1793 - "Retribution"

The Glowing in the Dark's a giveaway.

Adam Curry, John C.

Dvorak.

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

This is no agenda.

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.

And from northern Silicon Valley, where Abrego Garcia wasn't mistakenly sent to El Salvador.

I'm John C.

DeBorak.

It's Craig Bottom Buzzkill in the morning.

I like the whole Uganda gamut myself.

I think that's pretty funny.

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.

Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man, the Maryland dad.

Oh, yeah, Maryland man.

Yes.

Maryland was Maryland dad at first.

It's become Maryland father.

Maryland father.

Father from Maryland, yes.

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

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

Please.

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.

This is not reporting.

this is propaganda.

Well, now

I need to clutch my pearls.

You should.

I think the main has MSNBC changed to MSNOW yet?

Ms.

Now.

When does that happen?

When does that happen?

I can't wait to see the logo change.

Well,

the logo is flowing.

I don't know.

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

Cut a ribbon.

I think there's a ribbon cutting involved.

Yeah.

I wonder.

Anyway.

This dude, Abrego Garcia.

I got two clips.

Abrego Garcia PBS.

All right, here we go.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

All right.

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.

No, why should he?

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

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

They do a deal with Uganda.

This is the best part.

This is hilarious.

This is their business.

We have been doing business with Uganda.

We do a lot of business.

Just people are going to be able to do it.

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

Well, and so

the the Brits wanted to do this with the Rwanda

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.

But there's a very strange irony to this,

which makes it funny, at least to me.

And this is the other clip.

This is the clip from the BBC.

A man who was

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.

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

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

No.

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.

This is a great catch-22.

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

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

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

Well,

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

I mean, this is how it works.

This is how arms dealing works.

The U.S.

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

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

But they don't really send it to France.

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.

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

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.

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

So

it's a great bit.

What a great business.

I know.

Guys can't fly the planes.

You got to buy another one.

And the Ugandans don't seem to care.

Oh, we need another one.

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

Is he, is he now finally going to go?

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

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

What happened to his wife?

She was out and about.

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

beating him, beating her?

Yeah,

two complaints of beating her.

Yeah.

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

Yeah, I guess.

But this is a farce.

It's funny.

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.

Now he's going to be wrongly.

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

The Uganda thing

is a gem.

Yeah.

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.

Back in the country.

Well, Costa Rica is nice this time of year.

So

it's not that bad.

It's pretty good most of the year.

All right.

So I'd like to jump into the Bolton, the Bolton thing.

Was that Thursday when they were raiding his home?

Or was that Friday morning?

That was probably Friday.

I think it was Friday.

Friday morning, yeah.

So everyone's in a tizzy about this.

We go to ABC with your buddy, Jonathan Carl.

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.

They had been in there for nearly 80 minutes.

For a second,

this was one of the interesting things about it.

There's been, there's three reports.

One that he was there the whole time.

Unlike Trump in Mar-a-Lago, they like to make that comparison.

The second one was he wasn't there at all, never was.

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

Just one foot in, one foot out.

Can anyone get it straight?

Well, no.

They had been in there for nearly eight hours.

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

I'm not a fan of John Ball.

He's

a real

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.

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.

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.

I just saw that.

I'll find out about it.

But

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.

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.

But what exactly is that mission?

Enforcing the law or retribution?

Ah, the big R word.

This is what everyone likes talking about.

Retribution.

That's right.

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

Who was that?

Remember

there was another raid?

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

That's Stone.

Oh, Roger Stone.

Roger Stone's house.

It's like the new version of elite swapping.

Swatting, I'm sorry.

Elite swatting.

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

Yeah, it's cool.

It's retribution.

Right here on this show, two weeks ago, John Bolton harshly criticized President Trump.

He said Trump was presiding over a, quote, retribution presidency.

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

This is the new, this is it now.

Retribution presidency, the new R-word.

This week

starts right now.

And I'm not a fan of John Boba.

That is a sleeves bag, actually.

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

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

I think it is a retribution presidency.

Good morning.

Welcome to this week.

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.

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.

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.

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

Well, this is clearly retribution.

This is obvious.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Yes, very sinister.

What is going on with our country?

What's going on with the media?

Well, yes, okay, that's that's a fair point.

That's exactly it.

The only guy who actually had something

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,

a former Trump lawyer, and he was on MSNOW.

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

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

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

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

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

I have no idea.

Yeah.

Well, according to my.

But I would think that you were right.

Yeah.

But it's solitary confinement.

It's not, you know, not the book reading club.

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.

They will find documents once they go through, for example, his computer.

They'll find the manuscript.

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

you know, for legal ease and for,

you know, for questions.

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.

One document that was about Russian election interference ultimately had her incarcerated.

She was a whistleblower, had her incarcerated for years.

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

Oh, man, that would be so funny.

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

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

classified documents.

But the question is.

Well,

I did a little research too.

Okay.

And I found a hold on.

My research is: I called somebody.

I texted, hey, you got any?

Yeah, yeah, here it is.

That was my research.

A couple of

people

emphasized that Bolton was

a

stick-up-is asked type character

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

Oh, okay.

I was also told that

nobody likes him, and he was

when he was the head of the national

security advisor to Trump.

Trump never listened to him, ever.

Yeah, but Trump did hire him.

With that school, yeah, but why?

Yeah, I don't know.

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

So there's that element.

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.

There's some sense that

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

Yeah.

Yeah.

It just keeps getting funnier.

And so

this,

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

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

don't know how things are backed up.

This even took place during the early era with Reagan when

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

They were available.

And

a guy like this is not a computer guy.

He's going to leave stuff on his machine.

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.

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

We all know that's the reason for it.

It's not.

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

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

I don't know.

You know, the fart sniffing club in New York.

I'm still trying to get confirmation on that.

You never will.

Just

the M5M just makes me laugh these days.

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

But it's all so dumb.

It's just on repeat over and over again.

And MSNOW,

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

MS-NOW.

Miss Now.

Yeah, you might as well.

MSNOW.

Unless they back off.

Or we we say Ms.

Now.

Ms.

Now.

Miss Now.

They got that

guy who's the

president of the Washington Correspondents Association.

He does the morning show on Sundays.

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

there's no, it's contentless.

That's what it is.

Contentless.

Yeah.

Nothing has content.

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

Yeah.

I mean, even when CNN had their,

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

and it was just headline news,

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.

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

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

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

Right.

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

Whoa, outrage.

Oh, look at this outrage.

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.

I even know when she's on anymore.

There's just, there's no gaffes.

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

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

Gwen, I want to say her, is Gwen Dyer?

I think her name is.

Yeah, she was trying to read a simple copy and she couldn't do it.

This was posted by Tim Poole.

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

You can't having somebody laughing over it while they're playing it.

Yeah, I agree.

I looked for it.

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

I'm sure they removed it.

But it was interesting because

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

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

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

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

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

But she couldn't get one sentence straight.

And she kept doing

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

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

here we go

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

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

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

from the federal government.

So she was doing all those pictures.

Yeah, she was doing it.

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

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

It's going to be a nightmare.

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

But it was just funny.

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

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

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

That person could be replaced by AI.

That would actually be an improvement.

It would save money.

Yeah.

It was.

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

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

This was following on the

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

And I just wanted to, can I share a couple of these?

Because this is very interesting.

I wish you would.

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.

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

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

Young cats.

And how is this new?

But it is.

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

And that is, that's the.

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

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

You discussed apprenticeships on the last show.

I wanted to tell you about my experience with apprenticeships.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

He was only a couple of years older than me.

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

He knew absolutely nothing about machining.

So, not only are they turning out

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

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

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.

It bypasses apprenticeships, baldwinprep.com.

And then this is my favorite from the anonymous controller.

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

availability.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Academy Ground, Lear One Hotel Delta.

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.

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

right now?

It's at a full-blown staffing crisis.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

on the website and apply to air traffic control posting.

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

P.S.

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

We appreciate that.

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

It looks fun to me.

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

You should go to become an air traffic controller.

I'd be doing a podcast.

Number 277 Bravo 5.

How are you doing, everybody?

Good to see you.

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

We could do it.

Yeah, just like that.

Yeah.

So I'm happy to hear that.

This gives me hope.

This Gen Z, something happened.

Gen Z flipped around.

They started to get their activity.

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.

But I saw at the table the other day,

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.

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

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

He says that the curve has just gone,

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.

So what can we do to thwart that?

The Democrats.

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

You've got to be trans.

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

it's an idealistic

idealism of the Democrats

is more appealing than the conservativism of the Republicans.

And so the youth will always vote Democrat.

So they don't think this is anything that's worth worrying about.

Well, I'm seeing it.

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

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

and

they're even giving up social media.

The horrors.

Well, that would be a good idea.

Well, it would be a fantastic start.

I just wonder, is this an organic change?

Is this something that just happens as a cycle?

You and I have witnessed four or five generational cycles.

As far as I'm concerned, everything's a cycle.

So it's probably some sort of cycle.

It's a new one, though.

I don't know

where it fits into the scheme of things.

It's just got to be backlash, backlash against

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

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

Yes.

Well, anyway, it makes me kind of happy.

I like it.

I feel good about it.

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

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.

Chicago's on deck.

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.

to carry firearms.

People in Chicago, Mr.

Vice President, are screaming for us to come.

The president claims crime in Chicago is out of control.

Now, when he says Mr.

Vice President, does that mean J.D.

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

Or is Vance the one who's

on X looking at this stuff?

Because I've seen it.

What do you think that is?

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

Arms.

People in Chicago.

Only in this situation?

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

This is one of them, yes.

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

People in Chicago, Mr.

Vice President, are screaming for us to come.

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.

There's that 30% number again.

Isn't that interesting?

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

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

Yeah, 30% of what.

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

he always does the Chicago shooting report.

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

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

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

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.

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?

Notice the homicides.

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

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

it's good.

We're trending down.

Absolutely.

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

Johnson says he is taking Trump's threat.

Do the work that's working?

Yes, that's a political term.

Do the work that's working.

Absolutely.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Can the president say that?

It's not legal.

The whole thing is a bluff.

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.

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.

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

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

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,

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.

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.

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

And then

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.

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

It's just an idle threat.

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

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.

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

the commissioners and everyone else.

This was in the wire, by the way,

this idea.

Oh, yeah.

You're right.

You're right.

It was season one.

Absolutely.

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.

Vote us in again.

And it's all lies.

And they're starting to document this to an extreme.

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.

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.

You know why this, why this,

why they get away with this?

And I think you're right.

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

We got a new sheriff.

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

But the previous sheriff would, you know,

he would never report to the newspaper.

We have a newspaper on Wednesdays only.

would never report the actual things that they were doing.

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

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

We can't report on the drugs in Fredericksburg.

We can't report on that.

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

State.

No, we're not an open container state.

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

No,

no.

Well, that's not what I was thinking.

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

You can walk on the street in Fredericksburg.

It's only one of six cities.

Somebody from Texas backed me up on this.

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

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

I've been in Texas.

I've been here 15 years.

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

Anyway,

beer either.

No,

you can have a gun.

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

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.

Can't even listen to the police scanner anymore.

It's all digital.

That's the problem.

There's no more local reporting.

So that's why everyone gets away with everything.

There's no city hall reporter.

Maybe Chicago has one.

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

Wouldn't you?

That's what you do.

Yes, that's what I mean.

The pay is the same.

Yeah, but we have this thing called podcast people.

We got blogs.

We got substats.

Blogs.

Get out there and start reporting on stuff.

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

Chicago,

on the shootings?

It's very popular.

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

We've talked about it at some point.

No, I don't remember.

Yeah, well,

well, there's so many.

That your full-time job reporting on the shootings in Chicago.

Yeah.

Let me see.

What was it about Chicago?

Somebody knows that.

Anyway, what do you have on this?

Well, I have a couple of things.

I have the...

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

crime.

I picked this up from NTD.

The Democrats are saying there was no crime.

People are upset that

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.

I live here.

They say, and it goes on and on.

So the NTD has a, this is clips, D.C.

crime man on the street.

Okay.

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.

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.

You feel safe being out here?

Oh, absolutely.

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

There has not been any

altercations as it was in the past.

We hear shooting almost every other night, sometimes every week.

Wow.

You know, sometimes,

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

Broad daylight, sometimes, at nighttime mostly.

But you do hear it in the daytime.

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

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.

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.

You know, if you're doing what you're supposed to do, guess what?

Hey, they're doing the right thing.

Heyjackass.com.

That's the website.

That's the guy who reports on it.

Hey, Jackass.

August.

Shot and killed 24.

Shot and wounded 156.

Total shot 180.

Total homicides, 26.

Last week, shot and killed 8.

Shot and wounded, 37.

Total shot, 45.

Total homicides, eight.

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

Shot and wounded, 1,056.

Total shot, 1,285.

Total homicides, 275.

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

He's got merch.

He's got merch.

He's got merch.

What, spent shell casings?

Theheyjackass.com.

Yeah.

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

And people need to talk about these things.

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

Heyjackass.com.

It's a good one.

Okay.

I think we've covered that enough.

Okay.

What else you got then?

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

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

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

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

Hold on, everybody.

And now, back to real news.

Yes, on her boyfriend.

Yeah, her boyfriend.

Kelsey's podcast.

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.

But listen to Taylor.

This is kind of a surprise.

Thanks for having me.

This is my first podcast.

This is amazing.

Thank you for coming on.

What took you so long to jump on podcasts?

You know what?

I just, I was waiting for you guys to invite me.

This is my favorite podcast.

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?

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.

I totally agree.

That is a sexy beast right there.

But aren't you a Democrat?

You know what?

Fuck the DNC.

You heard me.

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

yeah ai of course very funny what yeah

the the sad part is I had never listened to the

Kelsey Brothers podcast.

They're actually not bad, as podcasters go.

I was quite impressed with them.

You know,

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

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

Yes.

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

Yeah, no, that's fine.

I'm totally okay with that.

Anything but the TikTok ladies.

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

Raising the colors

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

the outrage of the people who pay their salary through

a forced payment.

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

in the UK.

I mean, they tax people.

I don't think a lot of people realize what it is.

You should explain it.

I think I have a.

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

Yes, I think I actually have it.

I had a

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

the signal comes off of a TV, even though it's a receiver.

Yes.

And so if they spot,

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

fine you.

Yes,

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.

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

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

I went through it.

And it's not cheap.

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

Yeah, it's not cheap.

That's true.

And

I'm not even sure

what the genesis of this is.

Why don't they just ⁇

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

tax restriction.

I thought originally it was designed to pay for the BBC.

No, it is designed.

It's specifically designed to pay for the BBC.

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,

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

What happened here could not happen to the BBC.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Here he is.

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

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

That's a good word.

Wow.

What does despondent mean?

Depressed.

The kind of depression that is not good.

You know, hang dog type depression.

Oh, I feel so bad.

They think the third world takeover is inevitable.

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

The housing market is stalled.

I've heard this from a number of people.

There are eight houses for sale

on our small village high street.

None have sold for months.

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

Everything has gone up in price.

Food inflation is out of control.

Highest electricity prices in the world.

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

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

UK companies are listing in the U.S.

rather than the London Stock Exchange.

I speak to so many people who want out.

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

We certainly are.

Right, I'm going back to the

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

He said he wants to be a plumber in America.

Come on over, Peter.

We can use plumbers.

We should have

a special visa for plumbers.

So,

one of our producers sent in a note mentioning that Satan

is probably Amy Pope.

You mean from the UN

Organization for Migration,

which is an operation we should revisit once in a while.

So I tried, I looked up Amy Pope.

She worked for Clinton.

She worked for Obama.

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.

And so you try to find anything.

She doesn't have a wiki entry except in Deutschland.

Oh, really?

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,

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

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.

Obviously, a bad actor, and it's all funded by us.

Why does the American public put up with this?

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

Albany,

and this is during the Berkeley era.

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.

And one of them was always get the U.S.

out of the U.N.

or get the UN out of the U.S.

And

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

It was some

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.

There's a John Birch Society bookstore about three doors down.

And we always thought that they were kind of nutty.

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

Was I

a buffoon back in the day?

I guess so.

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

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

I'll play a shorter clip from last year.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Okay, so there's a lot of clips.

A lot of it is about climate change.

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

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

What did I say, office?

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

But that's the point.

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

50s.

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.

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

the true evil is the BlackRock, the Rand Corporation.

You know, there's all these layers of

headquarters in all different places.

And everybody wants to blame a group.

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

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

Biden, Clintons.

We have good and evil in the world.

That's just a fact.

But the only,

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

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

they're no good.

They're doing this.

They're doing that.

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

your state

house or senate.

I agree.

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

Well, we're actually doing something.

We do highlight this.

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.

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

And social media is perfect.

It's perfect.

Everybody, oh, I feel much better now.

I posted that.

I trolled him.

That's right.

I've left a comment.

No, you're doing nothing.

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

AOL chat room.

Of course.

I'm not just saying.

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

Yes, that's exactly it.

Well, they should leave it to the professionals.

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

There's no doubt about it.

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

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

every single No Agenda Telegram group is filled with this.

The Dutch are the worst.

Oh, I love them.

But I lurk.

I see what you're doing.

Oh, look at that guy.

Look at this article about that guy.

That's bullcrap, man.

That's just bullcrap.

Oh, that's the elites.

There it goes.

The elites are doing it.

You're doing nothing

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

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

Yeah, and

so maybe

the Gen Zers are,

you know, look what they're doing.

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

Yes, they are.

Yes, I get tons of emails.

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

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

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

This will give you an idea.

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

We don't want this.

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

if you look at the video of those reports,

the cops are busting heads and rousing people.

So your wake-up call came.

at the beginning of the of the of 2020.

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.

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

Okay, oh boy, Amy Pope.

She's just a symptom of the overall problem.

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

for all of the wrong.

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

positions.

You might be wrong on that.

They might be sincere.

No.

No, I don't think so.

I think you always underestimate sincerity.

Well,

regardless,

the answer, it lies within everybody themselves.

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

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

Have you ever been a part of that?

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

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

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.

Oh, yeah, that guy.

And he'll create.

But that's what I'm saying.

He's great.

Yeah, it's great for social media.

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

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

Do something real.

All right.

I'm done.

I've said it.

You said that already.

Yeah, that's why I stopped.

I'm s I said it.

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

What?

Yeah?

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

This is a short clip.

It's less than a minute.

Okay.

Or maybe it's a minute.

Okay.

Nigeria.

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

You hear about this?

I know there's.

No, I don't know about this.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Wow, sounds great there in Nigeria.

Yep.

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

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

Yeah, black.

70% from Nigeria.

Probably all scammers.

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

But yeah,

billionaires.

I had no idea.

A couple of them live in the States.

I think one or two live in the UK.

But the Nigerians, ma'am,

they know how to do it.

Yeah.

Scammers.

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

is legal in Nigeria.

And it's considered part of their GDP.

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

Yeah.

What's illegal about it?

It's a scam.

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

Yeah, they're not scamming their own.

Let's check in with

what's happening with Ukraine and with Russia.

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

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

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

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.

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

And he's talking out of his butthole.

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

Oh, really?

We are working perfectly together.

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

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

Terrible and

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.

How about this?

Don't poke the bear.

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

Here we go.

What is the support?

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.

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

We have the comprehensive assistance package.

We have this new initiative thanks to President Trump.

Ah, buy our stuff

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.

So NATO.

So it's a great system.

America sells it to Europe.

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

It's dynamite, people.

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.

What?

An irreversible path for Ukraine into NATO.

That can't be true.

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.

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

We are doing that.

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

It's all going to happen.

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

You're coming.

You're coming.

It's okay.

It'll be good.

My word.

So here is.

Here's France 24.

Hopes are dim for the Putin-Zelensky peace summit.

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.

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

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

The issue is not just the meeting.

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

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

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

That's like oil and vinegar a little bit.

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

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

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

And

it's going to be a very important decision.

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

Or do we do nothing and say it's your fight?

Putin is ready.

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.

And this agenda is not ready at all.

Yeah.

So

clearly the Europeans are telling Zelensky to chill out.

And the unthinkable has happened.

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.

That's what this ultimately is all about.

We all know that.

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

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.

Let me get to something else that President Trump said this week.

This is a post on social media.

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

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.

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

Zelensky wouldn't let Ukraine attack into Russia.

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

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.

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

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.

And I hope that there will be a review of that policy.

Indeed, that was exactly what the Biden administration did in the past.

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.

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

Yeah, we got to kill some Russians, man.

Come on,

we need long-range stuff.

Let's get it going, brother.

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.

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

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

astounding.

You know, upwards of 20,000

just on the Russian side,

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.

It's staggering, Jonathan.

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.

He's not talking about Vietnam.

Is he talking about Iraq, I guess?

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.

Everyone knows what it is.

It's not a huge number.

It's not like massive numbers.

It's not like the 20,000 a month.

It's staggering, Jonathan.

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.

I can't

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.

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.

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

Yeah, I didn't think so.

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

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.

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

Quite extraordinary.

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.

The Ukrainian numbers are staggering.

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

ever

why is that

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

is that part of it

what do you think that would be just

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

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.

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

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

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.

Results of a well-coordinated attack.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

The pipelines were not operational at the time.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Well, yeah, but it's Ukraine.

It's Ukrainians they arrested.

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

But we stand behind Ukraine because they don't.

You know, I'm sure they would just

rogue elements work for Ukraine.

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

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.

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

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

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.

police.

They can bring it down by 30%.

Those guys are using it.

Yeah, overnight.

And the Chicago police.

They'll take care of it.

Yeah.

So that's what's going on there.

Yeah, so that's going nowhere.

No.

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

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

making it profitable.

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

No.

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

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

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

Did I have anything else on that?

I had.

Yeah, it was interesting.

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

Russian strike hits U.S.-owned factory.

Did you even hear about this?

No, I didn't even hear about this.

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

that makes toasters and other stuff.

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

And

something hit one of their factories.

No one was killed.

I don't think anyone was even hurt.

But

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

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

They targeted civilian infrastructure facilities.

American-owned enterprise, Zakaparita.

Yeah.

Supported by American investment.

Okay.

They make toasters.

Yeah, that's what they make.

I looked into it.

They make toasters.

No one cares about that.

Toasters.

This is an interesting clip.

This is about, we can switch topics, I think.

Yeah, sure.

Because I have nothing on the Ukraine.

I do have some Gaza stuff that might be worth talking about.

Okay.

This Gaza won PBS.

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.

That's right.

Ignore the hundreds of thousands in Russia and Ukraine.

Ignore that.

33.

Okay.

Yep.

Well, I thought that once I heard the 33,

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

Typically.

33.

Okay,

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

The signal has gone out.

Yes, the signal.

The signal has gone out.

Yes.

So

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.

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

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.

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.

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

He's in Gaza City.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

That's coming.

Oh, it has to be coming.

They've already been trying it.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Or anything, really.

Or, well, anything in general.

But this in particular

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.

Prime Minister Netanyahu.

Sorry.

Wait, wait.

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.

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

And so

this is the way it ends up.

Prime Minister Netanyahu called the report an outright lie.

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?

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

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.

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

Okay.

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

Or

10 trucks a day is what he says.

So this is

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.

Well, he wants money.

It's fundraising.

Yeah, it's a fundraiser.

But why does PBS do this?

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.

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.

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

The international pressure on Israel is growing.

There's widespread condemnation at the government's decision to expand Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Yeah, it's going to be nasty there.

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.

We recognize it.

We recognize it.

Where were they in 1967?

I would say that the Israelis,

I think there's a propaganda war between the left

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

Yes.

And the Israelis.

And the Israelis are losing the propaganda war.

They're doing a piss-poor job of promoting their position.

Agreed.

And I see no resolution to this.

I mean, everybody's taking the side of

the Hamas side, basically.

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

How come they can't do a better job?

Yeah,

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

They should be doing a much better job.

Yeah, they do a better job.

They don't run the media.

That's a joke.

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.

When you had all these characters that were all Jewish.

They gave that up.

No, it's a mess.

And the Israelis have nobody to blame but themselves.

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

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

October 8th?

Was it October 8th?

Seventh.

Seventh invasion.

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

And remember the

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.

Another victory for the Palestinians.

Yes.

I thought that was a funny one.

That's an interesting way to do it.

A little bit of climate change.

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

This is good news.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Their contract with UNESCO means they're only extracting some of the artifacts from the ruins.

The rest will remain in the depth.

This find confirms that this place was a complete residential city.

The part we are in was a port.

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

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

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

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

There it is, climate change, climate change.

Yep, we turn something good into something very negative.

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

How about flesh-eating bacteria?

On the medical watch today.

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.

Experts think climate change is helping the germ spread north.

Eating undercooked shellfish is one way to get infected.

Another is through cuts, including

climate change or eating uncooked shellfish.

Okay.

Is one way to get infected.

Another is through cuts, including from ear piercings and tattoos.

Multiple surgeries and sometimes even amputation

necessary to treat an infection.

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

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

Most infections are typically reported from May to October.

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.

This report was very confusing to me.

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?

Yes, that's my point.

Are you going to get it in your stomach?

Or, I mean, what is that?

It doesn't make any sense.

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

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

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

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

And have you heard about the radioactive shrimp?

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

Yes, they are.

Or they were.

Apparently,

irradiated with cesium-137.

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.

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.

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.

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

How did the shrimp get radiation?

It's like

surely they asked the question.

No, nowhere.

ABC, George Stephanopoulos, everyone.

Oh, don't eat the shrimp.

It was cesium-137.

Where does cesium 137 come from?

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

There's not like caches of it that I know of.

Let's take a look.

Okay, well, ask your buddy there.

Ah, very good point.

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

Easy 137 comes from Psalm 137.

Not Easy 137.

What did she say?

She said Easy 137.

No, no, no.

Cesium-137.

It's radiation.

Where does that come from?

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

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.

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.

There you go.

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

In Indonesia?

Hmm.

Well, where it comes from Thailand?

There's no, I don't think they're using nuclear power there.

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

This could be out of the Fukushima area.

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

We don't know.

We just don't know.

Well, shrimp.

I know.

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.

Check my shrimp.

Check the shrimp before you buy it.

Scan your shrimp, people.

And I like the way they say what hasn't caused anyone to get ill.

That's not what it would.

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.

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

Well, glowing in the dark's a giveaway.

We do now, we do know, we do know,

this is good news.

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

We have proof.

Because Ghislaine said so.

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.

President Donald Trump of any involvement.

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.

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

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

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.

Have you ever observed President Trump receive a massage?

Never.

The timing of the release raises questions.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Nah, didn't see anything.

Not with Clinton, not with Prince Andrew, not with President Trump.

There's nothing.

It's all good.

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.

She's a liar.

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.

So

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

I mean,

she let everyone off the hook.

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

Well, maybe she didn't notice.

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.

So I don't know.

But we don't know.

That's it.

Nobody knows nothing.

Nobody knows nothing.

That's exactly right.

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

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.

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

Oh, come on.

It's PBS.

We might as well.

All right, play it.

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

Wait a minute.

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

Like, Trump is innocent.

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

Let Maxwell go.

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.

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.

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.

He is the one who respect him.

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

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.

Yeah, all right.

You're right.

Just as nonsense as mine.

It's no good.

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.

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

we've already seen these documents.

They've probably got binders that said Epstein files.

White binder.

Yeah.

No, we're not going to know anything.

Yeah, that white binder was

the worst.

Yeah.

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.

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.

And so this is going to be interesting because

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

He says that just about the only country in the world that uses them is the United States.

Is that true?

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.

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

Is that within his powers?

So, no.

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.

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.

Congress also sometimes acts under its powers, for example, to enforce the Fifteenth Amendment to bar race discrimination in voting.

The President's job is to take care that the laws passed by Congress are faithfully executed.

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.

Well, that was a poor reading of Article 1, Section 4.

But as far as I'm concerned, the states have the authority to regulate times, places, and manner of elections.

I don't see how even Congress can do anything.

Well, he goes on and explains how they can.

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.

They must do what the federal government, as represented by the President of the United States, tells them.

That's just a fiction.

That's not how things work.

The Constitution does say that Congress can override.

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.

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.

There wasn't an agreement to have national election administration, the way it is in most other countries today.

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.

He says he's doing this because he wants to make sure there's no fraud.

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

corruption in these things?

Well, you're right that there are some states, including Oregon, Washington, Utah,

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.

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.

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.

There were tons of investigations.

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.

I have to

notice the way he

put no evidence, no evidence, no evidence of any fraud that could have affected the election.

Oh, yeah, that's the standard.

Which means there was fraud.

I have to rescind my previous comment.

The full text of Article 1, Section 4:

The times, places, and manner of holding elections for senators and representatives shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof.

But, big but, the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations except as to the places of choosing senators.

And choosing is spelled C-H-U-S-I-N-G, choosing, choosing.

So I guess Congress can change that.

Well, if that's true, why don't they do it?

Because it behooves no one.

We can't do our shenanigans if we can't do it because there's exactly shenanigans.

Washington State

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.

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...

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.

The whole thing is, it is a scam.

Yeah, and that's why they don't want to.

And Oregon, Washington, two of the most Democrat-run states completely captured by the party.

Well,

allow me to ask you this question.

Why, in three clips, because we have a third, of PBS, did no one do what we just did?

Read the actual piece of the Constitution where, I mean, even I can understand this language.

Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations

Well, I mean, not by executive order, for sure.

But why don't they just read that and tell us

why?

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?

Then what good would this be for the show?

It would be useless.

They'd have something that people would stop with that bit.

Well,

who's propagating the bit?

You can stop.

You can stop with that bit anytime you want.

There are sometimes

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.

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.

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.

This morning, the Texas legislature sent Governor Abbott there the newly drawn maps.

They're trying to pick up Republican seats in the House.

Do mail-in ballots favor one party over another?

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.

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.

I would say that if the President had not been putting out all of these negative

tweets and other statements about mail-in balloting, deriding it, you'd see both Democrats and Republicans using it more and more.

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.

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.

I don't remember that.

Yeah, I do.

You do.

That's true.

I don't remember that.

I do.

Okay.

He made a big fuss about it.

About mail-in.

Then he said mail-in ballots were good.

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.

I thought it was early voting, not mail-in, but early voting.

Mail-in was specifically mentioned.

I'll take your word for it.

But here, Trump on mail-in voting from Doddes 2020.

That doesn't count.

No, that's when he hated it.

Yeah, I don't think we have any clips of it, though.

Probably not, because it was not

interesting.

Let's play the Texas thing so we get the Texas new map on PBS, a little short clip.

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.

Republicans designed the map in hopes of winning five additional House seats in next year's midterm elections.

Republicans have a slim majority in the House, where there are now 219 Republicans, 212 Democrats, and four vacancies.

Yep, well, we did that.

Everything, of course, about the ⁇ that is kind of the boring thing.

It's like you get a general election, like, oh, I can breathe now.

And then within six months, it's all about the midterms.

And then from the midterms, it'll be for the that's all that news is.

News is all about politics.

Voting in the election.

Politics and war.

Yeah, that's pretty much it.

Yeah,

politics and war.

Yeah, that's pretty much it.

Anymore, famine, disease, petulance, pestilence.

That's another thing

that's being left out.

Although I think the flesh-eating bacteria accounts for that.

We have a deal with the European Union.

Looks like we've that happened on Thursday, last show day.

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.

The text provides for a maximum duty of 50.

Did you see this clip?

Is he petting a cat?

This is Euro News.

They have the worst guy reading the news.

This is the only guy they have read.

And Euro News generally used to be pretty good.

And now they have like some African guy reading their news.

I don't know why.

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.

Once again, the European Commission is defending this compromise, which has been the subject of much criticism.

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

it damages businesses across both the EU and the US.

We have a good deal.

And this is not theoretical, as nearly five million European jobs, including many in SMEs, would be at risk.

This deal avoids that path.

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.

But the Europeans are like, you know, these tariffs could really hurt five million jobs.

You never really know where the...

I'm trying to figure this out.

I have a clip that relates to that, what you just said.

Okay.

Which is

something I mentioned on the show.

I'm sorry, in the newsletter.

This is the,

it says confused.

Well, it's kind of misspelled, but confused tariff commentary on PBS, confused tariff.

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.

European postal services like UK's Royal Mail and DHL are suspending shipments until they get more information and clarity about the rule.

With the exemption gone, all imports will be subject to the tariff that's imposed on the country of origin.

U.S.

Customs and Border Patrol says that last year, more than a million packages with goods worth $65 billion were sent under the exemption.

Before we discuss, I have the Euronews version of this confusion.

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.

The White House said it is aiming to combat illegal and abusive practices such as the importation of illegal drugs into the United States.

Letters and small parcels under 100 or 85 Euro will not be affected.

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.

Trump's announcement comes after the US and the European Union agreed on a new trade deal ending months of uncertainty.

So they kind of explained it, but all the headlines like, oh, they're

stopping all services to America.

No one really goes into the de minimis conversation, which I know you know about.

What?

What part of it?

Oh, well, that

the de minimis

exemption has been deleted.

It went away mainly from China.

It wasn't deleted.

It was lowered.

Yeah, lowered to $100, from $800 to $100.

Yeah, so I'm getting nothing but 10 emails a day from Timu and Xian.

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,

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.

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.

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,

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.

That's the big joke.

They know exactly what it is because they have those regulations themselves.

I think it's good.

What are you ordering this?

Nobody should be paying 50 bucks for two glasses.

No,

my point is, it's good that we're doing this.

Screw those guys.

Yeah, no, I agree with that.

65% of the people.

But the thing is, the thing that is baffling to me is that what you just described is the way it always worked here.

When some package came in with a custom sticker on it, you pay the duty yourself at the post office.

Let's find out what Democrat, Chinese,

kiss-ass president or Congress did this.

When did the U.S.

deminimus

tax

of $800

go into effect?

Okay, let's see.

Hmm.

Why don't you ask your executives?

March 11th.

Oh, this is interesting.

No.

It was part of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015.

Hello.

Who was the president in 2015?

Obama?

Yes.

That's right.

And so prior to the TFTE,

the de minimis.

I wonder if he has shares in Timu.

The de minimis threshold was $200.

The increase to $800

allowed goods valued at or below this amount to enter the u.s duty free so that was his parting uh

you know parting well i'm sure it wasn't just obama obviously it was congress

um

well there you go so that was that was great

man i'm gonna i'm gonna look into that i'm gonna see who

who sponsored that

who someone was on the take for that for that you think yeah

someone was on the take

What?

Joe, let's see, let's see who the sponsor was.

The sponsor was

that should be in the

one Democrat and one Republican.

And if Lindsey Graham's name shows up, I won't be surprised.

Let me see who it was here.

Chris Walwell.

It was sponsor

Patrick Tabiri from Ohio,

republican

there you go

there you go

republican doesn't matter

he got

doesn't matter

additional sponsors mr brady of texas oh it was a pure republican bill look at these guys

yeah one of your texans too douchebags all of them all of them

all of them are douches

uh also we struck a deal with Canada,

and

this was

big talker Carney who buckled.

What happened to elbows up?

Huh?

Elbows up.

Oh, elbows down, Mr.

Carney.

Your critics are going to say that this is an elbows down approach, that you're backing down to Trump.

What are you gaining by dropping these tariffs?

Let's be clear.

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.

We have that confirmed in the executive order of the President a few weeks ago.

It's important that we preserve that.

We are matching something the Americans have done here first.

And it's very significant.

It's unique.

We get the benefit.

The second thing is,

and I'll take your analogy,

and I have played some hockey over the years.

And is a time in a game, in a big game, and this is a big game,

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.

And we've done that pretty uniquely in the world.

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.

And we're moving later into the game, and we're at that time in the game.

He did actually play ice hockey for Harvard, strangely enough.

Well, that's the worst sports analogy I've ever heard in my life.

Well, that's the Canadians, man.

So

anyway, I think there's all kinds of different things.

Also for Europe with steel, there's still 50% tariffs on after a certain quota.

So in general, I think President Trump is doing a good job for us.

You know,

my buddy who does small machine CDC parts, I think we talked about it.

He says, you know,

well, yeah, I'm sure we did.

He says,

you know, it's going to suck because it costs more for us.

We have to use American steel for these parts and American aluminum.

It's much more expensive.

It'll take a few years before that price comes down.

But, and I know you remember this, he said, everything we ordered from China, 40% was defective.

Yeah, junk.

Yeah, it's just junk.

So, in general, I think in the long term, it'll be good.

I'd rather be here than the UK, I'll tell you that

yes they they are in trouble yeah they are

okay uh

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.

A 2024 data protection law required TikTok to stop operating in January unless its owner, ByteDance, sold off its U.S.

operations.

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.

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.

It's currently set to come into force on September 17th.

You know, you're going to be in real trouble.

No, Reels is caught up, and so is

Eden stuff.

If they blocked the city,

half the TikTok clips aren't even TikTok anymore.

What are you even going to do if

you'll lose your

One America Now

gig.

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?

You might know the answer to this because it's been bugging me.

Okay.

There's a lot of these video podcasters.

They're holding a little square

microphone with a dead cat on it, a dead kitten.

It's a little square thing, and it's like a portable mic, and it doesn't have wires.

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.

Well, I'm glad you asked.

This is from the reason why is because they are giving them free

and it is from my favorite company who has never sent me anything even though I have spoken positively about their products.

Rode.

Rode.

That's right.

That's the Rode mic.

They make this stupid looking thing.

By the way, I think it's idiotic.

It records on device, even.

Oh, it's an on-device recorder.

That's interesting.

Well, it's wireless and on-device.

It does both.

Yeah.

Well, it's a little square.

It looks dumb.

I know, especially when they clip it on somebody.

It's like a big,

giant square.

Big, giant thing.

It's got the dead kitten on it, too, which makes it worse.

Yeah, I know.

I know.

But it sounds good.

Sounds good, for sure.

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.

They're all the same, you know, ranting women that lost their minds over one thing or another.

Let's start with

the bigoted hater girl.

It's usually a swipe left, too, because we all know what that usually means now.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

that's how it ends, yeah, this kind of gets cut off um

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

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

Well, I didn't rate her in one way or the other, but she should.

When you bring these clips, you need to give me a number.

I'll give her a six.

Okay.

You're a six-man of Dvorak scale.

So then we get the leftists.

I got two clips here.

Leftists

that are on to promote their perspective on things.

And this is a

this group is going to be left leftist.

They're going to be left in the lurch.

Well, now, I presume these are Gen Z women.

Sounds like.

No, these are mostly.

Yeah, no.

no, no, no, not that.

Well, maybe.

It's hard to say.

I think they're borderline on millennial.

But they could be the Gen Z's before they start to fall into the conservative campaign.

Exactly.

That's what's happening.

They're looking at their own generation, and these are the stragglers.

These are the ones that haven't gotten the memo yet.

This is not where you want to be.

Well, they're definitely stragglers.

And they, you know, I guess it's one way of looking at it.

Okay, here we go.

One.

Getting crushed by capitalism is like so cringe, but it's like it's happening to me.

And like, I got a PhD from Berkeley, and I'm like.

We already understand the problem.

A PhD from Berkeley.

Like, I can't get a job to save my life.

Like, I got a soil biology PhD.

What kind of PhD?

Soil biology.

Soil biology.

Is there a big market for soil biology?

According to her, no.

I mean, maybe in the corn belt.

Like, I got a soil biology PhD,

and like, now I'm a tutor and a babysitter and a dog sitter.

And

like, part of that is because, like, I don't want to move to some random place in the middle of nowhere.

Uh-huh.

Like,

the other half is, like, they cut all the funding for science.

And

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,

oh my God, like, what do we do?

I just have to work.

I just got to work.

Yes.

She doesn't want to move to where the jobs are, though.

That's the problem.

She doesn't want to move to where soil bios.

Well, it turns out she got a bunch of grief for this report, and she came out with a second postage.

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.

Like, I know that people make fun of leftists for not wanting a job, but like, I'm really one of them.

I just.

come on, this is not real.

This is not a sincere person who says this.

This is not possible.

I believe it to be.

It's the same woman that just went on their other rent.

It could be a fake, but I'm liking it.

I can't stand the idea of having to work.

And I don't understand why right-wingers want to work either.

Like, they.

You know, does she...

On social media, does she like a lot of posts?

Because it sure sounds like it.

Like, like, like, like.

and I don't understand why right-wingers want to work either.

Like, they are

like slaves to their masters, low-key, uh, and they love it and they eat it up.

And

but when someone like me says, like, I don't want to work in the middle of nowhere,

everybody's mad at me.

And it's, it's pretty obvious that

you're a little bit like

cucked, if you know what I mean, what, uh, by your circumstances, and maybe I am too,

But I'm into that.

So.

Okay.

All right.

So.

So

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.

I already worked.

I got my PhD in soil science.

And

what comes to mind is the Democrat Party who

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.

Yeah, well, these parties flip all the time throughout history.

Remember, it was the Democrats who were racist, and then somehow it was the Republicans who were racist.

Well, somehow they're accused of being racist, but the Democrats are still racist.

This is correct.

Yeah.

Well, anyway, that's my contribution to the good of society.

Yes, that's a very sad state of affairs.

I hope you had a nice strong cup of tea after watching that.

You must protect your own mind from

the virus that these people propagate on social media.

Like.

Like.

And with that, I want to like, I like, I like.

I want to thank you very much for your courage.

The man who put the C in the CNC parts from China.

Say hello to my friend on the other end, will you?

Mr.

John C.

Neville.

All right.

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.

Hey there, trolls, trolls.

Good morning to the trolls.

Let me count you.

There we go.

Yeah, I think people heard the message that the stream issues have been resolved.

2125, we're getting closer to our old numbers.

This is good news.

And we still are in the dog days of summer.

Is school back in session is school back are people back at school yeah they just went back to school yeah

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

yeah teach how come the teachers aren't up up in arms about this?

They should be.

They should be very mad.

I have no idea.

Maybe they figure they get

another month of checks.

I don't know.

Well, anyway, it's good to have you trolls here.

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This is the hot new thing in podcasting.

It's been around for a couple of years, but it's starting to become very hot.

You just wait.

It's going to be hot.

Yep.

It's very, very hot.

Podcastapps.com.

Podverse is still the number one alternative app for this show

versus Apple number one.

Podverse number two.

Podcast Guru number three.

Zero Spotify, of course.

We're not on Spotify.

And people seem to not have a problem with that.

I'm like, okay, it's not on Spotify.

I'll just use a different app.

Spotify are no good.

We don't want to be a part of that cabal.

They are evil.

But we are somehow on the iHeart app.

Did you submit us?

Yeah.

Did you submit us to the iHeart app?

Or were we on Podbean?

That's what I like.

I'll have to take a look, see if we're on Pod Bean.

That is kind of a necessity.

You have to be on Podbean to be an official podcast.

Value for value is

the way we've been operating on this program.

It'll be 18 years in October and episode 1800 coming up in seven short episodes.

So that's,

do we have a date yet?

Do you know the date of our

1800th episode?

No, I just look at the calendar.

You can figure it out.

Yeah, well, that's why I asked you.

I've not

done that yet.

When I get to show 1798,

we'll start thinking.

Oh, it should be next week, plus one show.

Got it.

Value for value means that

you don't have to listen to ads.

Oh, man.

I was listening to radio the other day.

I don't understand.

I don't know.

It's possible to listen to

especially if you want to listen to like I like country music and I listen to you can't listen to

it's not quite what country music is anymore.

In fact,

country music is not like Merle Haggard anymore.

But you, it's unlistenable.

I mean, no wonder people just listen to a playlist.

Why would you listen to music radio just in general?

It's just stop for ads.

20 minutes an hour.

No.

And you know what's really annoying about these ads on these radio stations?

Well,

they all use, they pretty much all use the same generalized clock.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah, they all.

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.

You can't, there's no moment of relaxation.

It's all ads.

When I was

working at the legendary WHTZ Z100 in New York under the

guidance of Michael Scott Shannon, who invented the Z Morning Zoo.

Oh, he invented the zoo?

Oh, yeah.

Well, he's credited.

I believe he did.

I've always wondered who did that.

Yeah, that was.

That was in New York.

The first zoo was in New York?

No, no, I think he started it in

Jackstonville, Florida.

I think that's where he was starting.

Yeah, I heard it was started in Florida.

Yeah, I think it was in New York.

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.

Good morning.

Woo!

Woo!

That's Rose.

My daddy was Beetle.

It's always the same.

You got at least two guys

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.

Correct.

And there's always a wacky guy who calls up.

Here's Mr.

Leonard in his lime green pinto.

Morning, Scott.

I'm here in a lime green pinto.

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.

And that guy calls 10 radio stations every morning and he has he deals with every single one of them.

Anyway, what Scott Shannon had because of that clock format.

And it really went to 46 past the hour.

That was the big thing.

Go 46 past the hour.

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

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

i don't remember and so you would see the light bulbs come on when the other stations went into commercials.

And the trick was you wanted to be out of commercials into the monster hit before those other light bulbs went off.

That's how competitive it was.

It's interesting.

You've never told that story before.

No, I haven't.

That's an interesting trick.

The more you know.

Oh, the other trick was the

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.

Right.

Arbitron.

And Arbitron, they mainly did diaries.

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.

And so whenever the Arbitron diaries went out, Scott Shannon would do a promotion with these cheap wristwatches called Armatron.

And so it would be like, Ibikala 100, you'll win an Armatron watch.

But the idea was people were thinking, Arbitron, Armitron, Arbitron, and so they would remember Z100.

They would associate it with Arbitron whenever they had to fill out the diary.

It's a scam, I tell you.

Wow.

It's all scams.

That is admirable marketing.

Scott Shannon, man, the guy's a genius.

Yeah, well, that's why he was

probably made good money, too.

Now, unlike Scott Shannon, we just ask people to support us with your hard-earned cash.

We don't want to have to think about tricks like that.

Can you imagine?

Downloads, everybody.

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.

So, no, instead of that, we just ask you to send us whatever you think the show was worth to you.

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.

I mean, that has also happened here.

Or maybe you just wanted to sound a little bit smarter than the rest of the NPC drones at work around the water cooler.

Now, you can do that with your time, your talent, or your treasure.

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.

Now it's just prompt jockeys, but okay,

you still got to have a good idea.

So we do appreciate that.

There's more than ever.

Anybody can participate at NoAgendaArtGenerator.com.

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.

And

this was a very happy, happy, happy piece of art.

Back to school, no agenda backs to school, vaccination, a happy little school kid just smiling as the nurse jabs

a needle into the kid's arm.

It's a very, very happy moment.

We thought it was not ghoulish enough to be vetoed, but yet.

Well, you didn't like it at first.

No, I still,

it's not my favorite, but you know, there wasn't much else.

I mean, what did I like?

I liked the plumber butt, but no, we're not going to do that.

There's something else.

Oh, you liked it.

You liked corn, saluting corn.

Yeah.

And it's, yes, corn scription didn't make sense, although we talked about conscription.

I said something else.

It wasn't corn scription, I don't think.

But I just thought that was a cute piece of art.

You didn't like it.

Comics or blogger came in with a corrected version of You're a Body Double.

Yeah, good luck, pal.

After you failed the first time, we're not going to use it.

It was too late anyway.

And there was some apprentice stuff, Ohlone Maloney, lots of thermosol.

Meh.

I kind of like the trade school guy with the toilet plunger.

You didn't really like that.

Right, you liked that one.

That's the one I think you picked right off the bat.

Yeah, but why didn't you like it?

It was a mess.

Yes, it was an AI mess.

And so just looking at what we had, yeah,

I think

looking at all the pros and cons, the back-to-school vaccination was just cute and funny enough that

it worked.

And I didn't, no one threw bricks at me on the street.

Did you get any comments?

Do you look at

your X timeline when we post the show?

Sometimes.

And did you see any comments about it?

No.

Okay.

Well, there you go.

A reasonable job.

Digital 2112 Man is all over this thing now.

He's just like, he's just going for broke.

He's not even listening to the show.

He's like, oh, yeah, I'll type that.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah, I've got it.

I'll prompt this one.

I'll prompt this one.

Thank you, Digital 2112 Man, for the artwork for episode 1792.

We also thank all of our treasure supporters who support us.

$50 and above, we will always mention your name or whatever alias you want to use.

And as a special good deal, just like Hollywood, you'll see the credits on Hollywood movies and productions.

Lots of people on the credit roll.

But if you're an executive producer or associate executive producer, you get the big title up front.

That's just how the world works.

You may not like capitalism, but this is it.

$200 or above, will you get the exclusive title of executive producer for this episode?

It'll be 1793 of the No Agenda Show.

and we'll read your note.

$300 or above, you get the title of executive producer, and we will read your note as well.

Dani Brunetti sent me a very disturbing video.

What was it?

He said,

did I complain about him donating?

I think I did.

Well, you're always complaining about him.

So he sends me a video of you

having dinner and wine at a very upscale restaurant,

and it was him filming it, and then he said, Dvorak ate your part of the donation.

So now, so just so you know, when he takes you out to dinner, he considers that a donation to the show.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And

he had a pair.

Yeah, we went to this place, and he was in town.

So he went to a one-star restaurant, which was not close to being one-star in quality, which irked me.

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

he has a pair of those glasses that takes videos.

Oh, how lame is that?

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.

It's like, I'm a dick.

But is it bald?

Does it pulse?

Yeah, the lightest flashing code, Morse code.

I'm a dick.

I'm a dick.

I'm a dick.

I'm a dick.

I'm recording you.

I'm a dick.

Wow.

Wow, wow.

So he had those glasses, and I don't know even who's, I didn't even ask whose brand they were.

Oh, I'm sure it's Facebook.

It's Meta stuff.

Is it a Meta?

Yeah, probably.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure Meta has it.

So that's what he's spending his money on.

Well, anyway, I told him, I replied, said, no, you're just a cheapskate.

You just don't want to donate real money.

I can't remember what he replied, but he had no real reply after that.

You know, turns out these Hollywood guys, once you just slap them down, they got no fight.

They're Hollywood guys.

They're Hollywood guys, yes.

And you too can be like a Hollywood person because these credits are as valid as any Hollywood credit.

You can use it anywhere Hollywood credits are accepted and recognized, including IMDb.com.

And our first executive producer goes to Steve Miller from Alito, Texas, who's been donating frequently of late, $1,000.

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.

West Coast IPAs, Philly cheesesteaks from Jim's and Basil Haydek, dark rye old fashions

should be the perfect mix for our first roundtable.

Okay, I've ordered it.

Andrew would like to be named Sir Q

I Tus.

So, Sir Q U Q U E I Tus.

Pronounce circuitous.

Secretary.

Circuit circuitous.

Circuitous.

Circuitous.

Thank you.

Means roundabout.

Circuitous.

Secretary General of Parker County.

And I'd like to be surrender not with a K, Secretary General of Broken Supply Chains.

This is a big one.

We have a big ceremony now for our Secretary General.

Oh, you have it?

Yeah, of course.

Hey,

I do production on this show, of course.

Please.

I didn't know you were ready to do that one already.

Well, of course.

I'm stunned.

I'm taken aback.

I have that.

Oh, geez.

What do you mean?

Oh, geez.

Come on, man.

I got my.

I got my.

Yeah, I got.

And I have the music to go with that.

Please also give Andrew some new house karma as he buys his first house, Escaping from Colorado to Texas, good man, and explores the true meaning of house poor.

That's right.

And a little Al Sharpton, please, just for Grins.

Thank you for your courage, says Steve Miller from Alito, Texas.

You've got karma.

We have Sir Ichabod Ichabod Ichabod from Lake Lake Forest Park, Washington, or as they say at their Washington, 666.66.

And he, this is a check that came in with a note.

Crackpot Buzzkill, I have been remiss lately, so I'm playing catch-up with my donations.

Here's $333 for the last 200 shows.

Wow.

That's a good way of doing it.

That's very good.

I like it.

200 shows, $3.33 a show.

I can't believe I've given this kind of money to a product.

I can't believe I have given this kind of money to a podcast, but you have been worth every penny over the last 11 years

that I've been listening.

It's fitting that the first episode I listened to was titled Slavery Enrollment.

Wow.

What

episode was that?

That's

11 years ago.

Slavery.

Okay.

This donation takes me over to the Baron level.

Please update my title to Baron Ichabod of the Bike Path Gorbal, Protector of the Seleucid Empire.

Seleucid.

Adam, even though you don't like it, could you please use the Bob Dylan version of these titles or changing for the ceremony?

I don't know that he doesn't like it.

I didn't ever say it.

By the way, Slavery Enrollment was episode 666.

Oh, that's the 60.

I get it.

So hence the donation.

Adam, the reason you don't understand many of John's references is because you are not a boomer.

This is not true.

He is a boomer.

I don't know why.

I refuse to believe as a kid I was led into the headbanger's ball each week by a boomer posing as some cool hip VJ.

But then I'm Gen X, so meh, who cares?

Lastly, I'm a huge fan of Ashlyn's speed.

That no agenda sticker on her race card deserves actual sponsorship.

Ashlyn, if you're listening, send Adam an email.

If there's a way that Gitmo Nation can help you out of your value for help you in value for value, I'd like to send you 500 bucks that you can use for a plane ticket to the next race.

Maybe buy an extra tire, or an extra tire is what she needs, or a handful of those side view mirrors you like to knock off rubbing elbows at 100 miles an hour with other boys and girls in the track.

Good luck for the rest of the season.

Jingle, F35 Karma for Ashlyn at the Virginia International Raceway this weekend.

Sincerely, Surikabad of the Bike Path Gorbal.

You've got

Karma.

Thank you very much, Sir Ichabod.

Count Stephen is in Oswego, Illinois, 51538, and maybe 500 with fees.

Please set me up as Secretary, the Secretary Generalship of Winder and the Great Smoky Mountains.

Could use some relationship karma as well.

And this comes from Count Stephen.

I don't know if it, yeah, maybe it is Winder.

I'll pronounce it properly during your ceremony.

Count Stephen of Winder and the Great Smoky Mountains.

You've got Karma.

Jeffrey Ray in Maricopa, Arizona, 51538.

Jeffrey Ray, Secretary General of the Autonomous Region of Madeira, aka Digital 2112 Man.

Oh, there he is.

Oh, that's who this is.

Is it possible to please email a PDF of the certificate?

Because we got into a back and forth on this.

I guess he

isn't might not be the same guy.

Yeah, it is.

He doesn't have a wall?

No,

I don't know.

We'll work it out.

We always work it out.

We'll take care of you, brother.

$350.93 from Sir Scovey from Charlotte, North Carolina.

Thank you.

Scovey.

Sir Scovey.

Jingle, Sharpton, Respic, Bush, just send your cash.

Klobuchar sounds pretty good.

ITM, gentlemen, please accept this donation of 333.33 plus fees.

Fellow producers, he says, I have an offer for Git Monation for every 333.33 donation made up to and including show 1800 on September 18th.

There it is, John.

September 18th.

I will match the 333.33 donation on the following show.

This offer is good for up to six six donations.

It's a matching donation.

I think that's the first.

No, maybe not the first donation.

Well, no, somebody else, I think, did that at a meetup.

This is

non-profits, non-profits love to do this because you're going to see.

We got a matching donation, everybody.

And he continues by saying,

No Agenda is the best podcast in the universe.

Let's give John and Adam another reason to know us as the best producers in the universe.

Love and light, Sir Scovey, Duke of the Piedmont PhD.

R-E-S-P-I-C-T.

I know a lot of people want to send blankets or water.

Just send your cash.

I think that sounds pretty good.

Classic.

Weird Wizard in Valparaiso, Indiana, 350.93.

Elder Zoomer here, just turned 28.

Yay.

Been a listener since Adam's appearance on the JRE back in 2020.

Broke a donation.

I formed a relationship with God in part due to Adam.

He's talking about his journey and have found

praying to be a great way to end each day.

I'm debt-free, which is a big deal, by the way.

Have a great job I enjoy and recently purchased a house.

Woo!

He's on a roll.

And met the love of my life.

Holy moly.

This is great.

She inspires me like nothing else that ever came, I ever

came close to.

Sadly, it seems it is not meant to be at this moment of our lives asking for a dedouching.

You've been dedouched.

And some relationship karma.

Thanks for keeping me relatively sane.

Well, okay, relatively sane.

We're trying all the best.

Weird, it was spelled with a Y.

Weird Wizard of Valparaiso, Indiana.

You've got karma.

Chris Balance, Balance, Balint.

He's in Parkville, Maryland.

$350.93.

That's a $333.33 with fees.

I've been listening since 2020-21.

I very much appreciated you guys and the work that you do.

I made my first donation of 33.33 a few years ago.

Here's a bit more value for the value that you create for us all.

Shout outs to my wife Anne, who makes living in the reality of the neo-postmodern world so much better and funnier.

And to my friend Jamie for the initial introduction to No Agenda, my friend Sir Jonathan of the Fan Mountain Ugnots, and James A.

The Jolly Wizard, and of course, my friend and collaborator of 25 plus years, John B., aka Snackmaster on Bandcamp, Escape the Mind Games, my community of immunity.

You guys are all part of what makes life worth living.

Oh, wow.

I also want to plug out there for my dad, Bart Balance book.

It's titled The Giant Clam and Other Visions.

I had that vision one time.

It's available on Amazon.

He's been dealing with cancer for a number of years and last year completed his memoir of his life and experiences.

In my view, he is an extraordinary individual.

His birthday is August 28th.

Happy birthday.

And thank you, Dad, for everybody, for everything from Chris.

Yeah, go get his book.

This sounds like a good one.

The Giant Clam and Other Visions.

Sir Baron Commodore, Ph.D.

Guest Cadaver.

Is there really a place called Doom?

No, no.

It's Hustkadaver.

And it's Dorn.

It's an R.

Listen.

Doom.

No, that's.

Dorn, Dorn, Holland, 34375.

ITM, Adam and John.

No specific reason, just a token of appreciation for your clarification and exposure of the M5M

idiocy and for bringing it to the attention of all the producers, douchebags, and non-donating, profiteering listeners.

This is a sentence for you.

There it is.

Our appreciation is

huge, and shrinking our amygdala is incredibly healthy for all of us.

Shout out to all the No Agenda producers and communities.

Limousine will be ordered to pick up Sir Baron Commodore Ph.D.

Goost Cadaver.

Gust.

Hey, there's Eli the Coffee Guy from Bensonville, Illinois with 20824.824.

You know what he does.

He always has the date in there.

He says, I'll keep it short and sweet.

I love that you guys called out John Bolton as a fart sniffer.

Keep up the great work.

For producers who want great-tasting coffee, visit gigawattcoffee roasters.com and use code ITM20 for 20% off your order.

And whatever you do, stay caffeinated, says Eli the Coffee Guy.

Scott Johnson in Kissing Me, Florida,

20477.

He sent a check in there with a note.

The note says, In the morning, Adam and John, I've first discovered the best podcast in the universe back when John would unabashedly plug no agenda on this week in tech.

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All right, Scott.

Good luck with your app, man.

Hey, there's Linda Lupatkin from Lakewood, Colorado, with $200.

We know she wants jobs, Karma, and she says, are you worried about AI?

For a resume that gets results, tells your unique story, and highlights the value you bring, go to imagemakersinc.com.

That's ImageMakers Inc.

with a K and work with Linda Liu, Duchess of Jobs and writer of winning resumes.

Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.

Let's vote for jobs.

You've got karma.

And last on our list is Molly Landry in Houston, Texas 200.

This donation is in honor of my husband, Toby Landry's 40th birthday.

He's a regular listener of your show and frequently mentions how it keeps him sane.

Nice.

He will be totally embarrassed by this, by his name being mentioned

on the air, so please make sure to do so.

We have done so.

He's on the list.

Yeah, and he is on the list indeed.

Thank you all very much.

And of course, we'll be thanking $50 and above supporters of this episode in our second break coming up in a little bit.

As always, we want to remind you that these titles are real, can be be used anywhere.

And of course, we now have some

secretaries general who we shall be congratulating and giving their official,

what is the, I guess, ceremony?

Is there, is there, what do we have for a Secretary General?

What is it?

Is it

ceremony?

Ceremony?

Ceremony.

Ceremony, it is.

We'll be doing that.

And you can always support us any amount, any reason.

Usually it's for reasons of appreciation for the value that you receive.

Go to noagendadonations.com if you want to become a sustaining donor.

Very easy.

You can set it up, recurring donation, any amount, any frequency.

It's all up to you.

It's value for value.

Congratulations again to these executive producers.

Our formula is this:

we go out, we hit people in the mouth.

I think that sounds pretty good.

Federal Reserve.

No, maybe not.

Federal Reserve.

Do you know Mohamed L.

Aryan?

No, I don't know.

You do not know Mohammed L.

Aryan.

Well, Margaret Brennan had him on,

and it was in response to, I guess, the Friday, was it Friday?

The stock market just went kaboomy,

kaboo-y.

Wasn't there a record close for the Dow Jones?

Yeah.

And it was all based on this.

They're doing it.

All based on this.

All based on this.

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.

The baseline outlook and the shifting balance of risks may warrant adjusting our policy stance.

Powell, whose term as chair expires next May, has faced intense pressure from President Trump to lower interest rates.

He spoke today about continued economic uncertainty over the administration's immigration and tariff policies.

This year, the economy has faced new challenges.

Significantly higher tariffs across our trading partners are remaking the global trading system.

Tighter immigration policy has led to an abrupt slowdown in labor force growth.

President Trump backed off previous threats to fire Powell, but is now targeting another Fed board member, Lisa Cook.

If she did, it was a bit.

So I'll fire her if she doesn't resign.

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.

In a statement, Cook says she has no intention of stepping down.

I love how, you know, this monumental sentence by Powell, first, oh, I'm going to cut race.

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.

So, Margaret Brennan had this Mohamed Al-Aryan guy on.

I guess he's a big bond dude, according to the trolls in the know.

And here's what he had to say.

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.

It's from Allianz in Connecticut.

Good morning, Margaret.

So, we saw the Federal Reserve Chair signal on Friday that the Fed is going to, as expected, begin lowering rates very soon.

But he also cited slowing economic growth and a cooling job market.

So why then did the financial market rally?

What is the with the laughter, Margaret?

That's not needed.

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.

And the Fed is looking at slightly higher inflation and a weakening labor market.

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.

And therefore, an interest rate cut is warranted.

As you know, many of us felt he should have cut last month.

Oh, it sounds like he's a Trump guy.

I don't even know why she has him on.

He's saying what the president has been saying for a long time.

the Fed chair said significantly higher tariffs are remaking the entire global trade system.

Tighter immigration policy has slowed labor growth.

And there are big tax and regulation changes you can't quite quantify at this point.

But it's a lot of uncertainty.

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?

She's laughing again.

So one of the problems,

did you notice that she said

she made it?

It was a self-contradictory statement.

She says

the slower migration or no migration is creating a

tighter labor market.

Is that what she said?

Yes, something was just completely wrong.

Tighter immigration policy has slowed labor growth.

Tighter immigration policy has slowed down.

Has slowed labor growth.

Is that so?

And Powell is worried about labor slowdown.

Has labor growth slowed because of the lack of cheap labor?

Does that make sense?

Cheap, illegal labor.

Illegal labor is ruining the country.

That's what we're talking about.

Yeah, I think so.

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.

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.

We just have to manage a challenging few months in the period ahead.

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.

What?

I don't know.

I don't know.

So,

what does this mean, John?

Does this mean we'll be printing money again?

Or what does this mean?

It doesn't mean anything.

It's just blathers.

Typical financial stuff.

They just talk, talk, talk.

Anything that benefits the markets, the stock markets specifically is great.

So there's an interesting, one of the big AI

product companies that provides,

I don't know if I'm allowed to say who this is.

All right, I'll say it.

But it's a company that is very heavily into AI,

and

they decided to eat their own dog food, which is an old term that used to be used in Silicon Valley.

Did they use AI for

their company balance sheet?

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.

And it probably degraded productivity.

No, it did nothing.

Nothing at all?

Nothing at all, one way or the other.

Huh.

And you got this from Buzzkill Jr.?

Yeah.

Yeah, okay.

Well, you don't have to say it.

So nothing at all happened.

And so the CEO is like concerned about this.

It's like, what's the point?

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.

And it shows, I think it does increase productivity with, like, for example, our artists.

Well, it doesn't mean that it's good.

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.

So they would have to go back and do it anyway.

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.

There's a bubble, blah, blah, blah.

Because he doesn't want to get blamed for what when it when it finally starts to appear that AI is a dud

insofar as really being of use in terms of productivity.

I mean, it's fun, it's very fun.

It's fun.

You have fun with it more than anybody.

I got lots of fun.

And it's fun, but it's not productive necessarily.

And it's going to be a.

And

he's now my son, who's in AI, he is on board with your thinking,

which is the end is near.

AI winter is coming.

But I also.

What's his timeline?

Did he give you a timeline on what he thinks is that?

You know,

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.

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?

And so he can't.

He doesn't touch.

It's not happening tomorrow, let's put it that way.

No, it won't happen tomorrow.

It will happen when

it'll happen when people actually have to pay the actual cost of this

stuff.

That's when it's going to happen.

And I think open AI is starting to show those signs where $200 a month, you still get limited on chat GPT-5.

You know,

it's getting pricey now.

There is one other AI story that I just wanted to put on your radar because you also watch YouTube from time to time.

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,

what comes back appears to be AI upscale, is what they're saying.

And what it really means is

everything looks kind of AI-ish.

You know, it's like enhanced, the hair looks more enhanced.

It looks kind of, you know how Scaramanga's videos look, kind of slick and slimy and glossy.

Slimy, yeah.

You know what I mean, right?

AI has a certain look.

There's a look.

There's a look.

And they're all saying, oh, they're AI upscaling.

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

generative-friendly just to be able to handle the load.

And they're like, well, screw it.

We'll just make everything look that way.

I would have a different take.

What's your take?

That

somebody, a bean counter, said, can we make these files smaller

and look better?

Same thing.

Well, yeah, yeah, I know, but it's for a different reason.

The reason is it's overhead.

Well, no, it's the same reason is we needed the machine, so just do it all this way.

So let's shrink these things and make them look good, shrunk, yeah, so the file size is smaller

and we can free up some space on our

drives, on our drives.

Hey, man, our drives are getting full here.

Let's free up some space.

AI, AI, all that

drives.

Let's just go for it.

We can do it.

We can do it.

Yeah.

But all right, no,

I'll keep my eye on that.

I haven't really caught him in the wild.

I have not seen any evidence of this, but it's possible.

I don't watch enough, I guess.

No, neither do I.

This was an interesting, this is some DEI stuff.

This was kind of an interesting take.

This is, I believe, I'm not sure which network this is from.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I think this is true.

And I've always been

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.

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.

So it's it's probably going to be the same, I'm guessing.

But everybody's handled this poorly except Costco.

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.

We're going to stay the course.

They don't really have any DEI policies.

So they're just this bullcrap.

They barely have any people working on the floor.

They have people, but they don't have that.

Yeah, they're handing out snacks.

So they did the best job of it by saying they're not changing anything.

And so a bunch of these pressure groups, and there's one group in particular, a new one that just came around.

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.

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

yeah that works it's good it works it's a great gig

It's great.

Well, the other DEI news was President Trump and the Smithsonian.

This country cannot be woke because woke is broke, wrote U.S.

President Donald Trump on his website, Truth Social Tuesday.

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.

The museums throughout Washington, but all over the country, are essentially the last remaining segment of woke.

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.

Nothing about success, nothing about brightness, nothing about the future.

Traditionally, the Smithsonian has operated with independence.

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.

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.

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.

This is not the first time the Trump administration has attempted to purge policies and ideas it deems too progressive or favoring minorities.

A 20 January executive order took aim at DEI, or diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in the government, universities, and across the nation.

Just nine days later, the Smithsonian Institution announced it would end its Office of Diversity.

How much money, you know,

art can be anything, and I'm fine.

I'm, you know, do whatever you want when it comes to art.

But, you know, when it's

not really an art museum.

no no

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

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.

They take over the arts, they take over the culture, they take over the museums.

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.

All of these things together

hearken to a lot of people to the kind of countries that

Vladimir Putin would feel very comfortable with.

This has

just kind of a Soviet feel to it, a Stalinist feel to it.

Yeah.

Well, all I saw was, and that was in the New York Times, they were very upset about the

painting of

it, was like

a black trans woman as the Statue of Liberty.

Yeah, there you go.

I'm like,

all right.

Yeah.

Well,

a black trans woman as a statue of liberty.

Oh, yeah, with the torch and some flowers and, yeah, the typical kind of stuff.

It's entertaining, but yeah.

It's out of control.

Yeah,

it is a little bit out of control.

I have a couple of clips.

I got the.

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

Seuss

who invented Dr.

Seuss who invented the word nerd in 1950 in a book that he wrote called If I Ran the Zoo.

I think we've talked about this on the show.

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.

Because before I wrote about this, it was always said, well,

it was a diminution of the term ne'er do well.

Ah, I guess I was.

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

an AI guy back in the day called McCarthy.

It looked just like him.

So NPR decides to do a rundown on this.

Of course,

I get zero credit, and they assume that this is, they leave a lot of good stuff out.

Of course, I'm,

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.

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.

What comes to mind when you think of a nerd?

Steve Urkel from Family Matters, maybe?

Sheldon from the

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.

Here's NPR's Joe Hernandez.

What is a nerd?

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.

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.

Perhaps the first known instance of nerd appearing in print was in the 1950 Dr.

Seuss book If I Ran the Zoo.

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.

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.

So if Dr.

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.

And then he goes within, and then other people are like, yeah, that sounds like a nerd, let's go with it.

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.

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.

Okay, so what exactly, what's the credit that you want?

That I'm the one who found a Dr.

Seuss reference.

I even talked to Seuss and his associates about it.

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.

I want an email writing campaign.

I want everybody to write NPR and tell them that you are very disappointed in their non-accreditation of historian columnist

John C.

Dvorak, that they did not credit him in this article and you demand, demand

a correction.

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.

Yeah, I'm with you.

I'm highly annoyed for you, even.

In fact,

to this day, we still be thinking it came from someplace else until I dug it up.

And it took a little work.

I think we should have a new word.

Let's bring back some old words.

How about square?

He's square, man.

He's a square name.

He's a square, man.

Or how about drip?

My mom used that a lot.

Drip.

Drip's still a good word.

He's a drip.

Yep, drip.

We can use drip.

Yeah, I would say Adam Schiff

would be a drip.

He's a big drip.

All right, one more.

You get five-minute warning here.

Well, what do we got?

Well, you're the one with the clips.

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

kind of a

politically correct.

They're still in Germany.

They can't get over it.

So here's German.

They changed the name of a street.

They did.

The street name in Berlin has officially been changed.

Sorry, because it's racist.

The street name in Berlin has officially been changed after campaigners successfully argued that the original version was racist.

More instrasse translates as Moore Street, referring to slaves brought to Germany in the 18th century.

Here's our Europe Regional editor, Paul Moss.

The word Moore was used for the people of North Africa.

It was how Shakespeare described Othello.

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.

The local council agreed to change the name five years ago, but some locals wanted the original retained.

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.

Moorstrasse.

You know, the Dutch have a treat.

Usually comes in a pack of eight, I want to say.

And it's kind of

marshmallow covered with chocolate on a little cracker.

And

it

looks a bit like a mini boob.

Are you familiar with this?

No, I've never seen it.

So you bite into it.

It's nice chocolate with kind of a marshmallowy.

You know, it's not really a marshmallow, marshmallowy.

And when I was growing up, they were called Necherzune, which means Negro kisses.

Well, obviously that had to change throughout the years.

And you know what they're called?

Moorkopa.

Moorheads.

So that shouldn't take too long before they have to change that.

Now that the Moors.

I never thought of Moor as anything other than a black person from North Africa that

were populating different parts of Europe.

And they were called the Moors.

It wasn't derogatory.

It was just a comment of

his description.

And then Shakespeare used it.

But I guess in Germany it was derogatory.

We don't know that.

That could be bullcrap.

The Germans are off the rails.

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We are on the San Marcus River.

This is the meetup report.

In the morning, this is Sir Doug.

We're having a wonderful time.

Thanks to no agenda.

Alright, so it's kid-friendly, not kid-approved.

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Butt-up is something we say when we hit the low parts of the river.

Butt up.

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McKinney, they had their meetup.

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So, what was the name of this meetup?

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Noah Jenna is still king, but Bitcoin is the prince.

Meet up report.

We had a wonderful time.

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Tell me you don't want to be a part of something like that.

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There's a meetup taking place as we speak in

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The Los Angeles flight number 66 of the NoAgenda is Leo Bravo hosting that on the 30th.

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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.

Again,

no, that's a different Netherlands.

Wow, there's so many groups.

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That'll be a fun one.

I will be attending, and I hope to drag the keeper along with me.

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You to be where everybody feels the same.

It's like a party.

If I recall, this is where we do the end of show ISO.

If I recall, you had two you were keeping in abeyance from the last show.

You have three, I see.

Three.

Yeah, I do.

All right.

Well, let's start with yours.

Which one do you want?

Well, let's start with the one, the new one, which is taken from it.

I thought this was interesting.

This is therapy.

Will they save you money on therapy, do you think?

Kind of muddy.

A little muddy.

Yeah, it is muddy.

Okay, well, then we'll go to the bayance one.

We have amazing.

That was amazing.

Okay, not bad.

Not bad.

And sleep.

Do these guys ever sleep?

Great show.

Wow.

I can beat that.

I can beat that.

Not with this one, though.

I think everybody loved it, all right?

I think the one that beats it is this one.

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Come on.

I couldn't understand it.

You couldn't understand it?

It was something about the best podcast in the universe.

What was the beginning?

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Ladies and gentlemen, stand by.

Here he is, John C.

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Great advice for you and me.

Just the tip with JCD,

and sometimes at all.

So here's a cooking, not a cooking product, but a salad product, I think, is salad.

Salad product.

And it is pumpkin seed oil.

It's a seed oil.

It's going to kill you.

It's extracted, expeller extracted.

You want the good stuff because it won't kill you.

But pumpkin seed oil, you can not have it if you don't want it.

I discovered it, didn't discover it.

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.

They always have a jar of this pumpkin seed oil that they put on everything,

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

that it prevents prostate cancer.

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.

And you can also buy it on Amazon.

You want the, you don't want the pumpkin seed tablets or anything like that.

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.

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.

It's a dark, this is toasted oil.

So

it's a dark oil.

And just a combination of basalmic vinegar and pumpkin seed oil and the salt and the tomato.

Absolute killer.

Hey,

tomato season,

most people just go to the supermarket and they see tomatoes all the time.

Is it tomato season for American tomatoes?

Yeah, for our tomatoes.

Do you recommend

fresh ones?

Do you want to get at the farmer's market?

You don't want to buy grocery store tomatoes.

No, they're no good.

They've got that Bill Gates wax on it.

Yeah.

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.

Where you can get the fresh, super fresh tomatoes that are, you know, just picked off the vine or grow some tomatoes yourself.

Do you recommend a particular type of tomato for this?

You know, one of the best tomatoes that generally grows well everywhere is an ACE.

Ace tomato.

It has a good tomato flavor.

It's not an heirloom by any means, but it's a good tomato.

And,

you know, beef steaks and all the rest of them are all good.

They're tasty, especially if they come out right.

But this

pumpkin seed oil and balsamic vinegar on a tomato right now is dynamite.

There it is, ladies and gentlemen, your tip of the day.

Get them all at tipoftheday.net.

Great fast for you and me.

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Created by Dana Bernetti.

Wow.

Well, I'm going to go get me an Ace Tomato at the HEB.

I'm sure they have them.

Or maybe not.

You never know.

I do love it when you do food tips.

I think that's

a good idea.

People love the food tips.

People always love food tips.

You should do a book about this stuff.

Maybe a book about vinegar.

It's coming.

Yeah, I know it is.

Stay tuned to your No Agenda stream, noagenda.stream, trollroom.io.

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Because it's coming right up after we shut down our broadcast stream.

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You will not regret it.

And of Shownet mixes, we have Robin Breedfeldt, we have Melo D,

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And I'm coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country, which will soon be the location of the meetup on the 11th of October.

In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.

And from Northern Silicon Valley, where I remain, I'm John C.

Dvorak.

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Until then, adiospo, folks.

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Are you hiding?

You're not hiding anything.

Prove that to the American people, yes.

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.

He's dead, he's gone.

Epstein deck of suicide.

Epstein dark and suicide.

Epstein would kill himself.

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

or more elements of intelligence.

You can see I mean, you got to be honest.

Those are ours.

And it was Gates was there, all these guys, and I guess Epstein was there.

So I could have had the opportunity to be Epstein and say, well, what a creep or whatever I would have said.

I don't know.

I probably would have said anything.

He's dead, he's gone.

Crime and a good crime like a look, look, wait.

Crime and a gold crime like look, look, wait.

Crime and a gold crime like look, look, wait.

You're a leader.

Miss my ice cream.

Oh, I give them a B plus.

I appreciate a bit more fire and spice.

There's an audience beyond the Senate.

And that is John Bolton's politicization of the intelligence he got in Cuba and on other issues.

Why we would want some with that lack of credibility, I can't understand.

Clearly, that's what John Bolton represents.

He would tell in a captivating way that the public would watch

the most pernicious part of the president's scheme

and

his love of conspiracy

theories.

Partly him playing to their base and playing to their audience, you know,

the credulous Boomer Rube demo that

conspiracy theorists, theory theories.

I think at the end of the day, it all boils down to this.

Rick, that was a good one.

I needed that.

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