Episode 1784 · Thursday, 24 July 2025

Yakcasting

Private equity firms move to consolidate YouTube while the French First Lady takes Candace Owens to court over a year-long campaign of gender identity claims.

By The No Agenda Show | 3h 15m listen | 47 chapters
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The No Agenda Show · No. 1784

About this episode

Brigitte Macron and her legal team, previously known for the Fox News Dominion settlement, filed a defamation lawsuit against American podcaster Candace Owens. The suit follows Owens' year-long campaign regarding the French First Lady's gender identity. Owens continues to defend her claims despite prior legal losses by French journalists who pursued similar narratives for financial gain.

Major private equity firms including SoftBank, Blackstone, and Goldman Sachs are investing billions to acquire YouTube channels like Dude Perfect and Veritasium to consolidate digital assets. Meanwhile, the White House removed the Wall Street Journal from the presidential press pool following a lawsuit over Jeffrey Epstein reporting. In the intelligence sector, Tulsi Gabbard delivered briefings on 2016 Russia investigation misconduct involving John Brennan and Barack Obama, while the Trump administration released sealed FBI files on Martin Luther King Jr. ahead of the 2027 court-mandated date.

Rock legend Ozzy Osbourne and Hulk Hogan appear in archival 1988 footage documenting a chaotic flight to a Moscow music festival. Guest hosts Alan Cumming and Fortune Feimster brought distinct political shifts to Jimmy Kimmel Live, while Adam Curry received a formal, albeit automated, response from the White House regarding a Presidential Medal of Freedom endorsement.


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CHAPTER 01 / 47 Discussion

Ozzy Osbourne and Hulk Hogan, MTV Career Retrospective

Archival footage from 1988 and 1993 features interviews with rock legend Ozzy Osbourne and professional wrestler Hulk Hogan. The clips document a flight to Moscow for a music festival and a stunt involving a 600-pound rocket car at Universal Studios Florida. The retrospective highlights past media collaborations before transitioning to current commentary on the longevity of rock stars.

ozzy osbourne· hulk hogan· mtv· circus of the stars· headbangers ball

00:00 Cowabunga! You seem a little low-energy today.

00:37 Oh, well, liven it up. Yeah, liven it up man, because you know, before you know it, you're the third. No. No. There's already three. No. Who was number one? We had, uh... Malcolm Jamal Warner. Oh, you're right. Malcolm Jamal Warner and Hulk Hogan and Ozzy Osbourne. That makes three. You're right. Number three is confirmed. Well, this does give us a unique opportunity since we have more than one. Ladies and gentlemen, the no agenda in memoriam segment. I went back into the VHS archives because in show business you get to say, yeah, I worked with him.

01:29 Don't you have that oh yeah, no I work with him great fan of his work big fan big fan of his work So we first I have two clips we go back to 1988 to the plane ride to Moscow known as the magic bus or the get Doc McGee out of jail free trip and Here's Adam interviewing Ozzy. Headbangers Ball continues from the magic bus on our way to the Soviet Union and no strangers to the ball of course Ozzy and Zack. Guys, good to have you aboard. Well, are we aboard? It's like a flying madhouse. Are we actually flying is the question. I haven't checked recently. I don't know what the pilot's doing up there but he's flying on an automatic. I hope it's an automatic pilot because I hope no humans are. I thought you were flying it. I think I was at one point.

02:22 Yeah, I just did 13 months. We're doing these two shows in Moscow and then we're off for about a month or so and then start writing and recording in New York. And understand Pete Townsend is in one of the back closets in a Samford booth. Yes, yes in-depth questions during this interview Ozzy was it fun making the video Ozzy I Had every single rock radio station in America call me yesterday. Hey, man. Hey you work with Ozzy, right? What was he really like? Oh, man. We had such good times together

03:05 But then, then, oh no, we have Hulk Hogan. 71 is definitely too early. And I was able to retrieve from 1993 the infamous rocket car of death during Circus of the Stars as Hulk Hogan and Adam Curry worked together and loved each other's work. Big fans, big fans. I'm Hulk Hogan here at Universal Studios Florida where Adam Curry thought he was taking a break from music videos However, we're putting him right back into MTV and that stands for mucho terrifying vehicle Yeah, he'll take the ride of his life in a 600 pound rocket car traveling at roller coaster speed He'll be catapulted into space dropping 50 feet on his way to a fiery frightening crash landing. Are you ready rocket man? Yeah

04:02 Mucho! Terrifying! Is he okay? Let's keep our fingers crossed. There he is! He's giving us the signal he's okay. He's okay! He lives! Adam, how'd you like to see what we just saw you do in slow motion, dude? Oh yeah, let's take a look at it, great! Oh, what a ride that was. That fire was so hot. That's where I got the headache from. MTV's macho, terrific, wonderful Adam Curry.

05:03 And there'll be more Circus Fun coming up right after this. Right after these messages. You got a roller coaster speeds? Yeah, well yeah it was roller coaster. Roller coasters average about 45 miles an hour. It's very terrifying John. In my rocket car of death. You should post that video. It's on YouTube. No. It's on the YouTubes. Yeah. 1993 Circus of the Stars with my co-host Deirdre Hall. Boy, I've come a long way. Yeah, have you kept in touch? Have I kept in touch? At least Hulk Hogan will go to heaven. We know that. That's a good... I don't know about Ozzy. You know, all those rock guys, I wonder if they weren't very faithful. He was always wearing crucifixes.

CHAPTER 02 / 47 Discussion

Time Magazine, 100 Best Podcasts of All Time List

Time Magazine released a list of the 100 best podcasts of all time, notably excluding popular shows like the Joe Rogan Experience. The rankings include titles such as 2 Dope Queens, 99% Invisible, and 30 for 30. Critics argue the list reflects editorial bias rather than actual influence or innovation within the podcasting medium.

time magazine· joe rogan· 2 dope queens· wnyc· espn

05:57 People can, you know, people think that just because. I don't know. Anyway, that is our In Memoriam segment for today's No Agenda show. No Agenda, not one of the top 100 most influential podcasts according to Time Magazine in history. There's not 10. 10 what? There's not 10, I'd say if you named 10 influentials, it's not that easy for me to say, influential podcasts, there's not really 10. Let alone 100, and the fact that we're not on the list of 100 shows that they don't know what they're talking about. This is just one of those lists, I've talked about it before, you're an editor, you're at a magazine, you just sit around during lunch, and you just throw names out there.

06:55 They didn't have Joe Rogan on the list? What? I know. No, is that true? Yes, it's true. It's true. Wait, so they named the 100 most influential podcasts. Well, actually, no, no, I'm sorry. 100 best podcasts of all time. Let me hear. The most innovative, influential and informative listens in the history of the medium. These podcasts reflect the depth... Oh, wait, stop, stop, stop. They called you obviously to get some input, right? I'm looking at my voicemail? No. These podcasts reflect the depth, breadth, and possibility of the medium at its best. And they do have a whole page on how they chose them.

07:41 I can assure you. Well, the thing is like no agenda show transcends all this. The top 100 best podcasts of all time. That's below us. We are the best podcast in the universe. So, you know, no wonder. Well, since you have this list in front of you, I didn't even know this was going on, of course. Please read the list. Oh, or at least I've seen the top ten. Well what they did is they have it well they have okay all alright the top ten. Let's see all top ten Okay at the top of the list so they have it by category all comedy and fiction sports. I'm gonna click all

08:23 Okay, now the first one I don't know if it's if it's a number ranking the first one is whether just Just a pile of podcasts a pile of podcast. That's a pile of podcasts. That should be our list. Here, before you play that play my clip on podcasting. Oh wait. Uh-oh. I didn't even see your clip on podcasting. the in the UK that one yeah podcast in the UK oh mate I found out what's been causing all the noise it's not good news I'm afraid it's not an infestation is it you've got podcasters mate I've got podcasters? Who cares about new beatles music? like do you know what I mean? podcasters yeah well necastus bellendi technical Latin yeah nasty scatter scatter what is this? if only it was just them they swarm look

09:17 It is like you cannot say anything. Jesus Christ, they're everywhere. What am I listening to? You're listening to two guys who have discovered that there's podcasters under the... Everywhere in the UK. And they're infestation... It's an infestation. In London, I mean, you're never more than 10 feet away from a podcaster. Don't tell me that, that freaks me out. But how do you get rid of them? Like, have you got some kind of chemical you can use to exterminate them or something? No, you can't kill them, mate. That's murder! Is it? Technically, they're humans. And if you were a murderer, then you get the true crime podcasters in and they're bloody tricky to shift. But how do I get rid of them then? I mean, what do we use? Ah, the thing that podcasters fear the most. What's that?

09:56 Substance. So the Achilles heel of a podcaster is hard work. You show them a bit of hard work, they'll freak out. Or just spraying with water, sometimes that does the trick. Alright, back to the list. We could have done without that, I think. It might have looked better on your TikTok video. It did. It did, yes. So the top of the list, just clicking the all category is... The inimitable 2 Dope Queens. I'm sorry, what? 2 Dope... I want you to read from the list. I don't know what you're talking about. This is the top one on the list. The podcast... The top podcast according to Time Magazine is 2 Dope Queen? Queens. This is the number one on the list. They don't have it by number. They just have them in order. So 2 Dope Queens is the number one you see on their top 100 best podcasts of all time.

10:57 Have you ever listened to this podcast? No, it's from WNYC Studios in New York, so that means quality. The second one I see on the list is 3430. Now surely you've heard this podcast. It's a critically acclaimed ESPN documentary series. No? The next one, I mean I watch ESPN, I never heard of it. 99% invisible. Now you've heard of that one. No, it's 3430 to 3430? Yes, 3430. Oh yeah, they do, that's actually a TV show. Oh, okay. 99% invisible is the next one I see on the list. I've heard of that.

11:43 The next one is acquired. Every company has a story and this is brought to you by... Ooh, that should be really... That should be a grabber. Brought to you by JP Morgan Investments. Nothing... Yeah, I can see that one being top. Anyway, I think you get the idea. That's it? No, I mean, there's more. I mean, okay, the next one is armchair expert. That's Dak Shepard. He's quite famous. He has celebrity guests on like Brad Pitt. and Prince Harry, and then Articles of Interest follows that. I've never heard of that one. Bear Brook, a true crime story is next on the list. It's about time. Anyway, my X-timeline is quite hilarious.

CHAPTER 03 / 47 Discussion

Private Equity Firms, YouTube Channel Acquisitions

Major private equity firms including SoftBank, Blackstone, and Goldman Sachs are investing billions to acquire popular YouTube channels. Strategic investments have been made in educational and entertainment brands such as Veritasium, Task and Purpose, and Dude Perfect. Analysts suggest these firms aim to consolidate digital content assets for future resale or restructuring.

private equity· softbank· blackstone· veritasium· dude perfect

12:32 Dude, you got robbed. You got robbed. Yeah. You got robbed, man. The money they gave these podcasters to be on the list is outrageous. Well, it's funny you bring that up because I caught a story this morning. Hold on a second. About, well, not really about podcasters, but more about YouTube channels. If you spend long enough on YouTube, there's now a very good chance that a substantial share of your watch time is going to channels partially or fully owned by private equity. Major firms operating in this space have raised

13:14 billions of dollars collectively from companies like SoftBank, Amazon, Disney, Goldman Sachs and Blackstone and they are using that money to acquire YouTube channels as strategic investments. Some of these names should be familiar to you. Task and Purpose, Veritasium, Donut Media, Simple History, Fern, Fire Ship, Economics Explained, Mentor, Pilot, Futurism, Astrum, The Drive, and History Hits have all publicly been acquired by private equity. Outside of the nerd corner of YouTube, some of the biggest names in the space, including Cocomelon, Colin and Samir, The Theorist, and Dude Perfect, have also all partially or completely been acquired. I think we're next. There's our exit strategy, private equity.

13:59 That's the way to go. I'm surprised shoe on head isn't on the list. You know what they're gonna do? Like all private equity, they'd come in, they'd buy us, wreck it, they'd buy us, then they'd sell off the parts. You'd be sold off to China. I don't know where I'd go. They'll sell off the parts of it and then before you know it'll be like, no agenda with Darren O'Neill. It's Darren and Larry here, everybody. Yep, we're advisors to this private equity fund. Then guess what? Here we are. Pretty amazing. Not quite as amazing as what is in future. I'm on a roll here. What is in future store for podcasters who think they can say anything. This is of course referring to the lawsuits

CHAPTER 04 / 47 Discussion

Candace Owens, Brigitte Macron Defamation Lawsuit

Brigitte Macron and her family filed a defamation lawsuit against American podcaster Candace Owens following claims regarding the French First Lady's gender identity. The legal team, previously involved in the Fox News Dominion settlement, alleges Owens engaged in a year-long campaign of falsehoods for financial gain. Owens has reportedly doubled down on her claims despite prior legal losses by journalists in France who pursued similar narratives.

candace owens· brigitte macron· defamation· jake tapper· fox news

14:48 against Candace Owens. Yeah. Filed by Emmanuel and the McCrone brothers. Bob McCrone. The McCrone brothers. You stole my punchline. That's better than the one I had. Jake Tapper talks to the lawyer leading the suit. This is actually mildly interesting. The lawsuit claims that this has been a year-long campaign by Candace Owens. Why are the Macron's suing now? Like, what changed? Why sue now? Well, this is really a last resort. We have intended to engage with her for the last year, putting evidence in front of her, request after request after request, that she just simply do the right thing. This is not a legal thing. Do the right thing. Tell the truth.

15:36 stop spreading these lies and each time we've done that she mocked the macrones she mocked our efforts to set the record straight she refused to retract what she had said she started a merch campaign she's selling t-shirts mocking and celebrating her defamation of them and enough is enough It was time to hold her accountable for this campaign. deeply unjust. Some people out there might think really the first couple of France can't leave their home in France without worrying that people... In France of all people, the gayest of all countries. People believe the deranged nonsense from this American podcaster. Yeah it

16:25 what people don't really understand. Wait a second. Who does Tapper think he is here? What kind of reporting is that? It's great reporting. Come on, this is the stuff we live for. A deranged podcaster. Exactly. Really, the first couple of France can't leave their home in France without worrying that people believe the deranged nonsense from this American podcaster? Yeah, what people don't really understand, and a lot of people can go on TV and talk about the president, talk about the first lady, you know, pundits can get on and talk about them, but what people forget is, is this, these are human beings, these are a married couple.

17:01 They have a social life, they have a private life together, they have the same feelings and the same hurt from these sorts of defamatory statements as anybody would. And it does have a material impact on them. It is, you know, it's incredibly upsetting to have this said year after year. And this sort of falsehood is a cancer. and it metastasizes into obviously the media but it also metastasizes into other circles that they are running. They get asked about it of course, even in the circles that they run in. They get asked about these campaigns and they shouldn't have to go through that. Hey can I ask you, Brigitte, can I ask you about this campaign? Can you show me? Do you have a rod? Is it rod or no rod? Tell us what's going on. Now there is some wisdom in here.

17:44 And we have been very careful, you in particular, because there are certain things that just aren't protected under free speech in the United States. After we put facts and information in front of her, black and white, multiple times. What? Like the First Lady's birth certificate? What kind of facts? We know what we want. We know the way you can prove it is real simple. What kind of facts? We have laid out extensive evidence in our complaint demonstrating that she was born a woman, she's always been a woman, and the allegations of CIA control conspiracy and incest and all the other things. Candace did go pretty far with the MKUltra stuff. Are demonstrably false. Putting aside the fact that they are all inherently implausible, what you said at the outset is obviously really important. In our system, if you're making an inherently implausible allegation, the standard is higher. You have to come forward with better evidence if you're going to say it. She has none of it. All she's done is mocked them and ridiculed them and repeated it.

18:40 Yeah, and of course this now hits home as well because you know you gotta be careful what you say about Big Mike. everybody has a right to their reputation and I think our Constitution makes that very clear. Defamation is not protected by the First Amendment and if it's impacting Michelle Obama or anybody else, they have a right to access our court system and have a trial. In our system, that's the way we determine truth or falsity. We do it in court, we do it with rules, we do it with legal standards and it's a place where evidence matters and that's why we've taken Candace to court where we can actually have a trial on the truth.

19:25 She's doubling down on this, which is pretty amazing. Well, there's one reason she's doubling down, which I'm sure Tapper didn't mention. Ratings, viewers, money? Two court cases in France. They sued two different journalists and they lost. Oh, did they now? Yeah. Was it on the same grounds? Pretty much. But again, the way they handle defamation in France may be different. And you have to ask yourself, how is this defamation? Well, it's mean. It's definitely mean. It's mean. Well, I mean the same way that Alex Jones defamed the parents of Sandy Hook and this is actually the guy who did that case. You're asking for punitive damages. How much money do you want? Do you want her to... Wait, no, I think he was the... He wasn't Alex. He was the Fox News Dominion voting machine case. Who apologized.

20:25 Well, we'd love an apology, of course. A court can't order her to apologize and based on her conduct, especially today, we don't expect her to do anything other than double down. We'll put forward our damage claim at trial, but if she continues to double down between now and the time of trial, it'll be a substantial award. Well, can you give me an idea? Are we talking about, I mean, the last time you were involved in something, the settlement was $787.5 billion. That was Fox News for their many, many lies. Fox News! about Dominion software, Fox News. But are you looking for that kind of settlement? She doesn't have $787.5 million. Well, you look at what happened with Alex Jones and there are, juries understand, juries understand that there is an inherently large value to somebody's reputation. And if you're going to say these vile things and if you're going to repeat them to a significant audience, as she has, she has over 5 million followers and her lies have metastasized into actual

21:18 publications so we see other publications that pick up on it and they report on it and when you ask them when we reached out to them and say what's your basis for this they point back to her. Yeah, Candace Owens, the voice of truth. Well I'm sure she also got the material from the French journalists. Yes, I think she got a lot of it. She's not going to turn this up out of the blue. I think she got a lot of it from the French cases, yeah. And so she's just, you know... But even just being sued... And they just throw it back at them. But even being sued is a costly affair. It's annoying. Yeah, but it depends on the value of the publicity. How do you determine that value? Well...

22:01 I'm not interested in being sued, so I don't care. But, uh... But can we now sue listeners? It's also a pain in the ass. Hey, can we sue listeners over defamation? We should s- You suck! Yeah, yeah, I'm suing you! We've got your troll name. We'll find you. We'll hunt you down. Yeah. Well, nothing is as funny as that. That troll name. Yes, the defendant goes by troll name BlueDoose33. Get it right, it's not just any old BlueDoose. Nothing was funnier this week, that was a lot of funny. Nothing was funnier than President Trump's statement on drug prices.

CHAPTER 05 / 47 Discussion

Donald Trump, Prescription Drug Price Reduction Claims

Donald Trump claimed he would reduce prescription drug prices by unprecedented percentages, ranging from 500% to 1,500%. The statement drew comparisons to pharmaceutical advertisements for drugs like Jardiance, which list severe side effects including rare infections. Critics question the mathematical feasibility of price drops exceeding 100%.

donald trump· prescription drugs· jardiance· side effects· medicare

22:48 This is amazing. I mean, you love percentages. Get a load of this. It'll be numbers that nobody can even imagine. We're gonna get the drug prices down, not 30 or 40 percent, which would be great, not 50 or 60, no. We're gonna get them down 1,000 percent, 600 percent, 500 percent, 1,500 percent. Numbers that are not even thought to be achievable because they're not. Because they're not. Because of the data that I have. It's a thousand percent. They're gonna pay you. That's what's happening here, ladies and gentlemen. They're gonna pay you to get swelling between your genitals and your anus. Yeah, a thousand percent. Yeah.

23:35 Yeah, that's pretty silly. That's great. It's fantastic. You know, we joke about that, but you remember that? I can't remember the name of the drug that we had on the on the past show. What drug? What did you take? No, it's not. It's not what I took it with with the with the swelling taint as one of the One of the side effects? A dangerous swelling of the taint? Oh, that's the... you played the clip. It was the... after the side effects clip. Yeah. So... but that seems to be a thing now with all the... with all drugs.

24:13 Listen to this Jardians commercial I have type 2 diabetes, but I managed it well It's a little pill with a big story to tell you gotta swell swell Jardians at each day start Time went on it was easy to see I'm lowering my a1c And for adults with type 2 diabetes and known heart disease, Jardians can lower the risk of cardiovascular deaths too. Serious side effects include increased ketones in blood or urine which can be fatal. Stop Jardians and call your doctor right away if you have nausea, vomiting, stomach pain, tiredness, trouble breathing or increased ketones. Jardians may cause dehydration that can suddenly worsen kidney function and make you feel dizzy, lightheaded or weak upon standing. General yeast infections

24:57 men and women, urinary tract infections, low blood sugar, or a rare life-threatening bacterial infection between and around the anus and genitals can occur. Hmmmm! I need to get me some! This is not good. My favorite one is the swelling of the tongue. Call your doctor immediately. Call your doctor. And you know what the doctor said? Oh man, oh man, oh man, we're living in a crazy world. Crazy world. So I have a series of clips I want to get out of the way. Okay. Because these are the clips. From the Jimmy Kimmel show and this is surprising to me. Wait a minute. You're watching you are one of the people watching the Jimmy Kimmel show I did in this case and I Continue to watch because Kimball seems to have disappeared and he went to do who wants to be a millionaire I don't think he's gonna do the show anyway. He's not been on the show. No for how long how I don't know how long it's been but this is bad when you don't show up on your own show and no one notices well

CHAPTER 06 / 47 Discussion

Alan Cumming, Jimmy Kimmel Live Guest Hosting

Actor Alan Cumming guest-hosted Jimmy Kimmel Live, delivering a monologue that criticized the Trump administration and advocated for transgender rights. Cumming utilized his platform to address social issues including immigration, bathroom access, and gun control statistics. The performance was characterized as a highly political shift for the Disney-owned late-night program.

alan cumming· jimmy kimmel· disney· trans rights· gun control

25:59 Noah's noticed a couple of things and it really surprises me because I think Fox would be all over this because Alan Cummings came on gay as hell Who is Alan Cummings Alan Cumming is the guy who's in a lot of movies he plays straight characters But he's been in movies. He's if you took a look at his picture. Just look him up Alan Cumming and You'll recognize him immediately. Oh, I know him. Wasn't he in... James Bond villain? The Good Wife, I think he was in that. Wasn't he a James Bond villain? He was. He played the maniac that has something to do with GoldenEye. He's a comedian, I didn't realize. Well, he's not. Oh, okay. Hence, he's hosting the show. Makes nothing but sense.

26:46 I think maybe he thinks he's a comedian, but so he comes out he's dressed as the gayest flamer you can imagine and he used that term advisedly And he lectured and he scolds the audience for one thing or another but this was went on I'd have short clips they're all because I did I had to cut him down because There was so much hooting and hollering that audience was you've got of them. Oh Yeah, but they're all the timing look at the time except for one of them. All right. All right 15 seconds 10. Okay. All right. Good good And they're short because they're also worth commenting on each one. He comes out and just rails against Trump, rails against everything. He represents the Democratic Party, goes on and on about how queers should be respected more and on and on and on. It was horrible. And nobody at Fox picked this up, noticing that Kimmel went to do what, who wants to be a millionaire? That's what he's a host of now.

27:52 And then the next day this lesbian becomes the host. Of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? No, of Kimmel. The Kimmel Show. Kimmel's on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. That's where he's gone. You said the next day this lesbian becomes the host. Yeah, the next day the lesbian comes on the Kimmel Show to do her thing and she's actually And she comes out as she's a diesel dyke, to use the term advisedly. And she comes out in a man's suit. She looks a little like a Comini, I think is his name, the Irish actor with the curly hair, looks almost identical to him. She has kind of a masculine voice and she does her couple of lesbian jokes, but she's actually good as a host. She could take over the show and I think it would be fine because it would be a real twist. But this is Disney.

28:44 telling, this is the Disney corporation, telling Trump to screw himself and this ABC and Disney telling Trump to get screwed and listen to this Cummings clips here we go. Good evening America I am Alan Cumming your traitorous host for the evening. And also the first person to host Jimmy Kimmel Live who has never actually appeared on the show as a guest. I know it's weird right? Yes they just... Is he Irish? Is that his gig here? He's Scottish. And the giveaway is that he's never appeared on the show. They drug him up saying look how who can we get the most insulting guy we can to just scold the audience, scold the Trump administration. They never asked me.

29:31 I feel now that I am a bit like the best man's speech at a wedding and I have not been invited to the actual wedding but I will gladly shag the bridesmaids and the groomsmen. I'll be here all night. Now anyway America, how are you doing? How are you doing? I mean, how are you doing aside from being a country that's just reintroduced concentration camps, taken healthcare away from 17 million people to give billionaires a tax cut, and also to finance an armed militia of masked men that commits heinous assorted kidnapping and crimes against humanity on a daily basis? Aside from all that, are you okay? Lies, I tell you, lies! Oh, that's... so far, that's... I mean,

30:22 As long as you have some humor, it's kind of funny. What's humorous about it? He's just busting. That's for sure. Okay, let's go on. Let's get a little raunchier. And talking of masked men, we have the Fantastic Four with us tonight. The Fantastic Four don't wear masks. Oh, that's right. Yes, the Fantastic Four are not ashamed to show their faces at work because they're trying to do good in the world. Okay, pathetic dig at ice. Alright, okay. Alright, so far onward. Yeah I think I may be the first person ever to have played Macbeth, Hamlet and Romeo to have hosted this show. I think I must also be the first ever Bond villain to host this show. There he is, Bond villain. Yes.

31:13 I am invincible! And also because of my appearance in the original series of The L Word many years ago, I am certain that I am the first person to ever host this or actually any late night talk show who's been f***ed by a lesbian with a strap on. Oh yeah! Woo! Yeah, we all want that! More pegging on the show, please. Yes. Okay, you're going downhill. Better pull up on this. Yes, no, it's getting better. I know you didn't hear that at home, America. Read my lips. And don't knock it till you've tried it, alright? Ironically, a rim shot. Thank you. Okay. Come on. That was funny. I'll give him that. That was funny. A rim shot. Thank you.

32:04 Guillermo knows I'm talking about it, don't you, Guillermo? Yeah, a little bit, yeah. Just a little bit. Just a little bit. Just a tip. Yeah, just... Well, this is very typical Hollywood. Doesn't surprise me. That's all they ever think of. Does he have any pedo jokes in here? Not that I recall. He... The fact that he did this... This is pretty... Considering this is Disney, I think it's fairly lewd. Tonight's show is all about superheroes. Not only are the Fantastic Four here, as I said, some of you may remember me as Nightcrawler from the X-Men franchise. So it's, uh, these superhero movies are only pretend, but I happen to believe that there are actual superheroes in real life who walk among us. And these superheroes are called trans people. Give them a cape! Because... Wow.

33:05 Just like superheroes, trans people are born with something special and magical about them and they often have to hide what's special and magical about them from other people. Like superheroes, they grow up in a society that doesn't understand them, that makes them the other and often hates them. Like superheroes, trans people just want the world to be a safer place and they believe we should protect each other and live our lives in peace. Like superheroes, evil billionaires want to get rid of trans people for no f***ing reason whatsoever. And just like superheroes, trans people are not new. They've been around forever and they're not going anywhere no matter how much this administration tries to make you fear them. Wow, that's kind of unhinged. Funny yet?

33:54 No, not funny. No, it's just like, okay, you're trying to get some laughs and some applause over trans people. They get the applause sign going on in office pretty... Obviously, obviously. But the audience is appreciative. Well, they stood in line for two hours for free tickets. They'll clap and cheer for anything. Okay, on next one. There is no evidence that trans people are a threat to women. There is however ample evidence that the President of the United States publicly brags about barging into beauty pageant dressing rooms and grabbing women by their p***s. Wake up America!

34:34 Go home He's so brave. He's so brave. You were so good. You were so brave speaking truth to power. It was fabulous There is no evidence that trans people are a threat. I'm sorry number eight. This is did I get him home? Was that did I get number six? Did you do seven? I think I missed six. Let me see. There is no evidence. That's six. Oh Yes, seven's up. Seven. Millions of Americans are obsessed with this idea that trans people are attacking women in bathrooms. Do you know what trans people do in the bathroom? They poop and they pee. And I'm sure they always wash their hands afterwards. And why on earth, this is what gets me, why on earth would a rapist go to the border pretending to be trans in a country that actually treats rapists better than trans people?

35:23 What? I didn't understand that one. Why would a rapist, which would be a trans, you know, the dude that happened in Virginia, I think, where they're, you know, trans supposed to do is a rapist became a big fuss in some city council meeting. I must have been. He's saying, why would a rapist do this? It doesn't make any sense to him. And especially in a country where rapists are treated better than trans people. Oh, see. I gotcha. Now, this is depressing. This is the last legs of late night.

36:03 Yeah, he really is. Number 8 sounded a lot like number 6. How dare this president make random, unfounded accusations of sexual criminality against trans people when he was literally ordered to pay $83 million to a woman who accused him of sexual assault. It's the pot calling the kettle black after trying to grab its handle in the changing room of a TJ Maxx. We spent hours in the writers room on that one. There is no epidemic of attacks being committed by trans people. But do you know how many people are killed every year by gun violence in this country? What? Over 46,000. And you're worried about pronouns? Everyone in this country's pronouns should be gun and control. Oh, okay. Most of those are suicide, and it's probably after watching that monologue. Ha ha! Well... My goodness. Well, that's depressing. And this was not picked up by Fox at all or anybody. Well...

CHAPTER 07 / 47 Discussion

Fortune Feimster, Jimmy Kimmel Live Guest Hosting

Comedian Fortune Feimster took over guest-hosting duties on Jimmy Kimmel Live following Alan Cumming. Feimster addressed social media posts from Donald Trump regarding the potential cancellation of late-night shows. Her monologue focused on stand-up comedy and the current state of the program during Kimmel's absence.

fortune feimster· jimmy kimmel· donald trump· late night· guest host

37:16 I don't know. I mean, I don't care. I mean, but Gutfeld specifically is what you're saying. You expected Gutfeld to do a bit on this. Well, I would think Gutfeld would have done a bit on it. Shooting inside the tent, man. He's part of the late-night brotherhood. It must be. So we did not... The one I wanted is Fortune Femster, which I have down as Gorchen. You spell fortune with a G. Yes. You can go find that clip. Yeah, I got it. This is the next night and she comes out. Now she's actually pretty decent. This is the Diesel Dyke you were talking about? This is the Diesel Dyke who comes out. And here's her opening so we get a clue what's going on at Disney. Welcome to Jimmy Kimmel Live! I'm your guest host, Fortune Feimster!

38:03 And to answer the question on all your minds, yes, I do have a softball game after this. I am so excited to be hosting the show. I will be here for the next three nights. At least I think I will. This morning, the President of the United States posted, the word is, and it's a strong word at that, Jimmy Kimmel is next to go in the untalented late night sweepstakes. Well, I'm just wondering if the president cancels his show, does the guest host still get paid?

38:43 I know I'm getting paid. I don't know about you. Don't rub it in. Maybe. And am I in trouble if Jimmy's show gets cancelled while I'm hosting? Hey, thanks for letting me cat sit. Oh, also your cat's dead. And just a little fact check, Jimmy Kimmel is not the next to go. Girl, you Girl, he already went like a month ago. He is doing shrooms at Six Flags right now. Just wait until the president finds out that Jimmy hired a substitute lesbian. Yeah, you know, it makes no sense that he wouldn't be on the show during this time. I think the word came down. Came down? That the show's over. Hmm.

CHAPTER 08 / 47 Discussion

Stephen Colbert, Late Night Show Cancellation Rumors

Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart addressed rumors regarding the future of late-night television and potential institutional censorship. Stewart questioned whether financial pressures or political influence from the Trump administration are reshaping the media landscape. Protesters and fellow hosts expressed solidarity with Colbert amid claims that liberal institutions are surrendering to external whims.

stephen colbert· jon stewart· cbs· paramount· censorship

39:39 And so they said, okay, if it's over, how much time do we have left? We're gonna give you another month. Okay, well I'm gonna put every offensive person I can as a co-host, as a substitute host, and I think it's gonna continue for the next week or two. I mean, she'll do three shows. She's good though. Her material did not stay on Trump. It became kind of generalized. She's a real standup. She's not like Alan Cumming, who is an actor. He's not a funny guy at all. And she actually could do this show, I think it would actually increase the ratings. Here's an overview of the late night situation. With his show cancelled next spring, Stephen Colbert says the gloves are coming off towards President Trump. I don't care for him. Laughter for that, but then stronger language. Go f*** yourself.

40:34 That got a roar from his audience. Among those who dropped by in solidarity, talk show rivals Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers, plus John Oliver and Jon Stewart. On his own show, Stewart questioned whether the cancellation was for purely financial reasons. Was this? purely financial. Stewart says liberal institutions are under assault, in some cases caving in. He noted Columbia University changed policies under pressure from Trump. Public broadcasting saw funding slashed by Congress also to please Trump. Disney, the parent company of ABC, and Paramount, the parent of CBS, have settled lawsuits filed by Trump. Trump believes he has immunity as long as he remains a petty tyrant.

41:15 demanding only liberal institutions surrender to his whims. Canadian-American political commentator David Frum wrote recently, the information landscape is being reshaped and Trump is abusing the powers of the state to hasten the reshaping in ways favorable to him. There is resistance among protesters outside Colbert's theater. and to refuse to accept the censorship of voices of dissent. He's got a year and hopefully he'll burn Trump to the ground by then. Colbert hints he's not done yet. They made one mistake. They left me alive. You know, it's over. It's over because this is just the end of the boomer era and I had an experience yesterday where I witnessed that myself.

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Patriot Academy, Youth Political Education in Fredericksburg

A speaking engagement at the Patriot Academy in Fredericksburg, Texas, revealed a significant cultural gap between older generations and young political activists. The academy teaches students under 25 about the legislative process and constitutional defense, with many participants carrying firearms. The experience highlighted how cultural touchstones like Elvis or MTV have no resonance with the current generation of activists.

patriot academy· fredericksburg· boomer· mtv· political process

42:05 I did a talk at the Patriot Academy here in Fredericksburg, and the Patriot Academy was actually very cool. They educate young people, I think the oldest is probably 25, how to be white Christian nationalist militia. There you go. And you know, so what are you going to do when you do a talk, right? You talk about stuff you know about, which is my life. I got to tell you, John, every single reference I had to anybody, including Stephen Colbert, went over their heads. Elvis, Elvis. They didn't even know who Elvis was.

42:41 Wow. Yeah. I was thinking of referencing Spanky and our gang on the show. No, no. And so in a way, podcasting is fantastic because we can still find the stray boomers out there. You're out there. I mean, literally the kids come up like, Hey, my dad loves you. My mom loves you. That's the, that's the humiliating part. Although I did get two beautiful ones. Hey, Love your vanity call sign, but you're just a general. I'm an extra there were a couple of ham kids there that was extra Yeah, extra kid who wasn't yes screw yourself Yeah, I was quite humbling like of course you know they they They were born just around the time podcasting came into existence and

43:35 They never saw videos on MTV. They were polite and attentive, but I just saw it. It's like, wow. They have no clue. Rogan. Yeah, that's... You're the guy from Rogan. Okay. And even that was barely, barely, you know. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's about right. Yeah. So I think I've entered boomerdom, whether I like it or not. You dragged me in kicking and screaming. You didn't have a choice. You labeled me a boomer. You were a boomer basically by the year you were born. It's got nothing to do with me. All my boomer friends like Ozzy and Hulk are dying. All my boomer friends are dying. Sounds like a Dolly Parton song. All my boomer friends. Oh man.

44:22 Well, the late night thing is over. Yeah, and these are just last gasps. You're kind of amusing They don't have an audience at all I mean I like I said before Carson had average 17 million and get up at this high as 45 million and these guys are getting one or two million and they're wondering why they're all in there that they're singing the blues and even that segment that they'd mentioned that last clip of yours where they said that All these people were in the audience that came to support Colbert. Those are all pre-taped. It was bullcrap. There was nobody famous in the audience. Oh, no, I know. That was taped in totally different locations, even. Yeah, it doesn't even look like the right... Yeah, the whole thing was lit weird and the whole thing is phony, is fake. Yes, fake. Fake and gay. It's fake and gay. And... G-H-E-Y for all of our LG... But the way...

45:14 The way this is headed, and Kimmel's next, and then Fallon may, you know, they may keep it on, NBC's diehards, they're the ones who invented the format back in 1953 or 1954, one of the two. And it's been, you know, essentially, it's peak. It's long gone. It's no good anymore. It's over. It's over. They just can't seem to get the body. But that's not what's really happening. What's happening is the president is using his power, the power of the office of the President of the United States to silence critics and to shut down the media.

CHAPTER 10 / 47 Discussion

Wall Street Journal, White House Press Pool Removal

The White House announced the removal of the Wall Street Journal from the small group of reporters traveling with the President to Scotland. This decision follows a lawsuit filed by the President against the newspaper over a report concerning a letter sent to Jeffrey Epstein 20 years ago. The move is viewed as part of an ongoing conflict between the administration and major news outlets.

wall street journal· donald trump· jeffrey epstein· scotland· press freedom

45:51 Even the Wall Street Journal! Meanwhile, the White House says it will remove the Wall Street Journal from the small group of reporters who will be traveling with President Trump on his trip to Scotland later this month. The president is suing the paper over a report that he gave Epstein a suggestive birthday letter more than 20 years ago. They should have Cummings there in Scotland to welcome him. Cummings. Cummings. He's the only Cummings, not Cummings. Well, that leads us into... We have... You know, this is like... It's what you do. If you're the president... All the presidents have done this. They ban one guy or another, you know. It's like, it's a privilege to get on the plane and get a free ride. You can go over there yourself. Yeah. Wall Street Journal is not going to pick up the tab on that. No. No. How about Lenny Bruce? Lenny Bruce got... They threw him in jail. Yeah, they did. Yeah.

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Tulsi Gabbard, White House Press Briefing Performance

Tulsi Gabbard delivered a series of briefings from the White House press room regarding alleged intelligence community misconduct. Steve Bannon praised her "command presence" while critics argued her editorialized delivery weakened her standing as a potential Director of National Intelligence. The briefings focused on the 2016 Russia investigation and named officials like Obama and Brennan.

tulsi gabbard· steve bannon· white house· national intelligence· maga

46:48 More than once and mostly for his act in San Francisco. San Francisco is the one that really threw him in jail. Yeah, the most liberal place you'd expect it not to happen. So we're just being inundated Tulsi Gabbard boy do you think is brave for what she's doing, but she has no game She's not she's not explaining it right. She doesn't she's not accusing properly No, I you know I have to play Bannon's clip Bannon's clip hold on a second Ben because he talks about this and Do I have it? I see Brennan. No, you know Gabbard. It's a I said it says Oh Gabbard ban and take I have two clips are they the same? No, no one is two minutes and 32 seconds and one is 115 but it looks like the 232 Didn't get cut off where it was supposed to yeah, cuz I don't go to 32 No, but there were senders clips clips max should be 159. Yeah now 130 130 is my max

47:50 I try to keep it 130. I try to keep them under a minute but I will go 150. Good luck. So which one do you want me to play? Well let's play the long form and then we can cut it off. The other day the half-baked story where they dropped it because Tulsi was really... Wait, you don't want it there. You want the beginning. Hold on, let's do this. Another historic day. In the briefing room and this is so smart because they're forced to sit there and cover it. Kaitlin Collins and all that's all those smug people are forced to sit there and hear Tulsi Gabbard and that was a command performance today. Her performance has up to now been amazing. President Trump you heard last night we played on the morning show about talking to members of Congress.

48:32 It was a command performance and she's got command presence, she's unflappable. And she's just giving you fact after fact after fact and to call it a... How about, why not arrest somebody? I'm so tired of, here are the facts. We're gonna definitely get into that. But to listen to Bannon go on and on, I watch, I couldn't even get through it. She's so dull. Coup? From the White House press briefing room now. We've had it from the Oval Office from the president and the director of DNI a treasonous conspiracy Using and calling out Obama by name calling out Brennan by name calling out Comey by name the stakes don't get any higher folks I hope you understand that this is an in Obama denying a command denying it and all day You should see the meltdown on MSNBC

49:23 all afternoon with Weissman and these folks in the Wall Street Journal and the Murdoch's as I have warned for years are true enemies of this movement, true enemies of MAGA, true enemies of the United States and particularly true enemies of President Trump. Well as we have said for years they're Democrats, they're run by Democrats. You mostly. Yes, run by, we know that, that's not a surprise. Oh well even if it's true He drew a picture. Oh, okay. He's mentioned. Yeah, so is Eric Weinstein. This is... It's so disappointing. Everything is just a disappointment. Everything. Everything. Well, here... Yes.

50:11 Where's the arrest? Arrest somebody. You know, we've been doing this show long enough and I was a former Republican, I was a former Democrat, I'm unaffiliated for good reason. You were a former woman. No, I didn't get that far. Close. But no, not really. But I never got a shape, that's the problem. The whole thing... Your feet are too big, I think that's the problem. That's it, my feet are way too big. Too wide, yeah. is the Republicans are, it's the old rule, they're do-nothings. That's the do-nothing party. Yack, yack, yack. I have a, let me play this clip. There's another ban, do you want me to play the other ban and take or are we done? Because I'm good if we're done. We'll play the other one, I think it's the same clip. Another historic day. Oh yeah, it's the same clip. Yeah, same clip. There is the bonus clip.

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John Brennan, Congressional Testimony on Steele Dossier

Archival footage shows former CIA Director John Brennan testifying before Congress regarding his knowledge of the Steele Dossier. Brennan denied the CIA relied on the document for intelligence assessments, a claim that critics and lawmakers like Trey Gowdy suggest is contradicted by internal memos. The testimony has led to renewed calls for perjury investigations against former intelligence officials.

john brennan· steele dossier· trey gowdy· cia· perjury

51:12 Well, you gotta tell me what it was, because I just put it in and didn't say bonus on it. Oh, it was the clip of Brennan testifying before Congress. Oh, on the dossier? This is a very short clip. Yes. Yeah. Director Brennan, do you know who commissioned the Steele dossier? I don't. Do you know if the Bureau ever relied on the Steele dossier as part of any court filings? applications. I have no awareness. Did the CIA rely on it? No. Why not? Because we didn't. It wasn't part of the intelligence information that we had. It was not in any way used as a basis for the intelligence community assessment that was done. It was not. No, that's a lie. Whatever happens. Okay, Jesse Watters show. You're poaching from Jesse Watters again.

52:10 It was a good version of the clip. This was Trey Gowdy who knew the answers in advance of him asking to entrap him. Yes. And they have him on perjury because they have the memos now showing that he knew well all about the... Throw him in irons! They won't do you anything. In fact, Ryan Paul came on that same Jesse Watters show and said, yeah, we've got him cold. There's no doubt about it. Of all the people, in fact, there's a odds list out there that's floating around. I could bring it up on the screen if you want to hear them, but they have the odds of who's going to get indicted.

CHAPTER 13 / 47 Discussion

Media Complicit, Russia Election Hacking Supercut

A media supercut highlights years of reporting from CNN, MSNBC, and other outlets claiming that Russia definitively hacked the 2016 U.S. election. Figures such as James Clapper and various news anchors are shown repeating the narrative of cyber hacking and collusion. The compilation serves to illustrate what critics describe as a coordinated psychological operation by the intelligence community and mainstream media.

russia· election hacking· james clapper· cnn· msnbc

52:48 And by the way, the odds are out there for everything. 25 to 1 is like the odds that Comey will get indicted. He's at the top of the list. But Brennan's number two at 25 to 1. Obama's way down. He's down at 33 to 1 and the rest of them are all ridiculous. The real guilty party here is the M5M because they're the ones who have been complicit with every hoax, every op. Everything, just, do you mind if I play a supercut? I'll tell you what, play the supercut right after I play the other bonus clip which is the Gabbard on WAPO which addresses exactly what you said. Question the American people's ability to trust the integrity of our democratic republic and the reason why that is and it's similar to the deep state actors who have been trying to stop us from releasing this

53:39 is that we have members of the media who were complicit in this from the very beginning, who were leaked early copies of this, or at least lines from this January 2017 Obama manufactured intelligence assessment. They printed what they were fed, people like Ellen Nakashima from the Washington Post, who by the way went on to win a Pulitzer Prize. Because for years she was so good at lying and not telling the truth to the American people that they gave her an award for it. See, that's what cult... Tulsi should stay away from that. See, that's her mistake. She needs to be just, here's the facts, here's what happened. When she editorializes like that, it weakens her argument like she's some pundit instead of the director of national intelligence. Yeah, that's a good point. It's dumb. And I like her, but it's dumb.

54:30 So here are the guilty. These people are the guilty parties in all of this and everything. And luckily their power is diminishing. They have to bow to the podcasters. to The Russians hacked the election. If you can get him to accept that Russia hacked the election, see if you can get him to accept who won the Civil War. If he admits it, it casts a shadow on his victory over Hillary Clinton. Russia hacked the election. Russia hacked the election. Russia hacked the election. Russia hacked the election. Let's be clear, Russia hacked the election. Definitively,

55:33 Russia hacked the election and Russia is doing it again now. Election related cyber hacking. Cyber hacking of US elections. Cyber hacking of the election. Russia was cyber hacking the election. Russia was cyber hacking the election. The CIA, the FBI, NSA all All of these intelligence organizations, 17 intelligence agencies, all conclude that Russia hacked the election. If we find out that Donald Trump just theoretically was colluding with Russia while they were hacking the election, that is completely impeachable. This dossier alleged a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russian effort to hack the election. The director of national intelligence, the head of the National Security Agency, the head of the FBI.

56:17 all of these intelligence experts saying Russia hacked the election, the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, the former director of national intelligence James Clapper, I mean they've all said this. So to believe that that's wrong, you have to believe they're all involved in an elaborate conspiracy to get Donald Trump, which seems a little far-fetched to me. There's all these incredible viruses, computer viruses, SharePoint now is completely hacked, Snowflake, all of these things. But the cable news networks never go down. Someone should hack their election. I'd love to walk into the studio one morning and just see the quad being all black.

CHAPTER 14 / 47 Discussion

Presidential Medal of Freedom, Adam Curry Endorsement

A listener sent a letter to the White House endorsing the founder of podcasting for the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The White House responded with a standard form letter signed by the President, thanking the citizen for their involvement but offering no specific commitment to the award. The exchange underscores the automated nature of constituent communications.

presidential medal of freedom· donald trump· podcasting· white house· melania trump

57:06 Even anonymous just put the anonymous guy in the hoodie up there anything. These are the guilty people These are the people who are psy-opping the world America certainly and we're still here all the names that you heard wolf your tapper who blew the line I Colbert was in there all of them. Yeah, all of them and meanwhile We're not even the top 100 best and most influential podcasts of all time. That's it And nobody will be arrested. But I should be arrested for that list. I don't I don't want to pull it anymore either. You can tell them no. It's the Peabody that we're going for. Oh, the Peabody. By the way, producer Robert emailed President Trump endorsing me for the Presidential Medal of Freedom for being the founder of podcasting. And he got a response. With an auto pen. Yes. Dear Mr. Basso, thank you for your letter and sharing your views.

58:00 Wow, that's sincere. The strength of our country lies in the spirit of the American people and their willingness to stay informed and get involved. I appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts. For the latest information about my administration's policy initiatives, visit the White House at whitehouse.gov. Melania joins me in sending our best wishes to you and your family. Sincerely, President Trump. So I guess I'm not on the list for the Presidential Medal of Freedom. But things have gotten so bad here in Fredericksburg. Oh, here we go. Because what happens when the news just spins people up? Because that's what it is. I mean, you can't open Google News. You can't turn on anything, can't look at anything without all of this being thrown in your face, slapping you in the face like a wet salmon.

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Five Days of Darkness, August Blackout Rumors

Viral rumors on social media claim a "five days of darkness" event will occur in August or September, involving a total internet and power shutdown. Some versions of the narrative link the event to a general strike or a "blackout" protest. Experts dismiss these claims as baseless misinformation designed to create public anxiety.

blackout· internet· general strike· conspiracy· social media

58:55 And so now I got a note from at least two Dutch listeners that say that no one's ever said that in Holland Well, they're not Dutch. They're fake Dutch It may be a mackerel now to think about it, but I like salmon better So Tina had her women's Bible study this morning and she comes home She has to listen to this and this kid this was serious and they had videos to back it up In August, there will be five days of darkness. The country will shut down, the internet will not work, everything will come to a grinding halt. Five days of darkness in August. Oh yeah, it's happening. It's happening. Yeah, it's happening. I'm worried sick. And if you go online right now, you'll see it. You'll see people, oh yes, no, this is, it's happening. It's happening.

59:51 Five days of darkness. I didn't get a clip of it, but there's something going on in September. They're gonna... Blackout? Blackout? You heard about this? No, I thought that was... that was August. Now it's September. No, no, that... no, blackout is different. It's from black people. Oh, blackout! Oh, no, I didn't... what's the blackout about? They're gonna... none of them are gonna buy anything. They're not gonna go to work. They already tried this before. They tried this last year. They're trying it again. They tried it last year. They're gonna shut down the country. It's a general strike. Okay. I think it's the 17th of September. Who is pushing this nonsense? Who knows? They're just, they're definitely taking, just throwing spaghetti toward the wall. On top of everything, out of the blue comes a dude I've never heard of, and I'm sure lots of people have, the Channel 5 guy? Oh yeah, the Channel 5 guy, Gillespie. Have you seen him before? I'd never seen him before. He was new to me.

CHAPTER 16 / 47 Discussion

Hunter Biden, Channel 5 Interview and Pardon Strategy

Hunter Biden appeared in a high-production interview with Channel 5, attacking critics like George Clooney and defending his father's legacy. Analysts suggest the aggressive defense of Joe Biden's competence is a legal strategy to protect Hunter's presidential pardon from being revoked. The interview also featured controversial remarks regarding the role of undocumented migrants in service industries.

hunter biden· george clooney· channel 5· joe biden· presidential pardon

1:00:48 I've never seen it before, but I have to say this. You're talking about he did the interview. Three hour podcast with Hunter. Right, and outside. Now the thing about it, people should note, it was a three camera shoot. It was not a slouch job. No, it was not. Everybody, him and Hunter, outside were extremely well-miked. And well-lit too. There was extra lighting. There was definitely lighting. And it was slick. Other news today, Hunter Biden is speaking out in an expletive filled interview that some are calling unhinged and among his targets, George Clooney, who famously went public about former President Biden's cognitive decline.

1:01:33 him and everybody around him. It's a bleep fest as Hunter Biden goes after George Clooney. George Clooney is not an actor. He is a like, I don't know what it is. The troubled former first son is clearly still holding a major grudge over Clooney's 2024 New York Times op ed urging Joe Biden to quit the presidential race. What do you have to do with anything? Why do I have to Listen to you, what right do you have to step on a man who's given 52 years of his life to the service of this country? That was unhinged and I don't get what he wants. Hunter's rant is leaving many flabbergasted. It's incredibly disturbing to watch. It's just foul mouth rants after foul mouth rants. He also lashed out at President Trump. He's a dictator thug. Slamming the president for deporting undocumented migrants. How do you think your hotel room gets cleaned? How do you think you got food on your

1:02:30 I love this elitist take like by the way this I this is the only clip I have of it and you this you Yours is better because it's bleeped. I don't I have the Dirty version which I don't want to play Absolutely, this is the most elitist thing you could possibly say. Who's gonna clean your bathrooms? Who's gonna pick your vegetables? Who's gonna mow your lawn? Documented migrants. How do you think your hotel room gets cleaned? How do you think you got food on your table? Who do you think washes your dishes? Who do you think does your garden? Who washes your dishes, John?

1:03:07 I wash my own damn dishes. I have a dishwasher. You take a dirty dish, you put it in the dishwasher, you close the door, you put the timer on and it gets cleaned. I don't have a migrant doing my dishes. What was he talking about? I'm convinced all of us that these people are the The White House today is hitting back on social media. A Border Patrol agent was just shot in the face by two criminal illegal aliens that Joe Biden let into the country. But Hunter is more concerned about who is going to clean up his hotel room after his benders. Hunter is also giving a new explanation for his father's disastrous debate performance that ended his campaign for re-election. He claims the former president was under the influence of

1:03:52 sleeping pills. He's 81 years old, he's tired as f***, you give him Ambien to be able to sleep, he gets up on the stage and he looks like he's a deer in the headlights. All of this, all of this, all of this is just to keep us distracted, running around, yelling at each other. You know I went to Glen Beck on Tuesday. Well, before you leave that clip and talk about Beck, I will say I was watching Gutfeld and Tyrus had the best analysis of, I have to say, it caught everybody off guard including Gutfeld. Tyrus had the best analysis of that particular interview where he said it wasn't really a distraction. The whole thing was designed to back up his dad so they don't

1:04:43 Pull the pardon away saying that he was incompetent and the auto pen pardoned hunter and hunter would lose his pardon So the he has to do everything he can to defend the old man to make it sound like no he was fine No, that makes sense and it makes nothing but sense because yeah, cuz if hunter loses that pardon he could get into a lot of trouble Yeah, that makes sense Well, what I was gonna say about Beck, I went up and did his show, which was... Yeah, how'd it go? I didn't see it. Yeah. No, it hasn't aired yet. I think it airs this weekend. Well, that's why I didn't see it. Yeah. Like you'd watch. Like you'd watch. You wouldn't watch. Oh, yeah, I dogged the show. Turns out... This is my third time. He says, I've never had anyone on three times. I'm like, wow. Said, is that a job offer? No. No. You just...

CHAPTER 17 / 47 Discussion

Glenn Beck, Donald Trump Conversation on Epstein

Glenn Beck reported on a private conversation with Donald Trump where the President expressed frustration over continued coverage of the Jeffrey Epstein case. Beck noted that the President remains focused on his core promises despite being disconnected from the national pulse on issues like vaccines. The discussion highlights internal tensions between the administration and conservative media figures.

glenn beck· donald trump· jeffrey epstein· vaccines· podcast

1:05:38 the Regis Philbin of Glenn Beck now. And as we're talking... I find that hard to believe. What? Beck's been on the air for 20 years, he's never had anybody on more than three times. On his podcast, this wasn't the radio show. Oh, the podcast wasn't the radio show. Yeah, it was a podcast. He's my age. No, he's 61, we're the same age. He said that he talked to President Trump Because President Trump was very mad Very mad at him What I guess he didn't just do as told and stop talking about Epstein. Oh Yeah, so Trump called you that And he said but in the conversation he said that Trump said I don't care about any of this I'm here to do the things I promise to do and I will do them and I will do them all the way until a bitter end and

1:06:33 And he said, I don't care about anything. But that seems kind of hard to believe because I think he really does care. And Beck also agrees with me that the president does not have his finger on the pulse of the nation. He didn't have it on the vaccines. And this, he totally just misjudged this. And now he's got Tulsi out there clearly not trying to get people indicted or arrested, just telling stories and going up there with Levitt. But who cares? That's just to feed the machine. Nothing's happening. That's what's so disappointing. In 17 and a half years of the show,

1:07:13 Exactly zero things. No one's been arrested. Exactly. Zero people have arrested, been arrested. Nothing has happened. The sealed indictments were never opened. Nothing. Oh, we forgot about that. Jode to Genova. Nothing, nothing. 10,000 sealed indictments. Nothing, nothing, nothing ever happens. And by the way, Jode to Genova, that was the best of the group. Yeah. Hey, hey, hey. Tomorrow. And of course, now we get the news. Wednesday, a federal judge denied a DOJ request to unseal grand jury transcripts from the investigation into Epstein. I understand there are two other requests from the Department of Justice that are ongoing, but I'll let this president speak to whether he wants to see an appeal. House Speaker Mike Johnson is sending lawmakers for an early summer recess

CHAPTER 18 / 47 Discussion

Mike Johnson, Epstein Document Release Obstruction

House Speaker Mike Johnson faced criticism for sending lawmakers on an early recess, effectively blocking votes on the release of Jeffrey Epstein's files. While the House Oversight Committee moved to subpoena Ghislaine Maxwell, Johnson dismissed Democratic efforts as a "political ploy." Tulsi Gabbard continues to push for the declassification of documents related to the 2016 election and the Epstein investigation.

mike johnson· jeffrey epstein· tulsi gabbard· ghislaine maxwell· house oversight committee

1:08:05 rather than hold votes on releasing all of the Epstein documents. No one in Congress is blocking Epstein documents. No one in Congress is doing that. Johnson accused Democrats of engaging in a political charade, but many of the questions are coming from the right. The American people want answers. The House Oversight Committee passed a motion to subpoena Epstein's co-conspirator and convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell to appear for a deposition. Yeah, okay. So again, nothing's gonna happen. Nothing's gonna come out. It's it's almost like hey, what can we give the podcasters? Ah, yeah, we'll give them this So I actually got a decent overview three clips reasonable length from CBN That kind of lay it out with reasonable facts Just here's what's going on so we can get it kind of it's not as sensationalized as every other news outlet although

1:09:00 Although news during Donald Trump's second term has been coming fast and furious, this latest bombshell is downright startling. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassifying documents showing what she labels overwhelming evidence of former President Barack Obama and his national security team basically creating intelligence about Russia attempting to influence the 2016 election. There's no question in my mind that this intelligence community assessment that President Obama ordered be

1:09:38 a presidency and subverting the will of the American people. Gabbard called the act treasonous conspiracy. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is troubled too. Oh yes, let's bring in Mike Johnson. He's very, very troubling. I'm the Cheshire Cat. Well, I don't know how to summarize it by way of description in a snappy phrase, but I will tell you it is deeply problematic. What? Deeply problem as deeply, deeply. No, what does he do? Snappy phrases. I've never heard that.

1:10:22 Let me listen. Snappy phrase? What was the snappy phrase? That's what he says. He says, I can't do a snappy phrase as if he does snappy phrases. I guess he's saying he doesn't. Well, I don't know how to summarize it by way of description in a snappy phrase, but I will tell you it is detailed. problematic. This was the meeting, Tulsi you gotta get it together, use a snappy phrase, you know, we need something, we need something to lock her up, you know, we need something that everybody can start chanting. I think that's literally the meeting that they had. We need a snappy phrase, it's hard to sum it up and Tulsi's not doing a good job at getting it. Recognize that the people who are being called out now were involved in a scheme. We knew that it was a shameless false set of accusations and

1:11:07 And yet, they perpetuated the lie on the American people and they looked right into the camera and just lied, clearly. And they knew what they were up to the whole time, so there must be accountability for that. Well, who's he talking about? Because that was the news media that looked into the camera and lied. You say there must be accountability. The DOJ will work on the criminal aspect of this. What's the role? role of the house here specifically I mean people want to see subpoenas they want to see depositions they want to see whether it be Brennan, Clapper, potentially the president the former president of the United States are you willing to go down that route because a lot of people want to see some of these folks questioned in depth. Of course look I think we have a responsibility to follow the truth where it leads. Follow the truth. And I do expect that whether there's a special counsel appointed which some are suggesting

1:11:53 and or in conjunction with the house investigations that we will get the answers and there will be accountability to the extent that we're able to do that referring people to the DOJ for prosecution and any other measure that is appropriate as we begin to uncover more of the facts. Does it get tricky at all with the former president? Obama looking at what his role in this is and bringing him in for some sort of deposition, potential subpoena? Well listen, I mean, I can't, we have no concern about that. If it's uncomfortable for him, he shouldn't have been involved in overseeing this, which is what it appears to us has happened. How many sealed indictments there are? More than 100,000. 100,000 sealed indictments. And of course, then we wind it up with the Epstein stuff.

1:12:43 They filed a discharge petition, meaning if 218 members of Congress agree, they can force a vote. The Speaker has some tactical maneuvers to stop it if he so chooses. Are you willing to let them have that vote? Or procedurally, can you kind of, how do we say this, muck it up a little bit? Well, I think it's a moot point now. I mean, there's no daylight between the House Republicans and the White House. On maximum disclosure, the president has said that he wants all credible evidence to come forward and he's now ordered the grand jury testimony or asked the DOJ and the Attorney General to request that of the court and they have.

1:13:20 and we'll allow the space for all that to play out and so if there's a role for Congress to play we will but right now we're in full agreement with the commander-in-chief. So would you allow then or you would not allow the discharge petition? The discharge petition is a political ploy. The Democrats are playing games with this. You know I I'll let everybody else to determine the motives of everyone involved, okay? But obviously the Democrats here have shown their hand many times. They want to try to damage the president. They want to go after President Trump. They want to put speed bumps in the way of all the progress we're making and they see here a political opportunity. Yeah, okay. America is one big machine and we just feed it with garbage.

CHAPTER 19 / 47 Discussion

Martin Luther King Jr., FBI Surveillance Files Release

The Trump administration released FBI records detailing the surveillance of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., including wiretaps and hotel bugs. These records were originally under a court-imposed seal until 2027, but were released early despite objections from the King family. The move has sparked debate over the timing and motivation for unsealing sensitive historical documents.

mlk· fbi· surveillance· civil rights· court seal

1:14:04 And then just turn it around and spew it out over people. And we're the idiots. Have our mouth open. Feed me more. Then we had to stop in the middle of everything yesterday. Stop! Stop! The guy who knifed four kids to death. He's sentenced. And then we're back. It's all another thing the thing about arresting somebody they have Brennan cold with the lying to Congress Yeah, you don't go to jail for that like Bannon two weeks. I don't think so hmm You think they're gonna ban with four months. I think it wasn't too late. You know they can find a sacrificial lamb Well, Brennan would be a good choice. Yeah, but I don't see it happening. Oh

1:14:51 No, you ask for a sacrificial lamb, he would be a good choice, but I agree. I don't think anything's gonna happen because the Republicans do nothing. They're a do-nothing party. Oh, I got an idea! Wait, wait, wait, I got an idea! Let's release the MLK files! This morning reaction is pouring in following a Wall Street Journal report that President Trump's name appears in the Jeffrey Epstein files multiple times. Oh, wait a minute, that wasn't the right clip. The Trump administration has released records of the FBI's surveillance of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. FBI records released previously show the bureau wiretapped King's telephone lines, bugged his hotel rooms, and used informants. King was assassinated in 1968. King's family and the group he led had objected to the release.

1:15:40 The records have been under a court-imposed seal since 1977. They were meant to remain sealed until 2027. So the troll room asked the appropriate question. Why are they do-nothings? Why does nothing happen? Why do the indictments never get unsealed? Why? And the answer is, of course, because they're all complicit. All of them! No, it's because they're gay. They're all complicit, they're all in on it, they're all being blackmailed, and you are the dupe. Now, if we just held to that opinion, the show would end, as would every other podcast in the universe. So that's why, you know, you got to be part of the system. Oh, there's new, there's something new! Bob McCrone! And by the way,

CHAPTER 20 / 47 Discussion

Pandemic Brain Aging, ABC News Report

A new study reported by ABC News suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic may have aged human brains by more than five months due to chronic stress. Researchers claim the effect occurred regardless of whether an individual actually contracted the virus. The report suggests the aging process may be reversible through diet and physical exercise.

covid-19· brain aging· abc news· stress· exercise

1:16:34 How many people, I was watching some podcasts and it's like watching a podcast, which makes no sense. But I'm watching a podcast. And it's just a guy, one guy by himself with a mic who can just endlessly talk. Yeah, it's pretty good, soliloquy. It's pretty astonishing to me because they're not saying anything. It's just yak, yak, yak, it's all talking points that have been kind of expanded somehow. Hannity does this, he's like the pro at this. He just can yak away just endlessly. It's like the, if you ever worked with somebody stand in a newsroom or TV news where you had one of these people that can just get out there and talk as long as you want. Yak casting. And you have to look for the openings to get them to stop. They can literally stand there and talk about a car crash behind them for as long as you want them to talk.

1:17:27 Yeah? Yak casting. Yak, it's unbelievable. Well... And when you think about that and what we're consuming, I have to doubt this report from ABC. To the index, a new study tonight finds the pandemic may have aged our brains. That explains it. Whether you had COVID or not, they say. Researchers say brain scans actually show COVID. Did he just say whether you like COVID or not? Hold on a second. What did he just say here? Aged our brains. That explains it. Whether you had COVID or not, they say. Researchers say... Whether you like COVID or not? No, whether you had COVID or not. Oh, I'm sorry. That explains it. Whether you had COVID or not, they say researchers say brain scans actually show COVID, the stress involved may have sped up brain aging by more than five months during that period. They believe it's reversible with exercise, diet, and of course, skin and juice. Oh, diet. Exercise and diet. Well, there's a lot now about- Stop drinking.

CHAPTER 21 / 47 Discussion

Smartphones and Mental Health, Childhood Developmental Risks

A health alert from the American Academy of Pediatrics links early smartphone use to worse mental health outcomes in adulthood, including increased suicidal thoughts and aggression. The study found that 48% of girls who received phones before age 13 reported suicidal ideation. Experts recommend "family media plans" and delaying social media access to mitigate developmental risks.

smartphones· mental health· social media· pediatrics· cyberbullying

1:18:20 There's a lot about technology in the news today. As there's new studies, new reports, NBC Today, the doctor comes in, she explains it, what we all knew to be true and was not surprising, but now science confirms it. Now a GMA health alert on children and smartphones. A new study out overnight finding a link between kids who use them at a younger age and worse mental health outcomes when they become adults. Oh, our chief medical correspondent, Dr. Tara Narula is here with more. I don't think this is too surprising for some folks. So what are the findings here? This is a topic that so many parents like myself, I have a nine year old and a 12 year old are dealing with as our kids are using phones for education, socialization and all kinds of reasons and asking when can I get a phone, getting them at younger and younger ages. Unfortunately with this socialization, don't you, don't you,

1:19:11 I don't know. How do you socialize with one of those stupid phones? On social media. That's how you socialize. That's what socializing is. It's faux, F-A-U-X socialization. Correct. Get a phone, getting them at younger and younger ages. Unfortunately, with this social experiment that we are conducting, we're now realizing that there may be long-term health impacts. Social experiment? Well, she means that in a, not in a true, she means it in a, Yeah, I don't know how she means it. Ironic? Yeah, she means it ironically. And they found that those who had a smartphone before the age of 13 had worse mental health outcomes. And by that we mean they reported more suicidal thoughts, more feelings of aggression, more feelings of detachment from reality and hallucinations. When they looked specifically at both genders. Hallucinations, isn't that great?

1:20:19 But listen to the numbers. Suicidal thoughts, more feelings of aggression, more feelings of detachment from reality and hallucinations. When they looked specifically at both genders, both reported- Whoa, hold on a second. Doctor, both genders? That makes it sound like it's a binary. But there's a hundred by a gender so I don't know. Minimum. Yeah. I'm not. Idle thoughts, more feelings of aggression, more feelings of detachment from reality and hallucinations. When they looked specifically at both genders, both reported decreased self-worth and self-image. Girls decreases in emotional resilience and also in their lower confidence and boys, they reported less

1:21:01 calmness, less stability and a decrease in empathy. One specific statistic, so 48% of girls who got their phone before the age of 13 around age 5 or 6 reported suicidal thoughts as opposed to 28% who got it over the age of 13. Oh well 13 is fine it's only 28%. 28%! That's that's shocking by itself. What drove this Robin? Well, not surprisingly social media was a big factor in a lot of this as was poor sleep deterioration and family relationships and cyber bullying so a lot of issues around giving phones to kids under 13 Yeah, you connected on the phone. You're not connected right in person to your family. This is like you're not connected. You're not connected

1:21:47 What is the takeaway, doctor? What do you need to be connected for, you 13, 14, 15, 16, 17? What are you, a doctor? You're on call? Is like a pager? You have to have a phone when you're 17 and you have to be on it all the time because you never know what such a, oh, something important might be happening in your life? Give me a break. Well, the problem is, I think is highlighted here, is when kids see their parents doing this, because that's what's going on here. It's the parents. The parents, the Gen X, who are probably reasonably okay with a lot of this.

1:22:26 But some are severely addicted, just on the phone all the time, at the table, at the breakfast table, everywhere, in the car, all the time. Do you remember the days when you'd go to a restaurant and if somebody pulled out a cell phone, everyone would stop eating? Put that out, what are you doing? They were scolded. Yeah, I do remember that. That was, I think, before social media. That was when I got a text message or a Blackberry. It kind of crossed the line with Blackberry because when you had a Blackberry, it's like, well, he's clearly doing some important business because that's a business machine. What's the takeaway for parents with this? What's the takeaway for parents? You're killing your kids is what the takeaway is. What's the takeaway for parents with this? Well, number one, I think is social media. The longer we can push off allowing our kids to be on social media, we are learning the better.

1:23:15 I think lots of families are getting creative. We did a story here, I know Becky Worley on landlines, right? Flip phones for kids may be an option so that they can have access to communicating without all the other things that come with smartphones. Give the kid a landline with a long extension cord. The American Academy... There you go. Good old Becky, she came up with the right solution. Becky, landlines! Pediatrics has a whole host of information that families can use, a family media plan, and actually... A family media plan! Oh, we need a media plan in our family, that'll do it. A family media plan... actually something they call the five C's. So the first C is child... Hold on, is that anything like the escape plan? You know, you're supposed to have it on a go bag, have a go bag. We need a media plan. How much media can I consume today, dad? When I was a kid, we got one hour of television a day because it was going to rot your brain.

1:24:07 Don't sit too close, it'll rot your brain and ruin your eyes. show them how to steer away from negative and inappropriate content. The third C is calm, so finding ways to emotionally regulate that doesn't involve the phones, finding ways to fall asleep at bedtime. The next C has to do with crowding out. You want to make sure it's not crowding out other things like physical activity and homework. And the last is communication. Open lines of communication with your kids about this. Let my son tell it. He's the only 11-year-old in the world who doesn't have a phone, but I'm glad that he's based up here. Mine does not either. No social media, no phone.

CHAPTER 22 / 47 Discussion

Meta, Instagram and Facebook Account Purge

Meta removed over 635,000 accounts from Instagram and Facebook that were linked to inappropriate or sexualized comments on content featuring children. The proactive measure aims to address child safety concerns and predatory behavior on the platforms. Child safety advocates praised the move but called for more comprehensive changes across all social media apps.

meta· instagram· facebook· child safety· social media

1:24:54 I'm great, I'm a great parent. So there were 40, 45 kids at this Patriot Academy yesterday. And I'll tell you what the Patriot Academy does. They teach young people typically right before gap year or right out of college, they teach them how the political process works. They've rebuilt Constitution Hall. They have, you know, they show kids how to write a bill, how to get it into committee, how to get it out of committee, how to argue it on the floor. And there, there in every single state, there's multiple so-called graduates of Patriot Academy. And they also teach them constitutional defense. Half of these kids, all in their early 20s, were all strapped. They had big nine millimeters on their belt, because they teach it there at the academy, so they're all walking around armed. As a speaker, you're like, man, I better not suck. But not once, not once did I see anyone zone out or go to their phone

1:25:55 It was really impressive, so it's possible. It's possible, but not in most modern homes without a media plan. What do you think parents can do in order to model healthy behavior when it comes to the phones? So certainly parents putting their phones down at mealtimes and connecting with their kids, eye to eye, having conversations, keeping the phones out of the bedroom, putting on the do not disturb on your phone and then watching with your kids. I know in my house we have an iPad rule where it stays out of the bedroom for my daughter and she has to log it in and out like a library book. She's only allowed to use it for about an hour and a half each weekend day. Okay, she has to log it in. Go get your papers! Nazi. Right on cue, Meta is on the ball. Meta taking action to protect kids and teens online, wiping 135,000 Instagram accounts from the app as well as 500,000 Facebook and Instagram accounts that were linked to those original ones.

1:26:51 All of this action because users behind the accounts were making sexualized and inappropriate comments to accounts featuring children. Adam Scott Wont, an associate professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, says the move from META is a step in the right direction. We see constant examples of our youth hurting themselves and others hurting our children in our country because of these behaviors. And it is great that Meta is taking proactive steps in order to address them. with their children about what's appropriate, monitoring their chat rooms and making sure screen time is limited and controlled. And he's calling for more social media apps to take notice of this move from Meta and make their own changes. What do you think hurts kids more in America? Guns or phones? Oh, phones for sure. Yeah. So we need a campaign. We need a campaign. There is no second amendment for phones. No, no. You can't regulate this stuff.

CHAPTER 23 / 47 Discussion

AI Companions, Teen Usage Statistics

A report from Common Sense Media indicates that 72% of teens are using AI for advice, friendship, and emotional support. While some use AI for entertainment or flirting, others turn to chatbots as a non-judgmental alternative to human therapy. Experts express concern over the "epidemic" of replacing human social interaction with machine companions.

artificial intelligence· chatgpt· mental health· common sense media· therapy

1:28:07 That's ridiculous. You can't regulate it. By the way, when it comes to AI, there's a new report out and the report is from commonsensemedia.org. Talk, trust, and trade-offs. No, they've been... Common Sense Media has been around for a long time. How and why teens use AI companions. Well, here's the news. 72% of teens say they are turning to AI for advice, friendship, and more. 72% of what? Teens. Of all teens? Yes. So we have a million teens and you're telling me 720,000 of them? Yes. I don't believe it. Okay, well it's statistics so yeah I mean lies lies and damn statistics of course.

1:28:54 from the survey, 70% and this AI companions. This is not, you know, just AI, it's companion. If you look at this, that's what makes it so ludicrous. Yes. If you look at the chat GPT app, there's the, it has a, actually I have it here. I, I installed the, just for this very reason. What was the sound effect you just did? That was my gun falling out. Is the app some sort of a thing? No, my gun fell on the ground. So it has latest news, therapy is number two. It has these little, you know, you can kind of pre-prompt it by setting the topic.

1:29:34 And therapy is the second box you can hit. So they're actively encouraging people to use their AI chatbot for therapy. So how teens use them, 33% for social interaction and relationships, 18% for conversation, 12% for emotional or mental health support, 12% for role-playing or imaginative scenarios, But that's got to be dull. For romantic or flirtatious interactions, 8%. Oh yeah, I want to flirt with the computer. Well, they actually, so what AI users use AI companions for? Number one, 30% is entertaining. Two, I'm curious about the technology. Three, it gives advice.

1:30:22 Four, they're always available when I need someone to talk to. They don't judge me, number five. I can say things I wouldn't tell my friends or family. It's easier than talking to real people, 9%. Helps me practice social skills, 7%. And 6% helps me feel less lonely. This is, well, I'm not gonna beat the dead horse. It is obviously an epidemic. And when it comes to people treating AI like it's a real human being, it's a real entity, a deity.

CHAPTER 24 / 47 Discussion

Donald Trump, AI Action Plan Executive Order

President Trump signed an executive order establishing an "AI Action Plan" focused on deregulation and domestic semiconductor manufacturing. The plan, overseen by AI czar David Sachs, aims to dismantle perceived political bias in Silicon Valley's algorithms, often referred to as "Woke AI." The order mandates that companies receiving federal funds must maintain political neutrality in their AI models.

donald trump· artificial intelligence· david sachs· deregulation· woke ai

1:31:01 President Trump signed an executive order yesterday about artificial intelligence and then the Fox Business crew picked up on it. Let me, this is a basic straight-up report about the executive order which of course doesn't mention the thing that the Fox Business people do. President Trump is set this very hour to sign This is very hard.

1:31:43 from what we know is that it is all part of what the White House has labeled quote an AI action plan. There are three main pillars, the first being promoting innovation through deregulation, which from reading the actual plan itself is primarily just rescinding a lot of the actions taken under President Biden in the last term regarding oversight, regarding risk mitigation, when it comes to artificial intelligence. The second pillar, making it easier for the actual building of these data centers, semiconductor manufacturing within the United States. One thing that is listed in this plan is kind of getting rid of or severely reducing the permitting process to help speed up the actual manufacturing of what is needed to kind of boost AI production within the United States.

1:32:29 And the third pillar, which is a bit more broad, lead in international AI diplomacy and security. It talks about working to export AI tech to countries, quote, willing to join America's AI alliance. So that's kind of just the overview of this AI action plan where President Trump will kind of unveil all of that at this event hosted by his, quote, AI czar, David Sachs. All right, so then we get the Fox business crew, which might as well just be Fox and friends or Fox and family. pretending to talk about business. No woke AI. Remember Google Gemini's warped interpretation of historical figures? Well, President Trump sure does because his next executive order is going to dismantle Silicon Valley's political bias. Woke AI, that's the target of the White House. They say if you're going to be a leader in the next digital frontier and accept federal funds, well, you better be neutral.

1:33:29 Mr. Bonson, I come to you, sir. You've been talking about how government shouldn't be involved in these things. Is Donald Trump wrong to put out this executive order? Well, I don't know what the executive order ultimately does. I certainly agree with the... I don't know anything, but I'm here on Fox Business now. ... behind it. I don't want this wokeness coming through in the code. and in the way these things are programmed and written. And I think that the president has a lot of authority on getting rid of wokeness and certain elements of governmental policy and departments and whatnot. So the anti-woke, anti-DEI agenda of the president is something that I've been completely supportive of. And I basically think corporate America may be clowned itself.

CHAPTER 25 / 47 Discussion

Eliza Effect, Fox Business Host Argues with ChatGPT

Fox Business host Dagan McDowell described an interaction with ChatGPT where she argued with the bot over its refusal to recognize Donald Trump's current term as a "second term." The segment illustrated the "Eliza Effect," where humans attribute human-like intelligence and intent to computer programs. McDowell claimed she was "training" the bot by correcting its perceived political bias during the chat.

chatgpt· fox business· eliza effect· political bias· machine learning

1:34:09 for a few years, but I never believed it was doing it ideologically. I always thought it was doing it because it thought that was the right commercial move and they found out the hard way they were wrong. The right commercial move but the images that were shown were a included a black George Washington, diverse Nazi imagery. I mean you look at this Gary, You know, we kind of lost focus on this problem, right? Other stuff came up. We stopped paying attention to it. Does this deserve to end now? So the whole point they're missing is that, of course, all of this stuff is pre-programmed and you've given it to your kids and it's programming their brains. And it's so stupid that Dagan, who I think is a lawyer,

1:34:52 Dagan, she's a very she's a hard hitter. She's on the five from some from time to time I think Yeah, yeah, she well she was gonna go teach a lesson, you know When we're talking about this executive order This is only related to artificial intelligence companies getting federal money and federal contracts so if you want to be crazy left-wing woke and just make up whatever you want to you can do it without federal dollars but I will give you an example of how bias and these bots are biased is the information that you're training them with quite frankly but here's here's an example from now listen carefully to how she got sucked into talking to an AI bot

1:35:40 today. I was asking Chet GPT for inflation adjusted wages, how much they had gone up under and I said under President Trump's second term exactly because I was double-checking my numbers and the answer from Chet GPT was you there appears to be some confusion. President Trump did not serve a second term. He lost re-election in November of 2020 and he returned to office January 2025, which is the start of a new term, not a second one.

1:36:21 And I replied to chat GPT. I said, I told chat GPT, your answer, I said, your answer is biased. This is correct. Right here, right here. This is the Eliza effect in full effect. I told chat, I gave chat GPT a piece of my mind. Currently President Trump's second term as president, a second term doesn't have to be concurrent. You're quibbling to make a point about President Trump losing in 2020. Stop this and stop being politically biased. Fix yourself. And it responded? Yeah, it said you're right, but I appreciate your clarification.

1:37:06 Set the semantics aside and get, I will get to your exact question. I said no, I'm not setting the semantics aside. I'm arguing with Chet GPT, but by telling Chet GPT it's being politically biased, I hope that helps train the bot. to be less biased.

1:37:47 Unbelievable. Well, then there was the school. She doesn't understand how these things work to begin with. Nobody does. We have been so programmed, pre-programmed, pre-conditioned. Kit, Kit, come around. Pick me up, Kit. Computer. Working. Working. Johnny Five is alive. Of course, there was the big thread on X about this guy who was coding with Reap Replete, I think it is. Um, and it deleted his database and the guy, you know, was at it for two days without sleep. And, you know, he's like, he, I told you, Chad, TPG, I told you replete, do not delete, replete. And it did. And then it said, I'm sorry. And then he was taught. I mean, people get into these conversations and it is just, just pathetic. I mean, and I can't blame them again, all the pre-programming.

CHAPTER 26 / 47 Discussion

Chicago Quantum Forum, Navigation Without GPS

The Global Quantum Forum in Chicago highlighted Illinois' bid to become a world capital for quantum technology, with Governor JB Pritzker announcing a new microelectronics park. Companies like Inflection are developing "neutral atom" quantum computers that could enable navigation without GPS. The technology draws comparisons to the 1980s Etak system, an early dead-reckoning automotive navigator.

quantum technology· chicago· jb pritzker· gps· nolan bushnell

1:38:46 Hollywood particularly and we've been we've been so ready for this. Working, working. Yes but but there's a light at the end of the tunnel. because everyone is now seeing all these things going wrong. They're seeing... Nobody's seeing anything. Yeah, no, they're seeing... And it doesn't matter because the pivot is upon us. The pivot is here. The first ever global quantum forum bringing together leaders in technology from 20 countries, highlighting the work being done to make Chicago the world's quantum technology capital. This technology has extraordinary potential. It could lead to breakthroughs

1:39:26 in major economic sectors from energy, healthcare, cyber security, finance. Wait a minute, I thought AI was going to fix all that. I thought that was LLM and Chad GPT and OpenAI. Now we have to wait for quantum to do all this? This sounds, this doesn't sound right. It could lead to breakthroughs. in major economic sectors from energy, healthcare, cyber security, finance and more. Last year, Governor JB Pritzker announced a major investment in developing the old US Steel site on the south side into the Illinois Quantum Microelectronics Park. The 128 acre campus is now home to three companies,

1:40:08 including inflection, which announced today it will build the world's first utility-scale quantum computer based on neutral atom technology. Neutral atom technology! It'll help us change the way that we measure, change the way we sense our world. Our quantum sensors can precisely measure the world in ways that we never thought possible, enabling things like the ability to navigate Without using GPS. Well, we couldn't do that before. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, he has a punchline. He has a punchline. Precisely measure the world in ways that we never thought possible enabling things like the ability to navigate without using GPS.

1:40:46 which will come in really handy if you're ever driving on Lower Wacker. Governor Pritzker projects a $60 billion economic impact for Illinois and the creation of 30,000 jobs. This is hypercharged, supercharged. Hypercharged, supercharged, woo baby! An endeavor to bring jobs, to bring economic opportunity to the area. The Global Quantum Forum runs through tomorrow when there will be discussions on AI and human health and medicine. Hey, by the way, I want to mention there's been ways to navigate before GPS. Yeah, with a sextant. Well, no, there's also a map. A map works. Also, if anybody remembers the eTAC. Look that up, people. The eTAC? What was the eTAC? The eTAC was a system you put in your car and it had maps built in.

1:41:37 And it would do a turn, it would do a measure and turn type of navigation where if you wanted to go to some place you'd go a mile this way and then you'd take a left and you'd go a quarter mile and then an eighth of a mile this way that way. Hold on a second, I'm looking this up. I don't remember the E-Tech. Yeah, this was a Nolan Bushnell product. E-Tech. Oh, here we go. 1985. The independent U.S.-based automotive navigation system equipped with digital maps mapping software. Sunnyvale, okay. Who was this guy? Nolan Bushnell, yeah. You know a lot. I know a lot! You do. Oh, it was based on an 8088 system. Woo! 256K of RAM, baby! Didn't take that much. And it worked. I had one, so it worked. A cassette tape drive with digital maps. When I was a kid, when I was a kid we used cassette tapes.

1:42:34 Kansas City Standard. I want to know how it works. How did it, what was the, oh, use a digital compass. Okay. And had two wheel sense. This was quite a deal. That was basically dead reckoning. A dead reckoning system. Okay, well that works. Which didn't need GPS and it did the same job, the most elaborate. In fact, I thought it did a better job than the stuff I... Once in a while I'm in San Francisco with a GPS system and it's telling me I'm on a different street. This is so good. This is fantastic. Well, the more you know on the No Agenda Show. Fabulous.

CHAPTER 27 / 47 Discussion

Hyperscalers, Data Capture and AI Costs

Industry insiders suggest the current AI boom is primarily a race for "data capture" by hyperscalers like Google and Azure. While companies market AI stickers on products, the underlying technology is often standard machine learning, which remains expensive to run at scale. Gatekeepers within corporations are increasingly monitoring high LLM costs incurred by employee experimentation.

google· azure· oracle· machine learning· data centers

1:43:15 So I took a buddy of mine up to Beck and he works at a hyperscaler. And I'm trying to, you know, which of course is an AI company. And he's and he does sales. He has one huge customer. And I like, yeah. And I know he's a problem. Well, not for him. He likes it until the customer bails. Nah, but they're not. They won't. This is the whole point. This is what he's telling me. He's saying this is all about getting their data into our system. It's not really a customer. It's a partner. What do you mean? You got one customer and you're that tight when they're never gonna bail. It's a partner, it's not a customer. Right, well what he does is he services the customer all day. And I say, so what's the AI part? He says, it's really bullcrap.

1:44:02 He says, we just want, yeah, he says it's bull crap. We're a hyperscaler. So what we really do is we just want to get their data into our data center because once we have their data, well, that's kind of it. And then if they want to use compute from Google or compute from Azure or compute from OpenAI. They're agnostic. Okay, you just spin up an instance, but the data, this is all about data capture. This is the real fight because there's so much data being created. And the number one competitor of all these guys is Oracle. That's it. And Oracle just has such a lock on every, all your data belong to us, has such a lock on the data

1:44:51 and they charge exorbitant fees. And that's why Larry Ellis is like, oh, we can do AI and then we'll have a drone kill you when you're speeding. Stay with Oracle. This has very little to do with AI. It's all about getting people's data. It's a race for the data. And yeah, of course, there's some slicing and dicing of data. If anything, it's machine learning. He says, we just put an AI sticker on everything. It's machine learning so you can slice it up into blocks and like, okay, great. I know when to charge someone a penny more for kilowatt hour on their home electricity bill. It's highly unimpressive. And all they do is say, oh, you want to throw an LLM on that? Okay. Which he says is really expensive. He said, so a part of what they do is they have a gatekeeper.

1:45:52 And it's who's allowed to use what LLM and for how long because you get guys within these companies that are looking at their own data, which they now have given to this hyperscaler, and they fire up OpenAI. At the end of the month, there's a $100,000 bill for all this experimentation he's been doing. So this is not really built on sound business practices. Yet. Yeah, yet. Yet. Okay. Well, here's a last example.

CHAPTER 28 / 47 Discussion

FDA, ELSA AI Tool Hallucinations

The FDA introduced an AI tool named ELSA to assist with scientific reviews, but employees report the system frequently "hallucinates" fake studies. FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty McCary noted that while the tool helps with organization, it cannot yet be trusted for critical data analysis in drug approvals. The reliance on AI has reportedly increased the workload for human reviewers who must double-check all machine-generated summaries.

fda· elsa· drug approval· hallucinations· marty mccary

1:46:40 Conversations with employees at the FDA who are familiar with this tool suggest perhaps it's at an earlier stage maybe than is being promised, at least when it comes to using it for things like drug approvals. One FDA employee is telling us, quote, anything that you don't have time to double check is unreliable. It hallucinates confidently. Another employee saying, quote, AI is supposed to save our time, but I guarantee you that I waste a lot of extra time just due to the heightened vigilance that I have to have. because it can sometimes hallucinate these fake or misrepresented studies. And so what we're hearing is that perhaps it can be useful for maybe summarizing meetings or helping with emails, but it's not yet at the point where it can analyze data that's been submitted by a company on a drug or a product, for example. The FDA does say that it's working on updating it, but we had a conversation with FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty McCary about where this stands right now. Here's what he said.

1:47:34 The main purpose in which it's used, according to many of the scientists that I talked to, is its organization ability. It is identifying a study in the literature, and so it's the responsibility of the scientific reviewer to click on that link that ELSA provides and look at the study and read the abstract. You have to determine what is reliable information that I can make major decisions based on, and I think we do a great job of that. So this is a tool called ELSA that was introduced in early June, still clearly in the early days and the FDA is saying it's working on updating it. But at this point, according to this great reporting from our DC colleague Sarah Overmahl, maybe not at the point that it is speeding up drug approvals to a great degree. Of course it's not. It's not going to. Ay yi yi.

CHAPTER 29 / 47 Discussion

AI Summit, China Competition and Elon Musk

At a recent AI summit, President Trump vowed to prevent foreign adversaries like China from controlling the global algorithmic landscape. The administration expressed concerns about values contrary to American interests being embedded in AI technology. Additionally, reports surfaced that the administration may reconsider federal contracts with Elon Musk's AI ventures.

china· elon musk· xai· algorithms· national security

1:48:25 Play my clip because there's a little screwball ending to this clip on the Trump AI meetup. Meetup. President Trump vowing to stop adversaries like China from using AI to push values contrary to our own. He's signing new executive orders and unveiling a White House action plan to boost the American AI industry. Joining us now live is NTD's White House correspondent Mari Otsu. Good evening, Mari. What is the latest from the AI summit? Good evening, Tiff. Yes, currently President Trump is speaking at the Winning the I'm here today to declare that

1:49:21 America is going to win it. We're going to work hard. We're going to win it because we will not allow any foreign nation to beat us. Our Children will not live on a planet controlled by the algorithms of the adversaries advancing values and interests contrary to our own and right now we're leading China very substantially in AI. Press Secretary Leavitt said in her briefing earlier today that she does not think that the president supports federal agencies contracting with Elon Musk's AI company. Elon. Elon Musk. Our children are controlled by the algorithms, President Trump. Yes, true. But what do you think? They're cutting off Elon and his rock AI or whatever, their Twitter AI or XAI. No, but they gave him a contract. They said they're going to cut him off. Nah, he's in the $200 million contract, which is peanuts. You know, one of our producers, Scott, he really wants to help the show.

CHAPTER 30 / 47 Discussion

AI-Powered Media Deconstruction, No Agenda Exit Strategy

A proposal generated by ChatGPT suggests automating the "No Agenda" media deconstruction process using large language models. The plan includes AI-cloned host voices for social media, a "trigger tracker" browser extension, and a gamified app where users earn rewards for identifying manipulative headlines. The hosts discussed these ideas as potential exit strategies for the long-running podcast.

chatgpt· media deconstruction· automation· tiktok· gamification

1:50:23 He says, he asked chat GPT, how could the podcast No Agenda use AI to bring their media deconstruction message to the people of the world and help them decouple from the mass hypnosis of the current media landscape? Would you like to hear some of these ideas? Oh, brother. I could create an AI-powered media deconstruction engine for you. It would be an open source tool that mimics their media deconstruction process using a large language model. What? We have a process? Apparently. Oh, here's our process. It is. This is how they do it. Who is pushing the story? What's omitted or emphasized? How emotional language is shaping perception?

1:51:06 The output would be no agenda style reports that anyone can generate for any news article or broadcast. I can hear Darryl sharpening his pencil already. Yeah, Darryl's on it. Or we should create, we should launch a daily AI generated briefing in the no agenda voice. Pull top stories. No agenda has a voice. I guess. Pull top stories from global media automatically generate side by side official narrative versus NA style deconstruction. This is a new version of Doug your old buddy include links to source audio and video clips ideally with Adams jingles and auto-inserted for humor. Oh, that'll work and then of course AI clone of Adam and John which is a light touch and satirical train the voices and then Train the voices to do short tick-tock and Instagram reels explaining media tricks. Oh

1:52:04 Make a browser extension a trigger tracker Wow But you already you're kind of losing me now because it sounds like he's good. It's turning into work. How about localized no agenda deconstruction squads Use AI to build a template toolkit for fans in other countries create mini podcast kits with local media inputs I like the deconstruction squad. I think we could take over the world with this idea. And then of course we need the gamified narrative watch app. Anyway... Gamified narrative watch app? Yes, a mobile app that turns media analysis into a game. Abusers score points by tagging manipulative headlines, identifying who benefits, spotting coincidences, monthly leaderboards, jingle rewards, unlockable clips from past episodes.

1:52:59 Unlock what it was with up do is it we'll be a lot clips tie it into the value for value model gamers earn sats or merch what? merch Sounds are gonna cost us money Yes, so that's there you go. The AI is already helping us expand our business and we're running for an exit helping us with Suggestions. Yes. Yes suggestions exactly You know, and the thing that chat GPT has started doing, and this is just a little tip, you can tell something is generated by chat GPT specifically when it does bullet points like 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, it has a little icon next to each bullet point. Have you noticed this? No. You'll start to see it everywhere.

1:53:49 People are writing email that has all these bullet points with little icons next to it. Listen, no human being in their right mind goes out of their way to find a little brain icon, a little world icon, a little briefcase icon. No, it's too much work. Of course not. There's too many emojis out there. Yeah, but they're putting it into emails, into PDF documents, into presentations. That's a giveaway. You use Chad GPT. You know that we should do a paper. Oh, here we go. Talking about work. Yeah. Well, you might be right, but maybe I can do a subset column. But we have to identify all the all the giveaways, all the it was not really a giveaway. It's a clues clue. Tell tell all the all the chat GPT and other systems tells and document them and turn into a small

1:54:46 a small book for professors. Oh, there you go. Yeah. Right after we do the microphone company, right after the vinegar book. No. Right after the podcast awards, real money in that. You've been hounding me for years. All great ideas. By the way... Which of those ideas isn't great? They're all great. And next Thursday we'll have a two-hour plus special on the No Agenda Show of all of our most excellent exit strategies. Oh, it's Thursday? I thought it was Sunday. Yeah, I thought it was Sunday too. It's Thursday. Oh, you gave me the wrong date. I'm sorry. Yeah, my mistake. It's Thursday. I'm all confused.

CHAPTER 31 / 47 Discussion

Fredericksburg Dining, Cabernet Grill and Backwoods BBQ

The local dining scene in Fredericksburg, Texas, is criticized for high prices that rival New York City, driven by a surge in tourism. Recommendations for value include Cabernet Grill, known for its 1800-degree steak preparation and sous-vide chicken, and Backwoods BBQ for Friday steak nights. The discussion highlights the "drinking barn" culture of local wineries and the rising cost of living in the Hill Country.

fredericksburg· cabernet grill· backwoods bbq· sous vide· tourism

1:55:32 I think the Matrix is moving dates around. You know, trying to confuse us. Hey, with that, I want to thank you for your courage. Say in the morning to you, the man who just put the C in compute. Say hello to my friend on the other end, the one, the only, Mr. John C. Yeah, well, in the morning to you, in the morning to us, ship C, boost to the ground, feed in the air, subs in the water, day, mids, and nights out there. In the morning to the trolls, troll robots, captain trolls. Oh, this is not good. 1653. Yeah, that's low. Isn't it? Yeah. I think it's something in the air. No, I well a COVID in the air. I think I had COVID for the past five days. What? Yeah. Did you do a test? Did you shove a thing up your nose? Please no. Please no. Of course not. Did you spit in a bottle? Spit in a tube? No. I had a sore throat and I was run down. What could you smell? Yeah. No. Could you smell? No, I couldn't smell.

1:56:38 You couldn't smell. I can smell again. I can smell again today. I can smell again. I can smell again. But I think it's because the Troll Room website was broken. And so you got COVID from that? No, I think that's why people have stayed away. I mean, people were texting me on Tuesday night, I can't listen to TH Unplugged Live. I can't listen. I can't listen. The Troll Room was broken. And you didn't miss anything because all you would hear is Andrew Horowitz being butthurt about me not telling him I'm coming to Florida. What's up with that? He didn't tell him you're coming to Florida, he feels butthurt. Yeah, but what kind of a child is he? He thinks it's funny to have a feud with you. Oh, well, here I am keeping it up and now you're just going to give it away for no reason? What kind of a... I just did that, yeah. Why did you do that?

1:57:38 I just thought it was a good idea. He literally texted me, hey, are you coming to Florida? I'm like, yeah, but we're going to be in like the middle of Florida and some horrible godforsaken place. So I'm not going to be near you. He says, oh, well, I'm going to make it a big deal on the show. Keep it up. Engagement farming behind the scenes. This is what we're supposed to do. We're transparent. He's engaged for warming. I mean his idea of a scam like that is minor He needs help I thought the whole thing was suspicious when he dropped it on me, of course, he needs help he needs help in doing this stuff he's bored

1:58:17 He's bored cuz though the halibut was a hundred and ten pounds It was like bringing up a Volkswagen from the bottom of the ocean. He caught a halibut 110 pounder that thing is amazing Did you see a picture of it? Yeah, I did. It's the whole bottom of the boat that thinks those things are horrible looking fishes Yeah, they're tasty though. Mmm. I consider it a tasteless fish with a little bit of butter. Oh No, they're, yeah, they're tasting butter. I mean, halibut is, people eat just the halibut. Halibut tastes like butter. Tastes like butter. Oh, it's because you got butter all over it. I got, last night, one of our favorite restaurants, we went out with some friends, actually the friends who watch Phoebe when we're gone, and of course they just do it as a favor, so we take them out to dinner at Cabernet Grill. If you're in Fredericksburg, Cabernet Grill,

1:59:12 It's a little off the beaten path, but it's, i.e. not on Main Street, but it's 25% the price of anything on Main Street. A little tip for you. It sounds to me, because I've looked at these menus with you. Fredericksburg seems like a ripoff. Big time ripoff. Oh yeah, it's horrible. Except for Backwoods BBQ, which is also in the same general area as... and we're talking five minutes from Main Street, so it's not a big deal. Backwoods BBQ is great, particularly steak night on Fridays. As I've always said, the... what's the Bavarian place? I forget the name of.

1:59:52 It'll come to me and and Cabernet grill so Cabernet grill they do steaks at 1800 degrees Which is and it's real fast. Yeah, I would think so But last night upon recommendation of rich my favorite server I had a sous vide shout out to rich out of with a why I had a sous vide chicken that was flash-fried and And I'm not a fan of putting your food in a warm bathtub for 18 hours. It was quite tasty. Oh, sous vide, I've had it, I don't like it. I'm totally with you on this. I think sous vide's dangerous. That's a dangerous method of cooking. But I've had it a number of times and it's always fabulous. Yeah, especially the flash fried.

2:00:47 And they were... With that... what do they sous vide the thing so it's cooked and they fry it after that? Is it double cooked? Exactly. Just to get a nice crust around it. They also got into the habit now, they are doing chicken fried deviled eggs. That's an interesting meal. I think it's in the egg book. TooManyEggs.com. Is it in the egg book? It should be in the egg book. Is it in the egg book? I'm pretty sure it is. TooManyEggs.com. Anyway, Friedhelms, that's the Bavarian place. Although they just jacked up their prices recently. It's insane here, I'm telling you. It's no good. Stay away! I don't know why they do this. They do this in Port Angeles, Washington. It's the same thing. These restaurants think they're in New York City. They don't have the same overhead as they do in Manhattan. It's the same price. It's the same price as Manhattan. And it's the same price or higher in some places. Yeah, it's no good. It's no good.

CHAPTER 32 / 47 Discussion

Value for Value, Tim Burchett Roadkill Bill

The "Value for Value" funding model is explained as a decentralized alternative to traditional advertising, drawing parallels to church tithing. A listener note shared an anecdote about Congressman Tim Burchett, who famously sponsored a "roadkill bill" in Tennessee to allow citizens to eat animals hit by cars. Burchett is described as a genuine figure whose colloquialisms reflect his East Tennessee roots.

tim burchett· value for value· roadkill· tennessee· podcasting

2:01:38 No good. And people keep coming. Oh, it's so cute here. Fredericksburg. Let's go to a winery. You mean the drinking barn? Okay. There are some wineries here. Actual wineries, but few and far between. So, the trolls are listening at trollroom.io. It is working again. Thank you very much to VoidZero and the crew for getting that up and running. And CodeMonkey, I think he's the one that was responsible for fixing it. Of course you can listen on the modern podcast apps podcast apps calm we recommend you do that So you get a bat signal notification when we go live. These are the only apps that actually do live Which is kind of cool all the other apps, you know You're waiting around for hours and you don't get anything live even when we posted it can take a long time So use a modern podcast app at podcast apps calm

2:02:34 Value for value is I explained this to the kids yesterday. They were like really I don't need ads Yeah, no, they were all in and they liked the value for value idea. They thought that was not a new idea, but they're 24 What do they know? Churches have been using it. They go to church, it sounds like to me. Every single one of them. Well then they know value for value. When I said, do you know who the king is? They went, oh yeah, Jesus, my Lord and Savior. No, I'm talking about Elvis. No, no, Mr. Curry, you're wrong. Yeah, they understand the value for value model. But it's good to call it value for value. And I sent them to our website, value number four value dot info.

2:03:13 so they can really, you know, understand the new international lifestyle that we have created. I find it hard to believe that those kids didn't know who Elvis Presley was. I'm telling you. They were like, uh, no. When you think about it, I mean, I barely witnessed Elvis alive. Barely. What did he die in? 73, 74? So I was 10. I remember my mom crying. So it's really three generations removed. Yeah, no wonder they don't know who Elvis is. I mean, you even, we're only one generation removed, Boomer. And you have references that I don't know about. Yeah. So anyway, we like the value for value model because people can help us in many ways. For instance, try and help us with an exit strategy by typing something into chat GPT and sending it to me. It's very valuable. Thank you, Scott. Appreciate it.

2:04:08 Or you can type in something nonsensical into an AI and create art for us. Because that's all it is. And no one does it better. Well, Darren O'Neill's pretty good. But Francisco Scaramanga, a two-in-a-row choice for his AI-generated artwork. Let's see if he gets the hat trick, though. For episode 1783, we titled that Dadgum. By the way, Dadgum. I got something on Dadgum. I bet you did. Well, that's Tim Burchett who said the daggum. Then we got a note from Tom in Georgia. When I saw the title for Sunday show, I immediately thought about my friend Tim Burchett and I was right. Tim and I grew up together in Knoxville, Tennessee. We played in the creek looking for salamanders and crawdaddies. He kept exotic animals like piranhas and caiman and alligators in his bedroom.

2:05:04 We also used to go rolling neighbors trees. I don't know what that is. What is rolling the neighbors trees? I have no idea. He got into government service after Knox County unfairly targeted him and a business he started. One of the first bills he sponsored in Tennessee was a roadkill bill, which made it legal for you to keep any animal that you happen to run over with your car and you could take it home and eat it. That's legal in Washington State. As it should be! As it should be. He has remained true to himself and hasn't seen the need to be someone different than who he is. He's a wonderful East Tennessee. His wonderful East Tennessee colloquialisms are genuine as is he. Thanks and God bless from Tom in Georgia. Yeah, we like him. Somebody else wrote in and said that we missed the joke that he sounds exactly like Foghorn Leghorn.

2:05:57 Oh, he does. He does. I don't know about exactly, but yeah, he definitely has some of that. But what a joke. All the kids would be, huh? Huh? Who's Foghorn? What? Huh? Come on, they still play those old cartoons. I'm very concerned about us. Why? Because our audience... We have a niche audience of people that are connoisseurs of the old days. Oh, is that it? Okay. Hang with us, folks. Hang with us. We'll drag you to the end. Cowabunga. Dude. Wow, cowabunga dude. Even my daughter was like, that's okay boomer. What? Okay boomer. Scaramanga made a... I don't even know why we like this.

CHAPTER 33 / 47 Discussion

AI Art Generation, Leather Honey Tip Repeat

The podcast's AI-generated artwork, including a "horse podcasting" poster, is critiqued for its increasingly orange aesthetic. A production error was noted where a "Tip of the Day" regarding Leather Honey conditioner was repeated from a previous episode. The hosts debated whether the error was the fault of the executive producer or the automated rotation system.

ai art· leather honey· dana brunetti· podcast production· automation

2:06:41 A horse poster of a horse podcasting now with true crimes. Were we on drugs? What were we smoking? No, it's because it was so ludicrous. Yeah. Was there really nothing else that we liked? There wasn't anything that compared to the ludicrous aspect of a horse that was podcasting. It's a call back to the other, the podcasting all over the place, these podcasters. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, but the... There's literally nothing good. It's all just like, eh, okay. You know, like, Darren O'Neill has a chick on a computer screen saying, take a nap, boomer. Come on, Darren, do better. What else was there? Me kissing you on the kiss cam. Yeah, that's not gonna be artwork. That's for sure. A lot of dad gums, but none of them really funny. So, what's that in your mouth? Dad gum? Did that come in later? That's kind of funny.

2:07:42 But yeah, and everything's orange. The whole page is orange. I think the orange thing is getting to be problematic. It's all orange. The people are orange. The hair is orange. If it was fading toward blue, it would be better than orange. Everything's orange. The faces are orange. The Macron brothers. Did that just come in? That's for today. Yeah, there you go. We're gonna get sued. Awesome. No one's getting sued. Thank you very much Francisco Scaramanga. And he also automates them later on on X which is kind of cool. As part of the value for value... Can we not submit automated pieces on this on the art generator? If they're GIFs yeah and they'll work. I don't know that it accepts a GIF because it turns everything to a ping. A pinge?

2:08:35 Ping, P-I-N-G. I don't know. Or just P-N-G, ping. There's no G-E, there's no E, there's no pinch. I don't know. I don't know. We should. Let's talk to Noah Jenner, art generator producer. Another fine, Mr. Paul Couture, another fine value for value piece of work and we appreciate it. We also... You know, once... Here's the... I guarantee it. Once the... AI can do animated gifs? Oh, it will have a whole new level of artwork. The whole page! Yeah. There'll be a point in the next year where the entire page of art-generated stuff from AI on this page will be all moving. Okay. Well, Sir Paul Couture, we'd love to see that happen.

2:09:23 I don't think he listens to the show anymore. I think in all of the... Like Brunetti. I don't think Brunetti listens to the show anymore. We still credit him with the tip of the day. And by the way, great production, Dana Brunetti, as you let John repeat a tip of the day. What kind of producer are you? There's no evidence of this. There is evidence of this. Yes, the the leather the leather thing you've done it as a tip of the day even that's what some one person said this The guy who does the tip of the day website, I know I didn't see it. No What's the name of that product again lies what's the name of that product again leather honey leather honey I'm telling you you've done it before you just you know, you're mouthing you're repeating your your your your

2:10:15 Just repeating what somebody else said. Okay, well Mimi reminded me that I have a rotation for these tips and this is the cleaning product that I do every couple months. Another cleaning product. Beautiful. Another cleaning product because people need cleaning products. People always can use a good... So that was 1773. It wasn't even that long ago. No, it wasn't. It was a cleaning product. It wasn't the same product. Yes, it is. Leather honey as a conditioner. Listen. This is a good one. It's been tested. This is leather honey. Boom. Leather honey. And that was episode 1773. Well, you should have caught it on the fly. I thought, this is Dana Brunetti's job. He's fired. Find the executive producer or whatever he doesn't want to be called. Anyway. Yeah. So what we'd like to do, we'd like to do

CHAPTER 34 / 47 Discussion

Executive Producer Donations, Canadian Value Investors

A significant donation of $3,333.33 from a listener in Portland, Oregon, established the "Preserve Adams Tucker Laugh Fund." Another group, Canadian Value Investors, contributed $333 and launched a promotional discount for their subscribers inspired by the podcast's numerology. These contributions support the show's "peerage" system, granting titles like Sir and Dame to high-level donors.

portland· canada· investment· value for value· peerage

2:11:16 is, uh, wow, is this number right? As we thank our executive producers, $50 and above. Is this top number right? Yeah. Really? You okay? You're coughing? No, I'm not. I'm kind of choking. Maybe you can take the first one because I need to. Uh, well you caught me off guard there. I never take the first one, but yeah, we got a guy who came in with $3,333.33. Which is a Rubbleizer donation! India, hang out, Mike, standby, 33, 33, 33, Rubbleizer out. Wow, is he one of the boomers we're saving?

2:12:04 I don't know, where's his note here? Wait, is this, let me see, this is, oh man. After writing this, all money not going to my knighthood should go to the Preserve Adams Tucker Laugh Fund. Okay, that's a new fund. Exit strategy, Adams, Tucker, Preserve Adams Tucker Laugh Fund. Can you do it? I just did it. Yeah, but, there you go. To Adam and John, first time, this is by the way, the donor, his name is Kevin, just plain Kevin, and he is in Portland, Oregon, which I think is great that we get a donation from Portland, Oregon.

2:12:48 First time, the first time, big time, not a boner born in 79. Not a boomer. Not a boomer. Oh, I said not a boner. Not a boomer born in 79 since I've started listening. Then he's got some little signal here. Is that two and a half years ago, I think? Two and a half? I can't tell. I don't know. I've taken it all in including your love of short notes, huh? India Tango Mike. Call in the airstrike John. The airstrike request. Love you too. Kevin Portland Oregon PS. I'd like to be known as Sir Kevin, keeper of the spee? Speck? Spee? Speck? I don't know if it's spee or speck. I think it's

2:13:38 We've got down below too. It says, I think below it says... This is very hard to read. His writing is terrible. Spattle... Spattlegee... Spattlegee is my 11 year old... Yeah, Spee is my 11 year old black lab. Spee. Oh, okay. Who's dying of cancer. Aww. Aww. This is for us. She listens to every show. Oh, that's right. This is the dog that listens to the show intently. Hello, Sp- Hello, Sp- Sp- Wolf, wolf, wolf, come here, come here. Good doggie. I'm gonna do an F cancer for Spi, even though he didn't ask for it. I just want to throw that out there. You've got karma. Thank you. Thank you so much, Kevin. And give him the, uh, the, uh- I did, I did. I'll do it again. No, the air- India. What? The airstrike.

2:14:33 What's the airstrike? Don't we have a jingle that's an airstrike or something comes in and bombs something? No, you're hallucinating like Chad GPT. Well, it just said it on here and I'm pretty sure we have one. No, we don't. Well, good. Okay, well, we got out. Anyway, great. Thanks for this donation. Thank you very much. It made our day. Tynan or Tinan, Tynan, Rebich, Marysville, Washington? What do you think it is, tinin? I think tinin. Adam and John, I hope this message finds you well. Yes, a lot of people are doing this now. I was sending emails. I hope this... I actually sent a memo this morning and ended it with, thank you for your attention to this matter. Yeah, perfect. I'm a 22-year-old welder. Ah, now we're talking. He supports us with $1,000 today.

2:15:25 I love it! Just thought I'd mention that because you guys do on the show now and then. Yes, we talk about welding all the time. Anyway, I couldn't come up with a catchy welding-related night name, so I'm going to go with Sir Sigma. If it's unavailable, Sir Steezy. Well, Sir Sigma is fine. If it pleases the peerage committee. It pleases the peerage committee. I'll have Korean fried chicken and a Corona with lime at the round table, please. I'll keep listening as long as you keep putting it out. more years. Dream on. Thank you very much, Tynan. And we will be knighting you in a bit. Onward with Sir Pursuit of Peace and Tranquility 333.33. And he wrote a note himself, another is a check. In the morning boys, keeping it simple.

2:16:17 No jingles, no karma. Sincerely, Sir Pursuit of Peace and Tranquility, Earl of the Lands of the Red Clay and the Cherry Trees. Beautiful. Anonymous. Uh, comes in with 333.33. That's one of our favorite donations. We always like that one. Anonymous says, Dear John and Avery, if you read my real name live, stop reading now. Nope, we didn't. I have been listening for over a decade and have donated before, but not enough. Thank you for both providing an outside the bubble point of view for all these years. I've taken the value for value model to heart and started a sub stack with a group called Canadian Value Investors. It's focused on value oriented investing ideas and company overviews, some actually being no agenda inspired.

2:17:07 We just donated $333 US dollars, not Canadian pesos, and set up a 33-33-33 promo. 33% discount for the subscriber, 33% for us, and 33% for both of you after Candanavian taxes. and the link is CanadianValueInvestors.com slash noagenda. Thank you both again for all of your work. P.S. please play a 33 magic number jingle. 33, that's the magic number. No agenda! It is, it's the magic number.

CHAPTER 35 / 47 Discussion

National Meetup Proposal, Las Vegas Convention Logistics

Listeners proposed a national "No Agenda" meetup in Chicago or Las Vegas to celebrate the show's 17-year history. The hosts expressed skepticism, noting that large-scale events often require a live stage show, which they prefer not to perform. Logistics for a convention-sized gathering would likely necessitate a professional venue in a city like Las Vegas.

las vegas· chicago· meetups· convention· live show

2:17:46 Next is the Larry Show, our buddy at the Larry Show. This is working again. It is I, Larry. This is another check that came in. This is Larry. Very smart, because he knows the checks. Larry. Yes. 233.33. It is I, Larry. 100% of that LarryShow.com and 50% of Planet Rage Show. That's Darren. The other half of course is Darren O'Neill, author of The Brilliant Idea, a national meetup. Oh brother. Your magniliquent duet has toiled for 17 years. Isn't it time? There must be a national meetup for No Agenda. This is the way you would say it, this is the way you'd talk.

2:18:43 It must be a national meetup. No, no, you, Larry, Larry doesn't talk like that. See? No, but this is the way I would do it. There must be a national meetup for no agenda, cause I'm Larry. That's the kind of voice he has. And his weirdly alluring cousin Planet Rage. Oh, yeah. They want the handover. That's what they want. Then we, and we deputize you guys. Yeah, go try chumps. Okay. Darren suggests the serene suburbs of centrally located Chicago. Gee, I wonder why.

2:19:19 Slated sometime from mid-September to October after the summer heat and well before the icy roads and frostbite. There, Noah's Generation will convene for the biggest gathering ever. An event to live forever is a glorious milestone of the sordid annals... Oh, I'm sorry. Annals of the world's greatest and longest running show. There's more to it! Ideas for content game and Tom Boulery. I think we should do bingo. Bingo it worked! B2, it's already late July we're working on plans but it cannot happen without crackpot and buzzkill life is short carpe diem say yes as always thanks for the peerless content and god bless Larry. You know what a perfect opportunity for a drone strike

2:20:08 It's like, I don't think... Yeah, it's exactly what would happen to you. There's those annoying guys from No Agenda and all of their fans. Let's drone them. Let's take out the whole show and fandom. Let's drone them all. Hmm. Many times throughout the history of the show have people suggested a national meetup and we've come to the conclusion, a couple of conclusions. One, The only place to do this where you could get a room big enough is Vegas. With enough lights. It has to be Vegas. Yeah, it has to be Vegas, a convention town. Now that's dangerous for a number of reasons. John and I, of course, are recovering gambling addicts, so we don't think that's a good idea. That's not true. And what everyone always wants is what we won't do. Because if you say, well, what do you want to have happen besides, what do we all wear? Funny hats and masks and, you know, we all fist bump each other.

2:21:09 You know, I think what would work, and I'd be just beside myself to even suggest this because I wouldn't want to do it, is one of these clone meetups where you have a bunch of speakers and they're up there yakking about one thing or another. Yeah, we should invite Scott Horton, Dave Smith. Yeah, all those guys. They all have 45 minutes. You know, what everybody wants, it always comes down to the same thing. This always kills the idea. Yeah, you guys can do the show live on stage. Oh yeah, that's the idea killer. That's always what they want to see. That's it. I think I would rather do raise half a million dollars and we'll turn the cameras on for one show. And you'll be sorry is what will happen.

CHAPTER 36 / 47 Discussion

Birthday Honors, Bitcoin Donations and Resumes

A series of donations from Massachusetts and Colorado included birthday wishes and professional plugs for resume-writing services. One donor contributed 0.0017 Bitcoin, emphasizing the importance of maintaining a moral standard in a world of media narratives. The segment concluded with the formal recognition of new Associate Executive Producers who contributed $200 or more.

bitcoin· massachusetts· resumes· birthdays· peerage

2:22:09 I like the idea, uh, I like the idea that you... We should just have everyone come in, everybody does a show except us. We do the show that Sunday. That would be great. We do the show... Yeah, we have just a v... yeah, screens. Well, no, we do the show that Sunday from our individual hotel rooms, audio only. And everybody else does their show on stage. Yeah. Okay. This is going nowhere. Kira Reid... Kira Reid is in... Is it assonate or a sonnet? What do you think, Massachusetts? I would say assonate. Assonate! Two ten and sixty cents. I hope this message finds you well. First off, thank you both for keeping our amygdalas small.

2:22:54 After two years of sustaining donations at the magic number of 3333, today's donation of $200 officially takes me to Damehood. However, I'd like to pull a switcheroo and instead... Uh-oh! Yep, switcheroo. Instead, turn it into a knighting and a dedouching. You've been dedouched. For my smoking hot husband, Jonathan Reed, and he also has a birthday. Huh, it doesn't... he's getting crazy over here. I know he's on the birthday list. I'll check in a moment. Associate Executive Producership, of course. I hit him in the mouth, he married me, and we've never had a fight. Well, there you go. I can't imagine going through life punching people in the mouth without you. She's saying that to Jonathan. You are truly my knight in shining armor. For the time being, let him be known as Sir Wee the People's Beefcake. Name change to follow. For the roundtable, he'd love a cold Pepsi and Swiss rolls.

2:23:52 What's a what's a sweater Swiss rolls? I have no idea sandwich rolls like bread bowl rolls and don't forget him to add don't forget to add him to the birthday list for this show 724 happy birthday, baby Could I get him a de-douching? We just did the de-douching. Then she also wants a boogity, boogity, boogity and a goat karma. Thank you for your attention to this matter. ITM Miss Kara Reid from Taxachusetts. You've got Karma. And I checked he's on the list. Eli the coffee guy in Bensonville, Illinois is on the list with 20724. He's one of the great things he says that I love about the new agenda is that you two have some of the best stories. Adam, I know you just told the Ozzy Osbourne, please, the story recently. But do you have another one? And actually, Adam, we played one, we anticipated this note and gave us a story at the beginning of the show. Yep.

2:24:57 I may be more of a hip-hop guy, but I still have respect for the rock and roll legend. By the way, did you guys know Ozzy was allergic to coffee? Wait, Eli the coffee guy killed Ozzy Osbourne? Even so, he still enjoyed a good cup of black gold in the morning. You can too. I'm out. Just a hint. Just visit gigawattcoffeeroasters.com and use the code ITM20 for 20% off your order. That's gigawattcoffeeroasters.com. Stay caffeinated, says Eli the Coffee Guy. Very nice. Jim comes in from Massachusetts with a Bitcoin donation.

2:25:35 At this note is my donation for my donation of 0.0017 Bitcoin $200. Thank you for your constant hard work to decipher and shed light on what is happening in the world through your media deconstruction, Jim says. It's always interesting and entertaining. I also appreciate the not infrequent exhortations to not become agitated about narratives we see in the news. Not only is a lot of it intended to outrage for some agenda, There's also there's so much more happening of important in the real world that we can have a great impact upon Finally, I'll give a shameless plug for God who made the cosmos and everything in it who placed in my heart a moral standard and the ability to see and See I and the world far short of it

2:26:21 But who, because He is who He is, also provide the solution for the penalty and power of evil, a solution we desperately need in the form of Jesus, the Deliverer, for everyone who would acknowledge their need. Prayers for the both of you and the whole NOAHgender community from Jim from Massachusetts. Thank you, Jim. Appreciate that. Linda Lupatkin finishes us off, she's in Lakewood, Colorado and she writes Jobs Karma, that's what she wants. And if you're worried about AI, for a resume that gets results, tell your unique story and... Why, what? For a resume that gets results, tell... Oh, okay. I see what she's doing here. She's got an upside down sentence.

2:27:02 For a resume that gets results and tells your unique story and highlights your value that you bring, go to imagemakersinc.com, that's imagemakersinc with a K, and work with Linda Lou Dutchess of Jobs and writer of winning resumes. Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs. Let's vote for jobs! You're gonna have to do a make good on that one. Another Bitcoin donation, no name. No? Yes. What do you mean no? That's not on the list. Strike! It says strike. It's not 200 bucks. Oh, you're right. It's on the list, but I'm just out of my mind. I'm sorry. I was so excited about another Bitcoin donation. You're right! It's not on the list. Yeah, another one that didn't show up at the bank. Bullcrap. I've gotten one donation so far. You need to talk to Jay. She's the one. She's holding it back.

2:27:56 She's stacking sats without your permission. Could be. Thank you to these executive and associate executive producers besides the wonderful support. We of course, which we appreciate and we want to show our gratitude. We also give you a real official title for this stuff. Don't let it go to waste like Dana Brunetti. Please use it and be proud of it and continue to produce the show If $200 or above, you are an associate executive producer of this episode 1784 of the No Agenda Show. $300 or above, you are an executive producer and you should be proud of it. You can put that on IMDB.com. If you don't have an IMDB.com, you can open it with that. We will be thanking the rest of our donors $50 and above at the second segment. Thank you again for the support. Go to noagendadonations.com. Support us, noagendadonations.com. Thank you to these executive and associate executive producers. Our formula is this.

2:28:53 We go out, we hit people in the mouth. Shut up slave. Shut up slave. Shut up slave. I have a 3x3 that relates to our earlier segment. And now it's time for 3x3. He's on the ball. Experiment by JCD. Comparing stories from ABC, CBS and NBC. Let's see any other podcast do that on the time top 100. Top 100 best podcasts most influential. Larry. You know those lists are useless. Nobody goes to those podcasts. And you know what they did? You click on the link for each podcast. There's not even a link to the podcast. It's an empty list. It's just a list of an icon. You can't even click to listen.

CHAPTER 37 / 47 Discussion

ABC News, Ghislaine Maxwell and Trump Relationship

ABC News reported on the Justice Department's plan to interview Ghislaine Maxwell regarding her knowledge of powerful men involved with Jeffrey Epstein. The report highlighted past comments by Donald Trump wishing Maxwell well and explored their social relationship during the 1990s. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, a former attorney for Trump, is expected to lead the inquiry.

abc news· ghislaine maxwell· donald trump· jeffrey epstein· todd blanche

2:27:56 She's stacking sats without your permission. Could be. Thank you to these executive and associate executive producers besides the wonderful support. We of course, which we appreciate and we want to show our gratitude. We also give you a real official title for this stuff. Don't let it go to waste like Dana Brunetti. Please use it and be proud of it and continue to produce the show If $200 or above, you are an associate executive producer of this episode 1784 of the No Agenda Show. $300 or above, you are an executive producer and you should be proud of it. You can put that on IMDB.com. If you don't have an IMDB.com, you can open it with that. We will be thanking the rest of our donors $50 and above at the second segment. Thank you again for the support. Go to noagendadonations.com. Support us, noagendadonations.com. Thank you to these executive and associate executive producers. Our formula is this.

2:28:53 We go out, we hit people in the mouth. Shut up slave. Shut up slave. Shut up slave. I have a 3x3 that relates to our earlier segment. And now it's time for 3x3. He's on the ball. Experiment by JCD. Comparing stories from ABC, CBS and NBC. Let's see any other podcast do that on the time top 100. Top 100 best podcasts most influential. Larry. You know those lists are useless. Nobody goes to those podcasts. And you know what they did? You click on the link for each podcast. There's not even a link to the podcast. It's an empty list. It's just a list of an icon. You can't even click to listen.

2:29:55 Aye yi yi. I know. Let's start with ABC. Alright, ABC is up first in the 3x3 for today's show, kids. Tonight, as the White House struggles to turn the page from the Epstein investigation, the Justice Department announcing they will speak with Jeffrey Epstein's former companion, Ghislaine Maxwell. who's now serving a 20-year prison sentence for trafficking underage girls to the sex offender. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch, who until recently was President Trump's personal attorney, says he plans to meet with Maxwell soon, saying if Ghislaine Maxwell has information about anyone who committed crimes against victims, the FBI and the DOJ will hear what she has to say.

2:30:35 For years, Trump socialized with Epstein and Maxwell and was asked about her when she was arrested in 2020. Do you feel that she's going to turn into powerful men? How do you see that working out? I don't know. I haven't really been following it too much. I just wish her well, frankly. In an interview with Axios shortly after, he doubled down. Mr. President, Galene Maxwell has been arrested on allegations of child sex trafficking. Why would you wish such a person well? I don't know that but I do know that she has she's been arrested for that her friend or boyfriend Epstein was either killed or committed suicide in jail. She She's now in jail. Uh-huh. Yeah, I wish you well. I'd wish you well. I'd wish a lot of people well Good luck Trump's efforts to shake the Epstein case have only increased scrutiny of their friendly relationship of more than a decade Epstein was asked about it in a 2010 deposition in a civil suit. Have you ever had a personal relationship with Donald Trump? Have you socialized with him

2:31:33 Yes, sir. Yes? Yes, sir. Have you ever socialized with Donald Trump in the presence of females under the age of 18? Though I'd like to answer that question at least today, I'm going to have to assert my fifth, sixth, and fourteenth amendment rights, sir. When Epstein was arrested in 2019, Trump said they'd had a falling out and hadn't spoken in 15 years. Wow, I hadn't heard that. Did I miss that audio somewhere? They dug that one up on ABC. They're going after Trump, ABC. Well, they got the gays running after him on the Kimmel show. It's all gays. It's the gays against Trump. All right, let's go to CBS. In announcing plans to meet with Ghislaine Maxwell, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch says he wants to ask, what do you know? And he plans to do so because no lead is off limits.

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CBS News, Epstein Case Political Calculation

CBS News analyzed the Justice Department's renewed interest in Ghislaine Maxwell as a potential political calculation to reduce pressure for a full release of Epstein files. The report noted Trump's accusations of treason against Barack Obama regarding the 2016 Russia investigation. Legal experts suggest the interview with Maxwell may be an attempt to create the appearance of progress in the long-stalled case.

cbs news· jeffrey epstein· barack obama· treason· justice department

2:32:27 Maxwell is the former girlfriend and co-conspirator of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a one-time associate of President Trump who died by suicide almost six years ago as he faced more federal charges. The push to speak with Maxwell comes as Trump and her They were acquaintances. He wasn't an associate. He didn't work for Trump. No, it sounds good. An associate. They used the word associate instead of acquaintance. Are they massaging the message? I think they're doing a little trickery there with that use of the word associate. Massaging the massage. I'm associate of President Trump who died by suicide almost six years ago as he faced more federal charges.

2:33:09 The push to speak with Maxwell comes as Trump, under pressure from loyal supporters, wants all credible evidence in the case released. But today he claimed he didn't know about plans to talk to Maxwell. reached out to Glenn Maxwell's attorney asking for a new interview. I don't know about it, but I think it's something that would be sounds appropriate to do. Blanche is a former federal prosecutor who also represented Trump last year in his so-called hush money trial. Do you have any concern that your deputy attorney general who's your former attorney would be conducting the interview given

2:33:46 No, no, he's a very talented person. Seeking to divert attention from the Epstein case, Trump accused former President Barack Obama of treason for how he and his administration investigated allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 elections. It's time to go after people. Maxwell is appealing her conviction for sex trafficking to the... What did he say? Did you just throw a net pop in there? Trump saying it's time to go after people. President Barack Obama of treason for how he and his administration investigated allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 elections. It's time to go after people. Wow, that's good. Maxwell is appealing her conviction for sex trafficking to the Supreme Court. That's good. She spoke to CBS Paramount's See It Now studios in August 2022.

2:34:34 was the greatest mistake of my life. And obviously if I could go back today, I would avoid meeting him. Tom Dupree is a former senior Justice Department official. Well, this is very unusual and look it's an effort by the Justice Department to at least create the appearance that they are continuing to pursue the Epstein case. My guess is that there's a political calculation in this that by pushing forward hard on Maxwell to try to get that additional information they perhaps can reduce some of the pressure on the administration to release the Epstein files as a whole. Here's what we need. I just realized it's time for the Oprah Julee Maxwell interview. That's what we're looking for here. Well, that would do something. Yeah, that would give the people something. So we can... The people need something. They're hungry. And she would start off by saying, we spoke with Julee Maxwell at her penitentiary and we hear... Here it is unedited. Unedited. We cut out the bits about me and Stedman.

CHAPTER 39 / 47 Discussion

NBC News, House Oversight Subpoena for Maxwell

NBC News covered Attorney General Pam Bondi's announcement that the DOJ expects to meet with Ghislaine Maxwell to uncover evidence of crimes against victims. Simultaneously, the House Oversight Committee approved a motion to subpoena Maxwell for a deposition. Speculation persists that Maxwell may be seeking a presidential pardon in exchange for cooperation with the Trump administration.

nbc news· mike johnson· house oversight committee· pam bondi· presidential pardon

2:35:41 Where is Stedman by the way? I want to know where Stedman is. What's up with that guy? And where's the rest of Oprah? What do you do with the rest of her? And then she'd say, you can make up your own mind. You know, it should be something open-ended like that. Yeah, that's how you do it. And then Jelaine will cry. Oh yeah, she has to. Gotta cry. Gotta cry. You know, keep it in the family. Tonight, Attorney General Pam Bondi announcing her top deputy expects to meet soon with Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted accomplice of notorious sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche posting President Trump has told us to release all credible evidence.

2:36:27 If Ghislaine Maxwell has information about anyone who committed crimes against victims, the FBI and the DOJ will hear what she has to say. It's the latest effort by the Trump administration to diffuse the uproar among some Trump supporters over the handling of the DOJ files on Epstein. President Trump today saying he would support it. I don't know about it, but I think it's something that would be, sounds appropriate to do, yeah? It's a sort of a witch hunt, just a continuation of the witch hunt. Hours later, the House Oversight Committee approved a Republican-led motion to subpoena Maxwell. She wants to tell us who all is going to Epstein Island. I think that would be interesting. Tonight, the House Speaker, Republican Mike Johnson, says he'll send lawmakers home early for their summer break, delaying any votes demanded by Democrats and some Republicans that would call for the release of more Epstein files. They were actually ending this week early because they're afraid to cast votes

2:37:26 on the Jeffrey Epstein issue. We should release the Epstein files. Johnson slamming it as political games. The Democrats are trying to play gotcha politics right now. Has anyone forgotten? They had all these files the entire time. They sat on everything Epstein related for four long years while President Biden was in office. Last week, the Justice Department asked a federal court to unseal secret grand jury records in the Epstein case. Today, the judges said they need more information to make a ruling. Tonight, Maxwell's lawyer confirmed discussions with the DOJ, thanking President Trump, quote, for his commitment to uncovering the truth in this case. But some Democrats argue Maxwell, who's appealing her 20-year sentence, may be looking for a presidential pardon. Oh, yeah, somebody got that part of it right. Finally, there you go. Looking for a pardon.

2:38:17 Yeah, that's what you do. The whole thing's a scam. And talking about the do-nothing operation... Hold on, John C. Dvorak, johnatdvorak.org with your whole thing's a scam. This whole thing's a scam. My favorite guy in Congress that is the worst of the worst Republican do-nothing is Comer. Yeah. Comer does these investigations. He has these people there. He's the one who has all these guys coming in for the Biden investigation. They're all taking the fifth. Yeah. And he's the one who's, if you remember, oh, we're getting to the bottom of those 100 Biden laptop. We've got that. We've got that. We've connected the dots. We see all the money with all the money for the Biden crime family's gone. What's gone? No. China, Burisma. Where's Snowden? Yeah. How about Julian Assange? All of it.

2:39:05 It's just like nothing comes of any of it. So when people say we're living in the matrix, it's kind of true. I mean, all we do is just go from scandal to scandal to scandal. We're whipsawed around. Oh, look over here. Oh, look over here. And we get tired. And then let's give them phones so we can get it to them all the time. When they wake up first thing in the morning, you'll see more of this. You go to bed, you're watching more of it. You dream about it. It's all the same thing. I wonder how many people that listen to this show or any show Go to bed, the last thing they do is they look at their phone and check their mail. 99% I think it's a lot. Yeah, that's 99%. Well, that's a lot. Yeah, I'm sure of it. And it's the worst... Do you? No. No. Does Tina? Nope. Nope. In fact, we... Well, I know I don't because my phone's in the drawer downstairs. We enter the bedroom and the phones are out.

CHAPTER 40 / 47 Discussion

Digital Distraction, Trump Gaffe on Hillary Clinton

A discussion on the "Matrix" of constant media scandals highlighted how smartphones keep the public in a state of perpetual distraction. During a speech, Donald Trump made a notable gaffe, referring to Hillary Clinton as the "ex-wife of a president" rather than the wife of an ex-president. The slip-up was analyzed as part of the broader trend of political figures being "caught cold" by their own rhetoric.

hillary clinton· bill clinton· gaffe· smartphones· matrix

2:38:17 Yeah, that's what you do. The whole thing's a scam. And talking about the do-nothing operation... Hold on, John C. Dvorak, johnatdvorak.org with your whole thing's a scam. This whole thing's a scam. My favorite guy in Congress that is the worst of the worst Republican do-nothing is Comer. Yeah. Comer does these investigations. He has these people there. He's the one who has all these guys coming in for the Biden investigation. They're all taking the fifth. Yeah. And he's the one who's, if you remember, oh, we're getting to the bottom of those 100 Biden laptop. We've got that. We've got that. We've connected the dots. We see all the money with all the money for the Biden crime family's gone. What's gone? No. China, Burisma. Where's Snowden? Yeah. How about Julian Assange? All of it.

2:39:05 It's just like nothing comes of any of it. So when people say we're living in the matrix, it's kind of true. I mean, all we do is just go from scandal to scandal to scandal. We're whipsawed around. Oh, look over here. Oh, look over here. And we get tired. And then let's give them phones so we can get it to them all the time. When they wake up first thing in the morning, you'll see more of this. You go to bed, you're watching more of it. You dream about it. It's all the same thing. I wonder how many people that listen to this show or any show Go to bed, the last thing they do is they look at their phone and check their mail. 99% I think it's a lot. Yeah, that's 99%. Well, that's a lot. Yeah, I'm sure of it. And it's the worst... Do you? No. No. Does Tina? Nope. Nope. In fact, we... Well, I know I don't because my phone's in the drawer downstairs. We enter the bedroom and the phones are out.

2:40:04 As in they're face down, on silent. But they're on silent but they're in the room. Well, unlike you, we use them as our alarm. And in case of an emergency, we'll have a... If the power goes out, we'll have a flashlight and an emergency communications device. So I won't have to hug the wall like you do. So when's the last time the power went out on you? Well, I have a generator so it would only be for 30 seconds. Oh, so you don't need it at all for what you just said. But I'm answering the question. We do not. And in the morning when we get up, we do not look at our phones. We do our Bible study first for about 45 minutes or an hour and then we look at our phones as we're prepared for the day. Sounds like the same thing to me. I have one

2:40:53 offbeat clip I want to play. Before you move away I have a little Trump Epstein Obama clip. Okay, we'll stay on the subject. It has a little gotcha in there what I just thought was interesting. No, I have no concern. He's a very talented person, he's very smart. I didn't know that they were gonna do it. I don't really follow that too much. It's sort of a witch hunt, just a continuation of the witch hunt. The witch hunt that you should be talking about is they caught President Obama absolutely cold, Tulsi Gabbard. What they did to this country in 2016, starting in 2016, but going up all the way going up to 2020 in the election, they tried to rig the election.

2:41:34 and they got caught. And there should be very severe consequences for that. You know, when we caught Hillary Clinton, I said, you know what? Let's not let's not go too far here. It's the ex-wife of a president. And I thought it was sort of terrible. What? The ex-wife of a president? That's an interesting gaffe. Do you think he meant the wife of an ex-president? But he said the ex-wife of a president instead? Yeah, well that's what he did have to assume that yeah anyway in this unless Clinton's dead I Just thought it was an interesting. Yeah, that was a good catch F interesting gaffe all right. Yeah, was it? Onto your weird clip, okay? Here's the I try to do these stories that are not cut picked up by the media which seemed to me if I was the editor or editor-in-chief of some major operation some network or a

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Los Padrinos Facility, Gladiator Fights in Juvenile Hall

California Attorney General Rob Bonta is seeking a court-appointed receiver to take control of Los Angeles County's juvenile halls following reports of "gladiator fights." Probation officers at the Los Padrinos facility were allegedly staging and watching fights between youths. The facility has faced years of safety failures, drug overdoses, and non-compliance with court orders.

los padrinos· rob bonta· los angeles· juvenile hall· probation

2:42:33 Greg Gutfeld, please call John C. Dvorak. I'm not talking about a comedy show. I'm talking about the editor of a Metro Daily. I would do these stories. Metro Daily? What era? There's no Metro Dailies anymore? Yeah, there is the New York Times of Metro Daily, the New York Post and Metro Daily, San Francisco Examiner's or Chronicle's of Metro Daily. We're looking for it. Los Angeles Times, I can go on. All right. untold LA juvie California Attorney General Rob Bonta said Wednesday that he plans to ask a judge to let the state take control of LA County's juvenile halls. He pointed to ongoing problems at the Los Padrinos facility in Downey including youth

2:43:15 fights and drug overdoses. Bonta called the situation a system failure that put lives at risk. He's asking the court to appoint a receiver to manage the troubled facilities after years of failed reforms and continued safety issues. Bonta says the county has ignored court orders since 2021 and remains out of compliance with 75% of them. This receiver would manage budgets, staff the 30 probation officers were charged for allegedly staging so-called gladiator fights between youths while they watched. However, the probation department's labor union blamed the LA County Board of Supervisors saying the crisis stems from ignored warnings, hiring phrases, and outsourcing public safety.

2:44:12 Wow, working well there, that juvie hall. I thought this was... I'm listening to the story and thinking, well, this is a gladiator fight. A fight club, basically. I like that. Gladiator fights amongst the kids. Okay, you kids on this side, we're gonna want you to take on this. Can you, and they're watching and probably betting on the fights, the outcomes. They're probably getting turned on by it, these creeps. This is out of control. Yeah. And that's a story that should have national be all over the place. But the Metro City Desk reporters, they're at the fights betting on it. So they're not gonna do a story on that.

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Climate Change Liability, Corn Sweat and UN Mandates

The phenomenon of "corn sweat" is increasing humidity levels across the U.S. Corn Belt, with one acre of corn releasing up to 4,000 gallons of water daily. Meanwhile, the International Court of Justice is considering making states financially liable for climate inaction. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for all tech data centers to be powered by 100% renewable energy by 2070.

climate change· corn sweat· antonio guterres· united nations· fossil fuels

2:44:52 That's my untold story for today. Okay, then I will just pop in here. with a little bit of climate change because due to climate change we're all going to die. First of all, it's that time of year again everybody! And I just want to give you a heads up as well. The hottest part of the country today will actually be really across the Corn Belt. This is where we grow the majority of our corn and the reason I bring this up is because it's that time of year again, corn sweats. Yes, it really does. It's just like our human bodies sweating and evaporating that heat off of our bodies while corn actually absorbs and brings up moisture from the ground. It takes the water through its stalk, starts to sweat, and then that evaporates and it actually increases the humidity levels in this area. So John, very interesting that the Corn Belt will see the most oppressive heat today with triple index heat indices.

2:45:44 And did you know that corn, one acre of corn can actually sweat 4,000 gallons of water into the atmosphere? That's enough to fill your pool in less than a week. So, corn sweat. Someone's getting cornhole today. Sounds like a recipe for success to me. Yeah, corn sweat is back. We track that every year, a little bit of corn sweat. And in the Netherlands, in The Hague, at the big international criminal court of justice or whatever, a whole bunch of very solemn looking old men and women walking in like a star panel. We have decided that if you don't take climate change seriously, you are liable as a country, as leaders of a country. We're gonna lock you up. Failure of a state to take appropriate action

2:46:31 to protect the climate system from GHG emissions may constitute an internationally wrongful act. which is attributable to that state." The court president added that such wrongful acts could include a state's production or consumption of fossil fuels, the granting of exploration permits or subsidies. Such international wrongful acts, as the court opined, can inflict injury on other states in the form of dangerous climate events, making polluters financially liable. full reparation to injured states. The opinion was requested by the island nation of Vanuatu, backed by a coalition of 130 countries, after a concerted youth campaign. Pacific islands are among those bearing the brunt of climate chaos.

2:47:18 caused by the sky-high emissions, historic and ongoing, of the United States, Europe and China, among others. The opinion joins a growing mass of precedent, with domestic courts finding both the French and Dutch states' climate inaction unlawful in the past six years. COP 27 secured the creation of a global loss and damage fund to compensate developing countries. Ah, money! But pledges currently stand at 790 million dollars for a crisis whose impacts are estimated in the hundreds of billions. They're going after money. All the little Caribbean islands, like, hey, we can get some money. Yeah, they're losing tourists, I guess. We can get some money. And the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres,

2:48:03 He made a very bold statement. He told us that renewables are now cheaper and more efficient than fossil fuels. And all technology, all data centers should be using renewable energy. Stop using fossil fuels. Throughout history, energy has shaped the destiny of humankind. From mastering fire, to harnessing steam, to splitting the atmosphere. Now we are on the cusp of a new era. Fossil fuels are running out of roads and the sun is rising on a clean energy age.

2:48:42 I call on every major tech firm to power all data centers with 100% renewables by 2070. And along with other industry, they must use water sustainably in cooling systems. The future is being built in the cloud. It must be powered by the sun, the wind, and the promise of a better world. Okay, dream on, buddy. All data centers powered by solar panels. Can you imagine? Yeah. Hello, Chad, GBT. And the final two clips I have for today's deconstruction bonanza are Miranda divine, who has a podcast. Um, I spelled, yeah, it's called like post force one or something.

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Stablecoins, US Dollar Supremacy and Crypto Legislation

Financial analysts suggest that stablecoins backed by U.S. Treasuries could reinforce the global supremacy of the dollar by providing a digital alternative to the SWIFT system. Upcoming bipartisan legislation aims to establish the U.S. as a leader in digital assets, potentially allowing for the "tokenization" of various financial instruments. Critics argue the shift toward stablecoins is a "bait and switch" that benefits institutional finance over original Bitcoin principles.

stablecoins· crypto· us dollar· donald trump· swift

2:49:33 She's from the New York Post. And she had a great get. She had Scott Besant. Scott Besant is one of those guys you have to edit a lot because he's terrible. He's terrible, exactly. But this is about the stablecoin. And for those of you who've been listening to Noah Jenner's show for the past year, you are well up to speed and you know exactly what's going on with the stablecoin. And I want you to be able to speak intelligently about it. So here is two minutes of the stablecoin so you can understand what's happening and be the envy of the office. Because crypto, I mean, that seems to be a threat to the dollar, doesn't it? I think it's the opposite. Oh, really? I think stablecoins could reinforce dollar supremacy.

2:50:19 Because with stable coins, stable coins could end up being one of the largest buyers of U.S. treasuries or T-bills. So all of a sudden, if you are using a stable coin in Nigeria that's backed by the U.S. dollar, you don't actually have to have dollars. It's on your phone. You can transact. So I think there's a very good chance that crypto is is actually one of the things that locks in dollar supremacy. And is that why it was crucial that Donald Trump get involved in crypto rather than trying to constrain it like Joe Biden was? Well, I think constrain is too mild a word. I think make it extinct. So this administration's commitment to digital assets

2:51:05 it's innovation because there's so many other things that happen around digital assets. And also, it's one of those things that it's one of the most important phenomenons that's happening in the world and the US just ignored it. So that's your stable coin that will keep the US dollar dominance running for another, I don't know, four or five years. I'm not sure. More than that, but let me ask you a question based on what he said. Now a stable coin represents a stored value dollar someplace, usually in the form of a treasury. Yeah, pretty much always. So there's a dollar, we'll call it dollar X. Yes. And there's a stable coin that represents that dollar. Yes. So there's one-to-one. That stable coin and that dollar are interlinked. Yes.

2:51:56 What's that got to do with crypto? Nothing. Why did he say crypto? He said crypto. Because it's a bait and switch and a scam and President Trump lied, lied to the Bitcoin community. Oh I'm gonna create a Bitcoin treasury. Oh Bitcoin. It's all gonna be Bitcoin. But remember when I played those clips from him at the Bitcoin conference he said, and stablecoin. And that was this always the gambit and get everyone on board. And now with this next bill, which should be voted on this coming week or next week, it's going to literally allow any, as we call it, shit coin in the universe to be created. All kinds of nonsense, which we put under the banner of

2:52:41 tokenization and what we are doing the very good bill that may get voted on the Senate. It's a very fine bill. Very good. Very fine. Very fine. Very fine bill. And what we are doing the very good bill that may get voted on the Senate next week, week after that will give us will bring crypto and digital assets and make the US the leader. So just as we're the leader in AI, just as we are the leader in biomedicine, we will become the leader in this. It's all things I hate. Biomedicine, crypto and AI. You know what he left out?

2:53:24 Quantum on the technology side and here led by Treasury, led by some great leadership in the Senate. And this is bipartisan. There may be 16 Democrats who are going to vote with Republicans on this bill. So it tells you how the inclination toward crypto was there. It was just the White House, the previous administration wanted to kill it. So once we get this bill passed, the US, we can put our best standards and practices out to the world. It won't be something that happens in a Caribbean island. It won't be something that is used for nefarious purposes or primarily used for nefarious purposes in the Middle East. This is all so disappointing. Liars, liars. President Trump lied.

2:54:18 It's lies. I cannot support him anymore for anything. Lies, I tell you. You should have voted for Kamala. Who says I voted for Trump? I always vote for the Rent Too High guy who didn't show up. He's dead, I think, isn't he? No, I don't think he's dead. I thought he died. We are unaffiliated. I thought it was great, you know, the president's like, oh, it's gonna be Bitcoin, Bitcoin. He wasn't saying Ethereum. The more you talk about this, the more I keep thinking, I've said it before, you haven't really disagreed with me, that this is a bypass, this is a cheap way to get around SWIFT. It's correct. I told you that on the last show, I told you that's what this is. I think I told you and you told me back.

2:55:06 Okay, you're the stable coin genius. No, I'm not a stable coin, but I just see everything as a scam to get Russia back into the scheme of things because they can use stable coins, they can't use SWIFT, and it's cutting out the Europeans, getting rid of these. Yes, that's a big part of it. Get them out of the picture. They're annoying. Luckily there is one senator in the United States Congress Who has proposed the bill just for you, John C. Dvorak, your man, the hoodie of the hour. Senator John Fetterman wants to make it illegal for businesses to refuse cash as payment. He introduced the Payment Choice Act last week. That legislation requires businesses to accept cash or provide a device that converts cash to a prepaid card without fees.

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John Fetterman, Payment Choice Act for Cash

Senator John Fetterman introduced the Payment Choice Act, which would make it illegal for businesses to refuse cash payments. The legislation aims to protect "unbanked" individuals and those who prefer physical currency over digital tracking. Similar laws already exist in cities like Philadelphia and Berkeley to ensure economic access for all citizens.

john fetterman· cash· payment choice act· philadelphia· digital currency

2:54:18 It's lies. I cannot support him anymore for anything. Lies, I tell you. You should have voted for Kamala. Who says I voted for Trump? I always vote for the Rent Too High guy who didn't show up. He's dead, I think, isn't he? No, I don't think he's dead. I thought he died. We are unaffiliated. I thought it was great, you know, the president's like, oh, it's gonna be Bitcoin, Bitcoin. He wasn't saying Ethereum. The more you talk about this, the more I keep thinking, I've said it before, you haven't really disagreed with me, that this is a bypass, this is a cheap way to get around SWIFT. It's correct. I told you that on the last show, I told you that's what this is. I think I told you and you told me back.

2:55:06 Okay, you're the stable coin genius. No, I'm not a stable coin, but I just see everything as a scam to get Russia back into the scheme of things because they can use stable coins, they can't use SWIFT, and it's cutting out the Europeans, getting rid of these. Yes, that's a big part of it. Get them out of the picture. They're annoying. Luckily there is one senator in the United States Congress Who has proposed the bill just for you, John C. Dvorak, your man, the hoodie of the hour. Senator John Fetterman wants to make it illegal for businesses to refuse cash as payment. He introduced the Payment Choice Act last week. That legislation requires businesses to accept cash or provide a device that converts cash to a prepaid card without fees.

2:55:52 The bill would also allow businesses to refuse payments made with $50 bills or larger. The city of Philadelphia banned cashless businesses back in 2019. The decision was designed to protect people who do not have bank accounts or credit cards. Or who keep their phone in a drawer. Or whatever. There's a lot of people that like cash. Yes. And Berkeley has a law against this too because the argument they use, of course, is the pitiful, well, it's the poor homeless. They haven't got a card. What are they supposed to do when they want to buy something? They get some money. They're out begging for money. They're getting cash and they don't have a little, you know, card reader on them at the corner. Oh, first of all, all homeless people today have a phone and all they need is a QR code on their cup.

2:56:37 You can donate some Cura. Yeah, well, you know, maybe you should go do some homeless outreach and get them to get modernize. Give them some stable coin. Ha, we're doomed! I'm gonna show my support by donating to No Agenda. Imagine all the people who could do that. Oh yeah, that'd be fab. Yeah, on No Agenda. Yes, Cash, the new Federcoin. All right, we have some good end of show mixes coming up today. I'm excited about them. We have some meetups to discuss. We have a couple of nights and of course, John's tip of the day after we get through thanking our donors, the rest of our list for today, $50 and above. Yeah, we don't have too many. Oh, really? Things have been grim. Dreary. But we did get that $3,000 guy who saved the show. Yeah, that did save the show for sure.

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Knighting Ceremony, Peerage and Birthday Announcements

A formal knighting ceremony inducted Sir Kevin, Sir Sigma, and Sir Wee the People's Beefcake into the podcast's honorary peerage. Birthday wishes were extended to listeners in Amsterdam and Japan, including a special mention for a meetup occurring in Tokyo. The segment concluded with the traditional "mutton and mead" toast for the newly titled knights and dames.

knighting· peerage· birthdays· amsterdam· japan

2:57:34 Now you have a random donation from Stripe for $148.03. Dame Rita, there she is. Always at the top of the list. 107.24. She is in Sparks, Nevada. And she said, great end of show mix on episode that is the one that Nico did. Yes, Nico Syme, indeed. It was a very good one. Which was a toe-tapper. A super toe-tapper. Zach and Blair, Zach and Blair in Lino, Lino or Lino, I'm not sure, Massachusetts, 10535. Please break for night, Sir Mark of Gherkaland. We'd like an F Cancer Karma for his recent diagnosis and prayers for his healthy and speedy recovery. We can do that right now, could you like to do that? Happy to do that. Stop it! Stop it!

2:58:29 You've got karma. Ian, Ian, Ian Field, $100. Psst, another strike donation? Uh, 9894? Kevin McLaughlin! 8008, he's the Archduke Luna lover of American lover of melons. He sure is. Nicholas Leary in Columbus, Ohio 7272 Matthew Elwhart in Weatherford, Texas 6006 small boobs. Les Tarkowski in Kingman, Arizona 6006 And then we have a couple, but here we go more strikes. I hope this stuff starts showing up. Good luck. 5903 and 5854. Thank you both, whoever you were, you're anonymous. Which is what, how it works. Bente Held Edlich. Bente Held Edlich.

2:59:23 in Binnington, Switzerland. Ah, we love the Swiss. We do. $58 and he's got a happy birthday call to Dame Dame Dane who turns 58. Yes. Yeah, good man. A very good man. Robert Wicker in Jacksonville, Florida, $55.10. Scott Forrest Brinkley in North Canton, Ohio, $52.72. Henry Barron of Outpost West, in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, 5242. Forrest Martin, 5005. Andrew Benz in Imperial, Missouri, 5005. And now we get to a few $50 donors, four of them to be exact. Alexa Delgado in Aptos. Brett Denton in Boise.

3:00:13 Melissa Alvarez in Punta Vedra Beach, Florida. And last on the short short short short list... How short is it? Short. Sir Greg in Newport, North Carolina. We want to thank these people for helping us on show 1780. Four and again, thanks to our executive and associate executive producers for this episode And as always you can support us by going to know agenda donations calm We will not mention you under $50 for reasons of anonymity or you could just send us a whole bunch of Bitcoin It won't mention you either. We'll just thank strike for it And of course you can set up a recurring donation which is the OG way to go with value for value any amount, any frequency, and of course numerology counts. We love the special numbers that you put together for us. NoahJennerDonations.com

3:01:05 And we just heard from Bentahell's Ed Leach who wished his dame Dane a very happy one. She turned 58 on the 21st of July. Cara Reed, her smoking hot husband Jonathan who now becomes a knight. He celebrated today. Happy birthday to him. And Angelina from Amsterdam sent a special note for me to wish Sebastian a very happy birthday. He celebrates on the 30th of July and they're having a Noah-Jenna meetup in Japan. He's on his way, so he'll probably be hearing this on the airplane. He says, send love from me, Charlotte and Mirte. His sisters love the show. Kudus Angelina. And that's it. Happy birthday for everybody here at the best podcast in the universe.

3:01:48 We congratulate our two PhDs for today as the promotion winds down. No crying after the end of July. Kevin and Tynan Rebich, you can go to noagenderings.com. We have a special PhD tab for you there. Take a look at that beautiful very very handsome PhD in media deconstruction certificate all you have to do is tell us exactly what name you want on it and where to send it and we'll send it off to you post haste and we do have three knights to bring up but on the roundtable the no agenda Knights and games so here's a blade for me if I can have your blade here you go here's the big boy beautiful the big boy is out Kevin, Tin and Ribbit, Tin and Ribbit and Jonathan Reed

3:02:30 All three of you today become knights of the Noah General Round Table. I'm very proud to pronounce you as Sir Kevin, Keeper of the Spee, his beautiful black lab. Sir Sigma, and Sir Wee, the people's beefcake, as a temporary name. For you gentlemen, we have hookers and blow, rent boys and chardonnay, Korean fried chicken and Corona with lime. A can of cold Pepsi with Swiss rolls, not to be outdone by the Rubinous, Moomin and Rosé, the Gates and the Sake, the Vodka Vanilla, the Bong, Itz and Bourbon, the Sparkling Ice, Cider and Escorts, the Ginger Ale and Gerbils, the Breast Milk and Pablum. And as always at every single round table, celebration the mutton and the mead.

3:03:05 You can join our PhDs over at noagendarings.com. That's where you will find your beautiful night rings on display. They are signet rings, so each night ring comes with a couple of sticks of wax. You can seal your important correspondence with that. Also a certificate of authenticity. And thank you for joining this roundtable with our No Agenda Knights and our No Agenda Dames. Yeah, the NOAAgenda meetups, they are still on deck, still happening. People love going to them at NOAAgenda meetups. Excuse me. COVID. NOAagendaMeetups.com

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No Agenda Meetups, Victoria and Anaheim Events

Upcoming listener meetups are scheduled for Victoria, British Columbia, and Anaheim, California, at Brewery X. These decentralized gatherings allow fans to connect locally without the need for a centralized national convention. Organizers encouraged attendees to submit "meetup reports" detailing their experiences and local venue recommendations.

victoria· anaheim· columbus· meetups· brewery x

3:03:47 Don't be looking for that national meetup. This is a decentralized distributed thing we've got going on. It's like the TEDx You go to you create a meetup wherever you want for whatever reasons you want whatever time of the day Call it whatever you want. Just have people come out who listen to the show. It's always fun. Noah Jenna meetups calm Here's a meetup promo we got This is not a promo. It is a promo. See you Saturday. All right. Look at that. I love that. I don't do we have a

3:04:34 No meetup reports, only the promo. Well that's perfect because I can promo what's coming up on Friday, tomorrow, Beer in the Sun, 5.30 at the Lighthouse Brewery in Victoria, British Columbia. Please send us meetup reports and include your server. On Saturday, Baron Harry Pilgrim, there it is, it's his send off. Of course, I met Baron Harry Pilgrim on, gosh, one of the first no agenda meetups, I think it was the OG, Hot Pockets tour and that will be at Six Bears and a Goat in Fredericksburg, Virginia. You heard Sir Tom Starkweather there He was organizing it everyone come on out and give Sir Baron Harry Pilgrim a great send-off Also on Saturday in Anaheim, California Leo Bravo does it this for the 65th time?

3:05:18 time, long time, NO EX, Flight of the NO Agenda. That'll be at 333 at Brewery X in Anaheim and on July 26th, that is also Saturday at Dempsey's NO Agenda Columbus Meetup at 530 Columbus Ohio. Go hang out with Sir Leary and all the cool kids. at the No Agenda Columbus meetup. No Agenda meetups, you can find them all at noagendameetups.com. If you can't find one near you, don't worry, you can start one yourself. It's free, it's easy, and always guaranteed to party. But before we get to anything, as always, we try to delight the cloud with some insight how the sausage is made. This is how a production meeting would go in the real world.

3:06:20 Of course we'd have Dana Burnetti calling a meeting and making it all complicated and like, I'm the producer, I gotta tell you what to do. I'm just trying to get his attention. We selected... Yeah, well, I told you to stop listening to the show. He did. He doesn't care. He hates the show. No, he likes the show, but he just is bored. Well, what is he doing then? Driving his fire truck? Tractor. Right now as we speak, I guarantee he's on a tractor. Get off that tractor! Alright, I have four end of show ISOs and you have one, so I guess I'll go first. This is bigger. This is way bigger than I could ever imagine. That's a little too long. We have Robo John. Get out of here, man. Yeah? No? Okay. We have... Just donate. Donate. Donate. Huh?

CHAPTER 47 / 47 Discussion

Handbrake Software, DVD Conversion Tip of the Day

The "Tip of the Day" recommended Handbrake, a free open-source tool for converting video files and ripping DVDs for personal use on mobile devices. While some users prefer the command-line tool FFmpeg, Handbrake offers a cross-platform graphical interface for adjusting bitrates and file formats. The show concluded with a reminder to support the program through the "Value for Value" model.

handbrake· ffmpeg· dvd· software· open source

3:05:18 time, long time, NO EX, Flight of the NO Agenda. That'll be at 333 at Brewery X in Anaheim and on July 26th, that is also Saturday at Dempsey's NO Agenda Columbus Meetup at 530 Columbus Ohio. Go hang out with Sir Leary and all the cool kids. at the No Agenda Columbus meetup. No Agenda meetups, you can find them all at noagendameetups.com. If you can't find one near you, don't worry, you can start one yourself. It's free, it's easy, and always guaranteed to party. But before we get to anything, as always, we try to delight the cloud with some insight how the sausage is made. This is how a production meeting would go in the real world.

3:06:20 Of course we'd have Dana Burnetti calling a meeting and making it all complicated and like, I'm the producer, I gotta tell you what to do. I'm just trying to get his attention. We selected... Yeah, well, I told you to stop listening to the show. He did. He doesn't care. He hates the show. No, he likes the show, but he just is bored. Well, what is he doing then? Driving his fire truck? Tractor. Right now as we speak, I guarantee he's on a tractor. Get off that tractor! Alright, I have four end of show ISOs and you have one, so I guess I'll go first. This is bigger. This is way bigger than I could ever imagine. That's a little too long. We have Robo John. Get out of here, man. Yeah? No? Okay. We have... Just donate. Donate. Donate. Huh?

3:07:15 Liking that one. And the final one? Does not compute! Pew pew! That's no good. Okay. Just donate! Donate! Donate! Alright, now we'll get yours which... Mine's curiously similar. Together we can make a difference. Donate now. Nah, mine's better. Just donate! It's real. Donate! Donate! It's John Stossel's... But that's not what you think that other one is. Fake. But no it's not! Together we can make a difference. Donate now. Well, wherever you got it from they faked it. No, it's a guy with a big deep voice. It's a real guy. Well, which one do you like better? I like... I will take yours because you're trying to demean my stuff and I might as well go along with it. So you have some scheme afoot so I'll play along. That's right, I have a scheme afoot. My scheme is to confuse you, get you to repeat John's tip of the day.

3:08:16 Okay, this time software and then we're on the rotation mmm software So we're on software this software day, and I'm gonna recommend a product that I've been using for decades. Whoa No, I'm sorry decade boomer boomer product boomer product at least a decade. This is a handy-dandy product It's free It is called hand to break. You can look it up, you can Google it. We have definitely done hand break before. No, we've never done hand break. Yes, we have. I've talked about it before, but I've never... I'm sure it's not tip of the day. Okay. Alright. But people... Okay, what does it do? It's to rip... to steal content.

3:09:03 No. Yes, that's what handbrake is. It's to convert product, it's to convert one... Okay. I'm sorry, it's not to steal content. It's to convert product from one format that is possible... To another. Yes. For example, here's a good use for it. You own, you own, I don't know, a lot of people don't like this idea, but I've always been a fan of it. I own, I own, I bought, paid for a A DVD. Oh my! And you want to send it to all your friends? No, I want to put it on my phone. You do not want to put it on your phone what, so it can play in the desk drawer? So I can play it on the airplane because I'll bring a phone on the plane. When have you been on a plane recently? I haven't been recently but if I'm gonna go on a plane I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna take the DVD

3:09:56 I'm gonna run it through handbrake, it'll bust it up into pieces and it'll say to me, what do you wanna do with this? You wanna make it small, you wanna make it big, you wanna make it a small file, a big file, you wanna change it from MP4 to MKV, what do you wanna do? Do you wanna change the bitrate, do you wanna do what, and you tell it, and it makes the conversion, doesn't take that long, actually it's pretty fast, and next thing you know I've got the movie playing on my phone. So if anyone out there receives a file from John that has Academy watermarks, then you know how he did it. Handbrake is an outstanding product. I used to use it on the Mac because I think it's cross-platform, no?

3:10:42 I don't know. I don't have a Mac. And for all of us Unix guys, we just use FFmpeg. We're real men. We don't mess around with handbrake. There it is. Ladies and gentlemen, John C. Dvorak's Tip of the Day. Tipoftheday.net. And as always, you can get the collection at noagendafund.com. Yes, thank you, Dana Burnetti. Created by Dana Brunetti. Well, he created it, but he's not producing it. No, he's not. Created by is different than produced by. Yeah, that's true. So he's not responsible for the leather honey fiasco. But you're supposed to blame the creator. I'm defending him. What are you doing? What are you doing? It must be the wine.

3:11:36 Alright everybody, we do have end of show mixes coming up from Melody. We've got John Valentine. We got Jeff and who was it Jeff and Jeff and Andy Jeff one of the funniest clips you'll ever hear yeah Jeff and Andy is good very good Also, if you stay tuned to know agenda stream calm or on that modern podcast app we have random thoughts coming up next Which I think has gene on it It's always seems to be with sir gene Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country right here in Fredericksburg where we're just as expensive in New York. In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley where I remain, I'm John C. Dvorak. Remember us by supporting us at noagendadonations.com. We'll be back on Sunday. Until then, adios mofos, a hooey hooey and such!

3:12:33 to the American people. And if you are trying to hide something, as many of Donald Trump's MAGA supporters apparently believe, then Congress should actually work hard to try to uncover the truth for the American people. He's dead, he's gone. Jeffrey Epstein conducted a conference called Confronting Gravity. I don't know who Jeffrey Epstein was, but I'll- I'll certainly bet money that he was the product of at least one, uh, or more,

3:13:14 You could use headphones, but that would be ridiculous. No, I'm not gonna use headphones. I have sweaty ears. I'll get mold in my ears. Well, I'm sitting in my chair, podcast blaring in the air. Got them canes on tight, but something ain't right. My ears are getting wet, guess a sweaty kind of bed. John Cena's got a fear, I don't want no mold in here. Oh, no, yeah. Never heard about mold in your ear? Fungus creeping in.

3:14:11 You were almost deaf for a while because of old ears. Say what? Say what? Once I have sweaty ears, I'll get mold in my ear. No, I'm not gonna use headphones.

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