1839: Feces Thesis

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

like a screenshot of some grand jury testimony where Epstein writes to some unknown person because it's redacted. Yeah, and don't tell him I'm Mossad, okay? And the guy literally posts that to me and says, oh, there you go. Still don't believe he's Mossad? Like, yeah, that's what you do. When you're Mossad, then you send emails saying you're not Mossad and therefore you're guilty of being a stooge from Mossad. Oh, brother. Well, the only funny thing that came up was the Gates memo. That was kind of cute. What was the Gates memo? Well, the Gates thing, I got STD, I need some antibiotics. I hadn't seen that one yet. So I can dose my wife. Secretly? Was he going to dose her secretly? Yeah. Well, there you go. Now we know the true reason.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Yeah, rest of the files come out. Okay. This is kind of this interesting thing. What is a survivor in this instance? They keep talking about these survivors. Well, that's... Did they escape a shipwreck or were they mentally incapable of continuing a normal life? I mean, who are these survivors? I mean, I don't want to be callous. No, no, it depends. A survivor would be someone who was groomed, underage, and sexually abused. I would consider that to be an absolute survivor. People who are of age, who fell into the partying and the fun and all of that and got into stuff that they regret, I'm not sure. But they're survivors too. Survivors of?

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

There were probably some underage... Okay, there were some probably underage sex. taking place. I have to guess this is true because it just seems to be. Epstein for sure. Epstein himself, yes. On a foreign island that has, you know, under the jurisdiction. Well, hold on, isn't it the U.S. Virgin Islands? Yeah, but what's the laws? What is the Asia consent? Well, the whole reason for that island was for the money laundering as far as I'm concerned. It just happened to be a great party place. The whole thing is, but, you know, these crimes, they're not, who's going to, who's

Who's gonna prosecute? Did you have a... Okay, so somebody did something on the Virgin Island. Who's gonna prosecute it? Where's it gonna be prosecuted? How... Under what circumstances would they be arrested? I mean, it's just something that is... At this point, it's beyond... It's just too late. But this is not about Epstein. This is about Trump. Yeah, you're right. What am I thinking? This is not about Epstein! What am I doing? I'm trying to make a logical conclusion here. This has nothing to do with anything. Stop it! Stop it! Jeffrey Epstein, those names haven't come out. In fact, they were covered up. Wait a minute. Whoa, what did he say here? Hold on a second. I'll catch this. And we need to understand who were some of the associates of Jeffrey Epstein. Those names haven't come out. In fact, they were covered up. That's quite the allegation. What does he mean by associates other than Ghislaine Maxwell?

Those names were covered up. I mean, what is he what what what does he really want? He wants not you know, he's talking through his hat We need to understand who may have abused or raped underage girls But then there's a broader issue and that is that there are rich and powerful people who may not have committed a crime But who are emailing Jeffrey Epstein well after he's a pedophile talking about going to his I love that well after a day to an eater Okay, on June 8th he became a pedophile and before that he was a normal guy? What? But who are emailing Jeffrey Epstein well after he's a pedophile talking about going to his island, talking about wanting to participate in wild parties and the American people are under... Hey, stop the presses. Everybody wants to participate in wild parties.

Don't they I'm with you on that the at least be there at least get an invite But if you know there's hey bill over here has wild parties. Have you been to any of these wild parties? No, I've never been to one of them. I gotta be honest. I've never been to a wild party I've or I left early Wild party wild part actually now in the there was a period of time where there was a lot of Oh, it's orgy. There's a name for this process. There are literally organized orgies pre-AIDS, which cropped up around the 80s. So in the 70s, there was especially, I've never been to one of these, but I've always thought about it. And there used to be Plato's retreat in New York City, which was notorious. In fact, there was a playboy. Isn't that a mustache man's place?

I don't know who mustache man is. Bolton. Wasn't he a member of Plato's retreat? Wasn't that the fart sniffing place? No, Plato's retreat was a nightclub. Where was the fart sniffing place? Wasn't that... But you had to get into... you had to somehow get into it. Buck Henry, the great writer, wrote a piece in Playboy magazine where he went to Plato's retreat. and wrote it up as a kind of a long essay, a feature. And he described what was going on and it just sounded like it was an orgy. It was people walking around screwing everything that they could see over and over again. There were girls pulling a train, if you remember what that term means. There's all this stuff going on and he was witnessing it all. And this was going in the 70s, there was a lot of this sort of

thing going on here and there and they were caught and that would I would assume would be a wild party and so They kind of disappeared with AIDS. AIDS kind of put the kibosh on wild parties because of the nature of the ailment. And then so things calmed down. But then did you hear about some guys still doing them? Well, I'd like to get in on that. I can't get past your pulling a train comment. Oh my God! Listen to that horn! All right, let's ask the robot for a second.

Tell me about Plato's Retreat in New York City. Plato's Retreat was a well-known swingers club in New York City during the 1970s and 1980s. It was famous for its exclusive atmosphere and played a significant role in the context of the sexual revolution of that time. The club eventually closed in the mid-1980s. Significant role in the sexual revolution of that time. Yeah, right. Yes, that's wonderful. Okay, three sex. Let me see where they were called free sex parties. That's what they were going to 70s. Hmm. Let's get back They were advertised let's get back to the clip file talking about going to his island talking about wanting to participate in wild parties and the American people are under are asking

How are rich and powerful people living in this country? What moral code are they living by? Some of those revelations are deeply disturbing. No, no, this is, you're right. This is what everybody wants to know. Tell me about these parties. These guys are living it up. How can I get invited? I think you're right. And he's like, oh, it's deeply disturbing. Oh, yeah. Now everyone's a prude, especially the Democrats side and the squad. Oh, they went to a wild party. Oh, nasty, nasty people. Give me a break. We continue. Let me ask you about what comes next. From your perspective, you've threatened contempt charges and even impeachment for Attorney General

Pam Bondi and I wonder are you at a point where you are prepared to move forward with contempt and impeachment charges against the Attorney General? Well as you know Kristen Thomas Massey and I brought this up in middle of December. We still have not moved on it because we are trying to give the Justice Department some benefit of the doubt. They did do a release that was significant. I mean this is the He said he's open to explaining why the redactions were done. So I hope that we will have a meaning if we don't get the remaining files, if we do not get the remaining 302 forms, the remaining prosecution memo from 2019. And if the survivors are not happy, then Thomas Massey and I are prepared to move on impeachment or contempt.

Now, see, the problem is, and I'm not sure who launched it, but I'm pretty sure it was from the Democrat Party, is the concept of a client list. I can't recall Trump ever talking about a client list because that is not how it works in just media, social media in general. Trump ran on releasing the Epstein client list. And, you know, this is like a throwback to Heidi Fleiss, the Hollywood madam. Right, it is exactly. You assume that there's a little black book. Yes. And that's just not going to exist. That's the problem. Elaine Maxwell said so already. Yeah, but that doesn't count. It's like somehow people are completely convinced. It's, what is the...

What is that, the Berenstain's thing? What is that cosmic shift? What do we call that? Oh yeah, that. Thanks. Yeah, that's helpful. Oh yeah, that. Yeah, that. Where everyone believes that there's this client list and that it exists. And I guarantee you it never existed. It just makes no sense. Mandela effect. There you go. Thank you. Took a second. The Mandela effect. And I looked for... There is no... These weren't... I mean, this guy was a networking maniac. Yeah, he... We have his address book. And the address book is all there is. I mean, what's more... What more do you want?

Does he have one with a bunch of stars next to the names or check marks or whatever? Crash planes? A file maker database, yeah. A file maker database, which by the way if they had they wouldn't, kind of wouldn't surprise you because it turns out the two of them are online all the time. They were both gamers and Geez, one more clip here. Well, let me ask you about another aspect of this former president Bill Clinton who is named in the Epstein files and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have refused to comply with the house subpoenas in the Epstein investigation We should note nearly half of your Democratic colleagues in the Oversight Committee voted to hold the former president in contempt and

As a result, you voted no congressman. I do want to set aside whether you think the subpoenas are fair. Do you think anyone has the right to ignore a congressional subpoena? No, I do not. And that's why I voted for civil contempt. And I've also said that President Clinton should come before the committee, but he should come after all the files have been released and he should come in conjunction with Donald Trump. But it's premature in my view to hold him in criminal contempt. Oh, brother. Yeah.

Yeah, so but this is about one thing and one thing only it is just about the 2026 election and as as witnessed here by Chuck Schumer. They say they collected six million pages, but they're only releasing three. What happened to the other three million? What's in them? And finally, has every document that mentions the word Trump been released? Yes or no? We need answers. It's now 42 days and counting that the administration has violated the law by failing to release all the files.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A grand jury can indict a ham sandwich or Don Lemon. I mean, either way, this is what grand jury test. This is why grand jury testimony is never published, except in this one case where they created a law in Congress that you have to release that because it all, you know, it's not like there's There's no defense, it's just people listening to allegations. No cross-examination. No cross-examination. Yeah, I think we should indict this guy. That's how it goes. 3 million pages is a lot for you and other reporters to go through. What are you looking for in that? Well, it's my job, Scott. It's what I have to do.

Our initial dive has found a trove of information that is already out there in court cases and early releases of the files, but there's so much left to explore from Epstein's private correspondence, financial documents, and other communications that widen the web of Epstein's associates. Beyond the files themselves, though, attention is turning to what isn't there. The Epstein Files Transparency Act directs the Justice Department to share with Congress all of the redactions they made and why within the next two weeks, and they said that covers about 200,000 pages worth.

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

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

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

Yeah, you're aging. Yes. And it was in Monterey and I'm looking at the clock, I'm looking at what's TV and I'm like, should I drive to... Nah. I'm staying home, forget it. This is like canceling, you know, I've done this with trips on the airplanes. I'm calling in, I'm not going. Dukes of Hazzard is on. I have no desire to go. I have no... What do I want to drive to Monterey for? Who cares? I meet a bunch... I met these guys before, they're just... Yeah, doesn't do me any good. I've made no money from the experience. What difference does it make? Yeah, no That is it right there. I make no money from the experience. What? You meet some famous guys. What do you get out of it? Oh, I get who I met so-and-so so moving on to Don Lemon because I do have a couple things I want to discuss regarding this and

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Yes, I am sure. Ted Turner, the founder of CNN and Turner Broadcasting, is still alive today. There seems to be a persistent misconception, but he is not deceased. You know, maybe it's true. Maybe he's still alive. I'm looking it up. I don't see any evidence that he's dead. I'm sorry. The news of Ted Turner's death has been greatly exaggerated. Is the robot right? I think the robot is right. I'm not finding any evidence of his being dead. I was so sure he was dead. I was too. Anyway. In fact, so when you go to Google they even have a, is Ted Turner still alive? You know, something. It's the Mandela effect. Here it is, still alive. It was January 2025. As of January 2025. Wow. He's 86, recuperating at a rehabilitation center by being hospitalized from pneumonia.

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

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

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

And he was an ugly fucker too, it's weird. And so she married this guy and they were cohorts. But you know, when you're Jane Fonda, at a certain point you think, well maybe if I just get this ugly guy, he'll just love me, you know, and he'll just stick with me and won't be a douchebag because he feels so lucky. I think, how many times you've been married? Five times? Four or five times? Who, Jane Fonda? I'm not even going to ask the robot because we're going to get it all wrong, no doubt. No, I don't want to guess. Well, she's been, well, you know she was married to Hayden and maybe somebody else. I don't know, we could look it up. It'd be easier. No, it's not that interesting. Okay, I'm going to look it up. Okay. Meanwhile... We got to stop being, we can't, we're starting to act like podcasters. We now go to a First Amendment lawyer

on ABC. Tonight's social story, that's where we post three stories on social media and you decide which story we cover. This week's choices were Don Lemon's release and federal charges, Catherine O'Hara's lasting legacy, and the changes coming to SNAP food benefits. With 47% of the vote, you chose the Department of Justice's case against Don Lemon. I find this amazing. So, 47... The choices were Catherine O'Hare, great actress, she passed away very young, 72 I believe. Snap change is coming to Snap Benefits which just two months ago was the most important thing in the entire universe. But no, the number one story for ABC viewers is Don Lemon. According to a court indictment, Lemon and others are now facing federal charges in connection with a protest disrupting a church service in St. Paul, Minnesota. You can't disrupt a church service, it's the face act.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wrap it up with Harvey Lemon. Harvey Lemon. Harvey Lemon. You got it. You nailed it. We got it. Harvey Lemon. Here's Harvey Lemon. And his true nature comes out of course. Trump administration should be ashamed of itself, but they're not. And they will continue to do this. And they are going after journalists. They're getting search warrants for their homes. It is obvious what's happening. Another thing, the First Amendment does not actually protect your sources. It does not.

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

And let's just take it easy. Let's do a deal with Hitler This is what he's trying to compare him to and he blows the punch line. We don't want to be in the punch line. That's funny Yeah, he can't even pronounce Neville Chamberlain. Neville Chamberlain should have saw it coming and he didn't and we don't want to be in that position So wise up everybody because it's obvious what's happening here. This is an outrage. It's an outrage. No, it's not What Lemon did is an outrage. And this has nothing, nothing to do with what you don't hear is, well, you know, they're, they're rousting the wrong people. No, no, it's just about Trump. 2026, Republicans get him out. When we're back in power, said Scott, Professor Scott. Yeah, there will be

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A jury has awarded a detransitioner $2 million in historic medical malpractice suits, including her psychologist and plastic surgeon, for a double mastectomy. Yeah, no kidding. That toothpaste that's the beginning of the end. Yes that toothpaste but I'm going back into the ball into the two I have a clip that has another beginning of an end okay, and this is something it which brings to mind and another issue This is the Seattle lawsuit which is worth noting okay, I

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

them. After weeks of deliberating, a jury in King County delivered a decisive verdict, holding the city of Seattle liable for the death of Antonio Mays Jr. and ordering the city to pay $30 million in damages to his father, Antonio Sr. Justice was served today. Evan Oshan represents Mays' family. How significant is this verdict and why does it matter so much to the family? Well, I think it sends a message. And I think the city is accountable and they're held accountable. during the Black Lives Matter movement. Seattle police were ordered to abandon the East Precinct as CHOP organizers held control of the area. Antonio Mays Jr. had come to CHOP from L.A. when he and his friend Robert West were both shot while driving a Jeep near Cal Anderson Park.

At the time, police were prohibited from entering CHOP and there was a major delay in getting medical care to Mays, who died after being taken to the hospital by civilian CHOP medics. The city claimed it was not liable for the actions of the shooters and had not failed in its responsibility to provide emergency response, but the jury didn't agree. Yeah, 30 million bucks. This is gonna happen to Minneapolis. Those two wrongful deaths of Pretty and Good are gonna be attributed to the management of the city because they didn't put police around there. They could have arrested that guy for kicking out the taillight, for example.

And this is gonna start happening in sanctuary cities. And this kind of lawsuit's gonna start happening everywhere. This is a great precedent. Now the one little thing that kind of irks me about it is it costs, it's not this, who's paying this $30 million? It's the taxpayers. I think that the city government, the members of the city government should be held accountable and liable for this money as at least part of it. In the same way that board members of a public corporation are held liable for the actions of the corporation, which does happen. This was a precedent from years ago. I don't see any reason this shouldn't happen to city councils. Right, but you have DNO insurance for that. Yeah, you do. And they're going to have to get insurance for these guys too.

So if you're going to be a city council member, you got to pay to be indemnified against lawsuits because these $30 million lawsuits for wrongful death are going to start cropping up in sanctuary cities run by Democrats all over the country. It's not going to be as, you know, like overnight, but you can see the precedent. Boom. Now we can move ahead. Did you see that Pritzker was in the Epstein files too? No, I did not. Yeah, it was something I'm paraphrasing. Like, hey, coming to town, maybe we can have some dinner. Let's reconnect. And by the way, Sunday I'm having a dinner with Colbert. Okay, says enough. Mr. Colbert. The common man, Mr. Colbert. Did you... No, I missed that one. Did you hear the latest about the protesters and their signal chats?

No. Because they've been infiltrated, obviously. Yeah, there's a number of people that have done that, one girl in particular. Yeah. So this clip, I think eight people sent this to me. This is one of these smart toxo-affected women. who realizes this is a real problem for the organization of these organized protests. But she has a solution. Hey guys, if you didn't hear, signal group chats, rapid response group chats in Seattle got infiltrated. So did the ones in Minnesota. We should probably start using ham radios. I'm gonna link a ham radio from a solid company that won't break the bank. Here you go. Let's set up some phone trees and figure out some codes. Get old school.

She's holding up a bow thing. Yeah, because that's completely secure and illegal. Who are they kidding? They obviously don't know anything. Illegal without a license. Which you know, the fines for operating ham equipment without a license, that can be pretty severe. They can be up to know what they are. I've heard $15,000. It depends on what you're doing. I get people out there get a license. Definitely come by there. Reminds me I got a meeting. I'm talking about getting their license. I got to renew mine. I got to do that. It's been 10 years. Oh yeah. 10 years. There's a there's a grace period though, right?

I think you have a year. Okay. Yeah, it's a real long grace period time for me to renew. Yeah, but just do it It's pretty simple. Yeah, I got it. Let me put that down renew and like I'll put this right on my list I think cost 25 bucks or something. No, I think it went up There was I heard all the old hand I'm on 85 bucks. I'm on 80 meters. Oh, man, they're charging me 75 bucks. We knew my license Let me turn my beam throw some killer watch your way Yeah, yeah ham license is a good thing to have it's a good thing to have that was uh, I just stumbled across this clip of Charles Asher and

You know, Charles Asher. Name rings a bell. Yeah, I think he's like some kind of... Let me look him up here for a second. Canadian intellectual. Founder... Oh, he's an anti-Jew guy. Anti-Anti-Anti-Anti-Semite guy. So take that into account. But an elite. But he was talking on a podcast, a YouTube show, about Qatar. And, you know, Just listening to what he had to say about Qatar and how the Muslim Brotherhood, which we're pretty sure was a British invention that may have gotten a little bit out of hand, they can't always... Or may not have. Or may not have. Kind of put some things into perspective, certainly when it comes to the Pilgrim. Hamas murdered

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

And because the radical left wants to get rid of Western hegemony, the Islamists who want to destroy Western hegemony have this bizarre common cause we call it the Red-Green Alliance. So our intellectuals, influenced by Muslim Brotherhood money, are teaching now the second generation of Western citizens to destroy their own country, their own culture. It's not all talk, so. It's education. And it is true, Qatar funds a lot of universities, this second part to this. Well, think about it. If we take a step back, Qatar is a country, it's a tiny country in the Middle East. It has less than 350,000 citizens. So, tiny country. Qatar is giving more money to British education, to Canadian education, higher education, to American universities than any country in the world. So why would this tiny wealthy country give so much money

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

And it's so stupid. I was expecting, oh, this is going to be great. This thing is going to be... All it does is eat up credits. No, you weren't. I kind of was. I was like, okay, I like this idea. I mean, what it proves is that people are hungry for decentralized... large language models doing stuff for them. Everybody wants a robot, everybody wants an agent. But all this is doing as far as I can tell is racking up bills for the idiots who don't know what they're doing installing these things on Digital Ocean and Leno and like, oh, I'll just set this up. And then they give it access to their email. But I don't know how to secure some kind of remote box. So there's the 16,000 of these of these instances have been hacked already and people are, you know, get your get your API keys and all kinds of other stuff. And it's just it's just another ad to make. And then you say then they have this

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

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

demonetize. Yeah, that's it. They're kind of like, yes, it's hypocritical actually. Catch 22 maybe. Or hypocritical. Maybe hypocritical is better. I think it's a real problem and they still can't really do it with podcasting because we don't have algorithms. It's beautiful. Just stick with us people, stick with us. Yeah, we're the last bastion of reality. Last bastion of reality! Hang in there people, hang in with us. Alright, what's this NATO stuff? You want to do the NATO stuff here? I can do the NATO stuff, I can do this, I can do...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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I don't know. Do you want me to look it up? Yes, yes please. Okay, okay, where's your family? He's old, he's 82. Well, it's okay. Rod Stewart, Carly Simon. Really? Oh, Planet Records. Interesting. It was RCA. Interesting. I don't know this guy. You'd think I would have bumped into him. Hey, tonight is the Grammys. Big Grammy show tonight. Oh, you're gonna look for the satanic stuff? Don't think I'll have to look long. Yes, I'm sure Bad Bunny will pick up, so we'll sweep the awards. Bad Bunny. Everyone's crazy for the Bad Bunny. Is the Bad Bunny. Oh, one of his biggest hits was You're So Vain that he produced. Carly Sines. Okay. Okay. That's all right. Perfect. Yeah, You're So Vain is perfect for Jane Fonda. Yeah.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

They had the right idea. So Red, who I think is a kind of a new artist on the scene, a new prompter on the scene. No, Red has done quite a lot actually throughout the years, I see. But Red created for us The Color Revolution Blues with Paint Can, Color Blue, Noah Jenner, the best podcast in the universe, Curry Dvorak. I was pushing for something else but you insisted that the one I liked... Well you didn't want the one that I liked. No, the one you liked was gruesome. I liked the cigarettes in the eyes. I thought it was phenomenal. This is what Adam thinks, he thinks this is great, it's sexy.

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

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

So you so we settled on the pink and I do like the eyeballs. I still like the eyeball I'm gonna print it out blow it up put it on my watch a frame and put it in the office Thank You red double D read for bringing us the artwork for episode 1839 1838 which what are we titled that one? 1838 was Oh coup a foot. There you go. Oh And now, as we always, as part of our value for value model, which is very different from a nonprofit donor stewardship model, we do it twice a week. We thank people who supported us and we tell you how much they supported us with. And we do that for $50 and above, under 50, not mentioned for reasons of anonymity. And in this segment, we'd like to thank our executive and associate executive producers because we give you a title to go with that, which is kind of cool. It's a real showbiz title. It's good for the rest of your life.

And you can put it on IMDB.com if one of our friends of the show hasn't already done it for you. And $200 or more will get you an associate executive producership credit and we'll read your note. $300 and above is an executive producership and we will read your note. And the first one, as far as I can tell, has no note. I'll give a little background. This came in, this was a meetup. These first two donations are from the meetup. Okay, so it's Jeffrey P. Roster from Morganville, California. He has Roster & Associates and he says he wanted to be knighted. I think we put him on the knight list anyway. And he said, the email's coming, I didn't get one. And obviously it notes that noagendashow.net didn't get one and I don't think you got one. Nope, I didn't see it. So we have to wait for his note for his $1,000 donation. But give him a double up karma. Yes, and he was at the meetup?

Yeah. You've got. He not only had to meet up, but he didn't put the check in an envelope or anything. He just says he's just handing me a check. Did anyone stick an envelope to your back like a Jewish bride? Like I request? No, no, I got no. Well, not that I noticed it might have fallen off. Lucas T. Is this now I can read this. Yes. And by the way, this is also for you. By the way. This is also from the... I must be the real offender then. No. This is also from the meetup and this is a big guy. Big guy. All right. Big hands, big... he's a big cop. I have a meetup report later and I think he was in the meetup report. So Lucas T, $1,000 and he says, it was a pleasure meeting everyone at the Get John Out of the House Oakland Meetup. It's official now. I'm a knight, Sir Sloth of Local 4117.

All hail Baron Anonymous Cop. No, you're not yet, but you will be on this show. You have not been knighted yet. Thank you, John and Adam. This podcast has helped my dad and me stay connected. Oh, that's nice. My father, nicknamed the Animal, is a three-time WAC University of New Mexico champion. What is WAC? Western Athletic Conference. Turned MACV-SOG. with three tours in Vietnam and counterintelligence working project Borden, a military PSYOP. I'll bet you this guy knows Uncle Don. Ask him.

Anyway, says I love you dad bravo sir for raising two great kids. We lost mom last year They were married for 51 years Dad and I take trips together now partly to get him off the couch since he's a Fox News dad your show has helped us Has helped both of us better understand the direction of the world and grow our personal wealth because of it Well now that's some value He has some douchebag calls out call outs here for Steve McGrath For Tony D'Amato David Miller And guess what my dad Wayne That one I wonder how that'll go over he needs a de-douching

Obama phone de-douching he mentioned that in a separate note. I want to mention one thing he also said in a long, short, long, short piece about a police modern policing techniques because he's a cop yeah and uh which I will read in some future episode when it applies to something we're talking about it's a lot a lot of new drone technology being used by the police department oh well Baron sir anonymous uh anonymous cop uh has a lot of experience with that as he has emailed yeah they're two but they're buddies those two guys it's good to have friends like this John yeah

Feel free to read the next one. I should mention this. So he's in South San Francisco and I didn't mention but he should note that it's the site of that hill in South San Francisco that I think where they should put the favela. On the hill? Yeah. Beautiful. All right. They could police it. Wonderful. No, you don't police favelas. No, self-policing. Okay. Feel free to continue. Yeah, I should, I'm gonna read a couple of the notes from the meetup after we hit the 300. David Robertson, Norristown, Pennsylvania 62433, as the Duke of Pennsylvania some years ago, I need de-douching. You've been de-douched.

I just want to say if you want a competitive edge with the resume that gets results, go to imagemakersinc.com with a K. I'll be reaching out soon. I guess he's looking for work. Beautiful. Oh, here's Sir Deanonymous. This is great. He's in East Grinstead and he's in the United Kingdom. And he is the man responsible for the technology behind Bingit.io, which is known as Clip Genie. And he came with $333.33, and this is important. He says, alongside my normal recurring donation of 55.10 double nickels on the dime, I want to send in this special 333.33 donation to celebrate the launch of Clip Genie 2.0. After many months of hard work resulting in being several episodes behind, as it turns out I can't listen and code at the same time, it's finally finished.

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I have noagendaassets.com, that's where I post all the clips and the show notes and everything. And it says, just so you know, there's been a lot of extra outgoing bandwidth and it gave me two alerts. I'm like, what is going on? So I get into the box. I'm like, this has got to be some AI scraping me, these bandits. Well, of course it was Sir Dean Ominous. It's our own AI scraping us, so it's good. Everything has been improved. The transcription quality, the clip generator capability, shared links to episodes and clips. You can now see which clips have been made by any member of your audience, which links they have shared, and how many times they've been visited.

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Again, well worth reading that note. Anything to get him some money? Yes. Kenneth Cal, or Kiel, in El Sobrante, he was at the meetup, 33333, put a little note saying it was like a night donation, I don't know if it's for his night, he didn't give us any details, I think I got another note afterwards, this is another kind of just hanging out there thingy. And we give him a double up, Carmen, then I've got the notes to read from the meetup, okay. You've got Karma. Alright, read your notes. So here we go. So we got a lot of donors that, I mean, these are all over 50. Lawrence Wolf starts us off in Oakland and he came in with 350. So he's executive producer, we put him on the list. And he wasn't gonna, he says, ITM Gemma, I wasn't gonna donate.

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

This morning I also woke up to a raspy meow. He's going on 18 years and is deaf. He's going on the cat. I checked the time, it was 3.33 in the morning. Too early, I went back to sleep. Upon waking, I found something in the bed covers that should have been deposited in the cat box. Enclosed, $350. I counted it so it's not 250. May I get a slaves mac and cheese? Adios. Slaves? Oh yes, okay. I know what it means. Slaves mac and cheese. Yes of course.

I hope he didn't get Toxo from that department. Well, he probably already has it. Yeah, you're right. K-O-6-E-J-E-73 is to him. Hold on a second. Also executive producer? Yep. So what is it? K-O-6-E-J-E-73. Oh, K-O-6-E-J-E. Okay, that would be Kilo Zero Six Echo Juliet Echo. Come on, man, show your ham cred. Yeah.

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

You're well organized. I'm sorry. I mean, there's a big pile of these notes. I will straighten out Carolyn's note later. Okay. So I'm gonna skip by her. Okay. And go on to a card from Beth Elliot. Beth Elliot? Yeah. Yeah. 222-22. Mm-hmm. 22. Thank you for your courage. Pretty much is very simple. And then so she's a sociologist all over the place, and I'll get to the rest of these in the second half of the show okay Well, so she's an associate. I got to do this right. Yeah, you do okay. I'm trying to do this right, but you're not being very helpful Okay, I'm not I'm sorry. No you're anything but helpful. We we Can I okay? Okay, back on Jordan Goodfellow

Davenport, Florida, 333. Sanity is still intact thanks to the best podcast in the universe. This is the only podcast I listen to every week. Thank you. Here's to four more years. I got it. I found another pile. Are these executives or associate executives? A couple are in here as executives. This associate executive, I just want to get these before I do the latter ones. Duke of San Francisco, 220. No note. Double up karma, Duke of San Francisco. You've got... karma. Robert Montoya. Associate? Black Knight, 200, yes. Associate, Pleasant Hill. The rest of these are lower. I would do them in the second half. 50, and then we got... 200 from John Siebert, S-I-E-B-E-R-T in Auburn. Okay.

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

I said John Siebert already. We have 100 from Fast Eddie. Fast Eddie! Fast Eddie. And then we have these little guys here, which is little notes. 85 bucks from Crazy Steve. Coins, silver coin. Nice. Lye and Sophie, 100. They want Job Karma, we'll give them that at the end. Gustavo Visali and Maria with a Springsteen donation of 75. And if there's anything less on here...

I think that's it. All right. Well, sounds like you had a good time. Did you have fun? People said you left early. Does anybody I didn't I stay there two whole hours. If anybody didn't get mentioned, let me know. We'll put you on as a make good. We will continue now with Alex Thomas, associate executive producer. Oh, no, wait, Sir Paul Snyder. I'm sorry. Please credit me, Sir Paul Snyder. Also, I've been to the birthday list for February 4th. Thanks. $455.98 Canadian. My money's worthless! Yes. Alex Thomas, Northcote, Victoria in Australia, $250. Michael Kellner.

242.17, he says this is the value of two silver dollars plus PayPal fees and he says, Jingle, just send your cash song from phoneboy.com. We have a whole end of show mix for you for that one, but I'll play the shorty for you now. I know a lot of people want to send blankets or water, just send your cash. I'll take it from there with Hylian Craig's in Colorado Springs, 230. We love you too and really appreciate your work. Please keep it going. Arguments and all. By the way, we got some feedback from the meetup which had an inordinate number of attractive women, I should say, and they kind of appreciate bickering. They think it adds some dimensionality to an otherwise dry show.

They like the bickering. The chicks like bickering, man. Yeah, bickering. Interesting. Which is a town in Colorado. Interesting. Munitions Master is in Kettering, Ohio with a row of ducks. 222-22. Ahoy, gents! Chupacabra donation. Long time listener. First time donor. Please deduce. You've been deduced. Love the show and all the work you guys do. Three out of five stars. What? That's a fail on Uber. Three out of five stars would not change a thing. Would like to shout out the Chupacabra Canoe. Those guys are awesome. We listen to and discuss the show on all of our canoe trips and conclaves. Check out chupacabracanoe.com for canoes, paddles, merch, and blogs. Now selling canoes handmade by River Surfer.

If anyone in the Northeastern Ohio area is interested in a canoeing meetup, that would be cool, visit the website and submit via the contact to the portal. I would like to call out Summer Sausage and Sea Cow as douchebags. I'd like it. I would like to call jingles goat karma and Al Sharpton respects Thank you for your courage paddles up says munitions master, and he is in Kettering, Ohio You've got Karma.

My Gia, okay, my Gia, my Gia. You are my heart and my soul, he writes. To many the world might seem upside down, but to those of us who know better, it just seems like an act. Thanks to the No Agenda Show, we know better. But this is the month of love, and we'll focus on that. That was Black History Month. I never stopped feeling like the luckiest man in the world, my Gia. May Gia. May Gia, May Gia. You make my life worth living or striving for you make a better Make me a better man every day. These are times when we are that we are rough and tumble together But until ultimately we are always better for it

So this is an ode to my my my she made you so if you feel love like he's must be in the doghouse for something I'm telling you so if you feel love like I do share it let the people you love know how you feel at little jones candies We got his heart shaped or not we have you covered where we share the love and donate to the best podcast in the world's no no Gingles can express my loves what he wrote aka or sir candy man, okay? Beautiful plug And he's back, Eli the Coffee Guy from Bensonville, Illinois. Eli, Darren O'Neal is trying to scam some free coffee off of you. Just saying. He keeps complaining about it. Send him a bag. Send him a bag. He plugs you. 20201, he does. Interesting timing out of Georgia. Tulsi Gabbard, DNI, was present during the FBI raid on the Fulton County Election Office. Yes, there is very little media coverage. Hmm, interesting. No, that's not true. There's coverage.

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

Lefties the left-wing media is covering it and it always says the same thing I wish I had a clip but they say the same thing it goes like this. What is she doing there? She's supposed to be in charge of the national intelligence, which is about foreign countries No, she's no she is not in charge of foreign intelligence is in charge of all intelligence, which includes the FBI Yes, so she has all the right in the world to be there if she wants to be well put Anyway, Linda Lou Patkin is up. Oh, look at her. She's in Castle Rock, Colorado. $200, Jobs Karma for a competitive edge. For the resume that gets results, go to imagemakersinc.com.

Linda applies executive level positioning to career transition at every stage. Whoa, new copy. New copy. That's Image Makers Inc with a K. And work with Linda Liu, Duchess of Jobs and writer of winning a resume's best. Linda. Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs. Let's vote for jobs. Yeah! Karma. And we have, this is our last, no, we have two more. Eric Kessler, Kansas City, Missouri, my pre-$200, my appreciation to you both for the best podcast in the universe. Can I get an F cancer and prayer for my dad's upcoming surgery? Yes, he's covered, Eric, no worries at all. Here's the karma. You've got karma.

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

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

I always get the thin mints and yes, thin mints thin mints babies s'mores are good. Yep You have to pay for shipping on the site. It's Okay, you can skip the rest of the note if you want I will but I will let me slow No, let me let me read this because I read this before and he sent me some clips along with this he installed the quen 3 TTS the 11 labs alternative, the open source 11 labs alternative. Which you recommended. Yes, and he sent us to, he said, after sampling President Trump's voice I created an audio file of him touting our tech desk team, suggesting we should win the UW Distinguished Staff Award by a landslide. Here it is. These guys on the text desk

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

Thank you very much, Michael. We appreciate that. We appreciate all of these executive and associate executive producers. Your credits will be listed on the show notes page. And as always, these credits are forever and you can use them anywhere show business credits are recognized. You can do what you're right. What do you what are you huffing and puffing about? I had to clear my throat. OK, including IMDB dot com. You can always put on your LinkedIn or your social media profile. We'll be thanking the rest of our supporters. Fifty dollars in the second second business cards. Always a good idea. Thank you again. Congratulations to the executive and associate executive producers. Our formula is this. We go out, we hit people in the mouth. I have a little M5M clip for you. This is quite interesting. The movie Melania has come out.

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

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

A plotline ripe for criticism. Jeff Bezos and Amazon had a fractious relationship with Trump that's well documented. All of a sudden the billionaire show up on inauguration day, literally show up, sit behind him and money starts to change hands. American late night talk show hosts adding that to their scripts. Amazon bribed a whopping $40 million for the movie. Are you really trying to tell us that this dumb vanity project slash corporate bribe is a work of art? The documentary will be shown at a lavish event at the Kennedy Center Thursday night, then opens on 1,500 screens in the US and Canada. I don't think anybody's going to go to the theaters to see it. It takes a lot to get people to go out to the movies, period. And I don't think this is the big draw. Friday's opening night, The True Test,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

These people are no good. Are you surprised? But let's wrap it up with this is kind of lengthy but it does wrap it up but it's the same So this is a propaganda piece that can be easily ripped apart, but I think that people who listen to NPR lap it up. The Trump administration released its national security strategy last month. It's far more critical of Europe, which is democratic, than it is of Russia, an authoritarian state which started the biggest war on the continent since 1945. The 29-page document accuses the European Union of censoring free speech and suppressing political opposition.

It also celebrates the growing influence of what the administration calls patriotic European parties. Frank Sperling grew up in Germany and emigrated to the US 35 years ago. He thinks this is a tactic to weaken the EU. Supporting right-wing movements in Europe. creates this national divide that sowed the doubt into European unity within the countries and hamper the progress towards that. The national security strategy also questions whether European nations can remain quote reliable allies for the United States. Alfredo Anthony is a retired lieutenant colonel in the US Army who served for seven years in Europe.

He's never seen language like this in a national security strategy. It makes me feel like the parent who is just totally lambasting a child. Anthony, who lives in St. Petersburg, Florida, says the message is clear. In Europe, we are no longer going to commit our resources to help you try to clear out everything in your backyard. You have to be the ones to do it. You have to take the lead. We bail you out too often. Our focus happens to be on the United States, happens to be on the Western Hemisphere. You take care of yourself. Anthony worked with NATO, keeping peace in the Balkans in the late 1990s. He predicts the transatlantic alliance will fragment and it'll cost the United States.

It won't be able to rely on Europe as it did to fight in Afghanistan after the 9-11 attacks or project power for military action in the Middle East. Frank Lankford, NPR News, Washington. My goodness, I'm glad they got defunded. I am too. I can offset that with some news from Euronews about Greenland, which includes the Prime Minister elect of the Netherlands and I have something to say about this at the end Dutch Prime Minister elect Robert Jetten said on Friday that US President Donald Trump's territorial ambitions in Greenland were a wake-up call for Europe. The centrist D66 leader stressed the need for stronger European cooperation to ensure security and prosperity rather than focusing

on the United States. Jetten made the comments after presenting his policy blueprint alongside his minority coalition partners. We can continue talking and complaining about the US, but what we should do instead is make sure that the European cooperation is strengthened, that we can guarantee security and prosperity for our own citizens And so one of my first things that I will do as soon as I'm in office is talk to my colleagues in Europe to see what role the Dutch can play again in strengthening the European cooperation." Jetten said he would still seek closer cooperation with Washington on security, Ukraine and the economy. Last week, Trump dropped threatened tariffs on eight European nations, including the Netherlands, amid his push for control of Greenland.

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

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

Oh, it's good right? I keep going there. Come on. The whole model is broken. I like the vocal fry. I like the vocal fry. You know, I'm going to put these clips in a vance. Wait, I have a fourth one. Oh, okay. Thank you for your courage, your voice and for all you do. A little long. I like the whole model is broken. No, the Trump one has to be used. These guys are the best podcasters in the universe. And we will play that at the end. But first, it's time for John's tip of the day. This involves a lecture and a tip. A lecture?

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

Oh, they're all sparklers. And they're all French. And they're all Cremons. I'm not a big fan of the sparklers. Yeah, you may not be, but a lot of people are. And I think they should be taken and drunk at dinner. They're dinner wines. That's what the champagne people want you to do. They want you to appreciate it as a dinner wine instead of a celebratory wine or something you dump on someone. Or christen a ship with. And they don't like, the champagne people in particular, don't like their stuff being abused like that. No, of course not. So, Cremant is a special category of sparkling wine that's made in the method of champagne, but it's made throughout the country. And they're called Cremant de this, Cremant de that, Cremant de this. Now, the ones that are in this, there's three of them in this package, and it amounts to $16.60 a bottle, which is,

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

Boom now you're getting the good quality stuff. Oh, I just know this is that what you're doing is mass-produced junk I'm just drinking junk. I mean I might as well. You don't like champagne. I just go kill myself. I'm drinking junk We have we have these we have the Heath winery here Heath and Heath does some great sparklers, Texas good for them I'm sure it's fabulous. I'm sure that it's overpriced. By the way, for 18... Ah, you said by the way! I did. I stopped myself. For 18 years, no matter what wine I'm drinking, John always says it's shit. I... No, that's not true. Ah, unless it's somebody else's wine, that's some really expensive thing that I didn't buy. But anything I'm like... But you drink! Oh, I really like this wine. You're like... You've all... You're always knocking my wines.

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

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

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

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