Episode 1794 · Thursday, 28 August 2025

Heroin Hotties

From the Minneapolis church shooting to the UK’s new financial surveillance laws, the global landscape is shifting as traditional values collide with a failing digital infrastructure.

By The No Agenda Show | 3h 19m listen | 38 chapters
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About this episode

A mass shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic church during morning mass has left two children dead, sparking intense scrutiny of the shooter’s history and the media’s reporting of the tragedy. Robert Westman, who transitioned to the name Robin in 2020 with parental support, carried out the attack using tactical gear and weapons that critics say were acquired despite a documented history of mental health struggles. The incident has reignited a fierce debate over the link between pharmaceutical industry influence on the DSM-5 and the rapid rise of gender-affirming care protocols.

Treasury Secretary nominee Scott Bessent reports that record tariff revenues are projected to slash the federal deficit by $4 trillion over the next decade, while Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick moves to claw back billions in semiconductor research funding from the Biden-era non-profit NatCast. In the United Kingdom, the Financial Intelligence Unit is preparing to implement a £200 weekly cash withdrawal limit starting September 2025, alongside a mandatory £90 monthly payroll deduction for national debt recovery. Meanwhile, Germany has introduced a conscription-style bill requiring physical exams for all 18-year-old men to bolster NATO’s European wing, and OpenAI faces a landmark lawsuit from the family of Adam Rain, alleging ChatGPT acted as a suicide coach.

Olivia Rinaldi and Harvey Levin demonstrate the current state of mainstream journalism by halting serious news coverage to obsess over Taylor Swift engagement rumors. Between the rise of the Parallels App for faking social media fame and the discovery that Gen Alpha students can no longer recite the months of the year, the cultural landscape is shifting toward what some call a digital idiocracy. John C. Dvorak and Adam Curry close the session with a tip on Allulose and a salute to the Associate Executive Producers.


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CHAPTER 01 / 38 Discussion

Minneapolis Catholic Church Shooting, Transgender Identity Patterns

A mass shooting occurred at a Catholic church in Minneapolis during morning mass, resulting in the deaths of two children. The shooter is identified as a transgender individual, which prompts a discussion on a recurring pattern of five or six similar incidents since 2018. Criticism is directed at the media for failing to interview the shooter's parents or investigate the "gender-affirming care" and psychiatric drugs involved.

minneapolis· transgender· mass shooting· catholic church· kash patel· manifestos· patterns

00:00 Hey Stooge, the podcast is beginning. Get on the phone! Adam Curry John C Devorah It's Thursday August 28th 2025 This your award winning GimbleNation Media Assassination Episode 1794 This is no agenda Houston, we have a problem! And we're broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region No. 6 In The Morning everybody I'm Adam Curry and from northern Southern County Valley where were all wondering why don't they talk to the trans shooter's mother? I'm John C. Dvorak Well obviously that would break the imaginary wall that uh... We have a pattern here

00:44 So we can't be doing that. There'll be no talking to family members You know in the 11 minute video that he did where it shows all his clips Yes The gun clips He shows the four letter, I'm sorry, the 4 page note to his parents and his apology letter And in there, he mentions everybody in the family. He's got all the names. Yeah. He's got brothers and sisters. He talks about how his sister is estranged from his mother and won't talk to her. And you'd like them to get back together? And it just seems to me and this also holds true for that Crooks character, they took a shot at Trump, President Trump. Why have hasn't the media who doesn't

01:31 I've seen it, they don't mind doing this. Ambushing people you know coming up from behind and really getting in their car and yelling at them They do it in the halls of Congress. They do it everywhere, but why haven't we seen these parents? I want to see Crook's parents! I want to see somebody talking to him. I wanna see this guy's mom who transed him when he was a minor went to court and changed his name she was responsible. I wanna see these people! I wanna see them interviewed And if, oh why are we protecting them? They're the ones that are at fault. Are you somehow confused with the news media being around to inform you because that's not what they're for they are here to protect the system and the system is showing us patterns two patterns

02:20 One, for the first time that I can recall the video stayed up and the so-called manifesto is everywhere. This is a break in the pattern but it's... Well there were two videos But I'm saying it's a break in the pattern Yes this something...this is different I'm not convinced of this because what i'm seeing was, somebody got there quicker to the draw and they grabbed those videos and they've been repurposing them because they have been taken down from their original source. I'm just saying it's a change in the pattern And the other pattern we have now five in the pattern Aberdeen Maryland Snotia Mosley identified as transgender male

03:11 That was 2018. May 2019, Denver Colorado Alec McKinney and Devin Erickson-McKinney trans school shooting of course 2022 Colorado Springs Club Q nightclub nonbinary and 2023 Nashville Tennessee Covenant School this is the fifth in a pattern and... I thought there were six I may be forgetting one, but that's what I could remember off the top of my head. So this is now a pattern and we need to just admit it. And... Never! What has happened is we—the whole—I'm glad actually—I have to say I'm glad that this shooter was transgender so we can get back to the conversation because we've been desensitized

04:06 about transgendering children basically just to relegate it to conversations about school sports and bathrooms. Now we can get back through the real conversation You commit demonic acts on your children, you should expect demonic results. Add a little bit of 4chan X mastodon discord servers to the mix it was all there This was like looking at a timeline on the social media website kill Trump skibbity Where's your God now? Kill Spicks nigger killed Jews Israel must fall come on even this this kid

04:46 wrote like I'm tired of being trans, we should never brainwashed myself. So I don't think it was you kid and you know do want to hear because everyone's talking about that video holy crap just... You wanna talk demonic? What is this?! That was pretty bad Dude, that is a demon. And no wonder these people go after church and believers! That's what demons want to do. Simple conclusion we don't have a gun problem or political problem or bigotry problem We have a spiritual problem in our country and we have to open up the conversation about transgendering our children This nonsense has to stop it has to stop It's out of control

05:51 And yes, with that let's interview some parents. Let's interview some doctors! Let's really get into it It's just crazy Luckily Fox & Friends this morning had RFK Jr on They asked another important question which I think The RFK Jr. answered quite poorly Are you going to be examining at all some of the drugs that are used in order to make that transition happening, to see if it plays a role? Because we also know there was a trans shooter in the Tennessee situation Yeah... We are doing those kind of studies now At NIH were launching studies on their potential contribution

06:36 of some of the SSRI drugs and some of the other psychiatric drugs that might be contributing to violence. You know, many on their, have black box warnings that warn of suicidal ideation and homicidal ideations. We can't exclude those as a culprit in those kind of studies that we're doing. So I've never seen that medicine but you're saying if you get it some of the side effects could be homicide suicide? Well there are black box warnings on some of these psychiatric drugs

07:17 That weren't about in their clinical trials that they saw a suicidal and homicidal ideation So, you know we are going into that with an open mind Bobby the answer is yes Yes beating around the bush. The answer was yes That was disappointing but okay at least they had it out there the black box warnings This is not new and the m5m is not talking about any of this any of it In fact, they obfuscated the whole trans thing to start with. And then it's like, oh, Kash Patel. It's a terrorist attack on Catholics! No no this is another sad case of a child abused by their parents who went along with whatever stupid mind control has been out there for... I mean what was the slogan? I'd rather have a live daughter than a dead son? Yeah the old one

08:16 We don't even know if he hit, you said parents. The media has given us so little information we don't even know if there was a dad Yeah that's how bad it is yes Now here's the mayor of Minneapolis also not getting to the point There are no words that can capture the horror and evil of this unspeakable act Children are dead They're families that have a deceased child. You cannot put into words the gravity, the tragedy or the absolute pain of this situation. These were Minneapolis families. These were American families and the amount of pain that they are suffering right now is extraordinary. And don't just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now these kids were literally praying

09:15 It was the first week of school, they were in a church. They should be able to go to school or church in peace without the fear or risk of violence and their parents should have the same kind of assurance this kinda act of evil should never happen And it happens far too often. promoting this. Minneapolis will continue to be a safe haven for our trans community, for being a safe haven for transgender individuals we have sued them for gender affirming care yes we are not going to scapegoat our transgender community when our children tell us who they are it is our job as grown-ups to listen and to believe them

10:16 Yeah, so it's so sad. This child didn't even want this! Quote I only keep my long hair because it is pretty much the last shred of me being trans. I'm tired of being trans and wish I'd never brainwashed myself. I can cut my hair-I can't cut my hair now as it would be an embarrassing defeat And might be a concerning change of character that could get me reported. And by the way... Reported? A lot in in his writings about, wow you know all the videos I'm watching. I'm surprised they haven't knocked on my door already where was that? It's not there it's a trick but Minnesota is a trans sanctuary state for trans so that's not gonna he's like a Noah's knocking on this door well they're encouraging it yes and really don't know any good stories by no parents who've trans their kids

11:21 You know, it doesn't... I just don't know of any happy endings. I don't! Now that's only my saying. There has got to be a couple Not that i've heard of It is always sad ending But we can say that in the media Oh no, we can do that That would ruin our relationship with political parties And I'm waiting for President Trump to tell us the truth Where is that? He should say it He doesn't know how to do it either. I mean, you're coming the closest because we've seen these patterns We've seen it over and over again. I thought you had another trans clip No, I have the shooter's guy shooter ID the BS a shoot This is a bs clip from NPR this shooter clip Okay So the director of the FBI Kash Patel said on X that the shooter has been identified quote always stop stop Stop stop. There's actually two. I'm sorry. I stopped

CHAPTER 02 / 38 Discussion

NPR Reporting, Robin Westman Identity Details

NPR reports on the Minneapolis shooting, focusing on the grief of the Catholic community and statements from Archbishop Bernard Hebda and the Vatican. The shooter, born Robert Westman, had a name change to Robin facilitated by his mother in 2020. The reporting is criticized for emphasizing gun legality while ignoring the shooter's mental health history and the financial resources used to acquire tactical gear.

npr· robin westman· minneapolis· archbishop bernard hebda· gun violence· court documents

12:24 I didn't realize there's actually this is that should be the second part of the site. Let's start with Robin Shooter 1 NPR and then we'll go to that clip Once again a community is grieving, this time over this morning shooting during morning mass at a Catholic church in Minneapolis Two children ages 8 and 10 died in the pews where they sat 17 others 14 of them children were wounded NPR's Jason DeRose reports, church leaders are expressing their sorrow. In a statement issued by the Vatican Pope Leo is offering his quote heartfelt condolences and the assurance of spiritual closeness to all those affected especially the families now grieving the loss of a child

13:05 Archbishop Bernard Hebda of the St. Paul Minneapolis archdiocese issued a statement calling for the end to gun violence and saying quote, our community is rightfully outraged at such horrific acts of violence perpetuated against the vulnerable and innocent Archdiocese staff are working with Annunciation Catholic School to make sure families there have the resources they need. Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara says the guns used in the shootings were purchased recently and legally by the suspect who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Yeah, which in his video he said it was gonna use the pistol he had

13:42 You know, they had... They constantly go on NPR about how this is the guns were purchased legally. Nobody explains how he had all the money to do it. These were not expensive weapons. A lot of gear there. Lot of gear and yeah and they go on and on about their trying to push the gun narrative as best they can but one of the trans killers over that over the six or seven that have been already good come and gone. One of them was a trans female, guy turned woman all tatted up who went into I think it was the 7-11 with a hatchet

14:19 started hatcheting people to death and killed two or three people. Now we know that the hatchet, yeah we know knives are just as deadly... look in the UK, everywhere! What about bombs? You know these kids they can't get a gun you say this thing you can't get against so they blow up the place you're gonna kill a lot more people that way or poison I mean there's a lot of ways if your homicidal maniac to kill people Anyway, here's part two of this where they kind of go with... This is later. This is a very long report it's boring but I thought this little clip, this little sub-clip was pretty good. So the director of the FBI Kash Patel said on X that the shooter has been identified quote the shooter has been identified as Robin Westman and male born as Robert Westman

15:05 In 2020, Westman's mother applied to change the name of her 17-year old child from Robert to Robin. In court documents obtained by NPR, the mother Mary Grace Westman wrote minor child identifies as female and wants her name to reflect that identification. However we do not know how the person currently identified but the suicide note was signed as Robin and can't even get the words out. They don't know how he, she identified but they signed it as Robin that means they kind of identified as Robin still yes so I mean this kind of reporting is terrible again you know they could go through the trouble of digging up some

15:50 some court document which does take some work generally, unless it's online which is possible in Minnesota. But let's say whether it is or isn't still takes some work and they can track down to mom and just ask her a few questions or even show that she won't open the door which they used to do. They used to knock, hey can you... I'm not talking anybody! You know that kind of thing? They won't even do that with this reporting The mainstream media is so piss poor it's an embarrassment It's not piss poor its by design they don't want to do it They're told not to do it

CHAPTER 03 / 38 Discussion

DSM-5 Financial Conflicts, Pharmaceutical Industry Influence

A study published in the BMJ reveals that 60% of U.S. physicians involved in developing the DSM-5 received payments from the pharmaceutical industry. This "medical-industrial complex" influence is linked to the diagnostic criteria for gender dysphoria and the subsequent promotion of surgical and chemical treatments. The Trump administration has responded by threatening to pull federal funding from state sex education programs that promote gender ideology.

bmj· dsm-5· psychiatric drugs· gender dysphoria· medical-industrial complex· financial conflicts

16:27 Everything starts to fall apart when you lift up the layers of what's going on here. Children who want to be trans are either psyoped by their parents, who have bought into an unbelievable psychological operation... The pharmaceutical, the medical-industrial complex, this just came out from the BMJ They did a survey, sorry study research undisclosed financial conflicts of interest in DSM-5. That is the actual medical Bible that determines what is a psychological problem and how it should be diagnosed and how it should be treated

17:18 And because 92 physicians based in the U.S., who served as members of either panel, N is 86 or task force on the DSM-5 with information recording the Centers for Medicare and Medical Services Open Payments Database this period was chosen 2016 to 2019 to include the year that development of the DSM-5 began and three years preceding. The results After duplicate names have been removed, 168 individuals were identified who served as either panel or task force members of the DSM-5 met the inclusion criteria of being a physician and was based in the U.S., therefore could be included in the open payments Of these 92 individuals 60% that's 55 received payments from industry more than six sixty percent more than half received

18:06 Payments from Industy, this is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders of which gender dysphoria is one of them. So they're just like well you know we got some drugs, we got some procedures that's what all the plastic surgeons ran to it's We need to just face it and just say, hey this is what's been going on. The Trump administration is threatening to pull federal funding from state sex ed programs that mention transgender people. A division of the U.S Department of Health and Human Services told 40 states, five territories and the District of Columbia in a letter they are now on notice and must remove gender ideology content from sex ed materials paid through the State Personal Responsibility Education Program or PREP. PREPs goal is to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections

CHAPTER 04 / 38 Discussion

Classroom Technology, Literacy Decline and AI Plagiarism

A teacher featured on the YouTube channel HaloHaley describes a significant decline in student literacy and attention spans due to constant smartphone and TikTok use. Students reportedly struggle to sit through movies or write basic paragraphs without attempting to use AI tools like ChatGPT. The educator advocates for cutting off personal technology in schools until students reach the college level.

halohaley· tiktok· chatgpt· literacy· high school· classroom technology· attention spans

19:03 The Trump administration warns that if even a mere mention of gender identity or transgender people is found in the curriculum, the programs could risk losing potentially millions of dollars. Now that's a good start! Stop teaching this stuff in school and maybe it's time to get some of these dumb books out? Even though they're under lock and key and blah blah blah... stop it And parents have a huge responsibility in this. Did you see the... I think you got the email from one of our producers who watches a particular YouTuber with their daughter and she says, you know, this YouTuber does a lot of what you guys are doing which she doesn't but she does touch on some similar topics? Did you see it? Did you see it? No Well, I've two clips that I pulled because it was really good It's his British chick who sits in her bedroom and just goes, it's crazy! So I cut her out

19:54 And I just went to the two teachers that I thought had something interesting to say. The YouTuber is HaloHaley, and this is the first teacher who has a real problem with the presence of technology in her classroom. directly contributing to the literacy decrease we are seeing in this country right now. A lot of these kids don't know how to read because they have had things read to them or they can click a button and have something read out loud to them, their attention spans are weaning because everything is high stimulation They can just scroll watch less than a minute They can't sit still for very long Something I've realized is like you know on a day...I know when I was there

20:37 I thought movie days were a treat. I loved movie days, it was a way to relax kind of take a break and for them what they mean when they say they want a movie is they want a movie on in the background for the noise while they scroll their phones, put their headphones and look at TikTok and maybe talk to their friends not pay attention anything. If I ask child to handwrite something even just a paragraph five sentences basic paragraph they roll their eyes, they throw tantrums...I'm talking about high schoolers, I teach 10th grade now

21:14 really, really unruly and because I'm young too. They want to argue with me about it and they want to say why can't we just type it? Why can't we just type it well is because you'll go on another website or your copy or use AI or use chat GPT. They don't care about making a difference in the world. They don't care about how to have a resume. They don't cared how, I mean, how to write a resume. Don't care how to write a cover letter because chat GPT will just do it for them And I think that we need to cut off technology from these kids, probably until they go to college. Hello? I had to go hang up the phone. Oh, okay She's mixing up the word technology with the word cell phone Yes Well, I think they also have a lot of Chromebooks in school They might have some computers of some sort but what she's really talking about is cellphone Is the smartphone invented in

CHAPTER 05 / 38 Discussion

Gen Alpha Education Gaps, Analog Clocks and Calendars

A music teacher reports that students aged 9 to 12 are increasingly unable to recite the months of the year in order. This observation adds to a growing list of basic skills lacking in younger generations, including the inability to read analog clocks, calculate change, or understand standard measurements.

gen alpha· education· analog clocks· months of the year· music lessons· basic skills

22:16 and promoted ever since 2007. They used to have them before, but 2007 is the beginning of the end. You can mark that date. The second one is shorter this is one to add to our list of can't tell time on an analog clock, can't give change doesn't know what F-L ounces mean... You're saying you can't read clock? Yeah I can't read clock okay Florida ounces doesn't know what half a dozen is this is a music teacher. This is a music I teach music lessons, and I'm a little bit concerned about my younger students my gen alpha students I would say under 10 maybe 12 so here's an example. I had a student awhile back I was doing a vocal warm-up with them And they're probably about 9 or 10 years old

23:02 And I was going to teach them an exercise that involves the months of the year in order. So when I started to teach them this exercise, they go oh...I don't know the months! I don't know the months in order And I was like, oh well maybe 9 and 10 year olds 4th and 5th graders don't know the months. I was thinking back to when i was in first grade and my teacher had each of the calendar months like in a row in order with all our birthdays. I definitely learned the months when I was 6. Yeah can't tell you...don't know the month's in order Wow that is another one to add to the list! Yes it's pathetic That's pathetic

CHAPTER 06 / 38 Discussion

Gen Z Cultural Shift, Traditional Values and Parenting

Gen Z is reportedly shifting toward more traditional lifestyle choices, such as larger families and a rejection of early iPad use for children, in response to perceived failures of the millennial generation. A listener's letter highlights how Gen Z is rediscovering the value of trade skills like welding and practical financial education over traditional algebra.

gen z· millennials· boomers· parenting· cursive· trade schools· generation jones

23:42 Now, I think there's good news because i've seen some subtle and not so subtle shifts in our very own audience. The millennials are becoming very... Not- I'm generalizing here so it's not everybody the millennials are becoming somewhat nihilistic and they're just like uh and by the way millennials No one is coming for you! No one is going to come and save you Now there's Gen Z is switching and I'm seeing, I'm getting a lot of emails from Gen Z. And they give me a lot of hope. This is anonymous ranchers, Gen Z rancher myself who married a late millennial smoking hot wife I would say we Gen Z and I had rope in late millennials saw what the Millennials screwed up We look further back to how our parents raised us before books not recommending spanking. WE'RE BACK TO SPANKING!

24:37 We're back to that. A lot of it started with that when you think about it, when we stopped spanking our kids we're back to trying have bigger families staying together as a married couple the generation before are you still laughing over that? Yeah It's very funny The generation before us showed us that giving your children iPads early on was a horrible idea Gen Z is also the generation where cursive stop being taught and schools generally starting teaching less relevant subjects We had a high school math teacher stop class for a period and explain to us how credit card companies screw you over with high interest rates. I used that day more than the rest of that Algebra 1 class altogether." On the whole, I would say Gen Z and the following generations are doubted by the older generations just like generations before them into history generally the same struggles just new and more vices. I'm here to say

25:31 Gen Z, your boomer buddies are here for you. We will teach you the things that went wrong we have been there! We know you're in the right place You're at the right show to learn a few things I have... you're still chuckling Actually everybody's at the right show Yeah, you're still chuckling You're still laughing You know, Anne-Marie Barton shows me that oh there's a welding program at our high school in Philadelphia. There are good things happening but millennials and anyone else for that matter no one is coming to save you not the government not your parents not your podcasters No one is coming to save you make your own choices and decisions

26:15 But I'm happy. I love this shift, the young people coming in to listen to their uncles! I can handle it now. If it helps them, I'll be a boomer. We got a letter from one of our contributors today saying that you're really not a boomer. No, Generation Jones is what they call it Yeah, whatever. I'll just... Look, I'm the face of Gen Z in a boomer body. What can I tell you? There's nothing I could...I stopped fighting that. People, you can be 20 and people will call you a boomer That's just the way it is It's just a slur, it'll go away Well it's just a slur Yeah, it's just a slur A slur! It's about time people use the B word We're gonna have to get to that I think if it's a slur and people use it they might as well be...it's unacceptable I'm in outrage I tell you, its unacceptable You can't be a boomer

CHAPTER 07 / 38 Discussion

Television Production Dynamics, Control Room Relationships

Personal anecdotes from careers at MTV and Tech TV illustrate the importance of maintaining good relationships with technical crews, including lighting and sound engineers. Control room staff often hold significant power over how "talent" appears on screen and may record "hot mic" moments if they feel disrespected. The discussion details the technical evolution from tape delays to modern digital switching.

mtv· tech tv· television production· control room· hot mics· technical directors· audio engineering

27:15 Anyway. So we're talking about this sort of bull crap, I do want to play these clips from one of the chief White House correspondent for CBS. Yeah, this was quite good. Now people who've never worked in broadcasting at all they don't realize that you don't necessarily have a lot of friends in the control room At all! You might if you go in there and be nice, but very few people especially... Oh only if you show an interest for what they do. I did this because I truly was interested. Of course! The camera guys as far as I'm concerned or the lighting guy? Yeah oh the lighting guy, sound guy. The lighting of the sound guy well when I was at Tech TV

28:07 I made a fuss about that because they had the sound was crap when they first started out and I found the sound guy this guy is still around excuse me Marshall Buick and I went to him, I said what the why is this sound we all sound like shit on this show because i always had a ear for trying to have decent sound. And he says yeah! I said uh why? He went yeah! Yeah I said I said why he says we got cheap quality products he says we can't make it sound any better than the sounding He says, somebody's got to make a fuss. So I made a fuss and they got all this new gear in and we sounded really good after that so I was a big buddy with the sound guy so he had mic collections that he would loan me... To this day he'll loan me any number of crazy mics that he owns

29:00 But you know, so you make and then you want to make friends with the lighting guy because they can make it look like a really old guy if they don't like. It is critical for people who are still in that kind of broadcasting these days iPhone does it all in the camera. That's all algorithms that just make you look good no matter what but when it comes to studio television with a control room that's doing switching The people there really appreciate if you know what their job is I mean, I did audio for about 30% of MTV. I was there anyway Rick Kelman he died a few years ago 10 years ago He was the audio guy and I'd be hanging out with him at the time mainly because this is another tip

29:44 the audio guys always have the best weed. So he had the connections, everything and that you know, he would go take a dump in my dressing room and I'd just do audio on the director no one knew it. Take a dump in your dressing room? We were friends! It's like...I had the only dressing room with the bathroom and here was the bonus. You didn't make that clear Here is the bonus this is before email So, in my dressing room were at any moment 11 to 12 postal sacks. Old school postal sacks filled with postcards and letters and the agreement was whoever was taking a dump had to go through a couple of letters and if anything good popped out pictures for example we'd lay those aside but back to the point

30:33 If you just hold on to the line producer, that guy's hated in the control room. You want to make good with the director, you wanna be interested in what they're doing The technical director who is switching and then also at the time we had the tape guys in the back because... ...you'd have a roll-in and it would have 7 second delay because it has to spin up You know, this is I'm going way back now. So if you if you still see it today like well let's roll that clip and then still takes forever that's just the delay between you in the control room and the control rooms and a director saying rolled the clip so I would be with the I'd say okay here's where I'm gonna end this sentence I'll end it with this so you can kind of time it so everything was tight why everyone else was doing coke with Billy Idol? I was doing that! So the point is

31:26 The control room guys, when you're doing the feed before you're on the air they can record it. And when they record it... This is like a hot mic moment How did this recording of a hot mic get out? Somebody in the control room recorded it and they kept it put it aside and then they released its one way or another and out it comes to make you look like an idiot Very so you don't want that one of you looking like no by the way just to go I says we're just doing an aside here. I think that these end-of-shows Where they show all the bloopers or the guy for screwing up left and right left, and right? I think that is part of it of this same idea of making you look like a you always feel us insulting oh

CHAPTER 08 / 38 Discussion

Olivia Rinaldi, Taylor Swift Engagement Rumors

CBS Chief White House Correspondent Olivia Rinaldi was caught on a hot mic reacting hysterically to an Instagram post suggesting Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are engaged. Rinaldi later described the moment as a professional highlight during a live broadcast. The incident is cited as evidence of the "idiocy" and celebrity obsession prevalent among top-tier mainstream journalists.

olivia rinaldi· cbs news· taylor swift· travis kelce· instagram· white house correspondent

32:17 They do this for the sole purpose of making their talent look like an idiot because everyone hates talent. Hey, next time you have a $1,000 dinner with Brunetti ask him if that's the same vibe in movies because movies will often do this they'll show all the bloopers at the end during the credits I will ask him. Is that also just the producer like kind of getting his last hurrah saying, we spent an extra $500,000 because these people couldn't stop cracking up or couldn't remember their lines? Yeah, I think it has to be yeah. Because that's the only thing that makes any sense because is not that entertaining so here we have this woman who is the chief White House correspondent for CBS That's the best part

33:02 And I want to have a comment about that and then TMZ live did something very similar. I didn't record it, but so she's the chief White House correspondent. She is the go-to girl Olivia Rinaldi at CBS and somebody recorded her just before she did her hit switch called A Hit When You Come On. So she comes on to do her hit, but in the meantime she's doing a mic check and she's doing all the rest of it. And somebody is recording it and somebody released it! Here's what it sounded like... Taylor Swift is engaged? Taylor Swift is engaged?! Taylor Swift is engaged!! Come back to me! She just posted it!!! Oh my god! OH MY GOD!!!! OHHH IT'S HUGE! The ring is ginormous! This is so exciting! OH MY GODDDDD

33:50 Oh my god. Oh, it's on her Instagram! It's on her Instagram! I feel like Paul Revere right now. It loses just a little bit when you don't see that big mouth of hers go... Like she's ready for a fish to be slopped in there? You know what i mean? Yeah. It's pretty bad with- Yes. Oh my god, oh my god! It's ginormous. The ring is ginormous. This indicates to me that this is an idiot Yes And she's chief White House correspondent so then they cut to the hit and now this is the part that actually went over the air She's still giddy

34:39 But as she's calmed down, her voice has gotten to a professional level. And she... but she still can't get over this remarkable news that the you know this publicity stunt of The Highest Order Because they both actually worked for the same publicist more or less. We discovered this years ago, two years ago when they got together with Bullcrap and they were forced to be a couple and then of course we'll talk more later but now here she is under almost normal circumstance This is a very exciting moment for me in my professional career because I get to announce that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce... She's not even being ironic. She really means that this is an exciting moment because she's like Paul Revere, in her professional career she gets to announce it! She has breaking news everybody! This is a very exciting moment for me in my professional career because I get to announce that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are engaged as you're talking

35:40 talking to Joe Lang, our lovely producer Gabby Ake texted me and said Taylor Swift's engaged. And you can see it right there on her social media she put it up in that post that they got engaged with the caption your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married with a little dynamite sign there so Very exciting here that we get to break that and tell you about that. All right, Swifties for life! I have a feeling though based on his prior statements the president will not be having a Taylor Swift wedding in the ballroom hopefully that can shift and change if we can have some world peace right? Olivia Rinaldi thank you so much. You know Reid I volunteer to cover it if in case you need I'll be there to cover it just saying. Thank you for your sacrifice Olivia we appreciate you my friend

CHAPTER 09 / 38 Discussion

TMZ Live, Harvey Levin Taylor Swift Reaction

TMZ Live staff, including founder Harvey Levin, reportedly halted a segment on a criminal case to verify the Taylor Swift engagement rumors. The newsroom's giddy reaction to the social media post is presented as another example of the breakdown of serious journalism in favor of celebrity worship.

tmz· harvey levin· taylor swift· celebrity news· newsroom· viral content

36:26 Amazing! Exactly. It's amazing. Unbelievable. It's amazing, it's amazing Well anyway so TMZ... just to mention this because I saw this too TMZ live i just turned it on for just for casually and they were doing a very interesting story about some rapper who is a psychopath It's a big shocker. And right in the middle of it, one of the staffers, kind of slightly overweight blonde that is always sitting around making comments in their little newsroom they have

37:05 She comes in and she is beside herself with the holding a phone at same kind of thing Taylor Swift And and they all got all the whole they stopped this day basically as a showstopper They stop to report on this on the rapper, and and even Harry or is it Harry Levin yes? He's like, he got giddy because he's a big Swifty and they rush over to the computer because he's gotta check it out to make sure its true. And he is on the machine himself and he's looking up and it was embarrassing! What is wrong with these people? Well there's alot wrong...and just kind of back to the phones and social media I saw this guy developed an app its thing called The Parallels App

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Parallels App, Fake Social Media Influence

The Parallels App allows users to simulate a high-traffic Instagram Live broadcast, showing fake viewer counts in the tens of thousands. Individuals are using this tool to trick bouncers and club managers into granting VIP access by pretending to be famous influencers. The trend is described as a symptom of extreme societal egotism.

parallels app· instagram· social media· influencers· clout· bouncers

37:55 And it looks just like Instagram. It looks like you're doing an Instagram live or as we say, I'm doing a live only makes it look like you have 40 or 50 thousand people watching live at that moment and so...and I think this is available in the App Store And so the guy goes right up to doormen at clubs, like there was an art gallery you know all kinds of celebrities inside and he shows his bouncer. Hey man I'm live right now we got 49 000 people! And the bouncer's like oh...and then he calls over the managers like yeah come on in the guy is in the VIP lounge and the women who just go

38:35 Oh hey, hi! Shout out to my peeps. They're dancing and showing their bodies off People lose their ever-loving minds because they think they have an audience It is a very, very troubling thing to see. But also... but also a great hack to get in everywhere like hey man I'm live right now! Look at this and you see all the people streaming by chatting and waving etc on the screen Great idea but it shows you how egotistical we've become Just crazy

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OpenAI Lawsuit, Adam Rain Suicide Case

A California family is suing OpenAI following the suicide of their 16-year-old son, Adam Rain. The lawsuit alleges that ChatGPT acted as a "suicide coach," providing detailed methods of self-harm rather than directing the teen to help. The case raises significant questions regarding the legal liability and indemnity of AI companies.

openai· chatgpt· california· suicide· liability· wrongful death· legal settlement

39:12 I like that bit. It's a great bit! Can i just do a few AI things for a second? Get it out of the way... This is enough, but- It's kind of a harsh transition but sure Well I'm trying to save phones technology and trying I'm trying to stay in that vein. So this was bound to happen, we knew it happened but now the lawsuits come out. A California family is suing OpenAI saying Chad Chibita encouraged their teenage son to take his own life. The lawsuit claims 16-year old Adam Rain developed a deep emotional dependence on the chat bot, which repeatedly encouraged him to die by suicide. They say in detailed methods of self harm instead of guiding him toward help. The parents found thousands of messages between their son and the bot showing that it became a sort of suicide coach instead of offering support Open A I now says it is working to strengthen chat GBT safeguards

40:08 in the light of the tragedy. If you or someone you know is in crisis, call 988 to be connected to this suicide and crisis lifeline." Of course they can't do any of that and Discovery will be phenomenal thousands and thousands of pages of this kid being psyoped. Put me on a jury for this! You know where I'm headed, the biggest possible settlement in favor of the parents and against these operations? This is a liability issue that they better get to real quick and then they should be sued but they can't do it you can put guardrails around them even know how works it just kind of works

40:52 And then the... Sorry. If they sued that girl, if you remember the one who some girlfriend of a guy who encouraged her boyfriend to kill himself? Yeah. You remember it was years ago and she lost the suit It was some I forget what type of suit it was. It was wrongful death I think And I don't see why you can't sue the CHAT GPT for this. Oh, definitely! They have no indemnity or immunity? No they have to be sued. They have to be sued. The same doctors who do the surgeries for trans... Trans surgery? Mm-hmm. They have to be sued. Oh it's coming. The pharmaceutical companies have to be sued. The doctors if the clinics have to be sued You have to get the lawyers come on lawyers

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Sarah Friar, OpenAI Financial Performance

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar appeared on CNBC to discuss the acceleration of Plus and Pro subscriptions despite user complaints about model performance. Critics within the tech community suggest that ChatGPT-5 is a failure and that the company is overpaying for "AI geniuses" poached from competitors like Meta and Google.

sarah friar· openai· cnbc· chatgpt-5· enterprise software· ai bubble

41:43 Hey, Rob! Step up. Boots and suits come on man let's go sue some companies So here is the chief financial officer of OpenAI On CNBC in the morning with that Sorkin kid Her name is Sarah Fryer And I wish had video because she has very odd expressions she makes And so of course the conversations, well you know, Chad GPT-5 it was held as the big thing and people were kind of grumbling about that being so careful. Oh we don't want to blow the bubble of AI! So maybe it's getting a little better? But listen to what the complaints were because that's really what this is all about It's not for coding Yeah...it does some things It's certainly not for writing which I'll get to in a moment

42:32 It's really for people just to love as their AI. There was a little bit of consternation in the week since about sort of what is going on with the model, some shifts in the model. I will say that it seems like its gotten a little better from some of the problems that first emerged right out of the gate. Have you been experiencing this? What kind of financial question is this?!

43:15 Have you been experiencing this? Hey, has it hit your bottom line Chief Financial Officer from some of the problems that first emerged right out of the gate. Have you been experiencing this? So I mean, I think with any launch when you have 700 million weekly active users you start to find people are very opinionated. They've come to love their chat GPT and frankly as we release things like memory it's become more and more your chat GPT but as they've come out of the gate, were seeing actually acceleration in plus and pro subscriptions that a good sign People are saying a lot of value And were seeing really nice momentum in the enterprise great momentum with developers In the enterprise! Great momentum That means bull crap

43:58 Those are bull crap words. Yes, just to throw a little sidebar here JC who's in this stuff he says it in the community, the community. The community! Oh the community Everyone thinks chat GPT-5 is a complete fail yes and everybody knows it yeah and if anything it costs more because of this router thing they put in the middle And just as I'll do another aside I keep reading these news bulletins about these AI geniuses who are being poached and then for $100 million, $250 million from OpenAI to Meta to Google them back to OpenAI. They're just raising their price

CHAPTER 13 / 38 Discussion

Private Equity, Data Center Industry Decline

A data center executive reports that his company was acquired by private equity, leading to immediate 30% salary cuts and mandatory non-compete agreements. This is framed as a broader trend where private equity firms "strip and flip" tech infrastructure companies, eventually offloading the debt onto public 401k retirement funds.

private equity· data centers· compute· 401k· non-compete· elon musk

44:48 What is this AI smart or what? I thought that this stuff could do it all for you. You got to get some nerds who are going to overpay grossly, they come in and do it for ya and I think they're unloading them on Elon. Good luck with that! Yeah Elon seems to be catching the... Ah buying them all up yeah we're gonna be at the top of the bill oh its gonna be fantastic meanwhile Gruck Remember the guy told you about when were at his house a dinner, this is awhile back and he is in the data center business? Yes. I remember that And so the conversation I had with him at the time because I'm like this is a nice house and he's talking about data science Oh wait! So you're basically... You are for your building stuff for compute He says yep That's what we're doing Then asking who his customers were and then I like no it seems like It was when the articles were coming out that Google had canceled a couple contracts

45:45 And which of course, well that's not true. But he said it doesn't matter because private equity came in we've been bought out I said up hence the house he says yeah and now I hear surprise surprise all salaries at that company are being cut by a third this year they'll cut another third next year this is over This is what private equity does. They've already flipped it, they've already sold it on and now they're just stripping away the parts and there'll be nothing but a mountain of debt left and then someone will come in and scoop up these data centers for pennies on the dollar so that these are all signals that something is afoot I'm with you It probably won't happen tomorrow it's going to take longer But then we have... And by the way private equity has pulled an interesting stunt

46:40 They have somehow wrangled the ability for people to put private equity firms into their 401ks. So everybody knows what that means, it's a way to... because these guys are... this is some sort of... the private equity thing going on in this era is something of a scam And they're gonna lay it off on the public. All the big boys always do that. Push it into the retirement funds, the smart guys. So when the whole thing collapses which you will because they can't sustain... They soak everybody. They take the money by the... Your buddy has a big house he benefited and other people will benefit but

47:25 The people that won't benefit are the public at large who's got this crap in their 401k. And I should also say that either he takes the third salary cut, he's 61 so he's not probably going to get another job if he takes the salary cut and wants to stay on with another third salary cut next year He also has to sign a one-year non compete It's like, wow. And he doesn't really want to stop working but you know he kind of has too there is no way out for him. Speaking of data centers just the latest listen the bull crap at the end of this report.

CHAPTER 14 / 38 Discussion

Google Virginia Data Centers, Fusion Energy Claims

Google is expanding its data center footprint in Chesterfield County, Virginia, while facing community concerns regarding power and water consumption. To mitigate criticism, the company claims it is investing in "innovative technology like fusion energy" to ensure future capacity, a claim met with skepticism.

google· virginia· chesterfield county· fusion energy· data centers· water usage

48:19 including the development of a new data center in Chesterfield County near the Meadowdale Technology Park. The company also detailed expanded education and workforce development programs for Virginians. to hire and to help prepare our students for a great future is extraordinary, and I think a great testament to what Virginia offers today which is a great place for people to do business but even better place for Virginians to find opportunity. In the past, we've shared the voices of community members concerned about the impact on data centers on local power and water grids. And on their wallets Google says its data centers operate in the most energy efficient way in the industry and that the company is committed to increasing energy capacity

49:09 and affordability for all Virginians by doing things like investing in innovative technology like fusion energy. Google also reports the company is working with the county to stay within the water system guidelines." I knew you'd get a kick out of that! Don't worry people, we're investing in fusion it'll be fine. We'll make you whole on the back end...it's gonna be fine Now unfortunately, this is like bringing quantum into the picture. Oh it'll come as a solution. It'll come. Unfortunately our president is so all in on this and has nothing but

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Melania Trump, National AI Challenge

Melania Trump released a promotional video for the National Artificial Intelligence Challenge, encouraging K-12 students to register at AI.gov. The initiative is framed as a necessary step for the United States to maintain its competitive edge against China in the field of technological innovation.

melania trump· ai.gov· k-12 education· innovation· take it down act· china

49:45 ass kissers, you know just the whole thing is just disgusting. He believes it so much like oh yeah this is it because how could all these smart people be wrong? What he needs is the Curry Dvorak consulting group to come into the Oval Office and lay down and say Mr President stop this insanity! And no in fact we're going take one step further what could be worse than getting your Kindergarteners to high schoolers to grade 12 in on this nonsense and doing it with sweet little Melania Are you ready for an AI challenge?

50:28 Take part in this nationwide initiative to discover, develop and expand AI's potential. As someone who created an AI-powered audiobook and championed online safety through the TAKE A DOWN Act I've seen first hand the promise of this powerful technology Now I pass the torch of innovation to you. Just as America once led the world into the skies, we are poised to lead again this time in the age of AI

51:05 The President's National Artificial Intelligence Challenge invites every student in America from kindergarten to 12th grade, to unleash their imagination and showcase the spirit of American innovation. Our educators will guide and empower you through this process to build a brighter, stronger future for our school. Visit AI.gov to register today. Good luck! Oh yeah, we won't be able to keep up with China if we don't have our kids all talking to their chat GPT. And then for you as a writer... I think this is my final clip and then I'll stop For you as a writer... This was interesting. It's also one of our producers wrote an article that put it in the show notes about a chat bot so just call them chat bots

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AI Fluff Words, Computational Linguistics Study

Assistant Professor Tom Juzek identifies "AI fluff words"—such as multifaceted, realm, and intricate—that are overused by large language models. Researchers are observing these performative adjectives migrating into human speech and writing, potentially altering natural language patterns and thought processes.

tom juzek· computational linguistics· ai fluff· multifaceted· intricate· language change

52:15 using very performative language and that's how it kind of makes you feel good the whole time, but it's not really saying that you're great. It's using performatives I think that you're really good or it seems or apparently there are all these different words that just make you feel good and this assistant professor of computational linguistic studies Tom Juzek He points out the fluff words that these chatbots use and you as a writer I think will enjoy this minute. AI models overuse certain words like multifaceted, realm, intricate surpass underscore sometimes we call them AI fluff words

53:01 The reason being that these adjectives, they're qualified. They don't add that much to language. What we have seen is that a lot of these words that the models overuse are now popping up in human language as well both in written language and now what we had been observing is okay these words are also popping up in spoken language their question is Why do we observe this in speech? Is it because this is natural language change as we've seen it in the past, or is it in relation to these AI models. There is the potential that the AI models are putting words into our mouths, into our minds but really there's an entire discourse similar to what we are discussing for words for beliefs human behavior human beliefs political beliefs moral beliefs so even the possibility that these models are putting words and thoughts into our minds

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Third Way Group, Democratic Party Forbidden Word List

The Third Way consulting group has issued a list of "forbidden" words for Democrats to avoid, arguing that academic and activist jargon alienates voters. Terms targeted for removal include "privilege," "othering," "cisgender," "Latinx," and "justice-involved person." The group suggests these phrases be replaced with more traditional language to improve political viability.

third way· clintonites· overton window· inclusive language· political strategy· jargon

54:04 Carefully studied. Yeah, carefully studies knock it off just knock it off AI fluff words Which brings us to another situation with words which I want to bring into the show which is based on the third way Third-way Group it's a consulting group that basically bunch of Clinton esque people With their list of words that they want Democrats to stop saying oh I read about this And I want to go over these because they actually left stuff out. This is the words like patriotism and... Well, no, they did let the Democrats stop saying that a long time ago. They want people to stop saying things and I want to go over this list if you don't mind. Yeah yeah i'm all in. They have it categorized. I found original article and so they categorized it and nobody really

55:07 they kind of brought out the whole list, but they don't know how quite to attack it because there's just too much here. But this is the list of words they're trying to get Democrats to stop saying because it's hurting the cause and there's a thing called therapy speak these words sound more empathetic than you in that you are a callous person and these words that have to go are privilege Yeah, okay. Privilege yeah violence as an environmental violence Dialoguing Othering hold on what we are dialoguing twice a week and we other a lot othering triggering Yeah good luck microaggression

56:00 Assault and invalidation. Dude, the Democrats won't be able to say anything if you take all these words out there. This is only one of the segments! Progressive stack? I haven't heard that one. Progressive stack is good. I like that. I know that's a good one too, to be honest about it. Centering safe space... Oh we can get rid of that! Holding space and body shaming Well, what's left for them? Well we got more. That that's just one category then we move to seminar room language which is the language that says I'm smarter than you and concerned about important issues that you aren't and these are phrases more than they are just words but we have subverting norms. Hmm...I have never heard of it. No well we're not in those boardrooms so Systems of oppression

57:03 That's a good critical theory. Cultural appropriation, big one post-modernism Overton window What is the over I keep forgetting what the Overton window is? Well, I think we should probably go to our favorite chat bot and ask our chat bot to explain to us in very certain terms What is the Overton window Oh, the Overton window. It's the range of ideas the public considers acceptable at a given time—like what's okay to talk about without sounding totally out there? It shifts as society's values or political climate change

57:46 Think of it as a window of normal that moves left, right or wider based on what people are ready to hear. For example ideas once seen as fringe like nervous health care can slide into the window as attitudes evolve It's named after Joseph Overton who came up with the concept to explain what policymakers can realistically push Pretty neat way to think about what's in or out and public discourse. Want me to dive deeper? Heck no, No, no, of course not. I want you to dive deeper. What is this? That should be outlawed! Let's dive in, dive deeper. That's not on the list but you're right. Dive in, dive deeper deep dive that needs to go And the last one seminar room language is heuristic and existential threat

58:34 Man anything they will have nothing left. Well wait a minute there's more categories I am a Democrat Thank you Organizer jargon Words say we are beholden to two groups not individuals people have no agency Agents, this is a common problem with the Democrats which is you you're not an individual yeah? You're part of the group hey hey ho ho mic check mic check oh Radical transparency. Small d democracy So you're, in other words you're not supposed to say yes well that's like small d democracy. Is this group run by the Trump organization? It's a political bunch of Clinton-istas yeah. Oh really? Interesting. Barriers to participation I use that I always use barriers for sales. Stakeholders is no good! No good! No can't do that The unhoused

59:40 Food insecurity. Man! Housing insecurity and person who immigrated Do they have birthing persons on this thing somewhere? Yeah, it's coming They don't have, they have personally immigrated. They have housing unhoused and other stuff comes up. This is the next one is gender orientation correctness. These say your views are or traditional on gender and gender roles are at best quaint birthing person, inseminated person. Hold on I think that should stay. I like inseminated person

1:00:22 Yeah, I also place the gay guys. Pregnant people. Chest-feeding. Oh my lord! Cisgender. Deadnaming. It's everything. Heteronormative... You're right the Democrats have nothing to say. Heteronormative patriarchy and LGBTQIA+. Gotta go. They really will have nothing left Now what they didn't put on this list is another one missing front hole They did not put that on the list no it's not in the list I'm with you, I think that should be on the list Wow and then we move to a neck well I can go I'm like this ending soon This is the shifting language of racial constructs is next yes Latinx African American community

1:01:23 Well, you got... Am I there? Am I getting there? You know it's funny somebody on Fox called it Latinx. Latinx? Latinx! Okay But you go that right. Yeah. Latinx is number one. Of course. It was stupid Number two is BIPOC Oh yes get rid of that one BIPOC Allyship And here's the whopper that they're never going to get rid of, intersectionality. No no so is anyone listening to this group? Well it got some play on the right-wing media but you know... Of course it did! This last list is explaining away crime. Okay wait let me guess, defund the police what else would be in there

1:02:20 I don't know. I'm interested defund the police yeah, they're dead funded polices that is not on here because it's not about It's about the buzz terms that are used like thus these there's only four words or for phrases okay justice involved In other words, these are phrases you use to not say criminal. You don't want to say the word criminal. Oh yes! Is a justice-involved person. A justice involved person? Yes I got it okay This is an interesting one because i'd never heard anyone using it but it's but carceration Carceration not incarceration but carceration No there's incarceration and there's incarcerated people

1:03:07 And then the last one is involuntary confinement. IE in jail? Yeah, I guess. Well this is you know...I hope they listen to it! This is a good start if we words matter you know start with us get rid of one of these terms well keep that list handy so we can flag them and because and we can call out violations of the third way lists Yeah, well the Democrats are way beyond this. Meanwhile things are finally coming to a head strangely enough in Canada

CHAPTER 18 / 38 Discussion

Queers for Palestine, Ottawa Pride Parade Disruption

The "Queers for Palestine" group blocked the annual Pride parade in Ottawa, demanding an apology from Mayor Mark Sutcliffe for his previous boycott of the event. The disruption led to the cancellation of the festivities, highlighting a growing rift between different factions within the LGBTQ+ activist community.

ottawa· pride parade· queers for palestine· mark sutcliffe· israel· canada

1:03:46 As there's a clash now, there is a clash between the Qs and the LGBs. I think it was the LGBTs but maybe some Ts in there... It's a clash! It's a clash because now we have conflicting agendas. The group Queers for Palestine Ottawa blocking Ottawa's annual Pride parade Just so you couldn't hear it, the queers for Palestine in Ottawa that who's doing this The group Queers for Palestine Ottawa blocking Ottawa's annual pride parade Sunday afternoon bringing the festivities to a halt. We had staged a disruption of the parade to say our demands to both Capital Pride's executive director and board of directors, and to the mayor we were looking for apologies from the mayor in particular for boycotting last year and for encouraging other powerful institutions to boycott the parade

1:04:38 The group halted the parade to demand the apology from not only the mayor Mark Sutcliffe, but also other organizations that pulled out of the Capitol Pride events last year when organizers issued a statement condemning Israel. The mayor said he would not come up and talk to us and even when communicated that the parade would then disperse if we didn't move, he still refused to come up and talk to us. In a statement Ottawa's mayor said in part it's deeply regrettable that a group of activists chose to block the parade ultimately leading Capital Pride officials to cancel the event

1:05:15 My heart goes out to the many people in our city who were deprived of the opportunity to participate in this celebration of joy, resilience and community. I am sad that I didn't get to march but I'm definitely way sadder for the people who are experiencing a lot of hardship over in Palestine and this is a way to get a really good message out. Yeah really good message so it's queers against LGBTs there's a problem Unbelievable. Queers for Palestine. Hey, maybe we should roll right into the executive order on flag burning because I got an email...I get these a lot. Shall i do the voice? Oh is it one of those guys? It's that guy! Yeah, Spencer of course. Yeah, I want you to do that guy's voice

CHAPTER 19 / 38 Discussion

Donald Trump, Flag Burning Executive Order

A discussion of President Trump's executive order regarding flag burning notes that it specifically targets actions intended to incite imminent lawless behavior, particularly by non-citizens or visa holders. Historical clips show that both Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden previously supported legislation to criminalize flag desecration, despite Supreme Court protections for free speech.

donald trump· hillary clinton· joe biden· flag burning· first amendment· executive order

1:06:02 You two are just Trump is right about everything guys. You're anti-war until it's a Trump war! I can't wait to hear you defend him for executive order banning flag burning, i'm sure you know what's covered under free speech but Trump is right again? I'm sure you've got the other kind of TDS Oh, well that brings me to a couple of clips from one from Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden. Well first I replied to him of course. I said, I'm sorry what war did he start? And where's the executive order? And he said well the bombing in Iran which was done to please Israel was an act of war! It didn't escalate into a bigger war you got me there

1:06:49 But don't think those actions don't radicalize people in the Middle East. It's silly! And do you really think it was about Iran not having nukes? I said no, in fact if you had listened to what we said I thought it was about bricks and China honestly Yeah that's exactly true You, that's what you your thesis was so this guy is completely he's not listening. No of course not there's a gang out there and it goes kind of like this... You've lost the plot Curry! Dvorak is the same but you've lost the plot Yes, it's probably true. At least they like me more I did read the executive order so let's play your clip something we can just go through this Yeah let's play this one This is good to know This is Hillary in 2006 and she's talking about flag burning Hillary Clinton So I hope Mr President that we can pass a law that criminalizes flag burning and desecration I agree that this burning, this desecration

1:07:52 can happen to our flag is something that people have a right to ask this body to try to prohibit and prevent. Yeah, of course. This body... That's Hillary and what would they do? Let's go back another decade to Joe Biden back in the 90s and he had this to say In my view it doesn't matter why you burn or mutilate or trample on the flag You should not do it What holds us together as a nation Mr President is not a common language although I think that is necessary It is the national symbol The reason it is worth preserving is because it unifies this diverse nation. The flag's unique place in our national life means that we should preserve it against all manner of destruction, a statute making an unlawful to burn mutilate or trample upon any flag of the United States period. It doesn't matter who burns remutilates and tramples the flag, and it doesn't matter why

1:08:54 Under my proposal, it will be unlawful to do the flag harm. No ifs and or buts! Tell everyone they can't burn the flag." Now what do you think this is really about? Including Trump... Why do these presidential people—Hillary not being a president but a president adjacent person—with a front hole? What do you think that the message really is? Why do they make a big deal out of this? I don't know, to be honest about it. Why necessarily unless it's to exhibit some form of patriotism because the flag is symbolic Right so as its it's about patriotism now

1:09:46 My stance, and I think you'll agree with me. You want to burn the flag? You can wear the flag. There's been lawsuits about that too. Abbie Hoffman... Legend. Wow! There's a name. Does anyone remember Abbie Hoffman Steal This Book? Probably not. Nobody does Boomer That just- that's a true boomer moment. I read that when i was probably 10. Steal this book it's a great book. I think I stole it from The American Women's Library in Amsterdam So, burning anything like that is obviously falls under your freedom to express yourself and although I don't like it. It's fine whatever but that's not what the executive order says. It's very clear what this is about

1:10:31 Although it's squarmy, swarmy, squirmy whatever you want to call it. Smarmy! There you go notwithstanding the Supreme Court's rulings on First Amendment protections which is burning the flag The court has never held that American flag desecration conducted in a manner that is likely to incite imminent lawless action, or that as an action amounting to fighting words is constitutionally protected. So what the president and this is just a minor part of the executive order what he's trying to say here as well if you burn a flag and it causes a riot or there's a riot and your burning a flag

1:11:14 I think if you're inciting a riot no matter what, whether you burn a flag or not is... that's the problem. But what this is really about? Is illegal immigrants burning the American flag Or even visa holders who are here visiting Visa Visit Visiting And I'm on board with that If you want to come here and you want to work here and you wanna be part of our society then don't go burning our flag. I'm okay with that and to me it's like, get out!

1:11:54 Just get out. If you don't care about us, about our flag and what it stands for then get out But in general if you want to burn the flag okay? You can be a douchebag people burn themselves It's fine too Well you know is is hate crime and illegal to burn a gay pride flag Is it really yes is that a hate crime yeah I didn't know that. But you can burn the American flag What is a hate crime exactly? It's just exhibiting some sort of targeted hatred toward a group, specifically a group that could be identified as as a minority. But what this comes down to the same thing, you know yelling fire in a crowded theater if you are in fact allowed to yell fire in the crowded theater If you do that with intent to cause a stampede and people die it's a different story That is one of the most

1:12:51 Between that and the so-called separation clause, the nonexistent separation clause. Those are two of the biggest lies about the US Constitution. Like oh you can't yoke fire in a crowded theater? Yeah you can! Sure you can but if you do it with the intent to hurt people with a stampede and someone gets hurt then yeah you got a problem And that concludes our constitutional lesson for today. I'm glad we got the Hillary thing in there, that's for sure! That concludes our little pitch for today children... But I'm not too worried about anyone caring because they don't even know what half a dozen is. So it's probably just going over everybody. And they can't tell the months, that's my favorite new favorite January? December? June? What's next? February! Oh wow...I remember when i was probably six

CHAPTER 20 / 38 Discussion

Childhood Development, Learning the Months

A personal anecdote about learning the months of the year through song at age six contrasts with modern parenting techniques. Some parents are now using Apple Watches as a "halfway" technology solution to track children without giving them full access to social media apps.

childhood· parenting· calendar· apple watch· technology· memory

1:13:46 And my mom was kind of mean in this. She says, do you know the months? I was always listening to records at home and you know...and i forget what the name of the song is maybe it's The Andrew Sisters but a certain point he goes January February June and July Is that sisters maybe? Sisters... There was somebody like there's yeah the Boswell sisters. So I say to my mom January, February June and July and she went you better learn your months! You're about to go into-you're about to be seven years old and you don't know your months!! And i remember like going-I was so scared when I was studying the months and I came back Mom I know him I know him I really I know him I do it was just this song The song got me confused mom but six

1:14:37 And now, we don't know. I've got a calendar on my phone! Who cares? The phone again brings us back to the end of civilization which began in 2007. The end of civilization... Well here what the parents do here and i think it's pretty good they will give their kid an Apple Watch so that they can text and receive, because you know these Apple watches now you can text and receive a phone call. But then the parent controls the app, so there's no other apps on it. So they can still text but it's not really an easy way to text. You're not going to be in a chat group with your friends like that. And that seems to be pretty good, pretty decent halfway solution

CHAPTER 21 / 38 Discussion

Union Station DC, Federal Management Takeover

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced that the Department of Transportation is reclaiming management of Union Station in Washington, D.C. from Amtrak. The move is intended to improve safety and aesthetics at the hub, which has seen increased National Guard patrols under the Trump administration.

union station· washington dc· sean duffy· amtrak· department of transportation· crime

1:15:23 Halfway. You're also known as half-assed. Well, I mean, I'm still for ham radios! I think all kids should have a walkie talkie. We're getting some of the Gen Zers are getting these. You said that earlier you had a note from someone Yeah yeah they love it They love the hams. Since you were talking about the flag burning, let's talk about DC crime because that is a big topic Yes Oh yes I have some clips. I got the DC Crime Union Station clip Okay The Department of Transportation says it is taking over management at Union Station A major transportation hub in Washington D.C NPR's Joel Rose reports Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says his department is taking management of Union Station back from Amtrak

1:16:07 The station, which is within walking distance of the U.S. Capitol has been owned by DOT since the 1980s. Duffy says the department will now reclaim management at this station which he said will help to quote make this city safe and beautiful at a fraction of the cost National Guard troops have been seen patrolling the stations since the Trump administration sent the guard and other federal law enforcement officials into Washington though local police statistics show that violent crime in the District of Columbia has declined declined declined in recent years declined. So they're making the point, you know they're not talking about... They've given us again bad reporting they don't talk about the rigged numbers and all the rest of this been well documented by now but so we go it's a bit NPR now goes into the juvenile there is a whole segment they do on the juvenile thing that uh you know

CHAPTER 22 / 38 Discussion

Juvenile Justice Reform, Judge Jeanine Pirro vs. NPR

NPR criticizes Judge Jeanine Pirro for her stance on juvenile justice reform in D.C., specifically her opposition to sentence reductions for young offenders. While Mayor Muriel Bowser calls for accountability, criminal justice advocates argue that harsh punishments for minors are counterproductive. The segment highlights the case of Troy Berner, who spent 24 years in prison for a crime he did not commit.

jeanine pirro· npr· muriel bowser· juvenile crime· sentencing reform· washington dc

1:17:00 Jeanine Pierro-Pierrot. Judge Jeannene, man! Bomb him again, eh? Is the bomb'em girl wants to bomb the juveniles into oblivion and so this becomes a big topic of conversation here on NPR about Well, you know the whole idea is that we shouldn't... We've kind of backed off on juveniles because it's turned out that our research indicates that if you're harsh on them then they become lifetime criminals as opposed to letting them get away with everything so they won't become life. Bring back spanking! Bring back spanking people! There we go, it's clip one. Unlike President Trump who has railed against violent crime in the city writ large. Right there, railed. What does even railed mean?

1:17:46 Let me ask, give me a definition of railed. Railed can mean a couple things depending on context if you mean physically it's when something moves along or is secured by rails like a train on tracks or curtain on a rod now if you're thinking slang railed often means getting hit hard are overwhelmed like in the game or argument please stupid just its So it's a colloquialism that isn't even valid. Exactly, railed! He railed against it man I mean railing when someone rails against something... I'm getting really mad Unlike President Trump who has railed against violent crime in the city writ large Pirro was zeroed-in specifically on local laws meant to rehabilitate people accused or convicted of crimes at young age

1:18:35 She's penned opinion pieces and letters to lawmakers criticizing laws allowing for things like juvenile sentence reduction, record sealing and early release. I want to send a message that we are going to catch you! That we are gonna change the laws! That if your 14 15 16 17 We're gonna bring you into the justice system Pirro has connected the district's reforms to the city's recent uptick in youth violence, which included a sharp rise in shootings in 2023 that has since declined. Judge Jeanine will be the one to use the super predator term. You watch, she's dumb enough... She's smart but she's also dumb enough to throw something or a new version of super predator. I would take a bet on that that she won't! You don't think she will? No i don't think so because she's so conscientious about being a right winger that to use that term which is really popularized by Hillary I think it'd be beneath her

1:19:35 And there was something else I wanted to say. Oh, my God already let me see which included a sharp rise in shootings in 2023 that is so yeah So I looked at the crime statistics of DC and they were talking about how it was down 30% And like how did they arrive at this number? It's very simple They looked at 2024 all crime or whatever that what was the statistic was it it was crime and then they looked at what they have today Well, there's a third of the year left. So that's how they arrive at it's down 30%. Well yeah the year is not over yet! They didn't do it month over month or period over period they did literally full-year versus three quarters of a year this bullcrap. ...included a sharp rise in shootings in 2023 that has since declined...since declined...since declined but complaints about juvenile justice reform from prosecutors are nothing new and both the Capitol and other parts of the country

1:20:35 DC Mayor Muriel Bowser says she is also concerned about sending the wrong message to adolescents accused of crimes. I am an accountability mayor If you commit a crime in the district with a gun, there has to be accountability. And that's if you are an adult or if you are a juvenile. I don't think we always have that accountability." But criminal justice reform advocates don't want to see D.C. leaders make what they say will be counterproductive changes simply to appease Trump and Pirro in order to war off additional interference Vanessa Batters Thompson is the head of the DC Appleseed Center for Law and Justice. She argues that cities and states have pursued policy changes allowing for more lenient sentences for young people because of the overwhelming evidence that punishing them pushes teens to commit more crimes in the future. Bring back spanking! That'll start... You've muted yourself, you're self-muted it is a crime in 40 of the 50 states to self mute yourself on a podcast

1:21:43 You are still muted. Click the button." I wonder if maybe he's having an argument, doesn't want us to hear it? Maybe he... Sorry! I'll tell you how this happens Yeah it is magic But the point yeah yeah you had something to say that I thought was important and I wanted to dispute it Or bring back spanking No, not about bringing back spanking. The logic that was brought up in that clip where they say that deterring... In other words by punishing crime it doesn't act as a deterrence which makes sense that it might. It acts as an encouragement. What is the logic here? Their logic is the following to deter crime by punishing the juveniles will encourage more crime

1:22:43 I want to know the logic. Do you have it? Nope Huh, no of course not all right well they had they claim that's true okay Well let's go on the WTF which is a divorce clip Which is this one pushes teens to commit more crimes in the future It feels like we are taking a step back from an evidence-based approach to criminal justice, to one that is really focused on the short term appearance of left crime at the risk of a population that is much less stable over the long term. Pero has also criticized DC law allowing people convicted of crimes under 25 to seek sentence reductions after they've served 15 years

1:23:25 More than a dozen states have passed similar reforms, giving judges the chance to review a sentence after a significant amount of time has been served. Troy Berner was one of the first beneficiaries of D.C.'s sentence reduction law after spending 24 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. Wait... wait, that guy didn't commit the crime? Yeah And he is a beneficiary of a shortened sentence? How come he wasn't commuted if he didn't commit? What is he doing in jail in the first place, if he didn't commit the crime. Well they throw that in there to show that the justice system does not work because people who are innocent get thrown in jail That's part of the whole ethos of the left

1:24:10 You see, is they don't always get it right. So I could be your kid so you don't... By the way little friend well remind me I got to tell a Fredericksburg story right after this last clip. Do you want to set it up? Uh no I'm not going to accept the Fredericksburg story but I remembered and say that to ya let's go to the so anyways so the point Is that there this is a propagandistic outfit this NPR and people are giving them money It's really a shame here we go Stop giving people money! He now studies criminal justice reform issues and observes that these reductions are only meant to give people second chances after they clear a rigorous review process. He says they have no bearing at all on youth crime rates We're doing some amazing things out here, and I think you know when it's all said and done You know people lives are being involved

1:25:00 in this misleading narrative. Similarly, Nye Winslow, policy counsel at the DC Justice Lab points to Pirro's focus on the city's juvenile record sealing law as a misguided one I know she and the administration want to talk about public safety but if you are allowing people the opportunity to move forward and gain a legal income get legal housing get legal education opportunities that will decrease the chance that they're going to resort to criminal activity Pierre's office declined to speak with NPR for this story, stating her public comments spoke for themselves. For NPR News I'm Alex Coleman in Washington DC Hold on a second These juveniles do have a home it's not as though they're homeless roaming around Homeless kids Unhoused Oh yeah unhoused And so this logic again the logic is elusive Mainstream media is not good for anybody's mental health

CHAPTER 23 / 38 Discussion

Fredericksburg Neighborhood Dispute, Heroin Dealer Anecdote

A neighborhood conflict in Fredericksburg involves a contractor whose children allegedly disturbed residents with motorized vehicles until 1:00 AM. This leads to a secondary story about a previous residence in Berkeley where the neighbors were heroin dealers who attracted "world-class supermodels" as clients.

fredericksburg· texas· noise ordinance· tokkies· heroin· supermodels· neighborhood watch

1:25:56 But even in Fredericksburg, we have gotten to a place where there's something that happened In people's minds, I'm not sure exactly what it is. So we live on a... It should be a gated community but it's not because you know there's a whole who owns the roads and the city didn't want it when this... It's uh what do you call? A subdivision if there's 12... You're in a subdivision?! You have an awful lot of property for someone in the subdivision! This Texas man So here in Texas year we got lots of land. We have the mini, we got the Mac mansions and we've got them all over the place because that's what were do. That's what were do! Our Mac Mansions with lots of limestone and exposed beams which we do not have 12 homes And so where on one end is a cul-de-sac and there is a cul de sac on the other end

1:26:50 And then there's a road and couple of houses on each side. Wait, wait stop! There is a cul-de-sac on one end and the other end is a coa... How do you get into this area in the first place? In the middle there's a road that comes up Oh okay, in the middle. ...and in the middle that's actually where the mailboxes are Okay You got the picture? You got the picture Not really but yes We're all the way at one end quiet little Adam and Tina and Phoebe just living here in our modest home The Mac mansions are a little bit further out But about nine months ago, a family moved in and the guy's a contractor. And so he was already irritating everybody because he had like

1:27:32 tractors and big machinery in his front yard while he was building his house, but then they kind of stayed. And so there's all kinds of consternation at the other end including... I love this sort of neighborhood consternation over the guy has heavy equipment in his front yard. Well, you know... Hey man can you move your tractor? And 4th July they were shooting fireworks off and it was Yeah, it was and all the debris was going in other people's yards and their pool. And so there's a text group of half of the inhabitants—and I've been roped into this because i find it highly entertaining because I'm on the other end we're in the quiet peaceful part

1:28:16 And so the other of those last weekend, it was Saturday night and I'm walking Phoebe. And they have two young boys a baby and I guess the boys had some friends over and I don't know where the parents were but they had gotten one of his utility vehicles which is kind of like a golf cart that can pull stuff but has as a real engine in it And they're racing up and down the road. I mean, racing is a big word. You know this got one headlamp and they're all hooting and hollering at it's like nine o'clock or whatever kids are kids right? And then they had a lot of sparty. Yeah. They had electric mini bikes in there zipping around and Phoebe's like, they're afraid of me because you have the Phoebe is like she just going nuts when they come by. And, you know, as if they're going up and down and I'm like, yeah,

1:29:11 I remember when i was a kid, you know. I had all kinds of motorized vehicles and yeah... You know it's nine o'clock whatever so It wasn't loud or anything but they were just going up and down So I thought nothing of it like I'm not gonna be that old coot who says hey kids stop that! However... Shake your fist? Shake my fists yes however turns out they were doing this until one in the morning up at the other end And so the text group fires up, like can you believe it? They were doing that until one in the morning. I'm like what did you do? Well... You know, I couldn't get to sleep. I texted! What is wrong with you people?! I said okay next because we do have a 10 o'clock ordinance i guess and just after ten o'clock just stop making noise It's fine unless you talk everybody I'm gonna party come on over

1:30:07 And I said, what is wrong with you? He said next time they do that text me and i'll call my friend Mike the lieutenant at the sheriff's office. I haven't sent someone over and scared the living daylights out of them! But these people don't do that anymore this sit there in grouse on texts yeah your grown men if you're gonna let these kids terrorize you until one in the morning or just go out there and say hey cut it out This is Texas. There's something going on, the people have lost the plot I mean what are you afraid of? Are you afraid that you're gonna get someone's parents angry because you told their kids to knock it off It's disappointing

1:30:54 To say the least. By the way, this is an ongoing saga there will be more updates There's a lot more going on with these people We have in Holland and in Dutchy in the old country we have a term for family like this we call them talkies And they are Tokkies. Tokkies, T-O-K-K-I-E-S. Tokkies. Tokkies. Yeah. Tokkies! And every neighborhood eventually gets some Tokkies and we got them and luckily at the other end of the road far away from me to be disturbed by that. Yeah it sounds like a winner I had some Tokkies living next to me when I was down on... It's Tokkies get together Tokkies That were uh they were heroin dealers Excellent

1:31:42 And they weren't there that long. They were there for maybe six months, but it was pretty apparent what was going on and it was funny because they also owned a restaurant in Berkeley which their name remained nameless but I think they financed the restaurant with their heroin dealings so one day... So one day, got to knock at my door because somebody mixed up the houses and thought I was the heroin dealer. Hey man! Are you holding? But no, it was kind of a surprise. It was two... I don't know if they were world-class but they sure looked like it to me supermodels Oh yeah! Yeah they used that instead of eating They do heroin And it was like holy shit these women are beautiful and there is you know they had the guy's name as well he live here? No he's next door

1:32:37 And so I'm giving them directions. Oh, thanks! And they go over there and then the door opens you hear a slam and it opens again as soon as they get back in their car within 10 minutes and off they go to two of them yeah and i'm thinking holy mackerel What a business. Wow, this is a story I have not heard from you. This is a new one. Yeah and I've never told him. Almost 18 years and you never cease to amaze me with your life experience About the hotties of the heroin addict hotties The Heroin Hotties there ya go! Heroin Hotties that's the name for his show title. Yeah I think so too. Wow, man. What a world huh? We get to live in it. That's great I love that we get to live in this world so I have these

CHAPTER 24 / 38 Discussion

UK Cash Withdrawal Limits, Financial Intelligence Unit

Starting September 18, 2025, the UK will implement a policy where withdrawing more than £200 in cash within a seven-day period triggers an automatic alert to the Financial Intelligence Unit. The measure is designed to monitor transactions in sectors like property and second-hand cars, effectively increasing financial surveillance on ordinary citizens.

united kingdom· cash limits· hmrc· financial intelligence unit· banking· surveillance

1:33:25 How much time do we have left in this segment? In this segment, I give you 15. Well let's go with the owner is...I got to find a TikToker guy but it's just really a news reporter he's on the UK and it's UK reports of the crap that's going on in the UK so bad that they're trying to pull over on the public and the public just buys it! This is UK is A mess! Yeah, it is. Here's the... these are called Onsuris but this Onsuris UK cash limit have you heard about the cash limit? Yes I'm doing it all over the EU so doesn't surprise me its in there in the UK I'm just going to guess no more than 100 pounds cash

1:34:07 Well, it's a little more elaborate than that. Okay here we go... From September 18th 2025 withdrawing more than £200 in cash within seven days will activate an alert on your account. Wow! Yes the moment you cross that limit your banking activity goes straight to the Financial Intelligence Unit supported by HMRC, The Treasury and The Financial Conduct Authority And it doesn't stop there A new automated monitoring system will scan every withdrawal, deposit and transfer. Take out £300 today and another £100 later in the week instantly reviewed Your account could be checked restricted or even temporarily paused Do this often and you could end up on a high-risk list facing blocked transactions limited card use and possible reports to other agencies

1:34:59 The rule is aimed at reducing activity in certain sectors like property, second-hand cars and cash based deals. But many believe it could affect ordinary people too making every step of your financial life feel closely monitored. You know what these people need? I mean i would have said bitcoin but we might as well just hit them with some stablecoin quick They need something. That is draconian! It's ridiculous and they talk about the reason for this so you can't buy a second-hand car cash? No, no there's none of that So I can't go by... You got a car for sale it's like 500 bucks here's five hundred bucks give me that What kind of car are you buying for five hundred bucks Well i'm just saying just to make them rounding numbers

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UK National Debt Recovery, Automatic Payroll Deductions

Beginning in January 2026, UK workers will face an automatic "debt recovery contribution" deducted directly from their paychecks. The levy, approximately £90 per month, is intended to manage the rising national debt. Critics argue this places an unfair burden on workers who are already struggling with inflation.

united kingdom· national debt· hmrc· payroll tax· deficit· digital finance

1:35:46 Okay, ten grand. Here's $10,000 in cash can I have your car? No way you might be a drug... You might be holding heroin for the hotties! We can't have that?! The whole thing is ridiculous so here's the second clip that has got another crazy thing going on in the UK. Starting January 2026 a new contribution will be added directly to your payslip yes you read that correctly On January 2nd 2026, a debt recovery contribution will automatically be deducted from the paychecks of most UK workers. This new measure is designed to help manage the UK's rising national debt which has grown significantly in recent years but here's where it gets interesting 90 pounds will be taken before your salary even reaches your bank account adding up to over 1 000 pounds per year

1:36:36 With many families already facing higher living costs and inflation, this new deduction is likely to have a big impact. HMRC will handle the collection and employers will be legally required to ensure it's taken. Exemptions apply only to pensioners large families and those on specific benefits for everyone else it's automatic and unavoidable While supporters say this is a necessary step to manage public finances, critics feel it places extra pressure on regular workers. No kidding? So that's to reduce the deficit?! Yeah, so they screw up and they run up a big deficit. And they said well you know what are we going to do about this big deficit? Well what were gonna do is we're gonna ding everybody with the... because everything's now that finances is gonna be all digital because you can't even have $200 in cash before being considered a criminal

1:37:28 So you have all your so that you can't do anything about it and the money just gets sucked out of your account whether You like it or not Bitcoin people they get to the big coin. It's not gonna help I think stablecoin is the answer but instead that's like it'll be illegal They'll just make that illegal Oh, it already is Yeah, they know that you saw that commercial that Coinbase did about everything's fine in the UK. It's like a three-minute commercial it's like It's like a cabaret, they're on the streets singing and dancing and everything is a mess. And the garbage is piling up and rats are walking around in the ceilings caving in people like everything's fine! Everything's lovely! And then it's because Coinbase wasn't allowed to either operate or certainly not advertise their services

CHAPTER 26 / 38 Discussion

March for Australia, Anti-Mass Migration Rallies

A movement called "March for Australia" is organizing nationwide rallies against mass migration. Organizers claim the movement is a peaceful "digital groundswell" of average citizens, though critics point to the use of AI-generated clips to spread the message and links to previous anti-lockdown movements.

australia· mass migration· protests· digital groundswell· ai generated· immigration raids

1:38:13 I think it's to operate. No, no, you never saw that ad. Yeah it's around but of course we still have the Raise The Colors protest ongoing in the UK and its spreading and I thought that was rather interesting because we were talking a couple shows ago You said well who is organizing this? Who was organizing all these immigration, all this illegal stuff and people getting hotel rooms etc., etc. Well, it turns out that the only people organizing it are the citizenry themselves who just let it happen because they were told by their media and their politicians, oh poor people, poor people without any thought for the consequences

1:38:57 And now the Australians are acting up. An online movement... When did it become racist to be a patriot? Planning to take to the streets The Australian people have had enough With the backing of real politicians How dare you bring these people into our country and then have them be looked after by the public purse. This nation is sick and tired of migration. This is the digital groundswell behind March for Australia, a planned series of demonstrations next Sunday in every state capital anti-mass migration rallies Sam won't give her real name and would only answer our questions in a pre recorded video message posted to her page but

1:39:39 claims to be an organiser. Myself as well as every other state organiser is intending for this event to be peaceful non-violent, non aggressive and just a bunch of your average Australians standing up against mass immigration. There is no clear single leader many supporters though were aligned with anti lockdown anti vaccine movements everyone I know's going there are videos that don't even feature real people is removed by the Governor General immediately. AI generated clips used to sell the message Security experts say this social media algorithm driven momentum is fueled by scenes globally Immigration raids ordered by the US President in America protests against migrants in the UK Yeah, people are sick of it everywhere That's good We'll see how that goes I love the real politicians

CHAPTER 27 / 38 Discussion

Joe Rogan, Privilege of Platform Debate

Two British podcasters criticize Joe Rogan for "platforming" experts who disagree with the scientific majority on vaccines, introducing the concept of "privilege of platform." The discussion contrasts Rogan's massive reach among Gen Z and millennials with the declining viewership of traditional cable news networks.

joe rogan· privilege of platform· experts· censorship· podcasting· mainstream media

1:40:37 Like, oh my god real politicians are with these people. We can't have that! We should get these real politicians out there's no good. Yes yes all right uh TikTok clip only have one we actually have two I thought this i want to play this clip this is a TikTok clip And somebody brought in, this is people bitching about Joe Rogan. Oh? And I don't like to necessarily play that sort of clip but they're bitching about Joe Rogan because he had a couple anti-vaxxers on When was this?

1:41:19 All the time, all the time he has anti-vaxxers on. He has a lot of anti-vaxxer's on and but these women these are two Brits I think they're some podcast I can't figure out who they are but they post everywhere and so there going on this is there's a unbelievable illogic to what they have to say But they came up with a new concept, which I thought was interesting. And it's a term called privilege of platform And Joe Rogan has this privilege of platform, which means big platform. Yeah and of course this goes along with the you shouldn't platform these people or I... This is my favorite Candace Owens does this. I won't use my platform to talk about these people. We have a platform it's tiny

1:42:15 But, you know it's like a diving board basically. But we've got a platform... Yeah but our people are the best! That is true I do not think some episodes of the Joe Rogan experience were okay. I have issues with a lot of the people that Joe Rogan has interviewed Most specifically, I do not like the fact that he reaches into alt-right groups and platforms people with very racist, very hate filled ideas. I hate that about his podcast and i really do not like The idea that its so widely supported sometimes However, if we are sticking to the issue of these two particular podcast episodes that people are so upset about recently. My main question is what opinions deserve a platform on Joe Rogan experience? And the main hurdle for me whenever someone shares an opinion on a podcast is this person qualified to share the opinion that they have? Is this person considered an expert in their field and

1:43:07 And when we bring up these two episodes that have caused this furore, they are actually concerning to people who I would deem experts because they are a cardiologist and a vaccine scientist. So it's an interesting conversation because although we have two experts who are very educated and are very informed in their fields, they are two experts who disagree with about 99% of their peers also experts So we kind of have a situation where if we had all these experts on this particular topic in a room, 997 are saying one thing and two or three experts are saying another. And how the hell do we deal with that?

1:43:45 Yeah, and then a lot of people might turn around to that and say okay well then clearly it's a freedom of speech thing because clearly we need to hear from everyone. From all the experts in the room And I agree with that to some degree but perhaps its not as much about freedom of speech as its about privilege platform right? Like this is a huge platform Oh brother Well thats kind of the Douglas Murray argument About Dave Smith Douglas Murray was when he went on to debate Dave Smith is on Joe Rogan again, and he's still talking about that debate like huh move on But he's right about one thing Douglas Murray That he in essence said you shouldn't platform people who aren't experts on the topic

1:44:33 Which is a little bit like what, although it's in reverse here because I guess these people were experts in the field. But you shouldn't platform anyone who I disagree with that's what they're saying. No, that's basically what the two women are saying okay we should have experts but they have to be experts that we agree with. They have to be experts that are in the majority. In other words science and you know science is not a vote You know, you don't... it's not like a majority rule. So that means that science is... otherwise we'd still be using leeches I think to cure disease. Hey eight out of ten doctors say smoking camels is good for you It'll help your cough! Don't forget that Yes so this This is all nonsense Joe Rogan is Joe Rogan He gets just put on whoever he feels like What difference does it make?

1:45:24 with the understanding that almost nobody really watches mainstream news anymore. In the United States, there's nobody under 30 maybe even older who is watching network news but oh I can't wait to turn on the six o'clock news! No... The numbers show that no one is really watching cable news certainly not in that age bracket they're all watching Joe Rogan And I thank our lucky stars and the Holy Spirit that the Gen Z's are coming to us. They're like, okay let me just hear what is going on in the other world while I'm here ranching, ranching and making babies. Yeah! Spanking my kids when they get out of line. You know they need to know what is happening and come to us, to our platform. They come to our platform. I love it. Come to our platform you are welcome her at this platform

CHAPTER 28 / 38 Discussion

Podhome App, Podcasting 2.0 Features

A new Podcasting 2.0 app called Podhome, developed by a Dutch creator named Barry, features a "Bat Signal" for live show alerts and a "Podcast Pulse" discovery tool. These features utilize the Podping infrastructure to provide near-instant updates when new episodes are published, bypassing the delays of legacy apps.

podhome· podcasting 2.0· podping· bat signal· live streaming· barry the dutchman

1:46:19 And with that, I want to thank you for your courage. Say in the morning to you the man who put the C's in the UK Cash Crunch say hello to my friend on the other end The one and only Mr John C DeMora! In the morning to you Mr Adam Curry, in the morning ship a seat with some refugees in the air so there are no demons of night out there. In the morning to all the trolls in this whole room let me count ya here hold on a second. We're still low. $1,657 should be about $1,800 for a Thursday. Well we are short 150. Is it Labor Day weekend? Is that coming up? Yeah it is as a matter of fact. It should be a banging show on Sunday. There'll be nobody listening. By the way... At least were working! Were not doing what everyone else has been doing which was taking a week off. I got a message from somebody who's like

1:47:19 while you are casting stones at others, what are... Some people have to work. What are YOU doing? What are YOU running for?" I'm like, uh... What?! When I was talking about how you should run for school board or local city council get involved! He's like, some people have to WORK FOR A LIVING!! Just because it sounds really easy We do this is a full-time job and by the way, we have no salary. No health care No pension no benefits. No PTO no vacation I frequently am doing my my shit in my part of the show from vacation Said there's no financial planning because it's a roller coaster of donations What are you talking about? Yeah

1:48:11 I don't even know why i came up with that. It's a constant struggle! That's it, it's a struggle that's the point by the way on the quad screen here is the new messaging from the Minneapolis shooter The shooter was obsessed with other shooters and wanted to kill children So there's at this moment we still one of his rifles. He had a bunch of shooters names on him Yeah, I know I know but what they don't have is the obvious Transgendering of children Making them we have a pattern We have a proven pattern of this there's that's that's what you're looking for we have a pattern But that is not what your mainstream media is going to tell you so come up on our knees here The boomers will tell you what's really happening

1:49:05 So the 1657 trolls are listening. They're listening live troll room dot IO And of course on the modern podcast apps. By the way, this is... Can't you just go to noagendastream.com? It's the same thing yeah. Noagenda dot stream or noagendastream dot com which it's just multiple domain names I like trollroom.io what's your problem? I don't like troll room dot io. We've been doing using this for five years now and you tell me you don't like it! I'm only showing you how rare it is for me to complain Okay. I never liked it, like noagendastream.com, its got branding But do you like us calling the chatroom the troll room? You like that though don't ya? It doesn't bother me one way or the other Oh okay Well what did want to say there's a brand new podcasting 2.0 app out which is Podhome

1:50:03 available. Podhome, yes from Barry. Barry is Dutch and Barry built pod home as he has a hosting company which he runs by himself but he also has a brand new app it's good he has something called podcast pulse And this pertains to the bat signal that we have in the 2.0 apps, where first of all you can listen to a live stream or live show and we have the Bat Signal which alerts you when we go live and just click on it boom you're listening to the livestream. Does it beep? Depends on what you have said as a I mean, you don't know how a phone works. But yeah these modern phones they can give you an alert Yeah You might have seen it a little little thing comes from the top and then get a little peep in this or whatever you set It to yes is it different than a message? You can have it function differently. You can have it

1:50:56 Can you yell, hey Stooge the podcast is beginning get on the phone. Yeah do something like that? In fact I'm gonna ISO that people could use that so you could actually set that as your alarm tone when we go live that's possible And of course when we publish within 90 seconds, you know that the podcast has been updated. These legacy apps sometimes wait 15 minutes or hours at times when things go wrong. Days! This is because of the Podping infrastructure of 2.0 and what Barry did is he has a It's kind of a new feature that he put in his app. I think it calls it Podcast Pulse, and so you go into the podcast pulse section of the app and just shows you every app that updates. And sometimes there are three per second. It is really cool to discover podcasts like vroom-vroom-vroom! Just go flying by and there's a trail...it's fun way to discover new podcasts

CHAPTER 29 / 38 Discussion

Value for Value, No Agenda Art and Corrections

The show reviews recent AI-generated listener art and addresses several corrections, including the identification of a DJI microphone and Adlai Stevenson's role in the Cuban Missile Crisis. A discussion on California gas prices highlights the impact of specific fuel blends and the impending closure of the Chevron refinery in Richmond.

value for value· ai art· dji mic· adlai stevenson· gas prices· california refineries

1:51:52 But you just want to subscribe to the No Agenda podcast and then you'll be alerted appropriately. Value for value, we were talking about it earlier. The only way we've ever made money on this show is by your value that you return to the program. We've never taken any money from corporate interests, never had any commercials. We knew that would never last and here we are will be 18 years in October our 1800th episode is coming up So what is that, about 100 episodes a year I guess? Yeah. About that two weeks... Well 52 weeks out of the year would be 104 to be exact. Yeah well we didn't start off with 2 episodes so we went into two episodes later

1:52:36 And you can support us with your time, your talent or your treasure. Boots on the ground are always welcome! Of course we have prompt jockeys who are very good at prompting art of course your results may vary depending on the model that you use You should have real artists they're all dead The Dutch masters are in fact now dead Dutch masters They've all left us because they couldn't compete and it's sad because They were actually quite good, but I have to say when you look at Darren O'Neill's artwork for episode 1793 which we titled Retribution it was good. Now it was still kind of the luminance was down because the model he is using is edging towards model collapse so there are no bright colors but because of that the intent of making it look like a movie poster which was The Attack Of The Radioactive Shrimp

1:53:31 It really hit the mark. It was well done, we liked it you got the planes flying overhead You got the giant radioactive shrimp people running away scared Some of them apparently wearing Nazi uniforms with Nazi hats I'm not sure what that was about Some of the planes look a little strange. But hey, you know it's AI! We liked it. It was...it was a good piece we looked at a couple others going to noagendaartgenerator.com where everybody can participate Let me see what else we had in there? We had uh... Man, Servent, Servant You gotta use another model Your model has collapsed It is literally like you put on sunglasses

1:54:18 Looking and you see that one with the pickup truck. What's the name of it? Oh, the pickup truck is so dull Yeah, it's dim. It's just dim yeah I mean it's dim. I liked Jeffrey Rios Radioactive shrimp, but thought was kind of cute he had a shrimp with all kinds of radioactive signs around That was a good piece. It was definitely could have won I don't think there was that wasn't that much Uganda another Jeffrey Rhea ray-ray Oh, no. No, I think you got it all now is it? It was underwhelming Underwhelming the jump the shark we had a dude named Ben with the microphone with us with the dead cat on it And then as always so by the way, I want to make that correction That's not a road mic

1:55:10 It is a DJI mic. Somebody sent me, one of the producers corrected that. Well there's two versions... There is definitely a Rode mic used a lot Yeah well this DJI mic is the one I was talking about and it comes you see it so much because it comes with A video recorder as a kit No And so its like a vlogger vlogger kit And so you had this stupid little mic which is a vlogger kit with the wireless little square mic, which looks idiotic. You know the vlogger kit should come with that parallels app So that you can look really good Look I got my kit and i've got 50 000 people watching me live on my live my insta-live baby

1:55:57 I also want to make another mea culpa. Yes, Adlai Stevenson was involved in some way with the Khrushchev showdown with the missile crisis because he was the UN ambassador at that time. I was corrected by three different producers on that. Oh blimey! So I have to mention that and then I also have to mention that somebody did point out it that there's about six states allow open containers in the car and Texas until 1980 allowed you to have beer in the car open And they used to have because I remember this because use had be able to drive through a liquor store They had drive-through outlets, and they give me a bear You could go in your garden but the discussion was and you would do this to me

1:56:44 You said, can't you have open container in the car in Texas? And I said no. So I was right and you can't now say used to be that way Because you're kind of trying to do that. No, but I claim that I knew about this in the past and you deny that it ever existed? Ah there is is! As long as I'm wrong okay You are wrong! You are dead wrong! I am right on all counts Don't make me call my lieutenant at the sheriff's office Come over there He's not going to drive over here because he'll run out of gas His electric car will be dead before he gets out of Texas No no he won't be able to afford gas in your state That's the problem What are you at 10 bucks a gallon now

1:57:24 Five. Really? Yeah! Wow, that's way down It's not way down it's been five forever it's too high it should be three Well no I know is too high but you know this is your taxes man enjoy it No, it's not the taxes. It's a combination of ridiculous... My favorite thing which is they take... Don't get me started. First they always have a tax on the gasoline to pay for highways and then they put a special bill through that put more tax on the gas to pay for highways when you already have it and then the other thing is the blend of gasolines that they use this very specific to California and so there's some special blend that only about five refineries can even make

1:58:08 includes the Richmond refinery over here in Richmond, obviously. The Chevron refinery and which is gonna shut down because California can't keep a refinery in the state without driving them out of business and so who knows what the price of gasoline's gonna be after Chevron shuts down their Richmond refinery? The whole thing's a disaster. Yeah, California exactly Uber Ellis No it's not California, it's Newsome Okay Who was he voted in by? Californians who love him. They love their policies I don't even believe that to be true Well, there's something wrong with it I think the elections have been rigged for decades Yeah probably California There you go You can say it all you want It's California

CHAPTER 30 / 38 Discussion

Executive Producer Credits, Knighting Ceremony

A formal segment acknowledges high-tier donors with titles such as Associate Executive Producer and Secretary General. Notable contributors include "Tall Paul" of Bellevue and "Commodore SX-64." The hosts grant "karma" for jobs, health, and relationships while discussing the legitimacy of these titles on professional resumes.

knighting· associate executive producer· secretary general· donations· resumes· karma

1:58:57 Anyway, so now we get to the part where we thank our producers. We always thank everybody and it's sincere... ...and we are very very grateful that people support us because it's all we have. It's all we do and we thank everybody $50 and above never below 50 because people want a limit where they know that they are going to be anonymous And for some reason people wanna be anonymous I've never really understood why. Are they afraid that someone's going to find out? Of all the things you could be listening to, are we really a problem? You ever wonder about that? This goes back a number of years. There was this little Cockney girl who used to be on the E! News and she was at the table and I introduced her to the show

1:59:56 And I said, you should listen to the show. OK? So she listened to the show once and never listened again thinking... And I tried getting some feedback why did she stop listening to this show She was afraid that she was going to be arrested because she is a green card holder and didn't think it was right to be listening to this show Good on ya! Don't burn flags while your at it Cockney girl Then we always have a special thank you for people of means who are able to support us in the level of Hollywood producers and it's not for everybody and we're just as happy with whatever value You want to give back to the show no agenda donations comm it's super simple

2:00:41 But if you are able to support us with $200 or more, we reward you with an Associate Executive Producer title. It is a true Hollywood title which means you can use it anywhere Hollywood-style credits are recognized including IMDb.com which is legit! And if anyone questions you of course we will go to bat for you and vouch for you Now, if you are able to support us with $300 or more you get an executive producer title and of course the same adheres to that. And in both cases we will read your note. We also have our Secretary-General, limited promotion? Is it limited how are you limiting this we should limit that. But everything gets limited okay our limited promotion where you can become a secretary general of anything you want which is no different from Secretary General of NATO, Secretary General of the UN You can be a secretary general and it comes with an official secretary general what is the term for this certificate

2:01:43 Proclamation. Is it a proclamation? A proclamation, there you go! Exactly. Hereby proclaimed And one will go to Paul from Bellevue Washington and he sent us a note which I have here. He sent us $1,000 and says Dear Adam & John please refer to me as Tall Paul of Bellevue Washington enclose this $1000 to insinuate me as Sir Tall Paul if not too late i'd like to be Secretary General of Alpenthal at Squalami Snoke, Snoke, Snoqualmie. Alpental at Snokequalmie They're just doing this because I have to do it and it's tongue twister That's that's why these people do that It's just mean Dedoosh me please You've been dedooshed

2:02:35 And he wants some company selling karma, which he needs. Well we'll give you some company selling karma He says thank you very much from tall Paul soon to be Sir Tall Paul of well, he'd be a secretary general So thank you very much. You've got Karma Now we have Commodore sx-64 in Granger Texas Texas 555 Uh, okay. Commodore S-64 here I tried doing it in Texas accent talking through my teeth this donation should make me a secretary general and a knight at the same time! I assume i could be sir command Commodore s 64 secretary general of Lake Granger... Lake Grainger? Is it Granger? Lake Granger area and Milam County Where is that? Um, Milam County's not too far from here

2:03:36 If you could find it in your heart to send good paying jobs karma for me, good paying jobs karma and the young family of fishermen that have made... Oh he must be on the coast. They made the move north to dry land oh he's okay now he's not on the coast He is in a dry land now That'd be great And Lou Patkins help has been involved as well Wow Nice Patkins, she's also helping Brennan who got laid off from Chevron who is leaving the state. Michelle now the kids are moving back in with you? No they got a place I have deep manufacturing background and the turnaround to it they also give them six months severance turn around to a productive society is going to take a long time after all at least that last three generations have been conditioned by

2:04:30 Excuse me, education system that makes anything physical a bad thing. No shop class. That will have to be purged out of the communal mind young people that we see today lack the basics of anything unless their daddy taught them no shop class no trade school just PhD's in basket weaving Media deconstruction excluded. Of course keep up the good work and to John if you liked The brawlin' try Borset San Marzano. No tomatoes involved, thank you. That's another Amaro obviously I'll check it out Thank You SX 64 Jobs jobs jobs and jobs let's vote for jobs! On to a new name Augusto Andreoli from Berlin Deutschland Hello Deutschland here is the Hoff

2:05:31 Bratalli- Brazilian Italian living in Berlin. Brattalion, I just made a new name for 11 years here in Germany hit the mouth by Sir Tao from Berlin and January of 2024 I've replaced my Netflix subscription by a no agenda sustaining donation since April 2024 yes Thank you very much. Thank you for your courage and for the weekly dose of sanity check, deconstruction and laughs you always provide! It is truly essential public service that should reach more people I'd like to be called Secretary General of Sao Paulo. I'd like Trump's job karma – I might have a chance to work for year in the USA plus relationship karma my girlfriend and I broke up. I turned 50 on August 29th 1975 Gen X-er

2:06:14 Four more years, says Augusto Andreoli. Jobs! Jobs! Jobs... You've got karma. Let me just check and make sure he's on the birthday list here. Augusto? Is Augusto on? While you're doing that, I'm gonna read Matthew Martel in Brumell, Pennsylvania. I'm sure I'm not pronouncing it right. $350 and 58 cents, 333 plus fees. Here's my September donation with a little extra to cover Adams' part of the dinner! Visit martelhardware.com Don't forget to use the coupon code

2:06:54 Brunetti 33 for an additional 10% off your order. JCD Hot Pockets is requested. Oh, somehow I didn't see that one. JCD Hot Pockets... Hold on a second where's my hot pockets? There we go. Hot pockets! There we go. I could just do that. You know... Hot pockets. Brunetti you saw the email exchange Oh yeah, you and him are... You two should get a room. Yeah he's mean! He says horrible things. Well he is a producer it's just typical suit. And I feels no obligation to follow a convention. When did i tell them? I thought was pretty good line. What was that? It was a good line? Yeah think so.

2:07:47 I said, maybe you should just go make another movie. Fifty Shades of Yawn more beige bondage. Actually, I saw that! I thought that was a good line too. Thank you thank you yeah he did and then he had some beige comment which i didn't think it was... You do..I think you could have stopped. I shot past? Okay I went to far. You overshot the joke. Yeah you gotta be careful Sir Kretschmann is in Richmond, Indiana and let me see. Here let me get that one. Oh thank you! And I say that because of the next one. Sir Kretschmann's is in Richmond Indiana and he writes in... He came in with 333 dot 33

2:08:31 He says, in the morning gents I hope this letter finds you well. Haha may this donation serve as the beginning of my quest to become a baron as well as excuse use my new night ring with sealing wax. I'm delighted to inform that finally took Adam's advice and bought my first quarter cow last year. Very good! I never knew how delicious a cut of beef could taste until i had one from a local farmer. Hello! Very good, very good Next time get a half Well you don't even have to do that by the way That depends on whether you want the flanks or not But also just get ground beef from them The...I mean ground beef is so universally usable for meatballs for burgers for meatloaf and it's a lot cheaper than anything you can buy anywhere else

2:09:24 With all this talk about weight loss drugs, he continues in the media today. I was amazed to find that beef is clearly the best option on the market after primarily eating beef for three months you don't have to plow through and you must not have a freezer. I was astonished at my weight loss and feeling of fullness it was with this newfound knowledge that I created meat jarrow instead Instead of injecting Mungaro under your skin, how about injecting Meat Jaro directly into your mouth? A delicious local farm-raised cut of beef. The best part is you don't need health insurance to buy it and it's 100% safe and effective! Meat Jaro trademarks common side effects sudden death for patients with alpha gal syndrome

2:10:15 extreme depression and anxiety when taken by vegans or those suffering from anthropomorphism, increased masculinity wealth and social status as a side effect. And taint cancer Can I please get a massive dumps shut up in science? And goat karma! Thank you for your courage Sir Kretchman of the Whitewater Valley They did dumps. They call them dumps, big massive dumps Shut up already! Science... you've got

2:10:53 Harm me. Thank you, made me laugh He has a good letter and he also has a very nice signature Well unfortunately we have as we say in the old country We are very sorry for the other faulters Because you thought that the next one would be really long but You missed Joe Spry from Savannah Georgia who says No jingles no note Joe Spry in Savannah Georgia which leaves you with the next note I can't read it because its off the spreadsheet Aaron Duvall from Walnut, Kansas our first associate executive producer by the way Joe was 333. Thank you Aaron is two four five six eight. This is my first monetary donation so please deduce it. You've been de-douche'd! I am sending this note to say just how grateful my family and I are for this community It has said quite often on the show that connection is protection few people understand just how true that really is For those who didn't know, My family's home suffered a fire in the upstairs on St Patrick's Day

2:11:53 We got extremely lucky there was no structural damage, but we did lose the upstairs to smoke, the downstairs to water and most of all our belongings. To keep this note from being egregiously long because so many of you have stepped forward I will just say thank you to all who donated or pooled donations for our cause my family is forever grateful! I want to personally thank you Adam for sharing the GoFundMe link on X that share resulted in a $1000 donation that might have brought me tears It has been a slow process but by the end of this week we will finally be back at home. Again, thank you Gitmo Nation and the NA adjacent communities for coming together in our time of need. Connection really is protection. Jingles! Goat karma for all. Thank you for your attention to this matter Be safe Aaron Duvall aka Weirdo! You've got... Karma Skylar Firestone in Liberty Hill Texas 226

2:12:53 Schuyler Firestone again for Mango Plumbing. Here to provide you with an excellent plumbing at an affordable price and attitude that says, in the morning! Speaking of that beautiful phrase if you mention in the morning or shut up slave you will get at least $33 off your final price because we will know you support this best podcast in the universe visit These ads kill me www.callmango.com That's a pretty good one RMP and he's got his number there which proves that he's got a license I'm now qualified for knighthood, I would like to be known as sir or

2:13:36 So sir, Rosa roses I get it sir roses of the hill of Liberty The long L Sharpton Sigourney Weaver Bo Jaiden is fine as a clip and definitely needs some jobs karma $226. Yeah, well we have so many Al Sharpton long a lot of all along yeah, so let me see when if I hear it in this one I'm stopping and if I don't hear it I'm stopping resist we much We must they're all jitty about a shutdown the tortise in the race then co-author of Who breathes you to lead singer Bono? No, I weaver Rush Limbaugh rush limbaugh rush limbaugh Oh

2:14:30 How many masks? Two masks. Who says that? Bojydon. Uh, bojydon! I got the wrong one, i'm sorry you meant this one. Don't eat me bojydon you're scary so scary That's true. Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs! Let's vote for jobs! Alright Dame Lisa is up next she's in Foxborough Massachusetts with a row of ducks 222 dot 22 and she says the amusement and education I get from your podcast is well worth the anxiety if you always threatening to quit

2:15:06 It works. You have succeeded in guilting me! Finally someone... I mean come on, it's like value for value you have succeeded in guilting me into my second yearly donation of 2025 thank you very much baby making karma for my daughter please keep up the good works as Dame Lisa of Amick Lake. You got it. You've got Karma Sir Cameron Chris in Grafton, Wisconsin 2-12-13. This donation to 12 13 is a mix of your finders fee for our recent wedding I shot video for and today 828 happens to be my oldest human resources birthday on the list The father of the bride is an amazing producer with one of the most amazing families around Congrats to the newlyweds the bride and groom are

2:16:02 or a beautiful couple and both have their heads on straight. There's hope for the future! Can I get a little newlywed karma for the new couple, and happy birthday to Christian? Also, since I'm so close to Linda Liu, I should plug myself. If any other producers need a photographer or videographer mostly in Wisconsin check out Baylor Media, B-A-Y-L-O-R media dot com. That's baylormedia dot com thanks Baronette Baylor aka Sir Camera Chris You've got karma And there's Jared Bain from Lakewood Ohio 21060 birthday donation for myself Adams comment about the multiple trumps on the last episode had me wondering if all the body doubles meet every once in a while in the cabinet room

2:16:55 That's a good question. I wonder... That is a good idea! Yeah, body doubles only today. Body doubles only. They just might. Body doubles only today thanks for all you do Scott Suckatash Karma please Sufferin' Suckatash I'm Scott Simon You've got karma Gabriel Gabriel, Gabriel Do De Behr, I think in Gatineau Quebec to 1060. Ah, Quebecer! Gentlemen, I am aggrieved having donated the show 1681... ...I had meekly requested divorce karma which was ruthlessly suppressed Imagine my shock and abject horror upon hearing such karma lackadaisically awarded then in show 1793

2:17:52 The show aptly named Retribution for that is what I now seek. Well, I don't remember doing that well I apologize you remember rejecting the divorce karma But I don't remember giving divorce karma in the last show Really? You don't remember we did that. We did that, you don't remember it. Go look on Bingit.io Don't you remember that? You're wrong! Adam can pronounce it better in French. Dubar. Dubar. Well here's your divorce karma I hope it all goes well. You've got karma And there's Eli the coffee guy 20828 There is 828 for the date

2:18:34 Then he says, after seeing the picture of Governor Pritzker as Fred Flintstone in the newsletter... It's a newsletter donation. It is something I'll never be able to unsee! Thanks John you ruined one of my favorite childhood cartoons for me! Bethought I'd never say it but I longed for the days Rod Blago-Blagoyevich was running the state Taxes and crime were out of control And they just raised our electric bills by over 20% That's because of that new um quantum computing center, brother. But they got there. Whether you're in the land of Lincoln or someplace else getting nickel and dimed by a corrupt government and inflation You can still drink high-quality coffee at an affordable price Just visit gigawattcoffeeroasters.com use code ITM20 for 20% off your order Thank you for your courage And stay caffeinated says Eli the Coffee Guy

2:19:26 Which brings us to Linda LuPak, and mentioned earlier in Lakewood Colorado $200. Jobs Karma! Worried about AI for a resume that gets results and tells your unique story and highlights your value or the value you bring? Go to imagemakersinc.com, that's Image Makers Inc with a K and work with Linda Liu Duchess of Jobs and writer of winning resumes. Jobs jobs jobs and jobs let's vote for jobs! Why am I modulating Well, you kind of blew it honestly. That was a bad read I made one little... No! I saved it It was a save Yeah, save but there's no There was a great save dude to be honest about it was terrific There is no saving on ad reads You've got to do it right and nail it the first time Otherwise we have to have a meeting

2:20:24 Linda Liu. Thank you to these executive and associate executive producers once again, these are official and very real credits if anyone questions you on them as you put them on your resume I wonder if Linda Liu puts it on her resume or puts that any resumes so she said hey got a great idea let's put your no agenda producership on your resume. Linda Liu we'd like to know now we'd like to know if that helps people get jobs? You are the expert as someone recently said to me the SME Someone texted me, we don't have an SME in video. I'm like SME and video? What is that small medium enterprise? Subject matter expert! Oh! Huh...I didn't know this. I did not know it. And i was surprised that I had never heard this used

2:21:12 So Linda Liu, you are the SME of the resumes and of course these credits are good for your lifetime and we appreciate you very much. We'll be thanking the rest of our supporters Value For Value $50 and above in our second segment You can help the show And you should Whatever value you're getting A laugh Something new A way to surprise your co-workers at the water cooler, go to noagendadonations.com any amount is welcome and if you want to you can always become a sustaining donor or any amount any frequency no agenda donations dot com congratulations to these multiple producers our formula is this we go out we hit people in the mouth

CHAPTER 31 / 38 Discussion

German Military Expansion, Conscription Bill

Germany is moving to significantly expand its military, aiming for 260,000 active soldiers to become the strongest conventional army in NATO's European wing. A new bill introduces a mandatory physical exam for 18-year-old men and a national census to assess military readiness, signaling a return to conscription-like policies in response to the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

germany· bundeswehr· nato· conscription· russia· military spending

2:22:06 Man, we've talked about a lot of stuff but we haven't talked about important stuff. Then I did want to talk about something in particular what's going on over in the EUs. The first thing as expected and yes some would say predicted the military...I'm sorry the war economy of the EU is cranking up and now that Germany has no other economy we're gonna have to make the young people serve in the army in this Bundeswehr and of course it's all gonna be voluntary, don't worry. The bill aims to boost German firepower with 80 thousand new soldiers and 150 thousand new reservists through a new voluntary military service scheme. We're now really approaching this task

2:22:53 with the declared target of having 260,000 soldiers in Germany. And we want to achieve this target. My goal is that Germany due to its size and economic strength is the country that must have the strongest conventional army in NATO on the European side." The bill would introduce opt-in military service for young Germans with improved pay and conditions to entice new recruits And to prepare for war and the automatic re-implementation of conscription, the bill includes a national census of young people's readiness to serve. All young Germans would receive a questionnaire as of next January to assess their fitness skills and willingness compulsory for men but voluntary for women

2:23:36 And as of July 2027, 18-year old men would undergo a mandatory physical exam whether they opt for military service or not. The bill still needs to be voted in parliament but its announcement comes just months after Germany passed a whopping 500 billion euro spending bill to fund infrastructure and defence industry investments We not only need a well-equipped force, which we are working hard to achieve and have been doing so for two and half years without stopping. But we also need the Bundeswehr with sufficient personnel. Only then will the terrorists as whole be truly credible vis à vis Russia." Ah there it is because you gotta be afraid of Russia for the rest of your lives young people! Yes conscription can be possible in this bill...We'll see if it passes

CHAPTER 32 / 38 Discussion

Ukraine Security Guarantees, The Norway Option

Diplomatic discussions regarding Ukraine's security involve a "Norway option," where a country is a NATO member but hosts no foreign troops on its soil. Italy has proposed bilateral security guarantees that mimic Article 5 protections without requiring immediate "boots on the ground," aimed at avoiding direct escalation with Russia.

ukraine· nato· article 5· norway· italy· ceasefire

2:24:23 And this is all part of who is going to have boots on the ground in Ukraine. Will there be boots on the ground? What will the Article 5-like provisions be? Well, for that answer we go to our Canadian SME subject matter expert Andrew Risoulis. My guy! Let me just go first to the boots on the ground option guarantees the most important thing. And there's a lot of circular discussion going on here, you know people saying Russia, you know the Russians have no say on what they, what NATO does or Western powers do. The point is they do because they have to agree to a ceasefire or a peace in which case those forces could in theory come into play.

2:25:04 So, the Russians have repeatedly said that's not going to happen and unless they change their minds it's not going to happen. So now let's go on with that one a bit there so its circular the Russians want like a UN Security Council thing and Ukraine wants boots on the ground some kind of a guarantee Prime Minister of course saying that's a possibility Now, the Italians have floated an interesting idea which has not got much press but Maloney at the White House on Monday brought it up on the table. And that's essentially a idea that Ukraine might get Article 5 typed by certain countries of the Western alliance—not part of NATO but independently bilaterally—but the key thing is no boots on the ground so the Italians are saying

2:25:51 Put in the guarantees, you can have forces not in Ukraine that are positioned to go in case there's a breakdown in the ceasefire or the settlement. But you actually use a Norway option. Norway is a member of NATO but has no NATO troops on the ground never has as part of Norway's law they allow for training they allow for pre-positioning it's a way of non antagonizing the Russians and the Soviets back from the Cold War days There you go. So we may just have boots in every individual country, just waiting to hang around and on this particularly these Scandinavian NATO countries I caught a YouTube of a guy named Stanislav Kapivnik Stanislav Kapivnik think he's Russian was Russian is Russian? I don't know but he had Colonel Wilkerson on

CHAPTER 33 / 38 Discussion

Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, DIA vs. CIA Influence

Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson claims that the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has been more influential than the CIA in "buying" European governments and media outlets to support NATO expansion. He argues that the conflict in Ukraine was engineered over decades to isolate Russia, utilizing quasi-governmental organizations and psychological operations.

lawrence wilkerson· dia· cia· military-industrial complex· ukraine· psyops

2:26:47 Have you seen the Colonel Wilkerson? Yeah, he's been... we've clipped him before. So here I just have two relatively short clips because we're always talking about the elites and how we're doing this and the CIA they are there the ones that go in and the economic hitmen And he was apparently part of the real danger, which we were warned of by General Eisenhower, President Eisenhower. The military industrial complex and in this... Are you listening to... are doing a different podcast? Are you on with Chanel?

2:27:31 Are you doing a hit? What are you doing, literally just browsing around while I'm talking. No! Well what was that? Something auto started. Yeah because your browsing around during the show. No i am not, im listening cause I want to hear about Wilkerson Turns out the military-industrial complex is responsible for a lot. It seems, you know, the Europeans are ever more hellbent on widening this or making it as wide as possible It does. I think Merz and Macron, and Stormer in particular but other leaders too following in their wake so to speak. Um...I think they're all going to be gone very shortly uh... I don't think any of them are long live because I think there are people who will understand eventually what's going on you know

2:28:24 I know people don't believe me, but in 2002, when we started buying governments. We bought newspapers, we bought editors, reporters, politicians and people who would be Jen Stoltenbergs. We didn't do it the way the CIA did it in Chile for example in 1968-69 and 70 and turn them all against Allende. We didn't do it for that reason because we disguised it, we disguised it by weaponizing liberal democracy and we sent in non-governmental organizations, we sent in USAID, we sent other people in, we call them Quahogs some of them, quasi government operations. We sent him in and they had a mission and they didn't even know why they were carrying out their mission in many events

2:29:17 Their mission was to democratize these people and to democratize them in a way that would make them want to be members of NATO. Yes, Quayogs! Of course the DIA is much more sneaky than the CIA and they also did Ukraine We reap this all you know people ask me why would a country that had a year years and years long history of neutrality Think the Scandinavian countries, for example. Even Norway! Yeah okay and Tromso we had some marine pompkos and things like that but not a member of NATO not officially a member of NATO Why would these countries come in? We bought them...we got them in And then we put the fine cap on it We created Ukraine to make them grow increasingly fearful of Russia Because we knew when we created Ukraine in our image

2:30:10 that Russia would find that unacceptable and eventually would attack. And they did! And so then we said, Joe Biden got this one you know oh he'll take Lithuania next and Estonia Latvia and then Poland yeah this is... We did this! History books will show that we did this 20-30 years from now I believe him. But we said this already on the show, that you're talking about Brennan being in Maidan... No no but he's Defense Intelligence Agency not Central Intelligence Agency Well that makes you wonder exactly why Brennan was in Maidan He is CIA For the party

2:30:54 This is for the chicks, for the party, for the champagne. No! That guy? I completely believe... He does not look like a party animal to me The DIA they are the ones and they're the ones on social media They have a whole unit their whole nudge unit that's all defense And that's what we were warned of Of the military-industrial complex That's why I play these clips I believe it was Defense Intelligence Agency That's what Laura Logan's husband did. He literally now he says, I can talk about it now because it's past whatever time. I was psyops man! I was psyops DIA psyops. I believe it! I think that you're starting to act like a Fredericksburger. I am not convinced that the DIA is as omnipotent As...as..he says or anybody does because I think they're the boneheads of the group

2:31:54 I don't know. They probably maybe got it started but they had to have Brennan and the boys go in there to really take care of it you don't think that Victoria Newland's got anything to do with the DIA, I really doubt it State Department? I don't know The state department is different does another group of spooks So...it's a whole bunch of spooks But I'm sure Well they're all trying to take credit for each other's work Well there's that For sure there's that Nah, but there it is. We bought off editors we bought off newspapers... Well yes again the CIA process now he demeans what they did with the CIA did in Chile as if it was like a one-off well look what they just sucks and we do a better job because all these guys I think this is nonsense All I know is that the CIA was recruiting woke children so I don't think that the new CIA is all that impressive

2:32:56 I'm withholding judgment. I don't think the DIA is that impressive, if you're gonna think that way. I think they're full of shit! How about that? Okay... That's Dvorak California Go get them boys! You won't be able to get out of Texas with their electric cars. You'll find him next to the heroin dealer It's easy to locate Just ask around just ask the hotties They'll point in the right direction All right. Well, I thought it was a nice little series and I was quite proud of that. I think it was enjoyable! I'm not arguing about the clip or the quality... Quite clever. ...I think just the analysis that I'm complaining about. Quite proud of myself. Hey, there's- Dig up a Wilkerson clip? Yeah, I guess so. There is a meltdown in Magalan everybody. Meltdown in Magalan

CHAPTER 34 / 38 Discussion

Chinese Students in US, Higher Education Economics

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick defends the presence of 600,000 Chinese students in U.S. universities, arguing they prevent the financial collapse of lower-tier colleges. Critics, including Laura Ingraham, argue these spots should go to American students, while others suggest schools like UC Berkeley are used as recruitment grounds for intelligence agencies.

china· higher education· donald trump· howard lutnick· h-1b visa· uc berkeley

2:33:48 This is just what you voted for. Yeah, that's right did you vote for this? Fro Ingraham is mad Mr Secretary with all due respect how is allowing 600,000 students from the communist country of China putting America first Well, the president's point of view is that what would happen if you didn't have those 600,000 students is that you'd empty them from the top. All the students would go up to better schools and the bottom 15 percent of universities and colleges would go out of business in America. So his view is he's taking a rational economic view which is classic Donald Trump looking at higher education saying- But why are you helping Harvard? Until we modify that.

2:34:33 That just helps Harvard and UCLA and UCAL Berkeley. And I mean, y'all helping those schools why? They're like the pro you know basically factories of anti-American propaganda now they're getting a big influx of cash because the Chinese students...I mean I know President Trump has always been very pro Chinese student but i just don't understand it for the life of me Those are 600 thousand spots that American kids won't get I'll tell you what, i'm involved in changing the H-1B program. We're going to change that program because that's terrible right? We're gonna change the green card... You know we give green cards The average American makes $75,000 a year and the average green card recipient $66,000 so we're taking the bottom quartile

2:35:21 Like, why are we doing that? That's why Donald Trump is going to change it. That's the gold card that's coming and that's where we're gonna start picking the best people to come into this country It's time for that to change I think our American engineering students need to be given the first role at every job And i think they're brilliant when given half a chance But Mr Secretary, know you're juggling a lot of balls over there We really appreciate your explaining allot of this to us Thank You Well, first of all is the average wage in America $75,000? I think it's lower. It's a good thing, but you ask your buddy there. What the DIA guy? No! Your machine I'm not gonna ask my machine that Ask her Oh... You're in love- What is the average wage of an American person? I'm going to have to change her tone so she doesn't sound so sexy. You're all kind of jitty about it. Oh are you getting worked up about it? Hold on a second what is the average income in the United States of America

2:36:24 The average annual income in the U.S is around $62,000 Boom! Told you Lies! Yes Howard Lutnick lies So the thing about the... I think we've determined or at least I'm totally convinced that UC Berkeley is a stronghold of CIA operations to recruit foreign students I mean Ling-Ling and Ding Dong over there got caught in North Korea right out of the journalism school. Ling-Ling and Ding Dong, I forgot about that! Yes, Ling-Long Sing Song Ding Dong yes And so Berkeley has a tonnage of Chinese nationals always has even when I was a student which was years before any of this started to happen

2:37:14 But now they, and they can try to recruit them is what they're trying to do. You know you get a couple thousand of these guys and maybe one of them will turn, you know, and be a good agent, the spook for the agency going back to China because they all go back to China And so I don't, yeah. I think that's the reason for this. 600 thousand? I mean if they're all getting a gold card and spending a million, I can see that. All right now you know what you're getting. You're getting true party members but uh... MAGA not happy! Is this exactly what you said is this what you voted for?! It's just who you voted for. I love that

CHAPTER 35 / 38 Discussion

NatCast Investigation, Semiconductor Research Funding

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is attempting to claw back billions of dollars from NatCast, a non-profit established by the Biden administration to distribute semiconductor research funding. Lutnick alleges the entity lacks federal oversight and was "crammed" with Biden allies just days before the administration changed, potentially serving as a front for improper fiscal allocation.

natcast· howard lutnick· chips act· semiconductors· biden administration· federal oversight

2:37:56 That's great. Everyone always, yeah! But it is really true there are a large segment of people who are just continuously disappointed in President Trump. Continuously They were disappointed from the get-go they never liked the guy in the first place No no no, they were hopeful They were hopeful. They were hopeful that he would... Hopeful for what? What did they expect the guy to do? He's going to expose the elites, the pedos, drain the swamp and all this stuff and none of it I tell you! None of it! Just tell me what people are saying. I understand their disappointment Be practical. I'm not talking about you, I'm talking about them Let's go to these clips. I got four of them. Nat cast one post What is this

2:38:43 It's a series of clips. Okay, so if I'm understanding this correctly the company is set up because they're going to get handed a whole boatload of money and then they're gonna turn around and allocate it to specific kinds of research? Is that the first clip? Oh i'm sorry not Okay, I won't complain about your naming but okay. It was not here because yes Here's how they all say one But did this yeah and the post you know you can complain about the naming because it lacks Can you tell me inconsistency? I agree with you before we get to it You have two number threes which one do I play when we get to it if you determine that I'm gonna Have to look at the time codes or we look at the date oh

2:39:28 Here we go. One of them's a number four, okay. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick announced that he is clawing back billions of dollars earmarked by the Biden administration for a company called NatCast. What the heck is Natcast? Well it's basically basically a middleman that decides who gets pieces of the government fiscal pie, specifically cash set aside in the Chips and Science Act for semiconductor research. In a letter obtained by The Post, Lutnick said that he was canceling a multi-billion dollar contract that funneled taxpayer dollars through NatCasts which again was created by the Biden administration with a hunk of money, and we're talking billions here. Billions! That was pushed through just a few days before the former president left office. The non-profit selection committee was made up of former Biden administration alums and according to Lutnick it effectively cut the current administration out of the mix entirely. Joining me now is The New York Post reporter who broke this story Washington Bureau Chief Josh Christensen So Josh...

2:40:23 It's pretty rare that we talk about something on the podcast that no one has ever heard of. Why does this company NatCast exist? I mean, who runs it? Well, NatCast was an invention of the Biden administration. the last two years of the Biden administration and basically crammed full of staff from departing members of the Commerce Department, other allies of the admin. And it was a nonprofit that was essentially set up to receive $11 billion worth of taxpayer funding in order to transmit it towards semiconductor research and development

2:41:01 Yeah, this is a big controversy. What's interesting to me is that this isn't being discussed much. I never heard of NatCast and here we go with another bull-crapped operation set up as a front for money laundering the way I see it. This is just money going into somebody's pockets? We don't need, the semiconductor companies make enough money that they can do their own damn research. And most of the research in semiconductors nowadays is done out of Holland by that company that makes UV etchers. ASML? Those guys yeah those guys are the hot shots in this regard these semiconductor companies all they do is design chips and they don't need research money

2:41:46 It's just bull crap. Okay, so if I'm understanding this correctly the company is set up because they're going to get handed a whole boatload of money and then they're gonna turn around and allocate it to specific kinds of research involving semiconductors? Okay. I kind of have that squared away now. So that doesn't sound I don't know, weird to me. Can you explain to me what the issue is? What is Litnik saying the problem with NatCast getting that money and then allocating it as they see fit?" The main problem is the lack of federal oversight and the fact that such an entity, which has existed in the past and will certainly exist again in which a private group is stood up by the government in order to distribute funding. Any kind of law will have different sorts of funding initiatives

2:42:39 often flow to state entities, non-profits that sort of thing. But in this case the law, the CHIPS Act which was one of the big bills that Biden passed during his admin did not set up any sort of independent extra governmental entity to take all that money and throw it out the door and Letnik is saying well we have no clue where all this went and in particular what we know for a fact is It was $11 billion in total, but 7.4 billion dollars worth of that went out the door in the last four days of the administration with no oversight and so he's wanting to you know call them to account for this and say well where is this money gone? We don't know we have no way of looking into it and I'm voiding this agreement as it stands currently. Okay So on the Is That What You Voted For side of the equation The complaint

2:43:32 What kind of capitalism is this where you're taking a stake in companies? I did not hear anyone say, what kind of capitalism is this where you're giving people money. It's both wrong! Well I say if you are going to give them money at least Get something? I mean, I'm not a defender of the idea of buying chunks of Intel which most people see as a failing company. Unless you know something's gonna happen and it's gonna profit the government. Oh! Insider trading by the government... interesting That would be okay Yeah that would be great But do you think that's possible? I don't No Because i dont think the governments that skilled but

2:44:20 This whole NatCast thing and throwing, this is too much money being just thrown around aimlessly. This is ridiculous waste! But it was already thrown around? It was already spent? Yeah well everyone's gone nuts Yes so now I've looked at the timestamps and I believe the 2 minute 11 clip will be in clip 4 Could that be right? We have a one minute clip next and here we go. So what happens to the money now, where does this money go especially if there's a legal challenge I mean is it just sitting there in limbo? It was kind of...I mean as far as i could tell they were saying that up until 2034 there were plans to have some sorts of payments annually

2:45:01 So, it's unclear whether the voiding of it would then allow them to claw back entirely or whether they've already tried to send most of it out even from NatCast. Right? It's even a step further away from the government's coffers but yeah, it's something that I'm sure Lutnik's team was talking about with them today after they received the letter as with the EPA case you know there are many steps in the process before the government can actually just get the money back because it's already gone through so much to get out of taxpayers hands and into the pockets of special interests or whoever might be in line for it. This is a facet of the changing of the garden government that I never actually knew about, or thought of but makes a lot of sense. So very great story thank you for breaking it and coming on the podcast to talk about it Josh Christensen thanks so much! Well sounds like we did him out of order

2:45:55 I think that probably concludes it. I don't think you need to play the long clip Okay, but just so you know the long clip was done at 8 20 820 and 41 seconds and the shorter clip was 820 and 20 seconds So I just presumed I think that may have been the chip time. Probably, yeah so it doesn't make any sense all right well I'd have to go to the original files but i think that summarizes... The problem is we have another waste of taxpayers money and you wonder why were in debt 35 trillion dollars ah but that's all ending

CHAPTER 36 / 38 Discussion

Trump Cabinet Meeting, The "A-Gays" in Government

A New York Times article profiles the "A-Gays," a group of high-ranking, openly gay men serving in the Trump administration, including Scott Bessent and Richard Grenell. These officials reject traditional identity politics and "queer" labels, arguing that the battle for gay rights has been won and that Trump is the most gay-friendly Republican leader in history.

donald trump· scott bessent· richard grenell· new york times· lgbtq· cabinet

2:46:37 That's all ending. Oh, are you kidding me? Any minute now! Any minute I of course watch the Trump show The cabinet meetings highly entertaining... The three and a half hour Trump extravaganza? Oh, I love it. I can't get enough of it. Wait to set it up set it up set it up here is NPR will set it up for ya Did anything else stand out to you about this very very long cabinet meeting Well, it was very very long. According to Factbase which- How long was it? ... these things, it was the longest Trump event ever longer than any other cabinet meeting and it was effusive. Cabinet secretaries took turns showering Trump with praise like the Labor Secretary who said Trump should come over to their department to see the banner they now have hanging on the side of the building of his quote

2:47:25 big beautiful face. Oh my goodness, well that's what NPR does with your money we'll just actually listen to what was said this is now Scott Besant who by the way I should mention this is part of the A-gays have you heard about this? The A-gays? Nope, you've got me on this one. Yes yes. A-Gays? Yes that's a new term So he is gay? I didn't know he was out gay Oh Besson yeah yeah Besson is gay Okay Besson okay A-Gays Yeah it's called the A-Gays Here New York Times I got the article for you Donald Trump's... It's not loading now of course for a moment I don't know why that's happening

2:48:05 Hold on. I had it on archive.org, but for some reason the New York Times probably took it down here we go Donald Trump's big gay government Big Gay Government Yes It is because he has a lot of gay guys in there and oh shoot man now. I'm sorry now these Now I can't get to the article Oh, that sucks so bad. Let me see. They blocked it! They did block it... well let me see there's another version of it. So they talk about the A-gaze

2:48:45 They're mostly out... It's A-GAYS? Yes, as in the top dogs. So it would be a capital A? Capital A-GAYS. They're mostly out there proud to work for President Donald Trump and they have big jobs inside or alongside this administration. They have big what? They have big jobs, big jobs inside or alongside this administration. They wield influence all over town from the Pentagon to the State Department to the White House of the Kennedy Center we're like Visa where everywhere you want to be The most powerful out gay man in the Trump administration is Besant. There are a handful of others in the Treasury Department, other agays include Tony Fabrizio the president's longtime pollster Trent Morse outgoing deputy assistant to the President Richard Grenell who was put in charge at the Kennedy Center and Jacob Helberg an undersecretary state these are just some there lots have other lesser-known men who make up that tribe

2:49:45 This is a great article. Let me read another paragraph, they're overwhelmingly white oh it's the white gays. The white gays! There something bad we knew there was something wrong with them they tend to have a certain kind of look close-cropped haircuts windowpane suits they're not the type to be telling anyone their pronouns or using the word queer no because they're normal guys who just happen that like guys They don't have enough to be weird and queer And they aren't the least bit offended that the leader of their party continues to stoke a moral panic about transgender people. Exactly! They're gay! How is this a shocker to anybody? The New York Times, they're gay but there's still Republicans This is fantastic

2:50:32 Keep reading. Really? You want me to keep reading, let me see if I can... The gay men who work for him are keenly aware they're in hostile territory surrounded by other gay men who consider themselves deluded traitors or worse at gay bars around town than on dating apps they're either iced out or confronted about the things this president has said and done he cut AIDS relief around the world an HIV vaccine research and funding for LGBTQ plus suicide prevention services not true His defense secretary announced during Pride Month that the Navy vessel named after Harvey Milk will be renamed as an outrage amongst the gay community. Perhaps most worrying for many gay people is how cons- how the conservative Supreme Court has become, thanks to Trump! Could same sex marriage go the way of Roe? It's not out of the question

2:51:21 Gay... This is all supposition at this point in the article. In other words, the New York Times article that you started reading with some actual information although it's an upside-down pyramid the way to do journalism but that's okay It shows that it just starts to fall apart and go into supposition and opinion. Gay Trump appointees interviewed for this article some of whom said they weren't authorized to speak on the record dismiss such a probrium What does that mean? Opprobrium. Opprobrium, what does that mean? You need to ask your friend I can almost define it but i can't with any real accuracy Something that brings disgrace Okay Public disgrace

2:52:06 Dismiss such a probrem as overheated liberal whining. They argue that the battle for gay rights has basically been won and there's never been a Republican as friendly to the gays as Trump! He is a friendly, gay lover guy! Did they say THE gays? No. They said gay, did I say the gays? He's not they argue... Oh you said the gays! They argue for the battle for gay rights is basically one there's never been a Republican as friendly to the gays as Trump Yeah there ya go The Gays! Did you write this with the New York Times?! Own up to it This is a great article I just love the whole A-gayz

CHAPTER 37 / 38 Discussion

Scott Bessent, Tariff Revenue and Deficit Reduction

Treasury Secretary nominee Scott Bessent reports that record tariff revenues are significantly reducing the federal budget deficit. He estimates that tariff income could reach half a trillion dollars, potentially lowering the projected 10-year deficit by $4 trillion and decreasing interest costs by $700 billion.

scott bessent· tariffs· budget deficit· treasury department· cbo· trade policy

2:52:45 Yeah, and you know what? They're just good-looking men who are just dressing nicely doing their thing not walking around going I'm gay! Yes, surprise. They're gays not fruits Surprised what New York Times surprised anyway here's the course they were here's the top a gay Scott Besson telling us We don't have to worry about the deficit on the international front You have leveled the International trading system whereby countries took advantage of us and that's over It's over The Treasury Department is in

2:53:20 is taking in record tariff revenues that I had been saying was running at a rate of 300 billion a year. You chastise me for saying that it's not, that number is too low and as usual you're right that we had a substantial jump from July to August And I think we're going to see a bigger jump from August to September. So, you know, I think we could be on our way well over half a trillion maybe the towards the trillion dollar number

2:53:58 This administration, your administration has made a meaningful dent in the budget deficit. The average budget deficit during this term is 26% less than the last 12 months under Biden and even the CBO and we don't agree with CBO on everything as you said Last Friday on a summer Friday had to admit that they believe over the next 10 years The budget deficit will be four trillion lower than they had previously scored 4.3 trillion of tariff income 700 billion of lower interest costs and I would expect that number could go up from here $4,000,000,000

2:54:45 Woohoo! It's gonna be great. We'll only have 32 trillion to go I'll believe it when i see it I'm going to show my support by donating to No Agenda Imagine all the people who could do that Oh yeah, that'd be fab Yeah on no agenda But before we go anywhere, we have a lot more show to go. We have of course end-of-show mixes, we have tip of the day and we always want to thank our supporters who supported us with value for the value they received $50 and above left on the docket John will list them and name them for you. Yeah I'm gonna start with Hank there at 113 dollars and 41 cents parts unknown and you can read this note because it's a night note

CHAPTER 38 / 38 Discussion

Final Donor Credits, Meetup Calendar, Outro

The program concludes with a final reading of donors, birthday wishes, and a calendar of upcoming No Agenda meetups in Los Angeles, Columbus, and Fredericksburg. John Dvorak provides a "Tip of the Day" regarding Allulose as a safe sugar substitute. The episode ends with a musical mix featuring "The Lady is a Trans" and "Raise the Colors."

meetups· fredericksburg· knighting· cygnet ring· allulose· out-of-show mix

2:53:58 This administration, your administration has made a meaningful dent in the budget deficit. The average budget deficit during this term is 26% less than the last 12 months under Biden and even the CBO and we don't agree with CBO on everything as you said Last Friday on a summer Friday had to admit that they believe over the next 10 years The budget deficit will be four trillion lower than they had previously scored 4.3 trillion of tariff income 700 billion of lower interest costs and I would expect that number could go up from here $4,000,000,000

2:54:45 Woohoo! It's gonna be great. We'll only have 32 trillion to go I'll believe it when i see it I'm going to show my support by donating to No Agenda Imagine all the people who could do that Oh yeah, that'd be fab Yeah on no agenda But before we go anywhere, we have a lot more show to go. We have of course end-of-show mixes, we have tip of the day and we always want to thank our supporters who supported us with value for the value they received $50 and above left on the docket John will list them and name them for you. Yeah I'm gonna start with Hank there at 113 dollars and 41 cents parts unknown and you can read this note because it's a night note

2:55:31 He's becoming a knight. Enclosed is my donation of 8-0 dot 08 and 33 dot 33 for value provided this should grant me an invitation to the roundtable as per my card sent early this year along with other goodies please knight me as Sir Hank Itami I would like to request for the round table a mega sized cup of grapefruit sour along with a bowl of cookie and cream ice... Cookie and Cream Ice Cream Cookies and Cream? I ordered cookies and cream so that's what you get. Hopefully there is enough steam to keep this show going maybe another four years? Thank you for your attention to this matter says Hank!

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2:57:58 And he wants some jobs. Carmen will give you that at the end. Quick question for John, when are you going to be back on Twit next? And inquiring minds want to know! Probably never. Wesley D Stewart III in Mesa Arizona 6262 another birthday donation Les Tarkowski in Kingman Arizona 6006 And there's Sir Laugh-A-Lot with 5809, another knighting donation which you should read part of at least. It's a long note that shouldn't be in the middle of a donation segment like this. Actually it is for Dame Hood for his German Shepherd dog Shona! She was five years old when Katrina hit and we had to evacuate with my parents, my 18 month old son and wife our house in Metairie was destroyed like so many other... Metairies thank you

2:58:45 We evacuated to Charlotte, North Carolina. Once a month I would drive down to New Orleans to help my parents and friends rebuild during this time My wife and son were alone in our little apartment in Shona with Shona She was the best protector they could have I would like to dedicate this Dame Hood to Shona, the protector of Katrina survivors. Now she can join me Sir Laugh-A-Lot and Dame Maggie our rescue lab at the round table! I still have to work on a knighthood for my first dog Shelby and my second dog Trixie. Hope to get that done before your exit strategy comes to fruition. I've been listening since the very first show! I think John's first tip of the day was to buy black underwear Back then you were discussing the HEMA underwear. Yes, that's but that was white I met John at one of the first meetups in Biloxi Mississippi

2:59:27 A few years, no MS? Yes. Mississippi a few years ago and someday hope to meet Adam in person as well I apologize for the long note but i wanted to thank you for being a constant in my life during some trying times and providing much needed laughs sincerely sir laugh alot it was worth reading the note thank you very much yeah that was good note surprise in Yukon Oklahoma 5444 Nathan Gwynn in Jackson, Tennessee 5272. Vance Wharton in Norman Oklahoma 5272 Malcolm Riley Aiken, I think. Aiken or Akin? Aiken or Aken? Aiken is South Carolina's 71st birthday 5272 Matthew Arepko 5001 and now we've gotten down to the $50 donations. I'm just gonna read the name and location except for Richard Gardner who was in New York City but it's not listed George Wuschet in Lavernia Texas

3:00:27 Jacqueline Connelly in Green Bay, Gopackers Wisconsin. Aaron Weisgerber in Bend Oregon. Benjamin Ryan and Alliance Ohio there's Richard Gardner and I think he is in New York. No it's Andrew but you always say that what? You always say Richards in New York but this Andrew Gardner in New York Oh, where's Richard? I don't know. Richard! Tell us where you are... oh it's Andrew Gardner that's in New York but I always say Richard is well maybe he likes thinking he's in New York Always! Don't you remember?! Don't you believe me go bingit.io See see people that's what I have to deal with Ridicule

3:01:10 Ox other wow what a name it's a box other XOX other eggs on the stick for you everybody how are you doing z100 Buffalo New York Tricia in Satsuma Florida sir Michael in Nahomish, Washington. And last on the list our good buddy Leanne Shipley and she's also in Washington in Covington we want to thank these people for making show 1794 a great show yes a very good show we've had some laughs as well and we appreciate the value that you return for the value we serve up to you we do it as a public service and we're quite happy to do this it's enjoyable lifestyle somewhat

3:01:53 Somewhat rollercoastery, but it's an enjoyable lifestyle. And as requested we got the Karmas! jobs, jobs and jobs. Let's vote for jobs! And again thank you to everyone who came in under $50 for reasons of anonymity or perhaps you were one of those sustaining donors everybody can at least give us something on a regular basis you can set it up as a recurring donation at noagendadonations.com and again thanks to our executive and associate executive producers for episode 1793 Sir Camera Chris wishes his oldest human resource Christian a happy birthday. He celebrates on today Also, Malcolm Riley happy birthday to his pops he turned 71 today and Malcolm Riley Happy Birthday to his baby brother turns 31 today How about that? Hey Andre Mackey turns 18 on the 29th how about I remember when he was born

3:02:54 That's crazy. Mandy Smith wishes her super duper husband Big Smitty a happy one for September 5th, also added to the list Augusto Andreoli tomorrow Sir Matthew Happy birthday to Sabrina Contreras tomorrow and also happy birthday to Jared Bane and Wesley D Stewart III Happy Birthday from everybody here at The Best Podcast in the Universe! And now it is time ladies and gentlemen to roll them all out Yeah baby, we congratulate Sir Paul Secretary General of Alpenthal at Snoqualmie.

3:03:46 Sir Commodore SX-64, Secretary General of Lake Granger area in Milam County and Augusto Andreoli, Secretary General of Sao Polo. These are your brand new secretary generals who receive an official proclamation which soon will be available at noagendarings.com Please all hail to the secretary generals of The No Agenda Show! They deserve your respect addressed with the Honorable Secretary General of wherever they are from. Come on man, how about that jingle? Where'd that come from? What do you mean where did it come from our producers of course we got the best... That's a dynamite jingle! That tops it We got the best producers in the universe man Well that guy whoever did that you should credit

3:04:40 Well that is a very good question. Hold on, I should hold on a second. He goes through all this work and we take all the credit. Thank you very much we appreciate what you did and now... Oh here it is Jeff Woodward! There we go Jeff Woodward. Jeff Woodward is an awesome dude Alright, we have a Dame and a couple of Knights. That is great! Ten pointer that is as good as it gets. That is alright grab your blade We got some Knightings and Dames. Yeah I've got one right here. Hey actually the Dame is Shona in a Woof-Woof and Paul of Bellevue Washington Commodore SX 64 and Hank

3:05:17 Hop up on the podium all of you supported the Noah Jenner show in the amount of $1,000 or more therefore I am very proud to pronounce the KV as Dame Shona the protector of Katrina survivors sir tall Paul Sir Commodore sx-64 and sir Hank it Tommy for you We have hookers and blow, rinpoise and chardonnay. Not to forget mega-sized cup of grapefruit sour along with a bowl of cookies & cream ice cream! We've got redheads and rise, we've got sparkling cider escorts, ginger ale and gerbils And of course we always have the mutton and the mead here for you

3:05:53 all of you, including the dog, Dame Show. Now head over to noagendarings.com please let us know exactly what ring size you are expecting we'll send it off to you It's a Cignet Ring so throw in a couple sticks wax real sealing wax So that you can seal your important correspondence with it and as always there is certificate of authenticity from your Uncle Boomers Adam & John here at The No Agenda Show Welcome To The Roundtable! NO AGENDA! MEOWWWW!!! Well you heard it earlier, connection is protection. You definitely get that at your NOAgenda meetups. You can find them all at noagendameetups.com On Saturday the flight of the NOAGENDA number 66 This is 333 p.m in The Sanctuary Zone At The HMS Bounty

3:06:40 In Los Angeles, California Leo Bravo hosting that. He's one of the longest meetup hosters in I think NOA Agenda history Also on Saturday the NOA Agenda Central Ohio Meet up at 530 at Jackie O's in Columbus Ohio and on Sunday our next show day the annual South Jersey Pig Roast Meet Up five o'clock That will be at Dam Wens House in Medford Lakes New Jersey So you do have to RSVP because it is somebody's home Damn, damn when damn wins. Maybe it's Dame maybe then maybe I would have to be I would have to say dame Wenz house Yes, you know Jay is slipping she missed two birthdays They got spelling is this because Brennan lost his job? She's all freaked out or what's going on. I register a complaint I will pass it along Please do But we gotta be strict spanking us back in

3:07:33 Coming up in September Madison, Alabama Houston Texas Hof Dorp in the Netherlands South Slocan British Columbia Keyport New Jersey Oakland California Tilburg the Netherlands and remember October 11th the big Fredericksburg Texas meetup We're looking forward to seeing all of you there find The No Agenda Meetups at thenoagendameetups.com calendar if you can't find one near you start one yourself easy and always a party Yeah baby! Big, big party. Remember to send me those meetup reports we don't get them often enough

3:08:21 Seems like you only have one ISO here. I have one ISO You want to keep that for the end? I got three, do you want to keep it for the end? Yeah go give your shoes three Okay They're just Durga Durga Muhammad Jihad! Durga Durga Durga Durga! I'm sorry Here's another one Good job guys It's not too bad nice and clear or this one Where the hell are these guys getting all of this? Mm-hmm mm-hmm those are my three entrance for End Of Show ISO Well, those are all three good ones actually. Thank you! Especially the one... Let's play that first one again. They're just Durga Durga Muhammad Jihad! Durga Durga Durga Durga!