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00:00 By the way, by the way, by Christmas fairy is now and we're broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA region number six In The Morning everybody. I'm Adam Curry, and from Northern Silicon Valley where it's not snowing here, I'm John C. Dvorak. It's Crackpot & Buzzkill! In The Mornin'! I wouldn't expect it to be snowing where you are... makes no sense Well, you don't expect it to be snowing in North Carolina to this extreme Oh, I haven't looked

00:43 I haven't looked. I'm surprised that Mimi didn't send me a Max Velocity clip to look at! I smashed that like button and hit the bell and got the subscribe, but I didn't get a notification about the snow in Northampton. You didn't smash it enough. Hey, happy Black History Month! Ah yes, yes. Let me see... No one's done anything about it yet on the mainstream. I'm disappointed you would expect them to do something about their favorite community. Well, there's too much stuff going on with global warming. Well since you bring that up here is a funny little ditty on climate change and the measures we take to combat it from Green Mountain Vermont

01:31 Green Mountain Transit's program funds are stretched thin, and so are their buses. Take a look at this these electric buses are less than a year old but right now they're out of commission These five new Flyer Electric Buses batteries were recalled in November The manufacturer said they are a fire hazard So they can't sit in the GMT garage That's why they have that snow mohawk or as I like to call them Snow Hawks The buses have to be 41 degrees to charge and as Gunnar just explained there's not a day of 40s in sight. Oh no! GMT is working with Vermont agencies across the state and sharing buses it's another example of Vermonters working together to get us all where we need to go oh yeah okay well done news reader lady. Good work, Vermonters Did I say was did i not say it was Sunday? Did I say a different day? Did I get my day wrong

02:21 Somebody if somebody caught you saying I wasn't paying attention. I Wasn't that she normally am but because I know you do this mistake You want to start over? No, of course not and now that I've called it out here It's okay. Yeah, right. Yeah, it happens so I have two weather report clips Oh we are in in the weather. They're not long as big deal Here's a weather report KU and this has got because somebody does the word knuckles is in here. Let's go with that that severe winter weather is attributed to at least 15 deaths in Kentucky in the last week, including an inmate at a Kentucky prison. Karen Tsar with member station WUKY and Lexington reports 48 year old Marvin Knuckles was part of a crew of inmates who were clearing ice and snow at the Eastern Kentucky Correctional Complex

03:10 when he fell down a 40-foot embankment and died. Kentucky State Police are investigating the death, but questions have been raised as to why this group was out in subfreezing temperatures at night when Governor Andy Beshear had given a statewide order to stay inside. Beshear has promised a full and transparent investigation Decisions made, good or bad they deserve to be seen by that family and by everyone else. Officials at the Medium Security Prison say Knuckles volunteered for the ice removal assignment You just thought, Knuckles. I think he got his name from Knuckles. And by the way why are they... isn't a full investigation? A full investigation why is all of a sudden everybody especially on NPR using and Democrats full and transparent? Full and transparent! Is that different than full?!

04:06 No, it's not. It is in fact wasting valuable air time I think so and here's the other one i have which is on the bomb cyclone, bomb cyclone Oh boy its still happening The Southeastern US is beginning to feel the effects of a meteorological bomb cyclone ushering in blizzard like conditions And for the East Coast in general very frigid temperatures 6-10 inches of snow could fall in Georgia, The Carolinas and parts of the Appalachians Just So You Know Those Appalachians, but okay. Just so you know they're making this happen They are making this happen It's all yours go! You know I recognize that

04:49 Now that I'm in my 60s, it's hard to say. When I was a kid before I was in my 60s... Yes! I really have gone from being a conspiracy theorist to a conspiracy therapist It's just like if it wasn't for almost two decades This was discussed at the Albany, or Albany, the Oakland meetup. Oh yes! Which I have a lot of by the way there's gonna be a lot of mentions i gotta give it oh good segment yeah but which didn't get on the spreadsheet um... It was mentioned, this is discussed

05:27 By more than one person, about you. Yeah and what were they saying? What you just said! What happened to Adam in the second half of show stuff... You're more nutty than he is now I didn't appreciate that so much but uh that sort of thing Because we've been through it all everything's been said that needs to be said this like and none of it ever comes true None of it ever. Especially with all the cell phones in place now, this is the real problem I think they have With everybody taking videos of everything where's the video of some alien walking down Main Street? Yeah Thank you good point

06:07 But I think really what they're just mad about is, I'm not on board with the Jew train and Israel. I think that's it. How come Adam isn't on board with the Jew train and Israel? What's going on with him he should know better! That's what it is that's what they're disappointed about. And Epstein you know Trump did it I do have... Did what? Did it all, he did it all. He's all part of it. The pedophiles, they're being blackmailed by Mossad! I looked at my Twitter timeline and there are people sending me

06:49 like a screenshot of some grand jury testimony where Epstein writes to some unknown person because it's redacted. Yeah, and don't tell him I'm Mossad okay? And the guy literally posts that to me and says oh there you go still don't believe he's Mossad Like yeah that's what you do when your Mossad then you send emails saying your not Mossad therefore your guilty for being a stooge from Mossad Oh, brother. Well the only funny thing that came up was the Gates memo. That was kind of cute. What was the Gates memo? The Gates saying I got STD and need some antibiotics so I can dose my wife. Secretly he was even a doser secretly yeah well there you go now we know the true reason

07:48 If any wife finds out that her husband has an STD and then secretly is trying to dose her, yeah that's grounds for divorce. Well what happened? That's horrible! What happened? They got divorced. Exactly, that's what I said now we know by the way i don't think i've ever said Epstein wasn't Mossad he's clear we know that that his intelligence because he could be multiples you know there are people out there that are working for more than one agency yes MI6 is the first one i'd be looking at Before Mossad. The BBC did do their little quick brisk comb I do have some Epstein stuff because... I have some Epstein stuff too but my stuff is labeled Repsteen Okay Sorry Which from now on it will be Repsteen as we speak of the... Repsteen The disgraced financier pedophile Notice everyone can now call him a pedophile cause he's dead I don't think you could do that if it hasn't been proven yet

08:52 If he was alive. You can't, no when somebody's dead this people should know this legally yeah you can start calling him stuff Really? The guy is a rapist! Great let's run through some BBC quickies here for a second the new pictures show the then Prince Andrew on the floor kneeling over a female whose identity has been hidden She's fully dressed, he's in jeans and a white polo shirt but without shoes and socks. And he seems to be placing his hands on her stomach." I love the description this is...I'm going to describe this...everyone has a phone

09:30 But okay, I'm going to describe the picture for you. In the background someone else is lounging with their feet on a table next to a couple of folded towels. Oh no! The files provide no date or location for the images but they're among a number of photos. What's that? Why did they make a big... This is like a boring... You know, I have taken probably a billion photographs A billion? Wait a minute, a billion...a thousand million photographs?! Really?? Okay let's uh I'll back it off. But but i've taken a lot terabytes worth yes and so

10:08 You just go grab, and most of them are junk. And I should have never kept half of them Yeah it's all incriminating evidence Just so you take one, some Brando photo where the camera went off by accident and then you describe it These are not important pictures When your dead man they're gonna find that Then they're gonna call you all kinds of horrible things Look at this picture! By the way I should have a disclaimer on that thing about calling people things after their dead If there's an estate involved that is still making money on the person... They can sue you. They can sue you. Okay, so be careful. Files provide no date or location for the images but they're among a number of documents in this latest release that raise even more questions about the judgment of the man who remains eighth in line to the throne. Eighth? What?! That's not true! Is it?

10:57 If he's been stripped of his title and his name, had to go back to Mountbatten. Is he still eighth in line to the throne? I don't know how that peerage works when it comes to that. Hey at the NOAA Gender Show... Do we have a peerage expert besides me? At the NOAA Gender Show your kids are all eligible to take over your title but i'll just claim that right now You can be an heir to the title. This is kind of... It has to be a meeting! What are you doing? Quiet with your meeting. Free Epstein in 2010, two years after he'd been convicted of solicitation of prostitution with a minor and apparently written too Andrew suggests that he meets a 26 year old Russian woman in London for dinner The reply by someone signing himself HRH the Duke of York KG says it'd be delighted

11:51 Epstein then writes back, she's clever beautiful and has your email. In another revelation the document suggests that later that same year... By the way when I was a single man where were those emails for me? She's clever she's beautiful she's Russian and she's got your email nope never happened this by the way with all we know about Epstein you said by the way oh i did i caught myself too not really i heard it So that's, I'm on my way to recovery. By the by! So that's no good either and so with all we know about Epstein and the underage girls from all over you little blondes and brunettes all the girls in the USA and are you know from Mar-a-Lago and every place else who were bringing in Russian spook girls you know honey pots how does it work what changed?

12:48 Well, remember this is British royalty. There's nothing... you know just go watch The Crown and you'll know that it's good to have something on British royalty then you can get all kinds of stuff so they would make total sense that Epstein sent in some honeypot. Prose! Yeah prose exactly Andrew invited Epstein to Buckingham Palace And then you get an invite to Buckingham Palace The former prince has strenuously denied all wrongdoing But while his reputation arguably couldn't suffer any more damage, the files show Jeffrey Epstein kept striving to save his own sending an email to his publicist suggesting they ask the former Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson to release a statement.

13:29 saying she'd been duped into believing false allegations about him. Well, let's hear the BBC about Sarah Ferguson! Also in the tranche of documents are emails suggesting Epstein supported Sarah Ferguson financially over a period of 15 years an exchange in 2009 shows Miss Fergusson saying she urgently needed £20,000 for rent The former Duchess of York has been approached for comments She's been approached for comment. That's a good way to say it, you Brits. This is great! He got buddies like Epstein, like I pay my rent. Okay no problem Fergie i'll take care of you and then there's Richard Branson in an email exchange in 2013 Epstein thanks Sir Richard Branson for recent hospitality and for his public relations advice on how to deal with claims against him regarding his conviction for sex with an underage girl. I love how the high and mighty the rich and famous are all like I got some advice on how you can deal with this why would Richard...and Richard Branson doesn't

14:32 come across to me as some creepy guy? No, just doesn't. He's... I don't know. A friend of mine who knows him says that he is actually financed either by Bahrain or Qatar. He is a front man Oh yeah! The airlines. He didn't finance them. Yes, he is a front man He is. Anyway... Sir Richard appears to reply, anytime you're in the area would love to see you as long as you bring your harem. Virgin Group clarified that... What? His hareem? Yes the hareem! As in harem? But it's hareem. Hareem. ...as you bring your hareem.

15:12 Virgin Group clarified that was a reference to three adult members of Epstein's team who stated that Sir Richard would not have used the term or had contact if he'd known the full facts. Her spokesperson added that Sir Richard's contacts with Epstein were limited, to a few group or business settings such as a charity tennis event more than 12 years ago In an email exchange... Oops, sorry. And then the final one is of course Elon Musk. Elon Musk, the world's richest man exchanged emails with Epstein on two separate occasions in 2012 and 2013 to make arrangements to visit his island Probably just Tallulah & Me Mr. Musk appears to write in reference to his ex-wife The British actress What does this mean? Mr. Musk appears to write

14:32 come across to me as some creepy guy? No, just doesn't. He's... I don't know. A friend of mine who knows him says that he is actually financed either by Bahrain or Qatar. He is a front man Oh yeah! The airlines. He didn't finance them. Yes, he is a front man He is. Anyway... Sir Richard appears to reply, anytime you're in the area would love to see you as long as you bring your harem. Virgin Group clarified that... What? His hareem? Yes the hareem! As in harem? But it's hareem. Hareem. ...as you bring your hareem.

15:12 Virgin Group clarified that was a reference to three adult members of Epstein's team who stated that Sir Richard would not have used the term or had contact if he'd known the full facts. Her spokesperson added that Sir Richard's contacts with Epstein were limited, to a few group or business settings such as a charity tennis event more than 12 years ago In an email exchange... Oops, sorry. And then the final one is of course Elon Musk. Elon Musk, the world's richest man exchanged emails with Epstein on two separate occasions in 2012 and 2013 to make arrangements to visit his island Probably just Tallulah & Me Mr. Musk appears to write in reference to his ex-wife The British actress What does this mean? Mr. Musk appears to write

15:56 Did he write it? Did not write it? Are they unsure? I thought that was the secretary who wrote it. One of his aides... It's interesting that they use this, he appears to write that Is that a hedge against lawsuits? I guess its a hedge against something Probably just Tallulah and me Mr Musk appears to write in reference to his ex-wife, the British actress Tallulah Riley What day or night will be the wildest party on your island, he asks. Epstein replies that the ratio on my island might make Tallulah uncomfortable before Mr Musk responds that ratio is not a problem for Tallulah

16:31 It appears Mr. Musk didn't... Toulula, party girl Toulula! She likes to party! It appears Mr. Musk didn't visit the island on either occasion because of what he referred to in an email as logistical issues On X, Mr. Musk posted that he had very little correspondence with Epstein and declined repeated invitations to go to his island or fly on what he called his Lolita Express Yeah, but that wasn't in the email. They just throw that in there. It's very interesting. That's poor reporting that they did that. Oh yeah. Musk did not say I can't wait to fly on the Lolita Express nor as far as I know from whatever I saw it's impossible. There is too much! Did someone throw it into AI already so we can just know what supposed to come out? Well now its getting... Can I... Well Musk of course was looking for more moms. I need more birthing persons

17:24 So this morning on the Sunday morning shows we had a lot of people show up talking about this, talking about all the important things in the world. And uh... The one I found most interesting was Rohana. That's what i call him, Ro-Khanna Wasn't he the guy that said, I'm going to tax all the rich Californians and then they got all mad at him and then he started talking about other stuff? He's one of the male members of The Squad. And people keep forgetting that. Really? He was actually a Democrat socialist for all practical purposes Oh, I didn't realize he was a member of the squad. Yeah original OG squad member Okay, oh gee here we go congressman Conner welcome back this is man hands welker congressman Connor Welcome back to meet the press. Oh it's great to be here good morning Kristen

18:13 Thank you so much for being here. I do want to dive right in and start with this trove of Epstein files that were released. Of course, you and Congressman Massey were behind the push to have these files released. The DOJ says it's withholding large portions to protect survivors, to protect security. Has the Justice Department fully complied with the law, Congressman? No they haven't. They've released at best half the documents but even those shock the conscience of this country I mean you have some... How are you feeling how's your conscience

18:59 It shocked the conscience of this country. I mean, you have some of the most wealthy individuals tech leaders finance leaders politicians all implicated in some way having emails about wanting to go to Epstein's Island knowing that Epstein was a pedophile it's frankly one of the largest... Okay let's hold on a second. I know i thought you'd want to jump in here So they didn't know anything. All they knew is that the guy threw these tremendous parties or they were rumored to be, I guess because I never heard of them Well hold on after his initial indictment and easy jail sentence They should have known That was a thing in Florida but who paid attention to that? That's my point It's always assumed everyone is keeping up with everyone there doing due diligence on every person they meet or talk to What it shows

19:53 what it shows. And you and I have both witnessed this with very rich people, mainly rich people. You get really rich people they have all kinds of hangers on and the number one group is always politicians always! You've seen it...I've seen it... And El Gore over there at Kleiner Perkins Exactly wherever there's really rich people there's politicians and they do all kinds of cool wacky stuff because people who are very very wealthy They have no limits. They're like, I can do whatever I want and I'm rich and to a large degree that's probably true within the bounds of the law and of course many of them slip over that but that is life and I think that is the most interesting thing whereas everyone was talking about pedophiles, pedophiles yes technically you have sex with someone who's underage or a pedophile and I think Jeffrey Epstein seems to be a pedophile

20:52 But the thing that's interesting is this is the true Robin Leach lifestyles of the rich and famous. This is how it really goes down. Why am I shouting? Champagne wishes and caviar dreams! This is the true lifestyles of the rich and famous. You're seeing how it really works, and it didn't end with Epstein this is with anybody who's rich you always have crazy parties lots of celebrities politicians drinks drugs everything that's that is that is the life that I think people are now seeing I hope that's what they're looking at because you're not going to find much else, trust me. Oh the Epstein Island knowing that Epstine was a pedophile it is frankly one of the largest scandals in my view in our country history and there is a demand for elite accountability but the survivors lawyers that I've talked to have said that the survivors are still upset they're upset that many their names accidentally came out without redactions and they want to make sure the rest of the files come out

21:55 Yeah, rest of the files come out. Okay This is this is kind of this interesting thing like it's a survivor in this instance they keep talking about these survivors well that did they get there they escape a shipwreck or were their where are they mentally incapable of Continuing your normal life. I mean what are they who are these? I mean It depends how long no it depends A survivor would be someone who was groomed, underage and sexually abused. I would consider that to be an absolute survivor People who are of age Who fell into the partying and the fun and all of that And got into stuff they regret But they're survivors too Survivors of?

22:51 regrets. Survivors of stupid decision-making early in their life I'm a survivor of 18 years of working with you and vice versa there you have it You're talking about some of those big names being implicated are you suggesting that there should be more charges filed because at this point in time no new charges have been filed against anyone Charges for what I do think the prosecution needs to look at seriously bringing charges But there are two different issues here Christian There's some people who committed crimes and that needs to be looked at why me trying to say who were that That's the thing is. I think he's treading water here because there just aren't any crimes in any of these documents That's the point There's no crimes in the documents, but and in the case of that we don't I mean it

23:45 There were probably some underage... Okay, there was some probably underaged sex. taking place. I have to guess this is true because it just seems to be... Epstein for sure! And Epstein himself, yes On a foreign island that has you know under the jurisdiction of... Well hold on isn't it the US Virgin Islands? Yeah but what's the laws what is the Asia consent well The whole reason for that Island was for the money laundering as far as I'm concerned It just happened to be a great party place The whole thing is but But You know these crimes They're not Who's gonna Who's gonna prosecute? Did you have a... Okay, so somebody did something on the Virgin Island. Who is going to prosecute it? Where is he going to be prosecuted? How under what circumstances would they be arrested? I mean that this it's just something that at this point is beyond It's just too late! But this is not about Epstein This is about Trump

24:44 Yeah, you're right. What am I thinking? This is not about Epstein! What am i doing?! I'm trying to make a logical conclusion here that has nothing to do with anything. Stop it! Stop it! Jeffrey Epstein those names haven't come out in fact they were covered up Wait a minute whoa what did he say here hold on second catch this and we need to understand who were some of the associates of Jeffrey Epstein those names haven't come out In fact they were covered up That's quite the allegation what does he mean by associates other than Ghislaine Maxwell Those names were covered up. I mean, what is he? What what does he really want? He wants not you know, he's talking through his hat We need to understand who may have abused or raped underage girls But then there's a broader issue and that is that there are rich and powerful people Who may not have committed a crime but who are emailing Jeffrey Epstein well after he's a pedophile Talking about going to his I love that date when he did turn back

25:42 Okay, on June 8th he became a pedophile and before that he was a normal guy? What?! But who are emailing Jeffrey Epstein well after he's a pedophile talking about going to his island talking about wanting to participate in wild parties and the American people are under... Hey! Stop the presses. Everybody wants to participate in wild parties Don't they I'm with you on that the at least be there at least get an invite But if you know, there's hey bill over here has wild parties. Have you been to any of these wild parties? No, I've never been to one of them. I gotta be honest. I've never been to a wild party Or I left early Wild party Actually now in the there was a period of time where there was a lot of

26:37 Oh, it's orgy. There was a name for this process. There were literally organized orgies pre-AIDS which cropped up around the 80s so in the 70s there was especially I've never been to one of these but yeah I've always thought about and there used to be Plato's retreat in New York City which was notorious in fact. Yeah isn't that Mustache Man's place? I don't know who mustache man is. Bolton, wasn't he a member of Plato's retreat? Wasn't that the fart sniffing place? No it was a nightclub. Where was the farts sniffing place? But you had to get into...you had to somehow get into it. Buck Henry, the great writer wrote a piece in Playboy magazine where he went to Plato's retreat

27:26 and wrote it up as a kind of long essay, feature. And he described what was going on in there and it just sounded like... It was an orgy! There were people walking around screwing everything that they could see over and over again. There were girls pulling the train if you remember what that term means? There's all this stuff going on and he was witnessing it all. In the 70s there was a lot of this sort thing going on here and there, and they were caught. And that would I would assume would be a wild party!

28:03 They kind of disappeared with AIDS. AIDS kind of put the kibosh on wild parties because of the nature of the ailment and then so things calmed down, but then did you hear about some guys still doing them? Well I'd like to get in on that! I can't get past your pulling a train comment. Oh my god! Listen to that horn! Alright let's ask The Robot for a second Tell me about Plato's Retreat in New York City. Plato's retreat was a well-known swingers club in New York City during the 1970s and 1980s It was famous for its exclusive atmosphere and played a significant role in the context of the sexual revolution at that time The club eventually closed in mid-1980s Significant role in the sexual revolution of that time Yeah, right Yes, it is wonderful

29:00 Okay, three sex. Let me see where they were called free sex parties That's what they were going to 70s. Hmm. Well let's get back there advertised. Let's get back to the clip file talking about going To his island talking about wanting to participate in wild parties and American people are under asking How are rich and powerful people living in this country? What moral code are they living by? Some of those revelations are deeply disturbing. No, no! This is... You're right! This is what everybody wants to know. Tell me about these parties. These guys are living it up. How can I get invited?! I think you're right

29:37 And he's like, oh it was deeply disturbing. Oh yeah now everyone is a prude especially the democrat side and the squad. They went to a wild party! Oh nasty nasty people give me a break we continue let me ask you about what comes next from your perspective? You've threatened contempt charges and even impeachment for attorney general Pam Bondi and I wonder are you at a point where you are prepared to move forward with contempt and impeachment charges against the Attorney General? Well as you know Kristen Thomas Massey, and I brought this up in middle of December We still have not moved on it because we are trying to give the Justice Department some benefit of the doubt They did do a release that was significant.

30:23 the He said he's open to explaining why the redactions were done. So I hope that we will have a meaning if we don't get the remaining files, if we do not get the remaining 302 forms, the remaining prosecution memo from 2019 and if the survivors are not happy then Thomas Massey and I are prepared to move on impeachment or contempt Now, see the problem is and I'm not sure who launched it but i'm pretty sure it was from the Democrat party. Is the concept of a client list? I can't recall Trump ever talking about a client list because that is now you know how how it works in just media social media in general. That Trump ran on releasing the Epstein client list

31:22 And, you know this is like a throwback to Heidi Fleiss. The Hollywood Madam Right it is exactly you assume that there's a little black book Yes and that's just not going to exist That's the problem Elaine Maxwell said so already Yeah but that doesn't count It's like somehow people are completely convinced What is the What is that, the Berenstain's thing? Was it... what is that cosmic shift. What do we call that? Oh yeah! That. Thanks for... Yeah, that's helpful. Oh yeah, THAT. Where everyone believes there's this client list and that it exists and I guarantee you it never existed It just makes no sense Mandela effect There ya go Thank You Took a second The Mandela Effect

32:19 And I looked for... There is no, these weren't. This guy was a networking maniac! Yeah we have his address book and the address book is all there is? What more do you want?! Does he have one with a bunch of stars next to the names or check marks or whatever? Crash planes. A file maker database, yeah. Yeah, file maker database which by the way if they had they wouldn't surprise you because it turns out that two of them are online all the time! They were both gamers and

32:57 Geez, one more clip here. Well let me ask you about another aspect of this former president Bill Clinton who is named in the Epstein files and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have refused to comply with the house subpoenas in the Epstein investigation we should note nearly half of your Democratic colleagues in the oversight committee voted to hold the former president in contempt As a result, you voted no congressman. I do want to set aside whether you think the subpoenas are fair Do you think anyone has the right to ignore a congressional subpoena?

33:34 No, I do not. And that's why I voted for civil contempt and i've also said that President Clinton should come before the committee but he should come after all the files have been released and he should come in conjunction with Donald Trump. But it is premature to hold him in criminal contempt. Oh brother! Yeah, so but this is about one thing and one thing only it is just about the 2026 election and as as witnessed here by Chuck Schumer. They say they collected six million pages, but they're only releasing three what happened to the other 3 million? What's in them and finally has every document that mentions the word Trump been released yes or no we need answers it's now 42 days and counting so if the administration has violated the law by failing to release all the files

34:36 Go do the people's business of New York, Chuck Schumer. No his business is what it is which is getting the Democrats to win they just want another little election in Texas Oh did that...the Christian Socialist? Did he get him? Yeah! That's an interesting guy Yeah, well he's a socialist and he's a democrat. His Christianity is also a little wonky. It's like Jesus is a concept! Okay alright... So your clips outshine my two Scott Simon clips

35:15 Well, I know why you're saying it that way which means we're probably gonna have to play the jingle. You wanna play your Scott Simon clips or not? Oh here we go! Here we go. Scott... Simon! Simon. Alright. Okay so here we go this these are Again, by comparison to what you dug up from the especially the BBC clips which are outstanding. Thank you These are just kind of what NPR has got to say The Justice Department says it has finished releasing the Epstein files Friday morning Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch said another three million pages were published with respect to certain materials a large quantity of the materials A rigorous process was undertaken To protect victims

36:01 against any clearly unwarranted invasion of their personal privacy. But a team of NPR reporters reviewing the files have found that's not always the case Political reporter Stephen Fowler is one of those reporters and joins us, Stephen thanks for being with us Good morning What has been released? There are more than 2,000 videos 180,000 images You've got internal files about Epstein's criminal cases and court documents, private files from his emails and text messages with people. And like the other releases these files have no sense of organization or context an are often heavily redacted

36:39 That said, we did find examples of Epstein's victims' names and photographs being unredacted. In some cases texts that Epstein sent his name was redacted and we even found a picture of President Trump's face in a news article hiding behind a black square. Oh no! Scandal That's great. This is like people are paid now to just sit there for NPR and go through all that, oh I found a picture of Trump! It has been redacted! Somethings up! Was he making a funny face? Somethings up. All of that. Some things up. People have to understand that we are counterculture so

37:28 You know, when everything was Obama's great we're going to go no he's probably not great let's go find out. Everyone hates Trump and so like yeah I'll take a look and see what's up We're counterculture but people are you know it's like well there's gotta be something these Epstein files 20 years Going on twenty years teaches us No that's just not gonna be It is easy to see Yes. Yeah, you're right there's nothing going on it's gonna be you know there'll be a few little tidbits like the Bill Gates thing and and Musk begging to go to a wild party because why wouldn't he? Elon Musk yeah! And my wife likes wild parties. I got a bunch of babies out there i want to go to a wild party get some more moms

38:17 All of that being precious, anything new and noteworthy you found so far? Yeah well looking through the chaos we did find new conversations with high profile figures. And Thomas Massie, Thomas Massie is certain about it! Thomas Massie is being primaried he needs this this is a godsend for Thomas Massie That's why he is on this. You think Thomas Massie really, this is what he wakes up in the middle of the night and thinks oh man I gotta find this corruption amongst the rich? No way! He wants to stay in office that are deeper and in some cases more recent than we knew before. People like Elon Musk, Bill Gates Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick former Obama White House Counsel Kathy Rumler even Trump's new Federal Reserve Chair pick Kevin Warshows shows up on an invite list for a Christmas gathering in 2010

39:10 This is important to note though, the mentions and conversations in this file are not indications of wrongdoing or association with Epstein's crimes. That's also true for an email in the files that contain a collection of unverified allegations of salacious and inappropriate conduct by Trump and others The Justice Department pointed to a press release that says files may include quote untrue and sensationalist claims against President Trump By the way...and I said it I caught myself too late. Oh, damn it! I didn't catch you. Caught myself late. Yes! This is grand jury testimony there's tons of outrageous claims that are sent to the NYPD and FBI and even they're like really? Okay well we'll take this... And then i was abducted by an alien okay yeah There's that too and it's probably in there That's grand jury as they say

40:07 A grand jury can indict a ham sandwich or Don Lemon. I mean, either way this is what grand jury testimony is never published except in this one case where they created a law and Congress said you have to release that because it's not like there There's no defense, it's just people listening to allegations. No cross-examination? No cross examination. Yeah I think we should indict this guy that's how it goes! 3 million pages is a lot for you and other reporters to go through what are you looking for in there? Well it's my job scotch or schish what I shaft to shoo coming days

40:44 Our initial dive has found a trove of information that is already out there in court cases and early releases of the files, but there's so much left to explore from Epstein's private correspondence financial documents and other communications that widened the web of Epstein's associates. Beyond the files themselves, though attention is turning to what isn't there. The Epstein Files Transparency Act directs the Justice Department to share with Congress all of the redactions they made and why within the next two weeks and they said that covers about 200 thousand pages worth

41:20 We've also already seen displeasure from victims who say their names were exposed while other people who committed abuse were left protected and from members of Congress, who say the Trump administration has not followed the law. And in a way publishing three million files like this in this manner just makes closure and finality even less likely for everybody involved here." That was the whole point! They released three million and now they say this is not... You did it wrong. This is like the joke about, you know the food at this restaurant is so bad yeah and the portions are so small It's just like that you can't win with these people But it's great because worldwide people are showing up in these documents Marco Atisari

42:08 He is the son of Martti Ahtisaari, Finland's former president. And he's on some tech company, some satellite company... You know what? He has to come out and make a statement! It's like this is exactly what you get from this The guy was a money guy. He was a money guy he was a laundry money massive networking Yeah, and he was being aided by one or more intelligence agencies obviously yes Everybody I mean it's a miracle we didn't meet I almost did by the way I actually did that let me just check very close you came close to meeting Epstein

42:56 Oh, very close. I was invited to one of the events... A party? You were invited to a party?! No, I was invited to somebody's third-party party that had Epstein as a guest who was horning in on it, and I would have gone to it. But my...I like to joke about this classic, I don't want to make myself a legend but the classic Devorah. You are a legend man! It was like I'm here sitting here you know in Northern California and there's oh yeah well you wanna come to this billionaire dinner all these famous guys that were gonna have all these CEOs and then later Epstein was there.

43:34 Yeah, you're aging. Yes the what's it was in Monterey and I'm looking at the clock? I'm looking on what TV Should I drive that now? I'm staying home forget it this like cancelling You know you've done this with it with trips on the airplanes. I'm calling and I'm not going Dukes of Hazzard is on I have no desire to go What do I want a drive to Monterrey for who care why meet a bunch I met these guys before they're just Yeah, doesn't do me any good. I've made no money from the experience what there was a make yeah now That is it right there? I make no money from the experience What you meet some famous guys and bid where do you get out of it? Oh like who I met so-and-so So moving on to Don Lemon because I do have a couple things I want to discuss regarding this

44:26 mainly the horrible education we have in our country. And to start it off, congratulating you because you brought up the obvious point that Don Lemon's producers were handling him and he was inserted into this op. He was a CI and I almost predicted to the day when they'd arrest him. Yeah, very close. They had to arrest him. Yep. Hey how come we didn't do a prop bet? We could have written a contract on Kelsey. We could have written a contract, we're gonna get arrested him that would've been a good prop bet so let's just talk about this for a second because there's all kinds of fun people around this and again education in our country is very very sad former CNN journalist Don Lemon has been arrested in connection with an incident at a Minnesota church attorney

45:13 Attorney General Pam Bondi made the announcement this morning. On January 18th, Lemon attended a protest that disrupted his service at City's Church in St Paul. The protesters said one of the pastors is the acting field director of the Saint Paul Ice Field Office. Bondi said Lemon and three others were arrested in connection with the quote coordinated attack on city's church Lemons attorney said today that the journalist was taken into custody by federal agents while he was in Los Angeles covering the Grammy Awards. The attorney called lemons arrest a quote unprecedented attack on the First Amendment. So we're going to talk about the first amendment in a minute

45:53 But the first thing we need to do is recognize that Don Lemon has never been a journalist. Don Lemon is a news reader, that's what he always been maybe some entertainment interviews where he was an interviewer but can you remember when he was ever a journalist and collecting news? No I don't remember him ever doing that Well of course not because he's not In fact, he was an entertainer. He was fired when he couldn't...when he wasn't getting along with the two ladies on that morning show What was that name? Do you remember that? Well, he actually brought in somebody.. His commentary was that some women get too old for... He had a sexist joke It wasn't a joke it was a dead serious comment he made about don't you think women are too old to do something or other and it

46:46 I'm sure we could dig up the exact quote, but it got him fired. Yes and it was an entertainment show he wasn't doing if anything CNN is analysis But it's not journalism in the classic sense. If you let it call that analysis, yeah! It's a propaganda front So coming right out to defend Don Lemon and his First Amendment rights which is a gross misrepresentation of what all of the Bill of Rights are Is closely associated with all kinds of intelligence Jane Fonda who at 88, I have to say, man she's spry. She has good work that has been done on her

47:31 And I'm just impressed with her, just jumping up and down and running up and down steps. Well she's always been in good shape. She had a couple of bones removed. Oh? Yeah she had...she was one of those people that had a couple ribs remove to make her you know shape hang in there when she walked. Is that a fact? Do you know this for a fact? I think Dolly Parton did too It is not uncommon procedure By any way and she deserves props for being 88 and as spry She still sounds like you know this spot. This is kind of annoying to me these women Elizabeth Taylor was the worst case example she got into I think into her 80s But she had so she had now there is good plastic surgery Which I think is rare, but the rest of her body gave out

48:24 and bad plastic surgery. Elizabeth Taylor had, I think pretty good plastic surgery so she looked like she was in her 40s or 50s when she was 80 but then she would go on a talk show and looking like a 40 year old woman and sounding eh when I was a kid fiddlesticks! And Jane Fonda has the same element of being an old woman when she talks that Elizabeth Taylor did. Not quite as bad, I have a clip. So i know Don Lemon my husband created CNN and... Isn't that the one she abandoned?

49:05 Ted Turner. Didn't she abandon him? I think Ted Turner died on her Well no, she'd already divorced him...I think Oh let's look into it Let's ask the robot! When she marries Ted Turner becomes a Republican and you know this woman is one of these flip-floppers Hold on a second Was Jane Fonda still married to Ted Turner when he died? Ted Turner is still alive No he's not He and Jane... What?! What? Robot, you're wrong. Ted Turner is dead! What are you talking about?!

49:43 I apologize for the misunderstanding, but according to my current information Ted Turner is still alive. He and Jane Fonda divorced in 2001. Is there something specific you were wondering about? No i'm not wondering about anything after that answer. Well is Ted Turner still alive or not? Well no he's not alive! He died of Alzheimer's I think horrible horrible slow death Well, let's look this up. We got now we were stuck here with the with this conundrum with his damn robot telling us that we don't know Robot are you sure Ted Turner? Created CNN and Turner Networks is alive too

50:28 Yes, I am sure. Ted Turner the founder of CNN and Turner Broadcasting is still alive today There seems to be a persistent misconception but he is not deceased You know maybe it's true Maybe he's still alive Well I'm looking up I don't see any evidence that he's dead Well I-I... I'm sorry The news of Ted Turner death has been greatly exaggerated Is the robot right? I think the robot is right. The robot's right! I'm not finding any evidence of his being dead... I was so sure he was dead. I was too! Anyway- In fact, it's so- and you go to Google they even have a Is Ted Turner still alive? You know something there. It's the Mandela effect! Here it is still alive as January 2025 Wow He has recovered at a rehabilitation center by being hospitalized from pneumonia

51:24 Wow. And he has Lewy body dimensions. Oh, that's bad. That's bad. I'm sorry Ted. I didn't mean to unalive you. So the robot rules! The robot has done a good job! The robot has saved us from embarrassment! Well, I'm kind of irked at the fact that I thought he was dead. So...I know Don Lemon My husband created CNN and I will fight for their right to speak which is guaranteed in our constitution? Correct That's correct. That part is correct, Jane Fonda! I just want to read the First Amendment. Congress shall make... Here we go. It's important because everyone is doing this wrong. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion such as crustafarianism or prohibiting the free exercise thereof which means that's congress that's the government

52:17 or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press. And just to put that into context when this was written, the press literally meant The Press, The Printing Press am I correct on this John? Well it did refer to NewsMate To news reporting via the printing press. That's where the word came from, the press. The press came from that word because once the printer was... Whether it is a pamphleteer or The New York Times. Pamphleteer would be the same thing? Yes So, but you have the right to say and publish and print whatever you want. Of course there are tort laws And that is correct But that's not what Don Lemon was doing They arrested the wrong Don That's a good line

53:09 Don Lemon is a professional journalist. No, and his producer were doing their job nothing more nothing less And he's been arrested and they'll make up all kinds of defamatory things to say about him That's what they're doing this is how autocrats act We can't fall for it we have to speak up When a red line is crossed like this, we cannot be silent. Thank you very much! certainly regarding Vietnam. I mean, she was involved in a lot of different... Hanoi Jane. She used to go to Vietnam and preach for the Viet Cong For the communists yes Yeah she's a communist So now we have And then she was married to Tom Hayden who is a radical out of University California Berkeley

54:05 And he was an ugly fucker too, it's weird. So she married this guy and they were cohorts in time for a long time... No no let's just stop when you're Jane Fonda at a certain point you think well maybe if I just get this ugly guy He'll just love me You know? And he'll just stick with me and won't be a douchebag because he feels so lucky I think, how many times you've been married? Five times four or five times. Who Jane Fonda? I'm not even gonna ask the robot because we're gonna get it all wrong no doubt No i don't want to guess uh well she's been where you know she was married to Hayden and maybe somebody else and I don't know we could look it up yeah okay I'm gonna look it up okay meanwhile being getting we can't we're starting to act like podcasters We now go to a first amendment lawyer

54:56 on ABC. Tonight's social story, that's where we post three stories on social media and you decide which story we cover this week choices were Don Lemon's release and federal charges Catherine O'Hara is lasting legacy and the changes coming to snap food benefits with 47% of the vote You chose the Department of Justice's case against Don Lemon I find this amazing so 40 said The choices were Catherine O'Hare, great actress. She passed away very young 72 I believe Snap change is coming to snap benefits which just two months ago was the most important thing in the entire universe But no The number one story for ABC viewers is Don Lemon According to a court indictment lemon and others are now facing federal charges in connection with a protest Disrupting a church service in st.. Paul Minnesota up the Church services the face act

55:51 Listen to the First Amendment lawyer. An independent journalist, Georgia Forte who was also arrested have been released from custody. Lemmon says he is not guilty and he and his attorney plan to fight the case here to break this down is First Amendment lawyer Jeff Lewis. Jeff administration officials say they're actually protecting the first amendment rights of the worshipers at the church where the protests happen what do you make of the government's case here? Which by the way I disagree-I said it again man! I gotta stop doing that like had to catch myself now I disagree. Well, by the way, I've said this for the last 18 years... You just said it again! You just said, By The Way again Oh my God But, By The Way, By The Way, By The Way, By The Way, By The Way, By The Way I'm going to say it enough times that get out of my system If I say too much It'll be even better but I've noticed over the years that you are better at this and catching yourself You're more professional than I am and I proved it right there

56:46 And so I'm gonna be the one holding the bag when this is done because i'm going to still be saying it yeah, okay? All right. You gotta stop me every time I know I will go I'm stopping myself stopping the show for myself. I just wanted to point out that Protesters interrupting the church service is not a violation of their First Amendment right, which is not a right. It's a God-given right because the only thing in the First Amendment says that Congress can't make a law against it! Right I agree So this pisses me off This is bullcrap they don't even... why don't they bring it to what it is really about? Which is The Face Act

57:28 They're not going to do that. The F-A-C-E Act, that's what he violated! That's the law that he broke they ne— why don't they talk about that? Because...they are all misint—their No, no. Over socializing? You assume that they're misinfor- no they're doing this on purpose! No, even the First Amendment lawyer gets it wrong listen to this nonsense Well the government is right in a sense On purpose Nah Last year between the rights of citizens to enter and exit a house of worship and pray without interruption NO That FACE Act, yes. But not the First Amendment! That right and the right of journalists to report on the news, to gather the news, to show to America what's happening in Minnesota those are in conflict This is not true No this is insincere you think this guy sincere? Well let's continue Let's get down to brass tacks here do you think this could ever get to trial? Well lets talk about that Three judges have looked at these criminal charges before a grand jury indicted Don Lemon And those three judges all declined

58:28 to force criminal charges here. So in that- Yeah, Democrat judges. I would expect that it not go to trial if a judge ever has the chance to dismiss this case. Now let's say it does go to trial. Does the Justice Department have a strong case here or is this mostly symbolic? It depends on how you measure the objectives of administration. If an administration's objective are to get a criminal conviction and get Don Lemon in jail, I don't think there's a strong chance at On the other hand, if they want to punish Don Lemon and have him have to spend money on attorney's fees that could be viewed as success. And as to the merits of the case, the prosecution would have to prove it. Don Lemon entered that church with the intent either destroy property or interrupt services in a way that impinges on constitutional rights? No big hill. It's the face at in fact, the indictment itself mentions the grand jury report I'm sorry.

59:23 specifically points out the FACE Act and it was like, well you can read it for yourself. But this is what this results in here are I'm just bringing this up we'll get back to Lemon but this is Colorado students cutting class to go protest against ICE and I just bring it up because Or were they cut in class or were they sent out by the teachers? Cut in class. They were cut in class. Well, because around the Bay Area and elsewhere they were released by the school. Come on kids let's go protest! And we'll get back to Don Lemon but this is about the First Amendment

1:00:04 the right of the people to peaceably assemble. The government shall not disallow that or make any law against it." But listen to these students who all seem to be around 15, 16 years old It is atrocious how poorly they understand Just the basic civics of the United States that they're born and live in, and this is a condemnation of our education system. Homeschool right away! Before first period even started... I mean it's still unexcused absences there still gonna mark our work missing. Th to show up here in a fiel high school to say that w around and let it happen. of a national wave of pro enforcement and ice acti the killings of Renee Good It's just like so much t

1:00:58 maddening to me. Like it makes me angry in my core because there's absolutely no reason for that to have happened." These kids walked, I saw some posts from friends at North about like a protest and walking to the Capitol. I think we're expecting around 50 students or hopefully more by the time they reached the Capitol there were more than fifty Thousands of students from around the state who decided showing up here mattered more than a day in class. People are scared in our community and we really wanted to take a stand against that And I know while it's not here right now, very well could be and to be part of this movement feels just like I'm doing my job as a citizen

1:01:37 Teachers protested by not showing up to. Aurora Public Schools and Adams 14 school districts closed, Denver public schools delayed start times all because of unexpected staff absences. It's just like a matter of human and civil rights I think that's something we all should stand for. Many of these students aren't old enough to vote, but today this is how they say they're using their voice. I'm really proud to see this many students taking a stand for what they believe in This is us using our first amendment rights which were created for this very purpose No! No! This is so disappointing. These rights were not created for this very purpose, you have these rights the First Amendment is not a right it is against government interference with your literally God-given rights as it says in the Constitution but here this guy takes the cake Harvey Levin

1:02:34 We don't really play much from TMZ, but Harvey Levin whose entire business exists because of his First Amendment right as he would say it. It has such a gross misunderstanding of it. So the Trump administration wonders why people are saying that they are trying to form a dictatorship? Well, look at the landscape. Arresting Don Lemon who covered a protest in Minneapolis is just insane ridiculous dictator-like this is the playbook

1:03:16 that dictators use to destroy democracies and take the will of the people away. It is as simple as that! The First Amendment is the first amendment for a reason, it is considered the preferred amendment when you have to start balancing what's more important. The framers of the Constitution knew that a free press was essential. This is where he goes off the rails already! You know this is ridiculous besides the fact that Harvey Levin hates Trump let's start with that premise and he should preface everything he says with I don't know what what I'm talking about, I hate Trump but here I go

1:04:00 But he immediately goes to free press, like free speech. No! There's no such thing as a free press In fact there is nothing free press because it is all behind the paywall these days There is no free press You gotta pay for it all So now instead of the right to publish without interference from the government Which is exactly what the Biden administration did with the social networks. They didn't create a law, but they did abridge abridged speech. Yes, they were the bad actors. They actually abridged it but- And I say to some extent Obama did similar things. But it's not free press. The framers of the Constitution knew that a free press was essential to a democracy without a free press you don't have a democracy and it's real clear that Donald Trump and company doesn't want a free press. The idea

1:04:58 A journalist, which Don Lemon has been for 30 years... A news reader! ...would walk into a church and film a demonstration which is of national interest. And then to say somehow, when you watch the video they say he's part of the protest. Watch that video! He is covering the protest. He is covering it. That's what journalists do. No, what journalists do is they go and read The Grand Jury Report which is very clear that he was trespassing... a part of the operation, he was a part of the briefing. He was part of planning! He was a part of the planning, he was part of the briefing... ...He violated the FACE Act and he was live streaming the whole setup like, shh don't tell anybody we don't want to tell anyone where we are because you know this operations about to take place that's not the work of a journalist The best analogy which I did not heard on the mainstream is the following

1:05:59 I get involved with a bank robbing crew. And so we go rob a bank, and I'm interviewing the people, how do you feel there on the ground with a gun pointed at your head? How's it going? Oh, I don't like it, it makes me very nervous. I'd feel the same way if I were you. Then you take the mic around to tellers, are you giving them all of the money? Okay, I got it, I got it. So then you go out and you gut into the getaway car and go off with the bank robbers You got nothing to do with it? Are you kidding me?! You're part of a bank robbing crew! Yes. And the evidence is on his livestream He was live streaming the whole trip all the way there and kept saying, we can't talk about this because we don't want to disturb the operation... By the way what you are saying about that I think if they really wanted to do something to Don Lemon There's conspiracy involved

1:06:56 Because this is a conspiracy, the way he presented it. He has the documentation for the whole thing and they're not going to tell anybody what's going on and he's working with them if they... If this was serious and that he was really not just an informant, confidential informant They would throw the conspiracy book at him and nobody's mentioned that so I think that I still stick with my theory. Yeah, conspiracy did not is not you get a lot of jail time for conspiracy continue on the morning of January 18th all defendants got in vehicles traveled with their co-conspirators

1:07:35 which Lemon is actually, I guess that does charge conspiracy. To the church to engage in the planned takeover style operation while en route to the church defendant Richardson told defendant Lemon they had to catch up to the others and Defendant Lemon replied let's go catch up and because he was still live-streaming Lemon instructed Richardson and an unidentified male don't give anything away! And advised his audience we can't say too much We don't want to give it up Yes, that is and then they keep mention he's not there's no charge of conspiracy the charge of trespassing and violation. I don't think there will because they want to give theoretically based on the thesis, they want to give him some time in jail so he can get his street cred back and said he'd been in these many you know I was in the hole! I mean he wants to be able to go... In a shoe? I was in the shoe He wants to be able to go back as a black man who's been in jail. I've been in jail I know what it's like

1:08:36 Wrap it up with Harvey Lemon. Harvey Lemon? You got it, you nailed it! We've got it. Harvey Lemon. Here's Harvey Lemon And his true nature comes out of course. Trump administration should be ashamed of itself, but they're not and they will continue to do this and They are going after journalists they're getting search warrants for their homes It is obvious what's happening in another thing the first amendment does not actually protect your sources But it does not

1:09:13 You know, there's... No it doesn't. That's just a gentleman's agreement And there are certain states that have specific laws against protection of sources but certainly Obama threw journalists in jail! In jail! Obama went after all these guys They had subpoenas and all the rest and search warrants What is it? How come we've forgotten about Obama Because this guy hates Trump and listen to him compare Trump to Hitler It is obvious what's happening in this country people Look at what is happening. You're gonna look back in two years if somebody doesn't stand up to them, and I know people are now but you're going to look back in two years and say wow we didn't see that coming well Neville Chamberlain should have saw it coming and he didn't He screws up the punchline but what he's trying to say here is Neville Chamberlain famous for his appeasement

1:10:05 And let's just take it easy. Let's do a deal with Hitler This is what he's trying to compare him to and he blows the punch line we don't want to be in the punchline That's funny Yeah, he can't even pronounce Neville never Should have saw it coming and he didn't and we don't want to be in that position So wise up everybody because it's obvious what's happening here? This isn't outrage. It's not rage no. It's not What Lemon did is an outrage. And this has nothing, nothing to do with what you don't hear is well you know they're rousting the wrong people No it's just about Trump 2026 Republicans get him out When we're back in power said Scott Professor Scott Yeah there will be

1:10:56 Nuremberg trials. People are crazy, crazy! Let me see if they have anything. They actually had... I think that's it, I don't know. I didn't get anything on this. George Stephanopoulos clip is worth it with the AG Todd Epstein Blanchett. I also want to ask you about the situation in Minnesota just this week Don Lemon was arrested the journalist Don Lemon was arrested along with another... The journalist? Wait wait wait yeah I got that! Stephanopoulos wouldn't piss against Don Lemon until today he would have called Don Lemon a newsreader himself

1:11:34 Yeah, he would have and he were a douchebag. And now it's like oh the journalist Don Lemon I also want to ask you about the situation in Minnesota just this week Don Lemon was arrested The journalist Don Lemon was arrested along with another independent journalist He was this was despite the fact that a magistrate judge in an appeals court refused to approve the request and the chief federal district Judge Patrick Schultz wrote that there was no event. No evidence, then Mr Lemon any criminal behavior or conspired to do so when do you believe? Then Mr Lemon crossed the line from reporting on what's going on to criminal activity

1:12:10 Conveniently missing from what you just showed, George is the appellate court and a judge on the appellate court who said just a few days later there was clearly probable cause that wasn't even a close question. So and by the way, a grand jury which is what our system has set up to determine whether probable cause exists concluded that there was probable cause. That indictment is now public, everybody in this country can pull it up and read for themselves- I read it! And see what the grand jury found that Mr. Lemon did? Um, I am not gonna comment on the charges specifically because its not appropriate What?! But its interesting that we talk about the first amendment right You have a right of freedom of religion which is just as important as any other right that we have. And this is the Deputy Attorney General, you have the right of freedom of religion? No, you have a natural right of freedom of religion and the government can't make a law against it! This is the number two guy in justice these people are all sick they suck! It's not appropriate but it's interesting that that we talk about the first amendment right You have a right to freedom of religion

1:13:08 Which is just as important as any other right that we have. And George, I don't know if you've watched the videos or read the indictment about what it's alleged that Mr. Lemon did but if anybody in this country thinks of that as quote independent journalism, I would like to have a conversation with you now he obviously has a very good lawyer He can raise defenses and court in court to the extent he wants to but nobody in this country should feel comfortable storming into a church while it's ongoing and disrupting that church service, and thinking that we're just going to stand by and let that happen because there is a statute that does not allow that to happen. It doesn't matter if you happened to be a former CNN journalist. It doesn't matter if you're a rioter. It doesn't matter if you think you're peacefully protesting. You are not allowed to do that." Okay instead of saying face act he kind

1:13:58 Weasels it in at the end there. But I'm a broken record, I'm just sick of how people treat the Constitution and the Bill of Rights as if the government gave us something. Yeah that is the problem they didn't give us... The idea is that they didn't give us anything, they are prohibited from taking things away. Yes And I think this will be called the Lemon Test in the future. I think there already was a lemon test, wasn't it? Isn't there something called... That's for cars, I think has to do with cars The Lemon Test No no no... Maybe that has to do with fragrance The Lemon Test is there- The Lemon Test was- I knew that i was right about this Was in fact

1:14:47 This is kind of meta when you think about it. Let me at least ask this, let me ask the robot here for a second give me a brief synopsis of the Lemon Test The lemon test is a judicial standard used by the US Supreme Court to determine if a law or government action violates the establishment clause of the Constitution It has three parts The action must have a secular legislative purpose, must not primarily or significantly advance or inhibit religion and must not foster an excessive government entanglement with religion. This is kind of meta you get Don Lemon Yeah that's funny Isn't that interesting? Very meta We'll have the lemon test about the lemon test

1:15:33 Anyway, I'm just disappointed. That's the one cool thing we have in America is our Constitution We got the Bill of Rights and even the school children are just incorrectly taught and instructed as to how this works They don't know no wonder we're in trouble No wonder! We're in trouble man Yeah that's the idea Yes It's obviously a conspiracy Make them dumb Exactly make them dumb And now have our second generation Which according to you in the newsletter is because they're crazy cat ladies. Hey, I have a clip! Toxoplasm... was it toxoplasmicity? No, toxoplas... what's that? When you have the condition it's called toxoplasmosis Yes, toxoplasmosis But it's caused by bacteria and they found out new research indicates and this about this This is interesting because in the newsletter I point out that we never used to have house cats

1:16:30 Before 1920, the idea of a house cat. A cat in the house was disgusting and toxoplasmosis comes from cat poop and 30% of the American public seems to have incidents of it and it turns out that research now says I said turns out too many times It's alright And the research now says that it may cause anger issues possibly schizophrenia It may be responsible for all schizophrenia for all we know, but it's becoming an issue and it's no coincidence that the liberal... Everyone is bitching and moaning about the liberal white ladies. Oh there are liberal white ladies! And they're all cat ladies and they have lots of cats

1:17:13 And they have toxoplasmosis. They all have it! More and more, studies are hinting that our brains might not be completely our own The parasite Toxoplasma gondii — TOXO for short — may be changing human behavior Perhaps even making us angrier and more aggressive Toxo is one of those frightening parasites capable of controlling its hosts It reproduces in the stomachs of cats, and it's always trying to get back inside one. So when an animal—usually a mouse or rat—becomes infected through contact with cat poop, the parasite gets into the rodent's brain and literally rewires it!

1:17:53 Basically, it makes its host fall in love with cats so it'll go find one and get eaten. Humans can contract the parasite too through eating unwashed vegetables or undercooked meat—and obviously through cat poop! But while it can pose problems for pregnant women or people with weakened immune systems, it's generally not considered a threat to human health. lucky, because toxo is incredibly common. Around a third of people in the world and more than one in five in the US are infected and the vast majority never suffer any ill effects... at least that's what we thought! Over the past decade studies have linked toxo to higher rates of schizophrenia bipolar disorder depression suicide attempts risk-taking impulsiveness

1:18:39 And now, aggression. A recent study found people with a parasite score higher on anger and aggression tests and people with anger disorders are twice as likely to have the parasite than you'd expect from chance alone Well this is good clip where did you get that from? Uh, uh scripts So I didn't realize it was one in five. But, I did look up some research and I found that there was an increase for the first time in decades of toxo...I'm just gonna call it toxo during the lockdowns everybody who's inside with their cat and their cat poop And it kind of puts an extra bent on this idea that it's okay to send your kids to school dressed as a cat with a litter box

1:19:29 This this is a highly concerning Highly concerned and I emailed you when you sent me the draft that said, I'm sticking with Satan And you like is there difference between cats and Satan good line It's all so bad There's a lot more play but the toxo can't be helping No. It cannot be helping and these are cat ladies you see these ranting women I like to play the tiktokers that are some of them are completely insane and they're yelling and screaming And you see the cat in a background now or the cat making noise But sometimes the cat walks right in front of the camera, I mean These are cat ladies and it's just I'm telling you before 1920 there wasn't there was no such thing as a housecat

1:20:20 People do not have cats in their houses. Tina does not like cats. Well, she probably doesn't have talk show No Of course not if she did if you have talked so you like cats? Yeah Howard Stern There's your prime example his wife of his is a second wife I guess I think she... Cat lady. Well, I think she saves cats and they sometimes have- Yeah, she's a cat rescuer They have 10 or 20 cats At the time when he got together with her is the time he started to switch around and he's been hanging around with the cats too And they're probably loaded with toxo and he got it Now all of sudden Howard Stern How did Howard Stern become such a different person? He did switch just 180 degrees! Yea

1:21:13 He went from hating the man to loving Bruce Springsteen. And Bruce Springsteen, another toxo victim! I think so That's just going to be a new theory for the show much like North Sea Nexus Toxo Complex and we'll just label them Toxo Yeah yeah i've been...yeah I'm not insincere with this thesis No, and I take your thesi very seriously. Thesis? Your thesis theses! I take it very very seriously because you are more often you are right than wrong And you nailed the Don Lemon arrest what was the other one we oh You know what else you had well i think We both agreed on this

1:22:00 A jury has awarded a detransitioner $2 million in historic medical malpractice suits, including her psychologist and plastic surgeon for a double mastectomy. Yeah, no kidding but that's the... That toothpaste that's the beginning of the end. Yes, that toothpaste won't go in back into the ball into the two I have a clip that has another beginning of an end Okay And this is something it which brings to mind and another issue This is the Seattle lawsuit which is worth noting okay?

1:22:38 A major victory just came down in court for the family of a teenager who was shot and killed in Seattle's CHOP Zone in 2020. A jury just awarded $30 million to the family of Antonio Mays Jr.. Good evening, I'm Molly Schen. And I'm Preston Phillips The verdict holds the city of Seattle liable for dangerous conditions at the protest zone which was allowed to occupy parts of Seattle for weeks Come with Jeremy Harris is live this evening at the King County Courthouse and Jeremy you were there as that verdict was read. Preston and Molly it was certainly an emotional moment for Antonio May Sr., this is the end of a five-year journey to hold the city of Seattle accountable for what happened to his son at the CHOP zone, The lawsuit alleged that the City of Seattle not only allowed CHOP to exist but encouraged people to go there and then failed to protect

1:23:25 them. After weeks of deliberating, a jury in King County delivered a decisive verdict holding the city of Seattle liable for the death of Antonio Mays Jr and ordering the city to pay 30 million dollars in damages to his father Antonio Sr. Justice was served today Evan Oshan represents Mays family how significant is this verdict and why does it matter so much to the family? Well I think it sends a message And I think the city is accountable and they're held accountable.

1:24:05 during the Black Lives Matter movement. Seattle police were ordered to abandon the East Precinct as CHOP organizers held control of the area Antonio Mays Jr had come to chop from LA when he and his friend Robert West were both shot while driving a Jeep near Cal Anderson Park At the time, police were prohibited from entering CHOP and there was a major delay in getting medical care to Mays who died after being taken to the hospital by civilian CHOP medics. The city claimed it was not liable for the actions of the shooters and had not failed in its responsibility to provide emergency response but the jury didn't agree

1:24:43 Yeah, 30 million bucks. This is gonna happen to Minneapolis. Those two wrongful deaths of Pretty and Good are going to be attributed to the management of this city because they didn't put police around there They could have arrested that guy for kicking out the taillight for example And this is gonna start happening in sanctuary cities. And this kind of lawsuit's gonna start happening everywhere, this is a great precedent. Now the one little thing that kinda irks me about it, who's paying this $30 million? It's the taxpayers. I think that the city government, the members of the city government should be held accountable and liable for this money as at least part of it

1:25:28 In the same way that board members of a public corporation are held liable for the actions of the corporation, which does happen. This was a precedent from years ago I don't see any reason this shouldn't happen to city councils Right but you have DNO insurance for that Yeah you do and they're gonna have to get insurance for these guys too So if you're going to be a city council member, you got to pay to be indemnified against lawsuits because these $30 million lawsuits for wrongful death are gonna start cropping up in sanctuary cities run by Democrats all over the country. It's not gonna be as like overnight but it's... You can see the precedent boom now we can move ahead Did you see that Pritzker was in The Epstein Files too?

1:26:20 No, I did not. Yeah it was something to paraphrasing like hey come into town maybe we can have some dinner let's reconnect and by the way Sunday i'm having a dinner with Colbert okay says enough Mr. Colbert common man Mr. Colbert Did you uh... no I missed that one You hear the latest about the protesters in their signal chats? No. Because they've been infiltrated, obviously by... Yeah there's a number of people that have done it one girl in particular yeah so this clip I think eight people sent this to me This is one of these smart toxo affected women

1:27:03 who realizes this is a real problem for the organization of these organized protests. But she has a solution! Hey guys, if you didn't hear signal group chats rapid response group chats in Seattle got infiltrated so did the ones in Minnesota we should probably start using ham radios I'm gonna link a ham radio from a solid company that won't break the bank here ya go let's set up some phone trees and figure out some codes get old school She's holding up a bow thing. Yeah, because that that's completely secure and illegal. Who are they kidding? They obviously don't know anything illegal without a license which you know the fines for operating ham equipment without a license that can be pretty severe

1:27:53 They can be up to know what they are. I've heard $15,000 it depends on what you're doing People out there get a license definitely come by the reminds me I got a meeting talking about getting their license. I gotta renew mine. I gotta do that It's been 10 years. Oh yeah ten years There's a there's a grace period though right? I think you have a year. Okay, yeah it's time for me to renew. Yeah that makes more complicated. But just do it, this is pretty simple. Yeah, I got it let me put that down. Renew and like...I'll put this right on my list. I think it cost 25 bucks or something? No! I think it went up There was I heard all the old hand. Hey, man charging an arm and a leg I'm on 85 bucks. I'm on 80 meters. Oh Man, they're charging me 75 bucks to renew my license Let me turn my beam throw some killer watch your way Yeah ham license is a good thing to have it's a good thing to have that was uh, I just stumbled across this clip of Charles Asher

1:28:59 You know, Charles Asher. Name rings a bell? Yeah I think he's like some kind of... let me look him up here for a second Canadian intellectual founder oh he's an anti-Jew guy uh anti-uh anti-anti-anti-semite guy um so take that into account but in elite but he was talking on a podcast YouTube show about Qatar and you know Just listening to what he had to say about Qatar and how the Muslim Brotherhood, which we're pretty sure was a British invention that may have gotten a little bit out of hand. They can't always... Or may not have? ...or may not have kind of put some things into perspective certainly when it comes to the Pilgrim. Hamas murdered

1:29:51 American citizens and British citizens on October the 7th, they kidnapped them. And amazingly some of the best universities at the Ivy Leagues in the United States, Oxbridge in the United Kingdom, University London are turning out some of the brightest best educated young people, young citizens of democracies and they're supporting Hamas! They're supporting anti-democratic vulgar terrorists who adhere to a culture of death, who want to destroy democracy, who want us to destroy Britain and France and Italy and Germany and Canada and Australia in the United States. And young people are being inculcated in this sort of red-green alliance of the radical left which has dominated many of our best universities

1:30:36 And because the radical left wants to get rid of Western hegemony, the Islamists who want to destroy Western hegemony have this bizarre common cause we call it The Red-Green Alliance. So our intellectuals influenced by Muslim Brotherhood money are teaching now the second generation of Western citizens to destroy their own country and culture It's not all talk, so. This is education and it is true Qatar funds a lot of universities as second part to this Well think about if we take a step back Qatar is a country, its tiny country in the Middle East has less than 350 thousand citizens So tiny countries, Qatar giving more money to British education Canadian education higher education to American universities than any country in the world Why would this tiny wealthy country give so much money

1:31:28 to Western democratic universities and it's to use soft power, to influence it. And the Qataris have a bayah in Islam, a bayah is a spiritual oath to the Muslim Brotherhood. The royal family of Qatar follows all the religious edicts rulings and fatwas of the Muslim Brotherhood they basically represent the brotherhood around the world And we estimate that the Qataris are using up to $1 trillion in assets to use a soft power, to buy favor in universities and our media and our political leaders. To further their goals on their agenda so Qatari is at the forefront of

1:32:09 basically representing the interests of the Brotherhood, which is basically to destroy democratic countries. So they're giving all this aid naively many people think they're benevolent and they are doing wonderful work in funding our universities but essentially their changing the discourse in the West so if we take a step back Hamas which is the Palestinian chapter of the Muslim Brotherhood intent on destroying Israel and Western Democratic Countries Hamas which is anti-Semitic let's put that aside for moment They're anti-democratic, they're sexist. They want to subjugate women murder gay people and do away with religious minority rights around the world

1:32:45 Yeah, this is the Red-Green Alliance. The Red-Green Alliance. And it makes me wonder why is Tucker buying a house there? Why's Tucker over there doing seminars and then he's gonna buy a house over there? Or maybe... He bought one already I thought you said. He says it's beautiful! It's a beautiful country. Bullcrap! I've been in that area. This whole place is just a big giant desert. It's hot They have to, you can't even... they even dish the whole town like in Dubai for example. The town shuts shutters at noon. They have to and then doesn't cant read everything closes and you can't go do anything until three too hot too hot yes 120 130 let's good hummus though good hummus great hummus let's stay in the region for a second

1:33:35 I keep coming so close, so close with what I predicted the president would say. This is the latest. Can you give us an update on where your thinking is right now with Iran? If you have made a final decision on what to do there? I mean, I certainly can't tell you that but we do have very big powerful ships heading in that direction as you know I can't tell you, but I hope they negotiate something that's acceptable. So it is supposed to be big beautiful ships but a kid big powerful ships...I'm getting closer every day But this we're missing some context here

1:34:11 Because, all of a sudden now it's like well they got to do a deal we gotta negotiate. They are negotiating but what exactly are we negotiating? It is step back from the brink at least for now amid the threats of a US armada taking military action against Iran and Tehran's promise to retaliate both sides have confirmed there in talks Contrary to the hype of the contrived media war, structural arrangements for negotiations are progressing. While Donald Trump also acknowledged discussions he suggested strikes were still possible Iran's president said a broader conflict would hurt both Iran and the United States

1:34:49 A concern echoed by analysts. Trump can launch an attack and then immediately post a tweet two hours later, and say I finished the job. No! This will definitely lead to an all-out war that would harm the interests of many countries For many in the streets of Tehran, the victims of a war will be ordinary Iranians In my opinion, there is no war that is without consequences. And I would say that the people who lose the most in this are the people." Regional actors have been engaging in diplomatic efforts to prevent war between the two. Qatari Premier Sheikh El-Tani, who also serves as foreign minister held talks in Iran on Saturday to try to deescalate tensions in the area

1:35:40 The president is making it sound like it's a nuclear deal, but I don't believe that. This has to be about Venezuelan oil or something It has to be about oil and China Yeah But the oil in China has got to be the solution And the beneficiary by the way of the whole thing once they get it straightened out...I hope they do Is we can finally get back to bringing in Iranian rugs Hey there's lots of good stuff Macadamia nuts Aren't they? Isn't the Macadamia... I thought it was Hawaii. Oh wait, maybe it's pistachios? Pistachios?! Well we get plenty of pistachios! No there is some kind of nut... Hold on a second... Or saffron! They also have good saffron and they have they have the best of the Basmati rice Hey robot what kind of nuts is Iran famous for

1:36:29 Iran is particularly famous for its pistachios, which are a major export. They are also known for other nuts like walnuts and almonds. I told you pistachios yeah it's a big deal. Yeah well you nailed it. Well according to the robot... The robots been spot on today. The robots been right more than we have been today. Speaking of robots oh man have you been following this open clod? A little bit. What do they call it the? Mult book so I installed this yeah, I figure you would I didn't want to follow up myself Beyond it okay. You're beat so I can tell everybody It's not worth it in essence what you're doing is installing Claude. You know the opus model 4.5 with a telegram wrapper and a cron cron jobs

1:37:24 And it's so stupid. I was expecting, oh this is going to be great! This thing is gonna be... all it does is eat up credits. No you weren't. I kind of was. I liked this idea and what it proves that people are hungry for decentralized large language models doing stuff for them. Everybody wants a robot, everybody wants an agent but all this is doing as far as I can tell is racking up bills for the idiots who don't know what they're doing installing these things on Digital Ocean and Leno like oh, I'll just set this up And then they give it access to their email. But I don't know how to secure some kind of remote box, so there's the 16000 of these instances have been hacked already and people are you know get your API keys and all kinds of other stuff. And it's just another ad...and then they have this

1:38:22 social network, which you can let your bot everyone Oh my bots name is Henry. Okay? And then he can talk to other bots and it's all just Claude stuff talking to Claude racking up your bill And people, oh this is it. Before you know it they're going to speak in their secret code language and they're gonna create the... They're gonna take over the world or take over the internet This was trained on Reddit Colossus, the Forbidden Project This was trained on Reddit data so no wonder it looks like Reddit A bunch of retards just yapping at each other all day It's crazy Do not get involved in this! This is stupid

1:39:07 Stupid and YouTube is already feeling the the pain of the slop. The advertisers are now saying hey, YouTube Clean up your slop or we're gonna stop advertising oops This is where I think there's something like a million a day or something of two million junk 2 million But they can't get its junk as you know fat JD doing calisthenics that's how bad it's got right? Well that the TV advertising what group was at video advertising Bureau includes NBCUniversal, ESPN Sony Pictures. They don't want this! Say that hey we want our stuff being promoted and we want people to watch our expensive stuff and you're just rolling out ads on slop We're not gonna do it anymore I think Google has a problem with this because on one hand you can't be providing the great tools to make the slop and then not let people publish it or

1:40:04 demonetize. Yeah, that's it there. Yes, it's hypocritical actually. Catch 22 maybe is a catch 22 or hypocritical one. Maybe hypocritical is better I think it's a real problem and they still can't really do it with podcasting because we don't have algorithms beautiful Just stick with us people, stick with us. Yeah we're the last bastion of reality. Last bastion of reality! Hang in there people hang in with us all right what's this NATO stuff you want to do the NATO stuff here? I can do the NATO stuff or I could do this...

1:40:43 Yeah, let's do the NATO stuff although I have these NPR clips from these correspondents trying to summarize the world's events. Oh well Let's do that. This went on for about this is about an hour. No, so I picked out three... Let's not do that! No, no I didn't pick out three four short versions of the ones I thought were interesting because everybody had What's what's the premise of this hour-long show? So they said, here's our correspondent that has been living in China for the last year and so what do you think is going on on the streets regarding the United States and China in the world? And how does things change in your part of the world that you've noticed. And you're living there these are people who have the correspondence center. You get a gig working for NPR but you're actually living in Beijing and your day to day life is Beijing

1:41:34 And so you actually do have some observations to make. Oh, sorry. Wait, there's different ones here and they're not necessarily... I thought you queued up China? I did queue up China but that's not the one that triggered me to do any of this. Okay It was actually NPR year correspond wrapped. The Russia one was the...I wouldn't have gotten China or any of them and there is a lot more than I have here but the Russian one as soon as I heard the Russian one OK, I should wish I should. Let me get some clips and Charles Mains in Moscow. How is the past year? And these changes looked from your patch. No, it's interesting because when Trump came to power in 2016 there were all these big hopes that he might revive his relations with Russia and the line here was that Trump failed only because of the deep state or entrenched interests in Washington wouldn't let him. But now what we see is Trump really kind of unleashed

1:42:33 And so, there's been this rollercoaster year here where initially there were these big hopes of ending the war in Ukraine largely on Russia's terms. But meanwhile distracted by Ukraine, Russia suffered all these foreign policy setbacks Venezuela of course being one it's a Russia's ally and Maduro was Putin's ally but also in Syria, Iran what we're seeing happening right now There's this kind of line here that Russia can't protect its friends. And this humiliation was really amplified by the success, I'll put that in quotes right now of Trump's special operation in Venezuela because you know what Trump was able to do by taking Maduro? This is what a lot of Russians thought they maybe should have done it in Ukraine with Volodymyr Zelensky. Hmm hmm yeah I thought that was interesting that yeah they should why didn't they grab Zelensky

1:43:22 He's the troublemaker. He's got nothing and he's great for sales So that was intriguing enough to think China when I decide this is probably one of the better of the group There's only three, I noticed Yeah there's China Jennifer welcome you're NPRs new China correspondent How do leaders and people in your region see the changes the past year? Well, to set the scene Chinese officials have always painted America as a hegemon, a bully, a paper tiger and a hypocrite. So if we look at trade for example which has been the biggest sticking point between the US and China this past year you know China's rise over the past four decades has been largely thanks to American consumers buying Chinese goods

1:44:10 American businesses coming in to invest, setting business standards and passing on their know-how. And for the US it seemed like it was going fine when China was manufacturing American design iPhones for example or cheap shoes not so fine now that China is leading in future tech And suddenly they say, Americans are calling it China shock 2.0. So they're always consistently pointing this out especially in the Chinese state media. So there was recently this music video generated by AI that was mocking US hypocrisy reposted by the Chinese embassy in the U S on X. It's a cartoon American eagle dressed in a suit

1:44:53 representing America singing. And he says, you know when we lead meaning and when America's leading it's called progress but when China does it oh that's over capacity. Yeah let's hear it For people on the ground, I think there's been a bit of mixture of both amusement and maybe worry that this world is kind of feeling more surreal. There's a return to the law of the jungle you know America just does what it wants basically it's a free-for-all love all of the jungle is what they keep saying same Same time though, I would say on a human level the people that i talk to quite alot if they can afford it they still really want to send their children or they themselves want to study in the US for college. She ends every report with hmmm Yeah, I know its annoying Hmmmm Well that video is dumb

1:45:50 Yeah, unfortunately you couldn't hear it either. No of course not because all of these AI songs or most of the AI songs have to have captions otherwise you don't know what they're singing it's so bad I agree and so the last clip in a three that I collected is kind of another interesting analysis this refers to El Salvador and an underlying trend that might be accurate in the way this guy sees things a little differently than everybody else. I just thought this was kind of an interesting take." The backdrop of all of this that's happening with the UN, I feel is very real

1:46:29 disillusionment with not just democracy, but with the big international institutions. I think El Salvador is a perfect example right? They have elected a president Nayib Bukele who has thrown tens of thousands of people in jail without any due process and the Salvadorans are like What do we care about due process? What has the international, all these international human rights groups—what have they gotten us?" Right. We used to live in fear and now we live in security like screw all those international laws and you know people trying to protect human rights right and I think that argument has won out in a lot of places

1:47:16 Especially in Latin America where you have huge problems of security, right? People are being extorted. They're being killed or being kidnapped and they just want somebody to fix it. And so I feel like the disillusionment with the institutions on the ground is kind of maybe what's also playing out on the world stage But that is interesting. And El Salvador, from what I understand—I know a lot of people who've been there and know people who are building homes there—it's only couple hours flight from Texas. They love it! They love Bukele, whose

1:47:52 I think he's a millennial, millennial president. Yeah and yeah locked up all... everyone feared for their life it had the highest one of the highest per capita murder rates. Yeah now there is nothing! Now there is nothing! And what you do? You go around you got a gang they all have tattoos saying him in this gang. No due process you pick them up throw him in jail Well, this so this leads me into a clip that I picked up about the UN about one of these fantastic global institutions who are on the brink of going out of business. United Nations is facing imminent financial collapse unless changes are made. That was the message from U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres in a three page letter he sent to all 193 member states

1:48:37 The UN is running out of money to pay bills, like staff and vendors at headquarters and elsewhere. The reason is multifaceted about a quarter of member states do not pay their annual assessed dues on time making it difficult for you and number crunchers to budget Because of this, typically the UN starts to run out of money by July every year but is able to pull funds from reserves to cover operational expenses through the summer until more money arrives. This year there are no reserves to draw from It's not hyperbole The people who handle our finances simply look at the numbers and over the years we've had to scramble

1:49:24 and use whatever funds we have available to keep our operations going. Once our reserves have dwindled to this extent, our ability to do that has been undercut when it comes to paying, it's now or never. We do not have the sort of cash reserves and the sort of liquidity to keep functioning as we've done in previous years and this is something that the Secretary General has warned with increasing strength each year. The United States, the largest funder currently has arrears to the UN about $2.1 billion. Yeah I know how that meeting went Scott, Scott screw those guys

1:50:04 They screwed me with the escalator, they turned off my prompter. Don't pay the bill." Yeah! That's what I'd do. That is exactly what happened and there is this strange rumor going around that supposedly the UN is going to move its headquarters to Qatar? Have you heard this? Well that's perfect if true. No, I have not heard it but That's why Tucker needs a house. There it is and with that I'd like to thank you the man who put the sea in the crustafarians, in the morning to you here is my friend on the other end... The one and only Mr. John C. DeMora! Good morning to you Mr Adam Curry, good morning to our ship Seaboost, the graphene of the air. In the water and all the dames and hites out there. And the morning to the trolls!

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1:52:44 So we run this value for value, which is really quite simple. We put the show out without any restrictions without any levels or super things you got to... It actually makes it very... I was talking to Tina about this yesterday and she's a fundraising professional for the nonprofits and she says, You know, you guys never have done donor stewardship I said, you have no idea how hard it is with this value for value. It's not like people sign up and you just send them a letter twice a year with your report on all the great things you did. So we need them to support us every single show they need to give value back and it's… No, it's not like

1:53:27 Set it and then write it off type thing this is you know we have to remind people twice a week to listen to the show and support Support what we do and send value back, and we have to have them always questioning What kind of value did I get out of this should? I return that value how do I feel about now getting the value and not returning it You know, it's not like in a database. It's like we didn't Eric tried to do a database? We don't use Salesforce That yes we need agentic sales force agentic AI To do that I think Eric tried to do that didn't he try to put together an error who is always trying to do the high-tech stuff But why did that never work there was a million reasons? I think the biggest one is people donate eight different ways and

1:54:14 Yeah, there's a lot of fluctuation. There are too many variables to get anything really nailed down and we do too many shows. We're doing 100 shows a year 104 actually and we do 104 shows a year and it is hectic And like you said, this is not a once-a-year fundraiser. We have to do this every twice a week and it creates all kinds of... So you have to have a lot of things, lots of plates in the air, lot of them. I think Salesforce is a good idea. Spinning. We should take a call! Salesforce. Hey, Salesforce hit us up let us know how your agentic AI can actually help us

1:55:00 The only thing I'd like to do is, I would like to send some of our donors a Christmas email. And i've tried doing that even just sending a thank you mail it's like your email address gets blocked and then they won't get it yeah How come I didn't get one? You got that issue we don't want to deal with that Like even sending out the night rings And the dame ring is quite an ordeal. It's annoying and we have a full-time J, J the AI agent she does good work she just very good work see if she nary does she make a mistake and we appreciate that so time talent and treasure is what we decided on

1:55:49 You can support us. We love when you go hit somebody in the mouth, let them know about the show because there's no way an algorithm is going to... And you got it. You've gotta remind people because they're like, wow what is this? What is this? Because we're so different. It's like how come they don't have other podcasters on their podcast and isn't that what you're supposed to do? No, we don't do that. We don't do interviews. We just deconstruct the media Which was our smartest decision ever. Yes, it's still very important maybe even more important than ever and I even though people don't really the absolute numbers of the media are not that big anymore but it still sets the tone. It sets the tone of Washington, of the lobbyists, of Congress sets an international tone

1:56:42 And I increasingly learned that there's a lot of people who just tune in to hear what's going on. They don't want to watch it, they are tuned out. They're not interested in being involved. They're not on social media. They're just working. They're fixing cars. You know they're mowing lawns or doing whatever. They just wanna bring me up to speed and make me laugh a little bit and then yeah that was pretty valuable! I'm up to speed so send something back to them One of the ways you can do that is by setting up knowledge in a meetups. John, when do you want to your meetup report?

1:57:20 Well, I'll do it during the donor... when we start reading after we get to the second or third. Okay. I put three of the donors right on the spreadsheet. The rest are might have here in a pile because there's just too many. We have great response at this—at our meetups here in Northern California and in Silicon Valley unlike the cheap bastards there in Texas. Yeah well they're really good They're afraid of you. You see? I'm just like hey nice thanks for coming and then you're just like where is the donation true or not I don't say, i've never said where's the donation. You do before the meetup? Yes you're very good about that! We also accept other forms boots on the ground are very much appreciated clips time codes if you send us a video what is not helpful by the way did it i gotta stop that

1:58:18 I said by the way, you didn't even catch it. What is... You know everything this is... I'm getting better and getting better! I'm not! Yeah you will, you will people will send Say that this is great. What is not great, is some other podcaster playing clips interrupting the clip little box in the corner of the YouTube screen That's not helpful Have you seen there was one I put it up posted on The Real Dvorak on Twitter have you seen the one where this little guy in the box down there and he's yakking away about something going on and then the person in the video grabs him by the head?

1:58:56 No, I haven't seen that. It's beautiful! It's so meta and it completely catches you off guard Oh that's good Artwork is also highly appreciated. You can upload it to noagendaartgenerator.com I think the complaining has done something, as the art has some pieces have become simpler a little more to the point Complaining works Underestimated as a methodology Undervalued It's very undervalued as a methodology To getting what you want The Canadians don't have it quite perfected yet

1:59:33 They had the right idea. So Red, who I think is a kind of new artist on the scene? A new prompter on the scene? No, Red has done quite a lot actually throughout the years, but Red created for us The Color Revolution Blues with Paint Can, color blue. Noah Jenner the best podcast in the universe, Curry Dvorak. Simple! Yeah I was pushing for something else but you insisted that the one I liked... Well you didn't want the one that I liked No the one you liked was gruesome. I liked the cigarettes in the eyes I thought it was phenomenal Some guy here this is what Adam thinks he's thinking this is great and sexy

2:00:10 And it was some guy with his eyes gouged out and two cigarette butts in each eye. It was Eli the coffee guy too, I really liked Eli's work here! It was funny... It was gruesome. There were cigarettes for the eyes. He kept and he couldn't see it as gruesome. I don't understand this at all No, I didn't see it as gruesome. What was the one that you liked? You wanted something dumb...I remember that. You wanted the puppy. Something dumb! Like you wanted my dog in the snow. No, I did like that but that's not what i was pushing for. What I was pushing for was trying to find it The icebreaker another Eli. I did use by the way blue acorns create a man for this newsletter. You said by the way Ah

2:00:57 I'm gonna help you with this. It's a tough one, it's...I think we've been saying it so long without even noticing it as some kind of connector that we feel we need but we don't need that! We don't need these three words. We don't need them. I'm deprogramming you. We do not need these three words. Well, I'm sure, you know, I'm so hard to deprogramm- oh here is the one I liked, it was pressure washers With Jeffrey Rea where they're using a pressure washer and stuff. Uh, yeah I didn't like that because it is... I love that piece. Eh, eh. But you nang-nang-nang-nang-nang like the eyeballs

2:11:12 Again, well worth reading that note. Anything to get him some money? Yes Kenneth Cal or Kiel in El Sobrante he was at the meetup 333 33 put a little note saying it was like a night donation I don't know if it's for his night who he didn't give us any details they got another note afterwards this is another kind of just hanging out there thing and we'll give them a double up Carmen then I've got the notes to read from the meet-up okay you've Karma. Alright, read your notes! So here we go so we got a lot of donors that to me these are all over 50 Lawrence Wolf starts us off in Oakland and he came in with 350 so his executive producer put him on the list and it wasn't gonna do says ITM Gemma was going to donate

2:12:04 As a baron, I felt that I had proverbially killed my ten men. Wait what's his name? This is Lawrence Wolfe. W-O-L-F-E L A W R E N C E F Wolfe So he'll be executive producer Yep got it He says as a Baron I felt that I had proverbially killed my 10 men and never heard that phrase but i can understand I also give recurrent monthly donations, so I thought I'd wait this one out. However my wife bought a chair for our cat Alex as sacrificial furniture for him to destroy and we removed the chair from its box. We saw that it was orange color. I looked at the tag, the tag was described as curry! No no

2:12:53 This morning I also woke up to a raspy meow. He's going on 18 years and is deaf, he's going on the cat. I checked the time was 333 in the morning too early I went back to sleep upon waking I found something in the bed covers that should have been deposited into cat box enclosed for $350 dollars I counted it so it's not 250. May I get a slaves mac and cheese? Adios Slaves, oh yes okay I know what he means. Slaves Mac and Cheese yes of course

2:13:32 I hope he didn't get Toxo from that department. Well, he probably already has it Yeah you're right K-O 6 E J E 73 is to him Hold on a second also executive producer? Yep So what is it? K O Oh, K-O... Uh, K06EJE. Okay that would be kilo zero six echo Juliet echoes come on man show your ham cred yeah

2:14:16 You know, it's pretty clear. Okay. Caroline Costopoulos... O is an Oscar not zero Oscar. Okay. Yeah, Oscar. Yes Who? Who was the next one? Caroline Costopoulos and for some dumb reason I didn't put her amount on here. Gastopoulous you have to spell that for me Please accept my third donation. I have a couple of corrections that like to make and one show while back, and i'm sorry can't remember the episode you both ridiculed POTS as the best fad illness that hypochondriacs were suddenly suffering from Sorry but POTS is very real and caused by the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines These poor people lose control of their heart rate We corrected that later I believe so Yeah I have a friend who had this same illness she goes on then she goes on

2:15:10 You're well organized. I'm sorry, there's a big pile of these notes. Uh...I will straighten out Carolyn's note later. Okay So i'm going to skip by her and go on to the card from Beth Elliott. Beth Elliott? Yeah. 222-22 Thank you for your courage Pretty much it is very simple And then so she's a sociologist all over the place, and I'll get to the rest of these in the second half of the show okay Well, so she's an associate. I got to do this right yeah you do cams. I'm trying to do this right be not being very helpful Okay, I'm not I'm sorry now You're anything but helpful we can I okay? Okay back on Jordan Goodfellow

2:16:02 Davenport, Florida 333. Sanity is still intact thanks to the best podcast in the universe this is the only podcast I listen to every week thank you here's two four more years. I got if I found another pile are these executives or associate executives? A couple well sorry in here as exact these are disassociate executive I just want to get these before I do the latter was Duke of San Francisco 220 no note okay Double up karma, Duke of San Francisco. You've got... Karma. Robert Montoya. Associate? Black Knight 200 yes, associate Pleasant Hill The rest of these are lower I would do them in the second half 50 and we got 200 from John Siebert S-I-E B E R T in Auburn Okay

2:17:10 John Siebert. Hey, didn't Sir Julian donate? Sir Julian did donate Okay good He's back out in California he's back working Wait a minute...he was That's interesting I thought he was in DC I don't know what is going on with him Anyway yes Continue Now if you can just get these out of the way Asha and Cabril 150 They scribbled their last names I couldn't read it Aaron Cole, Knight of the Strawberry Fog is... I don't know where he's from. Watsonville? 100. Sir Zolbat, ITM, 100. 50 from Sir Richie Riche, the guy with the fancy hair. Angela Garcia, The Artist from San Francisco, a hundred

2:18:11 I said John Siebert already. We have 100 from Fast Eddie. Fast Eddie! And then we have these little guys here, which is little notes 85 bucks from Crazy Steve coins silver coin nice Lye and Sophie a hundred She wants them they want job karma will give me that at the end Gustavo Visali and Maria with a Springsteen donation of 75. And if there's anything less on here...

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2:24:03 Plus Sidney Powell is popping back up again. Yeah, I've seen that too maybe they'll finally release the Kraken Maybe it means nothing I actually have some clips about that. With the slow roll of the Epstein files, another round of mostly peaceful riots it does feel like election season is warming up he knows producers should elect to drink good coffee visit gigawattcoffeeroasters.com use code ITM20 for 20% off your order and he says stay caffeinated his name is Eli The Coffee Guy I should mention something about this. We don't have any clips, I don't think of Tulsi. No she's been very quiet But they have been promoting this idea that oh what you know the he to say it's not covered that he hasn't been watching the

2:24:50 Lefties the left-wing media is covering it and it always says the same thing I wish had a clip, but they say the same thing. It goes like this What is she doing there? She's supposed to be in charge of the national intelligence which is about foreign countries No, she's no she has not in charge of foreign intelligence is in charge of all intelligence Which includes the FBI Yes So she has all the right in the world to be there if she wants to be well put Anyway, Linda Lou Patkin is up. Oh look at her she's in Casa Rock Castle Rock, Colorado $200 jobs karma for a competitive edge with the resume that gets results go to image makers Inc comm

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2:26:26 Okay, this is a long note but I can squeeze it in. Except if there's anything after the name Michael Burdette. Adam and John as a follow-up note to my $200 you donated $200? Michael Burdette? Social producer donations Saturday night I wanted to take this opportunity to plug my adopted human resource Girl Scout... Girl Scouts I'm sorry, Girl Scouts cookie site. DigitalCookie.GirlScouts.org This is funny because i'm surprised that this hasn't been done before which is girl scout cookies online! Oh

2:27:02 I'll put the link next to his credit. If you're a boomer like me and don't need another source of sugar and carbs, pick up the $6 donation to Sweet Acts Of Kindness or send a gift box of six cookie packages to a friend! By the way, Girl Scout cookies are good. Even if you don't use Elizabeth's Cookie Site support your local Girl Scouts Sorry, by the way this is very creative to have a Girl Scouts cookies website. Yeah! So I don't think they like the idea Well it seems to be part of girlscouts.org so i think they're doing it troop wide Oh maybe? Yeah It's pretty good you know because the Girl Scout usually show up at front of their safeway or some place and there like hey wanna buy some cookies And they are so cute and your like oh of course ill buy your cookies Ill buy your cookies Okay we'll buy some cookies

2:27:53 I always get the thin mints and yes, then mince thin men's babies s'mores are good. Yeah You have to pay for shipping on the site it's Okay, you can skip the rest of the note if you want I will but I will let me slow no Let me let me read this because I read this before and he sent me some clips along with us He installed the quen 3 TTS the 11 labs alternative, the open source 11 labs alternative. Which you recommended? Yes and he sent us to... He said after sampling President Trump's voice I created an audio file of him touting our tech desk team suggesting we should win the UW distinguished staff award by a landslide here it is these guys on the text desk

2:28:44 team are the most outstanding technology experts I have ever met. It would be a crying shame if they didn't win the University of Washington's Distinguished Staff Award by a landslide, i'm not kidding." That was pretty good for open source. He also did one for us. These guys are the best podcasters in the universe! It's not bad. He says, Adam thank you for your work and boldness to share your belief in the saving grace of Jesus Christ. Tell Tina I love her show Curry and the Keeper and i'm jealous of your trip to Israel he says also thanks to the greatest podcasting universe that helped me navigate the mass hysteria of COVID years and give me the confidence to request a religious exemption to the COVID mRNA shot so I am spike protein free

2:29:33 Thank you very much, Michael. We appreciate that we appreciate all of these executive and associate executive producers your credits will be listed on the show notes page and as always these credits are forever and you can use them anywhere show business credit credits are recognized You can do what y'all right? What do you what are you huffing and puffing about I had to clear my throat Okay Including IMDB calm you can always put on your LinkedIn or your social media profile Will be thanking the rest of our supporters $50 in a second second business cards Always a good idea. Thank you again, congratulations to the executive and associate executive producers! Our formula is this... We go out we hit people in the mouth. I have uh.. A little M5M clip for ya This was quite interesting Uh The movie Melania has come out

2:30:36 Which had a pretty decent opening, did eight million dollars. Over eight million dollars in theaters which is surprising I think it came as the number three movie Of course it's always about the second weekend if you have a friend who was in the movie business they always say go to the second weekend we need this second weekend And here's a report from Canada, which is quite negative about it. Surprise surprise! Here we go again... So far reaction to the first lady's first documentary isn't exactly what you'd put on a movie marquee because this literally is something you can't make up This is a Hollywood farce

2:31:15 She may have rung the bell at the New York Stock Exchange to herald the movie's arrival in theaters Friday, but before it even hit screens. The film has been getting review bombed on movies site Letterboxd. Did I watch this? No Do i need too also no writes one commentator If they showed this on a plane people would still walk out writes another The timing couldn't be worse. On the very day ICE agents killed nurse Alex Pretty, the White House went ahead with its preview of Melania for special guests that night. Melania's director is also controversial Brett Ratner banished by Hollywood after accusations of sexual misconduct in 2017 Then there's the Flicks financial backing Amazon shelling out 40 million dollars US for worldwide rights and spending another 35 million to market it

2:32:02 A plotline ripe for criticism. Jeff Bezos and Amazon had a fractious relationship with Trump that's well documented, all of the sudden the billionaire show up on inauguration day literally show up sit behind him and money starts to change hands American late-night talkshow hosts adding that their scripts Amazon bribed a whopping $40 million for the movie. Are you really trying to tell us that this dumb vanity project slash corporate bribe is a work of art? The documentary will be shown at a lavish event at the Kennedy Center Thursday night, then opens on 1500 screens in the US and Canada I don't think anybody's going to go to the theaters To see it It takes a lot to get people to go out to movies period And i dont think this is-this is the big draw Fridays opening night The True Test

2:32:47 of whether moviegoers will show up to see it or simply wait until it goes streaming. Well, I think they're doing nothing but helping by talking about it everywhere! Well the way they're doing it because its so biased... Yeah Did Kimmel and Colbert see the movie? No they just decided to slam it for no good reason. Yeah, Im kind of interested Ill wait until it streams but ill uh Im interested Ill wait Its good I don't know. It's nothing else but a 20 minutes into life or something like that What? I mean it is short, it's just about a week in her life. I mean it's just the walk with Yeah well that could be interesting According to the present...

2:33:32 No one's ever seen this before? I do have these NATO clips, so let's run through them. All right let's run through the NATO clips. What is the premise of your NATO clips? This is a deconstruction of PBR...NPR specifically trying to promote NATO there's a big fear that we're gonna get out in NATO and you know people have mixed feelings whether it's good or not maybe do we don't..do we want troops all over Europe or do we not want troops You know and the NPR people take a vote no I vote no I don't have a vote, but i will say that this is a slanted report designed to kind of stir feelings toward NATO and it's poorly done. And let's start with clip one A defining feature of the post-World War II global order has been America's alliance with Europe That transatlantic relationship has been a bedrock of Western security

2:34:31 And at its core, for more than 75 years has been a special alliance of 32 countries. 30 in Europe and 2 in North America – the US and Canada Together, they formed NATO the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. But that close alliance is now in doubt Here's how Trump put it in January There are certain places in Europe that are very important that are no longer recognizable I'm being very nice and being very diplomatic when I say that they're not recognizable What do Americans actually think of this alliance? It's endured for more than eight decades

2:35:06 NPR's roving national correspondent Frank Langford tells us more. One of President Trump's biggest complaints about Europe is that it hasn't spent enough money on its own defense and has freeloaded off the U.S.. Many Americans agree, including Trump critics. Ernie Koo lives in California and is an executive in the maritime industry. Last month he was in Baltimore for the festivities around the Army-Navy game Watch cadets and midshipmen compete to drag heavyweights up a hill overlooking the harbor. Who supports Trump pressuring Europe to spend more on its own defense? It is forcing Europe to take their security a little more seriously, and maybe not be so dependent on one big brother. And ultimately I think it's going to be positive. So they start off saying we're gonna get basically people on the street

2:36:04 giving us informed opinions. And so they decide to, which is what you do because you can get a million of them and then sort them out and make your point which is what they're doing here. So these are very short clips now this clip too and this has got the little mathematical trick that like to do. About two hours north in Pennsylvania's Bucks County Wes Alker is looking for discounts at a Trump merchandise store that's closing at the end of the month. Alka is a retired auto mechanic and agrees with the president on military support for Ukraine. Proportionately we're given more than we should. And why do you say that? Because they're not on our back doorstep, the Europeans ain't doing sh**

2:36:46 In fact, the European Union and its member states have mobilized more than 71 billion dollars in military support for Ukraine. Still an NPR Ipsos poll in December showed that about one-third of Republicans think the US has spent too much. Majority of Democrats and more than 40 percent of independents disagreed. Yeah spend more! Well the thing there is the numbers a third of the Republicans says 33% 40% they go from a third to 40%. Oh, I see what you're doing. It's only a 7 percent difference but they make it sound like oh You know these that Republicans are against it and the Democrats are for it no not really

2:37:27 So that kind of trickery, that's what caught my attention which made me put this presentation together because there is more of it. Let's go to now it says NEO but this is a 16 second clip of quote in part 3. Suzanne Watson is a retired nurse in Colorado I think its too little I am not a fan of wars or helping wars, but I think Putin has made it very clear that he's not going to stop at Ukraine. And at some point you've got to stand up. We learned that in World War II A retired nurse in Colorado. Yeah, there it is giving us our perspective on international relations and Putin? Yes. Why a retiree? Oh here's a retired. And where did they get this retired nurse in Colorado to contribute to this report in the first place give me a break.

2:38:20 Okay, so we go to clip four and this one is a this one I've called dip shit. Oh there you go Disagreement over support for Ukraine seems quaint compared with Trump's designs on Greenland earlier this month Vice president advance said Denmark hasn't done enough to protect the resource-rich territory from Russia and China And that America's transatlantic bonds only goes so far They always make an argument about the past. They'll say, well we fought together in World War II or we fought together in the war on terrorism and we're grateful for that We love having these allies but just because you did something smart 25 years ago doesn't mean you can't do something dumb now My name is Sharon Valentine I'm 28

2:39:01 I am a mother of one. Valentine works for an online bank and lives in Utah, she's a self-described progressive and thinks Trumps approach to allies is self defeating Threatening to invade Greenland or the Panama Canal Or take Canada Where do you think that this foreign policy is leading the United States? I think it's leading us to be more isolated Well...you know what I say to that? TOXO! So she brings some dipshit on who works on an online bank out of the blue and she starts crying immediately. And this is supposed to convince us of what? This is their persuasive way of doing a presentation on NATO that can't even say what NATO stands for, but okay.

2:39:52 Let's go to five and we're gonna wrap it pretty quickly. Polling suggests that Valentine is right. The European Council on Foreign Relations released a poll this month, which showed that in 10 EU countries including France and Germany an average of only 16% viewed the US as an ally while about half viewed it as a necessary partner here in the U.S.. Even Republicans are concerned about Trump's policies towards Europe A Reuters Ipsos poll this month found 60% of Republicans oppose taking Greenland by force. Clay Duncan works in the medical device industry in Houston, he's very happy with Trump second term but uneasy about the president's threats against Greenland.

2:40:37 These are negotiation tactics. Because guess what? They're watching what just happened in Venezuela. So if he said that military's not off the table, I mean that might be for Denmark to get the elicited response. There he is talking like one of them damn government guys you always talk about He's down there in Houton. Now why do we have this guy? Why do we care about his opinion at all? I don't know We need to color it a little bit put that but it has to be okay is the Trump supporter who's against Trump Yes, that would that's the key to success. Yes score Trump supporter who's against Trump and we don't know who this guy is he could be just you know paid actor We're just ridiculous isn't reporters

2:41:16 These people are no good. Are you surprised? But let's wrap it up with this is kind of lengthy but it does wrap it up, but it's the same So this is a propaganda piece that can be easily ripped apart, but I think the people who listen to NPR lap it up. The Trump administration released its national security strategy last month. It's far more critical of Europe which is democratic than it is of Russia an authoritarian state which started the biggest war on the continent since 1945. The 29 page document accuses the European Union of censoring free speech and suppressing political opposition It also celebrates the growing influence of what the administration calls patriotic European parties. Frank Sperling grew up in Germany and emigrated to the US 35 years ago, he thinks this is a tactic to weaken the EU. Supporting right-wing movements in Europe

2:42:08 creates this national divide that sowed the doubt into European unity within the countries and hamper the progress towards that. The National Security Strategy also questions whether European nations can remain quote, reliable allies for the United States. Alfredo Anthony is a retired lieutenant colonel in the US Army who served for seven years in Europe He's never seen language like this in a national security strategy. It makes me feel like the parent who is just totally lambasting a child. Anthony, who lives in St Petersburg Florida says the message is clear. In Europe we are no longer going to commit our resources

2:42:51 to help you try to clear out everything in your backyard. You have to be the ones that do it, you have to take the lead we bailed you out too often our focus happens beyond the United States happens beyond the Western Hemisphere...you take care of yourself." Anthony worked with NATO keeping peace in the Balkans in the late 1990s he predicts the transatlantic alliance will fragment and it'll cost the United States It won't be able to rely on Europe as it did to fight in Afghanistan after the 9-11 attacks or project power for military action in the Middle East. Frank Lankford, NPR News Washington My goodness I'm glad they got defunded. I am too! I can offset that with some news from Euronews about Greenland which includes

2:43:44 Prime Minister elect of the Netherlands and I have something to say about this at the end Dutch prime minister-elect Robert Jetten said on Friday that US President Donald Trump's territorial ambitions in Greenland were a wake up call for Europe. The centrist D66 leader stressed the need for stronger European cooperation To ensure security and prosperity rather than focusing on the United States. Jetten made the comments after presenting his policy blueprint alongside And so one of my first things that I will do as soon as I'm in office is talk to my colleagues in Europe, to see what role the Dutch can play again and strengthening the European cooperation. Jetten said he would still seek closer cooperation with Washington on security Ukraine and the economy. Last week Trump dropped threatened tariffs on eight European nations including in The Netherlands amid his push for control of Greenland

2:44:58 So I'm going to introduce a term to the show regarding the Prime Minister-elect, which I'd forgotten about when I lived in in the UK. I learned this term and it was recently brought to my attention again while watching season 4 of The Crown. Robb Jetten is a friend of Dorothy. Okay You've never heard this term? No. Friend of Dorothy, Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz Okay Do you know what it means? No I don't know if they ever heard the term so why would i know what it means Oh well The Queen said that It means your gay Friend of Dorothy Oh! You know I may now should use that Its possible I have heared this term Yeah So He...The Queen will continuously say oh hes a friend of Dorothy

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2:53:53 Lie LCDC here with a bunch of crazy people here. My name is Steve and I just came for the wings Captain Luke enjoying bananas and rice Sounds like a great group good time thank you all for getting John out of the house We have a meet up close to 50 people as it should be your report should be your VIP man. Oh, yeah Hey, there's a meetup taking place right now in Indianapolis at St. Joseph's Brewery and Public House It is the Indie NA Still Shining New Year Meet-Up The Climate Change Alert this of course changed because of the snowstorm Dame Maria Sir Mark of The Greenwood hosting that also the Central Jersey Meet Up We Drink We Know Things Maybe edition

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2:56:49 So we had, what do we have? We have MVP of course and Bonald Crabtree. Yeah, some good stuff. Before we do that we always want to select the end of show ISO in this part of the show it's the thing that we ended the show with its some kind of man versus machine thing that John and I have been doing for a while and I'll start off with one we heard earlier These guys are the best podcasters in the universe! Which...I'm just amazed thats open source AI thing. I think thats pretty good Here is my second one Very powerful clips

2:57:26 Oh, it's good right? I keep going there. Come on the whole model is You step out of my clip here hold on the whole model is broken like the vocal fry I Like that vocal fry what you're doing. You know I'm going to put these clips in a bantz wait. I have I have a fourth one oh Okay Thank you for your courage your voice and for all you do A little long. I like the whole model is broken No, that Trump one has to be used these guys are the best Podcasters in the universe and we will play that at the end but first it's time for John's tip of the day Okay this involves a lecture and a tip a lecture

2:58:19 Yeah, this is another wine tip. People really love that method. Yes! Yes, yeah people love the wine tips. And even though it's up to nine bucks now they changed the price still cheap and still good They heard it on the show like hey jack it up all those crazy podcasts So this is another one of those little box sets that Costco put together. We like the box set and this box set is painted turquoise, it's not just wood It's actually went to trouble painting it and it's called the Grand Assemble The Grand Assembly of these Cremant, there's three wines. It's 49 it's not cheap $49.95 or $49.99 You get three wines for $49.99? Yeah but there are three sparklers

2:59:08 Oh, they're all sparklers. And they're all French and they are all Cremons I'm not a big fan of the sparklers Yeah you may not be but a lot of people aren't and i think they should be taken and drunk at dinner their dinner wines that's what the champagne people want you to do there when everyone wants you to appreciate it as a dinner wine instead of a celebratory wine or something you dump on someone Or christened ship with And they don't like, the champagne people in particular don't like their stuff being abused like that. No of course not! So Cremant is a special category of sparkling wine that's made in the method of Champagne but it's made throughout the country and they're called cremant de this, crement to that, crement to this now there are three of them in this package and amounts $16-$0.60 a bottle which is

3:00:00 Reasonable for a sparkler because champagnes you even when you buy them direct from the guy who brings them indirectly like it's always gonna be 25 bucks No, but 25 is low. Oh good A decent champagne is gonna cost you 35 bucks and up and the stuff that you drink which is Bollinger is like 50 I Drink VUV Clico I would not drink Vauve unless it was vintage. I like Bollinger, but it's a little expensive. That's if we go eat with the... Yeah you have somebody else buy it of course Yes! Hello? But you if you like Vauve, you wouldn't like these Greymonts. I think they're better Really? Well, Vauve Clicquot is like except for the vintage If people want to drink Vauvue Clicquot Go look what the ones that have a vintage date

3:00:51 Boom now you're getting the good quality stuff. Oh, I just know this is that what you're doing is mass-produced junk It's just show up. Just drinking junk. I mean my way don't like champagne. I just go kill myself. I'm drinking junk We have we have these we have the Heath winery here Heath and he does some great sparklers Texas look good for them I'm sure it's fabulous. So, I'm sure that overpriced by the way for 18 you said by the way For 18 years no matter what wine? I'm drinking John always says it shit. Hey No, that's not true Unless it's somebody else's wine there some really expensive thing that I didn't buy but anything I might let me drink Oh, I really like this wine. You're like You've all your always knocking my wines

3:01:44 I think it's just so these three wines are 49.99 yeah that's what is doing these tips wine snuff of course i am Now, there's a creme, oh I'm sorry. A Cremant de, what are the three? There's a Cremanta Bordeaux which is extremely rare and I've never actually seen one before and I'm glad I got that and then there's a Cremante Alsace which is very common. They're using different grapes but they're using the champagne methodology except in Burgundy which is the Cremanta Borgonia which they have in their and this is the wine that is made with the same grapes they use in champagne doesn't quite create the champagne chalkiness, but at the same time it produces a terrific product and that's the stuff I'm always recommending people get for their when they get married and have this celebration afterwards. The special occasion you pass out free champagne, you don't pass out free champagne, you pass out free cremant. And nobody knows the difference

3:02:45 Except you, you'd be at the wedding going what a crap wine you gave me. No these crements are delicious I'm not saying they're bad at all They're quite good so i would recommend people pick this pack up and get into crements and drink them for dinner And I recommend you go to noagendafund.com or tipoftheday.net and see all of John's tips of the day! Great advice for you and me Just a tip with JCD And sometimes Adam Created by Dana Brunetti. Yes, thank you to Dana Brunetti of course where'd we be without him producer to the stars? Our suit yes our suit I will be checking out the Grammys tonight For the Satan segment so I can report on that on Thursday show

3:03:34 Watch along with me for all of the fun. End of show mixes, we got MVP and Bonald Crabtree in a nice trio Coming up next on the No Agenda stream Behind The Schemes with Boobury & Lavish Are they live? They might be live. They may be live or maybe they're just recorded but it's going to be streaming live for you so make sure you check that out and we will be back with you on Thursday for another several hour episode of Media Deconstruction, or for some of you just catching up on the news with The Voice Coming to you from the heart of Texas Hill Country home of Heath sparkling wines which are quite good in the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry And from Northern Silicon Valley

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