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Hello!

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Hello!

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Adam Curry.

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John C.

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Dvorak.

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It's Sunday, December 28th, 2025.

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This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media

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Assassination episode 1829.

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This is no agenda.

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With Africa news you can use.

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And broadcasting live from the heart of the

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Texas hill country here in FEMA region number

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In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry.

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And from Brothers Silicon Valley, we hope everybody

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had a happy Christmas.

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I'm John C.

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Dvorak.

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In the morning...

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Yeah, merry Christmas.

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We already went through this.

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Happy Christmas.

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That's what the British say, by the way.

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They say happy Christmas.

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Happy Christmas to you.

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So what's wrong with happy Christmas?

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We already went through this on the Christmas

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show.

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There's nothing wrong with it.

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It's just un-American.

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What's so American about merry?

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That's just what we do.

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We do merry Christmas.

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I think we do merry holidays.

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I just brought the old joke back.

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Yeah, yeah, I know.

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I know.

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But, you know, I hear people saying it

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in the shops.

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Merry New Year's.

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Okay, I'm going with that.

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I'll go with that.

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Happy holidays.

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I don't want to offend everybody.

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Happy holidays.

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Happy holidays.

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Did you say, who was it that just

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posted a video about Kwanzaa?

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It was a newsome.

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Whatever happened to Kwanzaa?

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Kwanzaa used to be great.

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They're pushing it.

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They're pushing the Kwanzaa on us again, John.

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Yeah, I didn't notice a lot of people

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celebrating Hanukkah this year.

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Borowitz did.

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Oh, yeah, no, the Jews celebrated, but they

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didn't post about it because it's not worth

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It's not worth the aggravation.

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It's not worth the aggravation, exactly.

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Actually, that's a good point.

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You're right.

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I didn't hear too many.

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It's usually Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas, and now

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they just dropped to Hanukkah.

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Yeah, I mean, we had a menorah art

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that we didn't post out of fear, out

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of fear for backlash.

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I don't know if it was out of

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fear for backlash, but it could have been.

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I blame Nick Fuentes.

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Yeah, he's definitely partially responsible.

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It's the punk rock podcasters, man.

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That's what they do.

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Rock against religion.

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Look at us.

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We're so bold.

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I expect him to put a safety pin

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through his ear pretty soon.

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I don't see that.

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I've been studying this guy.

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He's not to extol the virtues of Nick

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Fuentes, but I'll say this.

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I think he's a consummate pro.

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If you can listen to him for three

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hours, he never flubs.

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He never says uh.

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He never says um.

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I heard him say um once.

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Oh, wow.

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He never says uh.

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He never says um.

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He doesn't stammer.

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He doesn't stutter.

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He doesn't stammer like I do.

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Well, if he can run the board, then

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there you go.

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I can retire you and Nick Fuentes can

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do the show.

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I'm happy.

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He uses an EV20 and knows how to

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use it correctly.

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He's got an EV20 and knows how to

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work it.

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He's got a terrific voice that's very understandable.

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He is unbelievably talented.

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I think he's the best podcaster working right

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now, even though I think he's controversial.

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Wait a minute.

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We're the best podcast in the universe.

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No, I'm talking about an individual, one of

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those guys who does the solos.

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Solo guy.

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Solo guy.

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No, he's the best podcast.

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We're the best podcast.

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Hello.

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Yes, he's the best soliloquist.

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He's really unbelievable.

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He's a white, and he's not a white

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supremacist.

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He's a white pride, and I consider that

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different.

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But anyway, this is beside the point.

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He's also tricky.

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No, he's very tricky.

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He's the one that nobody can figure out.

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Everybody else kind of knows what these other

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folks are doing.

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I can figure this guy out.

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I know.

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Do you want to roll right into it,

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or do you want to do African news?

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We have African news.

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We have so much African news, it hurts.

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I'm going to push the Fuentes thing until

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we get to African news next.

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I could have put a presentation together.

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I have three clips just to show you

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how he operates, how he does his thing.

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He's so good.

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But to give you a briefing, right now

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he has gone hard against J.D. Vance.

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Well, wait a minute.

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That is what most people are shilling for

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in the North Sea Nexus podosphere.

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They all want J.D. to be the

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next president.

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Even if it hurts Trump, J.D., J

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.D. Okay.

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He's hard against Vance, but he's going to

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prove his worth, he thinks, or he hopes,

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because he's going to go extremely hard in

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2026 against Vivek Ramaswamy.

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Who cares?

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Well, he's testing himself with Vivek.

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Well, do you want to do these clips

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or not?

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Yeah, I'm going to do the clips.

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I'm just trying to give you a briefing

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on the background, because what happened was— Briefing

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on background.

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Briefing on background.

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So he called Vance's wife a jeet.

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Which I didn't even know what that meant.

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I had to look it up and do

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a little research.

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It's awesome.

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So he calls her a jeet.

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So Vance comes out, and as vice president

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of the United States, tells him to eat

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shit.

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You can talk about your wife.

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No one really cares about your wife.

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No, wait.

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I have to set this clip.

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You gave me a clear, audible clue.

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I said it in such a way that

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I could see you.

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But let me finish.

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How long have we been doing this?

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Too long.

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And you are correct on that last cue.

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But he does—I'm going to give you a

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three-parter here.

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This is a classic Nick Fuentes.

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Part one, he starts you off by creating

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a doubt in your mind, and then he

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does his long soliloquy, and then he does

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a follow-up, which is even better.

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This guy is slick.

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Here we go.

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You can talk about your wife.

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No one really cares about your wife.

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No one cares about any of that.

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We want to know, are we getting an

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immigration moratorium?

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Will you restrain Israel?

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And what the fuck does Peter Thiel have

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on you?

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And what is your relationship with him and

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Elon?

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That's what we want to know.

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You can save the bitching about your wife.

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No one cares about your wife.

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Okay, she's pretty.

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She's gorgeous.

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Your kids look great.

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Whatever.

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No one cares.

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Okay, you did the tough guy shtick.

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You stood by your woman.

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Good for you.

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Now, we want to know.

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And we want to know because this guy

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is being foisted upon us.

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I've never seen anything like this ever.

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Well, you're only 12, so it doesn't surprise

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Well, he has seen this before.

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This is the key to his presentation.

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He starts off with what I would consider

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a false premise to put a little piece

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of doubt in the mind and open the

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mind of the listener so he can then

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rant at them.

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But the way he describes it, he's never

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seen anyone just foisted on us ever.

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Did Barack Obama come to mind?

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There's a guy who came out of nowhere.

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Next thing you know, he's president of the

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United States.

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That doesn't come to mind.

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Clinton came out of Arkansas, out of the

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blue.

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He was literally 12.

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Well, maybe he was, but the point is

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that he sets you up.

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Because Hillary Clinton's another one out of the

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blue.

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Who hasn't come out of the blue except

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Reagan?

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John, this is the perfect Zuma Waffen rage

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bait where you talk about Israel, Palantir.

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You like Zuma Waffen?

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I do.

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Thank you.

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The Zuma Waffen.

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That is our new term.

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The Zuma Waffen, yes.

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He is part of the Zuma Waffen.

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Okay, so he's opened you up just a

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little bit, just enough to do the rant,

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which is the long part.

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This is like in journalism, this would be

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the nut graph, only he makes it really

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long.

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And he usually repeats things three times in

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different ways, much like a broadcaster, like a

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Jim Rome or anybody.

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He's very professional at this.

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Limbaugh used to do the same thing.

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I put him in that category, and here

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he goes.

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I've never seen anything like this, ever.

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First of all, this administration's not doing so

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hot.

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Let's get that straight.

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The war in Ukraine is still going on.

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The war in the Middle East is about

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to get started again.

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We don't have mass deportations.

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We don't have a wall.

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The economy's not going so great.

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Epstein files just came out because Congress made

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you release them.

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And yet everyone is telling us already you

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got to vote for J.D. Vance.

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Well, time out.

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This administration's not going well, and he's the

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vice president.

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We're not even a year in.

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They already want us voting in the next

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one.

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Think about how crazy that is.

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It's not even a year in.

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It is 2025 still, and they've already got

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us thinking, oh, we've got to vote in

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2028.

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It's 2025.

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Oh, I'll be 14.

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And you suck.

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This administration sucks.

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So not only do you already want us

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thinking about the next one, this one isn't

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even going well.

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You think we're ready for more?

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We're not even finished with this, and this

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is a pile of shit.

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We've been eating shit for a year, and

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they're ready to blow through any kind of

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a primary.

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Trump has been on the ballot three times.

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It's unprecedented in modern history that you have

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something like this.

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Trump was on the ballot in 16, 20,

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24.

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28 is the first Republican election since 2012

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that Trump was not on the ballot.

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It should be wide open for us to

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decide where we're going to go after this.

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And not only are they telling us, well,

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you've got to get ready to vote again

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in the next cycle.

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They're telling us a decision has been made

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already.

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It's Vance.

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Turning Point is telling us.

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Tucker is telling us.

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Elon is telling us.

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Everyone is already telling us Vance is the

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guy.

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No one chills J.D. Vance more than

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Tucker Carlson, and that's really weird.

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Turning Point, Erica, has crowned Vance the next

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president.

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They've all crowned him next president.

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Who even is this guy?

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You're right.

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Not a single or.

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And he'll never.

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He doesn't.

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He's unbelievable.

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And he just picks one one topic.

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I mean, this is.

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You know, in a way, he's he has

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a limbo type quality to him, too.

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No limbo is definitely in the mix.

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You know, I would throw him back.

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I would say that if this guy was

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if back in the day, he's like he's

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like a 50s Democrat in his mentality.

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Archie Bunker.

352
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Yes, he's Archie Bunker.

353
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But without without with more with a Republican

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slant.

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Yeah.

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But it's like he has he would have

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he would have been Edward R.

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Murrow.

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I'm totally convinced of it.

360
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Yeah.

361
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And you'd have the Fuentes Awards.

362
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You'd be getting.

363
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Oh, yeah.

364
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Did you get you're up for the Fuentes?

365
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No, I didn't get a Fuentes this year.

366
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I guess.

367
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What kind of spick name is that?

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So he has a.

369
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So he has the chops.

370
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And so so he finishes.

371
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That was the net graph.

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So he goes after the guy and then

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and then to top it, the little icing

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on the cake is at the end in

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this third part when he does these things

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in triples, which is the way to go.

377
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He he just throws in some discrepant facts

378
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to confuse you further.

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And they're all explainable.

380
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But the way he way he pieces them

381
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in and this is the third and last

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clip.

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It's just it's just a bunch of rando

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things that are just, oh, yeah, there's something.

385
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There's something wrong.

386
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Here we go.

387
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Before he was VP, he was a senator

388
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for two years.

389
00:12:13,790 --> 00:12:15,310
Before that, he was a never Trumper.

390
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Before that, his name wasn't even Vance.

391
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It was Hamel.

392
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He didn't even start going by Vance until

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2014.

394
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Who even is this guy?

395
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So not only do they want us.

396
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OK, this administration blows.

397
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Get ready to vote for the next one.

398
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And we already have a nominee, even though

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it's the first time in 16 years we're

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going to have a wide open primary.

401
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And it's going to be this guy that

402
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no one even knows who he is.

403
00:12:39,430 --> 00:12:41,350
And if you don't like that, well, you're

404
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a problem to be eliminated, which is effectively

405
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what they've told me.

406
00:12:46,890 --> 00:12:47,650
It's good.

407
00:12:48,210 --> 00:12:49,530
Yeah, it's entertaining.

408
00:12:50,290 --> 00:12:51,850
Oh, he's very entertaining.

409
00:12:52,010 --> 00:12:53,010
He's super entertaining.

410
00:12:53,470 --> 00:12:53,610
Yeah.

411
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And he's funny.

412
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He does bits.

413
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He does schtick.

414
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And the thing is, he's not wrong about

415
00:12:58,090 --> 00:12:58,470
Vance.

416
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He's not wrong about TPUSA and Tucker and

417
00:13:01,710 --> 00:13:02,210
others.

418
00:13:03,850 --> 00:13:08,230
And, yeah, he's exactly right about, well, this

419
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was Peter Thiel's guy.

420
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And, of course, we know that Peter Thiel

421
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is responsible for killing us.

422
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I mean, that's obvious.

423
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Palantir.

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Palantir.

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Gaza.

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Killing people.

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Even though we know how weak Palantir really

428
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is.

429
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Stuff doesn't really work.

430
00:13:27,630 --> 00:13:30,770
He doesn't have the North Sea nexus down.

431
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No, he needs that.

432
00:13:33,110 --> 00:13:33,750
He needs that.

433
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He's got kind of a slickness to him

434
00:13:36,810 --> 00:13:41,150
and professionalism that is so high-end that

435
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it's as though he had some training.

436
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Somebody had to have trained him.

437
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I don't think so.

438
00:13:48,010 --> 00:13:48,750
I don't think so.

439
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I don't know.

440
00:13:49,610 --> 00:13:51,630
You can be a natural, and I've seen

441
00:13:51,630 --> 00:13:53,970
it, but this guy's over the top when

442
00:13:53,970 --> 00:13:55,770
it comes to if he's a natural.

443
00:13:57,370 --> 00:13:57,750
Anyway.

444
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Definitely, people should check him out.

445
00:14:00,070 --> 00:14:03,970
Luckily, the Algos picked up a new hero

446
00:14:03,970 --> 00:14:07,590
on the scene, which I hope you saw

447
00:14:07,590 --> 00:14:12,130
it, because your algorithm on X is probably

448
00:14:12,130 --> 00:14:13,890
still crazy women.

449
00:14:14,510 --> 00:14:14,750
Yeah.

450
00:14:15,690 --> 00:14:17,630
And now I'm getting a lot of cooking

451
00:14:17,630 --> 00:14:18,210
videos.

452
00:14:18,510 --> 00:14:18,990
Cheese.

453
00:14:19,690 --> 00:14:21,030
Just put some cheese.

454
00:14:21,150 --> 00:14:23,290
Oh, look at that nice melted cheese.

455
00:14:23,830 --> 00:14:24,430
Everything.

456
00:14:24,630 --> 00:14:25,970
I've got fudge with cheese.

457
00:14:25,970 --> 00:14:27,670
I'm beginning to think these are done by

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the Dairy Council.

459
00:14:29,610 --> 00:14:31,650
Well, we have a new hero, Nick Shirley.

460
00:14:31,910 --> 00:14:34,610
Nick Shirley was dominating the Algos, for me

461
00:14:34,610 --> 00:14:36,650
at least, and for Tina and for other

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00:14:36,650 --> 00:14:37,010
people.

463
00:14:37,150 --> 00:14:38,370
Like, have you seen this guy?

464
00:14:39,230 --> 00:14:43,430
Nick Shirley has been going around Minneapolis to

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all of the child care and health care

466
00:14:45,370 --> 00:14:48,050
facilities run by Somalians.

467
00:14:49,030 --> 00:14:50,990
Nick Shirley's not a new actor.

468
00:14:51,150 --> 00:14:52,710
He's been doing this sort of thing for

469
00:14:52,710 --> 00:14:53,430
quite a while.

470
00:14:53,930 --> 00:14:55,090
That's not what I said.

471
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I said we have a new hero.

472
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He's a new hero.

473
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He's a new hero.

474
00:15:02,410 --> 00:15:05,430
It's funny you say this, because who just

475
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told me about Nick Shirley the same way

476
00:15:07,430 --> 00:15:08,930
you're, like, doing now to the audience?

477
00:15:09,110 --> 00:15:10,790
My wife Mimi calls.

478
00:15:11,130 --> 00:15:12,990
Have you seen this guy, Nick Shirley?

479
00:15:14,090 --> 00:15:15,270
So it's like, yes.

480
00:15:15,370 --> 00:15:16,490
Yes, he's a hero.

481
00:15:16,730 --> 00:15:19,450
A list of all of the health care

482
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companies.

483
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Loads of them right here.

484
00:15:22,190 --> 00:15:23,010
We want health care.

485
00:15:24,210 --> 00:15:26,010
Yes, we'd like to speak about getting health

486
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care here.

487
00:15:26,310 --> 00:15:28,310
Why can't I get health care here?

488
00:15:31,350 --> 00:15:35,370
This is the strangest place I've ever been

489
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to get health care.

490
00:15:37,030 --> 00:15:40,610
Just a bunch of different places.

491
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Health care here.

492
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Health care right here.

493
00:15:43,750 --> 00:15:45,810
Another health care company right here.

494
00:15:46,010 --> 00:15:48,570
There are three health care companies inside of

495
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this building right here in this room of

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7C.

497
00:15:52,090 --> 00:15:54,450
Now we have another Helping Hands.

498
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Home Care LLC.

499
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Another health care company.

500
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Present Help right here.

501
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We're looking for the best rates of health

502
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care here inside this building, because we have

503
00:16:02,330 --> 00:16:03,050
so many options.

504
00:16:03,250 --> 00:16:04,450
Who can we talk about getting the best

505
00:16:04,450 --> 00:16:04,810
health care?

506
00:16:05,170 --> 00:16:05,470
I don't know.

507
00:16:06,430 --> 00:16:06,830
No?

508
00:16:06,950 --> 00:16:07,210
Sorry.

509
00:16:07,970 --> 00:16:08,390
All right.

510
00:16:08,790 --> 00:16:10,330
We will not get any health care here.

511
00:16:10,970 --> 00:16:12,490
David, this is one of the stranger places

512
00:16:12,490 --> 00:16:13,130
I've ever been.

513
00:16:13,730 --> 00:16:15,810
Literally, health care every door you go to,

514
00:16:16,270 --> 00:16:17,350
yet nobody will give you a rate.

515
00:16:17,750 --> 00:16:18,750
How much money do you think has been

516
00:16:18,750 --> 00:16:19,710
funneled through this building?

517
00:16:19,710 --> 00:16:23,170
Every year, I would say 50 to 60

518
00:16:23,170 --> 00:16:24,310
million at least.

519
00:16:25,990 --> 00:16:27,310
This is what you wanted.

520
00:16:27,490 --> 00:16:28,930
No one's talking about this.

521
00:16:29,150 --> 00:16:31,410
And, of course, the mainstream media is still

522
00:16:31,410 --> 00:16:32,450
not talking about it.

523
00:16:32,550 --> 00:16:35,230
It's astonishing to me that the mainstream media

524
00:16:35,230 --> 00:16:37,250
has avoided this topic like the plague.

525
00:16:38,490 --> 00:16:41,250
Well, because it will make so many Democrats

526
00:16:41,250 --> 00:16:41,850
look bad.

527
00:16:41,930 --> 00:16:43,370
That's the only thing I can come up

528
00:16:43,370 --> 00:16:43,630
with.

529
00:16:44,390 --> 00:16:47,610
I don't see any other reason besides the

530
00:16:47,610 --> 00:16:51,910
fact that Trump, you know, whatever, Trump, the

531
00:16:51,910 --> 00:16:54,590
quad screens are all Trump and Zelensky this

532
00:16:54,590 --> 00:16:55,010
morning.

533
00:16:57,710 --> 00:16:59,190
I have clips on that.

534
00:16:59,190 --> 00:17:00,910
I'm getting close to my – I'm going

535
00:17:00,910 --> 00:17:01,730
to be able to do Zelensky.

536
00:17:03,050 --> 00:17:03,450
Really?

537
00:17:03,950 --> 00:17:04,910
You want to give it a shot?

538
00:17:05,050 --> 00:17:05,390
You want to give it a shot?

539
00:17:05,390 --> 00:17:07,530
No, I know, because it's one of those

540
00:17:07,530 --> 00:17:09,290
things that's funny about trying to do voices.

541
00:17:09,450 --> 00:17:12,710
You do the same thing with your Ruta.

542
00:17:12,710 --> 00:17:13,790
Ruta, yes.

543
00:17:14,050 --> 00:17:14,790
You need a trigger.

544
00:17:15,369 --> 00:17:15,569
Okay.

545
00:17:16,210 --> 00:17:18,210
And my trigger is a phrase that I

546
00:17:18,210 --> 00:17:20,130
lost a copy of.

547
00:17:20,630 --> 00:17:22,430
What's the phrase that pays, John?

548
00:17:23,130 --> 00:17:24,010
I can't remember.

549
00:17:24,310 --> 00:17:26,310
If I hear it, I can do it

550
00:17:26,310 --> 00:17:28,210
and go right into it, but I can't.

551
00:17:28,270 --> 00:17:29,130
So it's coming.

552
00:17:29,350 --> 00:17:31,770
It's coming for the 2026 season.

553
00:17:34,030 --> 00:17:37,750
So I have a couple of different outlets

554
00:17:37,750 --> 00:17:41,430
regarding the strike on Nigeria.

555
00:17:42,130 --> 00:17:44,190
All of them get one thing right.

556
00:17:44,330 --> 00:17:46,190
None of them have the full story, which

557
00:17:46,190 --> 00:17:48,870
is, I mean, not really surprising, of course.

558
00:17:49,490 --> 00:17:50,730
Let's start with the BBC.

559
00:17:51,150 --> 00:17:53,810
President Trump has been making some bold claims

560
00:17:53,810 --> 00:17:56,410
following the Christmas Day strikes he ordered against

561
00:17:56,410 --> 00:17:59,110
the Islamic State group in northwest Nigeria.

562
00:17:59,110 --> 00:18:01,910
Like the attacks on Iran's nuclear sites earlier

563
00:18:01,910 --> 00:18:04,250
this year, Mr. Trump has declared that the

564
00:18:04,250 --> 00:18:07,250
U.S. military has decimated its targets, in

565
00:18:07,250 --> 00:18:08,870
this case, IS camps.

566
00:18:09,310 --> 00:18:11,190
It's not yet clear how many people were

567
00:18:11,190 --> 00:18:14,530
killed, but U.S. and Nigerian officials said

568
00:18:14,530 --> 00:18:16,110
that fighters were among the dead.

569
00:18:16,510 --> 00:18:18,870
The Nigerians said that there were no civilian

570
00:18:18,870 --> 00:18:19,450
casualties.

571
00:18:19,450 --> 00:18:22,570
Mr. Trump told the Politico news website that

572
00:18:22,570 --> 00:18:25,070
the operation, which was agreed with the Nigerian

573
00:18:25,070 --> 00:18:27,990
military, was planned for Wednesday, but he chose

574
00:18:27,990 --> 00:18:29,910
to delay by a day so he could

575
00:18:29,910 --> 00:18:33,130
give the IS fighters a Christmas present, as

576
00:18:33,130 --> 00:18:33,670
he put it.

577
00:18:36,110 --> 00:18:38,470
I love the Christmas present line.

578
00:18:38,570 --> 00:18:39,210
Here's NBC.

579
00:18:40,490 --> 00:18:41,630
Oh, Nat Pops.

580
00:18:41,770 --> 00:18:43,730
Yeah, see, BBC, you're boring.

581
00:18:44,250 --> 00:18:45,270
You got to spice it up.

582
00:18:45,330 --> 00:18:46,690
You got to get missile launches.

583
00:18:46,910 --> 00:18:48,310
You got to get war sounds.

584
00:18:48,310 --> 00:18:49,970
Your reports are no good.

585
00:18:51,510 --> 00:18:54,630
Tonight, the first images of American missiles launching

586
00:18:54,630 --> 00:18:57,050
from a U.S. Navy ship, killing multiple

587
00:18:57,050 --> 00:19:00,010
Islamist militants in Nigeria, according to the president,

588
00:19:00,350 --> 00:19:02,890
who posted about the surprise Christmas Day attack

589
00:19:02,890 --> 00:19:05,770
after repeatedly warning terror groups that if the

590
00:19:05,770 --> 00:19:08,310
slaughter of Christians did not stop, there would

591
00:19:08,310 --> 00:19:09,170
be hell to pay.

592
00:19:09,730 --> 00:19:11,990
And I'm going to jump into that one

593
00:19:11,990 --> 00:19:13,970
particular little psyop in a moment.

594
00:19:13,970 --> 00:19:17,090
Nigeria's government now confirming it worked directly with

595
00:19:17,090 --> 00:19:19,090
the United States to carry out the mission.

596
00:19:19,410 --> 00:19:21,750
But the foreign minister also pushing back against

597
00:19:21,750 --> 00:19:24,530
President Trump's claim that Christians alone are being

598
00:19:24,530 --> 00:19:26,050
targeted by the Islamic State.

599
00:19:26,350 --> 00:19:28,750
This is not about religion.

600
00:19:29,450 --> 00:19:35,330
It is about Nigerians, innocent civilians and the

601
00:19:35,330 --> 00:19:38,150
wider region as a whole.

602
00:19:38,150 --> 00:19:40,430
The strikes come just one day after the

603
00:19:40,430 --> 00:19:42,830
president thanked U.S. troops on Christmas Eve

604
00:19:42,830 --> 00:19:45,810
for last week's attack against ISIS in Syria.

605
00:19:46,030 --> 00:19:48,470
It was a big attack and you really

606
00:19:48,470 --> 00:19:49,290
did a big job.

607
00:19:49,890 --> 00:19:52,910
I know you will continue to show no

608
00:19:52,910 --> 00:19:53,250
mercy.

609
00:19:53,410 --> 00:19:55,390
You can't show mercy because they show no

610
00:19:55,390 --> 00:19:56,110
mercy to us.

611
00:19:56,110 --> 00:19:58,350
In recent weeks, the U.S. military has

612
00:19:58,350 --> 00:20:01,850
launched strikes against ISIS targets in Nigeria, Syria

613
00:20:01,850 --> 00:20:06,050
and Somalia, seized oil tankers off Venezuela and

614
00:20:06,050 --> 00:20:09,150
earlier this year hit Iranian Revolutionary Guard positions

615
00:20:09,150 --> 00:20:10,190
inside Iran.

616
00:20:10,610 --> 00:20:12,990
Back in Florida, President Trump is expected to

617
00:20:12,990 --> 00:20:15,170
host President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday.

618
00:20:15,670 --> 00:20:17,890
The Ukrainian leader announcing today the two will

619
00:20:17,890 --> 00:20:20,830
discuss security guarantees and saying a U.S.

620
00:20:20,870 --> 00:20:23,410
negotiated peace deal with Russia is now 90

621
00:20:23,410 --> 00:20:24,190
percent ready.

622
00:20:24,190 --> 00:20:27,410
Even as the Kremlin continues to hammer Ukraine,

623
00:20:27,870 --> 00:20:29,570
launching new strikes through Christmas.

624
00:20:29,910 --> 00:20:32,130
So every report was like this.

625
00:20:32,230 --> 00:20:34,350
Every single report was like, well, Trump said

626
00:20:34,350 --> 00:20:35,210
it was Christians.

627
00:20:35,350 --> 00:20:36,930
The Nigerian said it's not.

628
00:20:37,310 --> 00:20:39,450
But they all missed what this what's really

629
00:20:39,450 --> 00:20:40,210
going on here.

630
00:20:40,610 --> 00:20:42,190
So first the PSYOP.

631
00:20:42,750 --> 00:20:45,230
This has been going on for well over

632
00:20:45,230 --> 00:20:46,410
a year, maybe longer.

633
00:20:47,190 --> 00:20:49,610
They're killing Christians in Nigeria.

634
00:20:49,710 --> 00:20:51,470
They're killing Christians in Nigeria.

635
00:20:51,470 --> 00:20:53,590
I obviously was interested.

636
00:20:54,090 --> 00:20:57,090
And when you go and look, they're actually

637
00:20:57,090 --> 00:21:00,570
killing more Muslims than Christians in Nigeria.

638
00:21:00,930 --> 00:21:03,270
The so-called ISIS fighters.

639
00:21:03,690 --> 00:21:06,070
But when I saw the news of the

640
00:21:06,070 --> 00:21:08,690
strikes, let me see the northwest.

641
00:21:09,910 --> 00:21:11,550
Do you just off the top of your

642
00:21:11,550 --> 00:21:13,830
head, do you know where Boko Haram operates?

643
00:21:14,510 --> 00:21:16,170
The northeast, the northeast.

644
00:21:16,310 --> 00:21:16,830
Exactly.

645
00:21:17,390 --> 00:21:20,630
So why is he shooting missiles at the

646
00:21:20,630 --> 00:21:21,010
northwest?

647
00:21:21,770 --> 00:21:24,030
Well, the answer came to us with the

648
00:21:24,030 --> 00:21:29,330
gold price on Friday, which skyrocketed along with

649
00:21:29,330 --> 00:21:29,750
silver.

650
00:21:30,990 --> 00:21:33,170
But also you might want to take a

651
00:21:33,170 --> 00:21:33,790
look at lithium.

652
00:21:34,970 --> 00:21:38,270
What what was bombed or what was targeted,

653
00:21:38,670 --> 00:21:41,070
whatever you want to call it, were the

654
00:21:41,070 --> 00:21:44,770
the rebel groups who are protecting the illegal

655
00:21:44,770 --> 00:21:46,090
mining operations.

656
00:21:46,090 --> 00:21:50,750
Nigeria themselves hate this because they're losing out

657
00:21:50,750 --> 00:21:54,130
on probably $10 billion a year easy on

658
00:21:54,130 --> 00:21:55,950
mining of gold and lithium.

659
00:21:56,830 --> 00:21:58,650
And who do you think buys all that

660
00:21:58,650 --> 00:21:59,450
gold and lithium?

661
00:22:00,210 --> 00:22:00,810
China.

662
00:22:01,810 --> 00:22:03,890
This is a move against China.

663
00:22:04,110 --> 00:22:06,290
This is a move against the rare earths.

664
00:22:06,590 --> 00:22:07,970
There's a whole bunch of benefits.

665
00:22:08,410 --> 00:22:10,390
One, Christians go, yeah, Trump.

666
00:22:10,850 --> 00:22:12,830
I'm sorry to tell you, fellow brothers and

667
00:22:12,830 --> 00:22:15,590
sisters, that's not the primary reason for this

668
00:22:15,590 --> 00:22:15,950
attack.

669
00:22:15,950 --> 00:22:18,670
If the reason at all, this is only

670
00:22:18,670 --> 00:22:23,550
about minerals and natural resources that Nigeria has,

671
00:22:23,750 --> 00:22:25,570
that China is getting on the cheap.

672
00:22:26,230 --> 00:22:27,730
It's to cut them off.

673
00:22:28,150 --> 00:22:29,270
That's all that it is.

674
00:22:29,950 --> 00:22:34,130
Complete gold mining and lithium, big on lithium.

675
00:22:35,370 --> 00:22:37,990
And I'm not quite sure exactly how silver

676
00:22:37,990 --> 00:22:40,830
fits into it, but, you know, silver has

677
00:22:40,830 --> 00:22:44,150
been kind of manipulated for 40, 50 years,

678
00:22:44,230 --> 00:22:44,590
I guess.

679
00:22:44,590 --> 00:22:46,030
But that's what happened.

680
00:22:46,090 --> 00:22:47,790
And you saw the spike in price right

681
00:22:47,790 --> 00:22:48,150
away.

682
00:22:48,810 --> 00:22:50,670
So none of this has and no one's

683
00:22:50,670 --> 00:22:51,430
talking about it.

684
00:22:51,450 --> 00:22:52,270
I don't understand.

685
00:22:52,750 --> 00:22:55,050
Are they all working for China?

686
00:22:55,110 --> 00:22:56,150
They don't want to say it.

687
00:22:57,230 --> 00:22:58,790
I think there is an element of that.

688
00:22:58,910 --> 00:23:02,050
Now that you mention it, there are some

689
00:23:02,050 --> 00:23:05,150
Chinese influencers and in the media.

690
00:23:07,010 --> 00:23:08,610
There's no doubt about that.

691
00:23:09,150 --> 00:23:10,530
And I will say this.

692
00:23:10,590 --> 00:23:12,830
I watched Al Jazeera's report on this.

693
00:23:12,830 --> 00:23:13,870
Do you have a clip?

694
00:23:14,210 --> 00:23:15,850
And they said they did not.

695
00:23:16,150 --> 00:23:18,730
And they had three guys, one guy from

696
00:23:18,730 --> 00:23:20,870
the Council on Foreign Relations, all black guys

697
00:23:20,870 --> 00:23:22,190
from Africa and all experts.

698
00:23:22,350 --> 00:23:23,170
And they were pretty good.

699
00:23:23,590 --> 00:23:24,690
And they said, no, it's bullcrap.

700
00:23:24,790 --> 00:23:25,990
This is religious.

701
00:23:26,810 --> 00:23:28,390
He says, and the reason they're killing all

702
00:23:28,390 --> 00:23:31,130
the Muslims and the Christians and anybody else

703
00:23:31,130 --> 00:23:33,270
is because it's an Islamist group.

704
00:23:34,650 --> 00:23:37,630
Two parts of the country, these Islamists mostly,

705
00:23:37,890 --> 00:23:39,190
and that's that.

706
00:23:39,330 --> 00:23:42,090
And to say it's not religious is bullcrap.

707
00:23:42,090 --> 00:23:44,790
They also said that the Nigerian people are

708
00:23:44,790 --> 00:23:46,910
happy that the United States got involved and

709
00:23:46,910 --> 00:23:48,030
started bombing the place.

710
00:23:48,450 --> 00:23:50,230
And the government thought it was great.

711
00:23:50,290 --> 00:23:51,790
And the government invited them to do it.

712
00:23:51,890 --> 00:23:55,030
So that kind of flies in the face

713
00:23:55,030 --> 00:23:56,770
of what everyone might want to think.

714
00:23:56,990 --> 00:23:58,590
But I think you're totally correct.

715
00:23:59,270 --> 00:23:59,710
Totally.

716
00:23:59,930 --> 00:24:00,110
Hello.

717
00:24:00,330 --> 00:24:00,530
Hello.

718
00:24:00,950 --> 00:24:01,470
He said it.

719
00:24:02,210 --> 00:24:02,730
What happened?

720
00:24:02,910 --> 00:24:03,570
You can't argue.

721
00:24:04,570 --> 00:24:05,790
That's what we do.

722
00:24:05,790 --> 00:24:08,650
And any chance we have to cut China

723
00:24:08,650 --> 00:24:12,390
off at the knees, even though Trump doesn't

724
00:24:12,390 --> 00:24:13,690
get a lot of credit for it from

725
00:24:13,690 --> 00:24:16,370
any corner.

726
00:24:16,750 --> 00:24:16,930
No.

727
00:24:17,470 --> 00:24:19,270
It's always a good thing.

728
00:24:19,890 --> 00:24:22,650
And there was a second shoe that dropped

729
00:24:22,650 --> 00:24:23,350
on this.

730
00:24:23,470 --> 00:24:24,030
Hold on a second.

731
00:24:24,150 --> 00:24:24,830
I have it here.

732
00:24:27,850 --> 00:24:29,010
Where was it?

733
00:24:30,870 --> 00:24:32,170
No, I'll find that.

734
00:24:33,190 --> 00:24:33,470
Hold on.

735
00:24:33,530 --> 00:24:34,670
Let me just listen to CBS.

736
00:24:34,670 --> 00:24:35,770
Let's see what they had to say.

737
00:24:35,890 --> 00:24:37,150
Do they have a nut pop?

738
00:24:37,950 --> 00:24:39,650
The U.S. military fired more than a

739
00:24:39,650 --> 00:24:42,710
dozen Tomahawk cruise missiles at ISIS targets in

740
00:24:42,710 --> 00:24:43,270
Nigeria.

741
00:24:43,830 --> 00:24:47,010
And why are they even calling him ISIS?

742
00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:52,520
I mean, isn't that supposed to be in

743
00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:53,100
the savant?

744
00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:56,120
I have no idea.

745
00:24:56,220 --> 00:24:57,980
This is just branding for some reason.

746
00:24:58,260 --> 00:24:59,340
Just call him ISIS.

747
00:24:59,340 --> 00:25:00,440
That might be it.

748
00:25:00,500 --> 00:25:01,060
Yeah, branding.

749
00:25:01,060 --> 00:25:03,360
The U.S. military fired more than a

750
00:25:03,360 --> 00:25:06,420
dozen Tomahawk cruise missiles at ISIS targets in

751
00:25:06,420 --> 00:25:06,940
Nigeria.

752
00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:10,200
And the timing was deliberate, President Trump told

753
00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:11,380
a radio interviewer.

754
00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:13,300
They said hit them on Christmas Day.

755
00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:15,260
It'll be a Christmas present.

756
00:25:15,460 --> 00:25:16,380
We hit ISIS.

757
00:25:16,980 --> 00:25:17,920
It was terrible.

758
00:25:18,180 --> 00:25:19,000
They're butchers.

759
00:25:19,360 --> 00:25:21,860
People could be seen carrying debris away from

760
00:25:21,860 --> 00:25:22,860
one target site.

761
00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:26,620
The Pentagon's initial assessment indicated multiple ISIS militants

762
00:25:26,620 --> 00:25:27,260
were killed.

763
00:25:27,260 --> 00:25:29,660
Trump warned last month the U.S. would

764
00:25:29,660 --> 00:25:32,460
go into Nigeria with guns a-blazing if

765
00:25:32,460 --> 00:25:35,180
the government failed to protect Christians from ISIS

766
00:25:35,180 --> 00:25:35,900
attacks.

767
00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:38,160
They're killing the Christians and killing them in

768
00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:39,900
very large numbers.

769
00:25:40,020 --> 00:25:41,200
We're not going to allow that to happen.

770
00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:43,660
But Nigeria denied those accusations.

771
00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:46,660
So far this year, nearly 12,000 people

772
00:25:46,660 --> 00:25:47,500
have been killed.

773
00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:51,360
CBS News national security contributor Sam Vinograd.

774
00:25:51,360 --> 00:25:55,100
Violence by insurgent groups, criminals, and others in

775
00:25:55,100 --> 00:25:57,400
Nigeria doesn't just target Christians.

776
00:25:57,860 --> 00:25:59,640
It also targets Muslims.

777
00:26:00,060 --> 00:26:02,600
And where and when these strikes occur will

778
00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:04,980
certainly be scrutinized by analysts to see who

779
00:26:04,980 --> 00:26:07,700
exactly is hit and whether the violence stops.

780
00:26:08,060 --> 00:26:10,900
Nigeria's foreign minister said his government provided the

781
00:26:10,900 --> 00:26:13,640
U.S. military with intelligence before the strikes.

782
00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:18,220
We have been working closely with the Americans,

783
00:26:18,500 --> 00:26:23,340
with other countries, to combat terrorism, to stop

784
00:26:23,340 --> 00:26:25,690
the death of innocent Nigerians.

785
00:26:26,220 --> 00:26:28,760
Both the U.S. and Nigeria have signaled

786
00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:30,240
more strikes could follow.

787
00:26:30,500 --> 00:26:33,640
All right, so it's like a threefer, you

788
00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:33,840
know?

789
00:26:34,020 --> 00:26:37,480
You get one, you get the Christians are

790
00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:37,820
happy.

791
00:26:37,980 --> 00:26:39,520
Yeah, I'm telling you.

792
00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:43,200
Christian broadcast news, you know, all of the

793
00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:45,020
Christian news outlets.

794
00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:46,300
Yeah, they're all jacked.

795
00:26:46,460 --> 00:26:47,760
It's all jacked about this.

796
00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:49,220
And I'm just saying, no, I'm sorry.

797
00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:49,880
I think it's a fourfer.

798
00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:51,880
Give me your threefer and I'll add one

799
00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:52,220
to it.

800
00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:55,560
Okay, so the next one is screw China

801
00:26:55,560 --> 00:27:00,980
out of their resources, which they are not

802
00:27:00,980 --> 00:27:02,480
obtaining in a good way.

803
00:27:02,620 --> 00:27:05,480
I mean, they are in effect sponsoring these

804
00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:05,940
groups.

805
00:27:05,940 --> 00:27:09,900
And for these groups, kidnapping girls, which really

806
00:27:09,900 --> 00:27:12,280
happens more in the northeast, but they've kidnapped

807
00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:15,080
people from churches and from schools in the

808
00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:15,460
northwest.

809
00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:16,940
It's a business model.

810
00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:18,420
It's been that way for decades.

811
00:27:18,940 --> 00:27:20,920
Let's see, anyone of any value there?

812
00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:22,280
Okay, we're going to kidnap and get some

813
00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:22,500
money.

814
00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:24,240
So that's your twofer.

815
00:27:24,380 --> 00:27:27,520
The threefer is the gold price, which I

816
00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:30,960
think benefits the whole stable coin strategy, which

817
00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:34,420
is supposedly going to start around the second

818
00:27:34,420 --> 00:27:36,060
week of January.

819
00:27:37,180 --> 00:27:40,280
And I think maybe a fourth.

820
00:27:41,260 --> 00:27:42,340
Am I at three or four yet?

821
00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:43,900
You're at three.

822
00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:49,880
So somehow the silver thing is funny because

823
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:56,520
it completely screws everything, particularly solar panels, EVs,

824
00:27:56,580 --> 00:27:58,260
the cheap EVs from China.

825
00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:03,420
I saw like the prices in the U

826
00:28:03,420 --> 00:28:06,840
.S. were $79 at close on Friday, but

827
00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:08,260
in Shanghai, $85.

828
00:28:08,660 --> 00:28:11,900
They're so desperate, and just everyone's trying to

829
00:28:11,900 --> 00:28:12,960
get silver all of a sudden.

830
00:28:13,020 --> 00:28:14,980
Do you have any view on that?

831
00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:17,440
No, not at all.

832
00:28:17,500 --> 00:28:20,860
But I'll tell you the other little extra

833
00:28:20,860 --> 00:28:23,920
bonus is by sending those missiles into that

834
00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:25,540
area, they get to soften up the soil

835
00:28:25,540 --> 00:28:26,700
a little bit, making it easier.

836
00:28:26,700 --> 00:28:28,160
Better mining.

837
00:28:28,740 --> 00:28:30,040
It'd be easier to mine.

838
00:28:31,620 --> 00:28:32,240
Yeah.

839
00:28:32,580 --> 00:28:34,960
Send two extra missiles right here.

840
00:28:35,120 --> 00:28:36,520
Yeah, yeah, exactly.

841
00:28:37,380 --> 00:28:40,560
It costs more than dynamite, but it's at

842
00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:42,220
the U.S. taxpayer's expense.

843
00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:46,540
But the lithium, watch the lithium prices.

844
00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:49,880
So it's an interesting time.

845
00:28:49,980 --> 00:28:51,860
There's a lot of interesting things happening, but

846
00:28:51,860 --> 00:28:53,480
no one is reporting on it properly.

847
00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:58,680
They're not even reporting on the Somali scammers.

848
00:28:59,340 --> 00:29:00,780
They don't report on anything.

849
00:29:00,940 --> 00:29:02,440
The media is shot.

850
00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:11,860
So I tried really hard looking for anything

851
00:29:11,860 --> 00:29:18,520
about the redacted documents from the Epstein files.

852
00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:20,760
And as far as I could tell, I

853
00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:24,480
could not find a single M5M resource or

854
00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:26,860
news report that gave us this.

855
00:29:26,900 --> 00:29:29,360
This is just a 30-second YouTuber telling

856
00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:29,720
us.

857
00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:32,140
I'm at justice.gov where all the Epstein

858
00:29:32,140 --> 00:29:33,340
files are being held.

859
00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:35,060
And there's a lot of different files that

860
00:29:35,060 --> 00:29:36,440
have been redacted.

861
00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:38,240
So you can go ahead and scroll down

862
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:39,420
until you get to a redacted area.

863
00:29:39,740 --> 00:29:41,040
Here's a redacted area right here.

864
00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:41,860
Guess what?

865
00:29:41,900 --> 00:29:43,280
If you want to look at these files,

866
00:29:43,460 --> 00:29:45,680
all you've got to do is copy it

867
00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:49,180
and paste it into Microsoft Word.

868
00:29:49,380 --> 00:29:50,120
And guess what?

869
00:29:50,660 --> 00:29:53,100
All the files are unredacted.

870
00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:54,360
There it is.

871
00:29:54,820 --> 00:29:57,220
So go back to justice.org, find all

872
00:29:57,220 --> 00:29:59,880
those files, and start unredacting before they figure

873
00:29:59,880 --> 00:30:00,960
out how to stop you.

874
00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:03,700
So no one is reporting on that.

875
00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:04,620
And it works?

876
00:30:05,060 --> 00:30:06,880
It's been reported on Fox.

877
00:30:07,100 --> 00:30:07,560
I heard it.

878
00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:08,160
Oh, you did?

879
00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:10,260
Well, I have a feeling we still have

880
00:30:10,260 --> 00:30:13,440
a number of these reporters who are part

881
00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:15,180
of the agency, and they're not allowed to

882
00:30:15,180 --> 00:30:15,980
look at these documents.

883
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:17,500
I think you're dead on.

884
00:30:17,620 --> 00:30:17,900
Wow.

885
00:30:17,900 --> 00:30:18,120
Again.

886
00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:19,540
What is going on here?

887
00:30:20,260 --> 00:30:20,820
Totally.

888
00:30:21,220 --> 00:30:22,620
It's Christmas after Christmas.

889
00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:27,100
So here, we got into a conversation at

890
00:30:27,100 --> 00:30:28,720
the dinner table about this.

891
00:30:30,620 --> 00:30:31,820
You know, everybody's an expert.

892
00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:36,380
Because when the Doge guys came in, they

893
00:30:36,380 --> 00:30:38,840
fired a bunch of people, and they canceled

894
00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:40,400
a bunch of software licenses.

895
00:30:40,660 --> 00:30:43,100
This would be the gossip mill.

896
00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:46,300
They canceled a bunch of software licenses and

897
00:30:46,300 --> 00:30:49,680
started using the free Adobe Acrobat instead of

898
00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:50,420
the one you pay for.

899
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:51,360
I like that theory.

900
00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:54,120
Which doesn't redact properly.

901
00:30:55,300 --> 00:30:57,560
Yeah, I like that theory, but no.

902
00:30:57,560 --> 00:31:02,840
My comeback to that was, and nobody could

903
00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:04,980
argue against it, which is, so you don't

904
00:31:04,980 --> 00:31:06,380
think they did this on purpose.

905
00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:06,840
Boom.

906
00:31:07,100 --> 00:31:07,580
Exactly.

907
00:31:07,860 --> 00:31:09,180
I think you're right.

908
00:31:09,300 --> 00:31:10,860
Of course they did this on purpose.

909
00:31:11,620 --> 00:31:12,580
Of course.

910
00:31:13,020 --> 00:31:14,420
That was the whole point.

911
00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:16,200
Absolutely.

912
00:31:17,260 --> 00:31:18,800
Everyone's like, they're so stupid.

913
00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:19,920
No, they're not.

914
00:31:19,940 --> 00:31:20,920
I know they're so stupid.

915
00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:21,960
No, they're not.

916
00:31:22,100 --> 00:31:23,900
They're so stupid as the way to play

917
00:31:23,900 --> 00:31:24,120
it.

918
00:31:24,180 --> 00:31:24,960
That's perfect.

919
00:31:25,380 --> 00:31:25,700
Yes.

920
00:31:25,700 --> 00:31:28,120
And you get all kinds of extra info

921
00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:30,120
and extra ditties that show up.

922
00:31:30,420 --> 00:31:32,320
And most of them are useless, by the

923
00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:32,620
way.

924
00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:35,800
The stuff that I've seen unredacted is junk.

925
00:31:35,980 --> 00:31:37,480
And then my favorite story.

926
00:31:37,700 --> 00:31:41,020
More than one million files, more files potentially

927
00:31:41,020 --> 00:31:43,940
related to dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein have just

928
00:31:43,940 --> 00:31:46,200
surfaced, according to the Justice Department.

929
00:31:46,540 --> 00:31:48,960
I love the term dead pedophile.

930
00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:51,060
Somehow the justice...

931
00:31:51,700 --> 00:31:53,360
The dead pedophile.

932
00:31:53,980 --> 00:31:56,460
Oh, I didn't pick up on that.

933
00:31:56,460 --> 00:31:58,360
It used to be financier.

934
00:31:58,560 --> 00:31:59,840
Now it's the dead pedophile.

935
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:02,940
Related to dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein have just

936
00:32:02,940 --> 00:32:05,180
surfaced, according to the Justice Department.

937
00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:07,560
They say the new trove originating from the

938
00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:09,160
U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of

939
00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:11,620
New York and the FBI may take, quote,

940
00:32:12,060 --> 00:32:13,880
a few more weeks to comb through and

941
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:15,020
release to the public.

942
00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:17,800
As the department scrambles to find more volunteer

943
00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:20,060
prosecutors over the holidays to help redact the

944
00:32:20,060 --> 00:32:21,580
newly discovered files.

945
00:32:21,580 --> 00:32:24,680
Now, remember, by law, the Justice Department was

946
00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:27,620
supposed to release everything it had a week

947
00:32:27,620 --> 00:32:28,500
ago today.

948
00:32:29,060 --> 00:32:31,100
So far, we've seen tens of thousands of

949
00:32:31,100 --> 00:32:34,560
documents over a few sporadic releases, including pictures

950
00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:37,200
of former President Bill Clinton, emails that mentioned

951
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:37,780
Donald Trump's...

952
00:32:38,300 --> 00:32:40,620
President Donald Trump's name on the Epstein jet

953
00:32:40,620 --> 00:32:44,360
flight log and an FBI email exchange that

954
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:47,140
indicates there are 10 other co-conspirators.

955
00:32:47,140 --> 00:32:50,780
President Trump weighed in with another stim-winding

956
00:32:50,780 --> 00:32:54,140
Christmas tirade, saying he, quote, was actually the

957
00:32:54,140 --> 00:32:56,420
only one who did drop Epstein and long

958
00:32:56,420 --> 00:32:58,860
before it became fashionable to do so.

959
00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:01,760
Trump added the Democrats and some Republicans who

960
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:04,000
pushed for the release will see their, quote,

961
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:07,620
friends, mostly innocent, will be badly hurt and

962
00:33:07,620 --> 00:33:08,920
reputationally tarnished.

963
00:33:09,580 --> 00:33:11,600
He then signed off with, enjoy what may

964
00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:13,480
be your last Merry Christmas.

965
00:33:14,780 --> 00:33:17,900
Starting off, I'm sorry, that's just a very

966
00:33:17,900 --> 00:33:19,060
interesting way to end that.

967
00:33:19,380 --> 00:33:20,720
No, he means it.

968
00:33:20,860 --> 00:33:21,260
Hello?

969
00:33:22,140 --> 00:33:22,600
Idiots.

970
00:33:23,420 --> 00:33:25,060
Yes, absolutely.

971
00:33:25,220 --> 00:33:27,340
And these new documents, I have a feeling

972
00:33:27,340 --> 00:33:28,740
they'll also be copyable.

973
00:33:29,500 --> 00:33:32,280
Just, you know, I like JC's theory.

974
00:33:32,500 --> 00:33:33,360
That's, it's cute.

975
00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:35,500
Well, they didn't want to pay for that.

976
00:33:35,540 --> 00:33:37,080
They just used the free Adobe version.

977
00:33:37,260 --> 00:33:39,700
Yeah, that's not how government works at all.

978
00:33:39,700 --> 00:33:43,040
They pay the extra super premium plus they

979
00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:43,520
do.

980
00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:45,780
I got to just throw money away.

981
00:33:46,300 --> 00:33:48,160
This was uncovered, though I did.

982
00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:49,280
I didn't hear about this.

983
00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:51,460
This is from the Canadian broadcast news.

984
00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:54,400
Two years after Canadian Peter Nygaard was convicted

985
00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:56,580
on four counts of sexual assault.

986
00:33:57,020 --> 00:33:59,680
The former fashion mogul is making headlines again,

987
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:02,820
named in documents released by American officials as

988
00:34:02,820 --> 00:34:05,800
it discloses more files related to Jeffrey Epstein.

989
00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:08,480
Peter Nygaard's name appeared in an April 2020

990
00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:10,760
letter sent by the Department of Justice to

991
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:13,679
authorities in the UK seeking to interview the

992
00:34:13,679 --> 00:34:15,719
man previously known as Prince Andrew.

993
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:18,520
The letter reads, in part, the investigation has

994
00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:21,060
revealed that on at least one occasion, Prince

995
00:34:21,060 --> 00:34:23,460
Andrew traveled to Nygaard Key in the Bahamas.

996
00:34:23,860 --> 00:34:24,719
Nygaard Key.

997
00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:26,639
See, this guy had his own island.

998
00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:29,360
This gets interesting.

999
00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:31,780
A location where Nygaard is believed to have

1000
00:34:31,780 --> 00:34:34,300
trafficked minor and adult female victims.

1001
00:34:34,300 --> 00:34:38,800
I've counseled over around 50 survivors of Peter

1002
00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:41,060
Nygaard in the last five years.

1003
00:34:41,540 --> 00:34:45,239
And some of them had certainly mentioned seeing

1004
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:48,780
him, seeing the former Prince Andrew at Nygaard

1005
00:34:48,780 --> 00:34:50,560
Key in the Bahamas.

1006
00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:53,500
So I wasn't surprised.

1007
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:56,380
Two other Canadian women appear in FBI intake

1008
00:34:56,380 --> 00:34:59,680
documents accused of grooming potential victims, though not

1009
00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:02,940
by name, identified only as a Serbian-Canadian

1010
00:35:02,940 --> 00:35:06,400
lingerie model and a French-Canadian aspiring model.

1011
00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:09,200
Any piece of evidence has to be confirmed.

1012
00:35:09,380 --> 00:35:10,820
You can't assume it to be true.

1013
00:35:11,060 --> 00:35:11,560
You can't.

1014
00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:13,860
We don't have a conclusion, for instance, that

1015
00:35:13,860 --> 00:35:17,540
the president was involved directly in Epstein's crimes.

1016
00:35:18,100 --> 00:35:18,960
But there's suspicion.

1017
00:35:19,380 --> 00:35:20,820
And that's how investigations work.

1018
00:35:20,820 --> 00:35:23,420
The latest release of 30,000 documents, the

1019
00:35:23,420 --> 00:35:26,240
most voluminous to date, contained many mentions of

1020
00:35:26,240 --> 00:35:28,500
the U.S. president, but did not link

1021
00:35:28,500 --> 00:35:30,640
Trump to any of Epstein's crimes.

1022
00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:34,220
So let's start with that guy who actually

1023
00:35:34,220 --> 00:35:36,780
has been convicted, had his own island.

1024
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:38,720
Prince Andrew was at his island.

1025
00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:40,440
But it's Trump.

1026
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:41,740
Let's go back to Trump.

1027
00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:43,280
Trump, Trump, Trump.

1028
00:35:43,740 --> 00:35:47,560
Meanwhile, there's actual work being done on actual

1029
00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:48,440
pedophiles.

1030
00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:49,240
Good evening, everybody.

1031
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:49,920
I'm Rup Raj.

1032
00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:52,100
We begin with a disturbing case involving prominent

1033
00:35:52,100 --> 00:35:55,840
Metro Detroit professionals arrested on child pornography charges.

1034
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:58,200
They include a Detroit-area doctor and attorney

1035
00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:00,180
who are both in federal court today.

1036
00:36:00,340 --> 00:36:02,040
Let's get live to Fox News' Charlie Lankton

1037
00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:03,560
in Detroit with the new details.

1038
00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:04,820
And, Charlie, I think you said in the

1039
00:36:04,820 --> 00:36:07,160
tease some of these details are so sickening,

1040
00:36:07,180 --> 00:36:09,120
so gross, they're hard to even repeat.

1041
00:36:09,740 --> 00:36:11,200
In fact, I can't even say some of

1042
00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:12,420
this stuff on television.

1043
00:36:12,420 --> 00:36:15,080
I'm holding up three of the criminal complaints

1044
00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:18,180
against three very prominent, a doctor, a lawyer

1045
00:36:18,180 --> 00:36:20,480
and a psychotherapist, all from the Metro Detroit

1046
00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:20,740
area.

1047
00:36:20,740 --> 00:36:21,360
Why am I yelling?

1048
00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:22,600
Well, why not?

1049
00:36:22,720 --> 00:36:24,080
But they got caught up in an FBI

1050
00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:27,280
sting that actually got them arrested in Toledo.

1051
00:36:27,700 --> 00:36:29,640
And what they found when they raided their

1052
00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:35,780
houses, 155 images of child porn, including movies

1053
00:36:35,780 --> 00:36:39,040
and pictures of the most disgusting things that

1054
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:40,040
you really can think of.

1055
00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:42,320
And there may very well be more.

1056
00:36:42,500 --> 00:36:44,380
Now, two of the three were in court

1057
00:36:44,380 --> 00:36:44,720
today.

1058
00:36:44,720 --> 00:36:45,260
Hold on a second.

1059
00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:50,960
You know the little neuro-linguistic programming, the

1060
00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:52,000
thing you just heard?

1061
00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:53,060
Which one?

1062
00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:55,300
They're made very well.

1063
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:55,980
Oh, yeah.

1064
00:36:56,860 --> 00:36:58,240
Well, there's some, yes.

1065
00:36:58,440 --> 00:36:59,860
But it's not, that's not what he was

1066
00:36:59,860 --> 00:37:00,100
saying.

1067
00:37:00,260 --> 00:37:03,320
This is, there may be very, there may

1068
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:05,180
be well, there may be more.

1069
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:05,660
Yes.

1070
00:37:05,660 --> 00:37:08,200
I mean, but what you heard was they

1071
00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:10,880
were made well.

1072
00:37:11,180 --> 00:37:12,400
Oh, let me listen again.

1073
00:37:12,700 --> 00:37:14,680
Things that you really can think of, and

1074
00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:15,900
they're made very well.

1075
00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:16,860
Oh, I see.

1076
00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:19,300
You're thinking high quality.

1077
00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:21,500
High quality is what he's saying.

1078
00:37:21,700 --> 00:37:23,880
That's the neuro-linguistic programming message.

1079
00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:24,380
Wow.

1080
00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:24,820
More.

1081
00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:26,900
Now, two of the three were in court

1082
00:37:26,900 --> 00:37:29,180
today, in federal court behind me, for what's

1083
00:37:29,180 --> 00:37:31,620
called a detention hearing, meaning that the feds

1084
00:37:31,620 --> 00:37:33,360
thought these people were so bad they should

1085
00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:34,500
be denied bond.

1086
00:37:34,500 --> 00:37:36,320
One of them said, okay, I'll stay in

1087
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:36,740
jail.

1088
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:38,720
The other one said, let's have a hearing.

1089
00:37:38,900 --> 00:37:40,900
The judge said, no, you're staying in jail.

1090
00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:41,300
Why?

1091
00:37:41,500 --> 00:37:43,800
In part because some of the bad stuff

1092
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:44,480
that came out.

1093
00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:46,660
And this is, and I'm really playing this

1094
00:37:46,660 --> 00:37:49,800
just to make the point that everyone yelling

1095
00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:52,660
about Epstein, they don't really care about the

1096
00:37:52,660 --> 00:37:53,040
kids.

1097
00:37:53,580 --> 00:37:56,380
They just care about Trump or, you know,

1098
00:37:56,580 --> 00:37:58,960
whoever's being blackmailed.

1099
00:37:59,750 --> 00:38:02,520
They don't actually care about what's actually happening

1100
00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:03,960
to toddlers.

1101
00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:04,780
Toddlers.

1102
00:38:05,260 --> 00:38:08,020
According to the criminal complaint, encrypted phone messages

1103
00:38:08,020 --> 00:38:11,800
showed 45-year-old Joshua Ronenbaum was an

1104
00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:14,200
English teacher in Japan who invited 10-

1105
00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:16,420
and 12-year-olds to get naked with

1106
00:38:16,420 --> 00:38:18,380
him and play with their, well, you get

1107
00:38:18,380 --> 00:38:18,860
the message.

1108
00:38:19,180 --> 00:38:22,520
The FBI seized his phone, which showed 155

1109
00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:26,400
images, including a toddler being sexually molested by

1110
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:29,980
an adult man and numerous conversations discussing his

1111
00:38:29,980 --> 00:38:31,700
sexual interest in children.

1112
00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:35,320
And then Jeremy Brian Takom, 51 years old,

1113
00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:37,580
who lived at the same Palmer Woods address

1114
00:38:37,580 --> 00:38:38,600
with Ronenbaum.

1115
00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:41,440
The FBI seized his phone that contained an

1116
00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:44,520
exchange with an undercover agent, something like this.

1117
00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:46,740
Wish we could find a kiddo and have

1118
00:38:46,740 --> 00:38:47,240
our way.

1119
00:38:47,540 --> 00:38:49,220
Take him to a motel and molest him.

1120
00:38:49,700 --> 00:38:50,580
F yes, brother.

1121
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:51,520
Are you free tomorrow?

1122
00:38:51,980 --> 00:38:52,780
Any more clips?

1123
00:38:52,780 --> 00:38:55,320
Six additional clips were sent showing an adult

1124
00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:58,000
man sexually assaulting a toddler.

1125
00:38:58,580 --> 00:39:02,420
And finally, Lincoln Erickson, Dr. Erickson, is a

1126
00:39:02,420 --> 00:39:04,360
medical doctor who lives in Farmington Hills.

1127
00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:07,340
The complaint indicates that he's currently on probation

1128
00:39:07,340 --> 00:39:10,120
for domestic violence for an incident in 2024.

1129
00:39:10,720 --> 00:39:12,820
His phone indicates he discussed plans to travel

1130
00:39:12,820 --> 00:39:15,140
to Thailand to sexually abuse children.

1131
00:39:15,140 --> 00:39:17,620
And the details about his friend, who is

1132
00:39:17,620 --> 00:39:19,740
a father to a three-year-old who

1133
00:39:19,740 --> 00:39:23,300
Erickson allegedly sexually abused, forcing the three-year

1134
00:39:23,300 --> 00:39:25,380
-old to perform a sex act.

1135
00:39:25,540 --> 00:39:26,820
Where is the outrage?

1136
00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:28,360
There's no outrage over this.

1137
00:39:28,420 --> 00:39:29,340
Where's the story?

1138
00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:30,940
I never heard any of this.

1139
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:33,580
Just came out.

1140
00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:36,520
Yeah, no, because it's all bullcrap.

1141
00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:38,960
People, you don't care.

1142
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:42,300
You just are sucked up into a swirling

1143
00:39:42,300 --> 00:39:48,820
pool of poop of innuendo and QAnon.

1144
00:39:49,020 --> 00:39:50,840
Because it was really Q that started this,

1145
00:39:50,940 --> 00:39:51,460
if I recall.

1146
00:39:52,500 --> 00:39:53,500
And it was the Democrats.

1147
00:39:54,260 --> 00:39:55,120
It was all Democrats.

1148
00:39:55,860 --> 00:39:58,480
And they were sending kids in wayfared boxes

1149
00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:01,220
and kids, kids, kids, everything kids.

1150
00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:03,220
Kids in wayfared, that's right.

1151
00:40:03,500 --> 00:40:04,740
Yeah, I forgot about that one.

1152
00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:07,520
But when actual horrible crime, and these guys

1153
00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:08,140
should be killed.

1154
00:40:08,140 --> 00:40:10,060
Right, did you do it yet?

1155
00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:10,600
Dead.

1156
00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:11,820
Dead.

1157
00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:14,520
No, I have no problem saying that.

1158
00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:17,740
But no, that's not the game.

1159
00:40:18,380 --> 00:40:18,900
Israel, Mossad.

1160
00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:20,500
What ever happened to Nambla?

1161
00:40:21,180 --> 00:40:22,600
They're probably still around.

1162
00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:23,260
Nope.

1163
00:40:23,660 --> 00:40:24,500
I haven't checked.

1164
00:40:24,500 --> 00:40:25,140
I looked them up.

1165
00:40:25,240 --> 00:40:25,840
No, they folded.

1166
00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:26,740
Oh, they did?

1167
00:40:27,220 --> 00:40:27,580
Yep.

1168
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:32,460
Well, then you know what happened.

1169
00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:34,940
Yeah, they became Democrat Party members.

1170
00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:37,240
I'm sorry.

1171
00:40:38,820 --> 00:40:40,320
It's the best I can do.

1172
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:41,920
All right, I'm going to do one little

1173
00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:44,900
quick series here just because I predicted it.

1174
00:40:45,100 --> 00:40:48,820
However, he hasn't quite said the phrase yet.

1175
00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:50,900
But we knew they were coming.

1176
00:40:51,140 --> 00:40:53,000
The president saying the collection of ships is

1177
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:54,780
called the Golden Fleet and will become the

1178
00:40:54,780 --> 00:40:57,020
quote flagship of the American naval fleet.

1179
00:40:57,420 --> 00:40:59,520
Now the Navy has created a website named

1180
00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:00,360
after the fleet.

1181
00:41:00,380 --> 00:41:02,460
It gives people the opportunity to look at

1182
00:41:02,460 --> 00:41:03,420
specs of the ships.

1183
00:41:03,420 --> 00:41:05,420
As you know, we're desperately in need of

1184
00:41:05,420 --> 00:41:05,660
ships.

1185
00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:08,000
Our ships are, some of them have gotten

1186
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:10,440
old and tired and obsolete.

1187
00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:12,680
And we're going to go the exact opposite

1188
00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:13,320
direction.

1189
00:41:13,660 --> 00:41:15,280
The website states the ships will be up

1190
00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:18,280
to 880 feet long, reach over 30 knots

1191
00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:20,900
and require a crew of anywhere from 650

1192
00:41:20,900 --> 00:41:22,660
to 850 people.

1193
00:41:23,180 --> 00:41:25,840
The ships will also have hypersonic weapons, state

1194
00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:27,820
of the art electric rail guns and high

1195
00:41:27,820 --> 00:41:28,620
powered lasers.

1196
00:41:29,140 --> 00:41:31,220
U.S. Senator Mark Warner says he disagrees

1197
00:41:31,220 --> 00:41:32,100
with the project.

1198
00:41:32,100 --> 00:41:34,960
The one thing the Navy had decided didn't

1199
00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:36,900
need more big ships because of the threats

1200
00:41:36,900 --> 00:41:37,540
from drones.

1201
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:41,360
It needed more small, mobile, faster, deployable ships.

1202
00:41:41,740 --> 00:41:43,880
Some Navy officials have estimated the first ship

1203
00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:46,360
will cost $10 billion to design and build.

1204
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:47,500
It's a price tag.

1205
00:41:47,620 --> 00:41:49,720
Retired Navy admiral and founder of the National

1206
00:41:49,720 --> 00:41:52,720
Security Leaders for America, Michael Smith, tells 13

1207
00:41:52,720 --> 00:41:54,520
News Now the Navy can't afford.

1208
00:41:54,820 --> 00:41:56,460
I just don't know how he's going to

1209
00:41:56,460 --> 00:41:57,660
be able to pay for it.

1210
00:41:57,660 --> 00:42:00,540
I think if the first part of that

1211
00:42:00,540 --> 00:42:05,100
sentence was I'm committed to doubling the Navy's

1212
00:42:05,100 --> 00:42:09,240
budget and delivering the Golden Fleet, I think

1213
00:42:09,240 --> 00:42:11,200
that would have been a realistic first statement

1214
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:11,620
to make.

1215
00:42:11,860 --> 00:42:14,100
The president has also told reporters he expects

1216
00:42:14,100 --> 00:42:15,460
the first ships to be built in the

1217
00:42:15,460 --> 00:42:16,520
next two and a half years.

1218
00:42:16,860 --> 00:42:19,080
Smith also calls that timeline unrealistic.

1219
00:42:19,600 --> 00:42:23,000
My concern is with this president, you have

1220
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:25,260
to deliver in the time he's saying.

1221
00:42:25,260 --> 00:42:27,980
And so there are going to be so

1222
00:42:27,980 --> 00:42:29,240
many mistakes made.

1223
00:42:29,620 --> 00:42:31,520
No, no, it's not about mistakes.

1224
00:42:31,560 --> 00:42:35,620
It's about one big, huge, corrupt business known

1225
00:42:35,620 --> 00:42:40,280
as the military industrial complex, who somehow the

1226
00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:44,140
lawmakers and money spenders who hold the purse

1227
00:42:44,140 --> 00:42:47,620
strings decided to give even more to the

1228
00:42:47,620 --> 00:42:50,640
military industrial complex than President Trump even wanted.

1229
00:42:50,640 --> 00:42:53,380
So it's now up to just shy of

1230
00:42:53,380 --> 00:42:54,540
a trillion dollars.

1231
00:42:55,220 --> 00:42:57,620
But here is what the president also said,

1232
00:42:57,700 --> 00:42:59,360
which, of course, didn't make the news.

1233
00:42:59,700 --> 00:43:05,120
We'll be discussing the the pay to executives

1234
00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:07,760
where they're making 45 and 50 million dollars

1235
00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:09,300
a year and not being able to build

1236
00:43:09,300 --> 00:43:09,760
quickly.

1237
00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:11,680
They're going to make that kind of money.

1238
00:43:11,700 --> 00:43:12,620
They have to build quickly.

1239
00:43:13,340 --> 00:43:15,520
Again, we make the best equipment in the

1240
00:43:15,520 --> 00:43:17,060
world, but they don't make them fast enough.

1241
00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:20,280
And we're going to be also discussing dividends.

1242
00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:23,380
We want the dividends to go into the

1243
00:43:23,380 --> 00:43:25,700
creation of production facilities.

1244
00:43:26,660 --> 00:43:29,740
So we'll be talking about all capex dividends

1245
00:43:29,740 --> 00:43:31,440
and the pay.

1246
00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:35,380
We're also going to be talking about buybacks.

1247
00:43:35,500 --> 00:43:37,040
They spend so much money on buyback.

1248
00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:38,400
They want to buy back their stock.

1249
00:43:38,720 --> 00:43:39,960
I don't want them to buy back their

1250
00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:40,200
stock.

1251
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:42,260
I want them to put the money in

1252
00:43:42,260 --> 00:43:46,160
plant and equipment so they can build these

1253
00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:50,400
planes fast, rapidly, like immediately.

1254
00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:52,620
Yeah, exactly.

1255
00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:54,160
Stop with your buyback.

1256
00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:57,860
Stop enriching people like yourselves and get down

1257
00:43:57,860 --> 00:43:58,920
to business.

1258
00:44:00,500 --> 00:44:03,660
There's a substacker that's an ex-spook.

1259
00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:06,560
He went on about this.

1260
00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:11,140
Isn't that an oxymoron, substacker and spook?

1261
00:44:12,300 --> 00:44:13,660
Maybe, close to it.

1262
00:44:14,260 --> 00:44:17,920
And he made the assertion that they've decided

1263
00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:19,660
they're not going to do any of this.

1264
00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:22,200
They're going to keep pocketing the money as

1265
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:23,080
best they can.

1266
00:44:23,240 --> 00:44:25,340
And they're going to just wait out Trump's

1267
00:44:25,340 --> 00:44:25,980
three years.

1268
00:44:26,020 --> 00:44:27,440
And they're not going to build one ship.

1269
00:44:27,440 --> 00:44:28,820
You're never going to see a ship out

1270
00:44:28,820 --> 00:44:29,480
of this deal.

1271
00:44:31,800 --> 00:44:33,040
Well, we'll see.

1272
00:44:34,380 --> 00:44:35,940
You know, he's doing the same with the

1273
00:44:35,940 --> 00:44:37,020
insurance companies.

1274
00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:40,020
He had another stand up with all the

1275
00:44:40,020 --> 00:44:42,380
drug manufacturers, going to make them cheap, going

1276
00:44:42,380 --> 00:44:43,020
to make them cheaper.

1277
00:44:43,100 --> 00:44:45,040
It'll be cheaper for us, but it won't

1278
00:44:45,040 --> 00:44:45,760
be $88.

1279
00:44:46,420 --> 00:44:47,780
But I guess it's going to have to

1280
00:44:47,780 --> 00:44:49,440
even out between other countries.

1281
00:44:49,860 --> 00:44:52,420
But then another thing that wasn't really discussed

1282
00:44:52,420 --> 00:44:53,500
was this.

1283
00:44:53,820 --> 00:44:55,020
I'm going to call a meeting.

1284
00:44:55,020 --> 00:44:56,960
It could be in Florida this coming week

1285
00:44:56,960 --> 00:44:58,260
or it could be back in the White

1286
00:44:58,260 --> 00:45:01,500
House the first week, not the second or

1287
00:45:01,500 --> 00:45:02,040
third week.

1288
00:45:02,340 --> 00:45:04,180
I'm going to call a meeting of the

1289
00:45:04,180 --> 00:45:07,960
big insurance companies that have gotten so rich

1290
00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:12,400
by receiving money and really much far, far

1291
00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:13,940
more money than they're entitled to.

1292
00:45:14,500 --> 00:45:16,340
And I have a feeling maybe if they

1293
00:45:16,340 --> 00:45:20,360
would act like these incredible, brilliant, responsible citizens

1294
00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:23,840
behind me, people that love our country.

1295
00:45:23,840 --> 00:45:24,860
And they love the world.

1296
00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:27,600
I mean, frankly, they love these are international

1297
00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:29,220
companies for the most part.

1298
00:45:30,500 --> 00:45:31,920
I'm going to call a meeting of the

1299
00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:32,720
insurance companies.

1300
00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:33,780
I'm going to see if they get their

1301
00:45:33,780 --> 00:45:35,420
price down, to put it very bluntly.

1302
00:45:36,540 --> 00:45:38,300
And I think that is a very big

1303
00:45:38,300 --> 00:45:38,660
statement.

1304
00:45:38,660 --> 00:45:40,780
And what happened here is the biggest statement

1305
00:45:40,780 --> 00:45:42,420
of all, because nobody thought a thing like

1306
00:45:42,420 --> 00:45:43,280
this was possible.

1307
00:45:43,760 --> 00:45:45,800
So where are all the Luigi fans?

1308
00:45:46,040 --> 00:45:46,980
Yeah, this is great.

1309
00:45:47,040 --> 00:45:48,600
This is what Luigi is going to jail

1310
00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:49,040
for.

1311
00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:50,820
No, no.

1312
00:45:51,300 --> 00:45:52,740
Nick Fuentes is great.

1313
00:45:52,740 --> 00:45:55,020
Candace, she's just asking questions.

1314
00:45:57,400 --> 00:45:59,300
That's the best part.

1315
00:45:59,580 --> 00:46:01,120
Just asking questions.

1316
00:46:01,120 --> 00:46:02,120
Just asking questions.

1317
00:46:02,700 --> 00:46:05,460
No, Zuma Waffen, you are welcome here at

1318
00:46:05,460 --> 00:46:06,360
the No Agenda Show.

1319
00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:08,300
We'll help you understand what's really going on

1320
00:46:08,300 --> 00:46:08,880
in your world.

1321
00:46:09,420 --> 00:46:11,040
The information is out there.

1322
00:46:11,420 --> 00:46:13,980
You're just being lured away by shiny objects,

1323
00:46:14,420 --> 00:46:17,200
trinkets, to go and watch something else.

1324
00:46:19,570 --> 00:46:22,830
And that's something else in the two instances

1325
00:46:22,830 --> 00:46:27,130
you mentioned, Fuentes and Owens.

1326
00:46:27,590 --> 00:46:30,130
They're long talkers.

1327
00:46:30,990 --> 00:46:31,370
Yes.

1328
00:46:31,490 --> 00:46:34,030
Those are hours and hours a day.

1329
00:46:34,190 --> 00:46:35,050
It's unbelievable.

1330
00:46:36,050 --> 00:46:37,430
You can really chew up a lot of

1331
00:46:37,430 --> 00:46:37,970
your time.

1332
00:46:38,010 --> 00:46:40,330
But again, it's the clips.

1333
00:46:40,690 --> 00:46:42,190
It's all about the clips.

1334
00:46:43,050 --> 00:46:45,010
I don't think I've ever watched the full

1335
00:46:45,010 --> 00:46:46,110
Fuentes episode.

1336
00:46:46,450 --> 00:46:48,530
I mean, is he on YouTube only?

1337
00:46:48,530 --> 00:46:49,170
I don't know.

1338
00:46:49,450 --> 00:46:49,770
No, no.

1339
00:46:49,850 --> 00:46:50,110
Rumble.

1340
00:46:50,570 --> 00:46:50,750
Rumble.

1341
00:46:50,910 --> 00:46:52,190
But I see the clips.

1342
00:46:53,070 --> 00:46:57,130
You know, that's funny because I've only watched

1343
00:46:57,130 --> 00:46:57,730
full episodes.

1344
00:46:57,890 --> 00:46:58,850
I've never seen the clips.

1345
00:46:59,270 --> 00:47:00,950
I watched the full episodes to look for

1346
00:47:00,950 --> 00:47:02,830
the um or the uh.

1347
00:47:03,130 --> 00:47:03,990
Yeah, it's not there.

1348
00:47:04,730 --> 00:47:05,210
Not there.

1349
00:47:05,490 --> 00:47:09,090
It's just horrifying how good he is.

1350
00:47:09,530 --> 00:47:09,670
Yeah.

1351
00:47:10,910 --> 00:47:12,950
So that's why I call on the Zuma

1352
00:47:12,950 --> 00:47:13,250
Waffen.

1353
00:47:13,870 --> 00:47:14,770
You are good here.

1354
00:47:15,170 --> 00:47:16,070
We'll take care of you.

1355
00:47:16,730 --> 00:47:17,390
Don't worry.

1356
00:47:17,390 --> 00:47:18,990
This is where you want to be.

1357
00:47:19,110 --> 00:47:20,010
Listen to your uncles.

1358
00:47:21,590 --> 00:47:22,690
You can learn something.

1359
00:47:23,670 --> 00:47:24,610
Now, let's play.

1360
00:47:24,770 --> 00:47:26,110
I have a couple of series here that

1361
00:47:26,110 --> 00:47:26,890
are kind of interesting.

1362
00:47:29,910 --> 00:47:31,790
They're going out of their way.

1363
00:47:31,870 --> 00:47:34,590
It seems the powers that be, and in

1364
00:47:34,590 --> 00:47:38,830
this case NPR, to start trying to reconstruct

1365
00:47:38,830 --> 00:47:42,630
in advance of Trump getting kicked out or

1366
00:47:42,630 --> 00:47:46,330
getting Trump three years from now or whenever.

1367
00:47:46,330 --> 00:47:48,790
To rebuild USAID.

1368
00:47:49,130 --> 00:47:51,250
This is a disaster.

1369
00:47:51,450 --> 00:47:54,070
Weren't they getting money from USAID as well?

1370
00:47:54,470 --> 00:47:57,110
I'm sure there's some backdoor from USAID to

1371
00:47:57,110 --> 00:47:57,270
NPR.

1372
00:47:57,290 --> 00:47:57,930
Oh, absolutely.

1373
00:47:58,150 --> 00:47:58,830
There has to be.

1374
00:47:59,310 --> 00:48:03,910
But the USAID is a money laundering operation,

1375
00:48:04,370 --> 00:48:08,090
a worldwide money laundering operation for everybody, for

1376
00:48:08,090 --> 00:48:11,290
the intelligence agencies, for all kinds of slush

1377
00:48:11,290 --> 00:48:11,590
funds.

1378
00:48:11,750 --> 00:48:11,930
Mainly.

1379
00:48:12,270 --> 00:48:12,730
Mainly.

1380
00:48:12,730 --> 00:48:17,950
And it goes to the NGOs and that's

1381
00:48:17,950 --> 00:48:20,430
where the laundering takes place.

1382
00:48:21,970 --> 00:48:23,570
So they're going to go out of their

1383
00:48:23,570 --> 00:48:28,770
way now, NPR, to try to turn the

1384
00:48:28,770 --> 00:48:31,390
ship around and show what a bad idea

1385
00:48:31,390 --> 00:48:33,490
this was and everything in between.

1386
00:48:33,590 --> 00:48:35,210
And here we go with the USAID.

1387
00:48:35,410 --> 00:48:35,990
Wait, wait, wait.

1388
00:48:36,130 --> 00:48:39,510
Before we start, have we seen any, is

1389
00:48:39,510 --> 00:48:41,190
Africa now dead of AIDS?

1390
00:48:42,650 --> 00:48:45,490
According to this report, yeah.

1391
00:48:45,750 --> 00:48:46,310
Okay.

1392
00:48:46,790 --> 00:48:47,590
I'm sorry.

1393
00:48:47,750 --> 00:48:48,450
I stand corrected.

1394
00:48:48,710 --> 00:48:50,790
It's been a cataclysmic year in global.

1395
00:48:50,890 --> 00:48:52,330
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.

1396
00:48:52,950 --> 00:48:53,330
Hey.

1397
00:48:54,390 --> 00:48:56,190
You keep doing this.

1398
00:48:56,310 --> 00:48:57,490
I have a code.

1399
00:48:57,650 --> 00:48:59,330
See NPR-SS?

1400
00:49:01,230 --> 00:49:01,790
Okay.

1401
00:49:02,050 --> 00:49:03,490
Well, all right.

1402
00:49:04,010 --> 00:49:05,210
You have a good point there.

1403
00:49:05,310 --> 00:49:07,310
I didn't recognize the code.

1404
00:49:07,350 --> 00:49:08,270
Suffer and succotash.

1405
00:49:08,270 --> 00:49:08,770
Suffotash.

1406
00:49:08,870 --> 00:49:11,250
I'm Scott Simon.

1407
00:49:14,840 --> 00:49:17,380
It's been a cataclysmic year in global hell.

1408
00:49:17,600 --> 00:49:19,220
In January, the Trump administration.

1409
00:49:19,480 --> 00:49:20,700
Did he say in global hell?

1410
00:49:22,600 --> 00:49:25,060
Yeah, this is the leverage they're going to

1411
00:49:25,060 --> 00:49:26,900
use to promote USAID.

1412
00:49:27,140 --> 00:49:29,160
Wait, global health or global hell?

1413
00:49:29,360 --> 00:49:30,760
It sounded like he said global hell.

1414
00:49:30,960 --> 00:49:31,740
He says it fine.

1415
00:49:31,940 --> 00:49:33,060
Yeah, he screws it up.

1416
00:49:33,100 --> 00:49:33,400
You're right.

1417
00:49:33,520 --> 00:49:34,320
Global hell.

1418
00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:37,120
It's been a cataclysmic year in global hell.

1419
00:49:37,380 --> 00:49:39,020
In January, the Trump administration.

1420
00:49:39,300 --> 00:49:40,580
He said hell.

1421
00:49:40,580 --> 00:49:41,440
He says hell.

1422
00:49:41,560 --> 00:49:42,120
He says hell.

1423
00:49:42,220 --> 00:49:42,740
I heard it.

1424
00:49:42,780 --> 00:49:44,520
It's a cataclysmic year in global hell.

1425
00:49:44,780 --> 00:49:47,500
In January, the Trump administration froze billions of

1426
00:49:47,500 --> 00:49:49,420
dollars in foreign assistance funds.

1427
00:49:49,860 --> 00:49:52,480
Then it dismantled the United States Agency for

1428
00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:53,600
International Development.

1429
00:49:54,220 --> 00:49:56,860
These actions had ripple effects all around the

1430
00:49:56,860 --> 00:49:59,460
world and changed how the U.S. approaches

1431
00:49:59,460 --> 00:50:00,240
foreign aid.

1432
00:50:01,140 --> 00:50:03,620
NPR global health correspondent Fatma Tanis has been

1433
00:50:03,620 --> 00:50:05,280
covering the story for the past year.

1434
00:50:05,980 --> 00:50:06,820
Joins us in her studio.

1435
00:50:06,940 --> 00:50:08,720
Fatma, thanks so much for being with us.

1436
00:50:08,820 --> 00:50:09,680
Thanks for having me, Scott.

1437
00:50:12,250 --> 00:50:14,690
Take us back to the beginning of 2025.

1438
00:50:15,030 --> 00:50:18,050
How did this shakeup to USAID programs begin?

1439
00:50:18,910 --> 00:50:20,390
Well, it was really chaotic.

1440
00:50:20,590 --> 00:50:22,570
He switches here to USAID.

1441
00:50:22,790 --> 00:50:23,610
I love that.

1442
00:50:24,110 --> 00:50:24,830
Oh, I missed it.

1443
00:50:24,910 --> 00:50:25,450
Well done.

1444
00:50:25,630 --> 00:50:26,130
Oh, yes.

1445
00:50:26,230 --> 00:50:26,530
Oh, yeah.

1446
00:50:26,910 --> 00:50:29,390
USAID to USAID.

1447
00:50:30,710 --> 00:50:33,150
Take us back to the beginning of 2025.

1448
00:50:33,490 --> 00:50:36,450
How did this shakeup to USAID programs begin?

1449
00:50:37,110 --> 00:50:39,130
Well, it was really chaotic, Scott.

1450
00:50:39,130 --> 00:50:41,610
Hundreds of agency staff were put on leave.

1451
00:50:41,730 --> 00:50:44,290
The USAID website was taken down in the

1452
00:50:44,290 --> 00:50:45,830
middle of the night on a Saturday.

1453
00:50:46,290 --> 00:50:46,510
In the middle of the night?

1454
00:50:46,530 --> 00:50:49,130
And thousands of programs that provided critical health

1455
00:50:49,130 --> 00:50:52,930
services and poverty solutions and more were terminated.

1456
00:50:53,150 --> 00:50:54,830
And this all happened within a matter of

1457
00:50:54,830 --> 00:50:55,430
a few weeks.

1458
00:50:55,690 --> 00:50:56,950
And what did the administration do?

1459
00:50:57,390 --> 00:51:00,170
Hey, what are poverty solutions?

1460
00:51:00,330 --> 00:51:01,210
I like that.

1461
00:51:02,910 --> 00:51:04,030
Poverty solutions.

1462
00:51:04,050 --> 00:51:04,910
Poverty solution.

1463
00:51:06,810 --> 00:51:07,370
Alcohol.

1464
00:51:10,070 --> 00:51:10,790
Poverty solutions.

1465
00:51:11,470 --> 00:51:13,210
I'd like to be in charge of that

1466
00:51:13,210 --> 00:51:13,730
department.

1467
00:51:17,250 --> 00:51:18,470
That was the end of that clip?

1468
00:51:18,610 --> 00:51:20,090
Yeah, it ended funny, but that was the

1469
00:51:20,090 --> 00:51:20,470
end of the clip.

1470
00:51:20,470 --> 00:51:21,230
It did end funny.

1471
00:51:21,430 --> 00:51:23,030
It was something I did wrong.

1472
00:51:23,190 --> 00:51:25,310
Okay, well, let's go on to clip two.

1473
00:51:25,650 --> 00:51:26,930
And what did the administration do?

1474
00:51:27,130 --> 00:51:29,810
You know, foreign aid has historically had bipartisan

1475
00:51:29,810 --> 00:51:30,270
support.

1476
00:51:30,690 --> 00:51:32,470
Yeah, he brings it.

1477
00:51:32,550 --> 00:51:34,270
What did the administration do?

1478
00:51:34,470 --> 00:51:35,630
It was a funny ending.

1479
00:51:35,870 --> 00:51:36,790
It didn't make any sense.

1480
00:51:36,810 --> 00:51:37,690
And he drops it in.

1481
00:51:38,230 --> 00:51:39,550
He says, what did the administration do?

1482
00:51:39,550 --> 00:51:41,790
She never really says when he asks it

1483
00:51:41,790 --> 00:51:42,230
again.

1484
00:51:43,710 --> 00:51:45,390
That's a very screwy report.

1485
00:51:45,710 --> 00:51:46,470
I'm sorry.

1486
00:51:46,610 --> 00:51:48,250
I could have done a better job of

1487
00:51:48,250 --> 00:51:49,510
segwaying it, play it on.

1488
00:51:49,750 --> 00:51:51,170
And why did the administration do that?

1489
00:51:51,270 --> 00:51:53,790
You know, foreign aid has historically had bipartisan

1490
00:51:53,790 --> 00:51:54,390
support.

1491
00:51:54,790 --> 00:51:57,170
It saves lives and has been generally seen

1492
00:51:57,170 --> 00:52:01,350
as a way for America to wield influence

1493
00:52:01,350 --> 00:52:02,710
and build goodwill.

1494
00:52:02,710 --> 00:52:05,610
But the Trump administration saw it differently, that

1495
00:52:05,610 --> 00:52:08,570
the way America was doing foreign aid was

1496
00:52:08,570 --> 00:52:10,150
ineffective and wasteful.

1497
00:52:10,550 --> 00:52:13,330
USAID in particular was viewed as far left

1498
00:52:13,330 --> 00:52:13,970
and irredeemable.

1499
00:52:14,710 --> 00:52:17,910
It's programs that provided support for LGBTQ people

1500
00:52:17,910 --> 00:52:21,310
or reproductive health and climate solutions were seen

1501
00:52:21,310 --> 00:52:22,450
as part of a woke.

1502
00:52:23,470 --> 00:52:26,870
She just did a woke lineup of epic

1503
00:52:26,870 --> 00:52:27,390
proportion.

1504
00:52:28,170 --> 00:52:29,330
I just need to hear that again.

1505
00:52:29,330 --> 00:52:30,090
Irredeemable.

1506
00:52:30,410 --> 00:52:33,650
It's programs that provided support for LGBTQ people.

1507
00:52:34,070 --> 00:52:37,530
Support for LGBTQ people or reproductive health.

1508
00:52:37,810 --> 00:52:38,930
Reproductive health.

1509
00:52:39,190 --> 00:52:40,530
Read abortions.

1510
00:52:40,810 --> 00:52:41,730
And climate solutions.

1511
00:52:41,890 --> 00:52:44,270
Climate solutions, which I think is part of

1512
00:52:44,270 --> 00:52:45,290
poverty solutions.

1513
00:52:45,410 --> 00:52:45,950
This is wonderful.

1514
00:52:46,170 --> 00:52:46,710
Yes, it's a liquid.

1515
00:52:46,730 --> 00:52:47,310
It's great.

1516
00:52:47,510 --> 00:52:49,750
Seen as part of a woke agenda that

1517
00:52:49,750 --> 00:52:51,330
taxpayers shouldn't be funding.

1518
00:52:52,030 --> 00:52:54,790
Here's Max Primerack with the Conservative Heritage Foundation.

1519
00:52:55,430 --> 00:52:58,050
He previously held several senior roles at USAID.

1520
00:52:58,050 --> 00:53:00,110
A lot of the aid programs that we

1521
00:53:00,110 --> 00:53:02,970
were doing were not always tied to our

1522
00:53:02,970 --> 00:53:04,290
foreign policy objectives.

1523
00:53:04,450 --> 00:53:07,110
And by subsuming the aid agencies, you can

1524
00:53:07,110 --> 00:53:10,570
better align with our national interests and also

1525
00:53:10,570 --> 00:53:11,590
with our values.

1526
00:53:11,910 --> 00:53:15,250
So the administration shut down USAID and moved

1527
00:53:15,250 --> 00:53:16,830
a handful of the parts they wanted to

1528
00:53:16,830 --> 00:53:19,270
keep, like humanitarian relief and a few hundred

1529
00:53:19,270 --> 00:53:21,130
staff, under the State Department.

1530
00:53:21,910 --> 00:53:23,410
Let's talk about the effects.

1531
00:53:23,410 --> 00:53:25,490
Secretary of State Rubio said in May that

1532
00:53:25,490 --> 00:53:28,430
no one died as a result of the

1533
00:53:28,430 --> 00:53:28,750
cuts.

1534
00:53:29,110 --> 00:53:29,750
Is that true?

1535
00:53:30,370 --> 00:53:31,710
Unfortunately, no.

1536
00:53:32,090 --> 00:53:33,970
NPR interviewed a mother in Nigeria.

1537
00:53:34,350 --> 00:53:35,990
Her son had sickle cell anemia.

1538
00:53:36,410 --> 00:53:37,670
And he began running a fever.

1539
00:53:37,890 --> 00:53:39,990
But the clinic that they usually went to,

1540
00:53:40,190 --> 00:53:42,730
funded by USAID, had been closed.

1541
00:53:42,990 --> 00:53:44,830
And the boy died the next day.

1542
00:53:45,170 --> 00:53:45,410
OK.

1543
00:53:46,610 --> 00:53:49,170
So tell me she has a few more

1544
00:53:49,170 --> 00:53:52,030
examples than one boy with sickle cell anemia.

1545
00:53:53,110 --> 00:53:54,810
She's got another example.

1546
00:54:00,010 --> 00:54:02,690
Because of the cruelty.

1547
00:54:03,150 --> 00:54:04,810
This is, by the way, a big theme

1548
00:54:04,810 --> 00:54:05,450
for Trump.

1549
00:54:05,610 --> 00:54:06,850
They like to use the word cruel.

1550
00:54:07,010 --> 00:54:07,310
It's cruel.

1551
00:54:07,670 --> 00:54:11,210
The cruelty of Trump has resulted in a

1552
00:54:11,210 --> 00:54:12,630
boy in Nigeria.

1553
00:54:12,710 --> 00:54:15,410
By the way, there are homeless all over

1554
00:54:15,410 --> 00:54:16,070
San Francisco.

1555
00:54:16,470 --> 00:54:18,430
They're dropping dead in the streets in Los

1556
00:54:18,430 --> 00:54:18,930
Angeles.

1557
00:54:19,410 --> 00:54:20,930
We have shootings in Oakland.

1558
00:54:20,930 --> 00:54:26,670
But there's a boy in Nigeria who died

1559
00:54:26,670 --> 00:54:28,710
because of Trump's cruelty.

1560
00:54:29,310 --> 00:54:29,410
Yes.

1561
00:54:29,830 --> 00:54:30,130
Wow.

1562
00:54:32,450 --> 00:54:33,670
That's the troll room.

1563
00:54:33,810 --> 00:54:35,210
I want to see the death certificate.

1564
00:54:35,450 --> 00:54:36,210
We want proof.

1565
00:54:37,290 --> 00:54:37,770
You're sick.

1566
00:54:38,110 --> 00:54:40,010
The funny thing that the troll room brought

1567
00:54:40,010 --> 00:54:42,250
up, it actually may be bull crap.

1568
00:54:42,410 --> 00:54:42,550
Yeah.

1569
00:54:44,050 --> 00:54:46,570
She has another example coming up.

1570
00:54:46,750 --> 00:54:47,070
OK.

1571
00:54:47,530 --> 00:54:49,310
And the boy died the next day.

1572
00:54:49,310 --> 00:54:52,310
A doctor who treated the child before said

1573
00:54:52,310 --> 00:54:54,670
he would have likely survived if he had

1574
00:54:54,670 --> 00:54:55,550
received care.

1575
00:54:56,070 --> 00:54:58,150
We also know that many people lost access

1576
00:54:58,150 --> 00:55:01,230
to drugs that treated diseases like HIV AIDS.

1577
00:55:01,730 --> 00:55:04,790
And in countries torn by conflict, many malnourished

1578
00:55:04,790 --> 00:55:08,690
children lost access to therapeutic protein-filled foods.

1579
00:55:08,890 --> 00:55:11,010
But we don't know the full scale of

1580
00:55:11,010 --> 00:55:11,770
lives lost.

1581
00:55:12,070 --> 00:55:14,530
And that's because aid groups are no longer

1582
00:55:14,530 --> 00:55:16,910
on the ground able to track what's going

1583
00:55:16,910 --> 00:55:17,370
on.

1584
00:55:17,370 --> 00:55:20,350
You went to Uganda to report on how

1585
00:55:20,350 --> 00:55:23,590
people there were trying to live with the

1586
00:55:23,590 --> 00:55:23,830
cuts.

1587
00:55:23,910 --> 00:55:24,590
What did you see?

1588
00:55:24,850 --> 00:55:27,050
Well, the LGBTQ people are in trouble, of

1589
00:55:27,050 --> 00:55:27,270
course.

1590
00:55:27,430 --> 00:55:28,390
Yeah, I was there in August.

1591
00:55:28,670 --> 00:55:30,870
And, you know, locals and officials were still

1592
00:55:30,870 --> 00:55:33,710
grappling with the ripple effects, not just on

1593
00:55:33,710 --> 00:55:36,250
health care, but local economies, too, because so

1594
00:55:36,250 --> 00:55:39,110
many people lost their jobs with aid groups.

1595
00:55:39,110 --> 00:55:42,310
In one rural area in southwest Uganda, we

1596
00:55:42,310 --> 00:55:45,570
learned that there were only four ambulances for

1597
00:55:45,570 --> 00:55:48,770
the 200,000 people who lived there compared

1598
00:55:48,770 --> 00:55:50,390
to eight ambulances before.

1599
00:55:50,890 --> 00:55:52,570
And that's because the U.S. was funding

1600
00:55:52,570 --> 00:55:55,430
the drivers and the fuel for those ambulances.

1601
00:55:55,950 --> 00:55:57,330
Well, what?

1602
00:55:59,050 --> 00:56:00,790
America first, people.

1603
00:56:00,990 --> 00:56:03,610
Where's my America first people cheering on the

1604
00:56:03,610 --> 00:56:04,970
nonsense that we were funding?

1605
00:56:06,070 --> 00:56:09,650
So so they were it was our fault,

1606
00:56:09,950 --> 00:56:13,270
the cruelty of Trump, that four ambulances in

1607
00:56:13,270 --> 00:56:16,450
Uganda are no longer no longer have their

1608
00:56:16,450 --> 00:56:18,210
ambulances must still be there.

1609
00:56:18,290 --> 00:56:19,290
They didn't dissolve.

1610
00:56:19,810 --> 00:56:22,430
But there's four ambulances there, but they don't

1611
00:56:22,430 --> 00:56:24,290
have a driver because nobody can afford to

1612
00:56:24,290 --> 00:56:25,890
pay the driver and they can't afford the

1613
00:56:25,890 --> 00:56:28,270
fuel without our money, without U.S. taxpayers

1614
00:56:28,270 --> 00:56:28,690
money.

1615
00:56:28,890 --> 00:56:30,330
Does this our country?

1616
00:56:31,550 --> 00:56:35,450
I need to reiterate that the international arms

1617
00:56:35,450 --> 00:56:38,790
dealer, my friend here in Fredericksburg, that he

1618
00:56:38,790 --> 00:56:42,870
has an ongoing pipeline of C-130 aircraft

1619
00:56:42,870 --> 00:56:45,570
that the U.S. government sells to Uganda.

1620
00:56:46,970 --> 00:56:48,310
They're not cheap.

1621
00:56:49,210 --> 00:56:52,450
Certainly, a couple of ambulances worth and they

1622
00:56:52,450 --> 00:56:54,430
and he has to keep supplying them because

1623
00:56:54,430 --> 00:56:56,450
they all learn how to fly on YouTube.

1624
00:56:57,150 --> 00:56:58,750
So how is it our fault?

1625
00:56:58,750 --> 00:56:59,530
It's true.

1626
00:57:00,730 --> 00:57:01,670
It's true.

1627
00:57:02,150 --> 00:57:04,350
I keep crashing into hangars and stuff.

1628
00:57:04,750 --> 00:57:08,970
Oh, I learned how to fly on YouTube.

1629
00:57:09,770 --> 00:57:11,950
Yeah, but no, no, no, no.

1630
00:57:12,050 --> 00:57:14,810
It's the it's Trump's cruelty that stopped that.

1631
00:57:14,970 --> 00:57:15,970
They only have four ambulances.

1632
00:57:16,410 --> 00:57:20,310
It's their own decisions that they're making to

1633
00:57:20,310 --> 00:57:23,530
buy aircraft and take their pilots on YouTube.

1634
00:57:26,180 --> 00:57:28,040
So it's Trump's fault.

1635
00:57:28,220 --> 00:57:29,040
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1636
00:57:29,040 --> 00:57:30,560
So the U.S. I think is was

1637
00:57:30,560 --> 00:57:34,300
there another fourth clip, fourth clip wraps it.

1638
00:57:34,480 --> 00:57:36,800
It's just one example of how thorough and

1639
00:57:36,800 --> 00:57:38,740
extensive USAID used to be.

1640
00:57:39,020 --> 00:57:41,660
So she did it.

1641
00:57:43,700 --> 00:57:44,760
Let's hear that again.

1642
00:57:44,840 --> 00:57:47,320
It's just one example of how thorough and

1643
00:57:47,320 --> 00:57:49,200
extensive USAID used to be.

1644
00:57:49,480 --> 00:57:51,400
It's so thorough and extensive.

1645
00:57:51,680 --> 00:57:54,300
How many hundreds of billions of dollars did

1646
00:57:54,300 --> 00:57:56,140
we stop flowing from USAID?

1647
00:57:57,080 --> 00:57:58,260
I don't know.

1648
00:57:58,340 --> 00:57:59,820
I can't remember the number.

1649
00:57:59,980 --> 00:58:01,260
It's a big number.

1650
00:58:01,500 --> 00:58:01,900
Big number.

1651
00:58:02,240 --> 00:58:04,880
So what's the future of U.S. foreign

1652
00:58:04,880 --> 00:58:05,580
aid look like?

1653
00:58:06,000 --> 00:58:07,420
It's looking different.

1654
00:58:07,580 --> 00:58:09,960
Instead of funding aid organizations to do health

1655
00:58:09,960 --> 00:58:12,540
work around the world, the administration is now

1656
00:58:12,540 --> 00:58:16,040
working directly with governments and faith based groups.

1657
00:58:16,060 --> 00:58:18,540
Their focus so far has been on Africa.

1658
00:58:18,800 --> 00:58:21,660
The State Department announced several agreements with nine

1659
00:58:21,660 --> 00:58:22,560
African countries.

1660
00:58:22,560 --> 00:58:24,720
In total, the U.S. is going to

1661
00:58:24,720 --> 00:58:27,540
be investing eight billion in the health sectors

1662
00:58:27,540 --> 00:58:29,560
of those countries to help fight diseases.

1663
00:58:30,220 --> 00:58:32,080
And those governments are expected to chip in

1664
00:58:32,080 --> 00:58:32,600
as well.

1665
00:58:32,860 --> 00:58:33,960
As part of the deal, the U.S.

1666
00:58:34,000 --> 00:58:37,580
wants more opportunities for American businesses and access

1667
00:58:37,580 --> 00:58:38,160
to minerals.

1668
00:58:38,680 --> 00:58:40,900
Now, global health experts are cautioning that in

1669
00:58:40,900 --> 00:58:42,820
the year ahead, the challenge is going to

1670
00:58:42,820 --> 00:58:45,820
be doing more with less as millions of

1671
00:58:45,820 --> 00:58:47,280
lives could be on the line.

1672
00:58:47,800 --> 00:58:49,540
And Pierre Sputmatanis, thanks so much.

1673
00:58:49,760 --> 00:58:50,360
Thank you.

1674
00:58:50,500 --> 00:58:51,200
Thanks so much.

1675
00:58:51,200 --> 00:58:52,700
Millions of lives.

1676
00:58:53,020 --> 00:58:53,600
Millions of lives.

1677
00:58:53,820 --> 00:58:55,580
Well, Rubio came out and said, he said,

1678
00:58:55,700 --> 00:58:57,800
we're not going to fund NGOs anymore.

1679
00:58:57,860 --> 00:58:59,300
And that's ridiculous because he knows.

1680
00:58:59,920 --> 00:59:01,740
And certainly the State Department knows.

1681
00:59:02,320 --> 00:59:03,080
It doesn't take a genius to figure this,

1682
00:59:03,200 --> 00:59:04,900
that these guys are just taking us through.

1683
00:59:05,000 --> 00:59:06,240
We're going to help you out.

1684
00:59:06,300 --> 00:59:07,580
We're going to give you global hell.

1685
00:59:09,680 --> 00:59:10,120
Hell.

1686
00:59:10,300 --> 00:59:11,280
He said global hell.

1687
00:59:11,360 --> 00:59:12,120
I'm sticking with it.

1688
00:59:12,700 --> 00:59:13,840
I'm going to give you global hell.

1689
00:59:14,440 --> 00:59:17,440
But we want some minerals, which is a

1690
00:59:17,440 --> 00:59:19,460
much better deal than the Chinese are giving

1691
00:59:19,460 --> 00:59:19,760
you.

1692
00:59:20,140 --> 00:59:20,760
Much better.

1693
00:59:20,760 --> 00:59:23,580
So, we can build more AI chips for

1694
00:59:23,580 --> 00:59:24,480
the data centers.

1695
00:59:26,100 --> 00:59:27,240
Speaking of.

1696
00:59:28,780 --> 00:59:32,660
So, we had that MIT scientist who was

1697
00:59:32,660 --> 00:59:33,060
killed.

1698
00:59:33,980 --> 00:59:36,580
And somehow the guy who did the Brown

1699
00:59:36,580 --> 00:59:38,080
shootings was blamed for it.

1700
00:59:38,400 --> 00:59:42,200
Although, have you seen any photographic or video

1701
00:59:42,200 --> 00:59:43,840
evidence that he was there?

1702
00:59:44,220 --> 00:59:45,280
That he did that?

1703
00:59:45,720 --> 00:59:48,600
It feels just like, I don't know, something

1704
00:59:48,600 --> 00:59:49,880
is off with that.

1705
00:59:50,620 --> 00:59:51,760
Yeah, I'd say.

1706
00:59:52,080 --> 00:59:57,160
So, the MIT scientist was working with, I

1707
00:59:57,160 --> 00:59:59,660
have the name of the company somewhere.

1708
01:00:00,880 --> 01:00:01,840
It's a fusion guy.

1709
01:00:01,960 --> 01:00:03,020
Fusion guy, yes.

1710
01:00:03,120 --> 01:00:04,460
But it was one of the three, there

1711
01:00:04,460 --> 01:00:09,180
are three main companies that are poised to

1712
01:00:09,180 --> 01:00:12,440
supposedly provide a fusion reactor.

1713
01:00:12,460 --> 01:00:13,720
I think you used the right word.

1714
01:00:14,360 --> 01:00:15,040
Supposedly.

1715
01:00:15,700 --> 01:00:16,220
Yeah.

1716
01:00:16,380 --> 01:00:16,580
Yeah.

1717
01:00:17,180 --> 01:00:19,360
This is quantum computing.

1718
01:00:20,120 --> 01:00:21,880
This is in the same league as quantum

1719
01:00:21,880 --> 01:00:23,320
computing the way I see it.

1720
01:00:23,400 --> 01:00:25,800
Well, I watched a couple of videos on

1721
01:00:25,800 --> 01:00:26,220
these companies.

1722
01:00:26,220 --> 01:00:27,360
Yeah, the videos are great.

1723
01:00:27,540 --> 01:00:27,840
The videos.

1724
01:00:27,920 --> 01:00:29,740
It works terrific in a video.

1725
01:00:30,740 --> 01:00:32,600
This technology, it's killer.

1726
01:00:32,880 --> 01:00:35,920
Well, we got this announcement on pretty much

1727
01:00:35,920 --> 01:00:37,200
the same day.

1728
01:00:37,420 --> 01:00:39,520
Tonight, President Trump predicting pricing.

1729
01:00:39,540 --> 01:00:40,660
I'm sorry, that's not the one.

1730
01:00:40,960 --> 01:00:41,180
Oops.

1731
01:00:42,300 --> 01:00:42,740
How did I?

1732
01:00:43,120 --> 01:00:43,880
Wait, wait, wait.

1733
01:00:44,440 --> 01:00:44,800
It's here.

1734
01:00:44,920 --> 01:00:45,580
This is the one.

1735
01:00:45,580 --> 01:00:48,560
This is Devin Nunes, who is the CEO

1736
01:00:48,560 --> 01:00:51,020
of Trump Media, which is now- Right,

1737
01:00:51,020 --> 01:00:52,220
which just did a big merger.

1738
01:00:52,320 --> 01:00:52,720
Yes.

1739
01:00:52,920 --> 01:00:54,460
Now, I spent a lot of time in

1740
01:00:54,460 --> 01:00:56,560
Congress working on nuclear power.

1741
01:00:56,980 --> 01:01:01,020
Unfortunately, legislation that I proposed 20 years ago

1742
01:01:01,020 --> 01:01:04,000
didn't pass because the Congress decided that they

1743
01:01:04,000 --> 01:01:06,640
should invest in windmills and solar panels.

1744
01:01:07,060 --> 01:01:09,920
However, there was a company called TAE, the

1745
01:01:09,920 --> 01:01:12,960
one that we're merging with, that actually continued

1746
01:01:12,960 --> 01:01:13,700
to invest.

1747
01:01:13,700 --> 01:01:17,840
So families like Chuck Schwab's family, investors like

1748
01:01:17,840 --> 01:01:23,420
Stanley Druckenmiller, Google, Chevron, many others continue to

1749
01:01:23,420 --> 01:01:25,660
invest in TAE.

1750
01:01:26,240 --> 01:01:29,740
So this is private money, not government money.

1751
01:01:30,320 --> 01:01:33,300
But for a quarter century, they've amassed the

1752
01:01:33,300 --> 01:01:35,460
best scientists that the world has to offer,

1753
01:01:36,380 --> 01:01:37,500
and they've produced enough.

1754
01:01:37,920 --> 01:01:40,420
They've built five generations of the reactor.

1755
01:01:40,940 --> 01:01:43,700
And now we're stepping in, folding them into

1756
01:01:43,700 --> 01:01:45,920
our company so that we can help them

1757
01:01:45,920 --> 01:01:47,260
build their first reactor.

1758
01:01:47,500 --> 01:01:49,740
So this is a fusion reactor.

1759
01:01:49,980 --> 01:01:50,600
It's clean.

1760
01:01:52,080 --> 01:01:54,340
It's one that can—the first one will be

1761
01:01:54,340 --> 01:01:55,640
up to 50 megawatts.

1762
01:01:55,960 --> 01:01:58,120
The future ones will be somewhere between 350

1763
01:01:58,120 --> 01:01:58,720
to 500.

1764
01:01:59,260 --> 01:02:00,240
Now, what does that mean?

1765
01:02:00,500 --> 01:02:00,600
Wow.

1766
01:02:00,640 --> 01:02:02,500
That means these are big enough to replace

1767
01:02:02,500 --> 01:02:06,140
pretty much or add to the existing power

1768
01:02:06,140 --> 01:02:07,780
generation that we have in this country.

1769
01:02:07,920 --> 01:02:09,100
It's a good size.

1770
01:02:09,100 --> 01:02:10,200
Now, look.

1771
01:02:10,740 --> 01:02:11,220
Look.

1772
01:02:11,640 --> 01:02:12,520
Now, look.

1773
01:02:14,000 --> 01:02:15,600
When this is done, and I don't say

1774
01:02:15,600 --> 01:02:18,180
this lightly, this will be the most important

1775
01:02:18,180 --> 01:02:23,040
discovery and invention since the first Manhattan Project.

1776
01:02:23,840 --> 01:02:26,420
So the professor was working— Wait, wait, wait.

1777
01:02:27,160 --> 01:02:29,040
What was the second Manhattan Project?

1778
01:02:29,960 --> 01:02:32,040
Well, this will be the second Manhattan Project.

1779
01:02:32,340 --> 01:02:33,460
Oh, I see what you're saying.

1780
01:02:33,820 --> 01:02:34,360
I don't know.

1781
01:02:34,840 --> 01:02:35,280
It's Nunes.

1782
01:02:37,080 --> 01:02:43,060
So Lorero was working with Commonwealth Fusion Systems

1783
01:02:43,060 --> 01:02:46,640
to build SPARC, and SPARC is supposed to

1784
01:02:46,640 --> 01:02:49,580
start operations in 2026.

1785
01:02:50,440 --> 01:02:54,880
And I just can't get beyond the coincidence

1786
01:02:54,880 --> 01:02:56,640
of this guy getting iced.

1787
01:02:56,760 --> 01:02:57,740
Yeah, I can't either.

1788
01:02:57,740 --> 01:03:01,400
There's also a system being put—a plant being

1789
01:03:01,400 --> 01:03:03,860
built right now in Washington State from Microsoft

1790
01:03:03,860 --> 01:03:09,960
using yet another fusion trick, technology supposedly that

1791
01:03:09,960 --> 01:03:15,600
supposedly works, supposedly, supposedly, that uses helium-3

1792
01:03:15,600 --> 01:03:18,780
and deuterium somehow, and it causes the people

1793
01:03:18,780 --> 01:03:21,260
who say, look at the—I did a lot

1794
01:03:21,260 --> 01:03:22,220
of reading on this.

1795
01:03:22,220 --> 01:03:25,480
So the idea, as I understand it, the

1796
01:03:25,480 --> 01:03:27,640
idea is that you can almost pretty much

1797
01:03:27,640 --> 01:03:32,360
use saltwater, seawater, and then helium comes out

1798
01:03:32,360 --> 01:03:32,580
of it.

1799
01:03:32,640 --> 01:03:36,100
You can use the helium to create steam,

1800
01:03:39,640 --> 01:03:44,300
and in the video that I watched, the

1801
01:03:44,300 --> 01:03:47,080
TAA video, they're saying, oh, no, we can

1802
01:03:47,080 --> 01:03:49,000
convert that straight to electricity somehow.

1803
01:03:49,000 --> 01:03:50,140
Uh-huh.

1804
01:03:50,300 --> 01:03:50,740
No.

1805
01:03:50,940 --> 01:03:52,580
Whatever you said was just nonsense.

1806
01:03:52,840 --> 01:03:54,060
Well, I'm just telling you it was in

1807
01:03:54,060 --> 01:03:54,540
the video.

1808
01:03:55,140 --> 01:03:56,900
Yeah, the video is nonsense then if it

1809
01:03:56,900 --> 01:03:59,660
talks about turning seawater and using seawater because

1810
01:03:59,660 --> 01:04:00,880
you can get some helium out of it.

1811
01:04:01,360 --> 01:04:04,120
It's almost—getting helium-3 is a pain in

1812
01:04:04,120 --> 01:04:07,860
the ass apparently, and then any of the

1813
01:04:07,860 --> 01:04:12,320
deuterium fusion reactors supposedly is, again, you know,

1814
01:04:12,440 --> 01:04:14,660
it just—listen, I'm just reading what the critics

1815
01:04:14,660 --> 01:04:15,060
say.

1816
01:04:15,060 --> 01:04:18,200
The problem with deuterium is that, yeah, it

1817
01:04:18,200 --> 01:04:22,400
will fuse with helium-3 and form a

1818
01:04:22,400 --> 01:04:26,080
90-million-degree temperature for a small amount

1819
01:04:26,080 --> 01:04:30,060
of time, but deuterium also fuses with deuterium,

1820
01:04:30,140 --> 01:04:31,420
and when it does that, a bunch of

1821
01:04:31,420 --> 01:04:33,120
neutrons are released, and now you have a

1822
01:04:33,120 --> 01:04:35,940
radiation problem, and the neutron release in the

1823
01:04:35,940 --> 01:04:37,800
reactor will just melt the reactor.

1824
01:04:37,920 --> 01:04:39,060
The whole thing's a disaster.

1825
01:04:39,060 --> 01:04:42,640
It seems that this technology has not been

1826
01:04:42,640 --> 01:04:45,360
proven to work anywhere.

1827
01:04:45,860 --> 01:04:48,320
And it's really cool the way they contain

1828
01:04:48,320 --> 01:04:50,940
plasma in a tube, and the plasma has

1829
01:04:50,940 --> 01:04:52,820
to spin around, and the problem is keeping

1830
01:04:52,820 --> 01:04:53,920
the plasma in there.

1831
01:04:53,980 --> 01:04:55,780
Oh, yeah, and the guy that got killed

1832
01:04:55,780 --> 01:04:58,360
at MIT, what was his specialty?

1833
01:04:58,540 --> 01:04:58,920
Plasma.

1834
01:04:59,700 --> 01:05:00,220
Plasma.

1835
01:05:00,440 --> 01:05:00,760
Mm-hmm.

1836
01:05:00,760 --> 01:05:04,340
So there's one other company out there.

1837
01:05:04,620 --> 01:05:07,440
I think it's the ZAP.

1838
01:05:07,880 --> 01:05:13,880
I think it's ZAP, who would do the

1839
01:05:13,880 --> 01:05:14,560
Z-pinch.

1840
01:05:14,920 --> 01:05:16,960
I think there's one more scientist who has

1841
01:05:16,960 --> 01:05:21,940
to die for the theory to be—I have

1842
01:05:21,940 --> 01:05:24,600
a feeling that they may be closer than

1843
01:05:24,600 --> 01:05:27,260
we think or than we think is possible.

1844
01:05:28,920 --> 01:05:31,600
Yes, the fusion has been talked about for

1845
01:05:31,600 --> 01:05:32,580
a long, long time.

1846
01:05:34,440 --> 01:05:38,020
I think it's certainly—somehow I feel it's more

1847
01:05:38,020 --> 01:05:42,560
likely that this is happening than quantum, which

1848
01:05:42,560 --> 01:05:44,640
you might have noticed is everywhere now.

1849
01:05:44,900 --> 01:05:47,280
The pivot to quantum is happening, and I

1850
01:05:47,280 --> 01:05:50,540
predicted it would happen, which means AI is

1851
01:05:50,540 --> 01:05:55,020
just not panning out the way they expected

1852
01:05:55,020 --> 01:05:55,400
it to.

1853
01:05:55,400 --> 01:05:59,280
Well, by panning out, you mean profitable.

1854
01:06:01,480 --> 01:06:03,820
Well, how about productive-wise?

1855
01:06:03,920 --> 01:06:04,700
It's not productive.

1856
01:06:04,980 --> 01:06:06,880
It's productive for social media.

1857
01:06:07,380 --> 01:06:10,440
It's great for newsletters and for art and

1858
01:06:10,440 --> 01:06:12,980
funny videos, but it's not panned out to

1859
01:06:12,980 --> 01:06:14,380
be productive in the workplace.

1860
01:06:15,180 --> 01:06:16,500
No, not at all.

1861
01:06:16,680 --> 01:06:18,480
And it's not profitable.

1862
01:06:18,860 --> 01:06:21,180
In fact, it's counterproductive when you think about

1863
01:06:21,180 --> 01:06:22,180
what you just said.

1864
01:06:22,240 --> 01:06:22,880
How about this?

1865
01:06:22,940 --> 01:06:23,420
How about this?

1866
01:06:23,420 --> 01:06:24,640
Let's just break it down.

1867
01:06:27,340 --> 01:06:30,460
Maybe, maybe this is just the next hype

1868
01:06:30,460 --> 01:06:31,420
that they're kickstarting.

1869
01:06:32,380 --> 01:06:35,560
Because why else—it was like, oh, Trump, you

1870
01:06:35,560 --> 01:06:38,700
know, he's a conflict of interest with the

1871
01:06:38,700 --> 01:06:39,360
data centers.

1872
01:06:39,520 --> 01:06:39,940
Yeah.

1873
01:06:40,640 --> 01:06:42,360
It's his kids running it, I guess.

1874
01:06:42,480 --> 01:06:42,780
Nunes.

1875
01:06:43,200 --> 01:06:44,620
It doesn't matter who's running it.

1876
01:06:45,160 --> 01:06:46,880
This will just be the next thing, because

1877
01:06:46,880 --> 01:06:48,880
what is the power—what is the problem with

1878
01:06:48,880 --> 01:06:50,220
AI right now is power.

1879
01:06:50,220 --> 01:06:52,580
So as long as everyone's out—oh, we're almost

1880
01:06:52,580 --> 01:06:52,900
there.

1881
01:06:53,660 --> 01:06:54,180
2026.

1882
01:06:54,900 --> 01:06:58,280
Oh, it could be—little glitch, 2027.

1883
01:06:58,860 --> 01:07:02,480
This could be an enormous addition to the

1884
01:07:02,480 --> 01:07:05,080
GDP now that we're kind of, you know,

1885
01:07:05,140 --> 01:07:07,540
the data center deals are starting to slow

1886
01:07:07,540 --> 01:07:07,980
down.

1887
01:07:08,600 --> 01:07:11,000
The big guys with the money are like,

1888
01:07:11,100 --> 01:07:12,880
we don't want to put any more money

1889
01:07:12,880 --> 01:07:13,820
in the data centers.

1890
01:07:14,720 --> 01:07:18,220
Hyperscalers, which is another word for builders of

1891
01:07:18,220 --> 01:07:18,840
data centers.

1892
01:07:18,840 --> 01:07:22,180
This could just be the next hype, you

1893
01:07:22,180 --> 01:07:23,640
know, just to keep the train rolling.

1894
01:07:23,740 --> 01:07:25,040
We have to keep it rolling.

1895
01:07:25,540 --> 01:07:28,180
AI is now 90% of our GDP.

1896
01:07:29,380 --> 01:07:30,620
That's not true.

1897
01:07:30,880 --> 01:07:33,920
Well, that sure seems like it.

1898
01:07:34,340 --> 01:07:37,680
Well, 90% of the mind share, maybe.

1899
01:07:38,380 --> 01:07:39,960
That and GLP-1.

1900
01:07:40,100 --> 01:07:41,220
I mean, that's all we have.

1901
01:07:41,300 --> 01:07:42,720
We have AI and Ozempic.

1902
01:07:43,100 --> 01:07:44,040
Welcome to America.

1903
01:07:45,440 --> 01:07:46,540
And Apple phones.

1904
01:07:48,320 --> 01:07:49,340
That's about it.

1905
01:07:49,540 --> 01:07:52,320
But, I mean, I'm hopeful because it would

1906
01:07:52,320 --> 01:07:52,740
be fantastic.

1907
01:07:53,680 --> 01:07:54,260
Think about it.

1908
01:07:54,280 --> 01:07:56,400
Think about the changes that would happen if

1909
01:07:56,400 --> 01:07:57,920
Fusion actually came about.

1910
01:07:58,180 --> 01:07:59,160
That would be amazing.

1911
01:07:59,180 --> 01:08:00,660
How about showing me one example of where

1912
01:08:00,660 --> 01:08:01,640
it works at all?

1913
01:08:01,780 --> 01:08:02,580
Well, on the video.

1914
01:08:03,080 --> 01:08:05,220
You can see it on the video.

1915
01:08:06,780 --> 01:08:08,740
Actually, it was like a 45-minute video

1916
01:08:08,740 --> 01:08:10,780
from the company itself.

1917
01:08:11,220 --> 01:08:14,360
Not once did they show, hey, it's working.

1918
01:08:14,360 --> 01:08:15,779
Look at the meter.

1919
01:08:16,880 --> 01:08:18,859
Look at the power coming out.

1920
01:08:18,939 --> 01:08:20,720
They didn't show that at all in 45

1921
01:08:20,720 --> 01:08:22,600
minutes of talking about their product.

1922
01:08:25,450 --> 01:08:27,189
That's because it doesn't work.

1923
01:08:27,670 --> 01:08:28,170
Could it work?

1924
01:08:28,189 --> 01:08:29,850
I mean, it might work someday.

1925
01:08:30,010 --> 01:08:31,950
Somebody might come up with a good idea

1926
01:08:31,950 --> 01:08:32,850
or something.

1927
01:08:33,090 --> 01:08:33,830
Well, what is the problem?

1928
01:08:34,310 --> 01:08:36,470
What is the main problem with it?

1929
01:08:36,770 --> 01:08:39,170
It costs more energy to get it to

1930
01:08:39,170 --> 01:08:41,350
get going than it delivers.

1931
01:08:41,850 --> 01:08:44,310
Okay, because you've got to fire up the

1932
01:08:44,310 --> 01:08:45,189
plasmatron.

1933
01:08:45,189 --> 01:08:47,890
The plasma, you've got to control this.

1934
01:08:47,970 --> 01:08:50,649
And that costs money to extract the H3,

1935
01:08:50,910 --> 01:08:52,490
in the case of the helium ones.

1936
01:08:52,670 --> 01:08:55,510
It costs money to get the deuterium.

1937
01:08:55,830 --> 01:08:59,229
That doesn't come in, you know, it's not

1938
01:08:59,229 --> 01:09:00,450
bottled by Coca-Cola.

1939
01:09:00,890 --> 01:09:02,930
I mean, it's something you have to develop.

1940
01:09:03,490 --> 01:09:04,470
How do you make that?

1941
01:09:05,330 --> 01:09:07,229
I have no idea, but it's not cheap.

1942
01:09:07,350 --> 01:09:08,210
That costs money.

1943
01:09:08,250 --> 01:09:09,550
And it costs money for the other stuff.

1944
01:09:09,630 --> 01:09:11,069
It costs money to get the plasma going.

1945
01:09:11,149 --> 01:09:12,310
It costs money to build the plant.

1946
01:09:12,310 --> 01:09:13,970
And then when you turn on the power

1947
01:09:13,970 --> 01:09:15,729
to make it, so it creates power, it

1948
01:09:15,729 --> 01:09:17,569
costs more money to create than it's worth.

1949
01:09:17,790 --> 01:09:18,750
That's the problem.

1950
01:09:18,850 --> 01:09:19,470
It's negative.

1951
01:09:19,830 --> 01:09:22,290
It's got negative numbers all over the place.

1952
01:09:22,970 --> 01:09:25,710
So it's not, it's a loser until somebody

1953
01:09:25,710 --> 01:09:28,250
figures something out and they haven't done it.

1954
01:09:28,609 --> 01:09:31,050
Oh, well, back to zero point energy, I

1955
01:09:31,050 --> 01:09:31,330
guess.

1956
01:09:34,189 --> 01:09:35,910
I just can't get beyond it.

1957
01:09:35,990 --> 01:09:37,370
I can't get beyond that guy.

1958
01:09:37,370 --> 01:09:41,790
That guy getting killed the minute this TAE

1959
01:09:41,790 --> 01:09:45,670
merger takes place, folded them in, which I

1960
01:09:45,670 --> 01:09:46,450
don't like that term.

1961
01:09:46,529 --> 01:09:47,830
I'm not sure what you're talking about.

1962
01:09:48,310 --> 01:09:50,390
But that Trump media is for one thing

1963
01:09:50,390 --> 01:09:51,330
and one thing only.

1964
01:09:51,450 --> 01:09:53,590
It's a money gobbling machine.

1965
01:09:56,440 --> 01:09:59,640
It's beyond me whether you, well, yeah.

1966
01:09:59,840 --> 01:10:01,460
If you know what you're doing, you got

1967
01:10:01,460 --> 01:10:04,300
some good creative bookkeepers and you got a

1968
01:10:04,300 --> 01:10:06,200
few other guys that know how to set.

1969
01:10:06,640 --> 01:10:07,200
It's a creative.

1970
01:10:07,200 --> 01:10:10,560
Five salesmen and two creative bookkeepers and you

1971
01:10:10,560 --> 01:10:11,840
got a company that'll make billions.

1972
01:10:12,360 --> 01:10:14,260
It's an accretive acquisition.

1973
01:10:14,700 --> 01:10:15,780
That's what you have to say at Wall

1974
01:10:15,780 --> 01:10:15,940
Street.

1975
01:10:16,080 --> 01:10:16,760
It's accretive.

1976
01:10:16,880 --> 01:10:17,220
Oh, really?

1977
01:10:17,460 --> 01:10:17,700
Yes.

1978
01:10:17,740 --> 01:10:18,980
It's accretive to the balance sheet.

1979
01:10:20,800 --> 01:10:23,000
The good news is we have the best

1980
01:10:23,000 --> 01:10:24,420
producers in the universe.

1981
01:10:25,100 --> 01:10:28,340
No doubt we have someone out there working

1982
01:10:28,340 --> 01:10:32,060
infusion who can give us the straight answer

1983
01:10:32,060 --> 01:10:33,960
and the details on what's really happening.

1984
01:10:34,440 --> 01:10:36,180
We probably do have somebody working infusion.

1985
01:10:36,180 --> 01:10:37,300
Of course we do.

1986
01:10:37,900 --> 01:10:39,340
You're going to say the same thing.

1987
01:10:39,800 --> 01:10:40,200
Well.

1988
01:10:41,320 --> 01:10:42,120
We wish.

1989
01:10:43,820 --> 01:10:44,220
Yeah.

1990
01:10:44,440 --> 01:10:44,640
Yeah.

1991
01:10:44,740 --> 01:10:46,420
So it's not a good idea if more

1992
01:10:46,420 --> 01:10:47,200
goes into it.

1993
01:10:47,220 --> 01:10:48,720
It would be a great thing if we

1994
01:10:48,720 --> 01:10:49,800
could get it to work.

1995
01:10:50,180 --> 01:10:50,380
Yeah.

1996
01:10:51,020 --> 01:10:51,420
Yeah.

1997
01:10:51,640 --> 01:10:51,860
Hmm.

1998
01:10:52,040 --> 01:10:52,420
Okay.

1999
01:10:52,560 --> 01:10:53,520
Well, that's disappointing.

2000
01:10:54,580 --> 01:10:56,760
Well, it's just, it could be completely wrong.

2001
01:10:56,860 --> 01:10:57,760
I may be out of touch.

2002
01:10:57,920 --> 01:10:59,020
But they didn't have to kill the guy

2003
01:10:59,020 --> 01:10:59,260
then.

2004
01:10:59,320 --> 01:11:01,580
If it doesn't work, someone believes it works.

2005
01:11:01,600 --> 01:11:02,120
How about that?

2006
01:11:02,360 --> 01:11:04,400
There's Devin Nunes, I'm sure, is like, oh

2007
01:11:04,400 --> 01:11:05,900
yeah, that's going to work.

2008
01:11:05,900 --> 01:11:08,080
Someone believes quantum computing works.

2009
01:11:11,360 --> 01:11:13,240
Yeah, no, you're right about that.

2010
01:11:13,380 --> 01:11:15,340
Some people believe, and maybe, you know what?

2011
01:11:15,440 --> 01:11:17,280
Maybe that guy was the guy I'm talking

2012
01:11:17,280 --> 01:11:19,220
about who needs to, he has the little,

2013
01:11:19,680 --> 01:11:22,240
that one piece of knowledge that would make

2014
01:11:22,240 --> 01:11:22,840
it work.

2015
01:11:24,220 --> 01:11:25,500
And so that's the guy you want to

2016
01:11:25,500 --> 01:11:27,200
kill to keep it from ever coming to

2017
01:11:27,200 --> 01:11:30,760
fruition because you're the, because you're the oil

2018
01:11:30,760 --> 01:11:31,440
companies.

2019
01:11:31,960 --> 01:11:32,400
Yeah.

2020
01:11:32,400 --> 01:11:34,220
The one I love the most is the

2021
01:11:34,220 --> 01:11:36,020
quantum computing people.

2022
01:11:36,840 --> 01:11:39,480
Quantum's going to break Bitcoin.

2023
01:11:40,180 --> 01:11:44,880
Like, okay, which Bitcoin is not encrypted.

2024
01:11:45,080 --> 01:11:46,400
It's your wallet that's encrypted.

2025
01:11:46,640 --> 01:11:51,620
But if quantum can decrypt Bitcoin wallets, you

2026
01:11:51,620 --> 01:11:53,320
got a much bigger problem on your hands

2027
01:11:53,320 --> 01:11:59,120
because they can decrypt your bank login, everything.

2028
01:11:59,440 --> 01:12:00,460
It's the same encryption.

2029
01:12:01,860 --> 01:12:03,160
No, no, no.

2030
01:12:04,940 --> 01:12:06,100
Quantum's going to do all that.

2031
01:12:06,360 --> 01:12:06,520
Okay.

2032
01:12:07,860 --> 01:12:08,380
All right.

2033
01:12:09,220 --> 01:12:09,940
All right.

2034
01:12:10,080 --> 01:12:11,760
We'll just have to wait for it.

2035
01:12:11,800 --> 01:12:14,600
I don't know why that became an important

2036
01:12:14,600 --> 01:12:15,900
element to quantum.

2037
01:12:16,260 --> 01:12:18,900
Oh, it's the people who are short Bitcoin.

2038
01:12:19,100 --> 01:12:19,340
Hello.

2039
01:12:21,020 --> 01:12:21,900
Maybe that.

2040
01:12:22,000 --> 01:12:22,880
I don't know what it is.

2041
01:12:22,920 --> 01:12:23,640
It's easy.

2042
01:12:23,960 --> 01:12:24,140
It's easy.

2043
01:12:24,160 --> 01:12:26,640
But it's a, it's a something.

2044
01:12:28,860 --> 01:12:29,300
Okay.

2045
01:12:29,300 --> 01:12:31,540
It'll solve some sort of problem that no

2046
01:12:31,540 --> 01:12:32,660
one can solve, I guess.

2047
01:12:33,540 --> 01:12:34,220
What, quantum?

2048
01:12:34,220 --> 01:12:36,840
I'm not sure what the real appeal of

2049
01:12:36,840 --> 01:12:37,500
quantum is.

2050
01:12:37,520 --> 01:12:39,140
Oh, I can tell you exactly what it

2051
01:12:39,140 --> 01:12:39,340
is.

2052
01:12:39,640 --> 01:12:41,040
It's going to give you the right ad

2053
01:12:41,040 --> 01:12:42,840
at the right time for the right product.

2054
01:12:45,360 --> 01:12:46,860
That's always been the sell.

2055
01:12:48,300 --> 01:12:49,800
Or it's going to tell you that the

2056
01:12:49,800 --> 01:12:51,400
milk in your fridge is out and it

2057
01:12:51,400 --> 01:12:52,920
will order it for you automatically.

2058
01:12:53,660 --> 01:12:54,040
Yeah.

2059
01:12:54,420 --> 01:12:55,680
Call the repairman.

2060
01:12:56,840 --> 01:12:58,840
So, I just want to talk about Europe

2061
01:12:58,840 --> 01:13:00,640
for a second with Ukraine, since we do

2062
01:13:00,640 --> 01:13:04,720
have Zelensky now at Mar-a-Lago.

2063
01:13:07,320 --> 01:13:10,060
We have, let's see, we have a couple

2064
01:13:10,060 --> 01:13:10,880
of things here.

2065
01:13:12,200 --> 01:13:14,520
Let's just a little catch up from NBC.

2066
01:13:15,780 --> 01:13:18,620
In the Ukrainian capital, the sound of drones

2067
01:13:18,620 --> 01:13:21,160
once again buzzing across the night sky.

2068
01:13:21,220 --> 01:13:21,540
Buzzing.

2069
01:13:21,820 --> 01:13:22,100
Buzzing.

2070
01:13:22,500 --> 01:13:24,660
As Russian strikes pounded Kiev.

2071
01:13:24,660 --> 01:13:25,100
Pounding.

2072
01:13:25,920 --> 01:13:28,240
Killing at least one person and injuring more

2073
01:13:28,240 --> 01:13:30,780
than 20, according to Ukrainian officials.

2074
01:13:31,640 --> 01:13:34,560
Russia launching a massive barrage of more than

2075
01:13:34,560 --> 01:13:36,140
500 drones and missiles.

2076
01:13:36,220 --> 01:13:36,720
Massive.

2077
01:13:36,820 --> 01:13:39,740
Just hours before the Ukrainian leader is set

2078
01:13:39,740 --> 01:13:42,100
to meet with President Trump in Florida.

2079
01:13:42,680 --> 01:13:45,020
On his way to the US, Zelensky's stopping

2080
01:13:45,020 --> 01:13:47,400
in Canada for a meeting with Prime Minister

2081
01:13:47,400 --> 01:13:48,000
Karny.

2082
01:13:48,000 --> 01:13:51,960
And tomorrow I will have a very important

2083
01:13:51,960 --> 01:13:55,540
and very constructive meeting with President Trump.

2084
01:13:56,700 --> 01:13:59,240
Peace talks are slowly inching forward.

2085
01:13:59,240 --> 01:14:01,120
The Nat Pops are great.

2086
01:14:01,260 --> 01:14:02,560
Constructive meeting with President Trump.

2087
01:14:03,520 --> 01:14:05,860
Peace talks are slowly inching forward.

2088
01:14:05,860 --> 01:14:07,500
Is he shooting it up in the Oval

2089
01:14:07,500 --> 01:14:07,860
Office?

2090
01:14:08,100 --> 01:14:09,920
No, no, it's in Canada, right there in

2091
01:14:09,920 --> 01:14:10,700
Karny's office.

2092
01:14:10,920 --> 01:14:11,560
He's shooting it up there.

2093
01:14:11,560 --> 01:14:13,140
Oh, they're shooting it up Karny's office?

2094
01:14:13,140 --> 01:14:18,140
I hope a very important and very constructive

2095
01:14:18,140 --> 01:14:19,220
meeting with President Trump.

2096
01:14:19,920 --> 01:14:23,080
Peace talks are slowly inching forward.

2097
01:14:24,080 --> 01:14:26,960
The main sticking point remains territory.

2098
01:14:27,500 --> 01:14:29,600
Moscow is looking for full control of the

2099
01:14:29,600 --> 01:14:31,180
Donbass region in the east.

2100
01:14:31,620 --> 01:14:35,720
Vladimir Putin saying tonight that if Ukraine doesn't

2101
01:14:35,720 --> 01:14:38,640
want to resolve the conflict peacefully, then Russia

2102
01:14:38,640 --> 01:14:41,220
would resolve all its goals by force.

2103
01:14:42,080 --> 01:14:46,020
Zelensky has said any compromises on territory should

2104
01:14:46,020 --> 01:14:48,620
be decided by the Ukrainian people in a

2105
01:14:48,620 --> 01:14:51,780
vote and that his country needs US security

2106
01:14:51,780 --> 01:14:54,220
guarantees in any peace deal.

2107
01:14:54,640 --> 01:14:58,320
Trump telling Politico on Friday the Ukrainian leader

2108
01:14:58,320 --> 01:15:01,420
doesn't have anything until I approve it.

2109
01:15:02,000 --> 01:15:05,020
Back in Ukraine, another day spent sifting through

2110
01:15:05,020 --> 01:15:05,460
debris.

2111
01:15:05,460 --> 01:15:08,840
We are begging the whole world, says this

2112
01:15:08,840 --> 01:15:10,960
woman, let there be an end to all

2113
01:15:10,960 --> 01:15:12,720
this for the sake of our children.

2114
01:15:13,240 --> 01:15:15,320
So I thought it was interesting that first,

2115
01:15:15,380 --> 01:15:17,300
you know, Zelensky's coming to Mar-a-Lago

2116
01:15:17,300 --> 01:15:18,940
and then all of a sudden, you know,

2117
01:15:19,000 --> 01:15:20,600
over the weekend, well, he's going to stop

2118
01:15:20,600 --> 01:15:21,760
off in Canada.

2119
01:15:22,300 --> 01:15:24,620
And I should mention something, because I followed

2120
01:15:24,620 --> 01:15:27,340
at least five or six of these reports

2121
01:15:27,340 --> 01:15:30,420
and they all go out of their way

2122
01:15:30,420 --> 01:15:33,440
to mention the stop off in Canada.

2123
01:15:33,440 --> 01:15:35,360
Oh, and it wasn't just to talk with

2124
01:15:35,360 --> 01:15:35,740
Carney.

2125
01:15:36,880 --> 01:15:38,320
No, it was to talk to a bunch

2126
01:15:38,320 --> 01:15:41,680
of some other stooges from representative of Europe.

2127
01:15:41,920 --> 01:15:42,900
And there was a meeting.

2128
01:15:43,020 --> 01:15:44,780
This was a pre-meeting meeting.

2129
01:15:44,960 --> 01:15:45,820
This was a yes.

2130
01:15:46,740 --> 01:15:48,980
OK, what do I need to know here?

2131
01:15:49,000 --> 01:15:50,300
I got to deal with Trump again.

2132
01:15:50,560 --> 01:15:52,240
Tiny dancer, here's what you do.

2133
01:15:52,320 --> 01:15:53,640
We're going to tell you exactly what to

2134
01:15:53,640 --> 01:15:53,760
do.

2135
01:15:53,860 --> 01:15:57,300
Let's get the the the true analysis from

2136
01:15:57,300 --> 01:15:59,760
our guy, Andrew Rassoulis.

2137
01:16:00,300 --> 01:16:01,480
He's our guy.

2138
01:16:01,640 --> 01:16:02,260
He's our guy.

2139
01:16:03,980 --> 01:16:04,940
Andrew Rassoulis.

2140
01:16:05,700 --> 01:16:07,980
And we'll talk first about the stop in

2141
01:16:07,980 --> 01:16:08,380
Canada.

2142
01:16:08,600 --> 01:16:09,340
Our thoughts on that.

2143
01:16:09,560 --> 01:16:13,060
At least the initial press press conference with

2144
01:16:13,060 --> 01:16:14,160
Carney and Zelensky.

2145
01:16:14,360 --> 01:16:14,980
It was quick.

2146
01:16:15,520 --> 01:16:17,600
Yeah, difficult times.

2147
01:16:17,700 --> 01:16:19,740
I mean, and then sort of fast moving

2148
01:16:19,740 --> 01:16:20,040
time.

2149
01:16:20,140 --> 01:16:22,980
So the main event will be tomorrow, of

2150
01:16:22,980 --> 01:16:25,340
course, in in Florida, Mar-a-Lago when

2151
01:16:25,340 --> 01:16:28,700
Zelensky meets Trump to kind of finalize the

2152
01:16:28,700 --> 01:16:33,740
sort of Ukrainian slash European proposal that they're

2153
01:16:33,740 --> 01:16:34,660
going to give to Trump.

2154
01:16:34,760 --> 01:16:36,620
And if Trump likes it, he'll give it

2155
01:16:36,620 --> 01:16:37,820
to the Russians and we go there.

2156
01:16:38,160 --> 01:16:40,040
The Halifax meeting is a stopover.

2157
01:16:40,200 --> 01:16:40,960
It's important.

2158
01:16:41,400 --> 01:16:44,960
It's a coordinating meeting between Canada and also

2159
01:16:44,960 --> 01:16:46,600
the European Union.

2160
01:16:46,600 --> 01:16:49,620
That's also being held with the Coalition of

2161
01:16:49,620 --> 01:16:51,420
the Willing, which is being held right now

2162
01:16:51,420 --> 01:16:52,100
on video.

2163
01:16:52,600 --> 01:16:53,680
So it's important.

2164
01:16:53,880 --> 01:16:55,920
But it's a stepstone to the main event

2165
01:16:55,920 --> 01:16:56,590
tomorrow afternoon.

2166
01:16:57,050 --> 01:16:59,450
And, of course, the question is, whatever the

2167
01:16:59,450 --> 01:17:01,230
Coalition of the Willing come up with, will

2168
01:17:01,230 --> 01:17:03,290
they will the Russians accept it?

2169
01:17:03,370 --> 01:17:05,150
So is this essentially these two meetings just

2170
01:17:05,150 --> 01:17:06,910
to get everybody on the same page before

2171
01:17:06,910 --> 01:17:07,750
they hear from Trump?

2172
01:17:08,090 --> 01:17:08,970
Yeah, it's fine tuning.

2173
01:17:09,210 --> 01:17:12,930
It's actually to give Zelensky more backing as

2174
01:17:12,930 --> 01:17:14,610
he goes to see Trump at Mar-a

2175
01:17:14,610 --> 01:17:14,710
-Lago.

2176
01:17:15,390 --> 01:17:17,030
And, you know, Trump's not going to be

2177
01:17:17,030 --> 01:17:17,770
an easy sell.

2178
01:17:18,330 --> 01:17:20,550
Trump has already said that, you know, he's

2179
01:17:20,550 --> 01:17:22,370
going to look at what Zelensky gives him.

2180
01:17:22,430 --> 01:17:24,290
But if he doesn't like it, he's not

2181
01:17:24,290 --> 01:17:25,210
signing off on it.

2182
01:17:25,210 --> 01:17:28,130
So that's the kind of atmosphere that Zelensky

2183
01:17:28,130 --> 01:17:28,990
is walking into.

2184
01:17:29,670 --> 01:17:31,830
And then even beyond that, are there any

2185
01:17:31,830 --> 01:17:33,790
odds that Russia will say yes to this?

2186
01:17:33,990 --> 01:17:34,250
No.

2187
01:17:34,510 --> 01:17:36,070
I mean, the odds are they will say

2188
01:17:36,070 --> 01:17:36,390
no.

2189
01:17:37,270 --> 01:17:40,190
They will negotiate maybe, but they will say

2190
01:17:40,190 --> 01:17:40,550
no.

2191
01:17:41,430 --> 01:17:44,210
There's a lot of things in this thing,

2192
01:17:44,410 --> 01:17:47,230
like about the Russians pulling back from the

2193
01:17:47,230 --> 01:17:50,310
Donetsk area, equal amounts of Ukrainians.

2194
01:17:50,770 --> 01:17:53,590
I doubt the Russians will accept that one.

2195
01:17:53,590 --> 01:17:56,590
And there's a lot of the uncertainties about

2196
01:17:56,590 --> 01:17:58,530
the Coalition of the Willing in terms of

2197
01:17:58,530 --> 01:17:59,170
guarantees.

2198
01:17:59,730 --> 01:18:02,630
Will that mean legally Article 5 type?

2199
01:18:02,930 --> 01:18:05,050
But will it mean troops on the ground

2200
01:18:05,050 --> 01:18:05,510
in Ukraine?

2201
01:18:06,050 --> 01:18:08,070
That part, if it's in the package and

2202
01:18:08,070 --> 01:18:09,830
we haven't seen the full package, I would

2203
01:18:09,830 --> 01:18:11,650
think the Russians would be very opposed to

2204
01:18:11,650 --> 01:18:12,250
that part.

2205
01:18:12,650 --> 01:18:14,470
So all I'm trying to say is that

2206
01:18:14,470 --> 01:18:17,090
there's a lot of things the Russians have

2207
01:18:17,090 --> 01:18:18,970
said they will be constructive.

2208
01:18:18,970 --> 01:18:23,150
That means they will probably counter-propose something,

2209
01:18:23,230 --> 01:18:24,610
as opposed to just shut it down.

2210
01:18:24,710 --> 01:18:28,170
I love the whole Article 5-like guarantees.

2211
01:18:28,450 --> 01:18:30,170
It's like, well, this is almost like a

2212
01:18:30,170 --> 01:18:30,390
Bentley.

2213
01:18:31,110 --> 01:18:32,070
It's not quite.

2214
01:18:32,230 --> 01:18:33,110
It's like a Bentley.

2215
01:18:33,310 --> 01:18:34,330
It's like a Bentley.

2216
01:18:34,350 --> 01:18:38,490
It's Article 5-like guarantees, which already, I

2217
01:18:38,490 --> 01:18:42,910
think it's Article 6, says, you know, Article

2218
01:18:42,910 --> 01:18:45,370
5 says an attack on one is attack

2219
01:18:45,370 --> 01:18:45,810
on all.

2220
01:18:46,150 --> 01:18:47,650
I think it's Article 6 that says, and

2221
01:18:47,650 --> 01:18:48,970
then if you want, you can do something

2222
01:18:48,970 --> 01:18:49,490
about it.

2223
01:18:49,910 --> 01:18:51,110
It's not a given.

2224
01:18:51,590 --> 01:18:53,650
So it'll be less than a given by

2225
01:18:53,650 --> 01:18:55,350
calling it Article 5-like.

2226
01:18:56,030 --> 01:18:59,230
And meanwhile, Canada, more of your tax money.

2227
01:18:59,730 --> 01:19:01,590
And just quickly before we go, one question

2228
01:19:01,590 --> 01:19:03,850
about the spending that the Prime Minister announced

2229
01:19:03,850 --> 01:19:04,810
today, $2.5 billion.

2230
01:19:05,410 --> 01:19:06,930
How will that be allocated?

2231
01:19:07,230 --> 01:19:08,730
How does it help Ukraine?

2232
01:19:09,470 --> 01:19:12,650
Yeah, it's going to international funds like the

2233
01:19:12,650 --> 01:19:15,630
IMF and the World Bank and others.

2234
01:19:16,290 --> 01:19:19,250
It's not a direct transfer to Ukrainians.

2235
01:19:19,710 --> 01:19:22,210
And I think that's actually wise, given that

2236
01:19:22,210 --> 01:19:24,930
Ukraine is going through a lot of corruption

2237
01:19:24,930 --> 01:19:25,950
issues right now.

2238
01:19:26,230 --> 01:19:27,630
So there's a question of where's the money

2239
01:19:27,630 --> 01:19:28,930
going inside Ukraine.

2240
01:19:29,610 --> 01:19:32,470
But also I think that the other question

2241
01:19:32,470 --> 01:19:34,170
is, you know, what's Canada going to get

2242
01:19:34,170 --> 01:19:34,750
back for this?

2243
01:19:34,850 --> 01:19:37,670
Canada's poured in quite a lot, many billions,

2244
01:19:38,070 --> 01:19:41,030
in terms of Ukraine's economic situation.

2245
01:19:41,410 --> 01:19:43,910
So is Canadian industry going to benefit by

2246
01:19:43,910 --> 01:19:44,870
this in the longer term?

2247
01:19:44,870 --> 01:19:47,570
Because Ukraine is on the precipice of bankruptcy.

2248
01:19:48,170 --> 01:19:50,730
The European Union bailed them out with a

2249
01:19:50,730 --> 01:19:51,570
two-year loan.

2250
01:19:51,910 --> 01:19:53,290
But they were going to go bankrupt in

2251
01:19:53,290 --> 01:19:53,490
April.

2252
01:19:53,690 --> 01:19:55,910
So these things have to be watched very

2253
01:19:55,910 --> 01:19:56,750
carefully, I think.

2254
01:19:57,350 --> 01:20:01,530
So the bank loan from the frozen Russian

2255
01:20:01,530 --> 01:20:06,830
assets, seen internationally as theft, resulted in the

2256
01:20:06,830 --> 01:20:10,610
Belgian Prime Minister, Bart de Wever, who of

2257
01:20:10,610 --> 01:20:13,030
course, you know, he said, hey, you can't

2258
01:20:13,030 --> 01:20:13,950
really do this.

2259
01:20:14,610 --> 01:20:15,570
This is a problem.

2260
01:20:15,750 --> 01:20:17,850
You have to give us Article 5-like

2261
01:20:17,850 --> 01:20:20,870
guarantees so Russia doesn't come over here and

2262
01:20:20,870 --> 01:20:22,490
kill us all for taking the money.

2263
01:20:23,010 --> 01:20:24,750
Well, he just stepped it up.

2264
01:20:24,830 --> 01:20:26,030
He said, this is such a good deal,

2265
01:20:26,190 --> 01:20:26,730
we won.

2266
01:20:27,090 --> 01:20:31,010
The immobilized assets will be kept immobilized and

2267
01:20:31,010 --> 01:20:33,930
will ultimately be used to repair the damage

2268
01:20:33,930 --> 01:20:37,610
Russia has caused to its unprovoked and unjustified

2269
01:20:37,610 --> 01:20:39,130
war against Ukraine.

2270
01:20:39,130 --> 01:20:41,690
I think nobody in the European family wants

2271
01:20:41,690 --> 01:20:43,550
to see that money returned to Moscow.

2272
01:20:44,230 --> 01:20:46,150
But we're going to return to the original

2273
01:20:46,150 --> 01:20:46,810
philosophy.

2274
01:20:47,770 --> 01:20:50,310
It is going to be used to repair

2275
01:20:50,310 --> 01:20:52,810
the damage that Russia has caused in Ukraine.

2276
01:20:53,130 --> 01:20:54,690
So I think Ukraine has won.

2277
01:20:55,110 --> 01:20:57,870
They have their finance, and they still have

2278
01:20:57,870 --> 01:21:00,530
the perspective of getting reparation money.

2279
01:21:01,270 --> 01:21:02,390
I think Europe has won.

2280
01:21:02,690 --> 01:21:03,270
Perspective.

2281
01:21:04,650 --> 01:21:08,790
And financial stability has certainly won.

2282
01:21:08,790 --> 01:21:09,750
We've all won.

2283
01:21:10,050 --> 01:21:10,990
Ukraine won.

2284
01:21:11,330 --> 01:21:12,050
Europe won.

2285
01:21:12,610 --> 01:21:13,510
It's a win-win.

2286
01:21:13,610 --> 01:21:17,290
Now, I'm going to play two clips from

2287
01:21:17,290 --> 01:21:18,850
Yanis Varoufakis.

2288
01:21:19,990 --> 01:21:21,290
I know you don't like the guy.

2289
01:21:21,850 --> 01:21:23,310
I haven't heard about him for a while.

2290
01:21:23,530 --> 01:21:27,470
Well, he's been doing his own podcast, soliloquy

2291
01:21:27,470 --> 01:21:29,530
style, where he's really reading his own script

2292
01:21:29,530 --> 01:21:31,410
off camera, which looks kind of odd.

2293
01:21:32,130 --> 01:21:33,370
I always find that creepy.

2294
01:21:33,890 --> 01:21:34,370
Oh, yeah.

2295
01:21:35,030 --> 01:21:35,570
Get a prompter.

2296
01:21:36,050 --> 01:21:37,190
Stop for one second.

2297
01:21:38,530 --> 01:21:42,910
So off-camera reads, I don't even know

2298
01:21:42,910 --> 01:21:45,050
when they became popular, but they started showing

2299
01:21:45,050 --> 01:21:48,410
up in maybe the late 80s, and they

2300
01:21:48,410 --> 01:21:50,290
became more and more used, more and more.

2301
01:21:50,430 --> 01:21:52,270
Alex Jones uses them a little bit.

2302
01:21:52,410 --> 01:21:53,570
Candice Owens does it.

2303
01:21:53,630 --> 01:21:54,750
I mean, it's the second shot.

2304
01:21:54,870 --> 01:21:57,470
It's the shot where you see someone reading,

2305
01:21:57,810 --> 01:21:59,090
but you see them from the side.

2306
01:21:59,290 --> 01:21:59,390
Yeah.

2307
01:21:59,390 --> 01:22:01,150
And I call it an off-camera read.

2308
01:22:01,330 --> 01:22:02,830
Who are they reading to?

2309
01:22:03,410 --> 01:22:05,570
They're reading to the other camera, which is

2310
01:22:05,570 --> 01:22:07,710
the one that represents the audience.

2311
01:22:08,250 --> 01:22:09,670
But so now we're seeing him as a

2312
01:22:09,670 --> 01:22:12,110
third party, so an interloper from the side.

2313
01:22:12,270 --> 01:22:13,810
I find it disturbing.

2314
01:22:14,050 --> 01:22:15,270
I don't like it.

2315
01:22:15,490 --> 01:22:16,590
That's art, John.

2316
01:22:16,590 --> 01:22:17,630
Either talk to me.

2317
01:22:17,710 --> 01:22:18,290
It's art.

2318
01:22:19,410 --> 01:22:20,430
That's the problem.

2319
01:22:20,550 --> 01:22:21,510
That's what they think it is.

2320
01:22:21,530 --> 01:22:21,930
It's art.

2321
01:22:22,170 --> 01:22:26,290
If you're talking to me on camera, I

2322
01:22:26,290 --> 01:22:28,710
want you talking to me, not over to

2323
01:22:28,710 --> 01:22:31,030
the left, over to some guy.

2324
01:22:31,210 --> 01:22:31,830
Where's that?

2325
01:22:32,070 --> 01:22:33,310
Who's she talking to?

2326
01:22:33,410 --> 01:22:34,690
Well, that ship has sailed.

2327
01:22:34,690 --> 01:22:37,010
That's sailed with the Dutch windmill tilt and

2328
01:22:37,010 --> 01:22:39,510
with the jump cut, which are all pioneered

2329
01:22:39,510 --> 01:22:41,870
in the 80s and 90s, primarily by MTV.

2330
01:22:42,890 --> 01:22:44,070
And then Ze Frank.

2331
01:22:45,130 --> 01:22:45,930
Ze Frank.

2332
01:22:46,010 --> 01:22:46,770
Remember Ze Frank?

2333
01:22:46,910 --> 01:22:47,370
Zay Frank?

2334
01:22:47,470 --> 01:22:47,890
Ze Frank?

2335
01:22:47,950 --> 01:22:50,550
And they usually, when you're in a studio,

2336
01:22:50,670 --> 01:22:52,770
they always called it exactly what you say,

2337
01:22:53,030 --> 01:22:54,410
dutching the camera.

2338
01:22:54,510 --> 01:22:54,750
Yes.

2339
01:22:54,810 --> 01:22:56,730
Or they say you're shooting over the axis.

2340
01:22:57,470 --> 01:22:58,950
All of the things we learn in film

2341
01:22:58,950 --> 01:23:00,570
school have been just cast aside.

2342
01:23:00,710 --> 01:23:03,390
Anyway, he's not reading off-camera the way

2343
01:23:03,390 --> 01:23:07,430
you describe, his camera is next to his

2344
01:23:07,430 --> 01:23:09,790
monitor instead of where it should be, right

2345
01:23:09,790 --> 01:23:10,450
in front of his monitor.

2346
01:23:10,450 --> 01:23:10,750
Okay, I got it.

2347
01:23:10,830 --> 01:23:11,550
All right, I'm sorry.

2348
01:23:11,690 --> 01:23:13,770
I got carried away with my complaint.

2349
01:23:14,010 --> 01:23:15,710
I've been wanting to get it off my

2350
01:23:15,710 --> 01:23:15,950
chest.

2351
01:23:15,990 --> 01:23:17,330
Your complaint has been registered.

2352
01:23:18,030 --> 01:23:19,570
Then we will send it to the Austin

2353
01:23:19,570 --> 01:23:20,210
Film School.

2354
01:23:20,430 --> 01:23:21,610
Yes, please do that.

2355
01:23:22,150 --> 01:23:25,290
So Giannis, he does know a lot about

2356
01:23:25,290 --> 01:23:28,770
European finance because he was the finance minister

2357
01:23:28,770 --> 01:23:31,150
and later prime minister of Greece when the

2358
01:23:31,150 --> 01:23:33,470
International Monetary Fund screwed them.

2359
01:23:33,470 --> 01:23:34,590
Over.

2360
01:23:35,250 --> 01:23:37,330
Into severe austerity.

2361
01:23:37,990 --> 01:23:39,410
Zoomer often listen up.

2362
01:23:39,530 --> 01:23:40,190
We've been around.

2363
01:23:40,430 --> 01:23:42,530
This happened when you were three, but it

2364
01:23:42,530 --> 01:23:43,850
was bad news in Greece.

2365
01:23:43,990 --> 01:23:45,050
It was really, really bad.

2366
01:23:45,170 --> 01:23:47,630
This is how the international finance system works.

2367
01:23:48,090 --> 01:23:50,770
So he gives us a little rundown in

2368
01:23:50,770 --> 01:23:54,330
two clips of the retaliation that Russia, the

2369
01:23:54,330 --> 01:23:59,210
retaliatory measures, measures as you would say, that

2370
01:23:59,210 --> 01:24:01,250
Russia has taken against the EU.

2371
01:24:02,250 --> 01:24:04,850
And trust me when I say you haven't

2372
01:24:04,850 --> 01:24:05,830
heard this anywhere.

2373
01:24:06,190 --> 01:24:07,730
And it's quite severe.

2374
01:24:08,010 --> 01:24:11,210
Russia announced that all remaining energy exports to

2375
01:24:11,210 --> 01:24:11,310
Europe.

2376
01:24:11,310 --> 01:24:11,630
I'm sorry.

2377
01:24:11,830 --> 01:24:12,750
Start with this one first.

2378
01:24:13,370 --> 01:24:17,170
Within 48 hours, Russia announced the nationalization of

2379
01:24:17,170 --> 01:24:20,170
all European corporate assets on Russian territory.

2380
01:24:20,810 --> 01:24:22,710
BP's stake in Rosneft.

2381
01:24:23,150 --> 01:24:26,290
$14 billion gone nationalized.

2382
01:24:26,770 --> 01:24:28,030
Shell's Russian operations.

2383
01:24:28,330 --> 01:24:30,210
$3 billion seized.

2384
01:24:30,210 --> 01:24:31,990
Total energies projects.

2385
01:24:32,150 --> 01:24:34,390
$4 billion confiscated.

2386
01:24:34,950 --> 01:24:38,190
Societe Generale's banking operations taken over.

2387
01:24:38,590 --> 01:24:40,010
German automotive plants.

2388
01:24:40,130 --> 01:24:43,130
Volkswagen, BMW, Mercedes facilities worth billions.

2389
01:24:43,670 --> 01:24:45,990
Nationalized pharmaceutical operations.

2390
01:24:46,210 --> 01:24:47,630
Food processing facilities.

2391
01:24:47,870 --> 01:24:48,670
Retail chains.

2392
01:24:48,870 --> 01:24:49,930
Infrastructure projects.

2393
01:24:50,250 --> 01:24:51,190
Intellectual property.

2394
01:24:51,770 --> 01:24:55,010
Everything European companies owned in Russia was suddenly

2395
01:24:55,010 --> 01:24:56,550
Russian state property.

2396
01:24:56,550 --> 01:24:59,810
The total value exceeded $120 billion.

2397
01:25:00,410 --> 01:25:02,410
More than the EU had seized.

2398
01:25:02,810 --> 01:25:04,950
European boardrooms erupted in chaos.

2399
01:25:05,610 --> 01:25:07,330
Shareholders demanded answers.

2400
01:25:07,770 --> 01:25:09,190
Stock prices plummeted.

2401
01:25:09,430 --> 01:25:11,630
Insurance companies faced massive claims.

2402
01:25:11,930 --> 01:25:13,970
But this was just the opening move.

2403
01:25:14,710 --> 01:25:16,150
Didn't hear about that, did you?

2404
01:25:16,950 --> 01:25:18,170
We've won, everybody.

2405
01:25:18,550 --> 01:25:19,250
We're winners.

2406
01:25:20,590 --> 01:25:22,750
Okay, clip of the day right there.

2407
01:25:27,550 --> 01:25:30,050
Why do I not know this?

2408
01:25:31,510 --> 01:25:32,550
I don't know.

2409
01:25:33,090 --> 01:25:37,210
I know, because the mainstream media, they've stopped

2410
01:25:37,210 --> 01:25:38,230
doing their job.

2411
01:25:38,530 --> 01:25:39,470
A long time ago.

2412
01:25:40,130 --> 01:25:41,450
A long time ago.

2413
01:25:41,630 --> 01:25:43,310
Well, at least 18 years ago we started

2414
01:25:43,310 --> 01:25:43,850
this show.

2415
01:25:44,230 --> 01:25:46,310
It already was 10 years past due.

2416
01:25:46,910 --> 01:25:48,550
Now listen to the second thing, and I

2417
01:25:48,550 --> 01:25:51,490
checked the exchange rate, and it checks out.

2418
01:25:51,490 --> 01:25:54,850
Russia announced that all remaining energy exports to

2419
01:25:54,850 --> 01:25:57,770
Europe would now be priced exclusively in rubles

2420
01:25:57,770 --> 01:25:58,410
or yuan.

2421
01:25:58,830 --> 01:26:00,110
No euros accepted.

2422
01:26:00,490 --> 01:26:03,150
This was different from previous energy threats.

2423
01:26:03,850 --> 01:26:05,530
Russia wasn't cutting supply.

2424
01:26:05,650 --> 01:26:07,310
That would hurt their own revenues.

2425
01:26:07,710 --> 01:26:10,470
Instead, they were forcing a currency choice.

2426
01:26:11,110 --> 01:26:14,010
European countries that wanted Russian gas or oil

2427
01:26:14,010 --> 01:26:17,250
had to acquire rubles or yuan first.

2428
01:26:17,250 --> 01:26:20,670
This meant going through Russian or Chinese financial

2429
01:26:20,670 --> 01:26:25,710
intermediaries, paying fees, accepting exchange rate risk, losing

2430
01:26:25,710 --> 01:26:27,490
transparency on pricing.

2431
01:26:27,710 --> 01:26:31,090
But the real impact was psychological and systemic.

2432
01:26:31,570 --> 01:26:34,770
By refusing euros, Russia was making a statement,

2433
01:26:35,130 --> 01:26:38,230
your currency is no longer acceptable to us.

2434
01:26:38,230 --> 01:26:41,650
The euro, which Europeans assumed was a global

2435
01:26:41,650 --> 01:26:45,030
reserve currency that anyone would accept, was being

2436
01:26:45,030 --> 01:26:47,810
rejected by a major commodity exporter.

2437
01:26:48,370 --> 01:26:49,950
This had cascading effects.

2438
01:26:50,430 --> 01:26:53,070
Countries that needed Russian energy had to hold

2439
01:26:53,070 --> 01:26:53,910
ruble reserves.

2440
01:26:54,390 --> 01:26:56,850
This meant selling euros to buy rubles.

2441
01:26:57,290 --> 01:26:59,330
Euro selling pressure increased.

2442
01:26:59,830 --> 01:27:02,310
The ruble, which Western sanctions were supposed to

2443
01:27:02,310 --> 01:27:03,310
destroy, strengthened.

2444
01:27:03,310 --> 01:27:06,050
The currency that was supposed to be worthless

2445
01:27:06,050 --> 01:27:08,910
became necessary for European energy security.

2446
01:27:09,670 --> 01:27:11,030
China benefited enormously.

2447
01:27:11,750 --> 01:27:14,530
Countries buying Russian energy and yuan had to

2448
01:27:14,530 --> 01:27:16,010
acquire yuan first.

2449
01:27:16,270 --> 01:27:20,170
This accelerated yuan internationalization at the expense of

2450
01:27:20,170 --> 01:27:20,630
the euro.

2451
01:27:20,630 --> 01:27:24,750
The European Central Bank watched helplessly as energy

2452
01:27:24,750 --> 01:27:29,210
importers dumped euros for rubles and yuan, weakening

2453
01:27:29,210 --> 01:27:33,330
the euro and importing inflation through currency depreciation.

2454
01:27:34,310 --> 01:27:35,210
Yeah.

2455
01:27:35,950 --> 01:27:38,710
Go look at the ruble USD or the

2456
01:27:38,710 --> 01:27:39,950
ruble euro chart.

2457
01:27:40,690 --> 01:27:43,550
It happened exactly as he just said it.

2458
01:27:44,030 --> 01:27:44,410
Boom.

2459
01:27:45,430 --> 01:27:46,610
40% up.

2460
01:27:47,230 --> 01:27:48,590
Everyone's now got to buy rubles.

2461
01:27:48,590 --> 01:27:50,930
This is weakening the euro.

2462
01:27:51,230 --> 01:27:53,950
Well, it's strengthening the ruble, really, in first

2463
01:27:53,950 --> 01:27:54,630
case.

2464
01:27:55,430 --> 01:27:58,010
But the craziest thing, and I got this

2465
01:27:58,010 --> 01:28:01,550
from Sir Gene, our duke here in Texas,

2466
01:28:02,130 --> 01:28:06,270
that the whole Ukraine strategy, or really the

2467
01:28:06,270 --> 01:28:10,150
Russia strategy, was written up in a single

2468
01:28:10,150 --> 01:28:12,890
document by the Rand Corporation.

2469
01:28:15,030 --> 01:28:19,410
Titled, Extending Russia Competing from Advantageous Ground.

2470
01:28:20,530 --> 01:28:21,790
And I'm not going to read it.

2471
01:28:21,990 --> 01:28:22,910
I'll put it in the show notes.

2472
01:28:22,990 --> 01:28:23,910
People can look at it.

2473
01:28:23,950 --> 01:28:24,750
I confirmed it.

2474
01:28:25,070 --> 01:28:25,690
What year?

2475
01:28:26,770 --> 01:28:27,330
2019.

2476
01:28:28,450 --> 01:28:28,750
Okay.

2477
01:28:29,170 --> 01:28:31,370
And it's still on their website.

2478
01:28:32,450 --> 01:28:38,310
Just a couple of items from the index,

2479
01:28:38,570 --> 01:28:40,170
a table of contents.

2480
01:28:41,850 --> 01:28:42,590
Let's see.

2481
01:28:42,590 --> 01:28:43,880
Hinder petroleum exports.

2482
01:28:44,310 --> 01:28:45,770
Reduce natural gas exports.

2483
01:28:45,930 --> 01:28:47,430
Hinder pipeline expansions.

2484
01:28:47,810 --> 01:28:48,830
Impose sanctions.

2485
01:28:49,370 --> 01:28:51,330
Enhance Russian brain drain.

2486
01:28:51,890 --> 01:28:53,830
Provide lethal aid to Ukraine.

2487
01:28:54,310 --> 01:28:56,130
Increase support to the Syrian rebels.

2488
01:28:56,590 --> 01:28:58,150
Promote regime change in Belarus.

2489
01:28:58,870 --> 01:29:00,990
Exploit tensions in the South Caucasus.

2490
01:29:01,510 --> 01:29:03,470
Reduce Russian influence in Central Asia.

2491
01:29:04,030 --> 01:29:05,950
Challenge Russian presence in Moldova.

2492
01:29:06,290 --> 01:29:07,410
The whole thing.

2493
01:29:07,410 --> 01:29:10,470
It's almost like they followed it step by

2494
01:29:10,470 --> 01:29:10,910
step.

2495
01:29:12,950 --> 01:29:15,330
Increase U.S. and NATO land forces in

2496
01:29:15,330 --> 01:29:15,530
Europe.

2497
01:29:15,690 --> 01:29:17,790
Increase NATO exercises in Europe.

2498
01:29:18,570 --> 01:29:20,490
Withdraw from the INF Treaty.

2499
01:29:21,050 --> 01:29:23,810
Invest in new capabilities to manipulate Russian risk

2500
01:29:23,810 --> 01:29:24,430
perceptions.

2501
01:29:25,610 --> 01:29:28,010
You know, and they're still trying it.

2502
01:29:28,510 --> 01:29:30,130
Oh, I got an idea.

2503
01:29:30,730 --> 01:29:32,850
Guys, Reuters.

2504
01:29:33,010 --> 01:29:34,090
This is a Reuters report.

2505
01:29:34,090 --> 01:29:37,470
I'm 99% certain it's an AI voice.

2506
01:29:37,910 --> 01:29:39,050
Here, read this.

2507
01:29:39,270 --> 01:29:41,790
And a Reuters exclusive has shown that Moscow

2508
01:29:41,790 --> 01:29:46,430
is likely stationing new nuclear-capable hypersonic ballistic

2509
01:29:46,430 --> 01:29:49,390
missiles at a former air base in eastern

2510
01:29:49,390 --> 01:29:49,850
Belarus.

2511
01:29:50,650 --> 01:29:53,390
That's according to two U.S. researchers who

2512
01:29:53,390 --> 01:29:55,150
have been studying satellite imagery.

2513
01:29:55,910 --> 01:29:58,750
It's a development that could bolster Russia's ability

2514
01:29:58,750 --> 01:30:01,070
to deliver missiles across Europe.

2515
01:30:01,190 --> 01:30:02,070
We're going to kill you.

2516
01:30:02,070 --> 01:30:03,290
Oh, the Russians are coming.

2517
01:30:07,770 --> 01:30:08,810
It's unbelievable.

2518
01:30:10,410 --> 01:30:11,730
That is a good one.

2519
01:30:12,210 --> 01:30:15,110
And the Europeans are like, yeah, man, hey,

2520
01:30:15,370 --> 01:30:15,750
Russia.

2521
01:30:16,210 --> 01:30:17,230
That's no good.

2522
01:30:17,670 --> 01:30:18,350
We got to be careful.

2523
01:30:18,690 --> 01:30:22,210
According to two randos who study satellite imagery.

2524
01:30:22,230 --> 01:30:22,990
Give me a break.

2525
01:30:25,290 --> 01:30:26,030
It's good.

2526
01:30:26,390 --> 01:30:27,150
It's great.

2527
01:30:27,230 --> 01:30:28,190
It's fantastic.

2528
01:30:28,810 --> 01:30:29,690
I got to love it.

2529
01:30:29,690 --> 01:30:30,850
Got to love it.

2530
01:30:32,770 --> 01:30:34,730
I think that's it for Europe.

2531
01:30:34,910 --> 01:30:37,270
So the European companies.

2532
01:30:38,330 --> 01:30:39,470
That is it for Europe.

2533
01:30:39,650 --> 01:30:39,930
Yeah.

2534
01:30:41,190 --> 01:30:42,190
I mean, I don't know.

2535
01:30:42,250 --> 01:30:42,570
I don't know.

2536
01:30:42,610 --> 01:30:43,750
How do you come back from this?

2537
01:30:43,870 --> 01:30:45,410
Except first, one, you got to give the

2538
01:30:45,410 --> 01:30:46,050
money back.

2539
01:30:46,750 --> 01:30:47,650
They're going to have to give the money

2540
01:30:47,650 --> 01:30:47,990
back.

2541
01:30:48,150 --> 01:30:49,330
They're really counting.

2542
01:30:49,550 --> 01:30:51,090
I mean, we'll see what comes out of

2543
01:30:51,090 --> 01:30:52,530
the Mar-a-Lago talks.

2544
01:30:53,550 --> 01:30:53,950
Nothing?

2545
01:30:54,490 --> 01:30:55,290
Probably not.

2546
01:30:57,030 --> 01:30:58,370
Sadly, probably not.

2547
01:31:02,640 --> 01:31:05,800
Oh, I want you to get into whatever

2548
01:31:05,800 --> 01:31:06,720
you want to do next.

2549
01:31:07,340 --> 01:31:08,440
But something happened.

2550
01:31:08,660 --> 01:31:10,080
A report came out from CBS.

2551
01:31:10,720 --> 01:31:13,700
I have been predicting this for a long

2552
01:31:13,700 --> 01:31:14,080
time.

2553
01:31:14,260 --> 01:31:16,020
And finally, here it is.

2554
01:31:16,900 --> 01:31:19,300
Ladies, the free ride is over.

2555
01:31:19,980 --> 01:31:21,180
And now you're telling me that you're going

2556
01:31:21,180 --> 01:31:23,620
to charge me $1,199 or whatever it

2557
01:31:23,620 --> 01:31:25,380
is to return items.

2558
01:31:25,660 --> 01:31:26,520
Are you out of your mind?

2559
01:31:26,900 --> 01:31:30,340
Hassle-free online returns may be a thing

2560
01:31:30,340 --> 01:31:30,980
of the past.

2561
01:31:30,980 --> 01:31:34,680
Most major retailers are now charging customers to

2562
01:31:34,680 --> 01:31:37,900
return items even if they're unopened and in

2563
01:31:37,900 --> 01:31:38,820
perfect condition.

2564
01:31:38,980 --> 01:31:41,020
Who wants to lose money, especially not in

2565
01:31:41,020 --> 01:31:42,700
this time and in this economy?

2566
01:31:43,700 --> 01:31:44,900
$850 billion.

2567
01:31:45,200 --> 01:31:47,840
That's how much Americans will return to the

2568
01:31:47,840 --> 01:31:48,700
stores this year.

2569
01:31:49,200 --> 01:31:51,080
Nearly 20% of the stuff we buy.

2570
01:31:51,260 --> 01:31:52,520
That doesn't sound right.

2571
01:31:52,980 --> 01:31:54,700
$850 million.

2572
01:31:54,960 --> 01:31:56,140
I don't know about billion.

2573
01:31:56,880 --> 01:31:58,080
$850 billion?

2574
01:31:58,220 --> 01:31:58,660
No.

2575
01:31:58,980 --> 01:32:00,160
$50 billion.

2576
01:32:00,160 --> 01:32:03,080
That's how much Americans will return to the

2577
01:32:03,080 --> 01:32:03,960
stores this year.

2578
01:32:04,540 --> 01:32:06,340
Nearly 20% of the stuff we buy

2579
01:32:06,340 --> 01:32:09,340
online just ends up in the return pile.

2580
01:32:09,900 --> 01:32:11,040
Return fee?

2581
01:32:11,520 --> 01:32:14,900
Macy's now charges $999 for mail-in returns.

2582
01:32:15,220 --> 01:32:18,360
TJ Maxx and Marshalls charge $1,199.

2583
01:32:18,640 --> 01:32:22,000
Other stores, including J.Crew, Abercrombie & Fitch,

2584
01:32:22,180 --> 01:32:25,360
H&M, and Zara all now charge fees

2585
01:32:25,360 --> 01:32:26,960
between $4 and $8.

2586
01:32:26,960 --> 01:32:30,460
It can now cost as much as $45

2587
01:32:30,460 --> 01:32:33,820
to return certain electronics at Best Buy.

2588
01:32:34,500 --> 01:32:38,200
Amazon, too, has tightened its policy, charging some

2589
01:32:38,200 --> 01:32:41,540
customers unless they use its box-free, in

2590
01:32:41,540 --> 01:32:42,920
-person drop-off option.

2591
01:32:43,200 --> 01:32:45,280
Merchants now are under a tremendous amount of

2592
01:32:45,280 --> 01:32:45,800
cost pressure.

2593
01:32:46,000 --> 01:32:48,140
They're really trying to offset some of the

2594
01:32:48,140 --> 01:32:50,360
costs that they face in returns by asking

2595
01:32:50,360 --> 01:32:51,700
shoppers to share some of the burden.

2596
01:32:51,700 --> 01:32:55,460
David Sobey co-founded his company, Happy Returns,

2597
01:32:55,540 --> 01:32:58,860
that uses these AI robots to help make

2598
01:32:58,860 --> 01:32:59,780
returns easier.

2599
01:33:00,540 --> 01:33:02,520
Is there any way to avoid these fees?

2600
01:33:03,500 --> 01:33:04,980
Well, the best way to avoid them is

2601
01:33:04,980 --> 01:33:07,300
just to read the retailer's return policy before

2602
01:33:07,300 --> 01:33:08,540
you check out in the first place.

2603
01:33:08,940 --> 01:33:11,580
I've been seeing this coming down Broadway for

2604
01:33:11,580 --> 01:33:12,320
a long time.

2605
01:33:12,320 --> 01:33:17,300
Women, in particular, will order 15 items of

2606
01:33:17,300 --> 01:33:20,180
clothing and return 10, 11.

2607
01:33:20,940 --> 01:33:21,600
They'll try them on.

2608
01:33:21,700 --> 01:33:22,420
No, I don't like it.

2609
01:33:22,460 --> 01:33:22,840
Try it on.

2610
01:33:22,900 --> 01:33:23,780
No, I don't like it.

2611
01:33:24,460 --> 01:33:26,640
And I've always said, how can these stores

2612
01:33:26,640 --> 01:33:27,320
accept that?

2613
01:33:27,400 --> 01:33:29,060
This just becomes shopping at home.

2614
01:33:30,360 --> 01:33:32,620
And now they're going to start charging return

2615
01:33:32,620 --> 01:33:32,940
fees.

2616
01:33:34,660 --> 01:33:37,480
Well, this is basically what you would do

2617
01:33:37,480 --> 01:33:40,120
at a retail store, especially a woman.

2618
01:33:40,120 --> 01:33:42,560
She would go in and go to a

2619
01:33:42,560 --> 01:33:45,860
dress rack and grab, like, seven dresses and

2620
01:33:45,860 --> 01:33:47,960
go into this changing room and try all

2621
01:33:47,960 --> 01:33:48,700
of them on.

2622
01:33:49,160 --> 01:33:52,000
And then, you know, turn around and look

2623
01:33:52,000 --> 01:33:55,080
at herself and then go back and not

2624
01:33:55,080 --> 01:33:57,040
buy any of them and then go take

2625
01:33:57,040 --> 01:33:58,160
another seven in.

2626
01:33:58,600 --> 01:34:02,460
And so they figure this is the analog

2627
01:34:02,460 --> 01:34:04,960
of doing that exact same thing, but instead

2628
01:34:04,960 --> 01:34:06,580
of being at the store where you're putting

2629
01:34:06,580 --> 01:34:09,380
it back on the rack, you are having

2630
01:34:09,380 --> 01:34:10,840
to go through this rigmarole.

2631
01:34:11,080 --> 01:34:11,220
Yep.

2632
01:34:11,400 --> 01:34:13,360
And I don't know how they can put

2633
01:34:13,360 --> 01:34:14,860
– I don't know how the system can

2634
01:34:14,860 --> 01:34:15,680
work with that.

2635
01:34:16,020 --> 01:34:17,580
It can't, clearly.

2636
01:34:19,020 --> 01:34:22,900
But it's going to change behavior because I

2637
01:34:22,900 --> 01:34:24,260
just see it everywhere.

2638
01:34:25,160 --> 01:34:25,460
I don't know.

2639
01:34:25,700 --> 01:34:26,720
I mean, Tina does it, too.

2640
01:34:27,160 --> 01:34:28,020
I told her this morning.

2641
01:34:28,100 --> 01:34:28,640
They start charging.

2642
01:34:28,680 --> 01:34:28,900
What?

2643
01:34:29,500 --> 01:34:29,740
Yeah.

2644
01:34:29,940 --> 01:34:31,160
They start charging for returns.

2645
01:34:31,300 --> 01:34:32,140
Oh, $9?

2646
01:34:32,840 --> 01:34:33,140
Yeah.

2647
01:34:33,140 --> 01:34:33,300
Yeah.

2648
01:34:34,780 --> 01:34:36,880
And I don't know if that's per item

2649
01:34:36,880 --> 01:34:38,480
or per box that you ship.

2650
01:34:38,720 --> 01:34:39,420
It's probably per item.

2651
01:34:39,600 --> 01:34:39,840
Oof.

2652
01:34:40,860 --> 01:34:41,140
Yeah.

2653
01:34:41,180 --> 01:34:42,360
So that's going to end that.

2654
01:34:42,680 --> 01:34:44,220
It's going to bring people back to the

2655
01:34:44,220 --> 01:34:44,580
mall.

2656
01:34:45,940 --> 01:34:47,060
Back to brick and mortar.

2657
01:34:47,540 --> 01:34:49,520
It's going to change behavior.

2658
01:34:49,660 --> 01:34:50,020
You're right.

2659
01:34:50,100 --> 01:34:51,200
Because it's too expensive.

2660
01:34:51,700 --> 01:34:51,800
Yeah.

2661
01:34:51,880 --> 01:34:56,500
Or maybe order them like that but then

2662
01:34:56,500 --> 01:34:57,460
return them in person.

2663
01:34:57,840 --> 01:34:59,800
I think that's probably where it'll wind up.

2664
01:34:59,900 --> 01:35:00,700
Return them in person.

2665
01:35:00,700 --> 01:35:02,380
So then you have to have a store

2666
01:35:02,380 --> 01:35:02,980
to return them to.

2667
01:35:03,040 --> 01:35:04,040
You can't do that with Amazon.

2668
01:35:04,880 --> 01:35:05,240
No.

2669
01:35:05,300 --> 01:35:09,120
They have their drop places, their drop boxes,

2670
01:35:09,660 --> 01:35:11,120
according to that report.

2671
01:35:12,180 --> 01:35:12,540
So we'll see.

2672
01:35:13,700 --> 01:35:15,300
That's still going to cost money.

2673
01:35:15,440 --> 01:35:17,980
They have to recharge you to drop it

2674
01:35:17,980 --> 01:35:20,480
off in one of those little cubicles at

2675
01:35:20,480 --> 01:35:21,720
the grocery store.

2676
01:35:21,800 --> 01:35:22,420
I've seen those.

2677
01:35:22,600 --> 01:35:22,780
Oh.

2678
01:35:24,340 --> 01:35:25,860
Is that where you pick up your scratch

2679
01:35:25,860 --> 01:35:26,180
-offs?

2680
01:35:29,990 --> 01:35:30,890
Scratch and sniff?

2681
01:35:30,990 --> 01:35:31,630
What are you talking about?

2682
01:35:31,810 --> 01:35:33,190
Your scratch-off.

2683
01:35:33,190 --> 01:35:34,210
You have lottery tickets, man.

2684
01:35:34,250 --> 01:35:34,950
Your scratch-offs.

2685
01:35:35,290 --> 01:35:37,190
You know, I have the same chance of

2686
01:35:37,190 --> 01:35:39,410
winning whether or not I buy a ticket.

2687
01:35:40,830 --> 01:35:42,870
What is this untitled clip you have?

2688
01:35:42,950 --> 01:35:43,970
I love seeing those.

2689
01:35:45,390 --> 01:35:46,750
It's actually—that's not a mistake.

2690
01:35:46,910 --> 01:35:48,590
It's just a—it just got in there.

2691
01:35:48,610 --> 01:35:49,490
I should have taken it off.

2692
01:35:49,710 --> 01:35:50,930
It doesn't mean anything.

2693
01:35:51,230 --> 01:35:51,330
Okay.

2694
01:35:51,710 --> 01:35:55,630
I do have an AmFest—kind of an interesting

2695
01:35:55,630 --> 01:35:58,510
clip from this, you know, the America First

2696
01:35:58,510 --> 01:35:59,250
big meetup.

2697
01:35:59,370 --> 01:36:01,030
It was during our show day off.

2698
01:36:01,030 --> 01:36:02,470
Not America First.

2699
01:36:02,470 --> 01:36:04,930
It's the America Fest.

2700
01:36:05,630 --> 01:36:06,410
America Fest.

2701
01:36:06,570 --> 01:36:07,230
America First.

2702
01:36:07,250 --> 01:36:08,010
America First.

2703
01:36:08,370 --> 01:36:08,550
Yeah.

2704
01:36:08,710 --> 01:36:10,250
The TV—the big turning point in USA.

2705
01:36:10,450 --> 01:36:12,350
There were like 35,000, 40,000 people

2706
01:36:12,350 --> 01:36:12,710
were there.

2707
01:36:12,870 --> 01:36:15,310
Well, I heard 30,000, but it was

2708
01:36:15,310 --> 01:36:16,010
a lot of people.

2709
01:36:16,150 --> 01:36:18,430
Everybody showed up, and it was like a

2710
01:36:18,430 --> 01:36:20,950
big— Well, everybody was mad.

2711
01:36:21,230 --> 01:36:23,690
We had—what's his face?

2712
01:36:24,470 --> 01:36:26,230
What's the little weasel man?

2713
01:36:26,770 --> 01:36:27,690
Fast talker?

2714
01:36:27,870 --> 01:36:28,510
Ben Shapiro.

2715
01:36:28,630 --> 01:36:28,850
Shapiro.

2716
01:36:29,090 --> 01:36:31,370
Ben Shapiro calling people out.

2717
01:36:31,370 --> 01:36:33,710
He saw his way in big controversy.

2718
01:36:33,910 --> 01:36:34,330
Oh, yes.

2719
01:36:34,370 --> 01:36:36,550
A million dollars from the Jew money, the

2720
01:36:36,550 --> 01:36:38,790
shekels, and all he did is rag on

2721
01:36:38,790 --> 01:36:41,090
Candace and everybody else and Tucker.

2722
01:36:42,390 --> 01:36:44,370
And I think there was a lot more

2723
01:36:44,370 --> 01:36:47,150
going on at AmFest, but those were the

2724
01:36:47,150 --> 01:36:47,650
highlights.

2725
01:36:48,870 --> 01:36:51,030
I think you summarized it, but I thought

2726
01:36:51,030 --> 01:36:53,050
that this little report, which added a tidbit

2727
01:36:53,050 --> 01:36:54,950
I did not know, and I thought—and I

2728
01:36:54,950 --> 01:36:55,390
have to agree.

2729
01:36:55,390 --> 01:36:58,290
This is a woman, a British woman, called

2730
01:36:58,290 --> 01:36:59,390
the Warwick Report.

2731
01:37:00,290 --> 01:37:01,350
She's one of these—she's online.

2732
01:37:01,570 --> 01:37:04,610
She's more of a blogger than a podcaster

2733
01:37:04,610 --> 01:37:05,530
or a video blogger.

2734
01:37:07,010 --> 01:37:09,110
And she's very good at what she does,

2735
01:37:09,170 --> 01:37:10,590
and she gets in and out of these

2736
01:37:10,590 --> 01:37:10,850
things.

2737
01:37:10,890 --> 01:37:12,310
And she went to this one, and she

2738
01:37:12,310 --> 01:37:15,610
found something at AmFest that is kind of

2739
01:37:15,610 --> 01:37:16,190
disturbing.

2740
01:37:16,790 --> 01:37:18,210
Are you ready for my AmFest recap?

2741
01:37:18,530 --> 01:37:19,670
This is going to piss a few people

2742
01:37:19,670 --> 01:37:19,910
off.

2743
01:37:20,050 --> 01:37:21,770
I was not invited, and I was not

2744
01:37:21,770 --> 01:37:22,330
paid to go.

2745
01:37:22,330 --> 01:37:24,510
At the last minute, I applied as independent

2746
01:37:24,510 --> 01:37:26,370
media, pulled a few strings, made a few

2747
01:37:26,370 --> 01:37:27,410
calls, and got approved.

2748
01:37:27,570 --> 01:37:29,970
AmFest day two, I arrive and immediately feel

2749
01:37:29,970 --> 01:37:30,750
the vibes are off.

2750
01:37:30,910 --> 01:37:32,210
Not only did it feel as if I'd

2751
01:37:32,210 --> 01:37:34,730
walked into a tense, blurry proxy war, but

2752
01:37:34,730 --> 01:37:36,390
attendees were looking each other up and down

2753
01:37:36,390 --> 01:37:37,010
with suspicion.

2754
01:37:37,250 --> 01:37:39,530
We all saw speakers like Ben Shapiro, Tucker

2755
01:37:39,530 --> 01:37:41,750
Carlson, and Megyn Kelly go after each other.

2756
01:37:41,910 --> 01:37:44,310
Quite frankly, that was rather embarrassing, and the

2757
01:37:44,310 --> 01:37:45,670
left are laughing at conservatives.

2758
01:37:46,030 --> 01:37:48,070
The House is divided against itself and cannot

2759
01:37:48,070 --> 01:37:48,490
stand.

2760
01:37:48,830 --> 01:37:49,610
And what's the division?

2761
01:37:49,610 --> 01:37:51,590
One simple but loaded question.

2762
01:37:51,970 --> 01:37:53,790
Are you pro-America or pro-Israel?

2763
01:37:54,050 --> 01:37:55,350
You'd think the answer was obvious.

2764
01:37:55,590 --> 01:37:58,090
We were at AmericaFest, but the nuances were

2765
01:37:58,090 --> 01:37:58,490
palpable.

2766
01:37:58,770 --> 01:38:01,650
Several activities and events seemed in bad taste.

2767
01:38:01,870 --> 01:38:03,490
For example, the tent replica.

2768
01:38:04,010 --> 01:38:06,170
Yes, there was a replica of the tent

2769
01:38:06,170 --> 01:38:08,930
Charlie was publicly executed in for people to

2770
01:38:08,930 --> 01:38:10,110
take selfies in.

2771
01:38:10,230 --> 01:38:11,350
Now that doesn't sit right with me.

2772
01:38:11,630 --> 01:38:13,670
The public's online takeaway of the event is

2773
01:38:13,670 --> 01:38:15,490
rather telling, and they have every right to

2774
01:38:15,490 --> 01:38:16,490
question what's going on.

2775
01:38:16,490 --> 01:38:18,410
As someone who was physically there, I can

2776
01:38:18,410 --> 01:38:20,630
attest that there was something seriously off.

2777
01:38:20,890 --> 01:38:22,590
There needs to be a ceasefire of the

2778
01:38:22,590 --> 01:38:24,610
friendly fire in the conservative movement.

2779
01:38:24,910 --> 01:38:27,110
Traitors must be removed from power, and we

2780
01:38:27,110 --> 01:38:28,870
should focus on the enemy that is trying

2781
01:38:28,870 --> 01:38:31,430
to destroy the UK, America, and the West

2782
01:38:31,430 --> 01:38:31,930
in general.

2783
01:38:32,170 --> 01:38:33,770
However, I must say that I did meet

2784
01:38:33,770 --> 01:38:35,370
an interesting group of people there, and the

2785
01:38:35,370 --> 01:38:36,370
networking was fantastic.

2786
01:38:37,290 --> 01:38:37,810
Hmm.

2787
01:38:38,470 --> 01:38:42,430
So there was a tent that was a

2788
01:38:42,430 --> 01:38:45,250
replica of where Charlie was shot, so you

2789
01:38:45,250 --> 01:38:47,610
can go have a picture taken?

2790
01:38:47,870 --> 01:38:48,090
What?

2791
01:38:48,310 --> 01:38:51,730
Well, that may just be their standard TPUSA

2792
01:38:51,730 --> 01:38:52,130
tent.

2793
01:38:52,490 --> 01:38:54,670
That's maybe just how she's categorizing it.

2794
01:38:54,690 --> 01:38:55,430
I don't know.

2795
01:38:56,610 --> 01:38:59,990
Look, let's just face one thing.

2796
01:39:02,970 --> 01:39:08,990
TPUSA, the organization, its main mission was to

2797
01:39:08,990 --> 01:39:14,310
register voters and to activate them when necessary.

2798
01:39:15,250 --> 01:39:18,250
Because you can scream and yell and say

2799
01:39:18,250 --> 01:39:20,830
Trump or Biden, whatever you want to say,

2800
01:39:21,190 --> 01:39:23,030
but if someone isn't registered in time, they

2801
01:39:23,030 --> 01:39:23,670
can't vote.

2802
01:39:24,270 --> 01:39:26,990
TPUSA is a voter registration organization.

2803
01:39:28,890 --> 01:39:31,610
And then, of course, an activation, as Mo

2804
01:39:31,610 --> 01:39:34,210
would say, an activation organization to get you

2805
01:39:34,210 --> 01:39:35,350
going at the right moment.

2806
01:39:35,410 --> 01:39:37,150
So you go vote because you're already registered.

2807
01:39:37,330 --> 01:39:38,710
You don't have to go through a two

2808
01:39:38,710 --> 01:39:39,120
-step process.

2809
01:39:40,090 --> 01:39:45,110
So everyone who was there is there to

2810
01:39:45,110 --> 01:39:48,390
get people involved in all these tents and

2811
01:39:48,390 --> 01:39:48,710
everything.

2812
01:39:48,850 --> 01:39:50,150
It's always to register.

2813
01:39:50,410 --> 01:39:51,650
You need to register to vote.

2814
01:39:51,730 --> 01:39:52,370
Yeah, it's important.

2815
01:39:52,490 --> 01:39:53,190
I'll register to vote.

2816
01:39:53,610 --> 01:39:55,070
And once you're registered, then we're going to

2817
01:39:55,070 --> 01:39:55,790
activate you.

2818
01:39:55,790 --> 01:39:57,830
They're kind of doing things out of sequence

2819
01:39:57,830 --> 01:39:59,530
now because they're pre-activating.

2820
01:39:59,630 --> 01:40:00,310
And I think it's true.

2821
01:40:00,410 --> 01:40:04,030
J.D. Vance, that's what they're doing now.

2822
01:40:04,350 --> 01:40:05,890
And that may or may not be with

2823
01:40:05,890 --> 01:40:08,890
approval of the president, but it seems like

2824
01:40:08,890 --> 01:40:10,330
that's all that it's about.

2825
01:40:10,550 --> 01:40:13,070
And all the other stuff is just, it's

2826
01:40:13,070 --> 01:40:13,470
noise.

2827
01:40:14,270 --> 01:40:15,350
It's just noise.

2828
01:40:15,690 --> 01:40:17,310
Oh, and Alex Jones is involved.

2829
01:40:17,990 --> 01:40:21,890
Alex Jones, he's, Candace, you were wrong.

2830
01:40:21,950 --> 01:40:22,670
Got to call that out.

2831
01:40:22,670 --> 01:40:24,770
I read all the documents, been doing this

2832
01:40:24,770 --> 01:40:25,930
for 20 years.

2833
01:40:26,710 --> 01:40:27,370
Candace, you're wrong.

2834
01:40:27,530 --> 01:40:29,590
I love you, but no, I got to

2835
01:40:29,590 --> 01:40:30,350
call it out when you're wrong.

2836
01:40:30,610 --> 01:40:31,330
I love you.

2837
01:40:31,730 --> 01:40:33,050
I love Candace.

2838
01:40:33,170 --> 01:40:33,770
I love Candace.

2839
01:40:33,970 --> 01:40:35,490
But when she's wrong, she's wrong.

2840
01:40:35,910 --> 01:40:37,690
Got to call it out in my car

2841
01:40:37,690 --> 01:40:38,410
while I'm driving.

2842
01:40:39,710 --> 01:40:40,430
It's insane.

2843
01:40:41,130 --> 01:40:44,590
And at this point, it's just idolatry, just

2844
01:40:44,590 --> 01:40:46,190
being in the mix.

2845
01:40:47,230 --> 01:40:48,830
Dave Rubin jumps in.

2846
01:40:52,690 --> 01:40:59,110
I know, the whole podcasting industrial complex, which

2847
01:40:59,110 --> 01:41:00,670
I blame on you, by the way.

2848
01:41:00,750 --> 01:41:01,870
It's totally my fault.

2849
01:41:03,130 --> 01:41:04,570
It's out of control.

2850
01:41:07,120 --> 01:41:08,480
It's Candyland, everybody.

2851
01:41:08,800 --> 01:41:09,780
We're in Candyland.

2852
01:41:10,060 --> 01:41:10,840
That's where we're at.

2853
01:41:11,440 --> 01:41:14,840
So you were talking about, the clip before

2854
01:41:14,840 --> 01:41:15,920
was about liars.

2855
01:41:15,920 --> 01:41:19,560
I have to play this series, and it'll

2856
01:41:19,560 --> 01:41:21,860
be my last real series for today.

2857
01:41:22,240 --> 01:41:23,560
Oh, you got a series, huh?

2858
01:41:23,840 --> 01:41:24,640
This is a series.

2859
01:41:24,780 --> 01:41:25,820
Well, these have all been series.

2860
01:41:25,920 --> 01:41:27,020
I do a lot of series.

2861
01:41:27,200 --> 01:41:27,740
I don't know why.

2862
01:41:27,820 --> 01:41:29,020
Because that's what we do.

2863
01:41:29,100 --> 01:41:31,620
We do series so that we can tell

2864
01:41:31,620 --> 01:41:32,860
the kids.

2865
01:41:32,860 --> 01:41:33,620
So we can bitch and moan.

2866
01:41:33,620 --> 01:41:34,800
We can bitch and moan in our own

2867
01:41:34,800 --> 01:41:35,100
way.

2868
01:41:35,240 --> 01:41:36,240
No, we want the kids.

2869
01:41:36,260 --> 01:41:38,180
We want the kids to learn something from

2870
01:41:38,180 --> 01:41:38,420
us.

2871
01:41:38,540 --> 01:41:39,600
Ultimately, that's what we are.

2872
01:41:39,640 --> 01:41:40,380
We are teachers.

2873
01:41:43,520 --> 01:41:44,240
Don't laugh.

2874
01:41:45,080 --> 01:41:45,780
We're teachers.

2875
01:41:46,060 --> 01:41:47,080
We are teachers.

2876
01:41:47,340 --> 01:41:47,980
We're educators.

2877
01:41:49,680 --> 01:41:52,640
So this is Brooks.

2878
01:41:54,200 --> 01:41:55,640
Okay, I take it back.

2879
01:41:56,060 --> 01:41:57,580
We're just bitching and moaning.

2880
01:41:57,940 --> 01:41:59,280
We're not teachers at all.

2881
01:41:59,880 --> 01:42:03,720
This is Brooks on the PBS NewsHour, which

2882
01:42:03,720 --> 01:42:07,060
nobody who listens to this podcast watches, ever.

2883
01:42:07,160 --> 01:42:09,000
So Brooks goes off.

2884
01:42:09,140 --> 01:42:11,600
Brooks, I've now determined, is actually, he's supposed

2885
01:42:11,600 --> 01:42:13,660
to be a, you know, this is my

2886
01:42:13,660 --> 01:42:16,100
main complaint for the, over the years, I'll

2887
01:42:16,100 --> 01:42:16,840
do it again.

2888
01:42:17,740 --> 01:42:20,460
PBS does not have balanced coverage of anything.

2889
01:42:20,460 --> 01:42:22,160
So they put two people on to argue

2890
01:42:22,160 --> 01:42:24,240
with each other, but they are both in

2891
01:42:24,240 --> 01:42:25,320
100% agreement.

2892
01:42:27,240 --> 01:42:28,220
I'm a lefty.

2893
01:42:28,300 --> 01:42:29,460
I'm more of a lefty.

2894
01:42:29,520 --> 01:42:31,240
That's the argument is how left can you

2895
01:42:31,240 --> 01:42:31,520
be?

2896
01:42:31,760 --> 01:42:33,780
Hey, these clips are loud.

2897
01:42:33,940 --> 01:42:34,980
They're really modulated.

2898
01:42:35,120 --> 01:42:35,920
Did you clip these?

2899
01:42:36,480 --> 01:42:37,280
Yeah, I did.

2900
01:42:37,400 --> 01:42:40,220
I did give them a, yeah.

2901
01:42:40,220 --> 01:42:42,300
I'm looking at the waveforms.

2902
01:42:42,320 --> 01:42:43,280
These are maxed out.

2903
01:42:43,680 --> 01:42:45,320
I'm looking at the waveform.

2904
01:42:45,580 --> 01:42:47,340
I try to do this with my clips.

2905
01:42:47,580 --> 01:42:47,680
Why?

2906
01:42:48,240 --> 01:42:48,520
Why?

2907
01:42:49,160 --> 01:42:51,060
All I'm doing is potting them down.

2908
01:42:52,000 --> 01:42:53,080
You'll be potting them.

2909
01:42:53,300 --> 01:42:55,000
You'll be having some fun with these.

2910
01:42:55,580 --> 01:42:58,020
So they don't have Capehart on.

2911
01:42:58,440 --> 01:42:59,840
So the two of them can't agree with

2912
01:42:59,840 --> 01:43:00,100
each other.

2913
01:43:00,140 --> 01:43:02,320
They brought some woman on who's, it's not

2914
01:43:02,320 --> 01:43:04,060
even worth, I clipped none of her.

2915
01:43:04,060 --> 01:43:06,760
I just wanted to clip Brooks to make

2916
01:43:06,760 --> 01:43:10,260
a point about Brooks being not only a

2917
01:43:10,260 --> 01:43:12,700
left winger, but he's a New York Times

2918
01:43:12,700 --> 01:43:16,600
columnist who is going to blatantly lie.

2919
01:43:17,540 --> 01:43:19,860
President Trump's return to the White House has

2920
01:43:19,860 --> 01:43:22,860
seen several significant changes from his first term,

2921
01:43:23,260 --> 01:43:25,840
turning this into a consequential year for the

2922
01:43:25,840 --> 01:43:27,500
presidency and for the country.

2923
01:43:27,960 --> 01:43:29,900
So to reflect on it all, we turn

2924
01:43:29,900 --> 01:43:32,260
now to the analysis of Brooks and Atkins'

2925
01:43:32,600 --> 01:43:32,700
store.

2926
01:43:32,700 --> 01:43:35,040
That's David Brooks of the New York Times

2927
01:43:35,040 --> 01:43:38,100
and Kimberly Atkins' store of the Boston Globe.

2928
01:43:38,560 --> 01:43:39,860
Jonathan Capehart is away.

2929
01:43:40,160 --> 01:43:40,880
Welcome to you both.

2930
01:43:41,060 --> 01:43:41,840
Thank you for being here.

2931
01:43:43,200 --> 01:43:45,120
David, one of the biggest questions at the

2932
01:43:45,120 --> 01:43:47,800
starting of this year is what Trump 2

2933
01:43:47,800 --> 01:43:49,740
.0 was going to look like compared to

2934
01:43:49,740 --> 01:43:50,560
the first version.

2935
01:43:50,980 --> 01:43:52,960
And we have now seen a year of

2936
01:43:52,960 --> 01:43:57,400
it, an incredibly aggressive flexing of executive authority.

2937
01:43:57,940 --> 01:44:00,060
When you look back on this year, what

2938
01:44:00,060 --> 01:44:01,340
really stands out to you?

2939
01:44:01,340 --> 01:44:02,920
Yeah, I tell two stories.

2940
01:44:03,360 --> 01:44:05,960
The first is that since 1945, the American

2941
01:44:05,960 --> 01:44:07,380
establishment, if you want to put it that

2942
01:44:07,380 --> 01:44:09,180
way, has built a series of institutions.

2943
01:44:09,640 --> 01:44:13,060
Things like the Western Alliance, NATO, the Department

2944
01:44:13,060 --> 01:44:14,880
of Justice, USAID.

2945
01:44:15,520 --> 01:44:17,520
And all of those things have been hollowed

2946
01:44:17,520 --> 01:44:18,740
out over the last year.

2947
01:44:19,820 --> 01:44:21,120
The Department of Justice?

2948
01:44:21,740 --> 01:44:23,580
The Department of Justice.

2949
01:44:24,160 --> 01:44:24,640
That's new?

2950
01:44:24,660 --> 01:44:25,380
He put that in there.

2951
01:44:25,460 --> 01:44:26,800
He said specifically.

2952
01:44:27,060 --> 01:44:27,640
That's new?

2953
01:44:27,880 --> 01:44:29,460
The Department of Justice.

2954
01:44:29,460 --> 01:44:31,920
Let me just read a little segment here.

2955
01:44:32,120 --> 01:44:32,600
Oh, you've done.

2956
01:44:33,220 --> 01:44:33,440
You've done.

2957
01:44:33,440 --> 01:44:33,540
You've done.

2958
01:44:33,600 --> 01:44:35,080
You've got the documents.

2959
01:44:35,360 --> 01:44:35,520
Yeah.

2960
01:44:35,720 --> 01:44:43,740
On February 19th, 1868, Lawrence introduced a bill

2961
01:44:43,740 --> 01:44:46,940
in Congress to create the Department of Justice.

2962
01:44:47,060 --> 01:44:51,240
In 1868, President Ulysses S.

2963
01:44:51,300 --> 01:44:53,620
Grant signed the bill into law on June

2964
01:44:53,620 --> 01:44:56,380
22nd, 1870.

2965
01:44:56,380 --> 01:44:59,420
What does that have to do in 1945,

2966
01:44:59,620 --> 01:45:00,180
1946?

2967
01:45:00,580 --> 01:45:01,940
Well, it's hollowed out, man.

2968
01:45:02,400 --> 01:45:03,320
It's hollowed out.

2969
01:45:03,660 --> 01:45:04,580
It's like an empty eggshell.

2970
01:45:04,600 --> 01:45:06,100
But you did notice he got the little

2971
01:45:06,100 --> 01:45:07,820
thing in there about USAID.

2972
01:45:08,160 --> 01:45:08,420
Yes.

2973
01:45:08,460 --> 01:45:12,440
Of course, because PBS, I think you nailed

2974
01:45:12,440 --> 01:45:13,960
it when you said that they were getting

2975
01:45:13,960 --> 01:45:15,260
money from USAID.

2976
01:45:15,360 --> 01:45:15,660
Sure.

2977
01:45:16,080 --> 01:45:17,000
Under the table.

2978
01:45:17,480 --> 01:45:17,960
Whatever.

2979
01:45:18,320 --> 01:45:19,680
Probably not even under the table.

2980
01:45:19,760 --> 01:45:20,760
Probably through an NGO.

2981
01:45:21,360 --> 01:45:24,700
So we start off with a blatant lie

2982
01:45:24,700 --> 01:45:26,880
about the Department of Justice, but it gets

2983
01:45:26,880 --> 01:45:27,240
worse.

2984
01:45:27,620 --> 01:45:29,960
It doesn't get worse before another clip or

2985
01:45:29,960 --> 01:45:30,060
two.

2986
01:45:30,180 --> 01:45:30,700
It gets worse.

2987
01:45:30,880 --> 01:45:31,200
John C.

2988
01:45:31,240 --> 01:45:33,220
DuBois, he's got all the documents.

2989
01:45:33,720 --> 01:45:35,440
And so we've seen a great decline in

2990
01:45:35,440 --> 01:45:36,160
state capacity.

2991
01:45:36,260 --> 01:45:37,580
He knows their globalist agenda.

2992
01:45:38,060 --> 01:45:39,180
You have to worry about if we're a

2993
01:45:39,180 --> 01:45:42,140
nation in decline, because China is investing in

2994
01:45:42,140 --> 01:45:42,540
science.

2995
01:45:42,680 --> 01:45:43,920
They're investing in technologies.

2996
01:45:44,180 --> 01:45:45,240
They're kicking our butts.

2997
01:45:45,780 --> 01:45:48,080
And so the decline, this has been a

2998
01:45:48,080 --> 01:45:51,200
tragedy, an error of historic proportions.

2999
01:45:51,420 --> 01:45:52,120
They're kicking our butts.

3000
01:45:55,680 --> 01:45:57,320
Is there a lie in there somewhere?

3001
01:45:57,900 --> 01:45:58,700
No, not yet.

3002
01:45:59,560 --> 01:46:01,340
Well, it's the fact that the Chinese are

3003
01:46:01,340 --> 01:46:03,340
kicking our butts in AI.

3004
01:46:03,920 --> 01:46:04,020
Okay.

3005
01:46:04,200 --> 01:46:05,920
So then we have this next clip, which

3006
01:46:05,920 --> 01:46:07,780
is actually a WTF clip.

3007
01:46:07,980 --> 01:46:11,660
This proves to me that this guy represents

3008
01:46:11,660 --> 01:46:16,160
conservatives about as much as Hillary Clinton.

3009
01:46:16,660 --> 01:46:19,700
Earlier this spring, David, you remember you called

3010
01:46:19,700 --> 01:46:22,420
for or arguing that all of these little

3011
01:46:22,420 --> 01:46:24,700
protests, pushbacks that are happening against the Trump

3012
01:46:24,700 --> 01:46:28,900
administration were insufficient for what you're diagnosing.

3013
01:46:29,860 --> 01:46:32,060
And you called for a civic, a collective

3014
01:46:32,060 --> 01:46:33,060
civic action.

3015
01:46:34,320 --> 01:46:36,020
I don't think I'm breaking any news to

3016
01:46:36,020 --> 01:46:36,980
you that I don't think that that has

3017
01:46:36,980 --> 01:46:37,300
happened.

3018
01:46:37,400 --> 01:46:37,780
Yeah, no.

3019
01:46:38,300 --> 01:46:40,040
Yeah, I mean, I was reading all these

3020
01:46:40,040 --> 01:46:42,940
lefty revolutionaries and I'm like, yeah, yeah, let's

3021
01:46:42,940 --> 01:46:43,500
go get them.

3022
01:46:44,380 --> 01:46:46,700
I think it has not happened.

3023
01:46:47,300 --> 01:46:49,000
What in the world?

3024
01:46:49,520 --> 01:46:53,160
So he's reading alternate and God knows what

3025
01:46:53,160 --> 01:46:55,560
other left wing publications routinely.

3026
01:46:55,880 --> 01:46:58,000
And he's getting all worked up saying, yeah,

3027
01:46:58,100 --> 01:46:59,020
yeah, let's go.

3028
01:47:00,180 --> 01:47:02,580
David Brooks reading all those alternate.

3029
01:47:03,100 --> 01:47:04,520
Okay, we get it.

3030
01:47:04,620 --> 01:47:06,880
You can you're getting your I would say

3031
01:47:06,880 --> 01:47:07,820
you're five percent.

3032
01:47:07,960 --> 01:47:09,000
You're really close.

3033
01:47:09,000 --> 01:47:11,200
The reason why is because I've had the

3034
01:47:11,200 --> 01:47:12,580
flu for the past two days.

3035
01:47:12,800 --> 01:47:14,380
And that's why I'm overdoing it.

3036
01:47:14,500 --> 01:47:16,420
And what I say really close.

3037
01:47:16,540 --> 01:47:18,400
I'm talking about his being able to do

3038
01:47:18,400 --> 01:47:20,760
Alex Jones in a couple of moments back.

3039
01:47:21,220 --> 01:47:23,080
Yes, I had it moments ago.

3040
01:47:23,320 --> 01:47:26,360
He nailed at least five or six words

3041
01:47:26,360 --> 01:47:28,120
that sounded exactly right.

3042
01:47:29,020 --> 01:47:31,060
So now you're I know if you're trying

3043
01:47:31,060 --> 01:47:32,000
to get my attention.

3044
01:47:32,560 --> 01:47:34,540
Yeah, but you yes, you've got it.

3045
01:47:34,640 --> 01:47:35,360
Okay, thank you.

3046
01:47:35,400 --> 01:47:37,440
But can you sustain it without your cold?

3047
01:47:37,860 --> 01:47:38,840
No, I can't.

3048
01:47:38,840 --> 01:47:39,480
It's not a cold.

3049
01:47:39,520 --> 01:47:40,380
It's the flu, man.

3050
01:47:40,820 --> 01:47:41,400
It's the flu.

3051
01:47:41,520 --> 01:47:43,540
I'm jacked up on all kinds of meds

3052
01:47:43,540 --> 01:47:44,520
right now.

3053
01:47:45,320 --> 01:47:46,540
You didn't even know that.

3054
01:47:47,540 --> 01:47:49,040
No, you don't because you don't have that.

3055
01:47:49,080 --> 01:47:53,860
You're good at you cover up sickness somehow

3056
01:47:53,860 --> 01:47:56,040
over a microphone, especially mental.

3057
01:47:56,300 --> 01:47:57,700
I've been talking like this.

3058
01:47:57,820 --> 01:48:00,420
Well, the way I see it, I can't

3059
01:48:00,420 --> 01:48:01,680
breathe through my nose.

3060
01:48:01,880 --> 01:48:03,420
I'm just going to have to blow a

3061
01:48:03,420 --> 01:48:04,100
couple of times.

3062
01:48:04,200 --> 01:48:04,880
If you don't mind.

3063
01:48:05,040 --> 01:48:05,820
No, I refilter.

3064
01:48:05,920 --> 01:48:06,640
I refilter.

3065
01:48:06,640 --> 01:48:08,680
When I sat down, I got to refilter.

3066
01:48:09,580 --> 01:48:11,420
So I'm going to keep this filter, though.

3067
01:48:12,720 --> 01:48:12,940
All right.

3068
01:48:14,740 --> 01:48:16,100
Let's go to the last clip.

3069
01:48:16,680 --> 01:48:17,640
Do you want to get it out of

3070
01:48:17,640 --> 01:48:18,160
your system?

3071
01:48:18,680 --> 01:48:19,400
Let me try again.

3072
01:48:20,060 --> 01:48:20,780
Josh Dvorak.

3073
01:48:21,380 --> 01:48:22,520
Now I can't do it.

3074
01:48:22,760 --> 01:48:25,000
Okay, well, you have to work on it

3075
01:48:25,000 --> 01:48:25,200
more.

3076
01:48:25,960 --> 01:48:26,920
I'm glad I didn't.

3077
01:48:26,920 --> 01:48:28,380
I'm glad I didn't try my Zelinsky.

3078
01:48:28,940 --> 01:48:31,180
So this is the part.

3079
01:48:31,280 --> 01:48:32,520
This is the end of it.

3080
01:48:32,560 --> 01:48:34,560
And he just drops a bunch of bombs

3081
01:48:34,560 --> 01:48:35,500
in here at the end.

3082
01:48:36,260 --> 01:48:36,660
Lies.

3083
01:48:37,200 --> 01:48:39,060
The second thing that's happened is there has

3084
01:48:39,060 --> 01:48:41,460
been such a decay of moral norms that

3085
01:48:41,460 --> 01:48:43,620
it's hard for any institution to say, no,

3086
01:48:43,640 --> 01:48:44,560
we are going to stand up for this.

3087
01:48:44,620 --> 01:48:46,960
You are not going to talk about Rob

3088
01:48:46,960 --> 01:48:47,980
Reiner the way you did.

3089
01:48:48,200 --> 01:48:49,640
You're not going to use the racial language

3090
01:48:49,640 --> 01:48:51,400
that is on the present now.

3091
01:48:52,260 --> 01:48:56,380
And it's hard to articulate when the corrosion

3092
01:48:56,380 --> 01:48:58,840
is not only in our laws, but in

3093
01:48:58,840 --> 01:49:00,340
our minds, in our language.

3094
01:49:00,840 --> 01:49:02,400
That's a hard thing to challenge.

3095
01:49:03,100 --> 01:49:04,820
But I'm hopeful in the long term it'll

3096
01:49:04,820 --> 01:49:05,100
happen.

3097
01:49:05,100 --> 01:49:08,280
In the 1890s, we had a civic renaissance.

3098
01:49:08,440 --> 01:49:09,620
We had the creation of the Boys and

3099
01:49:09,620 --> 01:49:10,100
Girls Clubs.

3100
01:49:10,180 --> 01:49:11,820
We had the creation of the NAACP, the

3101
01:49:11,820 --> 01:49:13,040
unions, the Sierra Club.

3102
01:49:13,300 --> 01:49:16,260
All these civic organizations were created by a

3103
01:49:16,260 --> 01:49:18,540
group of people who said, we can't go

3104
01:49:18,540 --> 01:49:19,220
on this way.

3105
01:49:19,480 --> 01:49:21,860
And once you had the civic institutions, then

3106
01:49:21,860 --> 01:49:24,080
in around 1900, you had the progressive movement.

3107
01:49:24,360 --> 01:49:24,740
Wait a minute.

3108
01:49:25,000 --> 01:49:27,260
Wasn't the Sierra Club, weren't those the population

3109
01:49:27,260 --> 01:49:29,120
bomb people like kill everybody?

3110
01:49:29,780 --> 01:49:33,140
No, they were just conservationists, which is not

3111
01:49:33,140 --> 01:49:35,520
a new operation.

3112
01:49:36,220 --> 01:49:39,060
Now, he said in the 1890s, we had

3113
01:49:39,060 --> 01:49:42,660
the NAACP, the Sierra Club, and the Boys

3114
01:49:42,660 --> 01:49:43,860
and Girls Club.

3115
01:49:44,420 --> 01:49:46,180
Let's go over the facts.

3116
01:49:47,080 --> 01:49:48,020
Here we go.

3117
01:49:48,380 --> 01:49:49,240
He's got the documents.

3118
01:49:49,960 --> 01:49:50,760
Boys Club.

3119
01:49:51,180 --> 01:49:53,360
There was no Boys and Girls Club.

3120
01:49:53,420 --> 01:49:54,500
Let's make this clear.

3121
01:49:54,780 --> 01:49:57,900
There was no Boys and Girls Clubs in

3122
01:49:57,900 --> 01:49:58,480
the United States.

3123
01:49:58,480 --> 01:49:59,520
Was there a Girls Club?

3124
01:50:00,400 --> 01:50:02,720
There may have been, but the girls usually

3125
01:50:02,720 --> 01:50:04,040
joined the Girl Scouts.

3126
01:50:04,460 --> 01:50:07,980
The Boys and Girls Club came about in

3127
01:50:07,980 --> 01:50:11,320
1990, not 1890.

3128
01:50:13,140 --> 01:50:16,180
In fact, the Boys Club was first founded

3129
01:50:16,180 --> 01:50:20,520
by women, actually, curiously, in 1860, which is

3130
01:50:20,520 --> 01:50:21,360
not 1890.

3131
01:50:21,940 --> 01:50:26,520
It was then nationally organized in 1906, not

3132
01:50:26,520 --> 01:50:27,240
1890.

3133
01:50:27,240 --> 01:50:30,980
And then it was reformed in 1930, in

3134
01:50:30,980 --> 01:50:33,740
the 30s and the 40s, not 1890.

3135
01:50:34,020 --> 01:50:35,940
Oh, well, let's go to the National Association

3136
01:50:35,940 --> 01:50:38,220
for the Advancement of Colored People, which was

3137
01:50:38,220 --> 01:50:41,160
formed, according to him, in the 1890s.

3138
01:50:41,580 --> 01:50:48,960
The NAACP was formed in 1909 by people

3139
01:50:48,960 --> 01:50:50,560
like W.E.B. Du Bois.

3140
01:50:50,680 --> 01:50:52,140
This was not 1890.

3141
01:50:52,140 --> 01:50:56,060
The Sierra Club was indeed founded in 1890,

3142
01:50:56,300 --> 01:50:59,100
but that's a conservationist group.

3143
01:50:59,220 --> 01:51:01,040
It's not a political group.

3144
01:51:01,300 --> 01:51:02,620
And then we take it to the end,

3145
01:51:02,720 --> 01:51:05,300
which he says labor unions, which were actually

3146
01:51:05,300 --> 01:51:08,300
founded, the first, the founding of the National

3147
01:51:08,300 --> 01:51:12,360
Labor Union was in 1866, not 1890.

3148
01:51:13,100 --> 01:51:15,240
And there's plenty of examples of unions that

3149
01:51:15,240 --> 01:51:15,540
were formed.

3150
01:51:15,640 --> 01:51:17,820
The Knights of Labor was in 1869.

3151
01:51:17,820 --> 01:51:20,600
And then the Great Railroad Strike, which was

3152
01:51:20,600 --> 01:51:23,280
a union-inspired strike, 1877.

3153
01:51:23,580 --> 01:51:25,380
This guy is a liar.

3154
01:51:25,580 --> 01:51:27,000
He works for the New York Times, and

3155
01:51:27,000 --> 01:51:30,960
he spews bullshit on PBS, which people lap

3156
01:51:30,960 --> 01:51:32,200
up like lapdogs.

3157
01:51:32,280 --> 01:51:32,920
It's pathetic.

3158
01:51:34,020 --> 01:51:36,360
So does this end the clips on the

3159
01:51:36,360 --> 01:51:38,940
No Agenda show of the PBS NewsHour, since

3160
01:51:38,940 --> 01:51:40,180
it's all lies?

3161
01:51:40,420 --> 01:51:40,820
Can it?

3162
01:51:40,860 --> 01:51:42,280
Can it possibly mean the end?

3163
01:51:42,540 --> 01:51:44,640
Could this be a New Year's resolution?

3164
01:51:48,640 --> 01:51:49,680
Let's hope so.

3165
01:51:49,680 --> 01:51:50,200
All right.

3166
01:51:50,260 --> 01:51:53,280
Let's do a little bit of Trump derangement

3167
01:51:53,280 --> 01:51:54,400
syndrome before the break.

3168
01:51:55,520 --> 01:51:57,880
This was a fine example, which is going

3169
01:51:57,880 --> 01:51:59,560
to cost somebody a lot of money.

3170
01:51:59,780 --> 01:52:01,020
To the index, and what was meant to

3171
01:52:01,020 --> 01:52:03,340
be a celebration is now a controversy.

3172
01:52:03,620 --> 01:52:06,240
The Kennedy Center canceled its annual Christmas Eve

3173
01:52:06,240 --> 01:52:07,060
jazz concert.

3174
01:52:07,220 --> 01:52:09,500
The show's host, musician Chuck Redd, says he

3175
01:52:09,500 --> 01:52:11,180
called off the performance in the wake of

3176
01:52:11,180 --> 01:52:13,460
President Trump adding his own name to the

3177
01:52:13,460 --> 01:52:14,280
arts institution.

3178
01:52:14,720 --> 01:52:17,380
Many legal scholars say Trump's move violates the

3179
01:52:17,380 --> 01:52:17,480
law.

3180
01:52:17,860 --> 01:52:21,280
You know, Chuck Redd has been doing this

3181
01:52:21,280 --> 01:52:25,480
Christmas concert since 1890, and now all of

3182
01:52:25,480 --> 01:52:27,340
a sudden he decides to cancel?

3183
01:52:28,160 --> 01:52:28,700
1890.

3184
01:52:29,000 --> 01:52:32,600
That's, you know, Grinnell is the president, which

3185
01:52:32,600 --> 01:52:34,420
is perfect for the job.

3186
01:52:34,660 --> 01:52:35,360
Remember Grinnell?

3187
01:52:35,540 --> 01:52:37,900
He was ambassador.

3188
01:52:39,120 --> 01:52:40,280
He's the gay guy.

3189
01:52:42,080 --> 01:52:42,520
He was...

3190
01:52:42,520 --> 01:52:43,920
Oh, yeah, I do remember him.

3191
01:52:44,000 --> 01:52:45,420
He's the gay ambassador.

3192
01:52:45,620 --> 01:52:46,780
Yeah, he is perfect for the job.

3193
01:52:46,780 --> 01:52:47,300
That's true.

3194
01:52:47,500 --> 01:52:50,720
Yes, and I think he then was, for

3195
01:52:50,720 --> 01:52:53,040
a moment there, he was national security advisor,

3196
01:52:53,200 --> 01:52:53,640
I think.

3197
01:52:55,140 --> 01:52:55,940
I had to look him up.

3198
01:52:56,200 --> 01:52:56,820
I like him.

3199
01:52:56,940 --> 01:52:58,820
He's a good looking man.

3200
01:52:59,400 --> 01:53:00,140
Good guy.

3201
01:53:01,040 --> 01:53:01,520
Handsome man.

3202
01:53:01,580 --> 01:53:02,600
Very handsome man.

3203
01:53:03,080 --> 01:53:06,600
And so this Chuck Redd decides to cancel

3204
01:53:06,600 --> 01:53:08,940
a day before the concert.

3205
01:53:09,060 --> 01:53:10,440
That's going to cost you money.

3206
01:53:11,480 --> 01:53:12,100
That's going to cost...

3207
01:53:12,100 --> 01:53:14,020
Someone has to pay for that, because ticket

3208
01:53:14,020 --> 01:53:15,660
sales, everything's already done.

3209
01:53:15,660 --> 01:53:16,700
That's just a...

3210
01:53:16,700 --> 01:53:19,480
That's a career killing move as far as

3211
01:53:19,480 --> 01:53:20,200
I'm concerned.

3212
01:53:20,980 --> 01:53:22,380
Yeah, for political purposes.

3213
01:53:22,660 --> 01:53:24,480
Yeah, I was like, what do you care,

3214
01:53:24,660 --> 01:53:24,820
man?

3215
01:53:24,900 --> 01:53:25,980
What do you care?

3216
01:53:26,420 --> 01:53:28,680
Trump put his name above JFK.

3217
01:53:30,860 --> 01:53:35,940
This is a Bloomberg podcast called The Balance

3218
01:53:35,940 --> 01:53:36,920
of Power.

3219
01:53:37,320 --> 01:53:39,160
You can already imagine what this is like.

3220
01:53:39,240 --> 01:53:40,900
I think it's audio only.

3221
01:53:41,260 --> 01:53:42,020
Thank the Lord.

3222
01:53:42,080 --> 01:53:42,820
No, it's on TV.

3223
01:53:43,000 --> 01:53:44,160
It's on TV too?

3224
01:53:44,520 --> 01:53:45,640
I'm pretty sure it is, yeah.

3225
01:53:46,180 --> 01:53:49,000
Well, here they are complaining about Trump.

3226
01:53:49,280 --> 01:53:51,240
Incredible reporting today in the New York Times.

3227
01:53:51,320 --> 01:53:52,920
If you've not seen this story, they spend

3228
01:53:52,920 --> 01:53:54,380
time in the Oval like no one has,

3229
01:53:54,680 --> 01:53:55,760
cataloging each inch.

3230
01:53:55,980 --> 01:53:57,300
And all of the changes that have taken

3231
01:53:57,300 --> 01:53:59,100
place over the last year, there have been

3232
01:53:59,100 --> 01:54:00,480
a lot of them, by the way.

3233
01:54:00,720 --> 01:54:01,900
The flags are abundant.

3234
01:54:02,440 --> 01:54:04,180
We've got the gold framed copy of the

3235
01:54:04,180 --> 01:54:05,320
Declaration of Independence.

3236
01:54:05,940 --> 01:54:07,840
Gold statuette of an eagle flying over the

3237
01:54:07,840 --> 01:54:10,100
Constitution arrived last month near the flags behind

3238
01:54:10,100 --> 01:54:10,600
the desk.

3239
01:54:10,800 --> 01:54:12,260
A wooden box with a red button.

3240
01:54:12,500 --> 01:54:13,880
You know, that's the Diet Coke button.

3241
01:54:13,920 --> 01:54:14,420
That's different.

3242
01:54:14,420 --> 01:54:15,180
It's not gold.

3243
01:54:15,760 --> 01:54:17,300
But the question of whether the gold is

3244
01:54:17,300 --> 01:54:19,000
real, also acknowledged.

3245
01:54:19,440 --> 01:54:20,860
When you look at all the frames that

3246
01:54:20,860 --> 01:54:22,680
are in the mirrors and the photos, some

3247
01:54:22,680 --> 01:54:24,600
thought that this was just cheap plastic.

3248
01:54:24,740 --> 01:54:26,400
No, the White House says that while the

3249
01:54:26,400 --> 01:54:28,820
underlying materials are made of plaster or metal,

3250
01:54:28,900 --> 01:54:30,940
they are covered in real gold leaf.

3251
01:54:31,200 --> 01:54:33,820
A craftsman from Florida travels to the White

3252
01:54:33,820 --> 01:54:36,360
House on the weekends to gild, gild, gild

3253
01:54:36,360 --> 01:54:38,360
parts of the Oval Office by hand.

3254
01:54:41,380 --> 01:54:42,800
What is the problem?

3255
01:54:43,940 --> 01:54:45,220
I mean, I'm not that much of a

3256
01:54:45,220 --> 01:54:45,320
guru.

3257
01:54:45,320 --> 01:54:46,840
I do that myself at the house.

3258
01:54:46,960 --> 01:54:48,440
Yeah, with gold spray paint.

3259
01:54:48,920 --> 01:54:50,720
No, you can get gold leaf.

3260
01:54:50,880 --> 01:54:52,620
It's actually relative.

3261
01:54:52,800 --> 01:54:54,040
It's not as cheap as it used to

3262
01:54:54,040 --> 01:54:54,160
be.

3263
01:54:54,180 --> 01:54:55,140
Are you gilding stuff?

3264
01:54:55,860 --> 01:54:56,960
I've gilded stuff.

3265
01:54:57,060 --> 01:54:58,720
I'm not doing it as we speak.

3266
01:54:59,300 --> 01:55:00,680
Could you gild my microphone?

3267
01:55:02,560 --> 01:55:04,100
You want to spray it.

3268
01:55:04,180 --> 01:55:05,000
You want to spray it.

3269
01:55:05,040 --> 01:55:05,780
You don't want to gild it.

3270
01:55:05,800 --> 01:55:06,500
How do you gild?

3271
01:55:06,620 --> 01:55:07,940
Is gild done by painting?

3272
01:55:08,200 --> 01:55:08,900
Or how do you gild?

3273
01:55:08,900 --> 01:55:09,260
No, no.

3274
01:55:11,260 --> 01:55:13,900
There's a sticky undersurface and you lay a

3275
01:55:13,900 --> 01:55:16,100
piece of gold leaf over it and press

3276
01:55:16,100 --> 01:55:19,260
it down and over the bumps and little

3277
01:55:19,260 --> 01:55:20,940
things and get it so it's all pushed

3278
01:55:20,940 --> 01:55:21,500
in there.

3279
01:55:21,980 --> 01:55:24,620
So it's one gold leaf at a time.

3280
01:55:24,680 --> 01:55:27,280
It's only one atom thick, which is crazy.

3281
01:55:27,840 --> 01:55:28,260
One atom?

3282
01:55:28,540 --> 01:55:29,080
Oh, man.

3283
01:55:29,640 --> 01:55:31,740
Yeah, gold can be one atom thick and

3284
01:55:31,740 --> 01:55:32,420
still be gold.

3285
01:55:32,480 --> 01:55:34,460
Is that the stuff the high-end chefs

3286
01:55:34,460 --> 01:55:35,320
put on the food?

3287
01:55:36,240 --> 01:55:37,160
Yeah, exactly.

3288
01:55:37,740 --> 01:55:38,700
That's the stuff you can eat?

3289
01:55:38,700 --> 01:55:39,960
Exactly the same stuff.

3290
01:55:40,060 --> 01:55:40,680
You can eat it?

3291
01:55:41,500 --> 01:55:44,520
Yes, you can because there's really not that

3292
01:55:44,520 --> 01:55:45,280
much to it.

3293
01:55:45,660 --> 01:55:46,500
I've eaten it.

3294
01:55:47,180 --> 01:55:48,080
It's just a line of atoms.

3295
01:55:48,460 --> 01:55:50,420
You're probably not getting enough gold to do

3296
01:55:50,420 --> 01:55:50,780
anything.

3297
01:55:50,940 --> 01:55:51,960
I mean, there's not much gold.

3298
01:55:52,120 --> 01:55:54,160
I've eaten gold in my day.

3299
01:55:55,200 --> 01:55:56,320
Most people have.

3300
01:55:56,420 --> 01:55:57,720
If you go to a high-end restaurant

3301
01:55:57,720 --> 01:56:00,920
over the years, at some point, someone will

3302
01:56:00,920 --> 01:56:04,040
bring out a gateau that has a piece

3303
01:56:04,040 --> 01:56:05,440
of gold leaf on the top.

3304
01:56:05,480 --> 01:56:06,100
And foam.

3305
01:56:07,560 --> 01:56:08,060
Foam.

3306
01:56:08,940 --> 01:56:10,640
Foam is so passe.

3307
01:56:10,960 --> 01:56:11,270
It's ridiculous.

3308
01:56:12,080 --> 01:56:12,880
Oh, foam.

3309
01:56:13,040 --> 01:56:13,560
It's still a thing.

3310
01:56:13,600 --> 01:56:14,980
Yeah, well, maybe where you are.

3311
01:56:15,840 --> 01:56:18,120
Let me clue you in about foam.

3312
01:56:18,940 --> 01:56:19,880
The foam.

3313
01:56:20,420 --> 01:56:22,040
I've always loved the foam.

3314
01:56:22,920 --> 01:56:24,800
And so these guys didn't stop.

3315
01:56:25,200 --> 01:56:26,580
Do you know about the peephole?

3316
01:56:28,260 --> 01:56:29,240
Oh, brother.

3317
01:56:30,000 --> 01:56:30,920
This is fascinating.

3318
01:56:31,060 --> 01:56:33,020
You know about the peephole in the outer

3319
01:56:33,020 --> 01:56:33,380
oval?

3320
01:56:33,900 --> 01:56:35,280
Most people don't know about this.

3321
01:56:35,280 --> 01:56:38,040
There was a peephole that until quite recently

3322
01:56:38,040 --> 01:56:40,160
would allow staff to just check on the

3323
01:56:40,160 --> 01:56:41,620
meeting to see what's going on in there.

3324
01:56:41,920 --> 01:56:43,620
Make sure the president's all right.

3325
01:56:43,660 --> 01:56:44,280
You're going to walk in.

3326
01:56:44,320 --> 01:56:45,300
You know what you're walking in on.

3327
01:56:45,740 --> 01:56:49,040
Trump has blocked the peephole with new mirrors.

3328
01:56:50,020 --> 01:56:53,040
If the door is now closed, they cannot

3329
01:56:53,040 --> 01:56:54,800
see what is happening in the room.

3330
01:56:56,440 --> 01:56:57,400
Oh, God.

3331
01:56:59,100 --> 01:57:00,520
I'll have what she's having.

3332
01:57:01,180 --> 01:57:03,060
He's blocked the peephole.

3333
01:57:04,640 --> 01:57:06,960
I can't believe that's also on television.

3334
01:57:07,440 --> 01:57:08,420
That's crazy.

3335
01:57:09,860 --> 01:57:11,740
Well, on television, they have it.

3336
01:57:11,840 --> 01:57:14,580
It's a very small box, and it's surrounded

3337
01:57:14,580 --> 01:57:17,380
by nothing but stock market information flying all

3338
01:57:17,380 --> 01:57:18,080
over the place.

3339
01:57:18,300 --> 01:57:18,620
Right, right, right.

3340
01:57:18,760 --> 01:57:20,720
It's not really a television show.

3341
01:57:20,920 --> 01:57:21,820
Yeah, I know.

3342
01:57:22,000 --> 01:57:22,460
Exactly.

3343
01:57:23,400 --> 01:57:26,360
Well, John, with that fine news of the

3344
01:57:26,360 --> 01:57:28,480
peephole being blocked, I think it is time

3345
01:57:28,480 --> 01:57:30,040
to thank you for your courage.

3346
01:57:30,040 --> 01:57:32,100
The man who put the sea in Candyland.

3347
01:57:32,220 --> 01:57:33,540
Say hello to my friend on the other

3348
01:57:33,540 --> 01:57:36,480
end, the one, the only, Mr. John C.

3349
01:57:36,940 --> 01:57:37,300
DeMora.

3350
01:57:41,320 --> 01:57:41,680
Yeah.

3351
01:57:42,200 --> 01:57:42,600
Good morning.

3352
01:57:44,080 --> 01:57:45,560
Chips and sea boots on the ground, feeding

3353
01:57:45,560 --> 01:57:46,900
the airships in the water, all the dames

3354
01:57:46,900 --> 01:57:47,600
and knights out there.

3355
01:57:47,680 --> 01:57:49,080
And the morning to the trolls in the

3356
01:57:49,080 --> 01:57:51,060
troll room.

3357
01:57:51,680 --> 01:57:52,120
Hold on.

3358
01:57:52,180 --> 01:57:52,860
Let me count you.

3359
01:57:52,920 --> 01:57:53,320
There we go.

3360
01:57:53,940 --> 01:57:54,260
There we go.

3361
01:57:55,200 --> 01:57:55,720
Okay.

3362
01:57:56,980 --> 01:57:58,540
We're at 1838.

3363
01:57:58,800 --> 01:58:00,440
That's not bad for a holiday weekend.

3364
01:58:00,580 --> 01:58:02,260
It's good to have everybody here.

3365
01:58:03,040 --> 01:58:05,700
Now, 1,838 trolls are listening live to

3366
01:58:05,700 --> 01:58:08,020
this podcast, and we are a podcast.

3367
01:58:08,340 --> 01:58:09,180
We're just a podcast.

3368
01:58:09,900 --> 01:58:11,540
You can do other things while listening to

3369
01:58:11,540 --> 01:58:11,960
this podcast.

3370
01:58:12,440 --> 01:58:14,620
We are an OG podcast.

3371
01:58:15,120 --> 01:58:15,920
And genuine.

3372
01:58:16,260 --> 01:58:18,000
A pod, as some would say.

3373
01:58:18,340 --> 01:58:18,920
The pod.

3374
01:58:19,540 --> 01:58:21,380
Well, you shouldn't be saying it.

3375
01:58:22,260 --> 01:58:23,960
You've rejected that moniker.

3376
01:58:23,960 --> 01:58:24,560
Yes.

3377
01:58:24,760 --> 01:58:25,440
Yes, I have.

3378
01:58:25,740 --> 01:58:27,200
So you can be driving while you're listening

3379
01:58:27,200 --> 01:58:27,580
to this.

3380
01:58:27,660 --> 01:58:28,740
You could be walking the dog.

3381
01:58:28,780 --> 01:58:29,660
You could be doing chores.

3382
01:58:29,760 --> 01:58:30,700
You're washing the dishes.

3383
01:58:30,980 --> 01:58:31,580
Walking around.

3384
01:58:31,600 --> 01:58:32,740
You can be gardening.

3385
01:58:33,240 --> 01:58:33,680
Gardening.

3386
01:58:33,900 --> 01:58:35,440
All kinds of wonderful activities.

3387
01:58:35,820 --> 01:58:38,120
In fact, we encourage that you're outside when

3388
01:58:38,120 --> 01:58:39,200
you listen to this podcast.

3389
01:58:40,100 --> 01:58:42,600
Just walking around, laughing to yourself.

3390
01:58:44,020 --> 01:58:45,520
So people think you're nuts.

3391
01:58:45,580 --> 01:58:46,100
It's perfect.

3392
01:58:46,200 --> 01:58:47,900
And you recognize each other on the street.

3393
01:58:47,980 --> 01:58:49,860
Oh, you're listening to the best podcast?

3394
01:58:49,940 --> 01:58:50,440
Yeah, I'm listening.

3395
01:58:50,780 --> 01:58:51,220
ITM.

3396
01:58:51,380 --> 01:58:52,160
ITM, everybody.

3397
01:58:53,320 --> 01:58:55,080
When did that happen the other day?

3398
01:58:57,420 --> 01:58:58,280
You got an ITM?

3399
01:58:58,420 --> 01:59:00,620
I got an ITM out of the blue.

3400
01:59:01,080 --> 01:59:02,540
Oh, from a pastor.

3401
01:59:03,020 --> 01:59:04,540
We were talking to a pastor.

3402
01:59:04,640 --> 01:59:05,420
One of the Bryans?

3403
01:59:05,600 --> 01:59:06,960
No, not one of the five Bryans.

3404
01:59:07,000 --> 01:59:08,240
No, this is for Godcaster.

3405
01:59:08,760 --> 01:59:10,720
And the pastor says, ITM.

3406
01:59:10,820 --> 01:59:11,860
I'm like, holy moly.

3407
01:59:13,260 --> 01:59:13,620
ITM.

3408
01:59:13,820 --> 01:59:14,480
There we go.

3409
01:59:14,560 --> 01:59:15,380
A man of the cloth.

3410
01:59:15,520 --> 01:59:16,840
Of many different cloths.

3411
01:59:17,720 --> 01:59:19,500
And, of course, if you have a modern

3412
01:59:19,500 --> 01:59:20,400
podcast app.

3413
01:59:20,400 --> 01:59:22,080
And, by the way, PodVerse is working on

3414
01:59:22,080 --> 01:59:23,820
a new version, which is going to be

3415
01:59:23,820 --> 01:59:24,400
amazing.

3416
01:59:25,300 --> 01:59:28,780
PodVerse 2.0. I mean, Mitch is...

3417
01:59:29,300 --> 01:59:31,200
Well, the new version of PodVerse.

3418
01:59:31,620 --> 01:59:32,160
I mean, what?

3419
01:59:32,200 --> 01:59:32,920
What's it going to do?

3420
01:59:33,200 --> 01:59:35,640
I mean, it's hard to explain, but it's

3421
01:59:35,640 --> 01:59:38,200
really going to help you find new podcasts,

3422
01:59:38,500 --> 01:59:39,160
find music.

3423
01:59:39,780 --> 01:59:41,460
We have value for value music.

3424
01:59:42,060 --> 01:59:43,320
Did you hear about the music hack?

3425
01:59:44,100 --> 01:59:45,480
It's interesting you bring that up.

3426
01:59:45,540 --> 01:59:45,880
Yes.

3427
01:59:46,260 --> 01:59:47,440
And it's not a hack.

3428
01:59:47,500 --> 01:59:48,900
It's just a great idea.

3429
01:59:48,900 --> 01:59:50,060
It's a download.

3430
01:59:50,380 --> 01:59:52,320
I think it's...

3431
01:59:52,320 --> 01:59:52,740
What is it?

3432
01:59:53,300 --> 01:59:53,800
Anna...

3433
01:59:53,800 --> 01:59:54,580
Anna's blog.

3434
01:59:54,840 --> 01:59:55,660
No, not...

3435
01:59:55,660 --> 01:59:56,060
Yeah, it is.

3436
01:59:56,120 --> 01:59:56,820
Anna's blog.

3437
01:59:57,340 --> 02:00:00,520
They backed up Spotify and they're making...

3438
02:00:00,520 --> 02:00:00,680
All of it.

3439
02:00:01,260 --> 02:00:03,960
Well, I think 90% pretty much...

3440
02:00:03,960 --> 02:00:05,000
I thought it was all of it.

3441
02:00:05,240 --> 02:00:08,780
We archived around 86 million files representing 99

3442
02:00:08,780 --> 02:00:10,660
.6% of listens.

3443
02:00:12,540 --> 02:00:14,540
300 terabyte in total size.

3444
02:00:14,620 --> 02:00:16,040
And, of course, they're putting this all on

3445
02:00:16,040 --> 02:00:16,760
torrents.

3446
02:00:16,760 --> 02:00:18,900
And so you can already get the metadata.

3447
02:00:19,140 --> 02:00:20,680
I've never even heard of Anna's blog.

3448
02:00:21,060 --> 02:00:22,340
But if you want to get a book...

3449
02:00:22,340 --> 02:00:22,780
They're hackers.

3450
02:00:23,000 --> 02:00:23,500
They do a lot.

3451
02:00:23,740 --> 02:00:25,860
Anna's blog has been in business.

3452
02:00:26,440 --> 02:00:27,780
Nobody knows anything about them.

3453
02:00:28,260 --> 02:00:30,280
But they're the ones who have the giant

3454
02:00:30,280 --> 02:00:33,080
libraries that they've stolen.

3455
02:00:33,640 --> 02:00:35,340
I'm going to use the word stolen.

3456
02:00:35,880 --> 02:00:37,740
They have downloaded all kinds of stuff.

3457
02:00:37,880 --> 02:00:40,460
They're very important to the underground community for

3458
02:00:40,460 --> 02:00:42,240
information archiving.

3459
02:00:42,680 --> 02:00:45,800
Well, you like downloading movies.

3460
02:00:46,380 --> 02:00:47,560
No, I don't.

3461
02:00:47,640 --> 02:00:49,720
I pay for everything I view.

3462
02:00:51,320 --> 02:00:52,360
I'm sorry.

3463
02:00:52,500 --> 02:00:53,140
Yes, you're right.

3464
02:00:53,220 --> 02:00:54,500
You pay for everything you do.

3465
02:00:54,940 --> 02:00:57,160
But there's lots of people who like downloading

3466
02:00:57,160 --> 02:00:57,580
movies.

3467
02:00:57,780 --> 02:00:59,040
But they have books.

3468
02:01:01,040 --> 02:01:03,400
I'll bet you your books are on here.

3469
02:01:05,600 --> 02:01:07,200
You wouldn't be surprised.

3470
02:01:07,420 --> 02:01:07,640
Yeah.

3471
02:01:08,420 --> 02:01:11,280
So it's kind of a super hack because

3472
02:01:11,280 --> 02:01:16,080
I can see people putting together...

3473
02:01:16,080 --> 02:01:18,520
They even have some kind of their own

3474
02:01:18,520 --> 02:01:21,680
player, if I understood correctly.

3475
02:01:22,420 --> 02:01:24,180
So in essence, you can load up the

3476
02:01:24,180 --> 02:01:25,680
metadata in their player.

3477
02:01:26,400 --> 02:01:29,280
And then you can access the files from

3478
02:01:29,280 --> 02:01:30,960
the torrents in your player.

3479
02:01:31,560 --> 02:01:33,600
And it'll just kind of work like Spotify.

3480
02:01:34,960 --> 02:01:35,120
Yeah.

3481
02:01:35,960 --> 02:01:36,500
Yeah.

3482
02:01:36,660 --> 02:01:37,520
I mean...

3483
02:01:37,520 --> 02:01:39,540
I can't see how that helps the stock.

3484
02:01:41,820 --> 02:01:43,440
Well, it depends.

3485
02:01:43,440 --> 02:01:45,060
If it gets kind of the scale of

3486
02:01:45,060 --> 02:01:47,900
Napster, it'll be very interesting to see what

3487
02:01:47,900 --> 02:01:48,300
happens.

3488
02:01:48,400 --> 02:01:51,480
But basically, the musicians aren't really losing any

3489
02:01:51,480 --> 02:01:51,780
money.

3490
02:01:51,880 --> 02:01:53,180
I mean, no one's making money.

3491
02:01:53,320 --> 02:01:54,120
They're not making any money anyway.

3492
02:01:54,300 --> 02:01:54,480
Yeah.

3493
02:01:54,620 --> 02:01:58,460
So in a way, it's kind of fun.

3494
02:01:58,760 --> 02:02:00,760
I mean, I don't condone stealing.

3495
02:02:02,200 --> 02:02:06,860
But, you know, I just like the idea

3496
02:02:06,860 --> 02:02:08,440
that they just sat there and had all

3497
02:02:08,440 --> 02:02:12,980
of these machines just screaming, grinding away and

3498
02:02:12,980 --> 02:02:13,620
taking it.

3499
02:02:13,620 --> 02:02:14,360
Saving everything.

3500
02:02:14,760 --> 02:02:15,480
I like that.

3501
02:02:15,660 --> 02:02:18,380
Just something radical about it that I like.

3502
02:02:19,780 --> 02:02:20,460
Of course, with podcasts...

3503
02:02:21,080 --> 02:02:23,340
This was at the dinner table conversation, too.

3504
02:02:23,560 --> 02:02:24,500
A couple of things to note.

3505
02:02:24,640 --> 02:02:28,140
One, I also posted this on X, this

3506
02:02:28,140 --> 02:02:29,040
little hack.

3507
02:02:29,340 --> 02:02:31,600
And the notes I got back from typically

3508
02:02:31,600 --> 02:02:33,760
my followers go, So what?

3509
02:02:34,060 --> 02:02:35,380
This is not WAV files.

3510
02:02:35,540 --> 02:02:37,240
Everybody knows if you're going to save stuff,

3511
02:02:37,320 --> 02:02:38,520
you got to save it in WAV.

3512
02:02:38,520 --> 02:02:39,520
You got to save full...

3513
02:02:40,200 --> 02:02:40,640
Lossless, lossless audio.

3514
02:02:41,180 --> 02:02:41,880
Lossless, lossless.

3515
02:02:42,000 --> 02:02:42,120
Lossless.

3516
02:02:42,140 --> 02:02:42,360
Lossless.

3517
02:02:43,980 --> 02:02:45,320
And so I got that.

3518
02:02:45,720 --> 02:02:47,660
And so then you also had the...

3519
02:02:47,660 --> 02:02:48,540
Which is what...

3520
02:02:48,540 --> 02:02:49,300
You've heard it.

3521
02:02:49,620 --> 02:02:50,420
No one cares.

3522
02:02:50,640 --> 02:02:52,580
No one cares about quality anymore.

3523
02:02:52,720 --> 02:02:54,340
That went out the window a long time

3524
02:02:54,340 --> 02:02:54,480
ago.

3525
02:02:54,500 --> 02:02:54,600
That's what I said.

3526
02:02:54,640 --> 02:02:55,980
That's what came up at the dinner table.

3527
02:02:56,240 --> 02:02:58,520
J.C. says, well, he only downloaded it.

3528
02:02:58,560 --> 02:03:01,500
It's 160K.

3529
02:03:01,720 --> 02:03:03,640
And I said, which is more than adequate

3530
02:03:03,640 --> 02:03:05,020
for today.

3531
02:03:05,120 --> 02:03:06,780
It's not 128 or 64.

3532
02:03:06,780 --> 02:03:09,100
This podcast is 96.

3533
02:03:09,560 --> 02:03:10,680
Yeah, we're 96.

3534
02:03:10,780 --> 02:03:12,080
We're 96, man.

3535
02:03:12,500 --> 02:03:13,500
We don't care.

3536
02:03:14,860 --> 02:03:15,420
It's great.

3537
02:03:15,560 --> 02:03:17,520
And I started doing that for file size,

3538
02:03:17,580 --> 02:03:19,220
but now it became part of our sound.

3539
02:03:20,260 --> 02:03:20,780
It is literally part...

3540
02:03:20,780 --> 02:03:21,540
Our sound is fine.

3541
02:03:21,660 --> 02:03:23,300
People would say we have great sound and

3542
02:03:23,300 --> 02:03:24,360
we're doing it at 96.

3543
02:03:24,660 --> 02:03:26,000
Yeah, well, that's because you get a little

3544
02:03:26,000 --> 02:03:28,540
bit of artifacts when you do it at

3545
02:03:28,540 --> 02:03:28,920
96.

3546
02:03:29,140 --> 02:03:30,820
It adds a little more crunch to it,

3547
02:03:30,840 --> 02:03:31,640
which I enjoy.

3548
02:03:31,780 --> 02:03:36,680
It's almost like over-modulating onto magnetic tape.

3549
02:03:37,440 --> 02:03:39,120
That's also part of sound.

3550
02:03:39,340 --> 02:03:42,000
I'm a sound designer, Chuck.

3551
02:03:42,840 --> 02:03:43,880
Yeah, you're...

3552
02:03:43,880 --> 02:03:45,080
I'm a sound designer.

3553
02:03:45,200 --> 02:03:46,500
It's designed for earbuds.

3554
02:03:48,360 --> 02:03:50,620
But, yeah, so that was the only pushback

3555
02:03:50,620 --> 02:03:51,020
you got.

3556
02:03:51,140 --> 02:03:52,980
It was not Wave, not Wave.

3557
02:03:53,080 --> 02:03:56,360
Go talk to Neil Young with his failed

3558
02:03:56,360 --> 02:03:57,240
Wave product.

3559
02:03:57,340 --> 02:03:57,740
Remember that?

3560
02:03:58,360 --> 02:03:58,740
Yeah.

3561
02:03:59,140 --> 02:04:00,860
It was a good idea, but no one

3562
02:04:00,860 --> 02:04:01,240
cared.

3563
02:04:01,760 --> 02:04:02,720
Nobody cared.

3564
02:04:03,460 --> 02:04:06,360
Once MP3s came in and Napster, and you

3565
02:04:06,360 --> 02:04:09,580
could be sharing with your friends, it was

3566
02:04:09,580 --> 02:04:10,300
fantastic.

3567
02:04:10,920 --> 02:04:11,960
Man, I loved those days.

3568
02:04:11,960 --> 02:04:14,400
The sales of CDs were at their absolute

3569
02:04:14,400 --> 02:04:15,040
peak.

3570
02:04:15,200 --> 02:04:16,640
Yes, because everyone was...

3571
02:04:16,640 --> 02:04:18,720
During Napster, because you could hear music you

3572
02:04:18,720 --> 02:04:21,160
never thought of, because Napster had a recommendation

3573
02:04:21,160 --> 02:04:21,840
engine.

3574
02:04:22,060 --> 02:04:24,100
No, no, it wasn't the recommendation engine.

3575
02:04:24,420 --> 02:04:26,300
It was you got a file and then

3576
02:04:26,300 --> 02:04:27,860
you go look at the guy's drive.

3577
02:04:27,960 --> 02:04:28,880
What else you got in here?

3578
02:04:28,980 --> 02:04:29,080
Yeah, right.

3579
02:04:29,140 --> 02:04:30,880
Well, it was a...

3580
02:04:32,240 --> 02:04:33,120
Exploration system.

3581
02:04:34,020 --> 02:04:34,240
Okay.

3582
02:04:34,880 --> 02:04:38,780
But it basically was a kind of a

3583
02:04:38,780 --> 02:04:41,000
handmade version of recommendation.

3584
02:04:41,240 --> 02:04:41,340
It was beautiful.

3585
02:04:41,340 --> 02:04:42,880
Because what you do, you hear some music

3586
02:04:42,880 --> 02:04:44,560
from some guy, and you say, what else

3587
02:04:44,560 --> 02:04:45,620
is this guy like?

3588
02:04:45,900 --> 02:04:47,660
You go look at his files, and you

3589
02:04:47,660 --> 02:04:49,440
say, oh, I never heard of this band.

3590
02:04:49,500 --> 02:04:50,200
You download it.

3591
02:04:50,220 --> 02:04:51,340
Wow, these guys are good.

3592
02:04:51,380 --> 02:04:52,660
I'm going to buy their album.

3593
02:04:52,900 --> 02:04:55,300
But think about how good that was as

3594
02:04:55,300 --> 02:04:57,720
a discovery mechanism versus what you get on

3595
02:04:57,720 --> 02:04:59,440
Apple Music or Spotify.

3596
02:04:59,440 --> 02:05:00,440
Which sucks.

3597
02:05:00,660 --> 02:05:01,500
There is the left.

3598
02:05:01,800 --> 02:05:02,320
It sucks.

3599
02:05:02,420 --> 02:05:04,320
Oh, you might also like this.

3600
02:05:04,720 --> 02:05:06,580
No, I like rooting around in the guy's

3601
02:05:06,580 --> 02:05:07,780
hard drive.

3602
02:05:07,800 --> 02:05:08,480
Oh, look at that.

3603
02:05:08,500 --> 02:05:09,440
He's got 78s.

3604
02:05:10,020 --> 02:05:10,740
This is John.

3605
02:05:10,940 --> 02:05:11,920
This is John's drive.

3606
02:05:12,120 --> 02:05:12,300
That would be me.

3607
02:05:13,340 --> 02:05:13,660
What?

3608
02:05:13,880 --> 02:05:14,860
He's got all this cool...

3609
02:05:14,860 --> 02:05:16,880
Oh, he's got entire radio dramas.

3610
02:05:17,080 --> 02:05:18,800
It was all kinds of fun stuff.

3611
02:05:19,040 --> 02:05:20,380
We got to bring that back.

3612
02:05:20,940 --> 02:05:22,100
That was super fun.

3613
02:05:23,440 --> 02:05:24,860
Now, Anna's blog.

3614
02:05:24,980 --> 02:05:25,860
Bring that back.

3615
02:05:25,960 --> 02:05:27,080
That's what people want.

3616
02:05:28,300 --> 02:05:30,620
Yeah, the internet got ruined by apps.

3617
02:05:31,020 --> 02:05:31,420
Apps.

3618
02:05:31,780 --> 02:05:32,240
Got to have an app.

3619
02:05:33,420 --> 02:05:36,460
So anyway, get one of those modern podcast

3620
02:05:36,460 --> 02:05:36,760
apps.

3621
02:05:36,980 --> 02:05:39,820
And apparently, Podverse 2.0 will help you

3622
02:05:39,820 --> 02:05:41,320
find perfect podcasts.

3623
02:05:43,160 --> 02:05:44,840
Podcastapps.com is where you can find all

3624
02:05:44,840 --> 02:05:44,980
of them.

3625
02:05:45,000 --> 02:05:46,880
And these are the ones that also automatically

3626
02:05:46,880 --> 02:05:48,840
will give you a bat signal when your

3627
02:05:48,840 --> 02:05:51,420
favorite podcast goes live, which is what we

3628
02:05:51,420 --> 02:05:52,820
do with the No Agenda show, which is

3629
02:05:52,820 --> 02:05:54,220
really the only way to do it because

3630
02:05:54,220 --> 02:05:56,980
you have a built-in studio audience and

3631
02:05:56,980 --> 02:05:57,980
it's just more fun.

3632
02:05:58,080 --> 02:05:59,000
There's more energy.

3633
02:05:59,600 --> 02:06:01,820
It's great, which is great.

3634
02:06:02,100 --> 02:06:02,780
Face it.

3635
02:06:05,980 --> 02:06:06,740
What else?

3636
02:06:06,920 --> 02:06:10,480
I guess we'll talk about the Christmas special,

3637
02:06:10,820 --> 02:06:13,000
which Donald Winkler put together for us.

3638
02:06:13,980 --> 02:06:15,760
I got a lot of positive feedback on

3639
02:06:15,760 --> 02:06:16,040
this.

3640
02:06:17,100 --> 02:06:18,940
Did you get any feedback at all from

3641
02:06:18,940 --> 02:06:19,140
people?

3642
02:06:19,300 --> 02:06:19,760
None whatsoever.

3643
02:06:20,180 --> 02:06:20,520
None.

3644
02:06:20,780 --> 02:06:20,980
Hmm.

3645
02:06:21,700 --> 02:06:24,020
Well, I like the art that I chose,

3646
02:06:24,120 --> 02:06:26,340
even though we had...

3647
02:06:26,340 --> 02:06:27,760
Even the art that we chose.

3648
02:06:27,900 --> 02:06:29,660
Yeah, but did you not like my choice?

3649
02:06:30,120 --> 02:06:31,000
It was much better.

3650
02:06:32,180 --> 02:06:34,520
No, it was an executive decision you made.

3651
02:06:34,560 --> 02:06:35,320
Yes, I...

3652
02:06:35,320 --> 02:06:37,900
Wisely, because that's a terrific piece of art.

3653
02:06:38,140 --> 02:06:38,880
I called an audible.

3654
02:06:39,300 --> 02:06:41,200
You called an audible and you nailed it.

3655
02:06:43,000 --> 02:06:45,440
Baron Darren O'Neill created a piece of

3656
02:06:45,440 --> 02:06:47,820
art, which, and they had two of them,

3657
02:06:48,060 --> 02:06:49,940
and one kind of hid the pretty blonde's

3658
02:06:49,940 --> 02:06:50,260
face.

3659
02:06:50,780 --> 02:06:52,540
But I opted for just a...

3660
02:06:52,540 --> 02:06:54,000
She looks a bit like my mom, honestly.

3661
02:06:54,000 --> 02:06:55,380
That's how my mom looked back in the

3662
02:06:55,380 --> 02:06:57,380
50s, 50s, and 60s.

3663
02:06:58,260 --> 02:07:01,000
That was a very typical American look.

3664
02:07:01,360 --> 02:07:02,020
Wouldn't you agree?

3665
02:07:02,740 --> 02:07:02,920
Yeah.

3666
02:07:03,020 --> 02:07:04,840
No, she's a pretty...

3667
02:07:04,840 --> 02:07:06,960
For AI, it created a very pretty...

3668
02:07:06,960 --> 02:07:08,180
That's a pretty face.

3669
02:07:08,220 --> 02:07:08,800
Pretty face.

3670
02:07:09,080 --> 02:07:10,000
Pretty classic face.

3671
02:07:10,220 --> 02:07:10,320
Yeah.

3672
02:07:10,560 --> 02:07:11,400
And I even got...

3673
02:07:11,400 --> 02:07:13,260
I got comments on that, people saying, I

3674
02:07:13,260 --> 02:07:15,600
like how Adam and John just don't care.

3675
02:07:16,480 --> 02:07:17,680
They'll just put a pretty...

3676
02:07:17,680 --> 02:07:17,780
Don't care?

3677
02:07:17,820 --> 02:07:18,480
What are you talking about?

3678
02:07:18,480 --> 02:07:20,020
They'll just put a pretty blonde in the

3679
02:07:20,020 --> 02:07:20,320
picture.

3680
02:07:20,440 --> 02:07:21,340
He's a pretty blonde.

3681
02:07:21,340 --> 02:07:23,580
This is, we do care.

3682
02:07:24,000 --> 02:07:24,300
Hello?

3683
02:07:24,680 --> 02:07:25,940
It's just the opposite.

3684
02:07:26,840 --> 02:07:29,220
Because we know a pretty blonde sells.

3685
02:07:30,900 --> 02:07:31,940
Come on, let's be real.

3686
02:07:31,960 --> 02:07:33,120
It's money in the bank, people.

3687
02:07:33,320 --> 02:07:34,820
A pretty blonde always sells.

3688
02:07:35,000 --> 02:07:36,460
And she was holding up a No Agenda

3689
02:07:36,460 --> 02:07:39,440
Christmas book by Currie and Dvorak as curated

3690
02:07:39,440 --> 02:07:40,680
by Sir Donald Winkler.

3691
02:07:40,720 --> 02:07:42,900
It was a little small, but I decided

3692
02:07:42,900 --> 02:07:43,860
to go with it anyway.

3693
02:07:44,060 --> 02:07:44,900
It was fine.

3694
02:07:45,120 --> 02:07:46,860
Darren is a master.

3695
02:07:47,460 --> 02:07:48,580
He's a master, I tell you.

3696
02:07:48,640 --> 02:07:50,960
I don't know how he does it, but...

3697
02:07:50,960 --> 02:07:52,460
And of course, he doesn't do anything else.

3698
02:07:52,520 --> 02:07:53,540
I think his wife works.

3699
02:07:54,860 --> 02:07:55,760
I'm pretty sure.

3700
02:07:55,940 --> 02:07:57,340
Hold on to that one, Darren.

3701
02:07:57,780 --> 02:07:59,860
Whatever she says, do the chores.

3702
02:07:59,860 --> 02:08:00,920
Don't change anything.

3703
02:08:01,120 --> 02:08:02,100
Don't change anything.

3704
02:08:02,400 --> 02:08:03,220
It's a gem.

3705
02:08:04,480 --> 02:08:07,260
There were, of course, a lot of pieces

3706
02:08:07,260 --> 02:08:10,900
of art that were uploaded to noagendaartgenerator.com.

3707
02:08:10,980 --> 02:08:12,860
We should probably just take a quick look.

3708
02:08:14,180 --> 02:08:15,480
And let me see.

3709
02:08:15,580 --> 02:08:16,980
There was a lot of Christmas art.

3710
02:08:17,060 --> 02:08:19,280
There was a lot of redacted naughty and

3711
02:08:19,280 --> 02:08:20,180
nice lists.

3712
02:08:22,680 --> 02:08:27,200
You used the Jeffrey Rhea Christmas special artwork,

3713
02:08:27,420 --> 02:08:29,720
which was a nice piece, which Jeffrey did.

3714
02:08:30,020 --> 02:08:32,860
It was a tree, stylized tree with the

3715
02:08:32,860 --> 02:08:33,160
letters.

3716
02:08:33,380 --> 02:08:35,000
Do you think that was AI?

3717
02:08:35,960 --> 02:08:36,480
Absolutely.

3718
02:08:36,940 --> 02:08:37,160
Yeah?

3719
02:08:37,360 --> 02:08:40,080
Well, it was good prompting done.

3720
02:08:40,700 --> 02:08:42,300
And then there was just a ton of...

3721
02:08:42,300 --> 02:08:44,020
Well, okay, there's Darren's.

3722
02:08:44,480 --> 02:08:45,540
Some stockings.

3723
02:08:46,020 --> 02:08:46,440
I don't know.

3724
02:08:46,520 --> 02:08:47,260
It's just...

3725
02:08:47,260 --> 02:08:47,620
Oh, yeah.

3726
02:08:47,620 --> 02:08:49,920
Very funny blue acorn with the sweater puppies.

3727
02:08:50,140 --> 02:08:51,480
Okay, yeah, I'm not going to choose that.

3728
02:08:51,580 --> 02:08:52,520
Yeah, that was kind of cute.

3729
02:08:52,920 --> 02:08:55,720
The one you wanted, the actual cheesecake, because

3730
02:08:55,720 --> 02:08:59,080
that's what we discussed by Darren in honor

3731
02:08:59,080 --> 02:09:01,980
of Scaramanga, which I was...

3732
02:09:01,980 --> 02:09:02,640
Well, I didn't...

3733
02:09:02,640 --> 02:09:03,820
No, I don't think that's true.

3734
02:09:04,000 --> 02:09:05,840
I think that's the one we decided on.

3735
02:09:06,260 --> 02:09:06,380
No.

3736
02:09:07,520 --> 02:09:10,320
Oh, the Christmas cheesecake by Scaramanga?

3737
02:09:10,440 --> 02:09:11,060
I think so.

3738
02:09:11,140 --> 02:09:11,980
No, by Darren.

3739
02:09:12,720 --> 02:09:14,600
Oh, there's a better one by Scaramanga, but

3740
02:09:14,600 --> 02:09:15,720
it's ridiculous.

3741
02:09:16,440 --> 02:09:17,320
Not usable.

3742
02:09:18,360 --> 02:09:21,060
As long as you mention him, that's all

3743
02:09:21,060 --> 02:09:21,540
that matters.

3744
02:09:21,720 --> 02:09:22,560
He just wants to be mentioned.

3745
02:09:22,580 --> 02:09:24,220
Yeah, well, I just mentioned it, so he's

3746
02:09:24,220 --> 02:09:24,900
got his mention.

3747
02:09:25,020 --> 02:09:26,400
He's got a girl with big breasts.

3748
02:09:27,740 --> 02:09:30,540
So we're always looking for something fun, something

3749
02:09:30,540 --> 02:09:31,020
that...

3750
02:09:31,020 --> 02:09:33,800
But I don't really see anything yet, except

3751
02:09:33,800 --> 02:09:36,400
another butt from a comic strip blogger.

3752
02:09:36,540 --> 02:09:37,800
He's always showing the butts.

3753
02:09:38,580 --> 02:09:39,020
I don't know.

3754
02:09:39,120 --> 02:09:41,900
I think there's still room, people, to swoop

3755
02:09:41,900 --> 02:09:43,720
in and get the art for this episode.

3756
02:09:44,420 --> 02:09:46,340
It's part of the value for value model,

3757
02:09:46,460 --> 02:09:48,480
is how it works, is you give us

3758
02:09:48,480 --> 02:09:50,300
your time, your talent, and treasure in return

3759
02:09:50,300 --> 02:09:53,900
for the outstanding podcast that we deliver twice

3760
02:09:53,900 --> 02:09:55,580
a week for 18 years.

3761
02:09:55,760 --> 02:09:57,020
We just keep on delivering.

3762
02:09:57,160 --> 02:09:57,880
We're just delivering.

3763
02:09:58,580 --> 02:09:59,980
Are you tired of our delivery yet?

3764
02:10:00,000 --> 02:10:01,780
Because it's never going to stop.

3765
02:10:01,860 --> 02:10:03,740
We're going to keep on delivering for more

3766
02:10:03,740 --> 02:10:05,200
years, or a thousand more years.

3767
02:10:05,240 --> 02:10:05,640
Depends.

3768
02:10:06,780 --> 02:10:07,520
Johnson Newsletter.

3769
02:10:09,540 --> 02:10:10,680
Yeah, you saw that.

3770
02:10:10,900 --> 02:10:11,880
I did see that, yes.

3771
02:10:13,860 --> 02:10:15,300
Inside joke, everybody.

3772
02:10:16,280 --> 02:10:20,620
So we always thank our financial donors, value

3773
02:10:20,620 --> 02:10:23,080
for value supporters, $50 and above.

3774
02:10:23,620 --> 02:10:25,560
It's nice to hear your name called out.

3775
02:10:25,960 --> 02:10:27,520
It's even nicer when you get a credit

3776
02:10:27,520 --> 02:10:29,900
for it, like an official Hollywood credit, which

3777
02:10:29,900 --> 02:10:31,820
we do with our executive and associate executive

3778
02:10:31,820 --> 02:10:32,200
producers.

3779
02:10:32,340 --> 02:10:33,460
That's $200 and above.

3780
02:10:33,700 --> 02:10:35,360
And we'll read your note for an associate

3781
02:10:35,360 --> 02:10:37,200
or an executive, $300 and above.

3782
02:10:37,240 --> 02:10:39,840
But once again, thanks to Sir Donald Winkler.

3783
02:10:39,840 --> 02:10:42,680
He is a full-on producer, and was

3784
02:10:42,680 --> 02:10:44,840
credited as such in episode 1828.

3785
02:10:45,740 --> 02:10:46,920
We really appreciate what he did.

3786
02:10:47,540 --> 02:10:49,860
And we will be needing, of course, more

3787
02:10:49,860 --> 02:10:53,740
best ofs, special shows for this coming year.

3788
02:10:53,860 --> 02:10:55,060
There's always stuff going on.

3789
02:10:55,440 --> 02:10:57,500
So we appreciate whenever someone puts something like

3790
02:10:57,500 --> 02:10:58,580
that together for us.

3791
02:10:59,000 --> 02:11:01,900
Now to start with our first executive producer

3792
02:11:01,900 --> 02:11:04,740
for this week, just as we wind up

3793
02:11:04,740 --> 02:11:06,140
the year, the last one for this year.

3794
02:11:06,140 --> 02:11:11,100
Paul Lincolns comes in from Lansville, Pennsylvania, with

3795
02:11:11,100 --> 02:11:12,480
a cool $1,000.

3796
02:11:13,440 --> 02:11:15,940
And he says, see attached note.

3797
02:11:16,440 --> 02:11:18,140
It's a dame for his mom and his

3798
02:11:18,140 --> 02:11:18,640
dad.

3799
02:11:18,760 --> 02:11:20,020
So I'm going to read that now.

3800
02:11:20,680 --> 02:11:23,360
He says, ITM John and Adam.

3801
02:11:23,640 --> 02:11:24,560
My name is Paul Lincolns.

3802
02:11:24,620 --> 02:11:26,900
My mom, Rose, made an instantite donation in

3803
02:11:26,900 --> 02:11:29,820
May when I graduated from Thaddeus Stevens College,

3804
02:11:30,460 --> 02:11:33,160
earning my associate degree in welding technology.

3805
02:11:33,320 --> 02:11:34,240
I remember this kid.

3806
02:11:35,260 --> 02:11:37,880
I know, because whenever we get someone who's

3807
02:11:37,880 --> 02:11:41,200
doing something actually productive like welding, we're the

3808
02:11:41,200 --> 02:11:41,440
first.

3809
02:11:41,440 --> 02:11:41,860
Like welding.

3810
02:11:42,120 --> 02:11:44,000
Everyone can use a welder, by the way,

3811
02:11:44,160 --> 02:11:45,460
in their Rolodex.

3812
02:11:45,680 --> 02:11:47,660
Yes, we're always the first one to say

3813
02:11:47,660 --> 02:11:48,100
yes.

3814
02:11:48,380 --> 02:11:50,760
We approve that career move.

3815
02:11:51,600 --> 02:11:53,240
And he says, I scored my first job,

3816
02:11:53,280 --> 02:11:55,000
and now I get to sew with metal

3817
02:11:55,000 --> 02:11:55,540
for a living.

3818
02:11:55,900 --> 02:11:57,000
It's a welding term.

3819
02:11:57,100 --> 02:11:58,040
I sew metal.

3820
02:11:58,700 --> 02:11:59,980
She hit me in the mouth in 2020,

3821
02:12:00,080 --> 02:12:01,620
and this show has been the best amygdala

3822
02:12:01,620 --> 02:12:03,620
-shrinking bonding experience for us.

3823
02:12:04,340 --> 02:12:06,200
This is also my chance to make an

3824
02:12:06,200 --> 02:12:07,700
incident donation for her.

3825
02:12:08,080 --> 02:12:09,280
My gift to you, Ma.

3826
02:12:10,120 --> 02:12:12,300
Although it might be late, Merry Christmas.

3827
02:12:12,720 --> 02:12:17,820
I would like my knight name to be

3828
02:12:17,820 --> 02:12:20,020
Sir Mama's Boy of the Arc Welders, and

3829
02:12:20,020 --> 02:12:22,260
my mom's to be Dame Rosie Posey of

3830
02:12:22,260 --> 02:12:23,020
the Flower Child.

3831
02:12:23,620 --> 02:12:25,800
At the round table, we would like best

3832
02:12:25,800 --> 02:12:29,540
Texas brisket and ice cold beer.

3833
02:12:29,540 --> 02:12:32,120
This is also a reply to the quote

3834
02:12:32,120 --> 02:12:34,560
John read in episode 1768.

3835
02:12:34,880 --> 02:12:35,900
Please read the following.

3836
02:12:36,620 --> 02:12:40,360
Mom, though through our struggles in this insanity

3837
02:12:40,360 --> 02:12:43,220
-inducing world, you, Dad, and I have always

3838
02:12:43,220 --> 02:12:44,360
stood strong together.

3839
02:12:44,860 --> 02:12:46,600
You tell me I light up your day,

3840
02:12:46,700 --> 02:12:48,740
while you guys brighten my universe.

3841
02:12:49,400 --> 02:12:50,420
Oh, this is so sweet.

3842
02:12:50,760 --> 02:12:53,040
I could never have asked for better parents

3843
02:12:53,040 --> 02:12:55,140
who have taught me so much in life.

3844
02:12:55,260 --> 02:12:56,660
I am proud to be your son.

3845
02:12:56,760 --> 02:12:58,100
I love you so much.

3846
02:12:58,100 --> 02:13:00,380
And now I'd like a noodle gun and

3847
02:13:00,380 --> 02:13:02,560
a goat scream followed by health and jobs

3848
02:13:02,560 --> 02:13:03,500
karma for jingles.

3849
02:13:03,600 --> 02:13:05,920
That is a beautiful note and a beautiful

3850
02:13:05,920 --> 02:13:06,260
gift.

3851
02:13:06,260 --> 02:13:08,600
I'm gonna shoot you in the face with

3852
02:13:08,600 --> 02:13:09,900
my noodle gun.

3853
02:13:10,160 --> 02:13:12,480
You racist piece of shit.

3854
02:13:14,980 --> 02:13:18,620
I got my pasta glock locked and loaded.

3855
02:13:19,000 --> 02:13:22,440
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.

3856
02:13:22,640 --> 02:13:24,140
Let's vote for jobs.

3857
02:13:24,220 --> 02:13:24,580
Yeah!

3858
02:13:27,040 --> 02:13:27,240
Karma.

3859
02:13:29,640 --> 02:13:31,180
Then we go on, and you're gonna have

3860
02:13:31,180 --> 02:13:32,520
to read this note because it blew out

3861
02:13:32,520 --> 02:13:34,900
my spreadsheet, and I can mouse around it,

3862
02:13:34,980 --> 02:13:37,480
but my mouse dropped dead in the last

3863
02:13:37,480 --> 02:13:38,140
segment.

3864
02:13:38,460 --> 02:13:39,060
Okay, hold on.

3865
02:13:39,140 --> 02:13:41,000
And so I'm recharging it as we speak.

3866
02:13:41,760 --> 02:13:45,500
Oh, you don't just put in, uh...

3867
02:13:46,060 --> 02:13:49,220
No, my mouse's battery is rechargeable.

3868
02:13:49,600 --> 02:13:51,040
Yeah, there's no batteries in it.

3869
02:13:51,360 --> 02:13:51,760
Oh.

3870
02:13:51,960 --> 02:13:54,220
Oh, I like to just put battery kind

3871
02:13:54,220 --> 02:13:54,420
in.

3872
02:13:54,560 --> 02:13:54,800
That's my favorite.

3873
02:13:54,800 --> 02:13:57,220
Yeah, I do, too, if situation.

3874
02:13:57,220 --> 02:13:59,220
This is from Baba Yaga.

3875
02:13:59,520 --> 02:14:00,260
Baba Yaga.

3876
02:14:00,560 --> 02:14:01,100
Hold on a second.

3877
02:14:01,260 --> 02:14:03,920
Baba Yaga, because you have some requests here.

3878
02:14:04,160 --> 02:14:05,500
I didn't have set.

3879
02:14:05,960 --> 02:14:06,320
Okay.

3880
02:14:08,320 --> 02:14:09,740
Let me get the Pelosi.

3881
02:14:10,980 --> 02:14:11,480
Okay.

3882
02:14:13,820 --> 02:14:14,920
So difficult.

3883
02:14:15,740 --> 02:14:16,740
I don't have Pelosi.

3884
02:14:17,320 --> 02:14:20,300
Hello from Baba Yaga in Littleton, New Hampshire.

3885
02:14:20,340 --> 02:14:21,000
This is $500.

3886
02:14:21,720 --> 02:14:24,280
Ooh, the witch has been active out there

3887
02:14:24,280 --> 02:14:24,760
in the world.

3888
02:14:24,760 --> 02:14:26,880
She is dancing upon the earth on bony

3889
02:14:26,880 --> 02:14:29,520
legs with her rusty metal teeth, eternally chomping

3890
02:14:29,520 --> 02:14:30,140
and clanging.

3891
02:14:30,620 --> 02:14:33,060
With bottomless hunger, she feasts on the world's

3892
02:14:33,060 --> 02:14:35,620
children as they laugh and frolic into her

3893
02:14:35,620 --> 02:14:38,820
waiting oven with nary a complaint or outcry.

3894
02:14:39,180 --> 02:14:41,900
Oh, how she shrieks in delight how easily

3895
02:14:41,900 --> 02:14:44,280
they come, how easily they are seduced into

3896
02:14:44,280 --> 02:14:47,820
her whimsical hut sitting high on scaly old

3897
02:14:47,820 --> 02:14:48,480
chicken feet.

3898
02:14:48,820 --> 02:14:50,660
Oh, how lucky she is to have an

3899
02:14:50,660 --> 02:14:52,820
endless stream of food that comes right into

3900
02:14:52,820 --> 02:14:53,400
her home.

3901
02:14:53,400 --> 02:14:56,240
And as the world turns, she cackles and

3902
02:14:56,240 --> 02:14:56,980
creaks on.

3903
02:14:58,440 --> 02:15:00,200
I'm not sure why that came out there,

3904
02:15:00,300 --> 02:15:02,340
but it's an interesting little bit.

3905
02:15:02,680 --> 02:15:05,880
I very much appreciated your media deconstruction since

3906
02:15:05,880 --> 02:15:06,860
COVID times.

3907
02:15:07,220 --> 02:15:09,620
I will forever turn a big bloodshot eye

3908
02:15:09,620 --> 02:15:12,020
of skepticism toward any and all major news

3909
02:15:12,020 --> 02:15:14,900
developments spewed from the grassy mouths of the

3910
02:15:14,900 --> 02:15:17,960
foul new ghouls, thanks in part to your

3911
02:15:17,960 --> 02:15:18,660
program.

3912
02:15:19,340 --> 02:15:20,220
Please deduce me.

3913
02:15:21,820 --> 02:15:23,680
You've been deduced.

3914
02:15:24,160 --> 02:15:26,920
And call out my dad, Rick, as a

3915
02:15:26,920 --> 02:15:28,200
major douchebag.

3916
02:15:29,040 --> 02:15:29,640
Douchebag.

3917
02:15:30,160 --> 02:15:30,460
Wow.

3918
02:15:31,300 --> 02:15:31,760
Rick.

3919
02:15:34,160 --> 02:15:36,060
Can you give a shout-out to my

3920
02:15:36,060 --> 02:15:38,820
ultra-mega-awesome Main Street business community here

3921
02:15:38,820 --> 02:15:40,960
in northern New Hampshire, the Woodcocks?

3922
02:15:41,180 --> 02:15:43,280
And please check out my art and store

3923
02:15:43,280 --> 02:15:46,540
at babayagaville.com.

3924
02:15:46,540 --> 02:15:50,220
That's babayagaville, B-A-B-A-Y-A

3925
02:15:50,220 --> 02:15:51,980
-G-A-V-I-L.com.

3926
02:15:52,140 --> 02:15:53,540
Check that out.

3927
02:15:54,820 --> 02:15:57,140
Thank you and a happy 2026 to you

3928
02:15:57,140 --> 02:15:57,360
both.

3929
02:15:57,600 --> 02:15:59,840
You deserve the world and more.

3930
02:16:00,360 --> 02:16:03,400
And as Jingles, he wants chemtrails.

3931
02:16:03,640 --> 02:16:04,540
I didn't have any of that.

3932
02:16:04,740 --> 02:16:07,900
Somehow I missed this entire note.

3933
02:16:08,720 --> 02:16:09,580
Chemtrails, yes.

3934
02:16:09,640 --> 02:16:10,560
And what else does he want?

3935
02:16:11,180 --> 02:16:12,260
Pelosi, shut up.

3936
02:16:12,260 --> 02:16:14,940
From Zach in the great North Beast, Baba

3937
02:16:14,940 --> 02:16:16,580
Yaga, Littleton, New Hampshire.

3938
02:16:17,900 --> 02:16:18,420
Chemtrails.

3939
02:16:18,840 --> 02:16:20,220
We will not shut up.

3940
02:16:20,360 --> 02:16:21,380
No, that wasn't Pelosi.

3941
02:16:21,540 --> 02:16:22,140
Hold on a second.

3942
02:16:23,020 --> 02:16:23,480
Where's Pelosi?

3943
02:16:23,520 --> 02:16:24,200
Here's Pelosi.

3944
02:16:24,360 --> 02:16:24,800
Shut up.

3945
02:16:24,920 --> 02:16:26,000
I knew I had it.

3946
02:16:26,180 --> 02:16:26,900
Shut up.

3947
02:16:28,000 --> 02:16:28,880
Shut up.

3948
02:16:29,060 --> 02:16:29,680
Shut up.

3949
02:16:29,980 --> 02:16:31,940
The Baron of Old Bay is in Willamington,

3950
02:16:32,120 --> 02:16:34,540
Delaware, and he came in with $343 and

3951
02:16:34,540 --> 02:16:37,540
says, wishing everyone a Merry Christmas.

3952
02:16:38,320 --> 02:16:41,219
I'm donating to help John and Adam enjoy

3953
02:16:41,219 --> 02:16:44,360
a well-deserved Christmas break from the show.

3954
02:16:44,660 --> 02:16:47,900
What is on the menu this Christmas, asks

3955
02:16:47,900 --> 02:16:50,879
the Baron of Old Bay, who finishes off

3956
02:16:50,879 --> 02:16:51,580
with cheers.

3957
02:16:52,139 --> 02:16:53,840
What did you have this Christmas?

3958
02:16:54,920 --> 02:16:56,740
Our Christmas dinner is coming up.

3959
02:16:57,600 --> 02:16:58,959
Mimi sent me a text.

3960
02:16:59,139 --> 02:16:59,940
Hey, Merry Christmas.

3961
02:17:00,139 --> 02:17:01,959
I said, Merry Christmas for whenever you're going

3962
02:17:01,959 --> 02:17:02,760
to celebrate.

3963
02:17:03,440 --> 02:17:04,000
Tuesday?

3964
02:17:05,000 --> 02:17:08,080
Yes, we had tamales.

3965
02:17:09,020 --> 02:17:09,580
What?

3966
02:17:10,379 --> 02:17:11,280
Tamales, yeah.

3967
02:17:12,120 --> 02:17:13,200
Do you have a tamale?

3968
02:17:13,299 --> 02:17:15,480
You made the tamales or you bought some

3969
02:17:15,480 --> 02:17:17,299
commercial tamales from a local?

3970
02:17:17,500 --> 02:17:20,600
No, one of our Mexican friends made tamales

3971
02:17:20,600 --> 02:17:21,219
for us.

3972
02:17:22,480 --> 02:17:24,980
They're a pain in the butt to make.

3973
02:17:25,520 --> 02:17:26,400
I wouldn't make them.

3974
02:17:26,879 --> 02:17:27,100
Yeah.

3975
02:17:27,520 --> 02:17:29,600
So, yeah, they were dynamite.

3976
02:17:30,940 --> 02:17:37,020
Also, I had some of Sir Patrick Scoble's

3977
02:17:37,020 --> 02:17:43,530
Shine Nog, which he gave me when I

3978
02:17:43,530 --> 02:17:45,709
saw him here in Texas, which is moonshine

3979
02:17:45,709 --> 02:17:46,330
egg nog.

3980
02:17:48,389 --> 02:17:51,030
He would have access to such a thing.

3981
02:17:51,330 --> 02:17:53,430
I would not recommend drinking it at 10

3982
02:17:53,430 --> 02:17:55,070
a.m. like I did because, man, I

3983
02:17:55,070 --> 02:17:55,629
got hammered.

3984
02:17:56,290 --> 02:17:59,670
Sir Scobie, Charlotte, North Carolina, 333.33. These,

3985
02:17:59,889 --> 02:18:01,650
by the way, of course, are combined donations

3986
02:18:01,650 --> 02:18:04,750
for the Christmas episode and today's episode.

3987
02:18:05,150 --> 02:18:06,809
And he wants to hear George Bush send

3988
02:18:06,809 --> 02:18:08,930
your cast and says, Merry Christmas, gentlemen.

3989
02:18:09,730 --> 02:18:11,430
JCD's tip of the day for egg nog

3990
02:18:11,430 --> 02:18:14,150
recipe warrants mention of another egg nog recipe

3991
02:18:14,150 --> 02:18:17,549
in the Too Many Eggs cookbook, George Washington's

3992
02:18:17,549 --> 02:18:18,070
recipe.

3993
02:18:19,150 --> 02:18:22,230
GW loved his distilled spirits and included copious

3994
02:18:22,230 --> 02:18:24,549
amounts in his egg nog, supposedly to get

3995
02:18:24,549 --> 02:18:26,129
sloshed with his holiday guests.

3996
02:18:26,730 --> 02:18:27,870
This is the third year in a row

3997
02:18:27,870 --> 02:18:28,790
I've used the recipe.

3998
02:18:28,790 --> 02:18:31,030
It's always a hit with family and friends

3999
02:18:31,030 --> 02:18:33,250
as both a drink and a topic of

4000
02:18:33,250 --> 02:18:33,889
conversation.

4001
02:18:34,370 --> 02:18:36,170
So this is the egg nog that Mimi

4002
02:18:36,170 --> 02:18:36,889
has in the book.

4003
02:18:37,010 --> 02:18:37,389
Is that why?

4004
02:18:37,510 --> 02:18:38,290
Is this what he's saying?

4005
02:18:38,910 --> 02:18:39,889
Yeah, yeah, it's in there.

4006
02:18:40,430 --> 02:18:42,049
Thank you, John and Adam, for another year

4007
02:18:42,049 --> 02:18:44,850
of superb media deconstruction and an overall outstanding

4008
02:18:44,850 --> 02:18:45,330
product.

4009
02:18:45,530 --> 02:18:47,770
Fellow producers, join in to support the best

4010
02:18:47,770 --> 02:18:48,870
podcast in the universe.

4011
02:18:49,070 --> 02:18:52,430
John and Adam deserve that holiday bonus, says

4012
02:18:52,430 --> 02:18:54,370
Sir Scobie, Duke of the Piedmont.

4013
02:18:54,610 --> 02:18:55,809
I know a lot of people want to

4014
02:18:55,809 --> 02:18:57,350
send blankets or water.

4015
02:18:57,350 --> 02:18:59,309
Just send your cash.

4016
02:18:59,809 --> 02:19:00,370
Boom.

4017
02:19:01,870 --> 02:19:04,389
Yeah, which brings us to Joe Henning, who

4018
02:19:04,389 --> 02:19:08,290
is in Flower Mound.

4019
02:19:08,570 --> 02:19:09,809
He's our Flower Mound guy.

4020
02:19:10,129 --> 02:19:13,450
$333.33. Hold on one second while I

4021
02:19:13,450 --> 02:19:15,330
bring this note up to the proper size.

4022
02:19:15,889 --> 02:19:17,530
The notes are a little fuzzy today.

4023
02:19:18,930 --> 02:19:20,110
Yeah, it's interesting.

4024
02:19:20,309 --> 02:19:21,389
You noticed that.

4025
02:19:21,490 --> 02:19:23,330
Yeah, I thought it was my eyes, but

4026
02:19:23,330 --> 02:19:24,469
no, it's the notes.

4027
02:19:24,469 --> 02:19:25,620
It's the camera.

4028
02:19:26,170 --> 02:19:27,830
She probably had smudge on her lens.

4029
02:19:30,389 --> 02:19:32,950
Gents, thank you for your awesome show.

4030
02:19:33,410 --> 02:19:34,410
I just love it.

4031
02:19:35,090 --> 02:19:37,350
Please consider my first-time donation at $333

4032
02:19:37,350 --> 02:19:39,230
.33 and give me a de-douching.

4033
02:19:41,030 --> 02:19:42,690
You've been de-douched.

4034
02:19:43,690 --> 02:19:45,190
I'm wondering if you could put the word

4035
02:19:45,190 --> 02:19:45,410
out.

4036
02:19:45,469 --> 02:19:48,910
I'm looking for a CNC machine shop.

4037
02:19:49,530 --> 02:19:52,690
A CNC machine shop to buy in the

4038
02:19:52,690 --> 02:19:53,830
following areas.

4039
02:19:53,830 --> 02:19:56,330
He wants to buy a machine shop in

4040
02:19:56,330 --> 02:20:00,010
either North Texas, anywhere in North Texas, Austin,

4041
02:20:00,190 --> 02:20:04,050
San Antonio, Wisconsin, Denver, or Colorado Springs.

4042
02:20:04,630 --> 02:20:06,710
Anybody selling their machine shop?

4043
02:20:06,830 --> 02:20:09,470
CDC machine, CNC machine shop.

4044
02:20:09,730 --> 02:20:10,530
What does that mean?

4045
02:20:10,930 --> 02:20:15,830
That's a computer-assisted CNC.

4046
02:20:15,910 --> 02:20:19,450
My target SDE or EBITDA range of $650

4047
02:20:19,450 --> 02:20:20,410
,000 to $1 million.

4048
02:20:20,630 --> 02:20:22,230
It's EBITDA, EBITDA.

4049
02:20:22,510 --> 02:20:23,070
EBITDA.

4050
02:20:23,070 --> 02:20:23,450
Hello.

4051
02:20:26,750 --> 02:20:29,130
Interested parties or anyone who might know of

4052
02:20:29,130 --> 02:20:32,310
something, please call or text me at, and

4053
02:20:32,310 --> 02:20:32,890
he's got a number.

4054
02:20:33,070 --> 02:20:33,970
I'm just going to read it out.

4055
02:20:34,050 --> 02:20:35,210
You can play it back if you want

4056
02:20:35,210 --> 02:20:35,690
to call him.

4057
02:20:36,790 --> 02:20:38,470
262-623-2294.

4058
02:20:39,210 --> 02:20:43,090
They can also email me at joe at

4059
02:20:43,090 --> 02:20:46,830
techwork, T-E-K-W-E-R-K

4060
02:20:46,830 --> 02:20:48,270
.com.

4061
02:20:48,390 --> 02:20:50,130
John or Adam, please spell out the email.

4062
02:20:50,230 --> 02:20:51,570
In addition to me, I just did that.

4063
02:20:53,090 --> 02:20:54,270
Regards, Joe Henning.

4064
02:20:54,710 --> 02:20:55,150
Wow.

4065
02:20:55,750 --> 02:20:58,950
He's using this show to do mergers and

4066
02:20:58,950 --> 02:20:59,610
acquisitions.

4067
02:21:00,270 --> 02:21:01,250
No agenda.

4068
02:21:01,410 --> 02:21:02,730
We're here for your M&A.

4069
02:21:04,050 --> 02:21:04,850
Love it.

4070
02:21:05,550 --> 02:21:06,390
Let me see.

4071
02:21:06,570 --> 02:21:11,150
That brings us to Dame Cheryl from Pinedale,

4072
02:21:11,570 --> 02:21:15,570
Wyoming, 333, and she also sent in a

4073
02:21:15,570 --> 02:21:15,850
note.

4074
02:21:16,530 --> 02:21:18,450
Then she says, good day, gentlemen.

4075
02:21:18,610 --> 02:21:19,770
I hope this finds you well.

4076
02:21:19,770 --> 02:21:21,810
Thank you for breaking down all the latest

4077
02:21:21,810 --> 02:21:23,490
news around the world, some of which is

4078
02:21:23,490 --> 02:21:25,630
quite terrifying and downright mad.

4079
02:21:26,070 --> 02:21:28,170
But coming from your voices, I can take

4080
02:21:28,170 --> 02:21:28,410
it.

4081
02:21:28,750 --> 02:21:30,450
You make me laugh, and for that, I

4082
02:21:30,450 --> 02:21:30,990
am grateful.

4083
02:21:31,550 --> 02:21:32,230
Happy Christmas.

4084
02:21:32,470 --> 02:21:33,150
Happy New Year.

4085
02:21:33,510 --> 02:21:37,210
Cheers to 2026, says Dame Cheryl, cowgirl of

4086
02:21:37,210 --> 02:21:39,570
the Wind River Range in Boulder, Wyoming.

4087
02:21:39,950 --> 02:21:41,970
She says, P.S., can you guess this

4088
02:21:41,970 --> 02:21:42,290
font?

4089
02:21:43,110 --> 02:21:44,250
Now, that's one for you, John.

4090
02:21:44,930 --> 02:21:46,430
Oh, I'm not on the note.

4091
02:21:46,950 --> 02:21:48,170
Oh, well, that's too bad.

4092
02:21:48,170 --> 02:21:48,730
I'll go.

4093
02:21:48,870 --> 02:21:49,190
I'll go.

4094
02:21:49,290 --> 02:21:49,590
I'll go.

4095
02:21:50,670 --> 02:21:51,710
It's on this page.

4096
02:21:51,810 --> 02:21:54,370
I'm going to say this is Geneva.

4097
02:21:55,150 --> 02:21:55,330
Geneva.

4098
02:21:55,750 --> 02:21:55,870
Whatever you say.

4099
02:21:56,250 --> 02:21:56,710
It's Vienna.

4100
02:21:56,990 --> 02:21:57,410
Whatever you say.

4101
02:21:57,530 --> 02:21:57,810
Whatever.

4102
02:21:58,070 --> 02:21:59,070
Let's take a look.

4103
02:22:00,370 --> 02:22:00,770
Okay.

4104
02:22:01,010 --> 02:22:02,150
Can you guess this font?

4105
02:22:02,230 --> 02:22:04,270
It looks like Times New Roman to me.

4106
02:22:04,630 --> 02:22:04,910
Okay.

4107
02:22:05,250 --> 02:22:06,570
I'll take it.

4108
02:22:08,200 --> 02:22:08,660
All right.

4109
02:22:09,680 --> 02:22:10,080
Onward.

4110
02:22:10,140 --> 02:22:11,280
Okay, now I've got to go back.

4111
02:22:11,400 --> 02:22:12,980
Since I haven't got a mouse, it makes

4112
02:22:12,980 --> 02:22:13,940
it that much more difficult.

4113
02:22:15,520 --> 02:22:16,960
But we've got Waterworks Plumbing.

4114
02:22:16,960 --> 02:22:19,280
Okay, now this is a donation from Waterworks

4115
02:22:19,280 --> 02:22:20,140
Plumbing in Minnesota.

4116
02:22:20,320 --> 02:22:22,000
$250 is no note, but I'll give them

4117
02:22:22,000 --> 02:22:22,440
a double up.

4118
02:22:22,540 --> 02:22:26,380
Karma, before you do that, there's something, I

4119
02:22:26,380 --> 02:22:28,860
think there was a run, like there was

4120
02:22:28,860 --> 02:22:30,880
an overload or something at PayPal.

4121
02:22:31,980 --> 02:22:35,280
So people who sent in last-minute donations

4122
02:22:35,280 --> 02:22:38,140
after the newsletter, they all ended at 3

4123
02:22:38,140 --> 02:22:39,840
.30, even though a number of them came

4124
02:22:39,840 --> 02:22:43,920
in, including Gigawatt Coffee, Dame Astrid, a whole

4125
02:22:43,920 --> 02:22:45,520
bunch of 60-buck donations.

4126
02:22:45,520 --> 02:22:47,780
Some of them will be missed.

4127
02:22:48,240 --> 02:22:50,280
So if you get your donation missed on

4128
02:22:50,280 --> 02:22:51,700
today's show, send us a note.

4129
02:22:52,020 --> 02:22:54,000
If you had something to say, and we

4130
02:22:54,000 --> 02:22:55,860
will read it in a future show.

4131
02:22:55,980 --> 02:22:58,380
I mean, there was so many people were

4132
02:22:58,380 --> 02:23:00,220
donating to the show that it clogged up

4133
02:23:00,220 --> 02:23:00,720
the pipes?

4134
02:23:01,660 --> 02:23:03,700
No, so many people were using PayPal.

4135
02:23:04,860 --> 02:23:06,840
It wasn't anything to do with our show,

4136
02:23:06,940 --> 02:23:08,380
but all I know is that I kept

4137
02:23:08,380 --> 02:23:11,500
downloading the spreadsheet, and it ended at 3

4138
02:23:11,500 --> 02:23:14,660
o'clock yesterday when there were donations still

4139
02:23:14,660 --> 02:23:16,560
coming in, and I waited and waited and

4140
02:23:16,560 --> 02:23:16,880
waited.

4141
02:23:17,040 --> 02:23:18,380
I waited until midnight to go to bed.

4142
02:23:18,980 --> 02:23:21,200
It still said 3.30 or whatever the

4143
02:23:21,200 --> 02:23:21,840
time was.

4144
02:23:22,280 --> 02:23:23,820
And so everything that came in after that,

4145
02:23:23,900 --> 02:23:24,920
it either had to be put in by

4146
02:23:24,920 --> 02:23:27,060
hand or it was going to be missed.

4147
02:23:27,260 --> 02:23:29,140
Okay, so send us a note, and here's

4148
02:23:29,140 --> 02:23:30,000
a double up Karma.

4149
02:23:30,500 --> 02:23:31,260
You've got...

4150
02:23:33,380 --> 02:23:33,820
Karma.

4151
02:23:34,140 --> 02:23:36,040
For Waterworks Plumbing LLC.

4152
02:23:36,420 --> 02:23:40,080
Patrick Brown from Fairfax, Virginia, also $250 and

4153
02:23:40,080 --> 02:23:41,680
no note, so we'll give him a double

4154
02:23:41,680 --> 02:23:42,620
up Karma as well.

4155
02:23:42,940 --> 02:23:44,480
You've got...

4156
02:23:45,500 --> 02:23:46,340
Karma.

4157
02:23:47,440 --> 02:23:49,520
And in the same...

4158
02:23:50,100 --> 02:23:55,600
In the same vein, Michael Raimondi in Hollis,

4159
02:23:55,740 --> 02:23:58,380
New Hampshire, $250 double up Karma.

4160
02:23:59,620 --> 02:24:01,300
You've got...

4161
02:24:02,260 --> 02:24:02,920
Karma.

4162
02:24:03,900 --> 02:24:07,260
And coming in with 242, we've seen that

4163
02:24:07,260 --> 02:24:07,880
number before.

4164
02:24:08,000 --> 02:24:10,560
It's Christopher Graves in Mount Ockham, California.

4165
02:24:11,000 --> 02:24:12,380
Happy holidays, John.

4166
02:24:12,380 --> 02:24:15,680
Mount Ockham is in El Dorado wine country,

4167
02:24:15,780 --> 02:24:17,740
not far from the Shingle Springs.

4168
02:24:18,360 --> 02:24:19,220
Pick up some shingles.

4169
02:24:20,120 --> 02:24:21,740
Well, we may have run out of eggnog

4170
02:24:21,740 --> 02:24:23,880
fudge, by the way, dynamite.

4171
02:24:24,320 --> 02:24:26,600
We can say we had 100 plus producers

4172
02:24:26,600 --> 02:24:30,140
participate in our ITM 10 plus 10, bringing

4173
02:24:30,140 --> 02:24:34,460
in an additional donation of $1,131.30

4174
02:24:34,460 --> 02:24:36,580
from these brave knights and dames.

4175
02:24:37,320 --> 02:24:38,660
No eggnog fudge?

4176
02:24:38,660 --> 02:24:41,780
Well, we were inspired by Gigawatt Coffee and

4177
02:24:41,780 --> 02:24:44,280
made an amazing chocolate mocha fudge for the

4178
02:24:44,280 --> 02:24:44,760
new year.

4179
02:24:45,240 --> 02:24:49,040
Shop littlejohnscandies.com and use ITM 10 plus

4180
02:24:49,040 --> 02:24:50,820
10, you spell that P-L-U-S,

4181
02:24:51,200 --> 02:24:52,440
through January 10th.

4182
02:24:52,460 --> 02:24:54,300
No jingles, just jingle bells.

4183
02:24:55,000 --> 02:24:56,280
All right, thank you very much.

4184
02:24:56,720 --> 02:24:58,080
It's an outstanding product.

4185
02:24:58,380 --> 02:25:00,140
I love showing it to people and saying,

4186
02:25:00,620 --> 02:25:02,040
they've been doing this from 19...

4187
02:25:02,040 --> 02:25:05,240
They've been supporting Noah Jenner since 1924 and

4188
02:25:05,240 --> 02:25:07,220
making this fudge.

4189
02:25:07,220 --> 02:25:08,400
And it's a hit.

4190
02:25:08,780 --> 02:25:11,100
Everybody who eats this fudge just falls in

4191
02:25:11,100 --> 02:25:11,640
love with it.

4192
02:25:12,420 --> 02:25:16,540
North Idaho Sanity Brigade in Post Falls, Idaho.

4193
02:25:17,880 --> 02:25:19,400
23456, a favorite.

4194
02:25:20,020 --> 02:25:24,120
On behalf of the North Idaho Sanity Brigade,

4195
02:25:24,940 --> 02:25:28,240
here's another crowdfunded donation, courtesy of our Christmas

4196
02:25:28,240 --> 02:25:28,720
meetup.

4197
02:25:28,780 --> 02:25:32,440
We have continued our once a week broadcast

4198
02:25:32,440 --> 02:25:37,920
of North Idaho, our hyperlocal podcast, deconstructing the

4199
02:25:37,920 --> 02:25:44,080
mainstream of the Idaho panhandle, noidshow.com.

4200
02:25:44,400 --> 02:25:45,680
It's a good podcast.

4201
02:25:46,000 --> 02:25:47,620
They took my advice to heart.

4202
02:25:47,720 --> 02:25:49,320
They're doing a hyperlocal podcast.

4203
02:25:51,440 --> 02:25:56,380
To reiterate what we asserted when we last

4204
02:25:56,380 --> 02:25:58,800
donated, every region needs its own Noah Jenner.

4205
02:25:58,920 --> 02:26:01,780
Adam, can you give us an update on

4206
02:26:01,780 --> 02:26:04,380
the Noah Jenner hyperlocal podcast network you proposed?

4207
02:26:04,380 --> 02:26:05,080
Yes.

4208
02:26:05,280 --> 02:26:06,740
So far, you're the only ones.

4209
02:26:07,100 --> 02:26:09,080
But when we have more, we'll have a

4210
02:26:09,080 --> 02:26:09,540
network.

4211
02:26:10,060 --> 02:26:11,760
If you don't want to do it anymore,

4212
02:26:11,880 --> 02:26:13,960
perhaps we'll reach out to Tom Green.

4213
02:26:14,240 --> 02:26:14,940
Blow, blow.

4214
02:26:15,700 --> 02:26:16,740
Blow, blow.

4215
02:26:18,220 --> 02:26:21,920
Please play What's That in Your Mouth, the

4216
02:26:21,920 --> 02:26:23,580
crowdchant version, if we have it.

4217
02:26:23,660 --> 02:26:24,460
We do.

4218
02:26:24,940 --> 02:26:26,480
It comes from them, so of course I

4219
02:26:26,480 --> 02:26:26,800
have it.

4220
02:26:27,400 --> 02:26:29,580
Oh, he's doing self-promotion.

4221
02:26:29,640 --> 02:26:30,000
That's good.

4222
02:26:30,000 --> 02:26:33,020
All signed off is Sir Scott the Jew

4223
02:26:33,020 --> 02:26:35,760
and the North Idaho Sanity Brigade.

4224
02:26:35,960 --> 02:26:37,900
What's that in your mouth?

4225
02:26:38,220 --> 02:26:39,680
There you go.

4226
02:26:40,360 --> 02:26:43,820
Sir Rosas, associate executive producer for this episode,

4227
02:26:44,000 --> 02:26:46,360
2-2-2, a row of ducks, and

4228
02:26:46,360 --> 02:26:47,800
he sent in a note.

4229
02:26:47,880 --> 02:26:50,040
Greetings, podosphere heroes.

4230
02:26:50,660 --> 02:26:52,600
Please accept my humble donation and shout out

4231
02:26:52,600 --> 02:26:55,360
to my lovely girlfriend's hand-cut vintage tin

4232
02:26:55,360 --> 02:26:57,900
jewelry shop, No Remnants.

4233
02:26:57,900 --> 02:27:00,900
Each piece is unique, being hand-cut from

4234
02:27:00,900 --> 02:27:03,840
vintage and upcycled biscuit and tea tins.

4235
02:27:04,900 --> 02:27:07,020
She also has the history of every tin

4236
02:27:07,020 --> 02:27:09,880
listed on her website, where they were manufactured,

4237
02:27:10,020 --> 02:27:10,940
what they were used for.

4238
02:27:11,040 --> 02:27:12,740
She also accepts custom projects.

4239
02:27:12,880 --> 02:27:14,460
If you have an item you'd like created

4240
02:27:14,460 --> 02:27:15,560
into custom jewelry.

4241
02:27:16,160 --> 02:27:19,740
No Agenda producers, please check out najewelry.shop

4242
02:27:19,740 --> 02:27:21,920
or noremnants.com.

4243
02:27:22,620 --> 02:27:24,400
Oh, that's some good marketing right there.

4244
02:27:26,460 --> 02:27:28,880
najewelry.shop or noremnants.com.

4245
02:27:28,920 --> 02:27:30,920
I've also included a pair for each of

4246
02:27:30,920 --> 02:27:31,480
your wives.

4247
02:27:31,680 --> 02:27:33,060
Oh, I didn't see you come in.

4248
02:27:34,020 --> 02:27:35,400
Yeah, no, we have.

4249
02:27:36,200 --> 02:27:36,800
Have you seen it?

4250
02:27:36,880 --> 02:27:37,400
Are they nice?

4251
02:27:38,180 --> 02:27:38,840
They're nice.

4252
02:27:38,940 --> 02:27:39,780
I gave them to Jay.

4253
02:27:40,820 --> 02:27:42,740
Did you wrap it up and say Merry

4254
02:27:42,740 --> 02:27:43,160
Christmas?

4255
02:27:43,580 --> 02:27:45,320
No, she's the one who opened the box.

4256
02:27:46,860 --> 02:27:48,880
I hope you have a happy Christmas, Uncle

4257
02:27:48,880 --> 02:27:49,960
Adam and Uncle John.

4258
02:27:50,100 --> 02:27:52,340
Sir Rosas, Knight of Show 1000.

4259
02:27:52,340 --> 02:27:53,780
And he adds there at the end, I

4260
02:27:53,780 --> 02:27:55,140
might be a baronet, but I'll get it

4261
02:27:55,140 --> 02:27:56,420
sorted for the next donation.

4262
02:27:56,620 --> 02:27:56,880
Perfect.

4263
02:27:57,060 --> 02:27:58,260
Thank you very much.

4264
02:27:59,080 --> 02:28:02,100
Dean Astrid came in from Tokyo.

4265
02:28:02,680 --> 02:28:05,720
From Tokyo, 22026.

4266
02:28:05,880 --> 02:28:06,680
They're John and Adam.

4267
02:28:07,200 --> 02:28:11,380
You always will be the best, all caps.

4268
02:28:12,420 --> 02:28:14,700
The Christmas special was much fun.

4269
02:28:15,120 --> 02:28:19,120
And hearing Sir Chris's and Sir Felix's songs.

4270
02:28:19,940 --> 02:28:20,760
I didn't know they were.

4271
02:28:20,760 --> 02:28:22,260
Yeah, they were in there.

4272
02:28:22,960 --> 02:28:25,100
Brought us a real tear to my eyes.

4273
02:28:25,160 --> 02:28:27,560
Thank you to Sir Donald Winkler for putting

4274
02:28:27,560 --> 02:28:27,960
it together.

4275
02:28:28,080 --> 02:28:30,000
You're all such geniuses.

4276
02:28:30,080 --> 02:28:33,060
Wishing you, the keepers, all the lovely people

4277
02:28:33,060 --> 02:28:34,900
in the back office and all the fantastic

4278
02:28:34,900 --> 02:28:37,040
producers around the world a happy new year

4279
02:28:37,040 --> 02:28:41,720
to celebrate somewhere around the 10th of January,

4280
02:28:41,980 --> 02:28:42,240
perhaps.

4281
02:28:42,940 --> 02:28:44,040
That's your date.

4282
02:28:44,300 --> 02:28:45,500
You're referring to me, I think.

4283
02:28:45,500 --> 02:28:46,420
I believe so.

4284
02:28:47,680 --> 02:28:51,300
Dame Astrid and Sir Mark, Duchess and Archduke

4285
02:28:51,300 --> 02:28:53,620
of Japan and all the disputed islands in

4286
02:28:53,620 --> 02:28:55,200
the Japan Sea.

4287
02:28:55,340 --> 02:28:56,400
Thank you, Dame Astrid.

4288
02:28:56,640 --> 02:28:57,300
Yeah, thanks.

4289
02:28:57,500 --> 02:29:00,240
James Story from Lower Hutt, Stokes.

4290
02:29:01,520 --> 02:29:02,400
Stokes Valley?

4291
02:29:02,540 --> 02:29:02,920
Let me see.

4292
02:29:03,240 --> 02:29:06,600
Yeah, Stokes Valley in New Zealand.

4293
02:29:07,440 --> 02:29:07,640
Yeah.

4294
02:29:08,140 --> 02:29:09,020
That's our only New Zealand.

4295
02:29:09,040 --> 02:29:10,600
It's funny because I had a New Zealand

4296
02:29:10,600 --> 02:29:12,640
clip about...

4297
02:29:12,640 --> 02:29:13,980
50 shows ago.

4298
02:29:14,460 --> 02:29:15,520
No, there's a show.

4299
02:29:15,720 --> 02:29:17,140
I have a clip, I think, on today's

4300
02:29:17,140 --> 02:29:17,340
show.

4301
02:29:17,720 --> 02:29:20,400
But there's a big exodus and they're bitching

4302
02:29:20,400 --> 02:29:22,020
and moaning in New Zealand about all the

4303
02:29:22,020 --> 02:29:23,080
people leaving to move to Australia.

4304
02:29:23,080 --> 02:29:23,300
Well, hold on.

4305
02:29:24,040 --> 02:29:25,100
Is that a bonus clip?

4306
02:29:25,760 --> 02:29:27,380
Well, if it's on the list, let's see.

4307
02:29:27,440 --> 02:29:29,440
I don't see any...

4308
02:29:29,440 --> 02:29:30,420
I don't see it.

4309
02:29:30,840 --> 02:29:32,240
Yeah, we take...

4310
02:29:32,720 --> 02:29:34,020
Regan Boag, Rusky Bloggers.

4311
02:29:34,780 --> 02:29:36,180
I don't think you put it in.

4312
02:29:38,420 --> 02:29:39,720
No, it's too bad.

4313
02:29:40,420 --> 02:29:41,060
Would have been fun.

4314
02:29:41,480 --> 02:29:42,100
Would have been.

4315
02:29:44,140 --> 02:29:45,700
He says, $220.

4316
02:29:46,100 --> 02:29:47,060
Merry Christmas, gents.

4317
02:29:47,180 --> 02:29:48,540
Thank you for your hard work this year.

4318
02:29:48,640 --> 02:29:50,980
Best regards, Sir James Story from New Zealand.

4319
02:29:51,100 --> 02:29:51,860
Thank you very much.

4320
02:29:54,080 --> 02:29:54,460
And...

4321
02:29:54,460 --> 02:29:56,200
Okay, lost word.

4322
02:29:56,360 --> 02:29:57,680
Oh, Eli the Coffee Guy is up.

4323
02:29:57,700 --> 02:29:58,660
He's in Bentonville, Illinois.

4324
02:29:58,920 --> 02:30:01,140
$212.28. 20...

4325
02:30:01,140 --> 02:30:02,100
It says 28.

4326
02:30:03,180 --> 02:30:05,120
Yeah, today's the 28th.

4327
02:30:05,200 --> 02:30:06,040
2-12-28.

4328
02:30:06,160 --> 02:30:07,200
Oh, I thought it was the...

4329
02:30:07,200 --> 02:30:08,140
Okay, yeah, you're right.

4330
02:30:08,440 --> 02:30:08,900
What am I thinking?

4331
02:30:10,100 --> 02:30:10,880
Happy New Year.

4332
02:30:11,120 --> 02:30:12,960
We made it through 2025 and what a

4333
02:30:12,960 --> 02:30:13,940
wild ride it's been.

4334
02:30:14,060 --> 02:30:17,060
We've kicked things off Joe Biden.

4335
02:30:17,380 --> 02:30:22,560
We kicked things off Joe Biden as president.

4336
02:30:23,520 --> 02:30:25,280
I don't know how that wording works, but

4337
02:30:25,280 --> 02:30:25,540
okay.

4338
02:30:25,620 --> 02:30:27,280
I think he means we kicked things off

4339
02:30:27,280 --> 02:30:28,500
with Joe Biden.

4340
02:30:28,500 --> 02:30:28,820
With, maybe.

4341
02:30:29,060 --> 02:30:30,900
Yeah, ISIS on Bourbon Street and a special

4342
02:30:30,900 --> 02:30:34,120
forces operator self-immolating in front of Trump

4343
02:30:34,120 --> 02:30:35,480
building in Vegas.

4344
02:30:35,600 --> 02:30:37,040
Wow, forgot about that one.

4345
02:30:37,080 --> 02:30:37,920
Forgot about all of that.

4346
02:30:38,940 --> 02:30:41,420
Yeah, I forgot about the guy who lit

4347
02:30:41,420 --> 02:30:41,800
himself.

4348
02:30:41,800 --> 02:30:43,580
And somehow with everything...

4349
02:30:43,580 --> 02:30:44,300
That's interesting.

4350
02:30:44,740 --> 02:30:47,500
And somehow with everything else that followed, it

4351
02:30:47,500 --> 02:30:49,320
already feels like ancient history.

4352
02:30:49,680 --> 02:30:50,840
Or forgettable history.

4353
02:30:50,840 --> 02:30:51,800
This is because time is...

4354
02:30:51,800 --> 02:30:54,040
Elon and big balls, Charlie Kirk, Katy Perry

4355
02:30:54,040 --> 02:30:56,360
coming out as Trudeau's beard.

4356
02:30:57,560 --> 02:30:59,780
And that's barely a highlight reel.

4357
02:30:59,880 --> 02:31:02,100
You know, I think time is compressing.

4358
02:31:02,680 --> 02:31:03,820
Time is accelerating.

4359
02:31:04,120 --> 02:31:05,000
Something's happening.

4360
02:31:05,760 --> 02:31:08,040
It must be three-eye vision, whatever that

4361
02:31:08,040 --> 02:31:09,620
comet is that's coming towards us.

4362
02:31:09,620 --> 02:31:13,060
Now we're sitting on the precipice of 2026

4363
02:31:13,060 --> 02:31:14,540
as the old Chinese saying goes.

4364
02:31:15,160 --> 02:31:16,850
May you live in interesting times.

4365
02:31:17,480 --> 02:31:18,220
Mission accomplished.

4366
02:31:18,420 --> 02:31:22,140
Here's wishing everyone a peaceful and enjoyable new

4367
02:31:22,140 --> 02:31:23,000
year to that end.

4368
02:31:23,940 --> 02:31:24,960
Here it comes.

4369
02:31:25,500 --> 02:31:27,540
To that end, new year, new coffee.

4370
02:31:28,040 --> 02:31:29,460
This Tuesday, 1230.

4371
02:31:29,860 --> 02:31:33,320
We're releasing our new bourbon barrel-aged Mexican

4372
02:31:33,320 --> 02:31:33,630
Veracruz.

4373
02:31:34,360 --> 02:31:35,500
Start the year off right.

4374
02:31:35,860 --> 02:31:38,300
Visit Gigawatt Coffee Roasters and grab a bag.

4375
02:31:38,300 --> 02:31:39,120
Stay caffeinated.

4376
02:31:39,240 --> 02:31:40,140
Happy 2026.

4377
02:31:40,220 --> 02:31:41,220
Eli the coffee guy.

4378
02:31:41,400 --> 02:31:43,300
That's gigawattcoffeeroasters.com.

4379
02:31:45,680 --> 02:31:47,240
Wow, I can't wait to taste that.

4380
02:31:47,360 --> 02:31:49,900
Bourbon barrel-aged Mexican Veracruz.

4381
02:31:50,840 --> 02:31:51,560
Juliana Lee.

4382
02:31:52,140 --> 02:31:53,680
Don't know where she's from, but she sent

4383
02:31:53,680 --> 02:31:56,060
us $200.60 and says, Merry Christmas.

4384
02:31:56,200 --> 02:31:56,920
Thank you for everything.

4385
02:31:57,020 --> 02:31:58,280
And we thank you very much.

4386
02:31:59,940 --> 02:32:02,920
Ray Rials in LaGrange, Texas.

4387
02:32:03,980 --> 02:32:05,060
$200, no note.

4388
02:32:05,260 --> 02:32:06,140
Gives him a double up.

4389
02:32:07,300 --> 02:32:08,420
You've got...

4390
02:32:09,880 --> 02:32:10,440
Karma.

4391
02:32:11,000 --> 02:32:14,080
The same goes for William Spratt from Marietta,

4392
02:32:14,220 --> 02:32:14,460
Georgia.

4393
02:32:14,580 --> 02:32:15,700
$200, no note.

4394
02:32:15,860 --> 02:32:17,460
Also a double up karma for you.

4395
02:32:17,740 --> 02:32:18,280
You've got...

4396
02:32:20,400 --> 02:32:20,960
Karma.

4397
02:32:21,820 --> 02:32:25,060
Onward to Linda Lepatkin in Cuyasol Rock, Colorado.

4398
02:32:25,160 --> 02:32:27,520
Wants a jobs karma and says, Hit the

4399
02:32:27,520 --> 02:32:30,600
ground running in the new year with a

4400
02:32:30,600 --> 02:32:31,720
resume that gets results.

4401
02:32:31,820 --> 02:32:34,120
Go to imagemakersinc.com for all your executive

4402
02:32:34,120 --> 02:32:36,620
resume and job search needs.

4403
02:32:37,220 --> 02:32:38,420
That's Image Makers Inc.

4404
02:32:38,720 --> 02:32:41,040
with a K and work with Linda Liu,

4405
02:32:41,180 --> 02:32:44,520
Duchess of Jobs and writer of winning resumes.

4406
02:32:44,760 --> 02:32:48,060
P.S. Loved Gitmo Nation Christmas.

4407
02:32:48,600 --> 02:32:51,920
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.

4408
02:32:52,040 --> 02:32:53,580
Let's vote for jobs.

4409
02:32:54,240 --> 02:32:55,700
You've got karma.

4410
02:32:56,180 --> 02:32:58,940
Now typically Linda Lepatkin is the last one

4411
02:32:58,940 --> 02:33:00,480
on the list, but no, we have a

4412
02:33:00,480 --> 02:33:04,700
few more associate executive producers with $200, all

4413
02:33:04,700 --> 02:33:05,640
four of them.

4414
02:33:05,780 --> 02:33:08,620
We have Sir Donald of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

4415
02:33:09,160 --> 02:33:09,820
He says, Hi guys.

4416
02:33:09,880 --> 02:33:10,940
Hope this note finds you well.

4417
02:33:11,000 --> 02:33:13,020
After some time away in Edmonton, I moved

4418
02:33:13,020 --> 02:33:14,820
back into Calgary, Alberta.

4419
02:33:15,160 --> 02:33:16,620
Bought a house and I'm looking forward to

4420
02:33:16,620 --> 02:33:19,820
the referendum in 2026 for Alberta to become

4421
02:33:19,820 --> 02:33:21,400
its own sovereign country.

4422
02:33:23,560 --> 02:33:26,020
Are they doing a referendum in 2026?

4423
02:33:26,020 --> 02:33:26,400
I don't know.

4424
02:33:26,540 --> 02:33:27,160
I didn't know that.

4425
02:33:27,500 --> 02:33:28,460
51st state, baby.

4426
02:33:29,100 --> 02:33:30,720
It's a tall hill to climb, but it's

4427
02:33:30,720 --> 02:33:31,080
worth it.

4428
02:33:31,080 --> 02:33:33,380
My birthday is December 27th, so I will

4429
02:33:33,380 --> 02:33:35,480
celebrate by donating to No Agenda.

4430
02:33:36,000 --> 02:33:36,240
Thanks.

4431
02:33:36,380 --> 02:33:37,880
Well, happy, happy birthday.

4432
02:33:38,200 --> 02:33:39,140
One day late.

4433
02:33:39,640 --> 02:33:41,380
Thanks for the news and analysis from around

4434
02:33:41,380 --> 02:33:41,760
the world.

4435
02:33:41,940 --> 02:33:44,120
Hats off to the best podcast in the

4436
02:33:44,120 --> 02:33:44,460
universe.

4437
02:33:45,040 --> 02:33:47,780
Please put my birthday donation of $200 USD

4438
02:33:47,780 --> 02:33:48,860
to good use.

4439
02:33:48,940 --> 02:33:53,860
That's $273.52 Canadian dollar-ettes and cents.

4440
02:33:54,760 --> 02:33:57,420
After my knighthood in 2012, this donation brings

4441
02:33:57,420 --> 02:34:00,680
my lifetime total donations to about 2,050,

4442
02:34:00,960 --> 02:34:03,020
so I'm now a double knight, which I

4443
02:34:03,020 --> 02:34:05,200
think is, isn't that a baronet?

4444
02:34:05,580 --> 02:34:06,880
I think it's a baronet.

4445
02:34:07,020 --> 02:34:07,260
Yes.

4446
02:34:07,380 --> 02:34:08,120
Accounting below.

4447
02:34:08,620 --> 02:34:11,040
Can you please play You Will Obey, Trains

4448
02:34:11,040 --> 02:34:14,260
Good, Planes Bad, and R2-D2 Karma?

4449
02:34:15,240 --> 02:34:16,300
I think we can do that.

4450
02:34:16,520 --> 02:34:18,200
Thank you for your attention to this matter,

4451
02:34:18,280 --> 02:34:19,860
says Sir Donald of Calgary.

4452
02:34:23,660 --> 02:34:27,320
All aboard, trains good, planes bad.

4453
02:34:29,980 --> 02:34:34,060
You've got karma.

4454
02:34:37,120 --> 02:34:41,040
Derek Allison in Rock Springs, Wyoming, 200 bucks,

4455
02:34:41,120 --> 02:34:43,060
and he just simply says Merry Christmas, which

4456
02:34:43,060 --> 02:34:44,380
does have a jingle request.

4457
02:34:45,080 --> 02:34:47,000
He'd love that Obama phone clip.

4458
02:34:47,440 --> 02:34:50,180
Everybody in Cleveland, low minority, got Obama phone.

4459
02:34:50,520 --> 02:34:52,600
Keep Obama in president, you know.

4460
02:34:53,040 --> 02:34:53,920
He gave us a phone.

4461
02:34:56,400 --> 02:34:58,560
I found the longer version of it, but

4462
02:34:58,560 --> 02:34:59,720
it's like a minute.

4463
02:34:59,720 --> 02:35:02,140
When he says Romney sucks, that's my favorite

4464
02:35:02,140 --> 02:35:02,440
part.

4465
02:35:02,960 --> 02:35:03,620
Sir Skizzle.

4466
02:35:03,980 --> 02:35:05,580
We don't know where Sir Skizzle is from.

4467
02:35:05,680 --> 02:35:06,900
Wait a minute, Sir Skizzle has a note.

4468
02:35:07,040 --> 02:35:07,460
Let's see.

4469
02:35:07,620 --> 02:35:08,400
Sir Skizzle.

4470
02:35:10,120 --> 02:35:11,600
Where is Sir Skizzle?

4471
02:35:12,480 --> 02:35:14,660
Well, I guess this is Sir Skizzle.

4472
02:35:15,080 --> 02:35:15,660
Merry Christmas.

4473
02:35:16,340 --> 02:35:20,140
John and Adam from Belfair, Washington, next to

4474
02:35:20,140 --> 02:35:21,020
the Hood Canal.

4475
02:35:21,600 --> 02:35:23,700
John, if you want your windows cleaned, no

4476
02:35:23,700 --> 02:35:24,360
charge.

4477
02:35:24,780 --> 02:35:26,220
Thanks for everything, Sir Skizzle.

4478
02:35:26,720 --> 02:35:27,160
420.

4479
02:35:28,380 --> 02:35:29,360
There you go.

4480
02:35:29,460 --> 02:35:31,020
He's thinking of you at Christmas and wishing

4481
02:35:31,020 --> 02:35:32,680
you all the best, according to his card.

4482
02:35:34,180 --> 02:35:36,180
Now we go on to the last donation.

4483
02:35:37,560 --> 02:35:39,620
And I had blown up the other one,

4484
02:35:39,680 --> 02:35:41,100
so I've got to blow this one down.

4485
02:35:41,140 --> 02:35:42,520
It's another note.

4486
02:35:43,160 --> 02:35:43,900
Daris Morris.

4487
02:35:44,440 --> 02:35:45,980
Yeah, these are all handwritten notes.

4488
02:35:46,640 --> 02:35:47,040
Daris.

4489
02:35:48,880 --> 02:35:49,660
Daris Morris.

4490
02:35:50,180 --> 02:35:51,300
See, you said Darcy.

4491
02:35:51,520 --> 02:35:52,520
Yeah, I messed up.

4492
02:35:52,620 --> 02:35:53,200
It's Daris.

4493
02:35:53,200 --> 02:35:54,200
So I messed up, too.

4494
02:35:54,260 --> 02:35:55,780
So we both messed up, and then Daris.

4495
02:35:55,780 --> 02:35:56,840
Daris Morris.

4496
02:35:57,100 --> 02:35:57,680
Daris.

4497
02:35:57,780 --> 02:35:58,600
It says right there.

4498
02:35:58,760 --> 02:35:59,480
I love her handwriting.

4499
02:35:59,820 --> 02:36:00,000
It says right there.

4500
02:36:00,100 --> 02:36:00,720
It clears Bell.

4501
02:36:00,800 --> 02:36:01,540
She writes it out.

4502
02:36:01,880 --> 02:36:02,480
Daris.

4503
02:36:02,600 --> 02:36:03,840
I love her handwriting.

4504
02:36:04,320 --> 02:36:04,860
I do, too.

4505
02:36:04,980 --> 02:36:07,400
It's oddly sexy.

4506
02:36:10,020 --> 02:36:11,500
To John and Adam.

4507
02:36:11,900 --> 02:36:12,460
200 bucks.

4508
02:36:13,040 --> 02:36:16,380
I'm giving $50 for every time I've heard

4509
02:36:16,380 --> 02:36:18,220
the word Jamoke.

4510
02:36:19,080 --> 02:36:20,420
Outed by Adam.

4511
02:36:21,540 --> 02:36:24,280
One of my dad's favorite terms.

4512
02:36:26,920 --> 02:36:29,940
It's up to four as of today.

4513
02:36:30,380 --> 02:36:34,280
So here's $200, Daris Morris.

4514
02:36:35,100 --> 02:36:37,040
Jamoke, Jamoke, Jamoke, Jamoke.

4515
02:36:37,200 --> 02:36:38,520
I can't stop saying it now.

4516
02:36:39,060 --> 02:36:40,320
You're going to break the poor woman.

4517
02:36:41,020 --> 02:36:41,440
Daris.

4518
02:36:41,500 --> 02:36:42,160
Thank you, Daris.

4519
02:36:42,620 --> 02:36:42,900
Jamoke.

4520
02:36:45,140 --> 02:36:45,680
Jamoke.

4521
02:36:45,820 --> 02:36:46,720
It's a good term.

4522
02:36:47,180 --> 02:36:48,620
And thank you to all of these executive

4523
02:36:48,620 --> 02:36:52,220
and associate executive producers for episode 1829 as

4524
02:36:52,220 --> 02:36:54,100
we storm on towards the new year.

4525
02:36:54,100 --> 02:36:55,900
And, of course, we'll be thanking the rest

4526
02:36:55,900 --> 02:36:56,580
of our supporters.

4527
02:36:56,720 --> 02:36:57,560
$50 and above.

4528
02:36:57,680 --> 02:36:58,620
It is value for value.

4529
02:36:58,720 --> 02:37:00,220
The whole idea is simple.

4530
02:37:01,480 --> 02:37:02,360
No subscriptions.

4531
02:37:03,080 --> 02:37:04,640
You don't have to buy anything.

4532
02:37:04,920 --> 02:37:06,300
No code bond genos.

4533
02:37:06,560 --> 02:37:08,200
If you get any value out of the

4534
02:37:08,200 --> 02:37:08,400
show.

4535
02:37:08,640 --> 02:37:08,880
Premium.

4536
02:37:09,220 --> 02:37:10,400
Premium content.

4537
02:37:10,780 --> 02:37:11,700
Premium content.

4538
02:37:14,280 --> 02:37:16,140
All of our content is premium.

4539
02:37:16,540 --> 02:37:18,420
And that's why you get to decide what

4540
02:37:18,420 --> 02:37:19,140
is worth to you.

4541
02:37:19,180 --> 02:37:20,740
And you send that to us whenever you

4542
02:37:20,740 --> 02:37:21,300
feel like it.

4543
02:37:21,540 --> 02:37:22,620
We're happy to thank you.

4544
02:37:22,660 --> 02:37:23,780
We're happy to read your note.

4545
02:37:23,780 --> 02:37:25,300
We're happy to read your name on the

4546
02:37:25,300 --> 02:37:25,520
show.

4547
02:37:25,600 --> 02:37:26,600
We're just happy.

4548
02:37:26,720 --> 02:37:29,080
We're some happy, happy-go-lucky guys.

4549
02:37:29,540 --> 02:37:30,240
That's right.

4550
02:37:30,380 --> 02:37:32,280
Go to noagendadonations.com.

4551
02:37:32,360 --> 02:37:33,420
Become a producer today.

4552
02:37:33,540 --> 02:37:36,000
And congratulations to our executive and associate executive

4553
02:37:36,000 --> 02:37:36,380
producers.

4554
02:37:36,760 --> 02:37:39,720
Your names are now real valid credits.

4555
02:37:39,800 --> 02:37:40,680
You can use them anywhere.

4556
02:37:40,880 --> 02:37:43,200
I suggest opening up an IMDB account.

4557
02:37:43,840 --> 02:37:45,560
Congratulations from the No Agenda Show.

4558
02:37:45,600 --> 02:37:46,840
Our formula is this.

4559
02:37:47,620 --> 02:37:48,320
We go out.

4560
02:37:48,700 --> 02:37:50,140
We hit people in the mouth.

4561
02:37:57,760 --> 02:37:59,640
What's that in your mouth?

4562
02:38:00,840 --> 02:38:02,360
Shut up, Steve.

4563
02:38:05,400 --> 02:38:06,440
Yeah, that was good.

4564
02:38:06,540 --> 02:38:06,900
Thank you.

4565
02:38:06,980 --> 02:38:07,880
Thank you all very much.

4566
02:38:07,980 --> 02:38:10,040
It was a nice Christmas giving.

4567
02:38:10,200 --> 02:38:11,380
Don't you all feel good about it?

4568
02:38:11,440 --> 02:38:11,840
You should.

4569
02:38:12,020 --> 02:38:13,100
You should feel very good.

4570
02:38:13,280 --> 02:38:15,080
Because when you give, it always comes back

4571
02:38:15,080 --> 02:38:15,420
to you.

4572
02:38:15,580 --> 02:38:16,280
It always does.

4573
02:38:16,620 --> 02:38:17,800
It's amazing how it works.

4574
02:38:21,310 --> 02:38:22,990
I have to find the clip list.

4575
02:38:22,990 --> 02:38:27,190
I have two little things I'd like to

4576
02:38:27,190 --> 02:38:27,930
discuss here.

4577
02:38:28,930 --> 02:38:29,390
Okay.

4578
02:38:29,570 --> 02:38:31,870
I've been looking up some.

4579
02:38:32,450 --> 02:38:35,350
So, I came up with this term, limbic

4580
02:38:35,350 --> 02:38:36,230
capitalism.

4581
02:38:37,110 --> 02:38:38,150
Limbic capitalism.

4582
02:38:38,990 --> 02:38:40,550
You came up with the term or you

4583
02:38:40,550 --> 02:38:41,550
ran into the term?

4584
02:38:42,010 --> 02:38:44,490
Well, I came up with it, but I'm

4585
02:38:44,490 --> 02:38:46,150
sure that it's been used before.

4586
02:38:46,770 --> 02:38:47,790
I have a feeling.

4587
02:38:47,790 --> 02:38:53,930
And limbic capitalism is basically everything you see

4588
02:38:53,930 --> 02:38:54,490
online.

4589
02:38:55,210 --> 02:38:59,990
It's your news feed.

4590
02:39:01,290 --> 02:39:02,710
This porn is limbic.

4591
02:39:02,890 --> 02:39:04,450
Limbic being the brainstem.

4592
02:39:05,310 --> 02:39:10,170
But also ultra-processed foods qualify under limbic

4593
02:39:10,170 --> 02:39:11,430
capitalism.

4594
02:39:11,970 --> 02:39:14,370
In essence, everything people are making money on

4595
02:39:14,370 --> 02:39:16,270
these days is limbic capitalism.

4596
02:39:16,270 --> 02:39:19,130
The number one being gambling.

4597
02:39:19,910 --> 02:39:21,630
And I've been talking to a lot of

4598
02:39:21,630 --> 02:39:22,650
the Zuma Waffen.

4599
02:39:23,250 --> 02:39:24,410
And they all say, oh, yeah.

4600
02:39:24,550 --> 02:39:26,130
It's out of control.

4601
02:39:26,630 --> 02:39:29,490
And the young people are so happy.

4602
02:39:29,570 --> 02:39:31,030
Oh, I won 25 bucks.

4603
02:39:33,470 --> 02:39:35,850
Because it's not even about the money.

4604
02:39:35,970 --> 02:39:42,990
It's just about that innate, natural dopamine.

4605
02:39:42,990 --> 02:39:45,390
It's either dopamine or in some cases cortisol

4606
02:39:45,390 --> 02:39:46,290
if you lose.

4607
02:39:46,630 --> 02:39:48,530
It's all these things that your body needs

4608
02:39:48,530 --> 02:39:49,690
to have these reactions.

4609
02:39:49,850 --> 02:39:51,650
But they're just being created artificially.

4610
02:39:52,230 --> 02:39:54,190
Mainly by Silicon Valley companies.

4611
02:39:55,010 --> 02:39:58,650
And NPR had a report about sports betting.

4612
02:39:58,830 --> 02:40:00,170
And it was done by...

4613
02:40:00,170 --> 02:40:01,390
Suffer and Succotash.

4614
02:40:01,530 --> 02:40:02,990
I'm Scott Simon.

4615
02:40:07,380 --> 02:40:08,700
Now it's time for sports.

4616
02:40:08,980 --> 02:40:10,580
A world series to cherish.

4617
02:40:10,780 --> 02:40:12,760
An NFL dynasty deflates.

4618
02:40:12,760 --> 02:40:15,920
Plus, what sport didn't have a gambling scandal

4619
02:40:15,920 --> 02:40:16,700
in 2025?

4620
02:40:17,100 --> 02:40:18,960
Sports writer Howard Bryant joins us.

4621
02:40:19,200 --> 02:40:20,580
Howard, thanks for being with us.

4622
02:40:20,760 --> 02:40:21,480
Hello, Scott.

4623
02:40:21,880 --> 02:40:24,540
One gambling scandal after another in sports this

4624
02:40:24,540 --> 02:40:24,760
year.

4625
02:40:24,840 --> 02:40:27,740
From the NBA, Major League Baseball, college basketball.

4626
02:40:28,620 --> 02:40:31,800
Players suspended for gambling and having bets on

4627
02:40:31,800 --> 02:40:33,020
certain occurrences in the game.

4628
02:40:33,080 --> 02:40:34,700
Which is how I'll describe prop bets.

4629
02:40:35,380 --> 02:40:37,080
In the year ahead, do fans need to

4630
02:40:37,080 --> 02:40:39,000
ask, can I trust what I'm seeing?

4631
02:40:39,320 --> 02:40:40,160
This day was coming.

4632
02:40:40,160 --> 02:40:43,300
And I think that the sports leagues had

4633
02:40:43,300 --> 02:40:45,840
taken the position that I never agreed with.

4634
02:40:45,900 --> 02:40:46,940
I never quite understood it.

4635
02:40:47,280 --> 02:40:48,840
These players make so much money.

4636
02:40:49,200 --> 02:40:53,720
That they would not risk the adrenaline rush

4637
02:40:53,720 --> 02:40:54,780
that comes with gambling.

4638
02:40:54,860 --> 02:40:56,080
And we've seen that not to be the

4639
02:40:56,080 --> 02:40:56,300
case.

4640
02:40:56,400 --> 02:40:58,220
We've seen that Major League Baseball with Luis

4641
02:40:58,220 --> 02:41:01,300
Ortiz and Emmanuel Clase are involved in a

4642
02:41:01,300 --> 02:41:02,020
scandal.

4643
02:41:02,080 --> 02:41:03,080
They may never play again.

4644
02:41:03,200 --> 02:41:05,600
We've seen the Jonte Porter in the NBA.

4645
02:41:05,760 --> 02:41:08,480
Now the Chauncey Billups and Terry Rougier case.

4646
02:41:08,480 --> 02:41:13,180
And the attitude has been that, well, essentially

4647
02:41:13,180 --> 02:41:14,800
the leagues are going to take the money.

4648
02:41:15,680 --> 02:41:17,200
The commercials are everywhere.

4649
02:41:17,480 --> 02:41:20,620
I mean media is funded by DraftKings and

4650
02:41:20,620 --> 02:41:22,320
FanDuel and the rest of it.

4651
02:41:22,380 --> 02:41:23,520
And then the players take the fall.

4652
02:41:23,800 --> 02:41:26,720
And so the more you watch these games

4653
02:41:26,720 --> 02:41:29,060
with your high-definition televisions and the controversial

4654
02:41:29,060 --> 02:41:29,580
calls.

4655
02:41:29,680 --> 02:41:32,000
Especially in the NFL and the NBA.

4656
02:41:32,240 --> 02:41:34,560
The more you begin to wonder, are you

4657
02:41:34,560 --> 02:41:36,480
watching a legitimate contest?

4658
02:41:36,600 --> 02:41:37,920
And that is the death knell for sports.

4659
02:41:37,920 --> 02:41:39,600
So the question is really going to be,

4660
02:41:39,920 --> 02:41:42,600
are you going to trust what you're watching?

4661
02:41:42,820 --> 02:41:44,480
Or are we simply going to watch these

4662
02:41:44,480 --> 02:41:48,720
athletes be the ones who individually get bounced

4663
02:41:48,720 --> 02:41:49,460
out of the game.

4664
02:41:49,460 --> 02:41:51,080
And the game maintains its legitimacy.

4665
02:41:51,080 --> 02:41:52,820
I think it's a very, very difficult balance.

4666
02:41:52,860 --> 02:41:54,740
And I think 2025 really showed that.

4667
02:41:54,960 --> 02:41:57,040
You're a sports ball guy, John.

4668
02:41:57,080 --> 02:41:58,080
How do you feel about it?

4669
02:41:58,460 --> 02:41:59,680
Is it ruining sports?

4670
02:42:01,360 --> 02:42:02,000
It can.

4671
02:42:02,140 --> 02:42:03,360
I think it's not good.

4672
02:42:03,520 --> 02:42:05,640
I think gambling should be discouraged.

4673
02:42:06,240 --> 02:42:08,180
And the fact that these guys are all

4674
02:42:08,180 --> 02:42:08,800
in bed.

4675
02:42:09,320 --> 02:42:11,420
ESPN now has ESPN Bet.

4676
02:42:11,560 --> 02:42:12,680
They talk about DraftKings.

4677
02:42:12,780 --> 02:42:15,660
But ESPN Bet is like an operation run

4678
02:42:15,660 --> 02:42:16,600
out of ESPN.

4679
02:42:16,780 --> 02:42:18,720
The NFL and both the NFL and the

4680
02:42:18,720 --> 02:42:19,400
NBA.

4681
02:42:19,620 --> 02:42:21,240
I'm not sure about Major League Baseball.

4682
02:42:21,660 --> 02:42:23,780
But I know those two operations have done

4683
02:42:23,780 --> 02:42:24,540
deals.

4684
02:42:25,080 --> 02:42:26,960
So they're in bed with the gamblers.

4685
02:42:27,160 --> 02:42:29,120
It's just like everybody, it's all the gamblers.

4686
02:42:29,300 --> 02:42:30,660
It's gambler, gambler, gambler.

4687
02:42:31,120 --> 02:42:32,620
And they push it and push it and

4688
02:42:32,620 --> 02:42:32,940
push it.

4689
02:42:32,940 --> 02:42:35,980
They got whole shows on ESPN about the

4690
02:42:35,980 --> 02:42:38,160
betting lines and what you should be betting

4691
02:42:38,160 --> 02:42:38,460
on.

4692
02:42:38,540 --> 02:42:40,740
They have a couple of women in particular

4693
02:42:40,740 --> 02:42:44,880
that I have watched on ESPN Bet, one

4694
02:42:44,880 --> 02:42:47,280
of their shows, who are quite good at

4695
02:42:47,280 --> 02:42:47,640
this.

4696
02:42:48,260 --> 02:42:50,300
And it's all a lot of prop bets.

4697
02:42:50,380 --> 02:42:51,360
I think you should go with this.

4698
02:42:51,660 --> 02:42:53,640
It's disgusting.

4699
02:42:54,380 --> 02:42:56,900
Here's Scott Simon choking up over it.

4700
02:42:57,440 --> 02:43:00,120
But there was a historically great World Series.

4701
02:43:00,120 --> 02:43:02,880
Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Toronto Blue Jays

4702
02:43:02,880 --> 02:43:07,040
in a series that twisted, turned, and set

4703
02:43:07,040 --> 02:43:07,520
records.

4704
02:43:07,960 --> 02:43:09,080
I love that.

4705
02:43:09,220 --> 02:43:11,400
I love that he left that in.

4706
02:43:11,780 --> 02:43:13,760
He choked on his own spit.

4707
02:43:15,360 --> 02:43:18,140
Those guys all have cough buttons at that

4708
02:43:18,140 --> 02:43:18,820
facility.

4709
02:43:18,980 --> 02:43:20,760
It was perfect.

4710
02:43:21,060 --> 02:43:22,220
This is Scott Simon.

4711
02:43:22,420 --> 02:43:24,120
Scott Shyman at his best.

4712
02:43:24,360 --> 02:43:27,220
Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Toronto Blue Jays

4713
02:43:27,220 --> 02:43:31,380
in a series that twisted, turned, and set

4714
02:43:31,380 --> 02:43:32,920
records over seven games.

4715
02:43:33,620 --> 02:43:34,700
See, I'm choked up.

4716
02:43:35,020 --> 02:43:35,380
You are.

4717
02:43:35,600 --> 02:43:36,360
You're reclaimed.

4718
02:43:36,460 --> 02:43:37,260
It's incredible, Scott.

4719
02:43:37,340 --> 02:43:38,500
I mean, that is the thing that we

4720
02:43:38,500 --> 02:43:39,300
love about the games.

4721
02:43:39,560 --> 02:43:41,500
Every time there's a scandal, whether it's steroids,

4722
02:43:41,600 --> 02:43:43,520
whether it's gambling, when the game is played

4723
02:43:43,520 --> 02:43:45,560
at its best, people come to it, and

4724
02:43:45,560 --> 02:43:47,140
they love it, and it reminds them of

4725
02:43:47,140 --> 02:43:49,180
all the reasons why they got hooked in

4726
02:43:49,180 --> 02:43:51,340
the first place, when their team wins.

4727
02:43:51,480 --> 02:43:53,340
It is that reminder of the power of

4728
02:43:53,340 --> 02:43:54,600
what sports brings for us.

4729
02:43:55,120 --> 02:43:59,080
You know, so I was looking into this

4730
02:43:59,080 --> 02:44:02,260
limbic capitalism, and to be fair about it,

4731
02:44:02,880 --> 02:44:05,740
it was Gemini that came up with the

4732
02:44:05,740 --> 02:44:06,000
term.

4733
02:44:06,380 --> 02:44:08,220
I'm like, oh, I made up a term

4734
02:44:08,220 --> 02:44:09,440
because it was my prompt.

4735
02:44:10,060 --> 02:44:12,680
And I'm like, how can the No Agenda

4736
02:44:12,680 --> 02:44:15,160
show benefit from limbic capitalism?

4737
02:44:16,060 --> 02:44:17,300
That was my prompt.

4738
02:44:18,480 --> 02:44:20,720
And I think I'm glad the way you're,

4739
02:44:20,740 --> 02:44:21,920
I like the way you think.

4740
02:44:21,920 --> 02:44:25,400
And it said, well, the No Agenda show

4741
02:44:25,400 --> 02:44:28,540
is, in fact, the antithesis of limbic capitalism.

4742
02:44:29,720 --> 02:44:32,240
I'm like, yeah, I guess you're kind of

4743
02:44:32,240 --> 02:44:33,060
right about that.

4744
02:44:33,120 --> 02:44:36,480
But it had a suggestion for us.

4745
02:44:36,920 --> 02:44:39,340
It had a limbic capitalism suggestion.

4746
02:44:39,940 --> 02:44:40,840
And who doesn't?

4747
02:44:41,220 --> 02:44:47,320
It was to randomly choose a below $50

4748
02:44:47,320 --> 02:44:54,010
donor to receive a special knighthood, thereby spurring

4749
02:44:54,010 --> 02:44:56,650
people on to gamble on the show.

4750
02:44:59,580 --> 02:45:01,080
I can hear your wheels crunching.

4751
02:45:06,400 --> 02:45:08,140
But I did like how it said that

4752
02:45:08,140 --> 02:45:12,220
we are the antithesis of limbic capitalism, which

4753
02:45:12,220 --> 02:45:12,660
is true.

4754
02:45:12,940 --> 02:45:15,480
Limbic capitalism hacks the system by offering super

4755
02:45:15,480 --> 02:45:19,020
stimuli that trigger rewards more intensely and frequently

4756
02:45:19,020 --> 02:45:20,560
than nature ever intended.

4757
02:45:21,020 --> 02:45:24,460
Over time, this bypasses the brain's executive function

4758
02:45:24,460 --> 02:45:27,700
of self-control, leading to habit formation, compulsion,

4759
02:45:27,820 --> 02:45:29,000
and eventually addiction.

4760
02:45:29,700 --> 02:45:30,320
Oh, there you go.

4761
02:45:30,480 --> 02:45:30,880
There you go.

4762
02:45:31,020 --> 02:45:31,400
That's it.

4763
02:45:31,520 --> 02:45:31,920
That's it.

4764
02:45:32,000 --> 02:45:32,480
Not good.

4765
02:45:32,740 --> 02:45:35,140
We are addictive, but not for your limbic.

4766
02:45:35,220 --> 02:45:36,060
Not for that reason.

4767
02:45:36,080 --> 02:45:37,160
We don't want to do that.

4768
02:45:37,520 --> 02:45:38,980
In fact, now I should mention it.

4769
02:45:39,040 --> 02:45:39,540
No, we don't.

4770
02:45:39,940 --> 02:45:40,440
Definitely out.

4771
02:45:40,760 --> 02:45:42,560
We are amygdala capitalism.

4772
02:45:43,680 --> 02:45:44,600
That's what we are.

4773
02:45:45,780 --> 02:45:46,740
Ha ha.

4774
02:45:47,960 --> 02:45:51,860
Well, talking about getting sick, I have the...

4775
02:45:51,860 --> 02:45:52,100
Getting sick.

4776
02:45:52,900 --> 02:45:56,680
I got the Rinvoke ad.

4777
02:45:56,920 --> 02:45:57,180
What?

4778
02:45:57,380 --> 02:45:57,920
Rinvoke?

4779
02:45:58,020 --> 02:45:58,800
What is Rinvoke?

4780
02:45:59,000 --> 02:46:02,180
Rinvoke is one of these drugs, and this

4781
02:46:02,180 --> 02:46:04,620
is the contraindications and all the bad things

4782
02:46:04,620 --> 02:46:07,180
that can happen to you from using Rinvoke.

4783
02:46:07,840 --> 02:46:09,840
And lasting steroid-free remission.

4784
02:46:10,320 --> 02:46:11,820
Check, check, and check.

4785
02:46:11,820 --> 02:46:13,920
Rinvoke can lower ability to fight infections.

4786
02:46:14,200 --> 02:46:16,040
Before treatment, test for TB and do blood

4787
02:46:16,040 --> 02:46:16,260
work.

4788
02:46:16,480 --> 02:46:18,260
Serious infections, blood clots, some fatal.

4789
02:46:18,500 --> 02:46:20,020
Cancers including lymphoma and skin.

4790
02:46:20,260 --> 02:46:22,880
Serious allergic reactions, GI tears, death, heart attack,

4791
02:46:22,940 --> 02:46:23,660
and stroke occurred.

4792
02:46:23,920 --> 02:46:26,080
CV event risk increases in age 50 plus

4793
02:46:26,080 --> 02:46:27,320
with a heart disease risk factor.

4794
02:46:27,520 --> 02:46:29,100
Tell your doctor if you've had these events,

4795
02:46:29,220 --> 02:46:31,380
infection, Hep B or C, smoked, are pregnant,

4796
02:46:31,500 --> 02:46:31,900
or planning.

4797
02:46:32,080 --> 02:46:33,760
Don't take if allergic or have an infection.

4798
02:46:34,000 --> 02:46:35,620
Put UC and Crohn's in check.

4799
02:46:36,120 --> 02:46:37,300
Oh, it's for Crohn's disease?

4800
02:46:37,840 --> 02:46:38,120
Yeah.

4801
02:46:38,380 --> 02:46:39,000
Oh, wow.

4802
02:46:39,000 --> 02:46:42,080
And I think what they're doing, because I

4803
02:46:42,080 --> 02:46:44,120
can't prove this, because I didn't get the

4804
02:46:44,120 --> 02:46:47,700
other clip, but I think they have, they

4805
02:46:47,700 --> 02:46:49,980
rattle off all these dangerous things that can

4806
02:46:49,980 --> 02:46:54,080
happen, different, for the same companies, the same

4807
02:46:54,080 --> 02:46:55,560
drug, but they have a different ad and

4808
02:46:55,560 --> 02:46:56,500
they have a different list.

4809
02:46:56,660 --> 02:46:58,100
Oh, interesting.

4810
02:46:58,200 --> 02:46:59,340
Just a way to get around, I think,

4811
02:46:59,400 --> 02:47:02,280
a way to get around the rules.

4812
02:47:02,900 --> 02:47:04,760
So I've been searching for you, actually not

4813
02:47:04,760 --> 02:47:06,720
really searching, I've had my eye out, because

4814
02:47:06,720 --> 02:47:09,100
you were looking for a fourth or fifth

4815
02:47:09,100 --> 02:47:12,600
vector in this particular story.

4816
02:47:13,600 --> 02:47:15,000
And it's from Reuters.

4817
02:47:15,560 --> 02:47:18,760
Again, I'm pretty sure Reuters is using AI

4818
02:47:18,760 --> 02:47:19,380
voices.

4819
02:47:20,160 --> 02:47:20,840
Yeah, you said that.

4820
02:47:21,280 --> 02:47:23,540
I said it, I'm saying it again, because

4821
02:47:23,540 --> 02:47:25,000
when you listen to it, it sounds like

4822
02:47:25,000 --> 02:47:25,120
it.

4823
02:47:25,880 --> 02:47:28,540
Were you not on the lookout for EEOC

4824
02:47:28,540 --> 02:47:29,200
stories?

4825
02:47:30,340 --> 02:47:31,580
Yeah, I believe so.

4826
02:47:31,740 --> 02:47:32,220
Here we go.

4827
02:47:32,260 --> 02:47:36,380
Under the Trump administration, the EEOC is ramping

4828
02:47:36,380 --> 02:47:39,020
up scrutiny of corporate diversity programs.

4829
02:47:39,680 --> 02:47:42,940
It's already opening inquiries into how companies handle

4830
02:47:42,940 --> 02:47:46,320
sex and race in hiring and promotions.

4831
02:47:46,960 --> 02:47:50,420
Our race and justice correspondent, David Hud-Nuno,

4832
02:47:50,640 --> 02:47:53,080
spoke with Lucas and explains what's...

4833
02:47:53,080 --> 02:47:54,040
Tell me this isn't AI.

4834
02:47:55,040 --> 02:47:57,220
You know, I'm not convinced of it.

4835
02:47:57,460 --> 02:47:59,100
The pauses are too lengthy.

4836
02:47:59,420 --> 02:48:00,960
If someone did this read, I'd be like,

4837
02:48:00,980 --> 02:48:01,860
go and read it again.

4838
02:48:03,240 --> 02:48:04,200
It's too lengthy.

4839
02:48:05,130 --> 02:48:09,160
So those priorities boil down to four buckets.

4840
02:48:09,600 --> 02:48:12,960
One of them is attacking all forms of

4841
02:48:12,960 --> 02:48:17,160
race discrimination, which includes diversity, equity, and inclusion

4842
02:48:17,160 --> 02:48:19,980
-related race and sex discrimination.

4843
02:48:20,700 --> 02:48:25,960
The second is dealing with religious liberty issues

4844
02:48:25,960 --> 02:48:31,740
that spans the gamut of antisemitism to COVID

4845
02:48:31,740 --> 02:48:33,540
-19 vaccine mandates.

4846
02:48:33,540 --> 02:48:37,600
And then the third is gender identity and

4847
02:48:37,600 --> 02:48:40,620
focusing on women's sex-based rights.

4848
02:48:41,380 --> 02:48:45,180
And then the fourth is national origin discrimination,

4849
02:48:45,820 --> 02:48:48,400
which in her view is protecting American workers

4850
02:48:48,400 --> 02:48:54,020
regardless of their race, which is a shift

4851
02:48:54,020 --> 02:48:57,640
in the EEOC's mission, which used to protect

4852
02:48:57,640 --> 02:49:01,900
workers against discrimination in the sort of traditional

4853
02:49:01,900 --> 02:49:02,360
sense.

4854
02:49:02,360 --> 02:49:07,200
And so this conservative view of civil rights

4855
02:49:07,760 --> 02:49:11,560
is a massive pivot for the agency that

4856
02:49:11,560 --> 02:49:17,980
has huge ramifications for companies, for employees, et

4857
02:49:17,980 --> 02:49:18,160
cetera.

4858
02:49:18,620 --> 02:49:20,160
Please tell me this is part of what

4859
02:49:20,160 --> 02:49:21,780
you wanted to hear because it was so

4860
02:49:21,780 --> 02:49:22,060
boring.

4861
02:49:22,060 --> 02:49:22,860
No, not at all.

4862
02:49:22,980 --> 02:49:23,540
It was so boring to me.

4863
02:49:23,940 --> 02:49:24,680
Hey, we have a...

4864
02:49:24,680 --> 02:49:28,860
No, you purposely picked a very boring, useless

4865
02:49:28,860 --> 02:49:28,960
clip.

4866
02:49:28,960 --> 02:49:29,840
No, I didn't.

4867
02:49:30,900 --> 02:49:33,480
This is your way of getting back at

4868
02:49:33,480 --> 02:49:33,640
me.

4869
02:49:33,780 --> 02:49:35,380
No, no, I was trying to help you.

4870
02:49:35,720 --> 02:49:36,880
I was trying to help you.

4871
02:49:38,220 --> 02:49:42,060
We have the president and Zelensky on the

4872
02:49:42,060 --> 02:49:42,840
quad screens.

4873
02:49:46,580 --> 02:49:47,540
How are they doing?

4874
02:49:47,880 --> 02:49:49,340
Are they fighting?

4875
02:49:49,520 --> 02:49:50,620
Are they punching each other?

4876
02:49:50,760 --> 02:49:53,360
Are they shaking hands as you're putting your

4877
02:49:53,360 --> 02:49:56,920
hand on this guy's shoulder and towering over

4878
02:49:56,920 --> 02:49:57,260
him?

4879
02:49:57,620 --> 02:49:58,940
They're at lecterns.

4880
02:49:58,980 --> 02:50:00,820
They're at lecterns with American...

4881
02:50:00,820 --> 02:50:02,440
Well, let's listen in, shall we?

4882
02:50:02,440 --> 02:50:04,060
Let's have a quick listen.

4883
02:50:04,200 --> 02:50:06,060
Get something done, and if there's something that

4884
02:50:06,060 --> 02:50:06,940
comes up, I'd speak.

4885
02:50:07,180 --> 02:50:08,980
But otherwise, I don't think there's any reason

4886
02:50:08,980 --> 02:50:09,220
to.

4887
02:50:09,400 --> 02:50:11,820
In your mind, sir, what are the thorniest

4888
02:50:11,820 --> 02:50:12,940
issues still unresolved?

4889
02:50:13,480 --> 02:50:16,820
Well, I think the land you're talking about,

4890
02:50:17,000 --> 02:50:18,080
some of that land discontent.

4891
02:50:18,340 --> 02:50:20,060
All right, they resolve nothing.

4892
02:50:20,620 --> 02:50:21,440
Of course not.

4893
02:50:21,500 --> 02:50:22,520
This is just bullcrap.

4894
02:50:22,940 --> 02:50:25,320
Okay, I got a last series I'm going

4895
02:50:25,320 --> 02:50:25,860
to do today.

4896
02:50:26,120 --> 02:50:27,320
All right, let me guess.

4897
02:50:27,780 --> 02:50:31,100
This is from the BBC, World Service is

4898
02:50:31,100 --> 02:50:36,400
about rusky bloggers and podcasters in the training

4899
02:50:36,400 --> 02:50:37,940
centers around the world.

4900
02:50:38,060 --> 02:50:39,120
They're training these Russians.

4901
02:50:39,360 --> 02:50:41,260
They're going to be attacking us with the

4902
02:50:41,260 --> 02:50:43,760
bots and the bloggers and the podcasters.

4903
02:50:43,860 --> 02:50:44,240
Oh, no.

4904
02:50:44,700 --> 02:50:45,000
Oh, no.

4905
02:50:45,060 --> 02:50:45,160
Oh, no.

4906
02:50:45,160 --> 02:50:45,340
Yeah.

4907
02:50:45,760 --> 02:50:48,420
So we can be Putin's puppet once again?

4908
02:50:48,520 --> 02:50:49,920
Can we go to these training centers?

4909
02:50:50,020 --> 02:50:51,020
Is there money involved?

4910
02:50:51,780 --> 02:50:53,580
If there was money involved, we'd be there

4911
02:50:53,580 --> 02:50:53,980
already.

4912
02:50:54,380 --> 02:50:57,760
Well, after Russian forces invaded and captured large

4913
02:50:57,760 --> 02:51:00,580
parts of eastern Ukraine over three years ago

4914
02:51:00,580 --> 02:51:03,980
now, the Kremlin tightly controlled any information about

4915
02:51:03,980 --> 02:51:06,280
life in Ukraine's occupied regions.

4916
02:51:06,540 --> 02:51:09,080
But in recent months, one source of information

4917
02:51:09,080 --> 02:51:12,280
has come from pro-Russian bloggers and content

4918
02:51:12,280 --> 02:51:12,800
creators.

4919
02:51:13,260 --> 02:51:16,140
Their videos about life under occupation have gathered

4920
02:51:16,140 --> 02:51:17,920
thousands of online followers.

4921
02:51:18,440 --> 02:51:20,880
The BBC's James Beardsworth has the story.

4922
02:51:24,180 --> 02:51:28,020
Across Russian-occupied Ukraine, hundreds of content creators

4923
02:51:28,020 --> 02:51:32,240
are making slick, professional-looking videos celebrating life

4924
02:51:32,240 --> 02:51:33,500
under Russian occupation.

4925
02:51:34,860 --> 02:51:37,500
Mariupol is becoming better and better every day.

4926
02:51:38,100 --> 02:51:41,660
Its changes are literally shocking, says 23-year

4927
02:51:41,660 --> 02:51:44,540
-old content creator Maria Chushkina, one of hundreds

4928
02:51:44,540 --> 02:51:47,700
of channels run by often young, attractive men

4929
02:51:47,700 --> 02:51:50,920
and women, which broadcast pro-Russian content from

4930
02:51:50,920 --> 02:51:53,980
occupied Ukraine to tens of thousands of followers.

4931
02:51:53,980 --> 02:51:55,420
Oh, this is great.

4932
02:51:55,960 --> 02:51:59,800
So instead of what's probably true, that these

4933
02:51:59,800 --> 02:52:04,220
people are happy, because Ukraine was killing them

4934
02:52:04,220 --> 02:52:08,700
previously, now they're just shills for Russia?

4935
02:52:10,340 --> 02:52:11,580
I have no...

4936
02:52:11,580 --> 02:52:13,320
You know, the validity of this story is

4937
02:52:13,320 --> 02:52:14,660
somewhat baffling to me.

4938
02:52:14,920 --> 02:52:16,800
I don't know if it's true or these

4939
02:52:16,800 --> 02:52:18,740
people are just a bunch of propagandists.

4940
02:52:19,240 --> 02:52:21,200
But it's interesting, and I would expect something

4941
02:52:21,200 --> 02:52:21,580
like...

4942
02:52:21,580 --> 02:52:23,600
This is, like, a good use of the

4943
02:52:23,600 --> 02:52:25,840
medium if you're a propaganda outlet.

4944
02:52:27,280 --> 02:52:29,060
I'm just fascinated by the story.

4945
02:52:29,160 --> 02:52:30,480
I don't know whether any of it's true.

4946
02:52:30,560 --> 02:52:31,040
But here's the thing.

4947
02:52:31,240 --> 02:52:32,580
They're speaking in Russian.

4948
02:52:33,000 --> 02:52:35,700
It's not like they're talking to American audiences

4949
02:52:35,700 --> 02:52:37,360
or European audiences.

4950
02:52:37,380 --> 02:52:39,300
Yeah, no, it's for local consumption, yeah.

4951
02:52:40,380 --> 02:52:44,020
I like how this particular British North Sea

4952
02:52:44,020 --> 02:52:47,360
Nexus reporter says young, young.

4953
02:52:48,700 --> 02:52:49,740
It's like H.

4954
02:52:49,740 --> 02:52:50,920
H, that's another thing.

4955
02:52:51,120 --> 02:52:53,000
There's a certain type of Brit that says

4956
02:52:53,000 --> 02:52:53,440
H.

4957
02:52:55,340 --> 02:52:55,780
H.

4958
02:52:56,140 --> 02:52:56,240
H?

4959
02:52:56,340 --> 02:52:58,040
Yeah, instead of H, they say H.

4960
02:52:59,200 --> 02:52:59,640
H.

4961
02:52:59,780 --> 02:53:00,540
Yes, H.

4962
02:53:01,040 --> 02:53:01,560
It's code.

4963
02:53:02,400 --> 02:53:06,360
No, one of my helicopter instructors was a

4964
02:53:06,360 --> 02:53:06,520
Brit.

4965
02:53:06,580 --> 02:53:08,260
He says, just land over there on the

4966
02:53:08,260 --> 02:53:08,540
H.

4967
02:53:08,760 --> 02:53:10,240
I'm like, what's the H?

4968
02:53:10,620 --> 02:53:11,020
The H.

4969
02:53:11,040 --> 02:53:11,740
What's the H?

4970
02:53:11,760 --> 02:53:13,220
The H over there, the H.

4971
02:53:13,680 --> 02:53:14,740
Oh, you mean the H?

4972
02:53:15,160 --> 02:53:15,960
Yes, the H.

4973
02:53:16,840 --> 02:53:17,920
Young, young H.

4974
02:53:17,920 --> 02:53:21,740
H, young H.

4975
02:53:21,980 --> 02:53:25,240
One of those creators is Elizaveta Churyakova, a

4976
02:53:25,240 --> 02:53:26,740
21-year-old from Mariupol.

4977
02:53:27,760 --> 02:53:30,520
Despite her city being almost completely flattened by

4978
02:53:30,520 --> 02:53:31,740
Russia's invasion of...

4979
02:53:31,740 --> 02:53:33,460
H speech.

4980
02:53:33,880 --> 02:53:37,120
...three years ago, Elizaveta now posts pro-Russian

4981
02:53:37,120 --> 02:53:39,780
content, posing in front of the Russian flag

4982
02:53:39,780 --> 02:53:42,720
and celebrating the Kremlin's rebuild of her city.

4983
02:53:43,220 --> 02:53:45,000
I asked her why she began making her

4984
02:53:45,000 --> 02:53:45,400
videos.

4985
02:53:45,400 --> 02:53:47,560
She is voiced by one of my colleagues,

4986
02:53:48,040 --> 02:53:49,300
as she didn't want her voice to be

4987
02:53:49,300 --> 02:53:49,880
broadcast.

4988
02:53:50,640 --> 02:53:52,340
To be honest, I always want to create

4989
02:53:52,340 --> 02:53:54,900
a content even before all the famous events.

4990
02:53:55,440 --> 02:53:57,860
And when everything changed, I saw that my

4991
02:53:57,860 --> 02:54:00,260
city was often presented on the internet as

4992
02:54:00,260 --> 02:54:01,100
a ghost town.

4993
02:54:01,480 --> 02:54:03,640
And I wanted to show the reality that

4994
02:54:03,640 --> 02:54:05,780
we are living, not what is sometimes written

4995
02:54:05,780 --> 02:54:06,560
in the news.

4996
02:54:06,720 --> 02:54:09,840
The bloggers carefully choreographed their videos, often showing

4997
02:54:09,840 --> 02:54:13,480
newly built apartment blocks, shops and restaurants built

4998
02:54:13,480 --> 02:54:15,920
by Russia, but rarely mentioning the death and

4999
02:54:15,920 --> 02:54:18,880
destruction caused by the war, or who started

5000
02:54:18,880 --> 02:54:19,940
it in the first place.

5001
02:54:20,360 --> 02:54:22,960
Elisaveta told me more about how she believes

5002
02:54:22,960 --> 02:54:25,180
her city has changed since Russia's arrival.

5003
02:54:25,500 --> 02:54:27,100
There is a feeling that the city is

5004
02:54:27,100 --> 02:54:30,300
coming to life, that the constant internal tension

5005
02:54:30,300 --> 02:54:32,280
that used to be in the background has

5006
02:54:32,280 --> 02:54:32,640
gone.

5007
02:54:33,000 --> 02:54:35,280
Like many other content creators in the region,

5008
02:54:35,980 --> 02:54:38,200
Elisaveta learned how to make her eye-catching

5009
02:54:38,200 --> 02:54:40,400
content at the Donbass Media Center.

5010
02:55:00,040 --> 02:55:04,960
The center offers free, vocational video making courses

5011
02:55:04,960 --> 02:55:06,720
to people under 25.

5012
02:55:06,720 --> 02:55:09,500
Pavel Khodbovsky is a blogger and teacher at

5013
02:55:09,500 --> 02:55:09,880
the school.

5014
02:55:12,040 --> 02:55:13,860
The Donbass Media Center is a school of

5015
02:55:13,860 --> 02:55:14,220
bloggers.

5016
02:55:14,720 --> 02:55:16,420
A few hundred people have studied here.

5017
02:55:16,760 --> 02:55:19,340
In Donetsk, in Lugansk, in Mariupol and one

5018
02:55:19,340 --> 02:55:19,920
in Malitopol.

5019
02:55:20,220 --> 02:55:22,460
It's very cool, because somebody needs to say

5020
02:55:22,460 --> 02:55:24,180
what is happening in our region in order

5021
02:55:24,180 --> 02:55:26,440
to tell, let's say, residents of Britain or

5022
02:55:26,440 --> 02:55:28,620
France, so that when they watch the content,

5023
02:55:28,820 --> 02:55:31,140
they understand that their government, or the Ukrainian

5024
02:55:31,140 --> 02:55:33,240
government, is trying to sell them something that

5025
02:55:33,240 --> 02:55:34,140
is far from the truth.

5026
02:55:35,300 --> 02:55:36,700
Ilya Yablokov is an excellent blogger and teacher

5027
02:55:36,700 --> 02:55:36,800
at the Donbass Media Center.

5028
02:55:36,800 --> 02:55:38,420
He is an expert on Russian disinformation at

5029
02:55:38,420 --> 02:55:40,360
the University of Sheffield in the UK.

5030
02:55:40,800 --> 02:55:42,340
He has been monitoring these schools.

5031
02:55:42,340 --> 02:55:46,540
They've created this network of media centers, propaganda

5032
02:55:46,540 --> 02:55:48,880
outlets, let's put it that way, that aggregate

5033
02:55:48,880 --> 02:55:51,540
information, but also produce it on an industrial

5034
02:55:51,540 --> 02:55:52,220
scale.

5035
02:55:52,860 --> 02:55:54,800
If you look at the pictures, you see

5036
02:55:54,800 --> 02:55:57,620
absolutely regular boys and girls.

5037
02:55:57,820 --> 02:56:01,020
These guys are being trained to spread the

5038
02:56:01,020 --> 02:56:03,460
message about the war in Donbass, or rather

5039
02:56:03,460 --> 02:56:04,760
the peace in the Donbass.

5040
02:56:05,080 --> 02:56:07,460
I put those claims to Elisaveta.

5041
02:56:07,760 --> 02:56:09,220
I just live in my city and show

5042
02:56:09,220 --> 02:56:09,820
my reality.

5043
02:56:10,520 --> 02:56:12,520
I'm a patriot of my country, but this

5044
02:56:12,520 --> 02:56:14,940
is not about work or promoting interest.

5045
02:56:15,340 --> 02:56:17,860
Videos posted by the Donbass Media Center show

5046
02:56:17,860 --> 02:56:20,880
hundreds of teenagers doing presentations about what they

5047
02:56:20,880 --> 02:56:25,200
call Russia's new regions, with prizes, including trips

5048
02:56:25,200 --> 02:56:27,740
to Moscow, for the most successful students.

5049
02:56:28,260 --> 02:56:28,740
Wow.

5050
02:56:29,820 --> 02:56:33,240
Maybe we could hand out Donbass Media Center

5051
02:56:33,240 --> 02:56:34,300
diplomas.

5052
02:56:36,400 --> 02:56:38,220
That's actually not a bad idea.

5053
02:56:39,080 --> 02:56:42,420
The Russians have, in the earlier report that

5054
02:56:42,420 --> 02:56:45,460
you played, they've absconded with all the nationalized

5055
02:56:45,460 --> 02:56:47,060
everything and IP.

5056
02:56:47,520 --> 02:56:48,080
That's right.

5057
02:56:48,700 --> 02:56:50,600
So IP, that means they've given up IP.

5058
02:56:50,820 --> 02:56:53,580
So the IP, which is the Donbass Media

5059
02:56:53,580 --> 02:56:57,120
Center, is now public domain.

5060
02:56:57,540 --> 02:56:58,820
There you go.

5061
02:56:59,020 --> 02:57:00,840
So we could give a degree from there.

5062
02:57:00,860 --> 02:57:02,040
Well, I think there's one last clip.

5063
02:57:02,280 --> 02:57:04,900
For some of the millions forced to flee,

5064
02:57:05,320 --> 02:57:09,200
like former Mariupol resident Alena Kildeshova, the content,

5065
02:57:09,480 --> 02:57:11,780
which she says often appears on her social

5066
02:57:11,780 --> 02:57:14,940
media feed, is just another cruel reminder of

5067
02:57:14,940 --> 02:57:17,020
a home she knows she may never be

5068
02:57:17,020 --> 02:57:18,020
able to return to.

5069
02:57:18,260 --> 02:57:19,520
How dare they?

5070
02:57:19,700 --> 02:57:21,900
There were dead bodies all around the streets

5071
02:57:21,900 --> 02:57:24,260
and now they are saying that Mariupol is

5072
02:57:24,260 --> 02:57:24,600
in bloom.

5073
02:57:24,820 --> 02:57:28,680
I can't understand how the city can be

5074
02:57:28,680 --> 02:57:30,600
blooming on blood and rebels.

5075
02:57:31,340 --> 02:57:34,260
That report from James Beardsworth there.

5076
02:57:34,680 --> 02:57:37,240
Well, I'm not going to hire James Beardsworth,

5077
02:57:37,420 --> 02:57:40,460
who says, what kind of English are they

5078
02:57:40,460 --> 02:57:41,420
speaking over there?

5079
02:57:42,000 --> 02:57:44,280
You know, I've had, I had a conversation

5080
02:57:44,280 --> 02:57:50,220
with Andrew Olowski recently over the phone, basically.

5081
02:57:51,140 --> 02:57:53,860
And the English is, a lot of these

5082
02:57:53,860 --> 02:57:58,180
English guys, it's getting harder and harder to

5083
02:57:58,180 --> 02:57:58,520
understand.

5084
02:57:58,520 --> 02:57:59,900
And I noticed this when I was writing

5085
02:57:59,900 --> 02:58:03,000
at PCMag UK over the years, I was

5086
02:58:03,000 --> 02:58:04,580
there probably there for a decade.

5087
02:58:04,720 --> 02:58:06,120
So I'd go to England at least twice

5088
02:58:06,120 --> 02:58:07,000
a year.

5089
02:58:07,500 --> 02:58:09,080
And I was there and it was just,

5090
02:58:09,180 --> 02:58:11,200
I just started noticing that the English is

5091
02:58:11,200 --> 02:58:13,600
harder and harder and harder to understand.

5092
02:58:14,680 --> 02:58:14,860
Yeah.

5093
02:58:15,520 --> 02:58:15,960
Yeah.

5094
02:58:17,180 --> 02:58:19,140
It must have been BBC Regional.

5095
02:58:21,250 --> 02:58:22,130
I have no idea.

5096
02:58:22,330 --> 02:58:23,710
It was BBC World Service, you said?

5097
02:58:23,810 --> 02:58:24,110
It was World Service.

5098
02:58:24,110 --> 02:58:25,250
Yeah, that was World Service.

5099
02:58:25,350 --> 02:58:26,530
But it doesn't mean it wasn't an original

5100
02:58:26,530 --> 02:58:27,730
report they just repurposed.

5101
02:58:27,730 --> 02:58:29,530
It's the Christmas Bee Team.

5102
02:58:29,650 --> 02:58:30,470
That's what it is.

5103
02:58:30,850 --> 02:58:31,790
Christmas Bee Team.

5104
02:58:32,450 --> 02:58:34,470
I got three clips left in a series.

5105
02:58:34,850 --> 02:58:36,930
This is, I just thought it was interesting.

5106
02:58:37,090 --> 02:58:38,350
It is from NPR.

5107
02:58:39,710 --> 02:58:42,810
This is about South America and how South

5108
02:58:42,810 --> 02:58:46,590
America is loving Trump and is shifting right.

5109
02:58:47,110 --> 02:58:48,250
Several countries in the South.

5110
02:58:48,270 --> 02:58:50,110
Wait, wait, where'd this come from?

5111
02:58:50,210 --> 02:58:50,710
NPR.

5112
02:58:51,730 --> 02:58:53,830
And they say South America loves Trump?

5113
02:58:54,210 --> 02:58:54,570
Oh yeah.

5114
02:58:55,490 --> 02:58:55,710
Yeah.

5115
02:58:55,810 --> 02:58:56,310
Yeah.

5116
02:58:56,310 --> 02:58:57,730
Well, they say a lot of things.

5117
02:58:57,890 --> 02:59:00,090
Well, of course it's all bad, obviously.

5118
02:59:01,130 --> 02:59:01,950
It's not good.

5119
02:59:02,210 --> 02:59:02,930
Several countries.

5120
02:59:03,150 --> 02:59:03,550
It didn't make sense.

5121
02:59:03,650 --> 02:59:04,390
No, it's not good.

5122
02:59:04,490 --> 02:59:07,790
In South America elected conservative and even far

5123
02:59:07,790 --> 02:59:09,410
right leaders in 2025.

5124
02:59:09,890 --> 02:59:11,610
The goal here is to bring security and

5125
02:59:11,610 --> 02:59:13,910
stability to the hemisphere, to the region, the

5126
02:59:13,910 --> 02:59:15,570
region we live in, which has not received

5127
02:59:15,570 --> 02:59:16,190
enough attention.

5128
02:59:16,530 --> 02:59:18,270
For more, we go now to NPR Correspondence.

5129
02:59:18,310 --> 02:59:19,650
Which you, by the way, called it.

5130
02:59:19,650 --> 02:59:21,290
You called it that Rubio was going to

5131
02:59:21,290 --> 02:59:21,890
be doing this.

5132
02:59:22,010 --> 02:59:24,250
Rubio was focusing on South America and there

5133
02:59:24,250 --> 02:59:25,150
he is in the clip.

5134
02:59:25,150 --> 02:59:26,350
It's all his fault, of course.

5135
02:59:26,470 --> 02:59:27,010
And he is.

5136
02:59:27,470 --> 02:59:29,590
He's Trump's a little minion in South America.

5137
02:59:30,050 --> 02:59:32,050
For more, we go now to NPR Correspondent

5138
02:59:32,050 --> 02:59:34,210
Kerry Kahn in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

5139
02:59:34,650 --> 02:59:35,430
Thanks for being here, Kerry.

5140
02:59:36,110 --> 02:59:37,090
Hello, Daniel.

5141
02:59:37,470 --> 02:59:37,970
Hello.

5142
02:59:38,610 --> 02:59:38,910
Hello.

5143
02:59:40,270 --> 02:59:43,110
So let's start just talking about this big

5144
02:59:43,110 --> 02:59:44,850
turn to the right in the region.

5145
02:59:45,790 --> 02:59:49,350
Overwhelmingly, voters are concerned about crime, violence and

5146
02:59:49,350 --> 02:59:49,790
security.

5147
02:59:49,790 --> 02:59:52,090
And in the case of Chile, also illegal

5148
02:59:52,090 --> 02:59:52,750
immigration.

5149
02:59:52,750 --> 02:59:55,830
That to me is the significant shift in

5150
02:59:55,830 --> 02:59:56,870
the landscape here.

5151
02:59:57,410 --> 02:59:59,730
When the left took power, the major emphasis

5152
02:59:59,730 --> 03:00:03,470
back then was economic inequality, social issues, the

5153
03:00:03,470 --> 03:00:03,930
environment.

5154
03:00:04,570 --> 03:00:05,810
Now it's safety.

5155
03:00:06,090 --> 03:00:08,010
And the left just has not come through

5156
03:00:08,010 --> 03:00:10,770
with either effective policies to combat the organized

5157
03:00:10,770 --> 03:00:13,930
crime, violence or credible promises that they're going

5158
03:00:13,930 --> 03:00:14,790
to do something better.

5159
03:00:15,050 --> 03:00:17,990
And the right has really straightforward, tough on

5160
03:00:17,990 --> 03:00:19,550
crime plans and slogans.

5161
03:00:19,550 --> 03:00:22,210
And I'm not commenting on the quality of

5162
03:00:22,210 --> 03:00:23,090
the rights proposals.

5163
03:00:23,350 --> 03:00:25,090
All I'm saying is that they are resonating

5164
03:00:25,090 --> 03:00:25,950
better with voters.

5165
03:00:27,610 --> 03:00:28,350
Is great.

5166
03:00:28,610 --> 03:00:29,270
Our hemisphere.

5167
03:00:29,610 --> 03:00:31,150
This is exactly what we want.

5168
03:00:31,250 --> 03:00:34,030
We wanted to turn against the communist, socialist

5169
03:00:34,030 --> 03:00:39,210
morals and values that have destroyed everything.

5170
03:00:39,390 --> 03:00:41,250
And they can't stand it.

5171
03:00:41,570 --> 03:00:43,230
OK, so what are what are some of

5172
03:00:43,230 --> 03:00:46,550
those measures get tough on crime like those

5173
03:00:46,550 --> 03:00:49,270
made infamous in El Salvador, the mano dura

5174
03:00:49,270 --> 03:00:52,270
iron fist policies that are just being emulated

5175
03:00:52,270 --> 03:00:55,530
everywhere, bringing the military to patrol the streets,

5176
03:00:55,790 --> 03:01:00,230
sound familiar, build maximum security prisons, toughen sentences.

5177
03:01:00,530 --> 03:01:03,010
And in many places, the population is more

5178
03:01:03,010 --> 03:01:05,270
than willing to curb civil rights to combat

5179
03:01:05,270 --> 03:01:05,870
that crime.

5180
03:01:06,390 --> 03:01:08,330
Also, many just want to crack down on

5181
03:01:08,330 --> 03:01:09,230
illegal immigration.

5182
03:01:09,670 --> 03:01:12,310
Remember, nearly eight million people have fled the

5183
03:01:12,310 --> 03:01:15,350
authoritarian rule of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela.

5184
03:01:15,630 --> 03:01:17,310
And most have stayed here in this region.

5185
03:01:17,770 --> 03:01:21,110
And the right has deftly conflated and merged

5186
03:01:21,110 --> 03:01:23,970
the high crime fears and illegal immigration sound

5187
03:01:23,970 --> 03:01:26,510
familiar, like with the recent win in Chile

5188
03:01:26,510 --> 03:01:27,850
by the ultra conservative there.

5189
03:01:28,070 --> 03:01:30,690
He pledged to build fences, even dig huge

5190
03:01:30,690 --> 03:01:33,110
ditches along the border, as well as start

5191
03:01:33,110 --> 03:01:34,790
mass deportations of migrants.

5192
03:01:34,990 --> 03:01:36,030
Does sound familiar.

5193
03:01:36,750 --> 03:01:36,930
Wow.

5194
03:01:36,970 --> 03:01:39,130
Which sounds a lot like Trump's pledges here

5195
03:01:39,130 --> 03:01:40,630
in the U.S. Diaries.

5196
03:01:41,070 --> 03:01:41,630
Yes.

5197
03:01:41,770 --> 03:01:44,190
No surprise that Trump's policies get a very

5198
03:01:44,190 --> 03:01:46,930
warm reception, and they're being mirrored here to

5199
03:01:46,930 --> 03:01:49,790
among conservative voters and anti left voters.

5200
03:01:49,990 --> 03:01:53,610
His military intervention against Venezuela and drug traffickers

5201
03:01:53,610 --> 03:01:55,070
is very popular.

5202
03:01:55,630 --> 03:01:57,870
Trump's also stepped in for many of his

5203
03:01:57,870 --> 03:01:59,550
favorite candidates and his allies.

5204
03:01:59,790 --> 03:02:02,090
There was that 20 billion dollar bailout for

5205
03:02:02,090 --> 03:02:08,770
Argentina's far right libertarian president Javier Millet that

5206
03:02:08,770 --> 03:02:20,950
came

5207
03:02:20,950 --> 03:02:24,690
right before he was facing a tough midterm

5208
03:02:24,690 --> 03:02:25,110
election.

5209
03:02:25,510 --> 03:02:27,650
And Trump pledges support for the new right

5210
03:02:27,650 --> 03:02:29,310
leaders in Bolivia and in Chile.

5211
03:02:29,910 --> 03:02:32,150
And the populist anti crime rhetoric is really

5212
03:02:32,150 --> 03:02:32,510
working.

5213
03:02:32,510 --> 03:02:34,470
Some have even coined it with a new

5214
03:02:34,470 --> 03:02:36,230
term security populism.

5215
03:02:36,770 --> 03:02:39,230
Will Freeman of the Council on Foreign Relations

5216
03:02:39,230 --> 03:02:40,690
was talking to me about that.

5217
03:02:40,850 --> 03:02:43,990
It's not surprising that this is gaining so

5218
03:02:43,990 --> 03:02:47,070
much popularity, given how powerful and rich organized

5219
03:02:47,070 --> 03:02:48,450
crime groups have become here.

5220
03:02:48,690 --> 03:02:48,970
Yes.

5221
03:02:49,150 --> 03:02:52,170
Killing fishermen is very popular in South America.

5222
03:02:52,290 --> 03:02:52,850
It's amazing.

5223
03:02:53,050 --> 03:02:54,170
But here it's a big problem.

5224
03:02:54,270 --> 03:02:55,990
They're like, yeah, kill those fishermen.

5225
03:02:56,150 --> 03:02:58,490
Why are these crime groups becoming so powerful

5226
03:02:58,490 --> 03:02:59,530
right now?

5227
03:02:59,530 --> 03:03:01,390
I mean, hasn't organized crime been a problem

5228
03:03:01,390 --> 03:03:03,270
for a long time in Latin America?

5229
03:03:04,250 --> 03:03:05,890
But they're richer than ever.

5230
03:03:06,190 --> 03:03:06,590
Wait, wait.

5231
03:03:06,890 --> 03:03:07,270
Sure.

5232
03:03:07,510 --> 03:03:10,370
How do you answer it when you ask

5233
03:03:10,370 --> 03:03:10,830
me something?

5234
03:03:10,890 --> 03:03:11,250
Sure.

5235
03:03:11,670 --> 03:03:12,390
You know, it just makes.

5236
03:03:12,650 --> 03:03:13,090
Sure.

5237
03:03:13,430 --> 03:03:13,870
Sure.

5238
03:03:14,370 --> 03:03:14,810
Sure.

5239
03:03:15,450 --> 03:03:17,430
Well, it was it was it was a

5240
03:03:17,430 --> 03:03:18,210
leading question.

5241
03:03:18,290 --> 03:03:18,830
Let's hear it again.

5242
03:03:18,870 --> 03:03:21,250
Why are these crime groups becoming so powerful

5243
03:03:21,250 --> 03:03:22,250
right now?

5244
03:03:22,410 --> 03:03:24,490
He answers his own question by saying, I

5245
03:03:24,490 --> 03:03:26,570
mean, hasn't organized crime been a problem for

5246
03:03:26,570 --> 03:03:27,870
a long time in Latin America?

5247
03:03:28,510 --> 03:03:28,790
Sure.

5248
03:03:28,790 --> 03:03:30,490
But they're richer than ever.

5249
03:03:30,730 --> 03:03:33,050
They're making billions and not just from drugs,

5250
03:03:33,130 --> 03:03:36,570
but migrant trafficking and increasingly illegal gold trafficking.

5251
03:03:36,770 --> 03:03:38,670
Gold prices are soaring right now.

5252
03:03:38,890 --> 03:03:41,150
Now listen to the example that's coming up.

5253
03:03:41,470 --> 03:03:43,370
And so is demand for drugs in the

5254
03:03:43,370 --> 03:03:45,650
US and Europe and especially cocaine.

5255
03:03:46,770 --> 03:03:47,810
It's on the rise.

5256
03:03:47,930 --> 03:03:50,490
The use in the US, but cocaine use

5257
03:03:50,490 --> 03:03:52,090
is at an all time high in Europe.

5258
03:03:52,090 --> 03:03:53,770
And so is coca production.

5259
03:03:53,830 --> 03:03:55,750
And that happens mainly in Colombia.

5260
03:03:56,090 --> 03:03:59,050
So most cocaine smuggling and transportation goes through

5261
03:03:59,050 --> 03:03:59,530
Ecuador.

5262
03:04:00,110 --> 03:04:01,550
And I just spent a lot of time

5263
03:04:01,550 --> 03:04:02,790
there this year and I spent time with

5264
03:04:02,790 --> 03:04:04,210
this one banana farmer and I just want

5265
03:04:04,210 --> 03:04:05,610
to tell you a little bit about him.

5266
03:04:05,950 --> 03:04:08,690
He battles extortion and kidnapping attempts by the

5267
03:04:08,690 --> 03:04:09,250
cartels.

5268
03:04:09,590 --> 03:04:11,130
He told me this one story that has

5269
03:04:11,130 --> 03:04:12,390
stuck with me so much.

5270
03:04:12,530 --> 03:04:14,870
He was visiting friends in Europe and they

5271
03:04:14,870 --> 03:04:17,210
were all partying and someone pulled out cocaine

5272
03:04:17,210 --> 03:04:18,930
and he said he was just floored.

5273
03:04:19,090 --> 03:04:21,150
He told them, don't you know what that

5274
03:04:21,150 --> 03:04:21,710
has done?

5275
03:04:21,710 --> 03:04:23,750
Your consumption has done to my country.

5276
03:04:23,930 --> 03:04:25,710
And he said the people at the party

5277
03:04:25,710 --> 03:04:27,790
just could not connect the dots with him.

5278
03:04:28,150 --> 03:04:28,650
Oh, wow.

5279
03:04:29,010 --> 03:04:29,790
Oh, wow.

5280
03:04:30,890 --> 03:04:31,510
Oh, wow.

5281
03:04:32,310 --> 03:04:32,870
Oh, wow.

5282
03:04:33,690 --> 03:04:34,470
Oh, wow.

5283
03:04:34,730 --> 03:04:34,890
Oh, wow.

5284
03:04:34,890 --> 03:04:35,610
You're partying.

5285
03:04:35,730 --> 03:04:36,470
You're partying.

5286
03:04:36,530 --> 03:04:37,590
It's killing my country.

5287
03:04:37,790 --> 03:04:38,450
Oh, wow.

5288
03:04:39,170 --> 03:04:40,110
Oh, wow.

5289
03:04:40,370 --> 03:04:40,490
Oh, wow.

5290
03:04:40,490 --> 03:04:42,230
By the way, we're closer to a deal

5291
03:04:42,230 --> 03:04:43,990
than ever, according to the quad screen.

5292
03:04:44,370 --> 03:04:46,210
Closer than ever to a deal.

5293
03:04:46,570 --> 03:04:47,370
Closer than ever.

5294
03:04:47,990 --> 03:04:48,510
We are.

5295
03:04:48,650 --> 03:04:49,470
So that means what?

5296
03:04:49,530 --> 03:04:50,150
It means nothing.

5297
03:04:50,150 --> 03:04:51,470
It means absolutely zip.

5298
03:04:52,190 --> 03:04:54,250
I'm going to show my support by donating

5299
03:04:54,250 --> 03:04:55,150
to No Agenda.

5300
03:04:55,290 --> 03:04:57,210
Imagine all the people who could do that.

5301
03:04:57,430 --> 03:04:58,410
Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.

5302
03:04:59,570 --> 03:05:02,430
Yeah, on No Agenda.

5303
03:05:03,770 --> 03:05:05,090
In the morning.

5304
03:05:05,810 --> 03:05:07,890
And talking about meaning zip, Adam's going to

5305
03:05:07,890 --> 03:05:11,070
zip through the list of donors above $50.

5306
03:05:11,570 --> 03:05:13,390
But last two shows, it'll take a little

5307
03:05:13,390 --> 03:05:14,790
while and here he comes.

5308
03:05:14,890 --> 03:05:16,110
Is it really going to take a while?

5309
03:05:16,350 --> 03:05:17,490
Is it that long?

5310
03:05:17,770 --> 03:05:18,330
Is it that long?

5311
03:05:18,330 --> 03:05:19,970
It's 30 more than usual.

5312
03:05:20,210 --> 03:05:21,630
Okay, well, here we go.

5313
03:05:21,910 --> 03:05:23,050
Where's my spreadsheet?

5314
03:05:23,170 --> 03:05:24,070
Here's the spreadsheet.

5315
03:05:24,110 --> 03:05:24,970
Here we go.

5316
03:05:26,330 --> 03:05:31,710
Christopher Gaya, Dallas, Texas, 133.33. Jim Buell

5317
03:05:31,710 --> 03:05:37,010
in Fitchburg, Wisconsin, 125.25. Lorraine Converse, Edmond,

5318
03:05:37,190 --> 03:05:39,030
Oklahoma, 12345.

5319
03:05:39,270 --> 03:05:40,110
We see what he did there.

5320
03:05:40,430 --> 03:05:43,170
Same goes for Dame Brazen Bird from Edmond,

5321
03:05:43,370 --> 03:05:43,750
Oklahoma.

5322
03:05:43,850 --> 03:05:44,410
Wait a minute.

5323
03:05:45,050 --> 03:05:46,170
That's the same.

5324
03:05:46,350 --> 03:05:48,170
Edmond, Oklahoma, 12345.

5325
03:05:48,910 --> 03:05:49,330
Interesting.

5326
03:05:49,890 --> 03:05:51,850
Wants a health karma for our friend, Dave,

5327
03:05:51,890 --> 03:05:54,670
who survived a cardiac event and a jobs

5328
03:05:54,670 --> 03:05:56,550
karma from my daughter, Grace Ann, who has

5329
03:05:56,550 --> 03:05:58,770
been job searching for over seven months.

5330
03:05:59,130 --> 03:06:01,610
I suggest giving Linda Liu, the Duchess of

5331
03:06:01,610 --> 03:06:03,630
Jobs and writer of resumes, a call.

5332
03:06:04,130 --> 03:06:05,010
I will do that at the end.

5333
03:06:05,010 --> 03:06:08,950
Zadok Brown, the third, 105.35. Mahalo.

5334
03:06:10,710 --> 03:06:18,090
Ward Detweiler, spots, location unknown, 105.35, and

5335
03:06:18,090 --> 03:06:19,230
he said, a lot of people are saying

5336
03:06:19,230 --> 03:06:21,190
this, Merry Christmas, you filthy animals.

5337
03:06:21,550 --> 03:06:23,350
That was part of our special.

5338
03:06:24,250 --> 03:06:28,070
$100 from Ian Fields, parts unknown, Alice Bradley

5339
03:06:28,070 --> 03:06:31,850
in Knoxville, Tennessee, Jacqueline Lentz in Muskego, Wisconsin,

5340
03:06:32,490 --> 03:06:33,410
Deanna M.

5341
03:06:33,970 --> 03:06:38,370
Evie in Pacific City, Oregon, Joshua Chartier in

5342
03:06:38,370 --> 03:06:42,170
Riddleton, Tennessee, and Anonymous in Lake Oswego, Oregon.

5343
03:06:42,630 --> 03:06:44,950
And there's Kevin McLaughlin, the Archduke of Luna

5344
03:06:44,950 --> 03:06:46,330
and lover of boobs.

5345
03:06:46,650 --> 03:06:49,430
Merry Christmas, he says, with his 8008.

5346
03:06:49,470 --> 03:06:50,950
He's in Concord, North Carolina.

5347
03:06:51,370 --> 03:06:55,730
Robert Ludwig, Nevada, Iowa, with a boob donation.

5348
03:06:55,870 --> 03:06:58,010
Herb Lamb, Sugar Hill, Georgia, 8008.

5349
03:06:58,090 --> 03:06:59,010
Boob from him as well.

5350
03:06:59,010 --> 03:07:02,230
And a second on form, Kevin McLaughlin, the

5351
03:07:02,230 --> 03:07:03,710
Archduke of Luna and lover of boobs.

5352
03:07:03,770 --> 03:07:04,690
He did it for both shows.

5353
03:07:04,790 --> 03:07:05,110
Thank you.

5354
03:07:05,590 --> 03:07:06,290
Brian Kaufman.

5355
03:07:06,550 --> 03:07:07,030
That's nice.

5356
03:07:07,370 --> 03:07:08,270
Yes, it is nice.

5357
03:07:08,430 --> 03:07:11,630
Brian Kaufman, Scottsdale, Arizona, 75.75, which is

5358
03:07:11,630 --> 03:07:13,290
69.69 plus fees.

5359
03:07:14,010 --> 03:07:17,490
Greg Hartlaub in Cincinnati, Ohio, 75.75 from

5360
03:07:17,490 --> 03:07:20,430
Fat Dad BMX, North Little Rock, Arkansas.

5361
03:07:20,590 --> 03:07:21,550
I haven't heard from him in a while.

5362
03:07:21,610 --> 03:07:22,390
Thank you very much.

5363
03:07:22,850 --> 03:07:26,510
Nicholas Leary in Columbus, Ohio, 72.72. John

5364
03:07:26,510 --> 03:07:30,390
Alberini, Parts Unknown, 70.26. Victoria and James

5365
03:07:30,390 --> 03:07:33,270
in West Orange, New Jersey, right near where

5366
03:07:33,270 --> 03:07:36,530
I used to live, Verona, Montclair, $70.23.

5367
03:07:36,890 --> 03:07:41,650
Dame Becky Arlington, Washington, 69.69. Semper Pici,

5368
03:07:41,770 --> 03:07:46,790
LLC, in Sharerville, Indiana, 68.86. Nice palindrome.

5369
03:07:46,910 --> 03:07:47,310
Strike.

5370
03:07:47,590 --> 03:07:52,190
Thank you, Bitcoiner, 66.74. Robert Sourin, Nunheim,

5371
03:07:52,630 --> 03:07:55,110
Nunheim, Nunheim, Nederland, 65.

5372
03:07:55,950 --> 03:08:00,790
Marco Masse, Parts Unknown, 63.31. Matthew Elwert

5373
03:08:00,790 --> 03:08:03,870
in Weatherford, Texas, small boob, 6.006. Dame

5374
03:08:03,870 --> 03:08:06,230
Liberty Mom in Vista, California, small boob for

5375
03:08:06,230 --> 03:08:09,410
her, or from her, 6.006. Christopher Witzel,

5376
03:08:09,550 --> 03:08:10,470
Spirit Lake, Idaho.

5377
03:08:10,870 --> 03:08:13,190
That is also a small boob, 6.006.

5378
03:08:13,450 --> 03:08:17,130
Tim Heasel, Hanford, California, 58.09, which is

5379
03:08:17,130 --> 03:08:18,770
double nickels on the dime plus fees.

5380
03:08:18,850 --> 03:08:20,170
Thank you for mentioning that.

5381
03:08:20,590 --> 03:08:24,250
Preston Price, 55.55. He's from Woodstock, Georgia.

5382
03:08:24,250 --> 03:08:27,190
Jim Caslin in Buda, Texas, 55.

5383
03:08:27,830 --> 03:08:32,190
Hakon Andersen in Portland, Oregon, 52.72. Jonathan

5384
03:08:32,190 --> 03:08:35,990
Dennison, Parts Unknown, 52.72. Nathan Gwynn, Jackson,

5385
03:08:36,170 --> 03:08:39,470
Tennessee, 52.72. Baron Henry of Outpost West,

5386
03:08:39,930 --> 03:08:44,690
Ranchos Palos Verdes, California, 52.42. Cameron Ling,

5387
03:08:44,890 --> 03:08:48,470
or Ling, North Branch, Minnesota, 52.21. Forrest

5388
03:08:48,470 --> 03:08:51,710
Martin with the palindrome, 50.05, Parts Unknown.

5389
03:08:51,710 --> 03:08:55,290
John Carini, Port St. Lucie in Florida, 50

5390
03:08:55,290 --> 03:08:58,710
.01. Noah McDonald, Traverse City, Michigan, 50.

5391
03:08:58,770 --> 03:08:59,670
These are all 50s.

5392
03:09:00,030 --> 03:09:01,970
Alex Delgado, Aptos, California.

5393
03:09:02,210 --> 03:09:04,330
George Wuschit in La Vernia, Texas.

5394
03:09:04,810 --> 03:09:06,910
Mitchell Goheen in Silver Spring, Maryland.

5395
03:09:07,110 --> 03:09:09,250
Lindsey Christensen in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

5396
03:09:09,770 --> 03:09:11,710
Michael Biscagli in Staten Island.

5397
03:09:11,870 --> 03:09:13,590
Oh, Staten Island, how you doing?

5398
03:09:14,150 --> 03:09:14,990
That's New York.

5399
03:09:15,090 --> 03:09:17,270
Brian Gately in Bayville, New Jersey.

5400
03:09:17,430 --> 03:09:20,450
Scott Van Gelder in Centerville, Massachusetts.

5401
03:09:20,450 --> 03:09:22,510
Benjamin Ryan in Alliance, Ohio.

5402
03:09:23,110 --> 03:09:24,510
Richard Gardner, Parts Unknown.

5403
03:09:24,710 --> 03:09:26,650
Aaron Weissgerber in Bend, Oregon.

5404
03:09:27,130 --> 03:09:29,950
Laura Bertolini in Mobile, Alabama.

5405
03:09:30,230 --> 03:09:33,130
Stephen Jaffe in Ranchos Palos Verdes, California.

5406
03:09:34,750 --> 03:09:36,730
No name, Christmas bonus, thank you.

5407
03:09:36,810 --> 03:09:37,910
Salt Lake City, Utah.

5408
03:09:38,430 --> 03:09:40,350
Leanne Shipley in Covington, Washington.

5409
03:09:40,670 --> 03:09:42,730
Michael Myers in Diamond Head, Missouri.

5410
03:09:43,910 --> 03:09:44,550
Mississippi.

5411
03:09:44,970 --> 03:09:46,050
Mississippi, thank you.

5412
03:09:46,430 --> 03:09:49,850
Laura Bertolini comes in again with $50.

5413
03:09:49,850 --> 03:09:51,810
Thank you for both shows, Automatic.

5414
03:09:51,970 --> 03:09:55,410
And Stephen Jaffe rounds it out with $50

5415
03:09:55,410 --> 03:09:58,830
from Ranchos Palos Verdes in California.

5416
03:09:59,430 --> 03:10:01,290
A nice list, thank you all very much

5417
03:10:01,290 --> 03:10:03,490
for supporting us through the Christmas holiday.

5418
03:10:03,670 --> 03:10:04,670
It's highly appreciated.

5419
03:10:05,050 --> 03:10:07,250
Of course, it's value for value, which means

5420
03:10:07,250 --> 03:10:08,730
whatever you get out of the show, you

5421
03:10:08,730 --> 03:10:09,770
just send it back to us.

5422
03:10:09,830 --> 03:10:11,510
That is the value that we deserve.

5423
03:10:11,710 --> 03:10:13,730
As long as you send something, we're totally

5424
03:10:13,730 --> 03:10:14,510
happy with that.

5425
03:10:14,830 --> 03:10:16,910
And of course, we never mention anyone under

5426
03:10:16,910 --> 03:10:18,510
50 for reasons of anonymity.

5427
03:10:18,510 --> 03:10:20,070
We thank you all very much for your

5428
03:10:20,070 --> 03:10:23,430
49.99s, your 33s, your 11s, your 12

5429
03:10:23,430 --> 03:10:25,830
.12s, your 3s, your 4s, whatever it is,

5430
03:10:26,110 --> 03:10:27,190
it is value for value.

5431
03:10:27,290 --> 03:10:28,070
Thank you very much.

5432
03:10:28,490 --> 03:10:29,290
And support the show.

5433
03:10:29,410 --> 03:10:31,070
Go to noagendadonations.com.

5434
03:10:31,170 --> 03:10:33,390
Support us with any amount, any time you

5435
03:10:33,390 --> 03:10:33,550
wish.

5436
03:10:33,630 --> 03:10:35,030
In fact, you can set up a sustaining,

5437
03:10:35,270 --> 03:10:37,490
recurring donation, any amount, any frequency.

5438
03:10:38,790 --> 03:10:39,590
noagendadonations.com.

5439
03:10:39,610 --> 03:10:42,670
♪ It's a bad thing, bad thing ♪

5440
03:10:42,670 --> 03:10:45,850
♪ On No Agenda ♪ Strangely enough, a

5441
03:10:45,850 --> 03:10:46,650
very short list.

5442
03:10:46,650 --> 03:10:48,890
David Kekta, also known as Melo-D, happy

5443
03:10:48,890 --> 03:10:51,630
birthday to his awesome stepdaughter, Bella Green.

5444
03:10:52,150 --> 03:10:55,090
She turned 24 on December 18th.

5445
03:10:55,110 --> 03:10:56,890
And Sir Donald of Calgary, as we heard

5446
03:10:56,890 --> 03:11:00,350
earlier, celebrated his birthday on December 27th.

5447
03:11:00,370 --> 03:11:00,990
That was yesterday.

5448
03:11:01,110 --> 03:11:03,310
We say happy birthday on behalf of everybody

5449
03:11:03,310 --> 03:11:05,050
here, the staff and management of the best

5450
03:11:05,050 --> 03:11:06,770
podcast in the universe.

5451
03:11:06,910 --> 03:11:08,970
♪ It's a bad thing, yeah ♪ ♪

5452
03:11:08,970 --> 03:11:13,950
Title changes, turning faces late ♪ ♪ Nice

5453
03:11:13,950 --> 03:11:18,030
changes, don't wanna be a douchebag ♪ Well,

5454
03:11:18,110 --> 03:11:19,830
he's been around for a long time, so

5455
03:11:19,830 --> 03:11:21,810
no chance of him being a douchebag.

5456
03:11:21,950 --> 03:11:24,010
And he said he'd figure out the numbers,

5457
03:11:24,150 --> 03:11:25,170
but it is the honor system.

5458
03:11:25,290 --> 03:11:25,830
We trust you.

5459
03:11:25,870 --> 03:11:29,150
Sir Donald of Calgary, double night is what

5460
03:11:29,150 --> 03:11:30,450
he called it, but we just call you

5461
03:11:30,450 --> 03:11:33,230
a baronet here on the No Agenda peerage

5462
03:11:33,230 --> 03:11:35,510
ladder, which I think is still available somewhere.

5463
03:11:35,510 --> 03:11:38,710
Maybe noagendapeerage.net or something like that.

5464
03:11:38,770 --> 03:11:39,650
It's out there somewhere.

5465
03:11:39,930 --> 03:11:42,170
Congratulations and thank you very much for your

5466
03:11:42,170 --> 03:11:42,870
support, sir.

5467
03:11:42,910 --> 03:11:46,070
And we do have one of the final

5468
03:11:46,070 --> 03:11:50,550
awardees of a No Agenda Peace Prize, thanks

5469
03:11:50,550 --> 03:11:54,290
to his very peacemaking, peace-loving donation of

5470
03:11:54,290 --> 03:11:56,570
$1,000, because that's all you need to

5471
03:11:56,570 --> 03:11:58,030
do to receive this prize.

5472
03:11:58,710 --> 03:12:02,990
Paul Lincolns, you are now an official recipient

5473
03:12:02,990 --> 03:12:06,070
of the No Agenda Peace Prize.

5474
03:12:06,590 --> 03:12:10,370
Please go to noagendarings.com and make sure

5475
03:12:10,370 --> 03:12:12,810
that you send us an address where to

5476
03:12:12,810 --> 03:12:15,630
send this very handsome and very authentic-looking.

5477
03:12:16,250 --> 03:12:18,730
It's Nobel Peace Prize-like is what it

5478
03:12:18,730 --> 03:12:19,430
is, but it's an official Peace Prize.

5479
03:12:19,430 --> 03:12:20,430
It looks exactly the same.

5480
03:12:20,530 --> 03:12:22,370
I should mention and make a correction here

5481
03:12:22,370 --> 03:12:22,750
on you.

5482
03:12:24,290 --> 03:12:31,530
For peerage, it's dvorak.org slash peerage.htm.

5483
03:12:31,530 --> 03:12:33,050
And is that an updated list?

5484
03:12:34,470 --> 03:12:36,550
Yes, this list has always been there.

5485
03:12:36,950 --> 03:12:39,230
We haven't changed the peerage around.

5486
03:12:39,450 --> 03:12:41,250
Oh, no, but I thought there was a

5487
03:12:41,250 --> 03:12:41,570
list.

5488
03:12:41,590 --> 03:12:43,590
No, no, a list of people.

5489
03:12:43,790 --> 03:12:44,070
Yes.

5490
03:12:44,090 --> 03:12:45,290
I thought you meant a list of the

5491
03:12:45,290 --> 03:12:46,430
various levels.

5492
03:12:46,730 --> 03:12:47,930
No, so let me correct you on your

5493
03:12:47,930 --> 03:12:48,910
correction on me.

5494
03:12:49,390 --> 03:12:49,790
Okay.

5495
03:12:50,130 --> 03:12:50,810
You're corrected.

5496
03:12:52,210 --> 03:12:52,830
Thank you.

5497
03:12:53,410 --> 03:12:55,750
Hey, I forgot to give the jobs karma

5498
03:12:55,750 --> 03:12:56,990
that was requested early on.

5499
03:12:57,030 --> 03:12:57,770
Let me do that right now.

5500
03:12:57,910 --> 03:13:01,110
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.

5501
03:13:01,110 --> 03:13:02,770
Let's vote for jobs.

5502
03:13:03,210 --> 03:13:04,650
You've got karma.

5503
03:13:04,810 --> 03:13:06,930
And we do have one dame and one

5504
03:13:06,930 --> 03:13:09,650
knight to bring into the No Agenda round

5505
03:13:09,650 --> 03:13:09,970
table.

5506
03:13:10,110 --> 03:13:11,450
If you can bring out your blade, that'll

5507
03:13:11,450 --> 03:13:12,170
be just the deal.

5508
03:13:12,170 --> 03:13:12,490
Yeah, right here.

5509
03:13:12,710 --> 03:13:13,130
That's beautiful.

5510
03:13:13,910 --> 03:13:14,970
Perfect, very much.

5511
03:13:15,030 --> 03:13:15,470
Thank you.

5512
03:13:16,490 --> 03:13:19,210
Paul Lincolns and Rose, please step up on

5513
03:13:19,210 --> 03:13:19,590
the podium.

5514
03:13:19,710 --> 03:13:21,250
Both of you support the No Agenda Show

5515
03:13:21,250 --> 03:13:22,890
in the amount of $1,000 or more.

5516
03:13:23,070 --> 03:13:25,250
I'm therefore very, very proud to pronounce the

5517
03:13:25,250 --> 03:13:30,410
K-D as Serp Mama's Boy of the

5518
03:13:30,410 --> 03:13:33,650
Arc Welders and Dame Rosie Posey of the

5519
03:13:33,650 --> 03:13:34,470
Flower Child.

5520
03:13:34,570 --> 03:13:35,550
These are great names.

5521
03:13:35,950 --> 03:13:37,310
For you, of course, we have Hookers and

5522
03:13:37,310 --> 03:13:38,870
Blow, Red Boys, and Chardonnay.

5523
03:13:39,010 --> 03:13:41,050
We've got the best Texas brisket and ice

5524
03:13:41,050 --> 03:13:43,110
cold beer on tap as requested.

5525
03:13:43,750 --> 03:13:45,510
Along with that, we've got Ruben S.

5526
03:13:45,570 --> 03:13:47,650
Ruben and Rose, Geishas and Sake, Vodka and

5527
03:13:47,650 --> 03:13:50,030
Vanilla, Bong Hits and Bourbon, Sparkling Cider, Nestor's,

5528
03:13:50,070 --> 03:13:52,410
Gin, Dirt and Gerbils, Breast Milk and Mablam,

5529
03:13:52,530 --> 03:13:54,810
or if you so please, we've got the

5530
03:13:54,810 --> 03:13:55,570
Mutton and the Mead.

5531
03:13:56,230 --> 03:13:57,290
Congratulations to both of you.

5532
03:13:57,350 --> 03:14:00,270
The last Dame and Knight of 2025.

5533
03:14:01,650 --> 03:14:03,990
You get a beautiful Knight or Dame ring.

5534
03:14:04,070 --> 03:14:05,390
Go to noagenderrings.com.

5535
03:14:05,450 --> 03:14:06,350
You can see them right there.

5536
03:14:06,430 --> 03:14:07,850
Let us know what your ring size is.

5537
03:14:08,110 --> 03:14:09,130
We'll get it off to you as soon

5538
03:14:09,130 --> 03:14:09,650
as possible.

5539
03:14:09,790 --> 03:14:11,610
In the package, you will find some wax.

5540
03:14:11,970 --> 03:14:13,690
You can use that to seal your important

5541
03:14:13,690 --> 03:14:14,370
correspondence.

5542
03:14:14,570 --> 03:14:16,830
And of course, as always, a certificate of

5543
03:14:16,830 --> 03:14:17,390
authenticity.

5544
03:14:17,690 --> 03:14:19,790
And thank you both for supporting the No

5545
03:14:19,790 --> 03:14:23,070
Agenda Show, value for value, and becoming Knight

5546
03:14:23,070 --> 03:14:24,930
and Dame of the No Agenda Roundtable.

5547
03:14:25,190 --> 03:14:27,010
No Agenda Meetups.

5548
03:14:32,050 --> 03:14:34,190
Yeah, baby, it's always a party.

5549
03:14:34,490 --> 03:14:34,590
Yeah, baby, it's always a party.

5550
03:14:34,590 --> 03:14:36,890
And it doesn't matter if it's vacation time,

5551
03:14:37,070 --> 03:14:38,930
summertime, wintertime, springtime.

5552
03:14:39,130 --> 03:14:40,810
There's always meetups taking place.

5553
03:14:40,930 --> 03:14:43,030
You can find them all at noagendameetups.com.

5554
03:14:43,490 --> 03:14:45,610
Here is Scott the Jew with the North

5555
03:14:45,610 --> 03:14:48,950
Idaho Sanity Brigade Meetup, the Christmas extravaganza.

5556
03:14:49,390 --> 03:14:52,250
Here at the Christmas extravaganza with the North

5557
03:14:52,250 --> 03:14:53,450
Idaho Sanity Brigade.

5558
03:14:53,450 --> 03:14:55,950
Why wouldn't it be Sir Scott the Jew,

5559
03:14:56,290 --> 03:14:57,210
your host for the evening?

5560
03:14:57,390 --> 03:14:59,530
This is Jason here at Trails End Brewery.

5561
03:14:59,750 --> 03:15:01,750
I want to wish everybody a Merry Christmas

5562
03:15:01,750 --> 03:15:02,910
and a Happy New Year.

5563
03:15:03,130 --> 03:15:05,450
Jack from Post Falls here, where we're not

5564
03:15:05,450 --> 03:15:07,470
thinking of a white nationalist Christmas.

5565
03:15:07,690 --> 03:15:08,530
Good morning.

5566
03:15:08,930 --> 03:15:11,410
This is Brian, a spook in the federal

5567
03:15:11,410 --> 03:15:13,070
government from Post Falls.

5568
03:15:13,530 --> 03:15:15,770
Sick of all the renouncing and the denouncing,

5569
03:15:15,850 --> 03:15:17,430
I wanted to do a good old-fashioned

5570
03:15:17,430 --> 03:15:18,010
announcing.

5571
03:15:18,370 --> 03:15:20,790
So I would like to announce the No

5572
03:15:20,790 --> 03:15:24,350
ID Hyperlocal podcast for Northern Idaho.

5573
03:15:24,570 --> 03:15:25,970
It has been announced.

5574
03:15:26,370 --> 03:15:28,490
We have the gold-digging cowgirl here just

5575
03:15:28,490 --> 03:15:31,030
wishing Adam and John and the whole No

5576
03:15:31,030 --> 03:15:33,830
Agenda family a Merry Christmas and many blessings

5577
03:15:33,830 --> 03:15:35,650
in 2026.

5578
03:15:36,070 --> 03:15:38,490
Sir Donald of the Fire Bottles here, Secretary

5579
03:15:38,490 --> 03:15:42,590
General of Greater Idaho, even though that is

5580
03:15:42,590 --> 03:15:46,030
not what it says on my Secretary General

5581
03:15:46,030 --> 03:15:46,870
Certificate.

5582
03:15:47,210 --> 03:15:49,010
Hey guys, my name's Megan McElmore.

5583
03:15:49,010 --> 03:15:52,130
I'm working at Trails End Brewery and it

5584
03:15:52,130 --> 03:15:54,710
was such a pleasure serving these guys again.

5585
03:15:54,770 --> 03:15:55,550
It was so fun.

5586
03:15:55,850 --> 03:15:58,710
Hey guys, who is the original Podfather?

5587
03:15:59,130 --> 03:16:00,410
Tom Green.

5588
03:16:00,830 --> 03:16:03,530
Tom Green is the Podfather.

5589
03:16:03,870 --> 03:16:04,970
You people are horrible.

5590
03:16:06,370 --> 03:16:07,190
Do you hear what they said?

5591
03:16:07,810 --> 03:16:08,450
Tom Green.

5592
03:16:08,570 --> 03:16:09,250
Tom Green.

5593
03:16:10,010 --> 03:16:11,050
That's not right?

5594
03:16:11,430 --> 03:16:12,690
You guys suck.

5595
03:16:14,230 --> 03:16:15,690
When did that happen?

5596
03:16:15,690 --> 03:16:18,850
I have no idea.

5597
03:16:19,170 --> 03:16:19,850
I don't know.

5598
03:16:20,010 --> 03:16:21,730
It doesn't matter to me.

5599
03:16:21,970 --> 03:16:23,730
I mean, Adam Carolla I thought was bad

5600
03:16:23,730 --> 03:16:23,950
enough.

5601
03:16:24,030 --> 03:16:24,950
Now it's Tom Green.

5602
03:16:25,090 --> 03:16:26,890
He keeps shifting around.

5603
03:16:27,950 --> 03:16:28,810
Hey, Leo Bravo.

5604
03:16:29,170 --> 03:16:30,570
We all know, we all know.

5605
03:16:30,690 --> 03:16:31,230
We're not idiots.

5606
03:16:31,670 --> 03:16:35,210
Leo Bravo had his, gosh, this must be

5607
03:16:35,210 --> 03:16:36,990
number 70 by now up there in Los

5608
03:16:36,990 --> 03:16:37,390
Angeles.

5609
03:16:37,950 --> 03:16:39,730
Pretty wet, but they still had their meetup.

5610
03:16:39,890 --> 03:16:41,990
Hey everybody, it's Leo Bravo at meetup number

5611
03:16:41,990 --> 03:16:44,190
70 at Brewery X in Anaheim.

5612
03:16:44,690 --> 03:16:46,950
Here's the phone for some greetings from our

5613
03:16:46,950 --> 03:16:47,350
friends.

5614
03:16:47,530 --> 03:16:49,710
Adam and John, Shabbat Shalom.

5615
03:16:50,070 --> 03:16:52,870
We're here at the meetup with Leo at

5616
03:16:52,870 --> 03:16:53,610
Brewery X.

5617
03:16:53,850 --> 03:16:54,670
Thanks for your courage.

5618
03:16:54,970 --> 03:16:56,330
I love we got one guy who was

5619
03:16:56,330 --> 03:16:58,550
actually Scott the Jew and then we got

5620
03:16:58,550 --> 03:17:00,130
this guy doing Shabbat Shalom.

5621
03:17:00,290 --> 03:17:00,830
It's fantastic.

5622
03:17:02,150 --> 03:17:04,030
ITM, Dames by your friends.

5623
03:17:04,950 --> 03:17:07,410
ITM, Sir Mainframe of the 7th Fleet here.

5624
03:17:07,550 --> 03:17:09,850
Defender of the Archduke and Duchess of Japan

5625
03:17:09,850 --> 03:17:11,730
and all the disputed islands in the Japan

5626
03:17:11,730 --> 03:17:12,110
Sea.

5627
03:17:12,110 --> 03:17:14,930
Chilling with Bravo Meister in SoCal.

5628
03:17:15,110 --> 03:17:16,530
Hi Adam and John.

5629
03:17:16,930 --> 03:17:18,770
I'm Noemi from Philippines.

5630
03:17:19,410 --> 03:17:21,270
This is Leo Kim Fopop wishing you a

5631
03:17:21,270 --> 03:17:24,970
happy festivus, Merry Christmas and Gregorian calendar new

5632
03:17:24,970 --> 03:17:25,310
year.

5633
03:17:25,590 --> 03:17:27,950
Hey guys, good to be here.

5634
03:17:28,030 --> 03:17:30,190
Good to be at Brewery X finally once

5635
03:17:30,190 --> 03:17:30,590
again.

5636
03:17:31,110 --> 03:17:31,750
Adios mofo.

5637
03:17:32,070 --> 03:17:33,030
Hello fellow listeners.

5638
03:17:33,250 --> 03:17:35,470
This is Sean at Brewery X with Leo

5639
03:17:35,470 --> 03:17:35,850
Bravo.

5640
03:17:36,550 --> 03:17:37,630
Supporting no agenda.

5641
03:17:38,150 --> 03:17:39,610
I kill bugs for a living so you

5642
03:17:39,610 --> 03:17:40,130
don't have to.

5643
03:17:40,130 --> 03:17:42,010
In the morning, this is Lady Chinaka of

5644
03:17:42,010 --> 03:17:42,530
California.

5645
03:17:42,910 --> 03:17:44,030
Don't give up on us Adam.

5646
03:17:44,250 --> 03:17:45,210
We love Cali.

5647
03:17:46,110 --> 03:17:47,170
And by the way, this is how the

5648
03:17:47,170 --> 03:17:47,850
Tucker laugh goes.

5649
03:17:48,530 --> 03:17:50,370
Gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen.

5650
03:17:50,830 --> 03:17:52,630
I'm so happy to finally be here with

5651
03:17:52,630 --> 03:17:55,110
the ACJCD crew.

5652
03:17:55,450 --> 03:17:56,410
Thank you for having me.

5653
03:17:56,730 --> 03:17:58,330
In the morning, this is Angie from the

5654
03:17:58,330 --> 03:17:59,590
ranch here at Brewery X.

5655
03:17:59,730 --> 03:18:00,790
It's a great time.

5656
03:18:00,970 --> 03:18:01,690
Come on down.

5657
03:18:01,970 --> 03:18:04,070
We all bust our tables so you heard

5658
03:18:04,070 --> 03:18:04,830
from the servers.

5659
03:18:05,130 --> 03:18:07,810
Hey Adam and John, it's Steve surviving.

5660
03:18:08,370 --> 03:18:10,890
I'm out here in California visiting Leo and

5661
03:18:10,890 --> 03:18:11,410
friends.

5662
03:18:11,630 --> 03:18:13,150
Coming out from Wyoming.

5663
03:18:13,230 --> 03:18:15,510
This is Becky saying to the loom motherfuckers.

5664
03:18:15,630 --> 03:18:16,850
In the morning.

5665
03:18:17,450 --> 03:18:19,890
There's always one cusser in the bunch, isn't

5666
03:18:19,890 --> 03:18:20,090
there?

5667
03:18:20,270 --> 03:18:24,250
Also got a note from Shannon Summers, the

5668
03:18:24,250 --> 03:18:27,190
Fort Wayne Club 33 Navidad post Christmas meetup.

5669
03:18:27,650 --> 03:18:29,650
They had a six pack, five regulars and

5670
03:18:29,650 --> 03:18:32,150
a fellow traveler, aka a newbie visiting from

5671
03:18:32,150 --> 03:18:32,610
Arkansas.

5672
03:18:33,470 --> 03:18:35,590
And he's had a great meetup.

5673
03:18:35,670 --> 03:18:38,090
So it didn't provide a report, a audio

5674
03:18:38,090 --> 03:18:39,850
report, but did provide a written report.

5675
03:18:39,950 --> 03:18:40,730
So I wanted to give you that.

5676
03:18:40,810 --> 03:18:42,090
These are the no agenda meetups.

5677
03:18:42,490 --> 03:18:44,490
There's one taking place on Tuesday.

5678
03:18:44,650 --> 03:18:48,050
That's the 30th, the Tri-State Propagation version

5679
03:18:48,050 --> 03:18:52,550
1.0. Gert House in Evansville, Indiana.

5680
03:18:52,750 --> 03:18:54,370
You need to RSVP for that.

5681
03:18:54,910 --> 03:18:57,850
It may be at Gert's actual house.

5682
03:18:58,830 --> 03:19:00,410
And then we have a bunch coming up

5683
03:19:00,410 --> 03:19:00,890
in January.

5684
03:19:01,070 --> 03:19:04,390
Santa Rosa, California, Raleigh, North Carolina, Berg en

5685
03:19:04,390 --> 03:19:07,530
Dal in the Netherlands, Alpharetta, Georgia, Oakland, California,

5686
03:19:07,730 --> 03:19:08,810
Los Altos, California.

5687
03:19:09,090 --> 03:19:11,710
Many more meetups to be found at noagendameetups

5688
03:19:11,710 --> 03:19:12,110
.com.

5689
03:19:12,190 --> 03:19:13,890
This is the place where you go to

5690
03:19:13,890 --> 03:19:14,590
get connection.

5691
03:19:14,730 --> 03:19:16,010
It always gives you protection.

5692
03:19:16,310 --> 03:19:18,790
These are your first responders in an emergency.

5693
03:19:19,350 --> 03:19:19,910
Go to one.

5694
03:19:20,030 --> 03:19:21,170
You will never stop.

5695
03:19:21,270 --> 03:19:22,450
You will keep going to them.

5696
03:19:22,770 --> 03:19:23,530
They're a lot of fun.

5697
03:19:23,790 --> 03:19:25,570
And you will meet children from other lands.

5698
03:19:25,990 --> 03:19:27,070
Noagendameetups.com.

5699
03:19:27,190 --> 03:19:29,210
It's easy and always a party.

5700
03:19:29,510 --> 03:19:33,110
♪ Sometimes you wanna go hang out with

5701
03:19:33,110 --> 03:19:37,330
all the nights and days ♪ ♪ You

5702
03:19:37,330 --> 03:19:39,670
wanna be where you want to be ♪

5703
03:19:39,670 --> 03:19:42,090
♪ Drink it all, hell's a flame ♪

5704
03:19:42,090 --> 03:19:45,310
♪ You wanna be where everybody feels the

5705
03:19:45,310 --> 03:19:50,650
same ♪ ♪ Just like a party ♪

5706
03:19:50,650 --> 03:19:51,590
All right, everybody.

5707
03:19:51,730 --> 03:19:52,390
Just like a party.

5708
03:19:52,510 --> 03:19:54,150
We do have end of show mixes, a

5709
03:19:54,150 --> 03:19:57,250
heavy metal ditty from Baron Darin coming up.

5710
03:19:57,550 --> 03:19:59,330
He did that because John wanted to hear

5711
03:19:59,330 --> 03:20:00,950
a different kind of voice on the A

5712
03:20:00,950 --> 03:20:01,810
.I. Slop song.

5713
03:20:01,930 --> 03:20:03,030
So you got that.

5714
03:20:04,470 --> 03:20:06,250
And this is where we also...

5715
03:20:06,250 --> 03:20:06,650
Oh, of course.

5716
03:20:06,650 --> 03:20:08,830
I should mention anything would be better than

5717
03:20:08,830 --> 03:20:10,370
the Pogues.

5718
03:20:12,130 --> 03:20:14,350
People say it's the best Christmas song ever.

5719
03:20:14,430 --> 03:20:15,030
I'm like, no.

5720
03:20:15,490 --> 03:20:16,050
It stinks.

5721
03:20:16,490 --> 03:20:17,250
It stinks.

5722
03:20:17,830 --> 03:20:19,370
Well, that's not what it is.

5723
03:20:19,470 --> 03:20:21,810
It's a No Agenda Happy New Year song

5724
03:20:21,810 --> 03:20:22,570
is what it is.

5725
03:20:22,610 --> 03:20:23,210
And it's good.

5726
03:20:23,250 --> 03:20:25,870
And we got some MVP with some big,

5727
03:20:26,130 --> 03:20:29,010
beautiful ships and scary weather.

5728
03:20:29,170 --> 03:20:30,670
It's all slop and it's all good.

5729
03:20:30,690 --> 03:20:31,230
You'll love it.

5730
03:20:33,030 --> 03:20:35,070
End of show ISOs, which you always choose

5731
03:20:35,070 --> 03:20:36,150
here in this very moment.

5732
03:20:36,370 --> 03:20:38,990
This is always the man versus the machine

5733
03:20:39,530 --> 03:20:42,430
where John prompts his way to victory and

5734
03:20:42,430 --> 03:20:44,130
I just get real people.

5735
03:20:44,570 --> 03:20:46,150
So I'm going to play mine first.

5736
03:20:46,510 --> 03:20:47,230
Here's the first.

5737
03:20:47,570 --> 03:20:48,830
They nailed it.

5738
03:20:50,470 --> 03:20:51,570
I like it.

5739
03:20:51,690 --> 03:20:52,330
I know you do.

5740
03:20:52,390 --> 03:20:53,070
How about this one?

5741
03:20:53,170 --> 03:20:54,410
We know what we're doing.

5742
03:20:56,090 --> 03:20:57,690
We got the documents.

5743
03:20:58,430 --> 03:20:59,630
I like this one too.

5744
03:20:59,750 --> 03:21:00,870
Blah, bitty, blah, bitty, blah.

5745
03:21:03,530 --> 03:21:06,010
Okay, so I'll delete those two and this

5746
03:21:06,010 --> 03:21:07,010
one's still in the running.

5747
03:21:07,090 --> 03:21:08,290
They nailed it.

5748
03:21:08,390 --> 03:21:09,110
That's in the running.

5749
03:21:09,350 --> 03:21:10,270
Yeah, it's not bad.

5750
03:21:10,550 --> 03:21:10,870
All right.

5751
03:21:10,970 --> 03:21:11,270
What do you got?

5752
03:21:11,270 --> 03:21:12,190
I have a real one.

5753
03:21:12,250 --> 03:21:13,410
I always put a real one in when

5754
03:21:13,410 --> 03:21:13,850
I can.

5755
03:21:13,990 --> 03:21:16,050
I got where, I got, I think this

5756
03:21:16,050 --> 03:21:16,550
would be great.

5757
03:21:16,730 --> 03:21:17,570
This is the wherever.

5758
03:21:17,930 --> 03:21:20,450
Wherever you get your podcasts.

5759
03:21:20,450 --> 03:21:20,610
Huh?

5760
03:21:20,890 --> 03:21:21,290
No.

5761
03:21:21,290 --> 03:21:22,710
It's a perfect ending, no?

5762
03:21:22,750 --> 03:21:24,610
No, no, no, no.

5763
03:21:24,910 --> 03:21:26,190
Okay, let's go with great.

5764
03:21:26,510 --> 03:21:28,690
Great show, again and as usual.

5765
03:21:29,370 --> 03:21:30,330
No, no.

5766
03:21:30,410 --> 03:21:32,010
You need to come up with better ones.

5767
03:21:32,010 --> 03:21:33,690
Okay, let's try this one.

5768
03:21:33,790 --> 03:21:35,750
This at least has a message.

5769
03:21:35,910 --> 03:21:36,370
Donate.

5770
03:21:36,510 --> 03:21:38,530
Well, that was a show to remember.

5771
03:21:39,110 --> 03:21:40,230
So, donate.

5772
03:21:42,150 --> 03:21:44,170
It's just not grabbing me.

5773
03:21:45,710 --> 03:21:47,310
All right, you can win this one.

5774
03:21:47,450 --> 03:21:49,630
I will win this one and we'll play

5775
03:21:49,630 --> 03:21:51,910
it later after John's tip of the day.

5776
03:21:52,930 --> 03:21:55,770
♪ Great advice for you and me ♪

5777
03:21:55,770 --> 03:22:00,210
♪ Just a tip with JCB and sometimes

5778
03:22:00,210 --> 03:22:00,790
Adam.

5779
03:22:01,210 --> 03:22:04,330
♪ Last one, last one of the year.

5780
03:22:05,090 --> 03:22:06,710
Oh, yeah, well, this is the time to

5781
03:22:06,710 --> 03:22:08,870
clean up the mess that these storms are

5782
03:22:08,870 --> 03:22:11,950
creating and a lot of people have blackberries.

5783
03:22:14,450 --> 03:22:14,890
Blackberries?

5784
03:22:16,070 --> 03:22:18,530
Blackberries, you ever heard of any blackberries in

5785
03:22:18,530 --> 03:22:18,910
your yard?

5786
03:22:19,950 --> 03:22:20,870
A lot of people do.

5787
03:22:21,070 --> 03:22:21,970
Yeah, well, okay.

5788
03:22:22,470 --> 03:22:23,110
They're invasive.

5789
03:22:23,230 --> 03:22:24,510
Well, in Texas, I don't think you can

5790
03:22:24,510 --> 03:22:25,090
grow berries.

5791
03:22:25,310 --> 03:22:25,550
No.

5792
03:22:26,050 --> 03:22:27,030
But much of the country.

5793
03:22:27,390 --> 03:22:28,230
We grow shrooms.

5794
03:22:28,230 --> 03:22:29,590
You need these gloves.

5795
03:22:29,590 --> 03:22:33,910
These are hand-landy, rose-pruning gloves for

5796
03:22:33,910 --> 03:22:34,730
men and women.

5797
03:22:35,130 --> 03:22:39,230
Long, thorn-proof gardening gloves made out of

5798
03:22:39,230 --> 03:22:39,830
pigskin.

5799
03:22:39,970 --> 03:22:40,630
They're gauntlets.

5800
03:22:40,830 --> 03:22:42,750
Best garden gifts and tools for a gardener.

5801
03:22:43,070 --> 03:22:44,750
They're only, they're about 17 bucks.

5802
03:22:44,850 --> 03:22:46,870
They have different styles, but they're gauntlets.

5803
03:22:46,910 --> 03:22:49,530
These giant gloves that go over your forearms

5804
03:22:50,110 --> 03:22:51,670
and they got pigskin.

5805
03:22:51,870 --> 03:22:53,830
You can pull stuff out of the ground

5806
03:22:53,830 --> 03:22:56,250
that's got thorns and it's good for roses

5807
03:22:56,250 --> 03:22:59,390
and specifically blackberries.

5808
03:22:59,870 --> 03:23:00,930
Oh, so these go all the way up

5809
03:23:00,930 --> 03:23:01,490
to your elbow?

5810
03:23:02,170 --> 03:23:03,050
Yeah, pretty much.

5811
03:23:03,290 --> 03:23:04,210
Oh, that's good.

5812
03:23:04,210 --> 03:23:05,190
You can get all cut up.

5813
03:23:05,370 --> 03:23:07,230
Yeah, well, I used to work in the

5814
03:23:07,230 --> 03:23:10,670
rose nursery as a kid in Holland.

5815
03:23:10,770 --> 03:23:12,990
Well, you, these gloves is what you wanted.

5816
03:23:13,130 --> 03:23:15,030
We did, we had bare hands.

5817
03:23:15,810 --> 03:23:16,230
Bare hands.

5818
03:23:16,590 --> 03:23:17,250
And that sucked.

5819
03:23:17,550 --> 03:23:20,390
And our arms were completely scratched from.

5820
03:23:20,630 --> 03:23:22,270
Yeah, no, this will keep that from happening.

5821
03:23:22,390 --> 03:23:23,270
Yeah, well, I'm not going back.

5822
03:23:23,810 --> 03:23:24,590
They're cheap.

5823
03:23:24,710 --> 03:23:25,570
I'm a podcaster.

5824
03:23:25,710 --> 03:23:26,930
I'm not a rose picker.

5825
03:23:26,990 --> 03:23:27,790
I'm a podcaster.

5826
03:23:28,110 --> 03:23:29,150
That's an interesting one.

5827
03:23:29,230 --> 03:23:31,930
You know, I gave Tina the knife tip

5828
03:23:31,930 --> 03:23:32,830
of the day for Christmas.

5829
03:23:33,510 --> 03:23:33,630
Yeah.

5830
03:23:33,750 --> 03:23:35,590
And as a gag, I gave her the

5831
03:23:35,590 --> 03:23:38,090
gloves that you recommended, the chain mail gloves.

5832
03:23:38,210 --> 03:23:39,330
The chain mail gloves, yeah.

5833
03:23:39,870 --> 03:23:40,210
Yes.

5834
03:23:40,270 --> 03:23:41,910
It's not a gag, it's actually a good

5835
03:23:41,910 --> 03:23:43,890
idea, but it's a little insulting.

5836
03:23:45,110 --> 03:23:47,490
Have you ever seen a lefty cut something

5837
03:23:47,490 --> 03:23:48,610
with a big sharp knife?

5838
03:23:48,950 --> 03:23:51,130
It makes me cringe to think about a

5839
03:23:51,130 --> 03:23:52,130
lefty cutting anything.

5840
03:23:52,130 --> 03:23:53,250
There you go, everybody.

5841
03:23:53,410 --> 03:23:54,410
It's John's tip of the day.

5842
03:23:54,550 --> 03:23:56,870
Find it all at noagendafund.com and tipoftheday

5843
03:23:56,870 --> 03:23:57,430
.net.

5844
03:24:03,890 --> 03:24:08,870
Well, there it is.

5845
03:24:09,130 --> 03:24:11,310
The last show of 2025.

5846
03:24:11,850 --> 03:24:14,450
We will be working on your New Year's

5847
03:24:14,450 --> 03:24:14,710
Day.

5848
03:24:14,890 --> 03:24:16,990
All is quiet on New Year's Day, but

5849
03:24:16,990 --> 03:24:19,870
we will be working for you because there

5850
03:24:19,870 --> 03:24:22,590
may be peace in Ukraine, closer than ever.

5851
03:24:23,790 --> 03:24:27,470
Don Bass demilitarized zone still not worked out.

5852
03:24:27,590 --> 03:24:28,670
Yeah, surprise, surprise.

5853
03:24:29,430 --> 03:24:32,010
Hey, just to wind up your Christmas joyous

5854
03:24:32,010 --> 03:24:35,530
spirit week, Nick the Rat is next with

5855
03:24:35,530 --> 03:24:37,830
his Christmas, what does he call this show?

5856
03:24:38,070 --> 03:24:40,390
It's the Merry Predictions.

5857
03:24:40,630 --> 03:24:41,010
Oh boy.

5858
03:24:41,710 --> 03:24:44,390
When the rats are predicting things, it's time

5859
03:24:44,390 --> 03:24:45,150
to jump ship.

5860
03:24:45,410 --> 03:24:46,290
That's all I know.

5861
03:24:47,710 --> 03:24:49,970
So thank you once again for being here.

5862
03:24:49,970 --> 03:24:52,490
Trolls, noagendastream.com.

5863
03:24:52,550 --> 03:24:53,710
Thank you to our producers.

5864
03:24:54,410 --> 03:24:56,490
Thank you to the producers who supported us

5865
03:24:56,490 --> 03:24:57,030
financially.

5866
03:24:57,270 --> 03:24:58,670
It is all highly appreciated.

5867
03:24:59,250 --> 03:25:00,490
Coming to you from the heart of the

5868
03:25:00,490 --> 03:25:02,970
Texas Hill Country where it's still kind of

5869
03:25:02,970 --> 03:25:03,570
Christmassy.

5870
03:25:03,690 --> 03:25:05,790
It's Fredericksburg, Texas in the morning, everybody.

5871
03:25:06,210 --> 03:25:06,890
I'm Adam Curry.

5872
03:25:07,150 --> 03:25:09,470
And from Northern Silicon Valley where I remain,

5873
03:25:09,630 --> 03:25:10,510
I'm John C.

5874
03:25:10,670 --> 03:25:11,150
Dvorak.

5875
03:25:11,310 --> 03:25:13,050
Baron Daron O'Neill coming up in the

5876
03:25:13,050 --> 03:25:15,230
end of show mixes and two back to

5877
03:25:15,230 --> 03:25:16,350
backs from MVP.

5878
03:25:16,670 --> 03:25:17,810
We'll be back on Thursday.

5879
03:25:17,970 --> 03:25:18,790
Please join us.

5880
03:25:18,790 --> 03:25:22,370
And as always, remember us at noagendadonations.com.

5881
03:25:22,430 --> 03:25:27,430
Until then, adios, mofos, hui, hui, and such.

5882
03:25:29,290 --> 03:25:29,870
Hit it!

5883
03:25:29,870 --> 03:25:39,750
♪ Can you believe it's true, we've

5884
03:25:39,750 --> 03:25:44,560
made it through anew ♪ ♪ Yes, the

5885
03:25:44,560 --> 03:25:58,730
continents are changing and the rifts

5886
03:25:58,730 --> 03:26:05,110
to open the lathe ♪ ♪ It's high,

5887
03:26:05,170 --> 03:26:26,240
oh, it's simple, go

5888
03:26:26,240 --> 03:26:44,000
in, find out your

5889
03:26:44,000 --> 03:26:45,700
place ♪ ♪ A valley from high, oh,

5890
03:26:45,820 --> 03:27:05,880
it's simple, it's the day, it's the night

5891
03:27:05,880 --> 03:27:15,730
♪ ♪ It's

5892
03:27:15,730 --> 03:27:26,090
the no agenda ♪

5893
03:27:28,530 --> 03:27:31,530
Weather emergencies can strike like a bolt from

5894
03:27:31,530 --> 03:27:31,970
the blue.

5895
03:27:33,930 --> 03:27:36,910
Storms, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes.

5896
03:27:37,070 --> 03:27:38,310
Is your family safe?

5897
03:27:38,650 --> 03:27:39,030
Is it?

5898
03:27:39,450 --> 03:27:42,010
Before you venture outdoors, tune into Big News

5899
03:27:42,010 --> 03:27:44,990
Weather Central now with Live in Fear Doppler.

5900
03:27:45,610 --> 03:27:47,470
Only Live in Fear Doppler warns you of

5901
03:27:47,470 --> 03:27:50,070
storm conditions that could snap telephone poles like

5902
03:27:50,070 --> 03:27:52,710
matchsticks, flinging them through the air at hundreds

5903
03:27:52,710 --> 03:27:54,930
of miles an hour, plunging through your family's

5904
03:27:54,930 --> 03:27:57,130
bodies like chopsticks through boiled potatoes.

5905
03:27:57,370 --> 03:27:59,210
Mom, I'm late for soccer practice.

5906
03:27:59,450 --> 03:28:00,650
Don't open the door!

5907
03:28:00,910 --> 03:28:01,810
Don't open the door!

5908
03:28:01,810 --> 03:28:04,630
Check first with Live in Fear Doppler, only

5909
03:28:04,630 --> 03:28:05,950
from Big News Weather Central.

5910
03:28:06,130 --> 03:28:07,470
Mom, it's starting to rain.

5911
03:28:07,990 --> 03:28:08,510
Aaaah!

5912
03:28:11,700 --> 03:28:15,230
The blueprints came in gold leaf, the rivets

5913
03:28:15,230 --> 03:28:20,610
made of chrome, We're building something massive right

5914
03:28:20,610 --> 03:28:22,070
here at U.S. Home.

5915
03:28:22,950 --> 03:28:26,610
With marble on the gun deck and a

5916
03:28:26,610 --> 03:28:31,330
fountain in the rear, We're sailing to Venezuela,

5917
03:28:31,810 --> 03:28:33,970
just to make them disappear.

5918
03:28:34,750 --> 03:28:37,110
It's got the tallest towers.

5919
03:28:38,210 --> 03:28:40,010
It's got the loudest horn.

5920
03:28:40,470 --> 03:28:44,790
The greatest piece of hardware that was ever

5921
03:28:44,790 --> 03:28:46,550
naval born.

5922
03:28:46,610 --> 03:28:51,310
Oh, the Tron class is coming, cutting through

5923
03:28:51,310 --> 03:28:51,970
the blue.

5924
03:28:51,970 --> 03:28:56,890
With a thousand foot antenna, and a penthouse

5925
03:28:56,890 --> 03:28:58,010
for the crew.

5926
03:28:58,770 --> 03:29:05,140
If a boat gets in a crisis, we're

5927
03:29:05,140 --> 03:29:07,180
winning in the tropics.

5928
03:29:12,130 --> 03:29:15,890
It's the baddest, it's the gold plated fleet.

5929
03:29:17,030 --> 03:29:21,710
Turning every little harbor into Wall Street.

5930
03:29:25,740 --> 03:29:29,080
Total sea dominance Trump is very classy.

5931
03:29:29,080 --> 03:29:31,240
Need a new South America.

5932
03:29:33,090 --> 03:29:34,330
I'm feeling sassy.

5933
03:29:41,730 --> 03:29:45,670
The best podcast in the universe.

5934
03:29:46,350 --> 03:29:47,630
Adios, mofo.

5935
03:29:47,790 --> 03:29:53,470
Dvorak.org slash N-A-O They nailed

5936
03:29:53,470 --> 03:29:53,750
it.