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00:00 Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak. It's Thursday November 14th 2024 this is your award winning Kip on Asian Media assassination episode 1712 This is no agenda Putting Post-its on the good gear and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA region number 6 In the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry And from northern Silicon Valley where I am still working on it I'm John C. Dvorak It's Crackpot and Buzzkill! In the morning! Working on your opening or just working on it. I had a Convoluted, it was just a bit too long and I just couldn't pull it off. I'm sorry Hey, tell you what? It is Oh, okay here we go We get a post-post opening joke Yeah So I've been working on some on some new materials new material I've been working out of spice mix as a commercial product a spice mix

01:00 that brings out the flavors, brings forward the flavors of meat and vegetables. And I'm calling it the seasoning of reveal! You can ridicule me all you want but until you can show me where the 15 million Democrat voters went...I think we have a season of reveal That is your season of reveal right there. Fifteen million people are dead They disappeared They just disappeared Hey good news This is it. Get your Post-It notes ready! Starting December 2nd, we can bid on production equipment, gym offices and vehicles from InfoWars. Yeah I heard this... Kind of sad. Well maybe Elon will just buy it all up and give it back to him? Well this auction by the way does not include the intellectual property

01:58 which has already been purchased. The satirical news outlet, the Onion. They bought it at a bankruptcy auction again that's according to the relatives of Sandy Hook victims who spoke to The Associated Press That's all we know at this point We don't know how much uh...The Onion bought InfoWars for or if there were any other terms

02:41 Anything else with the deal that we know of, forgive me I'm thinking of the word any other codicils into that contract. The sale price again was not immediately disclosed but again this satirical news outlet The Onion has bought Alex Jones Infowars site Okay couple things... I would have bought infowars.com I didn't know it was available The Onion? Do they even exist anymore? Well they're trying to exist They're trying to combat the Babylon Bee with a little bit of news Well I have real news if you're gonna do breaking news and this is something that we must get out of the way. And now back to Real News! No it's not real news in that regard, this is...

03:20 This is the six-week cycle. I have it the FBI this just came out. It's breaking breaking this hour I'm sorry breaking this our breaking this hour Has arrested a man accused of attempting to provide material support for the terror group Isis We learned about five minutes ago, but we are scooping up more information now and The agency is now telling us that the 28-year old suspect admitted to planning a terrorist attack on US soil. That's all that we know right now, we know that details are coming out will continue to do our due diligence as journalists and ask great questions. Ask great questions! Did you hear that?

04:06 Hey, how do you do journalism? We will continue at this hour breaking this hour to ask great questions. Continue to do our due diligence as journalists and ask great questions Oh that's it all right I want to share with you now the FBI statement please quote FBI Houston special agent in charge Douglas Williams announces the arrest of 28 year old Anas Saeed He is accused of attempting to provide material support to ISIS and by his own admission planning a terrorist attack on US soil all from his apartment in far west Houston. Oh no! The suspect has admitted to researching how to conduct an attack on local military recruiting centers, Google search offering his home as safe sanctuary to ISIS operatives bragging he would commit 9-11 style attack if

04:58 He had the resources. A plane! Attempting to produce ISIS propaganda. More as we get it on the story. Be afraid, be afraid everybody be very afraid because they're here! Ow! ISIS! We will follow them to the gates of hell! ISIS! Dynamite Wow he researched and he told the FBI you know if I can get a plane 9-11 style attack. What nonsense is this? They're trying to get some extra bonus money before time runs out. Unbelievable! Trump is doing a typical business reorg thing with the FBI, he builds new building

05:54 And then it's like, okay here is the new building. You guys in this old building you're not going over It's like that what you do and it's a perfect business turnaround I never thought about it in that regard but its exactly right This is classic business turn around pivot Yeah 10 guys you can go over and by the way we've wired it The way we want to wire now So we can hear everything we need to hear Here is your new building So obvious. These guys are disgusting, some schmuck they probably... Wait until we see the indictment We'll get the report like well you know we had a... We were talking to him for a couple of months told them do some Google searches He said if only I could get an airplane 757 You know I could probably crash it into a building Oh God Let it end!

06:51 I just found it interesting because, I didn't do the math on it because this just came out this morning but I figure six weeks ago there was whatever. Oh yeah! What was the last six week cycle? I probably have it hold on a second... Six-week cycle... Was that... That was well yeah September 30th is that 6 weeks holy crap it's exactly six weeks It's always exactly six weeks, that's the joke. Six weeks ago! He first caught the attention of the FBI because of jihadist-oriented messages he posted on social media Same guy! The same guy

07:33 It's unbelievable. We're on to you, FBI! We're on to you. And nobody else cares? You know I was just... there are a lot of different things to discuss. Of course the appointments. I think what is most interesting is the total befuddlement and in a way looking at the ratings that is big story of course. The collapse of the mainstream media At least the cable news let's put it that way and if I just wrote some stuff down Well, you should write we should tell people. You know. I don't think everyone knows this you should give them some background on the collapse these of these shows okay CNN will be axing top stars in layoffs that will see hundreds fired as ratings continue to tank headline my favorite

08:20 CNN host Chris Wallace leaving network after three years to explore possible full-time podcasting career Right get out before you get fired Comcast to put MSNBC and Oprah's oxygen networks up for sale in cable sell off as they force them to reimagine reimagine their news operations MSNBC ratings Morning Joe down 39.6, that's the first hour second hour 36.9 percent Andrea Mitchell, oh the Mitchell report 39.7% down Ari Melber did anyone ever watch him in the first place? Down almost 50%, Joy Reid down 54.6 all-in with Chris Hayes is down 47 I mean it's a bloodbath and with the cord cutting going on it's just not happening

09:12 You know, the carriage fees are going away and these highly paid stars Anderson Cooper makes $20 million reportedly. Aaron Burnett makes six million reportedly and the Caitlyn woman makes three million dollars a year? She's new! How did she get into that gig?! I want her agent. That's really good so I just wrote down a couple of things because why are they befuddled? Why are they befuddled well, they're b-funneled. What how could this happen let's uh just look at a second what the establishment including the mainstream legacy nsm5m media we had the law fair

10:02 The SCOTUS insurrection, booking Trump. The huge fines Department of Justice attacks the home raid we had celebrity endorsements everywhere it's unbelievable is unbelievable how I mean Joy Reid still can't believe it! I think it's important to say that you know anyone who has experienced or been in the United States for any period of time and experience this country's history and knows it cannot have believed that it would be easy a woman president, let alone a woman of color. Let's just be clear and nothing that was true yesterday about how flawlessly this campaign was run is not true now I mean this really was an historic flawlessly run campaign she had Queen Latifah never endorses anyone

10:49 I mean, it's unbelievable. She had the Swifties she had the Beehive She had Queen Latifah never endorsed anybody. Okay, so we had the celebrity endorsements Let's remember the algo and search manipulation The autocomplete on Google Search all of that was manipulated multiple assassination attempts

11:25 And then the media came out with, he incited an insurrection. He's racist. He's a rapist. He's mentally ill. He favors only the rich. Misogynists don't forget that. Misogynists thank you! He'll take away your rights. He's gonna be a dictator. He is going to rip up the Constitution. Day one We will use the military against the American people hates gays trans women and theys Project 2025 Hitler We can't believe that the guy won! What is wrong with the American people? Actually, to be honest about it... With that laundry list I'm surprised he won myself. Let alone swept It's just unbelievable It does tell you something. Tells you that the media has lost its mojo Even if you listen to Charlemagne Tha God The voice of black America Charlemagne Tha God

12:17 Who is also just, he's just befuddled by the demographics of it. What do you make of the demographics here? I mean Trump got one out every three voters of color No... Yes! Why not a third percent? What?! Really what!? When you say color, you mean like black brown? Like Kamala people. Oh well I think that you know people have different issues that they care about and i think that there's nobody out there that's a single issue voter. I think some of this is a backlash to race and gender and identity politics but man most people they just care about

12:53 keeping food on their table and keeping a roof over their head. And I think sometimes people forget about that, they forget about the working class and for whatever reason Donald Trump speaks to the grievances of the working class in a real way. And I keep telling folks people will forget what you did, they'll forget what you said but they'll never forget how you made them feel. When you go back to 2020 even though it was a pandemic and it was COVID- People don't care. All they know is they got stimulus checks with his name on it and that's what they remember. Oh, that did it? Okay. And so people think about that when you have conversations with folks they'd be like yo I remember how 2020 felt and they think that they're gonna feel that in this next term.

13:39 When the checks came in with Trump's signature on it, they didn't burn the checks mind you. Just the envelope. I don't know where are going with this but i do have some clips on demographics that I have to show. NPR was freaked out about the same exact topic. They're befuddled! And they're befuddled, and so they brought this... These clips are not uh this is I got five clips but they don't flow from clip to clip they're each pretty standalone

14:17 And interesting, this is one of those specials they do on NPR. They do for themselves in the echo chamber. It's a special they do for themselves. They brought in three Democrat strategists including Paul Beglia who seemed to be the odd man out because he was the old guy and the other two people were just younger...one was black and one was just some gay guy And they were pushing their agendas. Just a gay guy! A gay guy, Rando. Rando Gay Guy couldn't figure it out why other gay guys voted for Trump? They are trying to discuss how this came about and none of them got except Paul Begley kind of loses it at the end which will be the last clip

15:05 But you can hear within the discussion what the problem really is, and the fact that they're going to die on a hill. And it's gonna be... You'll hear what it is quickly. This is demographics befuddlement NPR be the first clip. Let me ask for as long as I've been covering politics 20 years or so Democrats have preached demographics is destiny believing that if the country gets less white, it will move left This election showed that to be false. So what replaces that as the new paradigm, the vision of where the party goes from here? So Adrian Paul, what's the new paradigm? Yeah I mean this idea that demographics is destiny was never real. I think that the challenge for us right now...I agree

15:53 with Waleed about the sort of vacuum that has been left in communities, in terms of that vacuum being filled with misinformation, disinformation outright lies and propaganda. You know we think about what is the new paradigm when you have real conversations with people and not just sort of gloss over it, have knee jerk reactions. I think that we're sort of seeing right now in the postmortem that's happening about how have we gone too far? Did we go too far left? I think that Democrats need to decide what they are fighting for and they needed a fight for those things. Well, I want you to jump in Paul She really didn't say much there. No, and all she... her comments the whole time is we have to have a conversation, we have to have a conversation A meeting! We need a meeting So she's the meeting conversation, uh, and then she says this that by the way when I was even when i was a democrat

16:44 The idea that demographics are is the future because once we get rid of these damn whiteys We're gonna be you know take it over. It'll be great and so that so this guy who's hosting this is quite reasonable, but But nobody else is. It's quite funny, so we're getting... This one is now the uh it's got the ad sign instead of a two but it's the wow clip I think that Democrats need a both and approach around delivering real economic results to working class Americans and not shying away from real societal changes that are happening around us that we can't just

17:21 pivot away from. We need to humanize trans Americans, we need to contextualize trans Americans, we need to do the same thing that we did in the struggle for gay rights which is fight these battles and persuade not just an election season but in the years before election season it. And I think we lost to the oldest playbook in human history which is divide-and-conquer. One place I would push back on Paul is that Democrats also need...we're too conflict of us. We're trying to be everything to everyone, we need to create villains. Part of the thing is that Democrats have gotten too close to the boardrooms of Uber and Facebook and Wall Street- Some of the groceries companies and we need to take on those villains otherwise the Republicans will create and manufacture villains every single time

18:07 So the corporations, the corporations that clothe and feed us are villains. Yes! And we have to support the trans now this is interesting to me... Gay rights whatever that is gay rights. He went from you know it went from get you we the way we did gay rights now has to be moved to trans. Trans rights yes we have to contextualize them. The trans Maoist agenda I've determined that's the hill they're gonna die on Wow, they need to contextualize trans is what he said. Yeah! They're trans! Boom! The Democrat Party is going to die on the Trans Maoist Hill

18:46 I've heard it and I believe me. I listened a lot of NPR and PBS the lesser extent on PBS, but they They're all in on here's what we did wrong well is this that while there was a misogyny There wasn't good communication there was a bunch of racism that said and if we just Double down on trans. It's absolutely incredible to me, but let's go to the third clip which is the racism clip this is the other complaint. The last time Democrats were in the wilderness for 12 years Ronald Reagan for eight years followed by George HW Bush Bill Clinton got back into power by saying it's the economy stupid we're gonna attack to the center Is the same answer going to work for Democrats four years from now two years from now?

19:31 No. Yes! No, a yes and Adrian? No no I don't think that we're in a fundamentally different world than we were then again I would say to stop the clip this is that woman again she says we're in a fundamental you have to remember her own words this is another problem that they have there's a the fundamentally different world is the trans world But that, but she's kind of carries it to racism. Now if we're in a fundamentally different world listen to her final conclusion when she raps okay I don't think that we were in a fundamentally different world than we were then again I would say to Walid point like the country has changed right not just in terms of its complexion and we have to address the issues

20:21 fundamentally dividing Americans. And that is not just the economy, you know we can't as a country we are incapable unable, unwilling to address the sort of central issues that have created our inability to get to a more perfect union. And that is absolutely racism. The Democratic Party absolutely cannot run away from that and I know for myself and my community we've been dealing with this for very long time. Oh wait a minute Is she black? Does she represent her community, the black community I guess. But did you hear that little phrase at the end, what she said? What did she say? Play it again. Play the end here. The Democratic Party absolutely cannot run away from that and i know that for myself and my community we've been dealing with this for a very long time We've been dealing with... Wait a minute! She just said has fundamentally changed

21:20 Don't bring logic. She prefaced her whole comment with it's fundamentally changed but then it falls back to we've been dealing this for a very long time So she is probably a consultant Well, she'd know they're all consultants. Yeah and so they all come in with their own consulting bent and it's like I'm black! I'm a consultant for racism for the Democrats. I am gay. I'm a consultant for trans which by the way is almost an oxymoron because though they are not in the same community certainly not gay men and trans this is dumb these people are stupid Well, let's go to clip four.

22:17 But they are running a campaign based on, again the oldest playbook which is Elon Musk is somehow a victim of American democracy rather than a success story of how the economy and democracy works for people like him. And so I feel so ashamed that the Democrats were unprepared for the onslaught of what was going to be attacks on the lines of migration, transgender Americans when we knew this was coming years ago and yet we didn't develop a strategy to explain to the American people what this was designed to do which was to help elect Republicans and people like Elon Musk, uh, get them more power. Oh my goodness! Now the interesting new term that I was introduced here besides electing Elon Musk for something...I don't know what he's talking about there... Transgender Americans Yeah, I heard that too

23:08 It's like Mexican-Americans or Jewish Americans and transgender Americans is a category. These people are gonna die on this hill! Well, they're gonna die that's for sure So, this is the last clip. So Begleya who's it was the old Democrat used to work for the Clinton administration he's fed up with listening to this and he goes off on him just a last clip. He goes off on him but at the same time you can hear him yeah it's in there its subtle but he pulls back on certain things he knows will alienate this new group

23:44 And so he kind of, he couches. He does couching as well except for I accept for blah blah blah. He's a wimp now. Paul Beglia who is the guy who is pretty much a clone of Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC they're very similar personalities and they just go after hate Republicans to an extreme but this situation this at near the end of this about half hour discussion And he just gets irked and blasts these people, but at the same time you can hear him not really completely closing the door on them. I'm smiling because not only do we not explain it, we rub their noses in if they dare use the wrong word! There is a woke, censorious, preachy elitism in our movement and we gotta flush that

24:38 You don't go to someone who's busting his ass at seven bucks an hour and tell him he's privileged just because his skin is white. I'm sorry, you don't do that if not if you want to get his vote okay? And I'm not naive, I understand there's racism and prejudice in this country. I want to build bridges to those folks. I wanna reach out to them and the easier way to do that is on these economic crises that they're all facing irrespective of race gender and religion Wow. But there's a lot of these consultants are saying this, they're saying you've got to stop with the woke stuff it doesn't work so he had that right. Oh man! You can hear him backing off on it though yeah oh yeah tell me that please tell me that I can get a longer version of this on NPR plus on the plus bundle. On the bundle? Get the bundle what do you think we have a bundled you hear our bundled

25:38 No, I didn't hear a bundle. And you want to support no agendas mission to create the best podcast in the universe If all that sounds appealing and it's time to sign up for the new agenda plus bundle just send your cash Bunch of losers, it sounds pretty much like an NPR ad whoever did that didn't get Jeffrey Crocker I'm so but I find it somewhat encouraging that I'm hearing, Neil we had a consultant on the last show where she said the same thing. You gotta stop calling brown people Latinx you got to stop with this nonsense because it's condescending and now you're right oh no now we have transgender Americans another category instead of just Americans

26:30 Yeah, now it's American. In fact that is a good point they've added categories instead of backing off on this identity politics yeah adding more added a new category 60 minutes took a little different tact and we're very serious about what's going on here. With Arizona called last night, Donald Trump swept all seven swing states, six of them flipped from Joe Biden's column in 2020 so far the president-elect has won just over 50% of the popular vote and he made gains in key demographics including the young Latinos and women

27:14 Republicans took the Senate and are on track to control the House. Tuesday, more than 80% of all the nation's counties moved toward the right The shift is decisive and leaves Democrats arguing over how they misread the people To understand what just happened, we went to Pennsylvania. One of the places that made all the difference. All...all the difference? Well it's very serious John. The shift is apparent and it's always ultimately in America whether you're black American brown American red American

27:57 Gay American, Trans American. It's always about the eggs! For 25 years Chris Borick has been conducting one of the leading polls of Pennsylvania voters He is a professor in political science at Muhlenberg College next to Northampton County. Then it was a Trump County, then it was a Biden County and in 2024. It once again is a Trump County How did Trump win? That's a great question You know first of all I think he had the wins on his side here from talking to voters They're not in a great mood they're not in a good place There's lots of good things happening in Northampton County that economy is good

28:37 But they're feeling things in their lives that really trouble them. Housing prices here, grocery prices... I can't tell you how many times when i've talked to people about elections this year they referenced eggs and the price of eggs. The issue with trans is much less of, and the Republican Party played this very well. It's much less about if you know all right so you've let some person who was licensed by the Association of Pediatrics and who are staying to lose their license if they don't go with the flow of oh your depressed? You're a boy little girl! That's one thing

29:24 And America's like, well you know okay. But when you put boys into girls sports that's the line! That's the limit it was so stupid and we said so. We kept saying this is dumb Americans will not stand for that Hey my girls shouldn't be competing against this dude no matter what you say You know, this...and let's analyze this for a second because you're right. We have been talking about this since I think Leah Thomas or before and it's like It's such an obvious thing and we had, there are pictures that I think a number of years ago. There were these pictures of big black dude the guy is a monster running track-and-field all muscled up big guy running track-and-field with women in the NCAA saying oh you know he identifies as a girl so he should be a girl yeah and then defend end if i think the worst part was the

30:19 hordes of mostly Democrats defending the practice. And then one other thing which is just abhorrent is that Tranny story hour come on, come on you know it was dumb this just too stupid but anyway according to CBS it's about the eggs! TooManyEggs.com Egg prices doubled and featured on the menu of discontent At the Nazareth Diner near Bethlehem, no one sees a sunny side to inflation high interest rates and housing prices. The average tab here in 2020 was $24 now it's 38 and that's the election in an eggshell. Obviously because of food cost

31:10 for a family of like four people, five people. I have them come in and say oh my god i spent $100 with the tip for breakfast? That's crazy! Which it is. Yeah 7 30 we open seven thirty to ten. Roz Workheiser was a waitress 25 years ago now she runs the place My mother used to always say you gotta vote democrat You know they're for the poor people. You grew up in a democratic household Yes But you just voted for Donald Trump yes Inflation is down by more than half. Interest rates are falling, mortgage rates are falling wages are going up Are you not feeling that? I don't feel it No i dont feel it at all Everybody...I talked to nobody's wages went up But we had four years of this Four years gas was super high Yes it just went down now but the past three and a half years it was up So their analysis says its the price of eggs

32:09 That is very important and Trump spoke to that constantly, specifically. It's like oh come on! There was there's one other issue at play and I'm in a way a little disappointed but you know my good friends in text groups they're just like the dead, their libs are losing their mind. They're melting down." Who is this? Friends of mine like guys who should know better and I call them out on it and they still do it. Sure! It's funny And one of the things is, I can't believe they spent them to give Oprah a million dollars you know like in four million dollars for private jets

32:54 When you're running the greatest show on earth, which the presidential election is. That's what you do! Please don't go look at what Trump spent it was half of the amount of money but that's what Oprah put together we saw the show She put out a studio, studio audience. You know what I don't even think it was in her own town? I have no idea where it was. I know that... You build the set. A hundred thousand dollars to call her daddy! No, it's 500. Whatever. By the way. But you know it's like what that's what you do when a presidential campaign who cares but this is a big problem here's

33:36 This is a boy. I just defend the people that are on the other side of this argument You're right, and I think especially if you have a billion dollars to spend. But how do you have a billion dollars to spend and then go over budget by 20 million? That's what was shocking! That's pretty interesting. Tina told me that Trump offered to pay that. Did I see that somewhere? Yeah, that keeps going around. I haven't heard it. I mean, I've heard about him supposedly...I still think its tongue in cheek. Well, do you think?! Anyway, so the Cuomo kid had this Democrat bundler on. So she's someone who collects a lot of money and does stuff... Yes this woman yeah I did this by the way before you play that This woman is it is the Asian woman right? yes yes The China doll! She's a china doll she looks porcelain

34:29 Yeah, she's got one of those looks. But she had... I'm dubious about this. About why would you come on and complain like this? It's News Nation! What do you expect?! Well look at what am i thinking never mind just ignore what I said And although Oprah says she wasn't paid a cent by Harris the campaign did pay her company A million dollars to produce Oprah star-studded town hall well isn't that paying And the Harris team reportedly spent six figures to build that set I told you about on that Call Her Daddy podcast. You know, which I got her hundreds of thousands of dollars for. Where's our No Agenda money? We want a new set! No, I think Cohn was thinking that to him he was thinking that himself Hey hey hey, I could have built a set for half a mil' I told ya about on that Call Her Daddy podcast That Call Her Daddy Podcast... there is a little bit of envy in your voice Chris

35:24 You know which I got her hundreds of thousands of views, but I mean not all that it was cost-effective And then you got Eminem Then you got Beyonce so let's talk to somebody who live what about Eminem and young There's a war they pay Beyonce million dollars. There's no evidence of that They're in the FEC filings there's a bunch of evidence of it yeah a million dollars for Beyonce No They don't have the exact numbers for they have But bundles of money that went to different talent agencies, so you can't tell okay? How come no one wanted an endorsement from the pod father in the podcast election what is wrong with you people I'm always bringing this topic up. You don't have to do it. You can stop okay got Eminem and

36:11 Then you got Beyonce, so let's talk to somebody who lived it okay? And is speaking out now with her own concerns Lindy Lee joining us now Lindy. Thank you very much for taking the opportunity What do you think of these allegations of what Oprah I mean either they paid the production company or they didn't I've never heard of people getting paid for endorsements Paying to perform maybe maybe but usually they give it But do you believe it It's not a matter of believing. It's literally in the report and she can deny it however much she wants to but it says Harper Productions on the FEC report I really don't know how you get around that, its her company and she may not have gotten paid personally as a person But it paid for companies so I think this is a matter of semantics if she got paid

36:56 And it's just, if my donors had known beforehand that the money would be dispersed this way I do not think they would have given. You know it's a sacred trust these people... A lot of my donors have worked hard all their lives and again these are everyday Americans around the country. I didn't just deal with big donors. I also fundraised from grassroots donors who gave $25 as I mentioned. I did something called Geeks & Nerds for Harris People were giving like 10 to 15 dollars These are people, you know. You know hold on a second she did that Geeks and Nerds with Wonder Woman I wonder how much money she got paid? Sorry I didn't hear what you said Oh She said I did something called Geeks and Nerds for Harris And that was the Wonder Woman hosted... Oh they're geeks and nerds That was the Wonder Woman hosted webinar Zoom call Right So did she do that for free

37:50 That's a good question. Probably not. These are people, you know some people were living paycheck to paycheck so it's a sacred trust for them to give money through campaign. It is our utmost responsibility to use that money in responsible manner and do not treat it as OPM which is other peoples' money. If we can't handle campaign the right way? How can taxpayers, how can Americans possibly trust us that we would handle taxpayer money the right way?" Oh, right. Well, gee... Let's go back to your point that

38:32 You get a pot full of money, you spend it the way you think is wisely spent. If he had to buy endorsements which is kind of low when you could probably get them for free if you tried hard enough and got better people. Yeah, you know Springsteen's going what? People got paid! Sure he has I'm going to Canada so There's something about her whining about this, which is if I give 25 bucks to the Harris campaign and she gives that 25 bucks to Beyonce or she gives that 25 bucks to Oprah Ogilvy to do an ad. Yeah what's the difference? What's the difference? If somebody thinks Beyonce

39:23 Going on and on about something is gonna be more valuable than the advertisement that yeah, so I just wonder this woman is just it seems like in like a Counter agent or she's like. Yeah, I mean she first of all She just doesn't look trustworthy period second. She's on Cuomo show so okay But your point is exactly right. It's like, that's how the thing is they all believe still for some reason even though it didn't work with Hillary Clinton that celebrities matter Newsflash at this hour breaking Celebrities don't matter in people's lives They haven't mattered for quite a long time

40:07 I think the MTV Music Awards were on. Did we miss that? This is the level of non-caring, nobody cares anymore! It's just not that important The whole industry, the gossip industries is not... maybe TMZ is probably doing okay. Oh that's a good... you just made an excellent point Look at the magazines! Whatever happened to the gossip industry that used to be so important? We used have had Hopper we used to have Archer Army whatever his name was and all these different people who would do gossip gossip gossip

40:43 All that's left now is page six on the New York Times or the New York Post. And I'll tell you the truth, when I go and look at page six every once in a while which is The Gossip of the Country and I don't recognize any names on there it's like... It's an embarrassment! Oh am I embarrassed? Maybe I'm not. No, The Gossip... Look at the magazines at checkout they're very thin and it's always someone with cancer It is, it's always there. Oh he's got cancer! No it's not funny but that is pretty much their industry. But the gossip industry sold out to entertainment by just hyping people up for movie ticket sales oh they're they're in a fight oh they're doing...it's like when um when that movie came out and it was

41:29 What's her name? She is married to Ryan Gosling. And she had a movie come out recently and she was like, oh this is great girls night out movie and Gosling is like... By the way it's pretty good movie What movie's this? It's really about abuse and rape. Oh, that sounds terrific! Yeah and so then the gossip industry is like oh well you know there's a spat going on between them and the whole thing was so obviously set up just Just to just to you know make it a rate ticket sales generate ticket sales the other thing The gossip industry sold out too is the fashion industry. What are you wearing? Who are you wearing? Oh, this is beautiful oh what go to our 360 cam that's they sold out they sold themselves like a horse

42:19 Anyway, it's no nose any different before. No. No, there was always that moved ticket sales No, but they'd move to the fashion industry. Well the fashion thing does seem new yes, yeah Five I mean they've always all been wearing a Dior you know wearing a Valentino Ford who are you wearing? Who are you wearing? Well can't just see Tom Ford on my back here Hey Tom Ford is hanging on to me So, there's all kinds of shifts going on and people are rage quitting Twitter. Hi everyone! I have loved connecting with all of you on Twitter and then on X for all these years but it is time for me to leave the platform. I once believed that it was a place... In case you didn't know this is Don Lemon. For honest debate and discussion. But he's leaving the platform to do what? And by the way somebody pointed out

43:10 His last tweet, he tweets three more times after this. Transparency and free speech but I now feel it does not serve that purpose In addition, starting this Friday November 15th X is implementing new terms of service. Which among other things states that quote all disputes be brought exclusively in the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas or state courts located in Tarrant County Texas. What's so new about this? The full terms of service can be found on my written statement or on the x website Now as the Washington Post recently reported on X's decision to change the terms, this quote ensures that such lawsuits will be heard in courthouses that are a hub for conservatives which experts say could make it easier for X to shield itself from litigation and punish critics. I think that speaks for itself

44:05 You can find me on YouTube at the Don Lemon Show or on TikTok and Facebook at Don Lemon. And, and on Instagram and Blue Sky at DonLemonOfficial I hope you will join me there. So this is the big shift! Everybody's moving to blue sky. Some ex-users jumping ship to a new platform called Blue Sky, you might have heard of it in the past week or so. The open source social media platform says they've seen an influx over 1 million users in the past week bringing their total to 15 million users. So still low but a good start many of those fleeing are fleeing X after the election they're unhappy that owner Elon Musk used that platform to support President Elect Trump

44:48 Now, Blue Sky was originally created by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in 2019. It's been around for a while but it was recently opened to everyone so it had to be invite only for many years now its open to everyone the decentralized platform lets you post text photos and more You can also better customize what you see and it is easy to take your data and move to another platform later My initial thought on this is that yes people are going to it Is it as big as something like threads or Facebook, Instagram or Twitter? No. But it's growing and there is a lot of momentum behind it and looks just like Twitter. As someone who is tiptoeing with this and trying to figure out if I want to make the switch... One thing people are concerned about on X is all the bots

45:34 and if you say anything, you're inundated with comments. Does that exist on Blue Sky as well? There's a lot of controls to help you see exactly what you want to see and cut out some of that stuff. They have these algorithm lists you know I'm still checking it out but seems like you can tweak it a lot more. So, where did you get that commercial? That's KTLA5 in Los Angeles let me just say something about Blue Sky I knew about Blue Sky before it was launched. One of our producers worked on it, It was the secret Jack Dorsey project one of our...I met up with one of our producers in South Carolina meetup and he told me all about it And yeah, it is open source you can set your own server It's not like doing a mastodon But I got an invite very early on. Have you ever been on Blue Sky? Nah No! It is Tranny Central

46:31 I mean, oh really? Oh from day one. Oh that's interesting because of Dorsey's kind of his background He didn't have much to do with it at that point but it was all just all these woke people and trans rights flags everywhere It was like okay interesting Yeah so this is not a bad development I feel that's perfect You know go where you want to go and be with the people you want to be with, what you will find over there as far as I know maybe that's changed but there is no algorithmic presentation of content. So it does not have... It was doomed then! Yes this is the same thing with Noster. Noster great idea although technically I'm just going to say I don't think its all that great

47:28 Because you have an identity that is cryptographically provable and no one can steal your identity, okay. Of the 40 thousand people that are on there it's not that great You know they keep saying oh this is Nostra is fantastic because you know its censorship resistant Yeah No one wants to be on there because again There's no algorithm And if there's no algorithm, it's... There is no excitement. You don't get juiced up about stuff That is the secret to these addictive and I say that in air quotes Addictive social media networks you have to have the algorithm otherwise people will get bored of it Even on those short little YouTube has a series of these clips now that they do

48:18 It's called, I don't even know what it is. Oh you mean like TikTok clips? Shorts? Yeah and you get on one of the threads and they're all very similar and there'd be different kinds... Most of them are TikTok videos just put on YouTube! That's true! Most of them are TikTok videos they stole But this is good! I see this as good people so people now getting sick of it You know, we already saw that people are leaving subscriptions on YouTube and they're doing other things. They're going to find other things to do in their life and as the

48:55 news cable news outlets diminish severely and they move to I guess only pure opinion. There'll be little, there's just no money gonna be left for news It won't be that interesting to keep these stuff like X. I think it's kept alive by news clips You know this still you'll still get a joy read that is funny And but that's gonna get old too at a certain point how much more laughing can you do about the libs melting down? People will get bored. So it's just... Not the way we do it! No, no and that's mainly because we don't have video that's the best part You know ironically

49:40 You might be right. Back to the topic, I can bring up the Ask Adam. Oh hold on a second... Now the thing about this Ask Adam is that this is a cheap trick to get into some more analysis Okay. Because it's pretty off the wall now this is... Cheap! The one of course you play is ask Adam Q and then I'll ask you the question okay here we go when vice president Kamala Harris was campaigning for the presidency she landed on a signature line She landed on a signature line, okay? Okay What was it well there's a couple do you did you just fall out of a coconut tree Yeah But it's probably we're not going back

50:29 We're moving forward. Wow, this is funny because when I heard this what came to my mind was joy. That's not a signature line that that's just a word Well, we're both wrong. Or unburdened by what has been? We're both wrong and you're still continue to be wrong so now you want to play answer plus plus okay When Vice President Kamala Harris was campaigning for the presidency she landed on a signature line this summer at the Democratic National Convention it was everywhere in the pump-up video set to Beyonce

51:07 We win! Oh, really? Busted across posters in the audience and in speech. When we fight...we win! After speech Because as we've always known in Texas, cuando luchamos ganamos. When we fight....We Win! After Speech And as the next President of The United States always says when we fight In this election, the Democrats' fight was pretty good. They successfully ditched their unpopular presumptive nominee. They raised a billion dollars with record-breaking speed. They reached tens of millions of people with their massive door knocking and phone banking operations But the win, of course never came And since then we've seen another law of politics take shape

51:54 When you don't win, you fight amongst yourselves. The finger-pointing began the morning after the election Democratic Representative Richie Torres from New York said that quote Donald Trump has no greater friends than the far left Look if the goal is to win elections on Twitter then you should embrace movements like defund the police but if the goal is to win elections in the real world where it matters Then you have to appeal to working-class people of color who historically have been the base of the Democratic Party. That's him on MSNBC Well, this is very interesting since we both were wrong about about what the signature line was and it goes to show that in popular dish there the Democrat Party is divorced from understanding popular culture and

52:44 Because if I ask my 28 year old and i said what do you think she'll say coconut tree, she might say we're not going back. She might even say freedom but I don't... Freedom? I do not think that in popular culture anyone would say when we fight we win. Seagull! Sorry seagull Yeah, I was kind of surprised. I agree with all that and the irony of course to what you just said which is that they don't understand popular cultures They're the ones wrapped up in Hollywood But then again Hollywood doesn't seem to understand popular culture either with the results the box-office results They get with some other good ideas yeah something's a great idea

53:29 So here's a part two of this kind of cheat that I did. Meanwhile, former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi who was instrumental in convincing President Biden to step aside suggested in a New York Times interview that he should have thrown the nomination open earlier Had the president gotten out sooner there may have been other candidates in the race Kamala, I think still would have won but she may have been stronger having taken her case to the public sooner. Pramila Jayapal the Washington congresswoman who leads the progressive caucus says Democrats didn't do enough to distinguish themselves from Trump We don't offer a different option He is a billionaire yes But we also surrounded ourselves with billionaires and we allowed corporate interests to dictate

54:14 policy. She's speaking there to NPR member station KUOW in Seattle, we have to stand up for who we are and I'm not sure we totally know as a party who we are consider this after a resounding defeat the Democratic Party has to figure out where it goes next and the struggle over its future is already underway Oh, well that is interesting. I have a follow-up clip to that specifically about Pelosi because she has also lost her standing and when i say lost your standing... ...I mean the ladies from The View don't even like you! About Nancy Pelosi... Oh child, oh child, oh child, OH CHILD!!! She must have been absent the day in kindergarten where they did the lesson if you've got nothing good to say don't say anything at all

55:03 I mean, why Nancy? Why? I find this so unproductive. So nasty. So unnecessary it's like she wants to make sure that people know it wasn't her She has no blame in this. I said Biden should have gotten out earlier. I said there shouldn't have been a primary Don't blame me! I think is really unseemly and you know frankly It's done with yeah right these criticisms against Biden Look, we're not- We will never know if the result would have been different had Biden stepped off earlier. What we do know is that Biden is in there for the next two and a half months and this is what I'm going to tell Joe. Joe since they're talking smack about you anyways, you know what? Maybe pardon Hunter. Yeah. Pardon Hunter

55:48 Hunter, because we've basically America just pardoned a criminal who was convicted of felonies. Yes. America just elected a man who pardoned Jared Kushner's father. He is probably going to pardon some of the folks from January 6th those insurrectionists. So you know what? It's your son he probably wouldn't have been prosecuted if his last name wasn't Biden baby you got two and half months I'm good with you pardoning Hunter Which brings us to much needed analysis of the Trump-Biden meeting. This is where you say, I have the clip!

56:26 And in fact, I have a clip or two. President Biden met at the White House today with president-elect Donald Trump as NPR's Tamara Keith reports they both emphasized a desire to have a smooth transition With cameras on them the two presidents shook hands Biden said his administration would do everything it could to make sure Trump had what it needed for a smooth transition Thank you very much and politics is tough And it's, in many cases not a very nice world but it is a nice world today and I appreciate very much the transition that so smooth. It'll be as smooth as you can get. Melania Trump didn't come to Washington for the visit but first lady Jill Biden gave the former president a handwritten letter to deliver to his wife So... First things first

57:18 When we see the picture of Trump and Biden walking down the little corridor there to the Oval Office, Trump being 6 feet 3. Biden being six feet zero. Biden is taller than Trump by at least an inch if not an inch-and-a-half Now, the answer is well he's wearing orthopedic shoes. Okay so there are four inches? No. Trump did not meet with the real Joe Biden in my opinion that was daddy long legs the guy who was all jacked and can run and was speaking in the Rose Garden all excited all jacked up

58:03 And I don't, what I would have hoped is that he got to speak with the actual Joe Biden who then would say hey here's the skeletons. Here she's out to get you here's what you need to look out for pardon Hunter That would have been fine but they they psyops this that was not Joe Biden. I'm going to stick to this But we don't know who he met with for the two hours that were closed No, we don't. We don't but I mean he was with that guy and they must have done like a switcheroo in one door out the other door Oh hey! Hey here i am I'm Joe It was so odd. You cannot... You don't think that's possible? Yeah, but I mean these were these...I cannot stand the Oya's orthopedic shoes it's not four and a half inches! Orthopedic shoes?! Four and a half inches of orthopedic shoes! He also has longer legs that's the problem Yes yes And his gait is different

58:58 So I'm hoping that... The Biden that they saw, they didn't show enough of this by the way. I find that to be peculiar. Of course not! We can't have that. No, I'm talking about Biden at the beach. Oh! The recent shots where he almost fell on his ass a couple times trying to walk in sand Just trying to walk? Yeah. They really minimized that. I was surprised and I'm sure it's already did elections over so why would you care now Anyway, two hours. I mean, huh? Two hours. CBC had a report to play this it'll lead us into something else. I think Mr President-elect and former president Donald, congratulations with broad smiles and a handshake U S President Joe Biden and President elect Donald Trump sat side by side in the Oval Office and put on a rare display of civility looking forward to having a like we said smooth transition. I very much appreciate that Jim

59:54 In their face-to-face, Trump barely acknowledged the bitterness of their past. That's especially true for those in Trump's immediate orbit like the Republicans in Congress who greeted him with a hero's welcome. Isn't it nice to win? It is nice to win! Other wins for the Republicans, the House of Representatives and a new Senate majority leader John Toon of South Dakota. Also included in this stream of new appointments today Florida Senator Marco Rubio as Secretary of State and Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz

58:58 So I'm hoping that... The Biden that they saw, they didn't show enough of this by the way. I find that to be peculiar. Of course not! We can't have that. No, I'm talking about Biden at the beach. Oh! The recent shots where he almost fell on his ass a couple times trying to walk in sand Just trying to walk? Yeah. They really minimized that. I was surprised and I'm sure it's already did elections over so why would you care now Anyway, two hours. I mean, huh? Two hours. CBC had a report to play this it'll lead us into something else. I think Mr President-elect and former president Donald, congratulations with broad smiles and a handshake U S President Joe Biden and President elect Donald Trump sat side by side in the Oval Office and put on a rare display of civility looking forward to having a like we said smooth transition. I very much appreciate that Jim

59:54 In their face-to-face, Trump barely acknowledged the bitterness of their past. That's especially true for those in Trump's immediate orbit like the Republicans in Congress who greeted him with a hero's welcome. Isn't it nice to win? It is nice to win! Other wins for the Republicans, the House of Representatives and a new Senate majority leader John Toon of South Dakota. Also included in this stream of new appointments today Florida Senator Marco Rubio as Secretary of State and Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz

1:00:34 States, who was the subject of a U.S. Justice Department investigation as attorney general. But to what extent Trump's bold new agenda was discussed? White House Press Secretary Corrine Jean-Pierre gave few details. Look they met for more than two hours The length of the meeting tells you that they had an in-depth conversation on an array of issues. With that much anticipated meeting wrapping without a hitch, Trump is now one step closer into his steady march back to the White House I love the little subtle Nazi smear He's one step closer to his march into the White House! He's goose stepping his way in

1:01:14 By the way, I want to congratulate everybody on Mastodon. Thank you Thanks to you and your memes America was saved! I am so appreciative of that What would we have done without your frog memes? We would not have won! Donald Trump is forever grateful So i think we should discuss some of these appointments You did a pretty good rundown on the newsletter, which ended in typical Dvorak trolling fashion by saying and nothing's going to change. It was true! Well I think that was awkward talking about Vivek and Elon... And Macs suck. Which one? Macs. Macintosh computers suck it was reminiscent of an old-school column yeah it was good well nothing is gonna change with the government officials doge

1:00:34 States, who was the subject of a U.S. Justice Department investigation as attorney general. But to what extent Trump's bold new agenda was discussed? White House Press Secretary Corrine Jean-Pierre gave few details. Look they met for more than two hours The length of the meeting tells you that they had an in-depth conversation on an array of issues. With that much anticipated meeting wrapping without a hitch, Trump is now one step closer into his steady march back to the White House I love the little subtle Nazi smear He's one step closer to his march into the White House! He's goose stepping his way in

1:01:14 By the way, I want to congratulate everybody on Mastodon. Thank you Thanks to you and your memes America was saved! I am so appreciative of that What would we have done without your frog memes? We would not have won! Donald Trump is forever grateful So i think we should discuss some of these appointments You did a pretty good rundown on the newsletter, which ended in typical Dvorak trolling fashion by saying and nothing's going to change. It was true! Well I think that was awkward talking about Vivek and Elon... And Macs suck. Which one? Macs. Macintosh computers suck it was reminiscent of an old-school column yeah it was good well nothing is gonna change with the government officials doge

1:02:06 Okay, I need to say something. First of all, I'm sick of Doge. I think it's borderline illegal if he holds any Dogecoin. I think there are issues because he is pumping an asset by doing this and everybody knows it also... I disagree! I don't think everybody knows it Enough people know it I mean he did this on Saturday Night Live and he's always pumping Doge. And that should put the dog on his sweater or something. The stupid dog, yes okay doge all right ha ha we get the joke and now he's posting AI memes you know computer generated

1:02:53 pictures of him and he looks all badass like pride comes before a great fall Elon be very careful with what you're doing. Now you're gonna have to make up your mind if his pride comes before a fall or if he's an intelligence asset in a psyop, walking psyop it's gotta be one or the other can't be both When did I say that he was a walking psyop? Oh I thought you were on the camp of him being a psiop No! I said he is no good I never said he was a walking psy-op, he says he's no good. But what i think he wants is he wants X to be the everything app all payments run through x it's going to turn into a news app that you can already see it will be where every and this already categorizes as a news app It'll be for your news if social media is over

1:03:43 People are not interested anymore. Maybe in four years something will spark up again, but they really people just want to what's going on and they won't even care if it's real or not That's funny that's great you know what's happened I'll just check in on X actually that's you I think you made a point there again Which is shocking. Oh, thanks! People don't care if the information's accurate or not it just kind of goes by... If you know all these little details about everything like in the buzz let's go back to the Bay of Pigs the Castro situation, you can just alter all the details and you know one side... say half of the details are completely wrong and half of them are right or just ever you flip it. It doesn't make any difference! It's like the Gulf of Tompkins. So it was like okay we found out that there was a bunch of bullcrap but what difference does that make? I'll reiterate my stance on Elon he's a phony

1:04:37 He is a front man for all these organizations. They've got real NASA, real Space Force people running SpaceX There's real car people running Tesla You know all of these other little things that fall apart No one ever talks about you know boring company and the flamethrower and all this I have to mention something I don't if you caught this but Trump And I think he did it as though he was joking But I'm not convinced of it. He made the comment because Elon is hanging out in Mar-a-Lago, he's very... Oh yeah! He's Uncle Elon. Oh, he's uncle now to the kids. Oh, I'm Uncle Elon. He says he can't get rid of him Yes! Now there you go

1:05:22 And, you know I follow his jet. You know there's a guy he got kicked off of X of course but he still has a Mastodon account and Elon is always on the plane and he's always on X so...and then he said Mar-a-Lago He's not running anything So in that regard he's just a phony Didn't invent Tesla didn't invent SpaceX Oh boy the rocket came back Go to Mars! Go to the moon! Impress me And then with this Department of Governmental Efficiency, it's going to be Vivec. The American people have voted for drastic reform of the government and our federal government is broken. It's no secret that it is a fourth branch of government, the administrative state that makes most of the rules, that creates a federal bureaucracy that's hampering our economy So what do we want to do? We wanna go in and slash-and-burn that bureaucracy To help Americans stimulate the economy And restore self governance again Sean The people we elect to run the government They're not even the ones who run the government anymore Its these unelected bureaucrats

1:06:42 Republican politicians have talked about fixing this for a long time, not with a lot of progress. So I do think it's going to take a couple of outsiders. Elon and I have built a great friendship over the last year we're working together intensely and we're not gonna stop till we get the job done. Yeah yeah so yeah now i'm sure they can trim two trillion dollars that'd be good The first time I heard about the Republicans in particular And I wasn't around, but the first time I heard about this was Herbert Hoover when he became president before the economic collapse of the 30s. Yeah, I think it was called The Hoover Commission. I could be wrong about that. But he set up shop to do the exact same thing because back then in the late 20s a government was too big and needed to be trimmed

1:07:26 And then Bill Clinton came along and there's a speech that is going around from 1996 where he comes out and he says, we've got it. The government is too damn big. We gotta start trimming it down." I think the figure was at the time of their budget was just around $1 trillion now its seven This has been going on forever. It never does anything except it's just bullcrap." This was the indeed the Hoover Commission, which was the commission on organization of the executive branch of the government and also known as COABG. I think DOGE is much better than COABG

1:08:06 And Truman actually used the Reorganization Act of 1949 to implement the recommendations, so they could only make recommendations of the Hoover Commission. I'm reading from Wikipedia in case you wondered. Reorganization plans issued under that act could be nullified by a concurrent resolution enacted by both chambers of commerce So it didn't have a lot of girth to it probably, but yes I think you're right. The idea of doing this is a very tall order It'll be great they'll make some changes I'm sure let's go through some of these other By the way it will just be recommendations they have no power to do anything I'm in agreement with you Let's... I have Doge clips if you want to just get them out of the way Sure

1:08:56 And I call them Doge knowing that it would attract your attention. I'm so attracted to your clips This is NPR's trying to explain it. Last night Donald Trump announced the creation of the Department of Governmental Efficiency or DOGE He named two of his most prominent allies from the business world to lead DOGE Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX Just point-of-order The pronunciation of Doge is about the shit coin known as Doge. Otherwise it'd be Dogue or something, so the fact that it's Doge completely connects it to that so I just don't like it. X and Tesla? And Vivek Ramaswamy an entrepreneur who ran against Trump for the Republican nomination earlier this year

1:09:47 Doge is getting a lot of attention, but a lot about it is unclear. Here to tell us what we do know is NPR political correspondent Daniel Kurtzleben. Hey Daniel! Hey Elsa! Alright let's do this... What DO WE KNOW so far about Doge? We know very little, but we can glean some information from the statement Trump put out about it. For example, it is not clear if Trump envisioned DOJ as an official governmental department and creating that would require an act of Congress. But what we do know is that Trump said Musk and Ramaswamy would be providing guidance from, as he put it, outside of government so presumably they are not intended to be government officials.

1:10:29 And that raises more questions, because if this is an outside commission somehow how is it funded? If its taxpayer how does that work and how big is it. If it's somehow maybe funded from outside of government wouldn't there be conflicts of interest But then there's one more important point here, which is that whatever cuts Doge ends up recommending Musk and Ramaswamy can't cut anything. Congress has the budget power. Exactly! Exactly yes no one thinks about this I'm glad you have these clips. Is it NPR even though they are spot on the role right now in PRB after the election has just is calm down they're not doing propaganda trying to explain things to the public which is what they're supposed to do and I think you're doing a decent job at the moment. If you notice Elon Musk

1:11:17 I'm going to cut all funding to NPR. All 4% that they get from government funding? Yes, because they're woke! They're no good! Alright... alright... alright... Those two calm down Okay so do we know anything about what Musk and Ramaswamy's priorities might be in short cutting but that's about it uh... rama swami said during his primary campaign after president he that he wanted to cut the federal workforce by seventy five percent meanwhile musk said during trump's october campaign rally at madison square garden he wants a cup government spending by two trillion dollars now both of those would be massive if they somehow happened two trillion dollars is around one third of total government spending per year that would be

1:12:04 very hard to cut without slashing the biggest government spending programs like Medicare and Social Security, which Trump has said he would not cut. So it's unclear how that would work. Likewise cutting three quarters of the federal workforce is a lot and keep in mind there are federal workers all over the country including in red states so It's not as if GOP members of Congress would be gung-ho about cutting a bunch of jobs but Here's something important. We don't know what the top priority of this commission is, the statement about it talks a lot about cutting the federal workforce but also talks about spending those two are not equivalent to the federal workforce is such a small part of government spending as of 2022 that workforce received around 270 billion in compensation government spending total is 6.5 trillion so It's hard to put a dent in that by cutting workers

1:12:57 It's a gimmick. This whole Doge thing is a gimmick. Well, that's what we're concluding aren't we? Let's go to the last clip we've done How does this new department or non-department I don't know what to call this yet play into what we know about Trump's other ambitions for his second term? It aligns with something he did at the end of his last term, which is called Schedule F. The basic idea is to recategorize federal workers replace people in career positions with political appointees. Biden rescinded that But he could do that again cutting a lot of workers, but the big question to me is Trump's fiscal plans This could save some money But he wants a bunch of tax cuts exactly and so deficits could go up as they did the last time He was president. That is M Pierce Daniel Kurt Slaven Thank You Danielle So one of the people not really talked about in this storm of appointees is RFK jr We don't know exactly what what his position will be

1:13:54 But I think the effect of him saying we're going to make America healthy again is already having an effect as this came out on Good Morning America. This morning, Kraft Heinz says it's pulling Lunchables from the National School Lunch Program It comes after Consumer Reports urged the government to drop the product from school lunches entirely We found relatively high doses of lead, cadmium or both in all of them. And most also had phthalates which is a chemical used to make plastic that had been linked to a host of health problems. Kraft Heinz bet big on its push to get Lunchables into schools modifying the product to comply with federal guidelines.

1:14:33 touting Lunchables as a way schools could cut costs. But nutrition advocates criticized offering processed branded foods in schools and Kraft says the demand never materialized it's the latest school lunch idea to face challenges we also need to significantly change the quality of food that kids are getting at school As first lady, Michelle Obama made improving nutrition a priority resulting in new standards in 2010. Studies showed the standards help lower childhood obesity but many schools said the costs were too high and one study found students were throwing away 60% of vegetables and 40 percent of fruits The Trump administration rolled back the regulations in 2018 but now with Robert F Kennedy expected to play a major role in the nation's health care more changes could be on the way

1:15:18 I'll get processed food out of school lunch immediately. About half the school lunch program goes to processed food We're creating diabetes problem in our kids by giving them food that's poison Kraft Heinz says Lunchables meets all safety standards. So, Kraft is smart like we better cut this right away if we don't want any bad... let's be good guys here oh there's lead in there. Lead and cadmium Processed crap and they know it and I think this is a good development Let's talk about some of the other appointees Good luck!

1:15:59 Do you want to say...you have clips, I'm sure. I have clips kind of naming and shaming? Yeah well you name and shame and you do a clip and then i'll do a clip Okay well let's go where are my clips? Where are your clips? Let's start with this one uh Well let's do the long form one there we have a bunch people all jumbled together Trump chooses long form NPR Trump is moving at a rapid clip announcing personnel picks for his new administration and some of them I think are what we could safely call shock nominees. Wow, did you hear how she sounded there? No, cue me in it again. Oh my god! Hold on a second let me get the clip here listen listen tell me this is not the same lady. I think they're what we could safely call shocked nominees. There's no winning! Doesn't she sound the same?!

1:16:54 It could be the same person doing voiceover. Yeah, it's her! Oh there is no winning! ...new administration and some of them I think are what we can safely call shock nominations. Wow! There was Fox & Friends host Pete Hegseth for Defense Secretary then there is former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence and Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz for Attorney General We're going to be talking about these picks for weeks to come. They all lack relevant management experience, but they have the most important qualification of all which is loyalty to Trump and a willingness to execute on his vision." And all this is in line with Trump's lessons learned from the first time in office when he surrounded himself with people who were generally very well qualified for their jobs but who ultimately stood in the way of the norms-busting things that Trump was trying to do

1:17:45 Excellent. Okay, that's good long form. There are no secrets! Let's just all hold hands and... By the way that is a great catch. It's her? Possibly it was the same woman doing voices for the American Dad. Yes maybe she is. A little side gig Okay, let's start with Gates. Let's just go with gates because he is by far the most controversial we have Democrats and Republicans who were befuddled by this choice Do you have any gates clips? I have to just the announcement of it But I do and I could have gotten some clips from it was one of the times he wasn't Nicole Wallace Don't worry. I have some clips don't worry. I guess okay. Where's your gates clip oh

1:18:30 Well, the Gates clip is in here. It's Trump chooses Rubio and Gabri- Here! Trump chooses Gates! got it NPR president-elect Trump floored some Senate Republicans today for attorney general some Paris Deirdre Walsh reports Trump opted for a loyalist with the national reputation as a disruptor to help him overhaul the Justice Department. Trump's pick for Attorney General Florida Republican Matt Gaetz set off shockwaves among Senate Republicans he said top Trump loyalist and a conservative firebrand. He was the member who led to the removal of former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy over a year ago, and part of their public feud was over a House ethics investigation about allegations about Gaetz possibly involved in sex trafficking. The Justice Department investigated that and did not bring any charges but there's still a House ethics investigation

1:19:22 So I'll play my first clip and then we'll discuss. This is Caitlin, the $3 million woman over there at CNN with George Conway and his view on Gates as pick. My legal sources are here a pair of former federal prosecutors in Ellie Honig and Elliott Williams and also the conservative attorney who was once active Actually, if you can remember that far back considered by Trump to be his solicitor general the number three at the Justice Department now outspoken Trump critic George Conway. That was a very long introduction. Um, George? Yes. Your thoughts I know everybody's like shocked surprised there is nothing surprising about this. This is Matt Gates in a lot of ways as the perfect attorney general for Donald Trump

1:20:10 Okay, I mean we have a criminal convicted criminal who's the president who has been adjudicated to engage in sexual abuse. So why not select A guy who has been loyal to him and who wants to seek revenge in the same way Donald Trump does. And, you know was accused of sex trafficking He's the perfect choice so I don't know why everybody is surprised Alright your thoughts on Matt Gaetz as Attorney General Well when i was watching Nicole Wallace she had Swalwell on

1:20:51 And Swalwell, well it's interesting because I've seen Swalwell clips now for a couple of days. He's showing up...he's got a new agent or something he's showing up in a lot of clips and his sounds extremely reasonable and he said that everyone is all bent out of shape about Gates and of course we remember that he got Kevin McCarthy kicked out of the house. And Kevin McCarthy goes around now on different Fox shows calling him calling Gates a pedophile. Yeah, yeah! Out and out calls him a pedophile. Bit of an issue Yes, I would say. And so Swalwell says this is bullcrap the whole thing is just a setup so he can't...he won't get confirmed by the Senate and he goes on it says you guys are all freaked out about nothing because there's not gonna happen which you know may might be true but I didn't think much of that one way or the other until they had the Senate whipped, the new senate whip guy

1:21:52 on this morning's John Roberts show and he says that when they brought up Gates, he was like... and he is a Republican. He is hemming and hawing in a very awkward way because he was asked point blank, are you as a senator just going to approve all these things just across the board or are you gonna give careful thought? And the guy was hemming and hawing in an awkward way which makes me think that Swalwell may be correct that Gates won't get approved. That's possible and it doesn't really matter I have a thought based upon another clip with the $3 million woman

1:22:32 Listen to this. And I have new reporting tonight on who Trump may install in the second highest position there at the DOJ. I'm told Trump is seriously considering naming his lead attorney that you may recognize from his criminal cases, who represents him there Todd Blanch to serve as the next deputy attorney general though i should note tonight nothing has been finalized This is now I am seeing a pattern with what President Trump is doing

1:23:16 He has Elon as the guy out front and Vivek is going to be tasked with actually rolling up his sleeves and going in. Matt Gaetz is the lightning rod He's perfect because all Trump has to say is, hey Matt what's that in your mouth? I mean he's the guy is so compromised. The real guy is Todd Blanche this guy is...he's the one you're deputy attorney general You've got power! You've got a lot of power This guy was in this he was United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York

1:23:52 He's a real New Yorker guy. He's been, you know he's done racketeering public corruption This is a serious lawyer He's born in 74, so he's 50. This is the guy who is going to change a lot of things and Matt Gaetz is just a distraction. It doesn't matter who was put in there as long as it's compromised. I'm telling you that Gaetz is easy. Matt do this. No, I don't feel like it what's that your mouth? Oh, I'm sorry yeah we had those pictures. I think Todd Blanche is the guy to watch.

1:24:27 He's the guy that is going to... And who is the Deputy Attorney General under Merrick Garland? Do you know? No. I don't either! No one ever talks about him You think that guy doesn't have some real clout, can do something I'm pretty sure he does. Well during the previous era when you had some of those creeps struck, whatever his name is that... It was FBI it was FBI Oh that's FBI but it was still the second- it was an underling there was a second level yeah That was doing all the damage They can they have a lot of power they can do a lot of things so I think Yeah like that I like the theory Matt Gaetz You set up a straw man and then you have some real nasty assholes underneath them I don't think that's true with

1:25:10 with the border guy. No, no, that guy... Well let's do the border guy! Do you have a clip of the border guy? I don't know, I mean- I do not Okay, I have two clips of the border guy This is CBC so it's international news and wait wait wait, i'll play that one second hold on Where is uh where's my guy here oh here we go this guy Well, Democrats are already preparing to push back on former President Trump's planned migrant deportation program. Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey is already declaring that her state will not comply if the Trump administration requested would the Massachusetts State Police assist in mass deportations? No absolutely not every tool in the toolbox has got to be used to protect our citizens to protect our residents

1:26:02 and protect our states, and certainly to hold the line on democracy in the rule of law. What the president-elect's newly named borders are, Tom Homan says he won't be stopped by sanctuary cities or states. Look I've seen some of these Democratic governors say they're going to stand in the way and they're going to make it hard for us. Well you know a suggestion if not gonna help is get the hell out of the way before we go into it so if we can't get assistance from New York City and even we may have to double the number of agents we send to New York City but because we're going to do the job. We're going to do the job without you or with you." And Homan defended the president-elect's deportation plan, saying that it puts our national security first.

1:26:43 President Trump has made it clear. We will prioritize public safety threats and national security threats first. If you're in the country illegally, you shouldn't feel comfortable. Absolutely not! I won't feel comfortable if i'm in a country illegally You shouldn't be comfortable either because when you enter this country illegally... ...you have committed a crime. You are criminal and you're not off the table And I think this is great? I mean, I don't even care if the guy does it. I just want to hear him say he doesn't every day all day long I'm gonna do it get out of the way. He's perfect and oh, it's it's central casting yes Congratulations the babies now a US citizen is frankly ridiculous

1:27:27 That was President-elect Trump five years ago expressing his desire to end birthright citizenship, a 14th Amendment right guaranteeing anyone born on U.S soil U.S citizenship and as we inch closer to the beginning of his next administration it appears Trump may move forward with ending that right and I talked to immigration attorney Ernesto Walsh who says he could be successful in doing so Could you see there being any legal challenges to this? Oh, absolutely. Without question it'll be challenged and now at the end of the day whether it will be something that they'll be allowed to remove or not it's more likely that they will be able to pull this benefit. Walsh says it likely wouldn't be applied retroactively, meaning no one would lose citizenship if they were born here and Walsh says all of Trump's immigration proposals will take time to implement. It's important understand that the courts are severely backlogged and so with even the most aggressive spirit that President Trump may have, um, it still logistically takes time in order to be able to do things

1:28:30 And I think this is one of the reasons why we see the private prison stock soaring on Wall Street. Oh yeah, that was a good pick! We should have had that one. One last one on our new bulldog... border bulldog Before you go on, I do have to make one comment which is this 14th Amendment thing The way they present it as though it's oh my god we had this 14th Amendment It's a violation of rights You have to remember the 14th Amendment which was acted in 1868 was done to protect the birthrights of American slaves that were freed. That's the only... it wasn't for so some people could come into town and have a baby! Right, it's interpretation of the law as usual

1:29:15 The Board of Bulldog is also putting Candinavia on notice. With Joe Biden's time in the White House rapidly running out and US President-elect Donald Trump naming his new team of top officials at a furious pace, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland today chaired a meeting of the federal government's newly reactivated Cabinet Committee on Canada–US Relations But that relationship looks almost certain to become more complicated on a number of fronts One of Trump's key promises has been to carry out mass deportations of migrants who have entered the U.S., mainly via Mexico, but in an interview this week Tom Holman, Trump's newly appointed border czar put Canada on notice over its border

1:30:00 It's an extreme national security vulnerability on the northern border. And it is one of the things I'll tackle as soon as I'm out of my house. Human smuggling has risen sharply across the Canada-U.S. border, particularly between eastern Quebec, New York and Vermont. the and he wants more enforcement on both sides. Yeah, look it has to be President Trump got to work with the Prime Minister Trudeau and say look you need enforce whatever immigration laws you have because this is a gateway Get out you dirty Canadians get out! Get out of here The border bulldogs are on the case This isn't aside from something that was said in that clip They make a big point in this too

1:30:57 Trump is appointing people at a breakneck rate, breakneck speed. A fast clip! So it seems to me Trump's been running for this job for at least a year that it just seems to me that if you're going to run for president and then become president on January 6th or whatever the day you get... 20th, 20th. The 20th? No, no the riot is on the sixth. After the right on the sixth he gets put in as president in the twentieth wouldn't you have your cabinet and everything all of your ducks in a row like six months before even

1:31:37 started your campaign when you have everybody lined up ready to Would you like this job that job the other job? It just seems to me well He hasn't lined up and I know yeah, but he's only part of why don't you just roll out the entire cabinet in one day. I mean I don't see why this has to be dragged out like this even though they say well break neck it's It's my understanding the way President Trump does these things is he has a big list and he puts a whole bunch of people on it, and he floats that around because he wants to get feedback from people. It's almost like choosing the right UFC fighter you know who was gonna bring in the biggest crowd with you know yes I guess all kinds of show business. Yeah but why can't he have done that six months ago? Well because he has recess appointments

1:32:22 that he's trying to get done. No, I'm just saying the list and to pass the list around could have been done well you know i don't know maybe because he got shot? I don't know there's all kinds of stuff going on. He was finding a whole thing peculiar. He was focusing on running and I know that the press secretary...I know several people who were on the list including my neighbor I don't know if ever brought that up, but she was on the list. She was in Mar-a-Lago for a week. Yeah you actually have discussed it? For a week and i'm delighted to hear that... You okay? No i'm not better uh Alina Habba is going to be the spokeshole which is great

1:33:05 Do you think? She's a lawyer. She's cute, that's what you want! Well if you just want to cute spokeswoman sure... Hey that's all you need it's all you need and I also think she's not gonna do something every single day. I think maybe once a week maybe every-I don't think they're gonna do uh he's learned from that mistake anyway let Let's move on to another interesting pic. I'll set you up. Hegseth announcement coming as the Wall Street Journal reports that the Trump transition team is considering a draft of an executive order that would create a panel of retired military personnel empowered to review and recommend the removal of three-and four star generals, That order is still a draft but it's also in line with previous comments from Hegseth echoing Trump's claims that the military is being undermined

1:33:53 It's one thing to have DEI inside your corporation or inside your university. It is a whole other thing to have it inside the 101st Airborne. You can move to a different state if you want to go to a different school, or if you want a different tax rate We only have one military and if the military goes woke then its less equipped to fight the wars that need to fight I'm straight up just saying we should not have women in combat roles It hasn't made us more effective, hasn't made us more lethal. Has made fighting more complicated we've all served with women and they're great it's just our institutions don't have to incentivize that in places where traditionally not traditionally over human history men in those positions are more capable okay so he's anti-DEI your thoughts on Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense? Well this is the one I think

1:34:41 Maybe the most controversial of the picks Mainly because they keep the left and the crappy media keeps calling him a Fox host When he's actually just he is a fox host, but so as you know saw are a lot of different people I mean there's like coaches that go on and do John Brennan's MSNBC host But the thing is he's a two-time decorated Afghanistan Iraq war vet, both of them two bronze stars. He's been running veterans organizations. He's a buff guy. The guy is buffed and tatted up and it's kind of interesting character. I don't think it's a bad idea to have somebody that there's this adamant picked

1:35:32 and he probably is qualified to do something, but he's not... He doesn't have a background of a bureaucrat. And I don't see how somebody like that can run the Pentagon, but taking your step and saying who is going to be under him With him being the front man for somebody else that we don't know who it is. Yes, this is the format I think would make it all work fine And they also at the same time learn the ropes because the way I see it I think he's probably a great guy smart. I've seen him talking on he goes on all these shows He handles himself well and oh, there's a Fox News host hello

1:36:15 He can do the, he could do a great job of being the front man for somebody who knew the ropes of the bureaucracy and how it operates which is something you just can't walk into. I mean, I've worked in a bureaucracy myself, a government bureaucracy and it's daunting and I don't see how you just don't take charge of the Pentagon, the one that can't even get audited out of the blue with no experience running a crazy organization like that so It's, I think now I'm going to relent and go with that he's not a bad pick if you put the right guy under him. Yes and so I agree we don't yet have information on who the deputy secretary of defense would be but Pete has all the right ideas and he is

1:37:04 I would say read in on the strategy and he knows how to talk about it, he knows how to sell it as witnessed by him on the Sean Ryan podcast. The Pentagon is in the book of the exact amount of years but In the past X number of years 10 12 15 The Pentagon has a perfect record in all its war games against China We lose every time inside the Pentagon War Games We know what our real capability, you see we didn't even get to this part of the war on warriors. I mean the military industrial complex the way we procure weapon systems You know were always The way our system works the way our bureaucratic system works where the speed of weapons procurement works or always a decade behind in fighting the last war

1:37:50 Whereas China, we have what Rumsfeld said you go to the war of the army and you have. We have the army...China's building an Army specifically dedicated to defeating United States of America that is their strategic outset take hypersonic missiles so if our whole If our whole power projection platform is aircraft carriers and the ability to project power that way strategically around the globe, yeah we have a nuclear triad and all of that but a big part of it. And if 15 hypersonic missiles can take out our 10 aircraft carriers in the first 20 minutes of a conflict... What does that look like? I mean, and when they're if they've already got us by the balls economically which you pointed out very well with our grid. Culturally there's plenty of elite capture going on around the globe. And then microchips and everything why do they want Taiwan? They wanna corner the market completely on the technological future we can't even drive our cars without this stuff we need out of China these days. They have a full spectrum

1:38:52 long-term view of not just regional but global domination and we are, we have our heads up our asses. Pete knows exactly how to sell China he's going to be perfect as Secretary of Defense it's perfect whoever runs it underneath him we don't know Yeah, he's perfect. There'll be more money spent Oh well yes in fact which is gonna have to be done because the way things are going it's going to I mean I still think 2026 is gonna be a economic finally yeah and we need that We need the 2026 economic crash and then we're gonna rebuild it The best way to rebuild an economic crash between between two countries

1:39:39 because China also has economic issues, is to pretend that we got war. Let's build some and then we need hypersonic missiles We still need big beautiful ships and subs that go deeper than anyone else's boots on the ground from a senior airman in the United States Air Force I work maintenance on B-52s And you guys are talking about China On the last episode I have some insight on what they tell us about the upcoming conflict We made new aircraft maintenance units Also known as AMUs that are now bomber generation squadrons with the intent to have them ready to go as quickly as possible for upcoming missions and conflicts. On China, they tell us constantly to stay ready for the upcoming conflict that it will be sooner rather than later we're sending birds all over the world as an act of deterrence

1:40:27 We are expecting sometime between 25-26 to start a conflict as they believe that China will take Taiwan soon since they have a lowering birth rate and the population is diminishing, and the time to act is now. Next boots on the ground Lockheed Martin sitting here in real time at my Lockheed Martin all hands meeting same guy I mentioned in my last Boots on The Ground correspondence was on stage Same China warning a new face is on the stage now decorated female marine heavy lift pilot She is going deep on the China rhetoric pushing heavy Marine recruitment goals to be ready for wait for it 2027 China issues, it's far from behind the scenes now out in the open and that Trump appointments line up with this perfectly I do believe He says you guys nailed this one

1:41:17 This is a setup and to me, I think you probably agree China's in on it. We're not gonna blow up China they're not gonna blow up America we need each other were mutually beneficial and certainly in how are we going to dig ourselves out of this economic problem we have? Well we need something to build I'm not going to build computers and i will build computers but... Computers are the problem with computers they're naturally cheaper as time goes by. Yeah you need it's a deflationary product, It is no good! You need hypersonic missiles and it's gonna be great! It's gonna be great and by the way

1:42:02 I think that Colorado, now did Colorado vote completely Democrat as expected? Yes. Yeah, Colorado you're out of the game. With a second Trump term comes a renewed fight over a permanent headquarters for US Space Command Alabama I am a congressman Mike Rogers telling his home state on a radio talk show Monday. He expects the president-elect to order Space Command to relocate from Colorado Springs to Huntsville as soon as he takes office. And I think you'll see in the first week that he's in office, he'll sign an executive order reversing Biden's directive and we will start construction next year in Huntsville Those comments reigniting the years long fight over the command's permanent home

1:42:44 Senator John Hickenlooper saying Colorado Springs is the best place for Space Command because it's already at work here. Congressman Doug Lamborn raising security concerns, quote as the world becomes more dangerous we cannot afford any lapse in combat readiness. The Colorado Springs Chamber estimates the area would lose out on 450 million annually Serves you right, Colorado. And by the way this is not a new phenomenon this is what Bill Clinton did to Texas when he pulled the super collider which was being was probably almost 10 minutes from being finished monstrous product that would have that sir it was essentially CERN that we would have here in the United States and he just pulled the plug on it because Texas voted Republican

1:43:33 I'm going to take the lead on the last two controversial or interesting appointments. This will be Senator Marco Rubio as Secretary of State and this Waltz character who will be Director of National Intelligence, this clip says it all. I want to start this evening with CNN's Jim Sciutto who is joining me on the phone on this breaking news I just want to first get your take on hearing that it doesn't appear this is formal yet, but if Trump is leaning in this direction and that's what all of our sourcing is indicating at this hour. What the significance of a Marco Rubio as a Trump pick for Secretary of State? a

1:44:27 the intelligence gathering inside this country. So he has a deep and long resume on China, and listen it shouldn't be surprising given that Trump himself of course has made China a target both of his national security policy but also with economic policy the discussions during the campaign of imposing significant tariffs

1:45:02 on Chinese goods and this would bring to his team a Rubio and a Waltz, two individuals with history there and focus on China. Is it becoming clear to everybody what's going on? We can predict everything we can prick at all! We've been doing this...China! It's China And that's why Rubio was chosen. He's perfect! And if he gets out of line, hey Marco what is that in your mouth? We know you were a dancer. Yeah and he probably got plenty of photos. We know you were a dancer... I mean dancer. Yeah he was. Any more thoughts on those?

1:45:48 No, I think that there was another angle to this which is the... Which I have to... Which I did bring up in the newsletter. I think I said it pretty succinctly there which is Cenk Uygur's thesis What was that again? With Cenk... It's not that I listen to his show all of time but I have to say His ranting recently has been quite entertaining He claims that Rubio and Waltz and one other person were all put in because they were There were Israel hawks, and it was at the behest of the huge amount of money that was invested into the Trump campaign by Miriam Adelson. Ah yeah I do remember that now yes And so he says no one's talking about that and these picks had you had to pick some pro-Israel hawks

1:46:42 To assuade her assuage. Sure now, I don't like this wall sky what's his first? I think you're right. Rubio is controllable because of the photos what's Waltz his first name Oh Mike yeah, it's Mike. Yeah, okay he is a He just he's like the Holman type guy. He's a grumpy looking prick who I have mixed feelings about so i'm not a big fan of his but again it's like if he's going to be the director and he is not the DNI, he's the security... Oh oh Tulsi's DNI and he's the national security advisor? Is that the idea? Yeah he's National Security Advisor. The National Security Advisor is usually a spook my uncle was National Security Advisor to Bush

1:47:35 Yeah, that's well. They have spooky they're very spooky in some way or other That's for sure it's a spook job and so this guy And he I think he was the spook and then you have to then we have to see they got are gonna head up To CIA who is another guy? Don't care for who was the old DNI guy. We might as well discuss Tulsi as the DNI person, I think that's a good pick but then again she's gotta have BS... She's suspicious I like Tulsi. Everybody likes Tulsi, that makes it even better! Nobody doesn't like her... Yeah that's good and it's not like Bolton, I mean Bolton was creepy at least Tulsi we liked her you know Tulsi she's great What was Bolton's job? No I don't think so I think he was just a dipshit in charge of something or other. I'm a DIW

1:48:38 What's that? Dip shit in the White House. Yeah To give some credence to your 2026 prediction There is new evidence that Americans are drowning in debt Credit card balances hit a new record high between July and September, more than $1 trillion And total household debt which includes credit cards student and car loans and mortgages also broke a record On the bright side wages are now rising at a faster pace than debt So, things aren't all that great yet. And what you think may be the catalyst is of course a major portion or major part of Trump's appeal to some technology sectors including myself. Bitcoin is nearing $90,000 in fact it's up about 30% since November 5th

1:49:26 Traders are betting on Trump's promises to be a crypto president by lowering regulation and ushering in a crypto-friendly Congress. Reporter Hannah Lang has been looking into what kinds of changes the industry expects from the new administration. The crypto industry is broadly expecting that the Trump administration will be more lax on enforcement and overall take a very different approach than the current SEC, where they claim that most crypto tokens are securities and need to be registered as such and provide disclosures to investors

1:50:03 The crypto industry disagrees with that sentiment. So they claim that they had difficulty really lifting crypto into the mainstream because of some of the guardrails in place, so there are some people in the industry that are hopeful that with the Republican majority and the Senate and probably the House as well it really enables legislation to be passed through reconciliation where where you could see a crypto bill kind of tacked onto a larger spending or tax bill that could pass, kind of in a fast-track way with the simple majority. Since the election Bitcoin actually blew through 93 thousand hit 94 thousands back down again I think somewhere eight high 87. I did reach out to the former New York banker a skeptic of bitcoin and i said how about that bitcoin?

1:50:55 His reply, the more real it gets the sooner they will crush it. Okay he's probably that's an interesting take yeah just giving you the inside info no I'm biased but... Crush it! He said crushed they will crush it So, well you know I'm still waiting for Goldman Sachs to collapse. I think he had that on his list too and that was a couple years ago. Been waiting. No i think the uh...I still have the feeling that Trump's love of the stable coin! That is his way of printing money because if I understand how the stable coin works they are the tether

1:51:36 is probably the biggest, USDT is the biggest stable coin now and or the biggest buyer of treasuries and other debt instruments to back their stable coin which has won for one with the US dollar. And it's a great way to print money. It's like whatever works you got you guys if you just buy our debt and then turn that into dollars that we can use digitally. And that's what I expect Elon to use. I expect him to use stablecoin not doge Doge, doge. I think he'll use a stablecoin and that is an interesting thing that is not being discussed, an interesting strategy to print up more money on top of money you already printed without it really printing money somehow if that makes sense. Yeah good luck Well...

1:52:28 Thank you print print. Thank you well, that's always been your theory we need to print more I have never said that oh You know in the past on this show you said well We should print hundreds of billions of dollars yes, you have Well find me somebody out there finding clipping me saying exactly what he said What do you think? You said what do I never said anything along these lines? Oh I played the clip where Milton Friedman goes on and on about how they stopped inflation during the Civil War in some areas, where they're just printing money. They just stop the presses and everything calmed down. My recollection is that... You want to hear what you want to hear? Okay

1:53:18 I guess, I have another quest. I just have recollections of you saying that you thought we should be printing a lot more money... Maybe? I don't recall it saying that myself! Yeah... Pretty good recollection of crazy comments. Okay Well, people's being it dot IO everybody. It's out there somewhere I get to work Yeah, I will accept if I'm wrong that is yes I know I may have discussed a modern monetary theory and through that That in as an overall comment but it's nothing I'd recommend Okay, but I had years ago we discussed MMT which was was a big thing at the time

1:53:59 And luckily that's gone by the wayside. No, I just... Unless you like high price $5 gallon wait what did i say? Six dollar a gallon gasoline which is going to go up in California. I know! I'm baffled because I thought that was still kind of your idea that we should have been printing a lot more money. I don't know why I think that You hate me. No, I love you That's not true I know that. Why would i hate you? Without you, without you I'm nothing! I have cash too which makes it even worse. But hold cash... I have bitcoin so... Can you... yeah you'd be..I still think he'd been better off with gold No no my gold bar to get taken away a long time ago

1:54:55 I still have it. No, if you had it... I have coins! I got Krugerrands! Krugerrands? Wow! There you go, there's a shot from the bow of the past. And with that I'd like to thank you for your courage say in the morning to you The man who put the sea in China Say hello my friend on the other end who I do love It's John C. DeLorean! Good morning to you Mr. M Currently mayor of Shifts Sea Boots and Graffy in the air subs in the water Daves and Knights out there In the morning to the trolls in the troll room Here we go! So we should be at 1800 for a Thursday, is that correct? Is that what I'm... Yes. 2196 so we're just shy of 22 so were almost 400 above the average troll rate and you know why? No why? Because people want to hear our opinion

1:55:49 You know what, they always want to hear our opinions but why today? I mean an opinion we did kind of... Well it's obvious because everyone is talking out of their butt hole all over the place. That's for sure! That's all you hear that is the culture war economy in high gear everybody has a opinions on everything, whoa we should have this guy John Thune, Rhino, wee-wee-wee. John Thune. Everyone's all... Should've been Rick Scott! No we just try to keep calm carry on see what's going on it's okay remember after the show is over go outside it's beautiful outside

1:56:34 He's here in Texas, go smell some fresh air. It's America! There is a feeling of freedom in the air John! A feeling of freedom yes well if you go outside yeah I guess that's where the freedom is. You can smell it in Texas it smells like freedom everywhere how does it smell in California do you smell freedom in the air? I don't smell anything in the air. It's clean, it's ocean spray. Cranberry! Mmm my favorite Hey those trolls are in the troll room Trollroom.io they listen live on the stream What are you drinking? I heard you crack it

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1:57:59 Developers, developers, developers. That's right and they've all tapped into podcastindex.org so that your favorite show will not go away and of course there is consolidation happening once again in the podcast industry No! Yes I think i can tell you what the strategy is here but we'll play this 45 second clip and it comes from Spotify First let's start with Spotify take aim at YouTube They want to be a place where you watch video podcasts The company held their annual Now Playing event and announced two big moves. First, it will start paying podcast creators who get lots of views... What? And it will let paying subscribers watch video podcasts without ads but keep in mind that does not include what's called host reads those are the ads that hosts read themselves that are built into the shows

1:58:47 Now according to Edison Research, YouTube is the top place for podcasts. With 31% of weekly listeners Spotify has 27%, Apple Podcasts surprise to me 15 percent share. Video podcast are particularly popular and continue to grow. Cheap production right? That's exactly what it's all about So this report is bullshit So they mix up metaphors of, oh most people listen to podcasts on YouTube and then listen on Spotify. I only fit... No! No, people listen to podcasts. The number one is still Apple where they actually listen when you have Spotify courting podcasters to do video Oh boy we need more of that To do video and then pay them That's an ad based strategy This is how people get de-platformed And when you upload video They disconnect your video from your RSS feed

1:59:50 This is very important for people to understand. What? So, never mind I guess! You will have no control over your feed no control over your broadcast mechanism this is a bad idea the same with YouTube Your favorite YouTube podcasters will go away when advertisers start complaining again So this is a cycle. It's of course it's a cycle and we'll go through it again And we'll still be here our little podcast will still be there still beer doing what? We do are complaining about not enough donations will be doing host reads for Linda Lou Pat but we're not doing hosts reads ever Well, we do for the new pat yeah, but that's really a hostry which is reading The donation know Eli the coffee guy exactly and they're just

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2:01:26 Yeah, nobody can do that. It's like you got kid you can't read you can't read depends on the day I mean sometimes sometimes I don't have my enunciations not correct because I didn't get enough sleep who cares You're coughing all the time today I am coughing today as if that's a freedom in the air. I'm breathing into much freedom That was making me cough So yes, get a modern podcast app. Podcastapps.com and remember that we are value for value this 17 years we're still here. Value for value is where it's at now OK so we don't get Rogan money We don't even get a set built for us like call her like that Call Her Daddy podcast as Chris Cuomo said

2:02:14 But you know what? We have our integrity, John. I can just see you rolling your eyes. Integrity! The difference between us and them is we're a public service. Yes, we serve the people We do. And unlike NPR, we're not in a bundle, not a plus bundle. No! We're just there on the feed you can get it however you want. We don't care copy it send to other people. People used to put it... You know, we had Ramsey he used to put shows on CDs and pass them out everywhere now people like what's this?

2:02:53 What's this thing? What am I gonna do with this thing?! I still have boxes in the garage of No Agenda CDs. You could throw it, just throw these they would make nice frisbees you know um... There was some football team, and I'm trying to think which one it is because I saw the game. I didn't realize they did this but it's one of the southern teams in Texas and when the football team comes out on the field everybody throws tacos or not tacos but tortillas. Really? Because a tortilla will fly like a frisbee if you toss it just right. And so all of a sudden all these tortillas are flying all over the place

2:03:31 It's really funny is that the Texas tacos that team no wasn't it's not the Texas Longhorns at some it's I Don't think its, Texas Tech. I'm not sure which team it is but as one of these teams somebody in the Troll room might if their football fans would know troll room is not so helpful. They're funny You know, they're not sport. I mean they're at home there. They're here. Here's many of them Don't know what football is well So we had a football segment on the previous episode which was about foot food ball IE soccer in America and i was questioning why this Tel Aviv team was playing Amsterdam it turns out there is a big tournament that there's a big UEFA Cup or whatever but no, and I keep my eye on the troll like anyone saying anything nothing. That's because nobody cares about soccer But then

2:04:21 They'll send me emails, you don't know what you're talking about! You sound like an idiot. And on Twitter, hey Curry, hey Curry. Dude my name's Adam where were you? You can just give me information I'm happy to correct it. It is really only one person who does it over and over again By the way, JCD calling anyone a shut-in is pot meet kettle. I don't know...I'm just reading they're trolling. They're trolling today. Burn me!

2:05:04 So part of the value for value actually there's three parts to it time talent and treasure We appreciate all three of those no matter how you can support the show. It is great when you promote the show It is great when you support it through your treasure, it's fantastic if you can do something to help us out I had a back-and-forth with Tante Neel one of our Dutch masters because we're gonna talk about the art in a moment And she confirmed my worst fear She said, I am reluctant to submit anymore because all the art looks so slick. And you know, she is a top winner in our list of artists. Yeah she's one of the top winners! So she hasn't submitted for awhile and she says well because I look at the art page and it's all so slick and I can't do stuff that fast... ...and so I figure I'll just never win. And I wanted to assure our Dutch masters particularly that is not about slick. Slick is not what wins with Noah Gent. Look at us

2:06:01 Slick slick is not what you know slick is no good. No if slick is slick sucks Yes, you know why? Why cuz it's slick yes we want known fact especially in modern the modern era We want Slickest slop there you go we want a Humor, you know and Tantaniel is one of those artists who gets us and she gets the humor. She gets the yes She can be quite amusing now I am There in this thread there were some conversations going on so well You know I use it as a tool So I can do part of this and you know use some AI for this and somebody that's fair but still slick does not beat out a great conceit

2:06:50 as we used to say in the business, which I thought was just concept in a snooty way. But the conceit of the art So that's what we're looking for. And we didn't really have great conceit on the last episode, We chose Coob the Boobs no agenda wastebuster obviously AI except maybe for the letters...AI is not very good if you say put No Agenda in a piece of art it comes up with the oddest things at least the AIs that I've used i don't really care So we wound up with the No Agenda Waste Bus. It was a pretty piece, but it... A little cheesecakey, it was okay. But if you looked at everything, if we just go down the list of what was there- That was a bad submissions show! The submissions were

2:07:38 where they were not, nobody had any... nothing was triggered. Artists need to be triggered. Oh I have an idea! They need that kind of triggering and we-I guess the show did not provide it. So you're saying its our problem now? We're at fault is that what you think? I think so. I honestly do. Well know there were people got the triggers like a demilitarized zone but that was just-commentary bloggers stop with the round pieces of art We're not gonna do him. Oh, Trump on the phone? Oh that's great! No agenda. I would say Trump on the phone is pretty lame Yeah it's the lamest of all lames What is the point? Why bother submitting it? You just vomiting AI slop everywhere

2:08:24 You know, we hesitated for a moment on Scaramango's reserve from my Trump voting husband but at this point we're like eh. And by the way wait wait Trump on the phone? This is like an old landline phone! Trump's got cell phones he knows how to use them But see then he puts the title in On The Phone With Zelensky Oh so should I put that underneath so people understand the art? This is a piece of art of Trump on the phone with Zelensky ah ha ha Now the piece I used for the newsletter was the giant elephant and the small donkey.

2:09:04 Yeah, and my clip custodian. Yeah now that's totally AI yes It's politically it's a little too political for me But I can see I can but I liked it was political, but you know We were political show in many ways and that was a political piece of art. It was different It has has a nice look to our comedy like the elephant is we're a comedy show Where did you get political from? Political comedy okay? Oh So anyway, Koob the Boob has tried a couple of submissions for the first time. Thank you! It was a pretty piece it just had nostalgia to it I'm not quite sure what the pill is that she's holding on to there? Yes we discussed this pill... What is this pill?! Is that the Wastebuster? Is that how...? I don't know. Pill or something? Is it Wigovi? Yeah didn't quite understand and I'm just looking at the art now plenty of time to win

2:10:01 Plenty of stuff we have so far is nothing good. Although the farmer's wife is pretty good, you see that? No no I don't see the farmer's wife It's the second row on the right it's literally a picture of a piece of paper with a drawing on it Oh yes See that's what I'm talking about It says, make art great again. Yes! Yeah that's a nice piece I agree But it is still up for grabs it's way up for grabs In other words we're not picking it No agendaartgenerator.com is where you go to submit We appreciate all of the arts that everybody submits whether your prompt jockey or not we appreciate you trying it That's always helpful seriously now we love you for that

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2:22:47 with some boots on the ground. I'd be interested So you recall the story, i don't think we did anything about it maybe we played a clip about the FEMA worker who had sent text messages avoid all the houses with the Trump flags Yes, not did we did we play a clip of that? We play any clue I think so But the thing is now as you mentioned it. I had a clip I could have captured and I didn't watch this show to do it but I was gonna go back and get It she would turn to she came on to one of the Fox shows And I didn't get her clip right well. I saw her on the Roland Martin podcast

2:23:27 I can't believe, i watched the Roland Martin podcast but um...I saw a clip and it kind of caught my eye. And then I said you know let me listen she seemed like a very reasonable person Let me see what is going on so the story as it was told, is FEMA workers were ignoring any home in Florida I think it was during the hurricane that had a Trump flag and this was an outrage. And of course it was presented as Director of FEMA! I don't know who's the director of FEMA? So she is on The Roland Martin Podcast And there's three entities that are going to be discussed. I'm gonna try and set this up one is FEMA itself, one is the company that she works for in her civilian life called Avernath we'll get to that and the third is as of this moment for me unknown entity which is a contractor to FEMA who actually sends people like her out into the field so

2:24:31 What I quickly realized as i'm listening to this interview, and again she seemed very reasonable and she seemed quite hurt by what had happened. Is that these FEMA people of which she is one they are not rushing in with you know to save you or you know they are literally only there to take your name and address and to register you so this So, this is not like a FEMA rescue worker coming in with a backhoe and digging you out or anything like that. This is a group of people who are called up sent out to go on... At some point I think she called it canvassing which was kind of odd. I don't know if they have it in the clip but to register you possibly so you can get your $750

2:25:21 They don't have any police protection. They just go from door to door and say, how many people live here? Are you okay? What do you need? Do you need money? What's the situation kind of looks at the scenario And so what happens is And she actually said that this has happened in the past with Biden signs, so it's not necessarily Trump. But a lot of people are like what do you hear? Why do you want my name and address get out of here you government shill! And that can get kind of heated. And so they are told by their supervisors who work for this third company, who supposedly then take that information and give it to FEMA... I'm not quite sure why... It's very typical. This is something for Vivek and Elon. Let's get rid of these consultants or these contracting firms in the middle who are just getting FEMA out there please!

2:26:17 And if you're walking up a street and there's three houses in a row, they're like get out of here. Drain the swamp all kinds of stuff like that then they're like okay we mark that down and This is not a good street to go on. The people are hostile, and in some cases it would be in the past there would be some political signs—it could just be a whole street or as she is required to write down the people with Trump's signs are not very friendly to us." So here's the first clip of this woman with...and she has been fired from FEMA And she's also been fired from her civilian job. I was notified after i demobbed the next morning they told me verbally, I was fired but they never

2:27:02 They never provided me anything in writing stating that I was fired. They all alleged that these actions were made on my own recognizance and it was for my own political advances, however if you look at the record there is what we call a community trend and unfortunately it just so happened that the political hostility that was encountered by my team, and I was on two different teams during this deployment. They just so happened to have the Trump campaign signage. FEMA always preaches avoidance first and then de-escalation. So this is not isolated. This is a colossal event of avoidance not just in the state of Florida but you will find avoidance in the Carolinas

2:27:50 Senior leadership will lie to you and tell you that they do not know. But if you ask the DSA crew leads and specialists what they are experiencing in the field, they will tell you demand for FEMA to give you those incident reports. They will substantiate what is happening to us in the field." It's interesting to see the trolls already saying she's a Democrat idiot! No no something else is going on here And here is again her explaining, listen carefully it's only a minute what she is actually doing and who else is doing this registering. So okay so you said so explain what this chart here is that you sent us this map that has these dots on it? What does this actually mean

2:28:34 So what that means is, and that shows you every home in that area. Each dot is a home. And that home, that dot gives you intel of if I was able to register that person, if I was only giving them resources, if I wasn't able to access the property there's all kind of things on in that data for that one dot so when someone says Oh, there was at least 20 homes missed or we didn't do this or we didn't do that. We have to put that into context because this was a breach from a partnering company that FEMA hired the surge capacity team which are usually just TSA workers

2:29:11 They took it upon themselves to say, we want to go and register these homes knowing that it is hostile and it could possibly endanger the rest of the team. So because they didn't get what they wanted, they went and sent this information out and misled the people that we just bypassed these homes. We omitted these homes for safety precautions not because a political plight like no one cares about that. We wanna make sure people can register So this is where I got interested. I'm like, really? So FEMA sends contracts another company which apparently also contracts TSA employees so

2:29:52 So, you already know what level you need. These are not people coming to save you these are people who do a very specific task as she says registering getting data these dots represent data on these homes and that data does not go directly to FEMA it goes to this third party and they're the ones who leaked out this information about her and basically put it on her And as I heard about her actual job, things started to come into view. At home, I have a regular job like everyone else. I have an executive position and take care of things there for that job in contract with them on their terms. And then for FEMA, our work is a reservist. So my time for them is on call based on deployments orders that I receive. Not only were you fired from FEMA your civilian so your other job

2:29:11 They took it upon themselves to say, we want to go and register these homes knowing that it is hostile and it could possibly endanger the rest of the team. So because they didn't get what they wanted, they went and sent this information out and misled the people that we just bypassed these homes. We omitted these homes for safety precautions not because a political plight like no one cares about that. We wanna make sure people can register So this is where I got interested. I'm like, really? So FEMA sends contracts another company which apparently also contracts TSA employees so

2:29:52 So, you already know what level you need. These are not people coming to save you these are people who do a very specific task as she says registering getting data these dots represent data on these homes and that data does not go directly to FEMA it goes to this third party and they're the ones who leaked out this information about her and basically put it on her And as I heard about her actual job, things started to come into view. At home, I have a regular job like everyone else. I have an executive position and take care of things there for that job in contract with them on their terms. And then for FEMA, our work is a reservist. So my time for them is on call based on deployments orders that I receive. Not only were you fired from FEMA your civilian so your other job

2:30:49 with Avanath, you've been fired from that job too. They actually did that in writing yes First of all what kind of company is this? I've never heard of it What kind of company is it It is a property management company. They are nationwide, I am a regional manager well it was regional manager for that property i took care of their portfolios and for various different acquisitions within it this is all because of FEMA's doing they allowed a partnering company to leak internal communication and then relinquish all of my personal contact information

2:31:25 So they don't, FEMA didn't just put Jeopardize Me. They also put my own company that I work for at home in jeopardy because all this information's on LinkedIn. Okay so now i'm thinking what exactly is this company that she works for? It's not really a property management company in the traditional sense of the word it is Avanath Kappa excuse me That's freedom. Freedom, I wanted to make sure you knew what i was doing it's freedom in the air Avanath Capital Management they special so they raise hundreds of millions of dollars to go out and buy properties They specialize in something that I'd never heard before and this is where I want producers who actually know about this stuff

2:32:17 to help us, something called NOAH. N-O-A-H This is an acronym for Naturally Occurring Affordable Housing So Natural Occuring Affordable Housing is housing that these guys buy up particularly when these properties have been flooded And then they turn them into Section 8 housing, or they can just make it very low rent for a so-called affordable housing. Once you have the affordable housing then you can get all kinds of zoning done with local governments and my assertion

2:32:56 is that this company in the middle is in the job of, in the business of taking this data and I'm not sure exactly what she registered probably the state of the home, the state of the damage how many people are living there maybe she gets some information how much they make? How many people live there. I think the reason why they put it all on her is because there's a scam going on here where this company in the middle gets the data, sends it off to Avanath because she knows how to do this. She knows how to assess properties and what properties are...how much damage there is etc., and I think there is some kind of scam going on with this company in the middle that gets this data and then helps these guys go target their acquisitions

2:33:47 I don't know for sure, but I never heard of naturally occurring affordable housing. And just my spidey sense went tingling like crazy." So if anybody has any information, I would love to hear about it. That's interesting! You know what I mean? And we're talking $675 million dollars their last capital raise to go and buy stuff. Well isn't that a coincidence? Or a coinkyding. Yes, that you've got all these properties that have been flooded they send out people who know how to assess these properties not save you no they go out to assess properties here's 750 bucks let me get some information from you so if anyone knows and there's wow there's a lot of angry people about this whole Noah stuff

2:34:38 that it really is some kind of real estate scam and you know these guys are an investment company they're not a port, they're not a management. No! Avanath takes a holistic approach to its strategy of acquiring and redeveloping affordable workforce and primary rental housing in addition to investing in the physical assets Avanath invests in community-based services and activities blah blah blah blah But then if you go look at the, let me see there. Yeah there uh the Noah part um

2:35:16 Avanath concentrates on these rental sectors. Affordable housing, tax credit project-based section 8 and other rent restricted properties generally targeting residents at 40% to 80 percent of area median income and naturally occurring affordable housing which is not a it's just an acronym it's not a government acronym as far as I can tell which are properties that up that upgraded to serve the needs of affordable residents But how does something become naturally occurring? Well, typically by flood. Anyway... That's all I've got and I hope we have some... Well, we have. We well, I don't think you'd have to hope too much What do you mean? I have a lot of hope! I have a lot of faith in our producers No, so as I said, we have someone that is very knowledgeable about this that listens to the show Oh And they're gonna say oh yeah it has been going on and they'll have the dad since 1953 when Eisenhower did this It would be something like that. They will be like what are talking about? How dumb are you

2:36:19 That's the way it always comes out. I'm okay with that, everything about me went, oh this stinks! Because you know the vision we were given is look at this horrible person she hates Trump she's black and she just wanted to skip all the Trump moments Yeah that's exactly right, that's exactly what the impression was from social media And it seems purposeful Because of this company that leaked your information. Well, it was just to rile people up I don't think it was anything to cover-up anything How about a couple Ukraine clips so we can catch up with that? Oh gee! I'm so happy about that Let's... since these will be a few of our last because it's all coming to an end

2:37:03 One phone call and this thing is done in 24 hours. I'm ready, I'm ready! Let's close it out! Let's close out Ukraine we're ready So i have two clips And the only reason why I want to play these at all because I have climate clips too which I'd rather play Yes that important, well we need to do climate clips too But there's a kicker here so you'll have to play these This is a Ukraine update This is NTD. Russia on Wednesday launching its first missile attack on Kiev since August, that's according to Ukrainian officials who say the attack involved strategic bombers and ballistic missiles. Bombers! Elderly women and small children taking shelter in an underground metro station The Kiev region is always suffering kids can't go to school when drones are flying And when there are missile attacks we are seeking shelter

2:37:53 The scale of the strikes and extent of any damage were not immediately clear. No casualties have been reported so far." And in DC on Wednesday, President-elect Trump met with President Biden after the meeting. The White House suggested that Trump should consider the Russia Ukraine conflict to be one of their most serious global security threats as he returns to office. You have an ongoing war of aggression by Russia against Ukraine representing a larger threat to European security and therefore global security. The White House also defended the aid it has sent to Ukraine, saying the US also profits from it These aren't just dollars that we're picking up and shipping over to another country They are dollars we are investing here in the United States In American jobs producing American weapons That we send to Ukraine

2:38:42 This comes as Secretary of State Antony Blinken was in Brussels on Wednesday to make sure Ukraine continues receiving aid from the US. Blinken says aiding Ukraine could have two possible outcomes. Ensuring that Ukraine has the money the munitions and the mobilized forces to fight effectively in 2025 or to be able to negotiate a peace from a position of strength. He added that the Biden administration will make sure to send all Ukraine aid allocated by Congress before January 20th All right, I have thoughts but you have a kicker so i don't want to spoil it in case my thoughts is the kicker

2:39:21 Okay, play the clip on Wednesday Ukraine's prime minister announced that the country received a 1.3 billion dollar grant from the US saying that Ukraine will direct these funds toward essential humanitarian and social programs now okay Now they're getting their dissolve loans all benefits us and then all of a sudden we give it with a grant is free money I heard that the total amount that's still left is eight billion dollars. You know, so you're going to have to dump it? They got to spend it, spend and spend it! And then the clip I wanted which I didn't get was Jake Sullivan saying just to remind you this is not going to Ukraine this is going to our military contractors so they can make weapons for Ukraine but that was kind of indicated in the first clip yes

2:40:08 All right. Well, okay well that thing's ending it's all about China let's go to climate change I'm very excited about the... Oh this is about their new meetup? Yes! I thought we just ended COP and another one started right away Yeah well we had the biodiversity diversity oh that's what okay I keep getting confused having too many of these meetings yeah now we have so that was COP 16 Biodiversity COP This is COP 29 in Baku yes here we go An annual global climate conference is underway in Azerbaijan. The priority this year is money, money, money to help the places hit hardest by climate change. NPR's Michael Koppel reports. People all over the world face catastrophic threats from climate change but the president of this year's United Nations meeting, Muqtar Babaev

2:40:53 put the spotlight on developing countries. They're dying in the dark. Suffering in the dark, dying in the dark, they are eating dogs! No they are suffering in the shadows, they are dying in the dark! This year's United Nations meeting, Muktar Babaev put the spotlight on developing countries Whether you see them or not people are suffering in the shadows

2:41:33 They are dying in the dark and they need more than compassion. Suffer... This guy is an alliteration nutjob! Suffering in the shadows, dying in the dark! Developing nations don't bear much responsibility for the climate pollution that's raising global temperatures. Climate pollution? But they're getting hit with some of the worst impacts like more extreme heat waves and flooding from torrential rain. Some wealthy countries that built their economies using fossil fuels promised, more than a decade ago to help their poorer neighbors pay to cut climate pollution and prepare for weather risks. Leaders at this year's climate talks are under pressure to come up with a new funding target that is a lot more ambitious than the last one which was set at $100 billion dollars a year

2:42:14 They sound big, but they are nothing compared to cost of inaction. It's not clear where the money will come from Did he say coastal erection? What is going on here? Coastal erections cost a lot They sound big, but they are nothing compared to cost of inaction. But it's not clear where the money will come from. The UN said recently that developing countries need around $215 billion every year in this decade alone to adapt to climate impacts. That doesn't count the costs of cutting climate pollution or compensating developing countries for losses and damage they're already suffering. No brother!

2:42:51 Okay, that's so yeah. It just gets worse all this is all about it That's all they talk about us money money money money money money money And we have to it's our money anyway Let's go Gaston Brown the prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda called for wealthier nations to provide grant bar Buda Where's our Buddha? Where's Bar Buda? It's somewhere in the ocean, Barbuda. You've heard of it? In Barbuda called for wealthier nations to provide grants not loans so that climate initiatives don't add more debt to poorer countries. Wealthy polluting countries are seeking to shift responsibility onto elusive private capital instead of ensuring decisive government action

2:43:34 and disincentivize emissions. Wealthy governments say they can't pay for global climate efforts on their own, and that world leaders need to find ways to encourage more investment from the private sector. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said countries could raise more money by taxing polluting industries like shipping aviation and fossil fuel production And he said changes in organizations like the World Bank and International Monetary Fund could help funnel more private investment to developing countries. The resources available may seem insufficient, but they can be multiplied with a meaningful change in how the multilateral system works. Big sums require big change

2:44:16 Okay, so they're talking about $200 billion a year for all these different operations. Listen to this last little short clip. Dozens of developing countries are calling for the new funding target to be set at more than a trillion dollars a year! That's 10 times more than the previous commitment which wealthy countries were slow to deliver in the first place They want a trillion dollars a year. Well I can tell you why, because there's a destination for this money they didn't really talk about it did they? Didn't really say what the money was for except for coastal erections however I found a little ditty about this COP 29 and i know what they're trying to do. As COP 29 continues in Azerbaijan's capital Baku, the middle corridor is gaining attention This key trade route offers a faster more cost-effective alternative to traditional sea shipping Have you heard of the Middle Corridor?

2:45:10 Nope. Okay, the middle corridor is an important logistical project It's a strategic bridge between Europe and Asia This trade corridor will significantly benefit regional countries by enhancing trade and boosting economic growth be Middle corridor road Yes The middle corridor is that is the basically the train track from China to Europe? Yeah, it's a belt Road. Yes Change the name of it Well, this is the middle corridor of the Belt and Road. Stand by it let's listen to the rest. Economic growth will also foster greater connectivity promote regional cooperation and create new opportunities for investment and development But it's not just about global trade with aim of reducing carbon footprints and assessing the reduction of carbon emissions The Middle Corridor is also central to the region's green transition

2:46:04 The main goal is to present the enterprise as environmentally friendly. With its potential on green infrastructure and eco-friendly practices in Caucasus, the Middle Corridor is not just a trade route it's a pathway for the future of sustainable global trade projects will be developed in cooperation between countries along the middle corridor and they will be able to implement actions to reduce carbon emissions COP 29 is an important place for these talks So, this train track which they say is more green than shipping goes right through Kazakhstan.

2:46:43 Two routes in fact through Kazakhstan, which is where this this whole thing is being held. This is a scam their total scam This is all about Completing the Belt and Road trade route from China to Europe Yeah So they Chinese can inundate Europe with Chinese product cheaper of Chinese products And they make in Europe and guess where it enters Europe Oh Ukraine. One other interesting note about this was the delegation from, well listen... The UN Climate Summit the annual event where the world comes together to wring their hands in despair to give grand speeches and nothing of real value we're talking about the COP climate summit this year it's the 29th edition

2:47:35 29. It's being held in Azerbaijan while the big nations are missing there is one surprising inclusion, the Taliban are attending COP29. Azerbaijan gave them observer status they're not a full-fledged delegation because the United Nations has not officially recognized this regime but it seems like an attempt by Azerbaijan to legitimize the Taliban and they're using the UN climate summit to do this which discredits the summit even further not only is it a useless event also a vehicle to normalize ties with the Taliban. This year's climate summit will be remembered for this, for allowing the Taliban... It's a terrorist summit now! The Taliban is at the COP 29 explain that to me I have no explanation i mean there no one's gonna give them money meanwhile oh maybe unless they would do want to route through the train or route through their Afghanistan could be that would be a different route

2:48:36 Meanwhile, NPR just sits here at home and terrorizes our children and grandchildren about climate change. A new study shows many young people report feeling anxious about climate change as Rebecca Rettelmeyer with member station WSKG reports some universities are working to help students deal with the realities of the data reality over 50% of youth in the realities of the data John, listen to NPR. Shameful with the realities of the data over 50% of youth in United States are very or extremely worried about climate change that's according to a recent study published in The Scientific Journal The Lancet

2:49:19 But there are ways to help young people cope. Says Cornell University professor Michael Hoffman. I think it's so important when we do talk about climate change, to provide solutions and answers. What can i do? Hoffman is one of several professors around the country reframing how he teaches climate change to put solutions and emotions at the center He says his goal is to remind students that there is hope For NPR News, I'm Rebecca Rettelmeyer in Ithaca New York. End of the globe and all the rest of it, and yeah Nothing changed really I have meanwhile we're getting snowstorms in England prematurely this year. I've as far as I can tell don't tell anybody I Have two final clips for today's program

2:50:21 And they are about AI. Surprise, surprise! Oh well you took up the gauntlet that I dropped last show... I am ready to... We're gonna have to start calling it The articles are coming out Bloomberg is talking about it Everybody's talking about AIs data plateau Despite efforts to throw more computing chips, more data and more energy at training these large language models improvements have leveled off. Some experts now say they've even run out of accessible data on the internet to train these AI And now as our tech correspondent Anna Tong reports the possible solution could be an opportunity to reshuffle the industry's biggest players Hold on a second

2:51:10 Is that guy doing the announcing right there, is he some character from The Simpsons? It's Reuters. It's Reuters! They're boring. They've got terrible people I'm sorry they're just boring The possible solution could be an opportunity to reshuffle the industry's biggest players So Anna how are AI companies trying to get past this plateau Until now, all the focus has been on when the AI companies are taking these vast amounts of data and they're using the AI chips to crunch the data to train these models. And now what's happening is that companies are shifting focus to making a model better when it's actually being used as opposed to when it's learning on a vast amount of data. So if you use chat GPT now well you'll notice that when you're asking at a question

2:51:54 It's just basically trying to predict the next word and whichever word they think is most statistically likely to be, it'll just spit it out at you. In this new world they are basically coming up with a bunch of responses and then using some sort of reasoning technique to then pick which path to go down. So the new models are actually much slower and that's because they have to kind of consider all the potential answers before they can go down a path. Doesn't sound very promising! There's no more human data to train the models with. It's slowing down, this is not good! So does this new approach address some of those challenges around energy use? Data needs chip manufacturing etc.? Yeah so I think it's unclear how this actually changes

2:52:40 energy usage because in this new paradigm we're not spending as much energy on the pre-training phase but we're spending a lot more energy on the inference phase. So it may turn out that we are just using the same amount of compute power or even more. What I do think it definitely has an impact on is the types of chips that will be in demand so Nvidia's now the world's most valuable company and that is thanks to just the insatiable demand that AI companies have for their chips. However, with this new paradigm in inference you can use a lot more different types of chips and they can be widely distributed around the world which opens up the door to a lot more competitors to NVIDIA. Uh-oh! More competitors to NVIDIA? Well unless she names names I'm not sure what she's talking about

2:53:33 One of my buddies had a company show up at his door, at his ranch and said we want to buy your ranch name your price. He likes his ranch didn't really want to get rid of his ranch but his ranch is right near huge transformer with gobs and gobs of power And this is a company that builds data centers and then flips them right away Ooh, a data center flipping company. Yeah yeah I said sell quick! Sell it! If you name your price kind of thing... Yeah then you can buy it back for pennies on the dollar later Probably Now I was just sent this clip from episode 441 of The No Agenda Show This is from 2012

2:54:24 You might have to contextualize it for us just so we understand what you actually meant. What do we need to DO? To fix. Yeah, we need to pump in about 10 trillion dollars of phony baloney printed money into the system and probably another ten in about two or three more years. And then we're still going have an economic collapse in 2017 because that's what we need to do! We need to print more money I'm telling you yeah I mean I'm the only guy on the block saying this but there are other economists who will say it I'm with Bernanke. Print more money! It's not causing inflation? We don't have this out of control... I think you said it Yeah, I was being facetious as hell Oh ho ho! I took it as truth Okay, well I didn't know what I was saying so I heard it wrong I didn't know the comedic stylings of you yet. It was 2012, it was early

2:55:21 Yes, well you won't find any other examples. Find something newer! I was very clear... This is the problem with sarcasm. I've always thought that Tucker Carlson- That was sarcastic by the way It was like Tucker Carlson says so much sarcastic material and if you take it out of context like somebody just did then you don't know sound like an idiot Well i'm not trying to make you sound like an idiot No no i'm not talking about saying you did. I literally said put in context. I am just saying how this sarcasm works If you use it too much, you end up getting burned by it. Well let this be a lesson! We have to stop with the sarc... we actually... I've always been... in the last decade or so I have been a big proponent of being careful about sarcasm because people will use it like that. That's a good point. It's a good point

2:56:08 Alright, then let's just do one final one just to lighten the mood and then we can thank some people. Mattel may be hoping for a little magic this week to help make a packaging problem go away The toy company apologizing for misprint on packages of its collection of dolls for the upcoming Wicked film The doll's packaging was supposed to show the URL of wickedmovie.com which would take customers to a website dedicated to the upcoming feature film based on hit Broadway musical but instead, a misprint led the packaging to show a similar yet incorrect URL for an adult film website leading to customers posting about the typo on social media You know this is not a misprint

2:56:52 We know exactly how this went. It should have been wickedmovie.com They just put on the sticker, put on the packaging wicked.com and by the way all The reports what you just said all the reports none of them will mention the name of the miss quote-unquote misprinted Website it is wicked.com And as far as I can tell, it's not like a typical porn site. You can buy basically lesbian movies of girls who are not really lesbians because let's be honest they don't look like that

2:57:28 But this is, I did not check out the site but I'm glad you did. Yeah no I was like gotta take a look at this and like oh this isn't this is not porn this is just like yeah they got covers that could be in your video store if anything...I mean this is so typical corporate it's like everyone went oh yeah this is good yeah Wicked great and everyone assumed that they had the URL And they just all went forward with it and no one bothered to check. No one did any copyright, copy editing. Well... but then to say- And divorce people with fact checking nobody does that anymore Fact checkers, fact checking is dead! I'm gonna show my support by donating to KnowAgenda Imagine all the people who could do that Oh yeah that'd be fab Yeah on KnowAgenda In the morning Fact checking may be dead

2:58:21 But our producers are still alive. Oh, what a bridge! What a segue... Oh you're just spiking the ball there. You could have stopped It was so bad I had to spike it to distract from the horrible segue i made Yes, our producers $50 and above we'd love to thank them for their contribution to the show. And remember we have John's tip of the day coming up and by the way for Sunday I have a tip! I want do the Sunday Tip Or we can both do a tip, but I think have a good time. I don't care. Well, I know you don't care but maybe you should be oh that's nice Oh, that's not it You know double-tip Sunday There you go put it in the newsletter double tips on day everybody not just the tip a double tip We got some meetups we have some doctors to congratulate and John will take us through the 50s

2:59:17 Yeah, starting with Craig Hoy. Hoy! Hoyhoy! What a great name he's in Pacifica California $133.33 Forever of the Watt in Linwood Michigan 123 45 Siska Bram in Ada Ada Ada Eda Ada Eda Ada Ada Ada Ada Ada Ada Ada Ada Holland 101 70 Vert Fuller or wert vert it's got to be vert and Batavia, New York 100 yes in a note you want to take a look at that note and see there's anything in there We should read. Yeah Let me take a look what were said word said That's sir short for nothing by the way John Adam Thank you for what? You this is nice little one nice little piece papers got here thank you for what you do and for reading The Note of The Vietnam Vet Passing My Brotherhood Is quickly

3:00:15 Leaving around leaving around me. Hmm, please give all my Vietnam vets karma Yeah, my brother is quickly Oh Brotherhood it oh yes of course there the where is our good old sergeant by the way? No, he's probably still around I hope please change My knight name from sir diet to short for nothing The treasure is just because thank you brother sir short for nothing Kevin McLaughlin's up. 8008. It was a boob donation, he is the Archduke of Luna. Lover of America and boobs! Uh, Jobim I guess in Leiden. How do you pronounce that? Dutch. There's a dutch guy he is in Leiden and he's in Holland His name is... well that's not a dutch name It says Xobim He has a pronunciation guide there Oh I didn't see that And he wants a de-douching You've been de-douched

3:01:17 He came in at 80082. He says he's been listening since that 70s podcast, it's you I think? That's...I've never done that 70s podcast. Christopher Myers in Dallas Texas 75 Weston Wagoner, Weston Wagoner. He is in Fairbanks Alaska 6969 He wants some car sales karma, we'll give him that at the end. Tim Carolla in Manassas Virginia 6813, that's a birthday donation for his dad's Tim Senior and himself Tim Junior they listen to a lot Jim Cleary in Paradise California 6006 Anonymous 85060

3:02:04 And he needs a de-douching. You've been de-douched! Christopher Dechter, 5878 Richard Dominelli in Dover New Hampshire 5272 and that's a happy birthday call to Lydia Baron Anonymous Cop in Redwood City there is 5050 and now we have the $50 donors name of location very short list today We didn't get a lot of attention Mike Moon starts us off in Athens Georgia 50-foot, Andrew Grasso in Mineola New York. Tom Del Vecchio in Blandon Pennsylvania. Stephen Ng in Buck's Elder South Dakota. Gary Mao and Woodland Hills California. Andrew St Clair in Salem Oregon. Dame Patricia Worthington in Miami

3:02:49 Jared Yaw in Nashville, Tennessee. Brandon Savlaa in Port Orchard Washington Kevin Dills and Huntersville North Carolina Christian Freeman in San Marcos Texas and last on our list is Diane Schwannbeck in Johnsburg Illinois want to thank these folks for making the show whatever it is 1712 The reality that it became Oh, by the way Andrew St. Clair in Salem Oregon needed a de-douching You've been de-douche'd Taken care of! Thank you all very much for supporting The No Agenda Show episode 1712 noagendadonations.com is where you can go make a contribution we don't read anything under 50 so thank you those $49.99 that's course for reasons of anonymity although sometimes the anonymous spooks just come and say I'm an anonymous spook there ya

3:03:44 We didn't get any anonymous spooks. Why do you have one government guy? Yeah, we got one government guy. We just presume he's a spook Also thank you for the sustaining donations Any amount any frequency you can do it all at noagendadonations.com Here is to karma as requested Thank You so much! NoahJenTheDonations.com! It's your birthday, birthday of Noah Jen the Donation! A short list for that as well but Tim Jr wishes his dad Tim Sr a happy birthday he turned 64 on November 10 Sir Craig Allen celebrated on the 14th that is today Happy Birthday Sir Craig Sir Stuart turning 60 on November 26 and Richard Dominelli

3:04:27 And it's happy birthday to Dame Lydia Terry. Congratulations for everybody here at the best podcast in the universe! And we do have two title changes. Sir Stuart now becomes Sir Stuart the Angry Accountant, Baron of Milford I'll read parts of his note in a moment and Sir Craig Allen becomes Baronet Sir Craig Allen Thank you both for your support and your uppage on the peerage ladder of the No Agenda show. There it is, what is it again? Just a regular old seltzer? Polar Seltzer. Time to welcome our doctors of education in climate change studies

3:05:12 Thank you very much for attending our No Agenda courses. You have done quite well and we are very proud to hand out Doctors of Education to Rick Bunch and Sir Craig Allen! Yes, Doctors of Education of the no agenda studies of climate change! I'm getting there...I'm feeling better about it. So Sir Stewart had a make good And he said, greetings from England to celebrate my upcoming 60th birthday on the 26 November and the 25 years of marriage. My wonderful wife Michelle on the 27th November I would like to apply to become a doctor of education and have donated the appropriate fee $1,000 plus fees to enable the application to go smoothly subject your kind approval

3:06:02 I would also like to thank you for giving me a wonderful dose of Jobs Trump karma when i was awarded a Commodore certificate For show 1700 this has resulted in me being offered a wonderful new education role which the doctor will be very helpful in boosting my academic credentials. And for my daughter, Lucy has now finally secured an excellent part-time role to build her CV and work experience after months of Noah disappointment. No agenda jobs karma clearly is the most powerful force in the universe! And he also gives us credit for helping get President Trump elected. I don't know about that. It's all us! Thank you very much, it wasn't for us Then we have a layaway night note from Rick Fournival He says,

3:06:54 and I will reach baronet status on Christmas day 2025. I was going to wait until then to collect my dual status, but during the last program a segment was presented that merits attention. During the show you played a clip of Nigel Farage singing the praises of The No Agenda Show yourself and his eminence John C Dvorak While hearing the clip, my thoughts went to isn't this cool? Nigel is fan of the show. You then immediately gave proper notice that this was a paid endorsement I was pretty much gobsmacked This was an incredibly clear lesson that is more likely than not how most endorsements go At 67 I'm no spring chicken to find myself in the situation was to say the least jarring

3:07:33 Well, thank you for bringing this up Rick and some other people have decided to give money to celebrities. To promote No Agenda please don't do that anymore support the show not celebrities This is this isn't it? You know It was funny when it wasn't Nigel Farage and we appreciate people trying to do something nice But we think it would be better spent on us This is where you have bills to pay. Yes, so even though I'm reminded of the bricks But the but the bricks that money still went to Leo didn't it? Yeah People gave Leo money and then they put up a brick that said no agenda show on the old brick house That was no good And where did those bricks end up because he had to move yeah, they trashed them trash them is gone It's no good

3:08:28 Hmm. That's a very good point, you are right We don't need no agenda bricks That sword is for our two knights I need a sword from you so we can bring them up on the podium for the round table Hello Rick Bunch and Rick Furniball! Both of you support The No Agenda Show in the amount of $1,000 or more And i'm very proud to pronounce the Kate V as Sir Ricky Bobby Of the Land of Many Wives and Sir Rick of the Northern Piedmont Thank you so much for supporting your No Agenda show. For you gentlemen, hookers and blow! We've got prostitutes and cigars, rent boys in chardonnay along with that if that's not your style some harlots and howl doll or redheads and rise organic macaroni and plasticizers oh yummy geishas and sake vodka vanilla bong hits of bourbon sparkling cider escorts ginger ale and gerbils breast milk and pablum and as always at the round table

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3:10:06 So you can probably display that in your office at your university job and give us an address to send it as well. Thank you so much everybody for supporting the best podcast in the universe! A lot of meetups this month all the way up through the new year. No reports today, I did receive a report but someone like copy pasted a Word document into the email and that becomes unreadable have you ever seen that happen where someone copy paste a word doc and it just gets all these control characters?

3:10:46 You ever seen that? I don't know if people who know what they're doing ever do that. Well, it happened twice. Sent the same record so i could not read... Don't do it! It was even weirder and I said it. Saving this plain shi- you said it, I heard that Yes when I did reply my email program couldn't even find the reply to address. It just had an empty field. It was the oddest thing Maybe it was a spam No no no, it says like meetup report Anyway Today there is a... From the Meetup report spam. The Central Colorado election hangover meet up is at six o'clock man, are you guys still drinking?

3:11:23 At O'Malley's Pub, Palmer Lake Colorado. On Saturday the Dallas-Fort Worth MidCities Meetup that's 11 30 in the morning Sir Nerdworks is organizing the Bourbon Street Bar and Grill in Bedford Texas also on Saturday The Shrunken Amygdala Support Group meets at two o'clock at Taft's Brewporium in Cincinnati Ohio The Treasure Valley meet up three o'clock on Saturday at Heritage Social Club in Garden City Idaho The Texas Hill Country Post Election Freak Off Happy Hour 3.30, that's in Bernie! Bernie! That's right down the road, pure country. Oh man I think we have something on Saturday...I'll check The Feral Housewife organizing that one All aboard flight of the Noah gentleman number 57 Leo Bravo organizing in Fulton California at the Santa Fe Cafe on Saturday Minnesota Wellness Check 430 at O'Brien Public House in Shakopee Minnesota

3:12:21 Alexandria, Virginia. New location meet up 5 o'clock the spooks meet at the Lost Dog Cafe in Alexandria, Virginia And Sunday our next show day the Ocala glass bottom boat tour meetup. Hey, this is the Florida people the Reiki princess These meetups are amazing their big there's always a theme you have to RSVP To get details go to no agenda meetups calm at 1230 the glass boat bottom meet up So I guess they've got it glass boat And that's in Ocala, Florida. That should be a fun one. They just have a glass boat bottom Well that's possible The Reiki princess though she does the shoot-ups and all kinds of fun stuff

3:13:01 The Black Hills No Agenda meetup in South Dakota, Spearfish to be exact. The Crow Peak Brewing 3 o'clock on Sunday... Oh my goodness a lot two more! The Too Many Eggs Keene New Hampshire Meet Up 333 p.m., Mimi says hey that's great Margarita's Keene, Keene New Hampshire too many eggs meetup and the Land of the Morning Calm meet up at 7 o'clock in Burger & Pasta in Korea in Busan, Korea. Oh that would be great! Mr Taegu is organizing there Imagine going to Korea and like ah what are we gonna do? Baga and pasta okay that sounds perfect Hey send us a meetup report we look forward to it there oh November 21st El Zante el Salvador We need meet up reports people these are good let me see if you have any other foreign places Leiden the Netherlands December 12th

3:13:57 Sometimes you wanna go I have...I don't know how this happened, but i have so many end of show isos it's just not okay. It's not okay

3:13:01 The Black Hills No Agenda meetup in South Dakota, Spearfish to be exact. The Crow Peak Brewing 3 o'clock on Sunday... Oh my goodness a lot two more! The Too Many Eggs Keene New Hampshire Meet Up 333 p.m., Mimi says hey that's great Margarita's Keene, Keene New Hampshire too many eggs meetup and the Land of the Morning Calm meet up at 7 o'clock in Burger & Pasta in Korea in Busan, Korea. Oh that would be great! Mr Taegu is organizing there Imagine going to Korea and like ah what are we gonna do? Baga and pasta okay that sounds perfect Hey send us a meetup report we look forward to it there oh November 21st El Zante el Salvador We need meet up reports people these are good let me see if you have any other foreign places Leiden the Netherlands December 12th

3:13:57 Sometimes you wanna go I have...I don't know how this happened, but i have so many end of show isos it's just not okay. It's not okay

3:14:54 But I have one or two you think are super winners. You should just play those yeah, okay? Well here we go hello It's me no it's not that's not you hello That's not you that's don't like me the Del Big tree hello And then we have this one kind of bittersweet this word. That's all they got folks. Let's cut sad for Alex We have enjoy sponsor free listening Or it's a totally new way to support what you love. No, that's what I got Do you like the sponsor free listening in that group? I think sponsor free is is it possible contender yes Okay Well, I have only had four okay including your rerun which I'm gonna keep playing until you pick it Okay because you told me too okay Start with dying they are dying in the dark

3:15:49 Pretty good, pretty good. They're dying in the dark that should be kept as an evergreen comment. Yes dying in the dark is eating the dogs it's up there then we have the evergreen Oy vey? Oy vey such a podcast yeah that's by request yes run on good We've just been on a run of really good shows lately who said that Somebody on NPR. Oh, okay well that makes sense and the last one Thank you. Thank you. I think they're dying in the dark Dying in the dark is it man? There's just no two ways about it It's good all right But you have to keep that one around as an evergreen people can request dying in the dark And remember eating the dogs and remember on Sunday We have a double tip of the day for right now at his time for these singular tips John's tip of the day

3:16:50 Okay, this is kind of an elitist tip. Hold on I want to get it out there at least. The jingle's still playing man! Why don't you step on? I'd like to bring it in... Yeah but we couldn't hear ya. Oh that's the producers fault. This elitist tip Elitist tip. I noticed, by the way, when I went to Costco and they had a 95, right at the front, a 95 inch LCD which is big for $1400 bucks and it was by that third rate come TCY or some crazy company and they claimed it would be OLED but it was like faded. And I didn't think much of it

3:17:45 The point I'm trying to make here is that if you're going to buy a flat screen TV, consider an OLED by LG Electronics. I bought one of these a couple years ago the thing doesn't weigh but three pounds and 60 inches it's got the screen is so thin And it's bright and it has 100% viewing angle. There is not one angle, it's not like an LCD where if you go off axis it starts to kind of go away into the point where if you go way off axis you can't see the screen. These have 100% viewing angle right to the edge. OLED from LG is a, they're expensive that why it's Elitist but they're worth every penny. They have HDR that's dynamite

3:18:34 Which is the high, uh... And you use this to watch YouTube TV? Yeah. Is that an HD? HDR YouTube TV? Well HDR is a high dynamic range. Right, does YouTube output that? Not everybody will broadcast in high dynamic range even when they do 4k. How about Pluto? But not too many screens can handle the high dynamic range to the extent that these OLEDs do Does Pluto have a high dynamic range? Not that I know of. But how about the over-the air channels have some high dynamic range there must be one or two HDR over-the-air channels no? Haven't seen one yet

3:19:17 I get my high dynamic range from either movies that are put on Netflix or there's a lot of stuff on YouTube TV that has high dynamic range, and a lot of sporting events. It's killer. Oh so you don't get any blurring? Just it looks good just... No the blurring is more function of the resolution. The high dynamic range just gives you of colors. It has the gamuts, it's bigger and it's just killer." I love hearing you talk about this stuff he used to do this a lot um...I think even on Sil- no what was the show we did at Mevio? We did a bunch of shows on Mevio No the one that you did The one that we uh bought from

3:20:08 From those other guys. Oh, uh, Cranky Geeks? Cranky Geeks! Yeah yeah you would talk about stuff like that I miss that. Awwww... It's not like that! Not like a- RAAAWR! You should have to talk about OLED TV! About HDTV and O6L And we want him to say OLED instead of OLED Okay, so this is a Costco this item? Well no LG brand is everywhere and the LG has they have the regular LCD stuff but they have their OLED screens and look at this thickness of these things. They're made by I mean Sony makes it OLED and so does other company but the ones that are that had been doing nothing but these for a long time

3:20:50 LG electronics, they're stunning sets. They're definitely worth the investment. And that ladies and gentlemen is John C. Dvorak's tip of the day! Go buy an LG! Yes on Sunday we will have a double-tip I got a great one very excited to share this with you I think you'll like it. You'll even want this tip." You're like, I gotta get me some of that tip! I guarantee it which means you just need to tune in on Sunday Don't worry we will remind you with a newsletter on Saturday It's what we do We are here to serve you To keep you calm, to keep you cool, to keep you collected and we've been predicting Popes and Presidents for a long time No worries

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