reports that there were some storms nearby That could have caused some of the turbulence so this is kind of where I caught my attention like oh Because they're talking wind shear clear-air turbulence climate change And then there's this little report that everyone kept repeating over and over and over. Reuters again. Could climate change be making air turbulence more common and severe? The death of one passenger, and injuries to others on a Singapore Airlines flight has underlined the potential dangers of severe turbulence in particular. Airline Ratings Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Thomas

11:53 Turbulence is becoming more prevalent as climate changes and a university's research in the United Kingdom has shown that over the last 40 years severe turbulence has increased by 55 percent. Fifty-five? Fifty five percent! Oh no, this climate change must be stopped. What is it doing NBC? Breaking this morning after that dramatic turbulence on board Singapore Airlines flight 321 the airline CEO is speaking out We're deeply saddened by this incident That extreme turbulence wreaked havoc inside the plane injuring dozens of passengers and flight attendants some critically So-called clear air turbulence often appearing close to the jet stream is very difficult to predict

12:37 And researchers say climate change has already made wind shear much stronger. Yes, and so now we're not sure was it clear air turbulence? Were they in a storm is it wind shear maybe the CBC can help us out Paul Williams as an atmospheric scientist at Reading University in England are we seeing an increase in turbulence I think so. This started out as a theory we had about 10 years ago, we were running atmospheric simulations computer simulations of the future... Oh yeah now stand by because we got some modeling going on here! And they were indicating that the amount of severe clear air turbulence was going to double or treble in the next few decades because of climate change

13:26 And more recently, last year we published a study that confirmed that in fact those increases have already begun. I love how they publish the study that confirms it. We looked back at historic data... No actual evidence! There's no actual evidence. They just published a study that confirmed it. And when we crunched those numbers, we found that from 1979 to the present day there's already been a 55% increase in the amount of severe turbulence. So I think those increases from climate change have already begun and are only set to continue into the future if the climate continues to change as we expect it too." So this is your pet peeve? Your pet peeve is 55 percent of what?!

14:22 So, this sounds very severe. This 55% oh my god we're all going to die! Luckily CBC kept this guy on the phone or on the Skype on the Zoom for about 12 minutes if you didn't fall asleep by the end he He lets us know what's really going on. hitting that little tiny part of the atmosphere is really, is really tiny. Just keep your seatbelt fastened and try and have a nice flight." So 0.1% of the air has severe turbulence but because it's 55 percent increase its almost like zero point two percent now

15:22 So, there's not that much to be afraid of especially if you realize that this was not clear air turbulence. This is what it was the Boeing triple-7 was flying from London to Singapore when it hits sudden turbulence on the edge of a powerful storm flight radar 24 shows the plane suddenly pushed up then down like a violent wave at 37,000 feet then a controlled emergency descent to 31,000 feet and an emergency landing they were flying over the ITC Z which every big

15:58 heavy aircraft pilot knows is the intertropical convergence zone. This is right by the equator, this is where you get these two jet streams converging, this is where particularly July-January you get big storms and that's what they flew into! This has nothing to do with clear air turbulence from climate change? It's nonsense it's not fun if you're in the plane But this is big scare tactics of once again hype climate change. And I spent several days this week putting together our Sunday special, which will be a climate change special and... This would be the second time we've done a climate change special. I'd like people to compare it to the old one Well you did climate change clips

16:49 And I did us reading and talking about climate change. Almost... Well, that'll be different. Exactly! Almost no clips so because of Sir Deanonymous bingit.io if you haven't seen being it dot oh you can search every single episode of the NOAA agenda show going back to the first episode when you see the transcript you can highlight a piece of the transcript click the clip button and it creates an embeddable clip actually creates an embeddable clip with video with the captions and with the show art. It's really phenomenal what he has done. It is, which is why I'm sending you more show notes now knowing that it will go into this database. So yeah, it was fun to do! So I started episode one...

17:37 episode we talked about and I only search for global warming. I didn't search for climate change because it was global warming, we're talking almost 17 years ago You could do another five hours using searching for climate change? I didn't get past episode 100 and i had the show done Yeah! And what's... I did the same thing with the clips I didn't get very far What surprising is that elements are always the same banning meat Vaccinations, because we also had another bird flu swine flu trusting the science. If you recall and I'd forgotten this that the university that had all the base climate data do remember that they lost all the data because they didn't have enough hard drives and then the data got corrupted than they lost it?

18:29 So the actual basis data that all this nonsense is built upon has been lost. Clucky steak! Similar to the moon landing recordings, oops and then something one other thing that is very it just keeps coming back It's the same elements over and over again huge element no meat by the way there was no talk of Burps it was all cow farts sheep farts another good point. I forget you're right? I remember that period where it was Kyle Farris there's no Cow but now its cow burp and there were sheep farts You don't hear about that anymore the sheep farts with I don't even remember that yeah It was like 12% of New Zealand climate change or global warming came from sheep fart so they made up all kinds of stuff and

19:19 But I pulled a clip as a teaser, and this is discovery that you made on the show. We're going back to episode 93 from 2000... What are you making that sound for? Because 93! That's in the dark ages of the show. But that's what so cool is because this This is how long we've been tracking this nonsense and we've been delivering this as a public service to people. And this one I had forgotten about, and it's something that you picked up on... We're going back to episode 93 2009. Here we go! You'll be amazed by this one Newsnight and the BBC this week they had a complete documentary on Power Shift 09 Oh nice

20:09 Now, powershift.org people can go out there and check it out It's a green activists And essentially the government has taken over this particular conference and they loaded it up with Obama people. The keynoter was the EPA woman, Paul Podesta one of the staffers that one of the major staffers... Podesta before we knew about Podesta? Second in command or one of these other guys who looked like the organizer from the way they had this thing structured the show, this documentary. Bill Clinton was there, everybody was loaded up with these guys and here's what I'm watching this thing thinking well this is just another and they got all these kids it's a bunch of young people and again them all pumped up with you know this green green green stuff and global warming so then they jump to showing some of the behind-the-scenes seminars that always have the breakouts

21:11 So the breakouts are training to kids on civil disobedience, resisting arrest. How to do sit-ins properly, how to lock arms? How to do passive resistance. Wait a minute let me get this straight and I would have been anybody who happens to be one of those people...I'd like to ask you question since when does the government train the youths to do these sorts of things that the first thing i thought it was either Nazi youth or the young communist party this is training the youth So, I'll bet you a lot of those trainees from 15 years ago are now in schools teaching the next generation this same nonsense. Yep In fact we got boots on the ground from New Jersey from Chris

22:02 He says, and his daughter has two children in the system. He says my oldest daughter was in grade school she's now a sophomore college but they started with the propaganda even before the school year started they would gather all the parents and go over these topics that will be covering Over the ensuing years, my daughter would come home and report on the nonsense they'd be pushing. In fact they showed here when my daughter was in the sixth grade she came home to let me know she had upset the science teacher who was on her soapbox about how we're killing polar bears! And of course this is a no agenda issue. We'll mention there's more polar bears than ever Exactly and then forced the class to watch a YouTube video titled something about the lone polar bear in the tundra starving to death because of climate change but the video shows an emancipated

22:52 emaciated bear walking back and forth in the snow while the teacher explained the video was shot in the deep arctic wilderness. It was indicative of what all the bears looked like, but by the end of the video my daughter raised her hand and said hey if the video is shot on the tundra then why is there a wall into garbage cans at the edge of the frame? I soon received a call from the teacher who didn't appreciate being contradicted! This is horrible what they're doing to our children And I was listening to an interview of John Daniel Davidson. He's a senior editor at The Federalist, I guess he's been writing for Wall Street Journal and all kinds of mainstream publications for 20 years, and he came out with the book

23:39 called Pagan America and the Decline of Christianity and the Dark Age to Come. And I just had to share some of his thinking on Yeah, you saw this I mean some of that is the obvious stuff climate changes and environmentalism as a modern form of Nature worship corporate culture and corporate America shot through with this stuff now the way Main our mainstream society talks about climate change

24:18 and environmentalism is fundamentally religious because of the importance that they place on it, right? You have people saying you shouldn't have children. We shouldn't form families. Arguing for policies that will bring absolute misery and ruination to vast swaths of the world. People are comfortable kind of talking about policies that will result in the deaths of millions and millions of people, famine and starvation for the sake of what I would argue is a religious idea right? That we owe

24:59 the earth something and we need to sacrifice ourselves to Gaia. We need to sacrifice our human flourishing to this other being which is the earth, so... And this is where it gets tricky because these people are not going to say I worshiped the Earth! I am a devotee of Gaia And so I'm like, yeah that makes sense. You know follow the science and we have to save the earth and it's replacing... It's a religion for people who are all in on this going back decades That's just witness in our clip. We've talked about it being a religion, I'd say probably as much as anyone But then he goes one step further So we have environmentalism or climate change-ism As a modern form of pagan religion We have transgenderism which is

25:52 a modern form of paganism or devil worship. Throughout pagan cultures of the past, this notion of changing sexes or gender bending has been a feature of various pagan deities in various cultures throughout human history and it's remarkably consistent. The idea that a pagan deity could do this in and of itself, and to do it to other people has always been associated with certain deities. So again are transgender activists going to come out and say I'm a devotee of this Persian goddess or of this Mesopotamian god? Probably not

26:38 Most of them are not going to. But they will functionally be engaged in very old practices that are pagan fundamentally, but more broadly as a I mentioned earlier transgenderism is really a kind of a subset of transhumanism which posits that That we can create ourselves and we can we can become like gods? That we are gods that that we are not limited by reality or biological reality Men can become women women can be come in or we can become neither and that we are We have that power as of a deity okay, so

27:23 I'm following him there, but the transhumanism part was like oh yeah we kind of forgot. I forgot about that about oh Yeah It's all part of the transhumanist agenda and then neural link and all this stuff And then he winds it up with this one and where I think that is headed in where I argue at the end Of the book when I talk about artificial intelligence In the trans transhumanist movement, you know because always because what starts with self-worship always ends up come projecting out to something else so the Trans humanist movement is not going to end with with just saying we're all gods and we can we can determine what? We want to be because we are deities there's

28:04 There's going to be an external object that ends up becoming the object of worship. And in the case of transhumanism, it is going to be artificial intelligence and you can already see the ways this is taking shape The most vocal and prominent transhumanists have already come out and all that's said in their words, and especially in their actions. We need to turn over decisions about our lives to these AI algorithms that will tell us what to do, and will tell us how to be happy, and will enable us to live forever." And I gotta tell you, the amount of times that I've heard some tech weasel talk about that, like Elon Musk! Oh no, AI is gonna create a god...I've heard Joe Rogan say

28:49 Oh, you know AI we just need AI that tells us what to do. And then you look at the Viva Tech conference in France this which is going on right now. Viva tech! And there it is! AI will take care of climate change, it'll take care of medicine and the upcoming elections but luckily... In terms of journalism however French media group RPR Louette told France 24 the industry isn't at risk. A lot of preparations will be made- What? No no don't worry That's the only thing that is at risk I know!

29:48 best. Today doesn't know how to do it. AI is also revolutionizing the job market Consultancy firm PWC found that roles integrating AI skills carry up to a 25% wage premium As well as having nearly five times the rate of productivity growth and easing repetition for employees Yeah, that's right everyone get a job in AI kids kids don't become plumber Oh Become a prompt jockey That's the way to go It's gonna be great

30:37 Well, I have AI clips. Oh please give me some AI clips And the reason that these are interesting now is because of the clip you played earlier about the climate change Meetup that was taken over by the US government with Podesta and everybody else in between The Clintons because it seems as though this big a I meet up which just took place in South Korea It's been the same thing. It's like the US government is now moved in for, I don't know what they're up to of course... Well if we think about what Davidson said you know we give people AI and give them their something to worship and the AI tells them what to do but let's make sure that we control what it says

31:25 Well, that would be one definite possibility. Let's go with AI meeting in Korea won many of the world's leading tech companies met in Seoul South Korea this week and they joined an international agreement on AI safety several governments led by the US also agreed to set up a new global AI safety network So will these voluntary agreements actually keep AI safe? Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo is leading the Biden administration's effort on the issue. Welcome back to All Things Considered! Thank you Ari, good to be with you. Will you begin by giving us a concrete example of the sort-of AI risk you believe these new agreements will help us avoid? Are we talking about misinformation or invasive surveillance or what?

32:07 I would say both and then some. Misinformation, deepfakes... Some of these models are so sophisticated that if they're not properly tested before they release they can do things that the developers didn't even think they were capable of Oh Lord! Okay so here's a woman who doesn't know anything about tech or computers, or any... She's just not a scientist. She's got she's the head of the commerce. Commerce! She's a stooge and so uh she's gonna she's worried about- She's like Julie on The Love Boat. She leads the delegation come on everybody she's got the umbrella come on everybody it's time to drink around her neck yep it's time to drink

32:53 So we know this is a fiasco. You gotta test it, you gotta test it to make sure that it won't do this or that well you can't, that's bull crap the whole idea of AI is kind of freewheeling so how do you test? Do you say test before release no! The only way you can test it by releasing it you know, let the weenies at it. You know? Let them start doing... using it for all kinds of nefarious purposes. Comedy! So far comedy is the top use. Comedy and spot art. Spot art. Yeah and creating bad songs. And some transcription. It does transcription okay

33:37 You know, but that's... And it doesn't do her well. Okay is the term yes. Number two. You know you've maybe heard about hallucinations or the model doing things that weren't predicted so one of the things we'll be doing is testing all of the most sophisticated models before they're released to the public for use Oh they can have a lab? They have an AI lab there in the commerce department This is a good question and by the way I didn't notice it before your playing this clip she does talk a little bit like Well, I can't quite breathe through my nose. There's possibly some powder going around that she might be imbibing. Everybody follow the rails! So that we can be sure that they're gonna do what they're intended to do But is Pandora's box already open? We've already seen deepfakes that use politicians voices

34:27 I would say yes and no. Certainly the technology is out there, and we've already started to see some disturbing instances where as you just said, you know there's deepfakes that are out there misinformation but look! The exciting thing here it's easy to get bogged down in how it could go poorly There's also life-changing lifegiving possibilities that AI can bring to the world Name one Name one life changing... You beat me to the punchline. I'm sorry, I'm sorry! Name one life-changing, life giving, life giving This is your worship It gives me life I love my AI and I love my truck

35:11 Bringing a doctor to everybody that has a phone, you know huge opportunity for education. So I think the whole point of it is let's do our best to work with like-minded countries that believe in democracy, that oppose civil rights abuses and say, let's put a lid on the risk so that we can let all of the exciting opportunities develop. You say lets work with like-minded countries China is a notable outlier as I understand it Chinese delegates have attended these international summits but the government of China is not part of the global AI safety network that the US has led with other governments

35:51 China exports its AI technology to many other countries around the world. So how effective are these guardrails going to be if China and its allies don't agree with them? Ultimately, we want as many countries to participate as possible for exactly the reason that you just said. You know... Wait wait what reason that he just said China we went all countries to participate. Yeah, exactly the reasons you said only said was they're not participating Because it's everyone against China the more I think of it through the lens of let's all worship The AI the more this makes sense someone

36:29 has figured it out like, hey as long as we're pulling the strings. As long as we control in our lab. As long as we make sure that whatever comes out of the AI is what we want it to be I think they see this. Yeah, the message you want the AI to deliver is vote Democrat. That's all it is. Vote Joe! But Joe, this is the wrapping clip which just makes the whole thing an eye roller. We're talking about three distinct but related agreements here. There's the private companies that have reached a set of standards. There is this international safety coalition and then there is the federal government setting up its own AI Safety Institute under your Department of Commerce. The press release says

37:15 It will do things like advance, support and articulate principles around AI safety. It does not say enforce. Does this institute that you're leading have any power to prevent AI companies from doing things that experts believe would be harmful? Ultimately Congress needs your act. In other words no No Well, this fits in perfectly with this urgent, urgent warning. We live in a world where artificial intelligence can create video pictures and documents that look stunningly authentic now the Department of Homeland Security is warning AI will likely be used against us in the upcoming election This isn't a threat of tomorrow. This is a threat of today

37:58 According to a new Homeland Security bulletin enemy countries terrorists and other adversaries could exploit AI tools confuse or overwhelm voters and election staff to disrupt their duties during the 2024 election cycle, so I'm sitting here going all right What exactly is AI gonna do besides make nudie pictures of Taylor Swift or something else? That's funny. That is obviously not real Joe Biden pooping but what's going to confuse us For example, according to the DHS Bulletin enemies might use AI to share altered images videos or audio clips claiming that a polling station is closed or that polling times have changed. Who needs... What do you need AI for? Thank You! Thank YOU! What?! I mean the guy went to jail for doing just that as this as a goof

38:48 On Twitter he put up a, you know like a Hillary sign done with the GIMP. And if you use Photoshop... You don't need AI for that but okay! The bulletin points to this audio. We know the value of voting Democratic when our votes count It's important that you save your vote for the November election Which authorities suspect is an AI generated message... Suspect? Hold on a second I love it when you get riled up They suspect Why don't somebody just ask Biden at the press conference or ask a KJP at the press conference? Well, who are said authorities. Authorities. Weak report... Where'd you get this? This is I think this is NBC. It's an AI-generated message sounding like President Biden which urged people not to vote in the lead up to the New Hampshire primary in January Which I didn't hear in that clip by the way

39:48 But I didn't hear him say that, but okay. And DHS officials also expressing concern that AI technology might be used to create and push out dangerous information that could help extremists design violent attacks. Okay no examples... No reason why it needs to be AI. Extremists just attack! They don't need AI. Oh, oh Mohammed we need some AI! I'm being racist here but... Oh Mullah we need some AI right away and why am i an Indian guy all of a sudden? Whatever it is the terrorists don't need AI. And then here's the real head scratcher after we saw this open ai parlor trick this little charade

40:35 you know, an AI going oh wow it looks like you're gonna do a video. Oh this is great! So is this AI or is it just an actress that you hired? I'm a little confused about this report. Hollywood megastar Scarlett Johansson is taking on one of the biggest names in tech OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman Hey how's it going Hey there! The actress saying one of the five voices for OpenAI's new AI chatbot sounds eerily similar to her own. I'm really excited about teaming up with you. Hello? Johansson, who famously played the voice of an artificial intelligence system in the 2013 movie Her... Hi how are you doing? ...saying in a statement that Altman had reached out twice wanting to hire her for the OpenAI project. How- stop

41:26 Why do you need to hire an actress and they hired a different actress? They did a casting for AI. Can't AI create the voice is this, it generating the voice on demand or is it using pre-selected segments or did they have to sample I don't want that makes no sense why can't AI just create the voice This is very, this is sketchy. In offer she declined but she says when she heard the demo for The Voice named Sky, she was shocked angered and in disbelief over the resemblance to her own. In response Altman says the company has paused the use of Skye's voice but denies copying Johansson saying in part The Voice was never intended to resemble hers. But Johansson points to a recent post by Altman on X where he simply wrote Her

42:15 referencing the movie he's spoken about publicly. I think her got something deeply right on the interface. Deeply right on the interface? The controversy has... Well, this is how you gotta talk, you see if your one of these cult members it's deeply troubling it's deep- I think it got something deeply right on the interface. You think Her got something deeply right on the interface? On the interface The controversy highlighting concerns over online fakes and the growing copyright concerns posed by artificial intelligence. And OpenAI says prior to ever reaching out to Johansson, it cast actors to create the voices of its new chatbots. The company has yet to release the identity of those actors. I'm surprised that they need to cast actors for the identity... No, I think your point's well taken. What what's the point? This is so great! So

43:03 Luckily, on the place where it matters CNBC where people are going Oh GooGoo Gaga over in video and more chips need more chip when you compute Compute compute more compute. It'll work when we have more computes by a buy Nvidia chips more compute Wait for their super black black ball chip whatever it is then it'll work then it'll worked I promise it will work once we get more compute So they bring on this guy Gary Marcus, and thank you Gary Marcus. No, I mean we're still basically working with the same technology. It's still designed in the same way it takes a lot of statistics from a lot of words and tries to predict what happens next and As soon as these things come out people start playing with them on Twitter And so forth thing you see a lot of examples where they're still making the same boneheaded mistakes as they were before

44:05 Nobody has actually solved hallucinations and I don't think we can with large language models. I think we need genuine innovation here So what happens is, we have a trap right now where people propose things like the humane AI pen imagining that AI is solved and then they put it out in the world And we realize no, It's not solved! And...I'm afraid that hasn't happened yet Are you going so far as to argue that the wave of investment That very smart companies are making right now Is misplaced? I think people are putting in too much money too fast. I do think it's kind of premature Sam Altman talked about raising $7 trillion That is like series H money or something like that when you have really established your business model and so forth, and that just hasn't happened here

44:47 I've publicly predicted that open AI might turn out to be the we work of AI People might scratch their heads and say well, this is a solution in search of a problem We haven't really found the problem The whole industry spent something like 50 billion dollars last year made three billion dollars in revenue That's not sustainable in the long term So either they have to make it better which has proven really difficult or they have to find some killer use case Which they haven't really because the performance is unreliable. So yeah My guess is that a lot of investors are going to be left holding back So I hear this and then I read about people leaving open AI, and they have these horrible NDAs. And you can't talk about the company ever or you lose all your vested stock. And I realized why? Because they don't want these people to tell everyone that it doesn't work! That it's crap!

45:38 No, it works but it's crap. I'm sorry! It works but is crap? Yeah...I mean but its a trick Its like..its not...it's impressive in the things in the you know the video and audio and pictures and some of them are ok so it writes up flower points fine But it's not really useful what that guy said was true it's solution looking for problem that just doesn't exist yet Well, I think the funnier thing that his commentary expressed was... The we-work? Well the we work was a good line. In terms of pure humor that was definitely the peak but no

46:19 funny in the sense that it's like pathetic 50 billion to bring in five three no three three Okay, fifty bill to be in three that which I've always been convinced is going on with electric cars too That they are ship you know they're Losing a I think General Motors or Ford or one of them brought this up. They were losing $100,000 a car They saw every car sold was done $100,000 in the hole. And I think that goes for Tesla even though their cars cost over 100,000, I think they're probably losing money on each one because the technology is just too expensive to make but the same thing with this AI when you go to Wally, Dolly, I'm sorry Dolly. I like Wally! Let's do it again. Well Wally is the movie, Dolly is the art generator

47:15 You generate these pieces of art over and over again. They are probably losing 10 to 20 dollars each time that you generate a piece of art It's just it's like it's a huge money loser Um, yeah. You'll make up for it in volume? Get the users! We'll worry about profit later. Eyeballs! Eyeballs... we're too old for this. We have been- you know, we are just cynical off the top because we've seen this over and over and over again. Because we have seen this bullcrap forever. The only guy who really did well with the last bullcrap was Mark Cuban with Broadcast.com. Brilliant

47:55 Brilliant. Yeah, and he was in and out. He was brilliant. It was brilliant. It was pretty good. You can't say it wasn't brilliant now if we just stick with big tech for a moment I was shocked. I tell you shocked that Tucker Carlson did an interview with Eric Prince and posted this interview with the hashtag paid promotion What? Oh yeah, what exactly. So he does an interview with Eric Prince hashtag paid promotion

48:34 So we all know that Eric Prince is there. So we got pay to play now on the... Yup, Tucker Carlson! On Tucker Carlson this is how he's making his money? And and he's doing it with Eric Prince with his unplugged phone listen to this nonsense so how does your phone protect people against that again like I said this era started three and a half years ago And we came at it from a completely contrarian view. Yeah, yeah! This phone... It's our hardware made in Indonesia at a Singaporean facility That'll be safe Our operating system all our code All our code the whole lot We built the whole operating system okay? and we are solely focused on data sovereignty that you control it's pretty cool just to I am kind of impressed that

49:28 You didn't just build an app like you actually did. Correct, because you have to control it down to the root level of the hardware and software so that we don't have an advertising ID and our operating system blocks Any any attempt by any app to turn on your camera or your Wi-Fi or your microphone? Or you GPS all apps Okay, alright so that's not that spectacular but wait. He's gonna make some great claims here anything We don't allow any of that leakage in fact we have a privacy center This is called the unplugged this is an unplugged phone and this is a effectively a firewall which prevents apps from

50:10 from doing all the things they're used to doing on all the other phones. So you're in control of what of your data goes out, which is effectively zero. This is like a this is like a safe comes in and doesn't come out OK so if you can use apps then none of your data goes out now listen to that. Wait stop we have to stop right now when I think you need to hear the next clip for what you going to say but okay go ahead Apps assumes an operating system that runs the apps apps don't just run on anything I can't run it of course random app on my toes. He's running an Android derivative Of course we this is blue he said wait a minute. He said they did the holes coding themselves They got nothing to do with anything yeah, yeah get ready for this well I'm put just to bottom line it I'm protected from what am I protected from if I use them here's the thing

51:08 If you're using apps and some federal agency goes to that app purveyor and says, give me everything you have on Tucker. He's been using all that up. There'll be nothing because there's no data leaking from you. So there'd be nothing they'll have no login data. There'll be no usage that nothing there'll be nothing the app just runs without the backend service is amazing from your device to that app. If you call somebody, we have our own secure messenger for example you want a call and make us your call and you call me it takes about five seconds to connect because it's literally creating a encrypted tunnel between you and me generates new encryption key every call It is our effort to fight the power of Bing Tech So what can't I do? Fight the power! Or just confess that I use an iPhone made by a company actually kind of hate

52:01 That hates my country and me and I use it anyway because it's we figured there's a lot of people like you that That's why we're here with the paid promotion would want to digitally a lot of people like you dumb Dumb ignorant not knowing exactly what's going on And here comes the claims cue that would want to digitally opt out of the lie of big tech It so which you can't do obviously. We don't have the Apple Store We don't have Apple Music, but you can use Spotify you can use a lot of the other streaming services on here. We just prevent them from collecting your data as to what you're listening to or... Oh, okay! So I can use Spotify but they won't know what i'm listening to?

52:41 work. It doesn't work from collecting your data as to what you're listening to or, or where you are when you do it and you can share pictures, you can send pictures. We have a lot of the other privacy related apps whether it's signal or three ma or proton or telegram Telegram, it's private. Yo protected no problem proton. Oh yeah. Proton is an email server system. Proton definitely gives up information when asked by the authorities. Okay they may not be able to give the messages if they're encrypted if they're encrypted and are always encrypted but this is a lie! And he's in a troll room says that he's also buying ad space on O'Keefe stuff

53:28 So people are going to fall for this. It's like that, remember that nut job with the Freedom Phone? I'm not as upset about it as you Well, I'm more upset that Tucker is doing paid promotions. That's just lame! You guys got a cash flow problem... I guess But he's- I'd like to know what he charged for that particular advertorial or whatever you want to call it Hey Eric Prince we'll talk about your phone oh its great Oh yeah, you can listen to the No Agenda stream securely. No one will know you're listening it's great! Yeah... mmmm

54:07 This is a hoax. It's not good. Oh, no it just it's not necessarily a hoax as somebody. It just cuts everything off nothing works. Yeah he said right there if you ask to look at your camera or your contacts or anything else we'll just refuse that We won't use it. We won't run it That means nothing will work Nothing No app will work on that phone Spotify will not work Unless you opt into the library that does digital... What's the term I'm looking for? Yeah, you do. It's the Digital Signature.

54:51 I forget the name of it. DMCA? No, not that no it's like a... It's the same thing if you load Firefox or Brave and if you then want to uh Wildvine there you go If you wanna watch some movie from you know If you want to watch YouTube TV, you have to then opt into loading the wide DRM. There we go! You have to opt into loading the libraries that in essence let them know exactly what you're doing otherwise Spotify doesn't work I know because... That's what there's all of them I think all this stuff is not going to work because most of these guys look at it and say well if you won't let us do that you can't use us. Spotify? I have a no agenda phone NoAgendaPhone.com

55:38 Spotify does not work unless you say, okay I'll opt into this stuff. But let's choose spot on me. Which gives it all away? Yeah of course! Of course. Telegram? Alright. Signal? Eh alright but i'm sure it's all secure. I was a paid promotion come on... I know but it's just-I'm disappointed. Oh, you never expect. You hated that guy! Who? Eric... No I expect more from my mercenaries Go back to Bluff Water! Oh not from Eric, not from Eric I'm telling you hated the guy Tucker I never hated Tucker! I always thought you did Let's take a slight comedic break For real comedy or for no comedy because i thought that was pretty funny That was funny but it wasn't as funny as this Okay okay I'm ready

56:28 Now, this TikTok ban will ruin our lives because they're not going to have the good clips like this talk clip I have. Every time I watch one of these, I say now is this an actress auditioning? Is this really good acting? It's beyond the pale. Or is this really just a dummy that because people get on the... There are some of the dumbest people that put themselves on TikTok and they're dumb and arrogantly dumb. They don't even know how to do it. In this case, there's not a woman who was necessarily dumb she's just ignorant And I just think it's one of the great clips i've ever heard.

57:21 So the other day I went to a steakhouse for her friend's birthday and she ordered a steak. And the waitress goes, how do you want your cow cooked? That's weird way to order it but whatever so she asked my friend how do you want your cow cooked My friend says I wanted medium rare or something like that and then I wasn't in mood for a second I wanted a hamburger I've been craving hamburger so i order you know the cheese burger and she was had you want your cow cooked I kind of like awkwardly look at my friends. I was like, I feel really embarrassed Do I point out that it's not cow? Like a hamburger is a pig everyone knows ham comes from pig So I joked back. I was like well, I want my pig cooked Well done you're not supposed to eat pork like uncooked everybody knows that its why its always been super weird to me that people will get like

58:11 red in the middle on their burgers. And so she looks back at me and she goes, you mean your cow? I'm like, I don't know how to have this conversation right now. Like I'm not a teacher. I don't know how to educate you kindly and I was like sure my cow But it was so bizarre. I'm like, how do you not know? It's literally in the name of a hamburger. There is no hope for the world." Yeah that's right! That's right... No hope for the world. I think it's real. I think its genuine this is this is the level of output we have from our scholastic system. I bet she knows all about climate change though but she's all-in on that by the way. If she votes Democrat I can assure you

58:51 The oil baron gave me a whole bunch of negal meat. Negal? Negal, yes! Isn't that an antelope? That is kind of antelope only it is an antelope that has... It's a ruminant and has three stomachs so the... Not four No three Or two No three So it has a whole... It's kin. So the meat, and it's ground, is ground negal. We had hamburgers man this is some delicious very lean delicious

59:32 And, you know I can send some to you if you want. If you'd like me to send a cooler? Yes! Yeah he's got... Dry ice! Yes we have dry ice He's got sausage and hamburger tubes and he shot it himself at the Kings Ranch Oh yeah, it's phony baloney game ranch here We call it It must've cost them men to kill that thing Well he's the oil baron He, uh... you know. We call it—in here we don't say a phony baloney game ranch, John. We call it a high fence ranch is what we call it okay? We don't call it a phony baloney game—we call it a high fence ranch. Okay he shot at the... at the... high fence... fence... fence whatever it is It's his birthday! Be nice. It's his birthday today. Okay happy birthday. I hope he's not on the list put him on the list Yeah he's on the list. I put them on the list of course I did

1:00:26 Well, speaking of crazy food... Wait! Go back to the meat. So what makes it special? I mean what was the characteristics that made it so tasty? It's kind of like a mix between venison which I happen to like the taste of venison Yeah, I liked the taste of venison too But the texture and all that is much more of beef How about, now see here's when you go to the ground these ground you grind up these animals and they take on a different quality like for example not to digress too much. No that's okay I was excited. For example ground elk

1:01:04 which is a terrific product needs to be backed off because ground elk in a burger is dense. It's too dense, you need to put some ground turkey or something in there lighten the load. So this how about that for this? Is this dense? This has the exact same consistency as beef, as ground beef it no difference But it had so it's very lean and it has to just taste better. It tastes better Yeah, I'd say I want to say sweeter but that's not really the right term but you know how venison? It's not gamey though That's not the invention can sometimes taste a little gamey if they've not well depends on where it were the Venice's if it's like New Zealand ranched Venice and this is very mild compared to

1:01:52 Some animal somebody shot. Well, this is from the phony baloney a game hunting place so no high fence It's fan I haven't had the sausage yet the breakfast sausage and I'm sure they spice that with something So I'm gonna try that I'll try that next But he gave me just a whole bunch of these these tubes that they pack for him So you know he shoots again? I wonder if even has to carry it back on his back You know I think you just, you know, just shoot it. Oh, the... Go have a beer! You shoot it and... Go have a beer! A bunch of games and you're done. You go to the 19th hole.

1:02:30 Here is the latest from Illinois. The state is buzzing literally. Happy Wednesday hump day everyone and boy do we have a show for you buckle up! We're talking cicadas and booze mm-hmm we've all heard that you can eat cicadas, you know there are recipes online describing how you can pan fry them boil them toast them put them in cookies and cakes whatever but would ya drink some? Alright so if that's something that sounds appealing to you listen up Noon Whistle Brewery posted these images posted these images yesterday unveiling its locally harvested cicada infused malort. It is available at its brew pub in Lombard the comments on this post range from heck yeah I'd try it to y'all are nasty and of course a lot of people asking seriously why? Because your future is bugs Illinois! You hear that we all know you can put it in cookies uh no

1:03:24 Who's doing that? Seriously, who is putting that stuff into their cookies. It's concerning. Very concerning. Well since you're doing... bugs I don't have any bug clips You have no bug clips? No, I got some Mar-a-Lago stuff. I still have some climate stuff which I couldn't get to because You went to that guy who went from climate, to transgenderism... Transgender AI. ...to AI which was a huge switcheroo on the whole pace and flow I'm okay with going back to climate if you want Yeah I got some NPR Climate Changers because there's an Antarctic expert This is getting on my nerves this stuff It's like well it's doing this Where's the sea rise? Y'know I don't see it Yeah familiar

1:04:25 Elitist Voices of America. This is NPR or PBS Fixing the problem comes down to, you probably guessed it Oops I'm sorry. Wooo! Wrong one For decades scientists have gathered evidence that climate change is melting sea ice in the Arctic But Antarctica has been this weird outlier The region's sea ice melt hasn't been so dramatic That's because the two places are quite literally polar opposites. The Arctic up north is an ocean surrounded by land, the Antarctic in the south is land surrounded by ocean.

1:05:02 It's a very different setup. That's Caroline Holmes, she is a polar climate scientist at the British Antarctic Survey. Scientists like her have been tracking Antarctic sea ice levels by satellite for 45 years and they spotted a big shift in 2023 Last year there were loads of dramatic climate stories going on and one of those was that sea ice in the Antarctica was really dramatically low in Antarctica winter so that our summer Antarctic winter Antarctic sea ice plummeted to the lowest point on record, but it wasn't immediately clear whether human activity caused that. There's a lot going on in the Antarctic climate, Holm says. You know at this point when I hear this noise it literally just goes into my ear one ear and goes out the other. And I think everyone else tunes that out too. Antarctic ice whatever!

1:05:50 And it's now... Human activity. But it's not human activity, she said man is more complicated there's more going on yeah like flying saucers Wait a minute if human activities causing global warming No that's not part of the globe man I feel your pain It says either its causing it universally because its global the word global refers to the globe or it's not But they can't seem to make up their minds. They don't know how to deal with the fact that they can't really put any numbers together that work, but okay continuing. The Antarctic is really variable we know things like winds temperatures around Antarctica are some of the most variable places on earth and because of that you could get lots of naturally caused variation that are kind of masking

1:06:46 anything that's going on with climate change. So Holmes and her colleagues at the British Antarctic Survey put together some calculations, they used computer modeling to determine how unusual it is over the long term for the Antarctic to lose that much sea ice And we found this is a really rare thing I mean we knew it was rare because it hadn't happened before in our lifetimes but we showed using computing really, really was a really, really, really, really, really was a really, really, really, really, really was a really, extremely rare event. That suggests such a major ice loss isn't only a product of shifting wind patterns or ocean currents. Now there's much clearer evidence that climate change is playing a role. We found that it would only have happened about once in 2600 years

1:07:37 Wait, wait a minute. Let me get this straight. 2600 years ago it happened? Yeah... So what was the climate when you're blaming climate change back in the day? 2600 years ago? That was the Romans. Roman's burning stuff. Oh come on! This is yeah I feel you but you know what this is where the money is. I don't know why we're so pig-headed about at all We're just picking... I know, we should just jump on board. Jump on board go all in. Cash in cash out. That's right! Hello everybody climate change John what's the latest? Oh it's unbelievable we're all gonna die where is my money?! Have you seen the latest models oh yes you know AI is going to solve this when we get the next large language model from Mistral It's going to be great yeah we could be cashing in people would believe us

1:08:34 We can sound sincere. That's the fear! We can sound sincere, that's the trick. It is hard but I think we could do it. We could pull it off. It's doable, take a couple acting lessons and you're good to go. I think this is the last clip here. There is, there is. Fixing the problem comes down to... Yeah, a Kareem Devore consulting group would have come down to me with some AI! Fixing the problem comes down to you probably guessed it reducing greenhouse gases. Gale at Home says that until then reliance on fossil fuels will continue to shape the Antarctic even if the effects don't show up right away How much? Who's paying these people?!

1:09:15 Vegans, rich vegans. You'll see that's quite the common theme in the climate change special. I'm guessing that is true because you brought it up earlier. A lot of veganism and with that... Yeah, the whole idea seems to be the root of all evil. Veganism is a big part of it, big part of it And with that, I would like to thank you for your courage. Say in the morning to you the man who put the seas in the cow that's cooked! Say hello to my friend on the other end, the one and only Mr... John C. Dvorak! Well, in the morning to you, Mr. Adam Kirk. Also all the morning, in the morning all the ships and the seas and boats on the ground are feeding their asses off of water and all the dames and ladies out there. Hello, hello, hello to all those who have come before me

1:10:04 Well, this is... I saw it this morning. When I logged into the troll room, I saw very little trolling activity But I think Darren did something Because on the last Thursday show we had 1820 trolls Today down to 1693! I blame Darren What did Darren do? I don't know. I didn't listen to the whole show, but when i checked in there was only like 250 trolls wait no but have it here let me see...I checked in there was 389 and that was a half hour before we started so he chased the trolls away! But I don't know what he did. He played a song that was offensive to everyone Taylor Swift I'm sure well I don't think you play Taylor Swift today but maybe

1:10:50 Anyway, I mean there's still... There may be some issue with getting online. There are a lot of possibilities we also have a holiday coming up And so that holiday will probably result in people taking off today, tomorrow the next day and the next day. And then Monday is what you do? That's right. You work for the government all of time. That's right! Take off a couple of sick days before three-day weekend boom you're good to go. You know all about it that's right I do believe me I end if thing is when you quit I worked there for almost a decade at this agency And I got almost a round of applause because I walked out of there with no sick leave left and no vacation time left. Zero, zero! A big article again today I was reading about how today's workforce they don't take any or they hardly take any PTO

1:11:45 Because they're just working remote and we've talked about this before, they just have little apps that make the mouse move around to make it look like they're busy. They're sitting on a beach... I don't understand how can the economy be booming and doing so well? Stock market all-time high! It's amazing what's going on?! How does it work when no one is doing anything? You tell me Well, I'll tell you what. I think which is I think that even working at home and getting an hour's work done a day instead of eight is still more productive than being in the office and shooting this shit all day and being around the water cooler and getting half-an-hour's work done it just... Interesting! I'm not convinced that to work at home guy with the fake mouse movement all the rest are still not getting more done then you get done in the office It's very possible

1:12:34 Very possible. I think the stock market all-time high is because the dollar was basically devalued due to inflation, but that's just me Well, it's a universal because the dollar versus euro is a buck. Oh wait so still not that bad No no not at all Not at all its fine compared to the yen which has completely lost I don't know how are we over 160 again yet? I'm waiting for it. I think it's pushing it. I'm waiting My comment is by Toyota Do that buy a toyota buy truck let me see what it is oh I can take a look at It right now. Let me see It is... almost 157, creeping up. Creeping up. Well it did bounce up there before I mean a couple weeks ago. Yeah! I know it did. It's too high that shouldn't be there No but it is because somethings wrong. I think there's something wrong. I'm not sure

1:13:29 Maybe it's just me. All I hear is everything is great, the economy is great and all I see is TikTok videos of children going, I can't afford rent! I work two jobs! Something's wrong somewhere something's wrong By the way, you too can be a troll that just... maybe hey if you're a troll just get one of those apps that just makes it look like you're busy in the troll room. Convince us! You know? Just move the mouse around post something from time to time and just pretend to make us feel better but I think it's possible you can get one of those. If I was creating an AI for the troll room

1:14:08 Create a promotional one. So it just can continue the hound like by the Too many eggs calm go to too many eggs calm That's what I would have this over and over and over every five minutes Have you been too many eggs calm? And the thing well Doug is our AI in the troll room of course Doug is is AI Doug used to be used to give the news yeah on the stream then I know And then Darren came along and killed Doug. I don't know... Anyway, that was all pre-AI! That's right we've had AI on this show for 15 years with Doug. At least. With Doug. Yeah, Doug. And it was probably better and certainly more entertaining. And Doug read the news

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1:16:29 and in fact most of them are Dutch grandmasters, and they are diligently creating art during the live show when they can so that the minute we're done we fill out the credits because of course everyone gets a credit. And we're about to thank our executive and associate executive producers just like Hollywood. Then you know we select a title and boom! We're good to go. It was Sir Shug, Shug aka Faux Diddley who nailed it with the classic Better Homes and Gardens cookbook, which he transmogrified into Trad Wife Homes and Gardens New Cookbook and Recipes for Indoctrination. It's a little hard to read that one but it was good we liked it there were some other things that we looked at. Jacob Joe was good which is done by Tantaniel right next to it

1:17:25 Yes, it was a little... the batteries. The idea was there is that typical no agenda pack shot with Duracell batteries and which is weird because... And I should remind people I've had nothing but bad luck with Duracell batteries that you get from Costco. They, they leave them in until they leak, they leak, they leak and they don't last that long the best battery to get is either an Allmax or a Fuji Fugees. I've had good luck with Fugees. Fuji makes a terrific battery Can you get those at Costco? The Fuji? No, all you can get it Costco is Duracell and the Kirkland battery How are those? The Kirklands? Yeah, I have not noticed that they're any good There's no place to buy batteries! I don't think i'd ever buy Kirklands batteries

1:18:22 I bought them at Fuji's. They didn't show me anything You had a complaint about the chicken the other day, so i saw you posted about it Well uh... It turns out that Costco is taking the Costco chicken, the $495 Classic cheap chicken A rotisserie chicken and in some Costcos not mined locally but The one up in Port Angeles Washington where its actually in Squim They put it in a plastic bag instead of in the container. Oh no, that's wrong! And so the plastic bag all the juice ends up in the bag and the bag is made out of whatever its made out of cracks and leaks So you're gonna get Costco chicken juice all over your car or wherever you put the bag It also steams the chicken in the bag creating soft skin It's a disaster

1:19:18 And you also can't tell using the chicken trick what the best chicken is in the group, because they're all in bags. You can't really tell with the Costco chicken and a container. The trick is for everyone out there who eats this crap... The trick is if the back of the chicken is touching the top of the container because you can see it I'd say about one out of 20 chickens does this. It's the perfectly cooked chicken. John C. Dvorak's Pet Peeve of the Day! It wasn't a peeve, it was a tip Well I wanted to play the peave but then you close it with the tips But your peeve was the bags Yeah the bags are no good We don't have a John C. Dvorak tip of the day... we should Should? We had many artists check in with slingshots The slingshot people loved the slingshot idea

1:20:10 Yeah, well they didn't quite why didn't they quite do it? It didn't quite hand in quite a little light corny. Yeah I kind of liked Darren's and no agenda sewage sludge Class another classic pack shot was okay. I saw you yeah He does he always throw something in there just in case I saw that you used Fletcher's gold standard For yeah, I use that newsletter the newsletter. That was a pretty piece It wasn't nice it wasn't for the show because it doesn't really have any direct connection to anything But it was a nice piece and then there was a bunch of AI stuff everywhere a lot of trad wife stuff People trying to get us with trad wise and it wasn't gonna translate Although I did get people emailing me about how they love being a housekeeper

1:21:01 And well they should Instead of homemaker. It's a John C. Dvorak housekeeper as great is great. Well, thank you keeping the house Yeah exactly You're keeping the house Thank you very much sir shug aka faux diddly for the artwork for episode 1662 we almost this was kind of interesting We almost titled that one Jacked up Joe and we went for a hard landing, but we're like yeah How about jacked-up Joe? And if we had done that it would have been the third time. We've used that title a quick turns out Yeah, quick a quick check Revealed that we had already doubled that once before so yes, we'd use it you use the choice when I promoted the idea Let's go for the hat trick. Yeah, I Wavered for a minute, but then now we can do something better

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1:35:00 South Australia, Australia 226. Jobs Karma for all of us who are starting something new love the show keep up the good work well we got that for you no problem. Jobs jobs jobs and jobs let's vote for jobs! Ah, here we go with Eli the Coffee Guy in Bensonville Illinois. This brings me to a note that was written into... Gentlemen you asked espresso questions last episode we have answers The device used to knock spent coffee out of the portafilter is known as a knock box Mimi pointed this out to me too Knock Box!

1:35:42 Light roasts don't knock out of the portafilter as easy because they are denser. As the coffee is roasted darker, the bean actually expands more like popcorn and density decreases which means a darker roast will get knocked out easier." John, light roasts do have more caffeine. The Honduran organic is my favorite for espresso. Adam, I agree that dark roast work better in French press Producers should visit gigawattcoffeeroasters.com and get a super sampler of all 10 of our coffees to see which one is their favorite, and use ITM code 20 for 20% off their orders stay caffeinated." Now that brings me to a note that was sent by another coffee guy. And of course I ended up going back... Misplacing the notes? No, I have to go back and find the note. Okay. But just give me a second here it is from Mike

1:36:38 And he's a coffee roaster too, but I think he is more commercial. Does he have a code? A coffee roaster here weighing in on the light-dark debate! Yeah and this is our producer Mike. Eli the Coffee Guy who has a dang good espresso blend will probably confirm what I'm about to say as well But he doesn't quite because he says something different here. It's not that light roast coffee has more caffeine, it's that the light roast coffees have more density now he did say that and humidity that the amount of space they occupy is greater compared to a dark roast so when you fill your portafilter with a dark roast the standard is 18 grams but to occupy the same amount of space you will have 20 grams of a light roast

1:37:30 Oh, that's why it's more caffeine. It's just more product! Yeah, makes sense. More product... got it This is even more noticeable when you compare the amount of coffee in a 12 ounce bag of light versus dark roast also the phenomenon where he can't knock the light roast out has to do with dark roast being more carbonized, brittle and light roast being more flexible retaining more water. I work on some high volume $30,000 espresso machines that use ceramic burrs and they are not rated for light roast because they will get jammed from the two factors I just mentioned." Now that's more information than anybody out there will ever give a podcast about coffee.

1:38:15 Well, I'm down to my almost my last can of the coaster. You love that you love the canned coffee? Yeah and again it says here nitro shake vigorously to activate and it does when I open it sprays all over me. Should I wait before because activation... That's another question for Eli the Coffee Guy he is someone who makes that product Because I did it the other day and all over my hoodie and like okay Now, I just want to mention on this can is confusing. Costa Rican Dota Tarazu Snapshot Coffee. Here comes single origin juicy profile vibrant taste. Indeed it's just water and coffee

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1:39:41 Or find Linda Lou Patkin, Duchess of Jobs and writer of resumes on the producer list. Now I mentioned this... Well give her the jobs card then have a comment. Make the comment and that'll do the jobs card. The comment is that we've gotten at least two notes from people who said you say there's no advertising but Linda Lou Patkins' advertising! Really? Yeah. I can read the note And my comment is no, she's not really advertising because she's not going through an advertising system. She's just plugging a product that she has the same as Eli the coffee guy which I reprimanded this guy for not mentioning that seems like more of an add than they didn't Linda. He's got a code he's got a code. You know it's kind of cold and so hey we all should have someone who donates $200 every single show. All right?

1:40:35 We all should be so lucky. Not an ad, it's a difference. No it's a plug! It's a plug! We also play stuff that we like Yeah, we play all kinds of stuff that we like. Like the Costco $4.95 chicken And the Fuji batteries... Who has that advertised to you? Fuji batteries are killer product Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs Let's vote for jobs! Thank you very much to our executive and associate executive producers We really appreciate you lighting the load You make our burden light. You do, thank you so much we appreciate it of course these are titles that you can keep forever put them on your resume there's something for you Linda Lopatkin I hope you tell everybody to put it on their resume

1:41:16 Or put it in your social media profile, your LinkedIn profile. Or if you wish... You can go just like the big boys and girls there in Hollywood and you could put it on your IMDB If you don't have one, you can open one now And if anyone ever questions these credits let us know we'll gladly vouch for you because We are Show Business Guys! Thank you for supporting us for episode 1662 Our formula is this.... We go out, we hit people in the mouth. Yeah, there's some bird flu. They're just keeping it alive at this point

1:42:05 I don't know if you've been following, but this is... Yeah. It's just languishing. They're not doing a very good job. Well they're trying to keep it alive! Tonight U.S. health officials closely monitoring that human case of the highly contagious bird flu virus now the second infection linked to an outbreak in dairy cows. Oh stop! Second infection? The second infection why are they using the word high- You know they this is a I don't where he got this but this is bad reporting It's highly contagious amongst birds. Yes, well but to just throw it out as highly contagious makes it think that we're getting it That's the point! Authorities saying a Michigan farm worker recovered after having mild symptoms That worker likely contracting the virus from infected livestock Back in March A Texas farm worker was diagnosed with the first human case of bird flu Human case of bird flu? First of all

1:43:00 Bullcrap. I've seen guys in Belgium with bird flu! And it's pink eye, basically. Tied to dairy cows Both patients worked with cows What does tied...tied to dairy cows even mean? Did you put a string on it? A piece of yarn? He got a big rope. Diagnosed with the first human case of bird flu tied to dairy cows That's not even...that's not It's either from dairy cows Or where did this report come from? This is ABC. These networks are really out of control. They're being told what to do. A worker was diagnosed with the first human case of bird flu tied to dairy cows Both patients worked with cows both reporting eye infections, but the cases are not connected Eye infections pink eye that's literally what you get it's almost like just rubbing poop in your eye You get pink eye

1:43:56 Please, high infections. Oh I'm blind! I'm blind from bird flu! The risk to human health still is very low Because of the bird flu threat the CDC tonight as a precaution urging cities and states to keep up flu surveillance this summer Keep it up! Keep up! Keep up the surveillance There is no human-human transmission which is very important reassurance that this problem is still mostly confined to livestock Alright, let's listen to Lester Holt on NBC with his version. Very quick! A second human case of bird flu linked to dairy cows has been confirmed in the US Health officials in Michigan say a dairy worker who contracted the virus experienced mild eye symptoms and has since recovered The first case was found in Texas in March Oh I've recovered from my pink eye

1:44:44 So rough it was you know there's probably more cases of the plague These two cases of bird actually heard fluent conjunctivitis Actual play yeah actual plague yes. Yes, that's unbelievable these people unbelievable Unbelievable yes, let's change gears and go to the Ten Commandments in them in the Louisiana schools. Big scandal! Woo! Louisiana may soon require public schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom. That's a bill that passed the state Senate last week, and few other states have also considered this move after a US Supreme Court decision about religion in schools

1:45:32 Mollie Ryan with Member Station WRKF in Baton Rouge has more. The bill specifies that a poster at least 11 inches by 14 inches must be displayed in every public school classroom with the Ten Commandments, spelling out the prohibitions against killing and stealing to prohibitions against coveting your neighbor's wife servant or cattle Proponents say it will provide moral guidance to students. The significance of history is historical, our laws are based on the Ten Commandments in fact without them a lot of our laws would not exist That's state representative Dodie Horton A Republican lawmaker and sponsor of the bill discussing it at the legislature last month She passed a similar bill last year that requires all public school classrooms To display In God We Trust

1:46:17 Horton and other proponents say there's a new legal opportunity for something that has been prohibited in the past. They cite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that gave a high school football coach his job back after he was fired for praying on the field. The legal landscape has changed, which now allows us to present a bill like the Ten Commandments. Oh! Where is the controversy? It's coming, it's clip two. Here we go! A similar bill failed in Texas last year and Arizona's governor vetoed a slightly different one the group Americans United for Separation of Church and State says Louisiana would be the only state to require the commandments in all classrooms

1:46:56 Opponents of the bill say it's state-sanctioned religion and violates the First Amendment. Here is Terry Landry with the Southern Poverty Law Center opposing the bill in a Senate committee, saying it violates the rights of families of varying religious beliefs. The proposal does not require teachers to teach the Ten Commandments but Some, including Landry, argue some of the commandments could raise uncomfortable questions for elementary school students. He noted that could also clash with another bill being considered to ban classroom discussion of sexual orientation

1:47:34 The bill goes back to the House where it's expected to pass with some changes before heading to Republican Governor Jeff Landry's desk. If he signs the bill, opponents are expected to challenge it in court. Oh brother! So here we go now there is a few things to discuss one this guy that the atheist, who I'm assuming is an atheist that came up with this. Well, it's going to cause problems because you have to explain adultery to children but meanwhile they're promoting sexual orientation discussions... Homosexual orientation! ...To the first graders And why don't you put the Ten Commandments just hanging above your pride flag? It'll all be okay Please

1:48:22 And of all things, by the way we should mention that Ten Commandments are innocuous. But they will bring forth the Satanists and the atheists who are gonna bitch and moan because it's not a separation. What church are we talking about here? That Jewish, is it from, the Ten Commandments comes out of the Old Testament. So that's Jewish so were you're talking about your objecting to, you hate Jews I just don't see... But then again, now the other little element that came out of this is Texas rejected the same idea. What's wrong with you in Texas? I don't know but I was not part of that vote! I understand in California why it's going...that would never happen Well, I don't know the details of the Texas thing but

1:49:14 We just need to set straight that the separation between church and state is nowhere, can you read that in the Constitution? The only thing that reads in the First Amendment is that government cannot make any law against any religion. Yes even if you want to be a Satanist! The separation of church and state comes from a letter that Jefferson wrote that people now hold up as... No no You can do whatever you want. Any state can do what they want and quite honestly any school should do whatever they want, but we'd do much better if we got a little bit of Ten Commandments in our life." But no oh boy! Oh yes I'm sure this all boils down to one thing don't vote for Trump and while we're at it... Yes i think you nailed it that's the only reason for the controversy or the fact that they carry this on NPR Don't vote for Trump and while we're at it everyone

1:50:11 You can go to any school in America. I think probably if i went into the school in Fredericksburg you'll see pride flags, and all different versions and all the teachers have a pride flag we ought to be it's going to be great and get pride and pride and pride one of this one of this sins of course, pride. But we got all kinds of pride flags but oh no! Alito's got a pine tree flag! This morning Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito faces new calls to remove himself from cases tied to the former president and the assault on the Capitol The New York Times reports that second flag used by January 6th protesters was seen flying at Alitos vacation home Scott McFarland looks at the modern message of that revolutionary war banner

1:50:57 This is fantastic. The guy's flying a flag and it's a problem, they've flown pride flags over the White House! I know right? Actually have a clip from two shows ago... Yeah Can I play the follow-up and then I want to hear yours? Yeah, but I just want to mention that this is part and parcel of the upcoming Supreme Court decisions about Chevron deference. About flags! It's got nothing to do with flags... Of course not! You can see the white and green appeal to heaven flag amidst the rioters who surged into the Capitol on January 6th

1:51:33 The siege helped make the flag a symbol of support for former President Trump and the conservative Christian nationalist movement. According to this New York Times report Wednesday, an appeal to heaven flag was photographed flying at the New Jersey vacation home of conservative Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito last summer The report comes days after Alito acknowledged an upside-down US flag, also associated with the January 6th attack and the Stop the Steal movement flew outside his Virginia home. Days after the deadly Capitol riot, Alito argued he had no involvement whatsoever in the flying of the flag that was hung by his wife amid a dispute with neighbors

1:52:14 And recently, Alito argued free speech is under attack. Troubled waters are slamming against some of our most fundamental principles The controversy comes as the court is deciding whether Trump should have immunity from prosecution which led some Democrats to call for Justice Alito to recuse himself from those cases I think what he did was really the wrong thing to do and it casts some Doubt on impartiality as the appeal to heaven flag also hangs outside the office of Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson Johnson issued a statement in support writing He has long appreciated the rich history of the flag because it was first used by General George Washington during the Revolutionary War Yeah, and it was against the British because they wanted to Cut down our pine trees

1:53:03 And we said no. We, we murdered them. We need these pine trees for making cheap furniture you guys haven't got a clue. IKEA needs them. Ikea needs the damn pine tree here's what i got now this is from two weeks ago this is they'll do with the upside down flag became an issue An American flag once reportedly flown upside down at the home of a Supreme Court justice the presidential contenders agreed to debate and pretty soon also Michael Cohen on the stand at the criminal trial of Donald Trump. And Piers Ron Elving joins us, Ron thanks so much for being with us. Good to be with you Scott The New York Times reported this week it had photographs confirmed by interviews with neighbors that a US flag flew upside down at the home of Justice Samuel Alito just days before President Biden was inaugurated in 2021

1:53:52 Now, is this just a matter among capital pundits and opinionators or something more? It certainly has set pundit tongues to wagging Scott. And it's still a developing story but... There are some facts agreed upon. Alito says he had nothing to do with the flag, but his wife put it up after a verbal dispute with a neighbor over yard signs Apparently one sign was reported to have had an obscenity on it Mrs. Alito took exception to that and had an altercation with her neighbor And then she ran up Old Glory upside down Now its a nautical sign of a vessel in distress

1:54:28 but it was also brandished by some of the rioters at the Capitol trying to overturn the results in 2020 election. That was several days before this flag incident at the Alitos so Democrats are taking this very seriously House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Judiciary chairman Dick Durbin have both called on Alito to recuse himself from two cases pending now before the high court, cases that are pertinent to Trump's trials and his election denial. This is so amazing because when it comes to flag etiquette...

1:55:06 I mean, seriously. I've seen the pride—I'm going to say it again—the pride flag flying above the American flag totally out of all flag regulations any flag in America should not be flown above the U.S. flag and what is the deal with these people? I should have clipped it you know my hate listen pivot With Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway. They were like you should just leave the flag alone You should never do that stop with the flag all of a sudden they care about the flag These people hate America day, they hate the American flag because it represents Trump They hate it. They hate America their haters the haters got to hate their haters. Yeah A 69 year old grandmother was arrested here in Fredericksburg this week by the by the sheriff

1:55:58 You know why? Because there was video of her praying inside the Capitol on January 6th. This is almost three years later! Are they still rousting grannies?! Rousting grannies. Well, how did they find out who it was? A and why is the sheriff going along with this bullcrap well Thank you. We just and this is why it's a big issue here. Let me write down roasting granny that's pretty funny we have a runoff election for Gillespie County Sheriff which ends tomorrow And this is the incumbent sheriff, and so apparently the way it works is whenever you're riding around the sheriff just scans your license plate. If a warrant pops up he's going to arrest you So I didn't know if the sheriff was riding around just checking everybody's license plate But apparently it is It's part political now of course Look at what he did He's bad!

1:56:55 Vote for the other guy vote for the other guy, but he's bad Vote for Chris on that vote for Chris. I'm buddies bad. I'm working on working on it Yes, this is good But in general the the knowledge of what really and you notice that they only talk about writers now They don't talk about insurrectionists that went by the wayside they stopped calling his Biden can't pronounce it He keeps saying erectionists here is Bill Maher who appeared on the Megyn Kelly show. He did this by the way I should mention he also appeared on Gutfeld and On The View, he's everywhere! Well it's because he has a book and he has got a good book agent and she is pushing him to be on this show that he was not happy on Gutfeld well he wasn't happy on Megyn Kelly either. I think on January 20th 2025 he'll show up at the White House whether he is invited or not

1:57:47 And I don't think that's going to be good. You think he is going to bomb in if he lost? Yes, oh yeah! Bomb is a word I wouldn't even throw around lightly. Oh stop it, he's not gonna do that Right like there was never an attack on the Capitol. I hear you, but he's not going to show up at the inauguration. Like they did show up at the Capitol and break windows and knock down doors and kill cops They didn't do that. They didn't break windows? They didn't kill cops. They of course did! No they didn't Who did?! They died of natural causes that day? Yeah nobody died that day Cops? No not true

1:58:24 Who? Oh, I don't remember the names. They didn't. There was Brian Sicknick who died later after the fact and the coroner's report did not say it was because of what he had inhaled that day. He said it had possibly accelerated the condition that killed him So this is the kind of knowledge or ignorance that people have Well cops were killed man! Cops were killed they killed cops Yeah, that's Bill Maher a guy who has a voice He has a voice. It was very similar on Gutfeld when he had, and Gutfeld has it has a tremendous sense of humor when it comes to dealing with this guy and he just did just amazing to watch

1:59:07 He's faster too because the two of them got into a little sparring match and you can just see that the quips were faster. And it's a big deal, this way Johnny Carson always got a lot of kudos because if he wanted to get into an insult thing going on, he'd kill ya! Because you just aren't that fast, he's real fast so Gutfeld turns out to be really quick But he said the same thing, he said Trump's gonna you know... He is just going to take the office and if he gets elected he is never gonna leave. This is same stuff! He says that he is gonna ruin, kill, end democracy. Where does this even? How does this even develop? It's derangement syndrome. I should have played these clips after you brought up The Ten Commandments because Nora O'Donnell, this was really interesting

2:00:00 Nora O'Donnell interviewed the Pope. Yes she did and they took up the whole show well we I don't have all that but a lot of things that have been reported in the news turn out to be fake news according to the Pope what? I know, I was surprised let's start with number one It's Francis' capacity for forgiveness and openness that has defined his leadership of the church's nearly 1.4 billion Catholics He put them, and the world on notice during an impromptu press conference on a plane in 2013 when he spoke on the subject

2:00:42 of homosexuality. If someone is gay, he said and he searches for the Lord and has goodwill who am I to judge? And he did not stop there last year you decided to allow Catholic priests to bless same-sex couples that's a big change why? No what i allowed was not to bless the union that cannot be done because it is not the sacrament I cannot. The Lord made it that way, but to bless each person? Yes! The blessing is for everyone...for everyone. To bless a homosexual type union however goes against the given right, against the law of the Church But to bless each person? Why not? The blessing is for all Some people were scandalized by this but why

2:01:47 Everyone. Todos, todos. You have said who am I to judge homosexuality is not a crime? No it's a human fact. Which brings me to the where is it here the new show starting on Peacock June 6th, here's the promo. Our planet is home to over 11 million species. The paparazzi really are everywhere! Everything you were told as a kid is wrong! You make me wanna die! Gay penguins, bisexual lions, sex-changing clownfish... This IS our queer planet

2:02:39 Sexiness has always existed. It's only in humans that we have such a stigma about it The idea of just having two fixed sexes is clearly out of style Mother Nature is pretty open-minded. Sex is not just for reproduction It's clear that no matter where you look on our planet, nature is full of queer surprises To be honest we should all probably get laid a little more than we do That's right! Queer Planet starts June 6th on the Peacock Network Gay and it's called queer planet the show is called queer planet. Yep, that's you know That's all good so good so good perfect but don't hang the Ten Commandments up in there in the schools Queer planets they show a bunch of lions board looked at gay Lions Oh

2:03:39 It really it looks highly produced I must say. Yeah, well they got a lot of producers that know what they're doing. They certainly do. That are gay Anyway um...I don't know why i went that route but maybe we should get back to uh... Don't either Get back to Trump because Comey is out and about wait wait before you do that back to get talking about You know you first you brought up the ten commands now. We got broad gay planet or gay queer planet difference yeah I might as well play this clip. This is Biden and the five daughters clip, have you heard this? Yeah i have yeah it's kind of creepy. Purgatory for this guy...five daughters straight to heaven and by the way I say that every young man thinking getting married marrying a family with five or more daughters. I did my wife's the oldest of five sisters you know why

2:04:39 One of them will always love you. Not the same one, but one of them has always been on your side That's the biggest advantage in marrying into five daughters This so creepy? He is creepy! So what is he saying... What is he telling us here that you should marry a woman who has uh... sisters I guess Has four sisters or more mm-hmm I would assume because one of them will love ya Yeah, not necessarily the same one. No! Which means he's having sex with one of his wife's sisters That's what it tells me that for a good Catholic boy He is a sinner You think? Wow big revelation stop the presses Biden is a sinner The prop bets are in

2:05:34 For the debate, we have the odds for which drug President Biden will test positive for. We have... Now when it says plus 200 what does that mean? That means if you bet $200, you win a hundred. No no of two if it's plus 200 one dollars If your better if your better dollar you get to back so you get three back alright So that's adderall at 200 cocaine and 400 PCP or angel dust at 600 by the way this is from a bet online Ketamine 1000 now Viagra 1500 I'm surprised

2:06:14 They're not going to test anybody for drugs, so this betting thing... Okay here's the question I have when I saw this list. If they don't test? So I bet! Do I get my money back if a test ever takes place? I don't think so Probably not. Probably not. No probably not. Hmm. We'll take the long shot This is kind of little bit off-the-wall but in the category of post traumatic syndrome disorder But what other, what are words softening have we had throughout the ages? Women's health care. Reproductive health care. What other, what other... We should make a list.

2:07:03 concise list of these. Euphemisms, that's the word Illinois has just passed a new euphemism law on Tuesday bill 4409 passed in the state Senate 34 to 20 question is your house bill 4409 pass all those in favor vote aye opposed nay the voting is open The proposed legislation would remove the term offender and replace it with justice impacted individual. For individuals in the state's Adult Redeploy Illinois program, commonly referred to as ARI According to the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority, ARI is an initiative that diverts offenders from prison to programs to help rehabilitate them to success

2:07:46 Republicans say the language change portrays a lack of empathy for victims and lack of concern for public safety. Change this, change that! The only thing you don't want to change is the behavior of criminals and guess who's paying for that right now? Victims all across this state. I urge a no vote How about that? I love that. I love how they changed... Justice impacted individual Yes, I'm sorry have you been impacted by justice Yeah i'm in jail! I've been impacted by justice yeah gender affirming care that was the other one of course That was the big euphemism

2:08:23 Yeah, yeah. But whatever you do keep the Ten Commandments out of schools because that's gonna hurt children that's really gonna hurt children You have to explain adultery to them Janet Yellen is in Italy today And yeah, what do you think she's discussing with her counterparts the G7 finance ministers? Well it's this focus now turns to your meeting in Italy with the G7 Finance Ministers and the frozen Russian assets. We know those assets are not going seized altogether and gifted to Ukraine. There's talk though that a loan could be given to bring forward future profits, to give more money to Ukraine now – to the tune of $40-50 billion dollars. Is that something you support? Yes I think that is a possibility

2:09:16 I believe it's important for the G7 to work together to show a united front and to show that we can generate meaningful resources to support Ukraine over the next several years. And while America stands behind Ukraine, and I expect Congress if necessary will pass future packages Ukraine has substantial needs and being able to marshal significant resources to help Ukraine is important. And that's one way to do it I understand that today the European Union took the final step in approving a plan by which windfall profits that are being earned

2:10:05 on Russian assets. Now listen to this, this is about Euroclear. Listen to the words that she's using regarding interest and making money or not I mean it's very confusing here In Euroclear they will be dedicated for Ukraine's use and the plan that you mentioned would essentially bring forward that flow of interest proceeds from the asset that do not belong to Russia. The Russian assets are not earning interest anymore, but they are generating returns for Euroclear. How? OK, so the Russian money that's in Euroclear is not generating any money, but somehow you're clear is going to be taking the interest earned on that money and sending it to Ukraine. Yeah.

2:10:59 This is a mistake. They're stealing money? Yes! A loan could be given to Ukraine that would be repaid over several years by that flow of interest Oh, it's a loan I see... Over that flow of interest This is a big mistake And this is why Russia and China they're trying to get their own the bricks are gonna try and get their own money together Not something that happens overnight It'll take decades probably But this is dumb. This is dumb! I don't...I think Janet Yellen hates America, she just wants the dollar to break apart. I think she's an agent of change for some—for maybe the Chinese? How can we have someone so dumb doing these things? She was the head of the Fed for a while Yeah great job! I think under Trump

2:11:59 No, was she under Trump? It was either Trump or Obama. Could have been Obama I think it maybe she was Carrie Orr She might have been...she might have been Under Trump i'm thinking but no But anyway yeah she was I think she definitely worked under trump for a while and then he got rid of her Yeah because she's dumb This makes no sense Now interesting things are happening. The FIT 21 Act was passed by the House, here's Tom Emmer which always gives me a chuckle because Emmer is Bucket in Dutch so here's Tom Bucket to talk about it.

2:13:00 This bill is about national security. It's about consumer protection, it's about global competitiveness... It's about shaping what the future global digital economy looks like and how it functions. Currently all online transactions are intermediated But as we move deeper into the digital age, digital assets are key to decentralizing the internet so Americans can transact directly with each other. Now no intermediary needed. Without crypto we don't have this ability and I think giving Americans a choice to do business through an intermediary or directly with each other is important

2:13:36 Having that choice will fundamentally alter the digital economy, unlocking new opportunities for Americans and individuals across the world in ways we haven't even begun to contemplate. However this Congress can no longer stand by as regulators squander this opportunity right within our grasp This administration has demonstrated they simply are not willing to allow the digital asset industry to innovate in the United States. For every legal inconsistency or regulatory hurdle they produce, instead of coherent and informed guidance, they drive American digital asset users into less safe jurisdictions That's why the FIT 21 Act is significant

2:14:14 So this clears the way for central bank digital currency, but it also cleared and passed. I mean it has to pass the Senate and of course the president has to sign it but you can have your own Bitcoin wallet You don't have to have it connected to your bank. You can create services that have bitcoin wallets. You can help transfer I should say digital assets But I just think a bitcoin You can have services that transfer, that pass through payments. It's really good for innovation bad for the dollar good for innovation. How does this help the IRS? I'm not seeing it! That's what the beauty is i'd say. They didn't pass it to... they must hate the IRS. It passed overwhelmingly in the House

2:15:02 Well, what was the votes? It was overwhelming. That means a bunch of Democrats had to vote for it 71 voted against mostly Democrats all the rest voted for Yeah, they're up to something but this is and to be honest about it that You know a wallet is is just the metaphor. There's no wallet all you're doing all a wallet Is it just making signing? Cryptographically signing something, you know you don't get any money It's not like me oh like money trickles into some thing and I have like a pocketbook So if you can do encrypted email you should be able to do an encrypted signing of a transaction All right, I guess that's interesting it is to me

2:15:45 Here's something that we would be well if we're gonna go with that this is interesting to me all right in PR at best Max Dow once lived on the streets of Fair Haven, Vermont But he receives an honorary doctorate this morning at Vermont State University Castleton Max may have some faults, but he's really a pussycat. A tabby! And as Vermont Public Radio reports the once feral kitten taken in by a woman named Ashley Dow has become part of university life over the past five years He's posed for photography classes He hitch rides on backpacks and been a general source of campus cheer

2:16:24 Ashley Dowd told Vermont Public Radio she's encouraged students to bring Max home if they see him out after five. And students did actually bring him home, she says I'll get text messages from random students it's like he's okay He is up by the greenhouse A school announcement on Instagram says Max's Doctor of Literature degree comes quote complete with all catnip perks scratching post privileges and litter box responsibilities that come with it Don't invite Max to a kegger to celebrate this weekend. He's still not 21 So let me just get this straight you compare one of the most important financial innovations in our life to a cat getting a degree Oh, yeah Well when the IRS... A cat getting a phony baloney degree in literature why literature or is it litter? Litter Yes well when the IRS comes for your money they'll get it

2:17:21 They'll have to pry it out of my cold hand, my dead hands. That clip is really just saying what a degree is worth in today's world Well not like our PhDs It's a little different I think those are valuable Very valuable indeed I have some random clips that I can play or I can play a series on Mar-a-Lago case Yeah, the Mar-a-Lago. I'd like to hear that the Mar-a-Lago case is kind of interesting because it seems...I don't know if we learn anything new but it seems like a there was some, to coin the phrase trumped up documents that were shipped over there second Trump is using this to campaign by saying that the FBI wanted to shoot him

2:18:12 Yeah, yeah it's all good stuff. I have two ways that i can go with this there is a bunch of clips but im only gonna run these which are the more complex ones There are three clips 1A 2a and 3a we'll skip the other ones Let's start with 1A. We've been hearing a lot about Donald Trump's criminal trial in New York for making hush money payments, well while that one is on pause through the long weekend lawyers for Trump and two co-defendants appeared in a Florida court today In that case the former president is charged with taking classified and top secret material to Mar-a-Lago when he left the White House then conspiring to hide those documents from federal investigators And PRs Greg Allen is at the courthouse in Fort Pierce Florida Hey Greg

2:18:53 Hi Ari, tell us what happened in court today. Well defense attorneys asked US District Judge Eileen Cannon to dismiss the charges against their clients They say this case is politically motivated and that the prosecution is quote selective and vindictive Former President Trump wasn't here today But he skipped a session but his two co-defendants were here The court heard two motions both filed by Trump's aide Walt Nauda Nauda was charged with moving boxes containing classified documents To different locations at Mar-a-Lago alleged attempt to hide them from federal investigators and then lying about it afterwards. NADA's attorney Stanley Woodward told the judge he believes his client is being prosecuted because he refused to cooperate with the government's case against his boss when NADA refused to be a witness against Trump, Woodward says prosecutors retaliated by in his words shoehorning him into the indictment of the former president

2:19:43 Judge Cannon, who's a Trump appointee and has been criticized for some rulings in favor of the defense seems skeptical today. She said isn't that fairly standard way to try to get attorneys to convince the client to cooperate? Really now! Seems pretty standard Yeah it turns out that they threatened this attorney And one of them said to the attorney, look you're up for a judgeship if you get this guy to roll over on Trump. You're never going to get that judgeship and so this case is falling apart at all seems

2:20:21 Not to mention the New York case, which is really dumb. But let's go clip two here. Running theme here across these trials it sounds like there were some testy moments in the courtroom. Tell us about them. Testy? Testy moments? Yes nothing like we saw in New York but much for us. There was a lot of attention devoted to meeting in August 2022 between prosecutor Jay Bratt and Stanley Woodward who just came on as not his attorney. Woodward said he was under consideration for a federal judicial appointment at the time, and that Bratton mentioned it at the meeting. Woodward says he believes it was intended to send him a message that he should convince his client to cooperate with the investigation or in his words, it could mess up his potential judgeship

2:21:00 Prosecutor David Harbaugh, who was talking to the judge about this called that description of the meeting a fantasy and that Bratt's passing comments were being taken out of context. He became agitated at one point when Judge Cannon pressed him on the issue and she had to admonish him to calm down. And tell us about the motion to dismiss that was argued today what was that about? Well, the motion involved all three co-defendants. Nauta's lawyer Stanley Woodward made a technical argument as he termed it that focuses on how the indictment is worded and he encouraged the judge to throw out several counts One example were two counts in which Nauta and Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos de Oliveira are charged with attempting to get the club's IT supervisor

2:21:40 to delete video footage from surveillance cameras. The IT guy said he couldn't do it and the footage wasn't deleted, but because of that Woodward says no crime was committed. It was just a conversation he said it's not illegal to talk about something. Yeah, it just gets more and more complicated. That's why we haven't been covering yet Yeah. But we'll, I got one third clip here. Okay. Trial was supposed to have started this week the judge indefinitely postponed the start date any idea of when it might actually get underway? No, no sign of that at this point. There are by my count nearly a dozen motions filed by Trump's lawyers still pending before the court. The judge has also yet has to have important hearings on how classified material will be handled. She says she is going to take up that issue in July which makes it eight months behind schedule and its beginning looking less and less likely that trial will begin before the presidential election And of course if Trump wins because its a federal case he'd have the power shut down the Department of Justice case

2:22:42 What a waste. What a waste of energy, waste of airtime... Money! The Wall Street Journal had an overview of the median age of television networks Of the networks? Yes You mean the viewers? Yes, of the viewership and these are cable networks I'd like you to give just guess What do you think the median age is of those watching MSNBC? I would say 50. 69. Fox News? I would say that's got to be 75 68. Oh, Fox News is younger! That surprises me CNN? Well I'd have to say 70 Nope 66 Here's here's the kicker

2:23:42 That's median age. Median age, which everyone should probably explain that yes median versus average good idea Yes median is that means the number that you have just as many above that age As there are below right so if you have a lot of people who are 12 years old that are are watching then that would should drop the median age. But if the median age is something that high, that means there's a lot of really old people listening. The average is you just take all of them and add them all up and then you divide by that number which is always different than median. Oh I think it would probably be lower if he took the average age but what got me was MTV Median Age? Higher than we think 52

2:24:35 The median age of people watching MTV where they watch teen pregnancy reality shows. Right! And we're worried about the Ten Commandments in school, we're lost as a nation! We are lost as nations Here's speaking of old people. Here's the Old People Channel MSNBC with former FBI director James Comey who sounds worried about Trump becoming president What are the principal points of danger within the Justice Department if there is another Trump presidency given his nature, given what you know about him?

2:25:12 He is a threat to the rule of law in America. That's, to me that what this election is about not about policy differences it's about what kind of country are we going to be? If he has the ability smarter than he was last time to use the power of the Department of Justice and FBI to target his enemies especially The rule of law in America will change in way we haven't seen in our lifetime When you say target his enemies how would do that Well, I think the first thing he would do is he would express it in his first term as a wish. I want people to go after so-and-so. I want people to go after Andrew McCabe, the former deputy director of the FBI. In his second term, he would go a step further—I'm highly confident—and say, I want him criminally investigated and he was close to the bottom of the barrel in his appointees last time. He'll be at the very bottom and those are the people who carry out that order

2:26:01 Sounds like somebody's worried. Yeah, he sounds very worried. He should be probably and then this is by the way I want to mention something this was actually a good this could be used and he just I think did it by accident But to use the pitch, this is be the pitch. Trump has been an officer four years before now he's smarter! That's what he said. Now he's smarter so he could be more evil He's already talking about the second term These people are so convinced

2:26:39 And of course this, which I'm pretty convinced this was a plant. I think it was well done. I think this is a chalk it up as a win for the Biden team It doesn't make any difference, but I think it was well done. Former President Trump addressed reporters today outside of the courtroom but offered no comment on the incendiary controversial video posted to his social media account What happens after Donald Trump wins? The video showed hypothetical headlines of an imagine Trump victory this fall with one asking what's next for America and three times suggesting the creation of a unified Reich A term widely associated with Nazi Germany

2:27:20 President Biden released this campaign video response. A unified Reich, that's Sittler's language. That's not America's he cares about holding on to power. This kind of rhetoric is unsurprising coming from the former president and it is appalling And we gotta tell him who we are. It's not the first time Trump has used rhetoric prompting outrage for its echoes of hateful extremists on Saturday at the NRA convention He mused about the possibility of staying on for a third term, you know FDR 16 years Almost 16 years he was four-term

2:27:58 I don't know, are we going to be considered three term or two term? The Trump campaign has taken down the video and blamed a quote junior staffer for sharing the material which was first published elsewhere. I'm thinking that was a plant because you really had to zoom in on the third Reich headline. It wasn't it was good, but I think there was well done. I agree it. I think somebody someone did a good dirty tricks this is the dirty tricks part of politics and that's what some Democrat did that That's why they got on it so quick Well done as well and that's everything good to go now What does what tell me about FDR with 16 years? What's all that about?

2:28:38 He was, FDR was elected president and he was then he was reaffirmed. You got a second term and they got a third term then you get a fourth term that would give him 16 years in office. It was the FDR that created the amendment that you can't run twice. Oh OK. That's what I was because it wasn't for 16 years while you died in the last of the year is but it was basically elected for 16 years And if, you know the Democrats would have just kept him in there. That's the idea and it was they had to be stopped and so they put this in I mean people talked about if that wasn't for that amendment Obama'd still being president, he'll still be the president. He stil is! What are talking about? He still is. Okay little update on the Iranian President. I like what you said in the newsletter but you know the thesis

2:29:35 that these are all guys that they wanted out of the way anyway, including the bombing of the so-called embassy or consular building in Syria. Or whatever the hell it was in Damascus These were annoying people get rid of them So when we got the news there was a hard landing this is before we knew anything This was on Sunday We immediately said there's no such thing This is a crash It's all over and that is confirmed Tonight the wreckage of the fiery crash that killed Iran's president and its foreign minister in a region already rocked by instability and war. TV crews reaching the remote scene today, the hardline leader of America's long-standing adversary dead suddenly by accident Today in the streets of Tehran men openly wept for President Raisi seen as a potential successor to Iran's aging

2:30:29 Supreme Leader. At some Iranian embassies in the West, opponents celebrated. The US tonight says there are no signs of outside interference and saying Iran's government reached out for help during the rescue efforts. Ultimately largely for logistical reasons we weren't able to provide that assistance Raisi described today as a friend by fellow presidents Putin and Xi, Hamas sending its sympathies. Since the October 7th terror attacks Iran's proxies have launched multiple offensives escalating the tension in the region and tonight from Tehran, an advisor to the government telling NBC News not to expect policy changes despite the unexpected death. Lester Holt sat down with Raisi last year in what was among his last interviews with Western media, Raisi telling Lester

2:31:18 the billions of dollars unfrozen during a deal with the US in exchange for five American prisoners were Tehrans to use as it wanted. Always nice to have NBC's MI6 correspondent check-in, we appreciate that One of our producers sent me a couple of clips from this podcast called the Unpopular Opinions Podcast. The host's dad is an Iranian aviation engineer and his dad had some kind of inside I won't say it's inside knowledge, but kind of confirms some of the thesis that we've been talking about. And I want to play two of those clips. If the weather is bad, the protocol is to delay or cancel a flight and then proceed on road for three hour drive and reroute the flight room has it at the last minute something went wrong with the VIP chopper which had the sophisticated signaling, the transponders etc.. So at the very last minute they swapped the lead craft with

2:32:16 with a different helicopter. By the way, never a good idea! Wow that's a great one! Never ever get in the swapped out helicopter! So basically they had this official VIP helicopter ready to go and at the last minute they switched it with a worse one which didn't have all those features then false statements started from the authorities such as A It was a hard landing and we have spoken to them. When they got to them the following day, no mobile phone could get any signals so that was blatant lie told. Turkish authorities were asked to send two specialist drones which located the wreck early the following morning and checked their system and no signals were received from the down choppers transponders GSP transmitters or the sat nav

2:33:08 and C. Khamenei, the Ayatollah, the supreme leader made a speech only a couple of hours after it happened he was as cool as a cucumber prayed for their safe return and said not to worry if they don't come back because everything is in hand So the guy reading this, I mean he's all over the map with the technical aspects. None of that makes much sense. Instead of GPS he says GSP and a transponder is not a very sophisticated piece of gear but i'm going to take this helicopter swap out as something that was probably true and then this final clip is about the internal politics which goes to your point about yeah we kind of wanted him out anyway This is where things get a little bit interesting because

2:33:53 This President Raisi was a hardline conservative. Now, in the internal politics of Iran that basically means he was going places within the party if that makes any sense – he was kind of tipped to go far and in the Iranian system the Guardian Council basically gets to decide who will be their successor to the Supreme Leader Raisi, even though he's the president now was tipped to become the head of The Guardian Council. which would then have been responsible for picking the successor to Kamenei. This is where the plot thickens even more, friends because Raizi was also tipped to become the supreme leader himself i.e he would get onto the Guardian Council and then back himself to replace Kamenei once Kamenei pops his clogs because he's in his 80s now. And here is the final clincher

2:34:53 The hardcores in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards and apparently Khomeini himself want a different person to replace Khomeini, namely Khomeini's own son. Khomeini Jr., let's just call him his son. A lot of people are suggesting that it could have been either the hardcores in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard or Khomeini himself who wanted to off basically a rival, who was threatening to you know scupper the succession. This is lent extra credence because who is in charge of security protocols for things like presidential journeys on helicopters? None other than the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps themselves. Dun dun dun!

2:35:44 Sounds more plausible to me than what I read everywhere online. Mossad, Mossad! No no I don't think so. I'll go with the swap out the helicopter and kill him for 500 Alex. It's obvious that's what's going on and the other guy there did Israeli shoot of that other character which was another piece of theater followed by the, oh let's attack Israel with a few missiles. I'm not even sure it was Israel that did this Syria job we may have done it remember we always hear that there's a lot of collusion between America and Iran yes you're right it's possible any would anybody yes we could have done it yeah hey can you guys set up to make it they had to have a scenario in this so for all practical purposes is real did

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2:43:59 Oh, I'm sorry. Hold on... Wait wait wait wait! There it is. I got it. Here you go. Ooh nice That's the gilded one Jason Shepard Robb Simpson pop up on stage both of you today become knights of the no agenda roundtable and Amanda Selizewski Come on up, you've become a dame and I'm very proud to pronounce the KV in the following as your titles will be Sir Hans Scherhand. Sir Rob Knight of the Highlanders Shooting Irons and Dame Amanda of The Badger State For you we've got Hookers & Blow, Rent Boys & Chardonnay, Scotlander Honeycone IPA and a side of Fiddleheads We also have some Vodka Vanilla Bong Hits & Bourbons Sparkling Cider & Escorts, Ginger Ale & Gerbils Breast Milk & Pablum, Geishas & Sake And of course

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2:45:37 Just love that. I know, it's cool and of course it also comes with a certificate of authenticity thank you all so very much we appreciate you become a producer of the NO Agenda show for any amount its value for value whatever you got on the show whatever is valuable to use send it to us noagendadonations.com Well, the NO Agenda meetups are definitely something you need to keep in mind if you want to stay sane outside of just listening to the show. It's unique to The No Agenda podcast, unique because we have nothing to do with it!

2:46:16 All we do is we promote them, we play your reports. Of course, we have Sir Daniel who built a beautiful website noagendameetups.com Mimi who manages this it's actually quite a lot of logistics But we love how people get together and just talk about stuff. And we've never heard of any fracas, any fight, any disagreement at meeting ever in all the 17 years almost of the show because for some reason y'all just have... Y'all? Y'all just have kind of the same vibe about life and even though people are different and you come from different backgrounds and different age groups it just works because we're a communite!

2:46:57 You can't spell community without unity. And that's what they have there in Keene, New Hampshire here is their short Meetup report. Okay this is Russell we're at the Keene meet up which we call the Southwest New Hampshire one but will come with a better name In the morning boys! In the morning John Adam this is Jim from Noah John Nation We have two people that don't even want to participate because they don't know anything about no agenda in the morning John and Adam This is crypto Duke saying hi, John. Adam you gentlemen are awesome in the morning we thank you for all your courage Hey, this is Chris getting protected by connection I'm feeling jitty about it And we're hitting people in the mouth bye And we had a meetup in Athens Greece as requested they sent in a report

2:47:44 Hello, Adam and John. This is Sir Donald Winkler reporting back from the heart of Athens in beautiful Greece. Wait a minute...isn't he the Duke of Fire Bottles? Donald Winkler? Isn't that...? What what? Donald Winkler isn't he the...? No no it's not. It starts with the Duke of Fire Bottles which you haven't heard from for awhile. Yeah where it is? It starts with a b. Oh oh okay well here we go. Hello Adam and John this is sir Donald Winkler reporting back from the heart of Athens in beautiful Greece. Hi, this is Maria flown in especially from the UK back to the homeland for The Athens Meetup having a great time and I just want to say at this point what difference does it make? This is douchebag Ash purebloodbabydaddy fear money is toilet paper

2:48:40 In the morning! Alright, just a couple people but it's a meetup. If it's more than one person, it's a meetup Thank you for sending the report we love those We have a meet up taking place today The New York City Meet Up This is the 6th one Wolf Tones Irish Pub and Kitchen 5 O'clock so they're about to start in New York Dan will be your host The North Idaho Sanity Brigade 4th Thursday Meetup kicks off at 530 at Bunker Bar in Post Falls, Idaho today. Sir Scott the Jew your host of the Hattiesburg Hub City Beers at Hub City Beers and Fine Cigars in Hattiesburg Mississippi today 5 30

2:49:17 Now, we do not have a show...a live show on Sunday and also looks like there's no meetup so I'll just tell you what's coming up next week. On Wednesday the 20th... Oh wait, this is wrong! This is... How did that get in there? Nope, I'm wrong. The jury will disregard those remarks. The Denver Sun Worship Full Moon Meetup 630 today at Denver Colorado City Park the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. The Hangout & Talkabout Stuff meet up in Sardis Mississippi at the Rafters on the Water is underway as we speak On Saturday, there we go. The last minute May meet up one o'clock in Texas at Flip's Patio Grill in Fort Worth Texas the local 905 International Brotherhood of Mouth Hitters 130 on Saturday at Sin and Redemption in Toronto Ontario Canada the biggest little meetup 233 Big Horn Tavern in Reno Nevada on Saturday also the reunion of the most wanted it 330 Philadelphia Brewing Company in Philly that is Local 76

2:50:16 And then on Sunday, even though we do not have a live show. We have the best of climate change which I'm pretty sure you'll love The NA Guardians of Reality NKY Summer Picnic NKY, I think it's probably just KY. Maybe it's Northern Kentucky. The Summer Picnic Listening Tour Florence y'all! One o'clock Stringtown Park, Florence, Kentucky on Sunday Also the Don't Be A Douchebag Meetup Round 4 530 at McNelly's in Tulsa Oklahoma And then the next Thursday since we won't be able to tell you about everything on Sunday show The London Gatwick Hello Gatwick We want a report from you 333 at the Radisson Red Gatwick Hotel Bar Gatwick London UK

2:50:56 At the airport, I guess. And then also on Thursday May 30th at South Jersey Brett's Farewell 7 o'clock Brett is leaving Farm Truck Brewing in Medford New Jersey In June we've got Albany California Oh that's the Get John Out of the House meet up June 1st Albany California You going? you gotta go It's your backyard What's the location? I don't know I don't have that information But it's, I know it's on June 1st. It's a Saturday. It's Albany that's where you...that's nearby! It's Albany not Al-bunny Sorry! Al-bunny Are you gonna go? I have all the intentions in the world of going. It's called The Get John Out Of The House Meetup That doesn't mean I'm going

2:51:44 Also want to highlight probably going if it's you know, yes. I'll be there everyone show up bring bring Sundry's Highlighting Houston, Texas on June 8th. No one has RSVP'd yet so please do that and of course June 15th the meetup at the airport in the Netherlands go to noagentomeetups.com I'm gonna be there that's the whole point Go to noagentomeetups.com and learn about all the meet-ups near you if you can't find one start one yourself it's easy Sometimes you wanna go hang out with all the nights and days

2:52:25 Just like a party yeah, yeah. Yeah Okay, ISOs. Do you have any ISO? You got any ISOs? I have three. How many do you have? I've two... Well if you had- let me do mine since uh..I don't know if they're any good Let me check this one. You just have to stay away from all the mainstream stuff is that what we do too long actually kind of like that was a little long you know who that Is That's Horowitz No Yeah and then there's this one The alternative media! That's where you hear the truth

2:53:12 I don't know about that one. Okay, this might be better than mine but it but minor okay there But they're more along the lines of short. Okay Let's start with drink Drink responsibly b21. I thought a good message at the end of this show might be appropriate Oh Yeah and now and now it's time for a good message all right yeah what else you got? I got brave or Bravo Bravo Huh? I kind of like Bravo. Yeah, it's always a good ending and then bye-bye Bye-bye Also like that What if i did uh... Bravo! Bye-Bye How about that? Okay, the winner In sequence I think they're great A rescued cat that ran up a tree The lost dog is home and happy Will the player get news clear? A good plan we'll see

2:54:07 We always like to end up the show with some good news so people can complain about how much they hate the segment. We're doing it to pester you, okay? John what do we have for Good News? Who hates this segment? Oh there are people who just... They will send me an email! Good News sucks! Well, haters gotta hate. Yeah yeah Taylor that's That's right. Okay, this is a high schooler who saves his father just in time for his own graduation. Families are getting ready to celebrate a high school graduation in the coming days and the coming weeks but one for one Virginia father and son it's a celebration they were so close to never sharing

2:54:45 Our Northern Virginia reporter Max Marcilla has their stories from Warrington. For Rhett Hepler and his father, Joe this is any ordinary day it's dinner time after school a moment between the father and his son he's a lot more responsible than the average teenager And that is quite the understatement what Rhett is capable of thats something he didn't even know This was Thanksgiving in the very same kitchen hours before his dad had a heart attack Rhett says it all happened so fast. His dad came downstairs, said he wasn't feeling well told his son to call 911 and then he collapsed falling face first in the kitchen eventually lying in a pool of his own blood that's when Rhett jumped into action I wasn't panicking I wasn't freaking out

2:55:31 all the adrenaline was like, do what you gotta do. With the guidance of the 911 operator, Rhett started CPR. Doctors told him he helped save the life of the man who has guided him. Being an ex-law enforcement officer who's given CPR to someone before I can understand how difficult that was to do with a stranger I can't imagine what he was going through having to do it with me. Rhett graduates from Kettle Run High School this week and his dad will be there to celebrate with him because of him It's a very special moment, and i'm very very happy that i'm here to see it My dad is the most important person in my life. I'm just honored that I could do something for him And it doesn't feel like its

2:56:14 Nearly as much what he's done for me, but you know I was Just doing something for a moment. A moment that allowed for more moments this father and son nearly never got to share in Warrington I love him very much Max Marcella DC News now. Yeah, I'm a little conflicted by this good news segment Why? Because it's gory He keels over face first blood on the floor And then the kid goes oh maybe I should do something because that's what said that Denny sprang into action I'm a little conflicted. I could use more rainbows and butterflies next time you want more dog stories That's right Dog stories rock or you know squirrels, or whatever kitten in the tree How come that where is the good old kitten in a tree 30 feet up? Yeah

2:57:11 It's always 30 feet up. We have a best of climate change, no agenda I think you will enjoy it we never got past show 100 barely passed show 100 and you will hear a lot of things that are at the bedrock of this nonsense Things that even we have long... The formulas Yes, background formulas Long since forgotten how it all got started And you'll be reminded its all bad Bad and bogus Coming up next on the NOA agenda stream for all you trolls, even if you're listening on a modern podcast app we have beer bourbon and balderdash

2:57:53 And end of show mixes from Hugh Allison, Professor Jay Jones and Leo LePuck. Classics all of them every single one of them Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country where we arrest our praying grannies in Fredericksburg Texas In The Morning everybody I'm Adam Curry Dan from Northern Silicon Valley I am John C. Dvorak We return on Sunday for the special and next Thursday for a live show. Join us then, until then remember to noagendadonations.com Adios mofos a hui hui and sun! 40 years ago if I hadn't been knocked neat cotton-eyed Joe, where did you come from? Where did you go? Where'd ya come from Cotton Eye Joe? Where did you come from? Where did you go? Where did you come from Cotton Eyed Joe? Side by side as two different dudes. Nah there may be three of them That's hard to say none is the bug eye Joe and squinty eye Joe

2:58:54 So, what are you gonna do? Either that or AI. You hear the news about the hard landing. We believe in efficient police force for the poor neighborhoods you get drones people should know when they're conquered there's no such thing as a hard landing in a helicopter person shot, person stabbed, person robbed it gives me great pleasure to introduce you to the future of

2:59:29 of law enforcement. In helicopters there's no such thing as a hard landing, it's a crash all captured by an NYPD drone the drones will be piloted remotely. A cop with superior firepower unleash hell satanist ministers inside classrooms the drones can get to places officers can't because they have infrared cameras 209 is currently programmed for urban passengers But that is only the beginning. And this technology is a game changer. This is the New York City Police Department. The hard landing thing? It's nonsense! Drones as first responders... Sounds more like an RPG then Please put down your weapon. You have 20 seconds to comply This is the future! This is a time for kids to consider slingshots! Slingshots? Yeah! Noah's the game changer Unleash hell I'm gonna demand a drug test Slingshot and ball bearing A lot of cats had gone missing, gotten sick or had died Noah Jenner Slingshots Ball Bearing Sold Separately Outstanding product You now have 15 seconds to comply

3:00:32 I always have a slingshot and I like to shoot him. Don't look at the trad wife stuff, you'll become a Nazi! These newer slingshots are so powerful it's unbelievable. He was high as a kite! A slingshot is cheap... Hard landing indeed It's practical and it's fun! Rescue teams have not been able to reach the site of the incident. It's a low-tech idea, but I like it! Come on we've been saying the word jacked up for a long time. Has used drones to assist with search and rescue efforts Did you have a hard landing? No i crashed Bring back another fan favorite The satanic temple as a safeguard against improper surveillance He is going to be so jacked up Rasool what are you hearing at this hour? Marbles!

3:01:24 This is Joe. My name's Joe Biden, I work for Kamala Harris. Joe is looking cool he's gone big time standing proud rising in some polls make my day pal and with drugs provided by the White House physician look I'm not a young guy Joe now has a whopping boost of confidence stiff in his determination and is living large with an enormous swelling of pride And when I was placed president, things were kind of bad during the pandemic. And he just lacks the one thing every man deserves a somewhat semi-functioning brain Every four years we have this little thing called an erection Drugs from The White House are not available in stores but perhaps through a phone call to Hunter Biden or A White House staffer you may get a trial pack Here is testimonial from someone who did just that

3:02:16 Joe Biden, he gave me the courage to admit that I am in fact an electionist. I think I was about 12 when I became an electionist. I know by 13 last night I was an erectionist with my wife. I stormed her Capitol. I started out at the Capitol Domes and worked my way down to the swan. I got greedy and I headed for Boggy Bottom drugs from The White House physician for natural manmade science created enhancement The best podcast in the universe! Adios, mofo. Dvorak dot org slash N-A Bravo Bye bye