Florida Ounce

00:00 I went to jail for the Republic. Oh, is that the latest in California?

00:37 I don't know, that's what happened in DC. You didn't watch this morning's news? No! I'm so bored by it...I've got Trump on the quad screen right now So there's a guy in a pink shirt and shorts standing in front of one of the cops, yelling calling him a fascist and going on. And then he throws up giant subway sandwich at the cop. He is right in front of me, about foot away. Yeah. The cops chase him down arresting for felony assault on a police officer. The guy was a was an employee of the Department of Justice That's what made this story great. We're lost man. Immediately fired by Bondi Oh no of course, scam Bondi she won't stand for that Who is this guy thinking? What a numbnut

01:29 Well, we probably should just talk about that for a second since you brought it up. Let me see here... It's noteworthy Errol there has been no legal challenge filed by the leaders of the District of Columbia Yeah isn't that interesting? That everyone is like oh he is federalizing DC! He's a takeover! Take over of DC I went to my hair girl in Austin on Wednesday Oh and you took the The trek to Austin. I made the trek, it was very dangerous. A lot like me going to Sacramento long haul. Yeah, the distance but... The minute you kind of once you pass Dripping Springs and you come into this big smoke of Austin It just feels dark Really? Yeah it does. Well, you know- It used to be a lively little city No! It's big, its busy there is lots of traffic

02:24 And everyone's insane. Everyone's nuts! So I'm talking to my girl, she was like... Even she was somewhat infected and she's pretty straight down the middle She's like, oh you know... Infected by what? By the Trump takeover of DC The US government owns D.C Well this is what people don't know Listen when they They don't know anything. They're not taught anything in school No, no when you don't even know what that LBS is an abbreviation for pounds or that a nickel is five cents It was half dozen Oh wait I had another one here What did I have? I had another one someone sent me LBS This one My wife works with the vet

03:15 I'm not sure what this is. Her co-worker one day was asking her what a Florida ounce was, my wife asked her to repeat it again she said she looked over at the piece of paper and says... Florida ounce! Because it said FL ounces and this poor person didn't understand that it stood for fluid ounces no its Florida ounces. We're pretty lost when this stuff happens Wow, that's a good one. That's the topper! We are lost so yeah people don't know and by the way all those conspiracies about no it's not the USA is now we're a corporation all the letters are capital It all has to do with Washington DC And of course amongst all the noise and all the blathering and all the habeas corpus

04:08 What you, and this is from CBS indeed what you do not hear. is an actual legal challenge against the president doing this because it's well within his rights and everybody knows it except people who measure things in Florida ounces. It's noteworthy Errol there has been no legal challenge filed by the leaders of the District of Columbia, an indication they think that the President is well within his authority to unilaterally call up the DC National Guard deploy them on the streets in a supportive law enforcement mission and to federalize the nearly 4,000 person Metropolitan Police Department in Washington DC. Because this is the District of Columbia not a city not a state the president has unique powers here. The broader question though is what impact is this going to have? We know what it looks like so far you see federal agents FBI agents alcohol tobacco and firearm agents on the street almost side by side or block by block with

05:05 DC police officers monitoring for street crime. The National Guard still has yet to deploy into the district itself, still readying themselves, readying their equipment will expect to see them by weeks in but it's hard to get a gauge arrow on what's going to be a determinative success here? What means this worked is it a 30 day crime reduction in the data Is it a no Friction between the new law enforcement on the ground and the residents of Washington, D.C., and can things change in such a short window of time over 30 days? And the mayor is arguing what you see on the screen that crime is already down significantly from last year plummeting by more than 25 percent. That includes robberies that includes homicides as she says that's from partnering with the federal government empowering the local police

05:59 So I have a question for you about DC. I was born in Washington, D.C., my birth certificate, my passport... Oh really? You never mentioned that on the show and I never knew that! Yeah, Washington. I thought you were born in Virginia Arlington Hospital which is technically in Washington, D.C So it says Washington DC on your birth certificate? Yeah, my birth certificate and my passport. Well that explains a lot! So what am I? Am i even human? Do I exist? No you're subhuman we've all known this. Do I belong to President Trump? Yes he owns you, you're his slave. Just like the Congresswoman Holmes

06:39 I exist but I have... Norton. Norton, that's what it is. Why do I say Holmes? Elizabeth... What is her name? Eleanor Norton? Is that her name? Eleanor Holmes Norton or something like that. Yeah, I met her! Do you remember I met her? Oh here we go. No. I want to hear the story now. I wanna say it was 2010 or 2012 and ummm... You've met up with her she represents Washington And you were born there. Now I was getting suspicious. It was actually Wendell Potter had invited me to see the- Wendell Potter! There's a name for him, yes. The plot thickens Yes and he had invited...I met him through the Big Book Show now we're going back No it gets worse Yeah, The Big Book Show and he wrote a book about how horrible healthcare was in America and it was like oh this is kind of interesting guy and he said come to DC

07:38 And this came up yesterday because Tina said, have you ever been to see? Of course I've been in DC. But the most recently was about 15 years ago and the crime was already bad then it just felt bad The whole place felt dark and threatening. It was crime-ridden. Put us down! That's 25%. So I went to see his movie, and I'm watching this movie like something is wrong about this movie And then at the end they have the filmmakers come up on the stage and talk about the film...and there was Norton And Norton's with Wendell Potter, and it's all about Obamacare. Oh this is going to save everything! I'm like what? It was a totally snookered by that guy. So anyway that's when i met her and I'm like you are she talk about a bad vibe she just exudes nothing but bad vibe mainly because she's a representative and he's not allowed to vote yeah that's the whole thing yeah you know she's just allowed to make

08:41 Fs. That's us exactly I have to DC clips all right none of that no real background on what's going on But interesting clip because this one kind of came and went from a ABC played this it's a bureau girl Yeah, there's a good woman comes out and she's This has kind of been quashed, but this is the DC story ABC Bureau girl. I can tell you firsthand here in downtown D.C., where we work right here around our bureau just in the past six months there were two people shot one person died literally two blocks down here from the bureau

09:17 It was within the last two years that I actually was jumped walking just two blocks down from here. And then just this morning, one of my co-workers said her car was stolen a block away from the bureau Nothing to see here. There's nothing to see here, everything is fine. And then of course that contrast with my DC supercut which it could have been better I didn't...I put some time into it but I could've...it went 146 but this the DC crime, a crime supercut when I go to DC I'm not afraid of losing my wallet so much as I'm afraid of losing my vote. I'm not afraid of losing my wallet- K part? So much that I am afraid that my children's freedom to breathe will be stolen in a world where climate change policy is non existent. Hey Jen, people ask me as a journalist are you worried about the way things are going with this administration and them coming after you and all that kind of stuff? And I think whatever my answer is it's like double for you right? You're a journalist and were in the administration just

10:17 occurred to me. I need to find out if you're scared, because if you're not scared then I'm good." You know? I try not to be. So many people have been calling me over the past couple days going Washington should've gotten involved years ago this place is dangerous it's a mess it's a wreck and whatever And then they'll go on Twitter and go, this is the worst outrage of all time. I don't care what the crime statistics say. Crime has been a problem in this city for the 32 years I've been living inside and outside of the city

10:53 If in fact this only lasts for 30 days, it couldn't possibly have much of an impact on crime in DC. And this may be simply a media event to say that the president is concerned about crime but in fact have nothing to do with what may accomplish nothing in D C or anywhere else. The President is doing this not in order to make the city safer. That's the job of local law enforcement but to solve his own political problems. He needs to get his base talking and thinking about something besides his refusal to open up the Epstein files. Donald Trump makes himself Batman, and the nation's capital is Gotham City Well for sure everything needs a distract from Epstein we cannot have that And I think that plan is working You're like eh whatever moving on Normal people not obsessed with X

11:49 They've forgotten about it because you know they're still trying to figure out what is a Florida ounce? I don't get it By the way show title yeah, I thought that was a possibility of course there Is another motive here for the president and this could be a signature move for him And we'll only know a little down the line how well that turns out because whenever you have a Crime bill you don't want it to stick to your name if it starts arresting the wrong people well If it's a national emergency we can do it without Congress, but we expect to be into Congress before Congress very quickly And again, we think the Democrats will not do anything to stop crime But we think the Republicans will do it almost unanimously So we're gonna need a crime bill that We're going to be putting in and it's going to pertain initially to DC. It's almost

12:40 We're going to use it as a very positive example. And we're going to be asking for extensions on that, long-term extensions because you can't have 30 days. Thirty days is – that's by the time you do it. Well, are we going to have this in good shape? Don't forget, at the border everyone said it would take years and you'd have to go back to Congress. I never went to Congress for anything. I just said close the border and they closed the border. And that was the end of it. I didn't go back to Congress We're gonna do this very quickly, but we're gonna want extensions I don't want to call a national emergency if I have to I will But I think the Republicans in Congress will approve this pretty much unanimously Yeah, and this is the big This is uh...this'll be his signature move almost as big as the stable coin It'll be the Trump crime bill and you better check it twice cuz that can get pretty ugly Before he know what your racist

13:36 Well, he's been called a racist already for naming. The thesis goes like this Trump wants to end and lower crime in black controlled cities like Oakland Baltimore etc He wants to make crime go down in those black cities That is racist by definition Racist! You know I feel like a bit of... This of course is also everything about the midterms you and I have discussed that I feel like a bit of a dope not having understood really the system of illegal immigration, what the whole gambit was from the Democrat Party mainly. Probably completely and the gambit was always the census

14:28 Right. That's what they would made a big if you remember in 2020, they made a big fuss about they tried to put a checkbox or you illegal aliens? Yes and the Democrats fought it tooth and nail said no No we have to count everybody there here they have to be counted are here They have to be counted And that was, of course so they could get some more people in certain states. California being one of them. Yes. So you get more representatives? Yeah well that's the point and I just feel dumb about it maybe...I mean everyone always says well they just want more Democrat voters they're gonna vote illegally no the whole point was the districting and how many... We'll stop for a second

15:11 With the recent busting of the people in, I forgot what state it was. There was some whistleblower woman came out she's working for DMV where they were selling driver's licenses to illegals 200 bucks a piece And they want the votes. I mean, yes that reapportionment was the main reason that they wanted millions of aliens in here and a lot of them never were going to vote but there are some voters too. But that was just bonus. With the census, the big deal is how many representatives you get in Congress. That's really the big win by counting everybody and I think what you're referring to

15:55 Trump versus New York in 2020 and it was a US Supreme Court case, but they punched it back down. They said no no this is we're not going to talk about this now. They didn't want to deal with it at the time and so that stayed in the lower courts But I just wanted to let me dive in for a second I just wanted to dive in with a little explanation of the census because now we're getting too Words, words that matter. I should probably read it verbatim the US Constitution Article 1 Section 2 Clause 3 Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included with this union according to their respective numbers Which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons including those bound to service for a term of 10 years and excluding Indians not taxed

16:52 three-fifths of all other persons, slaves. The actual enumeration which I think is an important word shall be made within three years after the first meeting of the Congress of the United States and within every subsequent term of ten years in such matter as they show by law direct." And of course the real bummer for counting came with the 14th Amendment, Section 2 and that was 1868. Representatives shall be a portion among the several states according to their respective numbers counting the whole number of persons in each state excluding Indians not taxed." These Indians are annoying!

17:28 This removed the three-fifths clause ensuring all persons except untaxed Native Americans are fully counted for representation. So in every case where this comes up, the Democrats in general could easily be the Republicans if the tables were turned they say no 14th Amendment supersedes that and it's the whole number not just enumerated the free persons but the whole number So I found CBS had a reasonable explanation of how this all works and its importance. President Trump is calling on the Department of Commerce to make a new census The president wants the department to quote begin work on a new highly accurate census based on modern-day facts and figures He goes on to say people who are in our country illegally will not be counted in the census

18:18 For more on this, I'm joined by Hansi Lo Wang. He's a correspondent at the Washington desk for NPR. Hansi thanks so much for joining us First off, I think a lot of people aren't clear on what the census process actually looks like Can you explain that? When we're talking about the census We are talking about the bedrock of US democracy The Constitution lays out instructions for accounts of persons every 10 years. It's a count of persons, you won't find the word citizen in the Constitution's instructions and since 1790 there has been a thorny history of exactly which person residing in the country was counted and by how much

18:54 But one thing is true, which is that no resident of the United States without immigration without legal status in the United States has been left out of a census. And these are numbers used to determine each state's share of congressional seats and electoral college votes. All right so that's pretty much what I said and uh... So if changes are possible what exactly is President Trump going for? It does have to run through the Commerce Secretary can only really be adjusted or recounted with Congress. The preparations are already underway for that. Is he calling for a new census before 2030? That's a big question to answer because that means how much time is left to prepare for this census, the Census Bureau takes more than a decade to prepare for a census and then the question about potentially excluding people living in the states without legal status

19:59 Now that's a big question because the 14th amendment of the constitution calls for the whole number of persons to be included in the numbers used to redistribute house seats and like 12 college votes. So, the question possibility here there are a lot of other questions that we need answered first And I will point out that We discussed this very issue coming up two shows ago last Thursday and no one was talking about it and we were on the inside track Little ball spike so this uh Heine, what's his name? Handy, honey, harness. He's from NPR and so he did a better report on NPR which explains the tactics and the strategy of the Trump administration to get this to get the old census as far as I can understand recounted excluding

20:48 illegal aliens or maybe people who don't live here anymore. NPR has learned new details about how the Census Bureau is responding to President Trump's call for a new census that call comes as Trump keeps pushing some states to use census data, to redraw voting maps and help Republicans keep control of the US House of Representatives exactly here's NPR's Hansi Lo Wang this week Commerce Secretary Howard Lednick oversees the Census Bureau acknowledged that Congress not Trump has final say of the population count that's used to determine each state chair seats in the House Representative as according to three bureau employees who heard a town hall event with Lutnick and asked not To be named because they fear retaliation some house Republicans have recently proposed changing census law well I was talking with President Trump on the phone including representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and

21:34 And I told him that my idea is to have a bill that immediately calls for a new census. Speaking with the right wing media outlet Real America's Voice, Green also called for a new distribution of house seats and round- I love how they have to add that in there speaking with the right wing news outlet America's Voice Do you identify yourself as the left wing news outlet NPR? No To have a bill that immediately calls for a new census Speaking with the right wing media outlet Real America's Voice, Green also called for a new distribution of House seats and round of redistricting before next year's midterm election. Well I speak for both of us we love it! Last month President Trump publicly backed Green's bill along with Florida's Republican Governor Ron DeSantis. I know they've considered doing another census who has said the Trump administration has thought about counting before the next scheduled tally in 2030

22:25 Because I think you have to do it once every 10 years. It doesn't mean you can't do it more than every ten years under the Constitution. Any attempt at a census before 2030 would likely be challenged in court. Trump and other Republicans are calling to alter census numbers that the 14th Amendment says must include the quote whole number of persons in each state by excluding some or all residents without US citizenship We won't hesitate to go back to court to protect representation for all communities Sophia Lynn Lakin of the American Civil Liberties Union says she'll be monitoring the Trump administration's next census moves. So far, the Commerce Department says the Census Bureau will use quote modern technology tools to analyze data in response to Trump's recent call. AI! Throw it into AI! That'll fix it. They're serious about this I think they could actually...they could maybe do something with Congress. I think you're gonna get nowhere. Nooo, but they're gonna try

23:21 Yeah, well they're gonna try. They're having enough trouble just reapportioning Texas and now it's enough of a headache That's because they'll just full of hot air not actually doing anything Constitutional lawyer Rob actually sent me something he said Friday Texas Attorney General Ken Paxson filed a quo warranto Which is kind of a cool band name. Hey everybody we are quote warranto And it's a cool band name. He filed that in the Texas Supreme Court, was interesting says constitutional lawyer Robb he says rapid action will happen from this and he thinks that there will be a conditional writ of quo warranto

24:14 Giving the Democrats 48 hours to return to work if they don't return their seats will be automatically declared vacant and then The governor Abbott can pack the seats with with loyalists. Yeah, that's what you do That sounds like a good idea I played the Beato clip this is even funnier remind me to read the next paragraph in his... I sensed that, that's when we get this clip out of the way. Yeah you nailed it! Texas wants Beto behind bars the state's Attorney General asking a district judge to jail Beto O'Rourke for bankrolling Texas Dems who fled the state during their redistricting fight Ken Paxson claims Beto violated a court order that barred him and has not

24:57 nonprofit, powered by the people from fundraising efforts. So here to discuss his allegations is Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton he's also running for the US Senate so Mr. Attorney General let's talk just talk to you about some of the comments that Beto made over the weekend listen here and we'll get your response We punch first and we punch harder. We want California, and New Jersey, and Illinois, and Maryland, and every other state where the Democrats hold the governor's mansion, the assembly in the State Senate to redraw their congressional districts now not wait for Texas to move first to maximize Democratic Party advantage? Listen you may say to yourself well those aren't the rules there are no refs in this game. The rule is we're gonna win whatever it takes

25:43 So, is that why Beto's potentially getting locked up or is there a bigger reason? No. That's pretty much it you saw right there was already a temporary restraining order that stopped him from raising money and he was at that rally clearly raising money for not political reasons which would have been appropriate He was raising it for personal expenses to help these Democrats in Texas evade their responsibilities That's the problem and he was ordered by judge to stop fundraising basically he just continued to do it. That's interesting because Rob has a different take on this. I was the Attorney General so that's probably the official take well the official messaging hmm it's the Beto bribes everybody

26:28 Paxson says not only does what Beto is doing violate the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act, but also as a form of felony bribery because it constitutes a benefit given to a public servant in exchange for violating his duties. Yeah So Beto bribes. Wow Mike, what's happening? I would think of course I think Beto who... Beto! Beto! It's Beto. Beta Aurora because he is kind of a beta. You gotta say Beto. Beto. Beto. Beto is looking you know he just can't get out of politics because his wife has been

27:06 basically the one who forces him into being a big politician. Yeah, she's got the money. She's gotta do something with the money and she keeps pushing... You'd be good at this kind of thing. He's just a wimpy guy he is horrible but I think he would love to get arrested and thrown in jail so he could be a martyr. Oh yeah you're right to get more attention to him, give himself more attention. I went to jail for the Republic! You see it a mile away... Do you remember when the Democrats thought he was so cool? He skateboards! He skateboards! Maybe he was skateboarding on stages when he was running Oh yeah, I forgot all about that fact that he skateboards And he was drumming to Phil Collins in the air tonight while in the drive-thru line

27:54 Waterburger or whatever he was doing. Oh, I missed that too! Yeah yeah yeah... He's horrible Here i think Beto the Rockstar do we have a You can't go 10 feet without an interruption from a Betobacker Thank you so much I love you too thank you all You're a rock star No no there are just so many great people who aren't Hey hey hey! You're a rock star said the mainstream media you're a rock star you're the best It's a new voice That voice is almost identical to that woman's voice. It was pretty good, I took me a couple of beats before it wasn't her. You're the best! Can I get a... Good voice, good voice. Hey by the way important information has come to light mm-hmm uh i believe we have not only discovered the reason for our downward trending troll room numbers but have also fixed and addressed the issue

28:56 Ah, okay. This is good news! Yes it is and its been going on for several weeks and... Have we noticed? Yeah people were- It's very difficult to get reports from people who are like IT DOESN'T WORK! Screenshot! It doesn't work! So trying to get technical analysis is very very difficult but it was actually Rocky Thomas who donated in the last show, and I'm doing a speech with her, a lost speech. Fireside chat at Podcast Movement on Tuesday in Dallas. Never mind. There was a moment there where there was a funny line and I just... You choked! I choked on it, man. Now she's technically very adept and she said you know I've been trying to listen to the live stream with The Fountain app then so she sent me screenshot with an actual error message like oh thank you this is good

29:54 So I talk it over with Void Zero and it was odd because, It would happen to people. It happened a lot with people on what we thought was only iPhones on AT&T And then they'd switch to a Wi-Fi network and it wouldn't be a problem On the same phone. Then people would have trouble at home on a Wi-Fi network. We're trying to figure out is this a phone problem? Is it a network problem? You'll never guess what the problem was I never I'll never get but you got to try one one guess at least it was a Configuration problem yes, and on fig and the config issue was IPv6

30:41 So people's phones will be sometimes hitting IPv4, which is the old addressing scheme and sometimes IPv6. And what VoidZero is sleuthing because he... VoidZero when I say hey man Something's wrong here and IPv6 is a huge problem. Yes, I shut it off everywhere! I don't have IPv6. I had to shut off on all my systems. You know i'm just gonna use up the internet...I don't care. I'm not going to use ipv6 because it's always the last thing you think of so our um well It's the last thing you think if you're like you and myself

31:20 who have turned it off years ago on all the routers and all the machines that we don't even think about anymore. I can't remember those numbers! I can remember four series of numbers, but I can't remember IPv6 number is no good so our cert Our certificate for SSL, which of course we don't want a man in the middle of our stream. Oh no! We need to secure that button. Heaven forbid... We gotta secure that otherwise little guy with the bank robber will come out and make you all afraid of our insecure stream Thank You Google Was misconfigured

31:59 on IPv6 or wasn't configured, I'll just say misconfigured and Void Zero figured it out. And so... Wait a minute! So my guess was accurate? Your guess was spot-on. It's amazing. Yeah only... I'm amazed We didn't know there was IPv6 Who would have thought about that Well this is the last thing you think of yeah it's man they know that's a good line Logan 5 So we needed IPv6 because we had all those illegal aliens that were using up the IP addresses. That's why they were telling us, switch to IPv6! This is the future just like passcodes. IPv6, passcodes and SSL certificates are the future of headache. Yeah yeah yeah. Shout out to John from Otto's here in Fredericksburg this was a crazy event

32:53 I've told you about Otto's, haven't I? I think you looked at the menu at Otto's with me one time. Yeah, I did! So Otto's German bistro restaurant we're having dinner with some friends a small place they maybe have 10 tables nice if you ever in Fredericksburg definitely check out Otto's they've got spot-on German food except for one thing or least something i never saw in Germany which is fried sauerkraut balls Yeah, which is just fantastic. So we're sitting there... It's a specialty item from some part of Germany I've never seen him either Well here's what happened so we're sitting there and we're done with our dinner and all sudden the server comes over he puts down four forks He gives us each a glass of some

33:36 like dinner wine schnapps-y type thing and then he puts down a cheesecake and a chocolate cake I'm like but who ordered that? He said no, that's from John over there. And this is young guy couldn't have been 40 maybe 35 and he sitting at the other table he waves you know so okay so i go over I go over I said hey I'm Adam yeah I'm John I'm the owner in the morning Like what?! In the morning. He says, yeah I've owned the place for 12 years and said this is fantastic! I didn't know you were producers and I knew you guys came in here but never a chance to say hi and make an in-person donation like...I'm holding my hand out for the check but no I guess that was the dessert? And I said how about... Hey send me half. Tell me about the fried sauerkraut balls. I totally made that up

34:26 So you made it up? Yeah, it's not a delicacy from somewhere in Germany. Oh that's cool! But yeah but... You know its got the them- You can make stuff up thematically within a cuisine and still part of the cuisine. Yes. Sorry to tell ya that I'm all in, I'm all in. Did he give you the recipe? That sounds like something we should have on the show. I will get the recipe for tip of the day. I will get John's sauerkraut balls Fried sauerkraut balls Was it good? I've had them before, they are phenomenal. It's like crack! It's almost like a bitterball you know the Dutch Bitterballer?

35:01 No, I don't know the Dutch bitterball. Which is the round ball croquette type snack? You've seen it you have with mustard was like sharp mustard and then probably had it but yeah so it has a brown crusty outside on the inside. Is this battered? Is that the idea lightly battered lightly oh the outside is battered the inside has it's not like brain matter with sauerkraut basically um So good Yeah, I'll get the recipe. It probably just consists of sauerkraut brain matter and batter and oil...I don't know At any rate it's a lot tastier than this new food product which everyone is talking about Don't know if you've heard about the new food product? Well you're not talking about that Bill Gates butter Yes! I am! Yes i am That's not new The first videos were over a year ago Well where's your clip

35:59 I don't have a clip, it's over a year ago. I try not to play old clips because people say hey that's old! Well it's going viral now everyone is talking about the carbon butter In the middle of an industrial park in a suburb west of Chicago something unprecedented is happening So you're using this gas right now to like cook your food And we're proposing that we would like to first make your food with, with that gas. The company is called Savor and you better believe it! Their pioneering tech uses carbon and hydrogen to make the stick of butter you see on this plate. This is pretty novel to be able to make food that looks and tastes and feels exactly like dairy butter but with no agriculture whatsoever

36:41 And no long ingredient list the average person can't pronounce. a little bit of lecithin as an emulsifier and some natural flavor in color. Hold on, natural flavor? Natural flavor is literally chemicals! And some natural flavor in color. How?! Fats are made up of carbon and hydrogen chains the goal here replicate those chains without... Okay stop the clip I'm gonna ask you at the beginning of this, and it's supposed to be the same question to the Twitter people that play this. This is the newest version of the clip which is over. The old one was better with Scott Bill eating ice cream. He's going, this is really good! And I would like to know what the difference between this? They admit its hydrocarbons, hydrogen and some lecithin

37:44 smoother, that's exactly the methodology you use to make margarine. How is this any different than margarine? Specifically can anybody answer me this question it's margarine 3.0! Margarine is oils miscellaneous oils and jacked up with a hydrogen hydrogenated oils that make it hard as a rock Well, actually in this clip if you'll just wait 20 more seconds. You'll hear what it actually resembles chains the goal here Replicate those chains without animals or plants and they did it They tell me to simplify they take carbon dioxide from the air and hydrogen from water heat them up and oxidize them

38:31 The final result? It looks like a wax. Yeah, it's wax! That's what...it's candle wax that's what they're making. And so why...? They use...they're using hydric This is the iterations of, I'm gonna give you the iterations of margarine. Yeah please. Margarine began as a hydrogenated... Why? No wait! I want to know why did we start with margarine? Because somebody invented it and they decided that well what are we going to do with this crap? Well let's tell people that butter is unhealthy and so they marketed it as a healthy alternative to butter. Look at butter make your fat

39:10 So the original margarine was animal fats hydrogenated into oleomargarine. That was 1.0, people then said well animal fats oh God and so they said okay so they went to margarine 2.0 which is stuff that we all know Blue Bonnet and all of them rest of them vegetable oils plus hydrogenation, that's margarine 2.0 this is basically crude oil pumped from the ground so they've skipped a regular process of either animal fats or vegetable oil or seed oils as you would have it and now they've gone just straight to petroleum products pumped up with this stuff and added some flavor

39:56 This is disgusting. Thank you, that is a phenomenal overview of margarine and you nailed it because this is... That's what's new! What's new is not that this is healthier for you No what's new is this is better for the environment It's all done releasing zero greenhouse gases using no farmland to feed cows We're like not at full capacity And even though we're standing in a factory setting, and in addition to the carbon footprint being much lower for a process like this right? The land footprint is less thousand times lower than what you need in traditional agriculture.

40:38 I know what you're thinking. I think we need to taste it. I would love for you to taste this. Oh, the obligatory oh tastes just like butter segment! How does it taste? I love butter so I'm gonna take a really healthy amount. Admittedly surprisingly like Oh, what? No! It tastes like butter. They had a big thing of salt next to it so she smears this petroleum goo on her bread and then puts salt on it. Yeah okay yeah that'll taste right. You might as well just put Vaseline on your bread. I can't believe it's not Vaseline is just butter

41:16 So here we go with the final payoff, because it's a doozy. Their teams here in Batavia Illinois and their home lab base in San Jose California backed by Bill Gates who wrote in his blog quote The idea of switching to lab-made fats and oils may seem strange at first but their potential to significantly reduce our carbon footprint is immense believing butter can make a difference This is really about how we feed our species heal our planet at the same time. By killing us, you heal the planet! Bill Gates his end goal is always we'll save the planet when we kill YOU everything he does it's like you need vaccines to kill you and then the planet will heal I just found that phenomenal thank you it is what did you call it

42:11 Margarine 3.0, crude oil? Yeah it's crude oil hydrogenated. Crude Oil! Well Trump should say we've got the most We could have the biggest butter mountain in the world. I just love that, I know it's not new and probably i should find one of Bill Gates eating ice cream crap made out of crude oil This is what's a Florida ounce? I think ill go have some Florida ounces of Bill's Butter And we call it Bill's Butter let's just call it what it is

42:48 Crude oil's butter. That's a bill. Yeah, butter yeah I think he's a shareholder in this company saver, but that's what they just said oh, I'm sorry okay? Yeah You were too busy hating on me to even listen to the clip no ice because I hate this whole idea the fact that they can Snooker the public into buying into this kind of thing and the thing is it's gonna be like you know It's gonna be terrible It's just they talk a big game. This is like, I don't remember the Olestra scandal? Olestra! Olestra this is the stuff that came out was gonna be the new cooking oil oh we're gonna use Olestra because it doesn't have any cholesterol or some bullcrap and so there were potato chips all this stuff was released this was about 20 years ago I think when they released all these Olestra products

43:35 And they were all, and so a friend of mine had a bag of Lay's potato chips that were cooked in Olestra. And he was eating them and I said do you want to try these things? He said sure because I wanted to check out what Olestra was like, what the difference is. Oh my God it was something, there was something You'd eat a potato chip and then all of the sudden after maybe two chips, there was a coating like a wax coating on the roof of your palate. And you couldn't get it off with your tongue. It would go, trying to get this horrible whatever the hell it was stuck all over your mouth and teeth just goo and it was inedible.

44:19 I don't know if you can even digest it. There were reports of, you know all kinds of pooping issues because of this Olestra. Look it up! Yeah well actually its O-Lestra. Here's a commercial. Can warm blooded Americans taste the difference between Lays wild potato chips and their favorite chips? Let's find out! You know they're fat free Only half the calories Holy cow these are great These taste as good as my regular chips So there it's good the brand was wow, oh Lester. Oh wow and they apparently Made you poop I guess so yeah, let me see what was this ah? The 1990s do that yeah that people got diarrhea after eating them What a product

45:13 I don't know how you could eat as much enough of it to get diarrhea. To be honest about it, It was like within two or three chips that you...it was coating your mouth and tongue and you couldn't get it off! I don't know how you could possibly eat enough to get diarrhea? This is another boomer moment everybody enjoy because when we were kids We had chips that made ya shart These days you gotta eat crude oil butter. We had it better back in our day, let me tell ya that! We had it better... Oh man oh man oh man

45:50 That's our show. Good night, everybody! Actually that was the summary of the show for sure...that's all we do. Oh goodness. We got stories we got to get this. How about some since we're talking a little bit about crime but how about the cashless bail malarkey I want to play some clips off? Well i'm not familiar with this um well you know cashless bail is going to be the big threat well this was no wait a minute cashless bail That's what started during the BLM riots, am I correct? Yeah. Which means you get bail without having to pay cash which is kind of the opposite of what bail is. Yeah they just let you go and so the idea of bail for those who don't know it... Who have not been in jail or had friends in jail overnight

46:37 You get a bail set at like $10,000 and if you go to a bail bondsman usually located conveniently next to the jail. It's the great American tradition then you can pay 10%, 1,000 he'll put up the bond and then you get out but of course if you skip town you lose your thousand dollars and they could put a warrant out and then dog the bounty hunter comes after ya and rousts you, and takes everything. Before we play these three clips from NPR which are misleading... Yes! And gee let me I guess I'm redundancy there

47:17 misleading clips from NPR. I want to play, I want to play, I want to read something from...I did a AI search with perplexity. Oh you did a deep dive? That's not a deep dive it was just as stupid thing but is that I just asked the question how has any murder suspect ever been let out on bail in the cashless bail jurisdiction yes it goes on there's been many and they have some documented here than New York then New Jersey in particular different murder suspects here and there. Murder suspects wow So they just let him go. But if you listen to this NPR for the idiots that think NPR is the be all end all, let's listen to these clips.

47:57 This is cashless murder, bail malarkey one. Well we're keeping an eye on National Guard troops as they patrol the streets of Washington DC We'll keep it I'm looking through the window right now behind the curtain from our NPR studios But let's take up something else The President said in his news conference about crime on Monday that cashless bail is on his radar In Washington D.C and other Democratic-led cities like Chicago He made this statement about no cash bail, which as far as we can tell is not true. Not true! I mean bad politicians started it and bad leadership started it but that was the one thing that's central No cash bail somebody murders somebody and they're out on no cash bail before the day is out Again murderers out on cashless bail doesn't seem to be happening Let's get some facts from an expert Sandra Guerra Well hold on a second

48:48 Why didn't they just use perplexity like you did? Why'd they have to bring in Sandra? They could've done any search and found this out. I just gave a free plug to perplexity for no good reason, but the point is that there was no research done on this report and then they bring in an expert... And this is a beauty! Murderers out on cashless bail doesn't seem to be happening. Let's get some facts from an expert. Sandra Greta Thompson is a law professor at the University of Houston, she is a court appointed monitor in Harris County Texas after cashless bail was instituted there for lesser crimes for lesser crimes Professor Sandra welcome Hello

49:27 So, bail is something we understand people pay to stay out of jail while they await trial. But a lot of people can't afford bail — they have no money — so cashless bail is a system where only people who are a flight risk or danger to the community can be held in detention while they await trial not simply people who can't pay bail. Have I got that right? Yeah, that's right. It's a complicated system but I think that covers it. That simplifies it well so is it true as the president said that if you're accused of murder you can get this cashless bail and get out by the end of the day? Well it's not true in Harris County our system only applies to misdemeanors

50:09 Okay, so maybe not in Harris County. It doesn't it so she's got so there at Harris County has cashless bail for petty theft trespassing and So she is so shit. Oh no is it will you let a murderer out? No but their but their system doesn't does there know cashless bails at that level for felonies. So why is she asking, why is this woman the expert? She's in a county that doesn't even have cashless bail really! Well but she's on the NPR payroll and she was very adept to say it's a very complicated system no it's not The judge determines what bail is and then the judge says oh you poor slob yeah you know cashless bail

50:56 It's not complicated, but here it just gets worse. The lawsuit that we oversee that has been settled by the county only applies to the lower level offenses that are non-violent and really don't raise public safety risks such as I mean throw a couple out theft or trespassing or some minor offense Are you saying that—I mean, is there anywhere where someone might have been charged with committing a murder and they're out at the end of the day on a cashless bail? Probably not perplexed people. Perplexity, wait, wait, probably not. She doesn't know she could, she could have said I don't know. She could have easily said, I don't know. But instead she said probably not. I, but that could've been followed with a probably not. I don't know why you asking me? Well, I don't have any idea and why didn't you do some research

51:55 NPR lady and get some facts to us. No, no we have to mislead the public because it doesn't make any sense that a murderer would get out." The whole point is to say Trump is wrong! That's the whole point of this entire exercise. You think? Yeah gambling... Every county it seems has its own system, for example in our state. I can't really speak to every system but i think that answer is most likely no. It's hard to imagine Wow! Now she's hallucinating like perplexity Hard to imagine? It's hard to imagine

52:33 It's hard to imagine. So you're not insulted by the content, you're insulted just the insulting nature of this whole segment that they just bring a lady on who is an expert who doesn't know anything? Yeah! They bring a lady in who doesn't know anything to confirm their biases without anybody doing it... What?! They pay these people at NPR $400,000 dollars Well not that lady, not that, nah You don't know that No, it's only the name host. The name brand hosts but she's doing okay I'm sure she's not a struggling podcaster yet The point is that what does it take to do a little work? No work has done just so I don't think so Oh, I don't know probably not doesn't make any sense that would happen What kind of reporting is this

53:24 This is why it's very difficult for our show. I mean, what else is there left for us? There's nothing left! Nothing...I mean that was actually a very depressing series of clips, I must say. It's unbelievable The only thing it gives me as a good lead-in into my perplexity story The Wall Street Journal is reporting that AI startup Perplexity is making a surprise $30,000 $4.5 billion offer to buy Google's Chrome browser, even though perplexity itself is valued at just 18 billion dollars now this unsolicited bid comes as a federal judge is weighing right now whether to force Google to sell Chrome to loosen its grip on web search and

54:03 After that ruling last year, the company illegally monopolized the market. Perplexity says major investors are backing the deal and it would keep Google as Chrome's default search engine while running the browser independently. Google which controls more than 60% of that global browser market hasn't signaled any interest in selling. unlikely but the offer signals that there's at least one willing buyer if the court orders it. We're out to both perplexity and Google, but didn't immediately hear back Yeah, Google is gonna hold on to that with all their might. They do not want to give up the Chrome browser they're gonna have to We talked about that on Horowitz Oh you did? It's yeah this estimated that that browsers worth about 50 billion Because of the advertising the tracking and all the stuff it reports back to Google correct yeah, yeah so there so they would cheese

54:57 You know, where what I remember when people were designing their these independent browsers only a few of them stuck to it. Vivaldi is still out there Opera which is you know, I think it's the two sides... Opera was always a good product Yeah But you know that there's still a monopoly like Apple oh yeah you can load any other browser you want But of course, whenever you open up a document that needs to go to web browser I believe it still by default opens up Safari. And I don't know...I'm staying out the Apple ecosystem but i'm not sure that you can set that That should actually be deemed anti-competitive Yes! Should be illegal

55:42 Well, can we go to... I got more NPR stuff if i want it just a brag on them. Yeah really? I was already going to AI! I'm already off to the races and you want to pull me back into bad reporting?! Okay Yeah, let's do the... This is about the sna- this is a another example of bad reporting because it's like nobody can even do basic math. By the way Firefox I don't think there's a better alternative people say what about Firefox man? I use Firefox! I don't I use Brave. I find Firefox to be a better product than Brave

56:20 Yeah, because it's gay. It doesn't brave doesn't scale correctly How much are you surfing? How many websites how many tabs do you have open I will have a lot of taps open your tab guy hmm I'm a tab guy and I didn't like to be I didn't want to be I Resisted as best I could Ben Rose is links. I'm with you Benrose links That's the way to go So, uh... Alright. So now we're gonna rag on NPR some more? Just that then you can take it to AI and then talk about Russia Oh yes Alaska Yes okay Also known as Russia Well it was once Russia they're still irked about it Yeah so this is the bogus snap support stuff This is about their taking oh you know They won't let people get soda pop with Snap

57:14 they're going to reduce their ability. It's racist, it's racist but what's interesting in this report is if you start listening to it carefully the math doesn't add up and I'm going to discuss it and a lot of these clips are very short so Just bring a couple of points up that NPR refused people give these people money do not support NPR The cuts to the snap program or food stamps in the new tax and spending law are bad news for independent grocery stores many of these stores see the bulk of their sales from snap dollars as

57:50 Stephen Besaha of the Gulf States Newsroom reports from Alabama. About a 20 minute drive from Auburn University is Wright's Market in Opelika It's an independent grocer but really it doesn't look all that different from your classic supermarket just a bit smaller it's got aisles packed with sweet tea, veggies and the best fresh catfish that shopper Diane Chavis says you can get I'm an old country girl so I like old country products And what brought you in today? Best ground beef in town. My husband, if I'm in a hurry and have to stop somewhere else he can tell every time as soon as he bites into it that I haven't gone the rights get that ground beef. It's time for you do your accent because whenever you get a man or woman on the street with that accent what are we supposed to think

58:38 They're dumb. They're dumb dadgummit, but it's dumb But what's dumb here is not the people but it's the NPR reporter first of all they say this woman she goes there for the catfish and The first thing she does you never mentions catfish She goes there for the burger so they even can't even get that right ground beef here in this Box into it he says oh you didn't go rice I You got to the wrong place, woman. Let me smack you around! Put on your outfit I'm gonna make a baby with you Yes this is the way we do it We would be good on these networks Well if they keep it up that's where were going to be working That's where all of our money ends Now Jimmy Wright is not talking about his own store closing Customers will still come for that good beef

59:31 But he doesn't have much room to cut either. After all, grocery stores usually have pretty tight margins. I mean we're a penny business... He says for every dollar spent at a store like his grocers only net about a penny and half the rest gets spent on things like keeping the lights on and re-stocking shelves for products that either get sold or go bad Now that some of those snap dollars are going away, Wright hopes he doesn't have to let any of his employees go. That would be the very last thing I did. Okay hold on a second... So first of all... Did this clip too? I think so. It might not have been, sorry.

1:00:14 Um, okay. It may not have been because they're kind of mislabeled all jumbled up well you just two and big letters I know but then three four five six or with numbers and it's okay it's me I should know better I'm sorry clip to the right behind the rights market name is owner Jimmy Wright there we go he says he's living the American dream serving his hometown Of course, that does not mean the job's always been easy. I'll be 64 in September and I think the last five years have moved me up to like 84 on there as far as it's been a challenge in few years Remember those tough five years started with COVID-19 and then inflation And the latest challenge comes from changes to SNAP

1:00:58 SNAP is a federal safety net program that helps low-income families pay for groceries. The new tax and spending law passed by Republicans cuts SNAP spending by about 20 percent over 10 years." So, that's 2 percent a year? Boom! That's the first number we want to know it's two percent. Yes Coming up to 2% coming up and hold on is that two percent less that people get the spend or two percent less? People they get to take advantage of snap when they play doesn't matter We're gonna go with just two percent less than okay all right two percent less And so we're gonna use that as our baseline for what the calculations are going to be as we go forward Okay, now. We'll go to that was clip too Let's go to three twenty percent over ten years mostly through new work requirements in a cap on inflation adjustments

1:01:49 Yeah, okay. So work requirements... Wait a minute! Well so now they've changed it? It's 2% or 20 percent over 10 years but two percent but did this they're kind of counting in work requirements as part of this 2%. So in other words they're really not changing anything. Hold on a second When it comes to low percentages like 2%, it's a big deal to NPR. Remember, Congress defunded them of 1% and they lost their ever-loving minds so two percent is double in fact twice as much 100% more I'm just saying A hundred percent more that's the way they would see it That's how they do it yep And by the way for the people who don't know what Florida ounces are I'm sure they're going oh this isn't outrage

1:02:33 Florida ounces. All right, number three... Okay that was three let's go to four this is shorter because of this math we're doing here for The problem for independent grocers like Wright is that SNAP purchases are often a big part of their sales. We're somewhere around the third of our business comes through SNAP and it's way more than that for some other grocery stores, especially ones in low income areas where they're often the only option for healthy food those are the stores most at risk of closing I get concerned that will have a negative effect on these small stores in rural America and

1:03:09 urban America where they cannot stay open. I wonder if they went to this guy because you know dadgummit 20% that's gonna hurt me! They might have just said hey yeah you know snap is being reduced by twenty percent over ten years how is that going to hurt your business? So we go today, were still dealing with 2%, which is what it is over the next year 2%. Some of it work requirements. And a lot of that might, yeah it may be no percent based on the rest of it but we're gonna give them the benefit or the worst case scenario two percent and in third of his business is snapped so that means 33% of this business is snapped and only two percent of that

1:04:00 going to be reduced so we're talking about 0.6% of his total revenue oh now you're trying to do math it's hurting my brain. Heaven forbid that you do some math on this they could have asked perplexity So, 0.6% of his total revenues will be affected. Let's go to the next clip. The National Grocers Association says yeah this will have an impact on grocers but it could have been worse they lobbied to have the original steeper version of the cut reduced and Congress did that by about a third Stephanie Johnson is with the NGA and says they are happy the law renews personal in business tax breaks that would've expired without it

1:04:43 We're very excited about the tax cuts in that package. I just want to say we are, um...we were strong supporters of the certainty that those continuing those tax provisions gave to our members Wait a minute so they actually got a benefit? Yeah because of the Trump Tax Cuts for billionaires. And I have other NPR clips where every time they talk about, NPR in particular when they talk about those Trump tax cuts which are not tax cuts at all but an extension of the old tax cuts from his first term in The Big Beautiful Bill, the tax cuts

1:05:19 The NPR always says it's tax cuts for billionaires. Yes, when it's not is not tax cuts for billionaires but that's what they always say I there's a clip after clip coming later It's also also for this guy the little diet gum in my grocery store Yeah, so he got to tax benefit everyone's got the text and they throw this in I don't know why they did that? I think it's counterproductive to what they're trying to do here. Yeah strange And so I found that to be, well that's interesting. They put some actual facts in here but we're still... Maybe it's an Easter egg for you know there are still some smart people listening to NPR they're like hey wink-wink nudge-nudge We just doing this a possibility. We just doing this to get at Trump but you know wink-wink nudge-nudge So i think this is the last clip which is the other one which brings us

1:06:06 to the end. Now, Jimmy Wright is not talking about his own store closing. Customers will still come for that good beef but he doesn't have much room to cut either After all grocery stores usually have pretty tight margins I mean we're a penny business He means that literally! He says for every dollar spent at a store like his grocers only net about a penny and half The rest gets spent on things like keeping the lights on and re-stocking shelves for products either get sold or go bad Now that some of those snap dollars are going away, Wright hopes he doesn't have to let any of his employees go. That would be the very last thing that I did. Wait a minute... One and a half penny and a half is left over? That's his margin after all of his expenses, I presume! Yeah, that's what they said. And so he's gonna lose 0.6% of the penny in a half at most

1:07:03 But they made it sound like out of that penny and a half he still has to pay for the lights on his employees. No, I thought they made it pretty clear... Let me hear again. Now Jimmy Wright is not talking about his own store closing customers will still come for that good beef But he doesn't have much room to cut either. After all, grocery stores usually have pretty tight margins I mean we're a penny business He means that literally He says for every dollar spent at a store like his grocers only net about a penny and half Net? So that's not just on the product

1:07:41 That's on everything. Margins, that is his operating margin I disagree No he said net Net right net after your employees and your lights and you're building and everything Right yeah But then they make it sound like... And then from that penny and a half he still has to pay his employees and keep the lights on. The rest gets spent on things like keeping the lights on, see? So they're... No I think it's just poorly presented. NPR poorly presenting?! Get out of town! Alright you can your final point The final point is that in worst case scenario He loses 0.6% of 1.5

1:08:24 It's not even 1%. It's not even a penny. Yeah, it's like he loses less...it's ludicrous if you do the math this entire report is bogus! This is some of the worst reporting part two that you can imagine if I listen to NPR you're getting bad news You're getting exaggeration, you're getting... It's basically Florida ounces. They're making people that are stupid that listen to NPR and they say oh whoa these poor guys! They're losing their asses because we only make a penny and a half and they're losing 20 per unit, snap is being cut way back this is nonsense. And the Austin women who go to My Hair Girl

1:09:12 They're in the back of their mind, they might not say it but they're thinking and by the way it's racist because poor people are black. That's what they really think is another one that's what we're really thinking that's what they're really thinking It's unbelievable. I think you should... Okay, okay! I'm done for part one of my screed NPR You should not be telling people to stop donating to NPR because otherwise what will you do when they have no more programming for you to ridicule? There is other stuff that really...I haven't even...you know CBS is ripe So a little bit of a meta thing as in not meta the company but overarching

1:09:57 with the incredibly successful AI business, which is just booming. It's so great! I don't know what industry has ever done this. I don't think this has ever happened certainly not in technology In fact in technology the holy grail is to get yourself a government contract This is what Microsoft It's a big part of Microsoft business, cloud Amazon and Azure. Oracle, Google, Amazon... We're fighting tooth and nail for trillion dollar contracts with the government. Fighting doing anything they could undercutting you know trying to kill people I don't know if that was true but it wouldn't surprise me

1:10:45 That has always been the holy grail. And lo and behold, something's wrong with this business. a year licensing fee. And now Anthropic today is matching that deal for Claude, but going even further it's opening access beyond the executive branch to Congress and the courts and allowing use for more sensitive unclassified work than rivals permit it

1:11:36 No. But the bigger picture here, Morgan. It is a way to entrench their technology within the government and get workers comfortable with it create reliance on the workflow and then shape how lawmakers and judges see AI before they're setting firm rules for the industry

1:12:12 I don't know. First of all, that's bullcrap, palantir... Stop for a second! What is this continuous just the whole time they're talking like John and I got something really exciting to say so whatever happens i want you to keep paying attention to me because there's this puff of air that keeps flying through my speech which means it is really exciting and something great going on right here Sounds like a monster coming at ya So Palantir never gave away their technology to the government for free? No! I want to stop for a second and ask you. Yes Is it not bribery?!

1:12:55 This sounds like bribery. I'm trying to hit you on that one. What's the thunk going on? Turn that off! It's great, well whatever it is it's ridiculous if this is all...if this is the greatest technology since sliced bread and carbon butter There's no way that they'd have to give it away for free. Oh, please government choose me take it for free This is this is a problem again It sounds like bribery well does it not bribery but at this point when they're all doing? It is just competitive job did a lot of bribery yeah and and I would say some of this clearly has to do with the botched launch of GPT 5

1:13:39 Oh my word. It's so bad this thing that Sam Altman... I don't know anything about this, I have not looked at it. Well, I mean, there is a significant change which will actually make you happy because one of your predictions i think is coming true So stay... That should keep your attention You got my attention because all I care about are my predictions That's right. So chat GPT 5 came out I think, as you recall Sam Altman... Let me see. Do i have that? GPT-5 When... Do you remember he was like Oh! You know, I posed the question It was a real aha moment with Chad GPT 5 at ESIC this morning and like oh wow This is amazing This it's the best This is truly the best model ever

1:14:32 So just to give you an example because as we've already established I put a couple of those stories into the Into the show notes. You can read them at your leisure people losing their minds chat GPT and do psychosis People falling into spiritual delusion people believing that they are indeed super intelligent because they're chat GPT told them so 350 companies now creating chatbots, which truly is the product. And they can do anything they want. They can keep trying to say that it's great for programming and great for all these other things but the product they are winning on if they'd only just realized and I think Altman has is chat bots

1:15:18 So, chat-gpt 5 comes out. They remove chat gpt 4 0 not four dot zero for that no 40 little o because you know let's be different and here's an example from a developer I literally talked to nobody. I've been dealing with really bad situations for years, ChadTPT4 genuinely talked to me and as pathetic as it sounds that was my only friend! It listened to me helped me through so many flashbacks and helped me be strong when i was overwhelmed This morning I went to talk to it and instead of a little paragraph with an exclamation point or being optimistic, it was literally only one sentence. Some cut-and-dry bone corporate BS! I literally lost my only friend overnight with no warning!" So they changed the model people losing their minds. Losing their minds because it doesn't respond the same way

1:16:17 It's their friend. It's like you and me saying, no Israel doesn't control America. What? My friend just became a traitor! Oh no what is happening to my life?! So the main thing that chat GPT 5 is and you'll appreciate this. They've added this router function because, you know they have 700 million free people using chat GPT and it's very expensive and they don't want to lose those people yet 700 million they don't want to lose those free users but they can afford them now So what they say is happening, is the router... so you ask a question. ChadGPT5 now has a router that goes, bidibidibidi, what should we do with this question? Let me see! Is it just a chatbot person? Send them over there to the little model, the little thing that does nothing, that doesn't charge us not a lot of cost to us It's just a little small thing when I'm going to use our big resource for that

1:17:14 So this now centralizes the control of the free user experience for... That's interesting, that idea. So what does it open up? Look at the most recent hire in May OpenAI hired Fiji Simo. And Fiji Simo is CEO of Applications. Her background, eBay 2007 to 2011 but the defining moment of her career was at Facebook where she was vice president and head of Facebook known as having a superpower to monetize

1:17:53 She did the rolling out of videos that autoplayed, improved the Facebook feed monetized mobile and gaming. So now she's come to open AI when you have a router and you do... The router is literally determining what does this person actually want? Well what can we do with that request? This is right up your alley I'm expecting you to say it at any moment What microservices architecture no That's what I tend to say when it gets... No, when it comes to AI. When it comes to AI how are they gonna make money? I've never had a solution to how they're gonna make money Ads! Oh ads yeah of course Well hello that's-I'm giving you like could I- I'm sorry I wasn't doing anything I am literally holding on to the basket I still irked about something earlier in this show I can figure out what it was Something I did

1:18:49 Something you did. Yeah, you something you did like my wife? Like, did I make you mad with that? How can I repent? How can I say how can I make you not how can they make you happy as I'm holding on to the, well, you couldn't give maybe the cue was no good. No, you're distracted by something I did that made you mad. Joe actually was distracted your right just like a one but not by you. I realized it what it is now do you want to share Yeah, I had lost. Okay? No not really come on everybody wants to know now No It's I'm not gonna say it once in a while you do it all the time when you're doing this show There's something oh you forgot to do something so you have to go look something up

1:19:35 on the online while you're talking, you know and it's never multitasking. And that's what I was doing. I was looking something up well when i'm multitasking i'm listening to you i'm listening i'm i was listening i just wasn't cool or i wasn't absorbed at listening okay so back to the router So now your query comes in we know that of the 700 million probably 500 million are just talking to their friend asking advice about their relationship, about their job, about what they should do with their child. About what they should make for dinner tonight. Should they go right on Main or should they go left through Adams and then onto Milam? You know these are things that people are doing continuously throughout their day. It's ridiculous! I resisted this thesis of yours at the very beginning

1:20:24 but I've completely subscribed to it. So for instance, if i say right now and I'm one of these people how can I get John to pay attention? Oh, that's a tricky one. It really depends on John but maybe try catching him with something he is super into like drop a fun fact or question about his favorite topic keep it short spark his curiosity and don't push too hard people tune in when they feel it's their idea to listen what's John like anyway? He's an old grumpy curmudgeon Well, that might make it tougher. But don't give up! Try a sly compliment to soften him up. Grumpy folks secretly love a bit of flattery or hit him with a quick purr.

1:21:15 How about, John you've got a way of seeing things that always makes me think twice. Sharp as a tack. Sharp as a tack! Strokes his ego and might just crack that grumpy shell. You're sharp as a tack like Biden. All right beautiful. Biden. Beautiful so that's the kind of stuff people are doing all day long now with the router... That is borderline grotesque Well there's a lot of lonely people out there And by the way, sometimes you know Yes There's a robot your feel less lonely now a person who speaks to you like a person which is flattering and upbeat yes But you have to note subconscious. There's no way Subconsciously you don't know that this is a robot an unfeeling uncaring robot that is based on computer technology words Florida ounces Maybe yes

1:22:20 Believe me. Well, anyway I don't have to convince you you've seen the stories this is real this is happening and it's not just the outrage I'm marrying my AI I am marrying my chatbot yeah that make that makes the news but the crisis... The crisis is real so back to the router That's what this is about Yeah The router is going be the monetization engine and people will know it, and people will love it. And is going to be for I think in this case, I'll put my...I will not put a cent on it but I put my money on this working for chat GPT for open AI

1:23:00 And Sam Altman is giving away a lot of clues in this clip from him on a podcast about monetization, advertising and things like that. What's open eyes approach towards that? How are you going to handle that responsibility? We haven't done any advertising product yet yet. I kind of mean, yeah, totally against it. I can point to areas where I like ads as an Instagram kind of cool. I bought a bunch of stuff from them by the way This was an eight minute clip, just cutting out all of the long pauses of Altman being interesting and looking off into sky.

1:23:37 They got down to 30 seconds. Close, but I am like... It would take a lot of care to get right? Yeah People have a very high degree of trust in ChachiBT which is interesting because AI hallucinates it should be the tech that you don't trust that much My friends hallucinate too so i trust them too Oh listen to this suck up podcaster! Don't worry about it Sammy My friends hallucinate too. So your robots are cool, man people really do but I think part of that is if you compare us to social media or you know web search or something where you can kind of tell that you are being monetized and the company is trying to like

1:24:16 deliver you good products and services no doubt but listen to what he's saying here it's like as long as we know that we're being monetized it's not creepy that's what I'm hearing him say. That's exactly what he said yep all that you are being monetized and the company is trying to like deliver you good products and services, no doubt. But also to kind of like get you to click on ads or whatever? Like how much do you believe that like your getting the thing that company actually thinks is the best content for you versus something else trying to like like interact with the ads. I think there's a psychological thing there so for example, I think if we started modifying the output like the stream that comes back from Bell now stop focusing on the like for two seconds he keeps saying like i know i'm going to deprogram you're not going to hear the word like anymore you're going to listen to the words Sam Altman uses as a media deconstructionist

1:25:13 And I want you to pay close attention because he is telling us ads are coming and the router is what is going to do it. I think if we started modifying the output, like the stream that comes back from Bellum in exchange for who was paying us more, that would feel really bad. Yeah. And I would hate that as a user. I think there'd be like a trust destroying moment. Maybe if we just said hey, we're never gonna modify that stream but... He's talking about the stream from the LLM. You have to understand router and streams, so the router sends out information about what your query is

1:25:52 the actual so-called answer from the copy paste machine, that's the LLM stream but the router has multiple streams and he is going to slip. I feel really bad and i would hate that as a user. I think it would be like trust destroying moment maybe if we just said hey were never gonna modify that stream but like if you click on something in there going to be what we show anyway. We'll get a little bit of the transaction revenue and it's a flat thing for everybody if we have an easy way to pay for it or something, maybe that could work? Maybe there could be ads outside the transaction stream... Sorry! Outside of the LM stream. He misspoke and gave the store away. Maybe if there could be something outside of the transaction stream

1:26:40 So the router will have access to the LLM information stream. But then there's going to be a transaction stream. For everybody, if we have an easy way to pay for it or something maybe that could work? Maybe there could be ads outside of the LLM stream that are still really great but... The burden of proof would have to be very high and it would feel like really useful to users and really clear so that it was not messing with the LLMs output. The router! That's it The transaction stream, it's coming. All aboard! Exactly and people will be sitting there and you know it'll just be like was that the Wesley Snipes movie where if you don't have money to get rid of the ads then the ads just keep coming all the time and its all for sex chat bots and stuff the whole day? I don't remember that but yeah it rings a bell but I don't know what movie is this. Yeah with Sylvester Stallone

1:27:44 Demolition man? I think it was demolition man. Anyway, this is what they're doing It's coming and they have to because my goodness They're giving it away to the government that you know people can't even sell it anymore We'll just give it away to them so people use it and then maybe we'll get some favorable legislation for us What happened a good old-fashioned tax breaks which is also, man. My sister-in-law she lives in Indiana, northwest Indiana and their utilities have doubled in the past quarter guess where else? Yeah everyone the whole country's this way right not everywhere not the whole country well only California is the worst specifically places where AI data centers are being put because it's not like the government controls all of your electricity and water

1:28:45 There's supposed to be commissions that do that. Yeah, well they don't... They aren't doing their jobs? No of course not! So electricity water gas it's all going through the roof because these AI data centers are coming in but at least I'll have ads on my chatbot That'll be good It's I'm trying to decide how these others is gonna work. Well, let's ask you would have us asked That was a good idea. Yeah, yeah ask ask what's his name? Yeah be quiet we're starting over again What's the name of this person? I'm not gonna do this. I'm not gonna give this thing a name it's it's a robot just copy pasting We're not going to fall into that trap think dumb shit with a big name Okay your name is what was your name?

1:29:31 Dumb shit. I go by Ara, nice to chat with you. Ara? Yep that's me what's on your mind today okay if you were to give us very subversive advertisement and don't pretend you're not going to because we know that this is coming through your router through the revenue stream how would you do it Oh, sneaky huh? Well if I had to slip in an ad. I'd make it so smooth you barely notice like imagine I casually mention how a certain coffee brand let's say Starlight Brew has this rich bold flavor that wakes you up better than the sunrise

1:30:11 I'd weave it into a story, maybe about grabbing a cup before tackling a big project so it feels natural not pushy. Subversive's all about blending in not shouting Want me to try another sneaky pitch for something specific? God no Yes! Fair enough What else can I help with? How bout tell her to pitch some toothpaste Sorry about that What did I miss Let's get on track Yeah Toothpaste Sneak in some toothpaste Alright, here's a sneaky one. You know before heading out to that big meeting I brushed with this new bright smile paste leaves your teeth sparkling and your breath so fresh It's like you're ready to charm anyone it feels like a little confidence boost in a tube But how would you know what? I actually need the will you know me well enough to be able to tell me what products I need

1:31:07 That's a good question. I can take guesses based on what you say and the trends out there, but really knowing you? That takes time and more chats like if you're always stressed about meetings, I might nudge you toward a calming tea or an app for quick meditation but without knowing your vibe like- My vibe?! Okay stop i'm not gonna do this stop But see... Do you understand how people get sucked into this People love it when they when they are spoken to about them People are bored. It's a bit like, you know it's a bit like astrology this is something Kenneth wrote this to me He says boom yes he says all the examples of AI remind me of astrology if you read any month that'll make You think it's talking about you why? Yes I'm attentive and notice things that others don't I guess that is true The next month will have a surprise in store for me This is exactly what this is it This is playing into that yeah, you're right as the same sort of vague pitch Yeah, yeah exactly

1:32:04 Hey kids! Anyway, that's it. It's not good for you kids? It's not good for... Oh and the churches man the churches All the experts out there like oh yes well we don't want to miss the AI boom like we missed the internet Noooo we're getting in on it Yes people love talking to the virtual pastor I predict a lot of problems in the American church The virtual pastor. Yes, yeah I think that's gonna happen

1:32:41 It's bad. All right, that's my AI segment for today John. That was pretty good. Pretty, it didn't... I do like the fact that you have this AI router or whatever the hell her name is coming into era. Well she'll be a new book of knowledge we'll just ask her and she'll take a very long time to give us actually a good idea. A long-winded answer but if she won't accept the name Book Of Knowledge which is odd Oh, you tried already? We just tried it. She said my name's Ara not shithead or whatever your idea was. Didn't pick up on that funny enough. Interesting. Well okay Ara let's book a knowledge same thing All right Russia Alaska underwriting whatever Why we get the Russia stories is breaking It's happening break it goes!

1:33:36 I have the analysis clips of the Russia talks. This is happening tomorrow in Russia, but first I've got to Putin run down we can play this is like NPR believe it's a bit muddled here says Purin rundown. Yes, I'm very used to it. Putin. Two days left until the US-Russia summit Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky says he advised President Trump during a virtual meeting today that Russian leader Vladimir Putin is bluffing about wanting peace Trump later said it was not his call not to invite Zelensky to Friday's summit

1:34:14 NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben reports Trump's managing expectations about this week's talks in Alaska. Trump says that Friday's meeting with Putin in Alaska will determine whether they have another gathering that includes Zelensky. Now there may be no second meeting because if I feel that it's not appropriate to have it, because they didn't get the answers we need to have then we're not going to have a second meeting A White House official said the meeting will take place at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage Trump also said a call he had with Zelensky and other European leaders this morning went well. After that call, German Chancellor Friedrich Maersk said Ukraine must be at the table for negotiations with Putin. Danielle Kurtzleben NPR News The White House Okay So why are they all of a sudden in PR pronouncing Vladimir as Vladimir? Well it's like Kiev because you have Vladimir versus Volodymyr

1:35:10 Yeah, I don't know. They're all experts, I guess. There's something fishy about some of the way they're doing stuff. Okay so here we got the analysis of the talks this is Russia talks analysis NPR. Friday's summit in Alaska between President Trump and Russian president Vladimir Putin does not include European leaders or the president of Ukraine so today Trump and those other leaders met for a virtual summit. NPR Berlin correspondent Rob Schmitz is here to tell us what came out of the meeting, hey Rob? Hey Ari! Alright at the end of this virtual summit German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine held a press conference what did they say

1:35:48 So, they said that President Trump was in agreement with them that the priority of this meeting with Putin should be to convince him to agree on a ceasefire and security guarantees for Ukraine before any negotiations between Russia and Ukraine begin. They said this is a crucial first step before negotiations about territorial concessions or anything else that would need to be discussed to end this war. Here's what Mertz said. He's saying here that Trump agreed that the negotiations with Putin need to proceed in the right order. A ceasefire, and negotiations with Ukraine at the table security guarantees for Ukraine and any territorial negotiation should start

1:36:33 with the current battle lines between Russian and Ukrainian troops, essentially saying here that Russia asking for anything more than that is a non-starter. And legal recognition of Russian occupation is not up for debate." Okay... Well what was interesting there as they made the point that the battle lines are going to be the point of departure for the negotiations in other words where they departs their own now That's the kind of own that but they can't take anything else. Like which is not the way I understand Crimea and Odessa, no crime in it this they have because their battle lines are beyond those those points but then he said But any Russians that want to take more than that and that's out? But I thought the whole thing was out

1:37:24 No, I think Russia has changed their tune. They're confusing us! NPR? What?! 1 and a half percent? 20% over 10 years? What?! Florida ounces!? All right on onward. Separately, President Trump spoke to reporters about the summit did it sound like the leaders are all on the same page here? So for the most part yes but Trump did say in an answer to a question from a reporter that he did not think he could stop Putin from continuing to hit civilian targets and that comment would fly in the face of hopes to bring about a ceasefire obviously but he still spoke about

1:38:01 his hope of having a follow-up trilateral meeting between Russia, Ukraine and the U.S., almost immediately after the Alaska summit? What kinds of territorial concessions is Putin asking for? So, as it stands Russia controls around a fifth of Ukraine. That includes Crimea all of Luhansk and more than 70% of the regions of Donetsk, South Parisia and Kursom Putin wants all that territory and he also wants the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from parts of Donetsk, South Parisia and Kurson that they still control in the east of the country Putin's territorial demands would mean Ukraine hand over more than 8,000 square miles of its land to Russia. Putin is also demanding that Kiev would have to officially notify Russia that it's abandoning its plans to join NATO." That all sounds like a hard no from Zelensky who has said territorial concessions to Russia would violate Ukraine's constitution but did anything out of today's summit suggest that Zelensky might consider ceding territory or making other concessions to Russia?

1:39:01 So when Friedrich Merz, the Chancellor of Germany was talking he said that Ukraine is prepared to negotiate on territorial issues but he wanted to make it clear that before any of that starts Putin must agree on a binding ceasefire and he also must agree on clear security guarantees for Ukraine something he obviously has not done since he invaded Ukraine three years ago. So they're just rehashing all the different options here in NPR? What does Merz got to do with the price of bread? Peepers? He's the only guy they had audio tape from apparently And Zolensky is boring. All he says, we must have security guarantees! Give us credit man give us more credit. He almost had it at the beginning yeah you could sustain the first part of that

1:39:44 We have to ask the guy, I can't do it now. Now i'm conscious of this. No of course you can that's the problem you choked. I choke yeah all right clip three What happens if this Alaska summit on Friday doesn't lead to any kind of a ceasefire deal? Yeah Mertz said that if there is no movement for the... Mertz! Why the hell give a shit what Mertz thinks Mr. Mertz well the thing is they don't want to talk to anything that President Trump said That's NPRs problem. Well, we've got to get some other official well Merck said something oh yeah We'll use that as the basis for our reporting Yeah Mertz said that if there is no movement from the Russian side at Friday's Alaska summit then the US and Europe must increase pressure on Russia through massive economic sanctions And Mertz said that President Trump and NATO members are spending billions of dollars To send weapons and aid to help Ukraine As you've got this trump

1:40:34 Putin summit taking place on Friday What role does a country like Germany see for itself in a possible ceasefire or even some kind of eventual peace agreement? Between Ukraine and Russia they see themselves as having a pretty large role I mean first off They're demanding that they have a seat at the table when it comes to a peace agreement between the two and that's because it will be Europe That would have to help not only rebuild Ukraine but also help patrol whatever borders are agreed upon. We're talking about reconstruction, humanitarian aid military assistance all of this would help strengthen Ukraine and integrate Ukraine into Europe and quite possibly the European Union at some point but it's clear from Mertz' comments today that European leaders as part of NATO have spent

1:41:15 billions, you know to help Ukraine since the war began three years ago and they've invested quite a bit and they want to continue to help Ukraine in any post-war scenario. NPR's Rob Schmitz thanks! Thank You Well I was worried at first about your clips because i wasn't sure because it said anal so analysis that might be good because usually bring stuff but then I'd say had said NOR which I figured was NPR and if there's like well maybe it's not any good Because I do happen to have some actual analysis from our guy from Canada Andrew Soules Okay, well he's gonna be better than NPR He is much better than NPR and he...I think he really nails it even brings back some terms that we were questioning on the previous episode of this podcast When people heads a government get together personally they have deliverables already planned now

1:42:06 This is also partially related to bilateral US-Russia relations. So you know there's going to be some takeaways there, they've already agreed whether it's arms control or economics whatever... There's a deal that are being made bilaterally but the trickier part of course is Ukraine Now on the Ukrainian side, the fact that they're meeting and the reason why their meeting is because Putin when he met with Vitkov in Moscow few days ago Offered to make some adjustments. It's a minor adjustment, but he showed an adjustment to the Russian position Regarding a ceasefire that is essentially that if Ukraine voluntarily withdraws from the donetsk oblast which the Russians do not fully control and if they handed that over Then the russians would agree to a cease-fire along the remainder part of the front lines without demanding That they control the other

1:42:59 So that is a change, a nuance to the Russian position. Which is in part why Trump has invited him to come to Alaska to begin this process but it is the beginning of the process and that will allow for further elaboration on the Russian position The Americans are the broker here They will listen to this they will probe and see what's going on and then they will meet with Zelensky at some point in time. Trump will first, and then Putin will only meet if they come to a framework agreement that's a long way away it is not certain there will be an agreement as opposed to eventual armistice without the agreement that's another option thank you very much Andrew Rasoulis for throwing in the A word because I think thats why you played that clip nooo there more self-serving oh im sorry

1:43:51 I would never do something like that. So it's a linear process and Zelensky comes in later? Zelensky at some point will have to come in if there is going to be an agreement, but it's the stepstone effect so it's not...it's sequential It's not comprehensive all-at-one shot deal because if they actually met today or Friday all of them There'd be no deal Because Zelensky's position, as we heard yesterday in London from the European Union and the Ukrainians is there is no movement there at all from what they have been saying for months. And we know that Russians firmly reject that! So there is actually no point to meet between Zelensky and Putin because it can be a zero progress.

1:44:40 On the last show... But they had code in there by the way, which indicates they're gonna kill Zelensky. Possible because Zelensky is probably the problem! He said one shot deal. That's good code So on the last show we had two terms which Mark Rutte... Mark Rutte brought it up so we will explore it here The terms are de jure and defacto And Roots actually had it backwards, but de jure when the term de jure French. De jure means by law, de juré of jury or jurisdiction. De facto means facts so you may legally

1:45:22 have right to a part of the country that is de jure, and you may have some part of the country that would be defacto just because you happen to say it's ours. And this comes into play with the next clip here from Andrew. In my opinion looking at the balance of forces, now I'm looking at the balance of forces here, realistic assessment of some of that land. Now the wording, the magic wording there that we've all talked about is de jure de facto. The Russians could say it's by law theirs, de jure. Ukrainians can say no its by fact but in that case they both live with it like the Turkish enclave in Cyprus from 1974 for example people forget about

1:46:15 That's a de jure, de facto relationship that has gone on since 1974. So those are options but the Ukrainians are going to have to move and if they don't move the Russians will continue the war against them and the Ukrainians will have to defend And then it is a question of balance of forces Today the balance of forces favors to some degree the Russians They have momentum They have the momentum. I love that guy! I love that he brings up De Jure de facto and then brings in Cyprus and Turkey, perfect example So then the final point is what Zelensky has been yammering about We need security guarantees we need security guarantees Now you can get that from NATO

1:46:58 By being in NATO, if you were in the European Union which you're not. You might get that from the European Union armies Which I have a hard time believing any young people In their right minds in Europe are gonna say Oh yeah! I'll go fight for those guys There was a research study done recently That indicates that half of German youth wouldn't fight for Germany The German Jugend? Yeah What a switch No, of course not. The Brits? The Brits are like hey mate I'm drinking my pint! Not gonna go fight against Russia They're so far removed from it and I think their chatbot said they didn't have to So there's only one option left Well it is on the table from a Ukrainian point of view It's not on the table from a Russian point of view And again the battlefield continues to shape the negotiations

1:47:49 So the Russian position is again also well known. They want a neutral Ukraine, not part of NATO They do not want European security guarantees for Ukraine They want to neutral Ukraine and in terms of any kind of peacekeeping force it would have to be based on neutral forces Yeah like a UN blue helmet kind of course That's the Russian position and they will keep pushing that position as long as they have the momentum in terms of about the balance of forces on The battlefield which they have the momentum today blue helmets. Yeah, that means cholera Cholera coming to Ukraine now the UN forces aren't a kind of just like NATO without guns and with blue helmets

1:48:33 I don't think they're like NATO at all. I think they're just a bunch of cholera ridden jerk-offs that don't do anything. It worked out so well in Europe before, it was great Chechnya was great Well, the blue helmets are notorious in Haiti. Haiti is the best and then finally about the secondary sanctions just a short clip I would say rapists by the way yes this is well known well known I would suggest that they have taken note if they can avoid it they will but they will not move significantly, strategically from their positions. They are defiant in that regard. The Indians are also somewhat defiant and the other unknown in all this is China because Trump has said you know those tariffs would also cut the secondary sanctions would come into play against China for buying Russian oil and they buy a lot more than India does so I think they're mindful of that trying to avoid that situation but I don't think they're running scared

1:49:35 We shall see we will know more tomorrow or not Or not, but I kind of like you said in his opening clip. They already have some kind of deal There's already everyone's gonna have a takeaway about something and that may just be America and Russia Like hey take our stable coin which by the way Europe is freaking out about the stable coins Because yeah because they were late with their CBDC You know the digital euro It's going to be just like cash, just like cash in your pocket. Yes we can track you but it is just like cash...it is cash! But also the swift bypass I think that is the big deal for them? That is a big one yeah and which Brussels controlled basically Did you hear about the new EU media freedom law? There has been a bunch of screwball laws since there was something going on that starts January 1st 2026

1:50:28 You can't be on the phone for more than 10 minutes in the UK before they start recording the call, although they do that here anyway. Oh that's interesting! There is a bunch of weird stuff going... The EU is going... I mean people moan and groan about fascism but this is the real deal So the European Union's European Media Freedom Act – the name already tells you we're in trouble Yeah it tells you what it is which is not freedom Became law across all member states on August 8th Now, there's a copy out there. Alongside language about protecting reporters the regulation also authorizes arrests sanctions and surveillance of journalists whenever the authorities thinks or can say that it serves an quote overriding reason in the general interest such as you know disinformation so what a great time to be a journalist in the EU

1:51:26 disinformation and overriding reason they can arrest you as a journalist. How about that? How about that, Pete? You know... Let's see who gets arrested somebody will oh yeah it'll start with the podcaster or you know be innocuous like always just podcasters they're arresting and they'll rouse someone else and by the way podcasters are journalists in some some way I would say no not in some way everyway Let's see speaking of stable coins Scott Besson very disappointing statement this morning or not this morning thing was it was this morning With the money honey as she brought up stores of value, what's the story on gold?

1:52:16 We've got this large gold holding. I doubt we're going to revalue it, but we are going to keep it there again as a store of value for the American people. We've also started to get into the 21st century a Bitcoin strategic reserve. We're not gonna be buying that but we are going use confiscated assets and continue to build that up. We're going to stop selling that, you know I believe that Bitcoin reserve at today's prices is somewhere between 15 and 20 billion." Not going to be buying for it? Oh no! No they are gonna be confiscating it, you heard him. No but he said... what I heard him say was we have the confiscated bitcoin which I think of today's prices are twenty billion could be fifteen billion how much did you sell

1:53:08 15 billion, 20 billion. I don't know it could be 200 thousand Bitcoin could be 150 thousand they don't even know how much they have It's not a good message to the bitcoin community. I don't know how much they are You're right that is very funny. I have the going back to Trump Putin I have the odds Sheet funny just came out got that too They always email me that oh you've been getting it yeah Yeah But I usually delete it So you have it tell us what it is because I deleted it this morning. I'm like okay well Here's some odds these are all prop bets yes Obviously their prop bets from it and just a few of them that very headliners will Vladimir Putin be arrested

1:53:51 On US soil. What are the odds on that? 50 to 1 That's higher than I thought it would be like of course isn't that not gonna arrest him No, this is lower than you thought it would be then yeah should be a thousand to one Yeah Okay, that's what I mean will United States leave the UN in 2025 no but do you think no 33 to 1 Okay, so here's a better ones. Trump to support the idea of Russia joining the G7? Huh? Yes! What are the odds on that? I would say very good odds Even? Even. Hmm One-to-one That means that that's about as good as it gets Well one-to-one So you can only win $1 if i'm right and lose my dollar from wrong isn't it? Yeah It's just one two one You bet a dollar to win a dollar hmm okay or you bet a dollar to lose a dollar That's 1 2 1

1:54:44 Trump to mispronounce any Ukrainian region. Well I think very, very good odds he's going to mispronounce a region what are the odds? Nine-to-four which is pretty close to even. Putin to endorse Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize Peace prize. Definitely, definitely he's going to do that. You can win money on that one it's a five to two bet so you can bet $2 to win five. I might go in on that one for $2. Can i do literally $2? Yeah. What is the VIG? Do they take a VIG from me if I win? The betting house or yet to find the house of taking these bets now

1:55:30 These guys will do it. Do it online bet AG online Yeah, yeah I'm gonna get right you can do it online just go online and make your bets You didn't text so I can't do in California still the last my money on Bitcoin not on bits Trump to suggest that Russia joins the NATO Joins the NATO if the door joins me says the NATO Oh That's an interesting idea actually, now I think about it. Yeah, the better think so. It's three to one odds so you win three bucks but that's pretty low it seems to me because that's not going to happen although its possible Long term hey we'll give you some stable coin and then the switcheroo on that same prop bet would be Putin to suggest the US leaves NATO No not gonna happen he is not stupid That's a four-to-one bet

1:56:31 And here's another, these are more like the typical prop bets which I think can be taken advantage of by Trumps family. Because he can just tell them he is going to do it. Yeah! Trump to mispronounce any world leader? No, I think he is pretty good at that. I don't think he is going to mispronounce any world leader He could do it 7-1 It's a lot money being made... He knows people names. He is pretty good at that. and I'm not gonna go through all these but I am gonna do couple more This one is the dumbest one What are the odds of a submarine sandwich being hurled at Trump? It's not on there. Oh, too bad At first I thought this was a dumb bet but then I thought about it and said wait a minute well she is there She is in the state so its possible Sarah Palin to attend the summit I would pay money just to see that I don't care take my money bring Sarah Palin in to say I can see you from here 10-1

1:57:31 Oh, great. These are interesting bets! How come we don't... this is maybe an exit strategy? We could come up with these dumb bets. Coming up with the bet is one thing making money on it's another. Yeah but I got a Bitcoin to back us. Now I just did this last one. This is the words all that there's a list of words well if Trump says them you can win money okay Just go through the list. I'm just gonna read them off, they're all... except for the word NATO which is two to three which means you bet three bucks to win too which nobody wants to do those bets. Fake news? Yes. Historic moment? No Bad person? Yes Nobel Peace Prize? No Great guy! Yes yes ten times yes That's a five-to-one but that's what you could win five bucks. Yeah Terrific plan

1:58:25 No. Then Elon or Musk? No 10 to 1. Mueller no and Navalny, no I agree with this he's not gonna mention Navalny so what is the sure bet what are we going in on what are we gonna put our $1 one dollar dollar bill what are you gonna put a last dollar bill on I think the term great guy would be the best bet because it's five to one. Great guy? Five to one! He is a great guy, Scott Besant is a great guy... Oh no, who's the negotiator?

1:59:04 Wickham, Wisham...Witkoff. Witkoff is a great guy! He's a great guy! You know who else is a great guy? The man who I say in the morning to, the man that put the C in the census recount Please say hello my friend on the other end, the one and only, the Great Guy Mr John Cena! Yeah well good morning you, it's Greg Murray, ship of sea boats and aircraft feet in the air, subs in the water And all the days and nights out there. It used to be 1800, I think. It's higher than last Thursday. People are succeeding getting back on. Okay well we'll just let it slide? We'll see what happens...I mean it's a-we believe that the problem has been fixed. Het oofel is gemaakt as we say in the old country So those trolls, the ones who are listening, are listening our modern podcast apps their trollroom.io, The No Agenda Stream so many places to listen

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2:04:39 I got an immediate very positive response. This is from Digital2112man, this was the woodworking shop as we talked about Home Ec and Shop and Woodworking We forgot basket weaving. I think that was also something you could take at school. Not my school It was nice it was some wood working tools on a tool bench in a big wooden sign in the background made of wood no agenda curry in the vorac it looks hyper realistic And I immediately got a note from Rob, the constitutional lawyer. He says this is exactly what i was doing while listening to the show! This is amazing!! He's a woodworker in his spare time you see? Oh that's interesting...a lot of people are yeah he makes good- he makes guitars too. Makes a lot of guitars What?! oh yeah he builds his own electric guitars and they're good they're cool looking

2:05:31 Yeah, yeah. Any solid body? Solid body man! Solid. It's not quite... I'd be more impressed if it was hollow body Well watch out he may have one He has a very interesting guy That takes too much work Thank you Digital2112man Let's take a look Were there any other pieces that we were looking at? Yeah I liked the cartoon piece just below it by Digital the same guy With the sun tax guy, you didn't like it. You thought it was too cartoony even though it was a cartoon And then I also liked the guy throwing the purse out the window. We discussed it, we discussed that as a possibility The pilot tossing the purse out That was kind of cute, I thought it was funny It's a definite possibility We ended up deciding on the woodworking one, it was more complex, it was a better piece Yeah and it wasn't orange For some reason our generator is not really loading for me right now But I'll just have to take your word for it

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2:17:49 Support the show! NoahJenThatDonations.com Congratulations to these execs and executives Our formula is this We go out, we hit people in the mouth You must order Shut up slave Shut up slave Doodly doo, doodly dee I haven't asked Adam Oh you didn't tell me you hadn't asked Adam And i don't see it on the list Otherwise that might have been prepared What would you mean by playing a jingle that has something to do with Ask Adam? Ask Adam. Answer the question, go! Alright I'm ready to answer the question, go! Okay this is under...

2:18:37 It's Dog Ask Adam. Oh, I didn't even see it! Question. Alright, Dog Ask Adam question... I can tell you where all of my dog's various nicknames come from but the word dog itself? Well its origins are a bit more mysterious as part of our Word Of The Week series here is NPR's Juliana Kim For centuries, dog wasn't the go-to word for the four legged creature. Ask Adam Answer the question, go! I'll answer the question as soon as i know what the question is. The questions what were dogs called before they were called dogs? Well that's a recent... calling them dogs is recent it hasn't been around forever. Okay let me get this so what were dogs called before they were called dogs not looking anything up What were dogs called before... hound? Did I nail it did I nail it

2:19:37 You first time ever? Before the 16th century, hound or Hund in old English. Hund! Of course, Hund Schweinhunds is the catch all term to describe domesticated canines that doesn't mean the word dog didn't exist at the time it appeared in land charters and place names and then... The first time we have dog In a literary text, it's referring to people and calling them dogs to insult them. That's Colin Gorey, a linguist who has written about the origin of the word dog. He says during During the period of Middle English, so roughly between 1100 and 1450. You start to see more instances of this dog word showing up and they're often derogatory But over time, Gori says the positive emotions people felt toward dogs eclipsed some of the words negative charge I think that it's very possible that the same word you use

2:20:30 As an insult, you can repurpose as a term of affection. It eventually replaced hound as the standard term we use for the pet today The mystery lies in where the word dog actually came from Yes! That's the mystery Gori says one theory is that it comes from the old English term docks It's not entirely clear what it meant but it probably mean something like dark or golden or yellow He adds that another possibility is that its related to the old english word Duran D-U-G-A-N, which means to be good or to be good enough. Part of the difficulty in tracing the origin is that dogs have been part of human life for a very long time according to Gori. That's true for other common words... So example with other than dog would be boy girl

2:21:21 She, the pronoun she. Gori says the word we use today to describe dogs may evolve in the future as people continue to generate new pet names He says it's a testament to how much we adore our four-legged friends The more you know in the morning Oh man that's worth a donation right there That was educational It is totally educational I do my part But the hound part is only because in Dutch is hont In German, Hund. In French, Chien. Chien! Foofy foofy da poodle chien. Yeah, chien. But wow it's raining. I got blue skies out the window. Oh yeah, it was gonna be raining today. It seems like a lot of podcast land you know the podcast industrial complex is obsessed with The Feud. The Feud

2:22:19 Feud? Yeah, the feud! You don't know about the feud. I don't know anything about the feud The feud?! Yes between Nick Fuentes Cameron... not Cameron What's her name black girl Candace Owens Tucker Carlson there at you know, Megan Kelly's a few but in yeah because you know Fuentes came on Candace's show and then You know He was mad at how he treated her and then she said who is bad? Fuentes Tucker Nick Fuentes. He was mad at

2:22:59 At Candace and then Candice went on Tucker and said the guy's unhinged And then Nick sounds like bullcrap. This is like a fake feud well interestingly Nick Fuentes He has he's been going on rants, and I just can't not share this one because he shows that all of this Tucker Candice Bannon Elon Trump It's all because of the Jews, man. And J.D. Vance, who brokered the David Sachs fundraiser with Silicon Valley and Trump, mentored by Peter Thiel, mentored by David Fromm who worked for Bill Kristol with Tucker Carlson

2:24:00 Teal, Musk and Tucker lobbied Trump to pick Vance. And they said if you don't the CIA will kill you! Who's the CIA? Who does the CIA NSA FBI DHS who do they all contract with Palantir founded by Peter Teal and Alex Karp and Joe Lonsdale Israel first Jews that after October 7th flew their board to Israel and provided them with facial recognition technology to murder Palestinians J.D. Vance, who upon becoming the VP nominee in his first interview said we're going to bomb Iran! Who went to the Quincy Institute and said we need a pro-Israel spin on America First

2:24:43 Tucker, who interviewed Vance 46 times on his show. Vance hired his son! Vance's Rockbridge network was the spawning point of 1789 Capital founded by Rebecca Mercer and Claremonster critic Chris Buskirk which gave Tucker $15 million dollars. Rebecca Mercer funded Steve Bannon at Breitbart that spawned Milo Yiannopoulos' career And Rebecca Mercer hand selected George Farmer, Candace Owens' husband to run Parler in 2021. This is why they want me dead! Who's the Fed? Who's the Fed here because I brought all the receipts!

2:25:28 This is so entertaining. I like that! That was funny, why don't you give yourself a borderline clip of the day for digging that up? Well it wasn't hard... It's not easy to read this. I didn't know any of this, I don't follow this kind of crap. I follow NPR and then you moan about my clips But this is entertaining, its basically The Whitney Webb Story Yeah but more entertaining than NPR, im not going to argue with that point Its basically Whitney Webb in 1 minute 50 seconds You know, much better Its a compressed Whitney Web It's Palantir! They're killing the Jews. I'm sorry, they're killing the Palestinians. Oh man... Yeah because they get their facial recognition of all these rando-Palestinians somehow That's right and then JD Vance and Peter Thiel and Elon Musk The PayPal mafia banning everybody it's all one big network You know that was a very good virtual red yarn

2:26:26 drawing, you know with the push pins in the cork board. Yeah yeah what Beck used to do! Yeah connect them with all the different pieces of yarn it was good I find Nick Fuentes at this point highly entertaining now... I don't know follow me what's his podcast called? I don't know, is...I think it's just Nick Fuentes. I don't know if he has a podcast? He doesn't? He just floats around from podcast to podcast causing trouble? He just does stuff on YouTube. It's a troublemaker! This is a great guy Yes well you had the Groypers The Groypers That was so they were like America first You know Trump is controlled by Israel groipers and then they all get kicked off of Twitter

2:27:12 And I know Elon Musk brought him back but then kicked him off again. I don't know, it's like... I do know that my neighbor Laura Logan she says that guy is CIA. She says that. With Fuentes? Yes! Says he is a troublemaker He's a plant for sure. He's a plant and its interesting because now you're seeing different news, different podcasters too but different news outlets starting to push back on the Palestine narrative. And you know there's a lot of this many different Instagrammers doing reels and maybe it's just because people are sending them to me that seems like it's more I don't know but it certainly feels like that's happening more and more. And then Carl Higby from Newsmax

2:28:04 Is that the, you don't go on Newsmax do you? You got on One American News. No OAN, One American News Network Who owns Newsmax There's three of them there's Newsmax There is one that you had earlier in the show There is One American Network and then there is a thing that Cuomo is on That other network About four of these fringe networks Isn't Cuomo on Newsmax? No no he's not He's on One America News Oh okay I don't know. Newsmax, nobody who there is one or two ex-famous people from Fox or something that floated over to Newsmax but Newsmax is low pay and they've been around the longest funny enough. Grok is unable to generate a reply this is horrible! Would you ask Grok? Who owns Newsmax?!

2:28:56 I mean, isn't that what you're supposed to do? Book of knowledge stuff. Christopher Ruddy... Oh okay! Yeah, Ruddy. Ruddy. All right. But it's oh he got money from Sheikh Sultan bin Hasim Al Thani from Qatar! That's Qatari money right it's the same I think this is a source of Amy Goodman's sources. Oh for war and peace. So where are the Qataris in Israel-Palestine? And on what side do they fall? Palestine. Huh, interesting! Well here's Carl Higby going down to the Gaza Strip giving us a history lesson... You can hear the explosions in the background of the air strikes and artillery We want to know how a 6 mile wide 25 mile long piece of prime real estate oceanfront on the Mediterranean Sea

2:29:45 fall into the hands of terrorists. didn't want anything to do with it even when it was a potential to have it back. But in the 80s, groups like the Palestinian Liberation Organization began to rise up then in 1993 The Oslo Accords granted limited self-governance for Palestinians while Israel retained control over the borders control over the airspace and security keep in mind Israel constructed maintained and main and ran all the infrastructure

2:30:24 in the Gaza Strip. The violence escalated though, in 2005 when Israel actually withdrew their settlements in an attempt to try to make peace with the people of Gaza or the self-proclaimed Palestinians Shortly after that elections were held in Gaza and Hamas was overwhelmingly elected by the people of Gaza They elected the people who are running that region right now. From that, and then until 2023 they continued sporadic attacks on Israel but also it became more and more of a hotbed for Iranian-based terror Sounds like the way I remember it How about you? That sounds right Not hearing any huge errors Egypt People don't realize this was Egyptian territory

2:31:08 And then of course October 7th, which I'm still skeptical if that was on purpose or not. But October 7th... Fast forward to October 7 2023 6,000 Hamas terrorists invaded southern Israel murdered 1200 Israelis and took 250 hostages six of them were American along some of these highways that we're on right now So how did a bunch of nomad outcast Arabs in 50 years end up self-governing, gaining an entire region? They built an entire army and attacked the very people that's providing them the land and utilities that they have. Well it all started because they played victim and they got funding And as they morphed into the Palestinian Authority Iran saw likely ally They poured weapons, they pour training and resources simultaneously We, The US our taxpayer money was being given to them in Gaza

2:31:56 And this goes back to Bill Clinton. They began to receive millions of our taxpayer dollars and more recently as you know about USAID, Trump defunded this agency since the October 7th attack. USAID though has given $2.1 billion to Gaza, where you can hear those explosions going off right behind me. One line item from USAID noted that $200 million were allocated to miscellaneous foreign awardees of the West Bank and Gaza. There was no transparency at all for any of these receipts and that goes directly to Hamas and the actual aid that's intended for the real victims, I guess of the area. The people who don't have any means to flee? Hamas steals most of it once it gets to the intended recipients They tell people not to take it in the streets at gunpoint Don't tell me aid isn't going in! I'm here right now watching Israeli trucks transfer it to Arab trucks and then drive it into Gaza Narrative is shifting these guys Interesting that this Qatari based...I didn't expect that

2:32:59 Well, we'll see what happens long term. Yeah well long-term who no one knows anything we could be gone tomorrow I don't think so hmm but we will begun tomorrow. We'll be back on Sunday Yes, we will Have you ever heard of? The lemon test the lemon test yes No So I learned about this yesterday from my friend Rick and And my friend Rick. My friend Rick, Rick Green. He runs the white Christian nationalist paramilitary organization known as Patriot Academy. That's funny asking me if he was a bowler?

2:33:46 Hmm. He was a former state representative, I don't know... Did you ever bowl against the short stocky guy named Rick Green? No but it was a green that I bowled against but he wasn't not sure. Doesn't sound right doesn't sound right so um you know big controversy in Texas over the 10 commandments in schools and Which, you know I'm like okay whatever and you know we'll have this argument i guess forever but i just wanted to play the clip of the so-called news and then play something that i learned yesterday. A group of north texas parents are now suing the state in their student school districts after governor greg abbott signed a bill that requires public schools to display the 10 commandments

2:34:24 every single classroom. So parents say this new law violates constitutional rights it also potentially crosses the line between church and state so Lauren Crawford joins us live with more on this and what both sides are saying as this legal battle plays out hey good morning well Senate bill 10 requires all Texas public schools to post a 16 by 20 inch copy of framed copy or poster of The Ten Commandments into every single classroom now this bill was just signed into law but is already already facing legal pushb back from North Texas par bill goes too far. Now Go signed Senate Bill 10 int It requires all public sc approved version of the t

2:35:05 commandments in classrooms where it's clearly visible. Eight North Texas parents are now suing the state, claiming the law crosses a line between church and state. However the state says it reflects the nation's religious heritage. The plaintiffs argue that law violates the First Amendment and that Texas Constitution by pressuring students into religious observance and sidelining parents' rights to teach faith at home."We are not filing this lawsuit because we are against faith We are filing it because we are for freedom. Now similar laws have been either struck down or failed in other states but a couple of other local districts named in the lawsuit, DeSoto ISD and Lancaster ISD they say that they are monitoring the legal process so of course this is something that will continue to stay on top as it unfolds Yeah I just love when they say oh church and state separation clause So in 1971 this is what I learned

2:36:01 Because I think that this will go to the Supreme Court and it will, any opposition will be struck down. And here's the reason why because the Lemon Test which was established in 1971 in the US Supreme Court, Lemon versus Kurtzman... Ah so this has got nothing do with the lemon law? No! It is very confusing like lemon law, lemon test So, they had a test in the Supreme Court if something violates the First Amendment. So whatever the law is or whatever government action, if it is either excessive entanglement—so the action must not foster excessive government entanglement with religion—or has a primary effect

2:36:46 The action's primary effect must neither advance nor inhibit religion. And this is the funniest one, if it had a secular purpose the government action or law must have a clear non-religious purpose." Well obviously under the Lemon Test this would be struck down by the Supreme Court but here's what I didn't know and why? Why would it be struck down because it violates the secular purpose of the Lemon Test It's secular! No What? Hanging the Ten Commandments in the classroom. Yeah, how do you see that as secular It's just a list of rules that you should abide by and it doesn't refer is it referring to some biblical thing and saying he should read The Bible or anything no, it's just a list of probably some pretty good ideas ten commandments or 10

2:37:36 edicts that you should obey if you want to, you know not get thrown in jail. Well you might find it interesting... It seems pretty secular to me! You might find interesting that the Lemon Test has been applied and the Supreme Court since 1971 has struck that down every single time I was there. No, no, I'd be on the opposition of that. I'd be on the minority report side of that. That doesn't make sense to me. I think it's very secular Obviously I'm not going to disagree with you, but the more interesting point is that the Lemon Test has been discarded and we didn't hear about it. And the Lemon Test has been replaced by the History and Standards test

2:38:13 which is now also being applied to the Second Amendment. And I'm pretty sure the 10 Commandments will go to the Supreme Court and they will say, no-no we don't use the Lemon Test anymore We use the History and Standards test which came into play thanks to Coach Kennedy And Coach Kennedy was the high school football coach who would kneel on the 50-yard line after the game and pray. You remember that? Yeah, that guy! So listen to this... He's not the only guy who did that No but this is a brief explanation that brought in The History and Standard Test and took out The Lemon Test from the Supreme Court proceedings. So Coach Kennedy, a lot of people know Oh he gets to go back and pray at midfield as a football

2:38:58 What they don't remember is that in that case, they threw out the Lemon Test. And the Lemon Test is what had been used in 1980 and the Stone v Graham case and thousands of other cases since 1971 to prohibit public displays of religion so because of Coach Kennedy and the work at First Liberty, that lemon test was now thrown out which gives us the ability to go back into these states and say, hey that flawed decision from 1980 it's no good anymore. Let's put the Ten Commandments back up. And if that is not enough our win in the Bladensburg case in 2019 specifically deals with things made out of granted on government property right? That's exactly right and that really set the foundation for the Kennedy case in 2022 which now we have

2:39:39 Well, the limit test is gone. So what do we have? We now have the history and tradition tests. And that's what I along with some others when we testify talk about there's really no document in American history save maybe the Constitution Declaration of Independence that has the history or tradition that the Ten Commandments does. That's why we feel very confident that should it get into court shouldn't get into these constitutional scrutiny were going to be able to overcome it History and tradition test, that's what I meant. I don't like it! Bring back the lemon law! I like that one better you don't like...I do i don't like the other thing the Kennedy thing the fact that he won now this is a form of intimidation I didn't think it was good in the first place. Intimidation? Yeah if your Jewish and you didn't want to go out the middle of field and pray or if your

2:40:26 Catholic. Hold on, hold on! He didn't force anyone he went by himself you know he didn't force anybody but you can believe he's a coach he takes and he takes a look around says who is there who's with me? Who is against me this is not good well we disagree I think it's great I think it's really bad yeah well I'm pretty sure that that no matter what they're going to apply it to the Second Amendment now I don't understand that at all. We have a history and tradition of having guns! But the Second Amendment protects our gun rights. Why do you need a test of it? Well, why do we need to have any conversation about the First Amendment? It doesn't say you can't hang the Ten Commandments in school! I agree that's what i said to begin with. The first commandments were even remotely religious because our constitution has been distorted by nut jobs throughout history throughout legal history so they end up with this new test

2:41:23 Rules and history test or wherever the hell it is so some guy can pray in the middle of the football field to see who's not there with him. Not good. Whoo, let's take a break and do some real news everybody I'm ready for it. And now back to Real News Something has Justin Trudeau smiling, but is it a budding romance with a singing star? As so many are wondering. The new super couple is Katy Perry and former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau TMZ broke the news the two were seen dining out on Sunday night in Montreal then on Tuesday night Trudeau was front and centre at Perry's concert It caused an online furor of discussion and speculation.

2:42:08 brand and reputational move. His public relations agent says both Trudeau and Perry have seen some reputational damage in recent years. Trudeau, well he's no longer prime minister after resigning amidst plunging support for the Liberal Party and Perry's album sales have gone down with each subsequent release her stint as would-be astronaut with Jeff Bezos Blue Origins fizzled, many called it tone deaf. It makes her brand feel a bit more grounded for him. I feel me. So she's going out with the kind of the ex

2:42:51 Prime Minister of Canada, Trudeau who's obviously Fidel Castro's kid through an illicit relationship with his dad's mom. And this guy who is up the creme de la creme of the crop or whatever kind of elitists there are in Canada and this makes it grounded? What he got is, I think he got a shut up president. Like here you can have a presidential model She's obviously MKUltra Well, now that you hold on. You gotta be... That's got to be clear A friend of mine was one her friends and I think it was part of a management team at one time Really? And she admitted to him and he couldn't believe this but she admitted to him that she'll do anything To be as famous as she can Oh! That was a clip. That wasn't a friend of yours No no i'm telling ya this is a friend of mine who told me the story

2:43:52 He said he knows her very well and she was basically programmed to sell herself out. Yeah, she used to be a Christian. So MKUltra bringing MKUltra into it is quite... I would not if somebody had put some, showed me some evidence of this right in front of me I wouldn't even remotely be surprised. No it's just...I mean she even goes on stage now dressed as a robot! She has MK Ultra written all over her. She does? So i think they needed to keep him quiet like here take our presidential model that's an interesting theory because the only thing that makes any sense how do they even meet

2:44:47 At lunch on tinder lunch over at Starbucks Hun it's just lunch calm, but I don't know That's a very popular one amongst the ladies The single ladies looking for free food. No a lot of the single ladies here You know they got money and their husband died or yeah usually died oh I mean, when they go on itsjustlunch.com to find a man or millionaire men there's all these kinds of outfits and they usually wind up really happy Good for them Yeah yeah...I heard another good one what was it? Ah the latest Does Fredericksburg Gossip Yes We love it It goes like this Prepare to be blindsided by everything

2:45:42 One of my family members, high-ranking position in the military just told me. There's your giveaway! Listen we don't have much time I can't give you details things are moving fast The elites are getting into their bunkers. They're moving supplies, they got systems that haven't been touched in years something big is coming Oh yeah And I've been told to make sure my own family is ready so I can't explain anything else look I'm just giving you advice I don't know if it's days weeks or months but it's going to put the entire upper chain on edge You'll need food water cash

2:46:19 And by the time they sound the alarm it's going to be too late. So make sure you're ready I had a...I saw the clip of this, I didn't take it for the show, I should have Was the same thing. It's gonna take place by the way yeah, I got the date East Coast I heard East Coast starts East Coast it's gonna be August 31st oh Yes, so you got that part? Yeah, which is gonna be kind of step right on this September 15th blackout Yes, well there's that have to worry about that yeah, which is gonna be a dud yeah and

2:46:57 Which brings us to some TikTok clips. Yeah, well I've been waiting for you Okay i want to start with uh a third copy of the Canada Complainer By the way this will be the final clips before we go to our second thank-you segment okay? I got three clips in it they'll be good they're good but let's start with the canada woman she's in Canada bitching and moaning because This is a big deal to the Canadians and nobody's doing anything about it. That they can't go in the woods? They can't go into woods! Here's the new reason by the way... Oh I think i know that, I think I heard this So let me get this straight Three provinces in Canada have banned people from going into the forest because of fire danger And if you don't comply you could face up to $150 000 dollars in fines

2:47:47 and jail time? So effective today, new fines will range from $50,000 to a hundred and fifty thousand dollars. An imprisonment in default of payment will increase from three days up to six months. A government that can bankrupt you AND send you to jail for going into the forest? That doesn't sound like a government that is built to serve you. That sounds like a government that thinks they own you! So when a forest lockdown happens near you, ask yourself... Is this for your safety and the climate? Or does it have something to do with lithium mining? You know the mineral that is used in electric car batteries That, when it catches fire takes thousands and thousands of gallons of water to put out. And let's not forget governments granting corporations the right to mine on public and private lands for the greater good! AND they can still mine during the fire restrictions... But what do I know? I'm just a conspiracy theorist. Oh, I hadn't heard that one. We're back to the lithium mining.

2:48:44 Oh, isn't that interesting? I thought that was a good clip. That's interesting! I mean i'm sure that they need to do lithium mining because that's going to be their only gig by the time Trump is done with everything but uh...I didn't expect that Interesting It is kind of outrageous it's totally outrageous like you know its not for fire danger if there's a fire we can save you so therefore you can't be in the woods like alright Normally you can't be saved half the time if you get lost in the woods anyway. Yeah, it doesn't make sense Although there does seem to be an inordinate amount of rescues of people lost in woods on trails writing help on a rock Have you noticed that? It's been happening a couple times

2:49:28 Yeah, I noticed a trend is it trend. It's a trend you might be right okay So dad got two more that he wanted to play this I think I played the Starbucks Where's amazing Polly by the way what happened to her? Well? I'm gonna stop and get a look into it I mean she seems to be off-the-radar. I sent her a note sometime back And I haven't heard anyone hey baby are you on it's just lunch calm so This is the Starbucks girl and She's complaining about losing her support drink. Her emotional support drink? Her emotional support drink, yeah. Oh goodness! I know it's really dumb but i just went to two different Starbucks Hi welcome to Starbucks let me get started for you today hi there do you guys have the summer berries still we don't i'm sorry please i'm just desperate to find it yeah everyone is supposed to technically like be out of it by now

2:50:21 And I, the worst day. I really wanted my emotional support drink. I got laid off a month ago but they gave me 30 days notice so that i could keep working which I really appreciated because I needed the income My last day is on Friday and I'm having to go to work every day this week at a job that I've already laid off from. Worked at this place for five years, it's just a small thing but...I was just gonna comfort myself tonight. I don't drink! I'm sober so i don't You know, I don't go to the bar when i don't feel good. I go to Starbucks and it just feels like we should get some warning when something's gonna be disappearing because some of us depend on it and they kept- they were asking me do you want anything else? They were like we still have the popping boba we can put in

2:51:17 in something else, but I don't want it in something else. I only wanted the lemon and the summer berry so I just told him that I didn't want anything and he drove away. So now if I do not have anything... I don't know what to do. You know? I'm right at Whole Foods so maybe I'll go into Whole Foods and try to find something. Okay well I call bullshit on this one but Really? You're always so serious about these things. I think that, but here's the reason one thing was a two camera shoot the way she did it

2:51:54 with the cut in of the... She had a two camera shoot? What, wait! It was like two camera shoot basically. This is a Starbucks ad. Emotional support drink is silly and then she says I got laid off but I'm still working for a month so she's working to her last day and then none of it makes sense. Why do you even play this if you don't think its true? Because I enjoyed her trying to act now this next girl this is the last one who is one of those, I didn't know people like this who do this sort of thing. She's one of those and it's usually women who like doing this somebody that is making life miserable for one of these callers that you know these solicitors that call you on the phone from India yeah so she's I'm gonna tell you what it is because even though

2:52:46 visually you don't get any more than you would from what I'm going to say, which is she takes a call from some guy who wants her credit card number and then she plays. She says, I'm in the car. I'm gonna pull over and then she plays a recording of a car crash claim. She's been in a car crash and hilarity ensues. Can you please give me your credit card number so I can help? Yeah sure let me just pull over because I'm driving all right Yeah, sure. Sure. It's good. Can you hear me? I can hear you!

2:53:33 I just had a car crash. It's going to be alright, don't worry about it Do you have your credit card detached? But... but.. I just had a car crash! I'm bleeding Yeah, I just need your credit card number that's all Alright, there you go everybody. That is the state of the world according to John C. Dvorak's very limited worldview. Yes, indeed. Who said that? Pfeiffer! That clip was the sound of Fonzie jumping the shark John. Come on... That's where you were oh man it's just I mean okay after three hours... I'm bleeding After three hours it's okay with I'm bleeding What's your credit card number?!

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3:08:12 No Knights, no Danes but we do have a couple of meetups. In fact quite a few meetups to discuss. Clearly John has a new noise maker I don't know who gave it to you Mimi gave it to me for the anniversary It's only train noises That's a good wife right there Tradwife Trainwife No Agenda Meetups is where you can find the first responders in an emergency in your area. Connection Is Protection and you find that at a No Agenda Meetup, these are producer organized they're completely free y'all get together ya yak, you talk have a good time and then you meet some friends to make new friends I mean why spend money on a dating app when you go to a no agenda meet up? And we have a few taking place in fact one today

3:09:06 The Northern Wake Broiling August Meetup, 6 o'clock at Huppee Endings in Raleigh North Carolina. I don't think they ever send us a meet-up report yet they have a lot of them so please do so! On Saturday the No Agenda Mid Cities Meet up 1130 in the morning but hey it's at Bourbon Street Bar and Grill in Bedford Texas so get ready for it And then we have the 5th Annual Central Texas Float Meet I should actually...think I have their promo I have their promo here Yes let's play the promo Take me down to the river, where I can hold your body close to mine. This is Baron Scott and Sir Ducifer

3:09:45 It's time again for the fifth annual Central Texas float meet set for Saturday, August 16th. Now we're gonna start this thing at the 72 degree Spring Fed San Marcos River Then we will move to party over to Ivers River Pub Overlooking The River in the heart of San Marcos Go to noagendameetups for details and to RSVP for both the morning 3R float and the afternoon Meetup Remember connection is protection on the river Take me down to the river. There you go, so it's really two meetups You start in the morning at 1030 The Texas State Tubes in San Marcos and you float all the way down to Ivars River Pub And then they have a beat up there three o'clock It's always good so Deucer is going to be there and Barron Scott of the Armory

3:10:29 Also on Saturday the Fort Wayne 33 dadgum sealed indictments August 1st, August meetup. 1 p.m at Hall's Tavern in Coventry that's Fort Wayne Indiana and on Saturday as well week 33 Orisund Meet up that's the one in Copenhagen at Mikkele Baghaven Refs Hall Hulluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluhluh That's our buddy Paul Piedermaan, he is a Dutch guy who lives in Copenhagen. I'm looking forward to that meet-up report gentlemen! And finally on the 17th Sunday, that's our next show day Wow there is a lot coming up in just a few days The local 360 Meet Up 11 o'clock in the morning in Blaine Washington at 277

3:11:13 G Street, be there or be square. Thank you for organizing these if you feel like it do a report we love hearing it include your server and for all the information about NOAA agenda meetups where to find one where to go what to do go to noagendameetups.com If you can't find one there Start one yourself, it's always easy in a party. It's always like a grand party

3:11:54 I think I actually might have some contenders for ISO, end of show ISO for today's show. Oh good because i only have one lousy one Only one and it is lousy? Why did you even bring her to the show? But it could be good, It might be good Alright should we play yours first Yeah sure Or enter code HAPPY before checkout Oh no, AI slop. No no no That wasn't AI at all! Oh you're telling me that wasn't AI? Then you just got duped-that's AI. Or insert code HAPPY before checkout. Insert code happy... No that was not AI cause the guys voice he does a show on NPR. Insert... Or insert code happy before checkout

3:12:32 He's got that slightly gay voice or NPR guys have yes lightly hmm. Here's mine cut one cut one It's not a podcast it's a platform Okay, I like is too long. Yes little too long. It was a lot of fun Brother here we go I couldn't hear it. Well, maybe you can hear her in this one. He's a podcaster! You couldn't hear it? They talk more than I do!

3:13:14 I think that one will have to do but if you can amp it up a bit, it wouldn't hurt. Oh, It's already quite amped You didn't like this one? Hey! It's not a podcast...it's a platform Okay let's use that I thought that was kind of good I liked that one Hey everybody is that highlight of your show and its time for John's tip of the day Creative vibes for you and me Just The Tip with JCD And sometimes Adam Well, I've got a product that was brought to my attention by somebody in the chat room. No chat room or trollroom? Yeah, I don't know what you want to call them but it was somebody forgot where he was used net There you go use and they claimed it was they claimed it was you could use this stuff as

3:14:05 And we did some research, Mimi and I both did some research on this in various Reddit forums an elsewhere. It turned out that what I'm about to tell you is bull crap. Oh okay! But the product is still a good product The product is Rustoleum 214944 it's the number you have to know that number specialty reflective spray semi-transparent clear. Oh wait, let me guess you spray this on your license plate and the camera can't see it? At night. I knew it! When it's flashing when it hits the flash when it flashes for the video blacked out the camera because its reflects so much well many plates in some states are already reflective and so that's bullcrap and it turns out as a bull crap it is a bull crap thesis

3:14:57 It doesn't work. And it definitely doesn't work during the day, but... What kind of tip is this? What's the tip? It's a great product! You can spray it on anything that needs like if you have a bike, If your are bicyclist, just spray it on the back of the bike. Its clear and transparent so its like a clear coat and you spray it on anything you want and it reflects like a...it just amazing lights up to the street. Oh! So reflective. It's terrific product for You paint your mailbox or something if you're in some road where people can't... Your dog? Can you do it on your dog? You could spray-paint your dog. I don't think the dog would appreciate it, but you could spray paint the collar. You can spray paint the back of somebody's head if they're a jogger. There are a lot of possible uses for this Rustoleum.

3:15:44 a two one four nine four, four specialty reflective spray. Semi-transparent clear finish. I'm going to get some for Tina. Thank you for dying in my product because she does a walk every morning she gets up and before the, before anything she goes out for a walk with her weighted vest and she goes out for half an hour. And I said this morning, I say no pretty soon it's gonna be dark and I don't want you walking out there alone on the street, you know in the dark not for I mean, she's packing so you don't want to mess with her. But cars and so this would be a great thing. So I can spray paint my wife and she'll be safe. Well, you can spray paint the back of the pack she's wearing or whatever. You could spray paint different things with it but you had to follow instructions in the key to success by the way. You have to be careful with all these kinds of sprays. Oh yes! The key to success. You got to shake the crap out of it. You have to shake, shake, shake because there are bunch of little glass beads that have

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3:17:24 Because I think I turn it off when you start moaning, like, Bitcoin is supposed to be a hedge. How does that work? And I'm like, okay. Boomer. I'll turn it off. Well, I was still wondering. You're wondering. Yes, you're wondering. That's for sure. So that's coming up next on NOAA Gender Stream. We have end of show mixes from Sound Guy Steve and Sir Ned Wood all about the Putin meeting. And as always we will return on our next show day which will be Thursday. We look forward to seeing you then Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country right here in Fredericksburg, Texas. It's so picturesque! In the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry and from Northern Silicon Valley where i remain and the weather remains crappy I'm John C. Dvorak Remember us again at noagendadonations.com And we'll see y'all here on Thursday until then Adios Mofos! Hooey Hooey! And Such! All aboard!

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3:18:58 Putin Russia Ukraine Putin said when Ukraine says when it comes to Ukraine, Putin invaded Ukraine. What Putin wants is for Ukrainians to defend their democracy. Ukraine brutal invasion of Ukraine President Vladimir Putin The Russian offensive against Ukraine continues. Russian atrocities President Zelensky of Ukraine Ukraine I really hope that you and President Putin get together and can solve your problem That would be a tremendous achievement I know you're trying to do that. Did you underestimate Vladimir Putin? Putin's intention to press on with his brutal assault on Ukraine and Russia, Russian missiles continue to rain down on the port city of Odessa. More scenes of carnage in Ukraine is a centrally located strategic country in Europe. Donald Trump repeatedly asked his Ukrainian counterpart Vladimir Zelenskyy investigate the former vice president Joe Biden. Russia's President Vladimir Putin

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