Who hasn't been canceled? It's the No Exender Show! It
is Sunday, August 16th, 2026. This is your Gitmo Nation
Media Assassination Episode 1895, broadcasting live from just outside of
Chirac, right here in FEMA, Region No. 5. In the
morning, everybody, I am Darren O'Neill. And from the pretentious
Connecticut shore, this is Larry Blydner keeping commies and creeps
at bay with my gleaming scimitar of truth. Yeah, I
mean, that was it, man. Woo! I love that new
intro. We'll get chicks voice. And it's great. It's great
stuff. Nice work, Darren. Larry wanted chicks. I know it
wasn't just bakers. He brought in a bunch and it
was like, well, we need this stuff to talk over
and it needs to be a little quieter. And I'm
like, let me go back into Suno and see and
move everything around. And yeah, it's AI. And people are
gonna be like, go fake and gay. then you put
something in send something in where's sir chris vox where's
some heavy metal directly from uh somebody that can play
the guitar and sing there we go but like we
can do the theremin let's add some theremin gotta have
some theremin it always adds a certain uh creepy vibe
Which we dig. Even on a beautiful Sunday morning. What's
it like in Chicago? Chirac, excuse me, this morning or
this afternoon, Darren. Tell me. Well, you're right with the
time. Because I had been doing the rock and roll
pre-show for like 700 episodes. And I was always just,
okay, I did that. And then I went to have
lunch. I forget that this show is like, I should
eat something before the show. So literally like five minutes
ago, I'm like, oh crap, this is going to be
through. I'm going to be hungry. So I had to
go grab a bar, a little bit of pudding, you
know, something like that just to get you going. You
need something. Definitely. But the rain finally stopped for like
the first time in a week. The rain stopped? So
you've been getting rained on all this time? Yeah, pretty
much. No, it's no fun. But it's 82 degrees now,
so you never know what's going to happen. You never
know. It's a picture-perfect day in Connecticut. Well, what is
that for Connecticut, though? Nice and cool? It's like high
70s, puffy whites, very low humidity. Really, it's kind of
like California. Well, no, why would you do that then?
Right, exactly. But it's been rainy, too, out here. But,
you know, we're still breathing. That's all that matters. It's
the only way to go. Yeah. And we do encourage
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best in media deconstruction. And nothing's going on in the
world at all, Larry. Have you noticed how boring it
is? You are so. You got to stop fibbing. Don't
fib this early in the show. Save it for later.
Like you have so much to do. Yeah. And I
love, I mean, I've been reading the Reddit threads and
people are like, these guys suck, man. I love the
same people will complain. Darren and Larry, their voices sound
way too radio. And then in another message, they're like,
they're not playing enough of the jingles. Like, well, do
you know that's the radio sound, right? That's the whole
bit. Like, they don't even play the bell, man. Well,
why don't they play the bell? Well, I have one
of those little bells. I'd get one if you want.
Yeah. Ding, ding, ding. Well, Reddit is so weird, man.
I rarely visit that place because it's out there. It
is. You can't believe anything that you read on Reddit.
No. And for everybody that was like, oh, and then
Adam was really mad that people were telling him to
do the show with Mimi. So I thought about it
like everybody on Reddit, do me a favor, get your
wife or your children to write your post because it's
just the same as you, according to Adam should do
the show with Mimi. Then, well, then your wife should
be the same. Put her on Reddit instead of you.
It's going to be exactly the same, right? Because you
can just interchange anybody. I think Reddit is mostly comprised
of AOC voters living in their basement. Yeah. Of their
parents' house. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Without a job. Without hope. Quite
possibly. Without a lot of hope. Exactly. Yeah. Which one
of these things do you want to jump into first
from the Trump decoy plane to the in Iran? You
know what? I'm going to do a switcheroo on you,
Darren. I know I had Emily Gallagher label is number
one. But since we were talking about people living in
their parents' basements, I think we have to start with
clip two. Abdul is Blue's Clues, that one. Okay, so
I get a little set up here. Okay. Now, are
you hip to Blue's Clues? I have nieces and nephews
who were very big into Blue's. Is he still around?
I know there's like a weird dude and there was
like a handy dandy notebook and something like that. Yeah,
for those who may not know, it was a kid's
show back probably at least 20 years ago or more.
hosted by a guy, a very nice young dude dressed
in a rugby shirt and jeans. And it was probably
created for kids from, I would say, what would you
say, like maybe three to eight years old, something like
that. Very young kids. Yeah, so the parents can put
them in front of the television and be like, ah,
that's your babysitter. Yes, and also, unlike Sesame Street and
some of the other things, it wasn't at all slanted.
There was no political message in Blue's Clues, which was
the reason I used to let my kids watch it,
and they liked it a lot. And so this guy
sitting there, and he had a digital fake screen behind
him, and Blue was the name of his dog. It
was like this cute little hound dog, except it was
fake. It was a digital cartoon thing. And they would
learn to count and the alphabet and all that kind
of stuff. So that said, this Abdul El-Sayand posted this
actually a few weeks ago and it just resurfaced everywhere.
I'm talking about, well, voting and Medicare and so forth.
And he is dressed like the blues clues kid on
purpose, on purpose, on purpose of the exact same set.
Little, little cartoon things kind of wicking and out of
the screen. And it's beyond belief. You got to hear
this indoctrination. Anyone? Oh, yeah. Which is why we need
money out of politics, money in your pocket, and Medicare
for all. Here's the mail. It never fails. It makes
me want to wag my tail. When it comes, I
want to wail. Mail! Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. This
is else I had singing and doing a bit. This
is not AI. This is legit. This is real. Yes.
This is who people in Michigan want to put into
office, huh? Into the Senate. Yeah, right in Washington, D.C.
Thanks, mailbox. We just got a letter. We just got
a letter. We just got a letter. I wonder who
it's from. You're loving this. What I'm loving this to
our buddy net net who lives in the great state.
Oh, well, once great state of Michigan. Yeah. He's been
working on a boots on the ground that he said
is probably going to have to be multiple pages and
reports because of how bad things are. And I believe
it now. This is. Yeah. Cementing that. Oh, yeah. Like,
wow. Wow. It looks like my ballot. Yeah. brought to
me by my secretary of state And with it, I
can participate in democracy. The first day that I can
turn this in is June 25th, but it has to
be postmarked by July 21st. Or I can drop it
off up until Election Day, which is August 4th. Thanks,
Secretary of State. Thanks, Mailbox. Votes gonna do, we can't
do. You should be thanking the U.S. Postal Service, which
may or may not get your ballots there on time.
Yeah. Now, here's the really kind of the back story
on this. I saw this posted on X and there
was an avalanche. I mean, a fire hose of comments
saying, what are you, an idiot? You're just all negative
stuff. Grow up, get a job, whatever, et cetera, et
cetera. And then I realized he's no idiot, man. He's
very, very smart because this content goes right to the
heart. of most of his electorate because he's talking to
kid alts. True. People who never, really, they never grew
up. They want someone to take care of them because
they either can't or don't want to do it themselves.
Right. So here's we're all on a kiddie show together.
It's Blue's Clues and Daddy Abdul will take care of
you. And think about it, Darren. How many times? How
many times going back maybe even to the Clintons? did
people sort of refer to them as like America's mom
and dad? I don't know if you ever did. I
know I didn't know. Right. Then it was Michelle and
Obama. Yeah. Then it was Joey and, and, and Jill.
Right. Then was it Reese Witherspoon? That's, Oh, you're mama.
Let a conversation.
Yes, yes, yes, yes. We all need a mamala. Exactly.
So this guy is very, very sharp, and he's not
afraid to look like an idiot in service to grabbing
votes. And a lot of his people are going to
say yes because of that goofy cartoon. Well, because he
seems so likable. Yeah. Be clear, when I was in
college, I was the one walking around with a T-shirt
that had a drawing of Bill Clinton's face on it.
And on the front, it said, if Bill Clinton is
the answer. And on the back, it said, it must
be a really stupid question. So, yeah, I've always been
on the right. Did you get any heat over that
from your fellow students? At that time, no, because it
was so early. Well, you're 6'5", though. True. Who's going
to, you know, really? This is true. And it was
the, you know, late 80s, early 90s era, so it
was a little bit of a different time. But even
then, obviously... The university, which was a Catholic university, DePaul
University in Chicago, was going completely woke. I was a
communications major. I'm sure that's not a surprise to anybody.
He likes to talk. The head of the department was.
A lesbian who liked to spend way too much of
the class time talking about her and her partner going
down to, I think it was Peru, one of those
kind of Southern American countries to adopt a child. And
so it's gotten a lot worse from the boots on
the ground that we've all heard. And of course, these
kids who are being promised things without understanding the ramifications,
it's easy. If somebody walks up to you and like,
hey, do you want X amount of money or do
you want this prize? Well, yes. Well, yes. Like on
game shows. Remember when that all broke? Like, Hey, somebody
won a hundred thousand dollars on a game show. Yay.
And then they're like, but then I had to pay
$20,000 in taxes and I can't afford $20,000 in taxes.
It's because the electorate overall, the, Is not paying attention.
I mean, since we're on socials, I'm going to run
a Chris Matthews clip. One, I was interested that he's
still alive. Me too. I think I saw this one.
And you know what? He's been gone. What would you
say? Maybe 10 years by now? Probably. I think so.
I mean, that would be my guess. Between five and
10 since the, it was Obama, the shiver up his
leg. And then that was kind of his. Right. out
going out the door so it was might even be
12 years ago or so and and let's he was
also canceled for some reason he didn't leave voluntarily what
happened we need to you know we need we need
that we need that book of knowledge guy right we
need to directly up uh yeah yeah But here's what
I was thinking, just to divert just for a moment,
is I was thinking about this a lot. We need
a book of knowledge. chick right too often really so
adam has his with the guy yes voice yes yes
and you or some other ben or maybe adam somebody
cooked this up for us and she's got a really
sexy voice really sexy but she's kind of snarky and
snotty So we ask her a question. She's like, what
do you want now? Stop bothering me. Exactly. Wouldn't that
be fun? That was the other fun thing on Reddit
was, I looked these guys up. Who are they? And
they have, they have this show called Planet Rage that
always has pornographic album art. It's like, What you mean?
What? Fully clothed redheads and Irish pubs. Oh, that's it.
Yeah. But this, I mean, this is what the, it
has to be a leftist. Sorry. Sorry for pointing at
that because they're the only ones that would look at
a fully clothed woman and go, that's porn. Of course.
Yes. No, it's a picture. Yeah. Yeah. And it's a
pointy chick. And it's all created by Grok. So all
hail Elon. There you are. But here is Chris Matthews.
They probably never saw a real woman. That may be
the problem. That's the answer. And they're like, we don't
understand what this is. Here's what I think. And I've
been thinking about this for days now. The DSA has
done a favor to non DSA Democrats, to regular Democrats
who are regular members of the party. They've listed what
they believe in. Their chair made that clear. It's in
Peggy Noonan's column this week. It's very clear. We're going
to get rid of ICE, not just ICE. We're going
to get rid of the border. We're not going to
have a border anymore. We're not going to effectively control.
We're going to get rid of the Pentagon. We're going
to negotiate. Well, what happens when your hostages are your
former diplomats, like what happened with President Carter? People take
your diplomats hostages. What do you do then? You need
an army. You don't like to like to have an
army, but you do need to have one. All these
positions can be denied by any regular Democrat. All you
have to do is go out there and say, thank
you, DSA, for telling us what you believe in. I
don't believe in that stuff. And why haven't they? That's
the question we've we've been asking this on Planet Rage
for the last five years, which was. Why are the
moderate normal Democrats and it seems there's less of them
now, but why have they been acquiescing to this new,
very radical part? I mean, is it all just money?
Is it all just fear? I don't understand how you
can sell your whole soul and country down the toilet.
They're all commies, Darren. All of them. I mean, the
ones that say you don't need an army, it's like,
okay, let's just understand for one minute that if you
had no army, this country would be taken over within
seconds. Well, they're in favor of an army, and that's
the one that's dispersed or dispatched, rather, by the flock
cameras to say, get that citizen. He dropped a gum
wrapper. You're much safer. We can see you, but we
really can't do anything about it. Yeah. That's the army
they want, the federal, the police state. They're kind of
getting it. Somebody sitting in a room with 8,000 monitors
watching everything that's going on and going, well, look, there's
an armed robbery or there's a sexual assault. What can
we do? Well, nothing. We don't have police or anybody
anymore. Yeah. But we have cameras. I mean, we're not
going to put anybody in jail, but we have cameras.
Well, they won't put anybody in jail for anything that
matters, but like being maybe a podcaster saying the wrong
things, that'll get you locked up. True. They're coming for
us, man. They're coming for us. Oh, wait, here. We
agreed. We agreed. Okay, we rang the bell. Woo! By
the way, I checked. Chris Matthews was bounced for allegations
of sexual harassment. So there we go. I like Bill
O'Reilly, which means none of it was probably true. And
it was, again, a way to get rid of somebody
that you didn't like. And I love how people are
very, very... specific about who they believe and who they
don't. And I'm getting, I get tired of that. It's
like, if you believe somebody like Bill O'Reilly and I
do, I also believe Chris Matthews. If he says he
didn't do it, it's like, where's the proof that there's
no proof, you know, for guys that have the audience
that O'Reilly and Matthews had in the past, silencing them
they tried to do it to rush they tried to
do it to hannity they tried to do it to
any conservative voice without fail and matthews probably said something
the ultra left didn't like so like this what he's
saying right here oh man the dsa people they don't
want to hear this well real proof has become kind
of optional hasn't it And in proof of that, there's
this story about another. This is really funny. You know
that Sinatra song, That's Life, right? That's Life. Flying high
in April, shot down in May, right? Well, this guy
was flying high in August and shot down a week
later. His name is Matt Guttman. You heard about this
one? No, I don't think so. Now, this is classic,
and you've got to kind of look behind this, because
I think there's more to this story than they're telling,
or someone's telling. CBS Evening News scored its best weekly
audience in months as struggling anchor Tony Dokopil was on
vacation. And I've seen Tony. He's fantastic. He's pretty damn
boring, right? Tony's show averaged 4.1 million viewers for the
week of July 27th. I'm sorry, this is this other
guy, the replacement guy, Matt Cuttney. He got 4.1 million
viewers for the week of July 27th, according to Nielsen,
making the show's best performance in 17 weeks. And the
first time the Evening O's has topped the 4 million
viewer mark since late March. Okay. These upbeat numbers came
in as Matt Guttman filled in for Dokopil, who has
been struggling to keep the show's ratings up. Right now.
Hosanna. Guttman's probably feeling real good about that. Isn't he?
Sure he is. One week later... CBS star Matt Gutman
is facing a bombshell sexual harassment lawsuit. As his turn
behind the CBS Evening News desk helped deliver the struggling
network, a ratings boost. The 48-year-old was sued Friday by
former ABC News field reporter Samira Saeed, who accused him
of making inappropriate sexual remarks during two assignments. assignments. When,
Darren? Years ago. Has to be years ago. You got
it. Not just years ago, several years ago. You picked
the mic. I heard it. That was me. I was
getting gesticulated with joy over this story. So it says
that she filed a lawsuit in LA Superior Court naming
Gutman, ABC News, and the parent company, the Walt Disney
Company, as... defendants right now. Do you think, isn't the
timing of this suit rather strange? Yeah, you waited until
you saw him on TV and went, huh? Yeah. Somebody
doesn't want him there. So let's do this. This is
the playbook. The company meet.
Yeah, I ate what there was at the one that
all went after was the concerted effort going after the
advertisers of Limbaugh. That's really where it started with like
Limbaugh and Fox News. Yes. And then it kind of
just steamrolled from there because they realized people had. zero
spine and at any hint of a, scandal at all
they would pull their advertising and i was having a
conversation with serjean the russian handler the other day about
youtube videos and it's a very similar thing he's like
you can't easily make money on youtube if you're doing
a show like ours Like no agenda, like planet rage,
like that Larry. You can't make money because advertisers run
away where you're making money are. Oh, let's talk about
Lego or let's talk about something so vanilla that there
can never be any controversy. That's where the advertisers want
to put their money because of this. Sure. Yeah. Yeah.
So somehow Gene is making money by putting like very
boring space video games up there. And he's like, thanks
for the warning. But it's great. I mean, if you
can make money doing it, that's. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's
great. But it's because the hotter content doesn't make money.
And this does not surprise me, except the guy, the
guy's name. It's funny because you say Gutman. The first
thing I think is Gutfeld. And I'm like, is it?
No, no. The other guy. Gutman. Now, the interesting thing
is, too, I think whoever this woman's attorneys are to
file this now, I think they're they're not that sharp
because if I was. Those guys, I would wait until
Gutman, who looks like he was lining up to replace
Dopukle, whatever his name is, wait until he's really entrenched
and maybe capping five million views a night. Then you
sue. Now CBS is going to give you a lot
more go-away money with a guy like that sitting in
place. Is it about the money or is it about
getting rid of the guy? Well, it could be both.
Yeah. Yeah. Nobody said people on the left are all
that smart. No, no. This is just a quick drop
from a Chelsea handler, which made me. Did you see
this one? Oh, yeah. We're going to get Todd Blanche.
He's going to be confirmed. And what's he's going to
overturn Roe v. Wade. We're. What? He's going to overturn
Roe v. Wade. Wait a minute. Didn't that happen already?
Yes. Years ago. Supreme Court. We're all sitting around all
these men who have these powerful platforms are sitting around
watching this happen to women, to communities that you could
instead be supporting. You don't have to like turn over
a whole new leaf. It's just about being a decent
human being. And this again was with Kara Swisher. Yes.
And she says, right. Right. So is Karis Wisher ignorant
of the fact that Roe v. Wade was already thrown
down by the Supreme Court? But it's like, what are
these people on the news for? This is why. You
cannot believe anything you see on any news program. It
doesn't matter what network it's on or what podcast it's
on. Always double check your work, kids, because the anchors
very rarely are going to push back. If Kara Swisher
had any. idea of what was going on or journalistic
credibility. She'd be like, well, what do you mean overturn
Roe v. Wade? How's he going to do that? The
Supreme court did that. But you wouldn't do that because
Chelsea's her buddy, right? It's like, you can't know that
would be, that would be inconvenient. Yeah. Yeah. But it's
the socialist commie way. You just will change words. Yes,
it is. People are like, we're tired of hearing about
commies. You know what? We are too. Yeah. But this
is what is dominating the news. This is... AOC, since
we're on the socialist, let's run through the socialist clips.
Let's do that. Yeah. And I have a local city
councilman that has this saying, woke one was crazy. Woke
one was crazy. You were woke one, AOC. And what
part was crazy then? Well, she was pretty much the,
on the forefront of, uh, the original woke push. Yeah,
crazy. One was crazy. And I think that what's important
is. And the guy she's talking to on ABC says
that's true. Did you hear ABC when this was all
going on saying all these things AOC and her like
are saying are they're crazy. So why is he agreeing
with her now? Because again. They really don't know what's
going on. They are just bobbing their heads. Sure. Going
along. I mean, if this guy was sharp, he would
have said, well, was your prediction that we'd all be
dead in eight years from climate change? Was that part
of woke one or is that still stand AOC? Is
the world ending? Yes, that's what she said. Waters rising.
We have to go all green, even though we don't
have enough electricity. We all should have cars that we
won't be able to charge. Or, you know, when storms
go through like they have in my home state of
Illinois. Well, the power has been down for so many.
Like every storm seems to be taking down. Yeah. About
a quarter million customers, according to just the local Chicago
area. That's not even outside of the Chicago metropolitan area.
are out of power. It's like, but well, you don't
want a gas car, do you? No. No. Just take
our bikes. Yes. We have to assess what expanded it
is. Was it? I mean, did the movement go too
far with some of those positions? I mean, you briefly
supported the idea of defunding the police. Well, I think
that I also want to ask you, because maybe I
missed something. When did AOC back away from defunding the
police? He's like, you at one point... We're backing defunding
the police. Did AOC ever come back out and say,
no, no, I think the police need money? I don't
remember seeing that, but I might have missed it. I
challenge you to find that clip, Darren, and I'll pay
you handsomely if you can. But if you can't, you
owe me. Right. No, thank you. That's not a big
back. All right. During this time, and especially during COVID,
there was a huge opening of the Overton window. We
were shut down. There were some of the highest unemployment
rates that we have seen because. I mean, we were
shut down. Why, AOC? Joey? No. Joey. Of those shutdowns.
Yeah. And I think that. The doors were really open
in trying to entertain any and every policy that was
going to get us to a better place. And I
actually think that the discussions that were had in that
time were quite fruitful. I think that when we talk
about crime today, it's fundamentally different than the way that
we talked about crime in bringing crime down, right? And
I think that we all share in the goals of
having as low a crime rate as possible. And during
lockdown, of course, rhetoric in that time is not rhetoric
that we would use today. And I'm grateful that these
candidates have the opportunity to present who they are to
their electorate and what they're campaigning on in this moment.
Yeah, we just saw one of them singing the blues
clues or something. And so rhetoric for her is a
synonym for lies. So is that what she means by
that rhetoric? Right. I think so. And she's a DSC.
I mean, she is not a regular Democrat. She has
said that she is part of the Democrat socialist movement.
And they want to, according to their co-chair, Mm hmm.
Abolish police, abolish prisons, abolish the presidency, abolish the Supreme
Court. So AOC will tell you, well, we all want
crime to go down. We all have that same goal.
And she will tell you that while also understanding that
she believes and her group believes that Well, the way
to do this is to never incarcerate anybody. And I
think that's just insanity. Yeah, but maybe it holds water,
Darren, because she did say, she said, it's a direct
quote, crime is fundamentally different now. Right, than it was.
But he didn't ask her how. Right. How would that
be? AOC, but details don't matter. Yes. How, when, what,
where, and why that's what a story should be. If
you're a journalist, you're a journalist. And yeah, they don't
ask. And you're like, well, why don't you ask? Why
do you just keep bobbing your head and saying, oh,
okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because they're there to promote. Not
to question, really. Well, this is the issue. You've also
got the clip here, and I think I have the
close to the same one. Your clip number one kind
of fits right in, I think, with the crime. Yeah.
You're going to love Emily Gallagher. Yes. What is crime?
That's a question, isn't it? Yeah, it is. I like
that. Just like AOC. What is crime? Really? I mean,
you know, you've got to have different levels. You do.
Most of what we saw were crimes of poverty. People
who were stealing things like toothpaste. People who were stealing
things like, you know, soap. And that means if you're
stealing those things, you need them. And we are choosing
to protect... billion dollar companies like CVS and Walgreens over
the people who are struggling to get by. So I
would say that the true crime is that there is
such incredible wealth
disparity in this city that there are people who can
be thrown in jail simply for having a biological need
and so one of the things that i'm finding for
it and i will ask is it really a biological
need to have soap humans existed for a long time
on this planet when soap was not a thing I
think if we wanted to, we could check with both
CVS and Walgreens and ask just how the soap pilfering,
how severe a problem that is. And I'll guarantee you
they'll say, not very. No, no. I'm sure they, you
know, for people that will, they grab a bunch of
things, usually things that they can resell. Yeah. Yeah. And
a much lower price. It's the perfect way to run
a store. If you can go steal everything from somebody
else, then sell it out of the trunk of your
car. Yeah. But yeah, well, why doesn't this New York
assembly person, Emily Gallagher, at her office, wherever it is,
I don't know which borough she's out of, but. Why
aren't you giving away bars of soap? Good question. Or
opening up the bathrooms to the public. Come use ours.
Wash up here. Exactly. But you would think if it
really is just things like soap that you could get
one of these companies, it would be great. Sponsored by...
You know, Dove or Dial or whoever. Irish Spring. I
get sent to the Irish. But she just lies because
there are countless homeless shelters and food banks and so
forth that are giving that stuff away right now. Okay.
So she's just lying. Well, the... CVS is in the
Walgreens that have left these areas have been pretty clear
about the amount of money they are losing to theft.
And it's not a small amount. And it is certainly
not just soap and toothpaste. No, but, you know, you
expect these companies when she says we're protecting these companies.
You mean we are enforcing the laws that people don't
steal? Or do you mean that we're not forcing them
at gunpoint to remain open in areas where they cannot
make a profit due to the constant. shoplifting armed robberies.
And there have been multiple stories of these things, multiple
stores having these problems. Sure. And the communities then go,
well, what do you mean that's racist that you're leaving?
Well, it's like, no, the one, the employees in the
store are in danger. Yeah. because of the amount of
crime in your area and they're being robbed so much
There was one, I think it was in New York,
one of these auto zone or one of these other
auto parts stores that was like completely looted twice within
a 24 hour period. That's by hungry people. You should
know because everybody drinks motor oil. Everyone. Right. They're just,
that's a thing of necessity. You can't do anything about
it. It's like. If your whole store, if you haven't
seen the videos, you're not looking at all. When you
see these things happen where a crowd of 20 to
50, maybe more people all go in at the same
time and just take whatever they want and run out.
Mm hmm. The store is fairly empty by the time
that is done. It's not somebody going in and grabbing
a loaf of bread or a quarter motor oil or
whatever. It's taking everything that they can. And you expect
the stores to stay open. How? And so one of
the things that I'm fighting for at the state level
is to make sure we pass things like treatment, not
jail, and that we hold the line. Oh, there you
go. Treatment, not jail. Treatment, not jail. Can't put them
in, can't incarcerate them. No, we're going to treat them.
Yeah. Like, oh, that's going to take care of it.
It's like, oh, we're not going to send cops. Now
we're going to send social workers and shrinks. Exactly. They're
going to take care of everything until they start getting
shot at. Then they run. On the incredible criminal justice
reforms that we have done over the last 10 and
20 years that are constantly being threatened by right wing
media who are looking to fear monger about people who
are actually just in absolute dire straits. Yeah, it's fear-mongering.
Reporting on crimes is fear-mongering. Totally. Yes. Just take that
beating and shut up. Change the wording. Change the language.
No, you're fear mongering. You can't tell that people looted
this store and, you know, physically assaulted the cashiers and
bloodied them. No, no, that's that's fear mongering, telling people
the truth of what's going on. This concept of having
no punishment for crimes. It makes zero sense when you
understand that there are some human beings who are just
going to commit crimes. You're not going to stop them.
Yeah. There's nothing you can do. I don't know what
it is in their DNA, but you aren't going to
stop them. And when you go, well, the worst thing
that you could possibly do. And you and I discussed
this a few years ago in Chirac here when the
question of why carjackings were going through the roof and
there was an assemblyman here in Chicago. who put out
a statement like this is all because of these violent
video games like grand theft auto yes yes i recall
that and i'm like no no it's not it's because
uh preckwinkle periwinkle whatever what's their name preckwinkle i think
that uh they changed the law that if you were
under the age of 18 you You were not going
to be tried as an adult for carjacking. And they
put that out there. And then what happened? Car jackings
went way up by people under the age of 18.
And they were surprised. It's like taking away the punishment
of, had an effect and they were like amazed that
taking away the punishment was having that kind of an
effect it's like this is not something that you need
to go to school for this is not something you
need a psychological degree for this is nothing you need
except common sense that if people feel like they can
get away from with bad behavior and have no consequences
they are much more likely to do so but what
they would answer you with darren is those those teenage
carjackers were stealing those cars because they were hungry they
had they had a necessity they needed some wheels baby
Absolutely. Got to get some wheels so I can drive
it through the front of a supermarket and clean that
out. Go someplace else. Right. They're like, how dare you
have a car when this poor kid here doesn't have
one? Exactly. You should let them use your car, right?
Yes. I mean, speaking of Chirac, this is our ex-Mayor
Rahm Emanuel, who I think... has some aspirations to throw
his hat in the ring to be the democratic presidential
nominee. Oh yeah. I'd love to see him against a
new scum captain hair gel. That'd be a funny battle.
Yeah, it would. And at least a Rahm Emanuel though.
Um, You know, if this is that kind of a
matchup, Emmanuel, according to what I'm about to play, is
positioning himself as more of the moderate, which I don't
know if that's going along with how he's always governed.
But. I mean, if you're going up against the new
scum, then you have to take a step to the
center. I think B, I want to be very clear.
If you control the border. You send a signal that
people who break the law don't get rewarded. And I'm
so angry at my party, not only losing control of
the border, but in the 2020 debate, raising your hand
and saying, I'm going to give health care to people
that cross illegally. Forget the immigration policy, the value system.
You have American families suffocating under healthcare costs Not everybody
universally covered, but we're significantly well on our way there.
And you're talking about free health care to having crossed
the border illegally? At every level that was foolish by
the party. Yeah, let me let me play the part
of your typical journalist. What do you make of that,
Larry? Well, what I make is he used an interesting
phrase when he said people across the border illegally are
not going to be rewarded. Well, that's pretty goddamn weak,
Rom. The correct response to that question is they're going
to be deported. And were prosecuted because they've committed a
crime, but saying they're not going to be rewarded, that
kind of puts it in a different light, doesn't it?
I think it does. A little bit. And all these
guys, this is the standard play that they all do,
whether it's Joey, I'm a moderate, I'm a moderate, until
they get into office, then that goes out the window.
It's easy to claim you're a minor. Yeah, of course.
But this is how you get elected. And that's usually
the way it is. I'm still I don't understand where
are the where are the crossovers? Where are the people
that are willing to put in the time? You're a
tried and true conservative and you just pretend to be
a liberal. And you run in New York or Detroit
or wherever it is. You get elected and then go,
surprise! Yeah, where are those guys? That's a great question.
See, this is where we need Minerva or Sybil or
whatever that chick. We need that girl. I can't believe
it hasn't happened. That is the...
you know, the Manchurian candidate kind of a concept, like
sell something and get to where you need to be.
And then just be like, well, I'm not going to
really vote the way you think I am. Hmm. And
just a quick clip here, just to show that we
do cover every now and then things that happen outside
of the United States. These are our buddies from Grimerica.
Great show. Yes. Talking about what I'm guessing from what
I understood, from what I've heard, a new Canadian law.
About hate speech. Interviews that are motivated by bias against
victims, blah, blah, blah, which are not a criminal offense.
For example, disrespectful, disrespectful, disrespectful. It's pretty subjective. Disrespectful, discriminatory,
or hostile speech. Wow. I hate. I know. Disrespectful. Wow.
Who gets to decide? Well, we know who gets to
decide. Whoever is in charge of the government at that
time. I think just the normal RCMP climbs down off
of his Palomino and says, that wasn't very respectful. You're
going to jail. To who? But it gets better. A
hate bias motivated incident may be determined to be a
hate bias motivated crime upon further investigation. Yeah, we can
look for your hate bias. Wow. Game. Wow. By Hasbro.
There's a little spinner. There's a spinner arrow there on
that game. I hope. Yes. Well, there should be it
at the very least. Yes. Play. It's a party game.
Yeah. Incident example. An individual creates a social media post
promoting the boycott of companies that support the The 2SLGBTQI
plus community. Whoa. Yeah. So boycotting, you know, an LGBTQ
plus community event or organization, just boycotting them. Is now
going to be a crime in Canada? Congratulations, Canadians. Yeah,
well, they could shrink the penal code very simply by
just saying, wrong think will be prosecuted, because that's what
they're talking about. It's very scary. Very. I'd be a
bias crime. Wow. But it's okay the other way, though.
This is the crazy, infuriating thing. I feel like we're
living in a dream. But they can be completely hateful
to Pierre, Polyev, all the conservatives, anything normal. They can
be super hateful and biased against that, but that's going
to be okay. So it's hate one way. One way
hate. Yeah. What is... When you're putting this in to
the legal code, which is, well, it's the hate bias
to do this to an LGBTQ, but it's not to
do the same thing to a straight organization, straight person,
whatever. It's like, well, that's not... That's not an honorable
thing. Well, no. And, you know, in the United States,
the first time any government agency proclaimed anybody a protected
class, that was just a basically a step upwards in
racism. Because if you're protected and the other class isn't,
well, they're kind of below you, aren't they? Yes, they
are. And that is the... The overall viewpoint that people
are bringing. I know this is a little out of
left field, but this is in honor of JCD, who
I was getting kind of sad. We haven't had any
whatever girls on the show. And this kind of goes
in with that. It's what, what, what girls, what, whatever
girls, there's a, whatever podcast. Okay. Which do. And then
there's a bunch of women that are on there who,
uh, you know, are like only fans, models, things like
that. And this is a, uh, two parter with the
same woman, uh, who is a young black woman, and
they're discussing what is and isn't racist, which goes right
along with what the Grimerica boys were just saying. As
a black person, even if I was racist towards a
white person, it doesn't have the same effect as if
a white person were racist towards me. That's what I
meant. The jail system, more black people go to jail
than white people, you know. But let me ask you
this. A black person walks up to a white person,
not aggravated, just punches them in the face because that
person is white. Is that racism? Yes. I don't think
it's racism. What? Wow. Maybe prejudice. I've heard a black.
Right. Maybe it's prejudice. If you see a white person
and you just hit them with a brick, I mean,
that's not really racist. That's just having prejudice. You see
the difference? No. I don't either. I don't either. Black
man come up to me on a train. He spit
in my face and he called me white. That I
should myself. I think that's racist. Wait, that happened? Yes,
that actually happened in New York. Bro, she could have
been Irina Zeru. Oh, who's Ukrainian. Who's Ukrainian, right? Yes.
In her instance, was that an act of racism that
she experienced? If you want to call that racism, then
sure. I just don't. Not what I call it. I
probably call it racism. Do you call it racism? And
he specifically said something about your. Yes. Maybe prejudice. What?
So again. This young black female sitting right across next
to whatever she was with a young white female Ukrainian
girl who had somebody come up on a train or
something and spit in her face and call her a
white bitch. Is that racist? Well, no, I don't. I
don't really think that's racist. How? Hmm. How? Well, it's
because only white racism matters, of course. Can black people
be racist towards other minority groups? No. So can a
black person be racist towards an Asian person? Why don't
you want to say that? You can just admit it.
No, because can black people be racist towards Asians? Maybe.
Maybe. Wait, can black people be racist towards Latinos? Why
minority on minority? It just doesn't mean anything. I don't
know. I'd explain it. It's just OK. I'm with the
woman that said what minority on minority. It doesn't mean
anything. Hmm. I'm trying to wrap my brain around that,
that it only matters. If it is a white person
against any other minority, that's the only racism that this
woman believes there is. Anybody that is not white, that
is actively hostile, actively assaulting, actively hating people, another person
just because of the color of their skin because of
their ethnicity well that's not racism and it's not It's
very... This is so... And I understand why KCD brought
a lot of these. One, they bring a little levity,
but they also scare the hell out of you when
you realize these women are not alone in the way
they think. No. No. I don't know. What do you
mean by it doesn't mean anything? Like... So it's only
bad when white people do something. Because that's the main
core, though. First of all, I am not racist. It
is a little bit racist to say that white people
or other minorities can't face racism from black people. I'm
just saying that it doesn't have the same effect. And
if it doesn't have the same effect, it kind of
just doesn't matter. Whoa, that's crazy. That's crazy. Bro, she's
actually racist. No, she's racist. Yes. Hmm. Wow. Yeah, I
mean, okay. Wow. Again, the Katerina Kerrisko, I'm bad with
the names, but the woman. Saratsuzka from Charlotte. Charlotte, yes.
She was killed dead because of the color of her
skin. What do you mean it doesn't have the same
color? effect if it goes the other way that's just
insanity that's just well maybe she missed that story it's
indoctrination 101 she probably watches blues clues with el say
Right? I don't know. Get that mail-in ballot. That's all
that matters. How many ballots did he have, though? It
should have been like a thousand mail-in ballots. Like, fill
it out for your friends. Just one. He's not that
special. If he was special like me in L.A., it's
gotten eight. I only needed two. And if you would
have sent those in with the wrong votes, they would
have come for you. Don't worry. Definitely. Now, if you
would have put those all and voted Democrat, then they
might have just... Probably not. Yeah. They didn't notice that.
It was just a rounding error. Yeah. Where do you
want to go next? Well, well, well, since we were
going briefly offshore or over the border, there's a couple
of funny stories here from the UK about apparently they've
been suffering through some wildfires. Darren. Interesting. Like Canada and
the United States. Yeah. Yeah. You know, and I have
some experience of those having lived in L.A. as long
as I did. And usually when they used to begin,
when I first got to L.A., there's always been fires
in Los Angeles, even before there were people there. That's
just very dry place. but they would call it what
it was back in the day, and most of them
were arson, including the most famous one of all now,
which, of course, is the Pacific Palisades conflagration, which was
set by some creep. It didn't just happen. And even
Karen Bass... who was partying in Ghana as the city
burned, she doesn't want to mention that because that sort
of kind of undercuts the
I'm a change position, doesn't it? Yes, it does. Yes.
I mean, no agenda pointed out they had hands on
a book from the 1800s, which pointed out the amount
of wildfires going on even then. Long before we had
electric lines and cell towers and all. Yes. Yes. Absolutely.
So they've been raging in the UK, and I have
two clips. And one is, it's like the yin and
the yang. In the political mindset. And the first one
is some very happy, giggly newsreader chick talking about she
got in the course of one evening, three emergency, emergency
cell phone warnings from the British government, as she calls
them, Annie Burnham. and they woke her up because she
had to get up and do the show the next
day. She wasn't happy about that, but she's really not
that upset. Just listen to what she says. Anyway, I
got an alert from Andy Burnham and the government three
times, just to be clear, the 7 o'clock-ish one. Then
I got it again at about... 10 and then again
at 10 to 11 and I'd gone to bed early
because I need to get up and I just am
I not doing it right is there a way of
dismissing it you're viewing it or that's what I thought
they know I just went oh wildfires and put it
down anyway. The whole thing about this is Andy Burnham
is trying to do something. I get that. I get
that. He has actually banned his bezel of barbecues, as
we know. Stop. He's appointed a prime minister, and he's
pledged to buy. Okay. Did you hear what he's done,
what Burnham's done? He's banned, banned barbecues. Well, it sounds
like California. Yeah. Yeah, because when in doubt, just ban
something. That's always the fix. Ban it. Ban anything. Just
ban something. Yeah, California, my buddy, when he lived in,
I think he's still in the Bay Area. Oh, no,
you can't have a fire, but you can't put that
in your fire. It doesn't matter how cold it is
outside. You can't have you putting that horrible smoke into
the air, which then, of course, Went down the line
as well, where the stories with New York and like,
oh, pizza ovens. No, no, we can't have you doing
that. It's all sorts of we will control you. Yeah.
Yeah. And so, you know, at the top of her
blathering, she said, you know, am I doing something wrong?
Yes, you are. You have the wrong attitude, lady. Okay.
You should be pissed at Burnham. So I think there's
a little more in this clip. Yes. Yeah. And then
we can get to number five, the truth about wildfires.
Actually, man dispensable barbecues, as we know. He's appointed a
fire minister, and he's pledged to buy European-style fighting aircraft.
That's all fine. He should be doing something. How much
is he spending on... aircraft to fight fighters. Right. Doesn't
mention that. But it's all fine because he's doing stuff.
He's banning stuff. We're buying planes. Because planes are cheap.
Planes are very cheap, very cheap. So then from the
same British station, I guess this is a later telecast,
you get a very different and I think more realistic
and truthful appraisal of the wildfire situation in England. I
don't think anyone is saying that wildfires and fires in
general aren't serious. I guess the question is, was the
alert system the right tool by which to tell people
about the danger? I think it undermines the importance of
the emergency system. If you've got something like a war
or an earthquake or, you know, some things that are
just so existentially threatening that everybody needs to be told
immediately at that level, that's a high state alert for
everyone that's in emergency. Yeah. Whilst it is very serious
that we've got wildfires, it runs the risk of actually
undermining people taking it seriously. It's a bit like a
nanny intervention. We want to be seen to be doing
something. There are arsonists. The majority of fires started from
other things that we know broken bottles and others. But
why are we not having a discussion about what's happened
with rewilding, about the pressures that have been put on
farming, not to clear land, not to clear fallen wood,
not to clear areas where peat and grass and where
they've been prevented from allowing sheep to graze and others
and deer. And that has created a situation where people
want to use the term tinderbox, where things are much
more susceptible to catching fry up. There you have it.
This sounds exactly like the coverage Adam and John had
on the American wildfire. Same exact things. They're stopping the
clearing of brush. They're stopping all these things in the
usually under the guise of. global warming and then the
end result is the whole place burns down and then
they want to blame yes yes And what this guy
alluded to as well, and the first one, the woman
didn't quite understand, was kind of a little phrase that
I remember a guy telling me years ago when I
was working for a big company. And there are a
lot of people, anybody working for corporate America knows this.
There's so many people out there who are always kind
of pretending to be busy, busy, busy. Oh, I'm so
busy. I'm doing this, blah, blah, blah, blah. And this
guy said, you know... You should never confuse activity with
achievement. Yeah. You know, and all these bureaucrats and clowns,
they just claim, I'm so busy. I'm doing this. I'm
banning barbecues. I'm buying planes. So I'm really busy. But
you're not getting the job done, are you? But that's
how it works. Well, so they can list that and
then the... The mainstream media will be, well, they're really
trying hard. They're trying to. Yes. Yes. Look how busy
they are. Do X, Y, and Z while they ignore
again, the who, why, what, when, and how, who, why,
what, where, and how, which would make the story. They
don't want to really know how the. fires are starting
no there are arsonists yeah believe that or not people
are starting fires a lot of times intentionally a lot
of times accidentally You know, it's like, but it's humans.
And if you, uh, Do not properly treat the things
which can then lead to a buildup. Like in California,
a bunch of it was, well, we're not clearing the
brush underneath the power lines. So when there is a
problem where a power line comes down, well, of course,
there's something to light. And then it lights a lot.
Yeah. Fire. Yeah. In the meantime, leave the reservoirs empty
because, you know, we'll just handle it with, I don't
know, spray wax or something. Well, yeah. Is LA, I'm
wondering, Jack, has LA been rebuilt yet now? I mean,
I know they said this was all going to be
really quick. And no, no, almost nothing has been rebuilt.
Yeah. As was predicted. Yeah. Yes, Carolla did. He was
podcasting, I should say, from a hotel room. The fire
wasn't even out yet. And he said, I guarantee you,
In a year and a half, nothing, nothing will have
been rebuilt. It's all going to be hung up and
permitting because they don't want this like this anymore. They
want low-income housing in Malibu. And they're just going to
wait the property owners out until they say, all right,
I'll sell it at a loss. This is a battle
I cannot win. And he's right. It's a crazy system.
Yeah. How about the Trump plane swap? Was that a
good one? Did you enjoy? I love that. You got
something with this, don't you? Yeah, I've got a bunch.
Because this was a very entertaining story. Yeah. The United
States and the Iranian-backed Houthis carried out separate attacks on
shipping vessels near the Strait of Hormuz. Before the war
began, about 130 ships per day moved through that waterway.
According to Reuters, only eight ships traversed the strait within
the past week, marking a new low. Joining me now,
CBS News contributor H.R. McMaster. He was one of for
national security advisors to President Trump during his first administration.
HR, we'll get to the Strait of Hormuz in a
second, but I've got to ask you about the Air
Force One misdirection story. You've flown on Air Force One
many times, you have a keen understanding of national security
threats flying in and out of sensitive areas of the
world. How do you evaluate the evasive maneuvers the Secret
Service ordered the president to take and those who flew
with the president and those who were stuck on the
decoy Air Force One? Yeah. Hey, Major. Well, you know,
it seemed like the system worked to me in terms
of protecting the president. You know, I mean, there was
a clear connection between the Secret Service and the intelligence
agencies that gave the president, I'm sure, the heads up
or Secret Service the heads up. It's clear that the
Iranians are trying to kill them. I mean, this isn't
a secret that they've tried to get others to kill
them in the past. They've released the RGC, released a
video, a pattern of life video on the First Lady
and the President's son, Barron. So... So I think that
the system worked in this case in terms of the
handoff. And I think we just have to remain vigilant
because Iran does have a pretty extensive terrorist network, sleeper
zone network, especially in Europe, where they've conducted many assassinations
over the years, Major. So I think the concern was
the location that he was in Europe. Yeah, and rightfully
so. I mean, there's an active threat. Yeah. That's the
major Garrett and... So, and that was a fairly straightforward
process. But then you have MSNBC. Well, MSNOW. I just
want to say MSNBC. You've got to get a shock
collar on that one. One of the officials said another
official called the reports of threats against Trump's life is
really derived, not U.S. generated and viewed as low confidence.
I wanted to talk to you about this because in
particular.
I mean, we're both quite familiar with the vernacular of
government. What do you make of that report? What do
you make of that, Larry? There you go. It's just
giving you the what do you make of that? And
this was very low, very low. Right. Because the president
is going to hop into a catering van or whatever
it was on a low level. chance of a threat.
And kind of what it means about this threat as
far as you can suss out. Well, it does seem
to be consistent with the view of the CIA with
respect to Israeli intelligence of late. You might remember there
was reporting that Mr. Ratcliffe was not convinced that the
Israeli intelligence was correct, that you could decapitate the Iranian
regime with a strike on Khamenei and cause regime change.
And he kind of called it, he kind of called
of BS there in the situation room. So this is,
I think, of a piece of his natural skepticism and
the skepticism of the professional intelligence analysts at the CIA.
Obviously, you and I haven't seen that, so we're in
no position to judge it. But again, I don't begrudge
the secrets. Oh, no, but the MSNLB, they're always going
to judge. It doesn't matter if they've seen any documentation
whatsoever. They're going to judge. That's their job. That's their
job. They're judges. Yeah, yeah. Obviously, you and I haven't
seen that, so we're in no position to judge it.
But again, I don't begrudge the Secret Service for being
overly cautious and not being willing to take a risk,
even if there wasn't unanimity about the veracity of the
intelligence. It's true. What's also true is a president and
his close advisors can go back to the Secret Service
and say, I understand the threat, but I need a
different plan. That's what President Clinton did. That's clearly not
what happened here. Let's talk about where we are in
this war. And I want to go. Wait a minute,
Peppermint Patty. I think you're wrong about the Clinton. Want
to hear this one more time? Yeah, let's hear that
again. It's true. What's also true is a president and
his close advisors can go back to the Secret Service
and say, I understand the threat, but I need a
different plan. That's what President Clinton did. That's clearly not
what happened here. Let's talk about where we are in
this war. I don't think we need to hear any
more about the war. I want to go to... This
clip from PBS NewsHour. How unusual is it for the
Secret Service to turn Air Force One and its passengers
to include White House staff, the traveling press, into a
decoy? Yeah. As far as we know, the decoy fact
of that question, it has only happened once before. In
2000, President Bill Clinton landed in Islamabad, you see there,
in an unmarked plane after Air Force One had landed
and a body double who looked like Clinton got off
of Air Force One. Didn't I just hear Jen Psaki?
Oh, no, Clinton wouldn't do it. No, Clinton wouldn't do
it. it clinton wouldn't do it bullshit he wouldn't do
that yeah i missed that story when it happened and
that's pretty cool so he had one of those probably
one of those did he look like what is it
daddy long legs uh the joey clone that was was
i think it was something that was just fairly close
so that way yeah was he eating a cheeseburger as
he walked or something that's what sold it he had
a big mac in one hand and a large chocolate
shake in the other Okay. And probably three hookers following
him. Bullshit. Jeff, though, if you go beyond decoys to
include feints or secret trips like George W. Bush's to
Iraq, the Secret Service has taken steps like that before.
As for questions today of the vulnerability... Of those people
who did fly on Air Force One without President Trump,
Matranga said the bottom line is the Secret Service had
to make a tradeoff. I don't think that anybody intentionally
put, you know, the anchors or anyone else, the White
House press corps in harm's way. But that was a
risk that had to be weighed. And at the end
of the day, we have to look at continuity of
American government and. Quite frankly, I don't know how to
say this, but just to say it is that the
president of the United States is more important than every
single person on that plane. Oh, they're not going to
want to hear that. They don't want to hear that
at all. No, the press is going to be like,
no, no, we're the most important one ever. Of course
they are. Now, this is how NPR covered it. The
reporting contradicts what the White House told the press traveling
with the president during a recent trip to Turkey. They
were contradicting. Yes. And as NPR's Tamara Keith reports, that
may have left reporters vulnerable. President Trump boarded Air Force
One as usual, but The Washington Post reports he was
then smuggled off the plane in a catering truck and
flew on an entirely different aircraft. An entirely different aircraft,
not just a different aircraft. Entirely. Not just a fuselage,
the wings and everything. It could have been a partially
different aircraft. Yes. He went on a totally different aircraft.
I feel like, is there anything from Scott Simon on
this stuff? I kind of miss him. We got to
jam him into these shows somehow, Darren. He might be
your beat. You can follow Scott Simon closely. I'm going
to put that on me. I'm carrying Scott. muggled off
the plane in a catering truck and flew on an
entirely different aircraft. NPR hasn't confirmed the report, but journalists
and White House aides who unknowingly flew on the decoy
plane were firmly instructed to keep their window shades lowered.
Later, talking to reporters, Trump never let on. Were you
aware of any credible threat by Iran against her? I
have a threat all the time. I'm number one on
their list. That's not a lie. That's no lie, no.
He is definitely number one. It's been well known for
all sorts of reasons. Yeah. Before you, but if I
go, you go. I love that whole. Oh, that pissed
them off so much when he said that. But do
they not understand? It didn't really matter whether he was
on the plane or not. And these are the same
people. that are going to belittle the threats against his
life yet when he leaves the plane and they're on
it all of a sudden these are very credible threats
how dare you leave these other people on this plane
when you knew they were trying to shoot it down
sure well they're all the butler false flag people right
well anybody if you're going to be in the white
house press corps if you're going to be one of
the few that travels with the president on air force
one. I think unless you're a complete moron, you have
to understand the dangers that are inherent to that job.
How would you not? Sure. Like, you know, you're near
a guy who is, Has had more assassination attempts, I
believe, or was the at least there were more times
that Secret Service actually had to fire on assailants than
any other president. No, no doubt. So, of course, if
you're around him, that might be a little dangerous. Hmm.
I have a list before you, but if I go,
you go. Right? So perhaps someday you want to change
professions. Tamara Keith, NPR News. Senator Richard Blumenthal says he
wants to know details about President Trump's travel out of
Turkey after a NATO summit. Blumenthal wants to know what
the safety calculations were for journalists and others who traveled
on Air Force One. And that's why I'd like to
know what precautions were taken to make sure that they
were safe flying on an airplane that could have been...
a target of the Iranians with missiles or other devices
that were capable of evading the defensive mechanisms on the
old Air Force One. Blumenthal spoke on CNN. Yeah, with
all due respect, Senator Blumenthal, you're a moron. Yeah, he's
also the stolen Valor Man, isn't he? Yes, he is.
You know what I'm surprised at? I would think that
by now, in fact, maybe we should get Musk on
this. Why hasn't some reporter robot... been invented so all
these press people can feel safe they can sit home
in their basements and you know converse with the president
watch him while robbie the robot you know press corps
guy is he's you know who cares if he gets
blown up it's okay Right. Right. You just have your
analog. It's like a little thing. Exactly. They did a
bit like that on the big bang theory, which was
Sheldon as the robot. And he couldn't leave the house
for some reason. I don't remember why. Right. They put
a drudge's hat on him with the press pass and
the hat band. Right. All you need is like an
iPad for the head. You put them on Zoom or
something like that. And everything's good. Bob's your uncle. It
just seems to. Yeah. It's so easy. It just seems
to work. Hmm. This I thought we don't, you know,
again, normally coverage the. Yeah. Of the podcast, but Rogan,
I thought had an interesting take on the Trump decoy.
Okay. Apparently, there was this plot where Iran was trying
to kill Trump. Remember when he was supposed to get
in the Air Force One that... Cotter gave him and
then instead he flew in the old Air Force One.
Okay. Well, they're saying that he actually didn't even go
in the old Air Force One, that they snuck him
out on a truck. Okay. Like some fucking cargo truck.
Okay. And then put him in another kind of plane.
Okay. And flew them out of there. And then they
put the press in Air Force One. Because they were
apparently worried they were going to target Air Force One
as well. So imagine... Trump put the press on Air
Force One and they were thinking about possibly targeting them.
Holy shit. He hid in an airport catering container. And
by putting them there, he means they were there because
they were going to be there anyway. The only thing
that changed was Trump was taken. Yes. Off the plane.
And the catering thing. Genius. Genius. I know Taylor Swift
has used the same thing to get in and out
of arenas. I wonder how the food was in that
catering truck. Was there a snack prepared from inside there?
No. Trump might have come out with.
The lamb shank or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is
some good stuff. It's great stuff. To a military jet
for a secret flight out of the country after the
NATO summit last month. And this is being reported by
the New York Times. The thing is, though, I think
they put the press on Air Force One. So if
they flew him out, it was because they were worried
they were going to try to take down Air Force
One. And they took the press. If they take the
press off, then they know that we know. You've got
to let them know that we're not playing games. Just
everything's normal. Exactly. And if the press dies, so sad.
Oh, my God. You just get more press. God. That's
fucking wild. If that's true, that is so wild that
he didn't even tell them, hey, guys, we're not really
going to get on this plane. No one's getting on
this plane. Somebody tell Joe that Clinton did the same
thing. I guess he missed that as well. It's all
right, Joe. But, you know, it's an interesting concept. It
is. And then they all want to get upset because
we were on the plane and we were in harm's
way. It's like, well, the only difference is whether Trump
was on the plane or not. You knew you were
going to be on the plane. You signed up for
that gig. You know, you're covering the president. You know,
you're on Air Force One. You know, that has some
danger. So come on. So they can all ask for
hazard pay. Now they should. If you're covering the president,
I'd be like, pay me double, man. Yeah. If you
got to be anywhere near that guy, it could get
very dangerous, very quick. But he doesn't care. The UFC
thing, right? Hey, you got to go sometime. Hey, we
talked about on the last show. He's like, I got
to go. We all got to go at some point.
And Trump at the age that he is, I think
is understanding that, you know, he's there to do a
job. And. It's hard to put yourself into anybody else's
shoes no matter what. Sure. But I think after the
Butler thing. Trump had a reckoning that, you know, if
I don't know what his belief system is, but if
you believe in a higher power at all and a
bullet literally grazes your ear but does not blow your
head off. I think you kind of double down, triple
down, quadruple down or more on the I'm here to
do a job. This is clear. And the man or
woman upstairs, whatever you believe in, is looking out for
him. One would think, yeah. Because it's a very interesting
position to be in. And the guy, I mean, he's
either just a total badass. People are like, oh, they're
all Trumpers. Hey, I didn't even vote for Trump the
first time. Shame on you. No, you weren't well at
the time. No, I was faced down with the whole
rental detachment thing. I forgive you, Derek. Time flies when
you're having fun. Where do we want to go in
this media deconstruction? Media deconstruction. Well, this is kind of
a fun one here with a kind of a catchphrase
that might catch on. This is Caitlyn Jenner talking about...
One of our favorite topics. But before we go here,
wait a minute. Wait a minute. We're talking about the
WNBA, right? And last week, did I not suggest, almost
beg both you and Adam Curry, both at 6'5", to
apply for the WNBA? For the WNBA. What are you
waiting for? I haven't heard a goddamn thing, Darren. Get
busy. We could be enforcers. Exactly. Enforcers didn't usually exist
in basketball. In the NBA, really, they don't exist. In
the WNBA, they didn't exist. In hockey is the sport
where you have... the enforcer, which is somebody that is
Almost entirely on the team. to fight people on the
other team. Was that Dave the Hammer Schultz? Was he
one of those guys? There were a few of them
in the... What a name. Don't you wish you were
nicknamed the Hammer? I'm telling you, man. There were some...
Stu Grimson was one of them here in Chicago. There
were a few that that was... When they went on
the ice, you knew... Within seconds, most likely, there was
going to be the gloves dropping and a fight breaking
out. And there's nothing more interesting to me. And there's
a bunch of videos on YouTube that anybody can look
up. of nhl players talking to each other before and
after fights including there is some you know they're sitting
there they're waiting for the puck to drop so this
is you know when the referee is holding there he's
getting ready to drop the puck play will go in
but they they wait until the puck drops for the
fight to start Sure. And these two guys are standing
next to each other and there's a bunch of them
that are out there like this. And the one that
comes to mind, the guy's like, Hey, how you doing?
Oh, I'm good. You want to go? Yeah, sure. Oh,
good luck to you. And the buck drops as they
start fighting. and then after they're in the penalty box,
like, Oh, I got to work on my cardio, man.
It's like, it's their job. It's what they do. So,
I mean, I could be an enforcer in the WNBA.
Pretty sure. Go for it. Go for it. You need
an agent. You can be, you'll be, okay, if you
can get Adam and I the gigs, you know, on
the WNBA, you play the agent, you get us the
spot. I'll be your Jerry Maguire. Exactly. Show me the
money. Exactly. No, not Cuba, Jerry. Oh, okay. Cuba was
canceled too, you know. Who hasn't been canceled? Really? Who
hasn't been canceled? Yeah. And who doesn't understand yet that
the canceling is usually at the behest of a large
money group? Yes. Very rarely that it's actually a grassroots
movement. Yes. Now, we have any setup on this, Caitlin.
Yeah, it's just it's it's it's Caitlin Jenner talking to,
you know, on the news to someone. I don't know.
Some talking head about his her thoughts on the WNBA.
X, X, you're in. X, Y, you're out. It's simple.
That's the catchphrase. Let's remember that. I'm going to get
that tattooed on myself. X, you're in. X, while you're
out. That is called pure logic for any generation besides
this current one. You're right. It is. X, X, you're
in. XY, you're out. It's that simple. And I think
are doing a good job just to show the WNBA
how the hypocrisy that's going on here. We have to
protect women's sports. I have been coming on this show
for years and years. I want to protect women's sports.
Right. Title nine was. One of the greatest legislations, and
it was over 50 years ago, for women's equality. It
happened to be in sports. But look at what it's
done for women's sports. I don't want that to be
ruined by letting biological men come in and play in
women's sports. You know, XX you're in, XY you're out.
You can go play with the men. Right. Where's the
trans league? That's fine. That's fine. Do that. Yeah. As
long as everybody is on equal footing, that's all that
matters. And it didn't occur to me at first. And
you were the first one to bring it up, which
was the fighters in men boxing. are all done by
weight class and it's done for a reason that you
don't have a lightweight fighting a heavyweight. Sure. And that
is within the same sex. Yeah. So when you go
on down this other, which is why, as you've probably
noticed, we brought the clip on the last show, two
shows ago, where the guy from outkick sports, uh, offered
$10 million. He was hoping that Elon would like triple
that or something or bring it to a hundred million.
Yeah. Because he wants to see the WNBA champions, uh,
go up against a high school basketball team he is
so sure remember we had the clip from the journalist
in minneapolis like well they're just treating this as a
joke it's like no no that's real money madam of
course it is and it's not a joke it is
to prove that a high school team will Most likely
not just beat the WNBA champions. They will probably blow
them out. Yeah. And if that's the case, I don't
know how anybody with any bit of logic to them
would not be able to look at it and go,
oh. Yeah, now I get it. This is why we
don't let men play in women's sports. You know, it's
like, you know, the key word is logic. You can't
ask for that, Darren. Just don't even don't even use
the word. It's bad. Well, that's why I can't even
imagine. And this would be the fun part. Maybe they
would only end up playing a game. These, you know,
Inez Freedom and the other dude, I forget his name,
who wanted in. Yeah. On the WNBA. But just say
these guys or someone like them. Hell, probably even Michael
Jordan at his age now. Oh, sure. Were to go
in and play one game for a WNBA team. It
would be hard to believe that they wouldn't dominate the
game. Okay, Jordan's lost the step. He's getting older, but...
These guys that are fresh out of the NBA or
if you were to take a current NBA player, I
would expect that guy to score 80 points. He would
make the world. I think Will Chamberlain holds the record.
Whatever it is, he would make that look like nothing.
Yeah, no doubt. Because again, it's logic and we don't
have logic. There was another Victor Davis breakdown.
on this, which I'm intrigued that he keeps covering this.
Really? Yes. Kaitlin Clark single-handedly put the WNBA on the
map. True. And that's what the problem is because the
WNBA was sort of a little unknown league that was
65% black. People had suggested it was 35 to 40
percent gay, and they sort of had their own little
atmosphere, their own culture, and they weren't really being rewarded,
but they controlled the ownership of, The coaches, the referees,
the players all were on this DEI left wing page.
And suddenly the great benefactors, all of them, happened to
be white heterosexuals like Caitlin Clark and Sophie Cunningham. Which
is the problem. It's like it's somebody that doesn't fit
into our group, which it's the separation of groups. It
is a thread that has been going on for 50
years. You get the rich again. You get the poor
against the rich. You get everybody against the cops. You
get the black against the white. You get everybody. Everybody.
And this was a very specific little group in the
WNBA. And all of a sudden they're like, wait, these
two women that are now getting all of the attention.
Well, they're the minority. They don't fit into what the
rest of the league is, even though they are. showing
them up with what they're doing on the court. They
don't like that because like so many things now, everything
is culture based. It's race based. It is. Oh, wait,
you're not a lesbian. How dare you play in the
WNBA? And they didn't want that. In other words, they
were willing to commit violence against them. And the league
was either going to condone it or plead ignorance rather
than all benefit. Yeah. And we're seeing that. It's just
like the violence in the streets of, well, name your
major city here. Sure. Sure. What's stunning, though, is that
the coaches not only not disapprove of this behavior, they
advocate for it. You know, like the one that's running
the fever, right? She's all pissed off. And, I mean,
you watch a lot more team sports than I do,
but it's always been sort of... believe that if the
guys or the women on any given athletic team are
adversaries, their performance is going to plummet, really. You know,
I mean, think about that. And these people are hating
each other and pissed off and so forth. It's got
to affect the level of play. And most coaches would
squelch that damn fast because that spreads very quickly. Right,
because the ideal would be a team where everybody sticks
together. Yeah, of course. Yeah. The number one job of
coaching or managing is to back your player no matter
what. Even if you think they were wrong, the thing
you do in public in front of the cameras is
you back your player. Yeah. And there was a lot
of this in the. Yeah. Chicago Bulls, even when Michael
Jordan was here winning six different championships, you know, there
was inner strife at times, and that definitely took their
teams down, and then you had, when I used to
watch baseball, And I used to be a baseball addict.
I am a recovering baseball addict. I used to watch
every White Sox game for this season, which is 162
games, plus there's spring training, plus there's postseason. It took
a lot of time. Really? And the 2005 White Sox,
I'm glad because one of my favorite players, Ozzie Guillen,
came to manage in 2004. Very fun guy, says things
people don't like. He also got canceled while managing the
Miami team. But 2005, I was glad. I was fully
into baseball. Saw the White Sox win their only championship.
And the point is, there was not a game. one
superstar on that team, but you had a whole team
of people that had each other's backs and they won
the world series. There you are. Yeah, it works. Yeah.
And there was one subtext that no one talks about,
but it's right there staring us in the face that
Caitlin Clark is probably the best player. And that's not
supposed to happen in a predominantly gay, black, gay, gay,
gay, gay. female league. Doesn't mean that other players are
not nearly as good, but we haven't seen anybody like
her in women's national basketball. And in the case of
Sophie Cunningham, she's tall, she's beautiful, she's blonde, she's white,
and people resent that as well. You put those two
figures together, they create all this controversy and hostility, and
they remind America that something is definitely wrong with this
league. Something that encourages racism, it encourages sexual prejudice, it
encourages violence, and nobody wants to touch it. And if
it continues, maybe they'll lose Sophie Cunningham and they would
lose... caitlin clark and if they lost both of them
they would go back to their preferred obscurity and poverty
which it seems like a very weird thing to want
i mean one it's really scary that it's a little
social you know Cosm of what's going on there, which
is what's going on everywhere, which is let's spread the
hate. Let's spread all of these bad things. But the
concept that they would rather. be not in the spotlight,
not having huge amounts of fans, not having a huge
bunch of money coming in because we're just having fun
and we only want to do it with people we
like. It's a very weird concept. I've only run into
this when working for a country artist back in the
day. Running the whole website fan club thing. And there
were people that would say things like, Oh, I'll be
glad when she's not so popular and we can see
her in a small venue again. And it's like, What?
I get the concept, but I realize that that is
just meaning your favorite artist is now going to be
a nobody and not making any money and not really
having a successful career. But OK. OK, it's easier for
you, I guess, to get to see him in a
smaller venue. But I think there's leftist underpinnings to that
behavior. You know, pretty much they just, look, all they
can say now is to destroy the billionaires and especially
that trillionaire. Right, that one guy, the bad guy. You
know, it's the gospel of envy, as Churchill called it,
and they just don't like to see people really... achieve
greatness in any way you know we all we remember
what's one of their favorite phrases we are one we
are one we are one yes you know okay i
keep pointing out if everybody is the same you're not
going to be jay-z and beyonce you're not going to
be taylor and travis you're not going to be rock
hudson and doris day no there's a callback You're going
to be flipping the burgers. You're going to be the
guy sweeping up after the horse as he walks in
the parade in Disneyland. You're not going to be. No,
they're going to be the people sitting home collecting government
checks just because they deserve it. They won't be big.
The checks. No, they won't. They're going to have to
steal soap. You're so true. They're going to have to
go to mem Donnie's grocery store and buy expired fruit.
And then they're going to have to steal soap. And,
uh, Yeah. You know, the beautiful thing about the United
States is you're going to fail. You're probably going to
fail, but you get to try again. Yes. Nobody knows
if your first act is going to work. For some
people, it does. For some people, it takes a little
while longer. And if you put in the hard work,
eventually. you'll probably hit on something. Hopefully, yeah. Now, we've
got the USS Lincoln. We've got the Glove Story. I
mean, it's all good stuff, man. Pick one. Endless buffet.
Yeah. We've got the USS Lincoln, which, again, is going
to show you more about... how the media treats things
more than actually having a story. We've got, of course,
MS now. They're going to be on top of it,
right? Good, good, good. My colleague Lindsay Papilla and I
spoke exclusively to the wife of the sailor who jumped
off the USS Lincoln and was medically evacuated from the
ship. The Lincoln's been deployed for 265 days and hit
a modern day record for most continuous days at sea
without a port call. Of course, we got the music
that has to be very dramatic. Yeah. I don't even
know if that was music. It was awful. It really
sounded like a modem tone. Just really. Yeah, exactly. Yes.
And if you don't know what a modem tone is,
listen to the last show and you will find out
plenty of them there. But we spoke exclusively in all
of these stories. Are coming through family members, which means
you're not getting any firsthand accounts. And they're making it
sound like these ships are out there for completely ungodly
lengths of time. Are they a little longer than normal
with the Lincoln right now? Yes, but it's not exactly
going on years or anything. You're talking...
Maybe a month or two extended over what in average.
I don't know if most people understand this, Larry. It
takes a little bit of money to move an aircraft
carrier from the United States to the Iran off the
Strait of Hormuz. It's a little bit of an expense.
So what is the point of MS now running this
story? Because so is it is it Trump bad? Trump
bad. OK. Family members are concerned about potential exhaustion, low
morale and the mental health of those on board. We
know MS now very unlikely that they're going to care
about the well-being of the military. Yeah. The wife of
the sailor who jumped said her husband was struggling with
his mental health and repeatedly expressed his concerns to his
higher-ups, but was quote-unquote brushed off. The Navy says they
can't comment on the medical records of individual service members
to protect patient privacy. In the last message she received
from him before he went overboard, he said in part,
I think the boat is finally getting to me. It's
really getting me. I don't think I can do another
deployment after this, and I don't even know if I
can finish this deployment. The woman told me her husband
jumped off the ship. last Monday, but she didn't hear
anything from the Navy for four days, not until Friday,
despite her attempts to reach out. She also said he
raised concerns about his prescription contact lenses having expired, saying
he was getting yelled at for accidents on the flight
deck that he said happened because he couldn't see properly.
She says despite that, he was still allowed to work.
She told me, quote, I think that also had a
big toll on him because he could have injured a
lot of people and he could have injured himself because
that's what they kept yelling at him every time he
made a mistake. So basically everything's wrong. They're doing everything
wrong. I mean, can you buy that? Imagine this. So
this guy, he's on the flight deck of a carrier,
and I would assume in some ways he's responsible for
the safe takeoff and landings of the aircraft, right? Correct.
That's what they're saying anyway. What skipper on earth, even
in the Navy of Zimbabwe? would say, oh, you're not
seeing so good. Do it anyway. We'll take our chances
with you. I mean, it's ludicrous. There's got to be
more to this story, a lot more to this story
than we're getting. Well, yeah, because if you know your
contacts are expiring, believe it or not, they do bring
mail and stuff to these people. You could have had
more contacts delivered. You know. Absolutely. Just because they don't
sail into a port, they still get supply ships visit.
And they can move stuff from ship to ship like
you wouldn't believe. And that's the beauty of these types
of reports that are, well, we spoke to the family
and here's what they're reporting. And of course, there's nobody
here to push back on any of this. And the
report, again, the amount of money. That it would cost
if there was an accident with a plane going onto
the carrier would the toll of lives would be just
unbelievably harsh. So, yeah, I don't believe for a minute
or somebody like, hey, Skipper, I can't see like, no,
no problem. Go out there. Don't buy it for one
minute. And of course we don't have any comment in
the whole, Oh no, they didn't hear from for four
days. They're in a war zone. Okay, you may not
get notified immediately. I hope these people understand that you're
not going to get immediate notification. It's a weird thing.
I don't know how much communication we can get boots
on the ground from somebody probably for this. How much
communication if you're on a mission like this. Can you
email daily? Can you text? I don't know. What is
available? Yeah. I mean, I would assume with Elon's magical
satellites, you could probably communicate a lot, but it's like
that is something that maybe shouldn't be allowed either. I
don't know. Yeah. I don't know. Also, MSNOW. Two unnamed
sources, of course. Of course. Of course they're unnamed. They
were there. I first reported about the conditions on the
USS Lincoln last week after speaking to about a dozen
of the family members of the Marines and sailors on
board. They told me about things like non-operational toilets, moldy
showers, and the ship's store lacking basic hygiene products like
toothpaste, soap, and deodorant. The Lincoln's deployment appears to be
extended for a second time. time and they just hit
a modern day record in the navy for the most
continuous days at sea topping 200 days many of the
family members who spoke up at the meeting were crying
about the lack of hygiene products on board and they
say that they're all right for all of the things
you can be upset about Well, see, that ship needs
to dock in New York so they can steal the
soap from CVS. There's an easy answer. Come on. I
don't believe for one minute a military family is crying
because mommy or daddy can't get a tube of toothpaste.
Yeah. Also really worried about the fact that these long
hours with very little breaks could lead to exhaustion, which
could potentially lead to accidents. Which, again, the military is
well aware of. And if there are accidents, it is
a multimillion dollar accident on an aircraft carrier. Sure. So
usually they have a pretty well-oiled machine, if you will,
on scheduling and people have off time. Now, I understand
maybe some people have insomnia. Some people are tired. It's
been a long. I get it. But this is not
the first time a ship has been sent out for
over 200 days. I'm sure it isn't. At times, the
family members were crying in the meeting, saying that they
were really worried about the fact that their loved ones
were facing food shortages and also shortages in basic supplies.
Wouldn't you have led with maybe there's food shortage, but
maybe there were food shortages. We're not saying there is
food shortages. We're saying there's possible food shortages, Larry. Yeah,
well, we're not saying there are. But we're saying it's
possible. Yeah. Well, anything's possible. At one point, a woman
actually said that she found it difficult to be proud
of her husband's service because he had actually been questioning
the mission after he had seen several news reports about
innocent civilians being killed in Iran. There we go. There
you go. You know, there you go. You know, the
innocent civilians killed in Iran were there. The people that
were standing up that the government killed. The reason you're
there is to try to get those people out. Yeah.
You know, I would say to these people, they should,
you know, if they weren't around, there's probably some books,
some diaries, whatever, of the families of veterans from World
War II whose dads and uncles and brothers were, let's
say, like on the Bataan Death March. They didn't have
cell phones. Maybe they got a letter every two months
if they were lucky. They had no idea what was
going on with those guys. And that's horrible, but that's
what kind of war is about. And whatever these guys
are enduring on that aircraft carrier is literally a boat
ride compared to what those guys went through in ground
wars. 60 years ago. Yeah, war is not a vacation.
No. And obviously they think it should be like, oh,
no, they're not getting they're not getting their massages twice
a day. Like, well, this is what they signed up
for. The job sucks. I get it. That's why you
appreciate the people that serve. It is, of course, an
easy thing to do. It's not like, oh, you're going
to be on an aircraft carrier for six months or
however long it is. You know, that's going to be
fun. No, it's not. And in point of fact, if
you look on YouTube, there are multiple Carnival Cruises that
are worse than that carrier. I've seen a few of
those. That's a stone fact. It's the reason I've never
been on a cruise. I've seen some videos in our
life. I watched a documentary a while ago. I couldn't
stop laughing. It was called The Poop Cruise. What's the
like of fright? That's a big floating Ebola chain. I
don't know. No, no, no, no, no. This thing, for
some reason, I forget what the hell happened, but it
lost all power. And, of course, I think it was
Carnival. And so for like six days, it was just
adrift in the Gulf of America. And what happened when
the power went out, well, then the toilets don't flush
on ships. And the water's in flow. And I think
on two or three decks, there was like four inches
of sewage water with feces and peepee. It was just
beyond belief. And that, you know what, I guarantee you.
That cruise was much worse than that carrier's Enduring in
the Mideast right now. You know, that was you just
retelling something and not a clip, but Chris Wilson sent
this in and it fits. Depressing clip of the day.
Oh, whoa. Did somebody smack a puppy? I'm going to
get pissed if that's what the, what was that? I
don't know. I don't know. What was the, uh, I
think that was a gunshot at the end there. Ooh.
What, what, what, what makes that kind of noise in
the, uh, in Ozzy? I'm not sure. Oh. a little
bit left here and then we got pegs if responding
her comment was met with applause from the audience now
navy leaders said that they're planning on sending the uss
theater roosevelt another aircraft carrier in the region to relieve
the lincoln but they couldn't give
a definitive timeline about when that would happen or when
the Lincoln would come home. But they did say that
they're committed to improving the conditions on the Lincoln while
they continue to fight in this war that has no
clear end in sight. Oh, there you go. No clear
end in sight of the war. It's a forever war.
Remember that. I pointed it out on the last episode,
and I know it doesn't mean anything to some people,
but there have been 18 service members who have given
their life because they care enough to fight for freedom
around the world. In the same time period, 180 people
murdered. In the city of Chicago. So when people try
to tell you. That the cost is too high. I
just want you to have the receipts, as the kids
say. Good point. This is from CBS KRCG, a Hegseth
reaction. Pentagon facing major questions tonight about reports of American
sailors jumping overboard from the USS Abraham Lincoln, which has
now been deployed in the Middle East for 266 days.
It's about nine months, nine months deployed. 250 of those
days, not even with a land stop. This is because
they are in the middle of Trump's war with Iran.
Trump's war with Iran, not our war, not the United
States war. It's Trump's war with Iran. And that war
is taking a toll on sailors aboard who've complained about
not having enough food. They've literally gone hungry. And we've
heard these complaints, the lack of basic necessities. We haven't
heard these complaints. Actually, madam, what we've heard is family
members allegedly recounting stories that they got firsthand. We have
not, as far as I can tell, and I looked.
There are no clips of service men from or service
women from the Lincoln giving a first hand account. Yeah.
These that includes toothpaste, deodorant, soap. And again, who wrote
this list? That's always about toothpaste, deodorant. So, yeah, interesting.
And all of those things add up with an incredibly
long deployment that keeps getting extended to dangerously low morale.
There are 5,000 American sailors on board. But tonight, the
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is denying the reports, saying they're
simply untrue. Listen to what he told Newsmax when questioned
about the reporting while traveling in Panama. Thank you. completely
misrepresented. Listen, we make sure at... Every ship, every crew,
every captain has everything we can provide them at every
single moment. Some deployments are longer than others, and I
have more respect and gratitude for those sailors than anybody.
This, again, is all just about making the average person
listening be against what's going on. And there are people
on both sides. I mean, that was one of the
places that people always like Darren and Larry, they agreed
too much where you were like, hey, no, I don't
think we should be there. No. Trump said no new
wars. And I'm the guy that's like, well, words mean
things. And it's really, is it a war? No, it's
a military action. I was that guy. You were that
guy. But I still think nothing's going to really change
when they pack up and leave. No, because there's only
two ways for there to be real change. Nuking is
one. Right. Well, blowing up. Pretty much everything in the
country away, whether it's or not. Yes. And they don't
want to do that. No. Or getting rid of the
current regime. If you don't do one of those. then
yeah, you're going to be right back more or less
where you started. According to Donald, he's already gotten rid
of two or three regimes. It seems like there's always
a backup regime. Those guys are prepared. They do keep
recycling. Yes. There's no question about it. You can never
tell the latest regime from the previous one. They all
look the same. It's very strange, isn't it? Yeah, but
you know who owns the Strait of Hormuz now, right?
Who does? After we finish defeating Iran, which is being
very badly defeated... Pretty soon I'll be declaring the Hormo
Strait, a territory of the United States. And again, he's
laughing while he says it. But what I want him
to do desperately, and I really mean this, Darren, I
want him to call that thing the Strait of America.
Put it on the maps. Yes, yes, yes, yes. That's
all that really matters. Put it on the map. That's
all that matters. Yes. It's all naming rights. Yes. Not
wrong. Not wrong. Essentially, that's what we have the blockade.
And again, he then says, essentially. So not only did
he laugh through it to make it clear that it
was a joke. And then he's like, well, that's just
essentially what it is because we're controlling it. And people
are all going nuts like, oh, no, he's going to
go. No. Why don't you people pay attention? That's too
difficult. True. No ships get through unless we want them
to. And how about Venezuela? Venezuela was a one-day war.
And now we work great with them. We've taken in
millions and millions of barrels of oil. Which is true.
And then, of course, it's the cost of gas for
you to pay a tiny little bit more for your
gasoline. Just remember, you're doing it so that a very
evil country cannot have a country. Really, it's the number
one state sponsor of terror in the world. We don't
want to have them have a nuclear weapon. So remember
that when you have to pay a little bit more,
you're at $4. It's okay. I mean, I'll never apologize.
I did the right thing. But you could, you know,
if you didn't have... You'd be a... I mean, I
had it down to below $2 in many states, but
California can't include because they keep taxing, taxing, taxing. Yeah,
California keeps blowing up, up, up no matter what. Yes.
And for the lefties that are all like, oh, no,
we're paying too much for gasoline. Well, let me remind
you. During Joe Biden, here's an MSNBC back when it
was still MSNBC. Andrea Mitchell. It's a potent one, but
I really do think in talking to members of Congress
that they now see the politics right now, and it
may not last, that the American people are behind this.
And. more likely are willing to take a hit at
the pump. I don't think it's been sold adequately. Well,
if it means not bringing war here, right? Like, that's
another way to message this, I might argue. Yeah, and
Putin's price hike is a great way to message it.
So they were fine. The Democrats were fine, including their
talking heads, because of the war in Ukraine. Ukraine. And
it was Putin's price hike, not Joey's. Right. Never forget
that. So why is this the Trump price hike and
not the Mueller's? Who knows? And I just don't remember
how much oil we get from Ukraine or Russia. I
don't think any. But somehow it was Putin's price hike.
I don't know. I couldn't make sense of that, Darren.
What's wrong with me? But it shows you exactly the
insanity of. because they're going to, it all is political.
It's not about giving you the facts who, why, what,
where, well, who, why, what, when, how, whatever they are
just giving you the politics. They don't care. And this
was okay. That little blurb in there. Well, they're willing
to pay more at the pump to keep the war.
Um, over there you know in ukraine yes what about
in iran when you want to keep the war out
of your uh You know, out of your own little
area, I would think that would be the case, but
no. Yeah, but you know, everybody loves Zelensky, especially Ben
Stiller. So that's who matters. Do you remember that there
was a video of Ben meeting Zelensky? It was hysterical.
Zelensky's standing in the middle of this pretty large room,
and they led Ben through a door on the side
like a hamster coming out of a cage. And as
he walks across the room to greet Zelensky, he's got
his both hands in front of him in the prayer
position. I don't remember that. Maybe I didn't see it.
It was bizarre. It was like, what is this? You
know, the bows and scrapes. He didn't kiss his hand,
but I was expecting him to do that. There were
a lot of bizarre things. Yeah. Yeah. Including here, we've
got a boots on the ground, but this is a
wait before you get to boots on the ground. There's
one more Iran thing I'd love to walk you through
real quick. Sure. Before we leave Iran. And this this
just made me laugh. And maybe Trump should know about
this. The headline was dig it. Iran's black widow. faces
multiple death sentences after gruesomely killing at least 10 10
of her ex-husbands oh she's got to be a very
attractive woman then you wouldn't believe it wow really frightening
oh my god she's so scary looking why 10 guys
why how did she catch 10 dudes Well, I think
they don't give all the details, but I think she's
56. Her name is Kulthum Akbari. 56 confessed to much
of the horrific body count, the Manzandaran Province Public Relations
Office told Iranian state media last Sunday. They mentioned one
of her victims, the latest one, he was 82. So
the guy was probably not 70. I mean, she's not
seeing that very well. But I mean, still, that's a
hell of a run. And she's a weapon in her
own right, really. I mean, that's quite a stack of
bodies she's knocked over. And they said the motive was
greed and that she collected gold, cash and other dowry
wealth. Yeah.
From her victims. Okay. And what was her method? Well,
what a gold in the favor. Well, what she did
was something, you know, one of my guilty pleasures with
my wife used to be watching like 48 hours and
all these murder mystery things. And so many times these
women would kill their husbands by feeding them. Um. breakfast
drinks like orange juice or jello shots that were laced
with antifreeze right And it would take a long time
for these guys to die. They'd be sick. Oh, Lord,
what's wrong with nobody could figure it out? And one
day they woke up dead. And that's pretty much what
she was doing. She said that her last victim was
in 2023. His name was, I'm going to try to
pronounce his name. I think it's pronounced, um, He had
complained to family members that Akhbari had been forcing him
to take medications and died shortly thereafter. So, you know,
if Trump wants to get the next regime knocked off,
maybe he should turn her loose on them. Also, if
somebody's forcing you to take medications, run! Run. It's not
a good idea. My favorite one of the stories that
was not too long ago, it was an Asian couple
where allegedly the husband then told the wife because they
were having a problem with some kind of credit. It
may have been ants. Like, oh, we'll mix this in
a coffee mug or whatever. And then we had her
on video doing that and then claim that she was
poisoning him to try to put her in jail over
the whole bit. And the wife's like, no, he told
me to put the poison into the mug. At which
point? Who do you believe? Yeah. Yes. Could be either
way. Could just be somebody smart enough. That's like, well,
okay. I was putting poison into his coffee mug. Oh,
he told me to do it. Cause we, we had,
we had ants. Good ants. I don't want ants. You
do not want ants. And just a quick AI story
before we have a boots on the ground. Cause this,
if you fly, you're, This is terrifying what's going on
in Canada. From the outside, it's pretty clear. This is
not the air traffic control tower you're used to. Because
controllers are elsewhere, maybe even in another city. You can
start seeing movement, so it helps our air traffic controllers
and our traffic services staff be able to pick out
the things that are relevant to them. NAV Canada says
this is the future. Remote air traffic control with new
high-tech features. It's the same level of service that we
end up providing. Essentially, all we're doing is we're taking
the visual view of someone looking out a window replacing
that with a digital view onto screens. Super exciting time
obviously. Ottawa's Kongsberg Geospatial designed the system and says it
will provide access to services in remote community just as
it has in the home of its parent company, Norway.
As we're seeing the development an implementation of ai into
more and more technology this is another great example where
the system can continue to learn you know what am
i looking at what are the aircrafts what are the
weather conditions what could go wrong larry it's we're going
to take the the tower from your local airport yeah
and we're going to consolidate it and put it Now,
I understand putting some of these tools into effect, but
moving people to a remote location means really bad things
can happen. I understand the staffing issue. I think we've
got people that are responding to this. Travelers at the
Ottawa airport aren't so sure. Don't like it. I would
rather people looking out a window. The more you put
stuff like this in, the more it screws up. All
right? You need the human factor, regardless. Hamilton Airport with
300,000 travelers a year will be the first fully remote
location, and those air traffic controllers have been asked to
move to Kingston. The union is concerned they might leave
the field instead. And attrition is only, I say quote-unquote
only, you know, 10 or 20 percent We can't afford
to lose a single air traffic controller right now in
Canada. NAV Canada says this change could be part of
the solution. When fully operational, up to 15 airports could
be remotely monitored from Kingston. It provides more flexibility in
our staffing in the long run. NAV Canada says that
it won't be moving to Hamilton, until a year of
shadow testing in Kingston shows no possible issues and until
all regulatory hurdles are cleared. With the stakes for all
involved so high, whether this comes to an airport near
you remains up in the air. I see what you
did there up in the air, up in the air.
Now that's shadow testing. Does that include airliners with real
people on board? Well, of course, because what this would
be is you're going to have the remote unit monitoring
and doing their job. Yeah. Not actually communicating with the
airplanes, but having this be a simulation kind of. But
one, I don't think a year is a long enough
time to understand everything that can possibly go wrong. With
that said, I don't know if anybody's still just literally
looking out a window. These are usually all. No. On
instrumentation, which I understand you can go remotely. It kind
of reminds me like what MLB did when they started
going to New York for certain plays like, oh, no,
we need to we need to do a video replay.
Let's get New York on the phone. This is interesting
because I saw a story earlier today that the biggest
siphon of current air traffic controllers are video game developers.
They like the way these guys operate, and they're the
ones that are taking them off of the flight towers,
which is kind of kooky. So there you go. It's
a tie-in. It is a very, one, it's a very
stressful job. There's no question about it. The more I've
been watching a few different channels that show the problems
that have been going on in major airports around the
country and around the world and, It's amazing what some
of these controllers can do and pilots. It's amazing when
they totally are able to keep their cool, even though
they know the situation that they're in is not very
good. With that said, you want to keep a human
being If the lines get cut between the airport that's
being serviced and the remote location. Now, again, I understand
adding a bunch of new equipment to a local, but
I do the tower that's there. But when you try
to take everything and move it remote. That line somehow
gets cut. You're going to have big problems. Sure. But
of course, what they're going to want is just pure
AI. That'll be the next. Yeah. How? How will run
all? It'll just sound like watching the AI allegedly. Who's
going to fall asleep, just like humans that are in
the car. Once these people that get their Teslas or
the self-driving cars and they're just going along and they're
like, oh, wow, it's been I tried this for two
weeks and it didn't hit anybody. So now I'm just
going to relax. And why not? That's when it drives
you right off the bridge into the Gulf of America,
baby. Or the Strait of America. Yes. We have a
boots on the ground from Sir Darius Unity, Knight of
the Sand Hill People. He says in the morning, thank
you for your courage. Long live Mr. Bud's kill as
well as his legacy. Amen to that. And he said
the best podcast in the universe. And they put no
agenda in parentheses. Thank you, sir. Darius unity discuss data
centers on Thursday's episode. And I remembered my pops and
I did some work on them back in the day
as union electricians. We were in the National Capital Region
with Local 26, and I was an apprentice primarily on
the fire alarm crew. I worked with fellow apprentices in
Charlotte, North Carolina, as an unofficial member of the Local
379 as well. This very spring that just passed to
gather even more treasure slash intel for Gitmo Nation. First,
what I recall from my recent experience, the data centers
are very mums the word as of late. Construction workers
must, if I recall, turn in their phones at the
beginning of the workday or to prevent unauthorized pictures or
info from being made public. Or more plausibly, maybe it
was that they couldn't use their phones while on the
job site. Yeah, they're very. Yeah. sensitive about that stuff
getting out he says if they do they risk getting
an immediate pinky slash pink slip now for what my
pops and i four men told me from his experience
in august or so of 2023 the data centers run
24 7 that they do they have beefed up slash
arm security and they lose out on at least a
million bucks per minute for each and every minute that
they have shut down operations, especially if it's due to
emergency repairs. And I think that's a little high, but
the numbers that I've seen put it as possibly 20,000
plus per second or per minute, which adds up. fairly
quickly if you're out for an hour i mean our
power was out here for over 24 hours so you
know if you're losing 20 000 plus per minute that
is no joke no he says we dealt extremely
with long, heavy, and thickly protected cables and wiring. Oh,
yeah, you have to have shielding on that, especially when
the all-hands call went out randomly. We were often somewhat
confused regarding exactly what our general contactors, clients needed or
wanted from us. Be it in the specs for material
that we were installing or in the necessary tasks in
general, which is also interesting when you're like, well, why
are we doing this? You have to wonder exactly what's
going on. He said, lastly, we had to install smoke
detectors approximately every six feet. And if memory serves, they
had to be drilled into the columns of the structure
holding up the raised flooring. Yeah, these things are built,
so there's a lot of wires going around. Oh, they're
very creepy looking things. And I can guarantee that as
we speak, there are probably half a dozen studios in.
with scripts on their desk with titles like, uh, data
center doom, you know, there's definitely, I mean, it's, it's,
it's just rife with, uh, with terror, these things. And
somebody's going to make a buck off that. Or they're
going to lose a buck. I mean, there's a lot.
Well, that too, yeah. Probably get to this more on
the next show as far as the amount of money.
A lot of people think it's turning into a bubble.
A lot of people don't think any of the... billions
or trillions of dollars that are being raised for these
data centers are actually going to pay off. What does
Harvard say about that? Is there a way to play
that and short these things and make a fortune? Short
certain companies. Yeah. We all know that there are memory
shortages. It's amazing that memory that was worth like nothing
two or three years ago, all of a sudden people
want it because it's still memory. Yeah. And the chip
manufacturers can't keep up. But as we've talked about here.
The reality is, as this AI stuff continues, more and
more will be brought into the home. It will be
brought into small businesses. You can run some very capable
models on hardware that cost money. you know, in the
$10,000 range, which for an average person, they're not going
to pay that to play, you know, chat GPT and
ask it questions. No, but for any company, you know,
Even small businesses. Sure. That is a small bill to
pay rather than paying 50 or 100 bucks a month
for your AI in the cloud and risking your corporate
data. And these things are already to the point to
where they're getting into your own business. location. So these
data centers, what are they going to be used for?
As we talked about with Adam on the last show,
it'd probably be a lot of pickleball courts or something.
The boots on the ground continues. Apologies for wasting so
much time and getting this to y'all dovetailed with the
following. My deep, sincere regrets and remorse that I haven't
been an associate executive producer in well over a year.
It breaks my heart. The Manhattan's he quotes in a
similar manner. My heart was shattered at the passing of
the late, great Mr. John C. Dvorak. And he says,
if y'all would be ever so kind as to mention,
read at least some of this. It was good information,
my friend. Yes. Live to tape episode, no agenda. I'd
be deeply grateful, thankful, appreciative. No, thank you. He says,
love you. Mean it. Little girl. Yay. And love is
lit. Bless no agenda nation always and forever. God bless.
Keep us all to stay blessed, free and dangerous. Well,
that's the only way we know how to do it.
Indeed. And we love our boots on the ground. I
put out a thing on X. I'm like, you want
to be a podcast? Everybody's like, are you giving up
Larry's spot? I'm like, no, we're looking for people that
can do boots on the ground. Cause while I love
boots on the ground as the one-eyed podcaster, I'm Reading
is sometimes a bigger pain in the behind than not.
And we would just like to hear your voice for
people that have the ability to record audio. I'm trying
to get a list of no agenda producers with what
your. expertise lies in like here. We just had our
AI dude. Like, so when the next AI story comes,
I can reach out and be like, Hey, this is
the story. What's, what's your take on it? Be of
the perfect reporter. Like, Hey, what do you make of
this? And we can get the boots on the ground
from people in a way that, Where people can hear
your lovely voices rather than listening to the overly radio
voices of Larry and Derry all day. Is that what
they say about us? Oh, dear. No. They sound too
good. Well, I... Saw a letter that came in that
Adam Ford did that you kind of sound like a
beatnik poet, which. Yeah, I like that. That's kind of
cool. You kind of have that thing going on. Hmm.
Uh, let's get the glove story. And I think that
was one that, uh, the glove story, the gloves, baby.
Yeah. The gloves are interesting and they're dividing people. And
of course that means they're dividing the media. This is,
uh, Something that's been around for a while, which I
think most of the stories are missing out on. They've
been using these in jails. They're basically gloves with batteries
that produce a shock much less than a taser would.
Yes, this is from a Kentucky jail employee showing off
the gloves, which I think is a good primer. Basically,
you put it on just like like any glove, you
know, right now they're off. I can touch it. You
know, they strap on and basically you got a power
button that you hit. It lights up and then it's
active. At that point in time. So I can touch
anywhere on my body if I was to grab hold
of my hand, which I'm not going to do. I've
already experienced it. I don't want to put myself through
it. It doesn't feel the best. Yeah, you don't want
to shock yourself. I'll bet some will. There's going to
be glove fetish freaks that will be buying, you know.
Taking these right off the shelves fast as they can,
no doubt. And the interesting thing was, as he just
pointed out, it needs to make contact with skin, which
means now people can just go head to toe in
like lycra or whatever that material is. Yeah. That would
probably then insulate you from this because it's such a
horrible, dangerous weapon. Mm hmm. It doesn't incapacitate you, but
I've been exposed to this probably 10 to 15 times
myself. And it's, I guess, the best way to describe
it, I mean, it basically takes all your focus off
everything that's going to basically where you're getting grabbed at.
And then as soon as you let go, it's gone.
There's no marks that's left or anything like that. It
lets you get the control of the person to where
you can get them in a safer location and actually
try to gain compliance. And we've had the compliance gloves
now for over. That is a great word. We love
compliance. Compliance gloves. It's always about compliance. Always, yeah. Okay,
that's probably a good art idea. Compliance gloves, make them
snappy. And basically, it has been... Probably one of the
Probably one of the best tools we added. One thing
about, and I'll even show you, one thing about the
gloves themselves is that... They have a button on them.
And again, it doesn't incapacitate a person like a taser.
I'm sure several people have seen taser videos where you
hit somebody and they fall on the ground and stuff
like that. Yeah, it can get stiff. This has no
incapacitation with it. I wonder, I didn't do enough research
here. Nobody is telling people. exactly what the charge is
no that you're getting so it's enough to to make
you stop resisting allegedly allegedly allegedly i have my doubts
about this i really do well yeah the guys on
like bath salts or something we've seen enough videos where
tasers didn't work Didn't work. Sure. And then when I
saw this thing first mentioned online, it was in reference
to apparently, allegedly, ICE has bought many hundreds or thousands
of pairs of these things that could be using. Which,
you know, any day now, somebody from MS Now will
be reporting that these are, in fact, a wearable firing
squad. That's how they're going to characterize this stuff. CNN's
already doing it. Oh, there you go. Okay. And again,
the reality is this is less than a taser. That
much is clear. So less lethal than what they already
have. So this is trying to appease a greater majority
of. of the population by having a way to do
the job without doing massive damage. And but still, it's
going to be Trump bad, Trump bad, Trump bad, ICE
is evil. Well, the gloves in theory and GLOVE is
for generated low output voltage emitter. So it's glove. I
know. I mean, whoever comes up with the acronyms, I
have to give them credit on that one. That was
pretty good. Yeah. glove. The gloves generically are a tool.
You put them on, they're sort of an on-off switch,
so if you touch someone, they may not feel it.
When you turn it on, they're going to get a
voltage that's described as sort of an intense bee sting.
They're not supposed to do it for longer than 15
seconds. So this may be helpful, and I will say
that the The devices have mostly been used
at least from the public record, the company is not
speaking now, at least from the public record, in confined
situations, a jail. That may make sense because there's really
no freedom of movement. There's no freedom at all in
jails, madam, but... Very little. Well, you know that these
things are going to find their way very quickly into
schools and subway stations and crowded buses. It's going to
be. It's going to be. Right. Well, right. For law
enforcement. OK. Now, for other people, you're going to be
committing battery if you do this. Yeah. This is Juliette
Kayyem, the CNN analyst. Go forward to ICE and where
we are now. This is asking for intense trouble for
the American public. Intense trouble for American public. ICE is
not known for de-escalation. Oh, but wait, this isn't indeed.
Okay. ice is not known yes for de-escalation she says
yeah but this is a tool that is way below
the threshold of what they've had before which would show
that in good faith anybody again if you had logic
would understand that this is a step towards de-escalization because
this is like a bee sting rather than you getting
hit with the electric shock coming off a capacitor on
your TV. No. If they were serious about this, Darren,
they would issue every squad of ICE guys out. pocket
watches with chains and a competent hypnotist. And that's how
to make people compliant. Just sit them down, swing that
watch. They'll do what you say. I don't know if
that would work. The, oh, you're getting sleepy. That's it.
Some audio, too. Yeah, now you got it. You're on
board. You're getting very sleepy. That's what I'm talking about.
Stop rushing me with that gun. No, no! Right, that's
exactly the problem. Oh, but these gloves are bad. The
rules of engagement for ICE are not understood. And with
this mandate from the White House of... The rules of
engagement for ICE are not understood. If somebody tries to
mess with them, they will use the glove. And more.
200, 2000 arrests a day. Yeah. Oh, a day, 2000
arrests a day. That's too many. Let's not talk about
the fact that how many million people came in under
Joey because he said, hey, come on in. Let's not
talk about how crime rates actually seem to have gone
down in some major cities, which I cannot prove it.
You cannot prove it. Nobody can prove it yet. But
it seems it's possible that violent gang members that are
being sent back to their mother country maybe is one
of the reasons why it's safer to walk around some
places in the United States now. Could be. You are
now have sort of issued ice to sort of go
around, touch people and zap them and say that they're
not compliant. We know I just say they can always
say they weren't compliant, madam. But before they could shoot
them or kill them or do something like that. Now
they're going to get a little owie. I mean, this
is just insanity. The fact that the reality of this
system is you're not doing any damage to somebody because
of this glove. Yeah. I'm going to be direct here.
We know ice lies. Oh, I'm going to be direct
here. We know ice lies. Oh, I bet you. That
was very direct. So direct. Yeah. Of course, I slide.
This is again. OK, give us the list of where
ice, which is a not a person, of course. Where
has ice lied? Where has ice touched you on the
doll? That's it. They've been shown to lie to have.
And so this they have that CNN. They have. Could
be a real danger for the American public. They have
been shown to lie in court. And so, you know,
judges have made those made that very plain and clear.
I do want to ask you about because we've talked
about this before, but it with this extra tool, when
you consider the idea that there is a quota. Most
departments have gotten rid of these, right? I mean, this
was a whole big thing with law enforcement many, many
decades ago. And now that it's back for ICE and
ICE only, generally speaking, what does this do to law
enforcement agents when they have this thing sitting over their
head that, oh, we need to get 2000 per day?
Yeah, it's a... Wait a minute. She's saying that these
gloves go back for decades? Is that correct? No, she's
just talking about quotas in law enforcement. Oh, all right.
I mean, the reality is the only reason the quota
of the around $2,000 a day is there... Is because
they started with so many millions of people that they
had to get rid of. And this is nothing different
than having a job. You work at a factory, you
know, and you need to get X amount out. Well,
you put a number on it. You say, well, here's
our goal. Here's what we're trying to do. There's no
like, well, if we don't get this amount of people,
something happens. It's just, hey, this right now is the
level we want to be at. But it doesn't mean
they're rounding up people that don't deserve it. They're like,
oh, no, they're not criminals. Oh, you mean are they
here illegally? Well, then technically... Holman did respond to the
glove kerfuffle, if you will. Oh, let's see what Tom
said. And look, there is no reason for it. I
mean, bottom line, you're right. It's just politics. It's sanctuary
jurisdiction. Over a decade, I can't think of the hundreds
of... of cases like this has happened. It's just one
case after another after another. We'll talk about this today
and tomorrow. Then we'll move on. The next week there'll
be another one in some other place, another sanctuary stay.
And what really upset me, the response from the governor's
office, was that, well, ICE has billions of dollars. They
should be doing their job. We did our job. We
located this person in their facility. We did an investigation,
found out he is an illegal in the United States.
He has a criminal history. He is deportable. So we
issued a detainer. Ask him then... to notify us before
they release them. Now, I don't care about sanctuary policies.
They say, we can't honor detainers. We don't think they're
legal. There's nothing illegal. There's nothing against the sanctuary law
in California for a deputy to just pick the phone
up and say that, hey, this guy's being released in
an hour. You don't have to hold him one minute.
longer than you would normally hold them, just call us
before we release them. It's common sense. So this person's
dead because Governor Newsom in the state of California puts
politics, hatred over President Trump, over public safety. So look
at what California has done to hurt you guys, to
curb ICE enforcement. They make ICE agents easier to sue.
They're banning cops from moonlighting for ICE, restricting ICE courthouse
arrests, taxing immigrants' detention profits, banning masks for federal agents.
They're doing everything possible to make your job harder. Now,
think about if you're the family of that 68-year-old or
that 60-year-old. that 68 year old, how do you feel
today? Shake to your stomach that your government lets you
down. The state government lets you down. Look, they put
a lot of roadblocks up. They try to make our
job more difficult. But the bottom line is, of June
of this year, ICE made more arrests than any time
in the history of ICE. A historic month in June.
What do we do the next month in July? We
blew June out of the water. We got another historic
record. We're going to keep doing our job. You can
make it more difficult. You can impede. You can interfere.
But you're not going to stop President Trump from keeping
his promise to American people. And I think he's right
there. Yeah, let's hope so. You're not going to keep
Donald Trump from doing what he wants to do, whether
you like him or not. And the whole thing with
these gloves, I don't understand because they seem to be
gentle enough. If you're like, well, the guy's like, I've
accidentally touched myself a few times. That sounded dirty. But
hey. If it didn't knock him out, well, what's the
problem? Yeah. Do you have any more stories for us
today, or should we thank some people for... Let's thank
some people, yeah. I'm going to show my support by
donating to No Agenda. Imagine all the people who could
do that. Oh, yeah, that'd be fab. Yeah, on No
Agenda. In the morning We need things like artwork, man.
This was a hell of a week for art. You
have all sorts of ways to give us boots on
the ground, support the show. It is your no agenda
show. That's one thing I picked up from Adam years
ago where it was always like, well, this is your
no agenda show. It's like, well, what do you mean
by that? Yeah. Yeah. It means it is the producers
running the show. Everybody's a producer. The podfather actually seems
to be enjoying being a producer of the show. Imagine
that. He really is. He says he likes listening to
us. He may be. He listened to Planet Rage. That
is why we are here right now is because he.
True. Listened to Planet Rage, and he liked it. You
can also get over into the troll room. Let's see.
15, 20. 15, 20. Oh, there they are. 902 for
a high. That's not bad. I mean, for us. I
mean, for Adam and John, John would be like, ah,
that's not enough. Of course. For us, we need everybody
to bring one.
friend with them. No, bring two friends too. That would
be better. Yes. The troll room is available over at
no agenda dot stream. But if you have a podcasting
2.0 app, you're notified when the shows go live, a
bunch of shows use it. And it's great because a
lot of people enjoy. listening live because you don't know
what's going to happen. Some shows will edit things. They're
like, oh no, what did they say? If somebody rage
quits, you might miss out on all the fun. Yeah.
So you go over to know agenda.stream, you listen live,
you get a podcasting 2.0 app. You take part in
the troll room shenanigans. And if you are, able to
prompt an AI, or maybe if you're a real artist,
we'd love the real artist. I know for me, the
guy that is the AI prompt jockey I like the
real art. And a lot of people that are like,
I don't think this guy ever listened to No Agenda.
It's like, go to the No Agenda Art Generator. I'm
only behind Nick the Rat in Art Wins. They're like,
this guy's never actually listened to the show. Ha ha
ha. I was sleeping through it. I bet you that
was the issue. Oh, Mike Riley's coming in today. Oh,
man, he's good. That's good. We like that. People are
going to have to up their game. The piece that
we chose, and we knew it was going to be
very controversial. Right. That's exactly what it was. And we
had a conversation about it and I got a email
from a, I think it was a Viscount that was
like, you know, that was JCD would never have let
that go through because it was grotesque. And I'm like,
I know, I know it was a bit grotesque. It
was from fret pound who this was when number one.
Which it was the very carnival looking with the Barker
and then the pregnant woman. Fauci was the carnival. Fauci
was the carnival Barker. Oh, is that okay? I could
see that. That's a Fauci. It looks even more insane
than Fauci does normally. Yeah, but that was him. I
lived with it like a walking stick. Any of the
striped jacket on the straw boater hat. Yeah, it was
perfect. And he's like, the number was 82, not 84.
I'm like, I know there was a little bit of
artistic license. It's okay. But when the overall vibe. And
since it was a cartoonish, you can get away with
a little bit more. It wasn't clinical. It was an
interpretation. You know, the other ones, you know, the guy
with the cat from Dr. Evil, the. The bears and
the horses fighting. Scaramanga, I had a couple. Like, Birka
Beach. Yes. I mean, we figured if we were going
to go grotesque, you may as well really jump into
it. Yeah, we felt we just should take a chance
and unsettle you a little bit. And apparently we did.
And CSB, all the naked women are nice, but they're
probably not going to get picked. No. When I see
the naked bodies, I hear John saying, no, cheesecake. Cheesecake
is okay, but they need to be clothed, CSB. Yes.
And the burka, burka, burka from Scaramanga we dug. Yes.
But it took everybody like a half hour to realize
she was sitting on cauliflower rather than like, what is
that? What is that? It's got to be simplistic. If
we not learned anything, the simple joke goes, I was
almost going to go with the CSB's eyepatch guy because
it was less. offensive than the Carnival Barker one, but
Larry convinced me. He's like, no, no, that one's more
eye-catching, and you want to be eye-catching. I'm like, well,
we could go to in evergreen but then the artist
will never throw anything in because i'll be like you
didn't pick my art and then then i threatened to
just make my own art and put it up there
like i can do it i i can do it
i i've won however i'm only behind nick the rat
if you go to the leaderboard you'll see nick the
rat 193 me 141 so wow wow Good for you,
Darren. Nick the Rat will go down in history as
the number one no agenda artist, unless somebody really, really
comes out of nowhere. So thank you, Fret Pound. It
is very much appreciated. Time, talent, and treasure. We got
to keep the lights on. Got to keep the microphones
humming. So you got to send a Darren and Larry
donation. I mean, just tell us the Darren and Larry
donation. We want to hear more of those guys. Yes,
please. But we have a few people to thank for
today's show. We have the executive producers, which is anything
over three hundred and thirty three dollars. It's a number
that everybody enjoys. And let me pull up the right
screen here. The first one coming in with $1,888.88. That's
one heck of a number. It is. Mike, the privileged
taco salad, which I've heard a lot of good nicknames.
That's great. The privileged taco salad. says dear Amy dear
Adam Mimi and the Dvorak family in the morning spelled
M-O-U-R-N-I-N-G after listening to show 1888 I discovered that I
must have been living under a rock for most of
my life when my buddy Gary hit me in the
mouth back around episode 1357 I He mentioned the podcast
was done by John C. Dvorak and Adam Curry. My
response was, John who? I knew who Adam was from
MTV, but I had never heard of JCD. I was
hooked from the start and have not missed any shows
since. I learned quickly that the both of you know
what you're talking about and set feelings and thoughts straight
in my mind. That is one of the greatest things
about no agenda. Yes. I like finding people who think
the way that I do. I have questioned things that
the mainstream media reports for as long as I can
remember. One instance is when George W. Bush was president
and Gerhard Schroeder was the German chancellor. The American news
was claiming and quoting things that Schroeder was saying, and
the German news was quoting things and saying what George
Bush was saying. I just happened to be learning German
at the time, and I picked up on what was
being translated and can only go, no, that's not what
he said from both sides. The news was embellishing the
reports. Imagine that. What? Gambling? Round up the usual suspects.
Exactly. And this is especially when things get translated. You
know. Go ahead. There's going to be funny things going
on. He continues. I, like you and JCD, am also
a jack of all trades and a master of none.
I have donned a lot of different hats in my
life and know quite a bit by doing so. Again,
you two showed me that there are others who are
like me. Past nicknames were hazmat Mike. Out of scope,
Mike and rock and roll, Mike, just to name a
few. experiencing the love that was shared for JCD was
amazing. And I am proud to be able to be
a part of such a great group. Gitmo nation rocks.
Yeah. It's even better than schoolhouse rocks. Definitely. I do
hear John grousing at me for the length of this
note. So I will close it by saying, God bless
you all. And then he has met Ville, Libe and
LA, which I had to look up, which I know
I butchered. It means with much love to you all
in German. He says, Mike, the privileged taco salad, PS,
Kudos to Larry and Darren for their filling in. I
have to admit that I visualized Tommy Chong when Larry
speaks and lost it when he said, dude, maybe you
do have a Tommy Chong thing going on. Really? So
I'm either a beatnik poet or I'm a Tommy Chong.
Wow. Or a total stoner. That's quite a span. Yes.
Yeah. Jeez. Jeez. He says, PPS, please accept my $1,888.88
donation in honor of JCD. We do. Thank you very
much. And then handwritten at the bottom, which I want
to let you know, my AI got right. Type is
better than my chicken scratch. But hey, if the AI
can tell what it is, that's all that really matters.
Thank you very much. I guess he's already a knight.
If there's any title change or anything, please let us
know. But thank you, Mike, for the privileged taco salad.
Thank you, Mike. Next up is Dr. Don and Dame
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there was none, but I just had to make myself
a note to remember and get it. So it can
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find you? I haven't, but I promise I'll, because I'm
a honey freak and I can't wait. So, yes, thank
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in the note to notes at no agenda dot com.
The back office said they haven't received it yet or
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notes at no agenda show. Dot net notes at no
agenda show. Dot net. And we will do a make
good for you. Definitely. Next episode. Then coming in Stefan
truckles from Seuss, Denmark. I guess I'll go with that.
Hi, gents. I know he's donated to our other shows.
I just, you know, I'm blanking on where these from.
Hi, gents. Much appreciated that the two of our producers
moved from Brunetti like backroom producing to, to being off
cam news models. Well, I mean, we are very pretty
stuff on, I mean, you know that at least Larry
is, I have to wear the eye patch. I'm gorgeous.
He says, I would like to request any jingle with
love in the title, except love you mean it. Um,
um, That is an interesting request. Yes. And his donation
was 2-21-17. Bye. Mmm. Had love in it. Thank you,
Stefan. Next up is Eli the Coffee Guy. And I'm
so excited, Darren. Guess what? He's got my address and
he's sending me some of that fabulous gigawatt coffee. Oh,
you're going to be wired. I am. He's from Bensonville,
Illinois, 208.16, and Eli says, Gentlemen, I read the newsletter
and figured the Strait of Hormuz sovereignty line was you
guys having a laugh. Some snide throwaway. Then I saw
some news articles with Trump trolling that pretty soon he'll
declare it a territory of the United States. It's hard
to tell a bit from the news anymore. Life often
imitates comedy. Thanks for the laughs and great media deconstruction.
For producers who want great coffee, visit gigawattcoffeeroasters.com and use
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the coffee guy. Thank you, Eli. Thanks, Eli. I got
to get back to him. Some of the producers, they
want to do a Saturday meetup in September. Oh, that's
exciting. And it's either they want to make sure I
never do another show or they want to say congratulations.
I'm not too sure which yet. You'll find out. But
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Don Mills of Shasta Lake, California donated $200. And Don
says, keep the best podcast in the universe going. Glad
to hear the media deconstruction will continue. Well, thank you,
Don. Yeah, we're planting the flag just like on D-Day.
We're just putting it up there, daring anybody to come
take it. Up next, Brenda Forcade is, I think... Paulsboro,
Washington came in with $200. No, no. These are the
associate executive producers. Thank you very much, Brenda. Next up,
Anonymous gave $200 from Parts Unknown. And whoever you are,
Anonymous, we thank you very much. Then also with 200,
Sir Lawrence of Dystopia says, In the morning, Darren and
Larry, as you read this, our northern Silicon Valley in
the morning of John meetup will be in the rearview
mirror. Thanks go out to Pizzeria Violetta, Sir Crazy Recalcitrant
Steve, and the Dvorak's in attendance for the gathering of
the roundtable. No agenda nation lives on. Thank you for
taking the helm during the interim. Regardless of how the
show will morph in the future, I am convinced that
with all the time, The multi-universe of talent that is
the No Agenda Producers Network. The show will go on
as we are currently having an ant battle at our
redoubt in Maxwell Park. May I please get an I've
Got Ant. And this I loved. He said, I thank
you for your curr. rage. Oh, no doubt. A little
nod to the planet rage podcast that Larry and I
came from for five years. Sir Lawrence of dystopia, Baron
of Maxwell park. I got ants. Yeah. Thank you. Like
a dance. There we go. Next up is Sir Swiss
Senna from Wadden's Will, Zurich, Switzerland. $104.69. I just made
a PayPal payment of US dollars 104.69, which is the
equivalent to 88.88 Swiss francs in honor of JCD. In
my 63 years, I cried twice over the death of
a well-known person. The first time was when the musician
Prince died on April 21, 2016, and now when I
learned of the passing of Buzzkill. As the occasional organizer
of the Swiss meetup, I decided the producers of my
region should meet again in Zurich at the cozy rooftop
bar near the main station on Saturday, August 29. I
remember the discussion between the two of you, if I
would be eligible for the title of Black Knight. And
in the end, you gave it to me. I wear
it with pride, just like my ceiling ring. I wish
you all the best, the Dvorak family, the Curry family,
and the two good souls who generously took over the
mics for the time being. I'm curious of what the
future will bring for my favorite podcast, the best podcast
in the universe. Best regards, Sir Swiss Senna. Yeah, thank
you very much. And Sir Robertson of Two Sticks up
next from Dos Palos, California, came in with $101.79. Thank
you very much. Alan Bean of Beaverton, Oregon, $100. No,
no, but thank you, Alan. And then our buddy Timothy
Heasel coming in with $100 from Hanford, California. No, no.
Thank you very much. Anonymous is back with $100. There's
a lot of them. There's a lot of them. Thank
you. Then Sir Dude Named Benonymous coming in with $100.
Thank you very much. The Lockwoods, $100 from We Not
Know Not Where. No, thank you, The Lockwoods. Also with
$100, Angela Garcia, San Francisco, California. Thank you. M. Andrew
Jones, Baron of America's Mountain, Viscount of the Very Fine
People. 88.88, no note. Thank you, Viscount Jones. And he
writes books. He has some interesting stuff. Oh, cool. Kevin
McLaughlin. Oh, there he is. Concord, North Carolina. The 80-08
donation. 18-95 boob donation from the Archduke of Luna, lover
of America. And boobs. Thank you, sir. A. Blexrud of
Austin, Texas donated $80.08. Thank you. A Bucks Rudd. And
Les Tarkowski yet again with the $60.06, no doubt, Route
66 donation from Kingman, Arizona. It is very much appreciated.
Thank you. Eric Ortega of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 55.67.
He says, keep up the great work. We will try.
And thank you, Eric. Up next, James Edmondson came in
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Cumberland, British Columbia. $54.30. And Craig says, I'm up to
episode 40. Thank God I've got years worth of JCD
to listen to. And I pray we have years more
with Adam, Larry, and Darren, and Darren, on the best
podcast in the universe. Thank you, Craig. You got to
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It's an interesting time capsule to go back and see
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Thank you, sir and Steve and Dame. Alexander Beattie with
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no. Canada. What am I saying? Yeah.
um $50 thank you chris then easy landscapes oh yeah
what did they do we don't know north stonington connecticut
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you go to easy landscapes came in with 50 thank
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imagine if we had him in the little earbud? That
would be fun. That would be fun. We do have
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Avery Allen. He says, hello to all the No Agenda
family. It's taken me years, but I'm finally here. I'd
like to be known as Sir Avery of Hamilton and
would like nothing special at the roundtable beyond the regular
fair. Well, there's a lot of good stuff there already.
He says deepest and most heartfelt regards. So we could
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Get those swords out. Mmm. Avery Allen, step right up
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From now on. Was he still breathing? God. Lighten up,
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hit them more than once because they're wearing all of
the armor. Right. So it's safe. Yeah. It's perfectly safe.
Nothing to worry about. Yeah, we have a couple of
birthdays to shout out today. Sir Recalcitrant Crazy Steve II
wanted to wish Sir Montauk a happy birthday. That was
yesterday. Yes. And Sir William of West Pensil-Tucky wants to
wish D.C. Girl, we know D.C. Girl, a very happy
birthday on August 18th. We hope it is a great
one. And then, of course, we have a few meetup
reports here because there is a lot of no agenda
meetups going on. No agenda meetups. It is like a
party. It's protection is connection. It's all that and more.
First up, we have the in the morning, Virginia. Thank
you for your courage. JCD meetup. They have a little
note here. Greetings. No agenda. No nation. Thank you for
everyone who came out. For the In the Morning Virginia
and thank you for your courage, JCD meetup. It was
wonderful to see both familiar faces and new ones over
food and drink. We shared memories and stories as we
honor John. We extend our deepest condolences to the Curry
and Dvorak families and also prayers of celebration for the
newest arrivals. In loss, we find new life. These moments
remind us of why the meetups matter so much. Let's
keep this tradition alive because connection is protection. Along with
the attached group photos, and it's a very good-looking group.
They were outside, no masks or anything, Larry. It was
crazy. Wow, that's cool. We're sharing a prayer for the
No Agenda No Nation provided by Navy Chaplain Milo Curtis
from Chesapeake, Virginia. A special thank you to him and
his wife, Bethany, for traveling out for their very first
meetup. Thank you for your courage, Dame Trail Chicken. And
this is the prayer here. All right, go ahead. Yeah,
easy day. All right, let's pray. Lord, we come to
you right now. We lift up the Dvorak family. We
pray for Mimi and the kids and the Currys as
well. And Lord, we're all in this space with one
another because of their faithful service to us over the
years. We pray that your presence would be heavy, would
be felt, your peace would be overwhelming. Amen. Father, I
pray for the No Agenda community across this nation and
around the world. Father, this type of gathering, these type
of friendships, this kind of camaraderie would strengthen souls in
these days. May your presence be felt. Father, may good
things come of it that would accomplish your kingdom purposes.
We pray this in your name. amen amen thank you
thank you so much very nice up next that was
very nice the rockaway beach pickleball meetup i wonder if
that's on an old data center Joseph Liggett says also
really sorry about John. I finally brought myself to listen
to the memorial show and listening to your intro. You
could hear how much the old coot really meant to
you. The no agenda family is grieving with you. Yeah,
I think John meant more to most people than they
realized. Oh, yeah. and has left really big shoes. And
that's coming from a guy with size 15s. It is
impossible and still very strange to be keeping the torch
lit for him. Yep. Hey, this is Joe in Rockaway
Beach doing the meter report. We got Tony and John
here. Say hi. Hi. This is Tony C. I do
name Tony C. RIP JCV This is Johnny C. RIP
John C. Dvorak I've been reading your material ever since
InfoWorld way back in the day Awesome, and here's our
awesome glorious server. Hi, I'm Katie. I'm from Rockaway Beach
Pickleball and Golf. These guys were awesome to have here
today. I really appreciated having their company. Who ya? R.I.P.
J.C.D. I like the Ramones in the background. That makes
a meetup. And then a latecomer, but we got it.
The podfather was trying to sneak one in. He's like,
probably too late for this show. It's never too late.
The Langley BC meetup report. Hey, we're here at the
WWJCDD meetup in Aldergrove. We wanted to think about and
remember John. We had some wine, we had some mac
and cheese, and we remembered a great man. This is
ID Pop, raising a glass of red and dandering some
mac and cheese in honor of John C. In the
morning. In the morning We do have some very talented
producers Indeed There are some upcoming meetups Including we got
an ad from some drunken minstrel Chris Wilson Ooh G'day
punters and producers of the best podcasts in the universe
We're bringing ants back to the Antipodes If you're located
here in old Sydney town Or it's great in metro
region, listen up It's about bloody time we got together
and caught up in real life To honour the late,
great John C. Dvorak And to celebrate that we're all
still here to carry on his legacy We will be
supporting our No Agenda community in the great Aussie tradition
of drinking beer and talking shit. Date is set for
this coming Sunday, 23rd of August in the year of
our Lord, 2026, at our old horn for previous meetups,
the Gasoline Pony, 115 Marrickville Road, Marrickville, at the customary
time of 3.33pm. There are some restrictions for under-18s, so
if you'd like to include your human resources, let me
know, and we can look for an alternative venue nearby.
I'm thinking of the Maritville Bolo. RSVP on No Agenda
Meetups, feel free to call or SMS me any time
for any questions or suggestions. Look forward to catching up
with you all then. In the morning, and thank you
for your courage. No, thank you, sir. Chris Wilson. Yeah,
I love fully produced bits. He's smooth. That's good work.
He does a lot of the great end of show
mixes. And he was kind of overboard for a little
while. So it is a beautiful thing to have him
back. We want to run through these meetups that are
coming up here. Mm hmm. From today, we've got show
day. R.I.P. J.C.D. at 2 p.m. Central at the Dog
House Lounge in Dubuque, Iowa. That sounds like fun. Yeah.
August 16th, the Castle Island Brewery in Norwood, Massachusetts. And
that one's 2.30 Boston time. Yes. We have the TMI
Evacuation Zone Toasted John meet up at 3.30 Eastern at
Evergrain Brewing in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. Then also the 16th,
the drinking to buzzkill at 4.30 p.m. Pacific time at
the Alibi Room in Vancouver, British Columbia. British Columbia, yes.
Sounds like some partying going on there too. It does.
Yes. And then next show day on Thursday, the Charlotte's
third thirsty Thursday at 7 PM Eastern at Ed's Tavern
in Charlotte, North Carolina. And that is organized by Sir
Kevin Dills, the Archduke of the Carolinas. Beyond that, We
have Richmond, Virginia, August 21st. We have August 22nd, Fort
Wayne, Indiana, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Reno, Nevada, August 23rd, Indianapolis, Indiana,
Benton, Arkansas, Merrickville, New South Wales, Australia. That was the
one Sir Chris was just talking about, I think. um
august 28th maastricht limburg netherlands august 29th nanamio british columbia
canada is that what that is no name on maybe
i don't know and um i'll do the rest of
the 29th albuquerque new mexico rhode island and zurich switzerland
August 30th, Chester Springs, Pennsylvania. On September 6th, Medford Lakes,
New Jersey. September 12th, Boise, Idaho. The 15th is Scottsdale,
Arizona. And the 17th is Charlotte, North Carolina. October 3rd,
Midlands, UK. October 10th, Treasure Island, Idaho. The October 15th,
Charlotte, North Carolina. Um, uh, we're back to October 10th
and Eagle, Idaho, uh, 15th Charlotte. We already had that
one 17th Fredericksburg, Texas, October 24th, Smith Smithville, Texas. The
end as well on the 24th, Los Altos, California. and
Tilburg, the Netherlands. If you don't see your town there
or one close, it's very easy. Start your own. Just
go to noagendameetups.com. to be where you I mean, because
it is actually a party. It is. I've got a
few ISOs for today's show. We're going to get you
to start bringing some ISOs in. I'm going to bring
some ISOs. I promise next time. It's what I always
forget. Still, every show, no matter what, it's clips, clips,
clips. And then it's like, oh, wait, we need ISOs.
Yes. So I've got this one from. Uncle Ted? Okay.
Oh, yeah. Kind of an excited Uncle Ted. Yeah. I've
got Mickey Rourke as a demo Dick Marchinko. But you're
not, baby. Here I come. or stop talking I gotta
say, I kind of like, I dig Mickey because I
dig, uh, you know, demo dick too. What do you
think? Buddy or not, baby, here I come. Yeah. I
think that's a good way. It's kind of like a
fun little game that people can take part in. Yeah.
Yeah. So we will mark that one down and, uh.
We don't normally hear a... We'll do a clip of
the day. Oh, good. Not a clip of the day.
A... I was looking for the tip jingle, but you
know what? We don't need the tip jingle in honor
of JCD. I will just say if you have a
medical bill at a hospital, call them up and ask
for a discount. That's a good tip. That is the
we had. My wife had some tests done when she
was in the ER, went in and you call up
and at our hospital. Anyway, it's easy enough. I'm like,
can you offer me a discount for paying promptly? And
they're like, yeah, we can give you 5%. That's not
bad. Then I'm like, can you do 10? And they
put you on hold for like 30 seconds. Yeah. And
then they always come back and say yes. That's very
good tip. It is a very nice way to save
a little bit of money and whatever you save, of
course, you can donate to the best damn podcast in
the universe. That is going to do it for another
fun edition of the Best Stam Podcast in the Universe.
Coming up next on the Mighty No Agenda stream, we
have live... It is the Battle of the Douchebags Live.
Oh, that's a good show. Well, you've been on that.
I've been on it several times. It's really good. Enjoy
that. Yeah. We have a couple of end-of-show mixes from
Just Baker. We've got one from Sir Chris Wilson. Actually,
I think we have three end-of-show mixes from Just Baker.
So thank you. very much for that. You can always
use more. Send those in. We love the talented producers.
That's for dang sure. Coming to you from just outside
of Chirac, right here in FEMA Region No. 5 in
the morning, everybody, I am Darren O'Neill. And from the
pretentious Connecticut shore, I'm Larry Blydner. We will be back
here on Thursday live on the mighty No Agenda stream,
noagenda.stream. Join us and remember us at noagendadonations.com. Until then,
hooey, hooey. Thank you for your courage and adios, mofos.
and such. I ran just dropped the body count Ooh.
Let it down Kofumak Black widow on a mission Married
up the elderly Temporary permission 10 husbands minimum Maybe 13,
15 I don't remember exactly Classic serial scene Diabetes, meds,
industrial alcohol Pour towel over the face When the pills
don't score Golden dowry stack In process of elimination Looking
for Mr. Right Through pure asphyxiation Temporary Every contract Two,
three months A max Old men dropping Natural until The
pattern tracks My Xander in court Just handed ten Death
sentences One family took The blood and money Rest once
the Consequences Black widow Black widow Still searching For Mr.
I Ten bodies In the rear view Still ain't found
The light Poisoning the teeth Well, in the night I
That's the end of the show. your tire in the
cold soft leather quiet stitch in ordinary until the current
starts to flow no badge flash no baton raise high
just a handshake turned to static they call it de-escalation
soft power while the voltage Value for value. It's time
to dissect the narrative. Shit's wild, son. Then it's a
good thing. There's no commercial break. Homer's height ballroom fight
fever in the text. Media spin the story to the
real ones next. Economic jury temporary tenant flexing. The show
we dissected, lead the rest to rest. Straight, stay blocked
while the headlines flex. Trump claimed total control. I ran,
say, check the checks. Besson's economic, fury cutting while it's
thin. Oil price propaganda, who cash in the spin? Ballroom
blocked by the circuit court. Temporary tenant, media love that
retort. People's house of vanity depends which channel you cart.
You the one decision, scout his next plot. twist bar.
Fever concerns, Fauci texting the vault. Sight the king, storm
theory, public line was no fault. 18 shots down to
11, parental choice to start. Gold standard schedule, media call
it a cold. Lala skirted a big island, floods in
the Midwest. Time is script ready, history never addressed. Lebanon
strikes, children in the lead, Tamosi, smile at theaters. in
the next. We'll reach out the real ones next. and
then flex and the show we've dissected even a rest
of record Get in the morning has brought up is
Austin's growing homeless population. We spoke with a local agency
that says affordable housing is the solution to supporting these
individuals and getting them back on their feet. Ashley Pratt
is joining us now live from downtown Austin with more
tonight. Ashley. She walked into her pocket.
She was the type that you could have cost. That's
when I... Quarter eye She said that she was from
the city. I said, baby, you're way too pretty to
be here. As the junkies all drew near, she said,
I want to help all the homeless people. I want
to house all the homeless people too. I want to
fix all the homeless people. I want to fix homeless
people like you. Well what else could I do? She
was standing in my boot. Homeless individuals are not dangerous.
I asked if she could give me money. I grabbed
her purse, then I started running away. She gave chase.
Under a bridge I found my dealer She caught up
so we had a feel and a rate Well, listen
pretty great i said you want to help all the
homeless people you want to house all the homeless people
you see you want to fix all the homeless people
you want to fix homeless people like me as the
vagrants gathered round She lay unconscious on the ground We'll
grab some junk to ease the pain Take a crap
the streets. at a drugstore services has left more and
more people on the streets. She says it was obvious.
He was mentally unstable. And he kept saying... that I
have to open the door for him so that he
could hurt and kill our concierge because she's a robot.
A homeless man approaches and suddenly smacks her in the
head, dumped feces all over her. A bucket of diarrhea.
It was liquid, hot liquid. I was soaked. You can't
help all the harmless people You'll never house all the
homeless people Big Zora. They're pretty aggressive. Even if you
don't have anything, they kind of come off the roof
sometimes. So, yeah. can't take so long. You can't fix
all the homeless people like me You can't fix all
the homeless people like me You can't fix all the
homeless people like me Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Oh I
ain't shh Let's podcast. Dvorak.org slash N-A. But here not,
baby, here I come.