1793 - "Retribution"

Speaker 1 The Glowing in the Dark's a giveaway.

Speaker 3 Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.

Speaker 5 And Sunday, August 24th, 2025, this is your award-winning giveaway nation media assassination episode 1793.

Speaker 1 This is no agenda.

Speaker 9 Weaponizing everything and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA region number six. In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.

Speaker 1 And from northern Silicon Valley, where Abrego Garcia wasn't mistakenly sent to El Salvador. I'm John C.
DeBorak.

Speaker 11 It's Craig Bottom Buzzkill in the morning.

Speaker 12 I like the whole Uganda gamut myself.

Speaker 15 I think that's pretty funny.

Speaker 1 I have some clips on this, and it's quite ironic. But first, I want to make this.
This was on Fox this morning, and they all say this.

Speaker 1 Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man, the Maryland dad. Oh, yeah, Maryland man.
Yes. Maryland was Maryland dad at first.

Speaker 1 It's become Maryland father.

Speaker 16 Maryland father.

Speaker 17 Father from Maryland, yes.

Speaker 1 So they keep saying, and this was on Fox, mistakenly sent to El Salvadorian prison.

Speaker 20 Oh, I'm outraged that Fox would have something wrong.

Speaker 14 Please.

Speaker 1 They all use this adverb. This is like this.
This is the same thing with Trump falsely claimed that the elections were rigged. This is an adverb you throw at the beginning.

Speaker 1 This is not reporting. this is propaganda.

Speaker 1 Well, now

Speaker 21 I need to clutch my pearls.

Speaker 22 You should.

Speaker 17 I think the main has MSNBC changed to MSNOW yet?

Speaker 1 Ms. Now.

Speaker 26 When does that happen?

Speaker 14 When does that happen?

Speaker 28 I can't wait to see the logo change.

Speaker 2 Well,

Speaker 2 the logo is flowing. I don't know.

Speaker 1 I think it has to be taken over, or there has to be somebody has to cut a ribbon.

Speaker 3 Cut a ribbon.

Speaker 1 I think there's a ribbon cutting involved.

Speaker 31 Yeah.

Speaker 32 I wonder.

Speaker 14 Anyway.

Speaker 8 This dude, Abrego Garcia.

Speaker 1 I got two clips. Abrego Garcia PBS.
All right, here we go.

Speaker 33 Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia say the Department of Homeland Security has told them that the government plans to deport their client to Uganda.

Speaker 33 The Salvadoran National reunited with his family in Maryland last night after being released from a Tennessee jail. He's awaiting trial on human smuggling charges to which he's pleaded not guilty.

Speaker 34 Today has been a very special because, thank God, I am back with family after more than 160 days.

Speaker 34 And I would like to thank all the people who have been supporting me because, after such a long time, I am realizing that many people have been by my side.

Speaker 33 DHS ordered Brego Garcia to report by Monday to an ICE removal office in Baltimore. That came after he declined an offer to be sent to Costa Rica in exchange for pleading guilty.

Speaker 33 All right.

Speaker 1 Okay, so the whole thing was he's they're going to make their lives miserable, and he's not going to plead guilty to this smuggling.

Speaker 36 No, why should he?

Speaker 1 For in exchange, and they'd ship him to Costa Rica.

Speaker 1 But no, they say, okay, if you're not going to do that, we're going to send you.

Speaker 1 They do a deal with Uganda.

Speaker 37 This is the best part.

Speaker 1 This is hilarious.

Speaker 2 This is their business.

Speaker 39 We have been doing business with Uganda.

Speaker 40 We do a lot of business.

Speaker 26 Just people are going to be able to do it.

Speaker 1 Well, we're going to do business with human people.

Speaker 14 Well, and so

Speaker 1 the the Brits wanted to do this with the Rwanda

Speaker 1 and they never pulled it off. But I think we might actually send a couple of dudes to Uganda.
This is going to teach them a lesson.

Speaker 1 But there's a very strange irony to this,

Speaker 1 which makes it funny, at least to me.

Speaker 1 And this is the other clip. This is the clip from the BBC.

Speaker 43 A man who was

Speaker 43 wrongly deported by the Trump administration to a prison in El Salvador has been told by U.S. immigration officials that he may now be expelled to Uganda within days.

Speaker 43 On Friday, Kilmar Abrigo-Garcia was freed from a Tennessee jail where he had been held since his return to the United States.

Speaker 43 Earlier, Kampala said it had struck a deal with Washington to accept deportees from third countries provided they had no criminal record.

Speaker 38 No.

Speaker 1 Well, that's just. So the joke is that because he won't have a criminal record, they can deport him there.
They can deport him there, but if he pled guilty, they couldn't.

Speaker 1 This is a great catch-22.

Speaker 27 Well, we have been doing business with Uganda, we've been doing all kinds, including sending a lot of C-130s.

Speaker 52 I happen to know, since it might be someone in my circle who is an international arms dealer and sends them,

Speaker 54 and as a non-yes, the international arms dealer here in Fredericksburg continues.

Speaker 57 Well,

Speaker 47 so they're no longer, they're military.

Speaker 14 I mean, this is how it works.

Speaker 27 This is how arms dealing works.

Speaker 61 The U.S.

Speaker 48 wants to sell or has all these C-130 transport planes, and Uganda wants to buy one.

Speaker 64 So there's an intermediary, and it'll go through France, and so they send it to France, which is a friend of ours.

Speaker 66 But they don't really send it to France.

Speaker 64 They just register in France for an hour, and then Uganda buys it through the French entity, and then it can be shipped over legally.

Speaker 48 The great thing about it is that there's an endless demand for these C-130s.

Speaker 74 And this is the truth, as he has told me, that the pilots of the C-130s in Uganda keep crashing them because they learn how to fly on YouTube.

Speaker 77 This YouTube videos, that's how they learn how to fly them.

Speaker 79 So

Speaker 79 it's a great bit.

Speaker 1 What a great business.

Speaker 66 I know.

Speaker 1 Guys can't fly the planes. You got to buy another one.

Speaker 80 And the Ugandans don't seem to care.

Speaker 12 Oh, we need another one.

Speaker 49 So anyway, so now what is going to happen to this guy?

Speaker 54 Is he, is he now finally going to go?

Speaker 83 Or, I mean, oh, all the like Canadian media was like, oh, and there he is.

Speaker 17 He's embracing his child, and it's so good to be home.

Speaker 38 What happened to his wife?

Speaker 1 She was out and about.

Speaker 15 Well, but didn't she have a complaint against him for

Speaker 14 beating him, beating her?

Speaker 85 Yeah,

Speaker 1 two complaints of beating her. Yeah.

Speaker 1 But you know, if you're going to hang out with guys like that, that, you expect to be beat.

Speaker 41 Yeah, I guess.

Speaker 1 But this is a farce.

Speaker 86 It's funny.

Speaker 1 You know, it's totally funny, especially with all these people in Maryland, the governor, and the lawyers, and everybody, and all the activists that want to save this guy because he was wrongly sent to El Salvador.

Speaker 1 Now he's going to be wrongly.

Speaker 1 I don't know how they come up with this, but to Uganda.

Speaker 1 The Uganda thing

Speaker 1 is a gem.

Speaker 85 Yeah.

Speaker 1 But no, what's going to happen, he's going to end up pleading out, and they're going to ship him off to Costa Rica.

Speaker 2 Back in the country.

Speaker 27 Well, Costa Rica is nice this time of year.

Speaker 20 So

Speaker 20 it's not that bad.

Speaker 1 It's pretty good most of the year.

Speaker 73 All right. So I'd like to jump into the Bolton, the Bolton thing.

Speaker 71 Was that Thursday when they were raiding his home?

Speaker 50 Or was that Friday morning?

Speaker 62 That was probably Friday.

Speaker 1 I think it was Friday.

Speaker 51 Friday morning, yeah.

Speaker 19 So everyone's in a tizzy about this.

Speaker 25 We go to ABC with your buddy, Jonathan Carl.

Speaker 94 John Bolton arrived home home Friday afternoon just moments after FBI agents carried boxes out of his house and four FBI agents were still inside.

Speaker 93 They had been in there for nearly 80 minutes.

Speaker 2 For a second,

Speaker 1 this was one of the interesting things about it. There's been, there's three reports.

Speaker 1 One that he was there the whole time.

Speaker 1 Unlike Trump in Mar-a-Lago, they like to make that comparison. The second one was he wasn't there at all, never was.

Speaker 1 And the third one is this report, which he was there half the time.

Speaker 81 Just one foot in, one foot out.

Speaker 1 Can anyone get it straight?

Speaker 14 Well, no.

Speaker 93 They had been in there for nearly eight hours.

Speaker 94 Sources telling ABC News the search was related to allegations that Bolton is in possession of classified records.

Speaker 98 I'm not a fan of John Ball.

Speaker 81 He's

Speaker 99 a real

Speaker 98 sort of a low-life, not a smart guy, but he could be a very unpatriotic guy. I mean, we're going to find out.

Speaker 96 Bolton's Maryland home and also his Washington, D.C. office were approved by two separate federal judges.
Trump insisted he knew nothing about the search.

Speaker 100 I purposely don't want to really get involved in it. I'm not a fan of John Bolton.
I thought it was a sleaze bag, actually.

Speaker 98 I just saw that. I'll find out about it.

Speaker 95 But

Speaker 100 if you believe the news, which I do, I guess his house was raided today, but my house was raided also for Mar-a-Lago.

Speaker 96 Minutes after federal agents descended upon Bolton's home, FBI director Cash Patel posted on social media, quote, no one is above the law. FBI agents on mission.

Speaker 94 But what exactly is that mission?

Speaker 14 Enforcing the law or retribution?

Speaker 90 Ah, the big R word.

Speaker 59 This is what everyone likes talking about.

Speaker 101 Retribution.

Speaker 103 That's right.

Speaker 59 The president is just so mad about the raid on Mar-a-Lago.

Speaker 8 Who was that? Remember

Speaker 91 there was another raid?

Speaker 17 Who was that in someone's house and CNN and been called in advance?

Speaker 2 That's Stone.

Speaker 14 Oh, Roger Stone.

Speaker 1 Roger Stone's house.

Speaker 23 It's like the new version of elite swapping.

Speaker 36 Swatting, I'm sorry.

Speaker 76 Elite swatting.

Speaker 105 You know, people get swatted all the time, but now it's like, eh, I think I'll have the FBI raid his house.

Speaker 106 Yeah, it's cool.

Speaker 107 It's retribution.

Speaker 96 Right here on this show, two weeks ago, John Bolton harshly criticized President Trump. He said Trump was presiding over a, quote, retribution presidency.

Speaker 96 12 days later, the FBI showed up at his office and his home.

Speaker 51 This is the new, this is it now.

Speaker 36 Retribution presidency, the new R-word.

Speaker 108 This week

Speaker 96 starts right now.

Speaker 100 And I'm not a fan of John Boba. That is a sleeves bag, actually.

Speaker 94 The FBI targets President Trump's former national security advisor.

Speaker 96 Are you worried that they're going to come after you in some way?

Speaker 55 I think it is a retribution presidency.

Speaker 8 Good morning. Welcome to this week.

Speaker 96 In a moment, we'll get to the stunning developments coming into the weekend, with FBI agents swarming around the home and office of former Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton.

Speaker 96 But first, the context. This didn't happen in a vacuum.
John Bolton is on a long list of Trump critics who are now facing the wrath of President Trump and his Justice Department.

Speaker 96 Trump himself has suggested that dozens of his enemies re- I just love how they have no information, and it may very well be retribution.

Speaker 109 I'm sure there's a part of that, but I just love how they just make it up as they go along.

Speaker 110 Well, this is clearly retribution. This is obvious.

Speaker 96 Trump himself has suggested that dozens of his enemies, real and perceived, belong in prison.

Speaker 96 He has said that about former presidents Obama and Biden, about former FBI director James Comey and former special counsel Jack Smith, all of whom have been threatened with criminal prosecution.

Speaker 96 So have former Trump administration officials Miles Taylor and Chris Krebs, New York Attorney General Letitia James, and Senator Adam Schiff. Those last two have been targeted by Ed Martin.

Speaker 96 He's the head of what the Trump Justice Department calls the Weaponization Working Group.

Speaker 96 Last week, Martin stood outside of Tish James's home in Brooklyn, New York, and posed for pictures dressed in a trench coat.

Speaker 81 Yes, very sinister.

Speaker 20 What is going on with our country?

Speaker 1 What's going on with the media?

Speaker 40 Well, yes, okay, that's that's a fair point. That's exactly it.

Speaker 81 The only guy who actually had something

Speaker 74 kind of something to say with some content, which was quite surprising, but I think he's probably right, was Michael Cohen, of all people,

Speaker 41 a former Trump lawyer, and he was on MSNOW.

Speaker 111 What we have here is the Trump team, the DOJ,

Speaker 111 going through, for for example, the book, The Room Where It All Happened, which I actually had read while I was in solitary confinement.

Speaker 74 You know, when you're in solitary confinement, I'm pretty sure you don't get a book to read.

Speaker 54 Because that solitary confinement is the shoe, special housing unit.

Speaker 92 I think the whole point is you don't get a book to read, or am I wrong?

Speaker 1 I have no idea. Yeah.

Speaker 49 Well, according to my.

Speaker 1 But I would think that you were right. Yeah.

Speaker 1 But it's solitary confinement. It's not, you know, not the book reading club.

Speaker 111 No, it's supposed to make you crazy not the book reading club which i actually had read while i was in solitary confinement and they've noticed that there are many aspects of this book that appear to be of national security importance and that's what i believe that they predicated this raid upon i also believe that there's no doubt that he will be indicted.

Speaker 111 They will find documents once they go through, for example, his computer. They'll find the manuscript.

Speaker 111 They'll see emails going back and forth between John Bolton, his people, as well as maybe the attorney that reviewed it for,

Speaker 111 you know, for legal ease and for,

Speaker 111 you know, for questions.

Speaker 111 I believe that he needs to lawyer up. And very much like what happened to years ago, Reality Winner, that's a name that nobody talks about anymore.

Speaker 111 One document that was about Russian election interference ultimately had her incarcerated. She was a whistleblower, had her incarcerated for years.

Speaker 111 And I predict that John Bolton is going to suffer the same consequence.

Speaker 17 Oh, man, that would be so funny.

Speaker 48 Well, of course, once you get into someone's computer, especially someone like Bolton, you're going to find all kinds of stuff.

Speaker 49 The military contacts I have all say, oh, no, he kept handling

Speaker 67 classified documents. But the question is.

Speaker 2 Well,

Speaker 1 I did a little research too. Okay.
And I found a hold on.

Speaker 74 My research is: I called somebody.

Speaker 66 I texted, hey, you got any?

Speaker 52 Yeah, yeah, here it is. That was my research.

Speaker 1 A couple of

Speaker 1 people

Speaker 1 emphasized that Bolton was

Speaker 1 a

Speaker 1 stick-up-is asked type character

Speaker 1 who would never even think of having any sort of secret documents around the house that they'd be able to collect.

Speaker 14 Oh, okay.

Speaker 1 I was also told that

Speaker 1 nobody likes him, and he was

Speaker 1 when he was the head of the national

Speaker 1 security advisor to Trump. Trump never listened to him, ever.

Speaker 57 Yeah, but Trump did hire him.

Speaker 1 With that school, yeah, but why?

Speaker 64 Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 1 I mean, Trump hired a whole bunch of screwballs during that first term because he was advised to.

Speaker 1 So there's that element.

Speaker 1 And then you start looking at what Bongino wrote. Bongino also posted something which indicated that this was not about top secret documents or anything that might be listed in the book.

Speaker 1 There's some sense that

Speaker 1 he may have committed some sort of treasonous act or he's been.

Speaker 8 Yeah.

Speaker 14 Yeah.

Speaker 23 It just keeps getting funnier.

Speaker 1 And so

Speaker 1 this,

Speaker 1 and because you know, and I know, because we generally know people not

Speaker 1 as extreme as this character, but generally speaking, people with computers

Speaker 1 don't know how things are backed up. This even took place during the early era with Reagan when

Speaker 1 they were doing the Iron Contra stuff, and all these emails that were going back and forth and then deleted were backed up.

Speaker 1 They were available. And

Speaker 1 a guy like this is not a computer guy.

Speaker 1 He's going to leave stuff on his machine.

Speaker 1 And I've always said that the reason for the terabyte drive, once that was invented, was just so that way it could accumulate evidence against you because you'd never clean it.

Speaker 17 No, the terabyte drive is to store the Bitcoin blockchain.

Speaker 117 We all know that's the reason for it.

Speaker 118 It's not.

Speaker 1 And so the point is, is that this guy may be in big trouble.

Speaker 47 Well, I wonder what they're saying down at the club.

Speaker 41 I don't know.

Speaker 28 You know, the fart sniffing club in New York.

Speaker 74 I'm still trying to get confirmation on that.

Speaker 1 You never will.

Speaker 10 Just

Speaker 17 the M5M just makes me laugh these days.

Speaker 83 You know, I'll walk by and I'm like, okay, I'll probably get that story.

Speaker 65 But it's all so dumb.

Speaker 50 It's just on repeat over and over again.

Speaker 20 And MSNOW,

Speaker 16 I'm just going to get used to saying it.

Speaker 2 MS-NOW. Miss Now.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you might as well.

Speaker 107 MSNOW.

Speaker 1 Unless they back off.

Speaker 52 Or we we say Ms.

Speaker 58 Now. Ms.

Speaker 121 Now. Miss Now.

Speaker 107 They got that

Speaker 122 guy who's the

Speaker 74 president of the Washington Correspondents Association.

Speaker 17 He does the morning show on Sundays.

Speaker 88 All he can do is rant and rave like, whoa, whoa,

Speaker 67 there's no, it's contentless.

Speaker 15 That's what it is. Contentless.

Speaker 30 Yeah.

Speaker 16 Nothing has content.

Speaker 1 Well, that's because they got all these hours to fill.

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I mean, even when CNN had their,

Speaker 1 they used to have that one station, which became HLN,

Speaker 1 and it was just headline news,

Speaker 1 and they had that one woman who kept reading the news all day. It was just pretty much an hour of news repeated with maybe some updates every hour.

Speaker 1 There's only an hour's worth of content a day.

Speaker 17 But they have to fill 24 hours with, so they jack in some people to talk about it endlessly.

Speaker 1 So they've created these 24-hour networks that there's nothing to talk about for 24 hours every single day.

Speaker 123 Right.

Speaker 49 But there's plenty to clip and it's all over social media.

Speaker 121 Whoa, outrage.

Speaker 35 Oh, look at this outrage.

Speaker 17 Although I see that kind of, it is ever since Rachel Maddow cut back her hours and Jen Psaki went to pretty much non-time.

Speaker 127 I even know when she's on anymore.

Speaker 67 There's just, there's no gaffes.

Speaker 74 The only thing, and gosh, I really wish I could have gotten an original.

Speaker 51 Did you see the tweet going around, the post on X, of the AP

Speaker 17 Gwen, I want to say her, is Gwen Dyer? I think her name is.

Speaker 1 Yeah, she was trying to read a simple copy and she couldn't do it. This was posted by Tim Poole.

Speaker 129 Yeah, and I want that original so bad because that will be fun to look because you know, you can't really play it.

Speaker 1 You can't having somebody laughing over it while they're playing it. Yeah, I agree.

Speaker 107 I looked for it.

Speaker 74 I went on the podcast feeds because it looked like like it came from a podcast feed.

Speaker 17 I'm sure they removed it.

Speaker 77 But it was interesting because

Speaker 130 even, I think even we forget some of the things that you're talking about.

Speaker 1 So explain what it is to people that didn't get a shit.

Speaker 120 It was like an hourly report from Associated Press, and she's reading the copy.

Speaker 126 And, you know, these news reports are very staccato, explaining exactly how it goes.

Speaker 36 And then President Trump, without evidence, this kind of stuff.

Speaker 27 But she couldn't get one sentence straight.

Speaker 65 And she kept doing

Speaker 67 what we call pickups you know so let me see if i can give you an example uh

Speaker 1 uh let me just grab a a rando uh news headline and so she would be uh she'd be let's see i'm just gonna grab something um

Speaker 1 here we go

Speaker 66 uh pritzker said in a statement the state of illinois at this

Speaker 49 The state of Illinois at this time has received no request.

Speaker 54 The state of Illinois at this time has received no requests or outreach from

Speaker 71 from the federal government. So she was doing all those pictures.

Speaker 1 Yeah, she was doing it. It was all, it was every she could not get through a sentence with having to pick it up.

Speaker 35 And I can just see the sound engineer rolling his or her eyes like, oh, I got to edit all this stuff together.

Speaker 59 It's going to be a nightmare.

Speaker 1 You got to make it sound like she can actually paste it out.

Speaker 135 But it was just funny.

Speaker 117 I mean, I'm sure they're not making the hundreds of thousands of dollars that some of the

Speaker 28 NPR morning show people are, but I'm sure she's doing just fine.

Speaker 36 And it's like, oh man, she really is just only a voice.

Speaker 126 That person could be replaced by AI.

Speaker 15 That would actually be an improvement.

Speaker 1 It would save money. Yeah.

Speaker 14 It was.

Speaker 47 Hey, we got a lot of boots on the ground about apprenticeships.

Speaker 107 I don't know if you received any, but I got we were talking about apprenticeships.

Speaker 47 This was following on the

Speaker 49 news that plumbers now can make $150,000 a year.

Speaker 38 And I just wanted to, can I share a couple of these? Because this is very interesting.

Speaker 1 I wish you would.

Speaker 73 Gents, I was one of the youngsters who took up a lot of Gen Zers, by the way, in their late 20s. I was one of the youngsters who took up the call for skilled tradesmen.

Speaker 16 I can confirm that after finishing an electrical apprenticeship, so there are apprenticeships, the jobs are plentiful and everywhere.

Speaker 66 And as a journeyman wireman now training apprentices, there's a lot of young cats joining the trade straight out of high school.

Speaker 56 Young cats.

Speaker 1 And how is this new? But it is.

Speaker 70 Well, but, you know, we were pretty convinced that it were no more apprenticeships.

Speaker 37 And that is, that's the.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I'm still not convinced it's that prevalent.

Speaker 35 Well, in the morning, this is from Tommy Break Fluid.

Speaker 138 You discussed apprenticeships on the last show.

Speaker 74 I wanted to tell you about my experience with apprenticeships.

Speaker 28 I graduated from my CNC machining apprenticeship about two years ago.

Speaker 49 I can't speak for other states, but in in Michigan, they're really starting to become more popular.

Speaker 49 Apprenticeships are regulated by the Department of Labor, and they require you to work a total of 8,000 hours, which is about four years, and take classes at trade school or college.

Speaker 107 In all the classes I took, about 90% of the class were also apprentices from other shops.

Speaker 74 Lately in my shop, we've been getting a ton of new apprentices straight from high school.

Speaker 117 And then he goes through this, quite a whole thing about

Speaker 74 how the trade schools were really good, but everybody, he said, here, the trade school I went to in high school was fine.

Speaker 116 They taught the basics, but the college classes I took were terrible.

Speaker 104 I had learned everything most of the classes were teaching because it, because I did it every day.

Speaker 117 The machining teacher didn't even have that much experience or even machining.

Speaker 89 He was only a couple of years older than me.

Speaker 27 My shop one time hired one with a degree in machining from the same school.

Speaker 81 He knew absolutely nothing about machining.

Speaker 109 So, not only are they turning out

Speaker 61 people with worthless degrees, but when they do actual apprenticeships, they don't teach anything.

Speaker 49 And then here's Alabama for Plumber since you were talking about it.

Speaker 17 Listening to the show, I want to inform you all of a school we've created in our county, Baldwin County, in Alabama, that teaches kids or whoever the trades and replacement of traditional college.

Speaker 10 It bypasses apprenticeships, baldwinprep.com.

Speaker 17 And then this is my favorite from the anonymous controller.

Speaker 59 I'd like to bring the NA family a notice about air traffic control job

Speaker 106 availability.

Speaker 127 There's currently an open off-the-street hiring for air traffic controllers.

Speaker 122 Now, before I read what he says, let's listen to the report from the M5M.

Speaker 141 The Federal Aviation Administration is working to fill more than 3,000 air traffic controller jobs to end a decades-long shortage.

Speaker 141 Now, to help, the FAA has expanded its on-site training by nearly 30%,

Speaker 141 but the expectations and pressure are high, as reporter Pete Monteen found out when he toured the training academy in Oklahoma City.

Speaker 113 This is a rare inside look at the epicenter of ending a chronic shortage of air traffic controllers that's burning out workers and delaying flights nationwide.

Speaker 50 Academy Ground, Lear One Hotel Delta.

Speaker 113 Here at the Federal Aviation Administration's Controller Academy in Oklahoma City, students spend months in classrooms and simulators before moving to on-the-job training at towers and radar facilities that are struggling to retain talent.

Speaker 59 How bad is the shortage of air traffic controllers in the U.S.

Speaker 125 right now?

Speaker 74 It's at a full-blown staffing crisis.

Speaker 113 The latest estimates say the FAA is short 3,000 air traffic controllers.

Speaker 113 The newest moves by the Trump administration include slashing the time candidates wait to be accepted here and giving them pay bonuses when they reach key training milestones.

Speaker 144 We're thinking creatively on how we can supercharge air traffic control.

Speaker 113 Changes are working with the FAA just announcing enrollment here is now the highest it has ever been. The FAA says it rejects 90% of applicants and of the students who do get in, 35% wash out.

Speaker 49 I don't know if this news report doesn't want anyone to apply, but here's our anonymous controller. And he or she says, the requirements are pretty basic between ages between 18 and 31, U.S.

Speaker 71 citizen, job history of three plus consecutive years or any higher education degree, clean criminal record, English speaking, although I can tell you stories where that has been ignored.

Speaker 17 For those interested in making a career off of not letting dots crash into each other on a video game screen, making good money, full government pension, retirement, full health care benefits should apply.

Speaker 39 The process is enduring as nothing moves fast in the government, regardless of what Duffy, that's our FAA administrator, claims.

Speaker 78 Go to usajobs.gov, create a profile, build your resume

Speaker 117 on the website and apply to air traffic control posting.

Speaker 17 Air traffic controllers are still in desperate need with the Biden administration's action in conjunction with the worthless, pathetic union during COVID.

Speaker 28 P.S.

Speaker 39 This is not intended to take away business from Linda Liu, Duchess of Jobs, and writer of resumes.

Speaker 118 We appreciate that.

Speaker 81 So there's a real gig, and I bet you it's fun.

Speaker 74 It looks fun to me.

Speaker 107 But I mean, again, if this podcasting thing doesn't work out, I'm in.

Speaker 1 You should go to become an air traffic controller.

Speaker 47 I'd be doing a podcast.

Speaker 117 Number 277 Bravo 5.

Speaker 123 How are you doing, everybody?

Speaker 110 Good to see you.

Speaker 17 Don't crash into that dot on my screen, please.

Speaker 1 We could do it. Yeah, just like that.
Yeah.

Speaker 131 So I'm happy to hear that.

Speaker 55 This gives me hope. This Gen Z, something happened.

Speaker 14 Gen Z flipped around.

Speaker 71 They started to get their activity.

Speaker 1 Well, Gen Z is being underrated. There's a bunch of articles that are trying to explain this and that with Gen Z.
A lot of it's bull crap.

Speaker 1 But I saw at the table the other day,

Speaker 1 JC pointed out something. He says that, according to the stats, that the Gen Z men are all Republicans.
They're coming up as Republicans. Yes.

Speaker 1 But the Gen Z women weren't, but now they are.

Speaker 51 Oh, because they're like, might as well get with the program here.

Speaker 1 He says that the curve has just gone,

Speaker 1 all of a sudden taking a nosedive for the women, and they're all becoming Republicans too. The whole entire Gen Z is going to be a Republican voting block.

Speaker 73 So what can we do to thwart that?

Speaker 3 The Democrats.

Speaker 1 I don't know what they don't know is happening, and the Democrats are still under the assumption that if you're young.

Speaker 117 You've got to be trans.

Speaker 1 Well, besides besides that, no, they're thinking if you're young, you're going to vote Democrat because

Speaker 1 it's an idealistic

Speaker 1 idealism of the Democrats

Speaker 1 is more appealing than the conservativism of the Republicans.

Speaker 1 And so the youth will always vote Democrat. So they don't think this is anything that's worth worrying about.

Speaker 32 Well, I'm seeing it.

Speaker 50 I mean, I'm seeing it around here in Fredericksburg.

Speaker 67 And I'm talking, you know, 25, 26-year-olds.

Speaker 121 and

Speaker 68 they're even giving up social media.

Speaker 86 The horrors.

Speaker 1 Well, that would be a good idea.

Speaker 28 Well, it would be a fantastic start.

Speaker 36 I just wonder, is this an organic change?

Speaker 17 Is this something that just happens as a cycle?

Speaker 60 You and I have witnessed four or five generational cycles.

Speaker 1 As far as I'm concerned, everything's a cycle. So it's probably some sort of cycle.

Speaker 1 It's a new one, though.

Speaker 1 I don't know

Speaker 1 where it fits into the scheme of things.

Speaker 140 It's just got to be backlash, backlash against

Speaker 64 looking at their millennials and going, yeah, that kind of sucks.

Speaker 1 Yeah, well, there's definitely an element of that because they do not get along with the millennials.

Speaker 29 Yes.

Speaker 55 Well, anyway, it makes me kind of happy.

Speaker 81 I like it.

Speaker 40 I feel good about it.

Speaker 35 And also, as, and I think you have a clip as well, as

Speaker 138 was obvious to us, we've got a crime bill coming, and President Trump is reacting to the many calls, I guess, on social media, I've seen him, to clean up other cities besides Washington, D.C.

Speaker 145 Chicago's on deck.

Speaker 146 President Trump says the windy city could be next as part of his federal crime crackdown. His comments coming the same day the Pentagon started ordering National Guard troops in Washington, D.C.

Speaker 35 to carry firearms.

Speaker 144 People in Chicago, Mr.

Speaker 100 Vice President, are screaming for us to come.

Speaker 146 The president claims crime in Chicago is out of control.

Speaker 27 Now, when he says Mr.

Speaker 49 Vice President, does that mean J.D.

Speaker 89 Vance told him, or is he looking to just have someone in the room to back him up?

Speaker 64 Or is Vance the one who's

Speaker 51 on X looking at this stuff?

Speaker 52 Because I've seen it.

Speaker 35 What do you think that is?

Speaker 1 Vance, in this situation, I think it was just a prop.

Speaker 147 Arms. People in Chicago.

Speaker 38 Only in this situation?

Speaker 1 Chicago is a prop in a lot of situations, but this is one of them.

Speaker 84 This is one of them, yes.

Speaker 146 In Washington, D.C., to carry firearms.

Speaker 144 People in Chicago, Mr.

Speaker 100 Vice President, are screaming for us to come.

Speaker 146 The president claims crime in Chicago is out of control, but city data shows violent crime trending down, including homicides dropping more than 30% this year.

Speaker 79 There's that 30% number again.

Speaker 36 Isn't that interesting?

Speaker 150 This is like the Democrats who run these cities just respond in the same way.

Speaker 72 And of course, no numbers, 30% of what?

Speaker 6 Yeah, 30% of what.

Speaker 24 I mean, I listened to Darren O'Neal, and he does, whenever he does Planet Ridge with Larry,

Speaker 91 he always does the Chicago shooting report.

Speaker 117 And I don't think I've heard it under double digits ever.

Speaker 88 Just from the weekend, how many people were shot in Chicago?

Speaker 146 But city data shows violent crime trending down, including homicides dropping more than 30 percent this year.

Speaker 146 Mayor Brandon Johnson claims even though the Trump administration cut federal funding for gun violence prevention programs in the U.S., the city's investments in housing, community safety, and education are having a positive effect.

Speaker 153 What we're doing in Chicago is actually working. Again, 32% reduction in homicides.
That's not something to just blink at. Now, is there more work to be done?

Speaker 32 Notice the homicides.

Speaker 110 Well, you know, less people died from the shooting.

Speaker 150 There's other people maimed and full of holes, but

Speaker 38 it's good.

Speaker 14 We're trending down. Absolutely.

Speaker 153 So let's continue to do the work that's working.

Speaker 146 Johnson says he is taking Trump's threat.

Speaker 44 Do the work that's working?

Speaker 14 Yes, that's a political term.

Speaker 107 Do the work that's working. Absolutely.

Speaker 153 So let's continue to do the work that's working.

Speaker 146 Johnson says he is taking Trump's threat seriously, something Alderman Brian Hopkins echoes. Both feel deploying troops would only increase tensions, not solve anything.

Speaker 7 If he really wants to help Chicago's law enforcement problem, he should give us a federal homeland security grant so we could hire 2,000 police officers, Chicagoans, who know our city.

Speaker 146 Trump's order to send hundreds of troops to Los Angeles is currently at the center of a legal challenge.

Speaker 141 It's likely the same would happen if he tried to do this with Chicago.

Speaker 146 Johnson says they'll leave no stones unturned, including legal action, if it comes to it.

Speaker 153 We will use every single tool available to stop this president from disrupting the lives of Chicagoans.

Speaker 146 The president says after Chicago, he's looking to New York and L.A.

Speaker 50 Now, what do you know about the legality of this?

Speaker 64 Can the president say that?

Speaker 1 It's not legal. The whole thing is a bluff.

Speaker 1 And the dumb Democrats are buying into it, and they think something's something's going to happen. And this is all about the 2026 midterms.

Speaker 1 And Trump's going to be able to walk away saying, well, we wanted to do this, we wanted to do that, but they were defending crime and they were lying about the crime.

Speaker 1 We already get, they're documenting left and right,

Speaker 1 especially those police associations, the unions, documenting that the cops aren't doing their job when it comes to like reporting correctly.

Speaker 1 There's one guy that's been floating around in DC and he's been on Waters and all the other shows. And he says the cops,

Speaker 1 some kid gets shot, has attempted murder, but they sent him to the hospital as an incident. They don't even report it as such.

Speaker 1 So the numbers are, and people are going into the computers and faking the numbers. So all these numbers are bogus, and they're documenting that.

Speaker 1 They're documenting the fact that the crime has actually gone up, not down. And then

Speaker 1 they're going to point the finger at the Democrats. So you want more crime? Vote for the Democrats in 2026.
You're going to get more crime because that's what they're doing.

Speaker 1 And this is just, he's not going into Chicago with the troops.

Speaker 1 It's just an idle threat.

Speaker 125 So you're telling me that the police in these cities today are fudging the numbers?

Speaker 1 Well, one guy was throw, it's put on suspension in D.C. for, for it, and he was a fairly well-known lieutenant, I think, was his rank.

Speaker 1 And they talked about him because his superiors, the guys who are running the city,

Speaker 1 the commissioners and everyone else. This was in the wire, by the way,

Speaker 1 this idea.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 81 You're right. You're right.
It was season one.

Speaker 38 Absolutely.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it was in the wire because this is what goes on in these big cities when they're trying to make their numbers look good. They phony up the numbers and, oh, it's down.
It's down.

Speaker 1 Vote us in again. And it's all lies.
And they're starting to document this to an extreme.

Speaker 1 And I mean, the amount of bull crap in terms of the reporting is well known because they changed some ways of doing the reporting to the FBI. And we had this so-called downturn in crime.

Speaker 1 It hasn't happened. This is nonsense and they're going to they're going to document enough of it to keep the Democrats from getting votes.

Speaker 27 You know why this, why this,

Speaker 117 why they get away with this?

Speaker 64 And I think you're right.

Speaker 47 I mean, we saw it here in Gillespie County with the previous sheriff.

Speaker 39 We got a new sheriff.

Speaker 58 There's a new sheriff in town, Sheriff Ayala.

Speaker 117 But the previous sheriff would, you know,

Speaker 88 he would never report to the newspaper.

Speaker 17 We have a newspaper on Wednesdays only.

Speaker 126 would never report the actual things that they were doing.

Speaker 136 And they weren't possibly even doing that much of it because we're a tourist destination.

Speaker 119 So, oh, oh, we can't have that.

Speaker 70 We can't report on the drugs in Fredericksburg.

Speaker 32 We can't report on that.

Speaker 140 We can't report on all the people driving around drunk because that's what happens in an open, open carry, open container city.

Speaker 3 State.

Speaker 13 No, we're not an open container state.

Speaker 1 I thought all of Texas you could drive around with an open beer.

Speaker 81 No,

Speaker 2 no.

Speaker 2 Well, that's not what I was thinking.

Speaker 105 You can't drive around anywhere with an open beer.

Speaker 49 You can walk on the street in Fredericksburg.

Speaker 16 It's only one of six cities.

Speaker 1 Somebody from Texas backed me up on this.

Speaker 105 You cannot drive around with an I'm from Texas.

Speaker 1 I'm not going to back you up because you're not from Texas.

Speaker 2 I've been in Texas.

Speaker 1 I've been here 15 years.

Speaker 129 You cannot drive around with an open container of alcohol in your vehicle.

Speaker 30 Anyway,

Speaker 128 beer either.

Speaker 2 No,

Speaker 81 you can have a gun.

Speaker 71 But, you know, there's no more local news.

Speaker 158 There's no city desk guy, you know, who's going in and knocking on doors and saying, hey, we're going down to listening to the police scanner.

Speaker 72 Can't even listen to the police scanner anymore.

Speaker 64 It's all digital.

Speaker 87 That's the problem.

Speaker 20 There's no more local reporting.

Speaker 71 So that's why everyone gets away with everything.

Speaker 65 There's no city hall reporter.

Speaker 72 Maybe Chicago has one.

Speaker 65 The rest just sit at WGN and read the press releases.

Speaker 14 Wouldn't you? That's what you do.

Speaker 35 Yes, that's what I mean.

Speaker 1 The pay is the same.

Speaker 81 Yeah, but we have this thing called podcast people.

Speaker 115 We got blogs.

Speaker 40 We got substats.

Speaker 2 Blogs.

Speaker 81 Get out there and start reporting on stuff.

Speaker 86 Well, that one guy, who's the guy who reports on

Speaker 136 Chicago,

Speaker 50 on the shootings?

Speaker 140 It's very popular.

Speaker 14 I don't know if it's a, I think it's a blog.

Speaker 74 We've talked about it at some point.

Speaker 1 No, I don't remember.

Speaker 13 Yeah, well,

Speaker 1 well, there's so many. That your full-time job reporting on the shootings in Chicago.
Yeah.

Speaker 16 Let me see. What was it about Chicago?

Speaker 62 Somebody knows that.

Speaker 53 Anyway, what do you have on this?

Speaker 1 Well, I have a couple of things. I have the...

Speaker 1 There's been a lot of the Democrats going on and on about D.C.

Speaker 1 crime.

Speaker 1 I picked this up from NTD.

Speaker 1 The Democrats are saying there was no crime. People are upset that

Speaker 1 they hate Trump for doing this and they hate him for because there's no real crime in D.C. It's not that bad.

Speaker 159 I live here.

Speaker 1 They say, and it goes on and on. So the NTD has a, this is clips, D.C.
crime man on the street. Okay.

Speaker 160 And just a little more than a week into the federal takeover of D.C. police, the Trump administration unveils data showing a large number of arrests happening in high crime neighborhoods.

Speaker 160 What do residents in those areas make of the crackdown? Entities Sam Wong was out in DC's Anacostia neighborhood to hear from the people.

Speaker 161 You feel safe being out here?

Speaker 11 Oh, absolutely.

Speaker 162 You know, other than the presence of the law enforcement, everything is, you know, as it always has been.

Speaker 11 There has not been any

Speaker 11 altercations as it was in the past. We hear shooting almost every other night, sometimes every week.

Speaker 163 Wow.

Speaker 163 You know, sometimes,

Speaker 164 I mean, when I say shooting, I mean day shooting all.

Speaker 34 Broad daylight, sometimes, at nighttime mostly.

Speaker 1 But you do hear it in the daytime.

Speaker 161 Have you noticed an increase of law enforcement presence around here?

Speaker 165 Yes, sir. I have noticed a lot.
It's a more increase, but it's a shame that it takes Donald Trump to bring all these people in for all the police to come outside and do their jobs, actually.

Speaker 162 This is my actually my first experience with this, the law enforcement. You know, man, it's cool.
I don't, that doesn't bother me them being around here.

Speaker 162 You know, if you're doing what you're supposed to do, guess what? Hey, they're doing the right thing.

Speaker 74 Heyjackass.com.

Speaker 110 That's the website.

Speaker 74 That's the guy who reports on it. Hey, Jackass.

Speaker 82 August.

Speaker 72 Shot and killed 24.

Speaker 57 Shot and wounded 156.

Speaker 20 Total shot 180.

Speaker 74 Total homicides, 26.

Speaker 37 Last week, shot and killed 8. Shot and wounded, 37.

Speaker 166 Total shot, 45.

Speaker 74 Total homicides, eight.

Speaker 73 The year to date, shot and killed in Chicago, 229.

Speaker 64 Shot and wounded, 1,056.

Speaker 73 Total shot, 1,285.

Speaker 74 Total homicides, 275.

Speaker 138 The guy's got graphs, got all kinds of stuff.

Speaker 66 He's got merch.

Speaker 1 He's got merch.

Speaker 2 He's got merch.

Speaker 1 What, spent shell casings?

Speaker 81 Theheyjackass.com.

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 49 So that's the kind of stuff that we need.

Speaker 53 And people need to talk about these things.

Speaker 17 Hey, I'm going to put it in the show notes.

Speaker 110 Heyjackass.com.

Speaker 123 It's a good one.

Speaker 2 Okay.

Speaker 1 I think we've covered that enough.

Speaker 35 Okay. What else you got then?

Speaker 1 Well, I got some TikTok clips, but first of all,

Speaker 109 really, you're going to start off in the first half.

Speaker 37 Okay, I'm going to push that off to the second half.

Speaker 1 I do have, you know, Taylor Swift finally came on a podcast.

Speaker 71 Hold on, everybody.

Speaker 71 And now, back to real news.

Speaker 107 Yes, on her boyfriend. Yeah, her boyfriend.

Speaker 2 Kelsey's podcast.

Speaker 1 She came on to plug her album. And does somebody, this is a good kind of a compressed version.
This is not safe for work, by the way, for anyone out there that's got kids.

Speaker 2 But listen to Taylor.

Speaker 1 This is kind of a surprise.

Speaker 109 Thanks for having me.

Speaker 149 This is my first podcast.

Speaker 71 This is amazing.

Speaker 127 Thank you for coming on.

Speaker 71 What took you so long to jump on podcasts?

Speaker 167 You know what?

Speaker 168 I just, I was waiting for you guys to invite me. This is my favorite podcast.

Speaker 169 Okay, so let's jump into the nitty-gritty. Who do you think is the sexiest man alive today? It can be Travis or it can be anyone else.
Who is the sexiest man, in your opinion?

Speaker 168 I mean, honestly, and I'm sorry, baby, that you're going to have to hear this. I honestly think President Trump is the sexiest motherfucker alive.
I mean, hot damn, that man is hot.

Speaker 14 I totally agree.

Speaker 169 That is a sexy beast right there.

Speaker 71 But aren't you a Democrat?

Speaker 168 You know what? Fuck the DNC.

Speaker 170 You heard me.

Speaker 168 Fuck these woke ass liberals telling us joe biden was sharp as a tack the man was retarded and why the hell did they lock us down during covid uh whoops i i guess we lost a signal there can you guys hear me

Speaker 27 yeah ai of course very funny what yeah

Speaker 46 the the sad part is I had never listened to the

Speaker 122 Kelsey Brothers podcast.

Speaker 49 They're actually not bad, as podcasters go.

Speaker 65 I was quite impressed with them.

Speaker 147 You know,

Speaker 17 it was better than that AI version of it for sure.

Speaker 1 Well, I thought this AI version, which counters the one you played last show.

Speaker 42 Yes.

Speaker 1 And so if you're going to play him, I'm playing him.

Speaker 51 Yeah, no, that's fine.

Speaker 20 I'm totally okay with that.

Speaker 57 Anything but the TikTok ladies.

Speaker 1 Let's go to the UK with some UK anti-migrant action to follow up on our flags thing last year.

Speaker 122 Raising the colors

Speaker 43 movement. Anti-migrant protests have taken place in about a dozen towns and cities in the UK, focused on the use of hotels to accommodate asylum seekers.

Speaker 43 In Liverpool, more than 400 people joined a march calling for migrants to be deported. In several locations, there were counter-rallies by anti-racism protesters.

Speaker 43 Our political correspondent Ian Watson says migration is proving a difficult subject for the Labour government.

Speaker 172 The concern over asylum hotels has put a renewed focus on Labour's records since they came to office. I think the other problem which the current Labour government has is this.

Speaker 172 Some of their MPs are telling me that in areas which are traditionally ones which they would win at a general election, some people are now becoming so concerned about migration, especially the small boat crossings, that they're not listening to the party and other issues.

Speaker 172 And they're facing some regional and national elections next May. They're very concerned that unless they make greater progress on this issue, they'll start losing support to other parties.

Speaker 24 It's interesting the BBC takes it purely to politics, not about

Speaker 122 the outrage of the people who pay their salary through

Speaker 81 a forced payment.

Speaker 27 A forced payment, you know, the television payment scheme, I think is what it's called, which is one of the oddest things they have

Speaker 63 in the UK.

Speaker 83 I mean, they tax people.

Speaker 1 I don't think a lot of people realize what it is. You should explain it.

Speaker 35 I think I have a.

Speaker 1 It's a license you have to buy to watch TV.

Speaker 40 Yes, I think I actually have it.

Speaker 31 I had a

Speaker 1 and they float around the neighborhoods with these with these with these trucks with giant antennas on them because

Speaker 1 the signal comes off of a TV, even though it's a receiver. Yes.
And so if they spot,

Speaker 1 they'll go by your house if you don't have a license and they'll just aim this dish at you. And then if they sense there's a television in the house, they will

Speaker 1 fine you.

Speaker 73 Yes,

Speaker 49 regardless of what you use your television for, if you have it, and it is done by, and you know, when you tuner gives off a signal, that's the problem.

Speaker 50 But also, you can't buy it unless you buy a television from the guy on the street corner, like it's crack.

Speaker 117 They register, you have to register your name because I live there.

Speaker 51 I went through it.

Speaker 14 And it's not cheap.

Speaker 61 It's like $150 a year, I think.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's not cheap. That's true.

Speaker 121 And

Speaker 173 I'm not even sure

Speaker 140 what the genesis of this is.

Speaker 61 Why don't they just ⁇

Speaker 125 I think it was because they didn't want it to be a straight-up tax coming out of the

Speaker 1 tax restriction. I thought originally it was designed to pay for the BBC.

Speaker 15 No, it is designed.

Speaker 61 It's specifically designed to pay for the BBC.

Speaker 140 The reason they didn't want it to be a tax is so that it wouldn't be a political football like, I don't know,

Speaker 117 corporation for public broadcasting, so that that couldn't happen.

Speaker 74 What happened here could not happen to the BBC.

Speaker 17 In contrast to that, well, not really contrast, but this is the Euronews short report about it.

Speaker 174 Protesters took to the streets across the UK on Saturday to demonstrate against hotels housing asylum seekers. In Liverpool, crowds could be seen carrying the St.
George's Cross and Union Jack flags.

Speaker 174 Police could be seen leading people away from the abolish asylum system protest, a term coined by right-wing political parties.

Speaker 174 Demonstrations were also set to take place in other cities, including Bristol, Newcastle, and London.

Speaker 174 This week, a temporary injunction blocked housing asylum seekers in a hotel on the outskirts of London, reigniting the debate. Counter-protests were also held.

Speaker 67 So we got a boots on the ground from Peter Payta.

Speaker 166 Here he is.

Speaker 15 Here in the UK, it's worse than you and John think.

Speaker 73 Almost everyone I speak to with a decent job, business, and family is despondent.

Speaker 39 That's a good word.

Speaker 85 Wow.

Speaker 49 What does despondent mean?

Speaker 37 Depressed.

Speaker 1 The kind of depression that is not good.

Speaker 1 You know, hang dog type depression. Oh, I feel so bad.

Speaker 61 They think the third world takeover is inevitable.

Speaker 72 Every town now has half a dozen vape shops, Turkish barbers, and shawarma takeaways with no customers and big mercs outside.

Speaker 117 The housing market is stalled. I've heard this from a number of people.

Speaker 104 There are eight houses for sale

Speaker 151 on our small village high street.

Speaker 88 None have sold for months.

Speaker 25 Five years ago, they would have gone within a month.

Speaker 89 Everything has gone up in price.

Speaker 75 Food inflation is out of control.

Speaker 116 Highest electricity prices in the world.

Speaker 49 Property taxes jacked up and taxes on home value and inheritance are threatened.

Speaker 50 Investors are putting their money abroad and in the city of London, mergers and IPOs have flatlined.

Speaker 28 UK companies are listing in the U.S.

Speaker 110 rather than the London Stock Exchange.

Speaker 126 I speak to so many people who want out.

Speaker 125 I've never heard so many people who are looking for places to get their family and money out of the UK.

Speaker 17 We certainly are.

Speaker 74 Right, I'm going back to the

Speaker 117 garage where I'm laying down the keel for Mayflower 2.

Speaker 28 He said he wants to be a plumber in America.

Speaker 109 Come on over, Peter.

Speaker 66 We can use plumbers. We should have

Speaker 72 a special visa for plumbers.

Speaker 1 So,

Speaker 1 one of our producers sent in a note mentioning that Satan

Speaker 1 is probably Amy Pope.

Speaker 105 You mean from the UN

Speaker 1 Organization for Migration,

Speaker 1 which is an operation we should revisit once in a while. So I tried, I looked up Amy Pope.

Speaker 1 She worked for Clinton. She worked for Obama.

Speaker 1 I mean, she worked for Hillary Clinton. She worked for Obama.
She worked for Biden. She was in charge of, she was the real border czar that opened the borders, it looks like.

Speaker 1 And so you try to find anything. She doesn't have a wiki entry except in Deutschland.

Speaker 14 Oh, really?

Speaker 1 Yeah, she's got a wiki page is in German. And even though she's in America, I don't get that why they're trying to cover it up, but she does have a sketchy,

Speaker 1 she's not sketchy in her education or anything, but she's part of

Speaker 1 what's that, Chatham House, you know, which is a nice six front in the UK, Chatham House, and some other spooky operations she's got some connections to.

Speaker 1 Obviously, a bad actor, and it's all funded by us. Why does the American public put up with this?

Speaker 1 Why are we dropping our money into these organizations that are all centered at the UN? The UN is really, when I was a kid, when I was a kid, we used to have a pharmacy in

Speaker 156 Albany,

Speaker 1 and this is during the Berkeley era.

Speaker 1 And when, you know, there was protests and all this stuff going on, and there was right-wingers, and they wanted to, and they had all these bumper stickers on the window.

Speaker 1 And one of them was always get the U.S. out of the U.N.

Speaker 1 or get the UN out of the U.S.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 actually, it was done in such a way as to get the United Nations, get the UN out of United States. It was some

Speaker 1 pun snazzy logo. And it was a bumper sticker.
And they, and, and I, everyone always thought, what a silly group of people, these birchers.

Speaker 1 There's a John Birch Society bookstore about three doors down. And we always thought that they were kind of nutty.

Speaker 1 But looking back on it, they were ahead of their time the way I see it now.

Speaker 1 Was I

Speaker 1 a buffoon back in the day? I guess so.

Speaker 35 Well, okay, so you bring up an interesting point.

Speaker 74 First, you know, we have discussed Amy Pope quite a bit, quite a bit.

Speaker 17 I'll play a shorter clip from last year.

Speaker 47 She is the the head honcho at the International Office of Migration.

Speaker 176 We just finished an incredible day and a half for the International Dialogue for Migration.

Speaker 177 We had singing, we had dancing, we had artwork, and we had extraordinarily thoughtful conversation about the impact of climate change on human mobility.

Speaker 177 Now, as we move toward COP28, it is critical that we put all of these ideas into action.

Speaker 177 Action that enables people who are impacted by climate change to find better solutions, whether they're already on the move, whether they are looking for options to stay at home, or whether they need new opportunities because climate change will cause their own options to disappear.

Speaker 177 The time for action is now, and IOM can't wait to be part of it.

Speaker 166 Okay, so there's a lot of clips.

Speaker 48 A lot of it is about climate change.

Speaker 54 And so when we look at the climate change organization, because people always want to.

Speaker 1 By the way, it is the international organization, not office.

Speaker 110 What did I say, office?

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's got 20,000 people, big office.

Speaker 81 But that's the point.

Speaker 24 What has grown over not 10,000, not 20, not 30, but probably 60 years is the

Speaker 66 50s.

Speaker 102 The climate, okay, 70 years, the group of climate scientists and climate people who are just getting billions of dollars to waffle on about climate change.

Speaker 122 So our producer, we had a couple of producers who sent in notes like, well, you know,

Speaker 145 the true evil is the BlackRock, the Rand Corporation.

Speaker 46 You know, there's all these layers of

Speaker 80 headquarters in all different places.

Speaker 64 And everybody wants to blame a group.

Speaker 10 And of course, my favorite, the Rothschilds, Soros.

Speaker 175 You can go on and on forever blaming individuals, Obama,

Speaker 53 Biden, Clintons.

Speaker 107 We have good and evil in the world.

Speaker 40 That's just a fact.

Speaker 46 But the only,

Speaker 79 because you said it, the only people you can truly blame is ourselves.

Speaker 138 Because we just sit around and puke on social media about how,

Speaker 38 they're no good.

Speaker 109 They're doing this.

Speaker 23 They're doing that.

Speaker 137 Go run for your local school board, your city council, for

Speaker 79 your state

Speaker 20 house or senate.

Speaker 2 I agree.

Speaker 1 Stop your complaining and let the podcasters do the work for you.

Speaker 119 Well, we're actually doing something.

Speaker 46 We do highlight this.

Speaker 109 So when COVID is when a lot of people woke up, but then they still default back to Fauci, World Health Organization, WEF, Davos, get off your blessed assurance and go do something about it.

Speaker 124 You're allowing yourself to be treated as a doormat.

Speaker 138 And social media is perfect.

Speaker 87 It's perfect.

Speaker 71 Everybody, oh, I feel much better now.

Speaker 46 I posted that.

Speaker 38 I trolled him.

Speaker 109 That's right.

Speaker 12 I've left a comment.

Speaker 109 No, you're doing nothing.

Speaker 1 This idea of doing this kind of public complaining like this predates modern social media. You'd find the same thing in the old-fashioned

Speaker 1 AOL chat room.

Speaker 14 Of course. I'm not just saying.

Speaker 1 It's just people who just bitch and moan and do nothing.

Speaker 87 Yes, that's exactly it.

Speaker 1 Well, they should leave it to the professionals.

Speaker 21 Well, we are professional bitchers and moaners, but I think we did help a lot of people resist in whatever.

Speaker 1 There's no doubt about it.

Speaker 72 Resist against the COVID measures to at least have an idea of what was going on.

Speaker 73 And we all really failed in many different ways, but we need to take these lessons and stop pointing fingers at groups of

Speaker 49 every single No Agenda Telegram group is filled with this.

Speaker 65 The Dutch are the worst.

Speaker 14 Oh, I love them.

Speaker 38 But I lurk.

Speaker 20 I see what you're doing.

Speaker 71 Oh, look at that guy.

Speaker 18 Look at this article about that guy.

Speaker 119 That's bullcrap, man.

Speaker 38 That's just bullcrap. Oh, that's the elites.
There it goes. The elites are doing it.

Speaker 71 You're doing nothing

Speaker 76 it's your own fault you are to blame that's what that's what the problem is all right i'll stop preaching now but it's it's

Speaker 136 because people need to wake up do something there's plenty of stuff you can do i i was part of the screw it up generation i was having a good time in the 80s hey man i'm making bank i'm at mtv i'm on the radio school board loser couldn't get a better gig

Speaker 14 Yeah, and

Speaker 23 so maybe

Speaker 24 the Gen Zers are,

Speaker 71 you know, look what they're doing.

Speaker 49 They're homesteading, they're moving out of the cities, they're homeschooling.

Speaker 14 Yes, they are.

Speaker 32 Yes, I get tons of emails.

Speaker 73 You know, the farmer's wife, she got 17 kids at home.

Speaker 66 She's taking care of them, gives them a little bit of an injection with the no agenda show.

Speaker 107 But okay, you can listen to this and check it out.

Speaker 71 This will give you an idea.

Speaker 66 And the Brits, God bless them, they're finally saying no, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 64 We don't want this.

Speaker 10 Now, it's going to be a tough nut to crack over there because, you know,

Speaker 69 if you look at the video of those reports,

Speaker 75 the cops are busting heads and rousing people.

Speaker 35 So your wake-up call came.

Speaker 68 at the beginning of the of the of 2020.

Speaker 139 If you didn't take that as your wake-up call, and so you can point as many people as you want, but you need to be pointing at yourself.

Speaker 1 Yeah, well, I'm going to be pointing at Amy Pope.

Speaker 66 Okay, oh boy, Amy Pope.

Speaker 39 She's just a symptom of the overall problem.

Speaker 14 These are lawless, faithless, ghoulish people who are in it

Speaker 81 for all of the wrong.

Speaker 117 They're in it for pride, for greed, for jealousy,

Speaker 110 positions.

Speaker 1 You might be wrong on that. They might be sincere.

Speaker 92 No.

Speaker 51 No, I don't think so.

Speaker 1 I think you always underestimate sincerity.

Speaker 41 Well,

Speaker 101 regardless,

Speaker 117 the answer, it lies within everybody themselves.

Speaker 50 Use that stupid phone of yours to organize somebody and go do something.

Speaker 129 Have you ever really shown up somewhere and said, hey, we're sick of this?

Speaker 12 Have you ever been a part of that?

Speaker 38 I'm not talking about, hey, hey, ho, ho, Trump has got to go.

Speaker 59 I mean, like, really showing up at a meeting where it matters and not just,

Speaker 59 it's like the, there's the one, I think he's a pastor, the black guy goes to the school board meetings and he'll read from the books that are in the school board.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, that guy. And he'll create.

Speaker 138 But that's what I'm saying.

Speaker 103 He's great.

Speaker 104 Yeah, it's great for social media.

Speaker 19 Oh, man, I can't believe they pulled that guy out of there.

Speaker 23 But why don't you run for the school board?

Speaker 128 Do something real.

Speaker 128 All right.

Speaker 178 I'm done. I've said it.

Speaker 1 You said that already.

Speaker 35 Yeah, that's why I stopped.

Speaker 81 I'm s I said it.

Speaker 1 How about uh look well a a moment for African news.

Speaker 115 What?

Speaker 14 Yeah?

Speaker 65 Dude, we're gonna have the lowest uh troll room numbers ever.

Speaker 1 This is a short clip. It's less than a minute.
Okay. Or maybe it's a minute.
Okay.

Speaker 1 Nigeria. Unfortunately, it says Nigeria, but it means Nigeria gangs.

Speaker 2 You hear about this?

Speaker 131 I know there's.

Speaker 50 No, I don't know about this.

Speaker 120 I know something else about Nigeria, but let's get this first.

Speaker 43 The Nigerian military says it's carried out an airstrike on a bandit camp in Katsina state in an operation to rescue dozens of kidnapped victims.

Speaker 43 Lack of security has remained a serious problem in much of Nigeria, despite a promise by the government to tackle the issue. More from David Bamford.

Speaker 179 Reports say 76 people were able to escape as a result of the airstrike.

Speaker 180 One child died during the rescue. The military operation on Friday evening took place at a location known as Power Hill, from where the criminal gang has been raiding local communities.

Speaker 179 Last week, they shot dead 30 civilians in a mosque in the town of Malumfashi, and 20 others were killed in surrounding villages.

Speaker 180 The gangs kidnap people for ransom and exact retribution on communities that do not pay.

Speaker 53 Wow, sounds great there in Nigeria.

Speaker 29 Yep.

Speaker 82 I saw a list of the richest black no, the list of the world's black billionaires.

Speaker 121 So black being just skin color, not necessarily black American.

Speaker 3 Yeah, black.

Speaker 19 70% from Nigeria.

Speaker 1 Probably all scammers.

Speaker 131 Well, I think I got an email from at least five of them.

Speaker 147 But yeah,

Speaker 36 billionaires.

Speaker 20 I had no idea.

Speaker 67 A couple of them live in the States.

Speaker 67 I think one or two live in the UK.

Speaker 72 But the Nigerians, ma'am,

Speaker 135 they know how to do it.

Speaker 14 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Scammers.

Speaker 1 In fact, you know that the Nigerian scam, where they used to make all kinds of money just sending notes out to people,

Speaker 1 is legal in Nigeria.

Speaker 1 And it's considered part of their GDP.

Speaker 8 Oh, yeah, I know they consider it part of their GDP, but I didn't know that it was just super legal.

Speaker 181 Yeah.

Speaker 1 What's illegal about it?

Speaker 57 It's a scam.

Speaker 17 Well, they're scamming other people, so I guess that's good.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they're not scamming their own.

Speaker 27 Let's check in with

Speaker 134 what's happening with Ukraine and with Russia.

Speaker 91 I would say it's always good to start it off with a little bit of our buddy.

Speaker 52 Yes, I know you've been waiting for it.

Speaker 125 Rita, because, you know, he's trying to keep it all together there.

Speaker 72 He's trying to keep everybody in line, which means he's trying to help President Trump get the tri-lat together or at least a bilat, which seems kind of improbable now.

Speaker 88 But he's also trying to keep all the Europeans happy and trying to keep Zelensky happy.

Speaker 74 And he's talking out of his butthole.

Speaker 99 Clearly, Ukraine and NATO, the US, Europe, Ukraine, NATO, we are all working extremely well together.

Speaker 8 Oh, really?

Speaker 119 We are working perfectly together.

Speaker 99 As I mentioned, we have jointly with Ukraine an organization in Poland to capture all the lessons.

Speaker 19 Oh, we capture all the lessons, we are documenting it, we're taking copious notes of what happened from this terrible war.

Speaker 99 Terrible and

Speaker 99 understand what it means for all the NATO plans in the future, for Ukraine itself, for the Buildhost Armed Forces in the future, what lessons we can learn. We have to command in Wiesbaden.

Speaker 65 How about this?

Speaker 71 Don't poke the bear.

Speaker 99 From which we organise together with Ukraine all the support for Ukraine in this war from NATO allies.

Speaker 107 Here we go. What is the support?

Speaker 99 We are heavily involved in making sure that the Ukrainian armed forces, also longer term, will be as interoperable as possible, of the highest standards compared with NATO.

Speaker 109 This is a sales talk, which means interoperable means you can only have our NATO bullets and weapons.

Speaker 99 We have the comprehensive assistance package. We have this new initiative thanks to President Trump.

Speaker 145 Ah, buy our stuff

Speaker 99 by buying from American stockpiles, from the US military, lethal weapons and, of course, air defense systems and interceptors to be paid for by the Europeans directly being delivered to Ukraine.

Speaker 99 So NATO.

Speaker 19 So it's a great system.

Speaker 80 America sells it to Europe.

Speaker 90 Europe pays for it, but it goes straight to Ukraine.

Speaker 66 It's dynamite, people.

Speaker 99 It's involved in all of this. And And we agreed in Washington that there's an irreversible path for NATO, for Ukraine into NATO.

Speaker 8 What?

Speaker 87 An irreversible path for Ukraine into NATO.

Speaker 71 That can't be true.

Speaker 99 And it is true. A couple of NATO allies, including the United States, but also Hungary and others, have said, not now, maybe never.
This is for the future.

Speaker 99 But what we are doing in the meantime is making sure that we work as closely together as possible. We are doing that.

Speaker 23 So don't worry, you're going to get into NATO.

Speaker 109 It's all going to happen.

Speaker 18 Maybe not now, maybe never, but we put a little NATO flag here.

Speaker 119 You're coming. You're coming.

Speaker 145 It's okay. It'll be good.

Speaker 150 My word.

Speaker 91 So here is.

Speaker 17 Here's France 24.

Speaker 70 Hopes are dim for the Putin-Zelensky peace summit.

Speaker 183 Kiv NATO talks. With the end of the war in Ukraine nowhere in sight, the Ukrainian President Zelensky is saying Russia doesn't want that.

Speaker 183 He spoke as he met with NATO chief Mark Rutte to talk about security guarantees for Ukraine.

Speaker 184 The Russians will try to do something else now to avoid a meeting.

Speaker 184 The issue is not just the meeting.

Speaker 14 The issue is that they don't want to end the war.

Speaker 184 A bilateral meeting is one of the components of how to end the war.

Speaker 137 We're going to see if Putin and Zelensky will be working together.

Speaker 142 That's like oil and vinegar a little bit.

Speaker 183 President Trump on Friday said in the Oval Office that the next two weeks would be crucial.

Speaker 185 What are the two ways you can go at the end of two weeks then?

Speaker 100 Well, Well, then I'm going to make a decision as to what we do.

Speaker 100 And

Speaker 100 it's going to be a very important decision.

Speaker 100 And that's whether or not it's massive sanctions or massive tariffs or both.

Speaker 1 Or do we do nothing and say it's your fight? Putin is ready.

Speaker 183 Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, meanwhile, said in an interview to U.S. media that there would be no Putin-Zelensky meeting because the presidential agenda had not been set.

Speaker 111 And this agenda is not ready at all.

Speaker 121 Yeah. So

Speaker 17 clearly the Europeans are telling Zelensky to chill out.

Speaker 74 And the unthinkable has happened.

Speaker 125 President Trump has said, you know, I don't think we'll give those nutjobs any lethal weapons, any long-range weapons right now, because that could turn out really bad for the whole process, which, as we know, is only about President Trump wanting a Nobel Peace Prize.

Speaker 14 That's what this ultimately is all about.

Speaker 121 We all know that.

Speaker 115 So let's listen to Jonathan Carl again on ABC this week.

Speaker 57 By the way, with General Petraeus, so when they pull a guy like that out, I'm thinking the military-industrial complex is worried about the current status.

Speaker 96 Let me get to something else that President Trump said this week. This is a post on social media.

Speaker 96 He wrote, in part, it is very hard, if not impossible, to win a war without attacking an invader's country.

Speaker 96 It's like a great team in sports that has a fantastic defense, but is not allowed to play offense. There is no chance of winning.
It is like that with Ukraine and Russia.

Speaker 84 He went on to say that it was Biden that wouldn't let

Speaker 96 Zelensky wouldn't let Ukraine attack into Russia.

Speaker 96 First of all, what's your take on what the President was intending to say there?

Speaker 187 It's a very valid observation. It's spot on.
And interestingly, as we learned in a story overnight, it's contrary to the Pentagon policy.

Speaker 187 This is another case where it appears that the Pentagon is carrying out out policies that conflict with President Trump's inclination.

Speaker 187 Now, I can understand why they would limit the use of certain long-range systems against Russia when they think that Russia might still be willing to make a deal, but that should be very clear not to be the case at this moment.

Speaker 187 And I hope that there will be a review of that policy. Indeed, that was exactly what the Biden administration did in the past.

Speaker 187 They were overly sensitive, endlessly, about how Russia might react to something that they provide to Ukraine, and they were restricting the use of the Army Tactical missile system and others.

Speaker 187 And so I hope that that will get a review in the White House and therefore a change in the Pentagon.

Speaker 109 Yeah, we got to kill some Russians, man.

Speaker 16 Come on,

Speaker 71 we need long-range stuff. Let's get it going, brother.

Speaker 96 This is a Wall Street Journal report I'm referring to saying that the Pentagon has been blocking Ukraine's use of those long-range missiles inside Russian territory.

Speaker 96 Obviously, the Ukrainian military has been using drone attacks, which are far less lethal.

Speaker 96 But let me get your sense of the human cost of this war, because I know this is something you've spoken about, and I find

Speaker 96 astounding.

Speaker 96 You know, upwards of 20,000

Speaker 187 just on the Russian side,

Speaker 96 getting killed every month. In the matter of just a few months, a greater death toll than the entire U.S.
death toll in the Vietnam War. I mean, it's kind of hard to imagine.

Speaker 187 It's staggering, Jonathan.

Speaker 187 Again, as someone who had five combat commands as a general officer and wrote letters of condolence to America's mothers and fathers almost every single night of those commands.

Speaker 16 He's not talking about Vietnam.

Speaker 35 Is he talking about Iraq, I guess?

Speaker 1 I don't know what he's talking about. And I like the way they talk about these generalities.
They should mention that the numbers killed in Vietnam were 50,000. It's a number.

Speaker 1 Everyone knows what it is.

Speaker 1 It's not a huge number. It's not like massive numbers.
It's not like the 20,000 a month.

Speaker 187 It's staggering, Jonathan.

Speaker 187 Again, as someone who had five combat commands as a general officer and wrote letters of condolence to America's mothers and fathers almost every single night of those commands, I can't fathom.

Speaker 187 I can't

Speaker 187 process, if you will, understand the magnitude of the losses on the Russian side. It's now estimated that over 1,060,000 Russians have been killed or wounded in this war.

Speaker 187 And of those, well over 500,000 have been so seriously wounded or killed that they couldn't even return to the front lines. This has to have over time.

Speaker 15 I think the dead of the 500,000,000 number probably couldn't return to the front lines.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I didn't think so.

Speaker 187 A very, very substantial impact on the ability of Russia just to find a civilian workforce as well.

Speaker 187 In fact, it's reported that they were actually looking in Africa for women who can actually replace some of the men in Russia in various industries.

Speaker 96 And of course, we've seen they've also tapped North Korean military soldiers fighting on the ground in Ukraine. Quite extraordinary.

Speaker 158 And again, you have to go to Telegram to see pretty much any of this death and devastation and destruction of soldiers on both sides.

Speaker 62 The Ukrainian numbers are staggering.

Speaker 27 It's just noteworthy, again, that the M5M never shows any of this ever

Speaker 40 ever

Speaker 76 why is that

Speaker 72 is that because we don't want to disrupt the arms sales

Speaker 14 is that part of it

Speaker 38 what do you think that would be just

Speaker 17 the only reason I can think of we don't want people

Speaker 1 that's a pretty good reason we don't want people actually outraged about this war we don't want that no no in fact we want according to Petraeus we want to send some deep missiles into Russia to make it worse yeah because that's a great idea.

Speaker 81 And then just to add some more humor on top of it all, we have some arrests in the pipeline bombing.

Speaker 63 Yeah, it's a sailboat, guys, again.

Speaker 127 This is what it looked like in the Baltic Sea in September of 2022, following an international act of sabotage. Gas bubbling up from the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines.

Speaker 189 Results of a well-coordinated attack.

Speaker 127 On Thursday, almost three years later, authorities in Germany announced an arrest.

Speaker 191 After three years of meticulous detective work, it's truly an impressive investigative success.

Speaker 127 The explosions were so powerful they registered as seismic activity along the gas pipelines, which run from Russia to Germany and came just months after Russia launched its full-scale war against Ukraine.

Speaker 127 German prosecutors identified the suspect as Serhi K, a Ukrainian national, saying he had been taken into custody in a seaside resort on Italy's east coast.

Speaker 127 Investigators say the suspect helped coordinate the bombing, carried out by divers who chartered a sailboat from a German port using fake IDs and licenses and planted explosive devices along the underwater pipelines.

Speaker 127 The pipelines were not operational at the time.

Speaker 127 Because of Russia's aggression against Ukraine, Germany refused to use Nord Stream 2, and Russia itself had cut off gas from Nord Stream 1 in apparent retaliation for Europe's support for Kyiv.

Speaker 127 Ukraine has denied any involvement in the act of sabotage, and despite the nationality of the suspect, German prosecutors said the arrest demonstrated continued support for Ukraine.

Speaker 191 We stand with Ukraine and we will continue to stand with Ukraine.

Speaker 191 What is important to me is that we are a country governed by the rule of law and that we thoroughly investigate crimes committed within

Speaker 1 I'm sorry, I just laugh when they always throw in the rule of law.

Speaker 90 Well, yeah, but it's Ukraine.

Speaker 55 It's Ukrainians they arrested.

Speaker 49 There's another Ukrainian they're going to arrest.

Speaker 35 But we stand behind Ukraine because they don't.

Speaker 27 You know, I'm sure they would just

Speaker 158 rogue elements work for Ukraine.

Speaker 191 We stand with Ukraine and we will continue to stand with Ukraine.

Speaker 191 What is important to me is that we are a country governed by the rule of law and that we thoroughly investigate crimes committed within our jurisdiction.

Speaker 127 German prosecutors have issued an arrest warrant for another Ukrainian man last seen in Poland.

Speaker 127 The suspect in custody is expected to be transferred to Germany to face criminal charges and possibly a trial.

Speaker 16 By the way, for this whole conflict, I think the obvious solution, if you want to reduce the deaths and the killing, you just send in the D.C.

Speaker 57 police. They can bring it down by 30%.

Speaker 35 Those guys are using it.

Speaker 1 Yeah, overnight.

Speaker 37 And the Chicago police.

Speaker 10 They'll take care of it.

Speaker 99 Yeah.

Speaker 17 So that's what's going on there.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so that's going nowhere.

Speaker 61 No.

Speaker 1 Did we really expect it to go anywhere they don't want to stop they don't want no and then we also have the chinese that would like to see it continue i don't know why they'd want to i more i think about that theory which was on the last show the guy going on about it's really about china um

Speaker 1 is that i don't know if the chinese really want us the u.s to be ramping up our military systems to the point where we we're we can get to overproduction because somebody else is paying for it we're not giving it away anymore yeah And

Speaker 1 making it profitable.

Speaker 1 I don't know if that's such a good idea for them.

Speaker 53 No.

Speaker 17 Well, in general, war is always good for somebody, just usually not the people.

Speaker 1 No, you know, of course, they always get killed.

Speaker 39 It's the downside of war is people get killed a lot.

Speaker 27 Did I have anything else on that? I had.

Speaker 21 Yeah, it was interesting.

Speaker 134 There was a Russian, there was a lot of reporting in foreign publications, but it went nowhere here.

Speaker 83 Russian strike hits U.S.-owned factory.

Speaker 88 Did you even hear about this?

Speaker 1 No, I didn't even hear about this.

Speaker 150 Well, so that's the headline, but when you dive into it, it's a Singaporean-American multinational

Speaker 112 that makes toasters and other stuff.

Speaker 91 And they have a factory in Ukraine, cheap labor, obviously.

Speaker 48 And

Speaker 48 something hit one of their factories.

Speaker 51 No one was killed.

Speaker 118 I don't think anyone was even hurt.

Speaker 91 But

Speaker 120 the European press really tried to ramp that up, but for some reason, it didn't go anywhere.

Speaker 117 You know, Zelensky even talked about last night, Russian Armor set one of its insane anti-records.

Speaker 109 They targeted civilian infrastructure facilities.

Speaker 80 American-owned enterprise, Zakaparita.

Speaker 53 Yeah.

Speaker 53 Supported by American investment.

Speaker 114 Okay.

Speaker 1 They make toasters.

Speaker 87 Yeah, that's what they make.

Speaker 81 I looked into it.

Speaker 10 They make toasters.

Speaker 110 No one cares about that.

Speaker 29 Toasters.

Speaker 1 This is an interesting clip. This is about, we can switch topics, I think.

Speaker 14 Yeah, sure.

Speaker 1 Because I have nothing on the Ukraine. I do have some Gaza stuff that might be worth talking about.
Okay.

Speaker 1 This Gaza won PBS.

Speaker 33 It's been another deadly day in Gaza. Officials there say at least 33, 33, 33 people have been killed by Israeli strikes and shootings.

Speaker 71 That's right. Ignore the hundreds of thousands in Russia and Ukraine.

Speaker 14 Ignore that.

Speaker 65 33. Okay.

Speaker 157 Yep.

Speaker 1 Well, I thought that once I heard the 33,

Speaker 1 I said, okay, so this report is somewhat, this has to be bogus as a signal.

Speaker 110 Typically.

Speaker 1 33.

Speaker 1 Okay,

Speaker 1 our thesis is that there's something up every time this comes up.

Speaker 50 The signal has gone out.

Speaker 3 Yes, the signal.

Speaker 51 The signal has gone out.

Speaker 1 Yes. So

Speaker 1 I took the rest of the report kind of with like, okay, what are they trying to, what are they getting at here? Here we go, too.

Speaker 33 Among them were Palestinians who were sheltering in tents and who were seeking scarce food.

Speaker 33 It comes a day after a UN-backed group that monitors food crises declared that a half million Palestinians living in the Gaza city area are in the grips of a potentially life-threatening man-made famine.

Speaker 33 What's more, the group, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, or IPC, projects that by the end of September, famine will spread to much of the rest of Gaza.

Speaker 33 Earlier, I spoke with Chris McIntosh, Oxfam's humanitarian response advisor in Gaza. He's in Gaza City.

Speaker 193 Right now in Gaza, what we're seeing is exactly what we were predicting for months, ever since the imposition of the blockade at the beginning of March.

Speaker 193 And in that time, very few trucks have gotten in, very limited amounts of food. So, what we're seeing is people that are gaunt, people that are

Speaker 193 kind of drawn in the face, and they're bony.

Speaker 24 Without trying to downplay the devastation in Gaza, this is bullcrap.

Speaker 50 This is one of the most corrupt organizations in the world, Oxfam, with the UN.

Speaker 28 Where's the white helmets who are going to stage something?

Speaker 57 That's coming.

Speaker 81 Oh, it has to be coming. They've already been trying it.

Speaker 126 They've been trying it with all kinds of photos and oh, look at this child starving to death.

Speaker 1 So we have here in this PBS, this is from yesterday, actually, and they have the Oxfam guy on. There's nobody that's going to be on the other side of this discussion, by the way.
As usual, PBS and NPR

Speaker 1 one-sided discussion with a point of view that's expressed. And no matter what you do, it's expressed and expressed and expressed.
And this

Speaker 1 kind of contradicts the photos we've seen of the trucks that are backed up that the UN won't let in. The UN's got something to do with the famine, but they're not going to talk about that.

Speaker 1 This whole thing, that's why the 33 was a trigger for me because I can't believe anything anybody's telling us about Gaza. Or anything.

Speaker 14 Or anything, really.

Speaker 1 Or, well, anything in general. But this in particular

Speaker 1 is very sketchy in every way. And so now we have the third clip, which is like, this goes on.
This guy's on, by the way, for 20 minutes.

Speaker 14 Prime Minister Netanyahu. Sorry.
Wait, wait.

Speaker 1 So he's on for 20 minutes. You're hacking about one thing or another.
So they finally throw in a little counter-argument to see what happens.

Speaker 1 They don't bring anybody else on to debate him or say anything about it. And so

Speaker 1 this is the way it ends up.

Speaker 109 Prime Minister Netanyahu called the report an outright lie.

Speaker 33 U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said tons of food has gone into Gaza, but Hamas savages stole it, ate lots of it to become corpulent, sold it on the black market.
What do you say to that?

Speaker 193 I say that couldn't be further from the truth, John.

Speaker 193 And just to use basic metrics to get the point across here, prior to the blockade being imposed at the beginning of March, there were approximately 600 trucks being brought into Gaza every day.

Speaker 193 And now we're looking at one-sixth of that.

Speaker 157 Okay.

Speaker 20 Is that what he's looking at, or did he count? Or

Speaker 1 10 trucks a day is what he says.

Speaker 44 So this is

Speaker 1 this kind of what bothers me about this, this is bad reporting. You can't bring an Oxfam guy in to just say whatever propaganda he wants to say.

Speaker 14 Well, he wants money.

Speaker 81 It's fundraising.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's a fundraiser. But why does PBS do this?

Speaker 1 Why don't they have some give it give the public what they you know suppose supposedly they're supposed to do, which is a balanced report, and put somebody on that says the opposite.

Speaker 54 Because they know that they'll get lots of coverage on on that podcast, which is the only coverage they get is when you bring up their clips.

Speaker 17 Let's check out the UN because they have their own agenda and they're pushing it very hard.

Speaker 149 The international pressure on Israel is growing. There's widespread condemnation at the government's decision to expand Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

Speaker 149 Twenty-one countries around the world, including France, the UK, Canada, and Australia, signed a joint declaration saying it was unacceptable.

Speaker 149 The European Commission's Foreign Affairs Chief also added her signature to the list.

Speaker 194 This brings no benefits to the Israeli people. Instead, it risks undermining security and fuels further violence and instability, taking us further away from peace.

Speaker 149 The plan seeks to build over 3,000 homes for Israeli settlers. All such settlements built in the West Bank occupied since 1967 are considered illegal under international law, and this is no exception.

Speaker 149 Calls to scrap the plans were echoed by the UN Secretary General.

Speaker 195 The decision by the Israeli authorities to expand illegal settlement construction, which would divide the West Bank, must be reversed. All settlement construction is a violation of international law.

Speaker 149 The project known as E1 would effectively block the establishment of a Palestinian state.

Speaker 149 It would cut the north of the West Bank off from the south, preventing the development in the centre connecting Ramallah, East Jerusalem, and Bethlehem.

Speaker 149 This is the goal of the ultra-nationalist finance minister Bezalel Smotrich.

Speaker 149 He's the driving force of this project and is urging the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to formally annex the West Bank.

Speaker 32 Yeah, it's going to be nasty there.

Speaker 27 It's going to be nasty for a while longer. And then you've got all these countries saying, oh, we have to have a Palestinian state.

Speaker 138 We recognize it.

Speaker 56 We recognize it.

Speaker 129 Where were they in 1967?

Speaker 1 I would say that the Israelis,

Speaker 1 I think there's a propaganda war between the left

Speaker 1 and the queers for Palestine, which is part of the left.

Speaker 181 Yes.

Speaker 1 And the Israelis.

Speaker 1 And the Israelis are losing the propaganda war. They're doing a piss-poor job of promoting their position.

Speaker 128 Agreed.

Speaker 1 And I see no resolution to this. I mean, everybody's taking the side of

Speaker 1 the Hamas side, basically.

Speaker 10 But what I don't understand is they run the media.

Speaker 71 How come they can't do a better job?

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 it just proves that they don't run the media.

Speaker 8 They should be doing a much better job.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they do a better job. They don't run the media.
That's a joke.

Speaker 1 They have some influence, maybe. I don't even know if they have that.
They don't run Hollywood anymore, really. Not like in the good old days in the 30s.
No.

Speaker 1 When you had all these characters that were all Jewish.

Speaker 1 They gave that up.

Speaker 1 No, it's a mess. And the Israelis have nobody to blame but themselves.

Speaker 1 They could have taken this a lot of different ways and they could have propagandized it better.

Speaker 1 And like some people say, why don't they release the footage of the brutality of that

Speaker 1 October 8th? Was it October 8th?

Speaker 16 Seventh.

Speaker 1 Seventh invasion.

Speaker 74 Well, they have, but it won't get shown anywhere.

Speaker 83 And remember the

Speaker 17 Toronto International Film Festival, they blocked the documentary saying that they could not show this documentary at the International at the Toronto Film Festival unless the makers of the documentary got permission from the Palestinians to use their likeness.

Speaker 1 Another victory for the Palestinians. Yes.

Speaker 64 I thought that was a funny one.

Speaker 17 That's an interesting way to do it.

Speaker 32 A little bit of climate change.

Speaker 10 At first, I thought, wow, this is interesting.

Speaker 27 This is good news.

Speaker 82 Egypt has found a sunken city that's been covered for 2,000 years.

Speaker 74 But then they have to take it into a negative direction for me.

Speaker 191 A statue is hoisted from the Mediterranean as Egyptian archaeologists and divers work together to recover relics from the seabed in Alexandria.

Speaker 196 Unfortunately, we have incomplete pieces. The head is missing or the leg.
And we also found a statue of a Sphinx and another statue that appears to be in a royal dress.

Speaker 191 Archaeologists say the relics were found at the site of a sunken city in the waters of Abu Kio Bay, which may have been an extension of the ancient city of Canopus, a prominent center during the Ptolemaic dynasty and the Roman Empire.

Speaker 191 Their contract with UNESCO means they're only extracting some of the artifacts from the ruins. The rest will remain in the depth.

Speaker 127 This find confirms that this place was a complete residential city. The part we are in was a port.

Speaker 189 These artifacts confirmed the study that says that Alexandria was submerged by water as a result of a major earthquake or tsunami.

Speaker 127 This is why all the statues are missing the head and feet, which are the weakest parts of the statue.

Speaker 191 Alexandria is home to countless historic treasures, but Egypt's second city is at risk of succumbing to the same waters that claimed Canopus.

Speaker 191 The city is especially vulnerable to climate change, climate change, climate change, and rising sea levels, sinking by more than three millimeters every year.

Speaker 80 There it is, climate change, climate change.

Speaker 73 Yep, we turn something good into something very negative.

Speaker 88 Let's take something negative and make it even worse.

Speaker 90 How about flesh-eating bacteria?

Speaker 149 On the medical watch today.

Speaker 198 Flesh-eating bacteria is spreading to more beaches. The Vibrio volificus bacteria is usually found in beaches along the Gulf Coast, but the eastern seaboard is now seeing an uptick in cases.

Speaker 198 Experts think climate change is helping the germ spread north. Eating undercooked shellfish is one way to get infected.
Another is through cuts, including

Speaker 19 climate change or eating uncooked shellfish.

Speaker 198 Okay.

Speaker 198 Is one way to get infected. Another is through cuts, including from ear piercings and tattoos.
Multiple surgeries and sometimes even amputation

Speaker 198 necessary to treat an infection.

Speaker 31 They had to do 10 surgeries on my leg and then I had to learn to walk again.

Speaker 199 Cooking your seafood thoroughly, avoiding eating undercooked or raw shellfish, and avoiding the waters that contain this organism are really paramount to preventing infections.

Speaker 198 Most infections are typically reported from May to October.

Speaker 198 A push to place warning signs at beaches with the most risk was thwarted by businesses who feared they'd lose money if tourists were scared away.

Speaker 24 This report was very confusing to me.

Speaker 1 Well, I'll tell you one thing I'm confused about immediately. is the flesh-eating bacteria that you get into an open soar and it just goes nuts.
What's that got to do with eating raw?

Speaker 80 Yes, that's my point.

Speaker 1 Are you going to get it in your stomach? Or, I mean, what is that? It doesn't make any sense.

Speaker 20 Well, the two people they had on, it was pretty horrific.

Speaker 110 The guy's leg looked like it was just a disaster.

Speaker 49 They're talking about don't eat uncooked shellfish.

Speaker 73 But the whole report was, oh, the beach and the bad people who don't want to talk about it on the beach.

Speaker 102 And have you heard about the radioactive shrimp?

Speaker 1 I have heard about the radioactive shrimp, and they're selling it at Walmart.

Speaker 38 Yes, they are. Or they were.

Speaker 87 Apparently,

Speaker 102 irradiated with cesium-137.

Speaker 198 The FDA issuing a warning about more possible radioactive shrimp. The shrimp is sold under several brand names in nine states by a company called Southwind Foods.

Speaker 198 The only Midwest state affected is Minnesota. Those shrimp were all sold between July 17th and August 8th.
Customers should throw out the shrimp or return to the store for a refund.

Speaker 198 So far, no one's gotten sick, but it comes just days after Walmart's great value brand, Frozen Shrimp, was recalled for that same reason.

Speaker 49 So, nowhere, not a single report, because they come out of, I think, Indonesia.

Speaker 124 How did the shrimp get radiation?

Speaker 87 It's like

Speaker 1 surely they asked the question.

Speaker 76 No, nowhere.

Speaker 103 ABC, George Stephanopoulos, everyone.

Speaker 35 Oh, don't eat the shrimp.

Speaker 71 It was cesium-137.

Speaker 15 Where does cesium 137 come from?

Speaker 1 Oh, so it's obviously a byproduct of something.

Speaker 1 There's not like caches of it that I know of. Let's take a look.

Speaker 38 Okay, well, ask your buddy there.

Speaker 19 Ah, very good point.

Speaker 15 I will ask my buddy right now: where does cesium 137 come from?

Speaker 200 Easy 137 comes from Psalm 137.

Speaker 109 Not Easy 137.

Speaker 38 What did she say?

Speaker 49 She said Easy 137.

Speaker 129 No, no, no.

Speaker 54 Cesium-137.

Speaker 66 It's radiation.

Speaker 49 Where does that come from?

Speaker 200 Cesium-137 is mostly a byproduct of nuclear fission, so you'd find it coming from nuclear reactors when uranium or plutonium splits.

Speaker 200 It's also released during nuclear weapons testing or accidents, like Chernobyl or Fukushima. Naturally, it's super rare, basically non-existent in the environment without human activity.

Speaker 200 It's a radioactive isotope, emits beta and gamma radiation, and has a half-life of about 30 years. That's why it's a big deal in waste management and contamination.

Speaker 131 There you go.

Speaker 1 So it's from some reactor someplace that's leaking.

Speaker 14 In Indonesia?

Speaker 14 Hmm.

Speaker 1 Well, where it comes from Thailand? There's no, I don't think they're using nuclear power there.

Speaker 67 Well, but that's what bothers me about the report.

Speaker 1 This could be out of the Fukushima area.

Speaker 122 It could also just be a competitor launching something into the atmosphere.

Speaker 84 We don't know.

Speaker 62 We just don't know.

Speaker 1 Well, shrimp.

Speaker 2 I know.

Speaker 1 That's why if you looked at the tip of the day, you'd find that little Geiger counter. I would take that to the store.

Speaker 80 Check my shrimp.

Speaker 1 Check the shrimp before you buy it.

Speaker 124 Scan your shrimp, people.

Speaker 1 And I like the way they say what hasn't caused anyone to get ill. That's not what it would.

Speaker 1 You know, if you ingest a radioactive substance like that, it gives you, it kills you over time. It's nothing that you get ill about.

Speaker 70 It makes you glow in the dark, but you'll be okay.

Speaker 1 Well, glowing in the dark's a giveaway.

Speaker 14 We do now, we do know, we do know,

Speaker 49 this is good news.

Speaker 49 We now know for sure that President Trump did nothing bad with Epstein.

Speaker 14 We have proof.

Speaker 73 Because Ghislaine said so.

Speaker 190 Buried inside more than 300 pages from interviews conducted last month. Jelaine Maxwell, the imprisoned former girlfriend of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, clears U.S.

Speaker 190 President Donald Trump of any involvement.

Speaker 201 Actually, never saw the president in any type of massage setting. I never witnessed the president in any inappropriate setting in any way.
The president was never inappropriate with anybody.

Speaker 201 In the times that I was with him, he was a gentleman in all respects.

Speaker 190 The interview conducted by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche was released Friday in the quote interest of transparency.

Speaker 190 The materials show Maxwell Epstein's longtime associate repeatedly showering Trump with praise, denying that she had observed him engaged in any form of sexual behavior.

Speaker 201 Have you ever observed President Trump receive a massage? Never.

Speaker 190 The timing of the release raises questions.

Speaker 190 The administration had been scrambling to present itself as transparent amid a fierce backlash over an early refusal to disclose records from the sex trafficking case.

Speaker 202 The way this administration has responded makes it feel like a cover-up.

Speaker 190 The case has drawn intense public scrutiny because of Epstein's ties to high-profile figures, including Prince Andrew and former U.S. President Bill Clinton.

Speaker 190 In the transcripts, Maxwell denied seeing Clinton act inappropriately, and she also spoke glowingly of Prince Andrew. After the interview, Maxwell was moved to a minimum security prison camp in Texas.

Speaker 190 There, she continues to serve a 20-year sentence, convicted four years ago on allegations allegations that she lured teen girls to be sexually abused by Epstein.

Speaker 81 Nah, didn't see anything. Not with Clinton, not with Prince Andrew, not with President Trump.

Speaker 14 There's nothing.

Speaker 119 It's all good.

Speaker 1 Yeah, of course, that brought up nothing but speculators that say, yeah, she's just trying to get a pardon or a clemency or some damn thing. Well, she's lying.

Speaker 8 She's a liar.

Speaker 109 But it would have been better if she said, oh, I saw some stuff with Bill Clinton or, well, you know, Prince Andrew, but she didn't.

Speaker 73 So

Speaker 68 that's what makes it interesting and somewhat laughable to me.

Speaker 2 I mean,

Speaker 1 she let everyone off the hook.

Speaker 53 Yeah, Prince Andrew, we know that he was up to no good.

Speaker 1 Well, maybe she didn't notice.

Speaker 1 I mean, there's also the women who were the ones that pointed the finger at her. So she was the real bad actor in this whole thing.
She was the one that recruited all the girls.

Speaker 1 So I don't know.

Speaker 110 But we don't know.

Speaker 17 That's it. Nobody knows nothing.

Speaker 1 Nobody knows nothing. That's exactly right.

Speaker 57 But we could do a 10-hour podcast about it, like everybody else is doing.

Speaker 1 Yeah, well, I think that you have that clip. I have one clip that's even shorter and probably useless by comparison, so we'll skip it.

Speaker 1 That's how we're going to do it.

Speaker 158 Oh, come on. It's PBS.

Speaker 52 We might as well.

Speaker 135 All right, play it.

Speaker 33 President Trump supporters say he's been cleared of any suspicion by the transcript and recording of Ghelane Maxwell's interview.

Speaker 81 Wait a minute.

Speaker 28 President Trump supporters, is there a rally somewhere that I missed?

Speaker 14 Like, Trump is innocent.

Speaker 109 Hey, hey, ho, ho, Trump is innocent.

Speaker 138 Let Maxwell go.

Speaker 33 President Trump's supporters say he's been cleared of any suspicion by the transcript and recording of Ghillene Maxwell's interview with the Deputy Attorney General.

Speaker 33 The woman who was Jeffrey Epstein's girlfriend characterized the president, a one-time friend of Epstein's, as a gentleman and said she never saw him engage in any kind of sexual misconduct.

Speaker 201 President Trump is always very cordial and very kind to me. And I just want to say that I find I admire his extraordinary achievement in becoming the president now.
And I like him.

Speaker 14 He is the one who respect him.

Speaker 201 That is the sum and substance of my entire relationship with him.

Speaker 33 Shortly after the interview, Maxwell, who's serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking, was transferred to a minimum security prison camp. She's seeking a presidential pardon.

Speaker 33 Yeah, all right.

Speaker 157 You're right.

Speaker 27 Just as nonsense as mine. It's no good.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they're not going to, this is going to be the end. Well, they're going to release a bunch of documents now or something.

Speaker 27 Oh, they released 30,000 documents, and the Democrats are saying, hey,

Speaker 14 we've already seen these documents.

Speaker 72 They've probably got binders that said Epstein files.

Speaker 13 White binder.

Speaker 82 Yeah.

Speaker 50 No, we're not going to know anything.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that white binder was

Speaker 1 the worst. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So there's somewhat of a discussion they're trying to make headway with. And the PBS, of course, is pushing back on it because they are big supporters of the idea of mail-in ballots.

Speaker 1 And so there was a three-part clip here because Trump is turned against mail-in ballots for obvious reasons because this has to do with 2020 and his false claims.

Speaker 1 And so this is going to be interesting because

Speaker 1 this actually does reveal reveal the fact that Trump really can't do too much without Congress's help here.

Speaker 33 With control of Congress at stake in next year's midterm elections, President Trump is doubling down on efforts to end mail-in voting.

Speaker 33 In the 2024 election, nearly 30% of Americans who cast their ballots did it by mail.

Speaker 33 Despite a multi-million dollar Republican drive to encourage supporters to vote by mail last year, the president says it's a fraud.

Speaker 1 We, as the Republican Party, are going to do everything possible that we get rid of mail-in ballots.

Speaker 1 We're going to start with an executive order that's being written right now by the best lawyers in the country to end mail-in ballots because they're corrupt.

Speaker 33 He also said that the United States is just about the only country in the world that uses them. Rick Hassen is a professor of law and political science at UCLA.

Speaker 33 He's also the author of A Real Right to Vote, How a Constitutional Amendment Can Safeguard American Democracy. Rick, I want to begin by parsing some of what we just heard from the the President.

Speaker 33 He says that just about the only country in the world that uses them is the United States. Is that true?

Speaker 164 No, it's not true. It's used around the world and lots of other democracies, including in Canada and the United Kingdom and Germany.

Speaker 33 He says he's going to issue an executive order to end mail-in balance.

Speaker 14 Is that within his powers?

Speaker 21 So, no.

Speaker 164 First of all, an executive order is an order to the executive branch as to how to carry out the laws. It's not a royal edict.
He can't just decree that we don't have mail-in balloting anymore.

Speaker 164 The Constitution says that each state gets to set its own rules for running elections, and in Article I, Section 4, it lets Congress override those rules as to congressional elections.

Speaker 164 Congress also sometimes acts under its powers, for example, to enforce the Fifteenth Amendment to bar race discrimination in voting.

Speaker 164 The President's job is to take care that the laws passed by Congress are faithfully executed.

Speaker 164 So he's got a lot of powers in terms of how the federal government might interact with states, but it's primarily states that are running running elections, and he has no direct authority over how elections are going to be conducted.

Speaker 17 Well, that was a poor reading of Article 1, Section 4.

Speaker 17 But as far as I'm concerned, the states have the authority to regulate times, places, and manner of elections.

Speaker 27 I don't see how even Congress can do anything.

Speaker 1 Well, he goes on and explains how they can.

Speaker 33 Well, that counters what he said on Truth Social. He said the states are merely an agent for the federal government in counting and tabulating the votes.

Speaker 33 They must do what the federal government, as represented by the President of the United States, tells them.

Speaker 164 That's just a fiction.

Speaker 164 That's not how things work.

Speaker 164 The Constitution does say that Congress can override.

Speaker 164 So if Congress passed a law tomorrow that either outlawed or mandated mail-in balloting, that law would probably upheld as applied to congressional elections, couldn't be applied to state or local elections because the power only extends to congressional elections.

Speaker 164 But the president doesn't have the power. States are more than agents.
States, and this goes back to the founding, states were the primary actors that administered elections.

Speaker 164 There wasn't an agreement to have national election administration, the way it is in most other countries today.

Speaker 164 And that diversity of how elections are run, it makes for some confusion sometimes, but it can be a strength against an executive that's trying to impose its will, as we see the president trying to do here.

Speaker 33 He says he's doing this because he wants to make sure there's no fraud.

Speaker 33 We've had a long experience with mail-in ballots in Oregon for about 25 years. It's the only way you can vote.
What's the record, is there, of fraud and

Speaker 33 corruption in these things?

Speaker 164 Well, you're right that there are some states, including Oregon, Washington, Utah,

Speaker 164 and lots of other, where mail-in balloting is the primary way that voting is conducted. There are lots of states like California, where I am, where many people people vote by mail.

Speaker 164 And there are some states where mail-in balloting is not all that common. It did increase during COVID because people didn't want to go to polling places.

Speaker 164 What we do know is that the president in 2020, in the midst of the COVID pandemic, when he was running against Joe Biden, railed against mail-in balloting, said that it was fraudulent.

Speaker 164 There were tons of investigations.

Speaker 164 There were 60-plus lawsuits challenging the election on fraud grounds, and there was no evidence of any fraud related to mail-in ballots that could have affected the election anywhere in the United States.

Speaker 37 I have to

Speaker 1 notice the way he

Speaker 1 put no evidence, no evidence, no evidence of any fraud that could have affected the election.

Speaker 10 Oh, yeah, that's the standard.

Speaker 1 Which means there was fraud.

Speaker 17 I have to rescind my previous comment.

Speaker 27 The full text of Article 1, Section 4:

Speaker 112 The times, places, and manner of holding elections for senators and representatives shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof.

Speaker 81 But, big but, the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations except as to the places of choosing senators.

Speaker 61 And choosing is spelled C-H-U-S-I-N-G, choosing, choosing.

Speaker 28 So I guess Congress can change that.

Speaker 1 Well, if that's true, why don't they do it?

Speaker 20 Because it behooves no one.

Speaker 1 We can't do our shenanigans if we can't do it because there's exactly shenanigans.

Speaker 42 Washington State

Speaker 1 has been captured. And there's studies that were done in the 60s and 70s about mail-in ballots, which were discussed a bit back in 2020, but then nobody wants to talk about it anymore.

Speaker 1 And these were done by Democrats showing that mail-in ballots was very easily a corruptible system that you could do the ballot harvesting and you...

Speaker 1 You know, people just get it. If you can get the blank ballots, you can put anyone's name on them.
No one does any checking to any extreme.

Speaker 1 The whole thing is, it is a scam.

Speaker 107 Yeah, and that's why they don't want to.

Speaker 1 And Oregon, Washington, two of the most Democrat-run states completely captured by the party.

Speaker 109 Well,

Speaker 23 allow me to ask you this question.

Speaker 73 Why, in three clips, because we have a third, of PBS, did no one do what we just did?

Speaker 67 Read the actual piece of the Constitution where, I mean, even I can understand this language.

Speaker 58 Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations

Speaker 101 Well, I mean, not by executive order, for sure.

Speaker 10 But why don't they just read that and tell us

Speaker 21 why?

Speaker 1 Because they don't want they want to have a perspective that they're well, why don't they have a guy on, for example, along with this character who has maybe a different opinion about this?

Speaker 65 Then what good would this be for the show?

Speaker 192 It would be useless.

Speaker 159 They'd have something that people would stop with that bit. Well,

Speaker 138 who's propagating the bit?

Speaker 14 You can stop.

Speaker 178 You can stop with that bit anytime you want.

Speaker 36 There are sometimes

Speaker 164 small locales where there is election fraud, and it sometimes does occur with mail-in ballots, but not on the kind of scale that the president's talking about.

Speaker 164 And in his social media post, he talked about getting rid of voting machines as well. And it's not clear what machines he's talking about.

Speaker 164 I don't know what he has in mind, not only about what powers he thinks he has, but what exactly he thinks he wants to do, since Republicans in states like Arizona and Florida rely very heavily on mail-in balloting to get out the votes of their own supporters.

Speaker 33 This morning, the Texas legislature sent Governor Abbott there the newly drawn maps. They're trying to pick up Republican seats in the House.

Speaker 142 Do mail-in ballots favor one party over another?

Speaker 164 Well, historically, Republicans were much more likely than Democrats to use mail-in ballots, in part because people who are older, richer, whiter tend to move less, and those are people who tend to use mail-in balloting more.

Speaker 164 In more recent years, Democrats have achieved parity and in some places exceeded Republican use of vote by mail, in part because Democrats realized that if they pushed early voting, they could kind of bank their votes and then they don't have to worry about as many people on Election Day.

Speaker 164 I would say that if the President had not been putting out all of these negative

Speaker 164 tweets and other statements about mail-in balloting, deriding it, you'd see both Democrats and Republicans using it more and more.

Speaker 164 We do know that in 2024, an election that Donald Trump won, Republican voters expressed much more confidence in the election process and much more support for vote by mail.

Speaker 164 In 2024, the president was not really so against vote by mail, but now he's back on this, and so we'll see where it goes.

Speaker 84 I don't remember that.

Speaker 41 Yeah, I do.

Speaker 14 You do. That's true.
I don't remember that.

Speaker 64 I do.

Speaker 14 Okay.

Speaker 1 He made a big fuss about it.

Speaker 27 About mail-in. Then he said mail-in ballots were good.

Speaker 1 No, he said you got to do your mail. He didn't say they were good per se, but he said we should all be doing mail-in voting, make sure the Republicans get their votes in before the election itself.

Speaker 128 I thought it was early voting, not mail-in, but early voting.

Speaker 1 Mail-in was specifically mentioned.

Speaker 60 I'll take your word for it.

Speaker 17 But here, Trump on mail-in voting from Doddes 2020. That doesn't count.

Speaker 81 No, that's when he hated it.

Speaker 14 Yeah, I don't think we have any clips of it, though.

Speaker 1 Probably not, because it was not

Speaker 1 interesting.

Speaker 1 Let's play the Texas thing so we get the Texas new map on PBS, a little short clip.

Speaker 33 A redrawn Texas congressional map is on its way to Texas Governor Greg Abbott for his signature. The Texas state senate approved the map early this morning in an 18 to 11 party line vote.

Speaker 33 Republicans designed the map in hopes of winning five additional House seats in next year's midterm elections.

Speaker 33 Republicans have a slim majority in the House, where there are now 219 Republicans, 212 Democrats, and four vacancies.

Speaker 10 Yep, well, we did that.

Speaker 28 Everything, of course, about the ⁇ that is kind of the boring thing.

Speaker 17 It's like you get a general election, like, oh, I can breathe now.

Speaker 49 And then within six months, it's all about the midterms.

Speaker 117 And then from the midterms, it'll be for the that's all that news is.

Speaker 38 News is all about politics.

Speaker 1 Voting in the election.

Speaker 14 Politics and war.

Speaker 62 Yeah, that's pretty much it.

Speaker 70 Yeah,

Speaker 72 politics and war.

Speaker 85 Yeah, that's pretty much it.

Speaker 1 Anymore, famine, disease, petulance, pestilence. That's another thing

Speaker 1 that's being left out.

Speaker 1 Although I think the flesh-eating bacteria accounts for that.

Speaker 105 We have a deal with the European Union.

Speaker 50 Looks like we've that happened on Thursday, last show day.

Speaker 108 The European Union and the United States are moving from trade intentions to implementation. On Thursday, the two partners published a joint statement setting out new customs duties.

Speaker 108 The text provides for a maximum duty of 50.

Speaker 1 Did you see this clip? Is he petting a cat?

Speaker 70 This is Euro News.

Speaker 46 They have the worst guy reading the news.

Speaker 61 This is the only guy they have read.

Speaker 25 And Euro News generally used to be pretty good.

Speaker 39 And now they have like some African guy reading their news.

Speaker 131 I don't know why.

Speaker 108 It means setting out new customs duties. The text provides for a maximum duty of 15% on a large proportion of EU exports to the US.

Speaker 108 Once again, the European Commission is defending this compromise, which has been the subject of much criticism.

Speaker 99 Let me say this clearly: the alternative, a trade war with sky-high tariffs and political escalation helps no one. It hurts jobs, it hurts

Speaker 99 it damages businesses across both the EU and the US.

Speaker 119 We have a good deal.

Speaker 99 And this is not theoretical, as nearly five million European jobs, including many in SMEs, would be at risk. This deal avoids that path.

Speaker 47 It's interesting how in the US the general comment about tariffs is it's only going to hurt us, we don't need tariffs.

Speaker 71 But the Europeans are like, you know, these tariffs could really hurt five million jobs.

Speaker 175 You never really know where the...

Speaker 1 I'm trying to figure this out. I have a clip that relates to that, what you just said.
Okay.

Speaker 1 Which is

Speaker 1 something I mentioned on the show. I'm sorry, in the newsletter.
This is the,

Speaker 1 it says confused. Well, it's kind of misspelled, but confused tariff commentary on PBS, confused tariff.

Speaker 33 And if you're expecting a package from overseas, it may be delayed because of confusion over President Trump's decision to stop exempting small-value imports from tariffs.

Speaker 33 European postal services like UK's Royal Mail and DHL are suspending shipments until they get more information and clarity about the rule.

Speaker 33 With the exemption gone, all imports will be subject to the tariff that's imposed on the country of origin. U.S.

Speaker 33 Customs and Border Patrol says that last year, more than a million packages with goods worth $65 billion were sent under the exemption.

Speaker 35 Before we discuss, I have the Euronews version of this confusion.

Speaker 174 Several European countries will be halting their postal services to the U.S. After Donald Trump scrapped a tax exemption on low-import goods worth less than $800 or 688 Euros last month.

Speaker 174 The White House said it is aiming to combat illegal and abusive practices such as the importation of illegal drugs into the United States.

Speaker 174 Letters and small parcels under 100 or 85 Euro will not be affected.

Speaker 174 The UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Holland will temporarily suspend services as of next week, while Belgium already stopped shipping packages to the US on Friday.

Speaker 174 Trump's announcement comes after the US and the European Union agreed on a new trade deal ending months of uncertainty.

Speaker 89 So they kind of explained it, but all the headlines like, oh, they're

Speaker 20 stopping all services to America.

Speaker 50 No one really goes into the de minimis conversation, which I know you know about.

Speaker 44 What? What part of it?

Speaker 40 Oh, well, that

Speaker 27 the de minimis

Speaker 74 exemption has been deleted.

Speaker 50 It went away mainly from China.

Speaker 1 It wasn't deleted. It was lowered.

Speaker 49 Yeah, lowered to $100, from $800 to $100.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so I'm getting nothing but 10 emails a day from Timu and Xian.

Speaker 1 saying, come on, buy this, because if you look at their stuff, it's all five, six, ten bucks. Right.
I think most of the stuff that was brought in, they just figure, okay,

Speaker 1 so I buy a $10 sweater from Timu or some whatever other piece of junk, by the way. Stuff never fits right.
It says made, it says one thing, it's made with another. It's junk, junk.

Speaker 1 But I buy a $10 piece of junk, and then I buy another $10 piece of junk, and then another, then I buy up to $700 worth of, or let's say a thousand dollars worth of junk, $10 at a time and 10, you know, to 100 different parcels, and it still comes through.

Speaker 49 The joke of this is that if you send something prior to all of this, if you send something to the European Union, like, I don't know, a ring,

Speaker 71 or in the case of Curry and the Keeper, a couple of glasses, we've had people wind up paying 50 Euros import tax on something as small as that.

Speaker 76 That's the big joke.

Speaker 104 They know exactly what it is because they have those regulations themselves.

Speaker 38 I think it's good.

Speaker 65 What are you ordering this?

Speaker 1 Nobody should be paying 50 bucks for two glasses.

Speaker 84 No,

Speaker 61 my point is, it's good that we're doing this.

Speaker 10 Screw those guys.

Speaker 2 Yeah, no, I agree with that. 65% of the people.

Speaker 1 But the thing is, the thing that is baffling to me is that what you just described is the way it always worked here.

Speaker 1 When some package came in with a custom sticker on it, you pay the duty yourself at the post office.

Speaker 74 Let's find out what Democrat, Chinese,

Speaker 27 kiss-ass president or Congress did this.

Speaker 83 When did the U.S.

Speaker 150 deminimus

Speaker 78 tax

Speaker 16 of $800

Speaker 101 go into effect?

Speaker 20 Okay, let's see.

Speaker 20 Hmm.

Speaker 1 Why don't you ask your executives?

Speaker 65 March 11th.

Speaker 81 Oh, this is interesting.

Speaker 4 No.

Speaker 66 It was part of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015.

Speaker 45 Hello.

Speaker 66 Who was the president in 2015?

Speaker 2 Obama? Yes.

Speaker 69 That's right.

Speaker 122 And so prior to the TFTE,

Speaker 1 the de minimis. I wonder if he has shares in Timu.

Speaker 28 The de minimis threshold was $200.

Speaker 49 The increase to $800

Speaker 125 allowed goods valued at or below this amount to enter the u.s duty free so that was his parting uh

Speaker 135 you know parting well i'm sure it wasn't just obama obviously it was congress

Speaker 135 um

Speaker 65 well there you go so that was that was great

Speaker 68 man i'm gonna i'm gonna look into that i'm gonna see who

Speaker 49 who sponsored that

Speaker 57 who someone was on the take for that for that you think yeah

Speaker 1 someone was on the take

Speaker 114 What?

Speaker 81 Joe, let's see, let's see who the sponsor was.

Speaker 27 The sponsor was

Speaker 16 that should be in the

Speaker 1 one Democrat and one Republican.

Speaker 1 And if Lindsey Graham's name shows up, I won't be surprised.

Speaker 85 Let me see who it was here.

Speaker 3 Chris Walwell.

Speaker 92 It was sponsor

Speaker 117 Patrick Tabiri from Ohio,

Speaker 12 republican

Speaker 86 there you go

Speaker 16 there you go

Speaker 40 republican doesn't matter

Speaker 1 he got

Speaker 1 doesn't matter

Speaker 35 additional sponsors mr brady of texas oh it was a pure republican bill look at these guys

Speaker 1 yeah one of your texans too douchebags all of them all of them

Speaker 117 all of them are douches

Speaker 56 uh also we struck a deal with Canada,

Speaker 134 and

Speaker 36 this was

Speaker 47 big talker Carney who buckled.

Speaker 109 What happened to elbows up?

Speaker 30 Huh?

Speaker 86 Elbows up.

Speaker 65 Oh, elbows down, Mr.

Speaker 158 Carney.

Speaker 204 Your critics are going to say that this is an elbows down approach, that you're backing down to Trump.

Speaker 193 What are you gaining by dropping these tariffs?

Speaker 14 Let's be clear.

Speaker 205 We have the best deal of anyone in the world right now. We have the lowest tariff rate on average, a little over 5.5%, versus that 16% average for the world, and in many cases, much higher.

Speaker 187 We have that confirmed in the executive order of the President a few weeks ago.

Speaker 205 It's important that we preserve that. We are matching something the Americans have done here first.

Speaker 205 And it's very significant. It's unique.

Speaker 4 We get the benefit.

Speaker 148 The second thing is,

Speaker 205 and I'll take your analogy,

Speaker 205 and I have played some hockey over the years.

Speaker 205 And is a time in a game, in a big game, and this is a big game,

Speaker 205 when you go hard in the corners, your elbows up. The time in a game where you drop the gloves in the first beard and you send a message.

Speaker 187 And we've done that pretty uniquely in the world.

Speaker 205 But there's also a time in a game where you want the puck, you want a stick handle, you want to pass, you want to put the puck in the net.

Speaker 205 And we're moving later into the game, and we're at that time in the game.

Speaker 107 He did actually play ice hockey for Harvard, strangely enough.

Speaker 1 Well, that's the worst sports analogy I've ever heard in my life.

Speaker 14 Well, that's the Canadians, man.

Speaker 112 So

Speaker 36 anyway, I think there's all kinds of different things.

Speaker 17 Also for Europe with steel, there's still 50% tariffs on after a certain quota.

Speaker 10 So in general, I think President Trump is doing a good job for us.

Speaker 157 You know,

Speaker 124 my buddy who does small machine CDC parts, I think we talked about it.

Speaker 82 He says, you know,

Speaker 64 well, yeah, I'm sure we did.

Speaker 65 He says,

Speaker 138 you know, it's going to suck because it costs more for us.

Speaker 117 We have to use American steel for these parts and American aluminum.

Speaker 17 It's much more expensive. It'll take a few years before that price comes down.

Speaker 138 But, and I know you remember this, he said, everything we ordered from China, 40% was defective.

Speaker 1 Yeah, junk.

Speaker 25 Yeah, it's just junk.

Speaker 20 So, in general, I think in the long term, it'll be good.

Speaker 109 I'd rather be here than the UK, I'll tell you that

Speaker 1 yes they they are in trouble yeah they are

Speaker 1 okay uh

Speaker 163 anything else you got on your list because I have a couple of just short clips or I can get the no no no what I think we should do is I'll play a lead in to your your favorite segment hold on the White House appears to have a case of FOMO when it comes to TikTok and its one hundred and seventy million users that could explain why it's just launched an official account on the Chinese owned social media platform less than a month before President Trump is set to ban it.

Speaker 163 A 2024 data protection law required TikTok to stop operating in January unless its owner, ByteDance, sold off its U.S. operations.

Speaker 163 Trump once called the thread of TikTok a national emergency and has said the app's data collection could give China access to Americans' personal information.

Speaker 163 During his first term, he signed an executive order imposing sanctions on on the app, but he went on to use TikTok extensively during last year's presidential campaign and has since extended the deadline for the sell-off several times.

Speaker 163 It's currently set to come into force on September 17th.

Speaker 40 You know, you're going to be in real trouble.

Speaker 1 No, Reels is caught up, and so is

Speaker 42 Eden stuff.

Speaker 18 If they blocked the city,

Speaker 1 half the TikTok clips aren't even TikTok anymore.

Speaker 2 What are you even going to do if

Speaker 128 you'll lose your

Speaker 64 One America Now

Speaker 42 gig.

Speaker 1 Again, like I said, half the clips aren't even TikTok anymore, and they're the same maniacs yakking into a camera. And by the way, talking about yakking into a camera, what is this?

Speaker 1 You might know the answer to this because it's been bugging me. Okay.

Speaker 1 There's a lot of these video podcasters. They're holding a little square

Speaker 1 microphone with a dead cat on it, a dead kitten.

Speaker 1 It's a little square thing, and it's like a portable mic, and it doesn't have wires.

Speaker 1 and they're holding, waving it around in this microphone. And I've seen it over and over again and I can't, I don't know what it is, who makes it, wa and is it it sounds decent.

Speaker 32 Well, I'm glad you asked.

Speaker 125 This is from the reason why is because they are giving them free

Speaker 71 and it is from my favorite company who has never sent me anything even though I have spoken positively about their products.

Speaker 85 Rode. Rode.

Speaker 35 That's right. That's the Rode mic.

Speaker 2 They make this stupid looking thing.

Speaker 1 By the way, I think it's idiotic.

Speaker 126 It records on device, even.

Speaker 1 Oh, it's an on-device recorder. That's interesting.

Speaker 52 Well, it's wireless and on-device.

Speaker 123 It does both.

Speaker 123 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Well, it's a little square. It looks dumb.

Speaker 49 I know, especially when they clip it on somebody.

Speaker 77 It's like a big,

Speaker 14 giant square.

Speaker 1 Big, giant thing.

Speaker 1 It's got the dead kitten on it, too, which makes it worse.

Speaker 70 Yeah, I know.

Speaker 84 I know.

Speaker 105 But it sounds good.

Speaker 55 Sounds good, for sure.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it does seem to sound good, but it's just like I've been seeing it over and over again. So I got three clips.

Speaker 1 They're all the same, you know, ranting women that lost their minds over one thing or another. Let's start with

Speaker 1 the bigoted hater girl.

Speaker 185 It's usually a swipe left, too, because we all know what that usually means now.

Speaker 164 I think the fact that don't want to date Trump voters, women don't want to date Trump voters, men who love Donald Trump struggle on the dating market.

Speaker 185 Oh, 100%. If we see a man who says he's conservative, it is an automatic swipe left.
It does not matter what he looks like.

Speaker 185 And me personally, at this point, if I see a man listed as moderate as well, it's usually a swipe left too. Because we all know what that usually means now.

Speaker 185 I think the fact that conservative men absolutely refuse to listen to women when we try to explain to them why we don't want to date conservative men and then they choose to proceed to be conservative and then immediately complain that they're confused as to why women don't want to date them and they don't know why is an ironic perfect embodiment of like the lack of critical thinking and self-awareness.

Speaker 185 You know, like the ability to step outside of your own experience and listen to others that the conservative party embodies as a whole making a lot of women like me not want to date them.

Speaker 185 And a lot of this is trending in the news right now because the Conservative Party is about to launch their new dating app called The Right Stuff, in which I'm willing to bet every penny that I've ever made that the usership of this app is going to be about 90% men and 10% women with Lynn as the second part of their name.

Speaker 185 And I know the immediate complaint is always: y'all are so close-minded to anything, which embodies a lot of irony coming from the right alone. But that's not true.

Speaker 185 One of my best friends used to be moderate, and our friendship ended for different reasons, kind of. But a lot of his close friends were conservative men, so anytime

Speaker 1 that's how it ends, yeah, this kind of gets cut off um

Speaker 1 so this is a woman through bitches about self-awareness and she's obviously not self-aware she's a chatterbox yak yak yak wonders why you know i it i like the fact that most of these women self-identify they got the nose ring or they got some other

Speaker 16 some other adornment if i recall she was no looker because i think i've seen this clip she was man like a seven maybe

Speaker 1 Well, I didn't rate her in one way or the other, but she should.

Speaker 49 When you bring these clips, you need to give me a number.

Speaker 1 I'll give her a six.

Speaker 45 Okay.

Speaker 1 You're a six-man of Dvorak scale. So then we get the leftists.
I got two clips here. Leftists

Speaker 1 that are on to promote their perspective on things. And this is a

Speaker 1 this group is going to be left leftist. They're going to be left in the lurch.

Speaker 125 Well, now, I presume these are Gen Z women.

Speaker 27 Sounds like.

Speaker 1 No, these are mostly.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no. no, no, no, not that.
Well, maybe. It's hard to say.
I think they're borderline on millennial.

Speaker 1 But they could be the Gen Z's before they start to fall into the conservative campaign. Exactly.

Speaker 20 That's what's happening.

Speaker 61 They're looking at their own generation, and these are the stragglers.

Speaker 36 These are the ones that haven't gotten the memo yet.

Speaker 17 This is not where you want to be.

Speaker 1 Well, they're definitely stragglers. And they, you know, I guess it's one way of looking at it.
Okay, here we go. One.

Speaker 206 Getting crushed by capitalism is like so cringe, but it's like it's happening to me.

Speaker 206 And like, I got a PhD from Berkeley, and I'm like.

Speaker 73 We already understand the problem.

Speaker 71 A PhD from Berkeley.

Speaker 206 Like, I can't get a job to save my life. Like, I got a soil biology PhD.

Speaker 107 What kind of PhD?

Speaker 1 Soil biology.

Speaker 39 Soil biology.

Speaker 61 Is there a big market for soil biology?

Speaker 1 According to her, no.

Speaker 105 I mean, maybe in the corn belt.

Speaker 206 Like, I got a soil biology PhD,

Speaker 206 and like, now I'm a tutor and a babysitter and a dog sitter.

Speaker 31 And

Speaker 206 like, part of that is because, like, I don't want to move to some random place in the middle of nowhere. Uh-huh.

Speaker 114 Like,

Speaker 206 the other half is, like, they cut all the funding for science. And

Speaker 206 the biotech market is just, like, absolutely cratered. And, like, I have long COVID, so it's difficult for me to work like a full-time job.
And just like, I got on here to rant a little bit, but like,

Speaker 206 oh my God, like, what do we do?

Speaker 206 I just have to work.

Speaker 93 I just got to work.

Speaker 158 Yes.

Speaker 129 She doesn't want to move to where the jobs are, though.

Speaker 27 That's the problem. She doesn't want to move to where soil bios.

Speaker 1 Well, it turns out she got a bunch of grief for this report, and she came out with a second postage.

Speaker 1 Oh, but there's a there's a a series a follow-up yes and she comes out and admits what's really going on with her and and it brings up the ironies of today's modern age especially in the ironies of the democrat party and if you listen to this this is her uh her comeback I know not many right-wingers get this, but as a leftist, I really don't want a job.

Speaker 206 Like, I know that people make fun of leftists for not wanting a job, but like, I'm really one of them. I just.

Speaker 70 come on, this is not real.

Speaker 49 This is not a sincere person who says this.

Speaker 27 This is not possible.

Speaker 1 I believe it to be.

Speaker 1 It's the same woman that just went on their other rent. It could be a fake, but I'm liking it.

Speaker 206 I can't stand the idea of having to work.

Speaker 206 And I don't understand why right-wingers want to work either. Like, they.

Speaker 71 You know, does she...

Speaker 75 On social media, does she like a lot of posts?

Speaker 35 Because it sure sounds like it.

Speaker 128 Like, like, like, like.

Speaker 206 and I don't understand why right-wingers want to work either. Like, they are

Speaker 206 like slaves to their masters, low-key, uh, and they love it and they eat it up. And

Speaker 206 but when someone like me says, like, I don't want to work in the middle of nowhere,

Speaker 206 everybody's mad at me. And it's, it's pretty obvious that

Speaker 206 you're a little bit like

Speaker 206 cucked, if you know what I mean, what, uh, by your circumstances, and maybe I am too,

Speaker 206 But I'm into that. So.

Speaker 81 Okay.

Speaker 22 All right.

Speaker 14 So.

Speaker 2 So

Speaker 1 I think whether there's truth to this or not, there is an element of I don't want to really work. I should just be given a free ride.

Speaker 1 I already worked. I got my PhD in soil science.
And

Speaker 1 what comes to mind is the Democrat Party who

Speaker 1 likes these people. The Democrat Party used to be the party of the working class.
And now all of a sudden you're a right-winger if you like to work.

Speaker 117 Yeah, well, these parties flip all the time throughout history.

Speaker 72 Remember, it was the Democrats who were racist, and then somehow it was the Republicans who were racist.

Speaker 1 Well, somehow they're accused of being racist, but the Democrats are still racist. This is correct.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Well, anyway, that's my contribution to the good of society.

Speaker 77 Yes, that's a very sad state of affairs.

Speaker 74 I hope you had a nice strong cup of tea after watching that.

Speaker 89 You must protect your own mind from

Speaker 117 the virus that these people propagate on social media.

Speaker 3 Like.

Speaker 4 Like.

Speaker 18 And with that, I want to like, I like, I like.

Speaker 124 I want to thank you very much for your courage.

Speaker 49 The man who put the C in the CNC parts from China.

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Speaker 29 John C.

Speaker 31 Neville.

Speaker 31 All right.

Speaker 1 Good morning to you, Mr. Adam Curry.
The morning ship seed was in Graphio, Nier, Sims DeWater, and all the dames and knights out there.

Speaker 181 Hey there, trolls, trolls.

Speaker 14 Good morning to the trolls. Let me count you.
There we go.

Speaker 49 Yeah, I think people heard the message that the stream issues have been resolved.

Speaker 67 2125, we're getting closer to our old numbers.

Speaker 16 This is good news.

Speaker 92 And we still are in the dog days of summer.

Speaker 157 Is school back in session is school back are people back at school yeah they just went back to school yeah

Speaker 1 like last week did everybody when i was a kid we went after labor day or whatever the holiday is in september we let it was in september and we didn't get and we quit i think for before the first like 15th of june all the way to this second week of september we were it was summertime and the teachers were always oh those teachers they get a hold look at all the time they get off

Speaker 71 yeah teach how come the teachers aren't up up in arms about this?

Speaker 40 They should be.

Speaker 14 They should be very mad.

Speaker 1 I have no idea. Maybe they figure they get

Speaker 1 another month of checks.

Speaker 41 I don't know.

Speaker 49 Well, anyway, it's good to have you trolls here.

Speaker 115 Trollroom.io, noagenda.stream, and of course, the modern podcast apps where you can always, always be notified when we go live.

Speaker 35 This is the hot new thing in podcasting.

Speaker 49 It's been around for a couple of years, but it's starting to become very hot.

Speaker 14 You just wait. It's going to be hot.

Speaker 157 Yep. It's very, very hot.

Speaker 37 Podcastapps.com.

Speaker 32 Podverse is still the number one alternative app for this show

Speaker 20 versus Apple number one.

Speaker 124 Podverse number two.

Speaker 129 Podcast Guru number three.

Speaker 75 Zero Spotify, of course.

Speaker 74 We're not on Spotify.

Speaker 35 And people seem to not have a problem with that.

Speaker 27 I'm like, okay, it's not on Spotify. I'll just use a different app.

Speaker 74 Spotify are no good.

Speaker 39 We don't want to be a part of that cabal.

Speaker 91 They are evil.

Speaker 40 But we are somehow on the iHeart app.

Speaker 14 Did you submit us?

Speaker 14 Yeah.

Speaker 75 Did you submit us to the iHeart app?

Speaker 1 Or were we on Podbean? That's what I like.

Speaker 73 I'll have to take a look, see if we're on Pod Bean.

Speaker 126 That is kind of a necessity.

Speaker 62 You have to be on Podbean to be an official podcast.

Speaker 75 Value for value is

Speaker 47 the way we've been operating on this program.

Speaker 104 It'll be 18 years in October and episode 1800 coming up in seven short episodes.

Speaker 10 So that's,

Speaker 10 do we have a date yet?

Speaker 171 Do you know the date of our

Speaker 49 1800th episode?

Speaker 1 No, I just look at the calendar. You can figure it out.

Speaker 16 Yeah, well, that's why I asked you. I've not

Speaker 1 done that yet. When I get to show 1798,

Speaker 81 we'll start thinking.

Speaker 88 Oh, it should be next week, plus one show.

Speaker 74 Got it.

Speaker 15 Value for value means that

Speaker 40 you don't have to listen to ads.

Speaker 35 Oh, man.

Speaker 125 I was listening to radio the other day.

Speaker 14 I don't understand.

Speaker 114 I don't know.

Speaker 14 It's possible to listen to

Speaker 35 especially if you want to listen to like I like country music and I listen to you can't listen to

Speaker 74 it's not quite what country music is anymore.

Speaker 175 In fact,

Speaker 83 country music is not like Merle Haggard anymore.

Speaker 45 But you, it's unlistenable.

Speaker 117 I mean, no wonder people just listen to a playlist.

Speaker 90 Why would you listen to music radio just in general?

Speaker 115 It's just stop for ads.

Speaker 121 20 minutes an hour. No.

Speaker 1 And you know what's really annoying about these ads on these radio stations?

Speaker 157 Well,

Speaker 1 they all use, they pretty much all use the same generalized clock.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Oh, yeah, they all.

Speaker 1 So the ads all hit at the same time. Yeah.
So it comes to an ad segment, you change channels, ad, ad, add, no matter another channel, channel, channel, channel, ads, ads, ads, ads.

Speaker 1 You can't, there's no moment of relaxation. It's all ads.

Speaker 51 When I was

Speaker 63 working at the legendary WHTZ Z100 in New York under the

Speaker 107 guidance of Michael Scott Shannon, who invented the Z Morning Zoo.

Speaker 40 Oh, he invented the zoo?

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 117 Well, he's credited.

Speaker 135 I believe he did.

Speaker 1 I've always wondered who did that. Yeah, that was.
That was in New York. The first zoo was in New York?

Speaker 72 No, no, I think he started it in

Speaker 35 Jackstonville, Florida. I think that's where he was starting.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I heard it was started in Florida.

Speaker 81 Yeah, I think it was in New York.

Speaker 1 And there's still some zoo shows in Florida. If you go down there in the morning, driving around.
W-A-P-E, the big ape, everybody.

Speaker 109 Good morning. Woo! Woo! That's Rose.

Speaker 14 My daddy was Beetle.

Speaker 1 It's always the same. You got at least two guys

Speaker 1 yakking at each other. And then there's a girl who's part of it.
And she makes snide comments. And then there's a sports guy.
And then there's a gay guy who does entertainment news.

Speaker 115 Correct.

Speaker 74 And there's always a wacky guy who calls up.

Speaker 7 Here's Mr.

Speaker 12 Leonard in his lime green pinto.

Speaker 38 Morning, Scott. I'm here in a lime green pinto.

Speaker 1 Yes, there will be one guy who calls in and he can usually do voices and he calls in as Clinton or he calls in as Trump or he calls.

Speaker 88 And that guy calls 10 radio stations every morning and he has he deals with every single one of them.

Speaker 73 Anyway, what Scott Shannon had because of that clock format.

Speaker 122 And it really went to 46 past the hour. That was the big thing.
Go 46 past the hour.

Speaker 49 Then you'd have about five, six minutes of ads and then you wanted to come out of that block with the biggest monster hit you could play this is before internet children well the internet was around but there was no streaming

Speaker 59 and he had four light bulbs in the studio old school light bulbs one was for plj 955 one was for wbls um i forget who the two others were maybe

Speaker 39 i don't remember and so you would see the light bulbs come on when the other stations went into commercials.

Speaker 72 And the trick was you wanted to be out of commercials into the monster hit before those other light bulbs went off.

Speaker 81 That's how competitive it was.

Speaker 1 It's interesting. You've never told that story before.
No, I haven't.

Speaker 1 That's an interesting trick.

Speaker 14 The more you know.

Speaker 56 Oh, the other trick was the

Speaker 47 radio ratings were done now they're, and I think they're all done by Nielsen now, but back in the day they were done by a company called Arbitron.

Speaker 2 Right. Arbitron.

Speaker 105 And Arbitron, they mainly did diaries.

Speaker 17 So you, they would have, you know, I don't know, the hundred or a thousand families, and you would keep a diary of what you listened to throughout the day.

Speaker 125 And so whenever the Arbitron diaries went out, Scott Shannon would do a promotion with these cheap wristwatches called Armatron.

Speaker 38 And so it would be like, Ibikala 100, you'll win an Armatron watch.

Speaker 27 But the idea was people were thinking, Arbitron, Armitron, Arbitron, and so they would remember Z100.

Speaker 117 They would associate it with Arbitron whenever they had to fill out the diary.

Speaker 115 It's a scam, I tell you. Wow.

Speaker 1 It's all scams. That is admirable marketing.

Speaker 27 Scott Shannon, man, the guy's a genius.

Speaker 1 Yeah, well, that's why he was

Speaker 1 probably made good money, too.

Speaker 124 Now, unlike Scott Shannon, we just ask people to support us with your hard-earned cash.

Speaker 151 We don't want to have to think about tricks like that. Can you imagine?

Speaker 66 Downloads, everybody.

Speaker 49 Subscribe using the Apple Podcast app so it auto-downloads and we can trick our advertisers into thinking that we had more people listening. That is true.

Speaker 192 So, no, instead of that, we just ask you to send us whatever you think the show was worth to you.

Speaker 125 If you get something out of it, if you learn something, maybe there was something that you heard and was a good investment tip, or you stayed alive.

Speaker 40 I mean, that has also happened here.

Speaker 84 Or maybe you just wanted to sound a little bit smarter than the rest of the NPC drones at work around the water cooler.

Speaker 71 Now, you can do that with your time, your talent, or your treasure.

Speaker 81 We love many different ways of time and talent, including the artwork that people used to make by hand, slaving over it hours while listening to the show.

Speaker 65 Now it's just prompt jockeys, but okay,

Speaker 61 you still got to have a good idea. So we do appreciate that.

Speaker 39 There's more than ever.

Speaker 88 Anybody can participate at NoAgendaArtGenerator.com.

Speaker 133 And we want to thank Digital 2112 Man who brought us the artwork for episode 1792, the snappy title of Maloney in the Middle, which I kind of did like.

Speaker 86 And

Speaker 1 this was a very happy, happy, happy piece of art.

Speaker 15 Back to school, no agenda backs to school, vaccination, a happy little school kid just smiling as the nurse jabs

Speaker 28 a needle into the kid's arm.

Speaker 47 It's a very, very happy moment.

Speaker 49 We thought it was not ghoulish enough to be vetoed, but yet.

Speaker 1 Well, you didn't like it at first.

Speaker 37 No, I still,

Speaker 129 it's not my favorite, but you know, there wasn't much else.

Speaker 65 I mean, what did I like?

Speaker 81 I liked the plumber butt, but no, we're not going to do that.

Speaker 64 There's something else.

Speaker 41 Oh, you liked it.

Speaker 1 You liked corn, saluting corn.

Speaker 158 Yeah.

Speaker 73 And it's, yes, corn scription didn't make sense, although we talked about conscription.

Speaker 17 I said something else. It wasn't corn scription, I don't think.

Speaker 122 But I just thought that was a cute piece of art.

Speaker 17 You didn't like it.

Speaker 49 Comics or blogger came in with a corrected version of You're a Body Double.

Speaker 189 Yeah, good luck, pal.

Speaker 126 After you failed the first time, we're not going to use it.

Speaker 125 It was too late anyway.

Speaker 47 And there was some apprentice stuff, Ohlone Maloney, lots of thermosol.

Speaker 175 Meh.

Speaker 122 I kind of like the trade school guy with the toilet plunger.

Speaker 68 You didn't really like that.

Speaker 1 Right, you liked that one. That's the one I think you picked right off the bat.

Speaker 117 Yeah, but why didn't you like it?

Speaker 1 It was a mess.

Speaker 84 Yes, it was an AI mess.

Speaker 73 And so just looking at what we had, yeah,

Speaker 83 I think

Speaker 17 looking at all the pros and cons, the back-to-school vaccination was just cute and funny enough that

Speaker 16 it worked.

Speaker 17 And I didn't, no one threw bricks at me on the street.

Speaker 88 Did you get any comments?

Speaker 63 Do you look at

Speaker 47 your X timeline when we post the show?

Speaker 1 Sometimes.

Speaker 47 And did you see any comments about it?

Speaker 41 No. Okay.

Speaker 52 Well, there you go.

Speaker 24 A reasonable job.

Speaker 17 Digital 2112 Man is all over this thing now.

Speaker 17 He's just like, he's just going for broke.

Speaker 92 He's not even listening to the show.

Speaker 69 He's like, oh, yeah, I'll type that.

Speaker 29 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 181 Oh, yeah, I've got it.

Speaker 114 I'll prompt this one.

Speaker 81 I'll prompt this one.

Speaker 49 Thank you, Digital 2112 Man, for the artwork for episode 1792.

Speaker 166 We also thank all of our treasure supporters who support us.

Speaker 68 $50 and above, we will always mention your name or whatever alias you want to use.

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Speaker 117 Lots of people on the credit roll.

Speaker 122 But if you're an executive producer or associate executive producer, you get the big title up front.

Speaker 130 That's just how the world works.

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Speaker 10 $200 or above, will you get the exclusive title of executive producer for this episode?

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Speaker 120 Dani Brunetti sent me a very disturbing video.

Speaker 1 What was it?

Speaker 10 He said,

Speaker 136 did I complain about him donating?

Speaker 27 I think I did.

Speaker 1 Well, you're always complaining about him.

Speaker 63 So he sends me a video of you

Speaker 68 having dinner and wine at a very upscale restaurant,

Speaker 1 and it was him filming it, and then he said, Dvorak ate your part of the donation.

Speaker 139 So now, so just so you know, when he takes you out to dinner, he considers that a donation to the show.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And

Speaker 1 he had a pair. Yeah, we went to this place, and he was in town.

Speaker 1 So he went to a one-star restaurant, which was not close to being one-star in quality, which irked me.

Speaker 1 I'm sorry. Because I know what a one-star restaurant should be like, and this was not a one-star restaurant by any.
We're talking about Micheland stars. So

Speaker 1 he has a pair of those glasses that takes videos.

Speaker 134 Oh, how lame is that?

Speaker 1 Well, he took them. He didn't have them on for long.
He put them on the dorkiest looking things. And the worst part about it is that there's a little light that lights up.

Speaker 81 It's like, I'm a dick.

Speaker 35 But is it bald? Does it pulse?

Speaker 1 Yeah, the lightest flashing code, Morse code. I'm a dick.

Speaker 32 I'm a dick.

Speaker 109 I'm a dick.

Speaker 14 I'm a dick.

Speaker 136 I'm recording you. I'm a dick.
Wow.

Speaker 1 Wow, wow. So he had those glasses, and I don't know even who's, I didn't even ask whose brand they were.

Speaker 39 Oh, I'm sure it's Facebook.

Speaker 17 It's Meta stuff.

Speaker 1 Is it a Meta? Yeah, probably.

Speaker 112 Yeah, I'm pretty sure Meta has it.

Speaker 24 So that's what he's spending his money on.

Speaker 49 Well, anyway, I told him, I replied, said, no, you're just a cheapskate.

Speaker 64 You just don't want to donate real money.

Speaker 62 I can't remember what he replied, but he had no real reply after that.

Speaker 112 You know, turns out these Hollywood guys, once you just slap them down, they got no fight.

Speaker 60 They're Hollywood guys.

Speaker 120 They're Hollywood guys, yes.

Speaker 122 And you too can be like a Hollywood person because these credits are as valid as any Hollywood credit.

Speaker 65 You can use it anywhere Hollywood credits are accepted and recognized, including IMDb.com.

Speaker 192 And our first executive producer goes to Steve Miller from Alito, Texas, who's been donating frequently of late, $1,000.

Speaker 65 And he says this combination of my Thursday donation and today should get us two knighthoods and general, a secretary generalships, one each from my son Andrew Miller and myself.

Speaker 136 West Coast IPAs, Philly cheesesteaks from Jim's and Basil Haydek, dark rye old fashions

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Speaker 1 Adam, even though you don't like it, could you please use the Bob Dylan version of these titles or changing for the ceremony?

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Speaker 81 And of course, we'll be thanking $50 and above supporters of this episode in our second break coming up in a little bit.

Speaker 59 As always, we want to remind you that these titles are real, can be be used anywhere.

Speaker 27 And of course, we now have some

Speaker 49 secretaries general who we shall be congratulating and giving their official,

Speaker 24 what is the, I guess, ceremony?

Speaker 112 Is there, is there, what do we have for a Secretary General? What is it?

Speaker 17 Is it

Speaker 1 ceremony? Ceremony?

Speaker 27 Ceremony.

Speaker 52 Ceremony, it is.

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Speaker 203 Our formula is this:

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Speaker 206 I think that sounds pretty good.

Speaker 8 Federal Reserve.

Speaker 157 No, maybe not.

Speaker 22 Federal Reserve.

Speaker 83 Do you know Mohamed L. Aryan?

Speaker 41 No, I don't know.

Speaker 1 You do not know Mohammed L.

Speaker 44 Aryan.

Speaker 70 Well, Margaret Brennan had him on,

Speaker 107 and it was in response to, I guess, the Friday, was it Friday?

Speaker 32 The stock market just went kaboomy,

Speaker 81 kaboo-y.

Speaker 145 Wasn't there a record close for the Dow Jones?

Speaker 30 Yeah.

Speaker 14 And it was all based on this. They're doing it.

Speaker 1 All based on this.

Speaker 20 All based on this.

Speaker 167 Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell used Friday's speech to signal the central bank is open to cutting interest rates ahead of its next decision in September.

Speaker 212 The baseline outlook and the shifting balance of risks may warrant adjusting our policy stance.

Speaker 167 Powell, whose term as chair expires next May, has faced intense pressure from President Trump to lower interest rates.

Speaker 167 He spoke today about continued economic uncertainty over the administration's immigration and tariff policies.

Speaker 212 This year, the economy has faced new challenges. Significantly higher tariffs across our trading partners are remaking the global trading system.

Speaker 212 Tighter immigration policy has led to an abrupt slowdown in labor force growth.

Speaker 167 President Trump backed off previous threats to fire Powell, but is now targeting another Fed board member, Lisa Cook.

Speaker 10 If she did, it was a bit.

Speaker 98 So I'll fire her if she doesn't resign.

Speaker 167 Cook was appointed to the Fed's board of governors by former President Biden. This week, a Trump administration official accused her of mortgage fraud and called for an investigation.

Speaker 167 In a statement, Cook says she has no intention of stepping down.

Speaker 74 I love how, you know, this monumental sentence by Powell, first, oh, I'm going to cut race.

Speaker 24 And then, of course, Trump bad because someone else, one of her colleagues, accused her of mortgage fraud, which sounds pretty much par for the course, I guess.

Speaker 49 So, Margaret Brennan had this Mohamed Al-Aryan guy on.

Speaker 27 I guess he's a big bond dude, according to the trolls in the know.

Speaker 83 And here's what he had to say.

Speaker 211 We turn now to the U.S. economy.
Mohamed Al-Arian is the chief economic advisor at Allianz, and he joins us this morning from Greenwich, Connecticut. Good morning to you.

Speaker 70 It's from Allianz in Connecticut.

Speaker 213 Good morning, Margaret.

Speaker 211 So, we saw the Federal Reserve Chair signal on Friday that the Fed is going to, as expected, begin lowering rates very soon.

Speaker 211 But he also cited slowing economic growth and a cooling job market. So why then did the financial market rally?

Speaker 36 What is the with the laughter, Margaret?

Speaker 27 That's not needed.

Speaker 213 Because he finally pivoted to the risk that matters most for the U.S. economy right now.
By construct, the Fed has to deliver two things, maximum employment and price stability.

Speaker 213 And the Fed is looking at slightly higher inflation and a weakening labor market.

Speaker 213 And what Powell finally did, and many of us feel he should have done this earlier, is he said the risk to the employment side is higher than the risk to the inflation side.

Speaker 213 And therefore, an interest rate cut is warranted. As you know, many of us felt he should have cut last month.

Speaker 15 Oh, it sounds like he's a Trump guy.

Speaker 129 I don't even know why she has him on.

Speaker 17 He's saying what the president has been saying for a long time.

Speaker 211 the Fed chair said significantly higher tariffs are remaking the entire global trade system. Tighter immigration policy has slowed labor growth.

Speaker 211 And there are big tax and regulation changes you can't quite quantify at this point. But it's a lot of uncertainty.

Speaker 211 Since economists have to build off of models and data, how do you predict where we're going if basically he's saying throw out your models?

Speaker 35 She's laughing again.

Speaker 114 So one of the problems,

Speaker 1 did you notice that she said

Speaker 1 she made it? It was a self-contradictory statement. She says

Speaker 1 the slower migration or no migration is creating a

Speaker 53 tighter labor market.

Speaker 77 Is that what she said?

Speaker 1 Yes, something was just completely wrong.

Speaker 211 Tighter immigration policy has slowed labor growth.

Speaker 28 Tighter immigration policy has slowed down.

Speaker 14 Has slowed labor growth.

Speaker 1 Is that so?

Speaker 1 And Powell is worried about labor slowdown.

Speaker 14 Has labor growth slowed because of the lack of cheap labor?

Speaker 1 Does that make sense?

Speaker 35 Cheap, illegal labor.

Speaker 1 Illegal labor is ruining the country. That's what we're talking about.
Yeah, I think so.

Speaker 213 So one of the problems is he hasn't looked forward enough. He's been very data-dependent, and therefore he has tended to be late.

Speaker 213 Look, there is something promising in our future, and that is productivity enhancement that comes from from exciting innovation in AI, in life sciences, in robotics, and other areas.

Speaker 213 We just have to manage a challenging few months in the period ahead.

Speaker 213 And if that challenge is mishandled, we will not be able to get the opportunities that we have that offset a lot of structural headwinds. And that includes high debt and high deficits.

Speaker 35 What?

Speaker 35 I don't know. I don't know.

Speaker 50 So,

Speaker 50 what does this mean, John?

Speaker 15 Does this mean we'll be printing money again?

Speaker 121 Or what does this mean?

Speaker 1 It doesn't mean anything. It's just blathers.
Typical financial stuff.

Speaker 3 They just talk, talk, talk.

Speaker 1 Anything that benefits the markets, the stock markets specifically is great.

Speaker 1 So there's an interesting, one of the big AI

Speaker 1 product companies that provides,

Speaker 1 I don't know if I'm allowed to say who this is.

Speaker 26 All right, I'll say it.

Speaker 1 But it's a company that is very heavily into AI,

Speaker 1 and

Speaker 1 they decided to eat their own dog food, which is an old term that used to be used in Silicon Valley.

Speaker 63 Did they use AI for

Speaker 133 their company balance sheet?

Speaker 1 No, they decided to take 1,000 people that work there and have them and study their use of AI to see what effect it had on productivity.

Speaker 110 And it probably degraded productivity.

Speaker 1 No, it did nothing.

Speaker 81 Nothing at all?

Speaker 1 Nothing at all, one way or the other.

Speaker 49 Huh.

Speaker 17 And you got this from Buzzkill Jr.?

Speaker 121 Yeah. Yeah, okay.

Speaker 35 Well, you don't have to say it.

Speaker 1 So nothing at all happened. And so the CEO is like concerned about this.
It's like, what's the point?

Speaker 1 And so more studies are expected from different companies to see what kind of, you know, if AI. Because it's, oh, yeah, you got to use AI, you can increase your productivity.

Speaker 1 And it shows, I think it does increase productivity with, like, for example, our artists.

Speaker 1 Well, it doesn't mean that it's good.

Speaker 63 No, I mean, but we would, if we were a commercial operation and we were looking for commercial, viable art, we would pretty much say no to everybody.

Speaker 117 So they would have to go back and do it anyway.

Speaker 1 Well, anyway, something's amiss. And this he says that this is why Altman came out with his commentary about, well, you know, maybe we've gone too far.

Speaker 41 There's a bubble, blah, blah, blah.

Speaker 1 Because he doesn't want to get blamed for what when it when it finally starts to appear that AI is a dud

Speaker 1 insofar as really being of use in terms of productivity. I mean, it's fun, it's very fun.

Speaker 1 It's fun. You have fun with it more than anybody.

Speaker 2 I got lots of fun.

Speaker 1 And it's fun, but it's not productive necessarily. And it's going to be a.
And

Speaker 1 he's now my son, who's in AI, he is on board with your thinking,

Speaker 1 which is the end is near.

Speaker 136 AI winter is coming.

Speaker 2 But I also.

Speaker 27 What's his timeline? Did he give you a timeline on what he thinks is that?

Speaker 1 You know,

Speaker 1 I threw back at him his own thoughts earlier about jumping the shark. And after jumping the shark, you have a period of time, a two or three-year period, before it actually anything really is.

Speaker 1 It's just the marker. And I said, when is it jump the shark that you're going to get the marker you're always talking about?

Speaker 1 And so he can't.

Speaker 10 He doesn't touch.

Speaker 1 It's not happening tomorrow, let's put it that way.

Speaker 105 No, it won't happen tomorrow.

Speaker 35 It will happen when

Speaker 78 it'll happen when people actually have to pay the actual cost of this

Speaker 101 stuff.

Speaker 151 That's when it's going to happen.

Speaker 24 And I think open AI is starting to show those signs where $200 a month, you still get limited on chat GPT-5.

Speaker 85 You know,

Speaker 88 it's getting pricey now.

Speaker 125 There is one other AI story that I just wanted to put on your radar because you also watch YouTube from time to time.

Speaker 49 There's a lot of YouTubers who are claiming, and circumstantial evidence shows it, that when they upload video to the YouTubes, that what comes back, excuse me,

Speaker 19 what comes back appears to be AI upscale, is what they're saying.

Speaker 88 And what it really means is

Speaker 28 everything looks kind of AI-ish.

Speaker 72 You know, it's like enhanced, the hair looks more enhanced.

Speaker 125 It looks kind of, you know how Scaramanga's videos look, kind of slick and slimy and glossy.

Speaker 14 Slimy, yeah.

Speaker 175 You know what I mean, right?

Speaker 85 AI has a certain look.

Speaker 41 There's a look. There's a look.

Speaker 109 And they're all saying, oh, they're AI upscaling.

Speaker 136 And I'm like, what I think is happening is that YouTube has had to, or Google has had to change so much of their architecture to do all this generative AI stuff that they've had to take all of their YouTube encoding machines and make them AI

Speaker 25 generative-friendly just to be able to handle the load.

Speaker 49 And they're like, well, screw it.

Speaker 118 We'll just make everything look that way.

Speaker 1 I would have a different take.

Speaker 91 What's your take?

Speaker 2 That

Speaker 1 somebody, a bean counter, said, can we make these files smaller

Speaker 1 and look better?

Speaker 70 Same thing.

Speaker 1 Well, yeah, yeah, I know, but it's for a different reason. The reason is it's overhead.

Speaker 107 Well, no, it's the same reason is we needed the machine, so just do it all this way.

Speaker 1 So let's shrink these things and make them look good, shrunk, yeah, so the file size is smaller

Speaker 1 and we can free up some space on our

Speaker 14 drives, on our drives.

Speaker 59 Hey, man, our drives are getting full here.

Speaker 81 Let's free up some space.

Speaker 2 AI, AI, all that

Speaker 6 drives.

Speaker 76 Let's just go for it. We can do it.

Speaker 128 We can do it.

Speaker 135 Yeah.

Speaker 114 But all right, no,

Speaker 84 I'll keep my eye on that.

Speaker 49 I haven't really caught him in the wild.

Speaker 1 I have not seen any evidence of this, but it's possible. I don't watch enough, I guess.

Speaker 83 No, neither do I.

Speaker 78 This was an interesting, this is some DEI stuff.

Speaker 68 This was kind of an interesting take.

Speaker 48 This is, I believe, I'm not sure which network this is from.

Speaker 214 Target CEO now plans to step down after struggling to turn around weak sales. Brian Cornell announced today that he would leave the position on February 1st after 11 years at the helm.

Speaker 214 He will be replaced by Target's chief operating officer. The change in leadership comes at the same time Target reported another quarter of sluggish results.

Speaker 214 The company has seen flat or declining sales in eight out of the past 10 quarters. The retail giant was the target of a nationwide boycott several months ago after backtracking on its DEI initiatives.

Speaker 117 So, this report leads me to believe that people are not going to Target because they got rid of their back-to-school rainbow stuff.

Speaker 1 I think this is true.

Speaker 1 And I've always been

Speaker 1 on the DH Unplug show, I've always condemned Target for being too woke and ruining the business. And the CEO has to quit.
And I've been saying this for years.

Speaker 1 And now that these guys quit, it'll be interesting to see what happens, although he didn't really fully quit. He's been boosted to chairman of the board, and they brought in his COO as the new CEO.

Speaker 1 So it's it's probably going to be the same, I'm guessing.

Speaker 1 But everybody's handled this poorly except Costco.

Speaker 1 Costco is the only operation that avoided this dilemma, which is what we have here at Target. And by Costco saying, we're not changing any of our DEI policies.

Speaker 1 We're going to stay the course.

Speaker 1 They don't really have any DEI policies. So they're just this bullcrap.

Speaker 49 They barely have any people working on the floor.

Speaker 1 They have people, but they don't have that.

Speaker 66 Yeah, they're handing out snacks.

Speaker 1 So they did the best job of it by saying they're not changing anything.

Speaker 1 And so a bunch of these pressure groups, and there's one group in particular, a new one that just came around.

Speaker 1 I don't have a clip of him. But a new guy who's he's in the footsteps of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton's another guy's another pastor.

Speaker 1 And he's the one creating, going to create a book. He's creating boycotts against target and yeah the old the old uh extortion scam

Speaker 79 yeah that works it's good it works it's a great gig

Speaker 73 It's great.

Speaker 28 Well, the other DEI news was President Trump and the Smithsonian.

Speaker 1 This country cannot be woke because woke is broke, wrote U.S.

Speaker 183 President Donald Trump on his website, Truth Social Tuesday.

Speaker 183 The latest target in his administration's culture war, the Smithsonian Institution, which encompasses 21 museums, 14 education and research centers, and the National Zoo, mostly located in Washington, D.C.

Speaker 188 The museums throughout Washington, but all over the country, are essentially the last remaining segment of woke.

Speaker 14 The Smithsonian is out of control, where everything discussed is how horrible our country is, how bad slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been.

Speaker 188 Nothing about success, nothing about brightness, nothing about the future.

Speaker 183 Traditionally, the Smithsonian has operated with independence.

Speaker 183 The administration first targeted the historic educational institution institution in a 27 March executive order, which sought to rid it of a so-called divisive race-centered ideology.

Speaker 183 On August 12th, the White House sent a letter to the institution announcing its intentions to start the process by formal review. Tuesday, Trump said his lawyers would begin.

Speaker 188 We are not going to allow this to happen, and I have instructed my attorneys to go through the museums and start the exact same process that has been done with colleges and universities, where tremendous progress has been made.

Speaker 183 This is not the first time the Trump administration has attempted to purge policies and ideas it deems too progressive or favoring minorities.

Speaker 183 A 20 January executive order took aim at DEI, or diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in the government, universities, and across the nation.

Speaker 183 Just nine days later, the Smithsonian Institution announced it would end its Office of Diversity.

Speaker 175 How much money, you know,

Speaker 133 art can be anything, and I'm fine.

Speaker 72 I'm, you know, do whatever you want when it comes to art.

Speaker 133 But, you know, when it's

Speaker 1 not really an art museum.

Speaker 121 no no

Speaker 1 um but it's but they receive over a billion dollars in federal grants yeah they're all upset i have a clip that you have to look up in the database it's from show 90 it's the smithsonian super cut

Speaker 1 and it has to do with everybody bitching him on what trump wants to do with the smithsonian and this is a bunch of people uh everyone's against it because you know heaven forbid that we change the make the story a positive story i learned in history class that this is how authoritarians operate.

Speaker 186 They take over the arts, they take over the culture, they take over the museums.

Speaker 215 Purging history and pilfering museums is pretty high up on the autocratic checklist. I'd be worried about the Black Lives Matter exhibit.
Others would say this sounds like a Stalinist purge.

Speaker 127 All of these things together

Speaker 127 hearken to a lot of people to the kind of countries that

Speaker 127 Vladimir Putin would feel very comfortable with.

Speaker 189 This has

Speaker 189 just kind of a Soviet feel to it, a Stalinist feel to it.

Speaker 29 Yeah.

Speaker 117 Well, all I saw was, and that was in the New York Times, they were very upset about the

Speaker 83 painting of

Speaker 36 it, was like

Speaker 91 a black trans woman as the Statue of Liberty.

Speaker 1 Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 14 I'm like,

Speaker 14 all right.

Speaker 40 Yeah.

Speaker 3 Well,

Speaker 1 a black trans woman as a statue of liberty.

Speaker 123 Oh, yeah, with the torch and some flowers and, yeah, the typical kind of stuff.

Speaker 57 It's entertaining, but yeah.

Speaker 37 It's out of control.

Speaker 2 Yeah,

Speaker 60 it is a little bit out of control.

Speaker 1 I have a couple of clips. I got the.

Speaker 1 I want to play this clip. This is which galls me personally because I'm the one.
I am the writer in the late 80s who uncovered the fact that it was

Speaker 1 Seuss

Speaker 1 who invented Dr. Seuss who invented the word nerd in 1950 in a book that he wrote called If I Ran the Zoo.

Speaker 78 I think we've talked about this on the show.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, we have. And now it used to be nerd was always assumed before I wrote about this, and it got good coverage, and it changed a bunch of dictionaries.

Speaker 1 Because before I wrote about this, it was always said, well,

Speaker 1 it was a diminution of the term ne'er do well.

Speaker 14 Ah, I guess I was.

Speaker 1 And it became, and that was nerd, but no, it wasn't it at all. It was this, this, this looking, this nerdy character, this nerd character that was in the book who looked exactly like

Speaker 1 an AI guy back in the day called McCarthy. It looked just like him.

Speaker 1 So NPR decides to do a rundown on this. Of course,

Speaker 1 I get zero credit, and they assume that this is, they leave a lot of good stuff out. Of course, I'm,

Speaker 1 you know, I don't expect to get credit from NPR for doing anything, as you never even get credit for inventing podcasting. And it's rare that you get invited anywhere.

Speaker 1 But this is a common complaint that we have, the two of us, about people, their memory, and all the rest of it. And so I found this very irritating to listen to this nerd report on NPR.

Speaker 152 What comes to mind when you think of a nerd? Steve Urkel from Family Matters, maybe?

Speaker 35 Sheldon from the

Speaker 152 Big Bang Theory? Well, you might be able to picture a nerd, but the history of the word itself is less clear. For our latest word of the week feature, we nerd out on some etymology.

Speaker 152 Here's NPR's Joe Hernandez.

Speaker 127 What is a nerd?

Speaker 170 The movie Revenge of the Nerds was released in 1984 and pitted some brainy college students against their jock tormentors. It solidified the nerd stereotype.

Speaker 170 By that point, though, the word had been around for decades, but nobody's exactly sure where it came from. Adam Alexik is a linguist and a content creator who goes by the name the Etymology nerd.

Speaker 170 Perhaps the first known instance of nerd appearing in print was in the 1950 Dr. Seuss book If I Ran the Zoo.

Speaker 170 According to the online etymology dictionary, it potentially developed from the 1940s word nerd, an alteration of the word nut that meant a quote stupid or crazy person.

Speaker 170 Alexic says if Seuss actually came up with the the word, it's what linguists call a nonce formation, meaning it was created for one purpose and then reused.

Speaker 1 So if Dr.

Speaker 216 Seuss did coin the word nerd, he's probably going off other words like nerd, which was around or nuts, or it just sounds like something that could be a nerd.

Speaker 216 And then he goes within, and then other people are like, yeah, that sounds like a nerd, let's go with it.

Speaker 170 In the 70s and 80s, nerds were all over film and TV. And then toward the turn of the millennium, they started becoming kind of cool.

Speaker 170 Pop culture historian and author Matthew Klickstein says things like the 90s independent film movement and rock bands wearing thick-rimmed glasses started making the weirdos, the misfits, the outsiders, the nerds, the geeks cool.

Speaker 119 Okay, so what exactly, what's the credit that you want?

Speaker 1 That I'm the one who found a Dr. Seuss reference.
I even talked to Seuss and his associates about it.

Speaker 1 with a phone call because he was alive at the time and they were unaware of the fact that he's the one who coined the word.

Speaker 105 I want an email writing campaign.

Speaker 49 I want everybody to write NPR and tell them that you are very disappointed in their non-accreditation of historian columnist

Speaker 68 John C.

Speaker 71 Dvorak, that they did not credit him in this article and you demand, demand

Speaker 90 a correction.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and they're going to do what they do, which is ignore anybody's note. You're just wasting your time.
I just found it annoying.

Speaker 14 Yeah, I'm with you.

Speaker 84 I'm highly annoyed for you, even.

Speaker 1 In fact,

Speaker 1 to this day, we still be thinking it came from someplace else until I dug it up.

Speaker 44 And it took a little work.

Speaker 125 I think we should have a new word.

Speaker 39 Let's bring back some old words. How about square?

Speaker 14 He's square, man.

Speaker 1 He's a square name.

Speaker 60 He's a square, man.

Speaker 59 Or how about drip?

Speaker 51 My mom used that a lot.

Speaker 1 Drip. Drip's still a good word.
He's a drip.

Speaker 157 Yep, drip. We can use drip.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I would say Adam Schiff

Speaker 1 would be a drip.

Speaker 10 He's a big drip.

Speaker 175 All right, one more.

Speaker 27 You get five-minute warning here.

Speaker 1 Well, what do we got?

Speaker 90 Well, you're the one with the clips.

Speaker 1 And I have a few left. Okay, well, we got the bush, but I don't want to do that.
Here, this is a good one. This is

Speaker 1 kind of a

Speaker 1 politically correct. They're still in Germany.
They can't get over it. So here's German.
They changed the name of a street.

Speaker 35 They did. The street name in Berlin has officially been changed.

Speaker 10 Sorry, because it's racist.

Speaker 43 The street name in Berlin has officially been changed after campaigners successfully argued that the original version was racist.

Speaker 43 More instrasse translates as Moore Street, referring to slaves brought to Germany in the 18th century. Here's our Europe Regional editor, Paul Moss.

Speaker 218 The word Moore was used for the people of North Africa.

Speaker 70 It was how Shakespeare described Othello.

Speaker 218 But in Germany, more was a derogatory term for African slaves, and the presence of a Mohenstrasse in the middle of Berlin was long a cause for complaint.

Speaker 218 The local council agreed to change the name five years ago, but some locals wanted the original retained.

Speaker 218 Now, following a long political and legal battle, the name has been changed to Anton Wilhelm Ammorstrasse, after the first African philosopher to teach at a German university.

Speaker 14 Moorstrasse.

Speaker 135 You know, the Dutch have a treat.

Speaker 28 Usually comes in a pack of eight, I want to say.

Speaker 47 And it's kind of

Speaker 49 marshmallow covered with chocolate on a little cracker.

Speaker 36 And

Speaker 61 it

Speaker 143 looks a bit like a mini boob.

Speaker 129 Are you familiar with this?

Speaker 1 No, I've never seen it.

Speaker 136 So you bite into it.

Speaker 72 It's nice chocolate with kind of a marshmallowy.

Speaker 17 You know, it's not really a marshmallow, marshmallowy.

Speaker 49 And when I was growing up, they were called Necherzune, which means Negro kisses.

Speaker 74 Well, obviously that had to change throughout the years.

Speaker 109 And you know what they're called?

Speaker 14 Moorkopa.

Speaker 20 Moorheads.

Speaker 71 So that shouldn't take too long before they have to change that.

Speaker 2 Now that the Moors.

Speaker 1 I never thought of Moor as anything other than a black person from North Africa that

Speaker 1 were populating different parts of Europe.

Speaker 1 And they were called the Moors. It wasn't derogatory.
It was just a comment of

Speaker 1 his description. And then Shakespeare used it.

Speaker 1 But I guess in Germany it was derogatory. We don't know that.

Speaker 2 That could be bullcrap.

Speaker 1 The Germans are off the rails.

Speaker 137 I'm going to show my support by donating to no agenda. Imagine all the people who could do this.

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Speaker 81 $50 and above, and still to come, we have some dynamite end of show mixes, John's tip of the day, and we will be welcoming our brand new Secretaries General after John thanks the rest of our supporters for this episode.

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Speaker 9 And now, ladies and gentlemen, for the very first time, we are proud to present our Secretaries General, who supported the No Agenda Show in the amount of $500 and have requested to be Secretaries General.

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Speaker 9 Steve Miller, Secretary General of Broken Supply Chains, Andrew Miller, Secretary General of Parker County, Sir Ichabod, Count Stephen, Secretary Generalship of Winder and the Great Smoky Mountains,

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Speaker 81 what do you think

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Speaker 1 well this is very underwhelming well i mean i didn't i don't know what you want me to say i mean your presentations of these things is always a high standard.

Speaker 19 I take it seriously, man.

Speaker 136 Secretary General is a real title.

Speaker 109 It's important.

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Speaker 121 All right. Now, now, now, it's not over.

Speaker 53 Oh, wait, before we get there, we missed a Secretary General donation from DJ Schuyler Firestone.

Speaker 134 And

Speaker 55 I guess it's important that I say that he was here to represent the best plumbing company in the Austin area, Mango Plumbing.

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Speaker 74 We got two knights here today.

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Speaker 8 Oh, I love it when we have knights and dames.

Speaker 137 I haven't had some dames in a while, but Steve Miller and Andrew Miller, both of you hop up here because,

Speaker 9 well, we saw Steve support $1,000, so that means I get to pronounce the KD as Sir Render Not, Secretary General of Broken Supply Chains, and Sircuitous Secretary General of Parter County.

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Speaker 138 Go to noagendarings.com, take a look at those.

Speaker 72 Well, you're going to be there anyway for your Secretary Gen.

Speaker 77 Do we have it up yet?

Speaker 27 The Secretary General

Speaker 175 form for

Speaker 15 people to submit? Is it on noagendarings.com?

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Speaker 31 No agenda

Speaker 31 beyond

Speaker 31 your honor.

Speaker 15 Yep, No Agenda Meetups, not just a place to find the first responders in an emergency.

Speaker 77 You can get connection there that will always give you protection with these people.

Speaker 66 And you know what?

Speaker 117 Instead of just hanging out, talking about the show, talk about what you can do to make your community better, to change things, to take away the elite's power.

Speaker 49 You can do it.

Speaker 68 I'm sure the local 5112, the Austin people, can do a fine job because they do a lot of cool things, including the float meet.

Speaker 61 We have Sir Ducepher here with his reports.

Speaker 210 All right, this is Sir Ducepher.

Speaker 71 We are on the San Marcus River.

Speaker 90 This is the meetup report.

Speaker 210 In the morning, this is Sir Doug.

Speaker 197 We're having a wonderful time. Thanks to no agenda.
Alright, so it's kid-friendly, not kid-approved.

Speaker 33 This is Brendan from Local 512 saying, in the morning. Butt-up is something we say when we hit the low parts of the river.

Speaker 161 Butt up.

Speaker 111 Three hours later.

Speaker 197 All right, this is Sir Docefer. We're at Ivar's River Pub, and this is the second half of the meet-up report.

Speaker 97 This is Ditch Walker.

Speaker 189 Great time.

Speaker 33 This is Brendan from Local 512 saying, In the morning, we had a great time on the river.

Speaker 148 In the morning, this is Dean Shanarkey.

Speaker 210 Connectionless is protection in the morning this is Baron Sertonin in the morning Baron Chris of North Austin hello citizens and slaves this is Baron Scott thanking my co-host Rob Ducefford for taking over the float portion for me in the morning this is Patrick Dew from Lumberton Texas I just want to let you know that the vibe here is

Speaker 189 quite chill.

Speaker 197 It's a little too chill for my taste. I don't see enough people angry, enough people slamming tables, turning things over, demanding justice.

Speaker 197 All right, we had a few kids here, a little human resources. It was a lot of fun.
All right, I'm John Zabinden, and we're at Ibar's River Club.

Speaker 154 How are we today?

Speaker 197 You guys, we're good. You guys were good, uh-huh.
Light drinking, light drinking. Yeah, good barbecue food in the morning.

Speaker 14 We're about to go hit the shoots.

Speaker 115 All right, there you go.

Speaker 39 They got their server in there.

Speaker 16 Very nice.

Speaker 39 McKinney, they had their meetup.

Speaker 77 Let's hear the report.

Speaker 83 So, what was the name of this meetup?

Speaker 6 McKinney

Speaker 6 Media Mockery.

Speaker 40 I'm Sir Joe, Sir Chris of Saxe,

Speaker 1 Sir Shwe.

Speaker 97 Here's our server.

Speaker 137 You just want me to say in the morning?

Speaker 14 You got it.

Speaker 4 There you go.

Speaker 181 In the morning.

Speaker 4 In the morning.

Speaker 184 And what's your name?

Speaker 14 Bianca.

Speaker 157 Bianca McSwiggins.

Speaker 154 Excellent. Excellent.

Speaker 119 All right, people getting their servers involved.

Speaker 18 This is going to catch fire.

Speaker 109 People, Northeast Ohio, bring it on in.

Speaker 185 Hey, guys, I'm at the Northeast Ohio. Sorry it's been so long meetup.
I'm gonna pass the mic around. This is Dame Ashley, Lady of the Lake.

Speaker 142 This is Sir Real Estate at the Northeast Ohio meetup. I'm sure my wife said something very lovely about me.

Speaker 193 In the morning, this is Sir Joe Biwan.

Speaker 197 Leave Dave Smith alone.

Speaker 185 This is Audrey.

Speaker 137 In the morning.

Speaker 197 Hey, this is Nick from Medina.

Speaker 126 In the morning.

Speaker 137 This is Tracy Prevent from Cleveland, Ohio.

Speaker 11 Saturday night, I'm the

Speaker 14 five.

Speaker 154 In the morning, this is Sir Christopher of Macedonia.

Speaker 8 Meetup, report.

Speaker 175 Meet up, report. Noah Jenna is still king, but Bitcoin is the prince.

Speaker 187 Meet up report.

Speaker 154 We had a wonderful time.

Speaker 197 A lot of conversations. Great people.

Speaker 154 Love the people.

Speaker 14 Everyone is great.

Speaker 197 Everyone's looking at me right now. I'm going to go into my spiel, but not for longer.

Speaker 11 A wonderful time.

Speaker 219 In the morning, this is Miss Bea the Bag Lady, and Sir NMNFT is handing out laboo boos.

Speaker 4 In the morning.

Speaker 17 Tell me you don't want to be a part of something like that.

Speaker 49 You can be a part of that by going to noagenda meetups.com.

Speaker 24 There's a meetup taking place as we speak in

Speaker 105 Carmel, Indiana.

Speaker 117 That is the Outback Steakhouse Beef Tallow meetup.

Speaker 74 That is Outback Steakhouse in Carmel, Indiana.

Speaker 129 Still to come in this month.

Speaker 49 The Los Angeles flight number 66 of the NoAgenda is Leo Bravo hosting that on the 30th.

Speaker 24 And Medford Lakes, New Jersey on the 31st.

Speaker 68 We still have Madison, Alabama, Houston, Texas, Hofdorp, Nord Holland, the Netherlands, South Slokan, British Columbia, Keyport, New Jersey, Oakland, California, Tilburg, Nord Brabond, the Netherlands.

Speaker 49 Again,

Speaker 117 no, that's a different Netherlands.

Speaker 28 Wow, there's so many groups.

Speaker 74 And October 11th, right here in Fredericksburg, Texas.

Speaker 17 That'll be a fun one.

Speaker 81 I will be attending, and I hope to drag the keeper along with me.

Speaker 136 No Agenda Meetups.

Speaker 27 This is where you get your connection.

Speaker 139 It gives you protection.

Speaker 74 You can start one yourself if you don't have one near you. Go to noagendametups.com.

Speaker 28 Always easy and always a party. Sometimes you wanna go hang out with all the nights and days.

Speaker 28 Uniware you won't be. Triggered on hell.

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Speaker 16 If I recall, this is where we do the end of show ISO.

Speaker 117 If I recall, you had two you were keeping in abeyance from the last show.

Speaker 36 You have three, I see. Three.

Speaker 123 Yeah, I do.

Speaker 86 All right. Well, let's start with yours.

Speaker 50 Which one do you want?

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This is therapy.

Speaker 55 Will they save you money on therapy, do you think?

Speaker 17 Kind of muddy. A little muddy.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it is muddy.

Speaker 3 Okay, well, then we'll go to the bayance one.

Speaker 1 We have amazing.

Speaker 141 That was amazing.

Speaker 81 Okay, not bad.

Speaker 40 Not bad.

Speaker 141 And sleep. Do these guys ever sleep?

Speaker 152 Great show. Wow.

Speaker 116 I can beat that.

Speaker 10 I can beat that.

Speaker 49 Not with this one, though.

Speaker 59 I think everybody loved it, all right?

Speaker 72 I think the one that beats it is this one.

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Speaker 1 It's extracted, expeller extracted. You want the good stuff because it won't kill you.

Speaker 1 But pumpkin seed oil, you can not have it if you don't want it.

Speaker 1 I discovered it, didn't discover it.

Speaker 1 It was foisted upon me in a visit to Slovenia, of all places, where it's used constantly in all the salad bars and all over town.

Speaker 1 They always have a jar of this pumpkin seed oil that they put on everything,

Speaker 1 mostly on salads. Like there's a normal salad dressing, you add some pumpkin seed oil.
And I was told there, and you can look this up, it might be true

Speaker 1 that it prevents prostate cancer.

Speaker 1 And so, I so pumpkin seed oil, which you can get, you can usually get the good French stuff from various sources that carry a lot of different kinds of variety of oils.

Speaker 1 And you can also buy it on Amazon. You want the, you don't want the pumpkin seed tablets or anything like that.

Speaker 1 You want the oil, so you can use it for the following recipe, which is perfect for this tomato season. We're in tomato season right now, right in the middle of the tomato season.

Speaker 1 Take and get a ripest tomato you can and slice it, put it across the plate, and salt it with some fleur-de-cell, and then use pretty much equal amounts of basalmic vinegar and pumpkin seed oil, which looks like basalmic vinegar.

Speaker 1 It's a dark, this is toasted oil. So

Speaker 1 it's a dark oil.

Speaker 1 And just a combination of basalmic vinegar and pumpkin seed oil and the salt and the tomato. Absolute killer.

Speaker 44 Hey,

Speaker 25 tomato season,

Speaker 117 most people just go to the supermarket and they see tomatoes all the time.

Speaker 125 Is it tomato season for American tomatoes?

Speaker 1 Yeah, for our tomatoes.

Speaker 32 Do you recommend

Speaker 1 fresh ones? Do you want to get at the farmer's market? You don't want to buy grocery store tomatoes.

Speaker 90 No, they're no good.

Speaker 117 They've got that Bill Gates wax on it.

Speaker 27 Yeah.

Speaker 1 So you go to a farmer's market. Everyone's got a farmer's market, especially down in the south.
There's tons of them.

Speaker 1 Where you can get the fresh, super fresh tomatoes that are, you know, just picked off the vine or grow some tomatoes yourself.

Speaker 74 Do you recommend a particular type of tomato for this?

Speaker 1 You know, one of the best tomatoes that generally grows well everywhere is an ACE.

Speaker 110 Ace tomato.

Speaker 1 It has a good tomato flavor.

Speaker 1 It's not an heirloom by any means, but it's a good tomato. And,

Speaker 1 you know, beef steaks and all the rest of them are all good. They're tasty, especially if they come out right.

Speaker 1 But this

Speaker 1 pumpkin seed oil and balsamic vinegar on a tomato right now is dynamite.

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Speaker 63 Well, I'm going to go get me an Ace Tomato at the HEB.

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Speaker 51 Or maybe not.

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Speaker 4 Are you hiding?

Speaker 4 You're not hiding anything.

Speaker 31 Prove that to the American people, yes.

Speaker 31 And if you are trying to hide something, as many of Donald Trump's MAGA supporters apparently believe, then Congress should actually work hard to try to uncover the truth for the American people.

Speaker 31 He's dead, he's gone.

Speaker 221 Epstein deck of suicide. Epstein dark and suicide.

Speaker 29 Epstein would kill himself.

Speaker 31 Jeffrey Epstein conducted a conference called Confronting Gravity. I don't know who Jeffrey Epstein was, but I'd certainly bet money that he was the product of at least one

Speaker 31 or more elements of intelligence.

Speaker 31 You can see I mean, you got to be honest.

Speaker 118 Those are ours. And it was Gates was there, all these guys, and I guess Epstein was there.

Speaker 31 So I could have had the opportunity to be Epstein and say, well, what a creep or whatever I would have said.

Speaker 29 I don't know. I probably would have said anything.

Speaker 1 He's dead, he's gone.

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There's an audience beyond the Senate.

Speaker 14 And that is John Bolton's politicization of the intelligence he got in Cuba and on other issues.

Speaker 95 Why we would want some with that lack of credibility, I can't understand.

Speaker 204 Clearly, that's what John Bolton represents.

Speaker 186 He would tell in a captivating way that the public would watch

Speaker 204 the most pernicious part of the president's scheme

Speaker 203 and

Speaker 203 his love of conspiracy

Speaker 203 theories.

Speaker 203 Partly him playing to their base and playing to their audience, you know,

Speaker 203 the credulous Boomer Rube demo that

Speaker 203 conspiracy theorists, theory theories.

Speaker 11 I think at the end of the day, it all boils down to this.

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