1837: Moral Injury

I should mention, dogs do not dance. And from Northern Silicon Valley, where we can tell that the weather's hurting the show, I'm John C. Dvorak. Yes, people couldn't get outside to mail a check. It's horrible, I tell you. It's horrible. It doesn't matter.

Hey, it wasn't as bad and it is bad. Well, okay, yes, okay. We should explain to people outside the country. Yeah, well I think this is international news. Yeah, we have a big storm in the middle of the country. It's kind of chilly here at 60. Oh, shiver me timbers. Yeah. So it is, I think it's about 25 right now. And it's cold. Yeah. For us. Well, yeah, it was, I think it was 14 or 16 last night. Too cold. Yeah. But last night is when we got freezing rain and mixed with snow. And so it's just packed. It's just packed on top of everything. So we can't drive. We can't even get down a driveway. We could slide down the driveway.

But we can't drive. So you're stuck there. Yeah, kind of stuck. But we're ready for it. So without raiding the supermarkets, how much food, because everyone raided the supermarkets, how much food do you think the average person has in their house already? that they could hold out with. You mean like actual food or peanut butter? Food in the house. Or peanut butter. What counts as food? I count that. Oh, I think if people really looked at what they have, they probably have enough for two weeks. That's what I'm thinking. Yeah. And if you have a big freezer, you can probably go longer. Oh, no, we could go two months if we're just doing stuff from the freezer because we do the big, you know, we get the big shipment from K&C Cattle.

But even at a certain point we could eat the dog's food because she has that farmer's dog stuff. I'd eat that. And then we just eat the dogs. I think we could go for a couple of months. Dog's looking at me right now like, what? What did you just say? What? What did you just say? No. Yeah. Funny enough, lots of power went out in Fredericksburg but not at our place. Once again, once again, the generator is not used. That's the reason you buy it. The minute you get it, it never flips on. It's just not necessary. It's amazing. It really is amazing. But yeah, and it's weird. Like my buddy Dave in Alabama, it's 50 degrees. It's like this thing went right around Alabama. It's the weirdest thing.

Yeah, when kind of it's a funny pattern. It's very strange. What I haven't heard though... Global warming. Proof. No, I haven't heard that for sure. But I haven't heard the extreme weather event. That's typically what they roll out. I think it's diminishing. The whole, in fact... I think people are realizing that people are getting sick of hearing it. Yeah. Yeah, there was something I had a I think I had a clip about this somewhere. I thought I had Well, are you looking for the idea of the weather report from the people from NPR? You can play that Let's see where the report storm update Oh storm storm updates a massive winter storm is sweeping through a huge swath of the country from the southwest heading to the mid-atlantic and then up through the northeast this weekend

with heavy snow and ice possible. Freezing rain in Sleet is also expected in many states. That could bring down trees onto power lines, leading to widespread power outages. Already thousands are without power in the Southwest. National Weather Service meteorologist Josh Weiss. So if people lose power, if people can't get out of their homes because snow and ice is covering the roadways, they could be stuck for several days without the ability to get warm and it's going to be so cold. We've got sub-zero wind chills that may reach as far south as Dallas, Memphis, and Raleigh, North Carolina, and all points north of there. So people are trapped due to heavy snowfall and damaging freezing rain. This cold is going to linger all of next week, making a dangerous situation truly life-threatening. Thousands of flights have been canceled or delayed because of the storm. Mimi texted me. She texted me about three times a year.

Usually one is, okay, time to do taxes. And then this is the first time this year she's like, oh, Max Velocity says it's gonna be bad. She loves Max. Yeah, she called me last, she says, oh, you think he's gonna be okay? I said, yeah. I appreciate her concern. She doesn't say, she doesn't text me like, are you gonna be okay? Just said, Max Velocity says you're gonna die. Here it comes. Max will watch he's fun to watch because I'm always saying it you I've watched him a couple times But he's a little he's a little too intense for my taste a little Okay, he's way too intense for my taste and he's

And Mimi's just in love with this guy and she thinks his reports are so dynamite, but they have nothing to do with anything she's doing. She's up in an area, he doesn't cover, he's covering the Midwest mostly. She's just a weather junkie. So who cares? She's a weather junkie. I mean, I know people like this. She's a weather junkie. There are people who just, you know, there's a, um, on the YouTube TV, there's a quad squeen, squeen, squeen. I keep saying squeen. Squeen, this is squeen. Stop me! I like the screen. I like the quad screen. That's what it's called now. Quad screen of Weather Channel, Fox Weather, there's two other ones. And I'm sure people watch that all day long. Oh, weather. Weather. Look, weather. Holy mackerel, do you see the size of that hail in Oklahoma?

It's a form of disaster tourism, you know, virtual disaster tourism, because he always has the storm chasers. And the storm chasers are now chasing snow. Yeah, we're in the snow right now. We're driving. It's snowy. Yep, it's cold. Back to you, Max. Anyway, I'm sure we will survive. If we don't get any more precipitation, we should be okay. I found my climate change things at the end of this clip because coming on the heels of the national security strategy is the new United States defense plan.

Which is just as stunning. 34 pages to outline the Pentagon's new national defense strategy and tell allies they need to handle their own security. The defense blueprint reinforces Trump's America First philosophy, making that clear from its opening line. For too long, the US government neglected, even rejected, putting Americans and their concrete interests first. Its primary concern is now security of the U.S. homeland and Western Hemisphere, including narco-trafficking and immigration. It's a break from the 2022 report under the Biden administration, where China was described as the most comprehensive and serious challenge to U.S. national security. Now China is priority number two, and the report says the U.S. should deter Beijing through strength, not confrontation.

Our goal in doing so is not to dominate China, nor is it to strangle or humiliate them. Rather, our goal is simple, to prevent anyone, including China, from being able to dominate us or our allies. There's no mention of Taiwan in the report, despite US intelligence believing China aims to take the island by force in the next year. As for the rest of the region, the document hints at a reduction of US presence in the Korean peninsula, saying Seoul is capable of taking primary responsibility for deterring North Korea with more limited US support. The message is clear, the US's allies will be expected to shoulder more of their own defence.

That applies to Europe too. Russia, which appears 89 times in the 2022 report, is now largely in the background and dubbed a persistent but manageable threat to NATO's eastern members despite its ongoing war in Ukraine. And while climate change featured heavily in the 2022 report as a transboundary threat, four years on it's not mentioned at all. I think they put that music in there to hijack the Europeans' nervous system. It's very annoying. Where'd you get that clip? France 24. France 24, I think it's either that or... Yeah, France 24. Geez, and they produced it? That's weird. Oh, they do that all the time. It's horrible. They're going down the tubes. I mean, Euronews has got African dudes reading it.

which kind of makes sense considering the population makeup of Europe these days, to be honest about it. So China slips to number two. That was number one. I couldn't figure it out. Number one is Merca. Merca first, the Western Hemisphere. But the European allies got to do their, they've got to pull their own weight. We don't care. Yeah. It was kind of good. I like the pivoting a little bit away from China, just in related news. You hear about the Chinese top guy in the military?

Yeah, they kicked him out, him and another guy. There's hardly anyone left in that committee anymore. No. Zhang Youxia was once the president's most trusted military general, his second in command. He's now been placed under formal investigation, accused of grave violations of discipline and violations of the law, though the defense ministry has provided no details of the alleged misconduct. The drastic move lays bare major fractures within the military's most senior ranks. The 75-year-old is one of just a few leading officers with combat experience. He joined the People's Liberation Army in 1968, fought in China's war in Vietnam, and climbed the ranks to become Xi's most important ally in modernising the PLA, often taking to the international stage.

We hope to communicate with the armed forces of various countries and will continue to deepen China-Russia relations. Another member of the Central Military Commission, Liu Zhenli, has also been placed under investigation by China's ruling Communist Party. Together, they were the two remaining leaders of its armed forces, who had survived previous purges after eight top generals were expelled back in October. Man, they're really doing something. Eight, so ten guys in total? This latest crackdown leaves Xi Jinping in sole operational control of the PLA, further consolidating his grip over the armed forces. Probes can last months or even years. Most are detained, found guilty and removed from their positions in the party. Guilty of what? Guilty? They're not telling us. They never tell us anything. They just tell them they're found guilty. They probably are guilty of something. The Chinese

have a tendency to be corrupt. Well I have, I think I know what it might be if this is like 20 more seconds listen to the very end here. More than 200,000 officials have been expelled since she came to power in 2012, part of a broad anti-corruption drive to root out graft. But it's also viewed by many as a way to ensure loyalty and make the military more combat ready. In recent years China has ramped up military drills around Taiwan and the US government says she has ordered the PLA to prepare to seize the island by force by 2027. I think that's it. I think these guys leaked the plans about 2027. We were hearing about that almost a year ago. The 2027. I think it was even longer than that. Yeah, 2027. Oh, that's when it's going to happen. 2027. Get ready for China.

And I guess we're going to be ready to make our own chips by 2027? Will we? Seems like you need, I mean, that Samsung plant is, I don't think that's operational. The one up in Taylor, Texas. Yeah, but that's not the same as the two nanometer processor using at Taiwan Semiconductor. They're so ahead of the game, it's ridiculous. Of course, we'd allow that to happen. How long would it take for us to replicate what we need? Well, it's all, you know, it's not their gear. That's the thing that's good. You know, it's Dutch gear.

Asmr is Dutch. We can buy no tmtsml is this? Asmr. Yeah, those guys, the Dutch guy, they would they can, you know, we can do and we are we basically tell them what to do. They don't just sell their stuff to anyone. Otherwise, the Chinese would have it. Yep. And so we just say, okay, You gotta build a place. The problem is that the TSMC, a lot too many letters here, the TSMC guys, they tried, I think made a couple of advances toward building or setting up shop in the USA, but determined that our people are too stupid. Well, they're too stupid at the prices they pay. Ah, that would be it.

Because we got smart people, but you know, you don't get them for pennies on the dollar. Well, somebody needs to start making some RAM, man. The RAM prices are nuts. The RAM is funny, yeah. We gotta make some RAM. Yeah, that ought to change quick. Well, how? by the AI collapse. That'll do it. AI collapse, everything goes great. We'll all be desoldering chips. Look, I got some RAM! You'll have a 22 terabyte solid state drive. Hey man, I think Linux this Sunday, one week from now, the show will run on Linux. What? Yeah, I think so. I got really far. I got the Rodecaster working, I was blown away.

I didn't think it was going to be possible. You can thank me. Because you put a timeline on it, you got me all stressed out. Like, I gotta prove this, I can do this. Yeah, you're always trying to show off. Well, it's not about showing off. I read somewhere that Linux desktop now has... is close to 18% of all desktops. No. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, I read it, doesn't mean it's true. It could be. I think it'd be nice if it was, you know, half. People are so sick of windows. And it's really just the stuff getting in the way. It's the pop up. It's the ads. It's the, you know, you want to use this? Well, you got to put it on the cloud. Get a cloud account.

I think that people are just sick of it. And it sucks. It's slow, it's sluggish. Well, one of the problems in my perception is that Windows always had the... It was always Windows versus Mac. And with Windows you felt you had some control. Really? Yeah, because you in there with Mac it would put things in files It would it would just assume you're an idiot and just move things into certain places and sometimes you couldn't find That's gotten really bad with with the iOS with the iPad stuff Tina's continuously like I mean she she goes into the closet and pulls out my old MacBook Pro I think

from at least eight years ago because she can't get Microsoft Word to function properly on her iPad, and she has a keyboard that goes with it, which doesn't have an escape key, of course. What? Yeah, does not have an escape key. Yeah, Apple would pull that stunt. Yeah, it reminds me of... of Texas Instruments when they came out with one of their computers and it was and they had the keys that were supposed to be there weren't there. Why is there no shift key? What am I supposed to do?

No S key, what are we doing? There's a lot of stuff. But with Windows and you felt you had a little more control, Linux is ultimately very control oriented for the user. You want to move a file from A to B, it's like okay. It's not questioning you all the time or automatically doing stuff like the Windows in this cloud, this cloud thing. This stuff, I'm looking for something and where is it? And they moved it to the cloud for some unknown reason. It's up there in the cloud. Well, you have two documents folders when you first start up Windows. I didn't realize this. You got like a cloud document and that's the default. It's like, what? Where did everything go?

Oh, it's in a separate document folder. Okay. This is all... this... ever since... this is from... I think this is because Mac people came over and started working for Microsoft. This is... the whole idea of Macintosh was to make it so he's brain dead. Well, I'll tell you this. 365, which is their office suite, was down last week for I think 36 hours. All corporate email was basically dead. I mean, I was getting bounces from Marriott.com. That's not good. You know, everyone trusts all these companies with all of their stuff. Oh, yeah, put it... I remember the cloud, the clouds, put on the cloud. Oh, it's great to cloud. But what happened with the cloud, Dave Jones is actually telling me this, because he does IT for an accounting firm.

He says the whole idea was that you were moving CapEx to OpEx. But these days, you have to take a full year subscription to even really get any kind of deal. So, you know, it's not even really an OpEx anymore. And they keep, you know, increasing prices, removing features that are now a separate tier. You know, it's just you do something like the AI companies are great at this. You do something in your tier and then all of a sudden it's like, well, you can wait for a week until we have a GPU free or you can upgrade to $200. Not everybody knows that CapEx is capital expenditure versus operating expenses. I think we have the most intelligent people in the universe.

We have a lot of Zed's that think it's Florida ounces. Well, okay, so the capital expenditure is an important point because in the new tax ruling all these companies that are building factories, we hear, will be, we hear, we hear. Yeah, I've heard that they're doing it. I've heard. Trillions. The reason why they are doing it is that they will be allowed to write off all capital expenditures in one year instead of amortizing that over, what is it, seven years? Except for the, I don't think the oil guys get that kind of deal. For some reason, the oil guys didn't get that deal. I don't know why. The oil guys have a deal, a real deal. Not according to the oil baron. He's feeling pretty screwed these days. Well, but by their standards. Oh, that's what I always tell them. Boo hoo.

With your ranches, I don't feel that bad. I mean, come on people. I don't feel that bad. But yeah, I'm excited. Just getting the RODECaster and all three of its USB interfaces to work was astounding. That was the part that I thought was really not going to be easy. You should say what we... You should productize some of it and sell it back as drivers to, uh, R.O.A.D. The guys who never give you anything for free. Screw them! Those guys, you know, that, you're so, you're so right. They give every YouTuber a free gear. Oh, we got this new box! Send it to that YouTuber.

They never send anything to... Never! Never! I don't get it. It must be an... Yeah, that's why you should sell them. I'm not gonna sell. I'm gonna open source my stuff. I'm not gonna sell it. Oh... Hey, I want to give back to the world. I'm at a stage in my life where I care about giving back. You're giving back to Rode. I'm not giving back... The people who screw you out of free gear. You must give your enemy to drink and to eat. No, you should give... You should sell it to them. What are you, a communist now? I'm not a communist. You're a communist.

I am not a communist. How dare you? Someone got really bent out of shape the other day because you called me a bigot and they thought that was really a horrible, horrible thing to say. They think that's because I use, I try to throw the term in every so often to familiarize people with what it actually means. People always think it's racial. I forget what the context, he had a different context for it but did not like it. No, I understand when I call you a bigot, and I've done it more than once on the show, it's based on the definition of bigotry. You'll be, for example, adhering to something very minuscule and minor and you think everything that's against your basic thoughts.

bad and that that is bigoted. Is that by definition? Is it really now? Let's read the definition of bigotry. Why don't you bring it up? Okay, the definition of bigotry. Now of course this is Miriam Webster, that's the first one. A narrow-minded person who obstinately adheres to their own opinions and prejudices. Especially one who strongly and unfairly dislikes or feels hatred towards others based on their group membership. I'm not a bigot like that. No, you're not a bigot like that, but that's the secondary meaning. The initial meaning is you are, in many ways... A narrow-minded person who obstinately adheres to their own opinions and prejudices? You have a lot of opinions that you adhere to... obstinately. You are the biggest bigot if that's the definition. You could call me one in certain circumstances and you'd be correct. Yes, but I don't do that.

I don't... You're doing it right now. I didn't call you a bigot! No, no, you're being obstinate. Oh, oh, okay. Well, that's alright. That is... That's who I... it's hard to be right all the time. It's just hard. Speaking of that, I just wanted... Yeah, see, there you go. That's what I'm talking about here. I just wanted to mention... So this guy gets all bent out of shape because I used the word properly. I'm sorry. Hey, I'm not complaining. I just came up... This reminds me of the... like the word niggerdly. Well... You bring that up, I mean I don't even do that one, but that's a very, it means cheap. Well, let's just stick with this for one second, because we get emails frequently, I would say ever since we just disagreed with the libertarian narrative and now widespread narrative that Israel controls everything in America.

But it's interesting because people, we have a different... I know the logic, and by the way what you're saying, the logic of that thought that Israel compares or Israel controls, I'm sorry, Israel controls everything in America is so ludicrous. It's ludicrous. But yet people are all in on it and it's baffling to us. So, but even like Trump, and we got an interesting, I got an interesting email about this. Like Trump is like...

Let me see if I have that email. Here's our cold weather show ladies and gentlemen. Well, we got some other stuff to talk about. But you know, people say, you're such fans, you're like licking his ass. On and on and on and on. And I'm like, first of all, we have an opinion. And sometimes he's funny and we laugh. He can be very funny. Yeah, and we often, you more than I, say, you know, he's not gonna do anything, that's not gonna happen. Because it's not gonna happen. But here's, this is from Jason, he says, as an avid libertarian slash anarcho-capitalist,

I thought I'd give you a quick explanation about Judge Napolitano, Scott Horton and Dave Smith and the rest of our Libertarian crew. And by the way, everyone goes through a period of Libertarianism. This is like the, this is very much like college women who go through their small, their small period of being a lesbian. Let's just analyze it that way. Wow. It's true we don't like Trump or his foreign policy. I think this is because I said Judge Napolitano just hates Trump, but I also said... Well, no, let me read on. Many of us aren't fans of ICE and other federal agencies, but we're quite sincere. Well, I don't doubt that. We don't like the Democrats either and see them as hypocrites who are just as much in love with government power domestically and American mercantilism.

abroad as Republicans are. We like Ron Paul and Thomas Massey because they oppose American hegemony and support a return to the Jeffersonian values of an agrarian republic that stays at home and minds its own business." And I'll just insert here, you will hear in today's show why that is not possible. I know you guys mostly respond to media rather than taking philosophical stances, but it's quite frustrating to listen to some of it as it feels like you're mocking our viewpoint without really understanding why we believe what we believe. And then he throws in some Christian stuff which is supposed to convince me. I just wanted to get that off my chest. Okay, so here's the point I was making is that

When you have the same libertarians, and I'm talking about these podcasters, I'm not talking about you or anybody else in particular, but we have podcasters who go, oh gee, it's gonna go to war with Iran, it's gonna go to war with Venezuela, and when Trump doesn't do it, they never say, wow, that was cool, he didn't do it, maybe there's hope. That's my point. It's the hypocrisy of it because ultimately you're not libertarians, you're Trump haters. That's the point. And what is this, a great... That's good. It's true. Or at least these podcasters. And I don't care how many hours of videos Scott Horton has or how many books he's written about anti-war or war or whatever, whatever. But I live in the here and now. So it's just, you know, chill out.

You know, you can have, I'm happy you find out your opinions. I just have a different worldview. And the people get all bent out of shape and all they've got is, fanboy, shekels, come on. Wait until they hear that we're doing an Israel trip in March. They'll really flip out. I'm going to do a show from Israel, I hope. They got good connectivity there. Oh yeah, they do. So, Regarding ice. Now, I always get your clips early in the morning, so I have my own analysis, but I think we should start with stuff you have because you've got stuff. What do I do? Minnesota. Oh yeah, I do have a bunch of Minnesota stuff. Because once again, we're all... Actually, I'll kick it off with one thing. I'll just kick it off. Where is it? We're all Zapruder. Once again, we're all Zapruder, everybody. Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. Here we go. Aaron Burnett.

What do you see in all of this so far from the information that we have, from the video you've watched, from the responses we've gotten from DHS and from Mr. Bovino? Well, I mean, obviously, Erin, at the core of it, you have an unbelievable tragedy where it appears that a potentially unarmed person was essentially assassinated by horrible law enforcement tactics. Horrible. That dramatically escalated the situation. But, you know, there are so many questions here. At the absolute core of Lethal force training in the FBI Academy. This is Andrew McCabe by the way. Oh this guy's a horrible Trump hater. Yeah. He's anti-American. He's a terrible person. Why would anyone even put him on a show? He's disgraced. CNN baby. Lethal force training in the FBI Academy at in the Academy at Glencoe, Georgia. Did you hear the potentially unarmed piece there?

I heard that, you mean the guy with the 9mm? You talking about that guy? Border Patrol folks go through, you are taught from the very beginning that if you use your weapon, you have to be able to, after the fact, articulate exactly why you perceived an imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury. The question now is when are we going to hear that articulation? What is the reason that these officers or a single officer, we don't know how many people shot, believe they were an imminent threat of death by this person who was by all every video we've seen.

on the ground with anywhere from four to five officers on top of him at the same time. Nowhere in these videos do you see a weapon in this man's hand. Again, this is the Zapruder effect that we in America love so much. We love analyzing video. Yeah, this reminds me of the Jack, my favorite, which is the Jacqueline Kennedy shot. JFK in the head. If you look at that film just right. Oh yeah, the driver shot him, I mean everything. And this goes on forever and ever. And of course we only have more and more of this with video. And video can be very deceptive on either side. Same movie, two different screens. You can look at something one way and get...

Get something out of it and but it's red meat for the M5M and for podcasters apparently because this is all we can talk about. I mean, it's no different from Charlie Kirk. What, 30 out of 6? Was it from above, below? Did his microphone explode? This will go on for... And I find it tedious and boring. I mean, obviously, we've got... You didn't find it so tedious you didn't want to record that particular moment. Well, no, I do that for effect. I am a show business person after all. Come on. I have some thoughts on the whole thing, but I'd like you to do your quips first. Okay, I'm sure you have some thoughts on the whole thing. So let's play these Minnesota shooting. Now I had two versions of this. I have the short one, which I want to play the short one.

This is all from NPR. The short one, because there's a little tidbit in here that I thought was funny, which is not mentioned at all in the long form, which is new MN shooter NPR. Minnesota officials identified the person shot and killed today in Minneapolis as Alex Jeffrey Pretty. As NPR's Meg Anderson reports, he was the second person killed by federal immigration agents in less than three weeks. In a news conference with city officials, US Senators Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith named Preddy as the shooting victim. They said Preddy was a 37-year-old ICU nurse, a US citizen, and a Minneapolis resident. US citizen. Senator Tina Smith. The Trump administration has already called Alex Preddy a domestic terrorist.

He was a nurse. She stressed that if this can happen in Minnesota, it can happen in any community in the country. In the aftermath of the shooting, Mayor Jacob Frye requested that the governor deploy National Guard members to support Minneapolis police officers. Guard members will wear yellow safety vests to distinguish them from other entities on the ground. Okay. So the yellow safety vest got my attention. Oh, yeah, this is people are those those people are directing traffic So you're gonna have the yellow safety vests? Mm-hmm, which is just gonna cause nothing but yellow safety vest is in my opinion

seeing that most of these protests are organized operations, maybe by civilians, but that's someone who's a key figure. You're a leader, you're a person who has, you know, a point person. I don't think you just put on the yellow safety vest. It's just my opinion. I don't know anything about this guy. Did he? I don't think he... No, no, the yellow safety vest is what they're going to make the National Guard wear. Oh, well, that'll confuse everybody. Don't confuse the protesters. Well, it has a bunch of symbolism too. There's yellow for one thing, which is a surrender. And it's also the yellow vest movement, I'm reminiscent of that in France. And these guys are gonna be like, if I'm a National Guard guy wearing my normal fatigues, I'm gonna look like a doofus wearing this stupid yellow vest. So the whole thing is funny. They left that out of the

long form and I thought that was kind of weird to do but okay because the long form goes on forever. Let's start with the Minnesota shooting long form. This is a more of an analysis than the other report. For the second time this month, federal immigration agents in Minneapolis have shot and killed someone. It happened this morning outside a donut shop where protesters quickly gathered. This latest killing has put an already tense city further on edge. And today, the Trump administration and local officials are trading accusations about who is to blame. NPR's Jennifer Ludden is in Minneapolis and has been following all of this. Hi, Jennifer. Hi, Sarah. First, Jennifer, what do we know so far about what exactly happened this morning?

Well, the Department of Homeland Security says there is an investigation with more information to come. But the immigration agent commanding this operation called the shooting self-defense. Gregory Bovino told reporters that agents were pursuing an undocumented immigrant wanted for violent assault. And then another person who was armed approached the officers and resisted when they tried to disarm him. Here's Bovino. This looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement. Then, about 200 rioters arrived at the scene and began to obstruct and assault law enforcement. But there is a bystander video that shows multiple federal agents, looks like at least six, wrestling someone on the ground, striking him, and then you hear multiple shots fired. It sounds like at least 10 rounds in just a few seconds.

And it is not clear from the video if the man killed had brandished or reached for any weapon. Now, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara says the man killed was a 37-year-old white male US citizen, US citizen, US citizen with no criminal record and a lawful permit to carry a gun. His family has identified him to the Associated Press as Alex They say he was an intensive care nurse at the VA who was upset at the ICE surge here. And his family says he had protested after an agent agent fatally shot another person, Renee Good, in her car earlier this month. I just need to interject one quick thing here because this you won't hear this. It's not discussed anywhere. This is like, you know, it's like, was he a bad guy? Did the cops kill him? It's just back and forth. It's endless.

If you physically interpose yourself with law enforcement, that by itself is a federal crime. Done. So, all bets are off at that point, whether you're armed or not. And I think it's bullcrap that he was there, he was going to commit mass murder. I think that's bullcrap. And I think it's weak on behalf of Kristi Noem, how she categorizes all this. The fact is, they were on an operation. And you know, Obama deported 3 million people. I guess he just did it in the middle of the night quietly. I doubt that.

But there were no protests that I can remember. No. There were only protests about kids in cages. Oh wait, yeah, that was Obama. That's Obama too. But got blamed for it. But if you put yourself, which he did, if you put yourself, you block a federal agent, that is a crime. Now, not a crime that an agent can shoot someone over and then you go to the next phase of it. But that already is the problem right there. And this comes from a different place altogether. But there's just no, I've not heard anyone say that at all. It's somehow this... They don't want to say it because it doesn't fit the narrative of a bunch of nasty ICE guys that are out there trying to, you know, they're trying to... One of the terms was there were

murdering people left and right. I can't remember how it went, but it's what's amazing. Sound like they're homicidal maniacs. There's more people killed in Oakland in the last three weeks than there has been in Minnesota. What I find fascinating is the constant ongoing from the M5M particularly Well, he had a concealed weapon. He was legally licensed to carry it. This is the first time I've heard that this was a good thing. Oh, it's good. It's good. Yeah, what happened to the old anti-guns narrative? No, not in this case. These guys can't make up their minds. They're just subversive. Yes. The media is subversive. We just have to admit it.

All right, part two onward. Now the Border Patrol commander mentioned quote rioters at the scene. You were at the scene. What happened after the shooting? Yes, an emperor producer and I went there as word was spreading. Lots of people were streaming in to see and to protest. There were dozens of people across several blocks. I did not see rioting. Local police officers used multiple rounds of tear gas to try and disperse the crowd. They say, look, it's a crime scene. Now, Linda Gottlieb was among those there. She was standing a few feet from a line of local police officers in full face masks and riot gear. She's a health care worker and is frustrated and upset about this weeks long federal surge. They're trying to have the narrative be that the people are the aggressors. But we have seen on video and we've heard people testify

to the fact that no, they are being illegally detained and assaulted and sustaining injuries and this is absolutely counter to everything our country stands for. Our country stands for the First Amendment which is The right to peaceably assemble, which by the way in constitutional law, even local government can determine where and at what time. Peaceably assembling is not walking around in the streets and blowing air horns and whistles and throwing stuff at them. It's just not. I'll add that just yesterday there were thousands of people filling downtown streets here in a very peaceful rally, demanding that some 3,000 federal immigration agents leave their city. Now Jennifer, the Trump administration has been quick to denounce the man who was killed, calling him a quote domestic terrorist, blaming the shooting on local and state officials. What are those Minnesota officials saying?

You know, we've heard outrage and frustration from them. Governor Tim Walz says the federal government cannot be trusted to handle the investigation. The State Bureau of Criminal Apprehension says DHS is blocking its investigators from the scene. And remember, DHS said it's not even investigating the agent who shot and killed Renee Good earlier. Here's Governor Walz today. We continue to hear and we heard it from the vice president that These folks can do whatever they want. They can have full immunity. And what I'm telling you is they will not. There will be justice to Minnesotans. Now it seems like you're allowing your peaceably assembled constituents do whatever they want. Yeah. Great for Walt. This is so good for Walt. So good for him. He, wow, what a, it's almost a godsend for him. For now. For now. They have to, that guy should be arrested.

Probably. They haven't arrested anybody. I mean, they just don't... like this church thing with the Don Lemon thing, which I have some thoughts on, by the way. I know you have some thoughts on it. I do have a completely different thesis. than everybody else, but the, it's like the Don Lemon thing. Okay, so they arrested three people, the ringleaders basically, and there was another 20 or 30 people who aren't they getting arrested? It was the same violation of the FACE Act. Won't they pick them all up? The funny thing about the FACE Act is it was written initially to keep church people away from abortion clinics. It's amazing to see this flip-flop then used by the church people on the abortion crazies. Well, the funny thing is about that FACE Act, when it was proposed by the Democrats,

The Republicans thought it was a bit much, that it was so lopsided, and so the Democrats agreed to allow the mention of churches in the act as a quid pro quo. Okay, we'll give you the abortion clinics, you've got to give us the churches. And so it went through that way, and now it's being turned on his head. But that's still beside the point, where's the other arrests? No, I'm in complete agreement with you. It's trespassing. They should be arrested for trespassing at minimum. Well, no, they should be arrested for the FACE Act, which is a lot stronger than trespassing. I'm just saying, at minimum, is what I said, for trespassing. I don't know. I don't know. I mean, they're too busy doing other stuff. It's very busy days. They're too busy not arresting people.

Oh, can we? No, they're not going to arrest him either. So let's, uh, was that the third clip? No, that was the second. No, the third one is short. Is that some kind of kicker? A little kicker. Walz says the state is creating a log of evidence for possible future prosecution of immigration agents. And how worried, quickly, are people about things escalating? You know, there's concern. Governor Walz has activated the Minnesota National Guard to help local police with protest. Meanwhile, President Trump has accused him and the mayor of inciting insurrection. That's meaningful because he's repeatedly threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act and has put about 2,000 active duty military soldiers on standby for possible deployment to Minnesota. NPR's Jennifer Ludden, thank you. And I think this is really what they want. They really want Trump to deploy National Guard.

or federal troops or whatever it is. They want to have militarization so that they can really go into the 2026 election with their message. Right. One of our producers... Which is why they should start arresting people because they're not going to win the 26 elections anyway. One of our producers, David Atima, I think he's a knight, he had a very good catch from episode 1836. Funny enough, one of your clips, the David Brooks clip regarding Minnesota, And listen to what David Brooks said in that clip, which I don't know, I don't think either of us, we didn't discuss it, I certainly didn't catch it first go around. And I've long thought if Americans see deportations of respectable families, they will finally rebel against this regime. And not just the progressives and not just Democrats, but normal people who are like, what the heck is going on here? Not just liberals and Democrats, but normal people.

I thought that was an outstanding catch Wow, yes, that's a ten-pointer. That's a slam dunk. That's a game winner. That is a terrific catch. How did we miss that? I think it's because we both heard regime and we're like, oh, regime. Oh yeah, we were focused on regime. Let's listen. And this again is why video is destructive to analysis. I've long thought if Americans see deportations of respectable families They will finally rebel against this regime and not just the progressives and not just Democrats, but normal people. What the heck is going on here? Normal people, normal people, not the crazy progressives. Wow. So allow me to play a few clips here. The first one.

Another great observation, and this does come from Black TikTok, but it's not your typical TikTok video. It is an in-car recorded video, so you know it's official. An excellent point here. You know why you're not seeing a lot of black people out there protesting against ICE? You know why you're seeing predominantly white people only at these events? It's because back in 2020, the Democrats utilized the black demographic to go out and riot and act a fool. And they said, oh, if you just elect us, we'll give you reparations and we'll force the police to wear body cameras and all these wonderful, amazing things. Right.

black people showed up like we are known to do and we voted up and down for one side of the aisle. And what did we get for it? Nothing as usual, because many of us never learned. But now, here in 2026, we're seeing individuals who were slavishly devoted to the Democrat Party. Now they're seeing the Democrats over their entire four years in office under Joe Biden, they went out of their way to ingratiate themselves to illegal immigrants. And they sometimes prioritized illegal immigrants, even in black communities, ahead of black American citizens. And black people are sitting there saying, wait, you said you're going to give us reparations, you're going to give us x, y, and z, and we got nothing for it. So the silver lining is a lot of people are waking up and realizing the Democrats are only courting their next prospective voting bloc. They want to exploit illegal immigrants for an entire generation, much like they exploited the black community for the previous several generations.

And they're daring you to call them out on that and see it for what it is. So if you're wondering why you only see predominantly white liberals out here acting a fool, rioting and protesting against ICE, it's because ICE is threatening their ability to cater to that next demographic that they desperately want to lock in for an entire generation. Exactly. Exactly what's going on here. Dead people be damned. They do not care. I went back and I looked up the Elion, because we were laughing about it, Elion Gonzales. So just to reiterate, Elion Gonzales, this is 1999. There's a front page everywhere. It was before smartphones and people were still blogging. We didn't have the social media. Barely blogging, I might say.

What kind of blogs were there at the time? Was Blogger a thing? It was the early blogs. Yeah, Blogger was out there. Blogger was there, yeah. And a couple of these systems. Yeah. And splashed across the front pages of all newspapers, and you go look it up, Elian Gonzalez, this five-year-old kid, and there is what we would today call, it didn't exist then, an ICE agent with a submachine gun Sticking in this five-year-old kid's face, his eyes are bugged out wide. Yeah, it was great. I mean, it was just outrageous. I looked this up. What happened was, this was the big election between Bush and Gore, and they wanted to get the Cuban-American voting bloc.

And so this was, this happened... The Republicans did. Oh yeah, the Republicans, exactly. This was right before the election. All these things, it always happens when it's elections. And then you just want to make one side or the other look bad. And if it can get a five-year-old kid like we've seen this kid, you know, with a little rabbit hat, I mean, it's heartbreaking, of course. It's a heartbreaker, yeah. It's a total heartbreaker. You're looking at this, but it is... Poor little kid. But it is, yes, of course it's horrible. It is meant to tug at the heartstrings and think the other side is evil.

But what it but we can't blame ice or the protesters because what's really happened here is you have two two things you have people obstructing law enforcement, and then you have the local officials, the local leaders, I just say the blind leading the blind, telling them to get out on the street, put your body on the line, all of them continuously making this law enforcement, what truly is law enforcement, but it turns into a complete mayhem when people are told go out and protest against them.

Let's look at the core issue. The core issue is lost in this and I did just a little mini supercut Because we have been told what is happening over and over and over again, and I think because our president usually speaks in some Parables that we can't even decipher Although it's true and sometimes like what is the guy trying to tell me here? But this is what he has said for the past 10 years as a candidate and as president. Nearly 180,000 illegal immigrants with criminal records, ordered deported from our country, are tonight roaming free to threaten peaceful citizens. They are being released

by the tens of thousands into our communities with no regard for the impact on public safety or resources. They're poisoning the blood of our country. That's what they've done. They poison mental institutions and Prisons all over the world, not just in South America, not just the three or four countries that we think about, but all over the world. They're coming into our country from Africa, from Asia, all over the world. They're pouring into our country. Nobody's even looking at them. They just come in. As I've said many times, the Maduro regime emptied out their prisons, sent their worst and most violent monsters into the United States to steal American lives.

And they came from mental institutions and insane asylums. They came from prisons and jails. They sent from their mental institutions. They sent from their jails, prisons. They were drug dealers. They were drug kingpins. They sent everybody bad into the United States. We will begin removing the more than 2 million criminal illegal immigrants from the country. Deport all criminal aliens and dismantle every last criminal gang and cartel threatening our citizens. Drug dealers, gang heads, gang members. Right, so right away in the troll room, Trump is a dog whistling piece of shit. Okay.

Exactly, because his parables are not understood. I came across an interview with Peter Schweitzer. He has a new book out. Peter Schweitzer we know from Clinton Cash, which I know I read, you might have read it too, which was really good, very detailed. He's written a number of these books. I'm pretty sure he's a spook. Or was, you know, George Washington University, Young America Foundation. Yeah, the kind of information he has is kind of spook-adjacent. St. Cross College, this is a spook school. So I'm pretty sure he's a spook or former spook or spook-adjacent, but he does have information and he's written this new book called, titled The Invisible Coup.

And he takes us back to when, what the Trump, what the Trump, what the Trump is talking about. I think it should be the Trump. We're going to call him the Trump from now on. Listen to this. Back in 1980, the Mariel boat left. A lot of people that were around will remember that the United States was flooded with Cuban refugees and Jimmy Carter... These were the Cuban boat people. Remember they were floating? Yeah, they were coming over on everything. On inner tubes, all kinds of stuff. When this first started developing said, we're a compassionate country, which is true. We're going to welcome them with open arms. And Fidel Castro told his top aides, well, we're going to fill their arms with

excrement. He used a different word. And this was really the first modern example of weaponized immigration, because what Fidel Castro recognized was we can actually attack the United States by sending them criminals, people that are mentally ill, but also people that are going to set up criminal networks, drug networks inside the United States. and to what we thought was a sort of a random humanitarian event was actually a targeted attack and i quote from a a government panel that will later looked at the mario boatlift and concluded on that it was probably the third most lethal foreign attack on the united states besides pearl harbor in nine eleven the mario boatlift was probably the third most lethal attack

So I already got his book and he's very detailed with his sources, where it's all coming from, but it's not all that hidden. Now he gives us the Sao Paulo Forum and who's involved in that. And this became a template for a lot of modern Latin American leaders. In the summer of 1980 when this was unfolding, Fidel Castro goes to Nicaragua to meet with Sandinista leaders and there's a young revolutionary there named Lula who later today is the president of Brazil. and he sets up an entity called the Sao Paulo Forum with Fidel Castro.

which includes progressive leaders from across Latin America and in the United States, the Democratic Socialists of America, which is Bernie Sanders' NAO SEEDS group, and the Sao Paulo Forum has weaponized immigration against us today. And that includes the Marena Party of Mexico and Petro, the leader of Colombia, and a whole host of other countries who have adopted this as their strategy to defeat the United States. Enter Mexico who has quite the plan apparently And I always thought of Mexico in the context of okay You've got kind of this hapless government and it's corrupt and they're kind of glad for mass migration because now they don't have to feed their own people The reality is in their own words. They view immigration very differently, but this is from

a government report others in the report let me written by one of president shine bombs top aids in december of twenty twenty four we already know that the mexican population in the united states reaches thirty nine point nine million we mexicans are we claiming our territory That's from December of 2024. Here's a powerful senator who's also a member of the Marina Party, who sits on the National Defense Committee, which is the most powerful committee in the Mexican Senate. Quote, we Mexicans are in our territories, California, Nevada, Texas, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Wyoming.

We're going to take back the territory that was stolen from us. They have actually created a network and infrastructure inside the United States. And this infrastructure, this includes Mexican government officials inside the United States who are organizing violent protests like those that hit Los Angeles, those that are in Minneapolis. And they are actively participating in our politics. They are working to elect Democrats who are sympathetic, a foreign government, to elect Democrats who are sympathetic to them on immigration and working to defeat President Trump through Mexican consulates that are across the United States. I don't doubt this at all. It sounds completely plausible.

Yeah, that's why their Mexican flag is always prevalent at these things. Exactly. And here's a little... You get a clue, people. Why are these guys flying a Mexican flag in Los Angeles? Come on. Here's a little bonus clip. Mexico has a reputation for being kind of a sleepy, corrupt government, and people don't take them seriously. I think we should. Mexico has 53 consulates in the United States. In contrast, the two other countries with the most are China and the United Kingdom with six and seven. So I don't doubt that the Trump is telling the truth, but he speaks it so, I mean, he just, he's so repetitive that everyone's like, yeah, whatever. Where are they? My cleaning lady doesn't seem to be dangerous.

But I completely believe that all these different countries have indeed emptied their jails and their insane asylums, and well, when they could, send people over. I don't doubt that at all. And he says, well, maybe two million of them. Quite possibly. And then this is the final clip. This is just an extra bonus. This is a quote from 2023 that I think lays out the fact that they want this to be silenced. Again, this is from 2023. The head of the Mexican news agency, which is like their sort of associated press, He says, quote, we are quietly carrying out the reconquest of our territories in the US taken from us in 1848. The reconquest of the Aztec territory is silent. And the day that the gringos realize this, their diabolical fundamentalism will become macabre. In other words, we need to keep this quiet. We don't want to talk about it publicly because when the gringos, as he says, find out, they're going to be really, really angry about it.

So we need to recognize what's going on, have an honest conversation about it. There are dozens of these quotes in the book from Mexican officials, and we go through and name the Mexican government officials who were at the center of the LA riots last year, who are manipulating our politics. Yeah, I think that Trump is right, and this is what ICE is going after. after these elements that have infiltrated our country. He's right, but I just kind of glossed over it too, like, whatever, I've heard it a million times, where are they? But the fact that they have colluded with the Democrat Party, certainly in the Los Angeles quote-unquote riots, if you see the organization, it doesn't surprise me at all. So,

Stuck in the crosshairs of this is law enforcement and citizens who really have been told they're doing the right thing. You are compassionate, you're empathetic, and you're a good person. And liberals love being good persons in general. But this is an actual battle. And I can't wait to see what else Schweitzer has in his book, because I'll bet there's a lot more to this. Now I gotta read this thing. Right? I know. I know. Thanks. You're welcome. So, you know, tragedy of foolishness and blood guilt, the way I see it, between foolish people who've been told, who somehow believe that it's their right to peacefully protest, which is not, peaceably assemble, yes,

And they're being told by their actual elected representatives what to do. And those representatives in turn are taking, apparently taking commands from other countries. Because hey, we'll they should arrest walls and that yes fry guy a guy's an idiot Yeah, they should because people are gonna get hurt, but there were they're not gonna rest I mean they're gonna were they rest the ringleader which brings me to the Don Lemon's hands when I get this out of the way Don Lemon I wish you made a point of the, you know, we didn't talk about it, but I'm going to talk about it. As far as I can tell, looking at just the way it went down, Don Lemon is a CI for the FBI. There's no doubt in my mind about this. As in confidential informant. Informant. And he's probably getting paid.

Because the way he set up that woman who organized the church invasion was so obvious. He did a long interview with her. She just basically confessed on camera everything she was going to do, all the illegal action, everything in between. He even had a name for the operation, Operation Pull-Up, which I still can't figure out. Good point. And so he got that on tape and then he went in there and he made a fool of himself and then they put the arrest warrants out for three individuals and they left and included in four actually because Don Lim was on it and the judge refused to indict or

have Don Lemon arrested. Yes. Well, this was a major screw-up because when you have a CI, he gets caught up in it, he gets arrested. That's the idea. You don't want to make it appear. And the judge who let him go, his wife works for AG, the Attorney General of Minnesota. Nice catch. Ellison. And so she probably thought that, well, you know, hey, he's working for the, actually working for the FBI. Oh, okay. I won't arrest him because I want to give him a break. Not knowing the playbook, Pam Bondi has to fly. She says, I'm flying to Minnesota. She's got to literally fly out there and she can't do it over the phone. She has to fly out there and read this guy, the riot act, why he screwed up because Lemon has to be arrested. Otherwise, otherwise his cover is blown.

or is covers blown and is blown as far as i'm concerned already yet but he has his whole game was being being you know he needs money and the giveaway was when he was He does. I love that. Honey, I'm gonna, I gotta take this gig, honey. I'm sorry. I just have to. Oh, and you know, you know the type of guy he is. He's one of those guys who thinks it's cool. Yeah, of course. And so he would, so he's, so he gets, gets himself involved in this whole thing. But the giveaway was a clip you played on another show that was him, and this is a clip that I thought about getting, but I hate these people. This is the I've Had It podcast with the putty-faced woman. I talked about her in the newsletter. Yes. Jennifer Welch. And she has Don Lemon on, and Lemon's going on and on about what happened. Oh, yeah. And he says, and he uses the term, my producers. Yes.

What is a guy who's a podcaster that indicates multiple people, my producers? And you might want an engineer or something, there's different kinds. If you're gonna go solo and do what he's doing, you don't need producers. But his producers, this is the handlers. One of them is obviously the FBI guy. This is so phony, but poor Don Lemon. Now it's going to have to be, because he will probably arrest him to try to make amends. And then they're going to have to decide what are we going to do with him.

Will Don, he'll get a slap on the wrist maybe, but maybe Don can say, hey you know if you put me in jail for four months at some really lush place. I might meet somebody. No, no, it would go like this, it would be, I have street cred and I can do a lot of better job. Do you want to hear, I have that clip if you want to hear it. Yeah, play that clip. Yeah, here we go. And there's a certain degree of entitlement. I think people who are, you know, in religious groups like that, it's not the type of Christianity that I practice, but I think that they're entitled and that that entitlement comes from a supremacy, a white supremacy. And they think that this country was built for them, that it is a Christian country when actually we left England because we wanted religious freedom. It's religious freedom, but only if you're a Christian and only if you're a white male, pretty much. And so, yeah, I absolutely 100 percent. But it's an intimidation tactic.

And, you know, I said, I don't understand how I've become the face of it when I was a journalist. I do understand that I'm the biggest name there. And I'm also as I was on with my producers this morning, you know, you and Kylie talk all the time. My producers were saying, I said, how did I become the face of this? And my producer said, Don, you're a gay black man in America. Some kind of pleasure in knowing that you were listening to me and Pastor Jimmy and yelling at the podcast. No, shaking my fist. Like, he's an FBI informant, don't you guys see that? FBI CI. CI, yes. So this will play out in some way. It's already, as far as I'm concerned, the cover's blown.

But nobody else is seeing this obviously. They wouldn't be all upset. All the podcast industrial complexes all over it because you know Don Lemon, they hate him. Which is perfect cover. Oh and all the podcast pastors. Yeah they've totally whiffed on that. I actually have a short clip of The Attorney General Keith Ellison, I don't remember what's on it but it's only 30 seconds. The protest is fundamental to American society. This country started in a protest and you know it's freedom of expression. People have a right to lift up their voices and make their peace.

And none of us are immune from the voice of the public. So quite honestly, I think that you got the First Amendment, freedom of religion and the First Amendment freedom of expression. And I think that it's just something to live within a society. No, he breaks up there. Boy, that's terrible. Yeah, that's why I didn't play it, I guess. Yeah, there's something fishy about that guy too. I mean, that's not even a jurist who's speaking there. I mean, oh, our country started with the protest. Mm, okay.

I don't think so. I guess tossing the tea over the... it's a violent protest. Yeah, but that's why we put together a Bill of Rights and what the... and this is not about... I hate it when people in law say, well, we have these rights. I don't know. Those, the amendments are telling- No, what you hate is when they say the government has allowed these rights. Yes, exactly. Well, well- Or the government conferred. Yes. Or you have these, yeah, of course it's bad. Like this is your little sliver of what you may do. No, no, this is what the government may not stop you from doing. And that, yeah, that always does irk me, but that's just our education system. I think you have nailed it on this and

You're right. They really screwed up by not at least detaining him overnight. I mean even that would have given him enough street cred to talk about he had to use a toilet paper roll as a pillow. Yeah, all the good stuff. That happened to a friend of mine, a pilot. He flew to Cancun for New Year's with his wife and he has his own plane. And, you know, here in Texas we have a flight bag, just throw the flight bag in and, you know, it's got your iPad, your chart, no charts anymore, but, you know, like a backup radio, just your flight bag.

And so on the way out as he's leaving, which is when, and he has a small turbo prop, so not a private jet or anything. But this was the moment when everyone with a private jet just decided to leave. So they had extra security. He puts his bag on the belt and he sees all these guys coming around, they're looking at the bag and he left his handgun in it. So he gets arrested. And of course they're, you know, wait a minute, stop. He's on a private plane and they're checking his luggage? Handbag, yeah. On the way out of the airport. At the private airfield terminal. Yeah. I've never heard of such a thing. Oh, it's happened to me in Switzerland. No, it definitely happens. For international flights, they want to make sure you're not smuggling drugs out or this all kinds of stuff. Okay, alright, okay. You know, it's a private plane terminal. And so he has his little 9mm in there and they're like,

What do you I did you where did you buy this who did you get this from? He's like, why would I buy a gun in Mexico when I can buy one at Kmart? He was detained for 48 hours and literally in a cell So that ruined his vacation. Oh, yeah, how about his wife who? Just figured out how to get home on a commercial flight. Oh the horrors And I think he wound up paying because you know the consulate got involved and they got him a lawyer and And he had to pay $24,000 to the lawyer, most of which was given out to people in bribes to get him out. Mexico. And here we're just like, yeah, whatever, we'll protect you. Just a little contrast there. Yeah, I'd say that's more than a little contrast. And he's leaving the country. Yeah.

Wow. Yeah, yeah. That's a good one. And I was like, you didn't call me? I can't believe you didn't call me. We got Rob the constitutional lawyer. We've got people around, you know, we got people we can call. We know people. I just wanted to play it straight. Could have had you out in two hours, man. So I'm going to straighten something out from the last show. We got your buddy Scott Simon coming up to talk about the tree explosions. Suffer and suck a dash. I'm Scott Simon. Is there anything people can do to... No, no, not that one. Hold on. I'm sorry. That's the second. That's part two. I just see Scott Simon tree protection.

Yeah, try it. You're gonna love this. Sorry. It's spelled A-cott. A-cott Simon. Okay, I got you. The trees don't really explode, do they? That term of an exploding tree is kind of a sensationalized headline that gets a lot of attention. By the way, I was talking to Tina about this who grew up in Indiana. She said, never. It was 10 degrees, 8 degrees, she says she has never ever heard of this exploding tree phenomenon. It's new to me as well.

In reality, the more appropriate term would be cracking tree. When it gets cold enough, the sap inside a tree will actually freeze. Most of the time, it's a liquid that has all sorts of sugars and things dissolved inside it. When that sap reaches that critical freezing temperature, which is usually well below 32 degrees, it will expand. Just like water will expand when it freezes, the sap is mostly water and the sap expands. This puts tremendous pressure on the inside of the tree. And if the tree is physically unable to handle that pressure, it cracks. And that's how it reduces the pressure on the inside of the tree.

This usually does not kill the tree, but it can be a safety hazard. So if these large cracks appear in trees that are around people or buildings or vehicles, an arborist should look at this tree and determine if it is a safety hazard. What's the sound like? As you can imagine, it takes a lot of pressure to cause wood to crack. So it would not be uncommon to hear a large cracking sound, a large popping sound that almost sounds like a gunshot, but it is actually the wood physically cracking.

Any kind of tree is more vulnerable than another? Maple trees get most of the attention given how common they are and how susceptible they are to cracking. Most hardwood trees that lose their leaves in the winter will crack if it gets cold enough and conifers such as pine trees or spruce trees can also crack as well. When the temperature gets down to about minus 20, that's when the sap freezes and you get this cracking occurring. That's really cold, isn't it? The upper Midwest gets these cold temperatures every few years, so trees are used to this. They handle it. They may have a physical deformation, but they probably will live through it. This is interesting. We have maple guys in our, in Gitmo Nation. Who do maple syrup. You've received maple syrup from them. So have I. Yeah, I love maple syrup. Email me and said, I've never seen this. We got maple trees. Yeah, well, this is an art, a guy who is some sort of an expert, but I mean, maybe it doesn't get cold enough.

where the maple trees are. It has to be below 20, minus 20. Minus 20. Oh, that's okay. That's very cold. And now we play the second piece here? Yeah, this is just kind of a follow-up. Is there anything people can do to avoid their trees cracking? Realistically, the most practical thing for a homeowner with a small tree to do is wrap the tree with tree wrap. It's sort of like painters tape or duct tape that you wrap around the base of the tree up to the first set of lower branches. This can help provide some insulation and hopefully reduce the likelihood that that small tree is going to reach that critical temperature at which it cracks.

Bill McNeil of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, we wish you and your colleagues and everyone in Wisconsin a good weekend. Thanks so much, sir. Thank you for having me. I was gonna say, I should mention, dogs do not dance. Okay? Just note that. Wait, are you sure? Are you sure that- Pretty sure they don't dance. They don't dance. Here to explain, CBS News Money Watch correspondent, Kelly O'Grady. Kelly, good morning. So what is driving this push to clean up this AI content and then what protections are out there that YouTube will put in place? So, I mean, there's just been an explosion of that low quality content, as you said, to

that over a million YouTube channels each day in December used AI technology in creating those videos. So it is a lot. And that creates a number of issues. One, you have viewer trust issues. You've got these deepfake videos that look really real and people don't know if they are. And so that also leads to the platform becoming low quality as a whole, potentially, and all of those AI slot videos sort of crowding out legitimate creators trying to make a living trying to bring us good content. and

created an AI generated video to say so their tools specifically if you use a video or you create a video using their tools there is a label that comes up. Exactly, exactly and then in general the algorithm tries to down rank low quality content. It doesn't always work and it often comes down to people having to do this when things are evolving so quickly. Yeah, I'm happy. The number one progenitor of AI is screwing themselves. I completely agree. I mean, you scroll through YouTube looking for something, it's like, first of all, all the images look like our art. You know, everything except for the cartoony ones. It's all AI generated labels, you know, the poster images.

Everything looks the same. If it looks AI, you're going to presume it's AI. And then you play it and how many times, I don't know if you've had this, we are watching this video and after three minutes, you're like, wait a minute, this is just stock footage rotating with a voiceover. There's nothing coming up here. Yeah, I've had that happen. It's quite annoying. And it takes minutes. It's almost like done on purpose as a joke. Oh no! How much will you... My favorite thing is that, wait till the end. Oh yeah, wait till the end. And there is nothing that happens. Nothing goes on, it just goes on and just ends. You won't believe what happens. Wait till the end of this video. It's gonna be great. Yeah. Because that used to mean something like five years ago. Wait for it.

And right on the heels of this, of course, we have something called the Defiance Act. And it has a celebrity at the forefront of promoting this act with a just a hilarious side connotation in my book. She spoke about the fears that girls and women who have could potentially become victims of the AI pornography. The bill is championed by New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. So what I found just amazing in this is that the impact the leaked sex tape which she filmed herself had for Paris Hilton was she became globally famous just like Kim Kardashian.

I mean, they probably want this act passed so that no other women can get up into their level of fame. This is crazy. Well, that's an interesting analysis. I mean, she didn't need money being a Hilton heir, but she became just the... And this kind of attention, the first thing that got my attention in this attention grab was they now have the opportunity to sue the creators. The creators are anonymous. They're like hackers and guys who live in the basement and they're kind of crazy guys and some smart guys and everybody in between who can do these AI things. They do them and they slipstream them into the system where they get passed around by other people. And you can't, how are we gonna sue?

Whoever posted it probably if you post it on YouTube. I mean It's gonna have to people you can't track down any half the people that are on YouTube. You can't track down anybody on tick-tock Oh Well, I don't know. Things have changed. Terms of service changed. The deal is done. An estimated 180 million TikTok users in the US had been waiting anxiously for the fate of the app to be determined. It had been banned by a 2024 law signed by then-President Joe Biden that came into effect in January 2025.

The law bans social media apps linked to foreign governments like China from being available in US app stores. But on taking office, President Trump signed a series of executive orders providing for a delay in enforcing the law to allow time for US investors to negotiate a deal with a Chinese parent company. President Trump acknowledged that users of the TikTok app had played a significant role in his election victory. Essentially with TikTok, I have the right to either sell it or close it. And Vice President J.D. Vance also played a role in pushing for a deal. Of course we're going to keep on working at it, but this deal really does mean that Americans can use TikTok, but actually use it with more confidence than they had in the past because their data is going to be secure and it's not going to be used as- Hold on. Oh, I can use it with more confidence? Confidence of what? I'm watching dancing dogs

and fat chicks falling on a balanced beam and all this other... What are they talking about? I'm only watching it for the amusement. That Americans can use TikTok but actually use it with more confidence than they have in the past because their data is going to be secure and it's not going to be used as... of Oracle is owned by Trump supporter Larry Ellison, who had previously accused the platform of being pro-Palestinian. Oracle will manage TikTok's data security, algorithm, and cloud computing, essentially moving control into US hands. Yeah, we're gonna see dancing Israelis now on the balance beam. So you can tell, you know, all I learned from that report, because I have never seen a pro-Palestinian TikTok ever. No.

All I got from that report is that the algo has determined that Larry Ellison is on TikTok looking for Palestinian material. Bingo. And he finds one, he goes, oh my God, let me look at it again and again. And then next thing you know, he's getting tons of it. Let me share it. I got to share it. I got to share it with my group. He's sharing it. So now Larry, the tech genius has decided that that's all TikTok is because he doesn't understand it at all. Is that what I'm being told? That's what I'm being told. Well, the terms and conditions have changed. Interesting that there is a Middle Eastern co-owner of this, because of course, you know, we have to have confidence that it's not China who has our data.

The language of the new policy I'm reading from the New York Times was more sweeping It said tick-tock would use the data collected from users and third parties to show customized ads and other sponsored content both on tick-tock and on other websites This is exactly what they accused China of doing users can adjust their advertising permissions in the app sure. Yeah, right So this was always about And it kind of backfired because it was Google. Google and Facebook, they hated this because it was taking their lunch, their lunch money. It was billions of dollars. And now, and I'm sure these guys, I'm sure they'll run it into the ground. There's no vision behind it. You know, fine. So yeah, they will. You're right. Yeah. I don't see it. They always have all this stuff. Boots on the ground from one of our Department of War producers.

Anonymous, for obvious reasons, wants to provide some quick feedback after attempting to use the Department of War's Gen AI. Now, do we recall what this Gen AI was supposed to do? I don't recall, but I do recall it, but I don't recall what it's supposed to do. Well, it was going to help with operations. Oh yeah, it was going to be a lifesaver. So he says right now still the only LLM implemented is Gemini. Grok, ChatGPT and Claude are not accessible yet. So we tried a couple of different things. He says, the military has probably the largest corpus of data to pull from. So my first attempt, I figured I should be able to get Gemini to format a standard naval letter, considering there's plenty of information to pull from. Nope. In fact, the amount of time it took me to generate a simple message in official formatting with multiple prompts

Attempting to correct it took me well beyond the time span of just creating one from scratch. Right, this is a note, this is notable because this is the case with most AI. Second, I knew this was a long shot but I had a brag sheet for recognizing someone for their service during the quarter as we call them, sailor, soldier, NCO, etc. of the quarter. Packages have a standard format, the brag sheet was has the relevant data points to input, in theory it should have just plugged and played what was needed. Instead, repeat of above. Last attempt, a real-world case, operational planning. This was a very simple test. I grabbed grid coordinates for a known area that could support one of our rotary wing platforms, that's helicopters, for a landing zone and prompted, would these grid coordinates support CV22 land zone? I presume that's an osprey. What I got was generic information about theorized capability but no recommendation because it couldn't assess the area.

While we have individuals that specifically do this analysis, I had to do this site assessment previously in my career for offhand work for on-the-fly medevac landing zones on public LZs, landing zones, on public plan to support training cycles. Not a big ask, but if it can't do this basic task, I doubt it can do anything very complex. So these are three of the things that were promised that would take the Department of War into the next century of technology. And it cannot do it. It did, it took it into the next century. That is the next century, hello. There is some exciting news for both you and I. This kind of goes along with my idea that AI or whatever you want to call this

is really great when decentralized, when you can have it at home. Enter Gwen3, Q-U-E-N-3-T-T-S. This is from the Chinese. They've open sourced a very lightweight model which does exactly what 11 Labs does. And you can run it on home computer stuff. And there is a GitHub, you can download it, you can download the models. And I've tried it. It's... What is it? Give me the name of it again. Quen. That's the... What is it? That's the... What's the big... The Chinese Amazon? What's the Chinese Amazon? I don't know. Yeah, you do. The big... Timo? No, no, no. The big one you buy all the crap on.

Sh-Shimu or Shimo or what? No, no! Shen, Shen! No, not Timu. The one that had the guy who got kicked out. Oh, okay, I can't remember the name. Alibaba, Alibaba. Yeah, Alibaba director. Low T, Low T! Instababa. It was Low T! QWEN3-TTS They have a little example. You can run it on one of their cloud servers. I like it, it's a catchy name. No, it's not. It's a catchy name, yeah. Quen3 TTS. So I'll be loading this up on my Linux system. Oh, it runs on Linux? You can run it on, I think you can run it on almost anything. It's easiest to run it on Linux, yeah.

Because you know, you have that open web, open UI, whatever you can load all the open source models on. But it's good. It's really surprising. And you can also sample your own voice. So that's what I'll be trying. That's what I've been wanting to do with 11 Labs, but I only use the free version. They won't let me do the free version. No, 11 Labs costs you like $199 a month to do that. I'm still not paying. No, but you're going to use this and you're going to love it. This is this that sounds you sound correct. This is this has John C. Dvorak written all over it. I find this Fascinating this is exactly the problem these guys have They're all trying to make all these goodies for everybody and meanwhile the China is just like you have this for free They're screwing with these guys. They really are as good. Well if it's as good as you say

I think I've only seen, I've only done the demo. So can I use, I'll get my Spuds Oakley voice, I'll take it from 11 Labs and give it to this system. I can get it for free, I can have it read a book. Well, let me give you an example. I think they have a... First of all, 11 Labs is a terrific product, so I'm not going to demean them. Except they just don't need to pay hundreds of dollars a year for anything. For a little gag. Yeah, no, I agree. You don't need that. I can't find the... I'll have to find the... I'll just load it. I'm gonna load it and we're gonna test it. Oh, Hugging Face demo. Here we go on Hugging Face. So, okay. Give me some text. Not too long, just because it's a demo. Give me something for it to say. Okay, now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.

Okay, now describe the voice. So just describe it. The tone, anything. A husky female lesbian. Husky female lesbian. Okay, any particular intonation? With a lisp. Okay, I am going to generate the audio. Uh, zero GPU queue waiting for a GPU to become available. Ah, successfully acquired a GPU. This is exciting. We've acquired a zero GPU GPU. I'm not quite sure what that means. The progress bar is moving to the left. I see a waveform starting to appear processing 17, 19, 20 seconds of 26.3 seconds. This is so exciting, John. We're about to hear your husky female lesbian with a lisp. Here we go. Here we go. Now is the time.

for all good men to come to the aid of their country. No list, but it wasn't bad. It was close. Yeah. Now let me just... It was a nice husky voice. Speaking excitedly. Maybe we need to add the... Yeah, do that. Oh, I got an error. Oh, you reached your quota. Create pro account. You didn't register. The Chinese are the same as every other Silicon Valley company. Oh yeah, they're the same douchebags as all the other software people. Why not? I only generated two of these while testing it before the show and then I reached my quota. Thanks, hugging face. I'll give it a shot. I'll load it up and we'll have some fun with it in a week from now. We'll have some fun.

Alright, we'll see. I haven't asked Adam for a little side trip here. Alright, everybody it's time to ask Adam. Alright, what do we have? I want to preface this by talking, this is from the CBS Evening News and Barry Weiss is under nothing but relentless attack including from your buddy Megan Kelly who called her a lesbian. What? Tina should have told me this. She's always on that tip. She knows all this stuff. I'm surprised.

So she is, Barry Weiss is under attack and there's a good article in the Ringer, you should people just look at the Ringer and find either search for Barry Weiss or CBS News about Tony Ducapole who's you know everyone doesn't like him either because he's too kind of a wimp. Isn't he the guy that that introduced Candace and her beard? Yeah, he's... according to Megyn Kelly, and this is secondhand because this was written in this article, she says that Ducapole was picked as the anchor because that's a lesbian's ideal of a man. Really? Yeah, because it went on. It's quite funny.

But they go on and on and I actually think he does a good job to be honest about I think he's fine He's as good as Tom Yamas. Yeah, and some of these other guys Pretty just look pretty and read the prompters. It's not all that hard. Yeah, that's basically right but but this it's the what's the problem is is that's not correctable is the staff, the infrastructure. Once you get this, I've said this, we've said this on the show, it's kind of a theme, don't hire woke people because once they get in your organization, they contaminate it and ruin it. Yes, a problem.

And so it's the writing in the back rooms and the reporters that are all a bunch of Democrats that are in there and you can't get rid of them overnight. You never will. And so here's this report. So this becomes an Ask Adam because it's so stupid. This is Ask Adam. This is about the murder rate. And this is the question. Murders dropped by more than 20% last year, down to what may be the lowest murder rate in more than a century, according to a new study. The Council on Criminal Justice says it crunched numbers in 40 large cities and found that carjackings and shoplifting are also down. And the cause? Mostly it's... Pass. Error. Answer the question. Go! So my question is the cause of the drop of the carjackings and murder rate?

What is the cause? Don't forget this is a hundred years. Oh. A hundred years of murders. I know the answer. They're down. I know the answer. Okay. Climate change. That was that almost. Almost. And the cause? Mostly it says a return to normal after the pandemic. Close enough. Yeah. Yeah. COVID, wait a minute. COVID was 100 years ago. Is that what they're telling us? So 100 years ago after COVID, it's gone down because of the end of COVID. Are you kidding me? What kind of analysis, what logic is it? Where's the logic? They said 100 years, not five. It should have been climate change. It would have been much better news. Climate change would have been a better, actually would have been a better answer than that.

Well, while we're doing fun stuff, I picked up a Politico interview with the gay General Patton, known as Scott Besant. We had a conversation about his script writing, that someone had written these scripts for him. You know, if someone's writing scripts, they're giving him one-liners and he's good at remembering. Listen. Some of the European leaders have gotten criticism from Democrats, people like Gavin Newsom. Cardi is actually one of the few people that Newsom has praised. He said he brought knee pads for some of the other European leaders that he thinks have been too accommodating to the president.

I think Gavin Newsom may be cracking up with some of these things he's saying. I think he may be in over his hairdo. And being on the national stage is very different than being governor of California with no signature achievements. But to say strange things like, President Trump is a Tyrannosaurus Rex. What the hell does that mean? I could say Gavin Newsom is a brontosaurus with a brain the size of a walnut. and if you brought the knee pads maybe that was for his meeting with Alex Soros I don't know yeah the knee pads thing is gonna haunt him forever yeah but the memes are already out there but to have Scott Besson say this is just it's no there's something particularly yes very it's actually

It's an amplification of the insult just by the fact that it's Besant who's a kind of a milquetoast guy that's got all these zingers. Are you kidding me? Well, in that interview, I didn't clip it. He says, hey, I'm just a kid from South Carolina. He says, I learned to fend for myself. I kind of believe that. He just grew up to be kind of, he's just, this whole persona says royal family, not like I'm going to insult you with a knee pad retort. It's just, it's something funny about it. Yeah. South Carolinians are the, well, you know, when the civil war broke out, uh, South Carolina was one of the succession of states that really was pushing for a monarchy.

Oh really? Yeah, they've always been somewhat regal. The South Carolinians are regal. They have a regality that is unparalleled in the entire country. Yeah, having been there a couple times I can see that. They like their little palaces there. They got those houses, man. Some of them are just amazing. Here's another one from Scott Besant, although not as lewd. This is about Alberta. Look, Alberta is a wealth of natural resources but they won't let him build a pipeline to the Pacific. I think we should let them come down into the US and Alberta is a natural partner for the US. They have great resources. The Albertans are very independent people.

Rumors that they may have a referendum on whether they want to stay in Canada or not. Yeah, well it's not just a rumor. They say rumors? Yeah, I said rumor. It's not a rumor. No, it's not a rumor at all, but it may not have been Davos, that may have been earlier, but still the sign up for the referendum has been going on for a couple weeks now. I just do have another Because Davos, you know, is kind of wrapped up and just looking at some, just trolling for some material here. Bill Gates, this is so on brand for what he says here. It was just mind blowing that he still gets away with this. So the AI is entering into the health system, but not just into the health system, it's all the way down to the level of the patient. So the patient is able to talk in their local language and describe what's going on.

And so in order to make this a reality, to see what works, what doesn't work, we're thrilled that OpenAI and the Gates Foundation are committing an initiative called Horizon 1000, where we'll go into a thousand primary health care clinics in Africa. And the goal is to make... He's like, whatever we can do, let's test it on the black people over there. In Africa. Much higher quality and if possible twice as efficient as it is today. Taking away the paperwork that needs to be done, organizing the resources, you know, so the patient knows what's available and when to come for their appointment. So there's all sorts of things can be improved. So it's basically a chat bot.

Rwanda is a great partner for the Gates Foundation. We got lots of cadavers from Rwanda to test. We're thrilled that that's actually the first country that this work will go into. We'll certainly also over time work in Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria and you have different systems that we have to connect into. Although not this initiative, there's obviously a lot going on in India as well. And so over the next couple of years, I would expect developing world health may even get ahead of rich world because the need is so great and the government's embracing this and making sure that it's moving at full speed. So basically, you go in, the chatbot says, oh, you need a shot.

Clearly, just stick your arm in here. We'll give you a shot. This guy's a ghoul. He's a total ghoul. And while we're leaving the World Health Organization, your state is re-entering. California Governor Gavin Newsom has announced the state is joining the World Health Organization's Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network. There's more. The announcement comes a day after the US formally withdrew from the WHO and is the latest move by Newsom to move California away from federal health policy. But wait, this is your state, this is what your money's gonna be spent on. And meanwhile, according to an expenditure line item in the governor's proposed 2026-27 state budget, the governor is requesting $33,000 for a self-portrait.

No details on who's going to be painting that portrait or where it's going to be displayed. The full budget is pegged at about $348 billion. Okay, so two things. One, $348 billion. And self-portrait? Is he going to pay himself? That's what I said. That makes no sense. Well, it'd be a stick figure, but it'd be, you know, he needs $33,000. So he's going to paint himself. So obviously that was not misreported. Yeah. But as usual, hilarious, just hilarious. It is funny. Yeah.

Let's see, what else do we... Do you want to hear Elon from Davos? He was there? Oh yeah, well... Oh yeah, that's right, I saw him. Yeah, with Fink. Fink, who was quick to point out everywhere, I'm interim, co-chair, just interim. I'm only interim. I'm not part of the World Economic Forum, I'm just interim. He had to keep saying it everywhere. Sticking his finger up, interim, interim. So he's the guy running it right now. He got the other guy kicked out so he could take it over so they could do some deals. BlackRock deals worldwide. It's all about the deals, of course. And so he's going to, yeah, he's in tight with Trump. Him and Trump are buddies. In fact, one of the overlooked details about his, their friend, even though he's a Democrat, Fink,

Jewish, by the way, make sure to note that. Yes, troll room, take note. Take note, troll room. So Fink is the guy who actually bought C.K. Hutchinson's ports all over the world through Blackrock. And that includes Rotterdam, by the way. He owns half of Rotterdam's ports now. Really? Oh, well, he's in the drug trade then. And he is the one that made the Panama deal go through. He's the one who bought the ports from the Chinese with BlackRock.

which made it easy so Trump didn't have to make a big fuss or go to war or anything. So Trump and him are in bed as pals, and as a favor to Trump, he's the one who told Newsom he had to cancel his speech at Davos and he could be interviewed or something else. He got booted out, got pissed off about it. That's why he was so irked about the knee pads and everything else because he thought that he's being being railroaded, which he was because he shouldn't be there in the first place. He's a governor of California. What's he doing at Davos? Third largest economy in the world. Fourth. And so there is a falling fast. He said third though. He said. Well, he's wrong. And so you end up with this craziness going on between Fink and Trump, which is not really being noticed enough. That's good. I didn't know that he had basically done the

The Panama deal? Yeah. Oh, that's very interesting. Of course it's our money. Isn't it the US government money? Whatever, you can sure it's not Fink's money. No, it's not his. So Elon is at Davos and I have to say Elon is underwhelming. He doesn't have a good rap anymore. The stuff he says is like, okay, whatever. And he and all these AI guys, whether it's him or whether it's Altman and It's a milieu, it's a clique, it's creepy. And you're right, it's anti-climatic. It's lax charisma. Lax charisma. They all are looking up to the left, you know.

Which, what is that in NLP if your eyes look up to the left? You're trying to visualize something you can remember. You're dreaming. You're dreaming. You're in a dream world. You're in a dream world. Talk like difficult because I'm a genius. What a start. I mean, the way you think of it is that if you have a large number of humanoid robots The economic output is the average productivity per robot times the number of robots. Wow! Wow! Let's listen to that calculation again. Wait, I gotta listen to that. That was so dumb. Large number of humanoid robots. The economic output is... The economic output of a large number of humanoid robots is...

The average productivity per robot times the number of robots. No, no, no, no, no say it's not so that I never would have come up with that calculation, right? Right and and actually my prediction is in the in the benign scenario benign scenario that we will The robots will actually make so many robots in AI that they will actually saturate all human needs meaning you won't be able to even think of something as to ask the robot for. Yes, yes, I have something. Could you please do this podcast for us? That would be very helpful, humanoid robot. At a certain point. Like, like, there will be such an abundance of goods and services because my prediction is there'll be more robots than people. So. But how do you then have human purpose?

In that scenario. I mean, you know, nothing's perfect, you know. Kill all humans! You have human purpose to kill all robots. But, I mean, it is a necessary... Listen to this. Like, you can't have both. You can't have work that has to be done and amazing abundance for all. What because if it's what has to be done then you and only some people can do it Then you can't have a bundle. He's narrow. Yes narrow. Yes. Yeah, we'll wait for it So it's coming at the end and can I say something of course he always? Underperforms in front of art. He's not what he's like most people supposedly they can't perform in front of an audience. He's not a theater kid

He's good on one-on-one interviews when he's with somebody and he can focus on them and skewer them, but when he's playing to a large audience, he's always like this. He's not good. He shouldn't even do it. Well, this is a one-on-one panel between him and Fink. Yeah, but there's a bunch of people watching it. Yeah. Well, listen to his vision. You can't have abundance. It's narrow. It's narrow, exactly. But if you have billions of humanoid robots, and I think there will be, I think everyone on Earth is going to have one and going to want one. Because who wouldn't want a robot to... Alright, what do you think his examples are of what our robots of the future will do?

Well, what they should do, they do the dishes and vacuum the floor and they run errands and they scratch your back. You know, assuming it's very safe, watch over your kids, take care of your pets. Two of the joys in life. Yeah. The robots are supposed to free you up so you can do that activity. I want to play with my pet. I want to play with the dog and you want to tumble around with the kids, sure. Here comes the worst one. If you have elderly parents, a lot of friends of mine said they have elderly parents, it's very difficult to take care of them. And expensive. Yeah. Oh, you know what? Kill the elderly. Have the robot kill your parents.

There you go, now you're being realistic. It's expensive and they just aren't enough people to take care of the, there aren't enough young people to take care of the old people. Wait a minute, if we have robots then yes we can have the young people taking care of the old people. By the way, it's enjoyable for the old people and for young people they might learn something like, don't let the robots take over. This is so... Yeah, we teach him something right. I mean, you know, when I was a kid, they didn't have robots. I almost expected him to say, you know, the robot will know when you're out of milk in the fridge and it'll order new milk for you. That's coming. Well, that would be what I would expect.

And with that, before our children kill us, I want to thank you for your courage. Say in the morning to you the man who put the C in 53 Mexican consulates. Say hello to my friend on the other end, the one and the only Mr. John C. Good morning. Good morning. It was a great march. You can see bullets on the ground, subs in the water. And all the things are nice out there. In the morning to the trolls in the troll room. Let me count you for a second. 2076 today. It is a snow day, that's why everybody's inside and couldn't go to the mailbox to send us a check because this will be one of the shorter segments we do in the lifetime of this show.

The whole idea is value for value, then we give you value if you don't find it valuable. We're not giving them enough value. I guess our value is low. Well, you know, we're beating up a lot of dead dogs here. No, we're not. Dead horses, I'm sorry. We're giving people a whole new perspective on what's happening in Minneapolis. No, I don't think we're beating up dead dogs. We're doing... Dead horses. Or horses. We're doing... We're not doing what all the other programs do, which is... Oh, that's the problem. You're right. We're not being in the podcast industrial complex and the circle jerk. Yeah, we're not saying... He killed him. No, he didn't. He didn't have a gun. Rewind the video. Let's take a look. What do you see? What do you think?

No, we're not doing Zapruder analysis. We're analyzing your world from a different point of view. So we hope you find that valuable. And you should be listening to us on one of those very valuable modern podcast apps so that you can get the bat signal when we go live because we do the show live. And of course, once we publish it within 90 seconds, you will know. What? We're doing it live. When do we go live? No one told you? Value for value is measured in multiple ways, time, talent or treasure. Meetups are appreciated. Doing boots on the ground, like we had a good boots on the ground report, anonymous Department of War employee from the Navy apparently.

Yeah, this is all helpful. This is what makes the show, of course, is that we have thousands of producers, not like Don Lemon, who just has some FBI handlers. We have actual producers who know stuff because they are in the workplace. They are out in the real world and we feel that we are close to you. We are connected. We also have people who are pretty good at AI stuff and they like to prompt a lot. And we want to thank Blue Acorn. Blue Acorn, who I think is a real digital artist, obviously he knew what he was doing when he created this art for episode 1836. We titled that Big Bully. His exploding tree art was spot on and everybody got it. It was meta to the max.

It was the perfect time for this type of... If you look at this tree exploding with the googly eyes and the other trees behind it all flipping out, I think it was a perfectly timed, well-executed hijack of cultural mnemology. I think so too. I liked the piece a lot. I liked the two pieces from him. I also like T. Rex Trump, which I thought was competitive. It was. And so he had heard us going on and on about the greatness of Darren O'Neill and Jeffrey Rea and said to himself, what am I, what a chopped liver? And so he cranked out a bunch of stuff because he's not, obviously he's in the same category. Well, a couple of these guys are back. Also, hello, Bob Dietrich. He's moving up. He's trying to do stuff. Blue Acorn. Who else was back? I saw

Couple of the Matthew drop Co People are back scare manga You know a lot of people once you start singling people out the ones who don't get mentioned Yeah, they go away. Which is the way it should be, by the way. They get irked, and the next thing you know, they're cranking out stuff because they want their chops. They got chops, they want recognition. Like Nick the Rat, who, you know, he's doing stuff, but it's... I don't know. I think he's trying to get into the AI swing of things. It's not quite there for him yet. It takes time. It does. It will happen.

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The U.S. team spoke to reporters after two days of meetings in Abu Dhabi with high-level delegations from Ukraine and Russia. The officials said, quote, just getting them to the table to talk is a big step and, quote, the conversations were very respectful. Even if there were no significant breakthroughs, they said having everyone in the same room was progress after months of at times frustrating shuttle diplomacy. Major sticking points remain, including how territory will be divided up and the terms of de-escalation if there is a deal. The officials say the next meeting has already been set for a week from now, again in Abu Dhabi. Meanwhile, Russia launched hundreds of drones and missiles at Ukraine's two largest cities as the talks went on. This is NPR News. Did you hear Zelensky at Davos? Oh, I don't know if I had.

I have it. I have a minute ten, um, clip, report. It's kind of funny because, well, you'll hear it in this clip. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky slammed Europe in his address to the World Economic Forum in Davos for their inaction, describing it as a lost continent. In his scathing critique, Zelensky says Europe is stuck in an endless cycle of failing to defend itself or decisively supporting Ukraine, likening the situation to the US film Groundhog Day. about the ceasefire itself. Who can help make it happen? Europe loves to discuss the future but avoids taking action today. Action that defines what kind of future we will have. That is the problem. Why can't President Trump stop tankers from the Shadow Fleet and seize oil, but Europe doesn't? Russian oil is

being transported right along European shores. That oil funds the war against Ukraine. That oil helps destabilize Europe. So Russian oil must be stopped and confiscated and sold for Europe's benefit. Why not? His address followed a private meeting with US President Donald Trump to discuss the latest on the ground and ongoing peace efforts. I think Trump literally gave him a piece of paper, say this. I mean, he had a meeting with the Trump and then he said, hey, these Europeans, they're still taking Russian oil from ghost ships. They're funding the war against us. Hmm. Yeah. You know, what you said was kind of offhanded, but I think you actually might be correct. I wasn't, it wasn't that offhanded. I mean, when I heard the report, I'm like, well, that's obvious why he said that.

Trump said, don't screw it up man, say this, those guys suck in Europe. They suck. They suck. Well, he's not wrong. No. All right, so we go to Colonel McGregor, he's got this show, you know. And doesn't answer your calls. No, no, but he'll do anybody else's podcast, but he won't come and do an interview with us. Because, you know, we're just the... Yeah, the best podcast in the universe. You might ask a real question. But he does have an interesting little screed type of analysis here that is worth listening to. President Trump doesn't seem to want to kill the bad ideas. You know, he's got his own set of bad ideas. He could have gone into NATO and said, listen, this is over. The United States will not support war with Russia.

We want to normalize our relations with Russia. We want to do business with Russia. Russia is not interested in conquering Europe. So sit down, shut up and get on board with us. And if you're not going to get on board with us, that's fine. Then get on another ship because we're not sailing the war. He could have done that. Yeah. He done it. No, he hasn't. And then he looks, look at a place like Kiev under this man Zelensky. Zelensky is a defeated regime. Ukraine has been defeated if not destroyed. Shut up. We're going to sort this out and you're going to live with what we come up with. People had common sense 100, 200 years ago when they settled these wars, they took that position. But again, when did they do that? They did it after the Napoleonic Wars.

Because they'd seen millions of people die. They'd seen cities and towns destroyed. They didn't want that anymore It took a hundred years to forget it and go back to Oregon in 1914. No, that's from a historical standpoint pretty good. Yeah Yeah, what did you Europeans? They're nuts. Well along those lines a little long A little over two minutes. Oh. I know. Well, if you get tired of it, then we can stop it. Why do you ever get to this two minute rule? I don't remember us ever establishing it, but we have. I like 1.30 myself. In fact, I'll cut it. Well, I prefer one. Yeah.

But I use the two minute rule and I always feel crappy when I look and it comes out at 2.05. Yeah, well that's exactly why I'm prefacing it by saying I feel it's too long. Yeah, you're apologizing in advance. Yeah, I feel it's too long. Generally speaking if it's too long it's usually good. Well, you don't like the guy, so it might not be. But on the periphery of Davos, there's all these other little institutions and interviews, you know. It's kind of like the Academy Awards in a way. You go to this tent and you do an interview there, you go to that tent, or you've got to talk to E! Entertainment. Does E! Entertainment, they go belly up? Are they gone? Is that still around? Not that I know of. Are they still around?

E-news I think is folded, but the E-network's still around. I think they still have a mic on the red carpet. I have to look into it now. So I do, I think we both do this. I'm always cutting out pauses, particularly the like France 24. They leave long pauses. Whenever someone's being translated, they always start with... And the voice comes over, what I was trying to say... I cut out all the walka-talka-walka. I do too. We both do. Yeah, it's annoying. You know, it doesn't do anything. I leave a snippet. Yeah, about that much. So this is Janus Verufakis.

Roll eyes now. He, uh, now what's interesting about him, and this is in his wheelhouse, and this is not one of those AI videos that I get tricked into a couple weeks ago. This is him on stage being interviewed. He was the finance minister, later I think prime minister, but the finance minister of Greece when Europe, when we had the Euro crisis and they blamed it all on Greece and they, it was so bad that Dutch people were refusing to go to Greek restaurants. That's how crazy Europe is. But the Greeks screwed us, man, so we're not gonna support them. Is that right? Yeah, don't you remember that? No, I don't remember them not going to Greek restaurants. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I could probably look it up on Bing It and find it. Yeah, they wouldn't go to Greek restaurants and everyone hated it. Like, why are we in the North suffering for you in the South? It was the pigs. Portugal, Italy, Greece, and Spain.

Remember it now, the pigs? I remember the pigs. Yeah, the pigs. And so the IMF swooped in with, I want to say, Goldman Sachs, probably a couple of other big banks, and they said, all right. They ruined the place. Yeah, they ruined it and gave them austerity. So Varoufakis has a bone to pick. And he is explaining why the European Union is cooked toast and will not work and is bound to fail. Europe made a grievous error in 1992 by creating a federal money. The idea was

to create a monetary federation and then on top of that build a political union. But there was a Cambridge economist, Nicholas Calder, who in 1970 in the New Statesman warned Europeans against doing this. He said if you make the mistake of creating a monetary union as a first stepping stone towards a political union, you will fail because the monetary union will create an almighty economic crisis that will poison the well of any further consolidation and then it will be impossible to consolidate. We had a chance with the Euro crisis to create a political union that goes along with a monetary union.

We failed. We failed bismally. Instead, we created new forms of rolling over the debts and consolidating that which cannot be consolidated. Then we had the pandemic, which was another great opportunity. The result of these failures and this delay is a complete political fragmentation. You know, 10 years ago, 15 years ago, there was Angela Merkel. You know, she was my great political opponent. I had many clashes with her. But at least she had the political capital to bring Europe together. By delaying all this time, spending 15 years not investing at all, zero net investment in the European Union as a result of the mishandling of the inevitable euro crisis, Germany is deindustrializing. So now Germany is renationalizing its policies, the single market is finished, so the Brexit

That discussion is gone because there is not even a single market. Only on paper there is a single market now. So this fragmentation means that you can see Trump appears. Trump loathes the European Union. He hates the European Union much more than he hates China for reasons of his own. And what is Europe doing? They are running around like headless chickens. They are putting forward a preposterous military Keynesianism which is neither necessary nor feasible. Europe does not have the capacity to create a military-industrial complex. It will never have the capacity. If you want, we can discuss why. So this is why I'm saying with pain in my heart that Europe is simply slipping into irrelevance. I think he's right. You're going to let that go longer. You liked it, huh?

Huh, yeah. I would like to hear his conversation about why they can't create a military-industrial complex. Well, they don't have power anymore in Germany to even make steel. You mean literal electricity when you say power? Yes, actual electricity is off the table. I still see those videos of them imploding their nuclear plants. It's dope. And they're doubling down, you know, what did I have here? I got a note here, Amsterdam. Amsterdam. Now they do have a nut job mayor, but Amsterdam is banning advertising of fossil fuels and meat. So you may no longer advertise air travel, cruises,

Combustion vehicles, McDonald's because they can't show a hamburger. Yep. Yep. And this is a... How do people elect people like this? Well, what happens is, you know, it's just like the bigger parliament. They have to put together a coalition. So they have the mayor is from GroenLinks, which is green left. I've never heard a better description for a party ever. The green lefties and the party for animals, Partij voor de Dieren. So they have, you know, they got, they have to get something from time to time. So basically the environmentalist plus PETA. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, environmentalist plus PETA. Yeah. So they're banning that. Yeah, it's a mess.

That brings me to a clip that I wonder, I don't know if this is legit, I can't document it, but I'm gonna have to start, as you recall, five years ago, we used to do Prime Minister Question Time on it as a regular issue on the show. And this comes from that, supposedly, I don't know if this is AI or not, but I believe it to be real. And this is a Green member of the UK Parliament asking a question, which is a very simple question that could be easily answered. It's probably reasonable, But Starmer goes off the deep end and condemns the Green Party instead of answering the question with any real foundation, but try playing it.

For decades our rivers, lakes and seas have paid the price of a failing system so the water white papers welcome first step in beginning to set things right. What is she talking about here? It's hard to get into. She's talking about water pollution based on farming practices which contribute to rivers and streams being polluted by you know chemicals. That's helpful. For decades our rivers, lakes and seas have paid the price of a failing system so the water white papers welcome first step in beginning to set things right. But there's a glaring gap. Agricultural pollution contributes 40% of the pollution in our waterways, but merits only one single page in this White Paper. Can the PM tell me why on earth this is the case and when he will start working with farmers to support river-friendly farming practices and treat

agricultural pollution as seriously as sewage pollution. We inherited a real mess on water and we're taking the most effective and far-reaching measures to deal with it but I have to say as someone who stood to lead her party I wonder what she makes of how her leader is responding to this global uncertainty because what he's saying is this is the time this is the moment to withdraw from NATO This is the time to kick the US out of our military bases. This is the time to negotiate, hear this, with Putin to give up our nuclear deterrent. I'm sure Putin will be very quick on the line for that one. It's as reckless and irresponsible as their plan to legalize heroin and crack cocaine. That's the Green Party now. High on drugs, soft on Putin. Wow, what a moron. There's no reason for him to do that.

No, I wonder what the context was if they were talking about Putin gonna have to start watching PMQT Well, I'm glad you brought up British Parliament because I also have a clip from British Parliament This is Lord Young and he is part of the Free Speech Union. So, you know Whenever he talks no one's there Which is kind of funny, if you think about it. That's typical. And there's a law that he and his free speech union take exception to. My Lords, I declare my interest as the director of the free speech union and I congratulate the four new members on their excellent speeches.

I want to draw your Lordships' House attention to just one section of the Employment Rights Act and its impact on the hospitality sector, namely section 21 which extends the liability of employers for the harassment of their employees to third parties. From October of this year employers will have a duty to protect their workers from third parties. I should make clear that we're not talking about third-party sexual harassment, which they were already lar before, but third-party non-sexual harassment. And what does that mean for the hospitality sector? It means employers will have to take all reasonable steps, those are the words in the Act, to protect

their employees from harassment by customers. That might not sound too onerous until you factor in that harassment includes indirect harassment which has been defined by the Employment Tribunal as including overheard conversations, remarks, comments, jokes, that an employee may find offensive or upsetting in virtue of their protected characteristics. And it's for that reason that the Free Speech Union has been referring to Section 21 as the banter ban. The banter ban. So if your customers say... Oh my God, did I hear what I heard? Yes you did. You heard what you heard.

So if someone... I mean, in other words, they want to ban people from mumbling. Yes. Or if you make a little joke and the staff is offended by your joke and they call that the banter ban. I think they should call this the noodle boy offense ban. Noodle boy, yeah. Also known as newbob. I mean, this is how you destroy a country. But wait, we have our own little problems here at home. My friend sent me this this morning from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. What was that? It was a squeak. Yeah. You got a mouse in your pocket? Yeah. This is from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. That Chan is, I think, Zuckerberg's wife, isn't it?

Didn't they put the money in? Oh, that could be. Yeah, I think so. Yeah, yeah. Thanks to research led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the American Psychiatric Association, APA, has added a new term, a new mental disorder into their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, also known as DSM. This is the handbook for classifying and diagnosing mental health conditions used by mental health care providers around the country. Are you ready for it? No. The new... I'll wait until you're ready. I'm ready. All right. So this is the new

Condition, mental health condition. Moral injury. And I will give you the description of moral injury. It is psychological harm incurred from committing, witnessing, or being subject to actions that violate one's moral code. That is now a mental condition. Moral injury. Well, that explains a lot. And you can now get meds for it, I guess. Well, of course! Moral injury. The DSM should be outlawed. That thing is just a... It's just a license to give people SSRIs. Drugs. Drugs, yeah. SSRIs for everything. Nuts. Hey, you're gonna love this. Your theory about the emergency that prompted the return of our astronauts from the International Space Station

Would you like to reiterate your theory? Yes, there was a pregnancy that caused in space and they couldn't take a chance on it. They couldn't give birth in space because there's no, you know, the right doctors aren't up there or anything. They had to shut, you know, they're not supposed to have sex as far as I know and get pregnant up there, but she did, this woman. That's why she was part of the team and they hustled them all back to the United States quietly to take care of the problem. So, we have not been told who had the medical emergency because of course we wouldn't want to violate HIPAA laws. Oh no, and by the way, there's three males and one female that came back.

So here are two NASA astronauts who are talking about this incident and they really are so happy that the equipment on board was there to diagnose the issue and get these astronauts home quickly. I think you'll be interested in what they say. The ultrasound technology has gotten better on planet Earth and we've taken that into space and having a portable ultrasound machine Helped us in this situation. We were able to Take a look at the things that we had and didn't have so when we had this emergency the ultrasound machine came in super handy So I'd recommend a portable ultrasound machine in the future for sure for all space flights It really helped NASA made all the right decisions. I

In my opinion, this is a really excellent example of risk analysis and decision making and I'm very proud of the decision they made. But sometimes things happen and surprises happen and the team was ready and that was like Xena said, preparation was super important. An ultrasound machine. Yeah, huh. You know, being a future grandfather, I love the ultrasound pictures and the videos and the heartbeat and everything. And that's ultrasonic technology. And they were, it was the right gear to have on board. John, I think you have nailed it, my friend. Oh, I'm absolutely convinced I nailed it, but there could be someone with a tumor. Ultrasound's good for that too. It finds, you know. So there's others, they can weasel out, but the way the woman in that particular clip you played, the way that woman, the female, was so gleeful.

They did the right thing, they got her home to have her baby is all she didn't say. But she might as well have said it. It seems to me just to confer the, or to confirm, not confirm, but confirm the speculation. It's so good. I just love it. But why don't they just tell us? That's because, you know, then we have this whole other, you know, then it's a workspace. Then you have the how do you fucking space problem. Okay, not a problem, but the questions because we all want to know. It becomes a topic of discussion that nobody wants to have. We all want to know. Were they floating around at the time? How do you do it? You know, were they spinning maybe in the void? I mean, you just too many. It brings up too many. They don't want it at a press conference. They don't want Carolyn Leavitt trying to explain it.

Well, the way I understand it. All right, I've got one more for you. This is one of my personal gripes and of course people are sending me clips now about it. This is Olaf Aeronautics Model A, part electric road car, part flying car. It's currently in testing and closely watched by the FAA under its airworthiness certificate. Olaf can land on any surface anywhere and take off from any surface anywhere. There does not need to be built any kind of heliports, vertiports or anything like that. Olive co-founder Jim Duchovny says he has 3,500 pre-orders at 300,000 a pop and production is underway. But some experts say flying cars are not ready for public roadways and skies due to regulations and new product headwinds.

Currently, the FAA would require a pilot's license, which is expensive and time-consuming. Flying cars need to be light but also meet road worthiness testing standards. Some believe there are better technologies. namely air taxis which are like smaller helicopters and they cost roughly the same as the olive model a the company acknowledges air taxis are a competitor but says his main rivals are leading EV companies we're trying to make exactly same or similar car

as Tesla, Lucid and Rivian, but with the capability of vertically taking off and flying. NASA and the FAA are working on the framework of advanced air mobility. The concepts being evaluated include the creation of corridors for air taxis, drones and commercial flights. noise, travel times, infrastructure, future airspace, and of course safety. The company though is still bullish on his startup company. I do think we'll actually have a majority of the cars with the some kind of a flying capabilities. Okay, so I just I just heard the number 33 in there. Oh, yeah. So a couple things about this, because I've been following this one very closely. This is a left a l e f dot arrow a e r o I would like you to take a look at this because you'll recognize the car. This is basically a go kart with bicycle wheels that they've put a

Give me the spelling again. A-L-E-F dot arrow, A-E-R-O. When you see it, you go, oh yeah, this thing. And they have this constant video of this. It's almost like a, it's like, yeah, it's like a really rickety thing with these bicycle tires and it lifts off and it jumps over a Tesla cyber truck and then lands. Like this is the technology that they have. So there's no person in it. It's a fiberglass body around this very small frame with these little teeny weeny tires. I don't even know if you can get over 40 miles an hour with it on the road. In fact, they never show it driving. They only show it doing this little hop. A couple things. This company keeps touting that they have an airworthiness certificate. They are allowed to test at an airfield.

That's it's not like oh, it's airworthy. You can go and fly it wherever you want. No, that's it's just it's a lie The other thing is like a turd Yes, it is a turd. The other thing is they always keep saying it got three and a half Thousand people already pre-ordered if you look at the website you can order 33 was the number I think it's the misted 33 3300 you can buy a place in line for a hundred and fifty bucks and So it's not like people put down $300,000. This is a scam operation with a flying turd that you can't even sit in. And they keep bringing this guy up. I don't know why they keep calling it the first flying car. There's been so many of these things. Yeah, it's crazy.

Now, I am kind of bullish on this new battery technology which we talked about, the Donut Lab. I don't know if you had a chance to look at it. Yeah, I looked into it. So I did get to one of our engineers. who has looked into it, he says, I'll just read his note. He says, I used to work in a PC board factory in Santa Clara back in 82, 83. I'm an army radio maintenance technician, also worked for Sony building TV studios. He says, the way this would work and the way he understands it, you use the same techniques as making IC chips, placing billions of tiny capacitors in a small space.

Due to their size and chemical properties, they would act like a mix between a battery and a supercapacitor, which you mentioned. They would be quite easy to produce and would pack a lot of energy into a small package. What caught my eye was their test rig. In my mind, the whole battery would melt, including the cables and connectors, if that much amperage was fed in. There's always resistance that turns into heat. The BYD engineers, all from his website, said you cannot have all those properties in the battery at the same time. You always have to drop out on one of them. It's physics. For me it's the heat, but with a clever battery management system it might work. Think of the PCM style LED drivers. I wonder what JCD has to say about this.

Well, there's no capacitance of any sort because they make a point of saying it's a battery, not a hybrid capacitor battery or anything like that. So that's bull crap. And it turns out that there's a company out of Finland called Nordic Nano, and they developed a technology which they sold to these guys, which is a battery technology that uses a lot of very high-end graphene and nanotubes and all sorts of titanium oxide, to coat the nanotubes and it does, it apparently can produce all these numbers and may or may not be manufacturable. I think the manufacturability is the issue here. But there's some possibility that all this is true. I think as I read an interview with the Fin guy as well and they basically said the one thing the Fins don't do is lie.

So they don't know they drink a lot Imagine all the people who could do that Yes, we do have a few more people to thank for the show. 1837 I believe is the number. It is. And Adam will read the $50 and up right to the max. Not that many of them and we'll go from there. Terry Wentz. Thank you Terry. $130 from Langley, Washington. William Durkin, Greenville, South Carolina with 123.45. We love it when you do stuff like that. Dakota Walker.

$119.93 and that is a belated birthday donation, so we'll have that on the list. Hey coming in from Japan Mayumi Akiyama with kanji characters so I can't tell where. I don't know where that is. I mean, come on, hold on, maybe... Come on, Jay. I mean, you could have at least... Jay should be able to translate that. I mean, look, here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna literally copy and paste that. Hold on. I'm going to copy and paste that into my robot. We just call it robots here, the no agenda show. So copy, paste that. Okay. I'm going to copy and paste the other one. Because the kanji comes through fine, which is okay. So, robot translate.

Alright, while it's doing that I will continue reading. Wait, what? It took that long? Is it already taking time? Oh yeah, it's burning cycles. I'm getting tense. Oh here it is! Here it is. Tatori-shi city. Tatori city in Tatori Prefecture. Okay. Which is in the Chugoku region of Honshu. It's the coast of the sea of Japan, which is, as we know, protectorate of Sir Mark and Dame Astrid. Thank you, Mayumi. McDermott Connor.

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and make a donation support the show. It's value for value, any amount, any frequency for the recurring donations. We appreciate it all. Thank you for supporting the best podcast in the universe. Okay, we have a long list today. Dakota Walker celebrated on the 13th. David Keck to happy birthday to Tammy Mac, 40-something on January 23rd. Bill Durkin has a couple of birthday wishes. His sister Beth White She's celebrating on the 24th. His nephew Patrick White, also on the 24th. And what do you know? Bill himself celebrated on the 24th. Nelson Knapp turned 51 yesterday as well. Sir Deep Thought turns 46 today. Mom and Dad wish Jacqueline

Wednesday, my Jacqueline Wednesday Myers, there we go. She'll be turning two years old today. Happy birthday from your Uncle Adam and Uncle John. Jason, happy birthday to Brittany Miller celebrating their seventh anniversary of her 39th birthday today. And finally, Sir Wayne Larkholm celebrates his birthday tomorrow on January 26th. Happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe. We have no title changes, nights, dames, nothing at all. Nothing. By the way that birthday list is very long which means a lot of people have sex in mid-April. In space. Usually, well in space if they can. In mid-April which is around Easter and that's I guess it's it

Interesting that there's so many. I mean, today's a record breaker. Ten people? I always try to have sex at least in April as well. I don't know anybody named April, so I can't do that. Yeah, it's just like, it's always like a party, the NOAgenda meetups, and of course the meetups take place worldwide. You definitely want to go to at least one of these in your lifetime, I guarantee you, once you've gone to one. You will want to go to more, probably with the same group. We do have a cancellation. Sunday was supposed to be the Indie NA Shill Shiny New Year meetup at 3 o'clock.

Is that today? Yes. That has been cancelled due to weather, obviously Indy. That would have meant the Blind Owl Brewery. They hope to reorganize it for Thursday. So keep checking noagendameetups.com to find out if that happens or not. On Thursday itself, the North Georgia quarterly meetup takes place at 6 o'clock at Cherry Street Brewing in Alpharetta, Georgia and Sir Bob will be organizing that. And we did have that Sao Paulo, Brazil meetup and we got a meetup report. In the morning, Adam and John, this is Augusto de Britalian, based in Berlin, now here in Sao Paulo, my hometown. And I met this gentleman, American gentleman living here in Sao Paulo. I'm assuming his gender.

And we had interesting open conversations about many topics. And now about the pronunciation of two special words in Portuguese. One is Cachaca. Cachaca. And the other one is the state, Bahia. And that's it, gentlemen. Thank you for your courage and for more years. Oakland, California and Wilmington, California, too, in Cali. Then in February, Keyport, New Jersey on the 1st. Indianapolis, Indiana on the 1st as well. Mount Laurel, New Jersey on the 8th. Eagle, Idaho on the 14th. Camp Hill, Pennsylvania on the 15th. Charlotte, North Carolina on the 19th. And Coleyville, Texas.

on February 21st, I'm sure more will pop up. Go to noagentameetups.com, you can find all of the meetups that are listed. We go all the way through May right now. And if you can't find one near you, here's an idea, start one yourself. People will come, we'll announce it, send us a meetup report. It's a lot of fun for the family and for the kids. Noagentameetups.com, always fun, always a party. ♪ Sometimes you wanna go hang out with all the nights and days ♪ You wanna be where you won't be Triggered or held to blame You wanna be where everybody feels the same It's like a party It's right everybody, it's a party. We've got John's tip of the day coming up. I'm a little bit bummed because Tina wasn't able to go to Costco to get your last tip of the day.

which sounded like a good El Cheapo wine right up my alley. It was really good, actually. I'm sure it is. Now, before we do anything, though, we have to choose our end of show ISO, which we do in this segment of the show. I think I've come with some good ones for today. Oh, OK. So here we go. For four more years and possibly far beyond. It's Heather. It's done by your voice. That's Heather. That's Heather from the Dark Horse podcast. You know Heather. For four more years and possibly far beyond. Okay. Yeah, she talks like this. Here's another one. This isn't easy to do. Okay. I think that's also a candidate and this one, this may just take the cake. They'll never be able to replace these guys with AI.

Okay, I'm gonna go into an abeyance mode and push mine off really give you that last one really Wow, they'll never be able to replace these guys with AI there it is and before we even think it's time for John's tip of the day And sometimes Yeah, after doing all these expensive even though I did that I tried to back it off with the cheap wine. That's a high Amazingly good a product I should get some more Wine some other inexpensive items free things I had to go to I'm trying to go down Scale after being condemned for the thousand dollar television set you'll never live that one down will we?

Well, you know, it's still a great product. It is. What am I gonna say? It is. And people have to buy TV sets, so there you go. Yeah. So let's go down to something that costs a couple of bucks. And this is one, we have a number of people out there that help me with these tips and they suggest things. They suggested this, and this is actually a pretty good little guy, a little product. This is the, people should all have one of these sticks or even a three pack of these Tide Oxy stain sticks, they're called Tide Oxy. Tide stain remover for clothes go to pen. We have it in spot remover for clothes travel and we have a size we have it $2.34 from Amazon and elsewhere I concur with this tip because I am known around here as mr. Spot. Oh, mr. Spot Yes, I am always getting food on my clothes I'm the guy that you know, I mean the spaghetti is oh man what I

So, yes, Tina has these in massive quantities and they are quite good at removing spots. So this is the Tide stain remover pen. Are these available in Europe, Australia and other places around the world? I think they're available most places. This is a very hot product. The Tide has done a pretty good job. It's a hot product everybody! You know, I had a meeting long ago, I think it's with Procter & Gamble, whoever owns Tide, it's either Procter & Gamble or the other guys. And I got a long lecture about, I'll just mention it, a long lecture about detergents and toothpastes and all the rest of it from these guys, you know, the company men. And they went on and on about how the reason that you should only buy liquid detergent is because

made all the good powder detergent illegal, because you had to have a certain phosphorus content in there to make it work well. And if you buy Mexican detergent, you can get the good old-fashioned powder detergent, but otherwise you can only get any cleaning power. It has to be liquid. And I've always made note of that, a little tidbit, and some other stuff they told me. It's a hot product everybody and if it's not product hot it's probably owned by Blackrock. That's John's tip of the day. Created by you and me. Just a tip with JCB. And sometimes Adam. Created by Dana Brunetti. All right that will do it.

noagendafun.com, tipoftheday.net. End of show mixes, we've got some slop, we got MVP. Can I make a comment on the end of show mixes? Yeah. Because I've been moaning about this one voice that I keep hearing that does the Broadway tunes. And I realized who it was. Who is it? Who they're stealing from. It's a voice that is kind of, the way I describe it is it's kind of thin but it's pleasant and always on tune, it's always keyed up properly and there's nothing wrong with it. It's Steve Lawrence of Steve Lawrence and Edie Gourmet mixed in with a little Mel Tormé.

And that's coming right up along with Dee's Laughs and a banger, a slap and slop end of show mix, also from MVP, getmojams.com. After the show, live on the screen, we've got Upbeat 66, Salty Crayon bringing you the pod, I mean, the Value for Value music show. There you go. And we're coming to you here from Fredericksburg, Texas, heart of the Texas Hill Country. In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from northern Silicon Valley, where we ain't got no frost, I'm John C. Dvorak. We'll be back on Thursday. Remember us, noagendadonations.com. Until then, adios, mofos, a-hooey-hooey, and such!

Back in the days of the velvet rope Before the slogans and the loss of hope He was the king of the cameo scene The golden name on the TV screen Donald would sit with Oprah on the velvet chair Talking about Margaret with a wink and a flare And the Clintons laughed at his wedding feast He was toasting the town to say the least. Oh it's a flip-flop phenomenon. Can't you see? From a Democrat darling to the GOP. One day you're posing for the paparazzi lens. The next day you're losing all your Hollywood friends. The ink on the check was a shade of blue, but the tie turned red and the bridge burned too. Yeah it's a flip-flop phenomenon.

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Thank you for your service. It's on the ground. Adios, mofo. Dvorak.org slash N A. They'll never be able to replace these guys with A I. Oh my god, if I- did I hear what I heard? What am I- what a chopped liver? You know, when I was a kid, they didn't have robots. Kill all humans. I'm watching Dancing Dogs.